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O. A. MILLE K, Terms $2 00 A Year, in Advance. THE UPSON PILOT, Thomaato n, Georgia, a. A. MILLER, Eflitor atid Proprietor. PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY MORNING. Terms of Subscription. In advance, for 1 year, - - . - - - $2 00 If payment be delayed 6 months, ... 260 If delayed until the end of the year - - 300 Club Rates. Single copy, $2 00 | Five copies, 8 00 Jen copies, 15 00 Clubs exceeding ten, in the same proportion f 2,50 each. Payment always iu advance. it (Ojjiee over A. Worrxll Sf Co.'s Grocery Store.) Rates of Advertising. Advertisements will be charged at the rate of one dollar per square of ten lines or less, and fifty cents for racli subsequent insertion. Professional Cards, not exceeding ten lines, Mill be inserted 12 months for sl2. Liberal contracts made with Merchants and others wishing to advertise by the year. Per Announcement of Candidates $3, invariably in advance. Marriages and Deaths inserted free, when accompa nied by a responsible name. Obituaries of over 10 lines charged as Advertisements. We commend the following Rates of Advertising by contract to business mn generally. We have placed them at the lowest figures, and they will in no instance b departed from : BY CONTRACT, j 3 inns. 6 mos. ‘J mos. j 1 year. ON It SQUARE. Without change, $0 00 $8 00 $lO 00 | sl2 00 ‘hanged quarterly 700 10 00 12 qq 10 00 Changed at will, 800 12 00 11 qq 18 00 TWO SQUARE*. 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Bs!*< of Lands and ues, by administrators, Ex I inpnri ai 1 tin li-'os. are required by law to.be held I ja liie n..ti iur tay a th j mn.au, W-.veeil the hours I efvsa is the fnrea-mu a;i 1 three in the a/tornoon, ai the I Coart il jiur in the county in which the property is sit- I rat*!- N tic"f these rales mu-t be given in a ]>ul>- ||j ex?-'"* f rtv f'xTs previous to the day of sale. ■V>tica for the sale of personal properly must be .■*•) Tv viius to the day of sale. S itiio “.•> ..... C.i;io4w wi an Estate must js iiitbiishe 1 forty days. V .. th-. V to the Court of I Ordi .. for leave to sell Lvm o. ...ogroes, must be I published weekly for tvm months. - • •* ;A l it mtl n nra.it be ruh •ur;© i tniitv ua’s [or D ‘rii*3i >i fr-aa Administration, \ monthly six months —lor Dismission from Guardian- I ih'.'v >\ tr lava. R iles for Foreclosure of Mortgage must he pub!ishe<] I W vi.rdv f-- v.,,,- ,ii n,r.hs —f i- estfd ■’isdiing ios- t papers j for us iu.i if i.iree m >.ith* --for compelling fi -1 ||.. r.— Vri-str-i o“ A ‘ nil •’*®tr?tors, where a bond tu. jjo.. ot i.io .u; full space of three j I**”' 1 * tbtcmcau.ms ri’i always be conunu'’d according to I th’ <* o- j - , £ os, uu". ..: otherwise ordered, 1 rune foil©**tug - \th: C. Administration. $2 50 Div’vsaory A ‘ Mon, bOO “ *• “ Gua.dtau-Uip, 360 Law© to sat’. Lan 1 v Negroes, 6 00 Rale* of personal property. 10 days. 1 sq. 1 50 Rale* of ‘and or negroes by Executors, 3 r>o Eitrays, two weeks, 1 50 Sheriff a Sale*. 60 • •• so “ 2 50 t<r Monsv sent bv mail is the risk n f the Editor, proviils.l. if the remittance miscarry, a receipt be ex hibited from the Post Professional <Tiivds. P. w. Alexander, AT TO EX’ E Y A T LA TF, Thomaston, Georgia. nov 25, 1850—1 v G. A. MILLER, ATTORN E V AT LAW, Thomaston, Georgia. I E. Warren. C.T. Goope Warren &. Goode, AT TO E X E YS A T LA H 7 Perry, Houston Cos., Ga. nr.v 18, 1858—ts _____ THOMAS BEALL, ATTORNEY A T LAW, Thomaston, Georgia. febU 18G0—lv E. A. At J. W. Spivey, AT T 0 It N E Y S A T LAW, THOMASTON, GEOEGIA. Aug. 27, 1859. ti4l ts. William G. Horsley, ATIO R NE Y A T LAAY , Thomaston, Georgia. ‘iriLl. p-actice in Up>on, 7"aihot, laylor, ( ra'vfoid | M Monr.ie. Pike and Merriwetiier Counties. April 7 1859 lj. 2 E KBXSOJI. R - H r>f'L IOCH ’ KEXXON & liItLOCH, ATT 0I? KEYS AT LAW, Hamilton, Geor ia. W r LL practice m a ‘ the ecu ties of the Chatta *t : 4 M)o | lee Circuit, Tr< up H’d Merriuetber, and in ‘ J,J a d.jii.iiug counties in Aa be ma. Prompt attention given to collections. Ail business entrusted to their care will receive Pfompt attention. .hie of the firm will be found at the office at all Office on the East side of the public squat e in brick building. SiTTLvr.g OF THE Courts is Harris —Snpenor 2d Monday in April and October. Interior 2d Monday in January and July. Ordinaij s ’ Ist Monday in each month. 