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iriaa y&is Basis* GOOD ADVICE. The agricultural department of the il/us eogce Democrat contains the following very sound and sensible suggestions to the Farmers of the South. Let them heed its counsels : “Tast experience should warn us of the danger to the Farmers’ of a sudden rise in Cotton. Land and Negroes advance in the same proportion, and, in too many instan ces, we sec the Farmers crazy to invest the proceeds of his crop, in extended plan tations and in extra Negroes, and this too, when the inflated prices of Cotton induces every kind of property to sell for more than its real value. Look around you, and behold how many of your neighbors and friends have been ruined or deeply in jured by rash speculations, in times of cotton excitement. If any of you are cursed with more money than you know what to do with, improve the lands you already cultivate. Beautify and adorn the homestead, and if your heart is near burst ing with the idea of extending the field of your operations just increase the area of your Kitchen Garden, and encourage your children to the culture of flowers. Husband all the resources of your plan ation, for a low priced cotton crop ; study, and apply the manures; experiment with fruits and grasses, try the different breeds of stock, and when another four cent cot ton crop is raised, you may he found like unto the wise virgins, with your “lamps trimmed and burning.” And if land and Negroes you must have wait until cotton is down and then you can enter the market, with cash in hand, and make your own selection almost at your own prices. But above all, whether cotton is high or low, keep out of debt.— Whether you have an acre of land, or a single Negro, keep out of debt: but if you are determined to purchase on a credit, trusting to a still higher rise to meet your payments, let me reccommend you to take one of Reuben Rich's Patent Cast Iron Water Wheels, tit it snugly around your neck, and lay yourself carefully down in the” bed of the River! * The loss to your family will be nothing in comparison with the living incumbrance, of the day and night dreams, of that worst of all, of hu man slavery, the thaldom of debt. [From tho South Carolinian.] SOUTHERN CLOVER. It is somewhat astonishing that among the various projects for improving our lands, it seems never to have attracted gen eral observation that we have in every garden a plant mote completely adapted to the purpose, and more suited to our climate, than any other. 1 speak of the Tomato ; and I affirm, without hesitation, that em ployed as a fertilizer, it would do more for us than clover, or any other green crop, has done or can do. for the North. If any one will go into his garden in the fall of the year, and observe the immense quantity of vegetable matter deposited by ihis plant, and its effect upon tho soil, lie will he convinced of the truth of what 1 say. The soil all around and under it is left rich and black and loose ; and what ever vegetable is planted after it the suc ceeding year grows off with a vigor equal to that imparted by any other vegetable manure. 1 know a gentleman of some experience and considerable judgment, whose practice it is to have all the Tomato balls that he can procure to he gathered every fall and thrown into his horse and cow lots, to be mixed with the dung, and carried out into his plantation the next spring. Care is taken, in the cultivation of his corn and cotton crops, not to cut this plant up. It does not, as is well known, expand to any great extent until late in the season, and, therefore, interferes but very slightly, if at all, with the crop ; and its beneficial effects upon his land are found to exceed those of tlie pea. A small lot might be selected to be plan ed with this vegetable exclusively for the sake of the seed. These might lie scatter ed, far and wide, over the plantation ; and if this were done, 1 will answer for it that be who makes the experiment will, in the end, not be disappointed. 1 do not see why the seed might not be washed out, and mixed with small grain when that is sown. It would not have grown up before the grain is cut, and then, I suppose it would cover the ground more completely and more uniformly than any other weed. 1 hope it will be tried. Like every oth er method of improvement of poor land, its effects must necessarily be slow. Such land, at first will not produce plants of great size. Neither would this produce clover or anything else vigorously. These who are of a sanguine temperament, and expect wonders to be effected out right, would be disappointed. Hut those who are patient and diligent (and none else ever did, or ever will, succeed) are earnest ly invited to consider these suggestions and institute experiments, with a full convic tion that their pains and their labor will (in the end, I repeat) be well rewarded.