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H> (D IE ir IE A DREAM OF SUMMER. DY JOHNS. WHITTIER. Bland :is the morning breath of June The southwest breezes play ; An l through its haze, the winter noon Seems warm as rummer's day. The snow-plumed Angel of the North his icy spe ir : Again the mossy earth luoks forth, Again the streams gush clear. The fox his hill-side cell forsakes, The muskrat leaves his nook, • Tho blue bird in the moadow brakes Is singing with the brook. ‘ Bear up, O Mother Nature!’ cry Bird, breeze, and streamlet free, ‘ Our winter voices prophecy Os summer days to thee!’ So, in those w inters of the soid, By bitter blasts and drear, O'er swept from memory's frozen pole, Will sunny days appear. Reviving Hope and Faith, they show The soul its living powers, And how beneath the winter’s snow Lie germs of summer Bowers ! The Night is Mother of the Day, The Winter of the Spring, And ever upon old Decay The greenest mosses cling. Behind the cloud tho starlight lurks, Through showers the sunbeams fill; For Clod, who loveth all lfis works, lias loft Ilia llopo with all! li'lil JS.H > SUBSTITUTE FOR THE I’OTATOE There is a root called the Mayua, which grows in ihe Peruvian mountains, anil is milch cultivated by the natives, which would be ti good substitute for the potatoe. it sometimes grows with as many as fif* teen tnberstoa root, these are of theaverage size of our potatoes, and are round, kidney formed, or p:g-top shaped, according to the kind. The color is bright yellow, with rays of reddish purple or scarlet, diverging from the eyes, which are deeply set.— When cut a delicious odor exhales, min gled with a certain acidity by no means re pulsive ; on the contrary, attractive to the palate. Eaten raw, the root produces a rich, smooth, unctious savor, which lasts lnrt a short time and is all at oncesucceeded by a piquant taste, exciting the tongue, somewhat as ginger. This spicy taste af terwards disappears, and leaves in the mouth a pleasing perfume and agreeable coolness.— Scienlifiic American. Western Wheat Crop.—According to accounts from all parts of the West, the growing wheat crop, the Racine (Wis.) Whig of the ‘Jtithult., informs us, looks re markably well. It is said that the heavy snows of (he past winter, protected it from winter-killing. It is past danger from frost now, and the prospect of a heavy crop is as good as ever before, at this sea son. Vegetable Slumbers - —Mr. Lindley, a celebrated London Professor, says, “there is not a single gardener, who is master of his profession, who does not know how in. jurious a high nocturnal temperature is to plants. The coolness of nights is to plants uhat sleep is to animals. This law may, to some extent, be violated for a time, but the plants cannot, on pain of loss of life, be deprived of their proper period of repose.’’ To make a Thee bear Fruit. —ls the tree grows rapidly without bearing, dig a trench around it and cut ofFone-third of its roots. Another Way. —Run your saw through the bark to the wood, quite round the trunk. If you are afraid to do that, try the experi ment on a single branch. Shrub Fruit. —Your crops of currants, gooseberries, and raspberries, will improve if you dig up the old plants once in three or four years, and plant young bushes. Propagating Currants and Gooseberries. When you plant cuttings, remove all the buds or eyes on that part which goes into the ground, This will prevent the annoy ance of suckers from the roots. Peach Trees. —Soon after the fruit is formed remove the earth, about three inches deep, for two feet around, and fill the place with charcoal dust. Probably hard coal will answer. Raise more Fruit. —When Dr. Dwight firs’ removed to New Haven, ihere was but liit lei: u ll raised there. He urged his neigh bors to plant fruit trees, but they said it was of no use, for the boys would steal all the fruit. 11 Plant more fruit,” was the an swer. Make good fruit plenty, and it will not be plundered. Fifteen yeafs after wards, he pointed to the abundance of fruit and the absence of pillage then enjoyed, in proof of his principle. ill il £ £ & iL 1L .A >:i Y . INTERIOR OF AN ASSYRIAN PALACE. The interior of the Assyiian palace must have been as magnificent as imposing. I have led the reader through its ruins, and he may judge of the impression its halls were calculated to make upon the stranger who, in the days of old, entered for the first time the abode of the Assyrian kings. He was ushered in through the portals guarded by the colossal lions or bulls of white ala baster. In the first hall he found himself surrounded by the sculptured records of the empire. Battles, sieges, triumphs, the ex ploits of the chase, the ceremonies of reli gion, were portrayed on the walls, sculptur ed in alabaster, and painted in gorgeous