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France and the United States.
A late number of the New York
Herald contains some interesting
speculations in regard to the proba
ble future relations between this
country and France. The subject
is an interesting one and cannot en
gage too large a share ot tno atten
tion of our countrymen. V e an
nex a few extracts from the Herald s
article *
It is hardly time to determine
the policy of the present Cabinet Oi
the French Emperor m regard to
the United States. •' 7 ' " ilU;
elder Napoleon sought,_ by every
means in his power, to aid. encour
age, and enlarge the United States,
lie’foresaw the future of this Re-
public—its commercial and mari
time power—its vast internal re
sources, and above all, that at an
early day in the history of the
world it'would constitute a perma
nent check to the British aristocra
cy.
lu no possible contingency can
the United States and I ranee be
come antagonists, if their respective
Cabinets pursue a line of policy
.dictated by the superior interests of
the two nations. There is no con
ceivable condition of things, indeed,
m which France will not be behe-
fitted'by the continued growth and
extension of this Republic. The
present alliance with England may
or may not continue. It will cer
tainly continue so long as it is the
Guano—its History.
Guano, as mosl people under
stand, is imported from the islands
of the Pacific—mostly from the
Chincinv group offthe coast of Peru
and -under the dominion of that
government. Its sale is made a
monopoly, aud the avails, to a great
extent, go to pay the British hold
ers of Peruvian government bonds,
giving them, to all intents and pur
poses, a lien upon profits of a trea-
suie intrinsically more valuable
than the gold mines of California.
There are deposits of this unsurpas
sed fertilizer in some places to the
depth of sixty or seventy feet, and
over large extents of surface.
The guano fields are generally
coneeeded to be the excrements of
aquatic fowls which live and nestle
in great numbers around the is
lands. They seemed designed by
nature to rescue, at least in part,
that untold amount of fertilizing
material which every river and
brooklet is tolling into the sea. The
wash of alluvial soils, the floating
refuse of the field and forest, and,
above all, the wasted materials of
| great cities, are constantly being
carried by the tidal currents out to
sea. These, to a certain extent at
least, go to nourish, directly or in
interest of the parties to maintain it. directly, submarine vegetable and
■That it will be used by England, if j animal life; which in turn goes to
possible, to act upon American
affairs, is also certaiu. But all the
aid which shall be given to our ri
vals by France, iu opposition to
the United States, will only serve
to weaken France, by removing
from England her only rival on the.
sea, and the only power which, by
jts industry is capable of holding
the British aristocracy in check.—
We hold England within the grasp
of American industry—our agents
are at Manchester, the second pow
er of the Jvingdom—the power of
trade—the great bond of peace and
of good faith. In this regard we
are as-much, in the interest.of France
as in that of our own.
'The true policy, then, of the
.present French Emperor, is the
policy of the old Emperor towards
the American people. It is so,
whether we consider the interests
; of commerce between the two coun
tries, er the political well-being of
the two nations. There is to be
no such thing any more as absolute
sur-remaoy of any one nation. The
^enterprise aud inventive genius of
■the age. if not the increase of popu
lation and the powers of doing
mischief to each other, are enough
to insure this. It is not possible,
then, for Europe to secure a posi
tion of absolute security in Europe,
■whatever may be the success of her
government and the extension oi
her dynasty: She is now at peace
with England—but there is not a
tithe of the .assurance that it will
continue to exist between the Uni-
4ed States and England. Our poli
cy is exclusively American. There
i: nothing in it in conflict with the
interests or the honor of France.—
( Qur extension, if it acts at all upon
European nations, affects alone the
•interests of England. W e believe
this, e-yejv, to be wholly imaginary,
.certainly so, viewed as an industrial
operation; but perhaps not so when
regarded iii the light of a naked
conquest of neighboring States ;
because England not only maintain
the allegiance of American Colonies,
:but looks to an extension of her
dominions pat this side of the iu-
ter.
jpjpMr. Locke, formerly editor
of the'Savannah Republican, in a
letter to that paper from Europe,
giving an account of a recent visit
to Venice, says:
>‘A strange occurrence took place
while I was in Venice. On the
same evening, in different parts of
fils town, two young girls, nine or
ten years of age, were enticed away
to a solitary abode, where they
were blindfolded and conducted
to another -retired house. Here
they were well treated for twenty-
four hours, with enough to eat and
drinK, put mey were prea several
times almost to the point ot faint
ing, and when they had no more'
to spare, without endangering their
lives, they were restored to their
homes by night, in the same mys
terious wav. Everybody in town
was startled by this singular occur
rence. The most common explana
tion was, that an old sorceress had
recommended to some deluded be
ing, jobbing in the blood of young
and healthy persons, as a method
of restoring exhausted nature.
