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\t^ i> SALES OF LANDS by Administrators.
Executors or Guardians are required b) law to hi
held on the first Tuesday in the month, between
the hours o’ ten in iJie forenoon and three in tin
afternoon, at the Court-House, in the county m
which the land is situated. Notice nl tlnse salt ,
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preions !o the day of sale.
SALES OF NEGROES must be made at pub
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twee.n the usual hours of sale, at Ihe place ot pub
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licntar/, of Administration or Guardianship may
qa.ve been jrranied; first -riving FORTY DAYS
notice thereof in one of the politic gazettes of this
Slate, and at the court house w ho e such sales an
to t*e held.
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be given in like manner FORTY DAYS prevjun
to the day ol sale.
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must be pu-listied FORTY DAYS.
No'icc that application will be made to the Court
of O dmarv (br leave to sell land must he pub
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Votive for leave to sell negroes must he
published TfFO MONTHS before any order ab
solute shall be made thereon I>y the Court,
CITATIONS for Letters of
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Iron Aemmistralion. monthly stx moeths; for
pismiss’ 1 '-;.,!,o n Guar.'iansi'.ip. forty day ,
11 ulus fertile Foreclosure of Mortgage must be
published MONTHLY FuR FoUR MONTHS, for estab
lishing In t papers, lor the full space of three
months; for compelling titles from Ljuxutors or
Administrators, where a bond has been given by
he diseased, the'll space of three ;.x:KTiis.
Business SHmtorn.
HENRY H. WHITFIELD,
Attorney at Law,
Hxtwkinavillc, Pulaski County, Geo.
March It, 1852 i -oiri.
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G RIF FIX, GEORGIA .
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next door west ot Redd &. Lo.
.lamia iv 15, 1852 __
JARED iTMItAKEH,
Attorney nt Law,
A TLA XTA, GEO RGIA .
Apri! 8, 1852. 1 ‘J
f7 wTa. OOYLEj
A r E I TO2tXISV AT LAW,
OF PE R.S his professional services to the Pub
All liysmess entrusted,to blr j+ialiagemc
will meet with Hie mot prompt attention. Reason
aide, deductions will be made in fees, in proportion
Li file mnoun’ of business so entrusted.
OftSce o i Solomon street, opposite Ihe Bap
it! Church.
C Attention,
REFERENCES 1 Perseverance,
( Promptitude.
Gridin, March, 1852. 12 ts
“hImRY HEHDRSGK,
A T T O RNEY A T la ATV ,
Jackson, Eutts County, Ga.
Febrnav, 1852.
E. P. WATKINS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
McDonough, Henry County, Ga.
|ff'tiriiii r y 2, __
“BORDERS & HARRIS,
attorney s at law,
A. L. Borders, Griffin, Ga.
West Harris, Zebulon , Ga.
March 5. 1852. 50—ly
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ATTORNEYS AT LA^T
Oayid N. Mastm, j (ja.
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May 28.1853 22
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OFFICE ON SOLOMON STREET
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McDonouglt,Ga.
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SAVANNAH, GEORGIA
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titarri.v, a a.,,
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Opposte rinntex’s Hotel
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V) iiiHirin all who are in
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and who wish iliem jmi u;> with skill and expert
cnee, wui ranted f<> an*w r every p'trpose rci|ui
r<l, liiJt ‘hey ean now he sn,>,)hi;d at short notice,
and with the same style roil up upon u Ixtuutljii
meiahc ha.-;e, wineli leak the premium over a I
o'ljeiv o! tin- kind ul ‘ln lute fair in Macon, also
the Ft si ! > reim.;iii at the ; :ie Faina Atlanta, Dr.
lias tat• ly murk- airano •o,e:ita so that persons
living in the eoum.y, or ... any of (he adjacent
towns, can, if they wis., eomm.md Ills services
tree ul chatge. which will . ufey litem against tiic
tuatty imrsis.ions pre lieej I, .• |i.:u ...... i quack that
dady traverse t!jc comurv.
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<£iiucatio. j
To the Citizens and Friends of Popular !
Education ir Griffin.
My friends, We now'proceed to take up
flic specific subject, the 4th division mcn
! tioned in our first number.
Education scholastic, and it's lest method.
We will treat it in its popular character.
