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Newspaper Page Texta * B O V ii ll A’ O X X TVISCET EDITORS. ■OUGHTON. NISBF.T AND BARNES, PaorRIETOBS asd Pubi.i5hf.hr. TEBS1S. JCfje JFcUeral 33nfcn It published weekly, in the Darien Bank Bidding; at TWO DOLLARS per Annum, pay ib!e in advance, TWO DOLLARS AND FIF I \ CENTS if uvt paid within thru months, and Threb Dollars if not paid In foie ihe end of lie \eai No R'.ibacription will be received for less than a year, nor will any paperOe discontinued until all arrearages are paitl. i tie paper will not be sentlo any person ontol ihe State, until the subscription money is paid in advance, or satisfactory reference given. Vovertiskhests conspicuously inserted atthe uaiinl rates. Those sent without a specification of ,|,e number of insertions, will he published until ordered out, and charged accordingly. stales of land and negroes, by Administrators, F.xecutor*. or Guardians, are required by law to be held on the First Tuesday in the month between ,be hours of ten in the forenoon and three in the afternoon, at the Court-House in the County in which the property is situated. Notice of these sales must be given in a public gazette roar? days previous to the day of sale. 6 Notices for the sale of personal property must be given in like manner, forty days previous to the day of sale. Notices to the debtors and creditors or anestate must also be published forty days. Notice that application will he made to the Court a f Ordinary, for leave to sell Land or Negroes must be published for tiro months. Citations for letlpis of Administration must be published thirty oats-lor dismission fioui Ad ministration. monthly six months—for dismissioi from Guardianship, forty days Rci.es for foreclosure of mortgage must be pub- |i*hed monthly for four months—for establishing lost p ipers, for the full space of three mouths—for com- nelling titles from Executors or Administrators, vhere" bond has been given by the deceased, the u ll space of three months. Publications will always be continurd acre rding to these, tho legal requirements, unless otherwise ordered. \|1 business of this kind will rereive proniptat tention at the Federal Union Officf. Letters on business must lie tost paid tr en- ( ,il,. them to attention. BUSINESS CARDS. S Vv X Vv J ♦ merit VOL. XXIV.] .VIILLEDGEYILLE GEORGIA, Jl .YE 21, 1833 If*. 3. FINDLAY’S IRON WORKS, ^larou, (ieorgiH. ^MTF.AM ENGINES and Boilers. Machinery for Saw Mills of everv description. Iron and Brass Castings, Millstones. &c Ac R. FINDLAY, Proprietor. May 17, 1853 50 ly M city hotel, BA Y ST REET, Savannah, P. CONDON it J. B. FOLEY. Proprietors. Terms. .51 50 Per Day. Urisurpas>ed in localion, for gentlemen either on bu siness or pleasure The apartments ailotled to ladies and families, have undergone an en ire change, and now have a private entrance to the Dinner Room, thus securing thpir occupant* from intrusion from oth er parts of the building affording all the privaces of home. ’53 50 ly ilfflL FREEMAN A BENSON MamisjF&ofc:?airs ®±F ,Vo 12 Cotton, mlrenue, tlacon, Ga. MaF.DIHN ? Parlies and Families furnished \f'I wlt'i plain and ornamenlal (bikes at short notice mid on reasonable terms, for cash. CI1AS. H- FKF.KMAN. RICH’d A- BENSON May 17 1853. 50Jy F. H. PLATT, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Tioupville, Lowndes County, Ga. June, 7, 1853. 1 ly J. B. CAJIP, attorney at law, CampbelltoN, Ga. llL?iU\ ULSBUICH ATTORNEY AT LAW, JACKSON. BUTTS Co Ga. J. W, HILLHH, ((Corner St. Julian St. anil Market Syr.J 42 ly SAVANNAH. GA. 'CHAS. G. CAMPBELL, Attorney at l*aw, MILLEDGEV1LLE, GA. Office next door above Masonic Hall. vts*/ ILL attend promptly to all business entrusted NT/ to his care. Particular attention paid to col lecting. Vliliedgeville. Ft- •22.1853 38—tl J. S. BOl'NTON, JHUhih'N at Law, MONTICELLO, GEO., MT9II.L ntadtice in the Ocnmlgee Circuit, and g'ff in Jackson and McDonough ol the Flint Circuit. „„ , Jan. 18. 1853 33~ly _ W >1. A. LOFTON, ATTORNEY AT LAW, MONTICELLO. Ga January 25 1853. 24 ly 113L.TON «V WALKER, FACTO lx S AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS No. 71, flay Sued. SAVANNAH. Ga. Tf.sl>f.r their services to then fnendsand the pub lie generally. in the sale of COTTON and other Pro duce. and in tilling Orders for Bagging. Hope and oth er supplies They will give their Strict Personal Attention to all BUSINESS that may be omii.il- ti d to their care—and no pains will be spared to give general satisfaction K L. Fui-tos. J H. Waleer. Savannah. Oct. 4.1852. 18 if J D. Brown Thus. Griffin. BROWN A OBIFFIN, Attorm-ys at Law ami Ueueral Laud Agents. AUSTIN CITY. TIXAS. NOT I 4 E. I hf. undersigned has removed his Office to fit lOMS over Childs St Cham berlain's Jewelry More where lie will be pleased to receive the calls of all who may require his services, as he is now fullv prepared to perlnrm all operations upon the most apprtved and skillful man ner. Terms cash or paid when called for J. B. MLit 1*11 V, 46—ly Surgeon Dentist. VARIETY STOVE WAREHOUSE! BARTLETT BENT, JR„ MANUFACTURER 4 DEALER IN THE MO.-T APPROVED STOVES, RANGES. Farmers' Boilers. Ship Cabooses, Gas Ovens. Charcoal and Har.iroal turnaccs. Orcr. Fronts. Sfc IKON CASTINGS GENERALLY. 23S Water Street, New York May 3. 1853. 48—3m FAIRBANKS’ PLATFORM SCALES. L ONG Ki\i >VVN—Severely tested; Always ri^ht; The Acknowlecf^ed Standard Railroad. Hay. Coal, and Farmers’ SCALF.S.set in any part of the country, at short notice. Ag'nts— Phii.bkick A* Bri l. Savannah. Georgia. Faihbanks A Co , t'y Water Street. New York. May 3. lo53. 