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VOL. XIV.
THE GEORGIi JEFFERSONIAN
** |a PUBLISHED EVERT THURSDAY HORNIER
BY WILLAM CLINE,
At Two Dollars and Fifty Cents per an*
sum, or Two Dollars paid in advance.
AiJVERTISEMLNTS are inserted at O.YH
DOLLAR per square, for the first insertion, and
FIFTY CEMTS per square, for eaeh insertion
thereafter.
A reasonable deduction will be made to those
a lio advertise by the year.
All advertisements not otherwise ordered, will
he Continued fill forbid.
?C3** SALES OF I.JINDS by Administrators,
Kxecutors or Guardians are renuired by law to be
held on the first Tuesday in the month, between
the hours ot ten in the forenoon and three in tht
afternoon, at the Court-House, in the county in
which the land is situated. Notice of tlu se sale,
must he given in a pubi c gazette FORTY DAYS
pr*”ious to the day of sale.
A ILES OF NEG ROES must be made at pub
lic auction on the first Tuesday of the month, be
tween the usual hours of sale, at the place of pub
lic sales in the county where the letters Testa
mentary, of Administration or Guardianship may
have been granted; first giving FORTY DAYS
notice thereofin one of the public gazettes of this
Slate, and at the court house whe e such sales are
to be held.
Notice fi,r the s ile of Personal Property must
be given in like manner FORTY DJIYS previous
to the day of sale.
Notice to Debtors and Creditors of an estate
must be published FORTY DJIYS.
Notice that application will tie made to the Court
of Ordinary f.ir leave to sell land must be pub
is Ned for Tff’O MONTHS,
Not wc for leave to sell negroes must be
published TWO MONTHS before any order ab
solute shall be made thereon by the Court,
CITATIONS for L<tl"rs of Administration,
must be published thiiitt oats; for Dismission
fro-n Aeininistration, monthly six moetiis; for
Dismission f-om Guardianship, fortt daT‘,
Rules for the foreclosure of Mortgage must be
published monthly for four months, for estab
lishing tost papers, lor rlmYrrH qmu <• nnr
months; for compelling titles from Kx centers or
Administrators, w here a bond has been given by
he diseased, the full space of three months.
AGRICULTURE IN CALIFORNIA.
An address delivered by A. Williams,
Esq. at a meeting in San Francisco, for
presenting the premium of a silver goblet,
offered by Mr. C. A. Shelton for sftc best
varieties of vegetables and grains, contains
some interesting particulars of the agricul
ture 1 resources of California. *
Mr. Williams says that California is a
State whose agricultural capabilitHs—a
far richer treasure than her mineral wealth
—arc unsurpassed in any portion of the
earth, and whose variety of useful products
are equalled only by their unparalleled ex
tent and adaptation to the varied wants
of man. In most of the others, a single
excellence is characteristic and predomi
nant. The lumber of Maine, the grauite
of New Hampshire, the wool of Vermont,
the manufactures of Massachusetts, the
agriculture of New York, the coal and
iron of Pennsylvania, the grain and fruits
of the middle and western States, the cop
per of Michigan, the corn, tobacco, and
hemp of Virginia and Kentucky, the cot
ton of Alabama and Georgia, the sugar
of Louisiana, the sugar, cotton, and indi
po of Texas, the turpentine of North, and
the rice of South Carolina, constitute, re
spectively, the most prominent and dis
tinct interests, and are the pride and glory
of their citizens. But there is scarcely one
of those that cannot be found or produced
in oar own State. In the natural pro
ductions of tiie earth conducive to the
sustenance of man, is our State abundantly
prolific. As we approach the centre of
the State, the banana, the orange, the
lemon, the olive, the fig, the plantain, the
nectarine, the almond, the apricot, and
the pomegranate of the South, mingle in
the same luxuriant gardens of Los An
geles with the peach, the pear, the cherry,
the plum, the quince and the apple of the
North; the fruits of the oak and pine, of
gigantic size and delicious taste, furnishing
to man and beast the richest and most
nutricious food; the beautiful salmon of
the noble Sacramento, often weighing
thirty, forty, and even sixty pounds, vie
iag with any other in fineness and texture
and richness of flavor, as well as in size;
and one uncommon article of white sugar,
the exudation of a species of pine tree
called the sugar pine; the successive ran
ges of mountains, whose extent is lost to
view in the distance, waving with rich
harvests of oats, the spontaneous produc
tion of the soil; solid trees of red-wood, on
the banks of the Trinity and Shasta rivers,
sixty-eight feet in circumference; hollow
ones whose cavity has sheltered sixteen
men and twenty mules for the night; pines
crowning the dizzy peaks of the Sierra
Nevada three hundred and eighty feet in
height, the first two hundred and fifty feet
without a branch or limb, and the extent
of growth so far beyond the ordinary size
as to- seem almost incredible, but well
known, and seen, and verified by the uni
form and concurrent testimony of many
whom I see sitting around me. And we
have some stili larger and taller specimens
of other things nearer home, here in our
own city, to which many who hear me will
hear witness from experience, and which
come to maturity “monthly in advance”
—rents, the tallest kind of rents, put up
higher tnan the pines, arc sometimes har
der to get around than red-woodi I hold
ia my hand a statement signed by twelve
citizens of the county of Santa Cruz,
Messrs,. Mo Bean, Gibson, Mallison, Peck,
Clements, Pedriet, Mills, Stevens, McHen
ry, Sanborn, Kista, and Loveland, gentle
men of unquestionable veracity, an ex
tract from which is as follows:
“On land owned and cultivated by Mr.
