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jp © m & t> THE WIDOWER. BY SYDNEY YKNDYS. In the ransl early morn 1 rise from a damp pillow, tempest-tost, To seek (he sun with silent gaze forlorn, Ami mourn for thee, mv lost Isabel. That early hour I meet. The daily vigil of my life to keep. Because there are no other lights so sweet, Or shades so long and deep, Isabel. And best 1 think of thee Beside the duskest shade and brightest sun, Whose mystic lot in life it was lobe OuUmiled, outwept by none— Isabel. .Men said that thou wert fair; There is no brightness in the heavens above— There is no balm upon the summer air, Like thy warm love, Isabel. Men saw that thou wert bright: There is no wildness in the winds that blow— There is no darkness in the winter’s night, Liko thy dark woe, Isabel. And yet thy path did miss Men’s footsteps; in their haunts thou hadst no joy; The thoughts of other worlds were thine in this : In thy sweet piety, and in thy bliss And grief, for life too coy, Isabel. And so my heart’s despair Looks for thee ere the firstling smoke hallicurl’d; While the wrapt earth is nt her morning prayer; Kre yet she putteth on her work-day air, And robes her for the world, Isabel. When the sun-burst is o'er, My lonely way about the world I take, Doing and saying much, and feeling more ; And all things lor thy sake, Isabel. Hut never onoc 1 dare To sec thine image till the day he now. And lip hath sullied not the unbreuthed air, And waking eyes are few, Isabel Then that blest form appears, Which was a joy to few on carlh hut me: In the young light I seo thy guileless glee : lu the deep dews thy tears, Isabel. So w ith promethean moan, In widowhood renewed I learn to grieve; Blest with one only thought, that 1 alone Can fade —that then tho'year?shall still shine on In beautv —as to beauty thou art gone, Thou morn that knew no eve, Isabel. In beauty art thou gone ; As some bright meteor gleams across tlie night, Gazed on by all, hut understood by none, And dying by its own excess of light, Isabel. ■sm ENGLISH LADIES —RURAL TASTE. ; Our countryman Mr. Colman, in hislate European tour, gives so capital a portrait of rural accomplishments, in a lady of rank he had the good fortune to meet, that we cannot resist the temptation of transferring the picture to our canvas for the benefit of our fair readers: “ 1 had no sooner entered the house, where my visit had been expected, than 1 was met with an unaffected cordiality, which at once made me at home. In the midst of gilded halls, and hosts of liverid servants, of dazzling lamps and glittering mirrors, redoubling the highest triumphs of art and of taste ; in the midst of books and statues, and pictures, and all the elegan cies and refinements of luxury; in the midst of titles, and dignitaries, and ranks allied to regal grandeur, there was one ob ject which transcended and eclipsed them all, and showed how much the nobility of character surpasses the nobility of rank ; the beauty of refined and simple manners, all the adornment of art; the scintillations of the soul beaming from the eyes, the pu rest gems that ever glittered in a princely dia dem. In person, in education and improve ment, in quickness of perception, in facili ty and elegance of expression, in accom plishments and taste, in a frankness and gentleness of manner, tempered by a mod esty which courted confidence and inspired respect, and in a high moral tone and sen timent which, like a bright halo, seemed to encircle the whole person—l confess the fictions of poetry became substantial, and the beau ideal of my youthful imagination as realized. •• In the morning I first met her at pray . ; for, to the honor of England, there is scarcely a family, among the hundreds whose hospitality I have shared where the duties of the day are not preceded by family worship; and the master and the servant, the parent and the child, the teach | cr and the taught, the friend and the stran -1 ger,co:ne together to recognize and strength en the sense of their common equality, in the presence of their common Father, and : to acknowledge their equal dependence upon his care and mercy. She was then kind enough to tell me, after her morning's ■ arrangements, she claimed me for the day. ; She first showed me her children, whom, I like the Homan mother, she deemed her ; brightest jewels, and arranged their studies and occupations for the day. She then look me two or three miles on foot, to visit a sick neighbor; and while performing this act of kindness, left me to visit some of the cottages upon the estate, whose inmates i I found loud in the praise of her kindness and benefactions. Our next excursion was to sec some of the most aged trees in the j park, the size