4«—3m SADDLERS AND COACH MAKERS GOODS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. TIIOMA* MACKENZIE & SONS, No 222. Baltimore Street. BALTIMORE. I M POKTF.RS and Dealers in Sadillert;. Hardware, J and Coach Goods—offer to Southern Dealers goods in 'heir line surh as Stirrups. Bridle Bits. Kogskins. Buckskins. Buckles ol all sorts, Web’s patent Leath er, Axles. Springs, bent Fellows. Shafts. Castings, of all sorts: Tacks Saddlers sewing Silk. Serges, patent Canvass. Cloths Oil and Brussel*: 4’a rpel in;;, Carriage Bolts and Screws, ol all sizes In short, ev ery thing needed by a Saddler. Couch Maker, and Harness Makers. Being direct Importers, with ample means, we can nflVr to Southern buyers as good GOODS, at as low prices, and on us good term-. to punctual customers, as any other similar House in the l nited States. Or ders promptlv attended to. TRY US. and address THOMAS MACKENZIE & SONS. 222 Baltimore Street, Baltimore. April 26. 1853. 47—3m FlTskets AND CARPETS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION, FOR SALE BY GREEN WAY. BROTHER* Co.. IS Barclay Street and 24 Park Place, New York. April 26, 1^53 47—3in Savannah Grocery Establishment- H. 3. SOLOHOSS, G ENERAL Dealer, in all descriptions of (i KO CF.RIES. WINKS, LIQUORS, &c [.4// Ordas will meet with prompt attention.] 157 Broughton Sr Next to N B &. H Weed Savannah. April 19. 1853 46—ly BOY’S "CLOTHING DEPOT! rp H K. subscribers have the most extensive and va- X ried as-ortment of CLOTHING for BOYS from 4 to 16. ever offered for sale in the Union. Orders lor Gentlemen’s Clothing filled at the shortest notice.— Person* purchasing Clothing at this Establishment, have the privilege oft-hanging them if they do not suit. F- A HOYT At Bio, s w c or. ol Chestnut and IClh Sts . 45—ly PHILADELPHIA LAW! LAW!! LAW!!! NALYfIS and Forms, by Howell Cobb. Georgia Reporis, “ T. R. R. Cobb, Kelley’s Reports, Hotchkiss do School and Miscellaneous Books. For sale by E- J WHITE. Milledgeville. April 5, 1853. 44—ly A' Fl/Olb? Ms<3@21 9 IlOUI^K T. A. GOODWI N. Propkietoh. A. B.HARTWELL, Superintendent. This well known and popular Hotel has been thoroughly re paired, and is now open, and superbly furnished for the reception of Boakders and the Travelling Community The Proprietor and hi* Assistants will spare no |>ains to make this House one of the best Hotels in the Stale. A B HARI VVELL. H C. CUNNINGHAM, and S LANIER will he happy to receive and wel come ilieir old friends and acquaintances, and will "IT 7 ILL attend to ihe collection ol claims against use their utmost efforts to make them comfortable \ V the stale of Texas lor land and money Also dlirm „ ,heir slay, being well acquainted with the public domain of the Macon. August 24. 1852. 12 tf Stale, they w,I!locate laud certificates, and have the land surveyed and patent, d One of the firm will al ways be tuiind at their office in All-tin. Undersigned, resident at Milledgeville, j having funned, for the purposes ot such an j Ag.-ncv. a temporary connection with ihe above lirrn j will give any mlormation, and prepare and t.irward all papers necessary for the periechon of claims, i All persons desirous ol engag ng their se, vices are , requested io call upon him. CHAS. G CAMPBELL, Alt y at Law. Milledgeville. April 26. lrs->3 47 \ aiLANIF.K HOUSE. IMSM. u renv GA. MACON. ALEX. SCOTT. Macon, April 12. 1833. WM DIBBLE. 45—iy FIRE PROOF WARE-NOUSE- THE undersigned having a-sociated .Mr. Ovid G. Sparks with him m business— continues to transact the Warehouse anti Commission Business. Under the name and style of HARDEMAN & SPARKS. Their undivided attention will be given to all business committed to their charge. The long experience of the undersigned a* a cotton seller, ad ded to his desire to please as w ell as to faithfully serve those who may Patronize the new firm gives to him Ihe hope that Ihe liberal patronage heretofore given to Hardeman & Hamilton, will be continued lo Har deman St Sparks. They will risk nothing, either in purchasing or by advancing on t ottou, as they have determined lo confine themselves to business with Planters, and to them I literal advances will he made on Cotton in store Family Supplies with Bagging arid Hope, will l,e furnished ourlriends at the lowest Macon prices THO>. HARDEMAN. 11—ly. LAM) FOR SALE. THE following Lots of Laud, to-vvit: No 71. IOih dist originally Early now Baker, - 412. 71h “ •• Appling, •• 145, 4th “ W. B. W. DENT. Newnan, Coweta county. Ga. October 19. 1852 2ft—tf FOR SALE. 200,000 lbs prime Bacon. 20ft Bis. Lard, lftft do App'es. REYNOLDS & LOFTON, Commission Merchants, Atlanta. Ga., 1853 41—ly prices August 17. 1852. .JULIES K. T K E BSC H & Co-, 2CC” HEAZ1SS. RESPECTFULLY inform the Gentle* men of Milledgeville and vicinity, that they have tak* n the Shop lately occupied hy Mr. Reinhart and are now prepared to Man- u fact me BOOTS in the must fashionable style, of the best materials, and wairant a good fit A liberal patronage is solic ited Work executed witt, dispatch. RF.P.VR1NG of all kinds done up at short notice. Just give us a trial, and vve feel con fident of your patronage AUCTION AND (D®Esmm£g5£®3H IBscsmssso By JOHN L. HIXSON, (late oi Rome Ga.) a WILL sell regularly everv Thursday and Satur day at 11 o’clock A M.. and also on Wednesday and Friday at night, in connection with my Auction Business. 