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From the South Carolinan, June 15.
The Prussian System of Education.
A Synopsis of At. Cousin’s Report on the System of
Education in Prussia.
Children are kept at school seven years. The
local committees are invested with great and
discretionary powers, which are freely exercis
ed. The number of children educated, is stated ■
by M. Cousin, to have been in the year 1831, !
■“2,013,030 —a number which, alter deducting the
unavoidable absentees, embraces the entire
population between seven and fourteen years of
ago. What a glorious spectacle would be pre
sented to the world if all the children of South
Carolina, [Georgia and Alabama,] who are des
titute of education, were placed under careful
instruction in the same manner? How much
crime would be prevented ! How much good
would bo done ! How much knowledge would
be obtained! How rapidly would the social
condition of the people improve ! And with the
freedom and liberality of our Government to aid
us, how mighty would become our people But
to tke subject. The following is laid down
as the
“ Duty of Parents. —The law compels all pa
rents, or those on w hom children are depend
ant, to keep them at school from their seventh
to their fourteenth year. Children must bo put
t the school of the parish, unless the parent
shows that ho is educating them at some other
school, or giving them private instruction. In
case of neglect, admonition is tirst employed,
and if this fails, coercive measures are resorted
to. The child is taken to school by the police,
and the parents may be punished by fine, im
prisonment, and disqualification for local office.
“ Care is to be taken every where to furnish
necessitous parents with the means of sending
their children to school, by providing them with
the things necessary for their instruction, or
with such clothes as they staud need of. Ade
quate means are provided for enforcing these
regulations.
Duty of the Parish, is*e. —Each parish is
buund to maintain a primary school; each town
at least one burgher or middle school ; small
villages, not able to maintain a primary school,
may associate with the surrounding district for
this purpose. The children must not exceed
one hundred to a master. The law declares
what is required for the complete maintenance
of a school, in order that it may answer its end.
1. A suitable income for masters and mistress
es, and a certain provision tor them when they
ure past servico.
2. A building for the purpose of teaching and
of exercise.
3. Furniture, books, pictures, instruments,
and all things necessary for the lessons and ex
ercise.
4. Pecuniary assistance for the necessitous
scholars.
The School Committee are charged to make
the salaries of teachers as high as possible, and
a minimum is fixed, below which the salaries
shall not be reduced, in order to command the
best talents and qualifications. The school house
is required to be placed in a healthy situation,
to be roomy, well aired, and kept w ith the great,
cst neatness.
Every school in a village or town shall have
It garden, cultivated according to the nature of
the country ; either as kitchen garden, orchard,
nursery garden, or laid out for raising bees ; and
this garden shall be made available for the in
struction of the scholars.
Wherever the nature of the spot will admit,
there shall be a gravelled plain or court in front
of the school, for the children’s exercise.
The materials necessary for instruction con
sist, above all, in a sufficient collection ot books
for the uso of the school.
There shall he, according to the degree ot
every school, a collection of maps and geograph
ical instruments, models of drawing, writing,
music, &e. the instruments and collections ne
cessary for studying mathematics and natural
history; lastly, according to the extent ot the
system of instruction, there shall be the appa
ratus necessary for gymnastic exercises, and the
tools and implements suited to the teaching ol
the mathematical arts or manufactories, in the
schools in which that branch of knowledge is in
troduced. Moreover, every school is bound to
furnish gratuitously to poor scholars books and
other necessaries.
That on occasion of any division or allotments
which the parishes may make, sufficient land
6hal! be allotted to the schoolmaster for the cul
tivation of his vegetables and the feed of a cow
—about two acres of good land, or more if the
land is bad.
No master is allowed to collect the school mo
nies. These must be collected by the school
committee, who pay the teachers. The teach
er is not permitted to follow other business for
protit, lest it should abstract his attention from
his school, or lower his dignity or tfforality. The
orphan children of schoolmasters have a special
right to all tho bene tits of establishments lor ed
ucation, and pensions are granted to widows
and orphans of schoolmasters.
Masters and inspectors, 6ays the law, must
most carefully avoid every kind of constraint or
annoyance to tho children, on account of their
particular creed, &c.
