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ip am i tm> JMii# W ‘-T* ::r_r_ . —: = 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 iti 3 a(Bsa,ihaiPJ¥. c” :• 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 PROSPECTUS OF — TIIE SCHOOLFELLOW: A MAGAZINE FOR GIRLS AND BOVS. ISSUED IN MONTHLY NUMBERS OF 32 PAGES ILLI STARTEI) WITH ENGRAVINGS, AT THE LOW PRICE OF ’ • $ 1 per annum —In advance! TUL Publisher of Richards’ Weekly Gazette announces that he issued the first number of the above work last .1 anuary, 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 bo happily blended. The Schoolfellow contains articles, both origi nal and selected, from many pens thath ive writ ten charmingly for the young. We will mention the names of Mary llowitt, Miss Sedgwick, Pe ter Parley, Miss Mclntosh, Mrs. Gilman, Mrs. Joseph C. Neal, Mary E. Lee, Miss Barber, and many others might be added. Many of the art icles in The Schoolfellow are beautifully illustrat ed. and the twelve numbers of one year make I wo 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 engraving.*-, nnd is issued on the first of every month. 2. The subscription pric e is One Dollar n-year, in advnnco. To Clubs: 5 copies to one add. css, $1: 10 do., $3 ;20 do sls. $3- There are many schools in which at least twenty copies may be taken, a3 the price to each one will bo only seventy-five cents. Communication must be post-paid and r ddres sed to The Schoot.fem.ow, Athens, (la. (]C|~ Editors, exchanging with “ Richard-* < Ja zette,” who will copy or notice fully this Pros pectucs, shall receive The Schoolfellow without urther exchange. INSURANCE WAT. M. MORTON, Afi’T AT ATI IONS. 11 ■'HIS Company is now firmly established. awl X doing an extensive business. Risks will be taken not only in towns, but in the country, on Dwellings, Gin-Hou <■., Mills and Factories. 1 he following parties are among the Stock holders of the Company at this Agency: Asbury Hull, T. Bradford, Wm \V. Clayton, .1. S. Linton, Alh.m Chose, 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, 1). Holmes, Kev. Dr. Hoyt, 1,. J Lampkin, Rev. 8. Landrum, J. J. Huggins, VV. Bavnon, 1. R. R. Cobb, Dr.C.M. Reese, Green It. Hay good, Win. C. Richards & Cos., and Win. M. Morton. Parties, desiring to effect insurance on their property in this vicinity, will m ake application to the subscriber. WM. M. MORTON Athens, Nov. 25th, 1848. 290s Books, Stationery ami Music. JA MI.S McPIIER.'ON & CO., beg leave to inform their friends and the public that thoy have greatly increased their supplies of SCHOOL ANI) MISCELLANEOUS and arc daily receiving, direct from New York and Philadelphia, choice works in every depart ment of Literature anil the Arts, together with PLAIN AND FANCY STATIONARY, of every description, both Ameri an and Foreign. They have also a line supply of CENTRE, SIDE AND SUSPENSION SOLAR LAMPS, marie by Cornelius & Cos., the best in the world. Atlanta, Ga.. Feb 10,1848. o.s. LAW BOOKS FOR ?ali> at the “UNIVERSITY BOOK STORE,” Athens, Ga. Angell ami James on Corror.ntions ; “ “ om Limitations; Archbold's Criminal Pleadings; Burge on Suretyship; Chitty’s Blackstone ; “ General Bractice; “ on Contracts; “ on Pleadings; “ on Bills; Daniel’s Chancery Practice; Davis’ Justice; East’s Reports ; GreenlcatOn Evidence: “ Testimony of Evangelists; Hilliard on Real Property ; Holcombe's Supreme Court Digest; Law of Debtor and Creditor; “ Leading Cases; Hotchkiss’ Laws of Georgia; ■Tannin on Wills; Kinne's Law Compendium; “ Kent; “ Blackstone; Lawyer’s Commonplace Book; Mitford’s Pleadings : Modern Probate of Wills; Rice's S. C. Equity Reports; Russel on Crimes; Roberts on Conveyancing; Smith’s Leading Cases; “ Mercantile Law; Spence’s Equity Jurisdiction, &c.; Sedgwick on Damages; Starkic on Slander; Story's Equity Pleadings; “ “ Jurisprudence; “ Commentaries; abridged ; “ Conflict of Laws: “ Bills of “ Agency; “ Partnerships; “ Promissory Notes; “ Sales; “ Bailments; Stephens on Pleadings; Tillinghast’s Adams; United States’ Digest, with Supplement, an Annual t ontinuaPon ; Warren’s Law Studies; Wheaton’s Law of Nations. Op* Call, before purchasing elsewhere, at the L niversifcy Bookstore, Xu. 2, College Avenue, under the Newton Hous a ENGLISH AND FRENCH BOARDING AND DAY SCHOOL ! ! 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 tion, together with French, for which no extra 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 and Mathematics. May 5,1848. I—4* 2Ul)cna Business Directory. 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: single copies, a-ycar, yd O'), strictly In advance. CLI B Si Os three supplied for ------ $5 00 Oi five for ----------- 800 Os ten lor ----------- 15 00 Os fifteen for 20 00 Os twenty for ---------- 25 00 Os filly fur ----------- (jo 00 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.