A bashful printer refused a situ
ation in a printing office where fe
males were employed, saying that
he never ‘ ‘set up” with girls J n h i s
Jjfe t l
IJunting.—“Well farmer, you
told us your wood was a good place
fox hunting. Now, we’ve tramped
tffraugh it for three hours, and
found no game.”
f -Just so, >Yell, calculate, as a
general thing, the less game there
is, the jnore hunting you have.”
feed the birds, which at our own
day are brought away by the ship
load from the Chincha iflauds.
The bird is a beautifully arrang
ed chemical laboratory, fitted up to
perform a single operation, viz :—
to take the fish as food, burn out
the carbon by means of its respira-
tary functions, and deposit the re
mainder in the shape of an incom
parable fertilizer. But how many
ages have these depositions of sev
enty'feet in thickness been accumu
lating?
There are at the present day
countless numbers of the birds res
ting upon the islands at night; bat,
according to Caron Humboldt, li.e
excrements of the birds for the
space of three centuries would uot
forma stratum over one third of an
inch in thickness. By an easy'
mathematical calculation, it will be
seen at the -rate of deposition, it
would lake seven thousand five
hendred and sixty centuries, or
seven hundred and fifty six thous
and y'ears, to form the deepest gu
ano bod.
Such a calculation carries us back
well to a former geological period,
and proves erhaps both, of two
things—first, that m past ages an
infinitely greater number of these
birds hovered over tne islands; and
-secondly, that the material world
existed at a period lohg anterior to
its fitness as the abode af man. The
length of man’s existence is iufinite-
cimal, compared with such a cycle
of y'ears; and the facts recorded of
every leaf of the material universe,
ought, if it does not, to teach us hu
mility'. That a little bird, whose
individual existence is as nothing,
should in its united action, produce
the means of bringing back to an
aetive fertility whole provinces of
waste and barren lands, is one of a
thousand facts to show how appar
ently insignificant agencies in the
economy of nature produce mo
mentous results.—London Farmer's
Magazine.
Beet Sugar of France.
France is the largest producer of
beet sugar in the world. A favor
able soil and climate, and a rural
and industrious population, contri
bute to the successful prosecution
of the beet sugar manufacture. This
manufacture originated during the
reign ofNapoleon Bonaparte. His
continental system raised colonial
produce to an almost fabulous price.
Tire high rate of sugars induced
many to look around for the means
of producing sugar at home, and an
impetus was given to the search by
the offer of a magnificent premium
by the emperor to the successful
discoverer of a permanent home
source of supply. Of all the plants
ruemeerproveci xne most promising,
but forty years elapsed before the
manufacture of beet sugar was en
able to cope successfully with cob
onial sugars, From France the cul
ture spread through Belgium, Ger
many', and far into the interior of
Russia, and now there is produced
of this kind of sugar on the conti
nent of Europe three hundred and
sixty million's of pounds, nearly
one-half of which is manufactured
in France, in three hundred and
thirty-four manufactories. In the
vicinity of Lille the average yield
of the sugar beet is sixteen tons to
the acre, and at Valenciennes nine
teen tons. In some localities twen
ty five ions are produced.
To Color Butter.—Take some
round carrots, express the juice
through a seive, and mix it with
-the cream when it enters the churn,
which will make it appear like
Mav butter.
jJjiTTiough your lands deep and
you will make more by the opera
tion.
Humors of Congress.
In the absence of a speaker and
an appropriation bill, Congress gets
ill-humored and good tempered by
turns. *The following is the after-
piece to the scene between Messrs.