6 PUmaber 29, 1860 ly. A.. C. Moore, Dentist, THOMASTON. GA. Q 7FIC B ov- r DR THOMPSONS’ store, SfiST” From the Augusta Chronicle & Sentiuel. A Protective Policy. The preat object for which our popular leaders have been professedly laboring for so many years—the arrangement of a tar iff, such as will no longer enure exclusively to the benefit of ihe North, but will a fibril protection to Southern interests and en courage Southern manufactures, is now within our reach. Hitherto, when we fioujrht for the causes of the want of success in Southern manufacturing enterprises— when we asked why, with such unlimited resources and so peat natural advantages over every competitor, we were behind al most the whole civilized world in manu factures, and confirmed shamefully tribu tarv to other communities, poorer natural ly than ourselves, for articles of every day rrse, we w* re told that our dependence was wholly owing to the evil effect of the pro tective tariffs forced upon us by the North —that the iron masters of Pennsylvania and the cotton lords of Massachusetts com bined, and used the Federal Government to oppress and stifle in their infancy the strn<ri!ino manufactures of the South. — The lime has come to test the truth of this political theory ;we can now, left to ourselves, develope otrr mineral and n;jri ! cultural resources, and, using against the North the weapon she has so lonv used against us, we shall s ton ascertain if it was solely owing 1o the policy of the Federal Government, that we, wit h the cheapest of labor, and ihe materials at <t:r very doors, forth! not compete with others less advau ta;eonsly sit ttat ed. it a proi.ciivc tariff policy has work ‘d out m> much ;i os polity for ‘lie N u - h, we : etui see no lesson wh\ it mivn *t do the ’ some fr the F- ti h. That it has not don i so, we wire fold by otir jedi; minus, was be et use it 1 te Uiieqnailv no n lie iwo sec tions— that while the Sot h j-aiil near I v all the n vi iino, :1c ft !i t a; •-< 1 all : In• h<n > fi ! . I his may ot may n t lutve been true while tve wen* one na'i n, h'lt separated as we are now from the North, and ibim njjp at least t<> the ex out of i.m- prtsent C-n ----li (h racy, a nation ith m ieal in interests, j ursitils and population, we prestqir n i points upon w hich a protective policy cm!d i weioh unequally and we sincc'relv believe i that such a pdi y, v. i li continued peace, j would not only in a few years n li< ve cm t ovei nment from debt and tin* deorndine nct.essiiy of b.'g-etne; f q- loans in llic mom \ markets of t \v >i Id, hut would t‘U rich otii jieojde with a firm and mie.xum- Sottiheru independence can neve r be ob taimil t xcept by iitietal protection to out own maiiulaciures, and it is useless to ex | jiect it 1 1 out any other source. Now, when the necessities of our govcnunent reouire that a heavy import duty be imposed when our i.eopn ai’ rto show tlo ir devotion l i o to the liew ot del of i and will cheer fully submit to sacrifices, is the time to in auouiatt such a policy as will not only en courage capitalists to embark their wealth here, but will attract skilful and industri ous mechanics to take tip their'abode amongr us. \Ye have no sympathy, therefore, with those demajvorjiics who adopt measures of confiscation and retaliation whether the consequences fall on the guilty or ihe in nocent, against the property of Northern capitalists here, men w ho are very fir from countenancing the proceedings of officious Northern interim (Idlers, ami who have shown their confidence iu our laws and in stitutions by confiding their property to their protection. The wrong done to us cannot he repaired by wrong done by us, and it should rather be our aim to attract capital that) to drive it away. We would encourage also the immigration and settle ment among us of foreign mechanics and artisans ; the negro has no business in the work-shop, his place is in the field, and if the thousands now loitering uselessly a bout our towns and cities were employed in agricult tire as they should be, there would he no demand fur the African slave trade. Take them from the workshops and fac tories. and we should find t heir places soun supplied with the labor of the trained white man —the material for valuable citizens— and it is in such citizens that the strength, military, civil and commercial of a Slate consists—if they are enterprising, energet ic, moral aikl industrious, if they find full opportunities for tha employment of their industry, and adequate returns for it, it thev seek eagerly to develope the natural wealth around them, theStateis ncli—hut no State is rich wit >se wealth consists it) unenif however ample i*s capital ma\ he, or howi ver great may lw be undeveloped r* sninc- H. Nature Ims en dowed no slate more richly