1 have l iken charge of the large and com modious Brick Ware House near the Depot, w here all kinds of Produce can be stowed with perfect safety, as it is secure Irom lire. I will attend to fill ing all orders for produce at the lowest Market prices, and keep my friends posted in regard to the market, at all limes,'if desired. Your patronage is kindly so licited. Market st. Chattanooga. Tenn., ft ay 7. 1353. 49 tf notice. UrnHE Subscriber at Milledgeville Georgia, offer* ^ for Sale the following LOW COUNTRY LANDS TO-WIT •- Grocery Store ) Milledgeville May 10, 1853. 49—ly One third of “ •• 280, I4th “ rlo do ** “ 104. 1st ’ Raker do «* “ 80. 10tn “ do do “ “ 92. 6th * Dooly do •* “ 221 I4llt 4 do do One third of “ “ 168. 13th ’ do do ** “ 275 27th • F.arly do “ 70. KHb ‘ Clinch do “ 54. 4th • Randolph do ALLEN’S Ax\ uumfiHT, F.. J Will I F. -Milledgeville. Ga . has just receive a lot nf Allen s Indian Liniment—hi the relief an ! core of Rheumatism. Sprains, ljum-ress. Stiffness Joints. Soreness ol uiu*cte* Bams Scalds A c. Thi* preparation, is superior to any Liniment known. Prepared by 8 J Dickinson, Albany Ga.. and sold by nearly all Druggists and Merchants iii this and Ihe adjoining Slates. Price 50 cents per bottle. 10—ly May 2d, 1853. JAMES S. GHOLSTON 48—O in HOUSE AND SIGN PAINTIN6. W. J. LEWIS respectfully announces to the citizens of Milledgerillc and vicinity j that he is now prepamd to do HOU8E and -w- SIGN PAINTING. GILDING. BRONZING. GLAZING and VARNISHING, on the most rea snnable Terms ( Country orders promptly attended ter) Milledgeville, March 29, 1853. 43—3m POETRY. A PETITION TO TIME. BY HARRY CORNWtIL. Touch us gently. Time! Let us glide adewn thy stream Gently—as we soiiietnm s glide Through a quiet dream! Humble voyagers are we— Husband, wife. an3 children three! (One is lost—an angel fled Ta the azure overhead.'} Touch ns gentlv. Time! We’ve not proud tor soaring wings, • Our ambition, our content. Lie* in simple things. Humble voyagers are vve. O’er Life’s dim. unsounded sea, Se.eking only some calm dime; Touch us gently, gentle Time. M1SCE L LAN EG U S. A THRILLING SCENE. BY CHAS. RAND. The fiillowiti{> natraiive—a true one— desciibes a scene that actually took place, not many years since, in a country town in the State of Maine: One evening in the month of December, 1834. a number oftownsmen had assembled in the store of Mr. Thomas Putnam, to talk over ’‘matters and things”—smoke—drink — and, in short, to do anything to “kill time.” Thiee hours had thus passed away. They had laughed, and talked, and drank, and chatted, and had a good time generally, so that about the usual hours of shutting up shop, each of the party fell ‘•pattieularly fit st rate." onto,” su'd Chat lea Hutch—one of the company—“let's all liijn 'r, and thdn have a game "1 high, low, Jack!” •'So l sHy,” exclaimed another, “who’s got the cauls'?” “Fetch on your keerds,” drawled out a third, his eyes half closed through the effects of the tiuuor ite had drank. After drinking all round, an old pine table was drawn up before the fire place, where burned brightly a large pile of hem lock logs, which would snap and crackle— thniwing large live coals out upon the hearth. All drew round the table, seating them selves on whatever came handiest. Four of them had rolled up to the table some kegs, which, from their weight, were sup* posed to contain nails. “Now,” -aid Hatch, “how shall we play —every one lor himself?” “No—have partners," growled one man. “I say every one for himself,” exclaimed another. “No, hang’d if I’ll play so,” shouted the former, bringing his fist down upon the table, knocking one candle out of the stick, and another upon the floor. “Come, come,” said Hatch, “no quarrell ing— all who say for partners, stand up.” Three arose. “Now, all who say each one for himself, stand up.’’ The remaining four immediately got up. “Y"U see Barclaysaid Hatch, “the majority aie against you. Come, will you play?” “Well, as I don’t want to be on the op posite side, I’ll play,” answered Barclay, somewhat cooled down. Mr. Putnam, who was not in the store that evening, and the clerks, who were very buisy behind the counter, hud taken very little notice of the proceedings. About half-past ten, Mr. Pu'nam thought he would Mep over to his store and see that every thing was safe. As tie went i . he walked up towards tFie fire. When within a few steps of wheiethe men wete sitting, he staited hack in hi'trur. Before him sat seven men half crazy with drink and the excitement of playing at cauls. There they were within a few feel ot rhe fire ju*t desciihed—and four of them seated on kegs of powder > Barclay — who was a very heavy man— had pressed in the head of the keg "ti which he sat,‘bursting ihe "p hoop and pressing ihe powder out thioUidi the chinks By the continued morion of ilieir feet the powder had become spread about the floor, and now covered a space of two feet all round them. Mr. Putnam’s first movement was to wards the door, hu r recovering himself, he walked up towards the fire. Should either of them attempt lo rise--he thought, anil scatter a few giainsa little further iniothe fire place wheie lay a quantity of live coals! At this moment Hatch looked up. and seeing Mr. Putnam, with his face deadly pale, gazing iniothe fire, exclain ed— “Why, Puinarr. what ails you,” and at the same time made a motion to rise. “For heaven’s sake gentlemen, do not rise,” said Mr. Putnam. “Four of you sit on kegs of powder, it is scattered all round you—one movement might Bend you all to eternity. There are two buckets