Every year, we celebrate the day of .our
Independence! 4th of July, 17743. It san
epoch from which date the most impor
tant consequences. The mind in the ut
most stretch of its power, cannot grasp
the extent of its influence on the political
world. On that day was proclaimed in a
voice echoing to the ends of the earth, the
emancipation of man from religions and
political thraldom. The image of his Cre
ator was restamped on him, and if faithful
to its obligations, he may stand erect in
the fearless maintainance of his liberty in
all coming ages, walk on the footstool of
Heaven’s Majesty, in the undaunted integri
ty of his heart and inviolable freedom of
his will. May onr God never permit this
image of himself to be defaced by the hand
of despotism. It is indeed worthy of com
memoration, and perpetuation. On her
natal day, may we never, in mock solemni
ty, clothe the genius of Liberty in robes ;
of sombre hue, bat enjoy in a manner lie
coming a free people, the honest and social
festivities which pertain to the jubilee.—
T A is not our purpose now to roll up the
curtain of the historic scene, and marshall
before your wondrous gaze the illustrious
array af sages, heroes and martyrs, whose
wisdom, valor and blood planned, achieved
and consecrated our independence. This
theme is left to the historic muse. And
what is the Corinthian colonade, that will
support our great political entablature,'on <
which rests all our interests, , happiness
and the glory of our national independence?
Popular Education. Without this the 4th
of July would be as any other unnoted day
in the calender, with it the most illustri
ous in the vicissitude of ages.
On this topic we hold to two proposi
tions or maxims. Liberty without knowl
edge is a precarious blessing—the dura
tion of our republican institutions depends
upon the education of the people. These
principles involve duty, means and mode.
And first, the - duty of our public functiona
ries. Perhaps no subject claims a more
serious and deliberate,cousiderotlon than
the devising of a system ol public educa
tion, sufficiently broad to extend its ben
efits to ail classes of society. Why
should one be more learned than another
in a free country, except so far as ability
and industry make a difference? Experi
ence demonstrates the plan of our public
schools, as now conducted, to be very de
fective. The good which results from it
by no means compensates for the expense
attending it. The eyes of none are closed
against this truth; it comes home to the
bosom of all, who have examined it, and par
ticularly of those, whose children have spent
years with little advantage, under its opa
ration, which might have been profitably
employed in the common concerns of life.
In some states, where elementary educa
tion is judiciously systematised, in arrange
ment of schools and mode of instruction,
youth arc better qualified for the business
of life, in much less time and at less ex
pense, than most of our youth, who have
been the recipients of instruction from in
fancy to maturity of years. Yet there is
as much intellectual talent here, and much
more native vivacity. The difference must
be ascribed to our system; snperadded to
this, a want of industry, and a disinclina
tion, both in the parent and pupil to submit
to effectual discipline. If we study the re
ports of the Legislature, of the literary and
fiscal condition of our academies, we find
few are benefitted compared with the mass
of the population, and the funds wasted,
institutions involved in debt and many un
occupied. One great evil attending the
system, is the constant mutation of teach
ers, dissentions between these and trustees
and between the trustees themselves, in
which the right object is lost sight of. —
The consequence to the pupil is fatal, an
irregularity in his instruction, a jumbled
education, confusing his mind all his life,
juinad l>v chanc-e and onackerv. These.-
and many other disadvantages, seen and
felt, can only be obviated by the introduc
tion of an efficient general uniform system
commensurate with the condition of the
population of the state, and for its support
a judicious use of the appropriate funds.
What has been done may be uOil? again,
and we have practical examples in other
states. We will propose Pennsylvania
and New York, which in their course fol
lowed Massachusetts and Connecticut.—
The academic fund of Georgia is $500,-
000, increased by contingent resources.—
To this add the expense paid for the tui
tion of about 30,000 taught annually, at
an average of $lO each. (This is be
low the actual disbursements) for the giv
en period of any ten years, and we have
the sum of $3,500,000 expended on ed
ucation in that time, and yet half the peo
ple receive little or no scholastic education.
Georgia has not a population exceeding
300,000 under her laws, the proper sub
jects of education. New York, with a
population five times this number, with the
interest of $3,000,000, supports a free
school, for rich and poor, almost in every
square league, in which not only the pri
mary, but scientific brandies are taught,
houses built apparatus furnished, and. teach
ers paid supporting salaries. The propor
tion of the population of New York and
her school fund and that of the State of
Georgia is in an inverse ratio. This has
greatly the pecuniary advantage. The
children of the former, whose parents
choose, are educated free, in the latter, few,
if any. Our system is bad, its funds was
ted. The funds of Georgia properly hus
banded are sufficient in a few years to
build and furnish a sufficient number of
suitable school houses in every county, pay
fixed salaries to professional teachers, and
leave the tuition free to all. All this
might be shown by a little statistical cal
culation, with which you shall not be trou
bled. * We verily believe every child might
be educated for fifty cents a year, all the
necessary conveniences procured, andteach
chers liberally paid, from the interest of
the education fund, and yet we are no en
thusiast. What is it we want? Public
•lev who uudor.'ituad these mtercots and
GRIFFIN, (GA.) THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 27, 1853.
will look with an honest eye at these ob
! jects and set the wheel of reform in mo-
I tion.
