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VOLUME XXVI.]
MILLEDGEVILLE. GEORGIA. TUESDAY JUNE 5, 1855.
[NUMBER 1.
BUSINESS CAltDS
Practice of Medicine and Surgery.
DR. CHARLES B. BALL,
Proffers his services to the citizens of Milledge-
ville and vicinity.
l >ffico on Hancock Street, first door East of the
Masonic Hall, where he can be found at all times,
unless professionally employed.
April 3Hth, 1855. 48—tf.
TIHlS. S WAYNE.
K. Al.EX. WAYNE.
THOS. S. WAYNE & SON,
General Commission & Forwarding
m e R IH A l¥Si
SAVANNA II, GA.
I /' All business intrusted to their care will
meet with prompt attention. 38 ]y
A. S. HARXRZDGE,
Factor and General Commission Merchant,
No. 9S, Bat Nlrc. t, Saranuah, Geo.
REFERENCES.
Geo. W. Anderson, Ex-President Planters
Hank, Savannah: Cl. F. MILLS, Esq., I’resident
Marine Rank, 1. Cl. Plant. Agent of Marine Ilank
at Macon: C. H. AVRIGHT, Esq., Milledgeville: W.
Holmies, Agent of Planters Hank at Sandersville;
K. H. D. Sorrell, Agent of Planters Hank at
Americns.
February 20, 1855 38—6m.
JOIIM F. SHINE,
A T T O R NE Y AT LA W,
MARION, GA.
Will attend promptly to all business intrusted to
his care. 32 ly
TIJOS. T. LONG.
A T T O R NE Y AT L A W,
IiUCNSWICK, GA.
1 i ILL practice in the Courts of Glynn, Wayne,
*» Camden. McIntosh, Liberty and Chatham,
'■f the Eastern Circuit; Charlton, Lowndes, Clinch,
Ware and Appling, of the Southern; also, Duval
countv, Florida. 51 ly
CHAS. E MSB FT,
ATTORNEY A T L A W,
Citlhbcrt, Ga.
April 3d, 1854.44
m:\uv iie\i>ki(ik,
-i T T O R N E Y AT LA W,
JACKSON. BUTTS Co., GA.
<’II4§. O. CAMPBELL,
A T TO R NE y AT L A W,
MILLEDGEVILLE, GA.
t.Yf ILL attend promjitly to all businessentrust-
- t ed to Ids cure. Particular attention piaid
to colic-ting.
Milledgeville. Feb. 22. 1853. 38 tf
.1. B. CAMP,
A TT OR NE Y AT L AW,
CAMPBELLTON, GA.
BACON! BACON!!
400,000 LBS., CBOICE BACON,
For Saif at our House in Chattanooga. Tcnn.
CIIAADLElt & CO.
Chattanooga, Auril 24, 1855. 47 3m.
Notice to Landholders.
T HE Undersigned will attend to the selling or
examining and giving information of LANDS
lying in any of the Counties of S. W. Georgia on
reasonable terms. A. P. GREER,
Albany, Geo.
i References—IT. flora, Hon. Lott Warren, II.
H- (’lark, Albany, Ga., J. C. Stephen, Newton, Ga.
November 22, 1853. 25—tf.
DR, S, 0. BRANTLEY & CO.
Mhnlcsale nml Kefiiil Druggists
Coiucr Broughton and Whitaker strce.ts.
SAVANNAH, GA.
U T OULl) resperifully eali (he aitention of the cit
izens of Savannah, Physicians and Planters, to
'b' .r fin nsive nnd vnrefullv selected Stock of French
Chemicals nnd Medicines.
PHYSICIANS
‘npp'ied with the purest French, English, and American
U - laicals, Surgical,Dissecting, ami An pulaliug Instru-
m - ni», Lancets, Forceps, Cupping Instruments. Medical
hags, Ac.
PLANTERS
Will, Paints, Oil, Dye Stuffs, Garden Seed. Medicine
Vilest*. 4c.
(lunntry Merchants and Planters supplied with gen
uine Drugs at as low rates as can be had in any city
Amah.
Every arit, ie sold, warranted ptire, fresh and genuine.
S. I>. BRANTLEY,
THOS. S. POWELL
August 8, 1854. 10 ly
MONEY MUST COME!
FS and Accounts will not pay Hank Notes,
-I' therefore all persons owing us and failing to
KV. will be sued in the Justice’s and Inferior
b" irts without further delay.
February 10th, 1855
CHOICE & MEG RATH.
37—tf.
PURE OILS OF
COGNIAC, WINEand RUM,
With directions." For Sale hv
CA&NBS <&. HA3BBL.
18 & 20 PLATT STREET,
-May 29, 1855. 52—3m. New York.
REDDING HOUSE,
MACON, GEORGIA.
11 F. REDDING, B. F. DENSE,
, Proprietor. Superintendent.
Macon, August 21,1K54. 12 Iv
Southern .NWUtary Academy |,
LOTTERY, j§
( By authority of the State of Alabama.) CHS
COWW CTBD ON THE HAVANA PLAN, iL
GRAND SCHEME FOR JUNE.
WHEN $50,000 WILL BE DISTRIBUTED.
Class Q to be Drawn on the 2-3d of JOE.
