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9r. Cartwright m Starar.
We lav before our reader* to-day the able and
interesting Utter of IJr. Samuel Cart right, of New
Orleans, on the subject of slavery and the African
race. 1'to addressed to !’ • r Cart-
lutition lor
is not con-
L»aiKXPOKT, Iowa, July 4, lt57.
lice. Sir : In travelling for health and recrea
tion, 1 find myself in the new and beautiful city
of Davenport, on the 4th of July, and know not
how better to celebrate the day than by giving
expression of a few thoughts suggested by read
ing year Autobiography. The work is interest
ing and instructive, as it gives some account of
the labors and sufferings cf those early pioneers
who planted the Gospel vineyards in the great
w estern wilderness, in the faco of difficulties suffi
cient to have appalled the Apostles of old. The
only tools they worked w ith consisted of the Bible
and Hymn Book : tne rules to direct their labor
were contained a little pamphlet called the “Des-
cipiine, ’ and the history of the fruits of their la
bors was summoned up in little annual tracts call
ed •'Minutes ” The only sins they preached
aga nrt were sins specified in the Bible. With
these simple means, a few illiterate preachers of
the word of God, fas it is written and plain to the
comprehension of every man and woman,) in a
very short time made more converts to Christian
ity in the valley of the Mississippi, and planted
more churches than did tiro Apostles themselves
in the whole of Europe and Asia Oflate years,
hbwerer. the grapes in many of the richest vine
yards are turning sour. Wherever this isthecase,
i have satisfactorily ascertained that the laborers
in the vine'ards have been using other tools than
the Bible and the Hymn Book, and striking at i ther
sins than tho«e designated as sins in the reveal
ed word of God. There was a man hung yester
day in sight of this growing city, and not permit
ted to see tlie sight of tlie glorious fourth, for kill
ing his wife. On inquiry, I find that the sin that
the rising generations in several of the schools
and colleges at the Northeast are mostly taught
to shun, and tkj loudest thunders of the pulpit
roar against, is not murder or any other sin that
the Bibie denounces, but a new sin, lately discov
ered to be sin by an aristocratic junta of Exeter
Hail, London—the sin of slavery.
According to the dogmas of Exeter Hall, slave
ry is not only a sin against God. hut a sin so heni-
otis that it would he doing God a most acceptable
service to abolish it. According to the Bible, the
law from Mount Sinai was confined to the slave-
holding Jews. The Savior of mankind began and
ended his earthly pilgrimage in a .slaveholding
country, and in no instance prpached against
slavery as a sin. By preaching Exeter Hall dog
mas from the pulpit, and insisting upon tl,em as
If they were gospel truths, and by instilling them
into the minds of the young of schools and col
leges, as a most essentia! part of education, the
people have been led into angry coutejitions, and
most of the churches have been divided and split
into irreconcilable fragments. The only remedy
for tii- evil is to go hack to the text book of the
early pioneers and preach no other doctrine than
the doctrine contained in them. The Bible lias
nothing to do with slavery or any other political
institution. It is to reform the heart of fallen
man, to cast out sin from the inner man, and thus
to banish evil from society, whether slave nr free,
monarchical or despotic. Hence it is adap'ed to
all forms of government. It would not Le a Di-
vim-]5onk if it were only suited to some particu
lar form of government The Revealed Word,
preached in its purity is all potent to banish sin.
Yon know this to he true, because in the early
y> ars of your mini-try you preached tlie pure, un
adulterated word, both to slaves and freemin—
both fell before it, and were converted to God;
whereas the preaching of Abolitionism, or any
other specie# of politics, never did nor never can
convert a single sou). Instead of purifying the
heart, as Bible preaching does, 't sows the seeds
of infidelity, and feeds tlie evil passions which true
religion subdues. The doctrine that slavery is
■in against God is nowhere taught in the Bible,
but is simply au ingenious political device of the
aristocrats of Great Britain to overthrow our re
publican institutions and to destroy our Northern
manufactures. You and I reside in tlie same
great, happy, prosperous and Cristian country,
whose republican example the monarchist and
privileged classes of Europe so much fear. You
live in the Northwest and I in the Southwest.
The distance from London through France, Ger
many and Austria, to tlie Turkish dominions, is
not so great as tlie distance between your home
and min>-. yet our political interests are as identi
cal now as they would lie if we were both back
on our native James River and Potomac. But it
is the policy of Great Britain to make us be
lieve otherwise if she can. Hence her statesmen
have added a new commandment to the decalogue.
They forbid slaveholding, they have denounced
slavery as a sin, and have organized societies,
both in Europe and America, to enli a t tlie sym
pathies ot the «verld against tlie alleged sin and
piocure its immediate abolition. The Abolition
ists proper regard you as one of their worst cne-
mi< s, because you do not concur with them in the
means used to abolish slavery You are. opposed
to any violent measures to blot out the alleged
sir, and : u favor of dealing with the sin, if it he a
sin, as other sins are dealt with, by simply preach
ing the revealed word of God in its plain sense
and reading. lint why class slavciy among the
sin- at all. considering It is not so classed in tlie
Billie ’ Why look for it to fall und“r the preach
ing of the gospel, considering that it is not de
nounced as a sin in holy writ, and stands on the
same feotiug as tlie institution of marriage? Y ou
did net derive your belief in tlie sinfulness of
slavery from anything you read in the Bible, and
I ain sure you did not derive it from the writings,
lectures or preaching of the modern Abolitionists.
Y'ou brought the belief with you from Virginia
and the South. In former times, a great many
people in the slavebolding States regarded negro
slavery as a social, mental ami political evil —
They were led to this belief principally from ab-
stiact or theoretical rcosoning. founded on tlie as
sumption that tlie negro was a being in every
respect like themselves, except in the color of his
skin. My father and a great many others fell into
this error and emancipated their slaves. But ex
experience proved not only in Virginia hut in oili
er Slates that emancipation, so far from bettering
the condition of the negroes, almost invariably
mads it worse. But the evil did not stop at that.
The black freemen became trespassers on the
white freemen who had liberated them, and on
the population generally. I bcice the Legisla
tures of the States, where the 'blacks are numer
ous. were compelled, in self detifice, to put a stop
to the experiment of emancipation. It was clear
ly foreseen that if tlie uegroes were liberated, the
•white# would have to leave the .country or labor,
not only ior the support of themselves, but for tlie
black freemen likewise. It was also ascertained
that they would have to increase tie number of
prisons and penitentiaries, and incur the expense
of a strong police furee. You leit the South be
fore tlie experiment of emancipation had been fair
ly tried, and proved a failure. Hence you carried
with you the old ideas about slavery being an
evil.
