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By Wifc’i (Mill,
Some lime ago I callsd on a cousin of ray wife
who raided in the city of Philadelphia. I had not
seen him for a long time, but having ttnderstood
that l«e was in affluent circumstances, I was but
little predared fortbe condition in which 1 found
him. Through information derived from a Phila
delphia directory, I went to one of those allies
■with which that city abounds, and found his name
on a sign-board, associated with that of another
man, oyer a dark and dingy shop. The sign
purported that they were locksmiths and hell-
hangers: also that locks were repaired and keys
fitted. Without ceremony I walked into the
gloomy recess, where there was a blacksmith s
forgo, and where, among several muscularlooking
men, up to their armpits 111 work, was “my wife s
cousin ’ He received me most cordially, and for
a moment intermitted fitting a huge brass key on
which he was engaged, and the shake of my own
dexter by one of his broad brawny hands J can
liken m nothing nearer than the shock of a young
earthquake.
“Take a seat, take a seat,” he observed, “and
just as soon as I finish this key we'll make tracks
for home.”
I of course replied that I was in no hurry, and
at once become interested ia the facile manner in
which he was inetaniorphosiug a rough casting
into a polished key. As soon as it was completed,
he washed the worst of tbe dirt from his hands,
bung up his work apron, and putting on his coat
and hat, remarked ill a cheerful tone. “Come now,
cousin Aleck, let's go and see whether wife has got
any tea for us.”
After we were in the street, our conversation
insensibly ran on business, and I took occasion
to say to him that I had been of the opinion that
he had retired from his trade on a handsonio
competency. “Don't say a word about retire
ment,” he replied: “it nearly makes me sick to
think of it. People talk of retiring from business
while they are healthy, and able io work; why, I
tell you, Aleck, they don’t know what it means. I
didn't know wliat it meant until I tried it. but now
retirement and misery sound, to my ears, like
words of about the same meaning. ’
Perceiving that he had struck a subject on
which he could easily be communicative, 1 looked
inquiringly, when he rejoined, ‘perhaps you never
heard the particulars of my retiring.”
On my replying that J had not, he proceeded:
“Yon see, Aleck, itds about three years ago that,
having, as you would say, a competency, I made
up my mind to stop work and move into the coun
try. So I sold out my share of tlie business to my
partner, spent a year or mere in looking at two or
three score of country places, and at last found one
that wife and myself were considerably pleased
with. Pino double house, four acres beautifully
shaded, vegetable garden not to be beat, and soil
of a superior quality. The place is still in ivy
possession, but before I would go and live on it
again I’d give it away: yes, Aleck, I d see it sunk
in the middle of the Dead sea. Hut I am getting
a little ahead of my story. For two or three
months matters and thing went on very well,
because I had something to attend to in making a
few little improvements about the house, and in
furnishing a number of the doors with locks O;
my own invention; bat as the whole premises were
Kailr< ad Meeting at Tallokas.
Sept IS, 1858.
According to previous notice a portion of the
citizens of Lowndes, Thomas, Colquitt and Ber
rien counties met at Tallokas, to take into consid
eration the action of the Board of Directors of the
Atlantic A. Gulf Railroaid Company in locating
said Railroad near the Florida line.
1. pon motion, William Holloway, Esq, was
called to the chair and James McDonald, Esq., ap
pointed Secretary.
By request, Col. J. L. Seward, who was pres
ent by invitation, addressed the meeting, review
ing the history of the Railroad controversies which
bad heretofore existed, and giving hie views in re
gard tothe policy of the Legislature in giving aid
to South-Western Georgia, and expressed bis dis
approbation of the policy adopted by the Directors
of said road.
The following preamble and resolutions were
then read and adopted unanimously:
Whereas, by an act of tbe Legislature approved
Feb 27th. 1856, the Atlantic A Gulf Railroad Com
pany was incorporated by which the State ofGcor-
gia agreed to become a Stockholder in said road
upon certain conditions,—lbr a proper explanation
and understanding of tuo objects ot the Legisla
ture it is necessary to recur to the circumstances
pre-existing and the causes therefrom, which in
duced the legislature to incorporate said Company
as specified in said eliartor.
For many years tbe Bru-nswicd A Florida Rail
road Company had been incorporated, and the
citizens of Brunswick and the people on the line
of said Brunswick Road westward had been .strug
gling to complete said work, and after having
completed 32 miles of the Road crossing the Sta-
ri I la. finding themselves unable to extend said road
without the aid of the State, made application to
tbe Legislature for such aid.
After the commencement of the Biunswick A
Florida Railroad, the Savannah, Albany and Gulf
Road was begun, and was prosecuted onergetica
ly owing to tile superior pecuniary resources <
Savannah over ILritaswiek, and carried beyond
the Altamaha, both of said roads approximating
each other, until a difficulty in regard to con
flicting chartered rights was standing in the way
of the further prosecution of the Savannah, Alba
ny A: Gult Railroad, without deflecting materially
from its proposed line ot operation, and it was
further conceded; that this company was unable
to complete such a great enterprise without the
credit of the State. The Brunswick & Florida
Railroad applied to the legislature for assistance,
as did also the Savannah, Albany’ A Gulf Road.—
Both of the organizations received no favor at the
hands of the Legislature. The friends of both of
these companies uniting, became suppliants be
fore the Legislature for help, and the Atlantic &
Gulf Railroad Company was incorporated upon the
joint understanding of the friends of the two com
panies. It was not denied that the Brunswick
charter occupied the line desiied (at that time) to
be followed by the Savannah, Albany and Gulf
Road, and fully understood, should the Atlantic A
Gulf Road be incorporated, that the line of the
Brunswick A Florida Road would be substantial
ly followed, and that a release from that company
of the right of way should be executed to give ef
fect to .the act .of tbe Legislature of Feb. 27, 1856-
as shown thus: That “no money’ shall be paid by
in excellent repair when I bought them, I soon the State until the Savannah, Albany A Gulf
came to a point where there was nothing to look
after but the cultivation of the garden. I was not
long though in making the discovery that 1 had
no genius of taste either for digging around roots
or pulling up weeds, and so, as wife didn't want
the garden to run to waste, 1 employed a regular
English gardener to carry tbe thing handsomely
through.
“Well, 1 didn’t mind the expense he put me to
in the way of guano, new-fangled gardening tools,
and patent watering apparatus: for I had fully
expected to sptnd money, and, thanks to our pre
vious economy, we had the money to spend; btr
Aleck.it was really very amusing to see what the
fruit and vegetables raised from our garden stood
us in. Maaing use of the little arithmetic I wa-
master of, I recollect that I ciphered up the costoi
some of the t-ibie fixins, and tbe result was—cn
cumbers, seventeen cents a piece; green peas, r
dollar and three quarters fora half peck: currants
fifty cents a quart; raspberries, thirty cents a pint
beets, fourteen cents each, and everything else in
proportion. All ttiis I cared nothing about, but
somehow, I felt out of my gearing in not having
the right kind of employment. Wife did her bes
to coax me into gentlemanly ways; had the oh
mechanical grime all thoroughly scrubbed out o
my hands—finger-nails cleaned out and rounded—
so as to make it appear that I had never done
manual labor.
“Then we must get behind a couple of Morgan
ponies which I had purchased, and make l’ashiona
ble calls in the daytime on those who had called
on ns: and wife wanted me to soften dow n my
voice and to be particular about my grammer and
the subjects I talked on; but sometimes forgetting
myself I would revel in the proud memory of the
locks and keys I bad handled in happier days and
commence a history ot my exploits in that line,
when wife would look as though she was going to
sink through the floor. In fact she wished to
keep a perpetual lock on my lips, (so far as our
antecedents were concerned,) with tiie key in her
pocket. But I sighed for the shop, and time hung
so heavily on my hands that an hour spent in
stupid listlessness about the house seemed longer
to me than a day did when I had orders ahead for
locks and was driving hard to get them finished at
a given time. My youngest brother, who is a
college-bred man, a lawyear.sent me, at my request,,
a fine collection of books on all imaginable
subjects, so that my library outshone that of the
parson, or, indeed, any other man in the place; hut
I found I had no more taste to sit down and read
than I had for trimming currant bushes. Timo
was, after I had finished a hard day’s labor at the
shop, when an hour at books was a real Solace, and
I also believed an occasion of improvement.—
Then I envied those wltose leisure allowed them to
feast on books perpetually: but the mistake I
made was in failing to discriminate between the
mental habits and requirements of the professed
student and those of tu<* working man.