of which was truly mngnifi -1 cent: and 1 sympathized in the veneration which she expressed for them, which was ; like that with which one recalls the illus ! trious memory of a remote progenitor. Our ; next visit was to the green-houses and gar | dens; and she explained to me the mode i adopted there of managing the most deli cate plants, and of cultivating, in the most \ economical and successful manner, the | fruits of a warmer region. From the gar- i 1 den we proceed to Uncultivated fields : and j she informed me of the system of husband , ry pursued on the estate, the rotation of crops, the management and application of manures, the amount of seed sown, the or dinary yield, and the appropriation of the produce, with a perspicuous detail of the expenses and results. She then undertook to show me the yards and ofiiccs, the barns the feeding stalls, the plans for saving, increasing, and managing the manure ; the cattle for feeding, for breeding, the milk stock, the piggery, the poultry yard, the stables, the harness rooms, the implement rooms, the dairy. She explained to me the process of making the different kinds ol i cheese, and the general management of the milk, and the mode of feeding the stork, and then, conducting me into the bailiff's house, she exhibited to me the farm jour nal, and the whole systematic model of keeping the accounts and making the re turns, with which she seemed as familiar as if they were the accounts of her own wardrobe. This did not finish our grand tour; for, on my return, she admitted me into her 1 itdoir, and showed me the secrets of her own admirable housewifery, in the exact accounts which she kept of every 1 thing connected with the dairy, the market, the table, and the drawing room, and the servants’ hall. All this was done with a simplicity and frankness which showed an ; absence of all consciousness of any extraor dinary merit in Iter own department, and which evidently sprang solely from a kind desire to gratify a curiosity oq s my part, I which I hope, under such circumstances, was nol unreasonable. “A short hour after this brought us into another relation ; for the dinner bell sum moned us, and this same lady was found presiding over a brilliant circle of the high est rank and fashion, with an ease elegance, wit, intelligence, and good humor, with a kind attention to every one’s wants and an unaffected concern for every one's comfort, which would lead one to suppose that this was her only and her peculiar sphere. Now I will not say how many mud-puddles we had waded through, and how many ma nured heaps we had crossed, and what pla ces we had explored, and how every farm ing topic was discussed, but I will say that she pursued her object without any of that fastidiousness and affected delicacy, which pass with some persons for refinement, but which in many cases indicate a weak, if not a corrupt mind. “Now, I do not say that the lady to whom I have referred was herself the man ager of the farm ; that rested entirely with her husband ; hut 1 have intended simply to show how gratifying to him must have been the lively interest and sympathy which she took in concerns which necessarily so much engaged his attention, and how the country would he divested of that dullness and ennui so often complained of as insep arable from it, when a cordial and practical interest is taken in the concerns which be long to rural life. I meant also to show, —and this, and many other examples which have come under my observation emphati cally do show—that an interest in and fa miliarity with even the most humble occu pations of agricultural life are not incon sistent with the highest refinements of taste, the most improved cultivation of the mind, and elegance and dignity of manners un surpassed in the highest circles of soci ety-” To this truly English picture (says the Iliillimore American) we add the following companion piece, from Downing’s Horticul turist, giving a charming glimpse of an American Lady in the midst of grounds i; and shrubbery that “ Calypso and her nymphs might have envied,” delightfully i situated, as we venture to add, on the banks i of the Hudson : “In the midst of the richest agricultural region of the Northern States lives a lady —a young unmarried lady—mistress of herself, of some thousands of acres of the finest lands, and a mansion which is al most the ideal of taste and refinement. Very well. Does this lady sit in her draw ing room all day to receive her visitors'? By no means. You will find her in the morning either on horseback or driving a light carriage with a pair of spirited horses. She explores every corner of the estate ; she visits her tenants, examines the crops, projects improvements, directs