With such facts before Us it seems strange
that in a country, the very existence of
whose free institutions depends upon the
dissemination of intellectual light, no plan
should have yet been devised free from
partiality, and destitute of those lines of
aristoeratical distinction, which render
,our present systent .ineffective and excep
tionable—whose provisions would enable
the children of the poor and wealthy to
assemble, in republican equality, under
the same roof, without affording the latter
the least chance to insult the feelings or
damp the ardor of the former, by the com
mon retort, the country pays for your ed
ucation. Children cannot appreciate the
noblest relationship of being a child of the
republic or State. Until such wise pro
vision is made —until some capable and
patriotic citizen, willing to confine his am
bition to the accomplishment of so noble a
task as the disenthral ment of the rising
mind, shall devote his time and talents to
the subject, and leave his claim to immor-
tality to be decided upon by a future gen
eration, we can never be secure in the pos
session of liberty—for knowledge is .the
arch on which liberty stands, and it is im
possible to retrograde from this arch with
out, in some degree, receding from the su
perstructure. Who can doubt that our
present system is not complete, and can
not embrace many minds stored with the
germs of genius, which must, like the dia
mond in the earth, remain in darkness;
but otherwise might be a glory and pillar
to the Republic 1 Would it not be ungen
erous to suppose that the humbler class,
who form so large and useful a portion of
every community, arc devoid of feeling,
thtit their feerfngs arc less - poignant, or
their pride less easily aroused,- -thaiv Lhoso
of the wealthy ? Admitting that so far
as feeling and passion arc considered, the
poor and rich arc equal, what parent, who
feels as a parent ought, or whose bosom
swells with the honest pride of a freeman,
and whoso equality of rights with the;
most wealthy of the country is acknowl-:
edged by the declaration of independence j
and secured by our constitution, would!
suffer his offspring to attend a public ’
school, where they are continually obnox
ious to invidious contrast, or subject to
supercilious derision ? Tims, ail other
objections removed, a commendable pride |
and spirit in parents will prevent the d's-
seminatioii of school acquirements among
a large proportion of the rising generation.
This is otto of the great defects in our
present system, which would be entirely
obviated by that of free schools. All who
reflect on this subject must feel sorrow for
those on whose minds the cloud of igno
rance and superstition with their concomi
tant evils must rest through all life, and
the more to be lamcuted because resulting
from the noblest impulse of the human
heart. We speak of the poor and willing
—for that man who has the means and
will not educate hiselyhb’ou is a Hottentot
in principle, and in practice a heathen—
the public should be the guardian of his
children. In our day of ultraism philan
thropy wastes her charity by diffusion.—
Let her turn aside from the pursuit of chi
meras, of schemes purely imaginary, and
concentrating her moral power and pecu
niary efforts, employ her kind offices in
the accomplishment of a measure having
for its object the benefit of her own com
munity, the greatness and glory of her
own State; and in this enterprise let not
the evil genius of sectarianism, religious or
political, countervail her. You all under
stand me without multiplying ‘words.
To what more noble purpose could the
talents of our public men be employed ?;
Do they seek for fame ? In what way are
they more likely to reach her temple, and j
receive from her hand the wreath of death- j
less renown she bestows on her votaries ?
Someone, St. Pierre in his Studies of Na-,
ture, ascribed great merit to him who by j
industry and skill should multiply spears |
of grass. What does he deserve who invents
the means to multiply the productions of i
thought ? Take, for example, Clinton, j
Yanrensalear, Willard and Yaux, apostles
of education in those great democratic i
iilftill ()W>iWtWiiti*t<ij^wjiHW>t|iili^i|
whose youth, male and female, rich and
poor, are offering homage at the shrine of
science, in equal aud fraternal association,
in her temples reared by public munifi
cence and enlightened policy, drawn out
by their master geniuses. Is it the object
of our public men to promote the general
good ? Free and universal education is
the way. Accomplish this and the praise of
those who now live will be their reward in
life—the benediction and veneration of
those who are yet to walk the stage of ac
tion, and rule the destinies of the State,
will hallow their memory while they re
pose in the city of the mighty dead. A
higher and more glorious boon who would
desire ! Who more famous than Frauk
lin, Lancaster, Pestcllozi ? The mighty
powers of their minds were consecrated to
the benefaction of youth—their education
they felt, was the stay and glory of their
country.