“In this wretched manner did time, at my coun
try scat drag heavily along. Visiting was a per
fect bore, for not feeling the slighest interest in
such masculine topics ;*,s corn,grubs and manure,
and caring less for the leminixie ones of dress
and local gossip, I didn’t know’ what to talk
about. Books set me to sleep, and not having
the society .of my two boys, who were oft at
boarding school, I became fully satisfed that ‘noth-
ing to do’ was equal to having everything to suf
fer.
“My most delighttul place of resort was a black
smith s shop some two miles from the bouse, where
occasionally I would handle the hammer, and
clang a little on the anvil, but wife making the
discovery oue day that my bands were getting
grimy, again, I was obliged to otvr. up the cause
of it, and this, to my sorrow, was succeeded bv a
positive prohibition on Her part from my taking
any further exercise at the forge. After this,
w-hen I would sometimes ride past the shop be
hind my prancing Morgan horses, the tears would
start in my eyes at my being debarred the only
employment which was in the least adapted to my
taste or capacity.
“ But, cousin Aleck, to shorten my story, wife,
perceiving that my unhappiness was increasing: at
last consented to move back to town, and let me
resume my business. I had no difficulty in renew
ing an arrangement with my old partner, and
honee here you see me hard at work and happier
than the President. I am perfectly able, in a pe
cuniary point of view, to live without work, but I
have learned to my satisfaction two important
truths: first that we never enjoy ourselves so well
as when we are usefully employed; and second,
that there is no occupation on the whole for which
we are so weft fitted as that to which we have been
long accustomed, and wliich has hence become to
us, as it were, a second nature.”
I was much pleased with tbe good sense of “my’
wife’s cousin” as evinced in the small section ot
bis autobiography which be bad given me, and
very soon after he had finished it we reached his
dwelling. If Ids shop was dingy, there was no
dinginess here! The edifice was built on the
Philadelphia style, having a large dining room
back of the two parlors and a noble kitchen in the
rear of ihesr dining room. The whole rioor, as
well as the airy aud pleasant bed-rooms above
stairs, were probably adorned with a better descrip
tion of furniture than was owned by tbe governor
of Pennsylvania. Everything was in perfect
order, aud although tue locksmith's wife was
somewhat uppish in her notions, I soon perceived
she was a capital housekeeper, and that my friend
was proud of his house, and proud of his wife,
and proud of Ills two sons who had come from
boarding school to spend the vacation’ I found
that these lads were quite iatellig.-nt, and that
they were both intended for the learned profes
sions. While one of them entertained me with
seme music on a parlor organ, the worthy smith
begged me to excuse him for a few moments, after
which be reappeared in perfectly clean linen and a
suit of dainty black. We supped at a table spread
with tbe utmoet profusion, and in tlm evening
some company coining in, con versa! ton and music
filled np the passing hour. I was deeply inter-
e&ted, aud concluded that “my wile's cousin,”
tbe locksmith and beil-hanger, was a wise man,
and that unwittingly he had discovered the true
nhilosepher’s stoop.. Daily work was to him as
necessary as hi* daily bread, and the toil of the
shop only served to enhance the pleasures and
recreations of a reftped and happy home. On
taking my leave, I realized that I had been taught
a valuable lesson: Employment is the healthful
lot of life, and be that would seek happiness in a
state of perpetual repose betrays a profound ig
norance of the beneficent laws which govern liis
being.
A Suggtniirr Incident.—Mr Robert Morris the
coiored lawyer of this city, recently bargained for
a lesruence in Caryvillc, Chelsea, for which he
was to pny $3tf00, but the fact coming to the ears
of some of the select white inhabitants of that lo
cality, they sent tlm owner of the .-state a remon
strance against Mr. Morris settling there The
owner of the house felt the force of t | le remon
s trance and the result is that Mr. Morris cannot
have the estate. I he Evening Gazette, from
which we gather these facts, says that “the
topposers of Mr- Morris are those whohave
been most in sympathy with Kansas, and most
forward in movements sympathizing with the
Oppressed, and opposition from such comes with
a bad grace 1 '— Host on Courier.
Railroad Company and tlic Brunswick A Florida
Railroad Company shall have released any right
which either of said companies have or claim toin-
terefere with the location of said road.” The
mention of tbe Savannah, Albany and Gulf Road
was a mere matter of form, and could not have
been regarded us important as connected with the
release, as shown by tlm statement of Dr. Screven
in bis repart.uf 1854. “He (then) said the Brunt
wick enterprise standing in our way, occupy in
tbe field we (the Savannah Albany and Gult road)
desired fur our line of road, and in expectation
that it would be carried to successful completion
the only alternative left to this company was to
cross that line of road and connect w ith Florida.’
This difficulty was removed by the act of Feb 27,
1856. And no one w as more efficient and ener
getic in removing this hindrance than Hr. Screven
now the President of the “Main Trank Road.—
Wh'y not then occupy this desirable line. Why
not in view of his settled policy heretofore, and
the understanding of the legislature aud the for
mer stockholders of the Brunswick Road, abide
this line. Such being briefly the facts in regard to
the incorporation of the Atlantic A Gulf road, we
are pained to learn that the Directors are about to
change the location and adopt one near the Florida
line, making the Main trunk road a Florida enter
prise, better suited for a branch of the Georgia A
Pensacola Road in Florida, than a Main Trunk
road in Georgia against which we respectfully but
firmly protest.
Resolved, (That while we are unchangeably op
posed to the present location of said road) in be
half of the stockholders in this meeting, we are
ready and willing to recognize every legal liabil
ity we have assumed as Stockholders.
He olecd, In our opinion, good faith and justice
and the interest of the State require that the At
lantic A Gulf Railroad should be located substan
tially, or nearly so, on tlie contemplated line of
tbe Brunswick Road, and, above all. any other
course is a complete sacrifice of the interest of the
Stockholders of the Brunswick Road, who aided
in effecting a settlement of the unfortunate con
troversy between the two companies.
Resolved, That the Legislature, in consenting
that the State should become a Stockholder in the
Atlantic A Gulf Railroad company, intended to
develope the Southern and South-Western coun-
| ties. Such was *the objection of Legislature—
1 such the expressed object of tlie applicants for the
aid of the State. Therefore, we as stockholders,
citizens and tax-payers, do not recognize as a
correct principle in the settlement of the question
of location that a combination of capital can
defeat such object without a violation of good
faith.
Resolved, Tjiat the proposed location of the „
ad bordering on the Florida line, is an unwise!
appropriation of public as well as private capital,'
and will be highly detrimental to the State ^itnd
unjust to her citizens.
hi solved, If necessary, we will employ a com-
tent engineer to survey the line from some point
east of the Alapaha westward, that a proper and
correct survey may be made and tl,e facts under
stood.
Rr sol red. That a committee of five be appoin-
ted by the chair to address tin* President of the
Atlantic and Gulf road, asking a change of the
proposed location of the line of said road, so as to
advance the interest of the State and do justice to
the people, and request are-survey of the road.
Resolved, That we should regret the necessity
of applying to the Legislature to remedy existing
wrongs and hope that the Boqrd of Directors will
reconsider this important matter, and sp locatolthe
road as to do justice to and wisely apply the mon
ey of the State to be disbursed under their diree-
U °Resolved, That should the road b<; located as
was designed and as Dr. Screven desired in 18;.4,
it would be wise in the Legislature to furnish the
iron therefore ?.t once, and that we will cheerfully
unite with the friends of the enterprise to secure
this favor from the Legislature. On motion it
Fiom Goadbj s Vegetable aud Auiuiul Piiy&iulogy.
Bathing.
The preservation of a healthy skin demands the
removal of the entire epidemic layer, by frequent
ablution, always accomoanied by the liberal use
of that valuable detergent—soap.
Fortbe strict purpose of health, n< ,tuer n plunge
nor a shower bath is necessary—the latter is even
obnoxious to some temperaments; th- most com
fortable and healthful form of batii is at the same
time the most facile—a sponge bath—expedition
in its use being the most important element.
