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WHAT THE LADIES DO IN CALI
FORNIA.
A gentleman who made the trip to Cali
fornia, via the Isthmus, writes an interest
ing account of his travels to a relative in
Salem, which is published in the Register.
We give the closing part of his letter, da
ted Monterey, April 22:
Sabbath. —A bright and beautiful day.
Distributed tracts this morning to soldiers.
Monday. —All very still now in Monte
rey. Men at the Mines. There is good
society here—Mr. Bolts and family, (bro
ther of Hon. John M. Bolts, of Va.;) Gen.
Riley and family; Capt Wescott and fami
ly: Major Canby and family : Mr. Larkin
and family; Mr. Little and do: and others.
There are several pianos in town, and
next to nobody to play. We do not go to
the mines to preach because of the enor
mous expenses of living there—sß, or
more a day—and because people are en
tirely scattered and moving. No service
can be obtained, of any sort, without the
greatest difficulty. Ladies have the worst
of it. Mrs. B. never did any work in Vir
ginia, among troops of servants, but now
she does all, and is obliged to do all her
work, I think, including washing. Very
good-—when she saw she must do it, she
dolled all ceremony, and does it nobly, and
is none the worse for it yet. So Mrs. 0.,
a woman of complete education and refine
ment—she can do no other way, and she
grows fat on it. Mrs. W. is a beautiful
woman, and was brought up in luxury at
home, by an uncle. She brought out her
hired servants, and they had not done the
first house cleaning to move in, alter they
arrived, before they announced their inten
tion to leave at once. Well, Mrs. W.
cried awhile about it, and her husband of
fered S2O, per month to the maid; but it
was no inducement, and away she went,
and Mrs. W. has cleaned her own house,
and is “ well to do’’ yet.
THE AIIT OF TALKING.
Very few Americans are good talkers.—
They harrangue but they do not converse.
They deliver lectures, orations, addresses,
anything but talk. You can find a hun
dred men capable of debating great topics
of the day, the grand interests of the coun
try, to one whose familiar weapons, are re
partee, sarcasm, wit and raillery. Go into
a steam boat cabin of an evening, and you
will generally find one man harranguing
on temperance, the cholera, or French af- •
fairs, and all the others listening, oi wait-’
ing for their turns to amplify and illustrate.
No man can speak unle>s he has the floor
—and parliamentary rules are tacitly en
forced in private citcles.
The French are admirable talkers, as are
the Italians, the Greeks, and, to a certain
extent the Spaniards. Northern nations
are poor talkers. The English have some
good talkers, as all rules have their ex
ceptions. A writer of this nation in a
pleasant essay, divides talkers, into eight
classes, and we adopt his classification.
The first are common babblers—he in- ’
eludes many varieties, but the most disa
greeable is the long-tongued babbler,
whose wit, like Laertes’foil, wounds what
ever it touches.
The second class are the smaller.talkers.
To a man of sense one of this class is ab
solutely nauseating. lie deals in nothing
but sweets. “Itis a sweet day.” “Mrs.
B, is a sweet woman.” “ Tedesco sang!
sweetly at tire Howard last night.” For
this class we have the same disgust that
Mercutio felt for them.
The third are the objective class. They
are aways raising doubts even to well di
gested ideas and opinions.
The fourth is the contradictory class.
They are as passionate and provoking as
Sir Robert Bramble in the poor gcnlleman.
The fifth class deal in notes of cxclama
■nation and interjection. “God bless me !
Is it possible ! Well I never! Who'll have
thought so! ” are their household words.
The sixth are interrogative talkers.-
Thcy catechize you with out mercy so
long as they can hold you by the button.
“So Smith is married? Has Blivets lost
his mare? When did you see Johnson
last ?”
The seventh are the exclusive talkers,
who monopolize the entire conversation.
The eighth arc the exaggerators or ama
teur fibbers. They take Baron Munchau
sen and Ferdinand Mendez Vinto as their
models, and deem any impugnment of their
veracity a personal insult. The French
call these gentlemen blaguers, and without
intending any disparagement to the people
who have just shown their sense and capa
bility of self-government by raising Louis
Napoleon to the Presidential chair, we
may say that the French are a nation of
blaguers.
There are several other varieties of talk
ers, but we do not propose to notice them.
In conclusion we would express a hope
that the art of talkiug may form a partic
ular branch of study in our educational in
stitutes, and that we may have professors
of conversation as well as professors of
rhetoric.
