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VOLUME 6.
SOME, GA., THURSDAY, MORNING. MAY 1. 1851.
HUMBER 30.
THE ROME COURIER
M t'UULISHKD EVERY THURSDAY MORNING
BY A. M. EDDI,E.U tH.
TifiufiL
Two Dollars pet nnivim, tl pnid tti ndvuncr ;
two Dollars nml Fifty Cents ir pnid within six
months ; or Three Dolhtrs nt the end of the yenr.
nates of Ad vorilslnir.
Lease AovKtTistMKNTs will be Inserted with
strict attention to the requirements of the lil'v, nt
the following rntost
Four Months Notice, • • "o' 1
Notice to Debtors nitd Creditors, - 3 25
Snlo ol Personnl Property, by Exerit- ) 3 a3
tors, Atlntinlstrntors, 4eu. }
Snles of Lend or Negroes, (10 dnys, ) fl |)()
per square, )
Letters of Oltntlon, ... 8 75
Notice for Loiters of Dismission, * 4 511
Onndl’dntPS nnnottnclng their nnmes, will bo
ohnrged $h 00, which will bo required in nilvnnoe.
Husbands advertising their wives, willbochnigeil
$5 00, which must always bo pnid In jjdviinue.
All other advertisements will be inserted nt One
Dollar per sqtinro, of twelvo lines or less, Tor the
first, nml Fifty Coins, for ouch subsequent inset-
Liberal deduetions will be madu in fnvor of tltoso
who advertise by the year.
13. w. Foss,
DENTIST.
Koine, Georgia Office over IV. J. Omberg's
Clothing Store.
January 16,1851.
ROME COURIER.
FAN0IS M. ALLEN,
WHOLESALE AND DETAIL
Dealer in Staple and Fancy
DRY GOODS AND GROCDRIES.
Qtg. Receives new goods every week.
Romo, Go., January 3, 1851.
LIN & BIIANTLY.
WARE-HOUSE, COMMISSION'* PRODUCE
MERCHANTS,
Atlanta, Ga.
{(^-Liberal ndvnnces made on any article
in Store.
Nov. 28, 1850. _____ >_y
. A. I». KING * CO.
COTTO V G.N MANUFACTURERS
Rome. Georgia.
Mny 0. IS50.
Washington National Monument.—
Up to the present time blocks of marble or
granite have been pre-ented to the grent nn
tional work by 19 dillerent Suites mid one
Territory, Vurious cities, towns, benevo
lent associations and individuals, have also
presented 31 blocks ofvnriotix kinds ol'slone.
The blocks already contributed vary in cost
f o n fifty to two ihousnnl dollars each.—
The umbunt contributed by visitors since the
1st of August lust amounts to $1.093,40.—
Tito entire number of persons who have vis-
ited the Munumeni since the 1st of August
is set down at upwards of ten thousand.
Mail Contracts.—On Monday the Post
master General announced his decisions on
the proposals for mail contracts in various
Southern Stnles. We learn that (lie num
ber ot regular routes contracted fur is eight
hundred and eighteen ; irregular, four hun
dred und eighty-three ; special, two hun
dred and fifty-eight --Rail. /Inter.
Lieut J. W. Hunter, ol the U. S. Navy,
was Inst ovening conveyed to tho hospital
in Philadelphia, in n dying condition from
the effects of laudanum, which he had ta
ken with the avowed intention of destroying
himself, Ho wns recently captain’s clerk
on hoard the IT. S. brig Perry, and returned
linnto a few weeks simee on sick ieuvo
AI.1IXAMIK.II A Til OIMK.I.I..
A T TO R N E Y S A T L A IV,
ROME, GA.
Nov. 28, 1851). 'y-
noMts tuaimiAS II ciuxtxs v lunn.TiN
UAMILTOX fc IIAIM4M l\.
Factors & Ot>a:nissiiii \lffichnu,
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA
Oct. 3, 1850,. I lam
citatum: r Hamilton tiiom<» .iaiidkm .n
IS Mll>K IIAV* .V HAMILTON,
Warehouse & Commission Merchants,
MACON. GEORGIA.
