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publishers and Proprietors.
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TH2 FEDERAL VHZOff,
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of Hancock and Washington Sts., (opposite
Court House.)
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they do not exceed Six Lines. - - $1() 00
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LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS.
Sales of Land and Negroes, by Administrators,
Executor* or Guardians, are required by law to be
held on the First Tuesday in the month, between
tin- hours of 10 in the forenoon and 3 in the after
noon, at the Court House in the County in which
the property is situated.
Notice of those sales must be given in a public
gazette 40 days previous to the day of sale.
Notices for the sale of personal property murt lie
given in like manner 10 days previous to sale day.
Notices to the debtors and creditors of an estate
murt also be published 40 days.
Notice that application will be made to the Court
of Ordinary for leave to sell Laud or Negroes, must
be published for two months.
Citations for letters of Administration, Guardian-
tliip, &C. S must lie published 30 days—for dismis
sion from Administration, monthly six months—for
dismission from Guardianship, 40 days.
Rules for foreclosure of Mortgage must be pub
lished monthly for four months—for establishing iost
papers, for the full spore, of three months—for com
piling titles from Executors or Administrators,
where bond has been given by the deceased, the
fill space of three months.
Publications will always be continued according
to these, the legal requirements, unless otherwise
ordered, at the following
R A T E S:
Citations on letters of Administration, &c. $2 75
“ “ dismissory from Admr’on. 4 50
“ “ Guardianship 3 00
Le ave to sell Land or Negroes 4 00
Notice to debtors and creditors 3 00
Sales of persponal property, ten days, 1 sqr. 1 50
Sale of land or negroes by Executors,&c. 5 00
Estrays, two weeks 1 50
for a man advertising bis wife (in advance) 5 00
Union
VOLUME XXVIli.]
MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, A P RIL 27, 1858.
[NUMBER 48.
A FACT!
T HE Subscribers would inform the citizens of
this place and vicinity, that they have in Store
the LARGEST and REST assortment of Goods
in their line, to be found in the City,
consisting in part of
I'ONFECTIONRRIKE,
FKI'ITN, TOVXi, HITS,
FANC Y RUOt'EKirS, Ac.,
With many other articles too numerous to men
tion. ALL are invited t<> cal! and examine tor
themselves. JOHN CONN A- SONS.
RT A LOT of WILLOW BASKETS, and
TOYS on band, which will be sold at reduced
prices. J. C & S.
Milledgcville, April 19, 1853. 49 tf
GENERAL ADVERTISEMENTS.
A r ORT UHTE OP
O” #70,000!!!
FOR TEN DOLLARS!!!
SWAN & CO'S., L0TTERIES.
Authorized by the State of Georgia.
The following Scheme will be drawn by S.
Swan -A Co., Managers of the Sparta Acad
emy Lottery, in each of their single number Lotter
ies for MAY, J858, at AUGUSTA, Georgia, in
public, under the superintendence of Commission-
CLASS 13,
Te be drawn in the city of Augusta, Ga., in public
Saturday, May 1st, 1S58.
CLASS 14,
To be drawn in the city of Augusta,Ga., in public
Saturday, May 8th, 1S58.
. CLASS 15,
To be drawn in the city of Augusta, Ga., in public
Saturday, May 15th, 1S58.
CLASS 16,
To be drawn in the city of Augusta, Ga., in pubile
Saturday, May 22d, 1S5S.
CLASS 17,
To be drawn in the city of Augusta, Ga., in public
Saturday, May 29th, 1858.
On the plan of Single Numbers. Five thous
and four bundled and eighty-live prizes. Nearly
one prize to every nine tickets.
A PROCLAMATION.
GEORGIA.
BY JOSEPH E. BROWN,
Governor of said State.
"VITHEREAS official information lias been re-
T T ceived at this Department, of the escape
from thejail ■ f Twiggs County,on the night of the
11 inst of Wilson Galloway convicted at the last
March Term of the Superior Court of said County
for the crime of an assault with intent to murder
Andrew J. Smith committed in the County of
Twiggs and is under sentence of five- years im
prisonment at hard labor in the Penitentiary.
I have tliougl t proper, therefore, to issue, this,
my Proclamation, hereby offering a reward of One
Hundred Doliars f.r the apprehension and deliv
ery of the said Wilson Galloway to the Sheriff of
said County and State.
And I do, moreover, charge and require all offi
cers in this State, civil and military, to be vigilant
in endeavoring to apprehend the said Wilson Gal
loway it! order that he may be punished according
to bis sentence for the crime he stands convicted.
Given under my hand and tlm Great Seal of
the State, at the Capitol in Milledgeville,
this lath day of April in the year of our
Lord eighteen hundred and fifty-eight and
of the Independence of the United States
of America the 82d.
JOSEPH E. BROWN.
By the Governor:
E. P. Watkins, Sec’y State.
Description
Said Galloway is about forty years of age, five feet
8 or 10 inches high, thick set, square shoulders,
weight about 150 or 160 pounds, high cheek bones,
grey eyes, \ellow complexion,somewhat resem
bling a Mexican, by trade a brick mason, some
times works at the carpenters trade. 47,2t,
it
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ALL STORES 1 ’ ‘Candles,’ &c;—1858-’59.
Navy Department,
Bureau of Provisions and Clothing.
April 13th. 1858.
PROPOSALS, sealed, and endorsed‘‘Offer for
Small Stores,,’ or ‘‘Offer for Candles,” or “Offer
for Salt-water Soap,” or “Offer for Mustard Seed,
Black Pepper,” Ac., as the case may be, will be
received at this bureau until 9 o’clock, a. in., on
the 18th day of May next, for furnishing and de
livering (on receiving twenty day’s notice) at the
Unit'd States navy-yards at Charleston, Massachu
setts: Brooklyn, New York: and Gosport, Virginia,
such quantities only for the following articles (ex
cepting the salt-water soap and the candles, for
each of which separate proposals and contracts
will be made) as may bp required or ordered from
the contractor by the chief of this bureau, or by
the respective commanding officers of the said
navy-yards, during the fiscal year ending 30th
June, 1858, viz:
Boxes, shaving, India Combs, coarse, India rub
ber, orgutfa percha
Combs, tine, India rub
ber. or gutta percha
Grass for hats
Jack knives
Razors, in single cases
Razor straps, Ordway's
Scissors
Spoons
M
agnifice;
N'T SCHEME ’
To b.