repairs, and is thoroughly mistress of her whole de mesne. Her mansion opens into the most exquisite garden of flowers and fruits, ev ery one of which she knows by heart. And yet this lady, so energetic and spirited in her enjoyment and management in out-of door matters, is in the drawing-room the most gentle, the most retiring, the most re fined of her sex. “ A word or two more, and upon what io©a&iiß° HISEG.W fcaaintfi* ought to he the most important argument of all. Exercise.fresh air , health : are they not almost synonymous 1 The exquisite bloom on the cheeks of American girls fades rn (he matron much sooner here than in England—not alone because of the soft ness of the English climate, as many sup pose. It is because exercise, so necessa ry to the maintenance of health, is so lit tle a matter of habit and education here, and so largely insisted upon in England; and it is because exercise, when taken here at all, is 100 often as a matter of duty, and lias no soul in it, while the English wo man, who takes a living interest in her ru ral employments, inhales new life in ev ery day's occupation, and plants perpetual roses in her cheeks by the mere act of plant ing them in her garden.” mass fill, aiit-y.” THE NEW ENGLAND PRIMER. There is nothing so humble as to be below the zeal of an antiquarian. The New England Primer, however, which has lately become a subject of historical and anecdolical interest, through the pleasant researches of a writer in the Cambridge (Mass.) Chronicle is quite worthy of its honors. It has borne no unimportant part in the formation of American character. We are pained to learn some of its changes, which have an appearance of time-serving. The mutilations to which it has been ex posed are shocking. Publishers have abused it horribly. Thus, look at the va rious readings of the letter O, in the famed Pictorial Alphabet. The triplet stood in early editions, it seems, — “ Young Obadias, David, Josias, All were pious.” Then a loyalist substituted — “ The royal Oak, it was the tree That saved his Royal Majesty.” The Hartford men worked in a bit of their \ own glory— “ The Charter Oak, it was the tree That saved to us our liberty.” The venerable Isaiah Thomas made it read, ! a platitude— “Of sturdy Oak, that stately tree, Our ships are ma le that sail the sea.” The changes of W were characteristic, from “ Whales in the sea God's voice obey,” to “ lly Washington Great deeds was done.” But the Primer has been used worse than this; it is circulated now by the Mass. Sabbath School Society, with much of its religion generalized out of it, a cat and fid dle being meanly substituted for the cross, a dog for the deluge, and so on, thus: “ Christ, crucified, For sinners died,” being turned into “The Cat doth play, And after slay.” F. “ The judgement made Felix afraid.” is transmogrified into “ The Idle Fool Is whipt at school,” and such otherjneptitudes. There are many other curious and amu sing circumstances connected with the Pri mer. Chronicler's “Antiquary” will, we trust, publish in a book. The re vival of interest in the Primer of late years would justify the act. More than one hun dred thousand copies of one edition, that of the Mass. S. >S. Society, have been cir culated within ten or twelve years past.— Literary World. GOLD IN BORNEO. Gold is met with under singular circum stances, with limestone : —The gold is found in three situations, — in crevices of lime stone rocks, in alluvial soil, and in the sand and gravel of the rivers: it is found chiefly on the western and southern por tions of the island ; but it is nol obtained in any quantities to the northward. In Sarawak, Sangow, and Banjar it appears most to abound. In Sarawak it is found in all parts of the country on the righthand or western part of the river, beyond the in fluence of the tides; it is found also in the southern branch, but in less-considerable quantities. In the crevices of the limestone above mentioned it is worked by Malays. Last year I accompanied Mr. Brooke on a visit to the rocks. The place they were then working was about four miles distant from the river, and about that distance from Seniawan and Tundong. This place was called Rattu Kaladi, and was a lime stone hill about two hundred feet in height, the surface of which was worn, like all the limestone rocks of the country, appa rently by water, into ridges so sharp that it would have been exceedingly dangerous to have fallen upon them.