. And n member every Prize is Drawn at each
Drawing, and paid when dne iritlwut discount.
Capitals $12,000
5.00(1
“ 3.000
- 2 000
“ 1.500
- 1.200
5 of $1 000 5.000
In all 408 prizes, amounting to $50,000
(Only Ten Thnusarul Numbers.)
Tickets $8, Halves $4, Quarters $2.
Every prize drawn at each drawing.
Bills on all solvent banks taken at par.
IaTAU Communications strictly confidential.
SAMUEL SWAN, Ag’t and Manager,
Sign of the Bronze Lions.
Montgomery, Alabama, 1855.
(By Authority of the State of Georgia.)
^FORT GAINES ACADEMY
LOTTERY.
GRAND SCHEME FOR JUNE.
Class 2, to be Drawn JUNE 13th 1S§§,
in tlie City of Atlanta. Georgia, when Prizes
amounting to $30,000, will be distributed
according to the following magnificent Scheme!
rF* And remember every Prize is drawn at each
Drawing, and paid when due without deduction!
( Only Ten Thousand Numbers!!)
1 Prize of $7,500
1 do 5,000
1 do 2,000
2 do $1,000 are 2,000
5 do 500 are 2,500
251 Prizes in all amounting to $30,000
l ir" Tickets $5, Halves $2 50, Quarters $1 25 £ x
Hills on all solvent Hanks at par, All commu
nications strictly confidential.
SAMUEL SWAN, Agent and Manager.
Atlanta, Georgia.
Atlanta, Ga.. 1855.
10 of $200 are $2,000
15 lOOaro 1,500
78 50 are 3,900
120 25 are 3,000
HAVANA plan LOTTERY!
Jasper County Academy Lottery!
[ Ity Authority of the State of Georgia.)
T HE subscriber having been appointed
Manager of the Jasper County Acad- f rr.'hi’
emy Lottery, intends conducting the same
on the Havana plan of single numbers, and has lo
cated his Office in the city of Macon, Georgia. He
now offers the following:—
OK WD SCHEME FOR JI LY 93, 1S53.
When Prizes will lie distributed as follows,
amounting to
$ 30,00 O !
CLASS H.
1 Prize of $12,00(1 1 Prize of $5,000
1 “ 3,000 1 “ 2,000
1 “ 1,500 1 “ 1,200
1 “ 1,100 5 Piizcs of. 1000
10 “ 1,00 &c. etc. Are.
408 Prizes, amounting to $5 : >,000
l v~ Agents wanted in every town and city in
the I 'uion. Oil application the Terms will he for
warded,
Remember every Prize drawn at each drawing,
under the superintendence of Col. Geo. M. Logan
and Jas. A. Xisbet, Esq., gentlemen who are sworn
to a faithful performance of their duty. Prizes
paid when due without discount.
All orders, rely on it, strictly confidential. Rills
on all solvent Hanks taken at par.
Whole Tickets $8; Halves $4; Quarters $2.
Address JAMES F. WINTER, -Manager,
Macon, May, 1855. Macon, Ga.
WATER CURE ! W ATER CURE !
At the old stand, tiai'irtla, On.
D R. C. COX, would inform the public that lie i9
still on hand to administer to those afflicted
with chronic diseases of all descriptions,the curative
and rejuvenating effects of pure water—reject
ing all physic except kitchen physics, lie would
ay to those w ho have tried all other remedies, not
to despair, but hasten to some well regulated
Water Cure, and there live naturally, and you will
be relieved and cured in accordance with the laws
of man’s oganization.
Post paid communications promptly- attended
to. C. COX.
Physician and Proprietor.
March -tit, 1585. 42 3m
7B SHAKERS READ!!!
O NE of the many testimonials received almost
daily in favor of Rhodes’ Fever and Ague
Cure, which tuts never failerl!
Lewisburg, Union Co., Pa., May 2, 1855.
Mr. J. A. Rhodes: Dear Sir, That Box of Medi
cine you sent me was duly received on the 11th of
April, and 1 baud you herewith receipt for the same
1 have sole about one half of it, and so far the
people, who have used it are satisfied that it has
cured them. It has certainly stopped the Ague in
every one who has used it, and six of the cases
were of long standing. My sister, who has had it
for five or six years back, and could never get it
stopped, except by Quinine, and that only as long
as she would take it, is now, I think, entirely cured
by your remedy.
If it thus continues to keep off the Ague, as I
think it will, you may expect from me large orders.
1 am .Sir, Yours, very truly.
50 8w] C. R.* McGINLY.
RHODES’
Certain cure for Chills and Fever,
Jl st Received, and for Sale by E.J. WHITE.
LAND FOR SALE!
I 'M IE undersighed offers for sale his
. Plantation, In the county of Rntts,
about two miles east of the Indian
Springs, containing
Seven Bnndred Acres,
more or less; one-half of which is cleared and in ail
excellent condition for cultivation. The other
half in the woods. The same is xveil improved,
with a good Dw elling, Negro Houses, Gin House
and Screw, and every necessary building required
on a plantation of that size, also a Grist Mill and
water privileges.
lie also offers for sale his lots at the Indian
Springs, known as the Tarter Place, upon which
there are good improvements, such as would suit
the convenience ot those xvhb desire a summer res
idence. The lots contain about five acres. The
same will be offered at private sale until the firsl
Tuesday in July, after which time, if it is not
privately sold, it will he put up at public outcry,
in the town of Jackson, in said county, on the
first Tuesday in August next.