of water behind the bar. But, keep your seats for one minute, and you are saved—move, and you ate dead men!” In an instant every man was perfectly sobeied, not a limb moved—each seeemed paralyzed. In less time than we have taken lo des cribe this thrilling scene, Mr. Putnam had pouted the water, and completely saturated the powder on th« floor, and extinguished the fire, so that an explosion was impossi ble. Then, and not till then, was there a word spoken! ed digits; to find everything in your trunk but your niaht-cap; to creep between pol ished linen sheet9; on a congealed mattress. and listen to the chattering of your own teeth, until daylight. It is to talk at a mark, twelve hours on the stretch; to eat and drink ali sorts of things which disagree with you; to get up sham fit9 of enthusiasm, at trifles; to learn to yawn circumspectly, behind your finger tips. to praise a *p".led child when you feel like ringing itsneck, to avoid all allusion to topics unsuited to your pro. tern latitude: to have somebody forever at your nervous elbow, trying to make you “enjoy yourself, to laugh when you waul to cry, ro he loqua cious when you had rather be taciturn, to have mind and body in unyielding harness, for lingering, consecutive weeks, and then to invite your friends, with a hypocritical smile, to play the same farce over with you, “wheuevt t business or plea-ure calls them” to Ftogtown. Fanny Fern. GEORGE WILSON. A few years s rice, as Mr. Gallaudet was | walking in the streetsoF Hartford, there came riming to him a poor boy, of very or. dinary firs'.sig'it appearance, hut whose fine intelligent eve fixed the gentleman’s atten lion, as the boy inquired. “Sir, can you tell me "f a man who would like a hoy to work for him, and learn to read?’, “Whose boy are you. and where do you live? ”1 have no parents.” was the reply, “and have just run away from the workhouse because tliev would not reach me to read.” The gerillem-m made arrangements with rhe authorities of tile town, and took the boy int" his own family There he learned to read Nor was this all. He soon acquired ihe confidence of his new associates, by his faithfulness and honesty. He was allowed ■ tie use of his friend’s library, and made rapid progess in the acquisition of knowle dge. It became neee»sary, after a wnile, that George -hould leave Mr. Galludet.and he became apprenticed to a cabinetmaker in the neighborhood.—There the same in tegrity won for him the favor of his new as sociates. T<> gratify his inclination for study, his mister had a little room fitted for him in the upper part of the shop, where he devoted his leisure lime to his favorite pur- ' suits. Hete he made large attainments in mathematics, in the French language and other branches. Afier being in this situation a few years, as he sat at tea with the family one evening, he all at once remat ked that he wanted to go to Franee. “Go to France!” said his master, sur prised that the apparently contented and happy youth had become suddenly dissatis fied with his siruati m — “for what?” “A-k Mr. Gallaudet to tea, to-morrow evening.” continued George, “and I will explain ” His kind friend was invited accordingly, and al tea time the apprentice presented himself with his manuscripts, in English j and French, and explained hi* singular in tention to go to Fiance. “In the time of Napoleon,” said he, “a i prize was offered hy the French Govern- ! ment for the simplest rule for measuring plain surfaces, of whatever outline. The ' nrize has never been awarded, and that' method I have discovered,” He then demonsi'ated his problem, to the ! “Utprt-e anil gratification of his friends, | who immediately fnnished him with the I means <*f defraying his expenses, and with ! I letter* of introduc'i"ti to the Hon. Le *is 1 | Css*, then our minister to the Court of] France. He was introduced to Louis Phil- ] ippe, and iu the presence of rhat King, I nobles, and plenipotentiaries, this American j youth demonstrated his problem, and re- ] r eived the plaudits of the Court. He re> j ceixed the prize, which he had clearly won, | besides valuable presents from the King. He then took le'ters of in'roductiotr, and proceeded to the Court of.St. James, and j took up a similar prize, offered by the R >y- al Society, and returned to the United States. Here he "as preparing to secure the l>enefi' of it bv patent, when he received a lettpr from the Emperor Nicholas himself, one of whose ministers had wiinesseil his demonstrations at London, inviting him to make his residence at the Russian Court, and furnishing him ample means for his out- outfit. He complied with the invitation, repair ed to St. Pe'ersburg, and is now Professor of Vlathema'ics iii the Royal College, under the special urotecti mi of the Autocrat of all the Russia*. The Delights of Visiting —What is it to go away oil a visit? Well, it is to take leave of the little velvet rocking-chair, which ad justs itself so nicely to your shoulders and spinal column, to cram, jam, squeeze, and otherwise empress vour personal effects into an infir.itessimal compass; to he shook, jolted, and tossed, hy turns, in carnage, railroad car and steamboat; to be deafened with the stentorian lungs of cab-drivers dray-men and potter, to clutch your bag gage B9 ifevety face you saw was a high way man: (or to find yourself transported with rage, finding it transported by steam to Greenland or Cape Horn) It is to reach your friend’s house, travel stained, cold and weary, with an unbecoming crook