The bath itself should never exceed five min
utes; the rubbing (the most essential part of tie
process) occupying another five minutes or tuor
—an amount of time that every one can afford a
the beginning ot the day. This bath should b
taken immediately on rising in the rooming, as a
such time reaction is greater and quicker thau a
,11, v other period of the twenty-four hours.
It is very necessary to attend to the tempera
Hire of the water, and of the room in which th ;
bath is taken. During hot weather, water may b
used at the ordinary temperature of the atinor
phere, the room indicating not less thau 70 l ab
renheit. But at less external heat than 70 th 1
water should be warm, or at least tepid.
A sudden cold chill on the surface of the body
is pel judicial to health: it checks the circulation
of the blood to the external surface, interferes with
the secretions; and particularly arrests the exen
Ur power of the skin.
ft is a popular belief with mothers, that wash
ing young children daily, in cold water, makes
them hardy. This is a grave mistake; the feeble
circulation of a child requires the aid and assis
tance of warmth—warm water and warm clothing
The greatest medical man who ever lived John
Hunter—recommended three rules tor the man
agement of children and they express the sub
stance of a volume; he says: Give them plenty
of milk, plenty of sleep, and plenty of flannel.
For adults to bathe after a meal, or after fa
tiguing exercise, is emiently dangerous. Three
fatal cases were recorded by the New 4 oik papers,
all oceuring within a year, from this sole cause;
the first was the death of an American lady of re
finement and position, from taking a bath soon af
ter dinner; of Seargent Hume, while alone in a
w arm bath; and of Lorenzo B. Sheppard, of New
York,and under precisely similar circumstances.
Those persons who do not happen to possess a
sponge may’ resort to the following plan with
great advantage: as soon as you get out of bed in
the morning, wash your hands, face and neck;
then, in the same basin of water, put your feet at
once for about half a minute, rubbing them brisk
ly at the time: then, with the towel that had been
damped by wiping the face, feet, Ac., rub your
whole body well, (without the addition of more
water), fast and hard, mouth shut, the breast pro
jecting. Allow five minutes for this operation.
There is yet another plan, superior in some o
its effects to all that has preceded it; at nigh:
when you go to bed, and whenever you get out
of bed during the bight, spend from two to fivi
minutes rubbing your whole body and limbs wit!
your Lands, as far as y’ou can reach in every di
rectioo* let it be done briskly, quickly aud hind
Bv this practice the softness and mobility of th
skin will be preserved, which too frequent wash
ing has a tendency to destroy.
Doing away villi the Lawyers.
The Young Men’s Christian Association of Pitts
burg, have adopted a policy which must he alarm
ing to the lawyers of that city. At a recent meet
ing resolutions were adopted fortbe appointmen
of'a committee of arbitration, before whom th
members of the association, and others who may
wish to have their personal differences settled, n
obedience to Christian rules, may bring their mat.
ters of controversy. A Pittsburg correspond-t;.
of a religions paper, writtingon the subject, says
Tlie object of this movement is to open the way
for a more general observation of the injunction
plainly given by Paul, in the sixth chapter of hi
first Epistle to the Corinthians. It has long beei
a disgrace to those calling themselves Christian
that instead of an attempt amicably to settle thei
differences, as those who have renounced th
world and become brethern in christeaniiy “got
law” with each other, “and that before unbeliev
crs.” How often, when a member of one denom;
nation of evangelical Christians has sued a meu
her of another, and the court room has become th
scene of hostile if not revengeful measures bo
tween them, do the people of the world, standin
by, exclaim, “Behold, how cliristinns LOVE on
another !” The day is past for converting peep!
to Christianity by only an exhibition of its theoiy
—by preaching of love, goodwill aud forbearanci
while its professors, upon every occasion of fan
.1 insult or injury rush upon each other w it
all the bitterness of litigation. It is tube hoped tlm
the steps taken by the association of our city wi
be imitated,and that churches, individually, willals
join in tiie effort to show the world that when they
pray, “Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven
they mean something more than the expression (
an abstract idea.
Frniil."—An old sea captain who had retire
from service, and who was living on a farm
had a harum-scarum nephew with him. He could
neither frighten nor drive the said nephew to d
anything in his proper time. Among the rest In
never could get him to drive up the cows to mill
till after dark—he had to drive them from a bad
pasture, undergrown with sugar brush. Finally,
the captain asked the lad if he was not afraid to go
through the woods in the dark.
Fraidl—what is that? I never seen a fraid,”
replied the boy.
“Well, never mind; you will see one some oi
these nights if you do not get the cows up before
dark,” said the captain meaningly.
That night the boy played until dark before he
he went after the cows as usual. The captain tcok
licet and followed him. Now, the captain had
a tame monkey, which saw ail the performance,
and monkey like, took a table cloth and followed
at a respectful distance. The captain went into
road bordering on the Florida line, is an unwise j t j le woo ,i s where there was a big log by the side of
tlie path Going to the futher end of if. he wound
the sheet round him, got upon it. and stood still,
the monkey assuming a similar position upon the
other end of the log. In this position the parties
stood when the boy came along with the cows —
They shied a little upon seeing the ghosts, which
caused the boy to look ahead.
■:Hallo, what is that?” he shouted; “I think it’s
afraid?” And then espying the monkev. he sang
out. “If there ain’t two fraids—a big fraid and a
little fraid?”
This caused the captain to look around, and he
saw for the first time his ghostly companion. He
thought it was fraid, sure enough. The old cap
tain ran towards home, the monkey chasing him,
and the wicked nephew clapping his hands and
shouting. “Run, big fraid, or little fraid will
catch you?”
Pekin as seen by au American.
A correspondent of the Philadelphia Inquirer
was at Pekin, the capital of China, a short time
ago, and what lie saw of it, how it impressed him,
he thus describes:
On arriving at the capital of the Chinese empire
we find a city containing about two millions of in
habitants. Such is the estimate, hut doubtless the
calculation is made in the usual spirit of eastern
exaggeration. Be that as it may,the walls are four
teen miles in circumference, twenty-eight feet high
twenty-four feet thick at the base, and twelve at
the top. There are spacious towers all around, at
seventy feet distance from each other, and at the
gates are look-out barracks for the soldiers nine
stories in heighth. Tbe metropolis is divided into
parts, one inhabited by Tartars and the the other
by the Chinese. In each there is a street four
miles long and one hundred and twenty feet wide,
and the Emperor’s palaces and gardens occupy
two-thirds of the Tartar city; aud all this besides
the suburbs, which are nearly as populous as tho
city proper.
Pekin is located sixty miles south of the famous
Chinese wall, and therefore much exposed to north
ern and hostile neighbors; yet its fortifications are
strong, and, until the vast machinery of modern
artillery, the Emperor was secure in his palatial
halls, the walls, bastions, and towers being impreg
nable in ancient times. Although the country
about Pekin is sandy and unfertile, yet provisions
abound, being brought by canals from all the great
rivers; and also with its commerce, the merchants
being paid in money, as tho chief receipient of
the revenues of all China. It has ever been re
garded as a very exclusive place, the presence of
no foieigner being permitted within its walls; but
now the outside barbarians are in a fair way of over
leaping the sacred boundaries; and it is probable
Resolved, That the Chairman be added tothe
committee to address the President of the Atlantic
& Gulf Railroad Company.
1 he chair announced the following committee
to prepare an address to Dr. Screven, to wit: Col.
Seward, N. Reddick, H. J- L* Rosser, J. J. Pike
and James McDonald.
Thomas Boston Esq., being present made a few
pertinent and forcible remarks approving the ac
tion of the meeting.
It was resolved that the proceedings of the
meeting be published in the papers at Thomas-
ville,Macon, MilledgeviRe and Savannah.
Whereupon the meeting adjourned,
WM. HOLLOWAY, Cli n.
James McDonald, Sec’y.
Deep Sea Soundings.—Some persons are surpris
ed at the statement that the water upon the tele
graphic plateau between Trinity an.d Valencia bay
is from two to three miles deep in its deepest
parts, having been told that there it is compara
tively shallow. A comparison of deep sea sound
ings will show that the idea of its shallowness is
correct, when measured by the almost incredible
abysses to which the plummet has been sent.—
Lieut. Bertyman, in I8;53j made soundings in the.