James Williams, an onion grew to the e
normous weight of twenty-one pounds. On
this same land a turnip was grown which
equalled exactly in size the top of a flour
barrel. On land owned and cultivated by
Thomas Fallen, a cabbage grew which
measured, while growing, 13 feet 6 inches
around its body. The #eight is not known.
‘Fiic various cereal grains also grow to a
height of from six to tyejve feet. One
red-wood tree iu the valley, known os
Fremont’s tree, measures over fifty feet in
circumference, and is nearly three hundred
feet high.”
Added to these astonishing productions
js a beet, grown by Mr. Isaac Braunan, at
San Jose, weighing sixty-three pounds;
,arrots, three feet in length, weighing for
ty pounds. At Stockton a turnip weigh
ed one hundred pounds. In the latter city
at a dinner for twelve persons, of a single
potslp, larger that the size of an ordinary
hat, all partook, leaving at least the half
untouched. These may be superlatives,
‘"’ ‘ ‘
but they do exist, and they show what our
soil and climate are capable of producing.
Nor are these more seemingly incredible
than the well known fact of a portion of the
State, nearly six hundred miles in length,
and fifty in breadth, whose every foot of
land from hill top to valley is more or
less impregnated with gold of every con
ceivable form and size, from dust up to
lumps weighing thirty pounds. But let
ns cast our eyes around this hall, and
what do we see even from this hasty col
lection, and casual contribution—an agri
cultural, botanical, geological, mineral,
and floral exhibition, embracing nearly
one thousand varieties of pressed flowers
of every hue and of surpassing brilliancy,
nearly two hhndred varieties of which arc
illustrated by truthful and beautiful draw
ings; seeds of more than three hundred va
rieties of native flowers; twenty varieties of
lily and other bulbous roots, embracing
the remarkable soap plant, rivalling the
finest boasts of the toilet, and adding to
its healing qualities, as if provided by na
ture for tho double purpose of sanitary and
abluent properties for the native sons of
the forest; specimens of one thousand va
rieties of the principal quartz veins and
soils of the State; about twenty varieties
of the principal grasses and clovers, many
of the specimens pressed, embracing the
burr clover, that feeds to fatness the “cat
tle of a thousand hills” when all other sub
stance is parched and withered; Shelton’s
mammoth clover, whose stalks from one
root covered an area of eighty one square
feet, some of the stalks six feet long, a
half-inch in diameter, and the clover head
five inches in circumference; single stalks
of the white liliy, producing one hundred
llOWerS OftndCßli Hwblp-dcMcacj- nj kn
ty; beautiful specimens of minerals and
pressed flowers from H. Pratten, Esq. of
Nevada; stalks of the oat gathered by Mr.
Shelton, thirteen feet high; specimens of
wheat and barley having one hundred and
fifty and two hundred mammoth stalks
springing from one root, the produce of a
single seed; the red sugar beet grown by
Mr. L. M. Beard, of San Jose, twenty
eight inches in circumference, and weigh
ing forty seven pounds—some from the
luxurient gardens of Alderman Green, of
this city, of only two months’ growth,
weighing six and seven pounds; a cabbage
from 11. Bolmer’s ranch, mission of San
Jose, weighing fifty-six pounds, and mea
suring seven feet in circumference, present
ed by Wilson & Cos.; encumbers raised
by the same, eighteen inches in length:
onions cultivated by Messrs. Smith and
Broder, and contributed by Messrs. Cham
berlain and Musser, five, six, and seven
inches in diameter, and weighing three and
four pounds each, nearly seventy thousand
pounds to an acre, and the whole number
from the acre supposed to average one
pound each; potatoes from Mr. H. Speel,
of Santa Cruz, One hundred and twenty
pound from five vines of a single hill—one
from Mr. B. J. Stephens, of Santty Clara,
thirteen inches in length, twenty-seven in
ches in circumference, and weighing seven
and a quarter pounds; the Russian ball
barley, grown by Mr. Johnson on his
ranch, upon the banks of Bear river,
weighing sixty-six pounds to the bushel,
with a kernel near double the size of large
wheat; rasberries near five inches in cir
cumference; of barley from the San Jose
valley, nine hundred and sixty-five bushels
were produced from less than five acres of
land—some from the farm of Madame
Scoofy, of Sonora, where twelve acres, by
ordinary cultivation, produced a crop of
