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ffMttWlC 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