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SAND OF THE DESERT IN AN
HOUR-GLASS
BY 11. W. LONGFELLOW.
A ha ldfall of red sand, from the hot clime
Os Arab deserts brought,
Within this glass becomes the f)>y of Time,
The minister of thought.
How man}- weary centuries has it been
About those deserts blown 1
How many strange vicissitudes has seen,
llow many histories known 1
Perhaps the camels of the Ishmaelite
Trampled end pns-ed it o'er,
When into Egypt, from the patriarch's sight
11 is favorite son they bore.
Perhaps the feet of Moses, burnt and bare.
Crushed it beneath their tread ;
Or Pharaoh’s flashing wheels into the air
Scatt red it as they sped;
Or Mary, with the Christ of Naiareth
Held close in her caress,
Whose pilgrimage of hope and love and faith
Illumed the wilderness;
Or anchorites beneath Engaddi's palms
Pacing the Red Sea beach,
And singing slow their old Armenian psalms
In hall-articulate speech;
Or caravans, that from Passora's gate
With westward steps depart;
Or Mecca’s pilgrims, confident of Fate,
And resolute in heart!
Those have parsed over it, or may have passed
Now in this crystal tower
Imprisoned by some curious hand at last,
It counts the passing hoar.
And as I gaze, these narrow walls expand :
Before my dreamy eye
Stretches the desert, with its shifting sand,
Tts unimpeded sky.
And borne aloft by tbc sustaining blast,
This little golden thread
Dilates into a column high and va-t,
A form of fear and dread.
And onward, and across the setting sun,
Across the boundless plain,
The column and its broader shadow run,
Till thought pursues in vain.
The vision vanishes 1 These walls again
Shut out the lurid sun,
Shut out the hot, immeasurable plain ;
The half-hour’s sand is run 1
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THE LOVERS’ ROCK.
As you pass over a branch of the moun
tain Orospeda, in your way to Seville, you
see the rock which two unfortunate lovers
have rendered so famous that it is called
La Pena tie los Enamorados. The place
took its name from the following event.
The king of Grenada, in his wars with
the Christians, took one of the Cavalleros
prisoner, who for beauty, elegance, polite
ness and address, was so distinguished that
vlie king had no sooner seen him than he
became his friend, gave him his liberty,
loaded him with favors and lodged him in
his court. It is not to be imagined that he
could be long in the court before the
king’s wa9 in,ormed of il ’ and
from curiosity became anxiu.—’ *° sce lira ‘
She was little if anything inferior to himin
beauty, and as it was impossible for such
perfection not to attract each other and
unite, this lovely pair soon became enam
ored, pledged their faith, and endeavored
to escape to someChristiau country, where
they might enjoy each other’s company in
full secuiity. Inshort, they fledfrom Grena
da in the night, and though love and feat
have wings, yet rage and pride unhappily
outstripped them; for they were almost
overtaken by a party of the king s horse
men, and had but one way of escaping from
imprisonment and the most frightful torture.
They climbed up an exceedingly steep rock
by the road side, where tenderly embra
cing. they threw themselves down the prec
ipice, locked in each other’s arms, and ex
pired together, from which extraordinary
circumstance this place has obtained the
name of La Pena de los Enamorados, or
the Lover’s Rock. There is a cross erect
ed to mark the spot from which they fell.
THE CHARM OF CLEANLINESS.
A white-yellow shirt on a man, said
William Cobbett, speaks at once the char
acter of his wife; and be you assured, that
she will not take with your dress, pains
which she nevertakcs withherown. Then
the manner of putting on the dress, is no
had foundation (or judging,—if it be care
less, slovenly or if it do not fit properly.
No matter for its mean quality; it may
be neatly and trimly put on; and if it be
not, take care of yourself, for, as you will
find to your cost, a sloven in one thing is
a sloven in all things. The country peo
ple judge greatly from the state of the cover
ing of the ankles; and if it be not clean
a id tight, they conclude that all outof sight
not as it ought to be. Look at the shoes;
they be widen on one side, loose on the
foot, or run down at the heel, it is a very
bad sign; and, as to slipshod, though at
coming down in the morning, and even be-,
fore daylight, make up your mind to a rope, i
rather than live with a slipshod wife. Oh! |
how much women lose by inattention to
these matters 1 Men, in general, say noth- j
ing about it to their wives ; but they think
about it; they envy their luckier neigh
bors; ond in numerous cases, consequent- i
ces the most serious arise from this appa
rently trifling cause. Beauty is valuable ;
it is one of the ties, anil a strong tie too;
that, however, cannot last to an old age ;
but the charm of cleanliness never ends but,
with life itself.