’Tis true, a number of our best men
have again and again called the attention
of the Legislature to this important sub
ject. Every session much was expected,
and something proposed and done, but far
short of the demands of the State. We
cherish the hope, that under the influence
of public sentiment, which has become im
perative, a future will perfect
a system reflecting honor on themselves,
credit to the State, and blessings on its
youth.
The truth is, this most essential interest
of the country has too often been lost sight
of amidst the political jealousies of party
ism, and personal competition of leading
men, for the honors and emoluments of
office, and efforts made to advance and
facilitate education have been neglected,
or contemned and ridiculed for the obscu
rity of their source; and among the conse
quences we have to import from the north
engineers, teachers, professors, preachers,
and all sorts of scientific men and women,
as well as manufactures, tariffs, abolitionism
and huinbugism. Tristem Shandy says they
manage these things much better in France.
+ New Yitrh expended .on schools last yei>i
$2,500,000. Tlie Stare contains upwards of 11,000
free schools, in which SOi), 000 children were laugh!
g iii thy course ol ih year last past-
Our spirited people practice the rule prtr
scribed to his son, by Lord Chesterfield,
on the subject of music. He tells him ’tis
disgraceful to a gentleman to be a fiddler,
and as he is a lordpltwd man of fortune,
when lie feels musically inclined, he must j
hire a fiddler to discourse sweet music, for j
him and pay him by the tune, r-ftjtaflfcl, I
my fri#ftds, the noVyjjds a
of us by the wi mir institutions,
public spirit and irWT<rf,\)A(l 4;scrve the
resulting benefits. ’But we will not with
hold the tribute of applause from men
who have already, though ineffectually,
exerted their energies in tin's noble cause.
The effort to do good, though it prove
abortive, is highly praiseworthy. They
have drunk largely of the Pierian spring,
and experienced its happyfying effects—
therefore cannot look, without “feeling an
interest in their fate, on the children of
the poor, in whose minds genius *s as like
ly to exist as in those of the rich—nay, in
our experience we have found more. Pov
erty hardens the body, and a firm body
supports a vigorous mind. In sav.o corpo
re mens sano, has long been a maxim of
the schools. But of the poor under our
present system, it may be said, in the pa
thetic language of tile poet,
Knowledge to llieir eyes her ample page,
R'ch with the spoils offline, did near unroll,.
Chill penury repressed ‘heir noble rage,
And froze the genial curr.-nt of the sotd.
2d. As to the means of supporting a
proper system. Here we shall be brief.
The world is now full of schemes and new
projects for the ostensible purpose of ame
liorating the condition of man—for the
promotion and extension of correct princi
ples, encouragement of virtue, suppression
of vice, to enforce obedience to law and
to prevent crime. of tjhose are in
stituted and ptp'pcubiClVA wapatik meUi
-©dsr-cxiraHUOtiß of •government and civil
law, and frequently obtrude upon their
authority and jurisdiction, through the
zeal of men ambitious of fame and distinc
tion; which they could not obtain in sub
mission to the silent, safe, and prudent
operation of government—hence the means
of an abundant popular charity are dissi
pated. Direct tins in a confluent stream
to the one great interest of free education,
and its benefits will be more sensible and
permanent. This granted, the scattered
efforts of volmiinry associations, unaided
by wise legislation, may effect some good;
but generally the arrow from this bow
either falls short or goes beyond the pro-
per mark, and the well designed enterprise
is frustrated. The branches and not the
root of evil is struck at. The tree of de
cayed heart may put forth a few buds and
blossoms, but the root must, by diligent
culture, be restored to soundness and vig
or, that the tree may flourish and produce
valuable fruit.
Education is that culture, the grand
preventive of vice and crime; consequent
ly it is a matter of government concern,
and certainly it is beyond all comparison j
better to prevent than to punish crimes. A j
system of [
crimes will bey
infinitely which by encour
aging the first creates necessity for the
last, and afterwards inflicts punishment on
both. He, who gives his son a good and
practical education, does better by him,
than by giving him a purse of gold; in like
manner, the government would do better
for its citizens, by having them all educa
ted, instead of gold mines, court houses,
jails and penitentiariesy the worst of all
schools. It is acknowledged on all hands,
that the world must be reformed, if ever
reformed, by education; therefore it ought
to be the paramount object of all legisla
tion and the chief policy of its fiscal action
and expenditure. The time has been in
our country, when the sure passport to
honorable distinction was wealth; when
an ass laden with gold would find his watw
through tlie gates of the strongest
and tiie tongue of wisdom has
wisdom of the poor man saveth JmF’ ..