Oct 3, 1850. _1 _ 1km-
PATTON & PATTON,
[ttorneys at law,
Rome, Gem ala.
WtTit, Practice in all the Counties of ti e C1i«*ro
a Circuit 48 Sept, ft, I'WO.
£ A. K. TATTOH, J. F. PATTO.v.
W . 1* . W ILKI N s .
ATTORNEY T LA W,
Rome, (ieMfria,
iriitTo
m Hon. n p. fortru, ci!An;.F.MTON, 6 , or
AT CAVK SPII1NO, GO.
Holt W. ll.ttN^KtlWOnU, HOME. GA.
msjk. Hon. william ezzatw, decaith, qa.
: July 18, 1850. 41 1 y
a. W. IIKAI, l M
DRAPER AND TAILOR,
Rmnd. Street Rome, Ga,
1^. October 10, tSfiO.
r , j. i>. nicKF. ittoiv,
DRUGGIST—ROME GEORGIA.
WHOLES A I.K AND H ETA II, DEALER IN
‘ DRUGS, MEDIOiNES, PAINTS. Olt.S, DYE-
“JJ' STUFFS, I’EltFUMERY, Sec.
■ October 10, 1850. Brnait Street.
COULTER & COLLIER,
ATTORN KYS AT LAW,
I Rome, Georgia.
.11,1851.
HO IDE’S HOTEL,
ROME, GEORGIA.
■ MRS. maITy choice
formerly of Dnhlonegn, hns taken charge of the
Hf HOTEL, and mndtr extensive preparations
no comfort and convenience of those who mny
r tier with a call. From her long experience,
ionftdetuly hopes to give entire satisfaction to
nentVtsitors and Permanent Bonrdors.
ptembor 5, 1850. -IS
“ Persons will be carried to
pot to the Hotel, free of charge!"
EXCHANGE HOTEL,
.. Rome, CeorBla, .
ly JAMES S. GRIFFIN,
FORMERLY OF AUGUSTA.
ING 8oldoutmy entire interest in the EX-
IANGE HOTEL in this place to Mr. James
Vim,I take pleasure in tecommending the for-
nsund the travelling public tfenernlly, to
hejr patronage, nsjl feel confident that the
jiandsofMr. Griffin will be well kept
brt,not surpassed by any House in the City.
A. E. REEVES.
36,1850.
fRWIIODk J, IV. II. UNDERWOOD.
LL PRACl ICE bAW
ntiesof the ChdKee Circuit, (cx
They will both personally attend all
i>V.H. UNDERWOOD will attend
Jackson und Habersham counties of the
oil. Roth will attend tho sessions of the
COURT at Cqaaville nml Gainesville.—
|btrusted to them will l,e promptly ami
| i*A to.
, Tta#y° Hooper dc'MItohell,"Buena
. ei', 1 which place one or both
, - *■ -, nt on professional
New Post Offices.—Tho following New
Offices have been established in Georgia—
"Bettchland," Chattanooga Co. F. J. Gro-
oan, Postmaster; and Hu ion's Fork,"
Wilkes Co., V\ M . Lunceford, Postmas
ter.
C& A Cincinnati paper stales that in the
year IS3S, a German guile.ter purchased n
lot oflwo and n half acres of ground at the
west end of Eighth street, in that c ! !y, for
$2,500. Last week he sold the same for
$52,000.
The obnoxious law of Pennsylvania
repealed.— Previous to the adjournment of
tho Pennsylvania Legislature a hill passed
bo'h houses to repeal tho obnoxious Inn of
1847, w hich denied the use of the jails of the
Suite for the temporary safe keeping of alleg
ed fugitive slaves. We have not space to
comment upon this interesting fact this morn
ing. It is due to the great Stutoof Pennsyl
vania, however, to say, that by this act she
lias not only wipetl u foul blot from Iter own
statue book, but she lias entitled herself to
the lespcct and thunks of the whole country.
— Sue Rep.
-» . —„
Panama Railroad. — A letter from John
I,. Stephens, Esq., President of the Panama
Railroad Company, published in llie New
York Journal of Commerce, gives nn encour
aging account of'the progress of the road
across the Isthmus. It appears that there are
not less limn nintrliundi ed men now nt work
upon the loud, and that there is n prospect of
completing it from Navy Bay to Gorgonn, 26
miles, by tho 1st of July next When this is
done, the dislitnco between the Itvo oceans
cun be accomplished in one day.
