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s/t u / / .>*■ / / THE GEORGIA TELEGRAPH AND REPUBLIC. OLIVER H. PRINCE -PUBLISHED WEEKLY-** Editor <fc P r o p r f e t o r. JVEVV SERIES—VOL. II. NO. 8. MACON. TUESDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER 18, 1845. WHOLE NUMBER 997. TELEGRAPH & republic. l3 published every Tuesday morning BY 0. H. PRINCE, three dollars per annum. ^VARIABLY IN AD VANCE . nVBRTISBMENTS nre inserted »l SI OO per for the tirst i |,,erl i° n > and 3® ccn»» per square for insertion thereafter. \rea-nnablc deduction will be made to those who odrer- li*£k>'^'"u" Sales of LANDS, by Administrators. Execn- ^ fl«»rJien«. are required by law. to be held on the t** Tuesday in ue month, between the liours of ten In the n f5t 1 an d three in the nfternoon. at the Court-house, in V re !!^ntv in which the land is situated. Notice of these i.Tmusl be given in a public gazette SIXTY DAY'S pre- " the day of sale. ,|(l . I of NEGROES must be made at a public auction v.fir.t Tuesday of the month, between the usual haura *? at the place or public sales in the county where the ! . ..oftenameniarv. of Administration nr Guardianship, ,etl t,»e been granted, first giving SIXTY DAYS notice inajhav .-,i e public emetic of this Stale, and at the" f^fthe^unt^^. where such sales are to be held. A Na“i f ce h forthe sale of Personal Property most be given ih 1 ..*' al,cc „ FORTY days previous to tnedny of sale. *'Nitd*®” 0 ** 1 ® l)eblors ani1 Cred!,ors ° r an es,ate must be published FORT\ d‘ > made to the Court of Or- LAND, must be published for ^Vodce^for*te»v«M* tell NEGROES must he published -FOUR MONTHS, before any order absolute shall be “nUTWSs’foHetm^ o U f Adminis; ration, must be publish- Aav*—for dism'-aion fco» administration.month. *“ J* lantli—fur disss' -siOn from Guardiaaship, forty ^‘lfuLIS for the foreclosure of ilortgnpe rilusl be published for four monlla—for establishiilglosi papers .for 7. fall apace of three montha—for compelling titles from Fieeotors or Administrators, where h Hoad lias been givbn bv^he deceased, the falt trace of three months Fabliettions will always he continued according to these, the legal requiremenU.nn' ess otherwise orderb'd. '•IEMITTANCES PY MAIL.—‘A postm.-Ulermay en due money in a letter to the publisher of tl Newspaper, to subscription ofa third persrfn, and fr'dnk the letter if written by himself.”—.-fme-. Kendall. F. M. O. POETRY. THE MAIDEN’S PRAYER. BT JOII5 O. WIlITTIEFt. She ro$e from her delicious sleep, And put away her soft brown hair/ And in a tone as low and deep As Iore # A first whisper, breathed a prayer, Her snow white hands together pressed/ Her blue eyes sheltered in the lid, The folded linen on her breast, Jtfst swelling tt'ffh the charms it hid, And from her long and flowing dress Escaped a bare and snowy foot, Whose step upon the earth did prresi Like a enow flake, white and mute: And then from slumbers soft and warm. Like a young spirit fresh from heaven. She bowed that slight and matchless form, And humbly prayed to be forgiven. O, Crod! if scifls tmsorled as there, Need daily mettjf from thy throne; If she upon her bended knees— Our holiest and purest one; She with a face so pare and br/giff. We deem her some stray child of light; If she with those soft ejes in tears. Day after day. in her young years, Must kneel and pray for grace from Thee, What far, far greater need have we T How hardly, if she win not heaven. Will our wild errors be forgiven 7 mug3 ©ES3JW, Fnaliionnblc Drew Making Eulnl»lli*fcnien*. Malhtrry Street, orer John /.. Jones' Start. Orde-s for DRESSES. RIDING HABITS. *. ic.exe. rated in the latest and most fashionable style, and atti.e shortest notice.. J. L. JONES & CO. CLOTHING STORE. lies/aide Mulberry Street, next doorielotc theBigllat 71 .ICON. wi. BEARING & SON'S, COMMISSION MERCHANTS, CHARLESTON. S. C. September 1,1845. 