but who remembereth him, bui wrr, ,
our Legislature, who lias at W , i d
tl.o distinction between talent
and arrogant down
the partition wall. Wefl; to tie gov
erned hereafter byaeJßj s^raC y of leam .
among all classes, rather than a monied
aristocracy; in the former all ean partici
pate, in the letter but few. The doctrine
of these remarks is this, that as the halls
of legislation are now thrown open to all,
a system of education should be constitu
ted at the public expense to prepare all
for the and uty.
The duration of our republican institutions
depends upon the education of our citi
zens, therefore the government should
pour its light into the minds of all her
sons. Its means should be accessible to
all—should be free to all—for it is the
State that is to be eventually benefitted
by their mental energies. These, we are
free to declare, are onr opinions. And so
much for the means.
3dly. As to the best plan of instruction.
That will be the best which will effect
the most, and embrace the most—that is,
be the most popular in its efficacy. We
have no theory to offer you here, for ex-!
perlence is already on our side—hence we
draw our argument. On this point, the
age of speculation aud hypothesis is past.
The mode to which we allude lias been
tested by the most successful experiment
for tlie last twentp-fivc years in all parts of
the world, and all the powers of prejudice,
united with igiioraadntjftnd bigotry, cannot
impede its course. give a decided
preference to the mutual system, or moni
torial plan. It is a real labor-saving ma
chine. It multiplies indefinitely the pow
ers of communication and instruction, ac
celerates proficiency, abbreviates time, eco
nomises expense, aud maintains a salutary
discipline, by the means of constant appli
cation, united with the pleasure the tyro
feels in its equality, regularity and order.
It ought to bo introduced into all our
seminaries of learniug. We purpose not
tb go into a detail of its arrangement, ope
rations and material—time nor patience
would suffice; but briefly state its pro
gress and effects. England ulaims the
honor of invention, in the person of Lan
caster —thence it is pervading Europe,
and, though popular in its tendency, re
ceiving the countenance of autocrats and
despots, who seem, by a Providential
blindness, not to foresee K? moral and no-
litieal eventuation. It has awakened the
energies of that land of genius, chivalry
and song, the Emerald Isle, the green field
of the ocean, whose sons are seen in every
j clime, buffeting misfortune with hearts that
j never bend, and minds that never weary,
j and e’er long will plant the shamrock long-!
| aide the thistle mid the rose. Thousands
in the United States are happy under its
benign influence. t£ud the parent who
maintains his offspring by daily labor,
whilst at night he rocks the cradle of his
tagged infant boy, tejoiees in the thought
that this system will cherish and fit him
for the highest honors of his country. —
Already has it gladdened the plains and
mountains of South America; and, yes,
in that land, too, where pestilence stalks
with gigantic stiide, where billows of
sand entomb the living caravan, and the
angel of death in terrific array rides on
the wings of thesimoom—where ignorance
worse than either, envelopes the beaute
ous creations of mind in moral darkness
—where the sun of science ceased to
shine with the catastrophe of Thebes,’
ruin of Carthage, and extinction of the
Ptolemic dynasty. His dawn, through
this system, is again breaking on Liberia
and Afric’s sable sons, and will once
more shine with pristine’ splendor—for
the fiat has gone there be
light, and there was light.” Under its
silent but sure power Greece is jegene
raling and her ancient glory reanimated
in her fn’ore sons and fiee inslitufons
It is walking in virgin mooes!/ and beau
ty over all the hupp) isles of the ocean
in its prosperity; blushing as red as tbe
cross w-hich pio ecis it, and under its
banners drilling millions of scddieis fur tbe
Church miiltunt, who shall sing tbe song
of Muses and the* Lamb lLe svs
tem Ot lire ■ liievr.
established. Evangelization ever thaws
in its luminous train civilization and edu
cation. Their standards are everywhere
side by side, fust planted on the Rock of
Ages,! i iumphantly floating in the bieezes
of inspiration. Dheiever the Gospel
runs, this system follows, because they
both address their instruction to the rea
soning faculties of man—anal vsisand dem
onstration :ne their powetlu! panoplv.
I bis system has i.s opponents and its
l martyrs. This fate attends nil innova
.‘idfls- K,s ttibeteut in human nature,
The world was redeemed by peiseculion
unto death. !he field is planted, perse
cutors .eap the golden hat vest, the wot Id
the intellectual profit. It behooves
teachers to learn this system, or they will
be left without professional employment;
for the modes of reason and common
sense, in our day of tbe match of mind,
will subvert tbe rumlmius and antiquated
fashions ot piejudiee and folly.