Di
awn each 3
ATURDAY in M
AY,
1 Prize of
$70,000
4
900
1 “
30,000
4
800
1 “
10,000
4
700
1 “
5,000
4 “
600
1 “
4,000
50
500
1 “
3,000
50
300
1 “
1,500
100
125
4 “
1,000
230
100
APPROXIMATION PRIZES.
4 Prizes of $400 apx. to $70,00<» prz. ai
e $1,600
4
*
300 “
30,000 “
1,200
4
200 “
10,000 “
81 HI
4
«*
125 “
5,000 “
500
4
100 “
4,000 “
400
4
«
75 “
3,000 “
300
4
l
50
1,500
200
5,000
20 are
100,000
5,4~C> Prizes amounting to $3211,1)00
WHOLE TICKETS $10. II4LIES $5, QUARTERS $21-
PLAN OF THE LOTTERY.
The Numbers from 1 to 50,1100, corresponding
rubber
Brushes, shaving
Brushes, scrubbing
Brushes, shoe
Brushes, cloltfes
Buttons, navy vest
Buttons, navy medium
Buttons, navy coat
Buttons, dead eye
Beeswax, in ^-ih. cakes,
pure
Cotton, spools of Nos. 12and 16, 900 yards each.
3 cords, equal parts
Handkerchiefs; ent'on, fast colors, 32 by 30 inches
weight not less than 2 oz each, texture 8 by 8 to
& inch -
Needles, sewing, Nos. I, 2, 3, and 4,drill-eyed, be
tween.?
Ribbon, hat, best French black, 12 yards to tlie
piece, width, inch
Soap, shaving, in cackes, each cake not less than 2
oz. Silk, sewing, blue-back; wrapper not to ex
ceed 2 oz fo the pound
Thread, black and white, Marshalls best quality,
and in such proportion as may be required
Tape, white linen, 4 yards in length, £ inch wide
Tape, black, twiiiod cotton, 6 yards in length, 4
iach wide
Thimbles, 8-10 and 9-10 diameter.
White salt-water soap—separate bid for 100,-
000 pounds.
The soap must be manufactured from cocoa-nut
oil, and be of the best quality denominated
“white salt-water soap,” and be delivered on sixty-
days notice, in good strong boxes of about 7o
with those Numbers on the Tickets printed on *>»ch, am , alter inspection, the boxes must
separate slip., of paper, arc encircled with small j he hooped at each end, at the expense of the con-
tin tubes and placed in one Wheel. tractor. 1 he price to be Uniterm at all the yards.
The first 457 Prizes, similarly printed and en
circled, arc placed in another wheel.
The wheels are then revolved, and a number is
drawn from the whee* of Numbers, and at the same
time a Prize is drawn from the other wheel. r l he
Number aud Prize drawn out are opened and ex
hibit, 1 to the audience, and registered by tlie Com
in--..in is; the Prize being, placed against the
N nuber drawn. This operation is repeated until
all the Prizes are drawn out.
Apptorimalion Prizes.—The two preceding and
the r vo succeeding Numbers to.those drawing tlie
first 7 Prizes will be entitled to the 28 Approxima
tion Prizes. For example: if Ticket No. 11250
draws the $70,0(10 Prize,.those Tickets numbered
11248, 11049. 11251, 11252, will each be entitled
to 8 i ,i. If Ticket No. 550 draws the $30,000 prize,
those tickets numbered 548, 549, 551, ;>52 will
each be entitled to $3o0, and so on according to
the above scheme.
The 5,000 Prizes or $20 will be determined by
tlie last figure of the Number that draws the $70,-
Oi Prize. For example, if the Number drawing
the $71,000 Prize ends with No. 1, then all the
Tickets, where the number ends in 1. will be en
titled to $20 If the Number ends with No. 2,
then all the Tickets where the Number ends in 2
will be entitled to $20, and so on toO.
Certificates of Packages will be sold at the fol
lowing rates which is the risk:
Certificate of Package of JO Whole Tickets, $80
“ JO Half “ 40
“ “ 10 Quarter “ 20
“ “ 10 Eighth, “ 10
In ordering tickets or certificates, enclose the
m -u.-v to our address for the tickets ordered, on
receipt of which they will be forwarded by first
mail. Purchasers can have tickets ending in any
figure they may designate. 'The list ot drawn
numbers and prizes will be sent to purchasers im
mediately after the draw ing.
! Purchasers will please write their signatures
plain, and give their post office, county and State
CANDLES—separate bid for 50.000 pounds.
The caudles must be “sixes,” of prime leaf lard
stearine, 8 1-10 inches in length, exclusive, of tip
six candles to weijjh not less than 14 ounces 50-IOu
nor more than 17 ounces, and be paid for accord
ing to the actual weight, without reference to
commercial usuage; the melting point not to be less
than 140 degrees Farenheit. The wick must be
braided, and composed of 78 cotton threads ot
the besl quality of No. 27 yarn. The candles to
be delivered on sixty days’ notice, in good boxes,
containing about 3“ pounds each, and the box to
be marked with tlie contractor’s name and the
weight of the caudles.
Mustard seed, black pepper, Ac.
Separate bids for all that may be required for the
use of the navy, to be delivered at New York only.
Mustard seed, American, brown
Pepper, black, Malabar
Bottles, octagon, for mustard and pepper
Corks, for buttles.
All the foregoing articles must bo of the best
quality, and comfoi mable in all respects to the sam
ples de]N*itod at said navy-yards and in this bu
reau, and subject to such inspection at the navy-
yard where delivered as the chief ot the bureau
may direct, the inspecting officer to be appointed
by the Navy Department.