Y’ou may remember something of tlie Guinea
negroes that had been imported into Y T irginia. If
y'ou do, you will renu-niber that in size, actions
and grimaces, they resemble the ourang entang,
almost as their descendants of the fourth and fifth
gen. ration resemble them. A daguerreotype of
old Guinea Tom, as 1 have frequently seen him
in the days of my boyhood, with snakes in his
bosom engaged in a species of heathen worship,
called “conjuring,” if placed in contrast with a
good likeness of bis grand children, two of whom
were popular preachers, I am sure would be suffi
cient of itself to show, that whatever evils may lie
attached to negro slavery, it is fairly entitled to
the merit of gr< atly improving the African race,
physically, morally and mentally. If I could
send you a daguerreotype of the third or fourth
getieratian of negroes both in freedom, and left in
neighborhoods to themselves, remote from the su
pervisory care of the white man, you would see
at once that they were rapidly retrograding to tlie
original barbarism frern which slavery had rais< d
their grandfathers. The minutes of your confer
ence will prove, that up to the year 1810, the col
ored cornu.-unicants in Philadelphia greatly exceed
ed those of Charleston, When I last-examined the
minutes, some few years ago 1 found more color
ed communicants in the Charleston district than
in ull the non-slaveholding Btates put together.
I found also, on examining the statistics of the
prisons and penitentiaries of tlie Northern-cities,
that they have been gaining in the number of
black criminals almost as fast as Abe church has
been losing its colored communicants by negro
freedom- If '-he Hebrew names, given to tlio
children of Ham, could be rendered into English
with all their original significance, every one
would sue that they were not only black Lilt had
tlie type of mind qualifying them for no other
than a subordinate Condition in society, or in other
words, that slavery is their normal condition, and
tie y never can be civilized or Christianized in any
other. The w hole suliject could he settl' d in a
trice—the schisms in the churches healed, ar.tf
our political union cemented, if dealt with ns you
dealt with Gen. Jackson, boldly faced, and the
truth, however unwelcome, forced upon the public
as you forced the awful tenets of the church upon
his attention; instead of mincing matters orsmoth-
ering your Methodist doctrines, (when kindly
pulled by the coat in the pulpit by a brother cler
gyman and admonished in a whisper of t he pres
ence of that renowned personage,) you cried out
aloud his name—tie hero stood up b> fore you,
arid you thundered in his face the awful words
that “God would dantu his soul if lie did not get
converted.” Many ofthe audience, knowing his
impetuous temper, trembled for yuu, and one of
the preachers, after church was over, called on
him to ap<-logize, especially for some additional
remarks you made that God would make as quick
work damning him as he would a Guinea negro.
Jackson waived the apologia r from his presence.
Tlie arrow had taken effect—you had come
squarely up to his standard of what a minister of
the gospel ought to he—viz: to love everybody
and to tear no mortal man. He naturally con
cluded that Joye for him and every soul around
was the moving spring of what might beregard-
ed as iu'empeiate zeal, and he opened am heart
to receive the word as you preached it. When
he afterw ards met with you he took you cordially
by the hand, and remarked that he only wanted
a few thousand such indendent, tearless men to
officer h's army to take old England. There is
reason to believ. that as England and the war
disappeared in the distance, heaven opened to his
view, and the w.ird you had so fearlessly preach-
•••1, prompt'd hi n to win the eternal bliss lie now I J*y ] elongii:orlv to ^leirts
enjova. Andrew Ja K-on i- gone to lisaven aaid f. , . * ' q . -
leftfhew.uk of taking Old England to Young “ air t^re.
A meric:* and Young Ai o rica ran do it in a short | use : to designate
lime by the force ct example, without stri
blow, if we only had a few thousand fearless, in
dependent preachers to proclaim the truths reveal
ed in the Bible iu regard to negroes, and confirm
ed by experience aud observation, as that would
prevent any danger to Christianity and republican
institutions from the slavery question. The privi
leged classes of Europe, who have stripped the
great Masses of their fellow men, beings like them
selves. of all ’die essential comforts of life, by tak
ing advantage of their prejudices, and sowing dis
sensions among them, are trying to play the same
game upon the people of the United States that
lias succeeded so well iu Europe and tlie East
Indies : hence they are using the slavery question
as an apple of discord—to divide tlie Union and
eiieat the Y ankees out of their manufactures by
pointing to the liag of liberty over tlie white man
and the whip over the negro—caret oily conceal
ing tlie important truth that the white and black
races are essentially different—liberty being as
injurious to the latter as it is beneficial to the
former. No one knows better than tlie British
aristocracy, British doctors of divinity, British
statesmen and philosophers, that the negro is not
a white man with a black skin, but a different be
ing, differing in wants and mental information.
They know the version of the Scripture called
the Septuagiant, quoted by our .Savior a „d the
Apostles, uses tlie Greek, Ethiopian, where Cush
had some other Hebrew words, to designate the
negro race, occur in our version, and conveying
no meaning to the English reader. Y’et they
know that if suits British policy to contend for the
perfect equality ot the races and to brand every
other doctrine as irrational and anti-Scriptural.
Hence the whole current of English literature is
filled with Abolition poison to tempt the young
Republican giant, w ho is writing the mcne tckcl of
king craft on the heavens, to drink aud die.
8AM’L A. CARTWRIGHT, M. D..
of New Orleans.
From the New Y’ork Day Book.
Tb«* Horror*, of '‘Slavery.”
The Abolitionists are famous for bold
ing up the horrors of “slavery” to the gaze
of Northern people, and select some ex
ceptionable cases of cruelty, or invent an
outrageous falsehood to give a show of
color to their fulminations. We have,
however, a terrible case of cruelty to re
port, a scene of such heart-rending destitu
tion and misery iu Mississippi, that it
ought to excite the commiseration of every
benevolent person in this great city, where
there is no vice, no starvation and no mis
ery ! The extract from the letter which
we give below aud which details
the shocking and awful condition of
affairs to which we refer, we have re
ceived from an old and valuable friend of
the Day Book in Kentucky, to whom jt
was written by a fellow townsman, while
on a visit to Mississippi. There can he no
loubt of the truth of tins story, for we have
the names of all the parties in our posses
sion, and were we permitted to use them
we should be very glad to announce them
to the world. We may be permitted how
ever, to go so far as to say that the spot
where this sad state of affairs exits isabout
(thirty miles below Vicksburg,on the Mjss-
| issippi river. The following is the extract
j referred to.
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) My dear sir—You see, from the post
mark of my letter that I am with your mu-
i tual friends, Mr. and Mrs. , I forgot
| whether you were ever here if not, it will be
‘well to describe the possessions of Mr.
( This house is in full view of the river (the
' Mississippi,) and a very handsome one of
brick, stuccoed with white plaster, with an
j upper and lower gallery, supported by
forty or sixty large, square columns. The
.yard has ten acres, full of live oaks, mag-
inolias, cedars, pines, &e., and many rose
'bushes, loaded at this time, (Feb. 15,)
with flowers. There are, literally, thou
sands of birds, of ten varieties, amongst
the trees iu the yard, so tame as to be
approached; also, tame squirrels. The
garden containing eight acres, filled with
all kinds of fruits and vegetables. On the
place are two villages of negro cottages
accommodating over three hundred blacks
all fat, well clothed and saucy. They
have thousands of eggs, from large flocks
of hens, geese and ducks. This winter
they sell to a fellow slave, who owns a
store and grocery, over one hundred dozen
eggs a week. He packs them for the
New Orleans market. Forty cows are
milked daily, and the finest butter made.