— This is a good season to gather the pods and seeds. 3 u J ja 531F 1 y J Jj > OIL SPRINGS. It seems that there are oil Springs in Arkansas the curative qualities ot which exceed anything yet heard of. They are found in the territory of the Chickasaw In dians, and if the report of their virtues be correct, they will be a great resort for in valids. A correspondent of the Fort Smith Herald describes these springs as follows “The oil springs are about twenty-five miles in a Northwest direction from Fort Washita, on the cast side of the false Washita, and about three miles from it, on a stream of beautiful clear water, that has a fall or successive falls of about ninety feet. The oil exudes from the rock or did'overhanging these falls, in drops the size of a goose quill, having the taste, smell, and consistency of British oil. It has been told me that this oil and water with which ; t mingles, has by drinking and rubbing externally, effected some of the most astonishing cures of Chronic Rheu matism and Mercurial Affections that have ever been known. Persons have been carried there doubled up with disease or emaciated to skeletons, coming away, in a very short time, cured perfectly, with a new lease on dear life. A NEW DEATH DEALING WEAPON. In the shape of a Rifle, has just been brought out in New-York, that, besides its more legitimate usesamong sportsmen, must render war still further impracticable. This rifle, known as Jenning’s Patent Rifle, is designed to be an almost endless repeater , and to avoid the great difficulty of capping and priming each load, and also to be un commonly free from dirt, added to which is a force which we have never seen equal led. The Journal of Commerce says its ap pearance and weight do not differ from the common gun, except that it has an iron breech, with a wooden stock. “By a simple, contrivance within this stock, the breech-pin of the barrel is open ed as the gun is cocked. A cartridge is placed in this opening, and on pulling the trigger, the pin closes the barrel tight, a strong block of steel falls behind it, and the gun primes itself and is discharged, all at one motion. It is so simple, that it can hardly’ by any accident get out of order. It is capable of being loaded at the breech as often as it is fired o(F, and as radidly as a man's hand can move to throw in a cart j ridge. This is at the rate of 12 shots per minute, for a person who has practiced with the gun.” Another variety of the same g-un is now nearly completed by the patentees, in which the ram-rod is a tube of the same size, ca pable of.containing 24 cartridges,which are so arranged that they are placed in the bar rel one by one, and fired successively with out any interruption. The moment that the 24th ball is fired, this gun may be used as the first one, loaded at the breech. But the chief strength of this formidable weapon rests on the cartridge which is used, and for which, indeed, the gun is express ly manufactured. This cartridge, which i also patented, is simply a loaded ball. A hollow cone of lead, or rather a bullet elon gated on one side in a hollow cylinder to about one inch in length, is filled with pow der, and the end covered with a thin piece of cork, through the centre of which is a small hole, to admit fire from the priming. The execution which this ball does, is no less surprising than everything else con nected with the gun. At foity rods the balls were buried more than four inches in the body of a live butternut tree. The priming is in small pills, of which 100 are placed in a box, from which the gun supplies itself without fail. ill 0 3 ® a y. r ! ” ‘ ' ’ ■ ■ . CIRCASSIA. j Circassia is a mountainous, but very j fine and beautiful country, bordering upon | the Black Sea, at its eastern extremity, lt is also contiguous to the Russian Territory lying towards the extremity of the Euxine. ; and interposes its lofty mountains and fer tile valleys between the clutch of Russia and those more level and less wild coun tries towards tiie Euphrates and the Tigris It is the aim of this ambitious power, Rus sia. to become possessed, if it can, of all ! the realms contiguous to the Black Sea, jon all sides. On one side ‘the Wolf” has already laid his paws on the Danubian ! provinces, on Moldavia, Bulgaria, Wal j lachia, and is on this side, therefore, fast J advancing to Constantinople. But before lit can enslave the tracts lying on the j Southern coast of this sea, it must subdue and pass the fine people who hold Circas sia—a race, in physical requisites, the I finest specimen of men now to be found on the face of the globe, and of courage, and activity