fifty-three thousand pounds. These walls
arc festooned with luscious grapes from
Capt. Malstry, of Los Angeles, single
bunches from the gardens of Gen. Yallejo,
at Sonoma, weighing ten pounds; apples,
peaches, figs, and other fruits of enormous
size from the same; from Horner, toma
toes weighing two pounds each; pumpkins
and squashes one hundred to one hundred
and forty pounds each; cabbages two feet
in diameter, and weighing over fifty pounds;
onions, beets, and potatoes of enormous
size, not isolated, but by hundreds of bush
els; the top onion produced the first season
from the ordinary seed, with samples of
wheat and barley of uncommon size and
weight; and added to the exhibition are
also beautiful specimens of the Daguerrcan
and photographic art from Mr. Shew, and
also from Mr. Bradley; lemon syrup of ex
ceeding excellence, manufactured and ex
hibited by Messrs Street & Cos. of this
city; exquisite feather work, by Madame
Paacard; besides samples and specimens of
countless varieties of plants, herbs, vines,
fruits, and esculents of exceeding size and
singular perfection, collected by Mr. Shel
ton, to the enumeration of which the pro
per extent of this address is wholly inad
equate. Among the tropical productions
introduced by him arc coffee, ginger, ba
nana, plaintain, and pomegranate, which
are now In progress of successful cultiva
tion; and he has this day received from
Valparaiso a choice assortment of rare
and valuable exotics—the entire stock of
a green house, embracing two thousand of
the choicest French and Italian grape
vines, fifty varieties choice pear trees, six
varieties plums, three of apricots, twenty
of geoches, five of currants, and seven
thousand asparagus plants. Os flowers
there ace fifty varieties of jassamines, four
of the African hibiscus, eight of chrysan
themums, twelve of althea, the wax plant,
pinks, cacti, eighty-four dahlias, and over
one thousand rose bushes. I have recent
ly been informed by one of our adopted
Celestials, whose phrenological develop
ments of “auri sacra fames” predominated
over his “amor patrief that our soil, cli
mate and seasons are well adapted to the
growth of the tea plant, and that, as there
existed no natural obstacle to its success
ful cultivation here, he had sent to China
for seed, and intends to commence growing
it in the ensuing spring.
Indeed there is scarcely a fruit or plant,
a shrub or a flower, a mineral or a vege
table, of which any land can boast, but
what is embraced within the limits of Cal
ifornia, a “bright particular star” in the
constellation of States, the crowning gem
in the tiara of freedom. It needs but en
couragement to develop her cxhaustless
resources. Agriculture is the greatest
and most important as it is the first occu
pation of man. Manufactu es, arts, sci
ences, commerce, inventions, all follow in
train. It is for the purpose of encourage
ment to the farming, as well as the horti-1
GRIFFIN, (GA.) THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 14, 1853
cultural interests, that we have hear as
sembled; and this silver goblet, equally
creditable to hitn who gives, and to him
who receives, I am requested by Mr. Shel
ton, the giver, to present to you, Mr.
Horner, as a premium for the best varie
ties of vegetables and grains, and as a
testimonial of his and our and the public
appreciation of your persevering and suc
cessful efforts here in tho great and noble
field of agricultural and horticultural in
dustry. In your case we have seen, while
the public mind was absorbed by the irre
sistible maelstrom of the gold mania, a
single individual in four years even more
successful in developing the agricultural,
than others the mineral wealth, which slum
bers in the bosom of our soil, under pecu
liar disadvantages, for want of implements,
proper seeds, and sufficient manual help
—at first aided by the labor of only three
natives of the forest, till the teeming soil,
in grateful return for her cultivation, yield
ed her riches, in the fifth year enabling
you the present season, with the average
aid of 60 co-laborers, to realize front 800
acres of land in the Santa Clara valley,
of—
Potatoes ..... 120,000 bnshels.
Onions 6,000 “
Table beets . . , . . 4,000 “
Turnips 3,000 “
Tomatoes . . I . . 1,200 “
Barley 5,000 “
Pumpkins 20 tons.
Solid-headed cabbage . 108,000
Chickens 600
Eggs ....... 1,200 dozen.
Onion seed 800 pounds.
Beet seed 200 “
Cabbage seed 100 “
ducing a crop* ”a*t” present prices,
sonic ,$200,000.
Desperate Fight.