A SHREWD REPLY.
A young man in Boston was undergoing 1
an examination for admission to the bar.
Judge S had pushed his questions
pretty closely, but the candidate was never
at fault. Finally, the Judge pounced upon
him as follows: “ Suppose that a Boston
importer should come to you with a case
like this”—and here the Judge went on ,
to state one of the most complicated ques- j
tions that arise in regard to marine insur- i
ance. It was a.poser. Our friend, inten
ding to practice in the country, was not
“posted up” on this topic. But he was a
Yankee, and he never was at a loss for an
answer. So soon as the Judge had sum
med up his case, and closed off with the
inquiry, “What would you say?” our
friend promptly replied, “ I should tell
him to sit down, Sir, until I could look at
my books.” “The best thing you could
do—the very thing you ought to do,” re
joined the Judge ; “you are admitted, Sir.”
THE WOMEN OF SYRIA.
It is impossible to paint with the pen
the admirable and picturesque groups of
richness of costume and beauty that these
women form in the country. Every day
I see faces of young girls or of women, such
as Raphael never pictured even in his artist
dreams; it is much more than Grecian or
Italian beauty—it is purity of lines, deli
cacy of contour; in a word, all that Rome
and Greece have left us of most perfect;
and this is rendered still more intoxicating
by a primitive innocence and simplicity of
c.vpression, by a serene and voluptuous
languor, by the celestial light that their
blue eyes fringed with dark lashes, throw
over the features, and by an ingenuous
ness of smile, a harmony of proportion,
and animated whiteness of the skin, an in
describable transparency of complexion, a
metallic lustre of the hair, a grace of
movement, a strangeness of attitude and
musical vibration of the voice, which
make of a young Syrian a Houri of Para
dise to the eyes. These varied and admi
rable beauties are also extremely common.
—Dc Lamartine's Pilgrimage.
Correct Speaking. —We advise all
young people to acquire in early life the
habit of using good language, both in
speakingand writing, and to abandon as ear
ly as possible the use of slang words and
phrases. The longer they live the more
difficult the acquisition of language will be;
and if the golden age of yout h—the prop
er season for the acquisition of language
he passed in its abuse, the unfortunate vic
tim of neglected education is very proba
bly doomed to talk slang for life. Money
is not the necessary to procure this educa
tion. Every man has it in his power. He
has merely to use the language which he
reads instead of the slang which he. hears;
to form his taste from the best speakers,
writers and poets of the country ; to treas
ure tip choice phrases in his memory to ha
bituate himself to their use—avoiding at
the same time that pedantic precision and
bombast which bespeak rather the weak
ness of a vain ambition than the polish of
an educated mind. There is no man, how
ever low in rank, who may not'materially
benefit his financial condition by following
this advice, and cultivating at the same
time such morals and manners as corres
pond with good words.
Businf.sS First, and then Pleasure.—
A man who is very rich, now, very poor
when a boy, when asked how he got his
riches, he replied, ‘my father taught me
never to play till all my work for the day
was finished, and never to spend my mon
ey till 1 had earned it. If 1 had but half
an hour’s work to do in a day, 1 must do
that the first thing, and in half an hour,
after this was done, I was allowed to piny ;
and 1 could then play with much more
pleasure than if I had the thought of an
unfinished task before my mind. I early
formed the habit of doing every thing in its
time, and it soon became perfectly easy to
do so. It is to this habit that I owe my
prosperity.’ Let every boy who reads this
go and do likewise, and he will meet a
similar reward. —Anecdotes for Boys.
