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Newspaper Page Textp © BTFJJVff^ THE WORSHIP OF NATURE. BY J. O. WHITTIER. The ocean looketh up to heaven, As ’twere a living thing; The homage ol its waves is given In ceaseless worshipping. They kneel upon the sloping ‘and, As bends the human knee ; A beautiful and tireless band— The priesthood of the sea. They pour the glittering treasures out, Which in the deep have birth ; And chant their awful hymns alout The watching hills of earth. The green earth sends its incense up l'rom every monntain shrine — i'roin every flower and dewy cup That greeteth the sun-shine. The mists are lifted from the rills, Like the white wing of prayer ; They lean above the ancient hills. As doing homage there. The forest top? are lowly cast O’er breezy hill and glen, As if a prayerful spirit pasred On nature, as on men. The clouds weep o’er the fallen world, E'en as repentant love, lire, to the blessed breeze unfurled, They fade in light above. The sky it is a temple’s arch— The blue and wavy air la glorious with tlie spirit-march Os messengers of prayer. The gentle muon the kindling sun, The many stars are given, As brines to burn earth’s incense on— The altar-fires of Heaven! lAliiilZii , TIIE GRAPE. Cultivation of Foreign Grapes in the Uni ted States not to be attempted successfully —Change of Plumage in Foivls. Paterson, February 3, 1849. My Dear Sir: Foil ask me for my ex perience in the culture of European grapes, by open culture—that is, without glass or artificial heat. 1 agree with Mr. Long worth, of Cincinnati, and Mr. Samuel E. Perkins, of Boston, that it is in vain to hope, in this country, or, at all events, in my district, to raise fine fruit from Euro pean grapes by open culture. 1 have tried it effectually for seven years—the first anil second year of bearing 1 had some fine grapes, Black Hamburgs, Black Clusters, j and Chasselases: hut the third year of lit tie value ; the fourth, of no value ; and last year so had that 1 have dug up 790 vines, and will give them to any person who wants them. The truth is, 1 would not accept of the vines of any foreign grapes ; as a gift, to raise in open culture. Under j glass, as you know, with or without fire, | we raise fine grapes. For the table or for j wine, 1 would manure my vines differently: , for the table, I would give my boarders a food of flesh, of bones, of charcoal, of cow dung, of good turf from an old pasture, of! oyster shells, and some salt, some lime, and some plaster of Paris, and, if there was no iron in the soil, some common copperas, and then to all these add some wood ash- es. Wherever a border has been long made, give it a top dressing of bone dust, plaster of Paris, and wood ashes. 1 have found that a weak decotion of potash dis solved in water, once or twice in the sea son, did great good ; it is upon this princi ple I use whale-oil soap for all my fruit trees and grape-vines, and more than any man in the country. We had a discussion about colour in birds and animals. Some time since, my friend. N. Biddle, gave me a pair of white Guineas —the cock died before I had any increase. I got a common slate colored cock : part of the chickens were white, part gray ; 1 killed the gray ; the next sea son all were white; this year all white but one. Again, I had a very fine and prolific breed of white turkeys ; I kept none other; all the progeny for three years were white; but this last year two of the chicks were black, and one, a cock of most magnifieient proportions, is the handsomest black one can see. My man Nicholas has caponized for me eighty cocks ; I lost but seven, and as they bled to death, we ate them. They are of double the weight of those not altered, and far more tender. 1 had one turkey capon ized ; this I will keep until you come on and eat it with ine. Next year I will alter several turkeys. Why should they not improve as pigs and sheep do 1 Who ever tried a duck or goose 1 h . l. c. In the physiology of birds there is noth ing more curious, and, it susceptible, wor i'.v ut :nvet g-.iion can laws wr.,. h influence the colour of their plumage. We confess our ignorance. It is asserted, for instance, that “it is by no means arareoc currance among game-fowls, blacks, blues, and reds, to change their plumage and be come spangles and whites.” Why is it said particularly among game fowls 1 There 1 is a coincidence which gives significance to this temark, leading us to inquire wheth er this change of plumage has been obser ved in regard to fowls that have never felt the touch of cold steel? In the Old Ttirfj Register and Sporting