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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. [ Horn inquired of a Hardware mer 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. ZTimcrtiscmcnts. ROSS & RIVERS, mssmsstssm YXTILL practice their profession in this and V V the udjoiniug counties. *** Office at Ath ens under the Newton House, and at Oxford,Ga. Athens. May. 1849. 3—ly BUENA VISTA HOUSE, Rome. Georgia. - - - By Mrs. . A. Choice. (CF- Carriages will be at the It. R Depot to car ry passengers to the Hotel—free of charge. PROSPECTUS —OF— THE SCHOOLFELLOW: A MAGAZINE FOR GIRLS AND BOVS. ISSUED IN MONTHLY NUMBERS OK 32 PAGES, 11/LI STAR I KD WITH ENORA\ INGB, AT THE LOW PRICE OK $ 1 per annum —In advance I f'pilE Publisher of Richards’ Weekly Gazette X announces that he 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 blended. ‘The Schoolfellow contains articles, both origi nal and selected, from many peris that have writ ten charmingly for the young. We will mention the names or Mary Howitt, Miss Sedgwick. Pe ter Parley, Miss Mclntosh, Mrs. Gilman, Mrs. Joseph ( . Neal, Mary E. Lee, Miss Barber, and many others m : ght be added. Many of the art icles in The Schoolfellow arc beautifully illustrat ed, and the twelve* n umbers of one year make two volumes of nearly 400 pages and one hundred en gravings, of which, every boy and girl who may own it may be proud. Terms. — 1. 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. There are many schools in which at least twenty copies may be taken, as the price to each one will be only seventy-five cents. Communication must be post-paid and addres sed to The Schoolfellow, Athens, < la. Editors, exchanging with “ Richards’ Ga zette,” who will copy or notice fully this Pros pectues, shall receive The Schoolfellow without urther exchange. S O U T H ERN M UTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY. WM. M. MORTON, AGT AT ATHENS fIMTIS Company is now firmly established, and A doing an extensive business. Risks will be taken not only in towns, but in the country, on Dwellings, Gin-Houses, Milks and Factories. The following parties are among the Stock holders of the Company at this Agency: Asbury Hull. T. Bradford, Wm W. Clayton, J. S. Linton, Albon Chase, Dr. 11. Hull, Henry Hull, Jr., E. L. Newton, Dr. E. R. Ware, F. Lucas, S. J. Mays, Y. L. G. Harris, C. B. Lvle, A. J. Brady, George l’ringlc, M. E. McWhor ter, D. Holmes, Kev. Dr. Hoyt, L. J Lumpkin, Rev. S. Landrum, .1. J. Huggins, W. Baynon, T. R. R. Cobb, Dr. C.M. Reese, Greon B. Hav good, Wm. C. Richards & Cos., and Win. M. Morton. Parties, desiring to effect insurance on their property in this vicinity, will make application to tne subscriber. WM. M. MORTON Athens. Nov. 25th. 1848. 290s Books, Stationery and Music. JAMES McPHERSON & CO., keg 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 American and Foreign They have also a fine supply of CENTRE, StDE AND St SPENSION SOLAR LAMPS, made by Cornelius & Cos., the best in the world. Atlanta, Ga., Feb 10, 1848. o.s. Msurfiott®. Mot©!, .JOTTN B. WICK, - - - - PBOPKIETOR. cpfUS spacious house is situated upon the pub- A lie square, contiguous to the Rail-Road De pot. It is in excellent order, and the Proprietor pledges himself to give satisfaction to those who may favor him with a call. [lO to 35.] Western & Atlantic Kail-ltoad. TN order to stimulate a Summer and Fall travel, A and to accommodate the public generally, the fare on the W. & A. Rail-Road will be reduced from and after the 15th instant, to extend to the 15th (October next, as follows : From Atlanta to Dalton, $3 00 “ ki “ Marietta, 60 “ Marietta “ Acworth, 45 “ Acworth “ Etowa and Cartersville, 40 “ Cartersville “ Cass, 15 “ Cass “ Kingston, 20 “ Kingston “ Adairsville, 30 “ Adairsville “ Oothcaloga, 30 “ Oothcaloga “ Resaca, 15 “ Resaca w Dalton, 45 Returning, same rates. Children orer 5 and under 12 years of age, and servants, will be char ged tiro and a half rents per mile. By order of Chief Engineer. E. R. MILLS, Atlanta , Ist June, ‘46. Supt. Transport. rI ST received at the NEW BOOK STORE. No 2. College Avenuo : China t andlestick-, new style; Brittonia do, ilo ; India I! uhber Do!, Heads, anew article; China Toy Tea Scttsl Perfumery &o, &c., W X, WHITE .^a-SUNDAYSCHOOL MS? BOOKS!! rpHE subscriber will hereafter keep on X hand the following publications of tho Amer ican Sunday School Union—to be sold lor cash only. As far at possible the supply will be con stant. SundayS. Library, No. I—loo vols , $lO 50 “ “ “ “ 2—loo “ 10 50 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*.