All the articles to be delivered free of any inci
dental expense to the government, in proper ves
sels or packages, and the price of each nriiole
must be the same at the respective places, of de
livery. Packages in which the above articles are
delivered must be marked with their contents and
the name of the contractor, and be sufficient io
insure their temporary safe-keeping.
The contractor must establish agencies at such
stations other than his residence, that no delay
may arise in furnishing what may be required; and
when the contractor or agent fails promptly to
comply with a requisition, the Chief of the Bureau
8. SWAN & Co., Augusta, Ga.
TF” Persons residing near Montgomery, Ala.,
or Atlanta, Ga , can have their orders tilled, and
save time, by addressing S. Swan «fc Co., at either
of tints'* cities.
Clothing, or at eilber of the navy-yards aforesaid,
shall be evidence that such requisition has been
made and received.
. Two or more approved sureties, in a sum equal
to the estimated amount of the contract, will be
required, and twenty per centum in addition will
Delta, Mobile Register, Charleston Standard. Nash
ville Gazette, Atlanta Intelligencer, Now York
Wi- klv Day Book, and Savannah Morning News,
Richmond Dispatch and New 4 oik Dispatch.
Paulding (Miss.) Clarion, and Augusta (Ga.)
Constitutionalist, Little Rock (Ark) True Dom.
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
V. A. GASRILL-
T
L
Fairburu, («a.
March 1st, 1858. *49 6m.
BRISCOS Ade GSA.rrENR.XED,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
UILLEDGEVILLE, GEO.
AI r ILL practice in the courts of the Occiulgee
A t circuit.
Milledgeville, Ga., March 1. 1858. 40 ly.
4. BRAMAH, Jr.,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
EAT0NT0N, GA.
March 1. 1858. 40 !y.
WOOD’S KAIR RESTORATIVE*
A large supply of this popular article for the
HA IR. Just Received, and for sale by
GRIEVE & CLARK, Druggists.
Ic~A list of the numbers that are drawn from | JC withheld from the amount of all payments on
the wheel, with the amount of the prize that eacb a , Jtouu t thereof as collateral security, to secure its
one is entitled to. will be published^ a,ter every performance, and not in any event to be paid until
drawing, in the following papers^ Ne w Orleans ; t is in allyespocts complied wjthjeighty per centum
of the amount of all deliveries made will be paid
by the navy agent within thirty days after bills,
July authenticated, shall have been presented to
him.
Blank forms of proposals may be obtained on
application to the navy ageuts at Portsmouth,
New Hampshire; Boston, New York. Philadelphia.
Baltimore, Norfolk. Pensacola. and at this bu
reau.
A record, ordupl’cate of tlm letter informing a
bidder of tlie acceptance of his proposal, will be '
deemed a notification tircreof—within the meaning
of the act of1846. and his bid will be made and
accepted in conformity with this understanding.
Every offer made must be accompanied (as di
rected in the act of Congress making appropria
tions for the naval service for I846-.47, approved
li th August. 1846) by a written guarantee, signed
by one or more responsible persons, to tie- effect
that lie or they undertake that tlie bidder or bidders
will, if his or their bid he accepted, enter into an
obligation within tendaya. with good and suffici
ent sureties, to furnish tlie supplies proposed.
'l ias htireaii w ill not be obliged to consider any
pioposal unless accompanied by the guarantee
required by Law: the comeptency of the guarantee
to be certified by the navy agent district attorney,
or the collector of the port.
The attention of bidders is called to the sampler and
description of articles required, as, in the inspection be
fore reeeptiott, a just but rigid comparison will he made
between the articles offered and the sample a nd contract,
reedexing none that fall below thciUi and their attention
is also particularly directed to the joint resolution of
27th March, 1854, and to the act of the 10/A August.
1840.
April J 3th 1858. • 47 W,
Spring and Summer Millinery!
\\ OO^lS,
On Wayne St. (Sext Door North of Masonic Hall.)
MISS CARR, respectfully solicits the at-
tention of the Ladies of MilledgeriVe and vi- Jj~ dw
cinity, to her now SUPPLY vf Spring and
Summer M I I, LI 1Y K R V, which she is V.n
Receiving, embracing all of the latest styles of
BONNETS, HATS, FLATS, IIEAD-DRESSES, Ac.,
together with a variety of Trimmings, Flowers, &c.
£ W“ All orders promptly attended to.
Milledgcville, April 12,1858. 46 tf
0”NOTICE.=£0
"VTOW is your time to get Books, Stationery,
-Ll Perfumery, Soaps. Fancy Articles, Ac.,
At Cost, for Cash and Cash Only
\\ itb a view of closing out his present stock of
Books, Stationery, Perfumery,
awf
&c., the Subscriber offers groat inducements to
purchasers of such articles.
Drugs, Chemicals^ DystulFs,
&e.. Ac., will be sold at greatly reduced prices,
much lower than any one else can afford to sell
them, who intends continuing the business.
3 he Subscriber embraces this opportunity of
notifying all who may be indebted to hiui on
Fast Accounts, Notes, 6cc, that they
must call and settle at once, or subject themselves
to the cst of suit, as he is compelled to make col
lections to meet bis own indebtedness.
Store under the II!LLEDGEYILI.E HOTEL, op
posite the old Huson Hotel, and between A. (J.
Vail’s Clothing Store and Joseph Miller’s Jewelry
Store.
£. J. WHITE.
Physicians would do well to call and exam
ine ihe goods aud prices before buying elsewhere.
E. J. W.
Milledgeville, April 13,1858. 40 4t.
lottrj.
NMY GOODS JUST RECEIVED!
^Tailoring Establishment^
SPERLING & BROWN are now Receiving a
NEW and well SELECTED STOCK of the very
latest PATTERNS of
Cloths, Cassimeres, Drivings, and
Fancy Goods for Pants.
We have a large and choice selection of the latest
Plain and Fancy Vestings, &e.,
all of which have been selected with great care by
cue of the fit in, and purchased for the rash, which
will enable us to put up GARMENTS for our pat
rons upon the most satisfactory terms.
