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VOL. X V TJi GEORGIA JEPFERSOMM IS PUBLISHED EVENT THUKSDAT MORNING BY WILL AM CLINE, At Two Dollars and Fifty Cents per an num, or Two Sellars paid in advance. AOVEHTISIiVtfcINTS are inserted nt O.VE | F>OLLAR pur. pqiin'/e, lor (he lirst insertion, and FIFTY CEN’IjS pQJ* sqyorc,’ lor each insertion thereafter. A reasonable dedituinm will oo made to those tvfj) advertise by the >’Ov . A ■+Ai; ndveiiis’ ioenV not ot!;u\vJ/ ordered, wil tvcontinued li!l forbid. \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 , must he given in a public gaze'tte FORTY DA kB preions !o the day of sale. SALES OF NEGROES must be made at pub lic auction on the first Tuesday of the month, be twee.n the usual hours of sale, at Ihe place ot pub lic sales tn the county where the letters Tosla 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. Notice for the sale of Personal Property must be given in like manner FORTY DAYS prevjun to the day ol sale. Notice la Debtors and Creditors of un estate 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 lished for TWO MONTHS, 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 must tie published tiiinty dais; f ; ,r Dismission 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. Hi W s MsGUNE, \ T iT OK ‘$ ft : ¥ A T fi iA W, G RIF FIX, GEORGIA . O Slice np-stairs in Chapman’s hiiek budding 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 11. & il. J. GREEN & MARTIN, ATTORNEYS AT LA^T Oayid N. Mastm, j (ja. Oiibeti > 5 Hartford Giecw,Zclinloii, Ga. May 28.1853 22 DR. H. W. BROWN, OFFICE ON SOLOMON STREET O/vio-iU M)c BapiistClturch. Ami'. 1552. __ R. ‘mansonstill, A T TO RN E Y AT LA W , McDonouglt,Ga. MARSHALL HOUSE. SAVANNAH, GEORGIA WM. .1 011 XSOM, Proprietor (4, f 852 41 ly A. B. I) U li l N , COTTON FACTOR, No 74 EAY-STRKET, 0.-t io (41) SAVANNAH Dr. M. J. DANIEL, titarri.v, a a.,, > ii Ct-w I#'":ii !i iinliiiw on Nctv Or'.can Si. Opposte rinntex’s Hotel 4 mixi (, ih.l2 M-2 - I v p p. mcz'jir.” a* *jt V) iiiHirin all who are in f ▼ need of lull sete r imtiial si‘t of Tool It, 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. i'j 2 pj, <£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. ‘ ■ 0 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.