TIIOMAS J. CARSON,
Indian Springs, Ga.
May 11th. 1855. (H H) 50 7t
Sheet Iron Work ii Tin Shop.
YTHfE SUBSCRIBERS having purchased of the
A late firm of Batrhcller He Taft, their entire Stock
and Tools, connected with their Tin Shop, would
respectfully say to the public generally, that they
have opened their Shop, next door East of Masonic
Had, in the Basement recently used as a Barber's
Shop, where they are prepared to promptly fill
orders for Making or Repairing of Tin or Sheet-
Iron Work of all kinds, Roofing, &e.
Stoves, and Stove furniture repaired.
Bathing Tubs of any pattern made to order.
” SAFES! SAFES!! SAFESM1
Wo have a number of good Safes on hand, and
will Manufactere to order, any size or patern that
may he desired.
LV Give us a call, and we will try to please you.
STALEY & WHITE.
Millcdgex’ille, April 9, 1855. 456m
Notice to Debtors and Creditors.
A LL persons indebted to the estate of James
McCrackin, late of Campbell county, deceas
ed, are hereby notified to come forward and make
immediate payment, and all persons having de
mands against said estate are requested to present
them properh’ authenticated according to law.
EZEKIEL L. JACKSON, Adm’
May 7, 1855. [J lie) 50St
Jltiscfllanrons.
T WO months after date, application will bo made
to the Court of Ordinary of Putnain county
for leave to sell the real estate of Henry Hunter,
deceased. REUBEN JORDAN, Jr, Adm’r.
May 1855. (w bc) ’ 51 9t
The Mac-Monkey of Brazil.
The captain of the French schooner
Andriene, xvlio last summer was stationed
at Pernambuco, Brazil, gives us the fol
lowing sketch of a tame monkey:
A short time ago, I dined at a Brazilian
merchant’s. The conversation turned
upon the w ell tutored chimpanzee of Mr.
Vanneck, a creole gentleman, whose slave
had brought him the monkey, which he
had caught in the wood. Every one prais
ed the accomplished animal, giving ac
counts of its talents so wonderful, that I
could not help expressing some increduli
ty. My host smiled, saying that I was
not the first one who would not believe in
these results of animal education until he
had seen it with his own eyes. lie there
fore proposed to me to call with him on
Mr. Vanr.eck. I gladly consented, and
on the following morning we set out. The
house of the creole lies on the road to
Olinda, about an hour’s ride from town.
We proceeded along splendid hedges of
cactus, shaded by bananas and palm trees,
and at length observed the charming villa.
A negro received us at the entrance, and
took us to the parlor, hastening to tell his
master of our visit. The first object which
caught our attention was the monkey, seat
ed on a stool, and sewing with great indus
try. Much struck, I watched him atten
tively, xvliile he, not paying any attention
to us, proceeded with his work. The door
opened, and Mr. Vanneck, reclining on
an easy chair, was xvlieelcd in. Though
his legs are paralyzed, he seemed bright
and cheerful ; he w elcomed us most kind
ly. The Monkey went on sewing with
great zeal. I could not refrain from ex
claiming, “How Wonderful!” for the
manner and processes of the animal xvere
those of a practiced tailor. He was sew
ing a pair of striped pantaloons, the nar-
roxv shape of xvhich showed that they
xvere intended for himself.
A negro now appeared, announcing
Madame .Jasmin, xvhom Mr. Vanneck in
troduced os his neighbor. Madame Jas
min xvas accompanied by her little daugh
ter a girl of txvclve years ; who immedi
ately ran to the monkey, greeting him as
an old friend, and beginning to prattle
xvith him. Jack furtively peeped, at his
master ; but as Mr. Vanneck’s glance xvas
stern, the tailor xvent on sewing. Sud
denly his thread broke, and he put the
end to his mouth, smoothed it xvith his lips,
txvisted it xvith his left paw, and threaded
the needle again. Mr. Vanneck then turn
ed to him, and speaking in the same calm
tone in which he had conversed with us:
“Jack put your xvork aside, and sweep the
floor!”
Jack Lurried to an adjoining room, and
came back xvithout delay, with a broom
in his paxv, and swept and dusted like a
clever housemaid. I could now perfectly
make out his size, as lie always xvalked
upright, not on his fore hands. He was
about three feet in height, but stooped a
little. He xvas clad in linen pantaloons, a
colored shirt, a jacket, and a red handker
chief. At an other hint from his master,
Jack xvent and brought sex'eral glasses of
lemonade on a tray. He first presented
the tray to Madame Jasmin and her
daughter, then to us, precisely like a well-
bred footman. When 1 had emptied my
glass, he hastened to relieve me of it, put
ting it back on the tray. Mr. Vanneck
took out his xvatch, and showed it to the
monkey; it was just three. Jack went
and brought a cup of broth to his master,
xvho remarked that the monkey did not
know the movements of the xvatch, but
that lie knew exactly the position of the
hands xvhen they pointed to three, and
kept it in mind that it xvas then his master
xvanted his luncheon. If the xvatch was
shown to him at any other hour, he did
not go to fetch the broth ; xvliile if three
o’clock xvas past without the luncheon be
ing called for, he got fidgety, and at last
ran and brought it a in this case, he xvas
alxvays rewarded with some sugar ppims.