There are 700 sheep, 400 mules and hors
es—all bred on the place. There lias been
iOOdogs to be fed. Mr. told me
that the negroes fed to the fowls over 1000
bushels of corn a year. The cribs were
not locked. He makes from 17,000 to 20-
000 bushels a year. He has from 200 to
000 acres of Southern clover, all green the
winter through, for his cows. He makes
1000 bales of cotton this year, worth S50,-
000. Three cotton aud one corn overseer
1 shepherd; three doctors, all graduates;
one German hydropathist one Swiss horse,
cow and sheep doctor a graduate ofBaden,
one electic and botanic, and another,
seven miles off, who is consulted in *il bad
cases.
Mr. ’s house accommodates thir
ty visitors without crowding, and all are
made to feel at home. He takes thirty-
newspapers and nine or ten journals, med
ical, scientific and literary, and all the
new books as they come from the press.—
Tlie negroes make free use of his fat hogs
sheep &c., when they have a wedding or
wish fresh meat, without consulting him.
He has an Episcopal clergyman to
preach. The government of liis negroes
is peculiar; none of them are corrected
unless as follows; one day in the week he
has a jury of twelve negro men; he or an
overseer presides as judge, and one of the
negroesactsas Sheriff. Each case of mis
demeanor is called and carefully examined
into. The jury then decide what punish
ment, if any- is to be inflieted, and the
sheriff sees that the decision of the jury is
executed.”
We presume it will do no good, says
the Day Book,, to invite the Abolition
papers to copy the above plain, unvarnish
ed story, floras pleasing as it may be to
others, it will be absolutely painful to
them. It would never do to allow that it
were possible for such a scene to exist in
the South. It would destroy more abo-
lition arguments than they could rear iu a
twelvemonth. Besides, some one might
venture to suggest to them the contrast
existing between a negro dying in this city
of starvation and his body being devoured
by rats, as our recent police reports show
ed, and the condition of those on the South
ern plantation described above.
How to Prevent Colds—A bad colJ, like meas
les, or mumps, or any oilier similar ailment, will
run its course of about ten days, in spite of what
may be done tor it unless remedial means are em
ployed within forty-eight hours of its inception.
Many a useful life may be spared, to be increas
ingly useful, by cuuingacold offin the follow
ing sa e but simple manner; On the first day of
taking cold, there is a very unpleasant sensation
of chilliness. The moment you observe this, go
your room, and stay there. Keep it at such a
temperature as will entirely prevent this chilly
feeling even it it requires J 00 degrees of Fahren
heit.
In addition to this, put your feet in water half
leg deep, as hot as you can bear it. adding hot
water, from time to time for a quarter of an hour,
xo that the water shall be hotter when you take
to your feet out.tliun w hen you put them in. 'Then
dry them thoroughly, and put on thick woollen
stockings, even if it lie summer, for summer
colds are more dangerous—and for twenty-four
hours eat not an atom ot food, but drink as large
ly as you desire of any kind of warm tea, and at
the end of that time the cold will he entirely bro
ken without any medicine whatever. Efficient
as the above means are, not one in a thousand
attends to them, led on as most men are, by the
hope that a cold will pass away itself. Neverthe
less, this article will now and then pass under the
eye of a wise man, who does not chose to run the
double risk of takiug physic and dying too.—Med
ical Journal.
Let those who are often afflicted with colds, min
sters, students, consumptives generally, cut out
llie above directions and preserve them; if faithfuliy
followed, the will do you more good than all the
pluemouaries, cold cordials, and other hurtful nos
trums which now load your shelves.
From the Boston Courier.
Hoop Skirts.
The term “Crinoline,” although proper-
mannfeetured
id, is now cotnemonly
all classes and condi-
tions of expensive female undergarments,
of whatever material. In this country,
the genuine article is not frequently met
with; a cheaper substitute, in which hoops
are made to give the desired amplitude of
periphery, being better suited to the means
of our fair community at large. These
hoop skirts were first brought into favor in
New York, through the enterprise of two
young dry goods dealers of that city, who,
some half dozen years ago, set their wits to
work to take advantage of the growing de
mand for crinoline. Many methods for sup
ply ing this popular demand lias been advis
ed—the original crinoline far too expensive
to be indulged in by tbe many—but the
substitutes invented and manufactured by
those two dealers were the only ones that
at all satisfied public want; even their first
attempt was only partially successful, the
article still being too dear for the mass of
wearers, but in good time they hit upon
the idea of the skeleton skirt, constructed
of hoop which, although at first derided
and plentifully abused, rolled itself rapid
ly into universal favor, and its inventors
and proprietors into a fortune. It is be
lieved to be a fact, that the hoop skirts
was made by the firm in question, then in
Canal street, New York, about six years
ago.
Since that time, the hoop skirt, like all
modem institutions, has undergone various
changes and improvements, until it last the
E rinciple of construction seems to have
ecome finally established. The “crinoline’
of the present day is no crinoline, at all, but
a number of steal hoops of different degrees
of circumference, large near the hem of the
skirt, and decreasing iu regular gradation
as they approach the waist, which are held
in place by strips of tape, forming the
skeleton, or a somewhat more elegant
style, are inserted in light muslin, scienti
fically cut and fashioned into the true
symmetrical form. Great difficulty was
at first experienced—there are difficulties
to be overcome in all inventions—in obtain
ing proper material for the hoops them
selves. Rattan proved to he clumsy, stiff
and unmanageable; whalebone was found
excellent in warm weather, but liable to
suap short in winter; gutta perclia, which
can be applied to almost any use, failed
in this connection; brass wire coiled around
cord was tried, but was too expensive; flat
bands of brass had their turn, but did, not
possess the necessary elasticity, and in
convenienced the wearer, finally steel was
looked upon as a dernier resort, but was
thought entirely too costly. It was never
theless used, at first by flattening round
steel wire, which failed to give satisfaction,
on account of its liability to break, except
where it was so large as to be heavy and
too expensive.
The method at last adopted, and which
is now in use, is this; - English sheet-steel,
that come four and a half to eight feet long,
in bands about eight inches wide, is cut
into ribands by steam-driven shears.—
'These ribands are tempered and straight
ened, and afterwards smoothed and pol
ished by tbe following ingenious process.
They are put into a long cylinder, with a
quantity of old broken glass, and the cylin
der set revolving for some hours. When
opened it is found that the glass is all
round into small cubes, and the rough
dges ot the steel rounded and made
smooth, Last of all the ribands are passed
between large, heavy rollers, which set the
temper and leave them so that they will
always return to their place when bent.
After these preparations they have only to
he made ready for the skeleton pattern, by
being covered with cotton thread braided
over tlie steel.