In towns, public education and the mainte
nance of it are not to ho postponed lor any oth
er of the parochial necessities or claims what
ever:’- TTieyirr* to be re„l. acd acwg the ob
jects to be provided for in the first place.
No one shall refuse to pay tho rate levied up
on him, under pretest that the school of his par
ticular parish or of his religious persuasion is
flourishing, since it is necessary to provide lor
the general education of the parish, and all
schools are open to all, and may be equally pro
fltable to all.
There are two stages of Prunary Ins!ruction,
Elomontary Schools and Bu-gher Schools.
The elementary schools have for tbeir oh.
ject, tho regular developement of the faculties
of man, by more or less instruction in those
branches of knowledge indispensable to the
lower classes, both in town and country.
The burgher school* bring the child to that j
point at which peculiar aptitude for classical I
studies, or for some particular profession, may j
manifest itself.
Th e paternal attachment of tbs masters, their
affectionate kindness towards all their pupils,
will be the most powerful menus of preserving
them from immoral influence, and of inciting
them to virtue.
No kind of punishment which has a tendency
to weaken the sentiment of honor, shall, on any
pretence, be inflicted ; corporeal punishments,
in case they shall be necessary, shall be devoid :
of cruelty, and on no account injurious to mod. ’
esty or to health. Incorrigible scholars, or who
persist in bad habits, may be expelled.
Primary instruction shall have lor its aim. to
develope the faculties of the soul, the reason,
the senses and the bodily strength. It shall
comprehend religion and morals, the knowledge
of size and numbers, ol nature and man, corpo
ral exercises, singing, and lastly, imitation of
form, by drawing and writing,
j Every complete elementary school necessa
i rily comprehends the following objects:
I 1. Religious instruction, as a means of form
-1 ing the moral character of children according
to the positive truths of Christianity.
| 2. The German language, <scc.
! 3. The elements of geometry, together with
| the general principles of drawing.
4. Calculation and practical arithmetic.
5. The elements of physics, geography, gen
eral history, and especially the history of Prus
sia.
Care must be taken to introduce and com
bine these branches of knowledge with the
i reading and writing lessons, as much as possi
i ble, independent of the instruction which shall
be given on these subjects specially.
(J. Hinging, with a view to improve the voice
of the children, to elevate their hearts and
minds, to perfect and ennoble the popular songs
and chui'-h music, or psalmody.
7. Writing Rod gymnastic exercises, which
fortify all the senses, and especially that of
sight.
8. The simplest manual labors, and some
instruction in husbandry, according to the agri
culture of the respective parts of the country.
Every scholar, on leaving school, receives a
certificate of his capacity, and of his moral or
religions disposition, signed by the master and
the school committee. Every burgher school
shall afford instruction in religion and morals,
the German language, Latin, mathematics,
drawing, writing, singing, gymnastics, and
physical science, so far as is sufficient to ex
plain the most remarkable phenomena of na
ture.
Geography and history combined, in order to
give some knowledge of the earth, of the gen
eral history of the world, of the people who in
habit it, and the empires into which it is divi
ded.
Masters are charged to study the particular
character and qualities of each pupil. No spe
cial books are prescribed, that no shackles may
be imposed to improvement. Masters are to
adopt the methods which gradually and con
stantly enlarge the understandings of the chil
dren, and not such as instill mere mechanical
knowledge. Examinations must be public. The
authorities, the clergy and the masters arc re
quired to unite their efforts to strengthen the
lies of respect and attachment bet veen the peo
pie and the school.
Wo have gone thus far in explaining the or
ganization, objects and gradations of e.'cmcnta- J
ry schools in Prussia, and in particularizing the
studies and exercises which are pursued in
them. In our next number we intend to give
some account of the Normal Schools; that is,
schools for the education of masters to teach in
the el etnentary schools. In this branch of in-1
stiuction, we have hitherto had no experience,
and yet it is ot fit on which the efficiency and
usefulness of our whole system of public instruc
tion, and indeed our religious, moral, and we
may add, political character, very materially
depends.