Tit 3 ‘Arkansas Shield,’ coataius an ac
count of a desperate fight between a man
and two women on one side, and a pan
ther on the other. The fight took place
on Beaver Bayou, Phillips county, Arkan
sas, on the 10th ult. The Shield says:
On the 10th, Mr. Grimes had left liis’
house during the deep snow that then lay
on the ground, to procure some firewood
in tho adjoining forest—leaving in the
house, a sick child, his wife, and her moth
er. Attracted by the crying of the child,
it is supposed, a large and fierce panther
approached the door of the house. The
imitative note of a child crying, drew to
the door, Mrs. Grimes, most fortunately;
for already was the nose of the fierce in
truder thrust within the door. By an ef
fort, she succeeded in closing the door and
shutting out the panther. An alarm was
then given by the ladies, which drew to
the house Mr. Grimes, supposing his child
to be ill, and little dreaming by how fierce
an enemy his cabin was besieged.
Judge then of his surprise upon seeing
coolly seated upon the step of his door, a
hugo panther. Mr. Grimes advanced and
attempted to get possession of hit gun,
which Mrs. G. had, opening the back
door, brought around to him; crouching,
with tail ‘ switching and eyes fiercely glar
ing, the panther watched every movement
of Mr. Grimes. At the moment Mr G.
grasped his gun, and before he could use
it, tho panther made a spring at his throat.
With great presence of mind, Mr. Grimes
grasped the monster by the throat. The
panther got the left arm of Mr. G. in his
mouth, and victory seemed to be with him.
Every muscle of Mr. G. was now strained
to the utmost, and a long struggle ensued;
the panther was thrown, and by placing
his knee on his neck and stilt retaining
the grasp he had on his throat, Mr. G.
succeeded in releasing from the jaws of
the panther, his left arm. They again
rose from the ground; Mr. G. never aban
doning his vice-like hold of its throat—had
now both of its fore legs grasped in his
left hand; he thus kept it at arm’s length,
and prevented it from tearing him with its
claws. Victory was not yet with Mr. G.
and he still might have met with a Water
loo defeat, had not the ladies, Blucher
like, come up with reinforcements. A
pair of tongs and a ‘batting stick’were
brought to bear upon the paiither. One
blow of the tongs sent down his throat
several of his teeth; for so tight was the
grasp of Mr. G. that the animal’s mouth
was wide open. Tho heroines in this
fight (Mr3. G. and her mother) continued
belaboring the panther, until a blow broke
it down in its loins. Mr. G. kept his hold
unril the panther breathed his last, and
firmly believes that he choked the pan
ther to death, notwithstanding the aid
given him by the ladies. When captured,
it measured eight and a half feet from the
tip of the nose to the end of its tail. Its
skin now hangs on the outer side of his
cabin, a trophy of a hard and bloody
fight.
Highferlutin:—A correspondent of the
Memphis (Tenn) Whig went to see Miss
J ulia Dean; from the record of his impres
sions we take the following:
She came among us like some beautiful
visitant from a distant world, to gladden
for awhile, to brighten, to bless and to
leave. We had as it were, but a moment
to gaze entranced upon her matchless
form, to taste one sip from the tide of
melody that flowed from her sweet lips,
to pause for an instant beneath the rays
of her star-set face and flashing eyes, that
meteor-like crossed our path, and she was
gone. She’s gone, but memory still fond
ly lingers around the spot from whence
the bright vision has flown —a thousand
lips still syllable her praise—a thousand
hearts beat responsive to the strain.—
We are ever prone to love and admire
genius in whatever guise we find it, but
when it shines forth from a face as beau
tiful, a form as faultless as the fabled
Hebe’s, like Saul of Tarsus wc fall be
neath its rays and worship in its light.—
And while we gaze with wonder and ad
miration upon a brow where genius sits
enthroned, we delight to associate with it
a character as pure and spotless as the
sweet Goddess Chastity herself.
We see in the last Macon Telegraphy
in & communica.ion to that paper, the
name of Dr. John W. Lewis, of Cass
county, proposed as a suitable candidate
for the office of Governor.
From the Charleston C wrier.
The Greenville and Columbia Railroad
From a letter of the 24th ult. written
by the Superintendent of the Greenville
and Columbia Railroad, 1 am informed
that the Road is in operation to Honey
Path, in the lower edsre of Anderson
District, 110 miles from Columbia.
He says:-“freight trains will bo sent
up (o that point (Honey Path) to-day
(24th inst.) Vie are doing a very heavy
business, and all our eleven locomotives
are in active service. We now require the
service of a good many more.”
This will show that notwithstanding
the great injury done to the Road in
August, the repairs have been made,
and it has been pressed forward 17. miles,
in the six months, which it has taken to
entirely restore every thing.
1 understand the mail stages are to
run from the head of the Road to Ander
son and Greenviile. The road is now
within 17 miles of Anderson, and 34 of
Greenviile. In two weeks, the iron can,
and I hope will, be laid to Belton, within
9 miles of Anderson, and 26 miles pf
Greenville. At this time the stages can
reach Anderson in daylight, and Green
ville by 10 P. M.