—Amongst these ridges were holes, very small, continuations of which penetrated into the heart of the mountain, some of them being forty or more feet in depth. The only difficulty appear ed to he in the labor of making the aper ture sufficiently large to admit the miner: \ but this accomplished, on his descent he i found the bottom, which invariably open ! ed to a cave, covered with earth of a loamy | nature. This on being brought to the sur | face in baskets, was washed, and it was stated produced a benghal of gold—about j one and three quarters of an ounce —from I each bushel of earth, from six to ten or twelve bushels being iound in each cave, according to its size. It was acccordingly a very gainful speculation, and the working of it was carried on by all the idle and poorer classes of the community of Sara wak ; so much so, that it was difficult to hire men for ordinary work. Gamblers re -1 paired to this employment, and a few week’s exertion soon repaired their ruined fortunes; so that by supplying them with funds to en courage them in this vice, it is perhaps no advantage to the settlement. The Chinese, who are not permitted by the Malays to work in the rock, were quietly trenching the earth at the foot of the hill, which they had long worked for the same purpose, and with more certainty of profit, as it is not always that the caves, after the labor ex pended in getting into them, are found to pioduce the coveted metal. How the gold should be discovered in these fissures at all, is very remarkable, and perhaps may afford a curious fact for the study of geologists and mineralogists; it cannot have descend ed from any place higher, as the caves are found in the highest as well as on the low est parts of the surface of the flat-topped hill; nor, after repeated examinations of the limestone, is the slightest trace of the metal discoverable in it; the surface of the rock is but scantily furnished with earth, and that is of a vegetable nature. It is true that the whole of the soil of the sur rounding district is alluvial and strongly impregnated with gold, but not to nearly so great an extent as that found in the fis sures above described; hence the soil in these differs in the relative quantities it con- i tains. The golden shower into which Ju- i pitcr is fabled to have transformed himself, , appears to have fallen here.— Marryatt's Borneo. GERMAN STUDENTS. The students add not a little to the vari ety of the costumeof Leipsic. The Univer sity is the most expensive and fashionable one of Germany, and the sons of the weal thier classes and the young nobility are usually educated here. Another Universi ty, that of Haile, being within a short ride by railroad, and Leipsic being the nearest large town, the bloods of that “cradle of knowledge” are here in great numbers (lu ring the Fair. These German studentsare quite the most luxuriant specimens of ju venescence that I have yet met ; and, in deed, one who has only seen youth under the restraint of other countries, looks at them as an English gardener, who had nev er seen a grape-vine except as it was trim med of its superfluous growth to bear fruit, would look at a wild grape-vine smother ing trees in the American woods. The des potic governments of the continent have made the discovery that a man's brain must let off, sooner or later, a certain quantity of the gas of insubordination : and by en ; couraging the opening of the bluster-valves , .luring oollogo li£, they find that the stuff | for patriotism works pretty well off while the beard is growing, leaving the gradua ting scholars with a surfeit of vaporing, ready to shave and become orderly sub jects. License, incredible, except with this accounting for, is granted to the German ; students, and they drink, strut, dress oddly, i tight duels and talk treason, with an irres | ponsibility of fling that would enchant the j wild boys of Mississippi. Most of them have a scar across the cheek, and wear a i broad ribbon over the breast, marked with j the number of their sword encounters — | these battles being only perilous to nose and cheek, from the way in which they are padded up for action; but, altogether— strut, wound, and ribbon—they are the most j Alsation and galliard-loooking of juven ; iles, particularly in their more showy suits jof toggery. Their necessary practice in I fencing developcs the chest very finely, and they usually carry their clothes with a good air, but it was droll to see upon what \ shocking had hoots they were willing to wear very long spurs, and how unsuspic ious was their coxcombry, with terrible short-comings of their wearing in the coats and trowsers lliey had designed. Here and there was a magnificent fellow, however, and I picked out eight or ten, among the scores I saw daily at the Fair and at the coffee-gardens, whose companionship seem ed very attractive, if one were an idle or namental. Avery popular dress seemed to be a sort of horseman's uniform. It con sisted of wash-leather tights, with