unsurpassable. Against these no ble but unoffending people the Muscovite ! serfs have now for many years, been car , lying on a cruel and bloody war. No 1 quarter is given ; and the amount of lives lost is not known excepting, that generally it is very great. It is believed that, taking battle, sickness, fatigue, altogether in one account, not le*s than 200 000 Russian serfs have left their bones among the wild passes ; and this without gaining any ground that is tenable. The C/.ar, in fur therance of this murderous conflict, tries ; to stop all access by sea to Circassia 000a &EJ 8 9 WESIEBt ®JA3lii§ a REPENTANCE. Kate Staunton was too human to be al ways wise. A being who should never err, would neither claim our sympathy nor our belief. Neither is their exemption from error that which marks even the characters of highest worth, as characters are found in real life, (n fact, so fraught with error is all human conduct, that there exists another rule by which character may be judged more fairly—it is the con duct after error has been commuted. From 1 youth to age it is this which speaks the real truth with regard to human character. It is the tear of sorrow, the yielding, the penitence, which proves the real heart of the child. It is the self-conviction, the hu mility, the willingness to be corrected, j which proves the hopefulness of youth. — j It is the self-examination, the anguish, the penitential prayer, which proves how earn est is the broken hearted wanderer to re turn. Kven in a worldly point of view, it is the recovery after every failure in dis cretion which makes the wise and prudent man—it is the quick perception of hi own mistakes, perhaps before others have per ceived them, and the instant adoption of counteracting measures, before any seri ous consequences have ensued.— Homes and Hearts , by Mrs. Ellis. WORTH OF A* JEW’S PRAYER, The country around us was cultivated with the grain called dra, and there was every prospect of a favorable harvest. “God be praised,” said the Kaid, “for his bounty; last year in truth, we had a sad prospect for the crops : and had not my master, Seedy Abn Selam E’Slowly, ordered the Jews—God curse them ! to pray for rain, I know not what would have become of God’s creatures.” “Why did not the Mussulmans,” said I, “ offei up their prayers'?” “So they did,” he replied, “and for twenty days and nights; and to the ban ner of each mosque was affixed a prayer written by the Fckee himself. The pray ers floated in the face of heaven, but all in vain; for the prayers of the faithful are like music to God, who is worthy of all praise ; and therefore the Almighty, re joicing in the sweet sound of our suplica tion, granteth not the desires of our pray ers, for he wishes us to continue still to pray. But no sooner is he tormented with the disgusting prayers of Jews and Infidels than he grants forthwith their petitions, in order to be freed from their importuni ties.” ROMANTIC ELOPEMENT. On Friday night last, Mr. Thomas B | and Miss Matilda G ,of this city, elop- j ed to Covington, and were married. On ‘ Friday it wasdiscovetedby the father that his daughter had made an “ arrangement ” to leave him to marry a man he had for bidden her hand, and he was determined to keep “an eye” on her. It. had been arranged and her father had found it out, and she knew it, that the young lady should meet the young man and lover to gether. at a certain place, in a carriage, and go to Covington. After dinner, the father was asked, much to his surprise, to accom pany his daughter to the very place of meeting which had been appointed, and they were to start at four o’clock. So the the father went about his business till the appointed time—returning he found his daughter had started before his return. In vain he sought her; but knowing they would cross in the ferry boat, he station-1 c.l himself on it, and hailed every carriage that passed, but found no daughter. At length an empty carriage came aboard, j and on the same trip, a ragged cripple. | limping naturally, and staring about as! though he had never seen a boat before’ 1 He was accompanied by a youthful look-! ing personage in male attire. The ferry boat passed over, and the carriage stopped ! at the foot of the hill for the driver to ar range the harness (all pretext) and the! ragged boy and companion waited there j until the boat again shoved off to return ! to this side. Then Mr. B and Miss G——, (for it was they in disguise) jump- j ed into the carriage, rode to the priest, ■ threw off their disguise, were married, and j returned to the ferry on their way home. ! The young lady met her father, who was still on watch, and told him what had been ! done, and bow he was cheated by the rag-! ged boy and herself in boy’s clothes, and \ then she mildly asked papa's pardon, which, reluctantly, was granted, and the j bride, bridegroom, and the old gentleman, i rode home together, making an ending of I an elopement quite agreeable.