Tiie Flesh and SriuiT.-— lt not unfrequen
tly happens that the soul of a craven gets pos
session of a body clothed in the habiliments of
war. and that a belligerent and knight-like pro
pensity smoulders in the hearts of some who
preach and profess peace. Richelieu, the old
Cardinal, once wielded a sword that was the
terror of his foes ; and in the olden times, many
a devotee with shaven crown and monastic suit
displayed the bearing and habits of a soldier.
I’he story of the peaceful Quaker, who, in a
ship which was boarded, took the tirst invader
by the collar and threw him overboard, ex
claiming, •‘Friend, thou hast no business here!”
jis ancient enough to be called a Miller. The
fighting parson of Tennessee, Brownlow, has
been often heard ot; and the austere and lamb
like Methodist who flogged a huge blacksmith
on the Georgia Mountains, after enduring much
insult, is also famous. The Cincinnati Sunday
News tells a story parallel to any we have lis
tened to in our time. A certain parson was re
proved by a member of his congregation, and,
not liking the reprimand, drew off and gave
him a “sockdologer.” The consequence was
a jolly set-to, ala Cribb or Sullivan, and the
the parson retired victorious with eyes hound in
red tape turned up with blue. The following
Sunday the church was crowded by persons
anxious to heuran explanation of the difficulty
His reverence took his usual place with digni
ty, and went on to speak most eloquently of the
duties ol the Christian—the proprieties ol
peace—the blessed quality of forgiveness—and
the pious love a man should feel for his ene
mies- Ilis address concluded as follows :
“l am well aware of the fact that we are
commanded when smitten on the right, check,
to turn the left, and I think it only proper to do
so ; but my brethren, uhen a man undertakes
to cave in my head, I’m there.”
As the editors say when at a loss for words!
—“Commeut is unnecessary.”
A. 1. Sunday Times.
| Liver Pie. —The Courier des Plats Unis
! relates the following :—Dr. K. of Strasburg,
i persuaded ol the fact that medicine is an ex per
j imental science, adopts no particular system ol
j Therapeutics and receives whatever lessons
! chance may present, with a religious defer
i ence.
I Sometime since, his house carpenter, attack
jed with in Hama mat ion of the lungs, earnestly
; entreated lor something to eat. “Alas 1 the
j poor man will sup with Pluto this evening”
■ said the disciple ofHypocrates; let him bo serv.
ed with his last earthly repast.”
! •But, doctor,’ exclaiming tho wife of the dy
ing man, he asks for fat liver pie.
Get him whatever he requests, my good wo
man, and esteem yourself happy in having it
in your power to administer to the last wish of
your beloved husband.’
Eight days after Doct. K. returned to the
joiner’s to learn from the wife how the brave
man had met the last enemy, when to his sur
prise he found him fully restored. Immediately
drew forth his memorandum and wrote : For
inflamation ol the lungs, fat liver pie.
Now it happened that at the moment tho sa.
vant doctor had effected this marvellous cure
Tm § (B W ll
upon his house joiner, the locksmith was tak- j
en with the same complaint. Choking with
effusion of blood from the chest, the poor man
was about to render up the spirit, when the
doctor conceived the hnppy idea of administer
ing to him his new remedy—flit liver pie. On
the morrow lie returned to ascertain the ini
proventent of his patient, when to his astonish
ment he found that the unfortunate locksmith
had gone to manufacture kcy6 for St. Peter.
‘Monseur le doctor,’ said the wife of the de
funct, with sobs and moans, ‘it is you that has
killed him with your fat liver pie ! he died cho
ked with the second mouthful.’
‘lie is dead, you say, my brave woman !
i That changes somewhat the case,’ continued
the doctor ; and opening his memorandum he
wrote this scientific aphorism : ‘iuffatnation of
the lungs, fat liver pie—Good for house joiners
death for locksmiths.’
LOUNGERS.
1 have often heard the following anecdote re.
j luted, but know not whether it lias ever ap-
I poured in print ; it ought to.