Some statistics of the extent of business
of these two manufacturers before men
tioned, and the amount of material used by
their employees, connot fail to be of inter
est. In tlie department where tbe skirts
are wrought together and finished, (the
steel work is a separate affair, and is car
ried on Oonnecticut, where sixty hands are
employed,) they give occupation to four
hundred persons, nearly the whole of them
American girls, one hundred and eighty of
whom are at work upon sewing machines
which, with the hand sewmg, use up every
month two thousand dozen spools of cot
ton thread. An average of three thousand
skirts are manufactured every day; at
prices varying from 50 cents to $G a piece,
and comprising more than fifty patterns.
The latest style is worth describing—it
will be of profound interest to feminine, al
though mysteriously incomprehensible to
to masculine, readers. It is a skeleton
made of thirteen and a half yards of inch-
wide tape, and three yards of narrow tape
and some strips of muslin, and tlireo and
a half yards of corset lacing, with fifty-one
metal clasps, slides tubes eyelets and hoops,
and seven steel hoops measuring fifty-four
feet in length, covered with braid; with
three bustle hoops of whalebone, eight and
a half feet long, cloth covered—tlie steel
hoops being made to expand by slides, to
suit the most expansive ideas; and yet the
whole fabric weighs but twelve ounces
and although it will keep its place, it can
he folded up small enough to put in a carpet
hag or band-box without injury. The
reail price of this article is about $3.
We have sta’cd that 3,000 skirts are
made each day, on an average. This is
equal to 75,000 a month or 900,000 a year.
Of the materials used we will now give a
few details. In the first place, there is the
plain muslin. One Rhode Island cotton
factory supplies, ef one particular kind of
cloth, 2,000 pieces per month—say 80,000
yards. Of all other kinds, about 70,000
yards are used. Half a million yards cf
tape are also used up every month; 225,000
yards of twenty strand jute cord; 10,000
yards of hair cloth; 2,000 dozen spools of
cotton; 2,800,000 eyelets, slides claps,
tubes, books, &c,
Although steel Las been found to be the
most suitable material for hoops, yet others
have not been altogether put out of the
question, because rattan and whalebone are
not only still used to a large extent in
cheap skirts for all the hoops, but they form
a part of the material of nearly all of the
steel hooped skirts. The manufacturers
of whom wc have been speaking will use
up in the course of the present year, two
thousand two hundred miles of hoops. The
consumption, in feet in a month, of the
various materials is as follows; 700,000 feet
ox steel riband, 200,000 feet of round rat
tan, 100,000 feet of round oil boiled whale
bone—a million feet—which give fertile
year within a fraction of 2,207,1-2 miles of
hoops.
From tbe Yankee Blade.
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Trial of (be HmtsvMe.
Tlie new screw propeller Huntsville, built by
Mr. 8. G. Bogcrt, at Jacob A. Westervelt’s ship
yard, toot ot Houston street, for the American
w fiti-un-ship Company, went on her
•• o-y. She 5s isaigj.ed to r«r •etweeu j it becot.
Savannah. under cemm&ui of (Japt.
xt-,. irh James McPherson, first officer,
Alexander Doy. engineer and other assistants,
making nineteen hands all told. The ship is 205
teet long, 80 feet in breath of beam, and 19 feet in
depth of hold, and is 850 turns register, although
from the manner of the construction she will carry
much more than that. The frames are heavy, of
white oak, two feet between the centors and are
strapped on the outside with stout iron braces 41
inches wide by | of an inch thick, fastened with
iron bolts into every timber. The straps are run
fore and aft, connecting with the dead wood at the
stern post and bows of the vessel. The hull of the
ship is covered with whte oak plank. The ceilings
are respectively 9, 7, 6 and 5 inches thick of yel
low pine, and are fastened with bolts to the frame
work, aud trammelled through aud through.
The joiner work was done by Messrs. Bell aud
Crooker.and for neatness and taste is equal to any
other part of i he vessel. Tbe main cabin is arched
with a large dome extending nearly its whole
length with stained glass, aud tho outside of the
state rooms is of the finest polished oak, the inside
ol the panels being of satin wood. Tbe cabin, and
indeed every part of the vessel, is richly and
tastefully furnished:
Tbe engine was built at the Morgan Iron YVorks,
from a drawing furnished by Mr. John Baird. It
is 52 inches iu diameter, 42 inch stroke, and is a
direct acting condensing one. Tbe vessel is well
built, and is said to be sea worthy in every particu
lar. There are five boats on board, four of which
are liie-boats. The life-preservers are of tbe cork
jacket style. Accommodations are provided for 60
cabin and J00 steerage ana deck passeugers.
This ship started on her trial trip from Pier No.
12 yesterday morning, shortly before JO o’clock,
and went outside bandy Hook. She sailed round
the lightship aud went about five miles beyond it,
aud then returned to the light ship, repeating the
operation for the purpose of testing her compasses,
after which she proceeded back to the city. In
going out she passed Fort Hamilton at four minutes
past 10 o’clock, and returned to her dock at fifty-
three minutes past 4; left the light ship at fifty-five
minutes past 2. As near as can he ascertained tho
average speed yesterday was between ten and
eleven miles an hour, On the homeward trip a
fine dinner was served lip. after which several
speeches appropriate to the occasion were made.
The cost of the vessel will be about $85,000. She
is expected soon to take her place in the line of
Savannah steamers.—Mew York News April 8th,
lither or m
on and anti
Culture of the Sweet Potato.
I reparing the Bed.—About tlie 10th of April
make a frame largo enough to hold the quantity o 1
potatoes you wish to sprout but in no case not
less than four and a half feet by five or six feet—
as a less quantity of manure than such a frame will
hold will not generate sufficient heat. In making
tbe bed, proceed as directed in the February (15th
number) of the Ohio Cultivator, except make your
manure only fourteen inches thick, if your bed is
large; if it is small, put iu a little more manure,
say an inch or two. Then get some good loam
that will not crust when watered, and put on over
the whole bed not less than eight inches; he sure
you have enough. This can ho prepared at any
time in March, when the loam is sufficiently dry to
be handled; indeed, it is better to do so, as it may
be wet when you want to use it, and it is always
a little better to look a little ahead. The loam may
be tin own iu a pile, and covered with a few boards,
near the place where it will be wanted.
Sprouting tlie Potatoes.—Now fix a cover over
your bed, of boards, with slope enough to let the
ater run off readily, and let it stand about five
days, or until the first rank heat passes off. Then
on some pleasant day, before tho 20th of April, re
move enough loam from the bed to leave five in
ches, on which spread your potatoes, carefully lay
ing them so as not to touch each other. The more
room you give them, the more stocky will be the
plants Take the loam you removed—which of
course is warm—and cover the potatoes two and a
half inches thick. Then in a warm day, when the
sun shines, take off the cover of boards, being
careful to replace them at night, or in cold weath
er, or when it rains, unites the bed becomes dry
and needs watering, when rain is the best water
ing it can have. If you make your bed, put on the
loam, and put in the potatoes, all in one day, or
put them on, or cover them with cold loam, and
if your potatoes all rot, don't blame the writer here
of, orthe dealer of whom you purchased your seed,
but charge it to your own folly.