CHURCH STATISTICS.
In 1829, published statistics informed
us that there were about 1,030,000 per
sons connected with the following churches
in ihe United States : the Methodist, Bap
tist, Presbyterian, Congregational, Episco
palian, Dutch Reformed, Lutheran aud
Moravian. Our population was not far
from 12,400,000. Accordingly, the pro
portion of our population belonging to
those churches was not quite one-twelfth.
In 1840 the reports of the same church
es give 2,844,000 as the number of their
members. Our population we may sup
pose to be 22,000,000. Accordingly the
proportion of our people now belonging
to those churches is more than one-eigth.
There has been an increase in the pro
portion of our people professing piety of
more than 33 per cent, within these twen
ty years. Were the proportion now the
same that it was then, the number would
be 1,833,000. That is, the increase of
church members has not only kept up with
the increase of our population, but gained
upon it to the amount of more than a mil
lion.
ADVICE TO YOUNG LADIES.
Trust not to uncertain riches, but pre
pare yourself for emergency in life. Learn
to work, and not be dependent upon ser
vants to make your bread ; sweep your
j doors and darn your own stockings. A
: hove all this, do not esteem too lightly
those honorable young men who sustain
j themselves and their parents by the work
I of their own hands, while you care for,
| and receive into your company those lazy
j idle popinjays, who never lift a finger to
i help themselves, so long as they can keep
j body and soul together, and get sufficient
i to live in fashion.
Young women, remember this, and in
stead of sounding the purses of your lov
ers, and examining the cut of their coats,
look into their hearts and habits. Mark
if they have trades, and can depend upon
themselves ; see if they have minds which
J will lead them to look above a butterfiy
existence. Talk not of the beautiful
white skin, and soft, delicate hand —the
j fine appearance of the young gentleman.
Let not these foolish considerations engross
your thoughts.
MARRIAGE.
If there is a tie deemed sacred on earth,
and holy in a brighter land, ’tis that which
binds man to his kindred spirit, to become
as one in unity and love ; and yet it rare
ly happens that he properly appreciates
the kindness and sincerity of the female
heart, by setting a right value on a gem so
productive of happiness to the possessor.
There is nothing in life so pure and devo
ted as the unquenchable love of woman—
more priceless than the gems of Golconda,
and more devout than the idolatry of Mec
ca, is the unsealed and gushing tenderness
which flows from the fount of the female
heart.
It may here with propriety be asked,
what so often enhances the sorrow of the
female heart, causing many anxious days
and sleepless nights ? Is it not the incon
stancy of man 1 For whose sake docs she
bid adieu to the home of her childhood 1
For whom does she leave the loved father
and the doting mother, and the sweet sis
ter who played with her in infancy J To
whom does she cling with a fond embrace,
when all but her have forsaken him 1
CHARITY.
Night kissed the young rose, and it bent
softly to sleep. Stars shone, and pure
dew-drops hung upon its blushing bosom,
and watched its sweet slumbers. Morning
came, with her dancing breezes, and they
whispered to the young rose, and it awoke
joyous and smiling. Lightly it danced to
and fro in all the loveliness of health and
youthful innocence. Then came the ar
dent sun-god, sweeping from Ihe cast, and
he smote the young rose with his scorch
ing rays, and it fainted. Deserted and al
most heart broken, it drooped to dust in
its loneliness and despair. Now, the gen
tle breeze which had been gamboling over
the sea, pushing on the home-hound bark,
sweeping over hill and dale—by the neat
cottage and the still brook—turning the
old mill, fanning the fevered brow of dis
ease, and frisking the curls of innocent
j childhood, came tripping along on her er
i rands of mercy ar.d love; and when she
saw the young rose, she hastened to kiss it
; and fondly bathed its forehead in cool re
! freshing showers, and the young rose reviv
! ed.and looked up and smiled in gratitude to
i the kind breeze; but she hurried quickly
J away: her generous task was performed,
; jet not without reward ; for she soon per
ceived that a delicious fragrance had been
poured on her wings by the grateful rose;
and the kind breeze was glad in heart, and
went away singing through the trees.—
Thus, true Charity, like the breeze, gathers
fragrance from the drooping flower it re
freshes, and unconsciously reaps a reward
in tile performance of its offices of kind
ness, which steals upon the heart like a
rich perfume, to bless and to cheer.
THE ILLITERATE ROBBER.