than M- xico n:> utnhv b\ nature poorer than Eng land, Y t “the first is iriserabh weak, the iast tw rm< tislv powerful —human indus trv an l the want of it have produced the diffeK tice beiw en them. Without a policy, such as we advoca’e, which will bring the manufacturer and the artizan into juxtaposition, trade will pur sue tilt* same course as heretofore, provided war with its horrors and miseries can be a voided. To the North we shall continue to look for our necessary supplies of manu factured articles, because no where else can they be manufactured so cheaply. Com merce seeks the mart where it can bu\ cheapest and sell dearest, and takes nohe<d of prejudice or passion when its interest is at stake. The expectation that European will supplant Northern manufactures in otir markets is fallacious. Contiguity alone gives the North an immenseadvantage over Europe, and the North has other advanta gee beside* Em now, many description* ‘THE UNION OF THE STATES: -DISTINCT. LIKE THE BIllOWS: ONE. LIKE THE SEA.” THOMiSTON. REOlitilA. SAT 11 HAY MOFMMi. MAY 4. I*l. of Northern goods are exported to Euro pean countries, and compete with theirown manufactmvs even in their own markets. We need not expect that direct trade and high duties will give the supremacy to Eu ropean over Northern goods, for high du ties will fall equally <>n both, there can he no discrimination it amicable relations con tinue. Diiect trade may increase the num ber of competitors in dir markets and thus cheapen our supplies, but high duties will produce a much more desirable r snlr, in compelling us to manufacture for ourselves —a consummation which many of otir pol iticians have professed ardently to desire as a long step towards Southern Tndenen dence, yet at the same time have as ardent ly advocated free trade—two professionsdi ametically opposed to, and inconsistent with each other. We have had always free trade with our chief source of supply, aud what have we gain* and by it ? We think we s* e ji desire, among some of our rulers to sink the politician in the statesman, and never was there a more fa vorable time for t hem to rise above tlie pet ty jealousies of the hour—to cease labor ing f*r the advancement of this party, <>r ! the ‘devation of that man, and to work for the good of their people, and the guidance |of our new-horn nation in the paths of peace and prosperity. E<i/,.t’)o!i) nuil Her rmssiscllors. The commissioners thus described ar rived at Greenwich S'ttirs, and were at once ushered into the palace a residence which : had he* n much enlarged and decorated bv 1 Henry VIII. They were receiv’d with I stati ly ceremony. The presence-chandler Wits hang with Gob.din tapestry, i's floor s rewn with rushes. Fiby.gent 1> men pen -i m>-rs, with gilt fiat tie-axes, and i throng I of huffeiieis, or Im*> f-i-aters, in that quaint | “id world garb which has survived so ma ny centuries, were in attendance, while the j counsellers of the Queen, in their robes of | state, waited around the throne. Then*, in close skull cap and dark flow ing gown. was tliesub I.*, monastic-looking W.dsingham, with long, grave, melancholy face and Spanish eyes There, too, white staff in hand was Lord High Treasurer Burgltlev, then sixty-five Vears of age, with seivtie blue eyes, large, smooth, | tile, scat C” wrinkled face and fore head. seeming, with his placid, symmetri cal features, ami great v< Ivvt bonnet, un der which such silver hairs as remained ! were sober.j tucked away, and with his long dark robes, which swept the ground, more iike a dignified gen leman than a statesman, hat t'q- r he wintiy heard, which lay J .ike a snowdiitt On his ancient breast. The Quet-n was then in the fifty-third vrar of her tig**, and considered herself in the full bloom of her beatify. JLt gar ments \vel>* of sat m ami velvet, with frin "•es of t e.u'i as ing as beans. A suuiii goto crown wtis under her head, ami her red flair throughout its multiplicity of curls, hlaz and with diamonds and emeralds Her foivhead was tall, her face l ng, her com plexion fair, her eyes small, dark and glit feting, her nose high and hooked, her lips ‘bin, her teeth black, her bosom vihitc and liberally exposed. As she passed through the ante-chamb r to tin* presence hall, sup plicants presented their petitions upon their knees. Wherever she glanced, all prostra ted themselves on tin* ground. The cry of “Long live Queen Elizabeth” was sponta neous and perpetual ; the reply, “f thank von, my good people,” was constant and cordial. fSin* spoke to various foreigners in their respective languages, being mis tress. besides the Lai in and Greek, of French, Spanish, Italian and German. As the commissioners were presented to her by Lord 13aeklmrsr, it was observed that she was perpetually gloving and ungloving, as it to attract attenth n to her hand, which was esteemed a wonder of beauty. She spoke French with purity and elegance, hut with a drawling, somewhat affected accent, saving, ‘"Paar mm foi ; paar le Bieeii vi vatif,” and so forth, in a style that was rid iculed by Parisians, as she sometimes, to her extreme annoyance, discovered.