Atlantic ocean thirty-nine thousand six hundred
feet in depth, equal to a little over seven and one
half miles; aud Capt Denham of the British navy,
has obtained soundings at the vast depth of forty
six thousand two hundred and sixteen feet, or that this act, together with the opening ot Japan,
about eight and three-quarter English miles. The may prove an important step towards, tho inaugu-
highest mountains upon the globe might be hurl-j ration of Christianity among tho millions who.are
ed into these immense chasms and still leave a now benighted in Pagan idolatry and superstition
immense
vast ocean above their tallest peaks. The giant
Himalays.that overtop all other mountains, would
be swallowed as easily as the Alps. The highest
peak of the chain is only twenty-eight thousand
one hundred and seventy-eight feet above the sea
level, and its summit might he submerged about
three miles at tlie point of Capt. Denham s deepest
soundings.—Exchange.
Editors looking up.—Coi. Anthony of the Prov
idence (R. I.) Journal as our renders know, has
been elected to the United States Senate; and now
another brother of the quill, we. note is proposed
fern seat in the same body. We refer to Col. W.
Holden, tho editor of tin* Raleigh (N. C.) Standard
whose party has a majority on joint ballot in tho
legislature.
Editors not unfrequentiy do more to make great
men than nnture herself ever did in their behalf,
and it. is nothing more than right that they should
occasionally at least come in for a share of those
honors which they essentially aid in thrusting up
on others.
We are not certain tliat we are right in designa
ting the transfer of editors tothe United States
Senate by the phrase “looking np” as perhaps
there nro few stations that are really more res
ponsible or honorable than their own,—\. O. Bul-
htin.
A young lady lately appeared in male attire in
Baltimore, and one of the editors says her dis
guise was so perfect, that she might have passed
fora man “had she a little more modesty.”
Baron Humboldt says that he shall die next
year, and lias desired the postponement of the
publication of an edition of his works until after
that time.
irhcrc is General liuldrrl—In relalion to the re
ported departure of Gen. William Walker fur
Nicaragua, the Nashville Daily Xeics says:
“Gi n Wm. Wai.kkr.—It has been reported
that this distinguished person had left tbe United
States for Panama. Tlie report was without foun
dation, as James Walker, Esq., his father, receiv
ed a dispatch yesterday, dated at Louisville, 23d,
stating that he is coming to Nashville, by
way of the Mammoth Cave, and will probably ar
rive here on Tuesday next, on route for Mobile.
The Cincinnati GazeHce, of Thursday, says :
Gen. Wm. Walker—“the gray eyed man of des
tiny, " the genuine filibuster—arrived in this city
on Tuesday night, and was at the Spencer house
until noon yesterday, when lie left by the boat for
Louisville. During Ills stay here lie was closeted
in his room. No. 115. with two well known Dem
ocrats of this city, and he was heard to tell one of
them, as they parted at the door, that he had pro
cured the insertion of the dispatch sent by the
telegraphic operator, from New York, on the 21st,
stating that lie had gone out on the Star of the
West for Nicaragua, in order to put somebody on
a false scent, aud to divert attention from liis real
purposes.
The Jennings Estate Again.-—A new claimant to
the Jenunigs property has arisen in the village of j
Fergusonville, Delaware co., N. Y , in the person
of Mr. George llearne, late of Bentford, England,
whose mother was the last of the Jennings family
and is now living, nearly eighty years of age.—
Tbe late possessor is presumed to iiave been the
ancle of the old lady above mentioned, and the
best legal talent will be employed in support of
the claim.
The Lost Balloonist—The Balloon Valve torn
out—How the fronaat fell.
The Detriot Tribune, of September 22 says :
All hope of everfinding poor Thurston alive is
blotted out, and we can only bemoan him as lost.
Mr. Bannister, his companion, returned this af
ternoon, aud can bring only the worst tidings—
The balloon he identified, and sent the silk of
which it was composed to this city last night. He
himself remained to search for his friend. To
day he comes back despairingly. He states that
the balloon valve on which Thurston sat, is torn
out from the silk of the balloon three quarters of
the way round, indicating unerringly that the
weight of the unfortunate man was too great for
the strength of the siucs. and that the silk gave
way. when he must have dropped off.
His only remaining chance woujd be to cling to
the smooth material of which the balloon was
made, and ho could not have sustained himself in
that manner. When this occurred, we can only
conjecture, but that it must have been within an
hour after lie started seems highly probable: The
balloon was seer: for nearly two hours with a
glass, but it is to be remembered that this great
body, full sixty feet high, was only the size of a
man’s hand, when thus visible, and it would be
utterly impossible to see the ill-fated man if he
had dropped off. Mr. Banister feels quite positive
that lie must have fell before reachiug Canada at
all.
Col Tucker Accepts.
Col. John A. Tucker, of Stewart county, who
was nominated a short time since for Judge of Pa-
taula Circuit, has written a letter to the committee
appointed to inform him of his nomination, in
which lie acccpls the nomination, and pledges
himself, if elected, to faithfully discharge tlie du
ties which the office will devolve upon him. A
better selection could not have been made in the
Circuit than Col. Tucker, for added to talents ot
the highest order is unbending integrity and a
fearlesness in the discharge of any duty which
may be incumbent upon him. We wish him suc
cess, w hoever may be his opponent.—Cot. Sun
Representative from Baker County.
We learn from a letter from Dougherty county
published in tiie Times of Saturday morning that
the Democratic Convention of Baker county had
nominated JIou. A. II. Colquit, formerly Repre-
sentu ive in Congress from this District, to fill the
unexpired term of Mr. Cunihie, in the Representa
tive branch efour State Legislature; the latter
geutleman having been cut off in the new county
of Mitchell, and we are ph ased to learn that Maj.
Colquitt accepts. It is needless to say he is the
w orthy son of a worthy sire and if elected, as he
undoubtedly will be, he will do not only his im
mediate constituents, but the State at large, some
service by his wise council and lofty patriotism.
Success to him.
Death cfS. A. D ates.
This distinguished citizen of Columbus, depar
ted this life yesterday, lie was horn in Connecti
cut, and moved from that State, to Georgia at an
early age. lie was admitted to the bar and prac
ticed law in Middle Georgia forty years ago. He
represented Habersham county in the Georgia
Legislature when a young man," and Jasper a°nd I jeon'while h
Putnam counties in tiie year 1847. In 1855 he
was the Senator from Muscogee county; in 1857,
he was elcted one of the Judges of the Inferior
Court ot this county—which position he held at
the time of his death. As a man. Col. Wales was
known for his integrity, and honor—as a citizen,
for his public spirit—as a neighbor, for his hospi
tality—as a friend, for his devotion. He lived to
his sixtieth year, and leaves a family and a large
circle of acquaintances who mourn his loss. Peace
to his ashes!—Daily Times’ 29f/i.
The Sorghum Cane —There seems to be hut
little doubt that this will do. We have seen some
most beautiful samples of syrup made from it this
year, in sweetness and color it is equal to any oth
er. We have also seen a farmer of good judgment
who savs that without attempting to make any
sugar, iie fed away the stalks to his hogs with the
most satisfactory results We also see it stated
that the amout of sugar raised in Illinois from it
this year, including of course the molasses, will
exceed that of any other product or article of ex
port grown and manufactured in the State.—Spirit
of the South.
Some person in Charleston, S. C., who has
tried it says the following is a sure cure for yellow-
fever: Take one pint ot olive oil, with a lemon
squeezed into it, and an hour after, take an ordi
nary dose of snake root and salts. In tour hours
after, take another dose of snake root and Salts.—
Bandages soaked m vinegar should be applied to I
the w rists and ankles, and a slice of bread, satura
ted with the same, applied on the mold of the
head. Tlie nourishment for the three first days of
the attack should be very ligiit.
Perilous Position—At the Burnet House, Cin
cinnati, Ohio, recently a thief was caught standing
with one foot upon the projecting portion of the
stone still, and the other upon a gas pipe running
along the building, which was not over an inch
and a half in diameter, and maintaining his posi
tion by pressing his fingers against the smooth"
stones oti the side of the window* The window
was on the third floor opening to the yard, aud at
least forty feet from the ground.
