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THE TRIUMPH OF OUR LANGUAGE.
BY REV. J AMES GILUOUXK LYONS, LLli.
Now gather all our Saxon bards,
Bet harps and hearts bo strung.
To celebrate the triumphs
Os our own good Saxon tongue;
For stronger far than hosts that march
With battle flags unfurl’d,
It goes, with Freedom, Thought and Truth,
To rouse and rule the world.
Stern Albion learns its household lays,
On every surf-worn shore.
And Scotland bears its echoing far
As Orkney’s breakers roar; ,
From Jura's crags, and Mona’s hills,
(t floats on every gale,
And warms, with eloquence and song,
The homes of Innisfail.
On many a wide and swarming deck.
It scales the rough wave’s crest,
.Seeking its peerless heritage,
The fresh and faithful West
It climbs New England’s rocky steeps.
As victor mounts a throne ;
Niagara knows and greets the voice.
Still mightier than his own.
It spreads where winter piles deep snows
On bleak Canadian plains,
And where, on Essequibo’s banks,
Eternal summer reigns:
It glads Acadia's misty coasts,
Jamaica’s glowing Isle,
And bides where, gay and early flowers,
On Texan prairies smile..
It lives by clear 1 tosoa’s lake,
Missouri's turbid stream,
Where cedars rise on wild Ozark,
And Kanzas’ waters gleam ;
It tracks the loud swift Oregon,
Through sunset valleys roll'd,
And soars where California brooks
Wash down rich sands of gold.
It sounds in Borneo’s camphor groves,
On seas of fierce Malay,
In fields that curb old Gauge’s flood.
And towers of proud Bombay ;
It wakes up Aden’s Hashing eyes.
Dusk brows and swarthy limbs;
The dark Liberian soothes her child
With English cradle hymns.
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Tasmania's maids are wooed and won
In gentle Saxon speech ;
Australian boys read Crusoe’s life
By Sydney's sheltered beach ; .
It dwells where Afric's south-most capes
Meet oceans bright and blue.
And Nieuvield’s rugged mountains gird,
The wide and waste Karoo.
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It kindles realms so fur apart,
That while its praise you sing,
‘l'luse lftay be clad with autumn's fruits,
And those with flowers of spring;
It quickens lands whose meteor lights
Flame- in an arctic sky,
And lands for which the Southern Cross
Hangs its orbed flies on high. *
It goes with all the pnophets told,
And-righteous kings desired.
With ail that great apostles taught,
And glorious (treeks admired.
With Shukspeare’s deep and wondrous verse,
And Milton s loftier mind;
With Alfred’s laws and Newton’s lore,
To cheer ami bless mankind.
Mark, as it spreads, how deserts bloom.
And error flies away,
As vanishes the mist of night
Before the star of day;
But,grand as are thu victories
Whose tnonuuients we see,
These are but the dawn which speaks
Os noontide yet to be.
Take heed, then, heirs of Saxon fame,
Take heed, nor once disgrace,
With a deadly petl or spoiling sword.
Our noble tongue and race.
Go forth prepared, in every clime,
To love and help each other,
Asid need not those who counsel strife
Who hid you smite —a brother.
Go forth, and jointly spiced the time
By good men prayed for long,
When Christian States, grown just and wise,
Will scorn revenge and wrong —
When earth’s oppressed and savage tribes
Shall cem-e to pine or roam,
All taught to prize these English words,
Faith. Freedom, Heaven and Home.
saaasisULAj'j'Y.
DIADESTE.
The Italian game of Diadeste, familiar
ized to the English public, some few’ years
back, bv Balfe’s Opera of that name, like
many other customs belonging to Southern
Europe, claims an Eastern origin. The
ladeste of the Arabs, like the Diadeste of
the Italians, consists of saying this watch
word every time you receive the slightest
trifle from the hand of your adversary, on
pain of a forfeit. De Balzac relates an
amusing anecdote on this subject, borrowed,
if we mistake Dot, from the German. \Ve
give it, however, as near as may be, in the
garb it has assumed in the hands of the
delightful French author.
