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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 THE TREASURY OF HISTORY, Comprising a general Introductory Outline of Univcr- History. ancient and modern, and a series of separate Histories of every principal Xalien that exists, their rise,progress, present condition, df-c. eje- HY t SAMI.ED MAUNDER, A > • or of the “ Treasury of Knowledge,'’ “ Biographic* Treasury,” “Literary utid Scientific Treasury,” tec. including THE HISTORY OF AMERICA, LDITHD BY JOHN INMAN, esq. ; THE repnblicatton of this valuable Work has been undertaken partly on account of the high favor with ! which it has been received in England, but chiefly in | consideration of its intrinsic value, arising from its ! felicitous adaptation of the plan to a want that has i been long and generally felt, and from the judgment and fidelity manifested in its execution. The idea of giving in a single work, of no very formidable dimen | stons, and at a price which brings it within the reach 1 of very moderate circumstances, a sufficient outline : ot the world s whole history, and similar outlines of ; the history of every nation, is so obviously judicious ! and appropriate as to require no eniogium. Every person who cares at all for the acquisition of useful I knowledge, must desire to possess such a general knowledge of past events, not only in bis own country hut in all countries, us shall enable him to understand the perpetually recurring allusions that are found in almost any course of general reading; because for want of such understanding there is always a serious diminution both of pleasure and profit even in the pe rusal of such works as are designed chiefly for amuse ment. 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