Barksdale and Kennett, described
by onr correspondent, after the
mutual explanation of those gentle
men :
Mr. Pennington, of-New Jersey,
said that his at'.ention had been
called to the question proposed by
the gentleman from Missouri on
Saturday last-. As he was not in
the House at the time they were
propounded, he ,/ould take this oc
casion to answer them.
The question were: “I should
like to know of each candidate for
the Speakership, including my
friend from New Jersey', whether
he believes in a future state or not ?
And then, provided he answers
that question affirmatively', I desire
to know whether he believes it will
be a free or slave State.
Now, (said Mr. P.) 7 am some
what versed in the Westminster
Catechiem, and have learned from
.it that there is a future state. I be
lieve it. But I understand that
there are two states in that future
state—one the beautified state, the
other the state of the damned. One
is a free state; the other is a slave
state. [Laughter.] One of these
States is on one side of a certain
line, and the other on the other side
of that line—not exactly a compro
mise line, I believe. [Renewed
laughter.] But I have always un
derstood that that which lies on
one side of the line—the side on
which is the damned—is the hot
test; and I therefore conclude that
must be the southern side- of the
line. [Great laughter.] But'there
are those who believe that there is
a third future state, ora third divi
sion of the general future state ;
that is, the state of purgatory.—
[Laughter.] Now, with that’state I
have no acquaintance, except such
as I have learned from the course
of purgation that has been going on
in this House. [Renewed laugh
ter.] I know certain gentlemen
have been in a state of purgatory
here, and [placing his hand upon
his heart] I know one gentleman
which is past praying for. [Great
laughter.]
Mr. Kennett, I beg to say one
word in reply to my friend from
New Jersey, who seems so well
posted up iu his catechism and in
regard to those future states, the
north side and the south side of the
line aud purgatory. He has been
kind enough to bind some ot us
hand aud foot, and in advance to
pitch us into the dark place. 1
would like to know of him, in re
gard to Iris catechism, whether,
when he informed us on Saturday
last that he had got beyond “effec-
sual calling,” he was able to see his
“election sure ?” [Uproarious and
prolonged laughter.]
Mr. Pennington, (rising amid
great laughter.) I owe the gentle
man one. [Laughter.]
Mr. Crane Walks Out.
We give below one of the most
amusing of the Bedott papers. The
widow had an affair with Tim
Crane, and elderly widower for
whom she had “set her cap,” and
who was extremely polite to her
because he had a secret fancy' for
her daughter Melissa. Mr. C. asks
a private interview with the widow
when the following scenes ensued:
“Oh, no, Mr. Crane, by r no man
ner of means; t-ain’t a minnit tew
soon ibry'ou to begin to talk about
gittin’ married again. I am amaz
ed you should be afeerd I’d think
so. Sec—how long’s Miss Crane
been dead? Six months!—land o’
Goshen! why I’ve knowed a num
ber of individiwals get married in
less time than that. There’s Phil
Bennett’s widder’t I was talkin’ a-
bout jest now—she ’t was Louisy
Perce—her lmsban’ hadn’t been
dead but three months, you know.
X ikmlc it loolro w cli COl* <1 WO"
man to be iu such a hurry, but for
a man it’s a different thing—circum
stances al er cases, you know, And
then sittiwated as you be, Mr. Crane
it’s a terrible thing for your.family
to be without a head to superintend
the domestic contarns and tend tc
the children—to say nothin o’ y f cr-
self, Mr. Crane. You do need a
companion, and no mistake. Six
months! Good grievous 1 Why,
Squire Titus didn’t wait but six
weeks arter he buried his fust wife,
afore he married his second. I
ther wan’tno partickler need o’ his
hurrydn’ so seem his family was all
grow’d up. Such a critter as he
picked out, tew! ’t was very un
suitable but every man to his taste,
I han’t no dispersitfon to meddle
with nobody’s consarns. There’s
old Farmer Dawson, tew—his part
ner haintbeen dead but teu months.
To be assure he aint married yet,
but he would a been long enough
ago ifsomebody I know on’d gin
him any incurricgement. But taint
for me to speak of that matter.