—Mot ley's History o/ the United Netherlands. Ingenuous Mode of Removing a r l eu magant Wife. —A Paris paper tIU the fallowing story of a “worthy gentleman,” who, having unfortunately married a ter magant, resolved to become a widowei, iii a way not to expose himself to the penal ties of tlie law: He owned a b atpiful country seat, situated on the hanks ot a de lightful river, to which his lady was very much attached,and which she visited every Sumlav morning. She had, tor this put- j pose, a charming lit'h* mule, with splendid trappings, and of which great care was ta ken. Fur three days previous to the lady s accustomed vi.-ir, the husband haddepiiv ed tile animal of all drink, so that it was almost famished. Sunday morning came, the ladv set out on her mule, accompanied by her husband, who was anxious to sec ; the sport. The poor beast sought tiiewa ter <m all sides, and had no sooner discov ered the river, than with the rapidity of lightning he started*off, and stopped not until he had plunged himself head and ears into the river. The bmk was steep, and the stream was b >tli rapid and deep at this point, and lady and mule were soon buried beneath the waves, dhe husband regretted the loss —<1 the mult hut rea- ; soned like a philosopher, that to accom plish one’s purpose, sacrifices must be made. Goon—The bachelor editor of the Os ceola (MO Valley Star recently drew a. mild thimble in a lottery, lie now ad ver- j Used for a fieger for tiw tbiaitifo. BE WILLING TO TAKE ADVICE. No man can adopt a better motto than this, and by adhering to it he will retain old friends, and make many new ones. No man so intelligent or s > judicious that he ‘can mark out a path for himself and hope to move on it with uniform success, with out sometimes making mistakes, which, if he dues not see, others will b** sure to n• - iice. A little well-meant advice, kindlv offered by a tried friend, tnav. if acted up on. avert much attention, and perhaps save from disgrace and failure. We know that advice is often unwel come sometimes unnecessary, aud not titi freqnentlv ill-timed ; but every reasonable person, it lie stops to think, will always be able to distinguish between the .advice of a real friend and that of an imperfinant med dler. The desire of many really able and well meaning men to go alone, to tier inde pendently, and arrive at the height of pros perity, very often results in complete fail ure. Their ft iends, who were willing to advise, could have pointed out the shoals and the quicksands iu their way, aud when they saw that they were rapidly approach ing them, were eager to raise a warning voice : hut the feeling that their well meant intentions would he unkindly or un gratefully received, have restrained them, and tlie catastrophe which might have been avoided soon overwhelms ihe too confident advent urer. If a man’s spirit is too lofty to allow him to listen to advice, lie should remember that few can afford, in this age of the world to disregard the kind interest taken iu them by those who have passed over the road before them, who have achieved a success which is a guaranty of their ability to ad vise those whose experience has been limi ted, and whose knowledge of many things entitles their opinions to respectful consid erations. The man who can safely and surely guide his business career in the race for fortune, unaided and alone is rarely found, especially if he is a young man.