Pj.uck. —Yes, pluck—that is the great
secret of success in life I Never “say die,”
when you attempt anything; stick to it
through thick and thin—in sunshine and
in storm—and you’ll rarely fail of attain
ing your ends. The most successful men
in every calling have been those who have
concentrated all their thoughts and ener
gies upon someone object—who have fas
tened upon it with vice-like grasp, and
maintained under all circumstances a stub
born, pertinacious, never yielding hold-on
ativencss. Who ever heard of a man’s
failing to go ahead at last in any business
that he had stuck to faithfully for ten
years together? Hear what the shrewd
Holmes says of this dogged tenacity :
“ Be firm ; one constant element in Luck
Is genuine, aoliil, old Teutonic pluck,
See yon tall shaft, it felt the earthquake’s thrill,
Clung to its bnse, and greets the sunrise still.
Stick to your aim, the mongrel's hold will slip,
But only crowbars loose the bull-dog’s grip,
irmail as he looks, the jaw that never yields,
Drags down the bellowing monarch ofthe fields.”
QDOEIIAIO© 3 WO IE Oil ©aSlfiia
THE EXTENT OF LONDON.
It is absolutely impossible to com muni- i
catc to one who has not seen it any just |
idea of it. 1 have said to myself several
times, “well, now, 1 have seen the whole,”
yet f soon find out that I have seen noth
ing. You can travel eighteen miles from
Brentford to Slraflord, through an uninter
rupted succession of thickly planted houses.
I have walked until I have had to sit down
on some door-steps out of pure weariness,
and yet have not got at all out of the rush
ing tide of population. I have rode on the
driver’s seat, on omnibuses, and there has
becna constant succession of squares, parks,
terraces, and long lines of single houses for
miles, and continuous blocks and single
palaces in the very heart of London, occu
pying acres of ground. Ido not speak of
course of the larger parks, which with their
trees, their verdure, their neatness, their
embellishments, their lakes and cascades,
their waters swarming with fish, and cov
ered with a great variety of water-fowl,
which they have been able to domesticate,
and their grazing flocks of sheep and cat
tle, and their national monuments, and the
multitudes of well dressed pedestrians, and
of elegantly mounted horsemen and horse
women, anil of carriages and equipages, as
splendid as gold and silver can make them,
are beautiful beyond even my most roman
tic dreams. Ido not exaggerate, I cannot
go beyond the reality.
fas i? a a ana a,
CONSTITUENTS OF PLANTS.
The fact ought ever to be borne in mind,
that every constituent atom in the subs
tance of man and of animals, is derived
originally from plants. The vital princi
ple possesses not the capacity of genera
ting a single particle that enters into their
make; consequently, all the inorganic el
ements, or constituents of the animal or
ganism, may be contemplated as manut’e.
I hat which has been derived from vegeta
bles, whatever may be the chemical modi
fications through which it has passed, is
capable of conducing to the reproduction
of vegetable life. Hence the well known
powerful action of decomposing animal
substances, such as fibrial, albumen, bones,
&c.; and hence, too, the wonderfully
stimulating, and nutrimental properties of
all matters of an excremcntitious charac
ter, when applied as a pabulum to grow
ing crops.
SPURIOUS
Let not spurious and profitless vegeta
tion defile your cultivated lands. No weed,
however insignificant, should have a place
among your crops. Your corn, wheat, rye,
oats, barley and root crops, need all the al
imentary matter in the soil for their suste
nance, and can poorly afford even the smal
lest portion for the support of weeds. It
should be remembered that most of the in
digeneous plants, known as weeds, are
gross feeders, requiring a vastly greater
amount of nutritive matter for their devel
opment, than cultivated plants, of equal
size and weight. Hence their ungenial
and emasculating effects upon the soil and
crops.
Rural Decorations. — We have seen
thousands expended on a few acres of
ground, says Downing, and the result was,
after all, only a showy villa, a green house
and a flower garden—not half so captiva
ting to the man of fine taste as a cottage
embossomed in shrubbery, a little park fill
ed with a few fine trees, a lawn kept short
by a flock of favorite sheep, and a knot of
flowers woven gaily together in the green
turf of the terrace under the parlor win
dows.
You have five hundred acres of natural
park, that is to say, fine old woods taste
fully opened, and threaded with walks and
drives, for less cost in preparation and an
nual outlay than it will require to main
tain five acres of artificial pleasure ground.