He’s a clever old critter, and as rich
as a Jew—but, lawful saJj&s! .he’s
old enough to be my' father. .And
there’s Mr. Smith—JufiTtcr Smith,
you know him, Mr. Crane, his wife
(she ’twas Aurorv Pike) she died
last summer, and lie’s been squitin’
round among the wimmin ever
since, and he mav squint for all the'
good is ’ll dew him as far as I am
consarned-—though Mr. Smith’s a
respectable man—quite young, and
haint no family—very well oil tew,
and quite intellectible—bnt I t«ll
yer what, I’m purty partickler. O,
Mr_ Crane! it’s ten y'ears come Jin-
niway’ since I witnessed the expi
ration ofmy beloved companion !
an uncommon long time to wait, to
be sure—but’t aint easy to find
an\bo ly to fill the place o’ Hezekier
Be< ot . I thidk you’re the most
like Husband of airy individual I
ever s>e, Mr. Crane. Six mouths !
mui de ration! curus you should be
afrearid I’d think ’twas tew soon,
why I’ve lcnow’d—”
Mr. Crane—‘ t Weli, widder, I’ve
been thinkiu’ about takin another
companion, and I thought I d ask
you.”
Widow.—“0, ’Mr. Crane, excuse
my cemmotiou, it’f so unexpected.
Just hand me that are bottle o’ cam-
fire off the mantletry shelf’ I’m
ruther faint—dew put a little mite
on my handkerehier and hold it to
mp nuz. There, that 'll dew, I’m
obliged tew ye; now I’m ruther
composed, you may' pjoceen Mr.
Crane,”
Mr. C.—“Well, widder, I was
going to ask you whethe—whether’
"Widow.—“Continuer, Mr. Crane
dew; 1 know it’s terrible embar-
rassin.’ I remember when my de-
zeasyd husband made his supposi
tion to me, he stammered and stut
tered, and wns so awfully flustered
it did seem as if he’d never git it
out in the'world, and I s’pose it’s
j generally the case, at least it has
! qecn with all ;hom that’s made
j suppositi ms to me—you see thny-
! ’re generally oncertain about what
i kind of an anser they’re agwiue to
J git and it kind o’ makes em narvus.
I But when an individiwal has rea
son t.o s’pose his attachment’s recip
erated 1 I don’t see what need there
is o’ his bein’ flustrnted tho’ I must
say it’s quite embarrassiu’ to me;
pray con tinner.”
Mr. C.—“Well, then, I want to
know if you’re willing I should
have Malissy ?”
W i dow—“The dragon! ”
Air. C.—“I hainjt said anything
toiler about it yet—thought the
proper way r was to get your consent
first. I remember when I courted
Trvpheny, we were engaged some
time before mother Kenipe knew
, anything about it, and when she
j found it out sha was quite put out
| because I didn’t go to her first. So
i when I made up mv mind about
: Melissy, thinks me, I’ll dew, it right
! this time and speak to the old wo-
■ man first.”
Widow.—“Old Woman, hey,
I that’s a purty name to call me! n-
| mazin perlite tew! Want Melissy",
j hcv? Tribbleatioji? gracious snakes
! alive! well, I’ll give it up now. I
! always know’d you was a sirnple-
j ton Tim Crane, out I must confess
j I didn’t think you was quite so big
; a fool—want Melissev, rlew ye?
| If that don’t beat all? What an
i everlastin old calf you must be to
| s’pose she’d look at you. Why'
i you’re .old enough to be her father
| and more tew—Melissy aint only
i in Imr twenty- onetli pear. What
| a redickiloas idee fora man of
I vournge! as grey' as a rat tew ! I
wonder what the world is cornin’
tew; ’tis astonishin what foofe old
widdiwers make, make o’ them
selves! Have Melissy'! Melissy!”
Mr, C.—“Why, widder, you sur
prise me—I’de no idee of being
treatek in-this- way after you’d
been so polite to me, and made
such a fuss over over me and the
girls.”
“Widow.—“Shot you head, Tim
Crane—nun o’ yer sass to me.
Teere’s ver hat on that ere table,
and here’s the door—and the soon
er you put on one and march oat
o’ t’other, the better it ’ll be for
you. And I advise you, afore you
try to git married agin, to go out
West and see if yer wife’s cold,' and
axier vc 5 io ooticlrcci cm tlvat pint,
jest put a little lampblack en y'er
hair, ’twould add to yer appearanee
ondobtedly, and be of sarvice to
you when you want to flourish a-
mong the gals, and when y'e’ve got
yer hair fixt, jest splinter the spine
of yer back, ’twouldn’t hurt yer
looks a mite’you’d be entirely' urt-
resistible if you was a little grain
i straighter.’