Cuban Tildgraplr—The City Council of Macon
have passed a resolution authorizing the Cuba and
United States Sub-marine Telegraph Company to
xtcud their wires into that city under the same
egulations as other Telegraphic lines, subject to
such restructions as the authorities may deem nec-
sary for tho convenience and protection of the
city.
The Last Aeronaut —The Detroit Tribune
up all hope of the safety of Thurston, who was
carried off on his balloon. i t/r - ■ , , . ,,,,
Affairs in Ireland.— JUiere are evidences in the
Wonderful Achievement if True —M. Garvani, a j Irish journals of an increased good feeling toward
French machinist, has, it is said, perfected his ! the English in that country. The large number
serial ship, at a cost of 300,000 francs, and made of English tourists who have visited Ireland this
a voyage to Algiers, Africa, and back with it—a | year seems to have contributed to this feeling.—
distance of fifteen hundred miles from the starting ! The agricultural prospects are also very promising,
point The average speed was almost one bun-1 A Dublin journal says:
IBorab »I Jesus.
One of tho slanders heaped on Mr. Jefferson, and
which still poisons tho heart of men against him,
is r tie charge that he was not a believer in revealed
religion. Let those who would reject the practi
cal Christianity of Jefferson, read the folowing ex
tract.
The book oftnest,chosen for reading for an hour
or half an hour before going to bed was a collec
tion of extracts from tho Bible. During the year
1830, while Mr. Jeff -rson was in Washington
“overwhelmed with other business, lie spent two
or three nights “after getting through the eve
ning task of reading the letters and papers of the
day,” in cutting such passages from the Evange
lists ns he believed emanated directly from the
lips of the Savior, and he arranged them in an oc
tavo volume of eigluy-six pages.
This selection is thus described by him to liis
Revolutionary friend, Charles Thompson, January
0, 181 (J; “I too have made a wee-little hook from
tlie same materials, which I call the Philosophy of
Jesus; it is a paraWigma of his doctrines, made by
cutting tho texts out of the book and arranging
them on the pages of a blank book in a certain or
der of time or subject. A more beautiful or pre
cious morsel of ethics I have never seen; it is a
document in proof that I am a real Christian-, that
is to say, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus, very
different from the Platonists w ho call me infidel
and themselves Christians and preachers of the
Gospel, while they draw all their chaaisteristie
dogmas from what it never said nor saw. They
have compounded from the heathen mysteries a
system beyo. d the comprehension of man, of
which tlie great Reformer of the vicious ethics
and deism of the Jews were In- to return on earth
would not recognize one feature.”
A Balloonist Lost in the Sky.
Terrible Adventure.—The Detroit Tribune of tho
18th instant says:
•fWe have learned full particulars of the balloon
ascension at Adrian, on Thursday, its subsequent
descent, and its second ascension aud runaway
with the aeronaut while beyond his control. It is
a brief narrative, but of thrilling interest. A man
lost in the sky! There can scarcely he a more
terrible thought. It makes the fl.*sh creep and
sends a shudder through every nervqj
The first ascension took place about nine o’clock
in the morning. It was on the occasion of a
large Sunday School celebration at Adrian. The
balloon was a very large, and well constructed one,
being about the height of a two-story house when
inflated and ready to cut. from its fastenings.—
Messrs. Bannister and Thurston took seats in the
car attached to the balloon and ascended safely
steadily. After remaining about 40 minutes in the
air, sailing towards Toledo all the time, they ali
ghted near the woods in the town of Riga,
Lenawee county, near Knight’s station on the
Southern road, distant about 18 miles west of
Toledo. Several men came to the assistance of the
adventurers, and they proceeded to prepare the
bailoon for packing to be taken back to Adrian.
In doing this, the monster balloon was turned
over and partially upside down to disentangle the
netting and to reach the valve. To do this, Mr.
Ira Thurston, one of the aeronauts, took off liis
coat and got astride of the valve block. He then
suggested that the car he detached from the bal-
hould hold it down with his weight.
This proved a tearful calculation, for no sooner
was the still inflated body relieved of the weight
of the ear than it shot into the air with the sudden
ness of a rocket, taking Mr. Thurston along with
it, seated upon the valve of tlie balloon, and
holding on to the collapsed silk of (he air-ship in
that portion of its hulk; In this perfectly helpless
condition the ill-fated man sped straight into the
sky in tlie full sight of his companions, even
more helpless than himself. So far as is known,
there was no possible means for him to secure his
descent, whether safe or otherwise. The part of
the balloon filled with gas was full 12 feet above
him: so that iliore was no chance for him to cut it
and escape. He could only cling to his precarious
hold, and go whithersoever the current of air
should take him.
Without regulation or control of any kind the
balloon continued to amount upward, sailing off
in the direction of this city and Lake Erie. The
ratal ascension took place about 11 o'clock, and at
a few minutes past noon it was seen in tho town of
Blisstield, Lenawee county apparently fail three
miles high, and about the size of a -star in ap
pearance, It was still going up and out. At a
quarter past 1 o’clock it was last dimly visible
going in the direction of Malden, as ascertained
by compass bearings taken by parties observing it.
Mr. Thurston was an experienced balloonist,
having built several, and this being his thirty
seventh ascension. He was formerly a resident in
the vicinity ol Lima and Rochester, in Western
New York, but has latterly resided in Adrian,
where he was extensively engaged in business as a
nursery-man. He was a widower, having lost his
wife last winter. lie leaves au interesting daugh
ter about seventeen years of age to mourn her
father's unknown, terrible fate.
The lates.t account by telegraph states that the
balloon came down four hours afterward, near
Baptist Creek. Canada West. Mr. Thurston was
seen upon it a short time before it was secured,
and he probably fell off when over the marshes
near Lake St. Clair. A search is being made for
liis remains. The aft’air has caused great excite
ment throughout the country.
from
Europe.
Holloway’s Pill are indisper.sible to the security of
health and life in new settlements. Fever and ague,
billions remittents, and bowel complaints, are the worst
enemies the western pioneer has to encounter, and he
call only certainly and permanently put them to
flight with tlie aid of his unrivalled cathartic, detergent
and restorative. There are multitudes of sallow and
fee!de invalids, now languisbing iu the western clear
ings, nnder the endemic diseases of that region, who
would soon find their healthy appearance, strength, and
cheerfulness return, under a course of Hollowav’s
s | Tills.
- —
Ircd miles an hour, the voyage occupying eighteen
hours M. Garvania is to make the attempt from
Havre to the city of New York as soon ns he has
further tested the character of his invention by a
few short trips over tho Mediterranean and its
neighboring provinces.
Brigham Young is said to be worth $30,000,000
besides having control of all the church property
in Utah. The iatterexceeds in value all the rest
of the property iu the territory, and is exempted
from taxation by the territorial law.
Stampede, of Free. Negroes —Fifteen free negroes
stampeded for “de blessed Nort,” by yesterday
afternoon’s train, says the Petersburg Express,
all furnished with certificates of departure by the
Mayor. The brilliant inducements held out by
Mr. <froi ly and his friends are acting like charms
upon the tree colored population generally. Many
similar departures have already occurred, and wiil
continue, not only hence, but ftoin various other
cities in Virginia and other Southern States.
Tub Bki.l Crevasse.—This locality now pre
sents a scene,says the N. O. Picayune, of destruc
tion larely, if ever witnessed before as coming
from a similar cause, and one which gives the spec
tator even a more forcible idea of the furv and
strength of a crevasse than was presented when
the waters of the Mississippi were pouring over
the. ground in a raging torrent, sweeping all be
fore them. The spot looks like a desert. Not a
blade of grass appears when* once was smiling
plantation verdue. The ground is furrowed into
every shape, and the channel of the crevasse is
wide and deep enough to form a respectable river.
Cotton Moving !—On Saturday the Girrard &
Mobile Railroad brought up more than five hun
dred bales of Cotton, and the freight train of this
evening is expected to make to-day’s receipts by
the same road about as large. A thousand bales
in two days will do for a “pmey woods section,”
and its rapid movement to market from a region
that all was a savage wilderness twenty years ago,
is a striking illustration of the unparalled pro
gress of our country.—Columbus Enquirer, 27 th till.