A pretty natural glen, filled with old
trees, and made alive by a clear perennial
stream, is often a cheaper and more un
wearying source of enjoyment than the
gayest flower garden. —Scientific Ameri
can.
Young Fruit Trees ate frequently ren
dered unproductive by having the surface,
or cutis, covered with moss. When this is
observed, or when, from any other cause,
there appears to be a diminution of vital en
ergy, it is an excellent plan to wash them
thoroughly and frequently with lixivium
or soap suds. It removes the fungi, stim
ulates the circulatory system, and effectu
ally destroys the ova of such insects as
may have been deposited on the bark.
The potatoe.— lt is a fact perhaps not
generally known to farmers, that there are
two parts in the potatoe, which if separated
and planted at the same time, one will pro
duce tubers fit for the table eight or ten
days sooner than the other. The small
end of the potatoe, which is generally full
of eyes, is that part which produces the
earliest; the middle or body of the potatoe
produces late, and always larger ones.—
Scientific American.
It is common, says Tacitus, to esteem
mjst what is most unknown.
ITS3S {H!DIi3®[EaSIFo
AYIIO SALTED THE SEA i
The following scene is reported to have
occurred on hoard a steamei carrying de
tachments of Alabama and Louisiana troops
to the Mexican War. It is a capital joke:
One tall volunteer from the pine land of
Alabama, was unhappy for want of em
ployment. He sauntered along “for some
thing to do,” when it occurred to him that
he might, as he expressed it, “ take a good
wash.” He was a tall, lank fellow, with
a shocky head of dry, grassy hair, hanging
down to his shoulders. With a delibera
tion consistent with an idle sea-voyage, he
commenced nibbing the turpentine soap of
the ship into his hair and skin, with com
mendable vehemence. He had cause to
take a great deal of pains, for he observed
to himself “that he had an acre of barrack
mud on him.”
It must be observed that all this time the
vessel was blowing further out into the
sea; and by this time, the Mississippi wa
ter in the wash-room had become exhaust
ed, and he threw his bucket over the ves
sel’s side to replenish his basin.
The first dash he made was at his head;
the turpentine of the soap and the saline of
the water soon formed a chemical combi
nation, and the oily qualities of the soap
disappeared, and left something in its stead
resembling tar. Two or three rakes of the
fingers through the hair, elevated it upright
on the Alabamian's head, stiff as the quills
of a porcupine.
“That's another trick played on me,”
said the unwashed, in a rage, his hair still
growing fiercer.
At this moment, the water dripped in his
face, and he commenced spitting, as if nau
seated to the last degree. Coolly and de
terminedly, he went to his belt, took a
“ bowie,” some fifteen inches in length,
and delivered himself thus:
“ Some of them thar Louisianians have
played tricks enough on me. Now, if any
one dare, let him fetch me the one that put
salt in this ’ere Water.”
THE ROW FERRY BOAT.
A ROMANCE.
BY FRANKLIN FITZ CLARENCE, F.SQ.
CII AFTER. I.
Three men were on a log raft last night,
which the violence of the storm tore total
ly apart.
CHAPTER 11.
The three individuals were upon the
same fragment
CHAPTER 111.
The same log!
CHAPTER IV.
When the raft went to pieces!
CHAPTER V.
The night was dark! and their situation
became exceedingly critical!
CHAPTER VI.
The log at times was wholly submerg
ed!!!’
CHAPTER VII.
Their calls for help were finally heard!
CHAPTER VIII.
The Row Ferry Boat succeeded in re
lieving them from their precarious situa
tion !!!!!—Louisville Bon Ton.
SOUR GRAPES.
Ileie is a little story, which, it is said,
General Greene, of Rhode Island, used to
relate to disappointed applicants for office.
Perhaps it may not be without an applica
tion at the present day.
A field slave in the South, to whom meat
was a rare blessing, one day found in his
trap a plump rabbit. He took him out
alive, held him under his arm, patted him,
and began to speculate on his qualities.—-
“Oh! how fat; berry fat! De fattest I
ever did see! Let’s see how I cook him.
