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THOMASTON, GEORGIA.
Aug. 27,1859. n4l tt.
WM.G. HOItSLEY,
Attorney at aw ,
THOMASTON, GA.
H ILL nractice in Upson, Talbot. Taylor, Crawford,
O M Pike and Merriwether Counties.
April 7. 1859—1 y.
THOMAS BEALL,
attorney at law,
THOMASTON, GA.
fed 3—ly
P 7 W 7 ALEXANDER,
attorney at law,
THOMASTON, GA.
nov2s—lv
E. Marrf.n. c. x. Goode
WARREN & GOODE,
ATTORNEYS at law,
I’ERRY, HOUSTON CO., GA.
nov!B—tf
G. A. MILLER,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
THOMASTON, GA.
A. C AI <>< >re,
Dentist,
THOMASTON, GA.
Q f Rat my House (the late residence
’ 0? -'irv Hicks.) where 1 am jaepared
1 Ito all classes of Dental Opera-
Hons. My work is mv Reference.
nov!8—ts
Medical KToticc. ,
|V’ iW; to bad health for several years past, I have
Y felt but little inclination to practice Medicine, or to j
do anything else—and. if possible, cared less. Isut 1
ain h appv to inform my old friends and patrons that i
lu ’ health is now much better, and if they desire to re- |
jew our former relations, that they can easily do so
calling on me when my services are needed. I will
Pledge ntvself to serve them to the best of my skill and
ability.
1 bike at mv old stand, the Drug Store, now occupied
b . v w - A. Snell. mar3 R. HARWELL.
HARDEMAN & GRIFFIN,
DEALERS 3!V
STAPLE dry goods and groceries
Os Every Description
Corner of Cherry and Third Streets,
MACON, O A. .
L would call the attention of the Planters of Up
son and adjoining counties to"the above Card, be
cop, (Ja., November 10,1858. nov2o—tf,
[For the Upson Pilot.]
The Red River Raft.
Much has been said concerning the na
ture of the Raft and the consequent had
state of navigation caused thereby in Red
River. Throughout the southern States,
the removal of the raft thatjiaip formed in
the channel of this river, hasbeen a sub
ject of much comment; owing to the fact,
that for nearly twenty years it has almost
locked up the navigation of a river that
drains an area of country as large as both
the States of Georgia and South Carolina,
and embracing one of ’the finest climates
and cotton growing regions in the world.
Many other obstructions prevent good
navigation, such as sand-bars, snags and
shoals, composed of a very inferior quality
of soap-stone (Steatite.)
But with steamboatmen and planters,
all of these sink into insignificance when
compared with the raft.
This obstruction as its name imports, is
truly a raft, and a natural one. Its loca
tion is in Bosier Parish, Louisiana, a few
miles below the line running between the
States of Arkansas and Louisiana. The
original channel of the river in the raft re
gion was very narrow and remarkably
crooked even for Red River itself, and was
formed by banks composed of a very com
j pact and firm quality of clay, which was
not easily worn by tlie usually strong cur
; rent in the river. The channel here is per
haps narrower than at any other point on
the river, for eight hundred miles above
by the channel, and even here, there would
have been no obstruction, had not the
banks of the river above—composed most
ly of sand—in many places, acted upon by
the strong current of the river—gave away
then piecipitating cotton-wood trees of
immense height and size into the river, to
he transported by the current in vastnum
lors to the rnft region.
As many of these trees were from two
hundred to three hundred feet in length,
wi*h innumerable branches ; and as thou
sands of then) moved onward together giv
ing to the river the appearance of a vast
field of floating fallen timbers ; when they
reached the narrow in the channel, by ac
cident a few caught or were deposited by
the current against one bank endwise,,
while the remainder swinging around with
the current, came in contact with others
that had been deposited in a similar man
ner against the opposite hank ; and thus
was the commencement of the formation
of the raft, eomnlute, and having once made
a formation none oi the east quantities oi
floating timber above were permitted to
pass below, and was therefore deposited,
and every piece aided in some degree to
strengthen the whole. And in the short
space of one winter it became to be so for
midable in strength and extent as totally
to resist the powers of steamboatmen and
the current. The present raft has
formed within the last twenty years and
already its extent is between forty and six
ty miles by the channel of the. river ; not
in a continuous mass, but at almost every
bend in the river owing to the current be
ing checked by the raft below, one has
formed from a half of a mile to two miles
in extent, giving to the river the general
appearance of being a succession of dams
and ponds. The intermediate space be
tween the logs in the raft, has been filled
with particles of decayed vegetable
matter and the peculiar mud and sand ot
the river deposited there, by the high wa
ters in times flhat the settlers call over
flows ; out of which, have grown trees al
ready of the heiglith of one hundred feet ;
and so perfect lias been the deposit, and
so thick has grown the young timber, that
a person vho knew nothing of the nature
and existence of the raft would perhaps
pass over tlie original channel ot flic river
in many places without for a moment
| thinking that he had ever crossed Red
River. The intervening ponds or lakes
are by no means without inhabitants. —
They are almost as fertile in the produc
tion'of small terrapins and large alligators
!as the raft is in vegetation. With the first
j approach of Spring, likewise tbe
; appearance of these four footed, hardshell
gentry. It is there that they sally foi th
from their cold and torpid winter quarters.