colors. Under each picture were engraved, in characters filled up with bright copper, inscriptions describing the scenes represent ed. Above the sculptures were painted other events —the king, attended by his eu nuchs and warriors, reviewing his prison ers, entering into alliances with other mon arch?, or performing some sacred duty. These representations were inclosed in colored borders of elaborate and elegant ; design. The emblematic tree, winged bulls and monstrous animals were conspicuous among the ornaments. At the uppej end of the hall was the colossal fiigure of the king, in adoration before the supreme deity, or receiving from his eunuch the holy cup. He was attended by warriors bearing his arms, and by the priests or presiding divin ities. llis robes, and those of his follow ers, were adorned with groups of figures, animals and flowers, all painted with bril liant colors. The stranger trod upon alabaster slabs, each bearing an inscription recording the titles, genealogy and achievements of the great king. Several doorways, formed by gigantic winged lions or bulls, or by the figures of guardian deities, led into other apartments, which again opened into more distant halls. In each were new sculptures. lOn the walls of some were processions of ‘colossal figures—armed men and eunuchs, following the king, warriors laden with spoil, leading prisoners, or bearing presents and offerings to the gods. On the walls of others were portrayed the winged priests, or presiding divinities, standing before the sa cred trees. The ceilings above him were divided in to square compartments, painted with (low ers, or with the figures of animals, Some were inlaid with ivory, each compartment being surrounded by elegant borders and mouldings. The beams, as well as the ; sides of the chambers, may have been gild j ded, or even plated, with gold and silver; and tlie rarest woods, in which the cedar was conspicuous, were used for the xvood i work. Square openings in the ceilings of tlie chambers admitted the light of day. A pleasing shadow was thrown over the sculptured walls, and gave a majestic ex pression to the human features of the co lossal forms which guarded the entrances. Through these apertures was seen the bright blue of an eastern sky, inclosed in a frame on which were painted, in vivid colors, the winged circle, in the midst of elegant ornaments, and the graceful forms of ideal animals. These edifices, as it has been shown, were great national monuments, upon the wallsof which were represented in sculpture, or inscribed in alphabetic characters, the chronicles of the empire. He who entered them might thus read the history, and learn the glory and triumphs of the nation. They served, at the same time, to bring continually to the remembrance of those who assembled within them on festive oc casions, or for the celebration of religious ceremonies, the deeds of their ancestors, and the power and majesty of their gods. THE MOOSE. “ Game of all kinds swarm in the forest; bears, wolves, panthers, deer, and moose. I was not aware that so many moose were to be found here: yet 1 do not believe there is an animal of the African desert with which our people are not more famil iar than with it. In size, at i iast, he is worthy of attention, being much taller than the ox. You will sometime.’ find an old bull moose eight feet high. The body is about the size of a cow, while the legs are long and slender, giving to the huge bulk the appearance of being mounted on stilts. The horns are broad, flat, and branching, shooting in a horizontal curve from the head. I saw one pair from a moose that a cousin of Cheney killed, that were near ly four feet across, from tip to tip, and the horn itself fifteen inches broad. The speed of these animals through the thick forests seems almost miraculous, when we consid er their enormous bulk and branching horns. They seldom break into a gallop, but when roused by a dog start off on a rapid pace, or half trot, with the nose erect, and the head working sideways, to lettheir horns pass through the branches. They are rarely, if ever, taken by dogs, as they run on the start twenty miles without stop ping. over mountains, through swamps, and across lakes and rivers. They are mostly killed early in the spring—being then unable to travel the woods, as the snow is often four or five feet deep, and ‘covered with a thick sharp crust. At these times, and indeed in the early part of winter, they seek out some lonely spot, I near a spring or a water-course, and there | ‘ yard,’ as it is termed ;. i. e. they trample j down the snow around them and browse, eating everything clean as far as they go. ; Sometimes you will find an old bull moose ‘yarding’ alone, sometimes two or three • together. When found in this state they are easily killed, for