I roast him? No, he so berry fat he lose
all he grease. I fry him ? He so berry
fat he fry himself. Golly! how fat he be.
No, 1 won’t fry him ; I stew him.”
The thought of the savory stew made
the negro forgot himself, and in spreading
out the feast in his imagination, his arm
relaxed, when off hopped the rabbit, and
squatting at a goodly distance, he eyed his
late owner with great composure. The
negro knew there was an end of. the mat
ter, and summoning all his philosophy, he
thus addressed the rabbit, shaking his fist
at him all the time: “You long-eared,
while-whiskered, red-eyed son of a gun,
you no so berry fat, arter all, noder!”
Tom Corwin and George Lippard.—
They say at Washington that Corwin’s le
vee is always as well attended as any in
the city, and that strangers coming thither
always call on him, as one of the “lions.”
Among others, Lippard, the writer of raw
head and bloody-bones stories, and who
conducted a kind of piratical sheet during
the Presidential campaign, in which he
abused Corwin without stint, called upon
him a month or two since, and introduced
himself with the easy and confident air of
a patron. Said Lippard, smiling :
“Gov. Corwin, my name is Lippard,
George Lippard, of Philadelphia, whom
you have probably heard of; very glad to
make your acquaintance, sir. I black
guarded you a good deal, last year.”
Coruin , (with one of his peculiar looks).
“Ah! well, Mr. Lippard, you look very
much like a blackguard!”
Lippard was uhut up, and left.
Curiosities. —A skull from the skeleton
of a discourse.
A few teeth and a lock of hair from the
head of a nail.
A note from a (lute.
A buckle from Orion's belt.
A splinter from the beam of an eye.
A few grains from a scruple of con
science.
The borrowed umbrella that was returned.
The impress left upon character by the
first step in crime.
A piece of a marriage halter.
A piece of silk from the canopy of hea
ven.
Some of the dust thrown in old folks’
eyes.
A few bricks from the foundation of a
report.
Two feet from a line of poetry.
A few hairs from the brow of a hill.
ROSS & RIVERS,
ii
WILL practice their prole.-uion in tbia and
the adj lining com,tics. * >i)irc at Aili
ens under the Newton House, and at Oxford,Ga.
Athens, May. 1849. 3ly
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MRS. COLEY, —a lady who has had many
years’ experience in teaching,—will take
charge of the Female Academy of Athens from
the Ist Monday in May.
The course of Instruction will consist in the
ordinary and higher bronchos of English educa
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charge is made, and which will be emploved as
the general medium of conversation.
Music and drawing will also be taught, and a
competent master engaged for teaching Latin
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WM. N . WHITE,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL BOOK-SELLER,
—AND DEALER IN —
Stationery, Music and Musical Instruments,
Lamps, Cutlery, Fumy Goods, §-c, fye.
Orders filled at tho Augusta rates
College Avenue, Athens, On.
K. J. MAYNAHD,
BOOK BINDER,
(Over the Southern Banner Office,)
ATHENS, GEORGIA.
ALrUOA CHASE,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN
Books, Stationery, Fancy Goods,
Perfumery , Paper Hangings, Syc.,
Opposite College Campus, and under the Bunner Office,
Orders Jilted at the Avgusta Prices /
ATHENS, GEOROIA.
FERRY & €O.,
WHOLESALE fc RETAIL DEALERS IN —
Hats, Caps, Books, Shoes, Trunks, &c. &c.
Broad-Street, Athena, Georgia.
Augusta Business Dircetorn.
WM. 11. TUTT,
—Wholesale and Retail Dealer in—
Drugs, Medicines, Paints. Oils, Dye-Stuffs,
CHEMICALS, &c., &0.,
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
JAMES A. GRAY,
Dealer in cheap Fancy ,V Staple Dry Goods,
No. 2i>B Broad Street, Augusta, Ga.
CHESS & HICKMAN,
DEALERS IN
STAPLE & FANCY DRY GOODS.
268 South side BROAD STREET, Augusta, Ga.
SCRANTON & STARK
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA,
WHOLESALE GROCERS,
Alao, dealers in Bagging, Rope and Twine ; Nails,
Iron, Salt, kc., for Planters’ trade.
PHILEMON A. SCRANTON, WILLIAM 11. STARK.