The stratagem which we are about to
describe, might succeed in France, but we
suppose it would be wholly ineffectual to
rescue a robber from conviction in this
country, where it is a fair presumption
that every one can read.
A gentleman passing late at night over
Point Neuf in Paris, was accosted by a
polite and seemingly supplicant stranger,
who asked him to read a paper that lie had
just picked up. The gentleman held up
his lanthorn and complied. The follow
ing is a translation of the lines :
Speak not a word when this you've read
Or in an instant you’ll he dead:
Give up your money, watch aud rings,
Or other valuable things:
Depart then, quickly as you will,
Only remember silence still.
The gentleman thought it best to deliver
up his valuables as required.
The robber was afterwards recognized
by the person robbed, and arrested. His
ilentity was positively sworn to, and the
Eiii ®@aiE)©® wain a? ©aasiii.
following confession was made by the
criminal.
My Lords: I confess that on the even
ing specified, 1 met this gentleman on the
Point Ncuf, and the transaction occurred
as he has related it: but yet I am far from
being guilty. I cannot read: 1 picked up
the paper and thought, it might be of con
sequence. Seeing that the gentleman had
a lanthom, 1 begged him to do me the fa
vor to read the paper. He complied, and
then to iny surpise, put his watch, rings,
and money, into my hands. I was so as
tonished that 1 could not ask him what he
meant, and supposed that the paper was
of great value, and that he had given me
his money, rings, and watch, to get rid of
me. Thus if any one was wronged, it
was I, and i hope justice will be done me.”
Justice, however, was not done the
rogue,—for he was acquitted.— American
Artisan.
LONG SPEECHES.
The London Desjiatch, in alluding to the
bunkum speeches made in I’arliamet, says:
“O, seldom-speaking Cromwell! whose
vocation was by no means talk, but who
made Europe tremble, Ireland orderly, and
England great —how need we wonder that
a true worker should seek to get rid of
chattering Parliamentary magpies, and
pray the ‘ Lord to deliver him from Sir Hen
ry Vane!’ O, silent Washington, who
could conquer the mighty, and found the
greatest empire in the world, but whom a
DTsraeli could confound inutterance! Oh,
taciturn Brutus, who could even make
Rome more illustrious, and delete Carthage
from the world’s map, but could not out
speak even the rawest of reporters! Have
we not ‘ fallen on evil days and evil
tongues T ”
TRUE POLITENESS.
It is a graceful habit for children to say
to each other, “Will you have the good
ness'!”—and “ I thank you.*’ I do not
like to see prim, artificial children : there
are few things I dislike so much as a min
aturc beau, or belle. But the habit of
good manners by no means implies affecta
tion or restraint. It is quite as easy to say,
1 Please give me a piece of pie,’ as to say,
‘ I want a piece of pie.’ The idea that con
stant politeness would render social life too
stiff and restrained springs from a false es
timate of politeness. True politeness is
perfect ease and freedom. It simply con
sists in treating others just as you would
like to be treated yourself. A person who
acts from this principle will always be said
to have ‘sweet pretty ways with her.’ It
is of some consequence that your daughter
should know how to enter and leave a room
gracefully; but it is of prodigiously more
consequence that she should be in the hab
it of avoiding whatever is disgusting or of
fensive to others, and of always preferring
their pleasure to her own. If she has the
last, a very little intercourse with the world
will teach her the first.
I believe nothing tends to make people
so awkward as too much anxiety to please
others. Nature is graceful; and affecta
tion with all art, can never produce any
thing half so pleasing. The very perfec
tion of elegance is to imitate it as closely as
possible; and how much better is it to have
the reality than the imitation. I shall
probably be reminded that Ihe best and
most unaffected people are constrained and
awkward in company to which they are
unaccustomed. 1 answer, the reason is,
they do not act themselves, they are afraid
they shall not act right, and that very fear
makes them do wrong. Anxiety about
the opinion of others, fetters the freedom of
nature. At home, where they act from
within themselves, they would appear a
thousand times better. All would appear
well, if they did not try to assume what
they did not possess. Everybody is res
pectable and pleasing so long as he is per
fectly natural. I will make no exception
—nature is always graceful. The most
secluded and the most ignorant have some
charm about them, so long as they affect
nothing; so long as they speak and act
from the impulses of their own honest
hearts, without any anxiety about what oth
ers think of it.