Magazine, the first! periodical of its kind established in the United States, we recorded the case that ( occurred in 1807, of a milk-white cock, raised by Mr. Philips, of South Hampton, Virginia, who won a fight at Bellcfield ; and the next spring he was a red spangle, and lost at Halifax. Allen J. Davie, well 1 known and respecled among agriculturists and sportsmen in all the South, bred a game cock in Madison county, which in 1821 was a blue gray: in 1822 he was still a blue gray. In 1823 he was milk white, or smock, as the English term it; and in 1824 he became sky blue. This old bruiser won a match for each charge, con quering under whatever flag he fought. The color of plumage and of hair, &c. is attributed to the influence of seme peculiar coloring matter in the system. What pro duces in these cases the alteration of that coloring matter 1 Who in the countjy has not wondered, as he rides along the road, or as he looks at his herd of cattle, at the exact similitude which is often observable in the marks of the cow and her calf ! Tru | ly, “There are more things in heaven, Ho ratio, than are dreamed of in our philoso phy.” And this is one of the things regu lated by laws beyond our ken.—“ The Plough , the Loom and the Anvil.'’ LEAVES—THEIR VALUE. What shall Ido with my leaves'? Are they good for any thing ? asks a corres pondent. Do with them! good for any thing!—Why treasure them to be sure, as if they were coin of the realm; they are good for every thing which a gardener has to do. They are the best of all materials for bottom-heat, the best of all soil, the best of all drainage, the best of all manure. It is true they contain little or no nitrogen, but they rot quickly, are full of saline mat ters, on which every thing that bears the name of plant will feed gluttonously, and from their peculiar structure allow air to pass in and water out with perfect free dom. If we wish to know what leaves are good for, we have only to burn them, and see what a quantity of ashes they leave behind, All that ashes is as much food for other plants as beef and mutton are for us. It is the natural material which Nature is perpetually restoring to the soil in order to compensate for the waste which is produced by the formation of timber. In wild land, trees areannnualiy urns mammal; it’ otherwise, a wood would be a roof of life overshadowing a floor of death. If we can remove the leaves from our plantations, it is only because of the artificial richness of the soil in which they grow. This suffic iently indicates the value of leaves, which are in truth hardly less important in their death than they were in their life, though in a different way.— Plough, Loom and j Anvil. esflßßairnyfltt > A DISCOVERY FOR PREVENTING FIRES. At a recent meeting of the Royal insti tution, held about a week since, an impor tant paper was read, which is- making some talk among the scientific men here, and is of great interest to the world at large. Its importance induces me to write you about it, in order that you may have the pleasure to be among the first of the journals of America to call public attention to an invention at once so perfectly simple in its operation, evolving a familiar effect from a well known cause, and yet, in its application, of such vast and incalculable value. It is no less than a discovery, by means of which carbonic acid gas is ap plied to the extinguishment of fires with complete success, in its operation instanta neous, and with this immense advantage ; with none of the injury to furniture, build dings, &c. inseperable from the use of wa fer a similar purpose. The paper to which I refer was rea 1 at | the meeting hast Friday, by Rev. 1. Barlow, and was an account of an invention of a Mr. Phillips, called “ Phillip’s Fire Anni hilator.” The paper has since been pub lished in theannalsof the society, at length, i I will give you an abstract of its purport in a few words. In large fires, flame is the great agent of destruction; it occasions a violent draught, intense heat, and rapidly generates sulloca -1 ting and noxious gases. For its existence a constant supply of pure air is necessary', as well as a constant high temperature. To prevent the latter, water is sufficient but not so to prevent the other condition. The “fire annihilator” subdues flame by pre venting effectually the supply of its vital element, pure air, and supplying instead one destructive to its existence—carbonic gas and steam —thus rendering the contin uance of flame impossible. These are gen erated by this apparatus, which is perfect ably portable, for one ample for a private