Forcing under glass.—If the plants are too back
ward they can be forced by covering with glass
and watering with water a little warmed. It is
surprising what a difference such treatment will
make in their growth. But in that case, as indeed
with all othor plants raised under glass, they will
need hardening by having the glass removed some
ten or twelve days before setting out. For it would
be folly to take a plant from under glass without
any preparation, and set it in the cold ground and
open air, and expect it to live, much less to grow.
Field Management.—Select your ground for your
sweet potato patch, and plow it as soon as you can
in the spring, thus enabling the slight freezes to
pulverize it for you. Then about tlie 15th or 20th
of May, harrow or otherwise make the top fine,
then plow it over again, and make fine as before.
It is now ready to be marked out into rows, which
we do with a shovel plow, about two-and-a-quarter
feet apart each way, aud then make up the hills as
peaked as they will stand, and about the size of a
bushel basket
itself receiving greater benefits that any other
from the federal Union, has bitterly and contemp
tuously warred against the interests and disturbed
tho peace of the Republic, and at last delibertaely
renouncing its obligations to the Federal compact
question of serious consideration
t she is a member of tho Federal
d a ay longer to participate
in its unmeasured blessings. And be this as it
may, or whatever may be the final decision or ac
tion of the people of the other States, it is certain
that the Democratic party of Massachusetts have
a duty to perform in regard to this matter, and
moreover, an opportunity presented to revolution
ize the publicrSentiment of that State, and to ac
complish an amount of good rarely if ever before
offered to a political or partizan organization.—
Let them rise above the wretched squallings about
Leeompton and Kansas—the office seekings and
Custom House pickings of the day—and boldly
grapple with the great issue tho anti-“slavery”
traitors to the Union have offered them. Let-
them appeal to the honesty if not patriotism of
Massachusetts. Let them go frankly and fearless
ly before the people of that State and ask them to
perform the common duties of the Federal Union
or decline to accept the common benefits of that
Union— to fulfil their federal obligations, or, pro
forma, withdraw from their federation, and this
appeal to the conscience of the people ofthat State
will doubtless prove effectual and to the utter de
molition of the dishonest and traitorous gang now
in possession of the government of that State. On
the contrary, if they flinch from this duty, and
while admitting all the stupid and lying abstrac
tions of Abolitionism to be true, busy themseJvs in
discussing “popular sovereignty,” in picking up
crumbs that fall from the federal table and in con
cocting schemes for “saving the Union,” they will
deserve to remain in the common category of
anti-“slavery” treason, and, like Lot’s wife, an
eternal monument of the sin and shame of Massa
chusetts.—N. F. Day Booh.
Why Do Men Register Money Letters?
On this subject “an old Postmaster” gives his
opinion to the Augusta Constitutionalist of yester
day and says:
The experience of more than twenty years in the
post office has, as I think, enabled me to form pret
ty correct opinions on all matters relative to post
office business, and after seeing the operations of
the system of registering letters and taking every
view of it in all its phases, I am fully satisfied that
there is no earthly use lor such a system, unless,
indeed, a man wishes to pay a premium of five
cents fora greater exposure. If a man wants to
have any evidence that ho has mailed money, he
can take such a certificate from any friend that
he may call on. Many sensible men; giving or
ders to have nfoney sent to them by mail, say,
“Do not have it registered,” and I always doubt
tho good judgement of any person that asks to have
a letter registered.
1 have thought of the system of post office
money orders ever, since the subject has been
agitated in the papers, and can see no good reasons
why such a system, properly framed, might not
work well: but it would involve more labor and
responsibility on postmasters, for which they should
be well paid. And I will take the liberty to sug
gest such a plan as I have framed in my mind, in
order that other minds may improve it or offer a
better.
First. Postmaster should bo furnished by the
General Post Office Department with blank money
orders, blank books to keep a debtor and credit
account of ail moneys paid in for orders, and paid
out on orders, as well as other blank that might
be required Persons wishing money ordered
should be required to pay about ten per cent., or
such other per cent, as Congress might judge
proper. One per cent, to the 1‘ost office Depart
ment, to pay for all the blanks and other actual
expenses, about four per cent, to the postmaster
receiving tlie money and giving the order, and
about four per cent, to the postmaster paying the
order off.
The postmaster giving the order should mark it
with his dating stamp, and immediately notify the
postmaster on whom it was drawn that such an
order had been given. Such orders should be
numbered and entered on the general account of
orders to the debit of the postmaster grantiug it,
and in bis quarterly returns bo should state °the
amount of money received for orders, including
xommission, and how much he had paid out for post
office money orders. In giving orders the fees of
the paying postmaster should he included; for in
stance suppose a person should wish to send money
to New Y’ork for a club of papers, say twenty dol
lars, he should pay the postmaster, say twenty-one
dollars and eighty cents, eighty cents which would
be retained by the postmaster as his fees, and
eighty cents to the postmaster at New Y’ft'rk for his
fees, so he would give the order for twenty dollars
and eighty cents, and return twenty cents to the
Post office Department in my quarterly returns
with the twenty dollars.
This plan is upon the supposition that money
orders would be restricted to small amounts, and
the postmasters would always have post office
fends on hand sufficient to pay all others that
might be drawu upon him. If orders include large
amounts, there would have to be provisions
made for transfering fund from one placo to anoth
er. •
I submit these views for what they are worth.
As Oi.d Postmaster.
[From the Charlottsville “Exponent.”]
Hon. Caleb Cushing.
In the dreary waste of Massachusetts politics
there is at least one bright spot. The Legislature
In very sandy land they might be i instructed the Governor to remove Judge Loring,
a little larger, but large flat hills soon become hard, | because judicial firmness, he executed the law.
and sweet potatoes require loose hills, so that they The Governor obeyed, and communicnted the fact
can burst them, and thus hive room to grow to
large size.
Planting Out — The next thing is to set out the
plants, for which we prefer tbe evening, say after
five o’lock. Take the largest plants, and set them
in the tops of the hills, one iu each bill, so a3 to
leave a small hollow around the plant, that will
hold about a pint of water, and water immediately,
if it is not raining. Never wait for rain. In fact,
we have seldom got a good set, without watering,
which is but little trouble, when care is used in se
lecting a patch where water can be readily obtain
ed. In setting, be careful not to cover the heart of
the plant—it should strick out of the top of the hill
about three inches. In case a cut-worm cuts any
of yours plants off, pall them out, and put in oth
ers', for they are worthless after the heart is gone,
only producing string or small potatoes.
For After Culture.—Keep the weeds down, by
going through them both ways with the shovel
plow, and scraping the hills down with hoes, still
the vines begin to cover the ground, when they
arp ready for their final dressing up Turn the
vines out, and go through them both ways with
the shovel plow, thus killing all thesinall Weeds
between the rows, aud giving plenty of fresh dirt
to hill up with. Hill them as high as you can
without covering the heart or place where the
vines sprout out from, and make the bottom of
the hills as small as they will stand. Spread the
vines evenly over the lulls, aud the work is done
till digging tliim, with the exception of keeping
down such weeds as may appear.
When you have read this paper, put it away
carefully, so that you may have it for reference;
and then, when you are doubtful what course to
pursue, read this article again.