{JtJ.Robert B. Rhett, whose son has
,bcen a member of the present Senior Class
nt Harvard University, has removed his son
from College, on account of lire slavery ngi-
i ft lion in Massachusetts. A Boston piper
says “ Lite College Faculty” have voted us
special favor llmt n degree shall be granted
to the young it,an,
(ttJ-Tbd Hamburg Republicn , speaks in
high terms of the efleets of tire Plank Road
ftom that city to Edgefield. Three miles of
Road have already bee t opo.ied for tho use
of the public, und though the travel nt this
season is very light, yet the Republican
stales that the riceipts for loll on those three
miles, are at the rale of ten per cent, per an
num on the cost of the Rond.
The reward of $10,000 tillered by
the Legislature of Massachusetts lor the dis
covery of a euro lor the potato rot, hns been
claimed by Mr Joshua F. Hatch, of Dorces-
tcr. His remedy consists of ground char
coal mixed with sulphate of-lime.
“The Moon Daguereotvped.—Mr. J.
L. Whipple, the distinguished duguerreoty-
pist, has succeeded, with the aid of Mr.
Bund, the Cubridge astronomer, in Inking
views of the surface of tho moon, ns it ap
pears through the great telescope at the Ob
servatory. We have seen two deguerreo-
types representing the moon as it appeared on
Monday mid Thursday nights. The moun
tains nud valleys of the moon are very dis
tinctly defined on the plate, and it is believed
that by the aid of these representations ta
ken at dillerent phases of the moon, their
height and depth may be determined. The
importance of these experiments will be du
ly appreciated by the astronomer.
Iloston Jon.
Jpoctra.
Th3 Artisan’s Saturday Night
The fi o bums brightly—the tca-khtle sings—
A gfoam ol warm comfort to every thing clings,
The old fushioned table stands firm nn the floor—
And lurk ! ’iis his footstep—his knock at the door.
The Aj tisan stand* on h shumble domain,
As free os tho n >blo—ns h ippy ag tin !
Ue enrea not who rules, if provision* but cotne
To gladden his heart, and preserve him a home.
On his partnei he looks, with a heart full of love,
Delight, tl is she, her affection to prove ;
Around the warm hearth, his children nt play,)
Start,ns rings on the table the Artisan** pay,
“ Wife, there’s the money—’tis not much, I know,
But prudence and core, con far m-ike it go ;
I’ve toiled hard to g;*t it—I’m tired you see,
But happy am 1 with my children aiuTthee l
“ We’ve struggled together, in sickness and pain.
But your love often tells me, it is notin vain ;
We’ve borne many sorrows—our little onea fled;
Yet our hearts nte not withered, our hope is not dead.
‘ Though little we’ve had,comcnted we’ve been,
And if many troubles, so ufjoys we have seen ;
And when nil our toiling and striving is past,
Oh, mny we not hope to hove pence at the last! *
Outspreo 1 a th • cloth, nnd tho savory steam,
’Month the lid tint is raised, pours forth in a stream ;
The skill of the housewife, her knowledge, and care,
Are shown in the choice and the mode oi her fare.
The clean poll died tankard, ao sturdy and bright,
In volumos of fin n quite gladdens the sight;
The louf of white bread stands temptingly there,—
And tell*how flugality, mostly, tnty fare.
The rich mny be envied their wealth and renown—
The carriage they ride in army through the town—
But oh, from nbovc n pure blessing is sent—
For the poor nnd the rich—that blessing's Content.
“ Then, wife, we’ll be thankful forthat which wo have,
For such humble fare, there ore many who crave ;
The rich we’ll not envy, nor frown on the poor,
When hungry they stand at the Artisan’s door,”
JiKtfCrll.iuroua.
A cobbler in Mobile, who also professes
to teach music, has the following s.gn over
his door:
.. “Delightful task to mend the tender boot,
And tenojyjto young Idea how to fiat,."
[From ihe.Grt'cnville(S t:.) Mountaineer.]