they cannot run fast, ! as they sink up to their backs in thesnow at every jump. “ Endowed, like most animals, with an instinct that approaches marvellously near ii§i!E)E)§ 0 is i t ©aaiiiie. |to reason, they have another mode of I 1 yarding,’ which furnishes greater security than,the one just described. You know that mountain chains are ordinarily cover j ed with heavy timber, while the hills and swelling knolls at their bases are crowned with a young growth, furnishing buds and j tender sprouts in abundance. If you don’t ! the moose do : and so, during a thaw in January or early spring, when the snow is j from three to tiro feet deep, a big fellow will begin to travel over and around one of these hills. lie knows that ‘after a thaw comes a freeze; and hence makes the best use of his time. He will not stop to eat, but keeps moving until the entire hill is bi-sected and inter- sected from crown to base, with paths he himself has made. Therefore, when the weather changes, his I field of operations is still left open. The crust freezes almost to the consistency of ice, and yet not sufficiently strong to bear jhis enormous bulk : little, howeverdoes he care for that; the hill is at his disposal, and he quietly loiters along the paths he I has made, ‘browsing’ as he goes—expect j ing, most rationally, that before he has fm jished the hill, another thaw will come, when he will be able, without inconven ience, to change his location. Is not this adapting one’s self to circumstances'?”— The Adirondack. THINKING ALOUD. Lord Dudley was afflicted with what may not be improperly termed the disease of thinking aloud—that is, of unconscious ly giving utterance to involuntary thoughts which other men confide to the secret de pository of their breast. An amusing an anccdote of this singular failing of the mind is related of his lordship. Lord Dudley had been invited to the house of a friend upon the occasion of some great fete, but being a man of early habits, had ordered his carrige at a certain hour, having some miles to travel, before he could obtain his accustomed repose. To bin great mortification, after repeated in inquiries for Lord Dudley’s carriage, it bad not arrived, and his lordship, as well as others, imagined that some accident must have happened to it. One of the guests, seeing how much his lordship was discon certed by the event, very politely offered him a seat in his carriage. The gentleman in question had to pass his lordship’s house, on his return home, and though he was al most a stranger to Lord Dudley, his rank and position in the country were, of course, well known to him, and the civility was no more than one gentleman would, tinder similar circumstances, have offered to an other. Nevertheless, they had not been seated in the carriage more than twenty minutes, when the peer, who, being tired, had, up to that moment, maintained a most perfect silence, observed, in a low but dis tinctly audible tone of voice—“l’m very sorry I accepted his offer. I don’t know the man. It was civil, certainly ; but the worst is, I suppose I must ask him to din ner. It’s a deuce of a bore !” He then re lapsed into his former state of taciturnity, when, after a few minutes, the gentleman, pretending to be afflicted with the same failing, and imitating his lordship’s tone, observed —“ Perhaps he’ll think I did it to make his acquaintance. Why, I would have done the same to any farmer on his estate. I hope he won’t think it necessa ry to ask me to dinner. I’ll be hanged if I’d accept his invitation!” Lord Dudley j listened to him with earnest interest, imme diately comprehended the joke which he ! had himself provoked, offered his hand ‘ with much hearty good will tohiscompan | ion, making every proper apology for his involuntary rudeness—and from that night the travellers became inseparable friends. LIEBIG. Liebig was distinguished at school as “ booby,” the only talent then cultivated in German schoo’s being verbal memory. On one occasion, being sneeringly asked, by the master, what he proposed to become, since he was so bad a scholar, and answer ing said he would be a chemist, the whole school burst into a laugh of derision. Not long ago, Liebig saw his old school master, who feelingly lamented his own former blindness. The only boy in the same school who ever disputed with Liebig the station of “ booby,” was one who never could learn his lesson by heart, but was continually composing music, and writing it down by stealth in school. This same individual, Liebig lately found at Vienna, distinguished as a composer, and conductor of the Imperial Opera House. His name is Reuling. It is to be hoped that a more rational system of school instruction is now gaining ground. Can anything be more absurd and detestable than a system which made Walter Scott and