I Benjamin Franklin was one of the first
booksellers in Philadelphia—his store was in
Market street, North side, nearly midway be
tween Front and .Second st-, and his printing
| office was on the same lot, but fronting on
I peivtorplatc alley.
One morning while Frapklin was busy in
preparing bis newspaper for press a lounger
stepped into the store, and spent an hour or
j more looking at the books, &c. and finally ta
king one in hand, asked (be shop boy the price.
| ‘One dollar,’ was the answer.
‘One dollar!’ said the lounger,—can’t you
j take any less than that ?’
‘No indeed, one dollar is the price.’
Another hour had now nearly passed, when
the lounger asked,
‘ls Mr. Franklin at home?’
‘Yes—lie is in the printing office.’
‘I want to see him,’ said the lounger.
The shop boy immediately informed Mr.
Franklin that someone was in the store wait
ing to see him- Franklin was.soon behind the
counter when the lounger, with book in hand,
addressed him thus :
‘Mr. Franklin, what is the least you can take
for this book ?’
‘One dollar and a quarter,’ was the ready
answer.
‘One dollar and” a quarter? Why your
young man asked only a dollar.’
‘True,’said Franklin—‘and I could have bet
ter afforded to take a dollar than to have been
called out of the office.’
The ‘lounger, seemed surprised—and wish
ing to end the parley of his own making
said,
‘Come Air. Franklin, tell me, what is the
lowest you can take for it ?’
‘One dollar and a half.’
‘A dollar and a half! why you offered it your
self for one and a quarter.’
‘Yes,’ said Franklin—‘and I had better have
taken that price then, than a dollar and a half
now.’
‘The lounger paid down the price, and went
about his business if be had any—and Franklin
returned into the Printing Office.
If any storekeepers are the better for the cus
tom of loungers, especially such of them as
chew tobacco, and smoko cigars in the store,
they are respectfully requested to publish this
secret for the benefit of country merchants gen
erally.
| Corn Story. —A writer in the Spirit ol the
Times,” who dates from Mobile,and signs him
self “’The Deacon,” tells what he calls‘a little
oflhe tallest corn story heard lately,” as fol
lows.
“Being one day in the village of Y , S.
C., I listened to several planters stating the
amount of corn gathered from an acre—the
numbers of ears produced from a single stalk.
<fcc. At length one who had remained silent,
commenced:—
‘Well, I’ll now fell my tale—Last spring,
while walking in my cornfield l observed a
stalk growing very luxuriantly, and being curi
ous to know if it would produce better than the
others, I stuck a stick which I had in my hand
beside it. I thought no more about it, until be
ing In the lield one day about gathering time.
I observed a very extraordinary stalk of corn,
and on counting the ears I found thirteen full
grown, besides several nubbins. It now occul
ted to me that this must be the stalk I marked
in the spring, and on looking for my stick, 1
found an car growing on that /”
We all sloped.
An odd Letter from a Tailor to his
Sweet Heart. —Remnant of my hope, may I
he ripl from the borders of your esteem, and
never be buttoned to the loops of your kindness,
hut I am strongly stay'd to the hem of your beau
ty—orever have a thimble full of your favor,
but have so far entangled the thread of my un
derstanding, with your pretty little outside that
were I within a yard of you, I should he very
soon deprived ofmt working faculties. 1 love
you without measure, and yet it is so hard to
| cabbage one sweet look front you that I am in
i despair of having it in my power tofnish my
| suit. Let not the shears of contempt cut the
thread of desire which burns throug i every
quarter of me, but press me to the notch-board
of your beauty as the garment embraces the
lapboard. Ods bodkins, lam surely yours ev
ery nail of me; wherever you go my north
and my needle follow you. Blunt not therefore
the point of my endeavor, but allow- me to baffle
, myself to your kindness that I may he stitched
’ the tighter to your affection—Put a favorable
| construction on the above for which I will ever
! s'l cross-legged a goose shall always be at the
tiro tor my little Jlounccr ; and am always
Yours, Staytape Buckram.