Coarseness and vulgarity are the effect
of education and habit; they cannot be
charged upon nature. True politeness may
be cherished in the hovel as well as in the
palace, and the most tattered drapery can
not conceal its winning charms. As far
as consistent with your situation and du
ties, early accustom your children to an in
tercourse with strangers. I have seen
young persons who were respectful and po
lite at home seized with a most painful and
unbecoming bashfulness as soon as a guest
entered. To avoid this evil, allow your
children to accompany you as often as pos
sible when you make calls and social vis
its. Occasional interviews with intelligent
and cultivated individuals have a great in
fluence on early characters and manners,
particularly if parents evidently place a
high value upon acquaintances of that des
cription. i have known the destiny of a
whole family greatly changed for the bet
ter, by the friendship of one of its members
with a person of superior advantages and
correct principles.— Mrs. L. 11. Child.
A MODEL BEAUTY.
Curzon, in his “ Monasteries thus de
scribes the “Beautiful Mouna,” and from
the description, she would certainly seem
to be a “ pink of perfection” —and some of
our exquisites mightaflect an acquaintance
with this specimen of female lovliness.
He is speaking of a peculiar race of peo
ple, whom he minutely describes, ami thus
continues :
“Os this race was a girl called Mouna,
whom I had known as a child when I was
first at Philip. She grew up to be the
most beautiful bronze statue that can be
conceived. She used to bring eggs from
the island on which she lived to Phil® ;
her means of conveyance across the water
was a piece of the trunk of a doom-tree,
upon which she suported herself as she
swam across the Nile ten limes a day. I
never saw so perfect a figure as that of
Mouna. She was of a lighter brown than
most of the other girls, and was exactly
the color of anew copper kettle. She had
magnificent large eyes; and her face had
but a slight leaning towards the Ethiopian
contour. Her hands and feet were won
derfully small and delicately formed.—
In short she wa perfect beauty in her
way ; but the perfumeof the castor-oil
with which she was annointed had so
strong a savor, that, when she brought
us the eggs and chickens, I always ad
mired her at a distance of ten yards to
the windward. She had an ornamental
calabash to hold her castor-oil, from
which she made fresh toilette every
time she swam across the Nile.”
ANOTHER SLICE FROM CALIFOR
NIA.
[From toe Sunday Times.]
By the Crescent City we have received an
other letter from our special correspon
dent at the mines. It is dated from the
banks of a stream not mentioned in any
geography with which we are acquaint
ed : but we suspect the orthography of
the writer is at fault, and that he intend
ed to indicate as his location the banks
of the Stanislaus, said to be the Pacto
lus of California :
Banks of tho Sanfyclans, )
Upper Catiforny, May the Ist, 1849. 5
Eddyturs of (he N. Y. Sunday Times—
Jesl after sending my last letter, I hearn
tell that the gold on the Santyclaus was al
mighty plenty, and so I up stakes and put
for those diggins with three injuns, four
mustangs, a bag o’ parched corn, some
jerked beef, and a barrel o’ red eye. The
Injuns at fust refoosed to go but when I per
dticed the rum, and guv’em a taste, and
promist to make’em ’toxicated ever) - day
and blind drunk on Sundays, they lissened
to reason, and started in high sperrits.
The reports of the valley of the Santy
claus was thundering strong, but they was
nothin tu its axshul vally. Millyunsupon
millyuns mite be carried oph, andthewelth
of the sile would still remain untold. If
the airth had the jaundis it coodent beyal
lerer than it is here, and in caparison no
other odoriferous region is wuth a scent.
Youle likely hear by tile papers that a man
got five hundred thousand dollars on the
Santyclaus, out of wun hole. I'm the in
diwidooal. Piles is dayly obtained from
theairlh's bowels here, and piles remanes
for them as chewses to wurk in the bri
ling sun.
There is a kumpany of Englishmen here
doin’ very well with quicksilver. They
drop about as much as yer hat’ud hold on
the top of a sand hill and lets it slide ; the
hall keeps a rollin’ on, gatherin’ the gold
on the surfis, and by the time it gets to the
bottom, it ul way a half a tun with the
preshus metal it had collected. They say
the quicksilver ’tracts the gold, because it
has a comical infinity for it. I dessay it
has. This bein’ certingly the easiest way
to get the stuff, muckery has riz until it is
hycr here than any where else under the
sun.