Justus Liebig “boo bies” at schoool, and so effectually con cealed their natural talents, that, for exam ple, Liebig was often lectured before the whole school on his being sure to cause misery and broken hearts to his parents, while he was all the time conscious, as the above anecdote proves, of the possession of talents similiar in kind to those he has since displayed. —Scientific American. A book was published in England during the protectorate of Cromwell, with the following title : “ Eggs of Charity, laid by the chickens of the Covenant, and boil ed by the waters of Divine grace: lake ye and eat.” The horses in the “ apostolic sta ble” of Rome, havebeen seized for the use of the national artillery. The horses so employed, says Punch, are expected to be more than a match for the Pope’s bulls. Chevreau, in his histoty of the world, tells us that it was created the 6th of September, on Friday, a little before four o’clock in the afternoon ! woman is capable of being beau- ■ tiful who is not incapable of being false v si&ja i asm uair. “Dome’’ a lanLoed. HV THE LITTLE ’t vl A stage coach, with nine triple passen gers, was slowly approaching a village in New Jersey, one coldmorning iijFebruary, 183--. “Gentlemen,” said one of the nine, “I have often traveled this road before, and, out of good feeling to all, I will caution you against ‘hugging the delusive phan t >n. of hope,’ as regards getting breakfast at the hotel we are approaching.” “What ?—how ’--no breakfast?” ex claimed the rest. “ Exactly so, gents, and you may as well keep your seats and tin.” “ Don’t they expect passengers to break- fast ?” “Oh, yes; they expect you to it but not to eat it. lam under the impression that there is an understanding between the landlord and driver, that for sundry and various drinks, etc., the latter starts before you can scarce commence eating.” “Why, wot on airth air yew talkin’ about? Es you calkerlate Pin goin’ to pay 1 four nine yeuces’ fur my breakfast and not git the valleeon't, youatr mistaken! ” said a voice from the back seat, the owner of which was one Hezekiah Spaulding— whom, ‘ tew hum ” they called “ Hez * for short. “I’mgoin’ tew get my bieakfuss yere, and not pay nary red cent till 1 dew.” “ Then you'll be left.” “Not as yer knows on, I won’t!” “ Well, we”ll see,’, said the other as the stage drove up to the door, and the land lord, read y to do the hospitable, says— “ Breakfast just ready, gents. Take a wash gents? Here’s water, basins, tow els, and soap.” After performing their ablutions, they all proceeded to the dining room, and com menced a fierce onslaught upon the edibles though “Hez” took his time. Scarcely had they lasted their coffee when they heard the unwelcome sound of the horn, and the driver exclaim, “ Stage ready"’ Up rise eight grumbling passengers, pay their fifty rents, and take their seats. “All aboard, gents ?” inquires the host. “ One missing!” said they. Proceeding to the (lining room, the host finds Hez very coolly helping himself to an immensf piece of steak, about the size of a horse’* lip. * “ You'll be left, sir. Stage is going to start!” “Wal, I heint got nothin’ to say agin it!” drawls out Hez. “Can’t wait, sir; belter take your seat.” “ Dew wot ?” “Get in, sir.” “I'll be gaitl-darned es I dew, nuther, till I’ve got my breakfnss! I paid fur it, j and I'm goin’ to getthe vallee on't ! and es j yew calkerlate 1 aint yew are mistaken.” So the stage did start, and left Hez, who ! continued his attack on the edibles. Bis cuits, coffee, steaks, &c., &c., disappeared rapidly before the eyes of the astonished landlord. “ Say, squire, them ere cakes is ‘bout east; fetch an nuther grist on ’em. You” (to the waiter.) “nuther cup of that air coffee. Pass them eggs. Raise yew’re own pork, squire l —this is mazin’ nice ham. Land bout here tolerable cheap, squire ? Haint got much maple timber in j these parks, hev ye ? Dewin right smart trade, squire, I callate. Don', lay yew’rc own eggs, dew ye?” and thus Hez kept quizzing the landlord until he had made a hearty meal. ! “ Say, squire now lam bout tew co%- I elude payin’ my devowers to this ere table, I but es yew’d just give us a bowl o’ bread and milk tew so.-tcr top off with, I’d be j obleeged tew ye.” j So out goes landlord and waiter for the ■ bowl, milk and bread, and set them before Hez. 11 Sperm, terr. es yew please /” But no spoon could be found. Land j lord was sure he had plenty of silver ones lying on the table when the stage stopped, j “Say, yew, dew yew think them pas , sengers is goin’ to pay yew fora treakfuss and not get no compensashun?” j “Ah!