Judge Longstreet-
Extract from a Lettfrof his to a Dis
tinguished Carolina Friend.
The Judge in 1847, visited his invalid
friend, and, alter remaining some days with
him, was sent part of the way homeward in
his friend’s carriage, with his old driver.—
This much is necessary to he known to un
derstand (li^iappy illustration drawn from
“old Rnndalr’ \Ve may add, that the inter
esting extract which wo give below wns fur
nished us for n tblicalion nt our own request
The author of “Georgia Scenes” is known
to he a gentleinnn not only of genius, but
an humble nnd eloquent M^hodist Preacher.
To our religious friends weptresure the ex
tract will not fail to be acceptable, and, may
we not hope, that the irreligious may he pro
fited by the perusnl :
“1 have just read your letter, nnd with un-
speukable pleasure That you should hnve
been able to visit your plantation so soon af
ter I left you, surprises nnd delights me.—
Mny God lake your enso into His hands und
raise you ngjlo health again I Who knows
but that he menus to dost) ? Who knows but
that, like one of old who had spout her all
upon physicians, without relief, nnd wns in
stantly cured by touching tho Great Physi
cian’s garmentSJou hnve begun to teach
forth the arm of faitli tremblingly to the
same unfading source of an ^ strength;,
und that he is saying unraK'ou, ‘according
to thy faith so he it unto y Tt !’ Be this as
it may, there is certainly a”friend of vours
who hns been carrying your-case to Him
who nlttne is nlile to heal you, who will con
tinue tu do so ns long ns he hath breath to
speak, or you have Ineallt to breathe. Here
let mo tell you a curious nnecdote For
many long years I labored under 11 most tor
menting disen.-o. I tun sure I had suffered
ii#re ffillr il in one day than you eversuf-
feted »ith yours in one month. Iliad tried
all human remedies in vain, and considered
myself obsnluit^^ncurahle Sitting in my
office one day, in nfciess und in tnrlute, 1
dropped in this train of reflections : ‘Here
have 1 been suffering for many years with
this disease, and I have never yet asked God
for help. It is certain that He can help me,
and equally certain is it, if the Bible he true,
llmt 1 tint iucouraged to ask His help. 1
can see no w ay of relief short of a miracle
and 1 am not authorised to look for mirucles
in these days ; hut God mny give relief by
some simple means llmt I would never think
of. I will carry my case to Him, with all
tire faith that 1 can command.’ I tlid so,
and stp-ngeio leH, I soon after got relief;
nnd from that day to this, though some fif
teen £enrs lie between them, I hnidly known
my old complaint. I just give you the cuso
as a very cutous one ^ttnd upon which I
have no other philosophy than that of the
blind man curred by clay : by what means I
was cured I know not ; but this much I
know, that whereas 1 was diseased, no»
I am sound. And here I think I hear you
say, with a smile. ‘And can it he, Long-
street, that you are so superstitious ns to
believe that God will change the order of na
ture in answer to man’s prayers?’ No, 1
am not quite so superstitious as nil that
comes lo, if I understand what you mean by
‘the order ol nature;’ and yet I do believe
that God nns.vo.s prayer—provided it be
put up lo Him upon the terms of His own
nuupintment. These terms, when well con-
sieffired, limit the rnnge of supplication so
narrowly, that God may very easily answer
nil our prayers, without changing the order
oj nature. Thus God mny cure diseut>e by
throwing tho patient in the way of the rem
edy or the remedy in the way of the patient,
by a seeming casualty, or the ten thousand
other modes, that the world would think
perfectly natural. He may so connect duty
and safety, that the performance of the one
shall necessarily lead to the other. While 1
am at my morning devotions, I may avoid a
avarice. Be all this ns it mny, I am very
sure that intelligent beings were not formed
ns n mere link in the order of nature ; bui
that (he order was established fur intelligent
beings, and that if God has mnde the promi
ses ascribed to Him in the Bible, He will
sooner reverse the whole order of nature
thnn tiolato them. Tltut He has changed
the older of nature in behalf of men, I have
no imjro doubt than 1 Imve of tny own ex
istence. 1 should violate tho order of my
naluri to doubt it. But l must not de"ote
my whole letter to this subject; I dismiss it
with an earnest but ulfeciiunate request to
you that you pluce yourself in the relation
to God which will alone authorize you to
expect an answer to your prayers, and then
look to Him in prayer for whul you need.—
If I have been too importunate with you upon
this subject, forgive the annoyance in consid
eration of the motive. lam sure vou will.