A traveller can start from Charleston
at 4 P. M. and stop the next night at An
derson orGreeville. The Greenville and
Columbia trains leave Columbia at 6
A. M. every day, except Sundays.
Goods shipped here will reach any of
the stations on the Greenville and Co
lumbia Railroad with perfect safety, and
without delay. The Road is in complete
order, is under the daily supervision of
two of the most experienced men of the
otato. Tk* runners end eiTtttlaClOrS aTC
careful, attentive, steady men. Not one
accident worth mentioning has happened
on the Road since last September.
John Belton O’Neal,
President G. and C. R. R. Cos.
From the ThomasviHc Watchman.
Brunswick, March 28, 1553.
Mr .Editor , — As you are interested in
Brunswick, 1 thought 1 would ad vise you
how we are progressing with our Canal
and Railroad. As there are a great many re
ports in circulation about Brunswick which
have no foundation, and the facts cannot be
known in your section, 1 thought I would
let you know exactly the condition of
things. First, some of the Railroad Iron
has arrived, and the balance is coming, no
doubt; and we have a small piece of Road
graded—say 7 ten miles—cross ties ready
to put down, and the Messrs. Collins
are preparing to lay down the iron next
week. The vessel, (the Pavilion ,
which arrived on the 24th,) brought ISO
tons, which will lay two miles—then we
will put on the cars, and work to advan
tage. The iron would have been here be
fore, but it was shipped by the way of
Boston, and reshipped from there here
the balance will come Wns-ApvccW
The Road will not progress as fast as
anticipated, on account of the scarcity of
hands. The Railroad will have to wait
until the Canal is finished, unless we can
get mote hands; but as soon as the Canal
is finished, the whole force will he put
on tho Road, which is 450 hands. The
Messrs. Collins wish to avoid having the
hands on the Canal in the summer; and
by the first of July, if nothing happens,
the principal forca on the Canal will be
removed to the Road.
If you wish the road to be built faster,
you must let us have hands; and if you
wish to hire, come and take contracts
The Road is rea !y to be let to St. Ilia
River. You will see that we are doing
all we are able to do We want men to
work, and we have the money to pay
them.
You can rely on this statement, as
being the exact state’ of things here at
present.
Yours respectfully, E.
P. S.—The Oglethorpe house will be
opened next week, by Mr. J. R. Wood,
of this place.
Al*ant & Savannah Railroad.—
F. P. Holcombe, E-rq. Engineer
of the Savannah and Albany Railroad
company, visited Albany in the early
part of the present week, and from that
gentleman we learn the following particu
lars of the survey: A line was completed
from Savannah to two different crossings
on the Altamaha, some two weeks since
The distance is 59 miles—seven miles
less than appears by 800 ‘er’a Map of
Georgia. One of these crossings is in
the upper part of Mclntosh, and the
other above, in Liberty County. An
other favorable crossing may be obtained
in Tattnall County, near the mouth of
tire Ohoope River. The two lines have
been connected on the west ofiha Alta
maha, and tire survey has proceeded
about 45 mile* in the direction of Albany.
The whole route is, so far, very favorable
—no cut or fill, except near, the Altama
ha crossing, exceeding ten feet. The
extreme grade is 30 feet to the mile,
and even this is seldom necessary. I’hs
country is very level, and tire line al
most without curves.
l he distance from Albany to Savanah
by this road, will he, Mr. Holcombe
thinks, not much, if any, over ISO miles.
—Albany Patriot.
American Commerce with China. —
The report of the harbor master at
Shanghai, (Mr. Nicholas Bavlies,) shows
that from Jan. Ist to December 31st,
1852,the A meiican tonnage exceedsthat
of any other nation. The number of British
vessels, was one hundred and two, with
a tonnage of thirty two thousand seven
hundred, of American vessels seventy
one, with a tonuage of 40,365. The
whole amount of tonnage was 76,900,
and the number of vessels one hundred
and eighty-seven; the remainder, besides
English ancF Americtn, being almost
equally divided between French, Dan
ish, Hamburg, Spanish, Hawaiian, and
Dutch. Ihe exports of Ten from Shanghai
in 1852 were 57,675,000 pounds, which
is about equal in amount to the exports
of the two previous years. The exports
of Tea from Shanghai to Great Britain,
from July Ist to December 31st, 1852,
were 17,823; to the United States,
, 15,403,900.
Gold Fish.
Some years ago an individual placed
some gold fish in a pond of the city farm
These fish increased no rapidly for the
last year or two that our city boys have
obtained a large number,- some for them
selves and some to sell; so that all over
the city and vicinity there are globes and
vases full of these beautiful fish. Some
have even been sent South, where they
are a great novelty, and are valued very
highly.
These fish are the “Cyprims Auralus ”
of Linnajus: They are of the same
genus as the “Altanow.” The “ Cyprin
us Auratus ” is a native of the South part
of China, in the province of Kiang, from
which it was disseminated over China,
it being a great fayorite with the Chinese
ladies.