We invite our patrons and the public generally to
give us a call and examine our Stock of Goods.
tdT We have the Latest Fashions.
Milledgeville. April 5tb 1858. - 45tf
Cancers! Cancers!! Cancers!!!
Permanently Cured,
By Dr. G. EDWARDS,
Milledgeville, Ga.
H AVING bad much practice in the treatment
of this dangerous and loathsome disease, he
offers his services to the a ducted. He has cured
several severe cases that had been under treat
ment by some of our most eminent Physicians,
and lie feels satisfied he can cure any Cancer that
is curable. To those at a distance he. can give
good testimonials of bis sucsfss ; and if any one
afflicted will pay him a visit in Milledgeville, lie
will afford them occular demonstration of his suc
cess in several severe cases, which after having
been under medical treatment by others, were
thought to be incurable.
April 5th. 1858. 45 tf.
J ALIBIS BJEK’I’Y. grateful for the liberal
patronage heretofore bestowed upon him, takes
this opportunity of informing the citizens of Mil-
ledgev’.lle and vicinity, that having associated with
him Mr. William Gesner, an experienced Chem
ist and Druggist, he will be enabled thereby to af
ford his patrons many advantages that he could
not previously offer them.
’1’ 31 E
.ilUkJ
WILL
be continued at the 1 * 3 * * & >I,D STAND, under the name
and style ofHERTY A GESNER, where we will
continue to keep a full assortment of
2>rugs, Medicines* Chemicals.
Paints and Oils, Ac ,
together with al' articles usually sold in our line.
FOR THE TOILET.
French and American Perfumery. Hair Oils, Pow
ders, Sfc., Iluir. Tooth mid Nail Brushes,
Toilet Hatties. Sfc., Sfr..
Also a lot of TUBE PLANTS, and an assortment
of MUSIC and Music Books.
In the Stationery Line, will be kept a popular selec
tion of BOOKS, Note, Letter and other Papers,
w ith such other articles as are usually called for.
To the Preparation of Prestripftons and Pr.ar-
martutiral Preparations Mr GESNER will give
his personal attention, and endeavor to please all
who may favor him with their confidence.
HERTY &. GESNER.
Milledgcville, April 5,1858. 45 ly
Choice First Class Insurance by the
/ETNA INSURANCE C0L!P’Y*0F
HARTFORD, CONN.
Incorporated INltl. Las li Lnpifal —’ f OOO.-
OOO. I.ossrt $10,447,412, E'lnilnbl)’ nit-
ju.trd, a nd promptly paid.
-Men toil, work, slave, nay almost sin for their fami
lies--perform almost every .judicious act for their wel
fare and happiness, except INSURE. It is the com
mon omission of the majority, overlooking the dangers
of the future in the security of the present. To reme
dy this fauit only requires seriously thinking on the sub
ject. Wisdom and thrift will always elect to adopt the
conservative principle of Insurance to avert the un
happy consequences of such “slings aud arrows of out
rageous fortune” as are produced by tie* blasting visi
tations of fire to our homes so frequently.
Special attention given to Insure Farm and Dwel
ling Property, for Terms of One to Five Years.
A. M. NISBET, Ag’t., for
Milledgeville and vicinity.
March 12, 1858. 42 3m
A N£W ST0C!< OF GGODS
(at S. B. Brown’s Old Stand.)
SADDLES, HARNESS AND
LEATHER STORE.
[N'cxl Door to CONN’S FANCY Slurp.j
THE-subscriber has just received from New
York, a choice selection of
l..uli<*r and flenth menu’ Saddle*,
Saddlery, Bridles, Carpet Hags, Saddle Hags. IIhips
Spurs, Harness aud Sole Leather, Kid and CalJ
Shins, Lace Leather. Hand Leather, Sfr. Sfc.
Also Men's Double Sole Bussed Brogan Shoes.
E3F* Saddles and Harness manufactured and re
paired on short notiee.
E-’p” Also Boors and Shoes, manufactured and
repaired to order, with neatness and dispatch.
£3P“ The Boot and Shoe department will be under
the direction of Mr. SHEA, an experienced workman.
CALVIN C. CARR.
Milledgeville, April 13, 1858. 46 tf
NOTICE ! *
$1-00 REWARD
W ILL be paid for the apprehension and deliv
ery to me of one WILSON GALLOWAY,
who was at the March Term of the Superior Court
of Tw iggs county sentenced to five years impris
onment in the State Penitentiary, for an assault;
with intent to murder Andrew J. Smith on the
seventh dayjsf October last, and who made his
escape from the Jail of this county ou the night
of tlie eleventh inst., or I will pay Fifty Dollars
for his apprehension and confinement so that I can
got him. Officers generally are requested to keep
a diligent look out for the scamp.
JOHN RALEY, D. Sh’tf.
Marion, Twiggs Co.,Ga., April 12th, 1858.
Description*
WILSON GALLOWAY is about forty years of
age and about five feet eight or ton inches high,
thick set and square shoulders, weighing about
one hundred and fifty or sixty pounds, high cheek
boiios, and gray eyes, of a yellow complexion,
(somewhat resembling a Mexican) is a brick ma
son by trade, and sometimes works atcaipenter-
ing, lives with a woman that he calls bis wife by
the name of Angeliue Humphries and has two
children. 47 tf.
Lints at By Sisters Graveyard.
BY MAJOR G. W. PATTEN.
Beside the dewy grave I pass,
(A fresh and flowery mound,)
Sunlight is glancing on the grass,
And the red breast chirps around,
While from afar the city’s hum
Steals gently on the ear:
And yet for me is Nature dumb!
Thy voice I cannot heai.
Tliou told’st me, from a distant land,
I ne’er should be forgot:
I come—e’en at thy side I stand—
And yet thou heats't me not.
Where are those accents which were heard
So soft on music's breath ?
Sister!—I hear no answering word,
Is this!—yea! THIS is death!