Oh, my country, eslo perpniun is the
ardent prayer of thy humblest son, who
once bore thy sword and authority agamst
thine enemies. May thy star-spangled
i banner ever float
j 1 O’.er the land of the free mi l the home of the
~ -waver/* 4 -■ - .
I. ‘Wall freedom’s smil u. nrnth IliV left,
And freedom’s banner waving o’er tto-e,”
protected by Him whom the winds and
seas obey, to whom thanks and
ever more. Independence novv ~J
pcndence forever. F.
January 17th, 1853.
Excursions ™ weaUhv
steamboat owney^ gw y ()rk prop „ B es
to rig trip, a steamer
yatch, completed, furnishing
richest manner at a cost of
* f* over ordinary ships of the kind.
the first of May he will take on
*>, his sons and daughters and forty
other guests, and sail for London,
IKpenhagen, Stockholm, St. Petersburg,
Mdavre, Bordeaux, Lisbon, Gihialter, : lar
seilles, Naples, Malta, and such other
ports as may be desirable, staung a siort
time at each port, giving fetes and seeing
the lions. The expense, which ‘s esti
mated at more than $200,030, will be
borne by the projector.
is an army of at leasW^l,
Idred Shoemakers in Marlboro’, Masssa-
chusetts, who manufacture six thousand
paiis of-children-V shoes every working
day. (Jne journeyman has worked on
the bench for thirty years, without losing
a day in consequence of sickness, and du
ring that time he has saved ten thousand
dollars. One firm during the list year
has manufactured two hundred and sev
enteen thousand pairs of shoes. Anoth
er of the firms doing an immense busi
ness, employing one hundred men in
Massachusetts, and one hundred and fif
ty in their shoe village in New Hamp
shire Last year they made two hun
dred thousand nine hundred and sixty
three pairs of shoes in this State, and at
least as many more in New Hampshire.
Tae New St. Charles Hotel —This
splendid establishment will soon he open
ed in New Orleans. Our readers will
remember the former Hotel of this name,
I which was sai 4 he *he best, in the world,
and which was destroyed by fire in ISSI
The new establishment is said to be an
improvement on the old, unrivalled as
that was. It has been built with a nice
regard to comfort and architectural ele
gance-will be furnished throughout with
costly furniture, and altogether
will far surpass any similar house in this
country or Europe.
Spiritualism Extraordinary. —The
editor of the Cape Giradeau, Mo. Eagle,
tells some queer stories about the spirit
ual manifestations of his devil, who is a
medium. The editor says: lie made our
little table perform some most wonderful
feats a few nights since. It want any
where about our sanctum th it it might
he directed. It travelled about with a
boy seated on top of it, and when requir
ed to careen and slide him off, it did so,
notwithstanding a youth of considerable
stiength tried to hold him on. The table
was told to shake bands with a certain
man; it went to the place he was stand
ing and diagonally held up one of its legs,
it was required to get into the lap of an
otiiei, when it approached hitn and pla
ced one leg on his knee,
Prom the New York r'xpress of January 13.
Savannah and Pensacola.
A sensible prpject is now on foot in
Georgia and Florida, to connect the cities
of Savannah and Pensacola by a direct
railroad. When this work is done, tire
■ public will be surprised at the effect up
on vast interests that must inevital.lv re
sult.
In the first plare, the ih&itfamht who
are passing north and south by the Mis
sissippi fiver route, and by the route
round the Cape of Florida, will find the
route via Savannah to the Gulf, or “vice
verse,” so speedily and so safephat ths
only wonder is, it had not sooner been
opened.
Secondly: as Pensacola is the nearest
port to tiie Isthmus, nearly the entire
travel to and from the Pacific will depart
from and return to Pensacola. The mo
ment a railroad reaches Pensacola from
any point north or east of it, so as to bring
it in connection with our existing chains
of roads, that moment lines of steamers
will run to and from Pensacola, con-
with Panama, Nicaragua, or
anv other transit route over the Isthmus.