— Such a man would possess traits of char acter which in these days would entitle him to a position far above the majority of Id's fellows, and if such an individual could Ik* found he would he a curiosity indeed. \Ye do not say that men never have been successful, find never have attained high and honorable positions unaided, or without any resources except those which theirown abilities provided; hut tie in s’ances are rare, and the general rule is i hat a man must submit to be led before he can he allowed to go alone; in other words, he must be willing to receive advice, | and \a hi to the better judgment of his more experienced friends. Too many men fondly imagine that they are able to occu py and maintain a position in society which outsiders know that they are totally utifit t- and for, or at least that th**y will fail in t heir tit tempts to carry out their preten sions, unless they are villing to own that oiltets who have been longer on the stage, can leach them something, and impart such information as is absolutely essential, if they would not he driven out ot their position by always stand ready to a;tadi ihemsehufs to the car of fortune. Another t |fin;g tA be .remembered is, that men whose ad vice Is Won h anything seldom offer it unless they feel si real interest, in the welfire of him to whom they proff-rit, and the one advised would he blind indeed if lie could not receive it in the spirit with which it was extended. More that) one voting man of promise we have known to fail because lie carried his head high above those who would have been his friends, hut seldom have seen one who adopted tln* motto which we have placed at the head of this article, who did not in good time a chieve all the success he could desire, and who did not win the approbation and es teem of those whom any man would be glad to number among his friends. —Boston Ilera.d. FROM N< *RTH ‘CAROLINA. The Charlotte Bulletin says five thou sand volunteers, tree of expense to the State, have tendered their services to Gov. Ellis, for the common defense. Tm* Magistrates of Mecklenburg county, have tvs-dved to effect a loan of fitly thou sand dollars to defray the expenses of the volunteer companies of the county until they can he supplied by the State. Adjutant General Hoke, of that State, has issued orders that all companies of the State not in service, b * prepared to march at an hunt’s notice. He calls for 30,000 volunteers bv direction of tlie Governor. — He says —-‘Be in readiness to march at a day’s notice ; drill hv day arid night ; let the citizens equip their men ; some of your brothers are now in the field. The State has reason tube proud of the promptness with which they rallied at the call of your j Governor The decree for our subjugation his gone forth ; the time of our trial has come ; the blow will soon fall ; we must meet it with the whole energies of the | State ; we must show to the world that North Carolina will maintain her rights at all hazards.” Look out for Him ! — The author of the following, after taking a half gallon of so- j da-water, left yesterday for Pensacola via Mobile. It is hoped the brethren of the i press on his route will see that no harm be- | fall him, as he is a very impetuous man : Let Lincoln send his forces here ! Wo'll lick ’em like blue blazes; And send ’em yeaning back to whero They singnnaee? U ‘ . 1 k t praises. We whaled th^J$ r cusses out At Charleston ibe Dickens ; And, not to content with Sumfrr-ovis fare, They shan’t e’en have the Pickm-s •’ ]N- 0 IM<a. A FRENCH ENCAMPMENT AT BEI RUT. Beriut claims especial attention from its connection with the massacres ot Syria. Entering the bay we anchored am >ng a fleet of war vessels, mostly Tmks. with two or three French. A single British cor vette lay anchored a long way off in a saf er bay. The other vessels of the English fieet had been ordered to the Adriatic, in view ot the uncertainties of European pol itics. Thus, the French are left nearly alone in the defence or protection of Syria. 1 presume Napoleon does not regret nis advantage, and doubtless will make the most of it. lie occupies Syria, and you may depend upon it he will never leave.— You have been often informed that he has an army of a few thousand quartered in the vicinity of Beirut, and among the mountains of Lebanon. I had the pleas ure of visiting the French encampment a bout five or six miles from the city, con taining, { ter haps, four or five thousand ! French and Algerines. i 1 made the trip over a French road, in ! a French omnibus. This road is the be i ginning of the road to Damascus, and i means something more than an effort to I increase the locomotive privileges of the j residents of Beirut and Damascus. Very | recently, 1 am told by a gentleman long i resident in Palestine, Napoleon received a valuable present of a fortress in the Leba non mountains, from the wife of a deceas ed Pasha. Whatever may be the future of French occupancy, the past and present is to be accredited to the humane desire of the Emperor to suppress the horrible butcheries of the Druses. His own prompt actioh alone saved the unbutchered of Sy ria, and his forces must remain to insure their safety. But to return to the visit