in youi bonnet, to be utterly unable to get the frost out of your tongue, or ’ the beam out nf your eye," and lo have the felicity of hearing some strange guest remark to your friend as you say an eaily good night, “Is it possi ble that is your friend, Miss Grey?” It is to be ushered into the “best cham ber,” (always a north oue,(r»fa cddJaiiu- ary oigbt; to unhook your dress with stiffen- A WONDERFUL BONE. [In a sm.il! wink on “The Intellectual and Moral Development of the Present Age.” hy Mr. S-unuel Warien, Rec >rJer of Hull, (Blackwood & Sons.) the author touches on the subject of Comparative An atomy, and the pitch to which a study of it has been carried in this country. We gladly make loom for the following pass- ages.] j The incident which I am about to men- j lion exhibits the result of an immense in- j duction of patticulais in shis noble science, and hears no faint analogy to the magnifi- ! cent astronomical calculation, or prediction. I whichever one my call it, presently to be laid before you. Let it Ire premised, that Cuvier, the late illus'rious French physiol ogist and comparative anatomist, had said, that in order to deduce from a single fiag- ment ot its structure the entire animal.it was necessary to have a tooth, or an entire articulated extremity. In his time; the comparison was limited to the external on - figuration of the bore. The study of the internal structure had not proceeded so far. In tne year 1S39, Professor Owen was sit ting alone in his study, when a shahhily- dteased man made his appearance, announc ing that he had got a great curiosity which he had brought from New Zealand, and wished to dispo-e of it to him. Any one in London can now see the article in ques tion, for u is deposited in the Museum of the College «>f Sutgeons, in Lincoln’s Inn Fields. It has the appearance of an old marrow-hone, about six inches in length rather more than two inches in thickness, with both extremities broken off] and Profess or Owen considered, that to whatever ani mal it might have belonged, the fragment inu*t have lain in the earth for centuries. At first, he considered this same marrow bone to have belonged to an i»x—at all e- venls to a quadruped; for the wall or rim of the hone was six times as thick as the bone of any bird, even the ostrich. He compar ed it with the hones in the skeleton of an ox, horse, a camel, a tapir, and every quad ruped apparently possessing a hone of that size and configuration: but it corresponded j with none. On this, he vety narrowly ex- j amined the sut face of the bony rim, and, at I length, became satisfied that this monstrous ] fragment must have belonged to a bird! to | one at least so iaige as an ostrich, hut of a ■ totally different species; and, consequently, I one never before heard of, as an ostrich was I by far the biggest bird known. From the difference in the strength of the | hone, the ostrich being unable to fly, so . must have been unable this unknown bird; j and so our anatomist came to the cotiofu ! sion that this old, shapeless bone indicated i the former existence, in New Zealand, of [ some large bird, at least as great as an os- j trich, but of a far heavier and more sluggish . kind. Professor Owen was confident of the validity of Ids c Delusions, but could com municate that confidence lo no else; and nut- withstanding attempts to dissuade him fiom committing his views to the public, he prist ted his deductions in the Transactions of the Zoological Society, for the year 1839. where, fortunately, they remain on recotd, as conclusive evidence of the fact of hi* hev- • ng then made this guess, so to speak, in the dark. He caused the bone, however, to be engraved; and having sent one bun dled copies to New Zealand in the hopes of their being distributed, and leading to in teresting results, he patiently waited for three years, namely, till the year 1843, when he received intelligence from Dr. Bucklaitd at .Oxford, that a great b<>x, just airivedfrom New Zealand, consigned to himself, was on its way, unopened, to Pro fessor Owen; who found it filled with bones, palpably, of a bird, one of which was three feet in length and much more, than double the size of atry hone in the ostrich! And out of the contents of this box the Profess or was positively enabled to articulate al most the entire skeleton of a huge wingless bird, between ten and eleven feet in height, its bony structure in strict conformity with the fragment in question; and that skeleton may at any time be seen al the Museum of the College of Surgeons towering over, and nearly twice the height of the skeletou of an ostrich; anti at its feet is lying the old hone, from which alone consummate ana tomical science had deduced such an as tounding reality, the existence of an enor mous extinct creature of the bird kind.in an island where previously no bird had been kuown to exist larger than a pheasant or a common fowl!. WASHINGTON AND JACKSON. Mr Bancroft, the historian, relates the following hnecdote of the Father of his Country: “Once, while in New Jersey, coming out to mount his horse, he found a child be side if, attracted by the trappings. He placed the child upon the horse’s back, and led it around the yard, with its youlhfuljoy- atree It was to Washington's honor, that although Heaven did nut bless him with off spring he had a heart to love children, and take them to his bosom. Mr. Hildreth, with equal justice and pro prtefy, rela'es an interesting anecdote of the revered Jackson, the man whose iron will prompted him to ‘take the responsibility,’ when duty called him to do it, and before whose inflexible determination all obstacles surmountable by human effort were forced to give way. After the battle of rhe Great Horse Shoe in which nearlv a thousand Indians wete kibed. and two hundred and fifty prisoners were taken, all women and children, the men having been exterminated, the follow ing incident occurred: Thegrirn getter-1 who presided over the bloody scene, which seemed to carry us back to the early In lian wars of New Eng land. had still a tender spot in his heart.