house weighs only about twenty-five pounds. It is so contrived that by simply touching a spring this active agency can be aroused in three seconds of time. For the protection of larger buildings, such as churches, factories, &c., a larger apparatus in proportion will be required, in a conven ient position. The potency of this inven tion was exhibited in several different ways m the lecture room Models of houses, ships, &c were set on fire, and when fully grille i the flame was extinguished as soon 111 OEIBIHD©® ©&3§iMjf§ as the annihilator was brought to bear up on it. The great advantages of this invention are the instantaneous effect produced, long before a fire engine could have been got in preparation or brought to bear upon the fire, and the complete freedom from any in jury to furniture inseperable from the em ployment of water. This apparatus may be always at hand real) for use, is easily set in action, is always sure to come into action, occasions no injury to the house or furniture, and no injury need be appre hended from its use. This is all the account of this important discovery yet made pub lic. There seems to he no reason to doubt the full value claimed for the discovery, which cannot fail to prove one of the most beneficial applications of scientific know ledge that this prolific age has brought forth. If lam able during my brief stay in England, to learn mo#. I will write you again respecting it.— The Boston Atlas. LIGHT AND THE EYE. On closing the eyes, after having looked steadfastly at a sheet of white paper held in the sun for about a half a minute, and covering them without pressure to exclude extraneous light, the figure of the paper remains invisible for some time. At first it is generally white and then gradually changes through the colors of the spectrum. All the colors are seldom seen at the same trial: audit rarely happens, when one or more are missed that they afterwards ap pear. Thus when the change is from red to green, yellow or orange are seldom seen. The change from white generally commences with a light indigo or blue, and terminates with red or some compound of it, but sometimes with a deep blue, or vio let. The colors are generally seen at the edges of the figure first, though this is not always the case; and when they once ap pear. they often remain mixed up with those that succeed. Many curious modifi cations and confused mixtures of colors will be perceived at times; but it seldom happens that the colors develope themselves in the first instance, confrary to their or der, in the spectrum, although when the last has appeared, they occur in various ways. TERRIFIC THEORY. Professor Silliman mentions a fact, that j in boring the Artesian wells in Paris, the j temperature of the earth increased at the rate of one degree for every fifty feet, to ! ward the centre. Reasoning from causes j known to exist, he says—“ That the whole j interior portion of the earth, or at least a I part of it, is an ocean of melted rock, agi- I tated by violent winds, though I dare not i affirm it, is still rendered highly probable by the phenomena of volcanoes. The facts connected w ith their eruption have been as certained and placed beyond a doubt. How, then, are they to be accounted for? The theory, prevalent some years since, that they were caused by the combustion of immense coal beds, is perfectly puerile, and is entirely abandoned. ‘All the coal in the world could not afford fuel enough for a single capital exhibition of Vesuvius. We must look higher than this; and I have but little doubt that the whole rests on the action of electric and galvanic principles, which are constantly in operation in the earth.” CURIOUS DISCOVERY. In the great Pyramid of Egypt is asmall opening at the top, the depth of which has never been sounded. Another aperture of the same size exists at the foot of the Pyr amid. It was long conjectured that these two openings communicated with each other, but no means could be devised to es tablish the fact, till the problem was re cently solved by the ingenuity of an Arab. He took a cat and her kittens, placed the old cal in one aperture and the kittens in the other, and stopped up both with stones. The next day he opened them, and found the cat and kittens together at the foot of the long passage. Motive Power ok Niagara.