Ihe Baby Ikade. — Ihe Baby Trade has
lifen opened in the London market. A paper
in that city recently contained the following
advertisement;
“To Ladies without Children, and others
Avery promising and genteel little hov, 5
years old, and without parents, requires a per
manent home, where he would be educated and
brought up with kindness and motherly aficc
tion. Address, w ith particulars of family, etc,
to A. N., Post Office, Great Russell street.
Terms expected, about £lO 10s.”
On this the London Athenceum remarks :
K “So the baby trade is to tie opened 1 and fol
lowing the law of competition, we may look
shortly to read of very promising little boys
purchasable at five pounds, girls j for less, and
twins—like ‘family tickets’—on a reduced scale
of prices.
Anecdote. —A few weeks since a merchant
bought some very light English print cloths,
as he thought exceedingly cheap, and sent them
to a calico printery to have them printed.—
Not hearing in proper time from his goods he
wrote to the manufacturer to enquire after them
and incidenlically remarked that if he did not
soon hear from them he should charge them to
the manufacturer as missing goods. In a few
days thereafter he got a line from the printery,
saying that the charge to missing goods might
as well be made, as the last he saw of them
was when he put them into his dash wheel,
where they washed to pieces and evaporated in
the fog.
“Let’s Powder, and go in. —lt is statedj on
good authority, that since the custom among
the fair sex of doing that which makes them
look as if they had thrust their faces into a bar
rel of flour, has become general, after the or
dinary reciprocal into rogatories of “how does
this collar sit?” “is my cap becoming ?”—“are.
my skirts too full ?” ect., ect., ect., —that all
matters being satisfactorily disposed of, the last
ejaculation uttered prior to leaving tbe cham
ber is, “ let’s powder and go in.” What a mili.
taryair pervades all society! Even the ladies
are fond of exploits in powder !
A recent emigrant applied for employment to
a farmer and being asked if he was acquainted
i with all sorts of farm labor, replied in tin- affir
| inativc. He was accordingly engaged, and the
next morning sent to “hold the plough,” with
the son of the employer to drive. After the
horse was tackled in, the boy gave him a start
but hearing an exclamation behind, turned and
beheld the son of the green isle, ploughing up
the ground with his heels, which were firmly
set, while he was straining every muscle to
maintain his position, and crying out, “stop!
slop ! how can I hould the plough, ifyou make
the horse drag it away from me !’
A Personae Rebuke. —The late Rev. Dr.
,of a certain town in Maine, an eccentric
but honest minister, was once preaching on the
practical virtues, and having a short time pre
viously bought a load of wood of one of the offi
cers of the church, and finding it fall short of
the measure, took this occasion to speak thus
plain on the subject :
“Any man that will sell seven feet of wood
for a cord, is no Christian, whether be sits in
the gallery, below, or even in the deacon’s
seat!
The following is the transcendental for “ .Miss
will you take my arm ?”
“A oung lady will you condescend so far to
sacrifice your own convenience to my pleasure
as to insert the five digitals and part of the ex
tremity of your contiguous arm through the an
gular aperture formed by the crooking of my
elbow against the perpendicular portion of my
frame ?”
- PoETnv—says someone. is tbe flour of liter
ature, prose is the corn, meat and potatoes ; sa
tire is aqua fortis ; love letters are tbe honey
and sugar ; dunning letters are the emetics,
and letters containing rcinitances are the apple
dumplings.
Anecdote.—Two Quakers in Vermont had
a dispute ; they wished to fight, hut it was
against their principles ; they grasped each oth
er ; one threw and sat on the back of the other
and squeezing his head in the mud, said,
“On tfly belly shall thou crawl, and dust thou
shalt cat all the days of thy life.”
The other soon gained the victory, and when
lie had attained the same position, said,
“It is written the seed of the woman shall
bruise tbe serpent’s head.”
Mother -W it —A stingy husband threw off
the blame of the lawlessness of his children in
company by saying bis wife always -gives them
their own way.’ ‘Poor things,’ was her prompt
response, ‘it’s all 1 have to give them.
At a Temperance meeting in Philadelphia
on Saturday night, Mr. Freeman, the recently
reformed gambler, stepped up the platform
and signed the pledge ; following the act with a
most thrilling address.