Beside my Father’s aged form
They’ve laid thee breast to breast,
Too bitter was the world’s bleak storm,
But both are now at rest.
In life united—Oh! with such
Affection undefil’d!
In death 'tis well their coffins touch—
The Father and the Child.
Tliou Sisier, had’st but little strength
To thread life’s thorny track:
So calmly dost thou sleep at length,
'Twere sin (o wish thee back;
The music of thy gentle tone
Tiio’ to my bosom dear,
And tho’niy heart is sad and lone,
I would not have thee here.
For me is still life's stirring tide—
The battle and the storm—
The wave where warring navies ride—
The field where squadrons form!
But thou, with no long watch to keep—
No dream at morn to tell—
Freed one!—Thine is an envied sleep!
Sweet Sister! Fare thee well!
We clip the following little poetic gem from the
Home Journal. It is from tho pen of VV. L. Shoe
maker:
There is a little bird that sings—
“Sweetheart!”
I know not what his name may be:
I only know his notes please me,
As loud he sings—and thus sings he—
“So eel heart!’,
I’ve heard him sing on soft spring days—
“Sweetheart;’’
And when the sky was dark above,
Ami wintry winds bad stripped the grove,
lie still poured forth those words of love—
“Sweetheart!”
And, like that bird, my heart, too, sings—
“Sweetheart!”
When Heaven is dark, or bright and blue,
When trees are are hare, or leaves are new,
It;thus sings ou—and sings of you—
“Sweetheart ;,’
Wh at need of other words tiian these —
“Sweetheart
If I should sing a whole year long,
My love would not be shown more strong
Than by tins short aud simple song—
“Sweetheart!”
ARYOLO'K WRITING: FLUID.
This Superior—English Writing Fluid, together
with Pfns, Paper and other Stationery. For sale
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Letter of a Bung Wife (o her ilusbunu.
[The following most touching fragment
of a letter from a dying wife to her hus
band, was found by him some months after
her death between the leaves of a religious
volume which she was very fond of peru
sing. The letter which was literally dim
with tear marks, was written long before
her husband was aware that the grasp of
fatal disease had fastened upon the love
ly form of his wife, who died at the early
age of nineteen:]
When this shall reach your eye, dear
George, some day when you are turning
over the relics of the past, I shall have
past away forever, and the cold, white
stone will be keeping its lonely watch over
the lips you have so often pressed, and
the sud will be growing green that shall
hide forever from your sight tlie dust of
one who has often nestled close to your
warm heart. For many long and sleepless
nights, when ali besides my thoughts were
at rest 1 have wrestled with the conscious
ness of approaching death, until at last it
has formed itself upon my mind; and al
though to you and others it might now seem
but the nervous imagining of a girl, yet, dear
George, it is so! Many weary nights have
I have passed in the endeavor to reconcile
myself to leaving you, whom 1 love so
well, and this bl ight world of sunshine and
Beauty; and hard indeed it is to struggle
on silently and alone with the sure con
viction that I am about to leave all for
ever and go down into the dark valley!
“But 1 know in whom I have believed,”
and leaning on his arm, “I fear no -evil.”
Go not blame me for keeping even all this
from you. How could I subject you, of
all others, to such sorrow as 1 feel at part
ing, when time will soon make it apparent
to you! I could have wished to live if
only to he at your side when your time
shall come, and pillowingyour head npon-
my breast, wipe tin' death damps from
your brow, and usher your departing spir
it into its .Maker’s presence, embalmed in
woman’s holiest prayer. But is not to be
—and I submit. Y’ours is the privilege
of watching, through long aud dreary
nights, for the spirit’s final fiiglit, and of
transferring my sinking head from your
breast to my Savior’s bosom. And you
shall share my last thought and the last
faint pressure of the hand and the last fee
ble' kiss shall be yours, and even when
flesh and heart shall have failed me, my
eyes shall rest on yours until glazed by
death; and our spirits shall hold one last
communion until gently fading from my
view—the last of earth—you shall mingle
with tlie first bright glimpses of the unfa
ding glories of the better world, where
partings arc unknown. Well do I know
tfip spot, my dear George, whore you will
lay me; often ive stood by the place, and
as we watched the mellow sun-set as it
glanced in quivering flashes through the
leaves, and burnished the grassy mounds
around us with stripes of burnished gold,
each, perhaps, has thought that some day
one of ns would come alone, and which
ever it might be, your name would be on
the stone. But we loved tho spot, and I
know you will love it none the less when you
see the same quiet sun-light linger and
play among the grass that grows over your
Mary’s grave. 1 know you will go there,
and my spirit will be with you then, and
whisper among tlie waving branches—“1
am not lost, but gone before.”
We support the C’rittenden-Montgomery
amendment because we feol sure that its
success will rescue Kansas from mis-gov-
erument and oppression, ami bring her
speedily into the Union a free Stale.— N.
Y. Tribu/te.
We commend this paragraph to Messrs.
Crittenden ami Marshall and their south
ern confederates in Congress. It will
doubtless prove ontirely agreeable to their
feelings to learn that the scheme which
they bavo set on foot for abolitionizing
Kansas is altogether acceptable to Greely
and his party. Their constituents, how
ever. will hardly tike it so kindly. Even
the kuoiv-notliing portion of them, thor
oughly as they may hate the democracy,
aud blindly as they have heretofore fol
lowed their loaders, are far from being
willing to join Seward & Co., in their
crusade against the constitution and the
South. They will find that tho compli
ments which they received from their ne
gro-shrieking allies for their sacrifices in
the cause of “freedom” will be but a poor
compensation for the indignation that will
be heaped upon them at home. It is for
friends and votes that they are striving,
but they will soon find that such compli
ments will not make them either among the
good men of the country.
i Hint frtr the Ladies.
An exchange paper has a bit of advice
to youug ladies, setting forth how they
may know whether a young gallant is real
ly courting them, or only paying them po
lite attentions. The confounding the one
with the other has been the source very
much trouble both before and since the era
of Pickwick and Bardeli.