“I suppose old Randal gave you an ac
count of our ttdvenUitcs on the day that I left
you For the first four miles of the journey
he entertained me with un account of his
Christian experience ; in which, with a great
deal tlint was purely imaginary, I found n
great deal of tnt own. Here, thought 1, as
he unbosomed It mself with perfect freedom
to me is u key to one of llje mysteries of
Heaven. Randal could sent him-elf at my
table nnd be happy ; hut lie would he
wretched at his rnsier’s. Why ? Because
between hitn and me there is ucomtmm bund
of fellowship ; hut there is none (at least he
does not feel that there is nnvj between
him and his master. Neither, therefore,
could feel hnppy in the society of the other.
Thus will it be in the better world. The
social affections spring spontaneously from
miral similitude. Hence all who are like
Christ will he hnppy in presence, and in the
presence of each oilier.”
Shifting the Beiponiibility-
While attending Court, rocenily, in the
adjoining county of Randolph, a friend who
is loud of jukes of all sorts, and who relntes
them almost us humorously ns “His Honor,"
gave us the following, vouching for the sub
stantial sub-lunar existence of the parties
and their residence “in tho county afore
said
Brethren Crump and Noel were both
members of the Primitive Baptist Church,
and both clever men who paid their taxes
and debts as the same annually occurred,
with a regularity at once Christian and com
mendable. If, when settling day came round,
Brother Noel was short, Brother Clump
was sure to be in funds ; and on tho other
hand it almost seemed providential hotv,' if
Brother Crump fell ‘behind’ Brother Noel al
ways had a surplus. Thus borrowing from
ana lending to eaclLAllier^-Htarshininz nt tho
same church nnd living only u mile upnrt,
an intimacy gradually ripened between them;
so tlint at last they did not hesitate to speak
in the freest and most familiar manner to
each other, even tn regard to their respec
tive foibles.
Now, it came to pass, that Brother Crump
during the liveliest period of the cotton sea
son drovo into Wetumpkn and disposed of
his ‘crap’ ol ten bales, nt the very fair price
of 12.Jc. per pound. It was more than he
expected, and ns the wotld wns easy with
hitA4e determined lo invest a portion of the
pr^Bds of the sale of bis cotton, in u barrel
of ^Rtcni whiskey ; paying theiefnr, nt the
rale ol precisely two pounds of middling cot
ton for one gallon ol ‘ditto’ whiskey.
Of course it wns ‘nitrated in the settlement,
that old matt Crump had bought a barrel
and after a few weeks people began to ab
solve that his nose grew redder and his eye-
more moist. The idea that Brother Crump
was ‘drinking too much'difiused itself in the
neighborhood, until, as one might say, it be
came epidemical. People talked und talked
—more especially ‘what few' of other deno
ininnlions of Christians dwelt ‘.hereabouts.
Brother Noel wns ‘so troubled’ nt the
scandal which circulated about his brother
and friend, and especially regretted the in
jury it brought to the ‘ciely’ at tihaion. No
one morning, he stepped over to Brother
Crump’s and found the old man in a Irfil
tlozo itt his little porch.
“Won’t you tukea drum ?” asked Brother
Crump, ns soon as he was aware of the pres
ence nl his neiglehor.
‘iWhy yes, I’m nqt again a dram when n
hody^^ts it.”
Brother Crump got his buttle, and the
friends look a drntn apiece.
“ Don’t you think, brother Noel.' said
WSnp “|nat spirits is u bless in’.” ’
“V-e-s !’’responded Noel, “spe'its is »
messin’, hut accordin’ to my notion,'•it’s a
blessin, that some of us abuses ”
“Well now, brother Nool, who do you
think abuses tlie blessin’ ?”
“Well its hard to say—but people talk—
don’t you think you drink too much, Brother
Crump ?”