Mr. C.—“Well, I never!’
Widow.—“Hold yer tongue, you
consarned old coot you—T told y'er
there’s yer hat and here's the door,
be off with yerself, quick metre, or
I’ll give ye a hist with the broom
stick.”
Mr. C.—“Gemmenifi
Widow, rising.—“Git out, I say,
I aint agwine to stan here and be
insultad under my own ruff, and so
git along along, and if ever ye
darken my door again, or say a
word to Melissy, it’ll be the wust
for you—that’s all.’
Mr. C.—“Tremenjous! What a
buster!’
VVidovy.—“Go ’long—go ’long—
go ’long, ye everlastin’ old gum. I
won’t hear another word—(stops
]ier ears)—I won t I.ivpu’t, I w-pn’u’
[Exit Mr. Crane.]
A Lawyer Posed.—“William,
lookup tell us who. made you,
William. Do you know ?”.
William who was considered a
fool, screwing his face, and looking
thoughtful and somewhat bewi!d :
ered, slowly' answered, “Moses I
s’spose.”
“That will do. Now,’ said Coun
feller Gray, addressing the court,
“the witness says he s’poses Moses
made him. This certainly is an in
telligent answer—more so than I
supposed him capable of giving, for
it shows he has some faint idea of
Scripture. But I- submit, may it
please the court, that this is not suf
ficient to-justify his being sworn as
witness in this case. No sir; it is
not'such an answer as a witness
qualified to testify, should give.”
Mr. Judge said the fool, “may' I
ask the lawyer a question ?’
‘Certainly',’ replied the judge;
‘ask h : m any question you please.’
‘Wall, then, Mr. Lawyer, who do
you.s’pose made you?”
.‘-Aaron, I s’pose,’ said the coun
sellor, imitating the witness.
After the mirth had somewhat
subsided, the witness exclaimed,
“Wal, now, do read in the good
book that Aaron once made a calf;
but who’d a thought the tarnal
critter had got it here ?”
he intends' to fleece them. The
ponds he. has locked tip and laid
an embargo upon the, rills, which
can hardly' run without freezing;
and branches ancf creeks gurgle
slowly on as if throttled in the last
agony. The wind sighs a melan
choly moan through the icy gloom,
and palsied nature seems to say:
Come'ye gentle Southern breezes
Oolite and pOrce the heart of lee King,
Marble heart of cruel North wind,
Melt oh melt him into tear* '.
^EDNESIMY, MX, jp ^
E. wl^PENDLETQN, EDlfOft
Meteorology.
Why was the first day of Ad
am’s life the longest known ? Be
cause it had no Eve!
entosamamimfwisarae3g«ji^miftw i *i ririnri
CENTRAL GEORGIAN
S'AJYDERS'&iibljE,
THURSDAY, JAN. 31, 1850.
P. C. PENDLETON, EDITOR,
Charade.
I sit her', on a rock while I’m raising the wind,
But the storm once abated, I’m gentle and kind.
I have Kings at mv feet, who await bnt my nod,
To kneel in the dust on the ground I have trod.
I mn seen by the world, I am known but to few;
The Gentiles detest me! I’m pork to the Jew!
I never have passed but one night in the dark.
And that was with Noah, all alone in the Af' c ,
My weight is 31hs! my length is a mile;'
And when I’m discovered, you'll say with a
smile,
M v first aud ray last are the besfSn our isle.
A friend has called our attention
to" the above puzzle, in Harper’s
Magazine. We are posed. How
is it with you reader? We will
give a year's subscription of this
paper to any one who will send us
the correct solution, if the charade
itself is not an absurdity.
Frozen Reflections by a cold
Poetaster.
We have often heard of the
Storm King and his wonderful feats
of conquest and destruction when
with his marshalled army he strode
over the prostrate forms of the tall
majestic denizens of the forest.
Sweeping through ocr hills and mountains
Sweeping o’er our fields and fences,
On his wings of mighty power
Rushing screaming like the engine.