boots up to the thigh; a short, collarless, sky-blue frock, worked all over with black braid and buttoned up to the throat, a loose girth of heavy cord slung over from shoulder to hip, a heavy whip in hand, and spurs as long as a toasting-fork, with a little cap like the top of a mustard pot, and mous tache ala sign-post-- the dress was that of a very striking-looking customer. Long hair is very much the fashion among them, and they almost invariably wear the shirt collar in the style of spread bread-and-but ter. They seem to think it looks fierce to show the Adam’s apple. No two of them, however, were dressed alike, and to a man who wishes to see bold experiments in coats, trowsers, and moustaches, Leipsic would be an interesting field of observa tion. 1 have omitted to mention, by the way, a class whose exterior struck me more than any that I have described—l mean a class | of merekeepers-warm. whose corresponding stratum of human nature I never saw in any other country. There were, perhaps, I a half dozen of them, creeping about the! Fair. They were not beggars, though they seemed to have no vocation except to walk about with their heads shrunk under, as if it were a tendency to be beasts. I tried in vain to catch the eye of one of them, or to find any one who could make a guess ;of what they were. Skins, with the fur turned inwards, and matted with filth, as if j I they slept on the ground, and never even j shook themselves in rising, were their only ; covering, except strong shoes. Even the , fur caps on their heads were tangled in with their hair, beard, and eyebrows, and evr (Icntly were never taken off, and by the look of what skin was visible about the eyes, and other unerring symptoms, it was quite evident that they never shaved, wash ed, combed, or undressed. They were the first human beings I ever saw, who, being sane, healthy, and not beggars, were utter ly without thought of their appearance. People who bad more the look of men “sur named-Iscariot” could scarcely be con ceived. Holidays. —lt has been observed by Mr. Leigh Hunt, that there are two, and but two, classes of the community— ‘newspa per editors and cab drivers’’—who never may indulge themselves with a holiday. I&ay” Upon a traveller telling Gen Doyle, an Irishman, that he had been where the bugs were so large and powerful that two of them would drain a man’s blood in one night, the general wittily replied, “My good sir, we have the same animals in Ire land, but they are called humbugs.” uUwrtisemcnts. ROSS & RIVERS, * ®@o'©O®O.©l itTJLL practice their profession in this and W the adjoining counties. *** Office at Ath ene under the Newton House, and at Oxford,Ga. Athens. May. 1849. 3—ly PROSPECTUS —OF— THE SCHOOLFELLOW: A MAGAZINE FOR GIRLS AND BOYS. ISSUED IN MONTHLY NUMBERS OF 32 PAGES, 1 DLL'STARTED WITH ENGRAVINGS, AT THE LOW PRICE OF $ 1 per annum—ln advance I UpllK Publisher of Richards’ Weekly Gazette announces that be issued the first number of the above work last 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 blendod. The Schoolfellow contains articles, both origi nal and selected, from many pens that have writ ten charmingly for the young. Wo will mention the names of Mary Howitt, Miss Sedgwick, Pe ter Parley. Miss Mclntosh, Mrs. Gilman, Mrs. Joseph C*. Neal. Mary E. Lee, Miss Barber, and many others nrght be added. Many of the art icles in The Schoolfclloir are beautifully illustrat ed. and the twelve numbers of one year make two volumes of nearly 400 pages and one hundred en gravings, of which, every hoy 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 month. 2. The subscription price is One Dollar a-year, in advance. To Clubs: 5 copies to one address,s 1; 10 do., $8 :20 do sls. {jTp There are many schools in which at least twenty copies may be taken, as the price to each one will bo only seventy-five cents. Communication must be post-paid and addres sed to The fScnooT.FEM.ow, Athens, Ga. Editors, exchanging with “ R ichards’ Ga zette,” who will copy or notice fully this Pros peetues, shall receive The Sehoolfeiloic without urt her exchange. SOUTH ERN MU TU A L INSURANCE COMPANY. WJI. M. MORTON, AG’T AT ATHENS, rpills Company is now firmly established, and A doing an extensive business. Risks will be taken not only in towns, hut in the country, on Dwellings, (Jin-Houses, Mills and Factories. The following parties are among the Stock holders of the Company at this Agency: Asbury Hull, T. Bradford, Wm W, Clavton, .T. 0. Jjinton, Albon Chase, Dr. 11. Hull, llenr.v Hull, Jr., K. 