An eastern philosopher had composed a
book, purporting to be a complete collect
ion of all the tricks that women put upon
their husbands, lovers, and mankind in
general, (we quote Balzac, and are wholly
(unanswerable for his want of gallantry,
Land lest he should himself fall into one of
numerous snares, he invariably car-
ried this precious vade mecum about his
person. One day, while travelling, he hap
pened to come upon an encampment of
Arabs. A young woman, seated “beneath
a palm-tree, no sooner caught sight of our
traveler, than she rose and invited him so
courteously to rest beneath her tent, that,
willy-nilly, he was fain to accept her oblig
ing offer. The lady’s husband was absent
at the moment. The philosopher had no
sooner thrown himself in luxurious ease
on a soft carpet, than his fair and gracious
hostess presented him with fresh dates and
an al-carasar full of milk. He could not
help remarking the delicate proportions of
the hands that offered these refreshments;
but in order to divert hisattention from the
involuntary effect produced by the-charms
of the young Arabian, whom he began to
mistrust as a dangerous syren, he took out
his book, and sedulously began to study
its pages. The fascinating creature, some
what provoked by such cool content, said
;n the most melodious tones imaginable—
“ Your book must be very interesting, as
it seems to be the only thing worthy to
clairr. your attention. Would it be indis
creet to inquire of what science it treats'?”
The philosopher replied with downcast
eyes: “The subject of the book is above
Ihe capacities of ladies.”
This refusal tended to excite only the
curiosity of the Arab, and she forthwith
began to make use of some of those tactics
of coquetry, the rudiments of .which are
just as familiar to those who dwell in tents
as to the more finiken inhabitants of pal
aces. She began by displaying the neatest
little foot that ever left print on the sand of
the Desert. The philosopher could not
help gazing on its diminutive proportions,
and insensibly his eye wandered from the
foot to the slender waist of his lovely hos
tess, till at length he raised his eyes to her
face, and nearly caught fire, as well he
might, from the flames emitted by the large
black sparkling orbs of the young beauty.
Again she repeated her question about
the book, and in so soft a voice, that the
philosopher, quite charmed, was fain to
answer thus—“l am the author of this
work, hut the materials are not my own,
since it contains an enumeration of every
artifice the female mind has invented.”
“What! every one!” inquired the child
of the Desert.
“Yes, every one. And it is only by a
constant study of women that I have been
enabled to cease fearing them ”
“Oh!” quoth the young Arab, some
what emphatically, as she dropped her long
lashes over her eyes for a moment;. and
then suddenly raising them with an im
passioned glance, she put to flight, “at one
fell swoop,” the pretended philosopher’s
theories, and he began to be as amorous as
if he had never penned his libelous book.
Thinking that he had detected a slight
tinge of coquetry in the young wife’s man
ners, the traveler ventured to become more
pressing. How, indeed, could human na
ture resist the temptation that was ottered
him ! The very air seemed to breathe of
love, and the young Arabian leaned her
head with a graceful motion, as if inclined
to listen to the stranger’s mode of making
love.
Tfie philosopher was beginning to flatter
himself that he had made some impression,
when the young woman, having caught
the sound of a horse that seemed to be gal
loping on the wings of the wind, exclaimed,
in dismay—
“We are undone! My husband will
surprise us. He is as jealous as a tiger,
and more implacable still! ... In
the name of the Prophet, and as you value
life, conceal yourself in this chest!”
The terrified author, seeing no alterna
tive for getting out of the scrape, was glad
to creep into the chest, which the woman
closed upon him, and then took away the
key.
She then flew to meet her husband; and
having put him into good humour by some
well-timed caresses, “1 must relate to you,”
said she, “a very singular adventure.”
“I am all attention my gazelle!” an
swered the Arab, sitting down, cross-leged,
on the carpet, according to the oriental
fashion.