Rushing round about our dwelling
Rushing through our habitation.
And much more of the same sort
that the Poet left unsung. But
nevertheless his old Borean majes-
! tv of terrible memory has been de-
i throned and the Snow King bear-
; ing the scepter has usurped domin
ion and extended his conquest far
down South where before he has
been unknown and unheard of. But
the Poet ever true to his mission
has seized upon the occasion to bla
zon' his deeds in somewhat Hiawa-
than style. Hear him.
Grasped a waterfall congealed,
Rtre it with him from the mountain,
Boro the symbol-of the snow king,
Bore the ley scepter onward.
Touched with it like wand of wizzard,
Touched potatoes, eggs and turnips,
Touched the water in the cistern,
Touched onr feelings, toes and noses,
Touched our doors, our walls, and windows
Chilling! freezing' petrifying!
Nu wonder the trees are bowed
to the earth and the branches bro
ken and dismantled and their
trunks lie scattered in our southern
forests thick as leaves in Valamhrosa.
What better could be expected
when this merciless Snow King
has been raining congealed water
falls upon us so repeatedly for some
weeks passed. And though there
has been a cessation of the cold
that showered upon us they having
the wonderful property of adhering
to everything they touch, his
majesty though departed has left an
Ice Regent behind him more ter
rible than himself in that he envel
ops in his cold embrace houses,
fields, woods, trees and tender
herbs; together with cattle, porkies
and fowls, not omitting man him
self whom he attacks with the cool
impudence of a pickpocket driving
him under cover with as little cere
mony' as a shepherd his Bheep when
Frozen Again.
We are again in the mid
another extraordinary sleet.
On
rain, and soon after, to freeze,
was followed by what.is-common
ly called a hominy' snow. Before
night-fall the trees, houses, and
everything else out of doors were
enveloped with a coating of ice.—
During the night the sleet, contin
ued to fall, and Sunday-morning-
presented us with a scene never
before witnessed in this climate, if
we are to credit that most impor
tant individual, the oldest inhabitant,
whose “memory runneth not to the
contrary.” A solid sheet of ice
near au inch thick, almost uniin-
pressibie to the tread, covered the
earth. The trees laden with the
unusual burden, are, many of them,
broken and prostrated on the
ground, some torn up by the roots,
others dismantled of many of their
branches. Monday' morning pre
sents the same unvaried scene.—
Tuesday morning, and -no signs of
a thaw—the clouds all the while
hang.ng dark and lowering, keep
ing the sun from view. At this
time there is no prospect of a change
How long it will be before there
is a release from this icy dominion
our weather wisdom sayeth not.
1
Barom- 1
cter. 1
Sunday..
Monday.
Tuesday.
Wedn’y..
Tours’v..
Friday...
Saturday.
‘J9.43.
29.47,
29.42.
29.39.
29.42.
■29.44.
29.26.
Inferior Court.
By reference to another column,
it will be perceived that the Inferi
or Court of this county stands ad
journed to the 11th day of Februa
ry next. Perhaps' the Court ex
pect a “warm spell” about that time
which will supersede the necessity
of chimneys in our Hall of Justice
We would advise suitors, jurors
and witnesses not to come without
their over-coats, india-rubbers, and
mittens; and the lawyers uot to
leave their shawls behind. For we
know not what a day may bring
forth. Pre-calculations that have
reference to preparation- are worth
something—those having reference
to the weather about as worthless
as a thermometer to John Blank,
who, “would’nt give a fig for a ther
mometer that could only tell how
the weather was to-day and knows
nothing ’bout to-morrow”.
Ifo^rTt is exceedingly- to be re
gretted that our wise legislators
have not deemed it prudent to cut
down the list of Senators in our
State. We will give them the ben
efit of Tully’s opinion on the sub
ject of qualifications, (and no better
can be given,) remarking that the
whole people in this State coincide
with this view as to the character
of the senator, and if that be true,
it will be impossible to get such an
army of senators together as is ne
cessary', in the view of the Legisla
ture, to make laws for the. State :
“It is necessary,” says he “for a
Senator to be thoroughly acquaint
ed with the Constitution ; and this
Ls a knowledge of the most exten
sive nature ; a matter of science, of
diligence, of reflection ; without
which, no Senator can be fit for his
office.”