| together with all of the several families of
i this same tribe, covered with*slime and
j mud and loathsome to look upon, seeldcg
any thing that they can devour, and The
1 alligator devours every thing that he can
: find, not excepting his own offspring, every
| small member of which he can catch, he j
guzzles up with as much gusto as he would
a small lap-dog. On the approach oi win-
I ter again, they go in winter quarters and
their disappearance is the signal for the
| lakes to be covered and the atmosphere
above, at morning and evening, ol each
dav, to literally swarm with myriads of
wild ducks, geese, brants, (species of Hie
goose) swans, and all of the crane tribe,
who tlock down from the frozen north ev
ery fall and winter, and wo ! to the plan
ter whose pea crop is ungathered, for “the
harvest is past and the Summer is ended”
and his crop is now about to be gathered
—by the wild fowls. During the winter
season in this region, there is perhaps, to
be found no better grounds for sportsmen
in the world. The approach of Spring
each year witnesses the flight of these va
rious tribes of birds north, to spend the
Summer; some perhaps, tor health, while
not a few tind it quite a treat in point ot
pleasure to go north ; else why do we see
so many geese going there every year to
spend that season P
These lakes are constantly filling up
with mud and sand deposited by the high
, water of the river, every winter ana spring,
‘THE UNION OF THE STATES; -DISTINCT, LiKfc THE BILLOWS; ONE, LIKE THE SEA* ,;
THOMASTON, GEORGIA. SATI RDAY MORNING, JANUARY 21. 1801).
and unless the channel is opened, by the
removal of the whole raft, in a few years
it will be difficult to tell where the river
originally flowed. The navigation above
is now effected at ruinous costs to the
planter, and great danger and risk to the
carrier, through two bayous and an inter
mediate lake. These bayous are but new
and diminutive channels of tlie river. The
first or upper one is called Red Bayou,
which connects with or makes out from the
river about one mile abovßT.the head of the
raft and empties into lake Soda below. It
is a very rapid and turbid stream and of
course dangerous for navigation. The lake
is very broad, remarkably shallow and fil
led or studded very thickly with low scrub
by cypress trees and snags. The passage
out of the lake, is through Black Bayou,
also a turbid, swift, stream which eoimfccL
with the liver below the raft, and above
Shreveport. The whole passage is diffi
cult and dangerous and unless the drift in
the river above the raft, can find a quick
and easy passage down Red Bayou into
the Lake below (which is next to an im
possibility, on account of the narrowness
of the bayou,) the navigation above the
raft is near an end, and there is an almost
certain prospect that the river above tbe
point, after this winter, will be closed a
gainst all manner of steam crafts. There
is however, an organized company of weal
thy planters who have large fortunes de
pending upon the good navigation of this
river, who will, provided the present Con
gress will grant them a charter with cer
tain priviledges mentioned therein, remove
the raft and insure good navigation through
that portion of the river for twenty years.
This charter has been approved of by Lou
isiana and the two adjacent Stats Arkan
sas and Texas. This company is compos
ed of quite a number of the most energetic
men on the river and will without doubt
in the course of eighteen months from the
time they commenced operations, will open
the river for all classes of Steamboats; and
instead of tbe planters having then to pay
four per cent for insurance andyiVe Dol
lars per Bale freight on each bale cotton
as they do at present, they will only pay
one dollar and fift y cents, and no insurance
to the city of New Orleans. Then will
many valuable plantations now worthless
from the hack water above the raft be cul
tivated. The valley of upper Red River
“flow with milk and honey,” and become
a paradise found.