“There came here, to-day, a sort of phi
losopher,” said she, “who pretends that he
has collected a book full of the tricks that
our sex is apt to play ; and this would-be
philosopher must needs make love to me.”
“Well!” said the Arab, impatiently.
“I listened to him,” continued she, with
the utmost coolness. “He is young, ex
tremely pressing, and , in short, you
came just in time to assist my staggering
virtue.”
At these words the Arab started to his
feet, like a young lion, and drew forth his
liangiar, with a howl of fury.
The philosopher, who had not lost a
word of this conversation, now consigned
his book, and all the women and men, too,
of Arabia Petrasa, to Aiimanes’ keeping
(or, in European parlance, to old Nick.)
“Fatime!” cried the husband, “unless
you would die this instant, answer me
plainly. Where is the traitor?"’
Frightened at the storm she had raised,
Fatime threw herself at her husband's feet,
and cowering beneath the naked blade, she
gave a hurried and timid look at the chest,
in order to give him to understand that it
was the receptacle for the contraband arti
cle he was in search of.
She then rose bashfully, and, in taking
the key from her belt, she presented it to
her jealous spouse; but just as he was
about to open the chest, the cunning crea
ture burst into a violent fit of laughter.—
Faroun stopped short, and cast a distrust
ful.glance at his wife.
“So at last, I’ve won my gold chain!”
j cried she, jumping for joy. “ Now, give it
| me, for you have fairly lost the Jadeste.
Another time, you will be more careful.”
The petrified husband let the key fall,
and presented the gold chain on his bended
knee to his beloved Fatime, at the same time
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promising to bring her all the jewels from
all lb* caravans that would pass within
the year, if she would only- give up play
ing such cruel pranks to win the ladeste.
Then, like a true Arabian, being somewhat
discomfited at the loss of a gold chain, even
though it was surrendered to his better
half, he again took horse, and took a ride
in the Desert, to grumble out his displea
sure, for he loved Fatime too well to let her
-ee he entertained the least regret for such
a bauble.
The young woman lost no time in ex
tricating the philosopher from the chesi,
where he lay more dead than alivej and
said to him gravely, “Most learned phil
osopher, mind you do not forget to put this
trick into your collection.’’
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From the Swamp Doctor.
PATENT TOOTH-PULLING.
I had just finished the last volume of
Wistar’s Anatomy, well nigh coming
to a period myself with weariness at
the same time, and with feet well braced
up on the mantle-piece, was lazily survey
ing the closed volume which lay on my
lap, when a hurried step in the front gal
lery aroused me from the revery into which
I was fast sinking.
Turning my head as the office door open
ed, my eyes fell on the well-developed pro
portions of a huge flatboatsman who en
tered the room wearing a countenance, the
expression of which would seem to indi
cate that he had just gone into the vine
gar manufacture with a fine promise of suc
cess.
“ Do you pull teeth, young one said
he to me.
“ Yes, and noses too,” replied I, finger
ing my slender moustache, highly indig
nant at the juvenile appellation, and brist
ling up by the side of the huge Kentucki
an, till 1 looked as large as a thumb-lancet
by the side of an amputating knife.
“You needn’t get riled, young doc, I
meant no insult, sarten, for my teeth are
too sore to ’low your boots to jar them as
I swallered you down. I want a tooth
pulled, can you manage the job ? Ouch !
criminy, but it hurts!”
“Yes, sir, 1 can pull your tooth. Is it
incisor, or a dens sapientise ? one of the
decidua, or ajpermanent grinder?”
“It’s a sizer, 1 reckon. It’s the largest
tooth in my jaw, anyhow, you can see for
yourself,” and the Kentuckian opening the
lower half of his face, disclosed a set of
teeth that clearly showed that his half of
the alligator lay above.
“A molar requires extraction,” said 1,
as laid his finger on the aching fang.
“A molar! well, I’ll be cus’t but you doc
tors have queer names for things ! 1 reck
on the next time I want a money-puss a
moleat will be extracted too ; ouch ! What
do you ax for pulling teeth, doc ! I want
to git rid of the pesky tiling.”