You have no notion, said Mr. Vanneck,
how much time and trouble, and especially
how much patience, I have bestoxved on
the training of this animal. Confined to
my chair, however, I continued my task
methodically. Nothing was more difficult
than to accustom jack to his clothes; he
used to take off liis clothes again and again,
until at last I had them sewed to his shirt.
When he xvalks out with me, lie wears a
straw liat, but never xvithout making fear
ful grimaces. He takes a bath every day,
and is, on the xvhole, x-ery cleanly.
“Jack,” exclaimed Mr. Vanneck, point
ing to me, “this gentleman xvants his hand
kerchief.” The monkey drew it from my
pocket, and handed to me.
“Noxv, show your room to my guests,”
continued the master ; and Jack opened
a door, at which he stopped to let us pass,
and then followed himself. Everything
extremely tidy in the small room. There
xvas a bed with a matress, a table, some
chairs, drawers, and various toys ; a gun
hung on a wall. The bell rung. Jack
went and re-appeared xvith his master,
wheeling in the chair. Meanwhile, I had
taken the gun from the xvall; Mr. Van-
neck handed it. to the monkey, xvho fetch
ed the powder-flask and the shot-hag, and
in the xvhole process of loading acquitted
himself like a rifleman. I had already
seen so much that xvas astonishing, that
I xvas hardly surprised at this feat. Jack
noxv placed himself at the open windoxv,
took aim, and discharged the gun xx’ithout
being the least startled by the report. He
then went through sword exercises with
the same skill.
It would be too long to jot doxvn all Mr.
Vanneck told us about his method of edu
cation and training ; the above facts, xvit-
nessed by myself, bear sufficient evidence
of the abilities of the animal, and its mas
ter's talent for tuition. We stayed to sup
per, to xtfhich there came some more ladies
and gentlemen. Jack again exhibited
liis cleverness, in waiting, at which he ac
quitted himself as well as any man scr-
xant. Going home, my companion miss
ed a small bottle of sweets, out of which
he had regailed the monkey with almonds.
Jack had managed to steal it from the
pocket; and on being afterwards convicted
of the theft, he was severely punished by
liis master. ^
An old farmer whose son had died was
visited by a neighbor, xvho began to con
dole with him on his loss. “My loss!—
No such thing—it’s his own loss—he was
of age.”
A Dinner Before Sebastopol .
We sit (there were four of us) curled up
in x-arious attitudes, and joking about the
state of thing 5 in general, ox-er short clay
pipes, almost as black and dirty as our-
seix-es. We sit xvaiting for our dinner, and
our host every now and then shouts lusti
ly to a serx'ant who is preparing it some-
wliere outside xvithin hearing. As the
servant does not appear, however, to make
much progress, and our appetites goad us
at last into extreme measures, we go out
to help him or worry him into greater speed
Our cook is a tattered, lantern-jawed, hol-
loxved-eyed felloxv, who would not bc re
cognized as a soldier by any servant maid
in Kniglitsliridge. We find him in a state
of despondency peculiar to the cooking
Englishman, lie is kneeling down npon
the damp ground, and blowing testily at
some wettish smoky shrub roots, crammed
in a manner inartistic enough into an im
promptu fireplace. He looks a fine illus
tration of shame and anger, he dislikes his
job, and he does not know lioxv to perform
it. Let us help him. I kuoxv somebody
who is not a bad cook at a push; and so if l
xve can only get some charcoal, I dare say
xve shall do very well. Wc are not badly
off for prog; there is some ration pork, a
lean fowl, some eggs, potatoes, and honey.
We have also got an old iron kettle and
coffee pot, xvith the lid belonging thereto.
They are worth their weight in gold, and
I hope xve knoxv hoxx r to appreciate them.—
Modesty prevents my telling how, by fry
ing the pork in the lid of the kettle, we ob
tained enough grease to fry the fowl; lioxv
a mess of bread and honey and whipped
eggs xvas manufactured, xvhich caused a
full chorus of lip smacking, and xvliich was
pensively remembered long after its abrupt
disappearance. Then xve roasted some
potatoes among the embers and ate them
(with the remains of the grease extracted
from the pork,) as a delicate mouthful to '
crown our repast; and lastly it was with j
all the pride of art that xve stexved some J
tea in the coffee-pot, and converted it into j
a punch of no common bouquet and flavor.;
We must have looked a strange company, j
All except myself xvere ragged and oddly j
arrayed. They wore their full dress uni- i
form, dingy and caked over with dirt, till
the color was nndistinguisliable. They
looked something between the military
mendicants xvho prowl about elderly-lady
like neighborhoods, and fancy portraits of
brigands. Their beards appear to begin
at tlie. eyelashes, and to go on till they
xvere lost in the folds of the voluminous
scarfs worn around the waist.
Dickens' Household Words.
