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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.