C. S. hints, in the Ohio Cultivator.
Shall Massachusetts Remain in the 1'nion.
The removal of Judge Loring is no mere attack
on the independence of the judiciary or act of
partizan malignity, it is a deliberate, decided and
distinct disavowal of the obligations assumed by
Massachusetts when that State cmered the Union
and became a portion of the Confederacy. It was
essential to tho peace, order and general safety of
some of the .States that negro “slaves’’ or “per
sons held to labor” should, if escaping from them,
be given up to their masters, and with this under
standing a clause was inserted in tne Federal com
pact so distinct, precise aud mandatory in terms,
that there should be no room for dispute or doub:
in regard to the matter. With this understanding
and accepting these conditions, Massachusetts be
came a portion of the Federal Union, the benefits
of which she has enjoyed, we are justified in say
ing, to a larger extent than any other State or com
munity in the confederacy'.
For many years that State was indulged with
special privileges in respect to commerce and nav
igation; and at this moment, through a nominal
revenue tariff, her capital is favored at the expense
of the great body of the people of other States,
while she is also benefitted to a considerable ex
tent by tho absurd and unjust fishing bounties
granted by Congress. Meanwhile, she lias done
nothing whatever for the support or for the gene
ral good of the Union. On the contrary, she has
as a State, opposed every war waged by the Fede
ration—that of 1812, the Florida, Mexican, even
the Black Hawk war—and taken sides with the
public enemy, with more or less openness, on
every occasion where the interest, honor or safety
of tho Republic was at stake. She opposed the
purchase of Louisiana, the annexation of Texas,
the conquest of California—indeed, invariably aud
without exception, has arrayed herself against
every extension of the national boundaries and
every increase of the national power, and strug
gl'd with a malignity only equalledjby its impo
tence mid absurdity against every step of the na
tional progress!
Even as regards taxation, the mere pecuniary
support of the general government, the low dollar
and cent standard of patriorism, she has fallen be
hind every other State in the Union relatively
with the amount' of her population behind even
Y’ermont, the humble and obsequious imitator of
her follies. And with this black and damning re
cord against her, she now fills the measure ot her
infamy and openly repudiates the fundamental ob
ligations of the federal compact—the sacred and
solemn pledges made by her agents when she en
tered the Union aud became a portion of tho con
federacy. By the open, deliberate aud distinct ro-
nunciation of ter duties to the federal Union,
through alltheform3 of law by both branches of
the Legislature and her Executive, she has as ab
solutely and as solemnly placed herself out of the
Union as it is possible fora State to perforin an act
of that kind or by its own individual action con-
sumate such a purpose.
The people of the other States, the great, gener-
erous hearted and patriotic masses of the Republic
have been patient, gentle aud forbearing of these
faults and follies of a sister State, which, while
of the removal to tlie Legislature. It was received
by them with an outburst of applause. But
there was even there one patriot. One man bold
euough to declare his honest convictions, and
pure enough to be carried by those convictions
to a sound position. One man who stood up
and stood alone to denounce the infamous act
in the face of those who even then were exulting
over their success. This man wa-< Caleb Cushing.
Mr. Cushing has held a high position in the Dem
ocratic party. He was a member of Mr. Pierce’s
Cabinet and has addorned many’ other high posi
tions. He gains no additional honor by being a
member of the Massachusetts Legislature. But
that body is indebted tobim that it exhibits in this
instance a single evidence of either honesty or
dignity. Mr. Cushing is one of a body of men in
the north who are true to themselves and to ns.—
The South may well mark these heroes, and if we
can express our gratitude in no other way, we
may he allowed to tender them, as wo do in this
instance, the homage of our sincere admiration.
Editorial Experience.—Tho following paragraph
“ To Correspondents,’’ which appeared in the. South
ern Christian Advocate, has a wider application
than to the correspondents of the Advocate. The
Charleston Courier, in re-publishing it, says:
“Our brother of the Advocate has his daily troubles
and annoyances even with a week paper—a week
ly journal, as we suppose we may say, notwith
standing tho etymoligical absurdity of the phrase.
In his last issue he gives a Lint which we are will
ing to extend to any correspondents that are in
need of such admonitions:
“ To Correspondents.—We havo some articles on
hand that contain very just and proper views,
that we would willingly publish but that the la
bor of editing them is too great. When a writer
expects us to spell and punctuate his article, it
must have great merit, and we he short of ‘copy’—
which is not the case now—if it sees the light.
The brother who writes : ‘lain not in the habit of
wrightingfor the Advocate, theart'oure I feel some
what embarist to wrieht, but tieverthe less oner a
few thought to our bretheren’—will please excuse
us, for not filing up’ his article. It will cost too
much labor.”
The Utah Expedition.—The Washington Union
states that Gen. Persifer Smith has been ordered
to Utah as well ns General llarney, and that the
chief command will devolve upon General Smith.
General S. is one of the most accomplished and
popular officers in the service—a soldier by choice
and education, of great experience as an officer,
and endowed withal with a high and acknowl
edged military genius.
The Southern-Georgia Watchman.— The press of
the Thomasville Watchman lias been removed to
Troupville, and the paper has re-appeared under
the above title. We congratulate the people of
Lowndes in having a paper published in their
midst, and wish our friends, tho Messrs. DeLyou
every happiness and success in their new home.
Mr. Harris of Illinois.—This gentleman it ap
pears is dangerously ill at Washington, and will
not bo able to participate in the debate in tbe
House, if there should be any debate, on the Kan
sas Leeompton bill. It is said, however, that liis
vote will not bo lost, for although ho is confined
to his room at the residence of Senator Douglas he
will yet be carried to the House forthat purpose.
He risks, we apprehend, much in a bad cause, but
that is bis business not ours. His disease is con
sumption.— The Atlanta Intelligencer.
Singular Affdir.—The Trieste Gazette
related the following singular story:
One of tho nobleat families of Verona,
has just learned that it lias been the victim
of an audacious fraud. The heir to the
property having many years ago been put
out to nurse, fell and broke liis arm. Soon
after tlie mother arrived to visit her infant.
The nurse, afraid of revealing the truth,
presented her own child instead of the
little sufferer. The fraud succeeded, and
tlie nurse allowed it to continue. Tho
young peasant accordingly received the
education of a noble, and the nobleman,
brought up to follow the plough. It was
but a few days ago that the nurse, on her
death-bed, confessed her crime. The
peasant, her son, is now married to a no
ble lady and it is not known how the in
terests engaged in the matter can be con
ciliated.
la Anti-Revivalist.
Rev. Mr Conway, who is well known in this
city, is one of the very few, either, clergymen or
laymen, w ho Lave come out m opposition to the
present religious revival. We find tlfb following
remarks on a discourse delivered by him iu Cincin-
nutti cn Suns; v fast in tin Daily Times of that
city, aud copy it for the benefit of Mr. Conway's
old acquaintances here. No additional comments
are necessary:—Union.