—Mea ! surements, says a writer in Silliman's Jour nal, have been male of the volume of ; Niagara river, from which it appears that the motive power of the cataract exceeds, by nearly forty-fold, all the mechanical force of water and steam-power rendered available in Britain for the purpose of im parting motion to the machinery which suffices to perform the manufacturing la bors for a large portion of the inhabitants ; of the world, including also the power ap plied for transporting these products by steamboats and steamers, and their steam ships of war to the remotest seas. Indeed, it appears probable that the law of gravi ty, as established by the Creator, puts forth, in this single water-fall, more intense and effective energy than is necessary to move all the artificial machinery of the habitable globe. To Preserve Flowers. —Ladies who wish to preserve flowers are recommended to try nitrate of soda. As much as can be held between the thumb and finger placed in the water with flowers, will preseive them fresh, it is said, for a fortnight. The Folding of Newspapers.— The i rapidity with which newspapers are folded by lads in the large establishments of our cities, is a matter of wonder to those not initiated in the mysteries of newspaper life. —This astonishing speed is attained, by a spirit of competition, and the ambition to excel among the boys. Asa specimen of the speed of these youthful folders, the Boston Journal men tions the fact that a lad employed in that office, folds, papers at the rate of thirty- i five per minute with three folds; twenty nine per minute with four folds, and twen ty-six per minute with five folds. He was able to keep pace with the press which worked off from 1000 to 1200 an hour. IF SIS a D til ©Lit ST, ’ ’ ‘ ‘ DON’T CROWDTHE MONKEY.’ Some time since we found ourself on board the cars between Union Point and At lanta, in Georgia, with prehaps the greatest crowd imaginable. Among the number was a little Frenchman, en route to New Orleans. His dress was scrupulously neat, even unto dandy-ism. and he appeared to be as careful of it as if it had been real California. He belonged to that unfortu nate class of individuals who think they are “the observed of all observers,” and consequently, if any one laughed or whis ! pered in the cars, our little Frenchman im | agined he was the subject of it. A com pany of young men bound for California, were also on board the cars. They were a dashing, devil-may-care set of b'hoys, the whole of them, but one particularly ap peared to love a joke. He had several - times, in a laughing way, told liis comrades when any of them annoyed him in any : way, ‘not to crowd the monkey.’ He no , ticed that the little Frenchman looked very ] uneasily towards him whenever he made I use of this expression, and he determined to | have a joke at his expense. In a few j words he made known his intention to one I or two of his friends, who quickly entered ■ into it. glad of an opportunity to while i away the tedium of travelling. ; Our wag saw that the whispering had j awakened the suspicions of his victim, who * was in a state of excitement. Now was his time, and in a voice loud enough to be | heard all through the car, he said— j ‘Come, boys, don’t crowd the monkey.’ t At this-time the'two friends, who were ‘in ito the secret,’ looked at Monsieur and ] laughed. This was sufficient. There was | no longer any doubt that the remark was i intended for him. Rising in a rage he ex- I claimed— ‘Le diable, sare, vot you shall mean by call me von dam monkee ? You are von vot you shall call dam ramskall, sare.’ ‘Come, gentlemen, no quarrelling in the cars/ said the conductor. ‘Vot, sare shall I be call von dam mon key, and den you say no quarrel in ze cars? By gar, sare, I shall have vot you shall call ze satisfaction, sare, I have been ! insult by von dam dog, von dam leetle dog, vot you shall call puppee.’ ‘The gentleman, did not allude to you,’ continued the conductor, attempting to pac ify him; ‘ it is a common expression, and he probably used it without thinking of you, or intending it for you.’ 1 Sucre le diable! he look at me when he say ‘don’t crowd ze monkee,’ and you say he don't mean me. By gar, he mean me when he say monkee. lie von dam monkee, von baboon, von shackass!’ Our waggish iriend having accomplished his object, was enjoying the joke behind one of the seats, where he was giving vent to his feelings in laughter. The conductor succeeded, at length, in pacifying le petit Monsieur, who left the cars at the next station, en perfait degout. A le< k. Athens, Geo. ROYAL ANECDOTE. As Joseph 11., Emperor of Austria, was I driving his horse cabriolet, dressed in the ! garb of a private citizen, he was accosted by a soldier, who, mistaking him for a man of the middle class, requested a seat in the vehicle. “ Willingly,” replied the emperor, “jump in, comrade, for I'm in a hurry.” The soldier was soon seated alongside of the emperor, and became very loquacious. “Come, comrade,” said he, slapping the emperor familiarly on the back, “ are you } good at guessing 1” “ Perhaps I am,” said Joseph, “ try me.” “Well, then my boy, conjure up your 1 wits, and tell me what I had for break fast 1” “Sour krout!” “ Come, none of that, comrade—try I again. - ’ “Perhaps a Westphalia ham,” replied the Emperor, willing to humor his compan ion. “ Better than that,” exclaimed the sol dier. “ Sausages from Bologna, and Hockhe imer from the Rhine ?” “ Better than that—d'ye give up ?” “I do.” “Open your eyes and ears, then,” said | the soldier, bluntly; “I had a pheasant, by Jove I shot in Emperor Joe's park, ha, ha!” When the exultation of the soldier had subsided, Joseph said quietly— “l want to try your skill in guessing, comrade. See if you can name the rank I hold ” “You're a—no —hang it! you're not j smart enough for a coronet.” “Better than that,” said the emperor. “A Lieutenant 1” “ Better than that.” “ A Captain V’ “ Better than that.” “A Major?” j “ Better than that. - ’ “A General ?” • “ Better than that.” The soldier was now fearfully agitated, he had doffed his hat, and sat bare-headed, ! he could scarcely articulate. “ Pardon me your Excellency, you are Field Marshal ? “Better than that,” replied Joseph. “Lord help me,” cried the soldier, “you're the Emperor!” He threw himself out of the cabriolet, and knelt for pardon in the mud. The cir cumstances were not forgotten by either. Theemperor often laughed over it, and the soldier received a mark of favor which he could not forget. HORN’S LAST. Horn says that “ Yankee Blades"’ are in , demand ; he had but one left last week, | and some rascal stole that. He begged leave to inform the culprit that the “Blade” was keen enough now, without steeling it. Jim’s favorite daily (the Star) by acci dent fell into the yeast pot. He thought it was a perfect illustration of the “ Star in I the ( y)east .” An old bachelor lodger sent Horn for a cake of shaving soap. He stole one half, and charged double price for the balance, remarking that it was the “ deirn'dest ” shave-in soap he ever did see. Did you come by sea from New Or leans? No, I took the Cumberland (come by-land) route. j Horn thinks he would not make a good Revolutionary soldier, as he is already a regular penshunner. “I’ll take my pay in advance,” saida : landlady who lodged her friends on straw beds. “No you don’t,” said Jim; “I al i ways sleep on tick.” One of the large, book establishments in I New York, he thinks will be converted in : to a crockery warehouse, as they have late ! ly been importing a large quantity of plates. The hands on Jim’s clock are both hour hands; because, he says, as we’ve bought 1 and paid for them, they are our hands. THE MODEL SPOILT BOY. He will do as he likes. He will dirty ! his clothes, he will tear his trowsers, he ! will break the windows, and no one shall ! prevent him. He cares nothing for nobody —not he; and he will cry if he chooses. He’s not going to school; he hates it, and he does not care if he is a dunce. Ma’ j said he wasn't to learn if it gave him a . headache. He likes playing best, and on ly wishes he was a king, he would eat such lots of buns all day. Do you like ginger beer?—he does. The servants are ! nasty creatures —that they are; and he’ll i tell his mama that they struck him, and ! wont they just catch it! He does not care ;ifit is a “story.” Where does he expect itogo ? He knows well enough, but he's * not going to tell you—it’s so jolly likely. ; His papa is much richer than your’s. i Won’t you give him a shilling 1 You | won’t? Well you're a nasty stingy man, and Ma’ said you'd a big nose, and that | you only came to dinner. Oh, yes ! you’d ’ better strike him ; he kicked nurse yester ! day—he should like to see you doit. Is’nt j it plummy catching flies and putting ’em i inside a watch ?—he's done it over and ! over again—it’s such fun! Have you ev !er stuck cockchaffers ? Crickey ! isn’t it ! a lark just giving’em paper tails, aud set | ’em flying in church ? He and Harry Sim \ monds melted Polly’s doll, yesterday, be fore the fire—there isn't a bit of the head and shoulders left now. He isn't a naugh ty boy—he will scream. Ma’ says she’d | eat herself if she was half as ugly asyou. He won’t take any medicine--he does not care if he does die. It's precious nasty stuff—an he's glad he's broken the bottle. He'll tell you a secret if you won’t tell. Aunt Jane wears a wig—Pa’ and Ma’quar rel so someti mes; Ma’ says Pa's a brute, and then Pa’ calls Ma’ a “ big millstone | round his neck.” He didn't steal the fruit; ! he only’ took a napple, and two pears, and and a jiorange, and a nandful of nuts — that's all. lie won’t be a good boy. He won’t let go your whiskers. If you’ll give i him a shilling p’r’aps he will. He won’t go to bed. Ma’ lets him sit up as long as jhe likes. He will stamp. He \von,t leave go of the table-cloth—He does not care if ihe does pull all the tea-things over. Ugh ! ugh ! ugh ! he'll tell his Ma’! Ugh ! —you'd better not hit him again, or he’ll ; be ill and die of the measles—that he will. Booh-ugh-ooh!