Lame and Lazy—A Fable .—Two
beggars, Lame and Lazy, xvere in want of
bread. One leaned on his crutch and the
other reclined on his conch.
Lame called on Charity, and humbly
asked fora cracker—he received a loaf.
Lazy, seeing the gift of charity, exclaim
ed ‘What, ask fora cracker, and receive a
ioafl Well, I xx-i 11 ask for a loaf.’
Lazy noxv applied to charity and called
for a loaf of bread.
‘Your demand of a loaf,’ said charity,
‘proves you are a loafer. You are of that
class and character who ask and receive
not; vou ask amiss,’
Lazv xvlio always found fault, and had
rather whine than work, complained of ill-
treatment and even accused charity of a
breach of an exceeding great and precious
promise. ‘Ask and you shall receive.'
Charity pointed him to a painting in her
room xvliich presented to liis vision three
personages, Faith, Hope and Charity ap
peared larger and more fairer than her sis
ters. He noticed that her right hand held
a pot of honey, which fed a bee disabled,
liax’ing lost his wings. Her left hand xvas
armed with a xvliip to keep off the drones.
‘Don’t understand it,’ said Lazy.
Charity replied, ‘It means that Charity
feeds the lame and flogs the lazy.’
Lazy turned to go.
‘Stop,’ said Charity, ‘instead of coin I
xvill give you counsel. Do not go and live
on your poor mother, for 1 xvill send you a
rich aunt.’
‘Rich aunt V echoed Lazy. ‘Where
shall I find her?’*
You xvill find her in Proverbs, sixth
chapter and sixth x-ersc.’
Moral.—Instead of xvaiting for an uncle
to die, go and see lioxv rich Aunt Lives.
Hardening the Constitution.—Men talk
about “hardening the constitution," and
with that vicxv, expose themselves to the
summer’s sun and winter’s wind, to strains
and over efforts, ami many unnecessary
hardships. To the same end, ill informed
mothers souse their little infants in cold
water day by day; their skin and bodies
are steadily becoming rougher and thinner
and weaker, until slow fever or water on
the brain, or consumption of the bowels,
carries them to the grax-e; and they admin
ister to themselves the semi-comfort and
rather unquestionable consolation, of its
being a mysterious dispensation of Provi
dence, when in fact Providence had noth
ing to do with it; He works no miracle to
counteract our follies.
The best xvay I know of hardening the
constitution, is to take good care of it, for it
is no more improved by harsh treatment,
than a fine garment or new hat is made
better by being banged about.—Hall's
Journal of Health.
Locusts.—Wo never had a distinct ap
preciation, until the other day, of xvhat a
terrible inconvenience the plague of Lo
custs sent upon the Egyptians must have
been. During a fix ing visit to Gwinnett
we found them in countless thousands, en
gaged in what xve took to be a rehearsal of
a Grand Concert, a la Ju/iien; every one
singing its peculiar part from the double
bass of their complaining frog to the
twanging tenor of the penny trumpet.—
Their ceaseless ftin is enough to try the
tympanium of a professional lifer. They
do not attack the crops, but are seriously j
injuring the apple trees, splitting the ten
der hark xvith their sharp horn, and depos-1
iling their eggs in the incision, leaving an j
unsightly scar, and, in many instances,
killing the young branch. Except this,
the humming sound they produce, is the j
greatest inconx'enience resulting from their :
visit. Opinions vary as to their being pe
riodical, s#me contending that they are
the 17 year Locusts, and others that they
are not; but have been seen frequently,
but not in such numbers, in less time.—
Atlanta Examiner.
Albany, May 8.—Hon. John C. Spencer, one of
tlie moat eminent lawyers of this State, died last
excelling of consumption.
lannoiissian of Slates—Sudden death of
their Master, it.
Over a %-enr since Mr. Elijah Willis, of
Wllliston, Barmvell District, South Caro
lina, came to this city and executed in the
office of Jolliffe A Gutchell a will, be
queathing to his xvife and her heirs and
assignees all his property, real and person
al, to the value of $150,000, consisting
of txvo plantations well stocked, and from
forty to fifty negroes. His wife, Marv
Amy Turner, and children, six in number,
are mulattoes, and were held by Willis as
slaves. Mr. Willis agreed xvith Messrs.
A. H. Ernst, Edward Harwood, and John
Jolliffe,, whom he made his executors, that
they should be manumitted, and that the
executors might dispose, of the remainder
of his slax-es at his death as they deemed
best. Mr. Willis returned to his planta
tion. Yesterday morning he arrived from
the South on the Jacob Strader xvith his
xvife, her mother, and the six children.
After securing a hack to convey the fami
ly up to the Dumas House, Mr. Willis
with a daughter held by each hand ap
proached the carriage, and was in the act
of stepping in xvhen he xvas seized with a
palpitation of the heart, to which he was
subject, and falling backwards, expired
in about five minutes. Coroner Menzies
held an inquest over the body, and tbe
jury returned a verdict in accordance xvith
the above facts.