D. IJ. PLUMB A CO., ~
Between U. S. Hotel and P. O. Corner—Augusta, Ga.,
JVholcsalc and Retail Dealers in—
Drugs, Medicines, Chemicals, Paints, &c.
CST'Atfent for Landreth’s Garden Seeds!
ALBERT HATCH,
—Manufacturer of aud Dealer in—
Saddles, Bridles, Harness, Trunks,
Military, Equipments, lye. (yc. See.
Broad-Street, in Metcalf's New Range, Augusta.
UNITED STATES HOTEL,
AUGUSTA, GA BY G. FARGO.
JiSSf-Thia house is in the centre of business.
CHARLES CATLIN,
—Dealer in—
Fine Hatches, Jewelry,
Silver Spoons and Tories, Plated Castors ,
LAMPS, GIRANDOLES, FANCY GOODS, kc.
Also—Agents tor Chickerine’s and Nunns & Clarke’s
PIANO-FOiiTES, which they soli at the lowest fac
tory prices. AUGUSTA, GEI).
(Hljarlcston business Dircctoni.
HAII MONIC INSTI TV TE.
FERDINAND ZOGBAUM,
IMPORTER OF
MUSIC AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS,
King-Street, of the Lyre, Chari.eston, S. C.
Oct* Also—rt t arlks ZooiurM, Allens, Ga.
WELCH f. HONOUR,
BOOK BINDERS,
Corner of Meeting’ k Ilorlheck’g Alley, Charleston.
Blank Pooka ruled to any pattern, aud bound iu
the best tuauner.
*• n. WELCH, \\\ r. HONOUR.
McCarter &. allen,
BOOKSE LLERS & STATIONEUS,
Charleston, South Carolina.
Have mi extensive assortment of Law, Medical, The
ological, School and Miscellaneous Books, which
will be sold at the lowest rates!
PAVILION HOTEL,
BYH. L. BUTTERFIELD,
[Formerly of thr Charleston Hotel,]
CHARLESTON, S. C.
GILLILANDS & HOWELL,
i Importers and Dealers in
Foreign and Domestic ry Goods,
No. 7 Hayne-Strcet, Charleston, 8. C.
GROCERIES , FRUITS , CIGARS , Ac’
N. M. PORTER, (late W. L. Porter & Son,)
No. 222 King-Street, third above Market,
Have 111! extensive and varied Stock of Groceries,
r ruitH, Cigars. &c. y suited to the wants of Families and
Dealers, which lie sells for the lowest prices for cash
or city paper. 150 bis Refined. Sugar ut Factory prices.
GEORGE OATES,
2d4 L 236 King-Street, [near tlie Bend,] Charleston,
GEORGE A. OATES & CO.,
Broad-Street, Augusta, Ga.
Dealers in Piano-Forte x, Musie and Musi
cal Instrrmniti. Books Stationery, fyr.
11. STODDARD,
Wholesale Dealer in BOOTS, SHOES, &c.,
No. 13 Hayne-Street, Charleston, S. C.
CHARLESTON IIOTEL,
BY D. MIXER, CHARLESTON, S.C.
*♦* This establishment has been entirely remodelled
and refitted in the most elegant manner.
JOHN S. UIHS> & CO.,
Military, Looking-Glass and Fancy Store,
Sigu of the Gold Spectacles, 223 n 225 King-Street,
Charleston , S. C.
Mathematical and Surveyors’ Instruments; Spectacles
and Optical Instruments, of ull kinds; Plated Cast
ors, Candlesticks. Cake Baskets, iic., &c.
Oil Paintings and Engraving’s; Picture Frames made
to order, anil 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.II, BIRD.
JOSEPH W A L KER,~
—DEALER. IN —
Paper, Stationery & Account Books.
Rook Rinding and Job Printing.
Also, A dent for the snieof Type.Presat—
Materials of all kind,, at New-’ xork ™\ “S
expense, only added. K I ’ nce “* “ ctUlll
C |KS2 U J.?*. .lock of Type, Borders,
Priming Ink’ LFADa ’ &c- ’ alsa > rri >iUug Paper and
H. B. CLARKE & CO.,’
—IMPORTERS AND DEALERS IN —
CLOTJIS , CASSIMERES, VESTINGS
TAILORS’ TRIMMINGS. &c.,
No. 20.5 King-street, CHARLESTON, 8. c.