—he’s jolly glad he spilt l the tea-urn —he’ll do it every day, if you don’t leave him alone. You're a nasty beast—u-u-u-gh—that you are. The Model Spoilt Boy is carried off at last, amidst a chorus of his own screams, but not before he has upset several cups and saucers, and distributed his kicks very impartially all round. The screams are continued up stairs, and prolonged under the bed clothes, till befalls asleep—the on ly period he is ever quiet. The next day his “ Pa’”determinestosendhimto school. “Ma” ’’ opposes, and her pet child resists ; several broken windows attest the fury of the struggle; for once the maternal author ity is overpowered. The young Nero of the nursery is packed off into the country. When he comes home for the holidays, he is wonderfully tamed: but it takes several half-years thoroughly to eradicate his pro found savageness, and to make him a sweet child that foregoes his natural love for teasing the cat, worrying the servants, and breaking the windows, and putting [gunpowder into the snuffers, and wiping j his dirty hands on gentlemen’s trowsers. Sometimes he’s cured of screaming, but is troubled with dreadful fits of sulking, that will continue for days together, as if it were his only consolation for no longer ‘ pinching his little brothers and sisters, or running pins into the little baby, or giving blue bottles a watery grave in the milk jug. These sulks may, with care and a strong hand, be weeded from his barren disposi tion, but generally they lie with his other faults, too deep to he rooted out : and as 1 the Child is the reputed Father tothe Man, so a despotic husband, ora tyrannic parent, is only too frequently the son of the Mod- ‘ el Spoilt Boy. vltljcns Business Directory. M M. N . WHITE, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL BOOK-SELLER, — AMD DEALER IX Stationery. Music and Musical Instruments , Lamps, Cutlery , Fancy Goods, s•<•, Re orders filled at the Augusta rates! College Avenue, Athens, Ga. K. J. MATSABD. BOOK BINDER, (Over the Southern Banner Office,) ATHENS, GEORGIA. ALItON CHASE, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN Books, Stationery, Fancy Goods, Perfumery, Paper Hangings, ifc., Opposite College Campus, and under the Banner Office, Orders filled at the Augusta Prices ! ATHENS, GEORGIA. FEKRI A CO., —WHOLESALE 4. RETAIL DEALERS IN — Hats, Caps, Boots, Shoes, Trunks, &c. &e. Broad-Street, Athene, Georgia. Augusta Business Directory. M M. 11. TI'TT, —Wholesale and Retail Dealer in— Drugs. Medicines. Paints, Oils, Dye-Stuffs. CHEMICALS, Sec., AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. J AMES A. GRAY, Dealer in cheap Fancy If Staple Dry Goods, No. 298 Broad Street, Augusta, Ga. CRESS A HICKMAN, DEALERS IN STAPLE N FANCY DRY GOODS, 268 South side BROAD STREET, Augusta. Ga. SCRANTON .v STARK, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, WII OLES AL E GIiOC ER S, Also, dealers in Bugging, Rope and Twine ; Nails, Iron, Suit, Ac., for I’laiiters* trade. PHILEMON A. SCRANTON, WILLIAM H. STARK. I>, B. PLHIB & CO., Between U. S. Hotel aud I\ O. Corner—Augusta, Ga.. Wholesale and Retail Dealers in— Drugs, Medicines, Chemicals, Paints, &c. Agent for Lundreth’s Garden Seeds! ALBERT HATCH, —Manufacturer of und Dealer in— Saddles, Bridles, Harness, Trunks, Military, Equipments, (fc. ifc. Sfc. Bioad-Street, in Metcalf's New Range, Augu.