—what 1 Do you think any of ; the passengers took them 1” “ Dew I think ? No, I don’! think, but I am sartin’. Es they arc aP as green as j yew ’bout here’ I’m goin’ tewlocate imme -1 diutely and tew wonst.” The landlord rushes out ‘o the stable, ! and starts a man off after th; stage, which J has gone about three miles. The man ; overtakes the stage, and says something to the driver in a low tone. He immediate ly turns back, and on arrmng at the hotel, Hez comes out to take Ws seat, and says,- •‘Heow air yew, gents? I’m rotten i glad tew see you !” Landlord says to Hez, “ can you point ; 1 out the man you think has taken the ;spoons I” “Pint him eout? Sartinly, I ken.— Sav, squire ! I paid yew four nine peaces fur a break fuss, and I callate I got the val lee on't! Yew’ll find them sperms in the coffee pot! Go ahead, driver, all aboard !” ] — N. F. Spirit of the Times Blessed is the horse whose owner is poor, for he cannot afford to buy a whip. QUEER STORY OE A PANTHER. My friend, while on his visit, was hunt ing; in the wilderness of timber that spread over that vast country, with an old and experienced hunter, when, to his horror, it was soon discovered they were pursued by an enormous panther. Suddenly the ani mal broke cover. On he came upon them, bounding like a cataract, making tremen dous leaps. What should they do ? ft was hazardous to discharge their pieces, as that would enrage the panther the more, if they should chance to miss, or only wound, without disabling him. What should they do ? There was no time for premeditation. A certain, horrid death stared my friend in the face. His young blood froze—his hair stood on end. The hunter, however, was a man well informed in the nature and habits of the animal. Seeingalargetuborca.sk, near by, which had been left there probably by some wandering emigrant, he seized my friend by the shoulder and dragged him behind it, telling him, as he did so, that the panther never leaped upon its object when concealed from its view. There they were, crouching behind the tub, the panther gradually rounding up to them. Suddenly, so soon as the “var mint” was near enough, they raised the tub in an inverted position and pitched it right on top of him, and then mounted guard to keep it down. The panther, finding himself thus en trapped, kept up a most fearful noise— more terrific than the roaring of Mount Vesuvius. The hunter soon devised a way by which he got the panther’s tail through the bung-hole. “Come, bear a hand,” said he, “and let’s tie a knot in his tail;” which was soon done. “Now,” said the hunter, “now for your life!” and off they started, running for their lives. They had not gone far, however, before they heard a tremendous noise, like a tornado. They looked be hind, and there saw the panther running in a contrary direction, lashing the timber with the tub at his tail, as if the very Old Nick was after him. My friend could not help smiling at the spectacle; and ever since, whenever he sees a panther going about in a menagerie, he can't keep from laughing at the old trick of the tub. Aiiocrtiscmcnts. ROSS RIVERS, iMMiill WILL practice their profession in this and the adjoining counties. %* Office at Ath ene under the Newton House, and at Oxford,Ga. Athens. May. 1X49. 3ly PROSPECTUS —OF — THE SCHOOLFELLOW: A MAGAZINE FOR GIRLS AND BOYS. ISSUED IN MONTHLY NUMBERS OK 32 PAGES, ILLL STARTED WITH ENGRAVINGS, AT THE LOW PRICE OF $ I ner annum—ln advance! TMIE Publisher of Richards’ Weekly Gazette announces that he issued the first number of the above work la.'t January, with a view of affor ding to the Boys and Girls of the South a journal of their own, in which instruction and amusement shall be happily blended. The Schoolfellow contains articles, both origi nal and selected, from many pens that have writ ten charmingly for the young. We will mention the names of Mary Howifct, Miss Sedgwick, Pe ter Parley, Miss slclntosh, Mrs. Gilman, Mrs. Joseph C. Neal, Mary E. Leo, Miss Barber, and many others iu ; ght be added. Many of the art icles in The Schoolfellow are beautifully illustrat ed, and the twolve numbers of one year make two volumes of nearly 400 pages and one hundred en gravings, of which, every boy and girl who may own it may be proud. Terms.— l. Each number contains .32 pages, and at least 8 engravings, and is issued on the first of every mouth. 