WJ.I. L. TIMMONS,
General Importer of Hardware & Cutlery,
East Bay Charleston, S. C.
CAMP iiene¥spirit gas,
—WHOLESALE AND RETAIL.—
With a large variety of Lamps for burning the same,
at the original Importer’ prices.
GEORGE ABBOTT,
Paint, Oil, and Colour Store,
No. 97 East Bay, Charleston, S. C.
RANTIN’ & NISSEN,
(Demists, Apothecaries & Dnuraists,
Charleston Neck,, S. C. and Atlanta, Ga.
The best Drugs, Chemicals, Perfumery and Patent
Medicines, kept constantly on hand ami at the very
lowest prices. mi
House and Laud for sale.
Tin: SUBSCRIBER, having removed from
the place, offers for sale his House and Land
in the town of Athens. The land comprises 21Hi
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-houses all new, and the whole in perfect ro
pair. o* There is an excellent spring near the
dwelling, and also a fine well of water.
If desirable, he will sell the dwelling with only
eight or ten acres of land.
For terms of sale, applv to
ANDREW BAXTER,
or, in lus absence, to Wm. M. Morton, Esa., or
to Prof. C. F. MvCav. 1
Athens, May 12, 184,°. 2tf
GAZETTE
JOB PRINTING
3BST ADR T.X SBiMDEIXrT.
Pamphlets, Circulars,*
Catalogue?, ff., jf£ \ Show-bills,
Magazines,[l, I Programmes,
Bill-heads, \tjf Leg. Blanks,
NEATLY AND EXPEDITIOUSLY EXECUTED
Aft ftMs OMois
GOULD, KENDALL & LINCOLN,
BOOKSELLERS AND PUBLISHERS,
No. 5!) Washington St., Boston.
Athens, ga. ::::::::: by l. i>. tiiomas.
UPHE Subscriber, as proprietor of this new aud
X well-furnished Hotel, expects, (from long exper
ience, n disposition to please, and attention to busi
ness,) to make it just such an Establishment ns the
public wants. LOVIC P. THOMAS
January 6, 1840. frvl
nrbTar 3*oo kltore!
On Cotton Avenue, Macon, Geo.
rjHIE undersigned huve opened, us above, an
A establishment for the sale of
Books, Stationery and Fancy Goods,
and will keep on hand a full assortment of
School and Miscellaneous Books,
together with plain and limey.Stationery. Music,
for the Piano Forte, &c. All’ of whicli they wil
sell Wholesale or Retail, at the lowest market
prices.
CtJ“ ( 'rders for T.aw, Medical and Theolog
ical Books, respectfully solicited
J. I.’ & S. P. RICHARDS.
Macon. Nov. 4. 1848.
jambs WwnjaSwi
DEALERS IN
BOOKS, STATIONERY, MUSIC,
Musical Instruments, Fancy Goods,
Paper-Hangings, Mays, fyc s■<..,
ATLANTA, GEORGIA
PROSPECTUS
—OF —
WEEKLY GAZETTE.
EKING anew and much enlarged series of the
“Southern Literary Gazette,” —the oulv
weekly Journal, South of the Potomne. devoted
to Literature nnd the Arts in general—and de
signed for the Family Circle.
I’lie Proprietor begs leave to announce that,
on Saturday, the sth of .May, ho issued the first
number, for tiio second year, of this popular and
well c-tablislieu paper,—the name and form of
which he has changed, to et.large the scope of its
observation, and to otherwise inereaso its attrac
tions.
Loss exclusively devoted, than heretofore, to
Literature, the Arts, and Sciences,
it will be the aim of its Proprietor to niako it,
iu every respect,
A CHOICE FAMILY NEWSPAPER,
“as cheap as the cheapest, and as good as the
lest!” Utterly discarding the notion that a
Southern journal cannot compete with the North
ern weeklies, in cheapness and interest,
liICHARDS* WEEKLY GAZETTE
shall he equal, in mechanical execution, to any
of them, aud, in the variety, freshness and valuo
nfits contents, second to none, its field will be
tiie world, and it will contain, in its ample folds
Every Species of Popular Information,
Especial attention will be paid to the subject of
SCHOLASTIC AND DOMESTIC F.DUCATION.