— Cincinnati j paper. LAUGHTER. Without it our faces would have been ‘ rigid, hyena-like. The iniquities of oui j hearts, with no sweet antidote to work up on them, would have made the face of the best among us a horrid, husky thing, with two sullen, hungry lights at the top—for foreheads would then have gone out of fashion—and a cavernous hole below his nose. Think of a babe without laughter— as it is its first intelligence! The creature shows the. divinity of its origin and end by smiling upon us. Yes ; smiles are its first talk with the world, smiles the first answer that it understands. * And then, as worldly wisdom comes upon the little thing, it crows, it chuckles, it grins, and shakes in its nurse’s arms, or, in waggish humor playing bo-peep with the parent, it reveals its high destiny, declares to him with cars to hear the heirdom of its immor ality. Let materialistsblpsphemeas ginger ly and acutely as they will: they must find confusion ir. laughter. Man my take a triumphant, stand upon broad grins; for he looks around the world, and his in nermost soul, sweetly tickled with the knowledge, - tells him that he, of all crea tures, laughs. Imagine, if yon can, aj laughing fish. Let man, then, senda loud ha! through the universe, and be rever ently grateful that for the privilege.— Douglas Jerrahl. TRUE POETRY. Coleridge remarks very pertinently some where that wherever you find a sentence musically worded, of true rythm and mel ody in the words, there is something deep and good in the meaning, too. For body and soul, word and idea, go strangly to gether, here as everywhere. Song: we said before, that it was the Heroic of Speech ! All old l’oems. Iloiner’s and the rest, are authentically songs. 1 would say, in strictness, that all right I’oems are ; that whatsoever is not sung is properly no Poem, hut a piece of Prose cramped into jingling lines, —to the great injury of the grammar, to the great grief of the reader, for most part]! What we want to get at is the thought the man had, if he had any ; why should he twist it into jingle, if he could speak it out plainly? It is only when the heart of him is rapt into true passion of melody, and the very tones of him, according to Coleridge’.s remark, bc -1 come musical by the greatness, and depth of his thoughts, that we can give him right to rhyme and sing; that we can call him a Poet, and listen to him as the Heroic of Speakers—whose speech is Song. RUSSIA AND TURKEY. In Lieut. Lynch’s “Dead Sea Expedi | lion,” we find the following reference to j a probable future invasion of Turkey by the Russians: “ A littje below Buyukdcre,” says Lt. L , “on the Asiatic shore, there is a rude granite column upon a projecting point, j which indicates the last encampment of i tea thousand Russians, on the march to j succor Constantinople, when threatened by i Mehemet Ali, of Egypt. I “When Constantinople was rescued from | the clutches of this rebellious pasha by the j interposition of the European powers, he j came as a tributary to render homage to the j Sultan. While here, he selected, as the i‘ site of the palace he was required to build, ; the promontory immediately below and in ; full sight of the one upon which the Rtis- I sian column is erected, as if to intimate j to posterity that, if the Russians came | thus far, he had preceded them, and that it was the fear of him that brought them. “These are ominous signs—the first es pecially ; for, if a Russian army can so speedily and unexpectedly (it came with \ out a summons) reach the environs of Constantinople, what is to prevent the same rapid movement of a hostile and yet more powerful force ? Os their danger the Turks are well aware, but instead of pre paring to resist, in the spirit of fatalism they supinely await the dread event. — There is a tradition among them, that they are to be driven from Europe by a light haired race from the North, and their fears have settled upon the Russians. The pre j diction will work its own accomplishment; the unhappy presentiment of the Turk, (for the feeling amounts to such,) will be more than embattlqd hosts against him, and the dispassionateiobserver can already predict, not only hislexpulsion from Europe, but the downfall of the Ottoman empire. The handwriting is on the wall, and it needs not a Daniel to interpret it.” r GIUSEI’RE THE VINE DRESSER. Leigh Hunt tells love stories delightfully— with a sort of kitchen-fire-side famil iarity w hich is charming, in the most re fined writer of the age. Here is one which turns upon the phenomenon that occurred during the earthquake which destroyed Messina. Giuseppe, a young vine-grower in a village at the foot of the mountainslooking towards Messina, was in love with Ma ria, a daughter of the richest bee-masterof the place ; and his affection, to the great displeasure of the father, was returned.