I shall write you iu*i short time some
thing cfcbv.'uo the iii.il, Ciiiii.i.e, 1 11111 . it, *
production ot this, the finest section of
country in the world. J.
For tlie Upson Pilot.
Mr. Editor :
Perhaps no features in publication of a
newspaper is more interesting to the gen
eral reader, than a well conducted corres
pondence from various parts of our wide
spread country; and perhaps, therefore an
occasional glimpse at some of the charac
teristics, the soil, productions, Ac, of this
part of Alabama, may not fail to prove of
interest to, at least, a portion of your nu
merous readers. Alabama # claims not the
high position that Georgia occupies as
“the Empire State of the South.” Neith
er does she occupy the high position that
Georgia docs in point of Manufacturing in
terests and Rail Road facilities—hut for a
productive soil, and heavy harvests, she
claims to equal if she does not far excel
Georgia. One great draw-back to the-es
tablishment of manufactories in this State,
has been the w r ant of water power. While
•our streams are sufficiently large—to drive
any kind of machinery, they generally flow
slow and sluggishly through low flat lands.
No cascades, no waterfalls, consequently,
there is no water power. I write only of
this particular section of Alabama. Steam
power or Horse power is almost the only
resource he driving of any and every
kind of machinery. You will fully appre
ciate this declaration* when 1 assure you,
that within ten miles of Tusk ogee there
are no less than seven large Steam Mills
in active operation, ranging from 30 to 100
horse power. Here all ourgrain is ground
and lumber sawed ; and notwithstanding
that these mills turn out almost countless
thousands of teet of lumber annually, yet
it is a fact, that the supply is often inade
quate to the demand. The great spirit of
improvement, and the large shipments
made by our Rail Road to Montgomery,
and other points, keep onr lumber yards
comparatively bare. A few years more,
! and but very few, our forests will all have
| been leveled with the earth, and instead
lof blooming in all their original beauty,
j will have served to rear the stately man-
I sion of the rich, as well as the cottage of
i the poor. A few years ago, and a part of
Alabama was but a wild wilderness —the
S haunt of the savage; but they have passed
I away, and lo ! we see in their stead, a
! dense population, heavily cultivated coun
| try, through every part of which villages,
| towns, cities, colleges and churches have
sprung up. as by magical influence. rlhir
ty-six vears ago, if I mistake not the date,
i the spot on which our town, of now near
4000 inhabitants, is situated, was an un
broken wild. The sound of the white
man’s axe had not disturbed the forests —
1 the plow had left untouched its soil. The
public square upon which the Court House
now stands, had however, long been the
trysting place of several of the neighbor
i ing tribes or classes for their annual “Ball
• Flays.”
It is said in connection with the histon
of Tusk egee, that on a beautiful brigh
morning in May about the above perioc
no-o. four tribes of Indians met on th<
now) public square for tlie purpose of cele
brating their last Ball Play. They bad
sold tlieir lauds to the white man, and
their destiny was towards the setting sun.
All iad arrived on the spot. The signal
lor i fie play to begin was given, when on
a neighboring bill some four or five hun
dred yards off, an aged chief, time worn
and grey headed, was seen leaning against
a pine. The play was for the time post
poned—a delegation of the principal chiefs
was sent to bring him to the scene of festiv
ity; but they failed. Delegation after delega
tion was sent, but with like success, to ev
ery argument urged he simply answered,
“no ! I can play no more, my heart is bro
ken, you play. I will pray to the great
spirit, and shed my tears over the graves
of my fathers, myjhraves and my children.”
T&e play began—as the sun declined to
wards the west, the old chief suddenly dis
appeared, and was never heard of more,—
In all probability, he went direct and hur
ried himself beneath the waters of Euphor
bee, a large stream some 2 1-2 miles from
our town—hut enough for the ‘‘trial trip”
and perhaps more anon.
AN OLD GEORGIAN.
Tuskegee Ala. Jan. 1860.,
The Proceedings of the Supreme Court in rela
tion to the Death of Dr. Robert E. Martin.
The following proceedings were had in
the Supreme Court, in pursuance of the
appointment of a Committee, to report
special resolutions, relative to the death of
Dr. Martin.