— Moved by the wailofau Indian infant, pick ed up from the field, whose mother had per ished during the battle, Jackson strove to induce some nursing women among the prisoners to suckle it: ’Its mother is dead,’ was the cold answer ’let the child die too.’ The General himself, a childless man, turned nurse himself. Some brown sugar formed a part of nis private stores, and with this he caused he child to be fed. He even took iihome with him and reared it up in his own family. The re-p iblication of the above has re mind'-'! us of an account given us, some years since, by a highly respectable gentle man, who was present with others when Getiernl Jackson was the occupant of the presidential mansion at Washington. When breakfast was announced, the venerable pa triot, with his guests, entered the room at one door, when Mis. Donaldson and her two children entered another at an opposite end. Immediately on seeing him they ran to him to receive the morning kiss. Ex tending his arms, ami bending his yet grace ful form, he caught up first one. and then another, caressing them with all the fondness of a doting parent. They returned to their mother, and all were soon seated at the ta ble. Bowing his head, with the humility of a dependant supplicant^ conscious of the rectitude of his intentions, and yet feeling the need of a higher Wisdom than his own to enlighten and direct the judgement, he devuutedly invoked the blessings of God. The scene was deeply effecting, and drew tears from eyes unused to weeping. Such was Andrew Jackson at Home. When called upon to defend his country, on the battle field, or to preside over her councils, in seasons of petit, lie was decided, resolute end irresistahle. His mind, wonderfully in tuitive, comprehending at n giaoce that which those of inferior intellectual poweia could only reach and comprehend by a la borious investigation, was 'a law unto itself.’ He was accused of rashness, when he should have been praised for superior wisdom.— But, while in manners he was the accom plished gentleman, his true manhood was most conspicuously displayed in the sphere nf the social and domestic affections,— While embalmed in the admiration of his friends, he will be immortalized by the blind vindictiveness of his enemies. CUMING HOME. Glad words! Tne waters dash upon the prow of the gallant vessel. Site stands on the deck, and the winda woo her ringlets as she looks anxiously fur her headlands at home. In thought there are watro kisses on her lips, soft hands on her temples. Many arms press iter to a throbbing heart, and one voice sweeter than all the rest whispers, *My child!* Co ning home! Full to bursting in Iter heart, and she seeks the cabin to give her joy vent in blessed tears. Coming home! The best room is set a- part fur his chamber. Again and again have loving hands folded away the curtain, and shook out the snowy drapery. The vase* are filled every day with, fresh flow ers; aud, each evening tretnuIou9, loving voices whisper, “He will be here to-mor row, perhaps.” Ar-each meal the table is sptead with scrupulous care. The nuwly emhtoidei-.-d slippers, the rich dressing gown, the study cap that he will like so well, ate all ptepared to meet his eye. This student brother! He could leap the walera and fly like a bird home. Though he has seen all the splendor of the olden clime,therp,is hut one spot that fills his heart, and that spot he will soon reach, “Sweet H*>me,” Coming home! What sees the sun brown ed sailor on the darkling waters? He smiles! There are pictures there of a blue-eyed babe and its mo'her. He knows that even now his young wife sings the sweet cradle s<>ng: “For I know that the angels will bring him to me. He sees her watching from her cottage door, he feels the beat of her heart in the pulteofhi* own. when a familiar foot-fall touches only the threshold of memory. The Bronzed sailor loves his home, as an eagle whose v/ings seek oftenest the track of the air hoes best his mountain eyre. His treasures ate there. Coming home! Sadly the worn Califor nian folds his arms and sinks hack on his fevered pillow. What to him is yellow gold? Oh, for one smile <>f kindred. But that may not be. Lightly they tread hy his bedside, watch the dim eye, moisten the parched lips. A pleasant face bends over him—a rough palm gently pushes back the moist hair, and a familiar voice whispers, “Cheer up, my friend, we are in port, you are going home.” The film falls from the sick man’s eyes. Home, is it near? Can he be most there? A thrill sends the blood circling through his limbs—what! shall he see these dear ones before the night of darkness settles down forever? Will his babes fold their arms about him and press their cherry lips to his? What wonder if new vigor gathers in that manly chest? He teel9 strength in every nerve, strength to reach home, strength to bear the over-whelming joy of meeting those dear ones. Coming home! The very