A young man admires a young girl and
must manifest it. He can’t help doing so
for the life of him. The young lady has
a tender heart, reaching out like tendrils
for something to cling to. She sees the
admiration; is flattered, begins to love;
expects some tender avowal, and perhaps
gets so far as to decide that she will choose
a “white silk under that gauze, etc,” at
the very moment that the gallant she halt
loves, is popping the question to another
damsel ten miles off.
Now the difficulty lies not in precisely
understanding the difference between “po
lite attention” aud the tender manifesta
tions of love. Admiring a beautiful wo
man and wishing to make a wife of her are
not always the same thiug, and therefore
it is necessary that the damsel should be
on the alert to discover to which class the'
attentions paid her by handsome and fash
ion ible young man belong.
First then, if a young man greets you
injoudfree hearty tones; if he knows pre
cisely where to put his hands; stares you
straight in the eyes, with his mouth open;
if he turns his back to speak to another;
ifho tells you who made his coat; if he
eats heartily in your presence, if he fails to
talk very kindly to your mother; if, in short
he sneezes when you are singing, criticises
your curls, and fails to he foolish every
hour, then don’t fall in love with him for
the world! He only admires you, let him
say what he will to the contrary.
Ou the other hand, if he is merry with
every body else, but quiet with you; if lie
be anxious to see if your tea is sufficiently
sweetened and your dear person xvrapped
up when you go out into the cold; if he
talks very low and never looks you stead
ily in the eye; if his cheeks are read and
nose only blushes, it is enough. If he
romps with your sister, sighs like a pair
of old bellows, looks solemn when you are
addressed by another gentleman, and in
fact is the most still, awkward, stupid yet
envious of all your male friends, you may
go ahead, and make the poor fellow too
happy for his skin to hold him
Y oung ladies! keep your hearts in a ease
of good leather, or some other tough sub
stance, until the right one is found without
a doubt, after which you can go on and
love, court and lie married, and be happy
without the least bit of trouble.
We considet this advice so sensible that
although it is open to the charge of blunt
ness, we have no hesitation in pressing it
upon tlie attention of our lady readers.
Elephants in. India—Their Intelligence
—.4 Court Martial Punishment, &fc.—A
Calcutta correspondent of the New York
Commercial Advertiser, in giving an ac
count of a visit to Barrackpore, says:
“YYe saw the recently-arrived elephants
from Burmab; they looked in good con
dition. There were ninety of them atthe
stables, and many were traveling about
through the different streets and road. I
had a short ride upon one of the largest,
who kneeled down to enable me to mount
him, and some of them made us a salaman
with their trunks when told to do so by
their keeper, or‘mahout,’as the driver is
called. They are inteligent animals. A
story was told me of a number of ele
phants in one of the Mofussil districts.—
One of them had committed a fault
in refusing to carry a slight additional
burden, when told by the mahout
that lie would get extra grog for it. He
was tried by court-martial in the presence
of twenty of bis elephantine brethren and
convicted, and on the keepers reading the
sentence all raised their trunks in ac
knowledgement of its justice! Another
was appointed to flog him, which he did
by giving him fifty lashes with a long
chain twined about his trunk, and the cul
prit received the whole meekly, well know
ing he deserved it! They are very cun
ning as to weighing their food with their
trunks when on a march, and if there is an
ounce short they discover it, and insist on
the regular allowance. Y^hen travelling
they each have a gallon of grog a day, just
as sailors and soldiers have their glass.
These animals were at Barrackpore re
cruiting after the voyage, and were soou to
he sent up country to do service in Eng
land’s cause.”
Exploration of tlie A moor Uiver by an Ameri
can.
Mr. Collins, the American consul of the
Amoor liver, recently obtained permission
of the Russian Government to explore it,
and lie has sent to tho Government at
Washington the results of his observa
tions:
Hr. Collins states that the whole of this
liver, for a distance of two thousand six
hundred miles, is susceptible of steam
navigation, and the country drains by the
Amoor has a population of about five
millions There are already four vessels
trading from San Francisco to the Amoor,
two from Bostou, and twofiom Iiong Kong
—the latter being owned by American
houses. The Russian Government is rap
idly extending its dominions in the Amoor
country, and the last year two iron stem-
ers, built in Philidelphia for the Russians,
were shipped around Cape Horn and put
up at the mouth of the Amoor, for the pur
pose of trade and exploration. Mr. Col
lins states that the Russian Government
desires that tlie Americans should have all
the advantages of the great trade of this
new country, and hold out every induce
ment fur that purpose. After reaching
the mouth of the Amoor, the theatre of his
councilshin, ho thought he had discovered
so many facts of great importance to the
commerce of the United States that lie de
termined to return immediately aud re
port to his Government. The report
which he has made to the Secretary of
State occupies some 250 pages of closely
written manuscript, and is a condensed
acfcouut of the country- in the vicinity of
the navigable waters of tlie Amoor, its
population, trade, products, &c., as well
as suggestions as to the proper articles of
commerce v. hicb our people may export
there with profit.
We regret to, learn the fact that the
dwelling of Mr. Robert R. Howard, resi
ding five miles in the country, was burnt
with its entire contents, on Tuesday night
last. Mr. Howard 1 eing absent on a visit
to Carolina, his wife had gone to Columbus,
Ga., to meet him, and leaving no white
person up >u tho premises for some days
past; it was doubtless set on fire, and sus
picion rests upon some negroes in that sec
tion.—Eufaula Native, 15 th inst.
Quite a number of women, must of them old
maids, have issued a call for convention, stating
their object to be “to gain a true knowledge of the
nature and attributes .of men.” Wo respectfully
suggest to them that they are not going the right
way to work. They will never find out the secret
that way.
From the Washington Union.
California.
Wc give below an interesting postcript
of a letter received by a gentleman of this
city from bis friend now on a business visit
to California. It gives a clear and strik
ing view of the gulden State, and presents
many interesting facts concerning its soil,
climate and mineral wealth, that we have
not heretofore met with.