We have noose here from San Francis
co, that Gineral Persevere Smith wont let
the people chews their own magistrate, but
wants an alfired alcalde in offis, what lias
got his walkin’ papers through the ballot
box. It aint no use, Gineral. An offysur
without sojers aint no account whatsomev
er. Where’s our terry toryal government?
where’s our laws ?—where’s our voice in
Congress? Ecko ansers, novvhar! If gov
ernment gets its revenoo, its more’n its en
titled tu; but when it comes to wun man
with eppylets, against the voice of the
vox populi, eppylets ul have tu back out
sarlin.
Lots’ pear tube Beilin party dear at San
Francisco—a dollar an inch, the Californi
an says. The land for miles around is
said to be so vallyahle, that a hundred dol
lars is the lowest price of a grave, and
when a man dies insolvent they fill his
pockets full of rocks and pitch him among
the breakers. It is different on the Santy
claus. Here we kill two birds with one
stun. A man that digs a grave for a dead
digger, can make a small forten out of the
sQu which lie shovels up from the silent
tomb.
My ambishun is satisfied, and I'm kum
ming hum. If the Astor House is for sale
it ’ud suit me amazingly, with Castle gar
ding for a kuntry residence. If there's any
banks, insurance kumpanies, or other mini
nied institooshuns in the market, I should
like tu hev two or three. I also want a
railroad, for my own individooal yusc.
Above all things 1 rekwire a handsnin
wife. Pr’aps you’d better advertise for
wun in the Sunday Times. Hed it“ Mun
ny no object.” You know my personal
advantages—slab-sided big-fisted, lovin
hearted, and auburn hair with booshels of
gold, twenty two carrots fine, and of a con
nubull disposishun.
I've gin up the idee of the Mexico route,
and shall return by way of Pannymar and
Shaggers. I shall give an evcrlasUn blow-
ought when I git back tu York. I)o you
think the korperashun would let me have
the governors room for a day, to hold a
jineral levee, and shake hands with the b’
hoys? I must hcv all the box seats at
the Bowery and Chatam for one week, cer
ting.
You’ll see this child in less than ten
munths. Don't furget the wife advertise
ment. I leave the selekshun to you. Sute
yourselves and you’ll sute me.
Yours, allurs, A Disbanded Volun
teer. [
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chant if he kept all kinds of nails. ‘Yes,’
replied be, expecting to catch a customer.
‘Well, then,’ said the incorrigible, ‘give
me a pound and a half of toe-nails.’ For
fear of getting a pound-in he was obliged
to mizzle.
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Cabinet do. for Little Folks, 50 “ 2 76
Union Questions, Nos. 1 and 2 ;
Child’s Scripture Questions ;
Union Bible Dictionary;
Nevin’s Bible Antiquities ;
Union Primer;
Union Selling Book ;
Union First Reading Book ;
New S. S. Hymn Book ;
Music Books for Sunday Schools ;
/kg*” Any publications of the Union not
advertised will be procured at short notice. Tho
above, it is believed, Mill bo found a selection
most useful in Ihe Sunday School.
*** (Jail at the New Bookstore, No. 2. College
Avenue. WM N. WHITE.
feT To the Travelins Public!
A SPLENDID LINE OF COACHES will
run daily from
ATHENS TO MADISON SPRINGS!
and the undersigned arc prepared to furnish all
persons with four, six or nine passenger coaches,
to every point they may wish to go to, and upon
more reasonable terms than heretofore. We will
also keep good teams ane coaches at the Springs,
to convey passengers to Clarksville and the Fulls,
or Pendleton anil Greenville, S. C.
*** .Stage and Livery office, Franklin House,
Athens, On.
SAULTER & ivy.
July TANARUS, 1849. 2m- 4*
ZUl)en3 Business Oircitoin.
win. \.WH 1 TE,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL BOOK-SELLER,
—A.XD DEALER IN
Stationery, Music and Musical Inst laments,
Laniys. Cutlery, Finn y Goods, h' r , frc.
Or dors filled at the Augusta rates
College Avenue, Alliens, Ga.
i*.n iYvuco.
BOOK BINDER,
(Over the Southern Banner Office,)
ATHENS , GEORGIA.
I I.ItICY A 4 0.,
—WHOLESALE a- retail dealer* in—
Hats, Caps, Boots, Shoes, Trunks, &c. &c.
Broad-Street, Athene, Georgia.
Augusta Business Directors.
G. W. FERRY & CO.,
WHOLESALE it RETAIL
HAT, OAT AND BONNET WARE-HOUSE,
Broad-street, Avgusta, Ga.