It’shard to say,—it’s hard to say,” re
turned Crump. “Someum&s I’ve thought I
was n drink'll’ two much—then agin I’d think
may he tint What is man ? A weak war-
rum of the dust I What the Lord saith, that
shall he done ! So I left it to the Lord to say
whether I was guilt, too fur <n sperits. I
put tho whole ’sponsibilily on him. I pray
ed to him, cf I was drinkin’ too much to
take a&ny my appetite forsperits.”
Here Brother Noel groaned piously, and
asked—“What then, Brother Crump ?’’
“And,” replied Crump, “I’ve prayed that
prayer three times, and be hainl done it.—
So I’m clear of the ’sponsibilily, any way.”
“The Lord’s will be done I" ejaculated
Noel,and alter inking another dram lie went
home thinking all the way, how cleverly
Crollier Crump had shifted tlie responsibili
ty !-
county.—Greenesbwo Beaten.
table under the glass, which was loaded with I this place, nnd soon after moved into this
the usual one o’clock lunch, impeded his ^ * ~
farther progress lie evidently intending, had
it not been for this obstruction, tu pnss
through what he supposed to be an open
door. When lie finally brought up, lie stood
bobbing his hend, first to one side and then
to the other; but the mar, in the glass kept
doing the same thing, until our hero finally
got his eye fixed upon others, who seemed
to be duplicates of those standing near him.
He exclaimed with muchsurpri.c,in Spanish:
“Two persons just alik I Two more just alike!
All just alike I” and was cn the point of
asking nn explanation ofltis Cn ifornla friend
who looked so much like himself, when n
gentleman touched his finger upon the glass.
This excited still more his surprise ana at
tempting tn imitnte tho touching of the glass
he observed his duplicate fi.'t hit huud at the
same time, which caused the unlive quickly
to drop his own upon the table. He then
inquired how a person could gat through the
door; when he was told that ii wns not it
dour, but a looking glass, and its uses were
explained tu him. Ho did not seem tu he
exactly satisfied, and passed through an open
door into a room behind the glass, to satisfy
himself on the subject. It was not until he
hnd put his hand in behind tho mirror, and
then touched its Ihce several times, that he
could he induced to believe that some t i-k
wns not being played upon hint. Ti e whole
scene was aniu-ing in the extreme; mid the
surprise of the lookers on to see a man who
hnd lived fifty-five years only' eight league-
from Ban Francisco, without ever seeing or
hearing of a lonkli.g-glass, was almost as
great ns that of the California at the wonder
ful sight before him.
But the funniest experience of ottr friend
Tlio Experience of a Native Cali
fornian,
Yesterday, an old California?,, a stout, well
built man, dressed in the costome of the
country, entered the saloon of our neighbor
Brown, and walked up to the U! - -■
the farther ond of the hnll,
‘ though he i ’
glory of exhibiting the articles undressed
half a dozen evenings in the year, pay for all
the cost and trouble ? The miser enjoys the
Hushing lustre nt his gold every lime he lilts
the ltd of his strong box; hut wlint pleasure
can there he in pnsse-sing n species of pro
perty, tlint is invisible to the otvnor three
hundred and fifty dnys out of every three
hutiderd und sixty-five ?
Givo us furniture tlint is made for tccar-^
laities upon which yon can bring down yoff
fist with un emphasis without throwing the
lady ol the house into hysterics—chairs that
you can lent buck in—carpets that you can
pminenude upon—in a word, give us comfmt,
let us wear every thing out. It is provoking
to see clmirs nnd solju for years without spot
or blemish, while th^w-rinkles are multiply
ing in tlie lace and the gray hairs on the
head of the ptnprielmy For these nnd sundry-
other reasons we have an especial spite
against show furniture.—Maj. Nuah. ^
Heart Rending.—It becomes our. pain
fill duty to record a most henrt-rendi<g tr.ige
dy, thnt wns enacted in our village yesterday.
The parties engaged in it, were Mr. Elishn
W. Harris, Dr. Plat Cronm, nnd Mr. Plea
sant May. Mr. Harris was killed. Doctor
Cronm wns shot, we learn, in both arms nnd
one shoulder, his wounds, however, nre not
conside|||l dangerous. ’ Mr. Mrty was also
badly, though not dangerously wounded.