Crimson Cotton —Mr. Thomas Smith, who
resides in the immediate vicinity of Richmond,
Vn , has a small field of cotton which is consider-
i d a curiosity by all who have seen it. It differs
but little in appearance from the ordinary kind,
except in color, which is as delicately crimson as a
maiden’s blush. Not only is th« stock of this of
a gorgeous hue, but the leaves also, tbe vividness
of color fading, however, as it approaches the mar
gin of tlie leaf, into purplish green. This is not
the efl'eet of disease, or of any extraneous circum
stance connected with its culture, but a peculiar
ity in the plant itself, every stock possessing the
same rich and healthful glow,and as thrifty as any
cotton in the country.—Columbus Sun.
Latest"Paris Fashions ”—The late news about
the Paris “fashions” is somewhat startling. Fat
is tho rage. Ladies cultivate it. They are de
vouring vast quantities of butter, mashed rose
leaves and such like. The Empress is quite cor
pulent, which accounts for tlie style. The fashion
«ill he here before long. We hail it with “joy.”
A new era is dawning. Our girls will stop eating
slate pencils and chalk, and commence partaking
liberally of roast beef and baked beans. They
will rise with the I ark. They will exercise. '1 hey
will try on the wash tub, perhaps.
A gentleman was speaking, the other day, of
the kindness of his friends in visiting him. One
old aunt, iu particular, visited him twice each year,
and stay ed six months each time.
James II Maugham, Esq.. Ordinary of Spalding
county, died iu Griffin on Friday last, and was
buried on Saturday with Masonic honors.
Murder at a Camp ground.—The Macon Journal
A Messenger of yesterday says:
We regret to learn that a severe difficulty which
lias resulted fatally, occurred on Sunday night last
at the camp meeting in this county. It appears
that a negro man was bringing liquor to the camp
ground. He was arrested by the police of the
ground, when he drew a knife and slabbed Mr.
Thomas Bagby. Jr. and otherwise very seriously
injured him, ot which injuries he has "since died.
Mr. Bagby was a promising young man, and but
recently married. The negro has been arrested
and is now in jail. The circumstance is much to
lie deplored
Wheat is one of the best crops ever seen in
Ireland. Tlie yield is heavy, the quality good,
mid it lias been ganred in excellent condition —
AU doubts about the potatoe are at end, and never
was tho crop more produtictive. The green crops,
too. v liich now form so important a feature in our
improved agriculture, vs ill yield a heavy return
this year; turnips, mangolds, etc., are of such su-
peiiot bulk and quality that even the farmers
themselves are satisfied, and have nothing to
grumble at but the fact that abundant crops bring
low prices. Still, however, the prices of agricultu
ral produce are highly remunerative : and besides,
where there is plenty, there is employment, indus
try, contentment, comfort, diminished pauperism,
diminished crime, diminished taxation, lighter bur
dens and more enjoyment for all classes.
“A subscriber” (whom we suspect to be some narrow
minded Leech) asks us why advertise Dr. Ayer’s Pills,
and we will give him our seven reasons for so doing.
Tin* first, seco.-i 1 and third are that we are paid for it
Tlie fourth i-, we know them by experience to he good.
Tin* fifth is, that Dr. Ayer’s preparations "being recom-
meiide 1 by better maa tiiau We—by physicians of the
highest talent and the deepest learning in the land, we
are well sustained in our convictions of their value.
Tiie sixth is, that they are cheap as well as useful. The
last bill not leas* is that they have done and are doing
an amount of good in this community which our old
fogy friend, if lie could repeat himself teu thousand
times might never hope to equal; and we trust, by niuk-
ing them known, to render some service to our readers
as well as our ourselves.—Christina Ilerald.
The Right"" Ticket.
Politicians, we leaiu, will lie greatly embarrassed
this fall, in the selection of proper tickets to support, a
difficulty from which all are relieved who deal w ith S.
Swan Ac Co..of Augusta, Georgia. Ten, five or two
and a half dollars, mailed to them, will bring you
promptly a whole, half or quarter ticket in their great
lottery, which draws every Saturday, and is always
welcome, should yon, like others, he found with some
twenty, fifty or seventy thousand dollars, you will be
nbleto convince your friends tlmt you selected the right
ticket.
Don’t Feet—It is unamiable. A fretting man or
woman is one of the most unlovable objects in the
world. A wasp is a comfortable housemate in
comparison—it, only stings when disturbed. But
an habitual frettcr buzzes, if lie don’t sling, with
m without provocation. “It is better to dwell in
ilie corner of a bouse top limit with a brawlii.g
woman and in a wide house.” It is useless; it sets
no broken hones, stops no leaks, gathers no spilt
milk, repairs no broken glass,cures no spoiled bay,
and changes no east winds. It affects nobody but
the frettei himself. Children or servants cease to
respect the authority or obey the commands of a
complaining, worisome, exacting parent or master.
They know that “barking dogs don’t bite” and
fret ters don’t strike; and they conduct themselves
accordingly.
Departure of the Africans.—The Charleston
Courier, i f the 22nd ult.. states that the United
States steamship Niagara took her departure on
Tuesday afternoon 21st. iust., from off the bar for
Africa. The negroes appeared iu good spirits and
well pleased with their quarters in the Niagara.—
The ship is fully supplied with provisions for
twenty dsj s.
Myers, the condemned Penitentiary murderer
of Ohio, was respited on Friday just as the sheriff
was in tlie act ot placing him upon the drop. In
answFi to the question whether he accepted or re
jected the respite, he said he rejected it. Yet lie
was not hung.
A most horrible murder was committed at Ber-
wic Bay on Sunday night, 12th instant. Mr
Joachim Como, overseer on the plantation of Dr.
Rhodes, was called to the window at about II
o’clock, and shot through the bieast, causing death
in about five minutes,. The District Attorney
took the matter immediately in hand, and on yes
terday. Amos, a slave belonging to Dr. Rhodes,
turned State’s evidence and declared John,a
slave also belonging to Dr. Rhodes, to betheono
who committed the deed. They were tried, found - -
gnilty, and John sentenced to be hung on the first | ted, ivhich will save some freight and enable those
Friday of next month, and Amos to the peniten- \ wishing to pay cash, to get a choice Concord Bug-
tiary for life. Other negroes are implicated in tho gy, (which is the best now used,) or any other ve-
affuir, butas yet no certain clue has been obtained i hide at a low price. Address,
to their identity. Whisky was at the bottom of WOODRUFF & CO., Griffin, Ga.
the whole affair.— Delta fRth iust. | August 7th, 1858. 11 tf.
ARABIA .
New York, Se.pt. 29—The steamship Arabia,
with dates from Europe tothe 18th inst., lias ar
rived She brings the following report of tho
Markets.
Sales of cotton in Liverpool for the week, 82,000
bales: The market advauced |d. on all qualities,
and closed firm.
Brcadstuffs were declining: quotations nominal.
All qualities of Provisions were declining.
Consols quoted at 97j.
Second Despatch.
Of the sales of the week speculators took 17.000
bales and exporters 9,000
Richardson and Spence’s circular reports an
advance of J a }d for the week, but scarcely main
tained.
Sales of Friday 10,000 bales; of which exporters
and speculators took 4,000—market closing firm at
the following.
Quotations:
Fair Orlesns 7Jii
Middling Orleans 7 5-I6J.
Fair Mobile 7 9-1C.
Middling Mobile 7Jd.
Fair Uplands 7id.
Middling Uplands 7 I5-16J.
General news unimportant.
The Atlantic Telegraph stock was declining,
owing to discouraging accounts from Valentia.
On Saturday 10,000 bales were sold, of which
speculators took 1,000—market steady and firm.
Breadstuff's quiet. Sales unimportant.
London, Saturday afternoon—Consols quoted
at 97^.*. 971 for money, and, 97 ja 97.J for account.
Richardsion &. Spence quote Flour dull; Wheat
declining, market easier, and quotations unchang
ed. Corn dull and declined (id . white declined Is
Sugar steady. Coffee firm. Rice steady. Rosin
steady at 4s a 4s 3d. Turpentine steady at 39s.
General Intelligence.
, The bullion in the Batik of England had in-
I creased COO pounds sterling.
Atlantic Cable shares had declined to 3 2l>.