Unbecomingness of Tears. —After an af
fecting crisis of anew play recently brought
out in Paris, a lady who was much affected, said
to her daughter, who had sat it out dry-eyed :
‘You really have no heart, Clementine !’
‘You forget that we have company coming
to supper mama!’
‘Pa, does the world turn round V ‘Yes niv
dear, it turns round on its axis once in 24 hours
‘How often is that ?’ ‘Why, once a day,’—
■Well I thought so, for Mr: goes down to
Bondsvillc most every day with a jug, and bc-
lie gets home he has to stop anil lay down
beside the road and hang on to the ground to
keep from falling oft’!
A lady suspected ot popery was brought be
fore a justice, a rigid puritan, who told her no-
I thing could do away with her suspicious con
duct but calling the pope a knave.’
‘I know nothing of his holiness,’replied the
lady, ‘but if 1 knew him as well as I do xour
worship, I could veiy readily call him a knave.’
I remember says an exchange, once heating
an Irishman ask whether Thomas Case was a
rogue. ‘ls he, Tom V exclaimed Pat with as
tonishment, ‘if I had a warrant against the devil
Id take Torn Case on suspicion.’
A correspondent of the Rochester Daily Ad
vertiser, says that a fashionable lady of the
present day is composed of such a bundle of
“grass cloth and whalebone,” that the usual
twelve inside ot a Broadway Omnibus is a total
impossibility.
The editor ofthe Ohio Cultivator is beco.'u.
ing quite poetical. Hear him :
‘We never loved a charming critter,
‘But somo one else was sure to git her.’
A Bather of an interesting family near De
troit, who chews sl4 worth of tobacco yearly,
stopped his only newspaper because he could
not afford it.
The authority of Shakspeare has been quoted
in justification ofthe investment of Vera Cruz:
“Our Worth is warrant to our welcome hither.”
FACTOR & COMMISSION MERCHANT, j
Apalachicola, Fla.
March 18,1847. 11 ts
New Orleans Type Foundry,
and Printers’ Depot.
THE undersigned beg leave to announce to Publish
ers and Printers that tiiey have established a com
plete and extensive Type Foundry in this city.
The Book Letter of this Foundry was cut to order
by workmen of long experience, and as no expense
was spared to obtain the handsomest faces,and toper
feet it in every respect, we will venture to say it will
be found as handsome, if not the handsomest in the U.
States. We have also a very handsome assortment
of Flowers and Job Letter, of the latest style, to which
we would call tire attention of Printers before pur
chasing elsewhere. All articles manufactured by us
will he of a material equal, if not superior to any man
ufactured at the North ; and, as we shall furnish type
at New York prices, we trust to tneel with encour
agement.
We are now prepared to manufacture Brass Rule,
and to execute orders for Ty pe of any magnitude,with
promptness. We would also particularly call the at
tention of Printers to our Leads —having an entire new
sett of Moulds, by which we are enabled to furnish a
perfect article. We are also Agents for the sale ol
the Napier, Washington and Smith Presses, whicht
together with Chases, Cases, Composing Sticks, Fur
niture, Ink. and every other article in the Printing
business, will he kept on hand, and furnished at Man
ufacturers’ prices.
tgjp Tito Proprietors of Newspapers who will publish
thisadvertisement sis mouths, tool semi a paper to our Of
fice, weekly, will he pa id for the adveriispiiirut by purcha
sing six times the amount of advertisinp bill iu Ty pe.
OitEKN &■ CO. 1? Canal st. Row.
New Orleans, April 22, 1847. 16 6m
The way to establish Facts l
Another Xew Medicine offered to the Public.
BRONSON'S
I’uliiioissit } frlixifi*.
riHIF. In ventor Leins well ati.-fie<] that iho public hat e
X been liumbugeed by a host ol useless Nostrum*, with
out rcceixiug value fur llu.ir tiiouev ; and led usliav b\
Ihe introduction of spin iou* certificates—he bus t lions hi •
right lo offer his .Medicines to the afflicted on such terms
us will give them the power instead of giving it to himself.