“ A dollar, sir,” said I, pulling out the
case of instruments and placing a chair for
him. ,
“A dollar! dollar h—ll ! do you think
the Yazoo Pass is full of kegs of speshy ?
I’d see you mashed under a hogshead of
pork ’fore I’d give you a dollar to pull the
thing;” and picking up his hat, which he
had dashed on the floor on his first entrance,
of! he started.
Seeing some fun in saore, I winked at
the rest of the students, whom the loudness
of our conversation had called from the
other rooms of the capacious office, and re
quested the subject to return.
“It’s no use, stranger; I’d squirm all
day fust ’fore I’d give you a dollar to pull
every tooth in my head,” said he.
“Well, Mister, times are hard, and I’ll
pull your tooth for half a dollar,” said I.
determined, if necessary, to give him pay
before 1 would lose the pulling of his
tooth. •
“You’ll have to come down a notch
lower, doc. I wants to interduce Kain
tuck fashions on a Southern sile; and up
thar, you can get a tooth pulled and the
agur ’scribed for, fur a quarter.”
“Well, but recollect, it’s harder to pull
teeth here than it is in Kentucky.”
“Don’t care a cuss; dimes is plentjer.
1 don't want to be stingy, though, doc, and
I’ll tell you what I’ll do. I feels sorter
bad from catin’ a mud-cat yesterday. I'll
gin you a quarter topullmy tooth, if you’ll
throw in a dose of castor ile.”
“It’s a bargain,” said I. “I couldn't pos
sibly afford to do it so low if I didn't man
ufacture my own oil, and pull teeth on
the ‘Mississippi patent plan,’ without the
least pain.
“Well, I’se struck a breeze of luck,sure,
to get it ’stiacted without hurtin’, for I
’spected it would make all things pop, by
hoecake.” And “all things did pop,”
certain, as the poor devil found to his sor
row, before the “Mississippi patent plan”
was over.
The room in which we were was the op
erating one of the office, where patients
were examined, and surgical operations
performed. It was furnished with all the
usual appliances of such an establishment.
In the middle of the room, securely fasten
ed to the floor by screws, was a large arm
chair, with head-board and straps, to con
fine the body and limbs of the patient
whilst the operator was at work, in such
cases as required it. On either side of the
house, driven into the wall, were a couple
of iron bolts, to which were fastened blocks
and pulleys, used when reducing old dis
locations, when all milder means had fail
ed. The chair, pulleys, and a small hand
vice were the apparatus intended to he used
by me in the extraction of the Kentucki
an’s tooth, by the “ Mississippi patent
plan.”
The patient watched all our preparations
—for f quickly let the other students into
the plan of the intended joke--with great
iuterest, and seemed hugely tickled at the
idea of having his tooth pulled without
pain for a quarter, and a dose of castor-oil
extra.
Everything being ready, we invited the
subject to take his seat in the operating
chair, telling him it was necessary, agree
ably to our mode of pulling teeth, that the
body and arms should be perfectly’ quiet;
that other doctors, who hadn’t bought the
right to use the ‘patent plan,’ used thepul
licans, whilst I operated with the pulleys.
I soon had him immoveably strapped to
the chair, hand and foot. Introducing the
hand-vice in his mouth, which, fortunate
ly for me, was a iarge one, I screwed it
fast to the offending tooth, then connecting
it with the first cord of the pulleys and in
trusting it to the hands of two experienced
assistants, I was ready to commence the
extraction. Giving the word, and singing,
“Lord, receive this sinner’s soul,” we pull
ed slowly, so as to let the full strain come
on the neck bones gradually.
Though I live till every hair on mv head
is as hollow as a dry skull, I shall never
forget the scene.