Steamer Hamntonia exploded her magazine near
Hamburg and put back. Five persons were in
jured by the explosion.
The Ariel Alps, and Cnnnada had arrived out.
LITER FROn CALIFORNIA.
ARRIVAL OF TIIE MOSES TAYLOR.
New York, Sept. 22.—The steamship Moses Tay
(orhas arrived, with late California dates, and
$160,000 in specie.
The Administration party ^iave carried the
State elections by from six to ten thousand majori-
ty.
Frazier river news represents affairs as unsatis-
fory. in consequence of high water.
New and rich diggings have been discovered in
Shasta county. Some diggers have made as much
asione hundred dollars a day.
Lieut. Allen and fifteen men, badly defeated a
party of Indians on the Yukunitt liver, and captur
ed seventy of them, besides a large number of
horses. Lieut.. Allen was killed.
There was a large movement in rice, in the San
Francisco market. Carolina had advanced 40 per
cent. There was also speculative movement in
Turpentine, w hich had advanced to 90 cents.
Nicaragua affairs are quiet.
It is rumored that San Salvador was about to
invade Honduras, and Peru about to declare war
against Ecuador.
There had been an ineffectual attempt at revolu-
lation in Venezuela.
From the Missouri Democrat.
Upon Prof. O.J. Wood, of St. Louis, fortune has
conferred tiie honor of having discovered a balsamic
preparation, which not only promotesthe growth of
and beautifies the hair in a Iritrii degree, but restores it
when it is gone, or turns it to its original color after
it has become gray, fastens it to the scalp and effectu
ally destroys such cutaneous eruptions ns may have
been engendered by the use of dyes, essential oils and
other injurious applications. The many respectable
testimonials which are offered in its favor, from every
part of the country in which it has been introduced,
leaves no loop for a skeptic to hang a doubt on. It is
supplanting a II other specifies fortbe hair, and enjoys a
popularity which no other has ever attained. Buy it—
test it—utid rejoice that your attention has been direc
ted to it.
Caution.—Beware of worthless imitations assevera!
are already in the market, called by different names.—
Use none unless tbe winds (P ofessor Wood’s Hair
Restorative, Depot St. Louis, Mo., and New York), are
blown on the bottle. Sold by all Druggists and Patent
Medicine Dealers. Also by all Fancy andToilet Goods
dealers in the United Sates and Canadas. 18 2t.
Sold here by till Druggists.
Mortality from Chloroform.—It appears that the
mortality in tlie London hospitals has increased
since tho introduction of etherization from twenty-
one to thirty-three per cent.—or, to vary the expres
sion, instead of amputation being fatal in a less
proportion than one in four of those operated upon,
it now proves fatal to oue in three. The Medical
Times and Gazette, asks, in view of these facts,
whether so enormous a sacrifice of life is not too
high a price to be paid for amesthesis.
Appetite and strength restored,
William Young,of South Pittsburgh, says:
“After suffering severely for several days with a
most distressing attack of Diarrhoea, I purchased a
bottle of Bn rliuve’s Holland Bitters. It gradually
checked tlie disease, and restored my bowels to perfect
order. Before I had finished the bottle, I found mv ap
petite and strength returning. I believe it worthy of
the character you give it, and shull recommend it as
such.
Sold by Grieve. & Clark, Milledgcville.
•Four members of the thirty-fourth, and five of
the thirty-fifth Congress, first saw the light of day
in Jasper county, Georgia. The former are Hons.
Martin J. Crawford Eli S. Shorter. James F. Dow
dell and Robert P Trippe. The latter are the four
above mentioned, with an addition of the late Samp
son W. Harris.—At. American.
Whether or not a man has succeeded in life, is
not determined by his having accumulated prop
erty or acquired fame. It does not even depend
on his having accomplished the end which h<- pro
posed. He may have done all which he aimed to do
may have “drank every draught of praise, heard
every trump of fame,” and yi t his life, in the sight
of heaven, hate been an entire failure. History
awards her praise or censure according to the de
cisions of frail, erring human reason ; but there
cometh a higher and wiser judge, in whose scales
many w hom the world lias pronounced great, will
be found wanting.
Suicide.—We copy below, from a letter written
by a lady to a relative in this place, and dated
Oglethorpe, Sept. 19th, 185.8, the following ex
tract:
“I learn front the Rev. Jno. P. Duncan, who lias
been on a visit to Stewart Camp Meeting, that
during a sermon, preached by Rev. Mr. Reynolds,
on Monday, 13th inst , a Dr, Thornton (who,
graduated in Philadelphia, and was once wealthy,
but iu his w ild career had squandered all his prop
erty) arose from his seat, about midway the ser
mon, went a few yards from the stand and shot
himself with a psitol—putting tho weapon just
above his right ear, the ball lodged just above bis
left temple. At last accounts, on Tuesday follow
ing, he was not dead, but his attending physician
says death is inevitable.”
The fate of Dr. Thornton is another warning to
young men against the allurements and tempta
tions of vice,—Pulaski Times.
SWAN AND CO'S., LOTTERIES
TRIUMPHANT.
SWAN & CO.
Continue to Draw as Vsnal Witbon*
Interruption- 1
I ft CO’S.
LOTTERIES AllR I-VSG A I., AND
AUTHORISED RV TI|p
STATE Ol'GiiOli,.,, ,
The I.ale attempt to Injure
Our Firm Ilns Shown
That our Lotteries are it raw a F nil .,
That our Frizes are Paid Pnncto«||j!
nnd tho I our *
Are more Liberal than any Other L 0 tt
In the World !
The following Scheme will be drawn e
Swan it Co., Managers of the Sparta a".,V
emy Lottery, in each of their single number
ies for O C T O B E R, 1858, at /uGUOTA,
public, under the superintendence of Commit™
Class 35 Draws Saturday, October 2, 185s
Class 3(5 Draws Saturday, October 9 p&y
Class 37 Draws Saturday, October Hi. 185s
Class 38 Draws Saturday, October 23, ]H5s
Class 39 Draws Saturday, October, 3o| 1859
On the plan ot Single Numbers. 50,000 Tick
ets! live thousand four bundled and eijrbtv’
five prizes. Nearly one prize to every nine tick!
MAGNIFICENT SCHEME'
To be Drawn each Saturdai in OCTOBER'
900
800
“ 700
“ 600
51 ti
“ 300
“ 125
“ loti
APPROXIMATION PRIZES.
4 Prizes of $400 apx. to $70,000 prz. are $],60o
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1 Prize of
$70,000
4
1 “
30,000
4
1 “
10,00(1
4
I “
5,000
4
1 “
4,000
50
I “
3,000
50
1 “
1,500
100
4 “
1,000
230
4
4
4
4
4
4
5,000
300
2t :o “
125 “
100 “
50 -*
20 are
30.000
10.000
5.000
4.000
3.000
1,500
1,211k
80o
50ti
4141 U
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2oo 1
ICO,000 J
5,485 Prizes amounting to $320 One
WHOLE TICKETS $10, HALFES $5, QUARTERS
A Circular showing the plan of n„
Lotteries will be scut to any one 'deniron* at
receiving it.
Certificates of Packages will be sold at the fol
lowing rates which is the risk:
Certificate of Package of 10 Whole Tickets, S-.i
“ “ 10 Half “ 40
“ “ 10 Quarter “
“ “ 10 Eighth, “ Jo
In ordering tickets or certificates, enclose tlie
money to our address for the tickets ordered, on
receipt of which they will he forwarded by first
mail. Purchasers can have tickets ending in anv
figure they may designate. The list of drawn -|
numbers and prizes will be sent to purchasers ia J
mediately after the drawing. }
R^** Purchasers will please write their signatures
plain, and give their post office, county and Slati
Remember that every prize is drawn and payable ’
in full without deduction. All prizes of $1,in.
and under, paid immediately after the drawing-
other prizes at the usual time of thirty days. .
All communications strictly confidential.