2. The subscription price is One Dollar a -year, in advance. To Clubs: 5 copies to one address,s4; 10 do., $8 ; 20 do sls. There are many schools in which at least twenty copies may be taken, as the price to each one will be only seventy-five cents. Communication must be post-paid and addres sed to The Schoolfellow, Athens, Ga. $3“ Editors, exchanging with “ Richards’ Ga zette,” who will copy or notice fully this Pros pect ues, shall receive The Schoolfellow without urtlier exchange. I INSURANCE COMPANY. ! WM. M. MORTON, AG’T AT ATHENS. | f 11HIS Company is now firmly established, and ; X doing an extensive business. Risks will be taken not only in towns, but in the country, on Dwellings, Gin-Houses, Mills and Factories. The following parties are among the Stock holders of the Company at this Agency: Asbury Hull, T. Bradford, Wm \v. Clayton, J. S. Linton, Albon Chase, Dr. 11. Hull, Henry Hull, Jr., E. L. Newton, Dr. E. R. Ware, F. Lucas, S. J. Mays, Y. L. G. Harris, C. B. Lyle, A. J. Brady, George Pringle, M. E. McWhor ter, D. Holmes, liev. Dr. Hoyt, L. J Lampkin, Rev. 8. Landrum, J. J. Huggins, W. Baynon, T. R. R. Cobb, Dr. C.M. Reese, Green B. Hav good, Wm. C. Richards & Cos., and Wm. M. Morton. Parties, desiring to effect, insurance on their ufoperty in this vicinity, will make application to the subscriber. WM. M. MORTON. Athens. Nov. 25th, 1848. 290s C'lLitt. nc ' v 8u °f Popular V Music lias just been re- UNIVERSITY BOOKSTORE. April 14. 48 Biroks, Stationery and Music. TAMES McPHERSON & (JO., bc£ leave to .J inform their friends and the public that they have greatly increased their supplies of SCHOOL AND MISCELLANEOUS and are daily receiving, direct from New York ami Philadelphia, choice works in every depart ment of Literature anil the Arts, together with PLAIN AND FANCY STATIONARY, of every description, both American and Foreign. They have also a fine supply of CENTRE. SIDE AND SUSPENSION SOLAR LAMPS, made by Cornelius & Cos., the best in the world. Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 10, 1848. o.s. MAti Xt; X. A3T T3B B. ST! i IT >K sale, lit the University Bookstore, a good 1 M AGIO L ANT E R N, with appropriate I Lamp and Sliders, which will be sold cheap. WM. N. WHITE. April 22. 49 Perfumery, &c. COLOGNE, (various styles:) Bear's Oil and i other Hair Oils ; Jules Hauel’s Shaving | Creams ; Alabaster and Lily White, for the La- j dies ; Luhin’s Extracts for the Handkcrelieif; Nymph Soap; Transparent Soap ; Ambrosial j Shaving Cakes; Eau Lustra 1, for the Ilair; Saponaceous Compound, for Shaving; Chinese ! Powder, for the Toilet ; Liquid Hair Dye, and j Hair l)yo in t powder; Superior Charcoal Tooth ! Paste. Just received at the l UNIVERSITY BOOK STORE. Under Newton House. May 19. 1819 Atljcns business Directory. WM.N. WHITE, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL BOOK-SELLER, —AND DKAI.KR IN — Stationer;/. Music anil Musical Instruments, Loi/, Cutlery, Fancy Goods , ffc, fyr. Ordors filled at the Augusta rates! College Avenue, Alliens, Ga. R..J. mAI’NAKI), B 0 O K BINDER, (Over the Southern Banner Office,) ATHENS , GEORGIA . ALItOA CHASE, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN Books, Stationery, Fancy Goods, Perfumery, Paper Hangings, S/c., Opposite College Campus, and under the Banner Office, Orders Jilted at the Augusta Prices ! ATHENS, GEORGIA. F lilt if IT A CO., —WHOLESALE A. RETAIL DEALERS IN Hats, Caps, Boots, Shoes, Trunks, &c. &c. Broad-Street, Athens, Georgia. Augusta business Pircctoru. WM. 11. TI TT, —Wholesale and Retail Dealer in— Drugs, Medicines, Paints, Oils, Dye-Stuffs, CHEMICALS, &c., &c.” AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. JAITIES A. OKAY, Dealer in cheap Fancy Staple Dry Goods, No. 298 Broad Street, Augiißta, Ga. CRESS A HICKMAN, DEALERS IN STABLE & FANCY DRY GOODS, 268 South side BROAD STREET, Aoigusta, Ga. SCRANTON & STARK, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, WHOLESALE GROCERS, Also, dealers in Bagging, Rope and Twine ; Nails, Iron, Salt. tc., for Planters’ trade. PHILEMON A. SCRANTON, WILLIAM H. STARK. D.B.PLIHIB&eO., Between U. S. Hotol and P. O. Corner—Augusta, Oa., Wholesale and Retail Dealers in — Drugs, Medicines, Chemicals, Paints, &e. rr\x ent for Landreth’s Garden Seeds! ALBERT HATCH, —Manufacturer of aud Dealer In— Saddles, Bridles, Harness, Trnnks, Military, Equipments, i/c. ifc. tyc. Bioad-Street, in Meteaif's New Range, Augusta. UNITED STATES HOTEL AUGUSTA, GA BY G. FARGO. B&- This house is in the centre of business. CHARLES CATLIN, —Dealer in— Fine Watches, Jewelry, Siti'er Spoons and Tories , Plated Castors , LAMPS, GIRANDOLES, FANCY GOODS, Lc. Also—Agents for Chickering’s and Nunns & Clarke’s PIANO-FORTES, which they sell at the lowest fac tory prices. AUGUSTA, GF.O. (fl)arlcston business Directory. HARMONIC INSTITUTE. FERDINAND ZOGBAUM, IMPORTER OF MUSIC AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, King-Street, sign of the Lyre, Charlfston, S. C. Also—Ciiari.es Zooraum, Athens. Ga. M’ELCK A IIOYOCR, BOOK HINDERS, Corner of Meeting & Ilorlheek’s Alley, Charleston. Uy Bluuk Books ruled to any pattern, and bound in the heat maimer. 