to the encampment. The roads lay amid mulberry groves and hedges of cactus. Cases for Turk and Frenchman here spring up along the way, and seem well patronized, notwithstanding they present little of the attractiveness of the cases of the Boulev ards of Paris. ‘file road was filled with French soldiers, Turkish soldiers, Algerines, Bedouins, horsemen, and footmen, donkeys find don keymen. camels and catnelmen, and women with various costumes Our French om nibus, with its team of mules and horses, and its black Nubian driver, added to the strange mingling of the European and the Oriental, the ancient and the modern, the stereotyped and the progressive. We stop pl'd iu front of a large French case close by the encampment. Here a large band were enlivening the gay scene with martial mu sic, Jitul the people of all nations were sip ping their c ffee and smoking their “Sul tana” or “Datakea.” The main portion of the French are encamped in “the Pities,” a fine growth of pine trees springing out of naked sands. Little if any arrangement is observable in placing of the tents. Tin* Frenchman, true to his taste, seeks to ornament even his camp, though, like* this, it be in a sand desert. Grass and dowers and running vines were growing around the tents, and spaces were laid out in curves and angles, and planted in vari ous flowers and verdme. Under French tasfs, even the desert blossoms as the mse. Tin* camp-fires were smouldering and the soldiers were sitting at their evening meal. Their table was the ground and their seats the ground, yet. they contrived by digging a trench around their table not to sit cross legged like the tmk. Most of the tents are small, and afford only tin indifferent shelter from the winter rains. Various trades necessary to ihe camp were carried <m. such as tailoring, harness-making, shoe-making, black-smithing, &c. The Algerine forces are encamped in the open field, beneath the piercing rays of a Syrian sun. Their horses are in like man ner tied out. and exposed to all changes of the weather. They were preparing their suppers at their scanty camp-fires, and it was amming to see two or three of these wild Algerines squatting over their pot or pan, smoking and chatting their Arabic, while every eye was fixed on the meat anil potatoes which they were extemporizing into food. Their dress is similar to that, of the Bedouin, but their eyes are keener and their apuearance, I thought, more spright ly. A Hungarian general remarked to me that I had seen the “highest perfection of military encampment this is a real army encampment, not the showy demonstration of annual parades, and I am satisfied that many a young military aspirants would be thoroughly cured by a couple of months’ confinement here. — Letters f rom Lev. Hr. Bay l ies. Lieut. Slemmer as seen by an Offi cer of the Wyandotte. —The Pottsville Journal of last week publishes a private letter from an officer on board the United States steamer Wyandotte, now in Pensa cola B;i}, dated April 2d, in which the following paragraph occurs: The force down here consists of the fri gate Sabine, 60 guns ; steam-sloop Brook lyn, 22 guns ; sloop St. Louis, 20 guns, and last and least in size, but boiling over with spunk and grit, the Wyandotte, 6 guns. Fort Pickens is a very strong bastioned fort, and very advantageously situated.— The garrison can repulse seventy times their numbers. Lieut. Slemmer is one of tlie kind ot men that would wrap himself up in the American flag, and, if necessary blow the whole thing to atoms. He does not look like a very extraordinary iimn, he is small and insiguiticant looking; but: fie says fie will a t-feiag, you aeay Editor and “Proprietor Volume Namier ii bet your “entire pile” he will. I never saw h man in my life that could equal him iu coolness. Amidst all the excitement he in unconcerned looking as if he had noth ing to worry him iu the world. NO one who has evt-r had any experi ence in the troubles and trials (to say noth ing of the bud debts) of publishing a news paper, will hardly fail to recognize the truth ot the following extract, which we take from a late number of the Warren-ton (Va ) Ftug. Me n will plead poverty as an excuse tor not supporting their home papers who : squander away in an hour twice the price | of a year’s subscription and th n cheat, the j printer by borrowing their neighbor's pa* | per. An habitual newspaper-borrower is j the very quintessence of meanness : “Reader, there is not an honest mis anywhere, (who has his health,)|we car# not how poor he may be, who is uot able to take and pay for a newspaper, and yet nol miss the amount expended thereof. One half, yes, four-fifths of you, absolutely throw away . in the three articles of liquor, | cigars and tobacco alone, more than thru.