He therefore proposes to cure,or relieve tin*following dis
eases, or the money will positively he refunded*
CONSUMPTION- —It matters not what the scientific
professor, or skeptic may have so id, or what they may
now say, us to the impossibility of iclief or cure in this
much dreaded disease, 1 proclaim, in the luce of all oppo
sition, that Pulmonary Diseases of even class, cun he
cured. And I further state, that if my directions are fol
lowed tt> the letter, the most malign form of tuberculous
consumption cun he peiiniineiitlv relieved.
ASTHMA. —This dieasc will he relieved in two or
three hours by the use of my Ei.ixik. Every nnroxvsin
can he. checked, if the Medicine he administered as soon
as it is ascertained to lie coining on.
COLIC. — I fearlessly assert, tliut any degree of Colic,
whether of the Breast or Bowels,can, and will he relieved
in the short space of from fitr loTHir.y .miMtf.s.
COl'dlhS, COEDS, Honrs ewe##.or Diffirvft Breathing,
can ml be reliev ed in from nv> to for i i-kigh r hours.
CKO UP.—'Phis terror to Mothers can be cured in five
hours.
Hyitcrirs, Loan of Appetite, tfcc. can be permanently re
lieved in a few h<vprs.
Extract of a letter lo Dr. Bronson, dated
New York Citv, May 20, 13If.
“I think, Sir, that your Elixir should he sent to New
York, now—niv wife has been afflicted with a severe cough
for several months, attended with violent paint in the breast.
A faithful trial having been made of nearly all patent Med
icines, which failed to give relief, I was induced to try \ our
Elixir in mv wife’s case. I take pleasure in stating that
one bottle of vour Medicine, (f r w hich I paid one doli ar)
has given permanent relief. I would advise you to make
Agents in this city. JACKSON P. HER YE Y.
fO 7 * Remember, no charge will he made, should my med
icine fail to accomplish the above; my agents are all in
structcd to refund, when a fuilure occurs.
For sale by \VENTER Sc EPPINC.
Columbus, Junc 19, 181f>. 27 ts
ALPHA &, OMEGA PILLS.
lSy Dr. r. S. Hronson,
FllllE name of these Tills, though novel, ip nevertheless
1 competent in discharging as!l ilirii duties, Loth in the
first as well as the last stages of disease.
Private disease, in all its stages, will he cured in from
two to eight days—warranted, or the money will be refund
ed. Severe pains in the back; affection of the Kidneys;
Weakness of the back, together w ith ull other diseases
consequent thereto, can be permanently ctrred in a few
days. The milder forms of Syphilis, tan be cured by the
use of from 2 to 5 boxes—warranted.
Directions.—l have thought it prudent to furnish the
boxes without directions, in order to avoid any exposure
that might result to the patient. The dose, in nil cases
will he two pii.i s before c icli meal, and before bed time.
Diet light,and avoid violent exercise.
Price. $1 per box—and s'2 per box.
For sale by WINTER & EPPING,
At the sign of the Negro and Mortar.
Columbus, July 10, 1816 y 0
OC MU LG EE
Iron Foundry & Machine Shop.
Itlueois, <>a.
r*xHE subscribers having erected a New Establish
“ ment. new inducements that they have never
had before in that line of business. Mill Wrights,
Gin Makers. &e. will find it to their advantage to give
ns a call. We will guarantee all our work to be good
and at the lowest price. We have a good stock of
Patterns on hand.
A good Horse Power for sale.
CHAS. P. LEVY & CO.
Colton tvnnup.nf nr Macon & Western R. R. Depot.
Marnn, Ga. June 19,1848. 27 t s
New Map of Georgia.
THE undersigned has hern, for months, past, en
gaged, under the direction of his Excellency, Gov.
Crawford, in compiling a Map of the Stale of Georgia,
on a scale of six miles to the inch. The undertaking
is now nearly completed, and he flatters himself he
will receive the favorable patronage of his fellow-citi
zens—sufficient, at least, to have it published and
placed in a durable form.
j 1 hat a revised delineation is called for, of our ex
tensive territory, independently of what exists in the
labors of Sturges and Greene, will not be questioned.