1, 8. B. WELCH, W.E.UO\ni:r McCarter & allen, BOOKSELLERS & STATIONERS, Charleston , South Caroliua. Have an extensive assortment of Law, Medical, The ological, School and Miscellaneous Books, which will be sold at the lowest rates! PAVILION HOTEL, BY H . L. BUTTERFIELD, [Formerly of tlir Charleston Hotel,] CHARLESTON, S. C. GILLILANDS & IIOWELL, Importers and Dealer# in Foreign and Domestic Dry Goods, No. 7 Huyno-Street, Charleston, S. C. GROCERIES, FRUITS , ( CIGARS, (fc. N. M. PORTER, (lateW. L. Torter & Son,) No. 222 King-Street, third above Market, Have an extensive and varied Stock of Groceries, Fruits, Cigars. Sec., suited to the wants of Families and Dealers, which he sells for the lowest prices for cash or city puper. 1.50 bis Refined Sugar at Factory prices. GEORGE OATES, 231 St 236 King-Street, [near the Bend,] Charleston, GEORGE A. OATES & CO., Broad-Street, Augusta, Oa. Dealers in Piano-Fortes, Music and Musi rut Instruments. Banks. Stationery, fyr. 11. STODDARD. Wholesale Dealer in BOOTS, SHOES, &c., No. 13 Hayne-Street, Charleston, S. C. CHARLESTON HOTEL, BY D. MIXER, CHARLESTON, S. C. *♦* This establishment has been entirely remodelled and refitted in the most elegant manner. JOHN S. ItllCD A CO., Military, Looking-Glass and Fancy Store, Sign of the Gold Spectacles, 223 & 225 King-Street, Charleston , S. C. Mathematical and Surveyors’ Instruments: Spectacles and Optical Instruments, of all kinds; Plated Cust ers, Candlesticks. Cake Buskets, &.c., &c. 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 all ages and sights. JOHN S. BIRD, J. M. TAYLOR, C. H. BIRD. JOSEPH WALKER, —DEALER IN — Paper, Stationery & Account Books. Book Binding and Job Printing. Also, Agent for the sale of Type, Presses, and Printing Materials of all kinds, at New-York prices, actual ax pen 400 only ndded. Constantly on hand a large stock of Type, Borders, Brass Rule, Leads, &c.; also, Printing Paper and Printing Ink. H. B. CLARKE & C0.,1 —IMPORTERS AND DEALERS IN— CLOTHS, CASSIMERES, VESTINGS, TAILORS’ TRIMMINGS, &c., No. 205 King-street, CHARLESTON, S. C. WM. L. TIMMONS, General Importer of Hardware & Cutlery, East Bay Charleston, 8. C. CAMPIIENE& SPIRIT GAS, —WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. — With a large variety of Lamps for burning the same, at Ute original Importers’ prices. GEORGE ABBOTT, Paint, Oil , and Colour Store, No. 97 East Buy, Charleston, S. C. I!ANTIN’ <t NISSLnT Chemists, Apothecaries & Druggists, Charleston Neck,, S. C. and Atlanta , Ga. 1 The best Drugs, Chemical?, Perfumery and Patent Medicines, kept constantly on hand and at the very I lowest prices. n? 4 House and Laud for sale. r I(UK SUBSCRIBER, having removed from A the place, offers for sate his House and Land in the town of Athens. The land comprises 290 acres, of which a large portion is well-wooded, and the rest in good arable condition. The prop erty is situated in the upper portion of the town. The dwelling is handsome and convenient,—the out-housoe all new, and the wholo in perfeot re pair. ICF There is an excellent spring near the dwelling, and also a fine weU of water. If desirable, he will sell the dwelling with only eight or ten acres of land. For terms of saie, apply to ANDREW BAXTER, or, in his absence, to Wm. M. Morton, Esu., or to Prof. C. F. McCay. Athens, May 12, 1819. Jtf vUmcrtiscmcnts. GAZETTE JOB PRINTING |f Pamphlets, Circulars, ftf}— Show-hills, Magazines,(fix 9Programmes, Hill-beads, Leg. Blanks, Notices, 15k. 0... NEATLY AND EXPEDITIOUSLY EXECUTED AfiJhMs ®M®© o Blll’l.ll, K EN'DA 1.1, \ l.rxt (I|,\, BOOKSELLERS AND PUBLISHERS, No. 59 Washington St., Poston. iiwtoF’’hotsST” Athens, ga. :::::::::by l. r. tiiomas. r UHE Subscriber, ns proprietor of this new ami J- well-furnished Hotel, expects, (from long exper ience, a disposition to plense, and attention to busi ness,) to make it just such an Establishment as the public wants. LOVIC P. THOMAS. .1 unitary 6, 1849. frvl j.jy XJ-: W 33 00 K STOEK! On Cotton Avenue, Macon, Geo. r JYHK undersigned have opened, as above, an- X establishment for the sale of Bonks, Stationery and Fancy Goods, and will keep on hand a full assortment of gS” School and Miscellaneous Books,- together with plain andfmicy.Stationery. Music ? for the Piano borte, &c. All of which they wil? sell Wholesale or Retail, at the lowest m.arkefc prices. sch Orders for Law, Medical and Theolog ical Books, respectfully solicited J. J. &S. 1\ RICHARDS. Macon. Nov. 4. 