The following Bill was intro
duced into the House of Represen
tatives by R. L. Warthen, Esq, of
Washington.—To explain, and
supplimentarv to the Act approv
ed Dee. 22. 1855, authorizing the
Inferior Court of said county to
levy and collect an extra tax for
the purpose of building a Court
house and Jail. Authorizes the
Inferior Court to levy an extra tax
not to exceed $5,000 per annum,
for each of the years 1856-57& ’5S
to be applied to the redemption of
the bonds issijed under the above
recited act,
The following hit at Lord Cter-
navon is from the pen of Lord
Brougham. It will do:
“ClErnavon is so piping Lot,
Irascible and jadish;
His mother was a mustard-pot,
His father a horse-raddish.”
snow, of a very nnnsnol eharaet<-r"un;f r ° n “'- I
size, perfectly round, aud as light Ls th" i:;
snow. Measured when melted .Cl 0 f
“nincl.
That Poetry!
We make room in this number, f ur ,
which has some merit,
It was handed us bv
Poem
-swell as a fine m 0N
a gentleman, who j '
bibes himself, with the request that we -
lisli it. At the same time, he reaurked^"
notwithstanding from earlr youth heliad 'ts*'
ed to drink, and never expected to desi f!
tirely, so confirmed had the lmbit becom,>
if he could begin life again, with the 1
knowledge of the evil of ardent spirits f -
now has from experience, he would takea^
of arsenie in preferance to a single drop oft
“perilous stuff” in which the hero of oiu ^
deals-
SST* N will be remembered by
those interested, that J. B. J 0 i mso j
Esq., is the authorized Agent o ;
this paper, in this place, to whom
all payments should be made. He
also has in his hands the claims of
the Central Georgian f or ad.
vertisements and job printing.
Please call and settle.
We see from the Netr Or
leans Christian Advocate, that t!i e
Rev. Wm. J. Sasnctt.has been re
commended to the Presidency of
Soule College, by the TcxssCon.
ferenee. Should he accept the po
sition, he will make the second na
tive of Hancock county, who has
filled tho Presidential chair, (notof I
the United States, gentle reader,)
but of two very respectable
lesres.
Cold Weather,
The thermometer stood at 12’
above zero on last Wedneslir
morning at sun rise. The day pre
vious being the coldest day s«
1845, if we mistake not. The mer
cury standing at 15° 27 a, and 21“
at the regular times of observation,
mean temperature for the day be
ing 21° or eleven degrees below
freezing. The sun shone beautiful
ly throughout the whole day, but
failed to modify the intense coldness
of the atmosphere to any great ex
tent.
Commerce of Savannah.
We have received the report of
the Mayor of Savannah, for the
year ending October 31st, 1855,
from which we gather the following
items : Exports of Cotton for the
year $17,766,215, against $15,681-
806 for the year previous. Tho
grand total value of exports for the
year is $20,129,230, against $17'
881,906 for 1854. In the articled
Rice and Lumber there is a consid
erable falling off in the amount ex
ported, while Wheat, and Copper
ore, have largely' increased, and
promise to constitute staple article)
of exportation from our seaport
Tne total tonnage cleared and en-
t ered, in 1855, amounted to old,-
475, against 377.876, for the preu
ous year.
The Imports, foreign and dome'
tic, are supposed to be nearly oq mT '
alent to the exports, bringing ^
Commerce of Savannah np toneai
forty millions of dollars, annual!)'
Courts of Hancock.
We are informed that the Ug 15 ’
lature lias passed a bill to eba 11 ?
the time of holding the Super* 01
and Inferior Courts of this county
the former to hold its Sessions h
February and August, the l» ttf ‘
in April and October, just rever
ing the order of things. The ne**
Superior court therefore sitson -
third Monday of February,
turn day' having terminated on
Tuesday last. Some few indivi u
als will be benefitted by the oper 1
tion, having two months g rflce
thei r claims, while others will
injured. The worst sufferer
opine will be our old friend T u |
H., in the way of costs. Cban e 7
however, we have no doubt co®
honestly by the advantage, an