— The old man, though he had encouraged him at first, wished her to marry a young profligate in the city, because the latter was richer and of a higher stock ; hut the girl had a great deal of good sense as well as feeling; and the father was puzzled how to separate them, the families having been long acquainted. He did everything in his power to render the visits of the lo ver uncomfortable to both parties; hut as they saw through his object, and love can endure a great deal, he at length thought himself compelled to make use of insult.— Contriving, therefore, one day to proceed from one mortifying word to another, he took upon him, as if in right of offence, to anticipate his daughter’s usual attention to’ the parting guest, and show him out of the door himself, adding a broad hint that it might be as well if he did not return very soon . “Perhaps, Signor Antonio,” said the youth, piqued at last to say something harsh himself, “you do not wish the son of your old friend to return at all ?” “ Perhaps not,” said tile bee-master. “What,” said the poor lad, losing all the courage of his anger in the teirible thought of his never having any more of those beautiful lettings out of the door by- Maria—“ what! do you mean to say 1 may not hope to be invited again, even by yourself ?—that you yourself will never again invite me, or come to see me?” “ Oh, we shall all come, of course, to the groat Signor Giuseppe,” said the old man, looking scornful—“ all cap in hand.” “Nay, nay,” returned Giuseppe, in a tone of propitiation; 111 wait till you do me the favor to look in some morning, in the old way, and have a chat about the l-rench; and perhaps,” added he blushing, “you will then bring Maria with you, as you used to do; and 1 wont attempt to see her till then.” “ Oh, we’ll all come, :,f course,” said Antonio, impatiently; “cat, dog, and all: and when we do,"’ added he, in a very significant tone, “you may come again yourself.” Giuseppe tried to laugh at the jest, and thus still propitiate him ; but the old man, hastening to shut the door, angrily cried, “Ay, cat, dog, and all, and the cottage besides, with Maria's dowry along with it; and then you may come again, and not till then.” And so saying he banged the door, and giving a furious look at poor, pale Maria, went into another room to scrawl a note to the young citizen. The young citizen came in vain, and Antonio grew sulkier and angrier every day, till at last, he turned his bitter jest into a vow, exclaiming, with an oath, that Giuseppe should never have his daughter, till he, (the father,) daughter, dog, cat, cottage, bee-hives and all, with her dowry of almond-trees to hoot, set out some fine morning to beg the young vine-dresser lo accept them. Poor® Maria grew thin and pale, and Giuseppe looked little better, turning ail his wonted jests into sighs, and often in terrupting his work to sit and look to wards the said almond-trees, which formed a beautiful clump on an ascent upon the other side of the gien, sheltering the best of Antonio’s bee-hives, and composing a pretty dowry for the pretty Maria, which the father longed to see in the possession of the flashy young citizen. One morning, after a very sultry night, as the poor youth sat endeavoring to catch a glimpse of her in this direction, he observed that the clouds gathered in a very unusual manner over the country, | and then hung low in the air, heavy and ; immovable. Towards Messina the sky | looked so fiery, tiiat at first he thought j the city on tire, till an unusual heat af fecting his own skin, and a smell of sul i phur arising, and the littis river at his feet assuming a tinge of muddy ash-color, he knew that some convulsion of the earth was aihand. His immediate impulse was to cross the ford, and, with mixed an guish and delight, again find himself in the cottage of Antonio, giving the father and dauhhter all the help in his power.