1818. DEALERS IN BOOKS, STATIONERY, MUSIC, Musical Instruments. Fancy Goods, Paper-Hangings, Maps, SfC fyi., ATLANTA, GEORGIA. PROSPECTUS OF — 3a . x e 3oc a xl n h 1 WEEKLY GAZETTE. BEING anew and much enlarged series of tho “Southern Literary Gazette,” —the only weekly Journal, South of the Potomac, devoted tu Literature and the Arts in general—and de signed lor the Family Circle. The Proprietor begs leave to announce that, on Saturday, the sth of May, he issued the first number, for the second year, of this pormlar aud well established paper,—the name aud 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 be the aim of its Proprietor to make it, in every respect, A CHOICE FAMILY NEWSPAPER, “ as cheap sis the cheapest, and as good as the best!” Utterly discarding tho notion that a Southern journal cannot compete with the North ern weeklies, in cheapness and interest, HICIIARDS’ WEEKLY GAZETTE shall beecpial, in mechanical execution, to any of them, and, in the variety, freshness and valuo of its contents, second to none. Its field will bo THE world, and it w ill contain, in its ample folds Every Species of Popular Information, Especial attention will be paid to thesubject of SCHOLASTIC AND DOMESTIC F.DUCATION. Numerous articles, original and selected, from the best sources, will be published weekly, on AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE, and these departments, as, indeed, all others, will be frequently Illustrated with Wood Cuts! Every number will contain careful and copious I summaries of the latest FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC NEWS.’ iu Commercial, Civil, Political, and Ecclesiasti cal Affairs. At the same time, there shall l>e nothing in its columns that can be considered ei ther Partizan or Sectarian. The following distinguished writers will con tribute to the Journal: Wm. Gilmore Simms, LL. I)., Hun. Robert AI. Charlton, J. AI. Legate, T. Addison Richards, Esq., Charles Lanman, Esq., Hon. R. E. Porter, Henry R. Jackson, Esq., Jacques Journot, Airs. Caroline Lee Hentz, Airs. Joseph C. -Yea/, Airs. William C. Richards, Airs. E. F El left, Aliss Alary E. Lee, Aliss Alary Bates, Caroline Howard, Mrs. C. W. IJußose, Miss C. W. Barber, besides many others, whose names are highly esteemed iu the “World of Letters.” T E R M S: single copies, a-year, $2 00, strictly in advance. CLUBS: Os three supplied for ------ $5 00 Ot five for 8 00 Os ten for 15 00 Os fifteen for 20 00 Os twenty for 25 00 Os fifty for 60 00 Ot h ‘UH orders must be accompanied with tho cash, and should be addressed, post-paid, to WM. C. PICIiAR DS, Athens, Ga. y*- U-—Editors who will copy, or notice fully, this Prospectus, shall receive the Gazette regu larly, and also a beautilul Juvenile Magazine, entitled “The Schoolfellow.” July Ist, 1849. its The.literary and moral tone of Richards’ Gazette are both of a high order, and we are not acquainted with a weekly journal in any part of the country which habitually imparts more val uable information on all those subjects which hallow the hearth stone of home.— National In telligencer. We congratulate Mr. Richanfg on the taste ami ability displayed in his columns.— N. V. Literary American. The “Gazette” is edited by Wm. C. Rich ards, Esq., a scholar and a writer of the highest order, and one who knows how to get np a good paper. Success, wo say, to it and him. — Boston Sat. Rambler. it This fino literary journal, printod at Athens, fra ,is now issued in folio form, and makes aiv elegant appearance. The last number came brimful of good things ; and, indeed, every issuo bears evidence that tne editor spares no pains to make a first class paper. If our Southern friends do not sustain him, it must be because their vis ion is tolescopie, and can detect no excellence un less it shines from afar.— Yankee Blade. Mr. Richards doserves success, for his enter prise and perseverance and this, as a Family, Newspaper, will, without doubt, in its moral’ tone, be immeasurably above the catch-penny af fairs from Northern cities.— Cherokee Advocate. It is a beautifully printed shoot, ably managed, and contains part first of the prize story, for which the propietor paid fifty ilollars. This sto ry is a beautiful production, and is written by that “reputable ” and polished authoress, Mrs Caroline Lee Hentz.— Am. Union, (Boston.) We take great pleasure in recommending this weekly to the favorable consideration and patron age of thereading community. It makes an im posing appearance. The Gazette is an imperinl sheet, good paper, handsomely executed and lilt ed with well-written and interesting matter. It nmnhers among its contributors several ilistin guished writers. — Mirror of the Times. (N. Y ) This transformation ofthe “ Southern Literary Gazette comes to us nowise deteriornted from the original. In all “ save form alone,” it hears tbo same marks of literary and artistic excellence, and we trust will long receive the bright smile of pecuniary success.— Excelsior. (Boston ) The Literary Gazette, of Athens, Georgia, has commenced a second volume ; folio form, pretty head, &c. The new dress Is beautiful and the Gazette overflows—its old boundaries at least— with a literary chowder of the first cut. — Auro ra Borealis. It, has now entered on its new year enlarged and very much improved. As this is the only pa per devoted exclusively to Southern interests, it ought to ho most liberally patronized by those for whom it is intended Neat’s Gazette.