Clothed in homespun of the copperas
hue, impotent to help himself, his body im
moveably fixed to the chair, his neck grad
ually extending itself, like a terrapin’s
‘emerging from its shell, his eyes twice their
natural size, and projected nearly out of
their sockets, his mouth widely distended,
with the vice hidden in its cavity, and the
connexion of the ropd being behind his
cheeks, giving the appearance as if we had
cast anchor in his stomach, and were heav
ing it slowly home, sat the Kentuckian,
screaming and cursing that we were pulling
his head off without moving the tooth, and
that the torment was awful. But I coolly
told him ’twas the usual way the ‘Missis
sippi patent plan’ worked, and directed
my assistants to keep up their steady
pull.
I have not yet fully determined, as it
was the first and last experiment, which
would have come first, his head orthe tooth,
for all at once the rope gave way’, precipi
tating, without much order or arrangement,
the assistants inter the opposite corner of
the room.
The operating chair not being as secure
ly screwed down as usual, was uptorn by
the shock of the retrogade motion acquired,
when the rope broke, and landed the Ken
tuckian on his back in the most distantside
of the room ; as he fell, he struck the side
of his face against the wall, and out came
the vice, with a large tooth in its fangs.—
He raged like one of his indigenous thun
der-storms, and demanded to be released.
Fearing some hostile demonstration when
the straps were unfastened, we took occa
sion to cut them with a long bowie knife.
He rose up, spitting blood and shaking
himself, as if he was anxious to get rid of
his clothes. “H—l, Doc, but she’s a bust
er! I never seed such a tooth. I recoil no
common fixments would have fotch it; but
I tell you, sirree, it hurtawful; I think it’s
the last time the ‘Mississippi Patent Plan’
gets me in its holt. Here’s a five-dollar
Kaintuck bill, take your pay and gin us
the change.”
Seeing he was in such good humor. I
should have spared him, but his meanness
disgusted me, and I thought I would carry
the joke a little further. On examining his
mouth, I suddenly discovered, as was the
case, that I had pulled the wrong tooth,
but 1 never told him, and he had too much
blood in his mouth to discover it.
“Curse the luck,” 1 exclaimed, “by Ju
piter I have lost my bet. I didn’t break the
infernal thing.”
“Lost what?” inquired the patient, al
ternately spitting out blood, and cramming
in my tobacco.
“ Why, a fine hat. I bet the old boss
that the first tooth I pulled on my ‘Missis
sippi Patent Plan,’ I either broke the neck
of the patient or his jaw-bone, and I have
done neither. - ’
“ Did you never pull a tooth that way
before ? why, you told me you’d pulled a
hundred.”
“Yes, but they all belonged to dead men.”
“ And if the rope hadn’t guv way, I reck
on there’d bin another dead man’s pulled.
Cuss you, you’d never pulled my tooth if 1
hadn't thought you had plenty of ’speri
ence ; but gin me my change, I wants to be
gwine to the boat.”
I gave the fellow his change for the five
doilar bill, deducting the quarter, and the
next day, when endeavoring to pass it, 1
found we had both made a mistake. I had
pulled the wrong tooth, and he had given
me a counterfeit bill.
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transaction of any business .connected with Lit
erature, Science and Art. He will correspond
with authors concerning the publication of books
and pamphlets upon their own account, or other
wise ; execute any commissions for gentlemen
forming libraries; forward subscriptions for any
periodical work. American or European ; receive
and execute promptly commissions for any work
of Art; supply accurate estimates of the cost of
Philosophical Instruments, order them at his own
risk ana guaratee their efficiency.
All communications must be addressed, pre
paid, to WM. C. RICHARDS.
Charleston, Man. 2(i, 1850. ts
[CF* No charge will be made for any service re
quired by his brethren of the press, who will
oblige him by publishing this notice
PARK REDUCE* TO T WKfTI HOLLARS.
From Charleston to New York.
THE GREAT MAIL ROUTE, FROM
CHARLESTON, S. C,
LEAVING the wharf at the foot of Laurens st.
daily ut 3 p. u. after the arrival of the South
ern ears, via Wilmington and Weldon N. C.,
Petersburg, Richmond, to Washington. Balti
more, Philadelphia, and New York.