The Hon. E. A. Nesbit, from the Com
mittee appointed to draft suitable resolu
tions on the death of Dr. -Martin, late ol
this Court, reported the following:
Since the last term of this Court, its
Clerk, Dr. Robert E. Martin, has departed
this life. Elected when the Court was or
ganized in 1845, he discharged the duties
of Clerk until his death. By the coneur
ing testimony of the Bench and Bar, die
was an excellent officer —prompt, accurate,
patient and courteous. He had the confi
dence of the successive incumbents of the
Bench as an officer, and their affectionate
regard as a man. His zeal for the honor
and usefulness of the Court was uniform
and earnest. He was endowed by nature
with line parts, which were improved by
extensive intercourse with men, and a re
markable keen power of observation, with
a quick perception of the ludicrous him
self, lie possessed in an eminent degree the
faculty of becoming tlie cause of mirth in
■phws. ,IB w as nn amiable hnmoreet, and
excellent in narative. He was also char
itable and generous. These qualities made
him an exceedingly agreeable companion,
and he become, and continued to be, a fa
vorite with tlie Bar. With a suddenness
which shocked his numerous friends, lie
has been called hence.
\Yc are saddened by the loss of our
friend and long time associate ; hut we
know that the Great Disposer ordereth all
things well; and the lesson we would fain
learn from this painful dispensation is—
that death is the universal law, and prep
aration to meet it, the universal obliga
tion.
Resolved , That the foregoing article be
entered upon the minutes of this Court,
and that the Clerk furnish a copy to the
nearest relatives of the deceased.
RESPONSE OF JUDGE LUMPKIN.
Never since attaining to manhood—do
I recollect to have been so shocked by any
death —as that of Dr. Martin. It was so
sudden, so sad, without any figure of
speech, I can say truly, that the mournful
intelligence made me sick at heart —life
has seemed to me cheerless ever since.
Fourteen years ago, we met as officers
of this Court, he as Clerk, I as Judge—
that relation continued till dissolved by
death. All the other members of the Court
have changed, and now* I alone remain to
lament the loss, we have all sustained.
How many hours we have spent togeth
er in talking over the trials and troubles of
this tribunal. No similar institution, in
any other civilized country in the world —
has encountered such unreasonable oppo
sition, such unmerited buffetings. But
the time will come when the truth will tri
umph. Our people are not only just hut
intelligent and generous. In due season
they will, instead of seeking to destroy an
establishment which even with its defec
tive organization has done so much to el
evate tlie Judiciary ofthe State abroad and
secure a just and faithful administraiton
of tlie law at home —bend their best efforts
to perfect the system. This is alike
dictate of wisdom and enlightened patrio
tism.
But how great a loss —shall we all suf
fer —in the soul cheering companionship of
the deceased —who shall relate for amuse
ment the stories of the good old days of
our Fathers and Mothers ? What was
there peculiar to that palmy period —that
he did not re-animate in his life-like pic
tures? The old home-stead with its neat
hut plain furniture —its clean scoured plain
tables and split bottom chairs. Tbe white
’ washed walls with the little glass suspen
ded, surmounted and surrounded with
Bachelor’s buttons, and the fringed towel
i of domestic manufacture hanging beneath,
j The square bedsteads with burned posts
and home-made cords. The huge tan trough
for manufacturing leather of the hides ot
the beeves killed for the family, and out of
which were made the stitcli-downs, welted
or pegged shoes, with shoe thread from
flax spun upon the place, and the wax
made of rosin from the neighboring pine.
The dipped candles; the clay baked pipe.
Topics like these were the never failing
themes ofthe Doctor’s discourse. And
then amongst the few books upon the tiny
shelf underneath the glass, in addition to
the family Bible, Dilworth’s Arithmetic,
and Webster’s Spelling Book, was that
wonderful novel Charlotte Temple, the on
ly work of fic£on the Doctor ever read.—
What a feast, of soul he always esteemed it.
What was Bulweiis last novel compared
with that?
Who will forget the sr- created
at “Walker’s Meeting, rn ‘ a the
first plated stirrr ‘ a ted gig
were seen there ALL^vv :tn o7H’ ’ . r another
would steal in, and whisper the incredible
news, until the congregation oould no lon
ger be kept together, and wh<>n it was fin
ally decided, after much debate, that the
device in the panels of the gig must have
been painted.