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. Iloimes, Rev. Dr. lloyt, L. J Lampkin, Rev. 8. Landrum, J. .1. Huggins, W. Bay non, T. R. R. Cobb, Dr. C.M. Reese, Green B. I lav good, Win. C. Richards & Cos., and Wm. M. Morton. Parties, desiring to effect insurance on their property in this vicinity, will make application to the subscriber. WM. M. MORTON Athens. Nov. 25th, 1848. 290s Hooks, Stationery and Music. JAMES McPIIERSON & CO., beg leave to 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 and Philadelphia, choice works in every depart ment of Literature and the Arts, together with PLAIN AND FANCY STATIONARY, of every description, both Amcricau 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. “LAW BOOKS FOR sale at the “UNIVERSITY BOOK STORE,” Athens, Ga. Angcll and James on Corporations; “ “ on Limitations; Archbold’s Criminal Pleadings; Burge on Suretyship; Chitty’s Blackstone ; “ General Practice ; “ on Contracts; “ on Pleadings; “ on Bills; I)aniel*B ( hancery Practice ; Davis’ Justice; East’s Reports; Greenleaf on Evidence ; “ Testimony of Evangelists; 11illiard on Real Property; Holcombe’s Supreme Court Digest; “ Law of Debtor aud Creditor ; “ Leading Cases; Ilotcbkiss’ Laws of Georgia; Jarmin on Wills; Kinne’s Law Compendium; “ Kent; “ Blackstone; Lawyer’s Commonplace Book; Mitford'fl 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 Exchange ; “ Agency; “ Partnerships; “ Promissory Notes; “ Sales; “ Bailments; Stephens on Pleadings; Tillinghast’s Adams; United States’ Digest, with Supplement, an Annual Continuation ; Warren's Law Studies; Wheaton’s Law of Nations. Call, before purchasing elsewhere, at the University Bookstore, No. 2, College Avenue, under the Newton Hous a ENGLISH AND FRENCH BOARDING AND DAY SCHOOL ! ! IV/TRS. COLEY, —a lady who has had many IVL years’ experience in teaching,—will lake charge of the Female Academy of Athens from the Ist Monday in May. The course of Instruction will consist in the ordinary and higher branches of English educa tion, together with French, for which no extra charge is made, and which will be employed 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—4t A SITUATION WANTED. BY one who h is had considerable experience in teaching —either as a teacher in a private family—or a> an assistant in a school. lie would teach the higher English branches, aud if re quested the Greek and Latin. Address, if by mail post-paid K. 11. M., Bo* No 3 Athens Ga. 11100 9111, 1849. ts 3tl)cn3 Business Dimtorji. WM. N . WHITE, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL BOOK-SELLER, —AND DEALER IN — Stationer if Music and Musical Instruments , Lamps, Cutlery, Fancy Goods , BfC, 8,-c. Orders filled at tho Augusta rates College Avenue, Alliens, Oa. U. J. RUYNABD, BOOK BINDER, (Over the Southern Banner Office,) ATHENS, GEORGIA. AI.BOAT CHASE, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER 1S Rooks, Stationery, Fancy Woods, Perfumery, Paper Hangings, ifc., Opposite College Campus, und under the Benner Office, Orders Jilled at the Augusta Prices ! ATHENS, GEORGIA. FEItICI & CO., WHOLESALE Se RETAIL DEALERS IN Hats, Caps, Hoots, Shoes, Trunks, &c. &c. Broad-Street, Athens, Georgia. Augusta business Directory. WM. 11. TUTT, —Wholesale and Retail Dealer in— Drugs, Medicines, Paints, Oils, Dye-Stuffs, CHEMICALS, &.C., &c , AUGUSTA. QftonniA. J AMES A. OKAY. Dealer in cheap Fancy .V Staple Dry Goods, No. 293 Broad Street, Augusta, Ga. CHESS A HICK HAY, DKALKHS IN STAPLE & FANCY DRY GOODS, 2158 South side BROAD STREET, Augusta, Ga. SCRANTON & STARK, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, WHOLESALE GROCERS, Also, dealers in Bajigina;, Rone anil Twine ; Naila, Iron, Salt, Ac., lur IManters’ trade. PHILEMON A. SCRANTON, WILLIAM It. STARK. D.B. PLIIMB& CO., Between U. S. Hotel aud P. O. Corner—Augusta, Ga., Wholesale and Retail Dealers in — Drugs, Medicines, Chemicals, Paints, &e. ft?*Agent for Landreth’s Garden Seeds! ALBERT HATCH, —Manufacturer of and Dealer in— Saddles, Bridles, Harness, Trunks, Military , Equipments, ifc. fyc. fyc. Bioad-Street, in Metcalf's New Range, Augusta. UNITED STATES HOTEL, AUGUSTA, GA BY G. FARGO. This house is in the centre of business. CHARLES CATLIN, —Dealer in— Fine Hatches, Jewelry, Silver Spoons and Forks, Plated Castors , LAMPS, GIRANDOLES, FANCY GOODS, kc. Also—Agents for Chickering’s and Nunns & Clarke’s PI ANO-FORTES, which they sell at the lowest fac tory prices. . AUGUSTA, GEO. Charleston Business Directory. HARMONIC INSTITUTE. FERDINAND ZOGBAUM, IMPORTER OF MUSIC AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, King-Street, sign of the Lyre, Charleston, S. C. Also—Charles Zograt m, Athens, Ga. W ELCH V HONOUR, BOOK BINDERS, Corner of Meeting it Horlbeck’a Alloy, Ciiahi.eston. tIF* Blank Books ruled to any pattern, and bound in the best matinee s. K. WEI.