words are rapturous. They bear import of every thing sweet and holy in domestic life— nay more, they are stamped with the seal of heaven, for the angels s ty of the dying saint, “He is coming home!” From the New York Musical World A Times. COUNTRY SUMDAY VS. CITY SUNDAY. Tis Sunday in the city. The sun glares murkily down, thro* the smoky and stench laden atmosphere, upon the dirty pavements; newsboys, with clam orous cries, are vending their wares ; milkmen rattle over the pavements, and startle drowsy sleepers by the shrill wbonp- ings; housemaids are polishing door knobs, washing sidewalks and receiving suspicious looking baskets and parcels Irom contigious groceries and bakeshops. The sun rolls on his course, purifying the air and benignly smiling upon all the dwellers in the city, as though he wrtuld gently win them from unholy purposes to heavenly meditations and pursuits. And now the streets are filled with a mot ley show of silks, satins, velvets, feathers and jewels; while carriages, and vehicles of every description rs.dl past, freighted with counter-freed youths and their Dul- ctneas. bent upon a holiday. Hundreds of “drinking saioons” belch forth their pesli- ferou- breath, upon which is borne to the ear of the passer by. (perhaps a lady or a tender child,) the profane curse and <>b scene gibe; and from their portals teel in toxicated brutes, who once were men. Mil itary companies march to and fro ; now at solemn pace, to the mournful strains of a dead march; now (having rid themselves of the corpse of their dead comrade) they gaily step out, blithe and merry to the cheering strains of an enlivening quickstep, based oti an Ethi-ipian melody; the frivo|i>us tones blending discordantly with the chimes of the Sabbath hells. Ai d s’able keepers, ■ >ystei and ice-cream venders, liquor-sellers etiaomne genus, are reaping a golden har vest, upon which the “Lord of the Sabbath” shall sooner or later, send “a blight and mildew.” “Tis Sunday in the country. Serene and majestic, in the distance, lie the blue, cloud-capped hills, while at their base, the silver stream winds gracefully, sparkling in the glad sunlight. Now the fragrant branches stir with feathered life ; and one clear, thrilling coral, lifts the finger from the numb lip of Nature;—heralding a full orchestra, which plume their wings, and soaring, seem lo say, Praise Him! Praise Him! Obedient to the sweet summons, the sil ver baited old man and rosy child, along grassy winding paths, hie to the little vil lage church. On the gentle maiden’s kind ly arm leans the bending form of “four score and ten,” gazing with dimmed but grate ful eye, on leafy stem, and bursting bud and full blown flower; or listening to the wind dallying with the tall tree tops or kissing the fields of golden grain, which wave their graceful recognition, as it sweeps by on its fragrant path. And now, slowly the Sabbath sun sinks beneath the western hills in gold and pur ple glory. Gently the dew of peace de scends on closed eyes and flowers; while holy stars creep softly out, to keep their tireless watch o’er happy hearts and Sab bath-loving homes. FANNY FERN. Sour Food.—Cattle fed on sour food, prepared by fermenting rye flour and wa ter, into a kind of paste, and then diluted with watet, afterwards thickened with hay chaff (that is, hay cut small.) at e said to fat ten quickly.— This plan is adopted in France to a considerably extent, and has been introduced years ago in this country. Although not generally adopted, it is de serving <>l consideration by graziers. With rospect to the efficacy of acid food for fat tening animals, there is, as on most other subjects, a variety of opinions. It is well known that swine derive more benefit from sour milk than they do from milk in a fresh state; and there is no doubt but there are particles which promote digestion and fa cilitate consumption of a larger quantity of food, and consequently expedite the fatten ing of cattle THE LEPER OF CARTHAOENA. Until about half a century back, the in* habitants nf Sooth America were constant ly afflicted with that dreadful, and then deemed incurable disease, known by the name of leprosy. Whenever an individual, of whatever rank or distinction be might be, bad the misfortune to be scourged by this horrible malady, which coveted the faee with ulcers, benumbed the feelings, and through reckless agony led its victim to a •low and lingering death, everyone fled from him: he was never thought of without a shudder, parents and friends alike forsook him, and tio other asylum was open for him than the infected Lazarettoa, where his sufferings became more ecute by the sight and torture of objecta more tobe pit ied than himself. The frightful plague of the New World baffled all the efforts of art, while it was known that the Indians had a never-failing cure for it; hut their inveterate hate to Eu ropeans would not permit them to have it Communicated, and it would have been con sidered the highest crime, and punished ss such, if any member < f their tribe bad dar ed to divulge the secret. However, a fortunate and almost mir aculous circumstance occurred about a half a century since, which brougdt the secrecy of this cure to the knowledge of Euro peans. > In the flourishing province of Guatimila. a poor old negress was attacked by the le prosy, when she was brutally driven from her hut, and abandoned hy her relations and friends. Homeless, aud forsaken, ahe wan dered about the country, until ahe gained the forests spread