Mr. Willis was about 60 years of age, a
x-ery respectable old gentleman, and has
been married to Mary Amy about thirteen
years, and always manifested toxvards her
and the children a warm affection. He
has been in bad health several years, and
his latix-es, who reside in the Barnwell
district, have frequently importuned him
to gix-e up liis business and travel with his
family. He left home about four weeks
ago, not, as they supposed, to make, said
trip, but to come to this State, free his
family from slavery, and provide them
xvith comfortable houses on free soil. Hav
ing done this, it xvas liis intention to return
to South Carolina, settle up his affairs,
and lix'e the remainder of his life free
from all care and anxiety. Badhealth for
scx-eral years was an additional induce
ment for him to pursue tlie course.— Cin
cinnati Gazette, May 23.
Farming in California.
The following is an extract of a letter
from California, to the Star, dated April
14, nit. It is full of interest:
“This country looks fine noxv, April 14,
1855. Ex-erytliing is green and flourish
ing. There lias been an abundance of rain
this spring, and it is noxv raining like fun.
But these showers are mild and pleasant,
no thunder, no lightning.
There has been an immense quantity of
grain shown here this year, and most of it
looks as fine as one could wish to see.
People Lax-e a fashion of rushing into
anything, and rushing every tiling they go
into, which people in other countries can
have no idea of. A farmer here will stake
every thing he lias upon a single crop,
xvithout caring to think of being able to
save it. Indeed, the matter of saring
nex'er seems to enter into their calculations.
They quit in all they can, and can save it
all. Farmers can do an immense sight of
xvork here in a year.
I xvill give you an idea of lioxv they
work and xvhat they do. They are now,
April 14, nearly or quite done sowing
grain, and are planting late potatoes. By
the time they are done xvith that, which
xvill he about the first of May, it xvill be
time to commence cutting hay, and about
the first of June they commence harvest
ing and threshing grain. Then they have
June, July, August, September, October,
and generally a part of November to cut
and thresh, and haul off that grain, and it
takes them all that time to do it.
I saxv several threshings in Nox-cmber
last year, and they had then been at it
steady for five months. During the xvnole
of that time they do not expect rain enough
to do their grain any injury. It often
stands in the field a month after it onght to
be cut; and often lays on the ground txvo
months after it is cut. They are no soon
er done with their grain than they must
dig, sack, and haul off tlieir potatoes, xvhich
is no small job. That being done, it is
December; the rain should have come
again; and then they plough and sow as
though they were at work for dear life,
from that time to this. So you sec there
is no lost time. A man can hardly lose
ten days in the xvhole year on account of
had weather. Here you hax r e one great
secret of the success of farmers iu Califor
nia.
A Hard Story of the Miners.—Maryatt is
credited with the following: One of the
miners—in Califorinia—died, and having
been much respected it xvas determined to
give him a regular funeral. A digger in
thex icinity who, report said, had once been
a powerful preacher in the United States,
was called upon to officiate; and after
“drinks all round,” the party proceeded
xvith becoming gravity to the grave,
xvhich had been ting at a distance of a
hundred yards from the camp. When
this spot xvas reached, the officiating
minister commenced with an extempore
prayer, during which all knelt round the
grave. So far was well; but the prayer
xvas unnecessarily long, and at last some
of those xvho knelt began, in and ab
stracted manner, to finger the loose earth
that had been thrown up from the grave.—
It xvas thick with gold; and an excitement
was immediately apparent in the kneeling
crowd. Upon this the preacher stopped,
.and inquiring said, “Boys, what’s that?—
Gold!” lie continued, “and the richest
kind of diggings: the congregation are dis
missed!” The poor miner xvas taken from
liis auriferous grave and was buried else
where, whilst, the funeral party, with the
parson at their head, lost no time in pros
pecting the new digging.
Largest Room in the World.—the lar
gest room in the world under a single roof
and unbroken by pillars or other obstruc
tions, is at St. Petersburg, Russia, and is
650 feet in length, and 150 feet in breadth.
By daylight it is used for military displays,
and a batallion can convently manoeuvre in
it. In the evening it is often converted into
a vast ball room, when it is warmed by 16
prodigious stoves, and 20,000 wax tapers
are required to light it properly. The roof
of this structure is a single arch of iron, the
bars alone on which it rests weighing 12,-
830 pounds.
[communicated.]
EDM Aim
Education, from the parting address of
Eve to tlie floxvers of her beloved Eden,
doxvn through time’s long xfista to the pres
ent, lias employed the pen of the writer, and
the x-oice of the speaker—lias been the
subject of discussion in public assemblies,
and of conversation in private circles—lias
engaged the heart of benevolence, and the
head of legislation; and yet has been dives
ted of none of its interest. A rich mine,
it gives forth its treasure, still interesting,
valuable and exhaustless. It is a subject
which never fails to engage attention, and
never becomes trite or stale. Nor is there
a shadow of a possibility that it can ever
become so while man exists upon this earth,
or spirits live in Heaven. For the great
and paramount bnsiness of man upon earth,
is to educate the soul, and the chief happi
ness of spirits in Heaven must consist in
the advances which the spirits, disencum
bered of mortal clogs, shall make in wis
dom and knoxvledge—approximating con
tinually, but never equaling, the perfec
tions of Deity. But enough of this. My
object is, not to philosophise or speculate
upon the general subject of education “in
extenso,” but to take a limited view, and
make some practical obseiwations on the
subject, as it has been made applicable to
the people of Georgia.