(’If, W. F. HONOUR. McCarter &, allen, BOOKSELLERS & STATIONERS, Charleston. South Carolina Have an extensive assortment of Law, Medical, The ological, School and Miscellaneous Books, which will be sold at the lowest rates! PAVILION HOTEL, BY H. L. BUTTERFIELD, [Formerly of thr Charleston Hotel,] CHARLESTON, S. C. GILLILANDS k HOW ELL, Importers and Dealers in Foreign and Domestic ry Goods, No. 7 Hayne-Streel, Charleston, S. C. GROCERIES, FRUITS. CIGARS ,v N. M. PORTER, (late \V. L. Porter & Son,) No. 222 King-Street, third above Market, I Have an extensive and varied Stock of Groceries. , Fruits, Cigars. Ac., suited to the wants of Families and i Dealers, which he sells for the lowest prices for cash or city paper. 150 bis Refined Sugar ut Factory prices. GEORGES OATES, 231 k 236 King-Street, [near the Bend,] Charleston, GEORGE A. OATES & CO., Broad-Street, Augusta, Ga. Dealers in Piano-Fortes, Mmie anil Musi eat Instruments, Booki Stationery, Qc. H. STODDARdT Wholesale Dealer in BOOTS, SHOES, <!ic., No. J3 Hayne-Street, Charleston, S. C. CHARLESTON l lt )TEL, BY D. MIXER, CHARLESTON, S. C. I *+* This establishment has been entirely remodelled i and refitted in the most elegant manner. JOHN S. 1(11(1) <V C 0., Military, Looking-Glass and Fancy Store, Sign of the Gold Spectacles, 223 At 225 King-Street, Charleston , S. C. j Mathematical and Surveyors’lnstruments; Spectacles and Optical Instruments, of all kinds; Plated Cast ors, Candlesticks. Cake Baskets, kc., kc. Oil Paintings and Engravings; Picture Frames made to order, and ohl Frames, re-gilt and made equal to I new; Glasses and Pebbles fitted to Spectacles to suit | all ages and sights. j JOHN S. BIRD, J. M. TAYLOR, C. If. BIRD. JOSEPH WALKE 11^ —DEALER IN— Paper, Stationery & Account Books, Rook Rinding and Job Printing. Also, Agent for the sale of Type, Presses, and Printing Materials of all kinds, at New-York prices, actual expenses only added. Constantly on hand a large stock of Type, Borders, Brass Rule, Leads, kc.-, also, Printing Paper and Printing Ink. H. B. CLARKE & CO.,’ —IMPORTERS AND DEALERS IN — CLOTHS, CASSIMERES, VESTINGS TAILORS’ TRIMMINGS, Na 205 King-street,—CHARLESTON, 9. C. WM. L. TIMMONS, General Importer of Hardware & Cutlery, East Ray,....Charleston, S. C. CAMPHENEfcSPIIUT (IAS. —WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. — With a large variety of Lamps for burning tho same, at the original Importers’ prices. GEORGE ABBOTT, Paint, Oil, and Colour Store , No. 97 East Bay, Charleston, S. C. RANTIN & NISSEN, fhcinists, Apothecaries A Druggists, Charleston Neck ,, S'. C. and Atlanta , Ga. The best Drugs, Chemicals, Perfumery and Patent Medicines, kept constantly on bund and at the very lowest prices. I^4 House and Land Tor sale. ‘T'HL SI HSCRIBER, having removed from -L tho place, offers for fair bin House and Laud i in the town of Athens. The land comprises 296 ! acres, of which a Urge 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 ail new, aud the whole in perfect re, 1 pair. OCT’ There is an excellent spring nous the I 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, apply to ... , ANDREW BAXTER, or, ill his absence, to Wni. M. Morton, Lso.. or to i’rnf. C. F. McCav. 1 ’ Athens, May 12, 18 Kb 2tf CAbocrtiscincnts. GAZETTE JOB PRINTING [t E8 t X > A3BLXBJBCM3B3STT. yA Show-bill”’ Magazine*, I Programmes,’ Leg. Blanks, NEATLY AND EXPEDITIOUSLY EXECUTE^ At tMs OHS©© O GOULD, KENDALL & LINCOLN BOOKSELLERS AM) PUBLISHERS No. 59 Washington St., Boston. 1 Athens, ga. ::::::::: by l. p, tiioius. r pilß Suiiseriber.iis proprietor of this ncw,r 1 well-furnished Hotel, experts, (from lunire™!; lence, a disposition to please, and attention to n,, ‘ ness,) to make it just such an Estahlishment as tk. frv , lovi c r. thoha.^ nr *: w* 33 061te On Cotton Avenue, Maion, Geo. UJUIE undersigned have opened, as above, ay X establishment for the sale of Rooks, Stationery and Fancy Goods, and will keep on he.nd a full assortment of School and Miscellaneous Books together with plain and fancy Stationery, Music for tlie Pinna Forte, &o. All of which they wid sell Wholesale or Retail, at the lowest markeil prices. Orders for Law, Medical and Theolog.l ical Books, respectfully solicited J. J. & S. P. RICHARDS. I Macon, Nov. 4. 