Some six or oiglit pistol shots w ere fired
nnd the wonder is that all three of the par
ties wore not killed x The fighting wns com
menced near the Post Office door, nnd was
entinued across the street to the old Medi-
son House, w-ltero Mr. Harris received n
Bowie-knife stnb, inflicted, we under-land,
by Dr Cronin, ivhich caused Itis dentil al
most instantaneously.
We are not sufficiently advised of the par
ticulars of this most heirl-rending affair to
attempt a recital of them ; though tvo ujuler-
stnnd it hnd its origin in a disngreemenwie-
tween Mr. Harris nnd Dr. Croom, in regard
to n fence-boundatfe
The parties we would remark, are among
tlie most respcctnble of our citizens. Mr.
Harris had lived in this neighborhood most
two years, nnd in our village since the first
of January. Dr. Croom and Mr. May wore
raised in our village.
Mr. Harris was originally from Athena, Go.
but moved to this county from Columbus,
Miss. . He was a most worthy man, highly
teemed by those who enjoyed the pleasure
uaintance with him. He married
ears ago, Rliss -Geo,
is yet lo come. He was invited to pnrtuke
of the lunch, which, when satisfied that it
would take no plala, he did In elv. In the
course of devotions to the round of beef, he
wntchcd a than intently, by Ills side who dip
ped a spoon into a small vessel on the table
nnd drawing it out fall of n yellow substance,
spread it over each peace of beef before he
swullowed it. When the man finally drop
ped the spoon, California took it up and
thickly plastered his piece over in tho saute
way. As soon ns he hnd got it nil right,
he thrust it into his mouth, but drooped it,
with n scream, upon the floor, as a pig would
drop a hot potatoe. “Agun I ngun I” lie
yelled—seizing a pitcher, while the 'ears rnn
down in great drops over his cheeks, ho swnl •
lowed something like a quart of water, and
made a straight wake fur the street, inwardly,
no doubt, anathematising the Yankees, who
multiplied themselves by means of lookitur-
glasses, and burned their insides on> with
mustard.
Show Furniture.
Furniture too good to be used is n nuisance.
What can he more unpleasant limn the aspect
of a room, suite of rooms, where everything
is bagged up ? Chairs andsnfus in pinafores,
mirrors in muslin, a druggetca carpet, a
hearth-rug wrung side out, nnd a chandelier
in n sack, seen by rays of light that straggle
in edgeways through the slits in the shutters,
und exhaling that peculiar browuholland
fragrance which belongs to drawingrooms in
masquerade dress, Turin one of the most
cheerless, dispiriting, unhumanlikc spectacles
in the diorama of domestic life. Wo would
its lief he ushered into a vault as into such nn
apartment. Nothing can he mote chilling to
tlie feelings, oxcept, perhaps, a pcr-pective
view of the family wash taking nn airing on
the cloths-lines.
Wltj do people huv magnificent furniture thither for England consumption, to say
to clothe it in hideous disguises ? Does tho nothing of the untold quantities which wtll
From the iVsyavilte (Kentucky) Po,t Boy.
Linen as a Substitute for Cotton. —
A great deal of interest is excited just
now, both in Europe nnd America, by the
experiments now making with the view of
substituting Flax for Cotton. Sotqe uf the
English writers seem lo think that it will
not he long l efijre they will be able to do
without American Colton. Some of the
American Press have already taken tliealirm,
titiu ure endeavoring | 0 solve the question,
‘'Mint will become of the Cotton growing
States ?" in case Flax shall he found to an
swer as a substitute for Cotton, We ore
satisfied that the Flax will take precedence
ol Cotton, nnd displace it to a large extent,
hut we do not foresee, as some do, destruc
tion to the Cotton States. The fact is, flag
grows ns well at the South as st the North,
and, by introducing manufactures there,
when they change from Cotton to fl«x gener-
al prosperity will prevail there, in place of
thnt fluctuation and uncertainly they now
have bet ween those years of high prices, ss
the present, and those when they are com
pelled to sail their cotton fo? lesi'theii it re
ally cult he grown for, ns a tegular, perma
nent business. We do not see thnt the South
cun he loser by ll.e change, but, on tlie con
trary, will he greatly benefited. We reason
ably sttpptse thnt the manufactured products
ol flax would hear ns great an advance in
price over the raw muterinl ns cotton fabrics
usuully do—from three to five times the
price of the raw maleiinl—-and if so, the
sales of Southern products will be equal to
whnt they now nre, if only, from one-fifth to
one-third ns much flnx or hemp is grown
there ns is now grown of cotton. But linens
nt piesent hear an advance of from ten to
twenty-five times the first cost of the raw
unrolled flax, which it is understood is used
hy the new methods; so thnt the changes are,
for many years to come, the South will be
able to double, or perhaps quadruple the
amount of Iter exports, unless she neglects
to embrace the gulden opportunity of uniting
mnnulitclories to her agriculture. The great
error of the South ha* been her too exclu
sive reliance upon agriculture alone, which
now she will he compelled lo correct, should
this expected revolution take place.