The public is respectfully informed that the
steamers of this line, from Charleston to Wil
mington, are in first rate condition, and are nav
igated by well-known and experienced command
ers, and the Railroads are in fine order, thereby
securing both safety and dispatch A Through
Ticket having already been in operation, will be
continued on and after the first of October. 1849,
as a permanent arrangement from Charleston
to New York. Passengers availing themselves
thereof, will have the option to continue without
delay through the route, or otherwise to stop at
any of the intermediate points, renewing their
seats on the lino to suit their convenience. By
this route travellers may reach New York on the
third day during business hours. Baggage will
be ticketed on board the Steamer to Weldon, as
likewise on the change of cars at the intermediate
points from thence to New York. Through
Tickets can alone bo had from E. WINSLf )W,
Agent of the Wilmington and Raleigb Railroad
Company, at the office of the company, foot of
Laurens street, to whom please apply For other
information inquire of L. CDI NIIAM,
Jan 1 At the American Hotel.
Papers advertising for the company are re
quested to copy.
3D)imgs amtfl. M©dl£©m®s,
Wholesale and Retail,
AXTGtTSTA., G3BO39LGX^
MYHE subscriber has on hand and is constant
a ly receiving large and well selected supplies
1 of
Drugs , Paints, Oils and Dye-Stuffs ,
to which the attention of Physicians and Mer
chants in the up-country and Tennessee, is partic
ularly invited.
The quantity of any article sold by us, is war
ranted to be of the purest quality, and the prices,
we pledge ourselves shall boas low, as those of
Charleston, or any other Southern market.
Special care is bestowed on the style of putting
up medicines The handsomest and most showy
labels are invariably used, and every pains taken
to render our articles attractive and salable.
Merchants, visiting the city, or passing through
are earnestly requested to come and examine our
stock, and prices. WM. H. TUTT.
Every Man His Ow n Physician!
A Popular Work on Family Medicine.
THE PLASTERS’ GUIDE,
AND
Family Kook ol’ Hlecliciiio,
I poll the instruction and use of Planters, Fam
-1 ilies, Country People, ami all others who
may be out of the reach of a Physician, or unable
to employ them. By Dr. J. Hume Simons. —
With a supplement on the treatment of Asiatic
Cholera, by a Charleston Physician.
The popularity of this book is attested by the
rapid sale of the first large edition, which induc
ed the publishers to stereotype the work, after a
careful revision, and they are now prepared to
supply any demand for it. It has been approved
by the ablest physicians, and is itself the result
of a long practice, and thorough observation of
disease in the south. The Medical Tables arc
arranged on a simple and original plan, and the
volume contains more matter in a small space
than any work of Domestic Medicine now in use
EVERY FAMILY IN THE SOUTH
should have a copy of this book, as it may fre
quently
Save both their Health and their Money.
It is published at the exceedingly low price of
$1,25, and a liberal discount made to the trade
or to agents
McCarter & allen.
Charleston, Jan. 26, 1850.
Medicines, Faints, Glass, &c.
HAVILAND, RISLEY & CO.
DEALERS IN CHOICE
DRUGS and Modicines. Surgical and Den
tal Instruments, Paints. Oils, Dye-Stuffs,
Window (Bass, Brushes, Perfumery, Fancy Toi
let and Shaving Soaps. Also Agents for the
most valuable Patent Medicines, Trusses, Den
tist's Gold Foil, Teeth, the Pekin Tea Compa
ny’s Teas, Rosendale Hydraulic Cement, Cal
cined Plaster Paris &e.
%* Having a very extensive stock which is
kept full and fresh by weekly additions or are
prepared to supply Planters. Physicians and the
Trade, in any quantities, and at very low prices.
Orders promptly attended to.
HA VILA ND, RISLEY & CO
Druggists, Augusta, Ga.
ALBERT HATCH,
Manufacturer of and Dealer in
Saddles, Bridles, Harness, Trunks,
Military, Equipments, life. Ifc. Ifc.