— A tremendous burst of thunder and light ning startled him for a moment; hut he was proceeding to cross, when Ins ears tingled, his head turned giddy, and while the earth heaved beneath his own feet, he saw the whole opposite side of the gl n lift ed up with a horrible deafening noise, and then the cottage itself, with all around it, cast, as he thought, to the ground, and bu ried forever. The sturdy youth, for the first time in his life, tainted away; and when his senses returned, found himself pitched back into his own premises, but not injured, the blow having been broken by the vines. But on looking in horror towards lha. site of the cottage up the hill, what did he see there 1 or rather, what did he not see there ? And what did he see, forming a new mound, furlongs down the side of the hill, almost at the bottom of the glen, and in his own very homestead ? Antonio's cottage —Antonio’s cottage, with the almond trees, an 1 the bee-hires, and the very cat and dog, and the old man himself, and the daughter, (both senseless,) all come, as if, in the father's words, to beg him to accept them! Such awful pleasantries, so to speak, sometimes take place in the middle of Nature's deep est tiagedies, and such exquisite good may spring out of evil. For it was so in the end, if not in the intention. The old man, (who, together with hisdaughter, had only been stunned by terror,) was superstitiously frightened by the dreadful circumstance, if not affection ately moved by the attentions of the son of his old friend, and the delght and reli gious transport of his child. Besides, though the cottage, and the almond trees, and the bee-hives, had all come miracu lously safe down the hill, a phenomenon which has frequently occurred in these ex traordinary landslips ,) the flower-gardens, on which his bees fed. were almost all de stroyed; his property was lessened, his pride lowered; and when the convulsion was well over, and the guitars were again playing in the valley, he consented to be come the inmate for life of the cottage of the enchanted couple. lie could never attain, however, to the innate delicacy of his child, and he would sometimes, with a petulant sigh, intimate at table what a pity it was that she had not married the rich and high-feeding citi zen. At such times as these, Maria would gather one of her husband’s feet between her own under the table, and with a squeeze of it, that repaid him tenfold for the morti fication, would steal a look at him which said, “I possess all which it is possible for me to desire.” Nash’s Hole!, Clarksville, (la Reuben Nash, Prop. Conveyances to tli • Falls and Nacoochee furnished at th * shortest notice. August 13, 1849. _ to ioo Books, Stationery and Music. I AMES .McPIIEU UN 4c CO., be* leave to • I inform th* ir friends and the public that they have greatly increas and their supplies of SCHOOL AM) MISCELLANEOUS and are daily receivin ‘, direct from New York and Philadelphia, choice w irks 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 | CKNTIfK, SIDE A\r> SUSPENSION’ SOI.AH Util’S. made by Cornelius & Cos., the best in the world. Atlanta, Ga., Feb 10,1848. o.s. 1850! rIRENVILLENS GKORi.IA ALMANAC, T for 1830 J ust received, and lor sale at the Augusta price, at the New Cook-tore. No 2, College Avenue. W. N WHITE (DtalbaS JUST RECEIVED, at the New Book Store, on College A verne, a larg* lot of— New Books, of various kinds; New and Fashionable .Music; Toys and Fancy Articles ; India Rubber Do!! If* ads, &c . \VM. N. WHITE, Cmkr “ House.” 1 Athens, 4, 1-849. £lti)ciis Business Dircttovj). WM. \ . W II I TE, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL BOOK-SELLER, —AND DEALER IN Stationery,Music and Mimical Instruments, Lamps, Cutlery, Fancy Goods, ttpc, s•<•. Orders filled at the Augusta rates College Avenue, Athens, Go. ..f. niOiBD, BOOK BINDER, (Over the Southern Banner Office,) A THKNS, GKOR Cm 1.1. FERRY & WHOLESALE i RETAIL DEALERS IN — Hats, Caps, Bools, Shoes, Trunks, &c. &c. Broad-Street, Athene, Georgia, SUtgitsia Business Directory. COSKERY, JANES & CO., WARKHOISE AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS, [Old stand of Bryson, Coskcry & Co..] CAMPBELL-ST., AUGUSTA. G. W. FERRY & CO., WHOLESALE k RETAIL IIAT, CAP AND BONNET WARE-HOUSE, Broad~street , Augusta, Ga. wui. ii. r n * t, —Wholesale arid Retail Dealer in— Drugs, Medicines, Paints, Oils, Dye-stuffs, CHEMICALS, &c., &0., A! 1.l ST A. (. HO lA. IAMBS A. & C. CHAV, Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Foreign, Fancy, Staple and Domestic J) li T GOO D S. No. 298 Broad Street, Augusta, Ga. (>rj*Tbey keep constantly on hand the choicest and most fashionable Goods of the season, at the lowest prices. CRESS & HICKMAN, DEALERSIM STAPLE & FANCY DRY GOODS, 268 trouth aide BROAD STREET, Augusta. Ga. SCRANTON, STARK & DAVIS, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, WIIO L E SALE Gli () CER S, Also, dealers in Bagging, Rope and Twine; Nails, Iron, Salt, Ate., tor Planters’ trade. PHILEMON A. S( RA.VTON, WILLIAM 11. STARK. D, B. PLUMB A CO., Between U. S. Hotel and P. O. Corner—Augusta, Ga., —hole sale and Retail Dealers in — Drugs. Medicines, Chemicals, Paints, &e. nr Agent for Landreth’s Garden Seeded ALBERT HATCH, —Manufacturer of and Dealer in— Saddles, Eriiilrs, Harness, Tranks, Military. Equipments, fee. ffc. fee. Bioad-Street, in Metcalf*. New Ratine, Augusta. UNITED STATES HOTEL, AUGUSTA, GA BY G. FARGO. This house is in the centre of business. CHARLES CATLIN, —Dealer in— Fine Watches, Jewelry, Silver Spoons and Tories, Plated Castors , LAMPS, GIRANDOLES, FANCY GOODS, &c. Also—Agents for Chiokering’s and Nuntnj ic Clarke’s PIANO-FORTES, which they well at the lowest fac tory prices. AUGUSTA, GEO. (ITl)aiTeston Business Directory. HARMONIC INSTITUTE . FERDINAND ZOGBAUM, IMPORTER OF MUSIC & MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, King-Street, sign of the Lyre, Charleston, S. C. $9- Also—Charles Zogpai-u, Athens, Ga. ■-■V.'tLCK Sf S3l>XOl r ß, BOOK BINDERS, Corner of Meeting & Horlbeck's Alley, Charleston. S k?