-ta. UNITED STATES HOTEL, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. r bis house is in the centre ot business. CHARLES CATLIN, —Dealer in— Fine IVa t c hes, Jewelry, Silver Spoons and forks, Plated Castors, LAMPS, GIRANDOLES, FANCY GOODS, Ac. A’so—Agents for Chickering’a nnd Nunns fie Clarke’s PIANO-FORTES, which they sell at the lowest fac tory AUGUSTA, GEO. Charleston Business Directory. HA RMO.XIC ISS TITUTE. FERDINAND ZOGBAUM, IMPORTER OF MUSIC AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, King-Street, sign of the Lyre, Charleston, S. C. : harlbs Zoobaum, Athens Ga. WEM II A HONOUR, BOOK BINDERS, Corner of Mating A Horlbeuk’fl Alley, CHARLESTON. fir Blank Books ruled to any pattern, und bound in the best manner. S. H. WELCH, W. E. Hf>\OT*R. McCarter &. allen, BOOKSELLERS & STATIONERS, Charleston. South Carolina Have an extensive assortment of Law, Medical, The ological, School and Miscellaneous Books, which will be sold at the lowest rules! PAVILION HOTEL, BY H . L. BUTTERFIELD, [Formerly of thr Charleston Hotel,] CHARLESTON, S. C. BILLILAND6 HOWJSLJ*, Importers and Dealers in Foreign and Domestic Dry Goods, No. 7 Hayne-Street, Charleston, S. C. GROCERIES, FRI Ci V CIGAR N. M. PORTER, (lute W. L. Porter & Son,) No. 222 King-Street, third above Market, Have an extensive and varied Stock of Groceries, Fruits, Cigars, itc., suited to the wants of Families and Dealers, which he sells for the lowest prices for cash or city paper. 150 bis Refined Sugar at Factory prices. GEORGE OATES, 23-1 k 230 King-Street, fuear the Bend,] Charleston, GEORGE A. OATES & CO., Broad-Street, Augusta, Ga. • Dealers in Piano-Fortes, Musie and Musi cal Instruments, Hooks, Stationery, fyr. 11. STOItUAItIt, Wholesale Dealer in BOOTS, SHOES, &c., No. 13 Hayne-Street, Charleston, S. C. CHARLESTON HOTEL, BY D MIXER, CHARLESTON, S.C. *.* This estulilishment has been entirely remodelled and refitted in Uie most elegant manner. JOHN S. BIKU A CO., Military, Looking-Glass and Fancy Store, Sign of the Gold Spectacles, 223 k 225 King-Street, Charleston, S. C. Mathematical and Surveyors’ Instruments; Spectacles and Optical Instruments, of all kinds; Plated Cusi ors, Candlesticks. Cake Baskets, kc., kc. I Oil Paintings and Engravings; Picture Frames made ’ to order, and old Frames, re-gilt and made equal to . new ; Glasses and Pebbles fitted to Spectacles to suit 1 all ages and sights. JOHN S. BIRD, J. M. TAYLOR, C.H. BIRD. JOSEPH WALKER, —UKAI.EE in— Paper, Stationery & Account Hooks. Book Binding and Job Printing. Also, Agent for the sale of Type, Presses, and Printing Materials of ull kinds, at New-York prices, actuul expenses only added. i Constantly on hand a large 6tock of Type, Borders, Brass Rule, Leads, kc. ; also, Printing Paper and ( Printing Ink. H. B. CLARKE & (XV *—l M PORTERS AND DEALERS IN — CLOTHS. CASSIMERES j VESTINGS TAILORS’ TRIMMINGS. &c„ No. 205 King-street,—CHARLESTON, 8. O. WM. L TIMMONS, j General Importer of Hardware & Cutlery, East Bay,....Charleston, S. C. GEOKGi: ABBOTT, DEALER IN PAINTS, OILS AND COLOURS, Also, constantly on hand, nt wholesale and retail, und at the lowest prices, a lot of Cnmphine, Spirit Gas, with suitable lamps. No. 1)7 East Bay, Charleston, S. C. House and Laud for sale. THE SUBSCRIBER, having removed from Hit* place, offers for sale his House and Land iin the town of Athens. The laud comprises 296 \ acres, of which a largo portion is well-wooded, and the rest in good nrahlo condition. The prop : ertv is situated in the upper portion of the town. J The dwelling is handsome and convenient,—the out houses nil new. and the whole in perfect re pair. O’ There is an excellent spring near the ; dwelling, ami also a line well of water. If desirable, he will sell the dwelling with only i eight or ten acres ofland. For terms of sale, apply to ANDREW BAXTER, or, in his absence, to Win. JI. Morton, Ksn., or i to I’rof. C. F. McCay. Athens, May 12, 1819. 2tf A GI VI S V.W fXEI “Rinr- Ards’ Weekly Gazettr” and also The SCIIIMH.IEIXOW.” General 3iiucrtiscmcnts. GAZETTE JOB PRINTING 3es‘Jt'A.Hi,ißjecaxp:JsrT. Pamphlets, /C?A Circulars/ Catalogues, [( Showbills, M ..a-i in„c l i. ppl 1 Programmes. Rill-beads, Beg. Blanks, Notices, Bk. Checks, Labels, &c., &c. NEATLY AND EXPEDITIOUSLY EXECUTED Ait fens GOULD, KENDALL & LINCOLN, BOOKSELLERS AND PUBLISHERS, No. 59 Washington St., Boston. Athens, ga. ::::::::: bt L. p, thomas. r T I HK Subscriber, as proprietor of this new and X well-furnished Hotel, expects, (t’rom long exper ience, a disposition to please, and attention to easi ness,) to ninke it just such an Establishment as the public wants. LOVIC P. THOMAS. January 6, 1849. frvl l-iy NT Jew BOOK STO3OtKt On Cotton Avenue , Macon , Geo. r "JIHE undersigned have opened, as above, ar- I establishment fur the sale of Books, Stationery and Fancy Goods,- and will keep on hand a full assortment of CiT School and Miscellaneous Booknj together w ith plain and fancy Stationery. Music, for the Piano For'e, &c. All’ of which they will sell Wholesale or Retail, at the lowest market prices. fry- Orders for Law, Medical and Theolog ical Books, respectfully solicited J. .1’ & S. P. RICHARDS. Macon, Nov. 4, 1848. JAMES M’PIIERSOA A 4 0., DEALERS liN BOOKS, STATIONERY, MUSIC, Musical