1848. JAMJCS HI’PHERSON A €0.7 1 DEALERS IN IBOOKS, STATIONERY, MUSIC, I Musical Instruments, Fancy Goods, Paper-Hangings, Maps, Sri ATLANTA, GEORGIA. I PItOSP E e T u g ax x e ha Da n s WEEKLY GAZETTE. B LING anew and much enlarged series of the “Southern Literary Guzottfc,” —the oniv weekly Journal, South of the Potomac, devoted to Literature and the Arts in general—and de signed for 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 popular and well established paper,—the name and form of I which he has changed, to enlarge the scope of its I observation, and to otherwise increase its attm* I tions. Less exclusively devoted, than heretofore, to I Literature, the Arts, and Sciences, it will be the aim of its Proprietor to make it, I in every respect, A CHOICE FAMILY NEWSPAPER, “ as cheap as the cheapest, and as good as the I best!” Utterly discarding tho notiou that a I Southern journal cannot compote with the North- I ern weeklies, in cheapness and interest, RICHARDS’ WEEKLY GAZETTE shall be equal, in mechanical execution, to any I of them, and, in the variety, freshness and value I of its contents, second to none. Its field will b I the world, and it will contain, in its ample fold* I Every Species of Popular Information , Especial attention w ill be paid to the subject of I I SCHOLASTIC AND DOMESTIC EDUCATION. I i Numerous articles, original and selected, from I i the best sources, will be published weekly, on AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE, ! and these departments, as, indeed, all others, will I be frequently Illustrated with Wood Cuts! Every number will contain careful and copious summaries of tho latest FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC NEWS’ in Commercial, Civil, Political, and Ecclesiasti cal Affairs. At the same time, there shall be I nothing in its columns that can be considered ei I tlierPartizan or Sectarian. The following distinguished writers will con- I trfbute to the Journal: Wm. Gilmore Simms, LL. 1)., Hon. Robert M. Charlton , J. M. Legare, T. Addison Richards, Esq., Charles Lanman, Esq., Hon. B. F. Porter, Henry R. Jackson, Esq., Jacques Jour not y Airs. Caroline Lee Ilentz, Airs. Joseph C. Neal, Airs. William C. Richards , Mrs. E. F Ellett , Miss Alary E. Lee, Miss Alary Bates, Caroline Howard, Airs. C. W. Du Bose, Miss C. W. Barber, besides many others, whose names arc highly 1 esteemed in the “ World of Letters.” T E it M S: Single copies, a-year, $2 00, strictly in advance I C LUBS: Os three supplied for ------ |uS(KV Ot five for 8 00 Os ton for - - 15 (M) Os fifteen for 20 00 Os twenty for - - 25 00 I Os fifty f<>r 60 00 I All orders must bo accompanied with the I cash, and should be addressed,post-paid, to WM. C. RICHARDS, Athens, Ga. N. B.—Editors who will copy, or notice fully, I this Prospectus, shall receive the Gazette regu- I Ltrly, and also a beautiful Juvenile Magazine, I entitled “The Schoolfellow.” July Ist, 1849. Ilf The literary and moral tone of Richards’ J Gazette are both of a hi-'h 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. i We congratulate Mr. Richards on the taste and ability displayed in his columus.—iV. Y- 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 up a good paper. Success, wo say, to it and him. —Boston ‘ Sat. Rambler. This fine literary journal, printed at Athens, Ga ,is now issued in folio form, and makes an , elegant appearance. The last number came brimful of good things; and, indeed, every issue bears evidence that tlic editor spares no pains to make a first paper. If our Southern friends do not sustain him, it must be because their vis ion is telescopic, and can detect no excellence un** less it shines from afar. — Yankee Blade. Mr. Richards deserves success, for tiis enter* prise and perseverance ami fehis, ns 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 sheet, ably managed,, and contains part first of the prize story, f° r which the propictor paid fifty dollars . This sto ry is a. beautiful production, and is written by that “reputable” and polished authoress,Mr) Caroline Lee Ilentz. — Am. Union, (Boston.) We take great pleasure in recommending Iml weekly to the favorable consideration and patron age of thercading community. It makes an im* ! posing appearance. The Gazette is an imperial sheet, good paper, handsomely executed aud my ed with well-written ami interestii g matter- R numbers among its contributors several distin* guished writers.^ —Mirror of the Times. (iV. #•)/ This transformation oftlw> “ Southern Literacy Gazette conn s to us nowise deteriorated from the original. In ;UI “ *ava fonn alone,” it bears the same marks of literary’ and artistic excellence, and we trust will long receive the bright smile o pecuniary success.— Excelsior. (Boston ) The Literary Gazette, of Athens, Georgia, commenced n second volume ; folio form, pretty head, &c The new die sis beautiful and the Gazette overflows—it3 old boundaries at least - ’ with a liter.try chowder of the first cut.— AW° m ra Borealis. It lias now entered on its neiy year enlarge-1 and very much improved. As this is the only !?’ per devoted exclusively to Southern interests, v ought to be most liberally patronized by those for whouj it i intended —Neat' * Gazette