Address orders for tickets or certificates, to
S. SWAN & Co., Augusts. Ga
[ eT Persons residing near Montgomery, Ala.
nr Atlanta, Ga , can have their orders fiiied, anl I
save time, by addressing S.-Swan & Co., at eitL;: j
of those cities. 9
CS’TA. list of the numbers that are drawn fro*
the wheel, with the amount of the prize that each
one is entitled to, will be published after even
drawing, in the following papers: New Orleais
Delta, Mobile Register, Charleston Standard, Na>k- j
ville Gazette, Atlanta Intelligencer, New Y'ork ‘
Weekly Day Book, and Savannah Georgian
Richmond Dispatch and New York DispatcL I
Panldiug (Miss.) Clarion, and Augusta (Ga
Constitutionalist, Little Rock (Ark) True Dt-m
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PKATT, OAKI.KV, A (O.,
* (Late Farmer, Brace A Co.,)
Publishers, Booksellers and Stationers, j
No. 21 TCurray Street,
SEW YORK.
<fc Co., offer at low prices for cash, aihJ literal j
rmsfor approved credit, a large stock of BA^iK
and OFFICE STATIONERY. BLANK and AC- i
COUNT BOOKS. Receipt nnd Memorandum Bock-
PAPER OF ALL KINDS, Curds. Circulars, Bill |
Heads, &e.. Printing and Lithographing executed t«
order. Bibles, Miscellaneous and Seliool Books.
P. O. & Co. Publish Bullion’s scries of Graninr.-’ j
Comstock’s series on the Sciences; Hooker’s Phyri4- 1
tries, Brocklcsbv’s Astronomies; Olney’s Geography. 1
newly revised; Southern Class Readers; Palmer’s lte.k i
Keeping; and the “cheapest and best” Spelling 1
Book ever used. * 12 bniis. • 1
G“$l 000 A YEAR.
We want Local and Traveling
AGENTS
In all parts of the
SOUTHERN AND WESTERN STATES,
to whom the largv.st Commissi,uis will be puiit. Our
Lust iru-ludi s ,
OVER 25 VOLUMES OF
T. S. AS rilTR’S WORKS.
Also a large aud saleable list of
HISTORICAL aud BIOGRAPHICAL HOOKS
Among these will be found Lives of .1EFFERSOX aid
HAMILTON l)r E. K. KANE and otherihstingniaiirf
Explorers and Travelers ,pr.
Among our recent publications m e the Po’.lic au? >
private
l.ifr of l.ouis Napoleon.
IlintorT of India nail
Tne Inilin yiuti.t:
I.ivangstoHe’M Travel, and Kxplornti.x
For lixlcra Vein in ike Will* •'
Africa, Ac., Ac.
All of these Books are among the most saleable po
lished.
OF LIVINGSTONE'S TRAVELS.
A ioue, we have sold
OVER THIRTY THOUSAND COPIES,
and the sale is increasing. Many of our Agents, ar-
making from $5 to $ Id a day in selling our Publirattous.
and we claim that our List includes the meet sub a? 1
Hooks offered to Agents and Canvassers. And
Iieving in
LARGE SALES AND SMALL PROFITS,
we furnish our books to Agents for from fit to i'2 f”
cent, below the usual prices.
For full particulars of Agency, Terms Aic., adores
J. W. BRADLEY, Publisher.
48 North Fourth Street,
Philadelphia, Pa-
September 27, 1858.
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id a.
Things Lost Forever.—The following words
from the pen of Mrs. Lydia II. Sigourney are full
ol instructive meaning.
Lost wealth cat. be restored by industry; the
wreck ofhealth regained by temperance: forgot
ten knowledge restored by study; alienated friend
ship smoothed into forgetfulness; even forfeit' d
reputation won by patience and virtue; but who
ever looked upon his vanquished hoars or recalled
his slighted years, stamped them with wisdom,
n.effaced from Heaven’s record the fearful blot of
wasted time. The foot print on the sand is
washed out by the ocean wave; and easier
might we. when years are tied find that footprint
th u recall lost hoars.
7he Adrian Balloon Ascension.—A dispatchfrom
Adrian, Michigan, dated September 17, says: Mr.
Thurston, the aeronunt, who was carried off by
his balloon yesterday, was s -en at a quarter past
ne o'clock, P. M.,at a great height, in the direc
tion of Malden, Canada West., as ascertained by
compass bearing, by tlie parties observing him.
After Mr Bannister, bis companion, had alighted,
the basket and netting were removed, and the bal
loon inverted for tbe escape of tbe gas. Mr,
Thurston was holding on to the uuiuriated portion,
seated on the vatvc board, when it ascended with
him.
ty EXTRACT OF BUCHU.—IlelmboM’s pur
and genuine extract of Uucliu, has been highly recom
mended by those who have used it and been perfectly
cured of the following complaints: diseases of the blad
der, kidneys,gravel, dropsey, wenknesst s, obstructions,
secret diseases, female complaints, Tins Iir.clm is
for sale by W.J. White, also by Jas. Herty St
CARRIAGES AND BUGGIES,
W OO3RUPF iU. co. Having with
drawn their agency from Milledgcville, now
keep their entire Stock in Griffin Ga , and would
respectfully invite the patronage of those who may-
want
Carriages, Buggies or Plantation Waggons,
either in the vicinity of Milledgcville or in any
other part of the State.
Orders can be filled by shipping direct from the
NORTHERN FACTORY to any point designa-
P. Iv. »
Rouse’s Point, Clinton co., N. I
Pfrrt Davis—Sir :—Although personally astnu-
gerto you, yet the benefits I have received from ,
use of your invaluable remedy, the Pain Killer, imlte- j
me to pen n word of praise for it, and gratitude to J® *1
its inventor. I have tried a score of parent uosik’iso ■
of various kinds, and consider the Pain Killer the vrtj J
best of its kiud iu use. It is not a panacea for ail 1£( 1
ills flesh is la ir to, but it is certainly a grand specific w J
many diseases. Two years experience has couviw8 H
me tlmt for Headache, Indigestion, Pain iu the Stoic- I
neh, or iu any other part uf tbe system, Severe Cte- I
Weariness, Common Colds, Hoarseness, c-e- I
Cholera Morbus, Dinrrlueo, Dysentery, T.s.tii-A-|
&c , Ac., there is nothing better tlmn the Pain K--
I have this hour recovered from a severe attack of t I
Sick Headache, by using two fi asjionnsful, token >•
thirty minutes interval, in a wine glass full of** 1 *
water. I am confident that, through the bl
God, it saved me finin the Cholera during tlie- o' 1 -- I
of 181!). Travelling in Connecticut and Massae'iiisr* g
amid heat, dust, toil, change of diet aud c"ii»l an, f I
posure to an infected atmosphere, my system wiisfi*-. 1 I
predisposed to dysentery attacks, aeconqiaDied ,
pain, lor which the Pain Ivilier was n soven- j
remedy: one teaspemufu? curing the worst case 18 - i
hour, or at most, half nd«\! My brothers in tls” 1 ' ,
try have used it with touch success in various di’ I
I have heard many eases tiie count ty over, ot fif”' 1
lery being cured by its use. Put in the teeth, it " ' j
sotp the tooth-ache in several minutes. • 0
Gratitude, and a desire for its genera! nsr, “ ft
from u>£ this unsolicited testimonial iu its ir -"’ r j . ™
Pain Killer is a blessing to u.ankiud, and need.' 1 g
be known to bo admired. May you be rich ly ■ - h
edasits distinguish; d inventor.
Yours respectfully,
14 St with constant gratitude, .1
D. T. TAYLOR, Jr., Minister of the j
For sale by Druggists and Grccordealo-'r^. _
all)—John B. Moore & Co., Savannah:(.
laud, Chichester Sz Co., Augusta. V 1 hoieS^ >
Hheuiunlistu—Id only cured permanent/
'Linek’s Anli-Rh-. umatic Powders,” as it ^ ‘ jlj
emedy extant that attaek the root of the
others being ointments, embrocations, &e., a - e
palliatives. _ r gib#
It is sold, wholesale and retail by *?• u ,,.[i f jp-
Eutonion, Ga., aud retailed by James liert), ^ ^
ville. Ga.
that noU-
A pleasant traveling companion, and one t j
■oiler should be without is Perry Davis’ Pam ^
sudden attack of diurrhcea, dysentery or e ,,
bus can be effectually and uistnneousij u lC jt.
Or" Dyspeptics should use Wheeler's
Wine Tonic Bitters. For sale by Jas »