* Blank Books ruled to any pattern, and bound in the heat manner ; WgU p. w. E. honour. McCAR TF. B ic ALLEN, BOOKSELLERS & STATIONERS, Ch nrust on. Son th Carolina Have an extensive assortment of Law, Medical, The ological, School and Miscellaneous Books, which will ho sold at the lowest ratesl PAVILION HOTEL; BY H . L. BUTTERFIELD, [Formerly of thr Charleston Hotel,] CHARLESTON, S. C. GILLILANDS & HOWELL^ Importers and Dealers in Foreign and Domestic Dry Goods, No. 7 Hayne-Street, Charleston, S. C. GI!OCERIES, FRUITS, CIGARB, l[c. N. M. RORTER, (late W. L. Porter & Son,) No. 222 King-Street, third above Market, Has an extensive and varied Stock of Groceries, Fruits, Ci;rars, suited lo the wants of Families and Dealers, which lie sells at the lowest prices for cash or city paper. 100 bis Reiinod Sugar at Factory prices. GEORGE OATES, 231 & 23G King-Street, [near the Bend,] Charleston, GEORGE A. OATES & CO., Broad-Street, Augusta, Ga. Dealers in Piano-Fortes, Music and Musi '/I Inst ‘.Di als. Il.i, Slatinnertf- 4*e. If. STODDARD, Wholesale Dealer in BOUTS, SHOES, Xc., No. 13 Huyne-Street, Charleston, S. C. CHARLESTON HOTEL, BY D. MIXER, CHARLESTON , S. C. *.* This establishment Ims been entirely remodelled and retilted in the must eleennt manner. JOHN S. liIUD & CO., Military, Looking-Glass ami Fancy Store, Sign of the Gold Spectacles, 223 At 225 King-Street, Charleston, S. C. Mathematical and Surveyors’ Instruments: Spectacles and Optical Instruments, of all kinds; Plated Cast ers, Candlesticks. Cuke Baskets, Ate. Oil Paintings uiul Engravings; picture Frames made to order, and old Frames, re-gilt utid made equal to new ; Glasses und Pebbles fitted lo Spec Lacies to suit all ages and sights. JOHN S. BIRD, J. M. TAYLOR, C.H. BTRD JOSEPH W A LKE U, —DEALER IN — Paper, Stationery, and Account Rooks. Rook Rinding and Joh Printing. Also, Atrent for the sale of Type, Presses, und Printing Materials of all kinds, at New-York prices, uctuul expenses only added. Constantly on hand a large stock of Type, Borders, Brass Rule, Leads, 4tc.; also, Printing Paper and Printing Ink. !1. B. CLARKE & CO^ IMPORTERS AND DEALERS I N— CLOTHS, CASSIMERES, VESTINGS, TAILORS’ TRIM MINOS. &c . No. iii|3 King-street, CHARLESTON,ft. C. WM. 1. TIMMONS. General Importer of Hardware & Cutlery, Dust Bay,....Charleston, S. CAMP HENE& SPIRIT GAS, — WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. — With a largo variety of Lamps for burning the suine, ut Die original Importers’ prices. GEORGE ABBOTT, Paint, Oil. and Colour Store, No. 117 East Buy, Charleston, S. C. RANTIN’ k NISSKN, ( liemists, Apothecaries & I> racists. Charleston NeckS. C. and Atlanta, Ga. Tie* best Drii ‘s, Chemicals, Perfumery and Patent Medicines, kegt constantly on hand and at the very lowest prices. * us 4 Hot®!, JOHN li. WICK, - - - - PROPRIETOR. FTMI IS spacious house is situated upon the pub L lie s juare, contiguous to the IJail-Road De pot. ft is in excellent order, and the Proprietor himself to give satriFftbOtion to ihosx who fcmw Wra wWfa 3T. |W Aiuurtiscmcnts. GAZETTE JOB PRINTING ( aBTA.a3X>XBaQCM3BIff‘jp. Pamphlets, /W N Cii-eul'**’ ( iitiilogues,/’ .JT yf\ Show-bills ’ Mnga/.ines, Il’rogrammes,’ .Eeg.Bhuiki, , lik. ( hecks NEATLY AND EXPEDITIOUSLY EXECUTED’ Afr&Mß QfliS(S(o GOULD, KENDALL k LINCOLN, BOOKSELLERS and STATIOJVERS No. 59 Washington St., Poston. IIWTOI housST’ ; ATHENS, GA.::::::::: BY u. r. thomas. Subscriber, as proprietor of this new and I * well-furnished Hotel, expects, (from Jong exDer icnce, a disposition to please, and attention to buM ness,) to make it just such an Establishment ns ii, public wants. LOVIC P. THOMAS January ti. 1810. frvl 1-ly * B'HUK 8 ‘/.‘T)DtiS! On Cotton Avenue, Macon, Geo. r pIIII unfler.-igmil huve opened, ns above, on X establishment l'ur ihe sale ol Rooks, Stationery anil Fancy Goods, anil will keep on hand a full assortment of Gif School and Miscellaneous Books, together with plain and fancy Stationery. Music, for the Piano Forte, &c. All of which theywiM sell Wholesale or Retail, at the lowest mark?