The road in question, connecting Sa
vannah with Pensacola, will put an end
to all the steamer lines round Cape Flor
ida, or via Jamaica, to reach the Pacific
Ocean. Few will make a long and disa
greeable roundabout voyage by water
when they can “cut across,” as they can
by this route via Savannah to Pensacola,,
and -he safe and comfortable all the way 1
Savannah and Pensacola will, by the
completion of this route he vastly benefit- j
ted, and every acre of ground along the -
whole route will feel its benefits. Geor-,
gia richly deserves this accession of
strength, for she stands ai the hevd of
■rtjw . ■... 5, 4 ji.i.a.ii.ic enterprise.
livery State in the Union interested in
our Pacific possessions will be henefitte
by this vast improvement in travel; henq
the enterprise is of national advantage.—
lie who can make two spears of grass
grow where only one grew before, is
said to he a benefactor, so also is he a
benefactor who can lessen the time, the
distance, and the danger of a route of
muen travel.
We attach tnore than transitory benefit,
to these railroad enterprises; we sec* in
them u /he seed of Union.” Capital of the
North, translered to and “spiked down”
South, carries with ita vast share of nation
ality,” and makes us more and more one
people. So between the East arid the
West We can say, now, “here begins
or here ends Eastern or Western inter
ests,” when chains of railroads, link by
link, grapple both extremes? So let‘it be
North and South and East South-east and
North North-west, and all points of our
now happy Union.
Ferocious Attack by a Grisly Bear ia
California.
The following exciting story is to!.! by
f> pond cut acraroento Union.
wrJKng from Diamond Xp rin
/\ saw yesterday', MTFteen miles
/out this point, on the road from here to
Carson Valiev, a man who had been
most horribly mutilated by a grisly bear..
On Wednesday morning last, a man liv
ing near Sly Park Creek, on the emigrant
road, while hunting, discovered a she
bear, with two cubs about the size of a
common dog, coming up a ravine, within
<un shot of where he was standing in the
road. As the bear had not discovered
him, lie determined to give her a shot.
The ball struck her back of the shoulder,
but too low to prove fatal.
She immediately raised upon her hind
legs, turning her head from side to side
to discover her assailant. He had com
menced loading, but before he got his
powder down the bear discovered him.
He took to a tree, and barely escaped, as
the bear was so near that he kicked her
head with his foot before he got out of
her reach. She was enraged, and kept
him in the tree for over two hours
While there he shouted for help, and
succeeded in attracting the attention of
some men in the employ of Bradley, Ber
& Cos. who went to his relief; bu^
when they leached the tree the bear had
been gone about tea minutes. They
tracked her into a thick chapparal, cov
ering about three acies, and there left
h er.
After din tier they inustereJ double bar
reled guns and rifles, to the number of
fourteen shots, and started for the chap
pa! el. Upon reaching it the men very
imprudently scattered, some venturing in
to see if they could start her, while oth
ers climbed trees to be in a place of safe
ty and to get a view of the ground. A
tnoug those who took a tree was a man
by the name of Charles 11. Packard, who
had gone a short distance into the bush,
and, as he had no gnu, placed himself in
a sapling about six inches through. The
tree forked about six feet from the ground
and Packard went up one of the branches,
a distance of ebout twelve feet from the
ground, and in reply to one of his com
paniuns said lie considered himself safe.
At this moment he cried out “Here’s
the bear within a rod of me !” but hard
ly got the words out of his mouth before
she made at him furiously, jumped at
and caught the tree a few feet below him,
and with her tremendous weight split
the tree at the fork, carrying man and
tree both with her to the -ground, lie
fell upon his back, and the bear seized
him by the left side of his head and face,
tore his left ear completely from his heal,
laying bare the skull. Sbe then seized
him by the other side of (he face, cutting
a deep gash in the upper lip, and tearing
the flesh from the right corner of the
mouth to near the large artery in the
neck, then by the fore arm, laying bare
the tendons, breaking some of them, and
biting his right hand through and through.
She then left the upper part of his body
and made an effort seemingly to tear
open his bowels, as she left some fifteen
severe wounds on his body, but none of
them so deep as to enter the cavity, and
finished her horrible work by tak ng out
about two pounds of flesh from his right
thigh.
By this time Packard was so much ex
hausted that he lay as if dead, and the
bear left him. Some of the company
were within twenty steps of the wounded
man, but were unable to rende himr any
assistance. They saw the bear break
down the tree, heard his cries for help,
but after he struck the ground they could
see neither bear nor man, so thick was
the chapparal around them.
Mr. Packard was carried to the house,
and notwithstanding he is so terribly mu-,
i*.dated, is in a fair way to recover. He ’
said this morning that he thought lie
would be upin a few weoks. Dr. Slaugh
ter, of Pleasant Valley, dressed his
wounds. This bear is said to be one of
the largest kind, and, in consequence of
being wounded, had become ferocious.
She has not been captured.