Numerous articles, original and selected, trout
the best sources, will be published weekly, on
AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE,
and i hose departments, as, indeed, all others, will
be frequently
Illustrated with Wood Cuts.’
Ev ry number will contain careful and copious
summaries of the latest
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC NEWS.’
ill Commercial, Civil. Political, and Ecclesiasti
cal Adairs. At the same time, there shall bo
nothing in its columns that can he considered ei
ther Partizan or Sectarian.
The following distinguished writers will con
tribute to the Journal:
Wui. Gilmore Simms, LL. />.,
Hart. Hubert Al. Charlton,
J. .J/. Legate,
T. Addison Richards, Esq.,
Charles Lentnan, Esq.,
lion. B. F. Porter,
Henry R. Jackson, Esq.,
Jacques Journot,
Airs. Caroline Lee Hentz,
Airs. Joseph C. J\'eal,
Airs. William C. Richards,
Airs. E. F Ellett,
Aliss Alary E. Lee,
Aliss Alary Bates,
Caroline Howard,
Airs. C. Jt~. lJußosc,
Aliss C. TV. Barber,
b“sides many others, whose unities are highly
esteemed iu the 41 World of Letters.”
TERMS:
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CLI B Si
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CO- All orders must- bo accompanied with the
cash, and should be addressed, rost-t aid, to
WM. C. lilt HARDS,
Athens, Ga.
N. 13. —Editors who will copy, or notice fully,
this Prospectus, shall receive the Gazette regu
larly, ami also a beautiful Juvenile Magazine,
entitled “The Schoolfellow.”
July Ist, 18KJ. _ ltf
The literary and moral tone of Richards’
Gazette are both of a high older, and we arc noi
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 hotue.— National In
telligencer.
We congratulate Mr. Richards on the taste
and ability displayed in his columns.— A T . Y.
Literary American.
arJs h V.* n Ga r tt f , ’ i * rfUc<l l>.v Wm. C. Rich
! order ifniV “and a writer of tho highest
® r ’ nnl * °o who knows how to get up a gomi
| fAper. Success, we say, to it aud him.— Boston
1 ‘-nif. Rambler.
This fine literary journal, printed at Athens,
Ga.,is now issued in folio form, and makes an
elegant appearanoe. The last number came
brimful of good things ; and, indeed, every issue
bears evidence that the editor spares no pains to
make a first class paper. If our Southern friends
do not sustain him, it must be be cause their vis
ion is telescopic, and can detect no excellence un
less it shines from utar.— Yankee Blade.
Mr. Richards deserves suece**, lor bis enter
prise and perseverance and this, as a Family
.Newspaper, will, without doubt, in its moral
tone, bo immeasurably above the catch-penny af
fair* from Northern cities.— Cherokee Advocate.
It is a beautifully printed sheet, ably managed,
and contains part first of tho prize story, for
which the propictor paid fifty dollars. This sto
ry is a beautiful production, and is written by
that “reputable” ard polished authoress, Mrs
Caroline Lee Hentz.— Am. Union , (Boston.)
We tiike great pleasure in recommending this
weekly to the favorable consideration and patron
age of the reading community. Jt makes an im
posing appearance. The Gazette is an imperial
sheet, good paper, handsomely executed and fill
ed with well-written and interesting matter. R
numbers among its contributors several distin
guished writers.— Mirror of the Times. (A. Y)
This transformation of the “ Southern Literary
Gazette comes to us nowise deteriorated from the
original. In all “ save form alone,” it bears the
same marks of literary and art istic excellence*
and we trust Avill long receive the bright smile cJ
pecuniary success.— TJxcclsior. (Boston )
The Literary Gazette, of Athens,
commenced a second volume ; folio form, prdO
head. &c. The new dre s 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 far
per devoted exclusively to Southern interests. >
ought to be most liberally patronized by th-I'* 1 '*
far whom it is intended —NeaV* Gazette.