It was introduced into England in the
year 1691, but was not generally known
until the year 1723. ThepTesent impor
tation into England is, we believe, from
Spain. In England gold fish are consid
ered as beautiful an ornament as can be
placed in the ponds, in gardens, and in
vases in houses.
The colors of these’fish are various.—
Some are of a rich golden hue, scarlet on
the back, and silvery on the belly; some
are silvery all over,, but the most beauti
ful specimens are those that have patches
of black on the back, shaded scarlet or
golden on the sides and a silvery hue on
the belly. In a collection for a vase all
the varieties should be selected, as each
looks more beautiful contrasted with the
others.
The back fin is occasionally wanting,
or it consists of a few rays only*.
rvow we want our little friends, the
gold fish to be properly treated. AYe
hate to see animals kept for ornament,
suffering from the ignorance of their own
ers. In the first place humanity will see
that these fish are kept in vessels which
permit the air to come to the wafer.—
Many of the fish k<>pt in this city, died
the past summer on account of not hav
ing a sufficient quantity of air, and also
from the insufficient quantity of the wa
ter in which they were kept. In warm
weither, especially if the vase in which
they are kept is exposed to the sun, the
water soon becomes ton much heated for
them, the fish turn dark-colored, and
die in a few hours. Plenty of fresh air
and a plenty of fresh cool water is abso
lutely essential to them. In winter, of
course, there is not much danger that the
water will become heated; still they of
ten suffer for want of enough air. They
will die in a bottle although the stopper
is out. The fish require a larger con
tact of the air with the water, and if the
vessel is small the water should be
changed very often or the fish will die.
It has been supposed that if the sun is
permitted to come on them it will kill
them. In their native ponds the sun is
o;i them, but there is such a large eon
tact of air with the water that it is not
injurious, and if they are in a vase with
an opening large enough for the entrance
of air, it is better for them to be placed
in the sun part of the time; but great care
must be taken that the water does not
become too warm.
Another mistake is to suppose that
thes3 fish should not be fed. It has often
been said that they will perish if they
have anything to eat. What an idea, to
keep fish and not feed them! Nature
does not give them stomachs for nothing,
and water is an Unsubstantial diet. They
like breadcrumbs have no objection to little
flies and worms, and the white of an egg,
dried and powdered, is as great a treat to
them as roast turkey is to us. In their
native ponds they feed upon insects and
vegetable matter.
Do feed your fish every day, and after
you have fed them change the water.—
they want fresh water to breath in, and
they cannot live in water made turbid by
bread crumbs. The reason that feeding
is supposed to kill them, is that they can
not breathe. Gold fish may live without
food, yet they live miserably; but it is
incoirtp'afatively better for them to live
without food, than to have the water
spoiled and rendered unfit to breathe by
the food.
Feed our little friends, the fishes, once
a day, and then give them plenty of wa
ter to breathe in thp rest of the lime, and
they will live and glow. Soft spring
water is better for them than bard water.
—Portsmouth Journal.
A Smart April Fool.
Tiie Charleston Standard of the 3d inst.
says:
“Among the many attempts to play off
practical jokes upon the “green” ones on
the first of April, that of a lady at
one of the boarding houses of our city, is
the best we have ever heard of. It was
this: She procured from a marble yard,
several pieces of beautiful white marble,
and breaking them ill to nice little lumps,
put them into the sugar bowls. The coun
terfeit was complete -no unsuspecting per
son could have detected the fraud. Soon
suppar was ready—the tea was poured,
and the sugar bowls were passed around
the table. Everybody took one, two, or
three lumps, according to their liking.—
Then followed a general tasting and stir
ring all around the table—nobody’s tea
was sweet enough, and the sugar refused
positively to melt. They ground their
spoons against it, and stirred and stirred
again, but it was no go. The sugar proved
to be marble, and they, for once, proved
to be April foolsP
An Old Bachelor’s Epitaph. — A lady
had been teaching the summer sdiool in a
certain town, and a young sprig of the
law paid her some attention; so much that
ho was joked about her. He replied, “he
should look higher for a wife.” It came
to the Li ly’s ears, and she meditated a lit
tle bit of revenge. An opportunity soon
offered. They were at a party together,
and to reieemher forfeit she was to write
his epitaph. She gave the following:
Here lies a man who looked so liish
He panel all common damsels bv,
And they who looked us hih as he.
Declare I his bride they would nol be;
S t ’I wixl the n both be died a bach,
AoJ n nr Ins gone to t.heolJ scratch.
) • JJxcttr News-Letter.
From the Wilmington Hcr.ikJ.
The Value of the N C. Copper Mias*.
The surprising development of the
mineral wealth of our State, but now
commenced* reminds one somewhat of
the fabled realizations of Aladdin’s Lamp-
With this difference, in the one case the
riches and possessions were imaginary;
while in the other they are tangible and
real. It would really seem that, to the
touch, portions of our State yield trea
sures vast and astounding. On# can
hardly realize the rich results which af
ter a long night seem breaking like the
day light upon us. We say nothing in
this place of the wealth of the Coal de
posites—of the gold, silver, iron, cement,
which enrich the limits of our good old
State; but in passing we will glance at
the Copper mines, which but a short
time ago were undeveloped, if not en
tirely unknown. It is now ascertained
that the wealth of these mines is immense.