# that amount. Wo say this with no iuten tion to cast reflections upon any,but mere ly assert the fact for the sake of argument, and to bring it plainly before your minds. Just pause for a moment, and think of it. Which is intrinsically of most value to you? : The liquor you drink, the cigars you smoke, the tobacco you chew, or the paper you take in your family, which gives you th# news of the day, improves and elevates the minds of your children, and makes them I acquainted with the workings and minutuo j of the government under which they live ? This question, surely, will not be found difficult for any person to answer. But there are those who would say, tlw j paper is no account—there is notiiing in it ! —it is not interesting enough, and there fore not worth the money. Os such we would inquire, whose fault is this ? Do j you lay the charge to us ? then w’e cast it buck upon you. It is you who are respon sible for the lack of interest iu your county paper, not the editor—for how can you ex pect him to furnish you with such a paper as yon would wish, when you manifest no disnosition to encourage him in any shape or form ? Cun you expect him to present >ou with a more readable sheet and devote all his energies to the work, when duns are coming in upon him and he is pressed down by pecuniary embarrassment ? And all, too, because he is not supported as heshould he by his county people. What has he to hope for or to stimulate him to the full and earnest discharge of hi* various duties, when appeal after appeal has been made iu vain ? Sustain him liberally and pay him up promptly , and so far as we are concern ed, you shall have a much better paper than we have up to this time been üblo to pre sent you.” Georgia Cannon. —We paid a visit on Wednesday afternoon, to the foundry of Mr. A. N. Miller, where we saw what wt? believe is the first gun ever cast in our State. Tin* piece is a tw*nty-four pound howitzer, and weighs 1700 pounds. It is beautifully modeled and highly finished, and is pronounced*by military men a very superior piece of workmanship in every re spect. The iron ot which it is cast, is what is called the “round mountain brand/’ and comes from the mines near Rome, Ge. It is of remarkable fineness, hears a high polish, and is nearly as male able as wrought iron. This gun is the fit st of six of the same class which Mr. Miller is engaged to furnish the State. It is to be thoroughly tested by the inspector of Ord nance. Mr. Miller is engaged in casting balls arid shell, for which he has a contract for G.OOO of various sizes, for South Carolina; he has also an unlimited order for balls and shells from our own Si ate. He is enlarg ing his works and building a large air fur nace which will enable him to cast Colum hiads of the largest calibre.— Savannah News. Impaired Powers of Attention.—l cannot close my eyes to a fact so often no ticed by myself, as well as by others whose observation have been directed to the sub ject, that a debilitated power of attention is a prominent symptom in the early stag® of cerebral disorder. I have known cases of incipient brain diseases in which patients have, previously to the manifestation of other symptoms, lost all ability to read continuously twenty lines of a printed book without a strong and painful effort of thought. This state of mind has continu ed for months, necessitating the abandon ment of all intellectual work ,and has been succeeded by obvious symptoms of organic cerebral disease, loss of memory, and even has passed eventually into mental imbecili ty. If au impairment of attention and de bility of memory exist, it is illusory for the patient to imagine that he is able (until his physical condition of ill-health is attended to) by repeated and persevering efforts to resuscitate the lost powers. In his attempt to do so he still further taxes the morbidly impaired state of these faculties, and, in stead of invigorating, prostrates, debilitates and often, alas ! extinguishes the intelli gence.—Diseases of the Brain andMind. The Insatiableness of Man— Give a man the necessaries of life, and he wants the conveniences. Give him the cenveni ence6. and he craves for the luxuries.— Grant him the luxuries, and he sighs for the elegancies. Let him have the elegan cies, and he j earns for the follies. Givw him altogether and he complains that he has been cheated loth in price and quality of the article^