Broad Street, in Metcalf’s New Range,
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
“buenTvista house,
Rome, Georgia. - - - By Mrs. M. A. Choice,
ftCf— Carriages will be at the R. R Depot to car
ry passengers to the Hotel —free of charge.
SMITH “&PETEES,
100 JOHN STREET,
NEW YORK.
Importers and Manufacturers of Staple and Fan
cy Stationary. S. &P. with their facilities
in England, France and Germany, can offer
goods at the lowest prices.
I>, Is. PLUMB A €#*
Between IT. S. Hotel and P. O. corner,
Wholesale and Retail Dealers in —
Drugs. Medicines, Chemicals, Paints, &e.
Agent for Landreth’s Garden Seeds
THOMAS W. FUBmUcC
COMMISSION MERCHANT,
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
Continues to do business, and solicits consign
ments of produce. 33
JANIES A. A V. OKA V,
Wholesale and Retail Dealers in
Foreign, Fancy, Staple and Domestic
No. 298, Broad St.. Augusta, Ga.
They keep constantly on hand the choicest
and most fashionable Goods of the season, at the
lowest prices.
CHARLES CATLIN,
—Dealer in—
Fine Hatches, Jewelry,
Silver Spoons and forks, Plated L'astors,
Lamps, Girandoles, Fancy Goods, &c.
ALSO —Agents for Chickering's and Nunns &
Clarke’s Piano Fortes, which they scdl at the
lowest factory prices. Ai uusta, Ga.
PROSPECTUS
—OF—
h.xuh;ab.ms’
WEEKLY GAZETTE.
BEING anew and much enlarged scries of the
“Southern Literary Gazette,” the only
weekly Journal, South of the Potomac, devoted
to Literature and the Arte i general and de
signed for the Family Circle.
The Proprietor begs leave to announce that
on Saturday, the sth of May, he issued the first
number, for the second year, of this popular and
well established paper,—the name and form of
which he has changed, to enlarge the scope of it
observation, and to otherwise increase its attiae
tions.
Less exclusively devoted, than heretofore, to
Literature, the Arts, and Sciences,
it will be the aim of its Proprietor to make it,
n every respect,
A CHOICE FAMILY NEWSPAPER.
“as cheap as the cheapest, and as good as the
best!” Utterly discardiitg the notion that a
Southern journal cannot compete with the North
ern weeklies, in cheapness and interest,
RICHARDS’ WEEKLY GAZET’I E
shall be equal, in mechanical execution, to any
of them, and, in the variety, freshness ami value
of its contents, second to none. Its field will bo
tiie world, and it will contain, in its am, !e folds
Every Species of Popular Information.
Especial attention will be paid to t he subject of
SUHOLASTIC AND DOMESTIC EDUCATION.
Numerous articles, original and select,!,l, from
the best sources, will be published weekly, on
AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE,
and these departments, as, indeed, all othei s, will
be frequently
Illustrated with Wood Cuts I
Every number will contain careful and e pious
summaries of the latest
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC A h WSt
in Commercial, Civil. Political, and EccU. insti
cnl Affairs At the same time, there shall be
nothing in its columns that can be consider and ei
therPartizan or Sectarian.
The following distinguished writers will con
tribute to the Journal:
IV/. Gilmore Simms, LL. 1).,
Hon. Robert M. Charlton,
J. M. Legare,
T. Addison Richards, fist/.,
diaries Lantnan, Esq.,
Han. R. F. Farter,
Henry R. Jackson, Esq.,
Jacques Joumot,
Mrs. Caroline Lee Hen! ..
Mrs. Joseph C. Neal,
Mrs. Win. C. Richards,
Mrs. E. F. JEllett,
Miss Mary Rates.
Caroline Hon an/,
Mrs. C. W. Du Rose.
Miss C. W. Rat her,
besides many others, whose names are highly
esteemed in the “World of Letters.”
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Charleston, S. C.
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| J- the States of South and North Carolina,
Georgia, and Alabama.