Notes, Observations and Queries
I agreed to give you briefly my impres
sions of this portion of our country, the
characteristics of its people, its present
and prospective condition, productions, &c.
The climate.—This has surprised me
very much. I was prepared to find it
milder by far than in the corresponding
latitudes in the Atlantic States. This is
clearly correct, but the climate of San
Francisco is an exception to that of any
portion of the world ,so far as I am in
formed. In this opinion I think you will
concur, if not already fully informed upon
the subject, upon an examination of the
annexed statement.
I have before me an authentic table,
from which I am enabled to determine and
give you the mean temperature in that city
at sunrise and noon, and the mean and
extremes for each year, from 1851 to 1856,
inclusive. During that period, the mean
temperature for each month at sunrise
ranged from forty-one to fifty-five, aud at
noon from fifty-two to seventy-one degrees.
The greatest degree of cold in the six
years was twenty-five degrees, or seven
below the freezing point. This may be
set down as nearly the extreme of cold ever
felt here. In three of the years the
mercury did not fall to the freezing point.
In 1853, the lowest point was eight degrees
above freezing—the extreme of heat was
ninety-eight degrees. This occurred in
September, 1S52, with which exception it
lias not risen above ninety, degrees, and is
a very unusual temperature lor San Fran
cisco, though much below the greatest heat
in tho interior. In l c 51, the highest
temperature was eightv-four degrees; and
in 1856, the temperature did not rise above
eighty-five degrees.
The rainy season.—This commences in
December, and may bo said to terminate
in March. During the first, more rain
falls usually than in any subsequent month.
A marked abatement is observable from
the middle of January to the middle of
February. One-third of the average yearly
rains falls before the first of January, one-
third in January and February, and the
remaining third subsequent to the first of
March. No rain falls usually from the first
of May to the first of December. This
will give you a slight idea of “the rainy
season,” but I think there is scarcely any
expression which conveys to the people of
the Atlantic States such an erroneous im
pression. During this season it is believed
generally to rain most of the time, the
balance to be gloomy, dark and cold—the
sun obscured and the horizon overcast with
impenetrable clouds, mists, and dark va
pors, accompanied with chilling and pierc
ing winds. This, however, is very far
from being correct. The wind at this
season of the year seldom blows strong
enough to become annoying, and is never
chilling. The temperature, as will have
been seen, is extremely equable, and w r ith
reasonable protection a person’s feet never
get cold, although for hours engaged in
passing over damp pavements, and muddy
streets. Twice only during the last ten
years has snow fallen in the streets of San
Francisco in sufficient quantities to be
visible upon the streets. The sun is
unobscured and the o&y clear a great
portion of the time. During the year 1S56
the sun shone brightly 18 days in Decem
ber, 15 days in January, 23 days in Feb
ruary, 21 days in March, and 20 in April.
Durrng the same months it rained 12 days
in December, 11 days in January, 2 in
February. 5 in March, and 8 in April.
During the balance of those months there
was more or less mist or clouds overhang
ing the horizon. The weather when clear
during this season is indeed delightful,
resembling more closely the Indian sum
mers in the District of Columbia, Eastern
Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia than
any other portion of the year in the At
lantic States. From this cause alone this
city will be made the winter residence of a
vast number from the Eastern States when
its climate becomes better understood by
our people, and the facilities of reaching
hero improved by the construction of a
railroad, and of a better class of steamers
upon this important line of communica
tion.
The productions of this State, not less
than its climate, are by far the most re
markable, although but in their infancy, of
any of the great States of this confederacy.
It produces in abundance and in great per
fection all the cereal grains, fruits, aud
vegetables of the temperate latitudes.
Grains are produced in many instances,
crop after crop, without resowing. It is a
fact clearly authenticated, that the filth
crop of barley, taken from a field of fifty
acres, from a single sewing, five years
previous, in the country of Santa Clara, in
the’year 1856, averagi 1 a yield per acre
of forty-three bushels. Roots and vege
tables generally, grow during the winter
months in the open air. New potatoes,
beets, carrots, cabbages, green peas, toma
toes, turnips, squashes, salads, &c., are
now abundant in this market. In a large
section of the southern portion of the State,
cotton, rice, tobacco, and sugar are culti
vated with success and profit, while the fig,
the almond, the olive, and the orange are
produced—the latter in great abundance
and of a quality unsurpassed. The grape,
in almost every portion of State, grows and
produces to an extent and in perfection
unequalled in any portion of the world—
single clusters have been knowu to weigh
over ten pounds.
Horses, cattle, sheep, and stock of all
kinds, live, thrive, and increase as well, if
not better than in any other portion of the
country—and this, ton, without requiring
either housing or feeding during any part
of the year, gathering their food unpro
tected, throughout the year from the hills
and valleys of this much-favored country.
May we not say that this State is un
equalled in an agricultural point of view?
But this view is greatly strengthened
when yon consider, in this connexion, the
vast extent of its mining interests. No
mining country except this sustains by its
own productions its mining population.
This State, with all the above advan
tages, even now produces annually in gold
a hundred millions of dollars, and this,
too, when,its quartz-mining—the great
permanent mining interest of the State
is but in its infancy. At the present
prices of labor in this State quartz must
pay not less than eight dollars per ton to
pay for crushing; i» many parts of the
world it pays at even less than two dol
lars. What must be the gold production
of this State w hen the price of labor shall
make it profitable to work quartz of that
value?
Look for a moment at the geographical
position of this State and city, and sea if
there are not strong reasons, dedncable
from that, as well as from the conformation
of this cost, for believing that this city will
at no distant day rival in commercial im
portance. wealth, and population any city
upon the Atlantic borders. In the first
place, this State itself has a seacoastupon
the Pacific equivalent, and corresponding,
to the Atlantic coast, from Boston to
Charleston—ihe seacoast of the States of
Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connectiuct,
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North
Carolina, and South Carolina; whilst a
glance at this coast will satisfy you that
this bay forms the only harbor adapted in
any degree to a large foreign commerce
between the Islands of tlie Isthmus and
Puget Sound. All others are of small
capacity, difficult of access, rendered
dangerous in most cases by shoals and
breakers, anil with nothing in the confor
mation of the coast to indicate to tho
master of a foreign vessel their locality or
designate their entrance from the balance
of the coast. Here we have a harbor
capable of containing in security the com
mercial fleets of the w r orld, with a capacious
and usually safe entrance, clearly and
boldly marked upon the coast. W T hat say
you to all this? Nous verrons.