at the threshold of the Andes, where she contrived to support her self upon the wild produce of I hose regions, quenching the thirst <>f her fever in the cold streams of the glaciers’ outpourings. Her nights she passed upon the perilous boughs of the pine trees, to escape the tiger’B fury and the serpents coil, though sometimes she was disturbed hy a more monstrous neighbor still—the chauvesou*is the vam pire of the New World, superstitiously supposed to suck the blood from the Veins of the sleeper with such address as not to awaken him, whose internal win^s (as they are termed) would flap around her ears, and awake her to new horrors. In the climax of her Calamity she was one day joined by a band of Indians, who took compassion on her misfoitunes. Accustomed a9 she had been to see her own countrymen abandon her, she was astonished at the conduct of these strang ers, who, instead of being appalled at her hideuusttes9, approached her without hesitation. They bade her follow them to their village, and promised to alleviate her misery and extirpate her disease. But cheering as this hope was to this wretched being, she had not strength e- nough to obey them, accustomed as they wete to thread the windings of the for ests with the force and swiftness of hunts men; they, therefore, made a palanquin of boughs placed her upon it, and bore her oti their shoulders to their home, where she was lodged, provided fur, and most humanely attended to. But the rem edy for the cure of her disease waa as loath some as the malady itself. She was com pelled to swallow morsels of lizards, cut up before her eyes, to throw her into a violent. per*piralioti, which, however, final ly eradicated her disease, and restored her to energy and health. Singular Race of Human Beings.—There are now in London two very singular hu man beings, of a race which has hitherto been very little known to the civilized world. They came from South Africa, where they are called Earlhmen. They are totally distinct from all other known African races—as much so as if they had dropped upon this earth from another plan et. They are diminutive in size—mere pigmies—and unacquainted even with the art of building huts. They shelter them selves in caves and creviceB of the earth; when these are wanting, they make aitifi- cial scoopings on the surface, which they line with leaves and cover with branches. The Hottentots and Bushmen are the avow ed enemies of the Earthmeo, and when they meet them will shoot them down like vermin. The poor, little defenceless Earth- men have no t efuge but in holes, trees, or thickets, and the tribe is fast verging to ex tinction. They are a poor, weak people- one of nature’s fieaks—and destined not to perpetuate their race. Few colonists have seen them; and although it is known that a few still linger in the mountains, they are rapidly dying away, and will soon become a tradition of an elfish afrite race of old. The two individuals above mentioned were carried to England from the Cape of G"<>d Hope two or three years ago and have become domesticated in an English family. The Morning Crnnicle, from which we take these particulai9, describes these little Earthmen as a boy and a girl—the former fourteen and the latter sixteen years of age—and “complete little fairies” in ap pearance. The boy is three feet three and a halt inches in height, the girls trifle taller. Their skin is of the brightest and most transparent bronze and as smooth and pol ished as marble. In form the little creatures are perfect—their delicate limbs standing out in the must graceful symmetry, and every motiun instinct with the untaught ease of nature. The faces, although decidedly African in feature, are full of sweetness and good humor, with an expression ot archness and intelligence. They are named Eartinis and Flora. In their savage state they fed en locusts, and eggs, and such small game as they could take. Until they were carried to England they had no idea of God nr any supreme power. At present they have been taught some of the customs of civilized life, and are able to speak little English words, to sing little popular airs, and—the first of Earth- men—to play little airs on a piano. Few signs are more interesting to a think ing. person than that of the lastofa race of human beings on the point of being blotted out from the face of the earth. The indi viduals in question seem to constitute ono of the most anomalous forms of our ^species that have ever yet been brought to the no tice of the naturalist or the othnithologist. It is to be hoped that further light will be thrown on their history by scientific re searches.—Nat. Dem. THE NESTOF THE NIGHTENGALE A letter from Dresden,dated April 12, saya. “During my short stay in the city, I have often passed the residence of Mrs Oito Goldschmidt, Jenny Lind, or the SweedLh Nightengale, a name by which, here as elsewhere, she is best known. They re side in the finest section of the town, called the English quarter. Dresden ns without doubt chosen as their future residence, al though they have not yet parchaae<Lea was reported in America. They have been ne- gociating for a very beautiful situation on the bank of the river; s short distance above the city, now occupied by the Elysium, which they would remove and ' build according to their pleasure, bet (bus far all efforts to obtain it have been unsuc cessful.

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The federal union. (Milledgeville, Ga.) 1830-1861, June 21, 1853, Image 1