The Arctic Explorins Expedition.
The New Yoik Journal of Commerce
states, active preparations are making to
fit out the second exploring expedition,
proposed to Ue sent to the Arctic regions,
in search of Sir John Franklin, by Henry
Grinned. The date for its departure is
fixed at about, the middle of April next.
It will Consist of the biig Advance, which
formed a of the first expedition, and
is still in perfect order, with the exception
of her keel, which was knocked off by
the ice. It is expected she will be taken
into the dry dock in.about three weeks.
She will be manned by a crew of picked
men, under the command of Lieutenant
Kane, U. S. N. and be amply provided
“with sledges and India rubber boats, with
‘which, to .penetrate into the frozen regions
using whichever mode of conveyance
may most facilitate their progress. Pem
mican, or dried deer’s flesh, w ill formthe
essential article of food. On her north
ern trip, the Advance will stop at Green
* land and procure a! supply of Jots. * The
sieciges auu omur” ce tails ot nVe ouun
are in course of preparation. The direc
tion to bo taken will be the region of
Smith's Sound; and as the expedition
will he accompanied by a corps of scien
tific observers, interesting results of a
scientific nature are anticipated, even
though the expedition should fail of its
main object. Lieutenant Kane is pecu
liarly qualified for the command of this
philanthropic enterprise, and it could not
be undertaken under more favorable aus
pieces.
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UoF.nißi.E Accident to a Sailor.—We
extract, says the Dataware Gazette, the
following account of an accident which
occuted at Seaford, on Wednesday last,
from a private letter:
A most shocking accident happened
at Seaford yesterday*. A young sailor,
about twenty-five or twenty-six years of
age, by the name of Stansbury Mcssick,
of intemperate habits, and being some
what intoxicated at the time, climbed to
the mast head of a large schooner, be
longing to N. & ‘V. D. Horsey, and to
show his sailorship to several persons
that were looking at him, attempted to
paas from one mast head to the otter oil
the sprio-g st#y. To do this he
took to go feet foremost, swinging his
body under the spring slay and holding
on w ith his hands and legs. The spring
stay being a horizontal rope, more than
sixty feet from the deck, it required sou.e
effort to work his way from one mast to
the other. After he had passed about
two thirds of the distance, his legs, by
some means, slipped of!', leaving him
hanging by bis hands. He made several
efforts to regain the stay with his legs,
hut failed to do so. He then cried out
“I shall fall —God have mercy on me.”
Those who were looking at him could
render him no earthly assistance, though
two other sailors at the mast head were
within a few feet of him. lie continued
to hang by his hands for several minutes,
and when he could hold no longer, seem
ed to relax his hold one finger at a time.
The spectators, seeing that he was about
to fall, turned their hacks to keep from
witnessing the sight. At last he let go
and fell with a crash to the deck. He
descended feet foremost, and such was
the force with which he fell that one of
his thigh bones passed entirely through
the deck, and the other penetrated the
His thigh bones were literally shivered
to splinters, and in this state he lived
near an hour, begging the doctor who
was called to his aid “not to let him die
in his sins.”
A man that has nothing to do general
ly does wrong. If you would keep out
of deviltry, therefore, have as little to do
with idleness as possible. Give a hoy
holiday and in less than an hour a brin
dle dog will have him by the corduroys
for robbing an apple orchard.
One of the laziest men in this country
resides in lowa. Asa sample of his iner
tia, we would mention that the on'v rea
son he don’t get married is, because he
is too lazy to “stand up.” Whenever he
feels like gaping, he employs a little boy
to pull his mouth open.
A curious ease of somnambulism is re
corded in the Chilicothe Gazelle. A
daughter of Mr. Thomas Caine arose
from her sleep, and in her night-clothes
walked four miles up the Sciota river,
waded into the stream, and swam across
a deep part, and was found by an “early
riser” sitting on the bank of the river—
-asleep ! remarkable enough, as the girl
was only thirteen years old and could not
swim when awake !
A cotemporary in speaking of the “aw
ful waste” of twenty-five casks of liquor
poured upon the ground in Maine, re
marks that such an amount of liquor,
“properly distributed,” would have car
ried the primary elections in two orthiee
wards in New York.
Let the first action of manhood he to
govern your passions, for he who knows
bow to govern himself always becomes a
favorite with society.
We seek happiness by heaping on our
puny selves all we can, each one build
ing, according ♦*> the joint force of his in
tellect ands Ifishness, a reversed pyra
mid, on whi h the higher it rises the low
er he is crushed on the small spot his
! small self can fill.
No. 4.