Yorth, the Scottish Spurgeon—Aa Amateur
Play-actor and Sportsman Turned Clergy
man—His Crimes and his Preaching—his
Godly Servant.
Glasgow, March 5, 1S58.
In the early part of the year our city
enjoyed the ministrations of Mr. Brown-
low North, a lay gentleman of indepen
dent means, who has devoted himself to
the preaching of the gospel. He is an
Episcopalian, but addresses all who choose
to listen to him wherever he finds an open
door. His object is to deliver the simple
gospel message, which he does with over
powering earnestness. He speaks with
fluency and even elegance, makes no at
tempt at exegetical preaching, says that
he has but one doctrine to expound and
enforce, and disavows the ministerial char
acter and authority. But such is the fer
vor of his earnestness, that the largest
edifice in town was not capable of contain
ing the multitudes who flocked to bear
him, from the highest to the lowest; nor
were two addresses on Sabbath sufficient
to meet the demands upon his ministra
tions, which were continued throughout
the week. Our Presbyterian ministers of
the Free Church and United Presbyteri
an Church, aud one of tlie Established
Clergy, admitied him to their pulpits;
and the ministers of all our churches re
ceived from the example of this good man
a lesson on the importance of earnest
preaching. Many inquirers who bad been
awakened by the addresses of Mr. North
visited and conversed with him during the
week. His visit, there is reason to be
lieve, was productive of much spiritual
good. This gentleman, a few days ago,
was a terrible reprobate. He had a shoot
ing lodge in the Highlands; where he in
dulged in very loose and profligate prac
tices. After his conversion he devoted his
labors as a Christian man exclusively to
those districts where he had formerly ren
dered himself most notorious and obnox
ious by bis profligacy. In his expressions
of self-reproach, which of course must be
taken with considerable limitation, he has
repeatedly declared that he had beeu
guilty of all the sins in the decolugue, ex
cept murder. Mr. North is no fanatic.
He is a calm-ininded man, thoroughly
imbued with a Christian principle, and
profoundly impressed with a sense of the
duty laid upon him of making known the
great salvation. I heard him address
about three thousand people, who were
admitted by ticket to the City Hall, and
the effect of his simple and earnest plead
ings was very impressive and memorable.
No preaching, I dare say. since the days
of Whitfield, has produced such a powerful
effect upon the popular mind as this re
markable man’s addresses; and their pow
er lies not in their logical structure, but
in their earnestness. A friend of mine,
who has seen Mr. North in his wild days
on the stage as an ameteur player, ones
dined in his Highland lodge along with a
gay party.
The wine was circling freely, and a High
land boy, whom Mr. North liadengaged
as a domestic servant, came in with a fresh
supply of liquor; and in sitting it before
his master, whispered something to him,
upon which North instantly withdrew
from the table and took a cigar, refusing to
indulge longer in his cups. Turning to my
informant, he said, “P ■, that boy is
a Christian ; I could trust him with un
told gold.” Whether that poor Highland
boy’s humble influence as a child of God
was instrumental in touching the wicked
he*rt of liis master, my friend could not
tell. But on the occasion referred to, his
warning whisper arrested North in his
bacchanalian career, and probably he was
in the habit of using the same liberty with
his master on other festive occasions.—Cor.
of the Presbyterian Herald.
Singular (’irramstanee.
On the 23 ultimo, a passenger came to
Portland by the steamer Anglo Saxon, aud
took lodging at one of the city hotels.
Next morning he took the cars for this
city in company with a gentleman who
had remained at the same house with him
over night, with whose countenance, he
somehow or other imagined himself famil
iar. They got into conversation in coming
down the Eastern railroad, but nothing
transpired to elicit the fact whether or not
they had been old acquaintances. When
they arrived at the depot, and had atten
ded to their luggage, one of them inquired
in the hearing of the other for a cab to
take him to a certain street in Charlestown.
The other said he purposed going to the
same street, and they engaged the same
conveyance. On arriving at the street in
question it appeared that they both designed
to call on the same individual. This
strange series of coincidence greatly puz
zled both; but their mutual surprise and
delight can be imagined but in a degree
when they had thus singularly met at the
house of a third brother. One of them has
been in the service of the Pacha of Egypt
for 22 years, the other has spent 16 years
in the East Indies, while the third has
been in this country during 19 years past.
The brothers are natives of Scotland, and
have not seen each other for 24 years.—
Boston Ledger, March 9.
Culture of Violets.—Tlie cultivation of
the violet is very simple. It may easily
be increased by dividing the roots in the
spring or fall, and also by layers and pip
ings. j.0 obtain now varieties, the seeds
from the best sorts should be gathered as
they become ripe, and sown directly 11
The plants will appear in about fourteen
days those of the spring sowing will bloom
in autumn, and autumn plants in the
spring; and if they are protected from the
summer’s sun after HI o’clock in the fore
noon, they will continue to bloom until
the frost becomes severe. Indeed, this
lovely little flower possesses the quality
of blooming while the coming frosts of la
ter autumn have put most other plants to
sleep for the winter, and it is sometimes
seen, in a moderate winter, partially cov
ered with snow, with its buds ready form
ed to usher in young spring.—Buffalo
Republic. _
A Georgia Bride.—Miss Sallie Toornha, only
daughter and heir of the Hon. Robert Toombs,
was married to a Mr. Dubose, of Memphis Ten
nessee, in Washington City, Thursday evening
last Mrs. Toombs’ maiden name was Dubose,
and we presume the happy pair are hlood rela-