Dr. Martin may die, but hi- bo} r isb love
for the fair fat widow at the C unp meeting
and the discipline admfYs!-*rM by his fa
ther for its cure—the mg worn for
for his grand father ol Y t,v next Sunday
after his death, with (rape <, bbrately ar
ranged on his straw hat—Fare-footed, and
in his shirt sleeves —thus manifesting such
signs ot sorrow as drew tears from the eyes
of his aged grand mother. J 1 is feat .of gal
lantry at Cross Road Smith’s; lps toast at
the dinner given, in honor of one of
Carolina’s noblest sons—the Honorable
Win. C. Preston, and which lie conned for
a week before-hand—expecting it to elicit
the most unbounded applause on account
of the novelty of the sentiment—“ Princ
iples not Men.” His two first and only
cases ; his interview with General Jackson
at old man Allison’s—the history ~of the
surrender of the British army at “Little
York,” by the redoubtable Eppv Robin
son—these and a thousandotherside-split
ting anecdotes, will never be blotted from
our memofy.
Farewell friend and comrade. We shall
never occupy this seat without feeling the
absence of thy familiar face. All who
sought thy place* bear testimony to thy
worth. Thy vacancy few can hope fully
to supply. Thou were expecting long life
—God has seen fit, in a moment to loose
the silver chord—he cannot err—we bow
submissively to bis will.
Let the proceedings be entered upon the
minutes of the Court, and copies thereof,
furnished as requested.
LelSer from Ricliiird Eiralf to {lie Pres
ident.
Austin, Texas, Dec. 4, 1859.
To his Excellency ,
The President of the United States :
Sir :—Having recently observed from
the papers which have reached this distant
region, that the discovery of the correspon
dence of J. Brown has disclosed my former
connection with him as Secretary of State,
under the “ Provisional Constitution,”
adopted at Chatham, C. W., May 10th,
1858, I have thought it my duty to state
to you that while had no connec
tion either with Brown or any of his party
since the beginning of June, 1858, and no
knowledge of the resuscitation of the or
ganization which died out at the period of,
and in consequence of my defection there
from, and although I have, since my re
turn from Europe in April last, resided
wholly in Southern States, acquitting my
self as a law-abiding citizen, I and yet per
fectly willing (by reason of my conviction
that the organization and insurrection were
alike cruelly wicked,) to surrender myself
either to the authorities of the U. States,
or of the State of Virginia, in order, if it
he necessary, to suffer the penalty of my
egregious folly.
I have, since the date of the insurrec
tion, been once ot twice dissuaded from of
fering myself as a witness, on the ground
that the violated majesty of tlie law was
being amply and fully vindicated.
By reason, however, of the recently dis
closed fact that the insurrection occurred
under the auspices of the “Provisional
Constitution,” I have determined, on ac
count of the possibility that my connec
tion with the dissolved organization of
May, 1868, may entail responsibilities on
me in December, 1859, to express my wil
lingness to expiate, to the last degree, the
consequences of my atrocious blunder. —
For this reason : that, whereas, when an
Abolitionist, I would have died in defense
of my convictions, so now, that I am a
Southerner, I am also willing to die in
proof of the sincerity of my present princi
ples. If therefore, the error of the past
involves me in present punishment, I am
content to redeem such error by suffering
such punishment.
I reside in this city, from which I shall
not absent myself until you have commu
nicated your desires or decisions in this
matter.
I have the honor to remain, sir,
Your Excellency’s ob’t servant.
RICHARD REALF.
A verbatim copy of the above lias a!-j
been mailed to Gov. Wise, of Virginia.
JOHN T. ALEXANDER.
Boswell was one day complaining that
he was sometimes dull. “Yes, yes,” cried
Lord Kamo, “Homer sometimes nods.”
Boswell being too much elated with
this, my lord added: “Indeed, sir, it is
the only chance you have of resembling
Homer.”
The Insurance of a Letter. —It is
not generally known, but it is stated by
tbe Virginia papers to be a fact, that Gov.
Wise had recommended, and the General
1 Council had approved of a commutation of
. Cook’s sentence, \vh ‘nh:s letter to Mrs.
’ Brown appeared. That sealed his late.
in j\dvnnoo.