# prices. Orders for Law, Medical and Theolog - ical Books, respectfully solicited J. J.’ & S. V. RICHARDS. Macon, Nov. 4. 1848. JAIIJCB¥ r FIIEKBON & V 0., DEALERS IN BOOKS, STATIONERY, MUSIC, Musical Instruments, Fancy Goods, Paper-Hangings, Maps, tj-i ATLANTA, GEORGIA. PROSPECTUS OF— y.i x c jo: 3. xi n s * WEEKLY GAZETYE. 1)!.1.VG n new and much enlarged seiies of the ) “Southern Literary Gazette,” —the onlv weekly Journal, South of tho Polomnc. devoted to l,il rature 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 too second year, of this popular and well established paper,—the name and form of which he lias changed, to enlarge t he 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 tho aim of its Proprietor to make it in every respect, A CHOICE FAMILY’ NEWSPAPER, “as cheap as the cheapest, and as good as the best!” Utterly discarding tho notion that a Southern journal cannot compete wi'h the North ern weeklies, in cheapness and interest. HICHARDS’ WEEKLY’ GAZETTE shall bo cipial, in mechanical execution, to any of them, and, in the variety, freshness and value of its contents, second to none. Its field will be THE WORLD,and it will contain, in its ample folds Every Species of Popular Information, Especial attention will be paid to the subject of SCHOLASTIC AND DOMESTIC EDUCATION. Numerous articles, original and selected, from the best sources, will be published weekly, on AGRICULTURE AMD HORTICULTURE, and these departments, as, indeed, all others, will be frequently Illustrated with Wood Cuts! Every number will contain careful at and copious summaries of tho latest FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC NEWS! in Commercial, Civil, Political, and Eccletinsii cal Affairs. At the same time, there -hall fc nothing in its columns that can bo considered ei liter Partisan or Sectarian. ihe following distinguished writers will ♦on trlbute to the Journal: TV in. Gilmore Simms, LI,. I)., Hon. Robert M. Charlton, J. M. Legare, T .1,1 (liso n Richards, Esq , Charles Lanman, Esq., Hon. B. F. Porter, Henry R. Jackson, Esq., Jacques Journot, Airs. Caroline Lee Hentz, Airs. Joseph V. jVeal, Airs. William C. Richards, Mrs. E. F E/lett, Alisa Alary Bates, Caroline Hau-ard, Airs. C. It'. 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ISSUED IN MONTHLY NUMBERS OK 32 PAGES, ILU7STARTED WITH ENGRAVINGS, AT THE LOW PRICE UK $ 1 iur annum—ln advance! r |MIE Publisher of Richards’ Weekly Gnzetto L announces that ho issued tho first number of the above work last January, with a view of affor ding to the Boys and (i il ls of the South a journal of their own, in which instruction and amusem< dC shnll be happily blended. The Schoolfellow contains articles, both origi nal and selected, from many pons that have writ t n charmingly for tho young. Wo will mention tho names ot MarvMowitt, Miss Sedgwick, Pe ter Parley, Mi s Mclntosh, Mrs. Gilman, Mrs. Joseph (J. Neal. Mary K. Leo, Miss Barber, and many others might be added. Many of the art icles in The Schoolfellow are beautifully illustrat ed, and the twelve numbers of one year make two volumes of nearly 400 pages and one hundred on gravings, of which, every boy and girl who may own it may be proud. Terms.—l. Bach number contains 32 pages* and at least 8 engravings, and is issued on the first of every mouth. 2. The subscription price is One Dollar a-year, in advance. To Clubs: 5 copies to one address,s4; 10 do., :20 do SD -0- There arc ninny schools in which at least twenty copies may be taken, as tho price to oacn one will be only seventy-five cents. Communication must be post-paid and addres sed to The Schoolfellow, Athens, Ch- Ocf- Kditors, exchanging with “ Richards’Oa* zette,” who will copy or notice fully this 1 res* pectues, shall receive The Schoolfellow without further exchange. sovtii ei; n mrt ra l INSURANCE COMPANY. WM. M. MORTON, AG’T AT ATHENS. f IMIIS Company is now firmly established, jim 1 doing an extensive business. Risks w> . 1 taken not only in town**, but in the country, 0 Dwellings, Gin-liouses, Mills and Factories. The following parties are among the £?i° c holders of tho Company at this Agency: Asbury Hull, T. Bradford, Win W. Clarion* J. S. Linton, Albon Chase, Dr. 11. Hull. H en * Hull, Jr., li. L. Newton, Dr. E. R. M . * Lucas, S. J. Mays, Y. L. < L Harris, C. A J. Brady, George Pringle, M. E. *Mc t* r, D. Holmes Rev. TV. Hoyt, L. J LampKHb ITev. S. Landrum, J. J. Muggins, W. n '’V° ’ T. R. R. Cobb, Dr. C.M. Reeao, Green B. B*J“ j good. Win. C. Richards & Cos., and Win.* Morton. . , Parties, desiring to effect insurance on property in this vicinity, will make apph^®* 10 to the subscriber. WM. M. MORTOM• Athens, Nov. 2oth. 1645. I \ GENTS wnnted to canvas for tflis P a f K)r * A Add wee the Bdßkif.