The accumulation and possession, since their times,
of a vast body of land designated then as wilderness,
or the temporary domain of the Indian tribes, with nat
ural objects well worthy “a habitation and a name,”
have been converted into organized counties, present
ing a dense population, flourishing villages, and ex
tensive public and private improvements.
The Map to be published (so soon as a sufficient
number of subscribers will warrant,) is 5 feet bv 4
and 8 inches, and is designed to exhibit as well- as
perpetuate the present condition of the whole topog
raphy of the State. In addition to the ordinary metes
and bounds—courses of rivers and ranges of moun
tains, Railroads. Canals, county sites, post offices, fac
tories. i- fart all remarkable places of the pastor pre
sent day, will be shown. The attention of the com
i piler has been particular!)- directed to a faithful draw
■ ing of county lines and public roads, and to accom- i
plisli such important ends, lie has not only consulted
the original surveys and the acts of various Legisla- j
hires, but he deemed it the better plan to make rough j
sketches of each county and submit the same to the
Justices of the Inferior Court, Postmasters, and others j
equally compent and obliging, and to ask for such I
additions and corrections as might be necessary, and
farther to designate any and all objects of natural cn- ;
riosity that might exist. To many, if not all of his I
requests, kind, prompt and satisfactory answers were I
received, so that many glaring inaccuracies in the i
maps heretofore published have been corrected ; and |
the compiler takes this occasion of returning his ac
knowledgments to those who favored his objects, as
rendering a service not merely to himself, but aiding
most materially in the thorough and correct develope
ment of the whole plan. To his brother Engineers of j
the different Railroads, his thanks are due for the use j
of maps which enabled him not only to lay down the |
true courses of those important works, but likewise to !
make profiles exhibiting the elevation above the sea,
of every station from the Atlantic to the Tennessee
river. The Map will be embellished with views of
the State House and Executive Mansion, and will be
furnished to subscribers at their residences at ten dol
lars per copy. W. G. BONNER,
Fob. 18,1947. Ofvil Engineer.
House & JLot for said
iilifwß d~aN Oglethorpe street, next door to L.
”M. Durr’s residence.
Apply to A. K. Ayer,or JNO. J. B. HOXEY.
Jan. 7, 1847.
American Razor Paste,
4- superior Polishing,Burnishing dp Cleansing Paste.
THIS Paste is the result of a simple chemical experi
ment, which I was induced to make in consequence of
not being able to keep my Ruzurs and fine finished Sur
gical Instruments in order—having successively tried ev
i ery new article recommer led, embracing the best prepared
| rotten stones, i balks ana oils—nor could 1 rely upon the
paste which accompanies fins Strops, that being entirely
too rough, destroy ittg the edge, as also the fine polish o
j the razor,knife, lancet, &c.
The American, dithers materially f-oni the English Crown
i Paste. The latter being composed ol steel and slate dust
—whilst mv Paste is composed of two very soft substan
ces, reduced to the very finest powder, and subsequently
mixed with purified oil.
Razors, Knives, (surgical or pen ) and other fine edged
instruments, w hich are not entirely ruined,can he made ns
good as new. by using this Paste", (the razor strop to he
employed instead of a hone.) If the strop he a flat or two
sided one, place a little of the Paste on the course side and
, strap ofl on the fine. If a four-sided or square strop, place
a little, ot the Paste on No. 2, and strop off on No. 4. A finer
j keen, and smooth edge will be the result.
Fine cutlery, guns, gun-locks, brass, copper, or steel,
■ can he kept free from rust, by rubbing on a little of the
Paste, and then polishing with a woolen cloth, or soft piece
of buckskin, or fine sponge.
One box ot Paste at 15 cents, w*ill keep one or two razor*
in good order for twelve months. It is put up in assorted
sizes, nt 15, 25 and 50 cents per box. .Should a failure
occur in producing what is above stated, the money will
berefunded. F. S. BRONSON,
Inventor Sf Proprietor.
For salt by WIX TER Sp EPPIXG.
june I!). 1846. 27 ts
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