WM. 11. TI TT, ~
—Wholesale and Retail Dealer in—
Drugs, Medicines, Paints, Oils, Dye-Stuffs,
CHEMICALS, &.C., &.C.,
AUGUSTA. GEORGIA.
JAMES A. GRAY.
Dealer in cheap Fancy If Staple Dry Goods,
No. 298 Broad Street, Augusta, Go.
CRESS A IIK KJIAN,
DEALERS IN
STAPLE & FANCY DRY GOODS,
268 South side BROAD STREET, Augusta. Ou.
SCRANTON & STARK,
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA,
WHOLESALE GROCERS,
Also, dealers in Bagering, Rone and Twine; Nails,
Iron, Salt, &c., tor Planters’ trade.
| PHILEMON A. SCRANTON, WILLIAM H. STARK.
D. B. PLI .TIB A CO.,
Between U. S. Hotel and P. O. Corner—Augusta, Ga.,
Drugs. Medicines, Chemicals, Paints, &c.
CyAgent for Landretli’s Garden Seeds!
ALBERT HATCH,
—Manufacturer of and Dealer in—
Saddles, Bridles. Harness, Trunks,
Military, Equipments, Sfc. ffc. tfc.
Btoad-Street, in Metcalf’s New Range, Augusta.
UNITED STATES IIOTE L,
AUGUSTA, GA 1(Y G. FARGO.
This house is in the centre of business.
CHARLES CATLIN,
—Dealer in—
Fine Watches, Jewelry,
Silver Spoons and Forks , Plated Castors ,
LAMPS, GIRANDOLES, FANCY GOODS, Ac.
Also—Agents for Chickering’s and Nunns A Clarke’s
PIANO-FORTES, which they sell at the lowest fac
tory prices. AUGUSTA, GEO.
(tfl)arlcston Business Pirectorn.
HARMONIC INSTITUTE.
FERDINAND ZOGBAUM,
IMPORTER OF
MUSIC AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS,
King-Street, sign of the Lyre, Charleston, S. C.
OO Also—Charles Zograttv, Athens. Ga.
WELCH A IIOIVOI It,
BOOK BINDERS,
Corner of Meeting A Ilorlbeck’s Alley, Charleston.
liP Blank Bdoka ruled to any pattern, and bound in
tho best manner
S. B. WELCH, W. K HONOUR.
McCarter & allen,
BOOKSELLERS & STATIONERS,
Charleston , South Carolimi
Have an extensive assortment of Law, Medical, The
ological, School and Miscellaneous Books, which
will be sold at the lowest rates!
RA VI LION HOTEL,
BY H . L. BUTTERFIELD.
[Formerly ofthr Charleston Hotel,]
CHARLESTON, S. C.
GILLILANDS & HOWELL,
Importersj/td Dealers in
Foreign and Domestic Dry Goods,
No. 7 Hayne-Street, Charleston, S. C.
GROCERIES , FRUITS. CIGARS, tfc.
N. M. PORTER, (late W. L. Porter & Son,)
No. 222 King-Street, third above Market,
Have an extensive and varied Slock of Groceries,
Fruits, Cigars, &c., suited to the >ahiils of Families and
Dealers, which he sells for ihe lowest prices for cash
or cily paper. 150 h!s Refined Sugar at Factory prices.
GEORGE OATE
234 k 236 King-Street, [near the Bernl,] Charleston,
GEORGE A. OATES & CO.,
Broad-Street, Augusta, Ga.
Dealers in Piano-Fortes, Musie and Musi
cal Instrument! i. Bonks Statiivnery. fyc.
11. STODDARD,
Wholesale Dealer in HOOTS, SHOES, &c.,
Ni.. 13 Hayne-Siree!, Charleston, S. C.
CHARLESTON HOTEL,
BY D. MIXER, CHARLESTON, S.C.
*..* This establishment has been entirely remodelled
and retilted in the most eleiram manner.
______— 1 _
JOHN S. BIRD & < 0.,
Military, Looking-Glass and Fancy Store,
Sign oUlhe Gold Spectacles. 223 It 225 King-Street,
Charleston , S. C.
Mathematical and Surveyors’ Instruments; Spectacles
and Optical Instruments, of all kinds; Plated Cast
or-, candlesticks. Cake Baskets, Sec., &c.
Oil Paintings and Engravings; Picture Frames made
to order, and old Frames, re-gilt and made equal to
new ; Glasses ami Pebbles fitted to Spectacles to suit
all ages and sights.
JOHN S. EIRD, J. M. TAYI.OR, C. H. BIRD.