How English Duchesses and Coun
tesses Employ their Time. —The follow
ing extract from a letter of an English
traveller, who lias had the best opportuni
ties of observation in the first circles of
the United States, may surprise some of
our idle Jim ladies, if any such there be a
mong our readers. It were well if a noble
emulation could be excited among our wo
men to imitate what was worthy of imita
tion in the privi lodged classes abroad.—
they would then flood their country with
light and happiness, instead of degrading
it with poor copies from English and
French novels, and reproducing from par
venu Paris society foreign idleness and its
concomitants—gossip, flirtation, extrava
gance :
‘‘l can assure you that, having lived in
different castles and manor’houses of Great
Britain, and been accustomed to the in
dustrious habits of duchesses and countes
ses, I was utterly astonished at the idle
ness of American fine ladies ! No English
woman of rank (with the exception, of a
few parvenues,) from the Queen down
wards, would remain for one half-hour un
imployed, or sit in a rocking chair, unless
seriously ill. The} almost all (with hard
ly an exception) copy the letters of busi
ness of their husbands, fathers or broth
ers; attend minutely to the wants of the
poor around them, and even take parts in
their amusements, and sympathise with
their sorrows ; visit and superintend tlie
schools: work in (heir own gardens; see to
household concerns; think about their
vlKuors; look over tlie .weekly accounts,
not only of domestic expeilses, but often
those of the farm and the estate; manage
penny clubs in conjunction with the’work
ing classes, to help them to keep them
selves; and with all these occupations, by
early hours, they keep up their acquain
tance with the literature and politics of the
day, and cultivate the accomplishments of
music and drawing, and often acquire be
side some knowledge of scientific pursuits.
The late Marchioness of Lansdowne
was so well acquainted with the cottagers
in her neighborhood, that she used to visit
and look at the corpses of the dead, be
cause she found that her doing so soothed
and comforted the bereaved. 1 have known
her to shut herself up with a mad woman
in her poor dwelling, who used to lock the
door, and could not ho induced to admit
any one else. Lady Lansdowne’s only
daughter used one hundred guineas (given
her by her father-in-law, Lord Suffolk, to
buy a bracelet,) to build pigsties, with hr;
permission, at her husband’s little country
residence. She educates her own children
without assistance; teaching the boys Lat
in and the girls all the usual branches of
education. The late Duchess of Bedford,
I accidentally discovered when on a visit
to Woburn, had for 30 years of lief mar
riage life, risen at 6 o’clock, Summer and
Winter, lit her own fire, made some tea
for the Duke and herself, and then as he
wrote his own letters or business she copi
ed them, and they came down to a large
party of guests at 10 o’clock, to dispense
breakfast, without sayingone word of tlHr
matutinary avocations; so that you might
have been a visitor in the house without
finding out that the Duke and Duchess
had transacted the necessary business of
the day—before perhaps you had risen ! .1
rather mention those that are gone to their
reward, than write of woman still amongst
us; but you may believe me when 1 say
that I am constantly amongst those who
live such lives of energy and usefulness—
but they so employ themselves without os
tentation, or an idea that they are doing
more than their simple duty.” —The Cen
tury.
How to Make Newspapers go Safer.
—We find the following sensible remarks
in an exchange paper, and commend them
to 11 ie attention of our distant subscribers :
We would -ike to have all single pack
ets doubled, trebled, quadrupled, or more,
if more might be. it is troublesome to
send out these single packets—very troub
lesome in proportion to the gains. We
can put up two or three papers for the
mail, nearly a'> soon as we can one. lie
sides, we always realize a feeling of anxie
ty in regard to these 1 litt!-* packets, in send
ing one paper away by itself so far. We
feel for them in their lo: cly and uncertain
journey. As to the larger packages, their
very hulk will command some respect for
them from post-office clerks. But these
solitary little f< Hows, in their seeming in
significance may probably be kicked into
some corner, or miss their, way, and be lost
among the bills and hollows. A small
] jacket does not arrive so certainly at its
destination as a larger one.- We have a
remedy to propose for this state of things:
Let each subscriber who gets a “single
packet,” now that the paper is so cheap,’
obtain am>ther subscriber or twb, whose
papers may go along with Ids for company.
It is a ;ii v to have one paper t;rke such
1 eg i >uri:t'vs as some of them do, “solita
rp and alone/’ Give them company, a:ie
they will travel more swiftly, and reach
their destiny more surely;
A church near Srnithfield. Isle of
Wight county, Ya., is said to be the old
est one now in existence in tile United
States. D was erected some time between
the Years 1630 and 1635 ; during the
r*dgn of Chari sI. The brick, lime and
timber were imported from England. The
timber is English oak, aud was framed id
Europe.
Mynheer Drinknuff makes a dis'inetion
Huh: “Too much whisky is too much, but too
much lager hicr is shoo: t right.”
Number 10.