It lias been complained tbat the people
do not feel an interest iu the subject—that
there is great apathy among the people.
1 am ready to admit that too mnch interest
on tlie subject cannot exist, and that I
should rejoice to see it increase to any ex
tent; yet I cannot admit, that the people
of Georgia are slumbering ox r er this, their
best and greatest interest. It is true, that
Educational Conventions have been held,
but the people Lave seen but little of good
sense and practicable utility in tlieir ac
tions, and “Tekel” has been long since in
delibly branded upon them by the popular
judgment. Public prints liavc been gotten
up, apparently for tbe purpose of drilling,
ifnot dragooning the public sentiment into
the support of borrowed and fancy-sketched
theories of education. These liaxe appear
ed scarcely able to sustain themselves be
fore the people. They hax-c sounded their
peals, and no corresponding echo has come
up from the voice of the people in favor of
the new theories.. Associations, for the
purposes of education, appear to be the rage
of tlie present day; and these, too, like their
predecessors, appear to lie doomed “hardly
to drag tlieir slow length along.” Why is
all this “piping” by the pipers, and no
dancing” by the people? Is it because
the people feel no interest in the subject of
education? So the disappointed theorists
would have us believe. But is this fair
dealing, either with the people or the sub
ject ? Does it not appear to be more con
sistent with reason and plain, common
sense, to attribute this apparent apathy,
this neglect of the people, towards the
decked and gilded plan, to this fact ? The
people of Georgia regard their present sys
tem of education as being likely to produce
more good than any system yet proposed
by these “latter day” theorists. It does
so appear to me. I cannot bring myself
to the conclusion, that the people of Geor
gia do not feel, and cannot be made to feel,
a lix ely interest in the subject of educa
tion, when that subject is judiciously
brought before them. The fault, if any
fault exists, is not so much iu the people,
as in the visionary plans proposed—plans,
splendid, it is true, upon paper, hut wholly
unadapted to the circumstances of the peo
ple and the country. Let a plan be pre
sented, better adapted to the exigences of
the people than the one now iu successful
operation, (manger opinions to the contrary)
and if you do not find the public mind at
once aroused from its miscalled apathy, in
to a lively and actix e interest, then I have
greatly erred in my estimate of the popular
sentiment and feeling of Georgia.
The, advocates of a change of our poor
school system, charge npon it, that itleax’es
uneducated many thousands of our people;
and with flourish of trumpets, they pro
duce statistics from the census returns, up
on xvliich they pronounce its condemnation.
I shall not deny, nor attempt to palliate
the fact, as shown by the record. It is but
too true; the numbers in the ranks of uned
ucated poverty in Georgia, may be counted
by thousands, many times told—a number
large enough to suffuse with tears the eyes
of every {diilantlirophist, and large enough,
too, to crimson with a blush the cheeks of
every legislator who lias aided in withhold
ing from them the means necessary for the
execution of the present system. But is it
a fair and honest mode of reasoning, thus
to condemn a system, which has always
been denied the means necessary to gix-c it
a fair trial ? Is it fair or candid, to charge
upon the system consequences legitimately
resulting from another and very different
cause, and thus to labor to procure its con
demnation by the people, upon a false is
sue ? Tbe • sparseness of our population,
and not the system, is the great and par
amount cause why so many thousands are
uneducated. The best system to he found
on the face of the xvhole earth, would fail
to lessen, to any very great extent, the
number of the uneducated, so long as this
cause shall hax-e existence; and any sys
tem (our present system, better, with less
means, than any other) xvill edueate the
masses, more and more, as our population
shall become more and more dense. Any
system, therefore, xvhose tendency to in
crease population is granted, will be the
best for Georgia. It xvould not be difficult
to show that our present system possesses
that quality, in a greater degree, than any
one of those which have been proposed as
its substitute. It is but re t asonable to ex
pect and require of those who urge the re
linquishment of this, and the adoption of a
system totally different, a reasonable proof,
that any other system will not have, at the
least, as many of the j>oor uneducated, as
the present system, crippled as it has al
ways been in its operation, has left. The
truth is, no such proof can bc given, and
for that reason only, has not been been at
tempted. It is worse than idle to talk of a
system, which shall extend the blessedness
of education to our people generally, while
the fact of our scattered population has ex
istence; and those who thus speak, are wor
thy to be suspected of a want either of in
telligence or candor. Before the “masses”
of our people can be generally educated,
under any system,, they must be generally
collected into masses. This event, I sin'
cerely hope, will occur; bnt its occurrence
is a subject of hope only. It is yet in the
distance of the future, and until it shall oc
cur, xve most expect, no matter with how
mnch sorrow and regret, that huge num
bers of our people will be left destitute of
education. Let our system have fairness
extended to it; and if condemned, let it be
upon its merits, and not npon false issues.
To-day, this wrongfully abused system is
doing more for the education of the poor,
xx-ith less means and less burdens upon the
people, than the best system of any State
in this Union, under the same circumstan
ces, could do. And I defy the advocates
of a change, to show that this is not true.