JOSEPH WALKEr7~
—DEALER IN
Paper, Stationery & Account Rooks.
Book Binding and Job Printing.
Also, Agent for the sale of Type, Presses, and Printing
Materials of all kinds, at New-York prices, actuiU
expenses only added.
Constantly on hand a large stock of Type, Borders,
Brass Rule, Leads, Ate.; also, Printing Paper and
Printing Ink.
H. B. CLAUKE & C 0.,
—IMPORTERS AND DEAI. ER SIN —
CLOTHS. CASSIAIERES , VESTINGS ,
TAILORS’ TRIMMINGS. &c.,
No. 21)3 King-street, CHARLESTON, S. C.
WM. L. TIMMONS,
General Importer of Hardware & Cutlery,
East Bay,....Charleston, S. C.
CAMPHENE & SPIEIT GAS,
—WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. —
With a large variety of Lamps for burning the same,
al the original Importers’ prices.
GEORGE ABBOTT,
Paint, Oil, and Colour Store,
No. 97 East Bay, Charleston, S. C.
RANTIN & NISNF.N,
( hnuists, Apothecaries & Drussists,
Charleston Neck,, S. C. and Atlanta, Ga.
Thu beat Drugs, Chemicals, Perfumery ami Parent
Medicines, kept constantly on hand and at the very
lowest prices. ni*4
House and Land for sale.
rjMIK SUBSCRIBER., having removed from
X the place, offers for sale his House and Land
iu the town of Athens. The land comprises 296
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 re
pair. [C/ 3 There is an excellent spring near the
dwelling, atnl 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, in his absence, to Win. M. Morton, Esq., or
to Prof. C. F. McCav.
Athens, May 12. 1849. 2tf
- NEW MUSIC !
Just received at the 11 University
-1 * •* * Bookstore.”
SRhjcrtiflcmcntg.
GAZETTE
JOB PRINTING
3-:STAHX.XSTSCM]E3Xr [ X*.
Pamphlets, /ffA CircuUrf’
1 Hi’ Show-bini,
Magazines, I® 1 Programmes ’
I’•ill-heads, V. .’** :■-%)} Leg. Plunks,
• N Ilk i 1,,,.k,
labels, V: &C..&1
NEATLY ANT) EXPEDITIOUSLY EXECUTED
Aft ftMs (DfiSsOo
GOULD, KENDALL & LINCOLN
BOOKSELLERS AND PUBLISHERS
No. 59 Washington St., Boston. ’
MWMM HOTiSU
Athens, ga. ::::::::: by l. p. Thomas.
r pilK Subscriber, :is proprietor of this new and
X well-furnished Hotel, expects, (from longexofer
ience. a disposition to please, und attention to tmsi!
ness,) to make it just such an Establishment as th
public wants. LOVIC P. THOMAS ”
January fi, 1849. frvl 1-lv
IXT lEVAT 3RD OK STOU E!
On Cotton Avenue, Macon, Geo.
r, MIK undersigned have opened, as above, an
X establishment for the sole of
Books, Stationery emd Fancy Goods,
and will keep on hand a full assortment of
gg’School and Miscellaneous Books,
together with plain and fuucy.Stationery. Music,
for the Piano Furie, &c. All* of which* they will
sell Wholesale or Retail, at the lowest market
prices.
OCt* Orders for Law, Medical and Theolog
ical Books, respectfully solicited
J. .T. & S. P. RICHARDS.
Ma on. \uv. 1 ISIS.
J AMES M’PIIE KSON A 4 0.,
dealers in
BOOKS, STATIONERY, MUSIC,
Musical Instruments. Fancy Goods,
Paper-Hangings, Mays, §•< fyc.,
ATLANTA, GEORGIA.
PROSP E C T U S
EXeHA3f.U)S’
WEEKLY GAZETTE,
BEING anew and much enlarged series of tho
“Southern Literary Gazette,” —the only
weekly Journal, South of the Potomac, devoted
to Literature and the Arts in general—and de
signed for tho Family Circle.
The Proprietor begs leave to announce that
on Saturday, the sth of .May, he issued the first
number, for too second year, of this popular and
well established paper,—the name and form of
which he has changed, to enlarge the scope of its
observation, and to otherwise increase its attrac
tions.
