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IP ©BITE hH. i 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. m 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. 9 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 il liaiii® WiEE&I ©a 31 Ilia 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.’’ if a 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. COSKERY, JANES & CO., WAREHOUSE AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS, [Old stand of Bryson, Coskery & Co.,] Campbell St., Augusta, Ga. <i. W. FERRY A CO., wholesale a retail HAT, CAP AND BONNET WARE-HOUSE, Broad Street, Augusta, Ga. WM, 11. TU I , Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Drugs, Medicines, Paints, Oils, Dye-stuffs CHEMICALS, &.C., dec., AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. SCRANTON, STARK & DAVIS, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, IVliolesalc Grocer*. Also, Dealers in Bagging, Hope and Twine, Nails, Iron, &c , for Planters’ Trade. PHILEMON A. SCRANTON, WILLIAM H. STARK. Charleston Business Directors. STEAM POWER-PRESS PRINTING. WALKER A JAMES, BOOK AND JOB PRINTERS, NO. 101, EAST BAY. Pamphlets, * Circulars, Catalogues, (/ A Show-bills \Ligir/iiip (URaggL—JcL J Programmes, Bill-heads. VvfeiPfK.•JW-y Leg. Blanks, Notices, Bk. Checks, NEATbY AND EXPEDITIOUSLY EXECUTED Aft ftMs ©MffiOo JDSHSIPIH —DEALER IN Paper , Stationery, and Account Books. Book Binding and Job Printing. Also, Agent for the sale of Type, Presses, and Printing Materials of all kinds, at New \ork prices, actual expenses only added. Constantly on hand, a large stock of Type, Bor ders. Brass Rule, Leads, &c ; also, Printing Paper and Printing Ink. MoCARTER & ALLEN, BOOKSELLERS & STATIONERS, Charleston , South Carolina. Have an extensive assortment of Law, Medical, Theological, School and Miscellaneous Books, which will he sold at the lowest rates! HARMONIC INSTITUTE. FERDINAND ZOGBAUM, IMPORTER OF Music hnd Mu sic al Instruments , King Street, sign of the Lyre, CHARLESTON, S. C. Also— Charles Zoobahm, Athens. Ga. GEO. OATEN, 234 and 236 King Street, (near the Bend,) Charleston. GEO. A. O ATES A CO., Broad Street, Augusta, Ga. Dealers in Piano-Fortes, Music and Musi cal Instruments, Books. Stationery , fyc. WELCH A HO AO Mt, Corner of Meeting street and Horlbeck's Alley, Charleston , S. C, Blank Books ruled to any pattern, and bound in the best manner. S. B. WELCH, w. E. HONOUR. JOHN S. BIRD & CO., Military, Looking-Glass and Fancy. Store, Sign of the Gold Spectacles, 223 & 225 King St., CHARLESTON, S. C. Mathematical and Surveyors’ Instruments, Spec tacles and Optical Instruments, of all kinds; Plated Castors, Candlesticks, Cake Baskets, &c.. &c. Oil Paintings and Engravings ; Picture Frames made to order, and old Frames re-gilt and made equal to new ; Glasses and Pebbles fitted to Spectacles, to suit all ages and sights. JOHN S. EIRD, J. M. TAYLOR, C. H. BIRD. CHARLESTON HOTEL, BY D. MIXER, CHARLESTON, S.C. This establishment hits been entirely remodeled and refitted in the most elegant manner. PAVILION HOTEL, BY H. L. BUTTERFIELD. Formerly of the Charleston Hotel, CHARLESTON, S. C. ©aMalaiimdls <& 3Hl®w©Jl]l, Importers and Dealers in Foreign and Domestic Dry Goods, No 7, Hayne Street, Charleston, S. C. GROCERIES, FRUITS, (TtGARS, fe. IN. HE. PORTER, (late W . L . 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They have also a fine supply of CENTRE, SIDE AND SUSPENSION SOI.AR LAMPS, made by Cornelius & Cos., the best in the world. Atlanta, Ga , Feb. 10, 1848. o.s. J A HIES M’PHEKSO* A CO., DEALERS IN Musical Instruments, Fancy Goods, Paper-Hangings, Maps, 4 ■ &<•., ATLANTA. GEORGIA. (.<)ULD, KENDALL <fc LINCOLN, BOOKSELLERS and STATIONERS, No. 59 Washington Street, Boston. Ttbocrtiannenta. GENERAL AGENCY Iu Literature, Art and Science. At the Office of Richards’ Weekly Gazette , CORNER OF BROAD ST. AND EAST BAY, [Up Stairs,] CHARLESTON, S. C THE undersigned, Editor of Richard's Week ly Gazette, begs leave to inform the public that he has opened a General Agency for the 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. 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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. 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