We published in our last an accouut of
a sale in New York of one hundred tons
of the ore, recently extracted from the
Fentress mine in Guilford county, at
SIBO per ton. This it would appear
from subsequent developments is but the
beginning. The mine is rich beyond all
calculation. The Patriot, published in
the county in which the mine is situated,
says: “We untfferstaud that the mine
opened in this county, becomes richer as
the workmen go down. Between the
different tunnels or slopes cut in the vein
there is now ascertained to be copper ore
sufficient to bring in market one million
of dollars. This sounds like an aston
ishing yield, and we should almost hes
itate to mention it, were it not for relia
ble assurances of the correctness of the
estimate And yet, at the bottom of the
last and deepest shaft the vein is thick
est and richest!—promising a remunera
tion to enterprise and labor valuable be
yond precedent in the annals of mining in
this country.”
A late number of the Augusta Cuntli
lutiontt]isl contains an article upon the
subject of the next Gubernotorial Elec
tion, upon which we desire to comment
very biefly.
The election is still seven months off;
and we think that little is to be gained,
and perhaps there is much to be lost, in
the premature designation of candidates.
For ourselves we have little doubt that
the Cont ention will nominate a worthy
man and a good Democrat; and if we
should attempt to call over the roll of all
those gentlemen who are competent to
bear our banner, we would be forced to
fill a column with a useless parade of
names, But that which we particularly
note in the Cons'ilutioaaUst , is the sus
picion indulged against Gov. Cobb, to
wit: that he secretly exerted himself
against the regular Democratic ticket at
the late Presidential election. Now we
desire to ask of what possible benefit
are allusions of this character? Are they
calculated to promote harmony, or to en
sure success? What good can they do,
granting that history avouches them true?
Mr. Cobb is not a candidate for re-elec
tion, and until his name is brought for
ward, we can see no good reason for
such charges, even if they can be sub
stantiated.
But we are assured by Gov. Cobb's
friends that he did not support the Tuga
lo ticket, and on the contrary, strongly
discountenanced that movement.
Our position towards Gov. Cobb is
very well known, but having been among
the first to indicate a basis of re-union
for the parts’, we shall be among the
last to disregard that basis by unneces
sary allusion to old controversies.—
It can by no possibility do any good.
The Democratic party is coming, togeth
er in good faith, and we suggest that the
anticipation of future co-operation and
kind feeling will be found a surer bound
of union than the recollection of past
quarles. — Macon Telegraph.
Beware of Kidnappers.
We have reasons to believe that there
are now, and for some time past have
been, in this city, several evil disposed
persons, whose object it is to kidnap as
many of the negro population as possi
ble. As yet, however, their efforts have
met, we are gratified to learn, with but
little success—the only case which we
have heard of is that of a negro boy of
about thirteen years of age. who disap
peared sometime in September last, and
no traces of bis whereabouts have since
been discovered. But, although this is
the only instance of their success, that
has come to our knowledge, yet we
learn that man}’ attempts have been
made and failed. On Saturday last, we
understand, a mulatto boy, aged about
seventeen, was stopped by ’ a well dres
sed white man, in near
St. Phillip street, who offered to take
him, if he would go on board his vessel,
“to a country where he would be free”
(to starve) “and well treated” (with
drudgery and contempt.) The boy, how
ever, knew better than to quit a home
with which he was well satisfied, for
parts unknown; whereupon the white
man attempted to drag him by the col
lar, but the boy threatening to call for
assistance—released him.
On Tuesday evening a white woman
stopped, in King-street, a negro girl
about nine years of age, and endeavored
by promises, to induce her to accompany
her to the country. Young as she was,
however, the girl was not to be tempted,
and the woman endeavored to drag her
towards the wagon; but the gill made
good use of her lungs, and brought by
her screams, a gentleman to her assist
ance, who compelled the woman, by
threats of taking her to the guard house,
to release the girl. We regret the gen
tleman did not, ae it was, take the wo
man to the guard house, and have her
punished according to law. The Police,
however, we learn are on the look out,
and some of the parlies engaged in this
nefarious buisness will, doubtless, be
detected.— Charleston Courier.
The Cincinnati Times says there are
fifty-nine “Spiritual Circles” regularv
organized in that city, and more than
twice that number occasionHy meeting.
DiaSresing Rail Road Accident.