Less exclusively devoted, than heretofore, to
Literature, the Arts, and Sciences,
it will bo the aim of its Proprietor to make it
in every respect,
A CHOICE FAMILY NEWSPAPER,
“as cheap ns the cheapest, and as good as the
best!” Utterly discarding tho notion that a
Southern journal cannot compete with I he North
ern weeklies, in cheapness and interest,
RICHARDS’ WEEKLY GAZETTE
shall be equal, in mechanical execution, to any
of them, and, in the variety, freshness and valut
of its contents, second to none, its field will bo
the world, and it will contain, in its ample folds
Every Species of Popular Information ,
Especial attention will he paid to the subject of
SCHOLASTIC AND DOMESTIC EDUCATION.
Numerous articles, original and selected, from
the best sources, will be published weekly, ott
AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE,
and these departments, as, indeed, all others, will
be frequently
Illustrated with Wood Cuts!
Every number will contain careful and copious
summaries of the latest
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC NEWS!
in Commercial, Civil, Political, and Ecclesiasti
cal Affairs. At the same time, there shall be
nothing in its columns that can be considered ei
ther Partizan or Sectarian.
Tho following distinguished writers will con
tribute to the Journal:
Win. Gilmore Simms, LL. 1).,
Hon. Robert At. Charlton,
J. M. Legate,
T. Addison Richards, Esq.,
Charles Lanman, Esq.,
Hun. B. F. Porter,
Henry R. Jackson, Esq.,
Jacques Journot,
.Mrs. Caroline Lee Hentz,
.Mrs. Joseph C. jYeal,
Airs. William C. Richards,
Airs. E. F E/lett,
Aliss Mary E. Lee,
.Miss .Mary Bates,
Caroline Howard,
Airs. C. W. Hußusc,
Aliss C. W. Barber,
besides many others, whose names arc highly
esteemed in the “ World of Letters.”
T E R M S:
Single copies, u-ycar, $2 00, strictly in advance.
CL U 11 S :
Os three supplied for ------ $5 00
Ot five for HOC
()f ten for 15 00
Os fifteen for ---------- 20 00
<)f twenty for---------- 25 00
Os fifty for 60 00
dry- All orders must he accompanied with the
cash, nud should be addressed, t ost-paid, to
WM. C. RICHAHDS,
Athens, Ga.
N. R.—Editors who will copy, or notice fully,
this Prospectus, shall receive the Gazette regu
larly, and also a beautiful Juvenile Magazine,
entitled “The Schoolfellow.”
July Ist, 18-19. ltf
The literary and moral tone of Richards’
Gazette are both of a high order, and we are not
acquainted with a weekly journal in any part of
the country which habitually imparts more val
uable information on all those subjects which
hallow the hearth stone of home. —National In
telligencer.
We congratulate Mr. Richards on the taste
and ability displayed iu his columns.— N. *■
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, we say, to it and him.— Boston
Sat. Rambler.
This fine literary journal, printed at Athens,
6ra.,isnow issued in folio form, and makes aa
elegant appearance. 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. Ifoui 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 his enter
prise and perseverance and this, as a Family
Newspaper, will, without doubt, in its moral
tone, be immeasurably above the catch-penny af
fairs from Northern cities.— Cherokee Advocate .
It is a beautifully printed sheet, ably managed,
and contains part first of tho prize story, f° r
which the propiotor fifty dollars. This sto
ry is a beautiful production, and is written by
that ’‘reputable” and polished authoress, Mrs
Caroline Lee Hentz.— Am. Union, {Boston )
We take great pleasure in recommending this
weekly to the favorable consideration and patron
age of the reading community. It makes an im
posing a] poarance. The Gazette is an imperuj
sheet, good paper, handsomely executed and u *’■
ed with well-written and interesting matter
numbers among its contributors several distin
guished writers.—JViDror o/T/ie Times. (X 1 •;
This transformation of tho “ Southern Literary
Gazette comes to us nowise deteriorated fromtn
original. In all “ save form alone ”it hear? tu
same marks of literary and artistic exccllcnct.
and we trust will long receive the bright smile
pecuniary success. — Excelsior. {Boston )
Tho Literary Gazette, of Athens, Georgia- ha£
commenced n >ocond volume ; folio form, Pj* Q -
head, &c. The new dress is beautiful and
< lazette overflows —its old boundaries at I*® s
with a literary chowder of the first cut.—Aw 1 *
ra Borealis.
It has now entered on its new year
nnd very much improved. As this is the only P
per devoted exclusively to Southern interest**,
ought to be most liberally patronized by ** lo *
for whom it is intended.— Neal's Guzelt*.