Young men of good character and address can
make from SSOO to SIOOO per annum at the busi
ness. Apply, either personally or bv letter, to
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Charleston. January 12.
THE BEST AND CHEAPEST
JUVENILE MAGAZINE
In the I’nited States.
ON the 15th of January, 1850, was published
at Charleston, 8. C., the first number of
the Second Annual Volume of
THE SCHOOLFELLOW,
which has been pronounced by some of the ablest
Dresses and best judges, “ The best and cheapest
Juvenile Magazine in the United States.” The
success of this beautiful little work during its
first year has been so flattering that the Publish
ers have resolved to continue it and make it per
manent, and they therefore call upon parents,
tea; hers arid all interested in the rising genera
tion to aid them in their efforts to make the
Schoolfellow all that its most flattering judges -
have pronounced it *
It will be published in the same form us here
tofore and under the same editorial care ; and
will contain chiefly original articles from the
pens of Mrs. Caroline Gilman, Mrs. Joseph C.
Neal, Mrs. W, C. Richards, Mrs. ('. W. I)u-
Bose, Miss Tutliill, Caroline Howard, Miss C.
W. Barber, Clara Moreton. Maria Roseau, the.
Editor, and many other well known writers.
Its Pictorial Embellishments
will be more numerous and beautiful than be
fore ; it will be printed upon finer paper, and no
pains will be spared to make it a most charming
companion for all good girls ami boys. It will be
published on the fifteenth of each month, and
will make a volume of about 400 pages and 100
engravings,
Five copies will be sent to one address for $4 ;
Eleven copies for $8 * Twenty-three copies for
sls, and Thirty-two copies for S2O 1!
THE FIRST VOLUME,
beautifully bound in gilt muslin, will be furnish
ed in connection with the second Year for Two
Dollars. To clubs, it will*be supplied at One
Dollar for each copy.
All orders must be accompanied with the
cash —if by mail, post-j>aid.
Oc jr- Club? should be made up as early as prac
acble—and those wishing volume first, should
apply immediately, to
RICHARDS & WALKER,
Jan. 1, 1850. Charleston, S. C.
*** Editors copying this Prospectus, or ma
king suitable notice, shall receive a copy of the
work without an exchange. They will please
send marked copies of their papers containing it
to the “ Gazette.”
INSURANCE COMPANY
WM. M. MORTON, AG’T AT ATHENS.
THIS Company is now firmly established, and
doing an extensive business. Risks will be
taken not only in towns, but in the country, on
Dwellings, Gin-Houses, Mills and Factories.
The following parties are among the Stock
holders of the Company at this Agency:
Asbury Hull, T. Bradford, Win Vv. Clayton,
J. 8. Linton, Albon Chase, Dr. H. Hull, llenry
Hull, Jr., E. L. Newton, Dr. E. R. Ware, F.
Lucas, S. J. Mays, Y. L. G. Harris, C. B. Lyle,
A. J. Brady, George Pringle, M. E. McWhor
ter, D. Holmes, Rev. Dr. Hoyt, L. J Lumpkin,
Rev. 8. Landrum, J. J. Huggins, W. Baynon,
T. R. R. Cobb, Dr. C.M. Reese, Green B. Hay
good, Win. C. Richards & Cos., and Win. M.
Morton.
Parties, desiring to effect insurance on their
property* in this vicinity, will make application
to the subscriber. WM. M. MORTON
Athens. Nov. 25th, 1848. 290s
x.xrs-isrsuajj'cx
THE SOUTHERN
mutual Insurance Company
ARE now Issuing policies for life as well as tor
shorter periods.
Age. For I venr. For 5 years for lif<o
20 * 9,80 $ 10.40 $18,90
30 13,10 14,10 25,00
40 1T,50 18,50 83.80
50 23,40 25.20 48,30
Only three-fourths of these amounts paya
nble the first year.—All the profits nre anually
divided among the assured. Applications may
ba made personally or by letter to the agents o
to the actuery at Athens.
ABBURY HULL, President.
C. F. MoCAY, Actuary
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