“It is in the regular line of tlie history wo have
undertaken of this religious revival to state that
Mr. Conway, at the Unitarian Church yesterday,
preached a discourse in condemnation of it, and
advising his people against its influence. It was a
common-place and puerile discourse on the whole,
but sufficiently set forth the preacher's views in
regard to the whole movement. His text was the
beautiful story of Elijah in the cave, and the ‘still
small voice’ of God. But he was particularly
unfortunate in liis application of it. .
“Some of the remarks of the preacher were in
exceeding bad taste, to say the least of them, and
we cannot think they will havo much affect in
restraining the disposition of Christains to pray
and assemble themselves together. Among theso
were his allusions to ‘saintly revivalists,’ aud
‘sweet-spirited saints' of the Boston meetings, who
prayed for Theodore, Barker, ‘the Christian
strength, reason, and light’ of whom be considered
as far superior to those who wanted to pray for
him. He made his audience laugh by giving two
or thre e instances of prayers said to have boeu ut
tered in RostOD, whose character no one could
commend, aud which, if true, are entirely ex
ceptional;‘and such,’ ho exclaimed, are, revivial
prayers.’ He said, however, th .t the Lord did
not seem to be under conviction’ on account of
these prayers, as Barker had a larger audience the
next Sunday than ever. We think Christianity,
in any of its exercises or forms, has nothing to
apprehend from one who flippantly talks as Mr.
Conway did yesterday, speaking of the prayer
meetings, of‘sluices of cant,’ old, decayed body
of empty phrases,’ monstrous hy-dra-hcad of modern
re igion,’ ‘hypocrites who love to be seen of men,’
‘lip service,’ Beecher aud Choever, the Boanerges
of the pulpit.’ etc. This is mere slang, and utterly
unworthy the day, the place, or the men. and
certainly not worth attention. The cause of the
revival, he thought, was well expressed by a man
who said that the merchants had lost their character
during the late financial difficulties, and this was
one way they sought to cover it. Besides, busi
ness, was dull, and the praying would probably
last until it revived. [A laugh.]
“Men wanted to make an a tenement for their
shortcomings by making long prayers. But Mr.
C. thought an age of praying was not an age of
action or enorgy. As tor converts, they were only
converted to the old worn-out dogmas of the Coun
cil of Trent and the West-minister Assemblies;
they only made new churches, and ‘we don’t want
any more churches’ which only tend to degrade
aud dethrone reason and keep out the light. These
men, said Mr. C., compass sea and laud to make
one proselyte, and, when mads, he becomes three
fold more the child of hell than themselves. Barker
was lauded, a rationalistic religion commended,
and the Beople were cautioned against too much
disgust at tho revival movement. But the only
important thing about the sermon was that the
preacher defined his true position. He said he was
once converted, ‘as they call it.’ under the minis
tration of the Methodists, but he had progressed
out of all that, aud now every vestige of tho faith
ho then received had crumbled away.”
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my bacon to prevent the flies from troubling it as
1 bad done for yeais before. During the spring
and summer I heard no complaint about skippers,
hairy worms aud other pests of the bacon. My
wife remarked that she had not been troubled with
any of these things during the year, still we did
know how 1 to account for this singular exemption,
but in the fali the storm blew down my pole and
gourds, aud revealed to me the secret, for iu each
gourd there were from a half to a pint of indiges
tible fly skins, the excrement of the young. 8o
well convinced am I of their groat utility I never
expect to he without thorn again.
L. G. J.
Out-Door Amusements—their V'alue.—Nothing
tends more to health, longevity, and both physical
and mental development, than out-door exercise and
open air amusements; nothing contribute so rapidly
to constitutional aud mental degeuaraey, than the
neglect of those opportunities given toman to pro
mote his bodily health, in a rational and natural
way. Sickness of mind is the natural conse
quence of bodily disease; for how can we expect
the brain to remain in a sound and healthy state
of organization, whilst the other portions of the
human machinery are out of order. As a people,
we are too apt to forget this great law of Nature, a
law which is founded iu truth, and is more im
mutable than those enacted by the Medes aud Bcr-
siaus of any age or state of society. Let us be
wise in time, and at the commencement of another
season, which, with gay smiles, beckons us forth
to recreation 'neath her sunny skies, determine to
participate in those manly sports and pastimes,
which give vigor to the frame, ruddiness to the
cheek, and brightness to the eye ; let us emulate
our English cousins, and get ready our fishing-
rods, our guns, our cricket-bats and balls, our base
ball fixins, and learn the noble art of horseman
ship, that we may be able to vault like mars into
the saddle and fly across the country with the
pood of the wind. As a nation, we are better
drivers than any other in the world, but as riJers
we are inferior to them all; owing to the fact,
that, with hut few exceptions, we prefer the wag
on to the saddle. True, it is right pleasant to dash
along tho road at a spanking two-forty gait, but
tor health aud wild exhileratiuu of spirits, com
mend us to the saddle; seated in which, as master
of the gallant animal we bestride, we control his
every action with gentle grace, and share with
him the noble emulation he is eager to display.
1 ley, then, for the fields open air, for the merry
spring-time has coine!—Porter's Spirit.
American Tract Society.—A great battle is to
he fought in May next in New York city between
tho consetvative friends and the radical enemies
of the society. It has lived and prospered through
more than one generation, upheld by the united
religious organizations who gave it birth and be
ing. It has diffused a vast ainountjof religious in
telligence throughout the country. It lias been
one of the strong bonds of moral and religious
union between the North and the South. It has
cultivated peace and good will among all classes
of men, and aimed to circulate those great princi
ples of religious truth upou which Christian men
are generally agreed. In the very midst of its
usefulness an attempt will bo renewed at the next
annual meeting of the society to turn the organ
ization into new channels, to take from it its
national character, aud to make it offensive to
southern Christians,' southern churches, and
southern auxiliary societies. We warn not only
the religious community, but all citizens of tho
United 8tatcs wishing well to the country, of tins
new attempt to create a geographical party iu the
hallowed name of piety aud religion.
— ■ —
Agents Dispensed with.—We are happy to learn
that tne general assembly's new movement iu be
half of education for the ministry is to be conduct
ed icithuut travelling and collecting Agents. The
plau of operatiou recommended by the iast
assembly is based on the principle that each church
is by its constitution a society for education, aud
every minister is an agent in virtue of his office.
Its object is the self-development ot the churches
in ibis work, and when it is universally adopt' d
no further special services will he needed for our
whole body than those of general secretary for
education, with perhaps some assistance in his
otlico when he shall be absent visiting ecclesiasti
cal bodies aud literaly institutions.
Hemp; and the thought occurred to him that lie
might make a remedy for his child, lie studied
hard, and succeeded in realizing his wishes. His
child was cured, and is now alive and well. Ho
has since .■ttlmiu'stercd the wonderful remedy to
thousands of sufferers ill all parts of the world, and
he has never failed in making them completely
healthy aud happy. Wishing to do as much good
as possibl* he will send to such of his afflicted fel
low-beings as request it, this recipe, with full and
explicit directions for makiug it up, and successful
ly using it. lie requires each applicant to inclose
him one shilling—three cents to be returned
as postage on the recipe, and the remainder (o I
applied to the payment of this advertisement.