Instruments. Fancy Goods, Paper- Hangings, Maps, <s•<■., ATLANTA, GEORGIA, P It O’S P E C T US —of — WEEKLY GAZETTE. BEING anew and much enlarged sciies of the “Southern Literary Gaiette,” —the oniv weekly Journal, South of the Potomac, devoted to Literature nnd the Arts in general—and de signed for the Family Circle. The Proprietor leg- leave to announce that, on Saturday, the sth of May, he issued the first number, for the second year, of this popular ami well established paper,—the name and form of which he has changed, to enlarge the scope of its observation, and to otherwise increase its attrac tions. Less exclusively devoted, than heretofore, to Literature, the Arts, and Sciences, it will he the aim of its Proprietor to make it, in every respect, A CHOICE FAMILY NEWSPAPER, “in cheap ns the cheapest, and as good as the best!” Utterly discarding the notion that a Southern journal cannot compete with the North ern weeklies, in cheapness and interest, RICHARDS’ WEEKLY GAZETTE shall he equal, in mechanical execution, to any of them, and, in the variety, freshness and value of its contents, second to none. Its field will be the world, and it will contuin, in its anq le folds Every Species of Popular Information, Esj euiai attention will be paid to thesubject of SCHOLASTIC AND DOMESTIC EDUCATION. Numerous articles, original and selected, from the best sources, will be published weekly, on AGRICULTURE ANI) HORTICULTURE, and these departments, as, indeed, all others, will be frequently Illustrated with Wood Cuts ! Every number will contain careful aid copious summaries of the latest FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC NEWS’ in Commercial, Civil, Political, and Koelndasti eal Affairs. At the same time, there shall be nothing in its columns that eau be considered ci ther Partisan or Sectarian. The following distinguished writers will con tribute to the Journal: Win. Gilmore Simms, LL. 71., Hon. Robert .1/. Charlton, J. M. I-egare, T. Aditisun Richards, Esq., Charles Lanman, Esq., Hon. Jl. F. Porter, Mrs. Caroline Heutz, .Mrs. Joseph C. Neal, Airs. E. F Ellett, Miss Mary E. Lee, Caroline Howard, .Mrs. C. IV. Jjußose, .Miss C. IV. Barber, besides many others, whose names arc highly esteemed in the “ World of Letters.” TERMS: .'inglecopies, a-year, $2 00, strictly in advance. CLUBS: Os three supplied for ------ J 5 IK) Ot five for g 00 lif ten for ----------- 15 00 Os fifteen for 20 00 llf twenty for --------- - 25 00 Os fifty for U 0 00 Co- All orders must be accompanied with the cash, and should be addressed, post-paid, to WM. C. RICHARDS, Athens, Ga. N. ll.—Editors who will copy, or notice fully, this Prospectus, shall receive the Gazette regu larly, and also a beautiful Juvenile Magazine, entitled “The Schoolfellow.’’ May 3d, 1849. ltf IXSniAXCE COMPAXY'- WM. M. MORTON, AG’T AT ATHENS rpiIIS Company is now firmly established, and X doing an extensive business. Risks will be tal>en not only in towns, but in the country, on Dwellings, Giu-Houses, Mills und Factories. The following parties are among the Stock holders of the < company at this Agency : Asbury Hull, T. Bradford, Win W. Clavton r J. S. Linton, Albon Chase, Dr. If. Hull, I/enrr Hull, Jr., E. L. Newton. Dr. E. R. Ware, F Lucas, S. J. Mays, V. L. G. Harris, C. 13. Ly le, A. J. Brady, George Pringle, M. E. McWhor ter, I). Holmes, Rev. Dr. Hovt, L. J Lumpkin* Rev. S. Landrum, J. J. Huggins, W-Bayion. 1. R.R.Cobb, Dr. C.AL Reese, (Ireon 13. Hav good. Win. C. Richards & Cos., and Win. M Morton. Parties, desiring to effect insurance on their property in this vicinity, will make application to the subscriber. WM. M. MORTON. Athens, Nov. 25tli, 1848. 290s Igkia&i ms. •Bnu'j&s IJgSjjgjl reived at the Ims E RSI TV BOOKSTORE. April 14. 48 Hooks, tationerv and Music. TAMES M<PIIKRSON& CO., beg leave If •J inform their friends and the public that they have greatly increased their supplies of SCHOOL AND MISCELLANEOUS and nre daily receiving, direct from New York and Phih:dcl| Ilia, choice works in every depart ment of Literature and the Arts, together with PLAIN AND FANCY STATIONARY, nf every description, both American and Foreign- They have also a fine supplyof CENTRE, SIDE AND SCSrENSION SOLAR LAMPS, mad.* by Cornelia & Cos., the best in the world- Atlanta, Ga., Feb 10, 1848. o.s. :>x a u x e it, anrtJß B. St FOR sale, at tbe University Bookstore, a good M A G I C L A X T E R N, with appropriate Lamp and Sliders, which will be sold cheap- W.M. N. WHITE- April 22. __ 49 ONE SUNDAY-SCHOOL LIBRARY of 1( volumes, — No 2 of tbe A. S. S. Union, is for sale by WM. N WHITE. Cash 1 rice. $19,50.