It is true the North end West will come
in for a goodly share of the expected pros
perity, and certainly there can be no objec
tion to this. The advantages this country ot
cheap lands must have over all others in
supplying tho world with linen and cotton
fabrics are so great that no one portion could
possibly do the business. If it j 8 true that
l nens from unrotled flax can lie made cheap
er thnn cotton gnotV.r th. a>M|iic IlliriJVWSi
when cotton is nt the lowest paying price,
it follows, ns an inevitable consequence, that
this country, end the other new countries,
with good governments end cheap lands,
must furnish not only Europe, but the rest of
mankind, with nearly all thin fabrics of fltx
and cotton; that tho British islands cannot
much longer produce linens nor cottons, ex
cept perhaps some of fancy fineness as luxu
ries for the rich.
The British press must soon ceue boast
ing of their promised independence of Ameri
can cotton growers. When we produce our
own $6,000,000 worth of linen, which we
have been annually importing—very foolish
—frtvii them; when tve export to other coun
tries the $6,000,000 worth which iAe now
exports to them, (besides the same amount
to us,j and export full $12,000,000 worth
take the place of cotton, both to England
and to other countries, which Enghmd can
no longer supply, why tho Knglish song will
be changed to something in the .naturn of
“Hark, from tho tombs.”
We have a sample before us of “flax cot
ton,” which is ns while, nnd soft, and fine as
any cotton, but of n richer and moro glossy
silk-like appearance, and which evidently
run be spun into very fine yarn es cheaply as.
cotton. Now this material car. be produced
from unrotud flax for seven cents pet pound!
And v c know that unrotled flux can be pip-,
cured so that the lint shall stand at one ond a
half cents a pound, letivmg a protty wide
margin lor the preparation to bring the nia-
•erinl to seven cents. It is known that there
is no object in growing cotton for a less sum,
so (hut it is far from teing an impossibility
that linen may yet ho produced as cheap as
Colton.
We understand tlint the inventor, Dr. Lsa-
vitt, and his associates, ere n aking their
ariungements to bring out lite r inventions
promptly and vigorously; that they are lo
throw them wide open to the public, and af
ford eVewfecilitfl possible for the estr.bli-b-
menl of KWn factories, by contracting to fur
nish tlie£.,.teliinery os expeditiously os pos
sible, at fair pricer and with such guaranties 3
as the safely ^^tiie manufacturers will re
quite. They propose lo put out different
parts of tins work iu different mechine shops
throughout the country, East or West, near
where tlie factories are to l^^uill, as is fie-
fluently done with cottcn fucttn-ies,so that as
xWle delay us possible maybe occasioned iu
getting factories into operation. ,
We also understand that they are^^; in
negotiation with several companies tWo are
pi-enuring to go into the business.
A Goldf.n Newspaper.—Mr Gilbert,fj*.
men her of Congress for California, has just
presented the Typographical Society of rjew
York with n most unique and splendid spe
cimen of the printing art. The Evening
Rost says:
If is notlting less than a double number of
the Alta California, of February 1st, printe
on the finest folio pages in letters..of gob
Tho whole paper, eight folio page? : -
from the imprin* and heuding on ,
page, to the small advertiseme
lust, is noatly impressed,
type, nnd will