Address Dr. II. JAMES, 19 Grand street,
Jersey City, N. J. Caution, I have no son-/
in-law authorized to send my recipe as lias
been advertised. ' [mar 2 Imis.’58
inclose
•ned B
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Rheumatism—Is only cured permanently by
“I.inch's Anli-Ilheiimatic Powders,” as it is the only
remedy extant that attack the root of tho disease; all
others being ointments, embrocations, declare merely
palliatives.
It is sold, wholesale and retail by J. G. Gibson,
Eatonton, Ga., aud retailed by James Ileity, Miliedge-
ville. Ga. 21 tf.
DYSPEPSIA AND FITS.
Dr. Tracy Delorme, the great rarer of fonsumpl
tion, was for several years so badly afflicted by
Dispepsia that for a port of the time he was confin.
ed to his bed. He was eventually cured by a pro
scription furnished him by a young clairvoyant
girl. This prescription, given by a mere child
while in a state of trance has cured everybody who
has taken it, never having failed once. It is equal
ly as sure in cases of FITS as of DY'SPEPSiA.—
The ingredients may be found in any drug stor».
I will send this valuable prescription to any per
son, on the receipt of one Stamp to pay postage.
Address, DR. TRACY DELORME) Great Cur-
erof Consumption, New Y’ork Best Office. 1m
jy BLISS’ DYSPEPTIC REMEDY has been
gaining the confidence of tbe Dyspeptics, until it is new
pronounced by all who have used it, to be the remedy
longsaught for but just found. Many have used it and
have been entirely cured of that very distressing disease
Dyspepsia, all who arc afflicted with tlmt complaint
can have an opporunity of trying this remedy, by ap
plying to either of the Drag Stores in Milledgeville. ^t
TESTXIKOXriALS FROM
FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
Messrs. P. Davis & Sou.—Gentlemen:
* We have to report an increasing demand for th»
Pain Killer. Inquiries for the article are frequent —
We have tak. u the liberty of distributing a few IhiI'Ii *
among onr friends, who have suffered severely with the
rheumatism, (which is very prevalent in this country)
and in every instance, it has given great satisfaction.—
Every box we Sell makes an opening fora larger 6up
ply.
Wills, Holben &. Co., Melbourne, Australia.
Shwaygbyeen, Rurmah, March f>, 285fi.
Mr. P. Davis.—Dear sir:—Buch is the great demand
for the Pain Killer,, that I write you to send me, a*
soon as possible, in addition to what I hitherto orderea,
24 dozen boxes, (two dozen bottles in a box.) and a bid
of the same, that I may give you an order on the treas
urer of the Union to the amount of the same.
N. HARRIS^.
Henthada; Bnrrnah, March 17, ISSe.
Messra. P. Davis & Son,—Gents:
* I am sorry thuttho last box of Pain KiH» r
sent me has not yet come to bund. The expense of g> . -
ting the tlie machine is something “these hard tiuio,^
but the want of it H of far more importance.
Send me, as soon as possible, another box of sniue
(viz: $50 worth.) Inclose an order on the Treasurer
the Missionary Union for tlie amount.
REV. B.. G. TIIOMAS.
of
Cape Town, Africa, Jan. 23, ISA* •
Messrs. P. Davis &. Sou.—Dear sirs:
* * The Pain Killer, rve are happy to saf> |4
getting in good repute here, and its good qualities » r0
being appreciated. Lately, we have a great demand f
D . the article, ami eonfidcntlv anticipate a large trade <•>
inond Virginia, where Mr. Everett a few weeks ' p a - ln
A Lanre Church.— The African church in Rich-
siuce delivered his oration on Washington, has !
Ion"- been the largest chuich known in this couu-
"altl ’ ' ' ’ ’ ‘ -
tiers, to
Borrodnile,Thompson, Ha'J, & Co.
Rev. J. Phillips, formerly of the Ortissa
try, although it is now second, in point ofuuin-i — ’ , , p n i:i
bers, to the church in Beaufort, South Carolina, | ‘A"> writes. 'My wife is using your ce ■ 1 ! .
of which Rev. J. M. C. Breaker is pastor. Tho I Killer for a rheumatic affection from which she
clergyman writes to the examiner: “I have bap- tiered for years, and with better effect than any ^
tized 5ti5 persons ill the fellowship of the Baptist j of the various remedies she has tried; aim I am u» -
For sale by Druggists and Grocer dealt rs?' 1,1 1
ally—John B. Moore & Co., Savannah; and ‘
laud, Chichester & Co., Augusta. YV holesaleAg_
persons m the lellowship of the Baptist i -- — — —— - , eUC .
church at this placo (Beaufort) within the present j for dyspepsia aud kidney complaints with go**' “
year, (1857,) all of w hom are colored but eight; | cess.” '
and this makes,the present number of its member
ship 3,511—prouably the largest church in the
world. Of these lUO are white; all the rest col
ored.”
Going Back to Eirst Principles.—Passing along
the street yesterday our attention was suddenly
drawn to a scene not a little novel aud interesting
in its character. Iu an ailev, with a paste-pot in
hand aud a roll of bills on his arm. whom should
we see but Wesley Sinead, esq., of the Citizens’
Bank, posting his own hills of property for sale,
for the purpose of paying otl'the remaining debts
of the bank. Heedless of the wondering gaze of
tho astonished passer-by, he laid on the paste and
spread out his bills with all the readiness and fa
cility of a practiced poster, taking care to place
them in the most couspicious position, and above
the reach of boys and ragpickers.
Forty-tin ee years ago Dr. Sinead was an appren
tice in the Gazette establishment, and, being the
youugcst, the duty devolved upou him of posting
up the show-bills, hills of sale, Ac. At this late fur 25 cents per bottle.
oeriod of his life, wheu overtaken by adversity, lie
is practically exemplifying the principles laid
down by him in his published advice to young
men on the “Rood to Wealth;” and what no less
reflects honor upou him, is nobly struggling (a
rare sight, indeed, amongst bankers) to discharge
all his obligations to his creditors.—Cincinnati
Enquirtr.
SIX REASONS WHY EVERYBODY USb &
Lyon’s Kathairon. ^
1st. It is the cheapest preparation for the hair <
made. «
2d. It is pronounced by all to be the Most
ci.il,
3d. It is the most Agreeable to us. ^
4th. It is the Cleanest and most carefully l" 1 1'
ed.
5th. It is the most higldy Perfumed, p E .
6th. It is the only article that never fails to g‘
tire Satisfaction. vlRON-n®^'
The immense sale of the KA1H.au all j
1,000,000 bottles per year—attest its exoeUeu <■
universal popularity. ...rvwhere
Sold by all respectable dealers, L J
ts per bottle.
HEATH, WYNCOOP & CO,
* Proprietors and Perfumers.
43 tf. 63, Libertyjrtj^L-,
~J'he Fourth of July—A friend of ours biurt h* #(j
severely with fireworks on the “glon«« ^ ^
p'fied the Berry Davis’ Pam Killer, »d . j;|4 ,
wits entirely free from pain. Don t tore .