Why then, should the people be expected
to desire a change, to abandon a system
which has been found to operate, at the
xx or6t, tolerably well, for one which, at the
best, is untried by us, and to which the
rational probabilities are unfavorable. A
system from one of tbe Northern or East
ern States, though its operation there may
produce the most beneficial results, yet, if
introduced in Georgia, the circumstances
of our people being so widely different,
would be very likely, if not very certain, to
become a x'cry bungling affair. When the
funds requisite, for a fair trial shall have
been furnished, if the present system shall
fail to produce as favorable results, as some
other would do, xvith the same means, un
der the same condition of population, then,
and not till then, let a change be made.
Until these conditions shall have been tes
ted, the people of Georgia onght to-frown
upon any attempt to substitute any other,
in the place of the present system.
Let it not be inferred, that the writer is
unfriendly to progressive improvements in
plans of education, or to improvements gen
erally. It is true, he does not recognise
every innovation as an improvement. It
is also true, he looks xvith suspicion upon
all radical and sudden changes in systems
and institutions, which, in their operation,
have given promise of usefulness; but he
is not opposed to such gradual and cautious
improvements in either, as a wise observa
tion, founded upon experience, may sug
gest. As a proof of what is here stated, I
xvill propose an addition to our present sys
tem of education, xvhich, if carried into ex
ecution, I believe would be a most valua
ble improvement. It is, the establishment
of an Institution, under the patronage of the
State, for the education of a portion of tbe
poor children residing within her limits.
In this Institution, the more useful scien
ces, in connection with the more useful me
chanic arts, should be taught. Into this
Institution, let not less than 400 poor chil
dren, selected by the several counties, iu
due proportion, at the age of 10 to 12 years
old, bc received, and remain until they ar
rive at tlie age of 21 years; each beneficia
ry or apprentice laboring at some one of
these trades, during three fourths of each
year, and receiving instruction in the
school department during one fourth of
each year. It is thought this dixision of
each year would guard against desertions
during the apprenticeship. And if they
should occur, neither the deserter nor the
State xvould be materially wronged. The
whole expenses to be paid by the State.
With such an Institution in operation, 400
young men, at the expiration of their ap
prenticeship, would be sent out into the
community—not hax'ing been trained for
vagabonds, in the school of poverty and
vice—a public curse—but prepared for
usefulness—ornaments and blessings to the
State—a band of well trained, well bred,
scientific mechanics. Such an Institution,
iu the outset, would require a large expen
diture of money; but its public benefits,
large and varied, would most amply com
pensate for the outlay. The expenses,
however, would be lessened, as its benefi
ciaries would in a few years become quali
fied to conduct the greater number of its
departments; thus lessening the expenses
until, in all likelihood, it would become a
source of actual revenue to the State.
The writer can give, at present, only this
very brief and general idea of the plan; the
details would require more space than
ought to be asked for a newspaper publica
tion. Hereafter, if opportunity and inclin
ation should unite, he may give his notions
of the details. But this is of small moment,
however, if the general plan should be
deemed practicable, its details would be
simple and easily adjusted.
It does really appear to me tbat such
an Institution ought to enlist in its favor all
the leading influences in the State. All
mechanics ought to favor it, because it
would do more tban any thing else, to
elevate and establish on a solid basis the
mechanic character. E\ r ery patriot ought
to favor it, in view of the honor and other
public benefits which it would confer upon
our State and its citizens. And every
Christian, as xveil as every friend of order
or morality, in view of its moral influence,
ought to favor it. Indeed, so great and
varied arc the good consequences which
would be derived from sitch an Institution,
that money, how much soever might be
expended in giving it existence and active
operation, onght scarcely to have a place
in the argument of its adoption.
J. 0. PAULETT.
To Planters and Factors.—-We should
feel greatly obliged and it would subserve
the cause of general intilligence and the
public interest, if our friends in Georgia
and Florida would send us answers to the
following queries, which we find proposed
in tbe Charleston Courier:—Sav. Geo
1. What proportion do you think
the land planted with Cotton this spring,
bears to that of last year and the
year previous in your own neighbor
hood?
2. What is your opinion of the “stand
now obtained, and the condition of the new
crop as compared with an average of sea
sons at the same date?
3. What proportion of the old crop
of your district is still remaining in the
country?
A Wedding in Baltimore.—Secretary
Marcy Giving away the Bride.—Quite a
joyous and imposing, scene took place
within the sacred walls of Grace Church
yesterday afternoon. It was a wedding
and a happy one. to which there were ma
ny spectators. 1 he parties were Capt. J,
N. Palmer, of the United States army, and
Miss K Jones, daughter of Captain Jones,
also of the army. The fair bride’s father
being unax-oidably absent on dnty, she was
formally ‘given away’ by ex-Governor
Marcy, Secretary of State, who visited
Baltimore for that purpose, There were
four beautiful young bridesmaids, robed in
snowy white, attended by army officers in
full uniform. The ceremony, performed
by Dr. Cox, was strikingiy imposing.—
Balt. Sun. May ISth.
Know Nothing Definitions.—"Foot
prints of Sam”—the know nothing nota in
Cincimnati. • „
“Americans must rule America —-Des
troying ballot-boxes and defying civil au
thority—fide Cincinnati election.
“gons of Seventy-six”—Firing cannon
loaded with brickbats ^defenceless wo
men and children.
“Purity of the ballot-box”—Destroying
it where the anti know nothings are likely
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