A sad Bnd fatal accident befell the bas
senger train ofcars on the Baltimore and
Ohio rail road, on Saturday the 27th ult.
by which seven lives were lost itistarttly,
and a number of the other passengers so
seriously hurt that several are expected
not torecover. The following are the
particulars of the event:—The train con- ..
sisted of a baggage car and three passen
ger cars; and was in charge of the most
cautious and skillful Conductor on the
road, to whom no blame can possibly be
attached. The cars were drawn by one
large and one small engine. When pas
sing the 80 foot filling on section 76, and
descending a curved grade of 116 feet tu
Cheat river, the large engine started the
nails bedding the rails to thechesnut ties.
All the cars got over safely except the
two last passenger cars, which by the
parting of the tracks, were thrown down
the river side, falling a distance of over
100 feet, and making four summerset
in their fearful descent. The heavy
trucks of the car caused the loss of file
by crushing the passengers.
Os some forty persons in the two cars,
the following were killed: PanieJ Holt,
of the firm of Holt & Milthy, Baltimore-;
Aurelie Sallie, supposed to be from
South Carolina; Louis Define, a French
emigrant, returning home from California;
Richard Clayton, of Wiliisville Va; Miss
Isaacs, a young lady of Indiana, on her
way to visit her friends in Philadelphia,
and Dr. Cedwalladeri who accompanied
her; Small, stepson of Robert Murray,
a Supervisor of the railroad, and a child
of Mr. Giese, of St. Louis. Mr. Gicse
and lady were both aeverly injured, with
three other of the children.
Shadows of Ministerial Life.
A Minister in Indiana writes thus to the
Central Christian Herald:
“We live on less than S2OO per annum,
including horse keeping and travelling ex
penses; and my travelling in a year is not
less than three thousand miles. I have to
go to a neighboring wood and fell down
the trees, chop them into ten or twelve
feet logs, hitch my horse to them, drag
them to the house, chop, saw, and split
them for stove fuel, and then, after preach
ing two sermons a week, riding most weeks
fifty or sixty miles, teaching Sabbath
school, riding three miles to post office and
store, &c.—even then, I am accused by
my brethren, of doing nothing but riding a
bout and reading my books, and told that
I might work a little and earn a part of
my living i”
On the 10th ult. there arrived at St.
Louis, via New Orleans, about three
hundred and thirty persons, Mormons,on
their way to Salt Lake, chiefly from
England. The St. Louis Republican
learns from Mr. Wheelock, late presi
ding elder of the Church in that city, and
just returned from-England, that there
are six more ships on the way, chiefly
freighted with members of this Church
and their families. He estimates the
number expected by. those ships at from
twenty-five hundred to three thousand.—
He is advised of the arrival of a ship at
the Balize with about three hundred per
sons from Denmark. Arrangements are
making for the transportation from Eu
rope next year, of about ten thousand.—
The growth of this body is one of the
most singular novelties of the day.
Old Maids.— This class of humanity
is more abused and scandalized than any
other. Themselves among the brightest
jewels of the sex, they labor to increase
the sunshine of the worlJ,to add new
happiness to their kind, new hopes, new
aspiration, new joys. Yet sarcasm has
ever made them the mark of its poison,
and scandal of its cutting edge. A co
temporary well says:
“An old maid is a universal aunt. She
has friends everywhere. Children love
her, and kittens lie in the fire skreen at
her feel, and pur. There are pleasant
houses where her presence is welcome,
and by and by some poor soul she has
comforted will put a fljwCr on her
grave.”
Trad* with the Pacific. —The coin*
mercial intercourse of this country with
the Pacific is growing rapidly. It is said
that there are twenty-fiye to thirty ves
sels in the port of New York up for Carlr
f rnia atone, embracing a large number of
the most splendidly built clipper ships.
There are also eight fine vessels up for Au
stralia, and all filling at satisfactory rates.
Those loading for California are taking in
valuable cargoes, consisting chiefly of
flour, lumber, provisions, machinery, and
assorted goods. To Australia the chief
articles consist of flour, lumber, tobacco,
rice, spirits, and assorted merchandise,
suitable for that distant market.— Ball.
Amtr.
In a late pamphlet by Dr. Allen, ort
the Opium Trade, it is stated that “China
expends more than $40,000,000 for the
single article of Opium, nearly
as much as the whole amount of the te~
venue of the United States, from all
sources whatever, and a larger sum then
any nation on the globe pays to- another
for a single raw material, with the excep
tion of what Great Britain pays to this
country for cotton.
Tell the Difference.—*-
A loafer got hold of a green persimmon,’
which (before they are ripened by the
frost) are said to be the most bitter and
puckery fruit known.
He look the persimmon outside the
garden wall, and commenced, upon it by
seizing a generous mouthful of the fruit,
whieh appeared-to be’ hr a state to frizzle
his lips and tongue most provokingly.
“How do you like it?” enquired the’
owner of the garden, who had been
watching him.
Ihe saliva was oozing from’ the cor
ners of the fellow’s mouth,, aud he was
able only to reply.
“How do I look, habor? Ami whist--
Un or singin ?”
Unfriended indeed is he who hasno
friend hold enough to point out his faults.
No. 15.