49 Cm MEDICAL NOTICE; T\U.T. A. PARSONS has returned to thfc city.ritid has XI resumed the duties of his profession. Office at hi. dwelling, brick bouse, two doors above the Meitiodis Church Jan. SI. 1845. REMOVAL. O R, ItOI.T has removed to the residence recently occupied by U. H. Moultrie, where he maybe found at ni"ht: and in the day, at his office over Mess'* W'insliip & Po pc’s store. Macon, April iG. 33 tf WINFREY L. SIIOCKLEV, attorney at law, Will practice in the following Counties : UPSON, HOUSTON, PIKE. BIBH. MONROE, BALDWIN, BUTTS. JONES. CRAWFORD. TWIGGS, All business entrusted to his rare will meet with prompt intention. Office n Dr. Thomson's building,opposite Floyd House, M.con, Georgia. May 5,1843. 34 tf FLOYD HOUSE. MACON, GA. THE Subscriber, in announcing to liis friends and the public, by whom lie has been so liberally pitronised, his continuance of the above Establishment, begs leave to assure them of his determination to sustain the well LIFE’S SUNNY SPOTS. ET THE L ATX IVILLIAM LEGGETT. Though life’s a dark and thorny path, Its goal the silent tomb. It yet some spots of sunshine bath, That smile amid tliegloom; The friend, who weal and wo partakes, Unchanged what.’er his lot, Who kindly soothes the heart that aches, Is sure a sunny spot.' The wife who halfour burden bears. And utters not a moan; Whose ready hand wipes off our tears, Unheeded all her own ; Who treasures every kindly word, Each harsher one forgot, And carols blithely as a bird— She’s too. a sunny spot. The child who lifts, at morn and eve. In prayer its liny voice ; Who grieves whene’er its parents grieve And joys when they rejoice. In whose bright eye young genius glows, Whose heart without a blot, I* frfcsh and pure as summer’s rise, That child's a sunny spot. There’s yet upon life’s weary road, One spot of brighter glow, Where sorrow half forgets its load And tears no longer flow t Friendship may wither, love decline, Our child bis honor blot; But still undimm’d that spot will shine— Religion lights that spot. tMblishrd reputation of his bouse. Instead of a falling ofl works of OUT day, it IS Said, ‘‘It is a fatal ffift : there shall he n progressive improvement; and ll a liberal c , , . _ . ... ° , Milty,a well furnished table, with every delicacy ibis mid other markets ran supply; clean beds, comfortable rooms, Ittentive servants, and the will to please and accommodate "hi merit patronage lie expects to obtain it B. 8. NEWCOMB. Oct. 7, 1843. 3—tf. Federal Union please copy. WASHlYCxTOY IIILL, MACON, CA. T HE undersigned have bought nut the in terest of Mr. St. Lanier in this well known eslabliahment, and design making it worthy of the liberal patronage it has liereto- i lore obtainrd from the public. Every exer tion will be made to make the sojourn of either the perms- •eat or transient boarder pleasant and agreeable. The •leaping apartments are comfortable arid commodious, and filed dp with neat and clean furniture. The tables will be furnished with every luxury our own market, nrid those of etr.iantb can supply; ami no efforts spared to make the •aaie deserving u! public pa' ronrge. MOTT Ac NEWCOMB. .October 7.1813. S—tf -Yen Fireproof Wave-Ho use. MACON\ GEORGIA. riHIE underlined Having fcrbctcri a I Fire Proof W’aie House, situated at the head of Cotton Avenue, tender* hi/i services to his friends and the public gen- ^ - crally for the storage of COTTON and MERCHANDISE, and the transaction of Commission Riisincss taal! its branches, pledging himself to use every exertion to promote the UUeresis of, and reader satisfaction to, those *ko may confide business to his charge. ■ The storage and sale of Cotton will be under the dircc- and control of Mr. John Jones, who has long been known io the Ware-House business, and will give nanicu- Jtr attention to the sale of Cotton End the filling ot orders wfoods. Liberal advances will be made on Cotton in otpra or to be shipped. RAGGING, ROPE, AND TWINE. 'tether with any other articles, wi'l be furnished custo ktrs at the lowest mniket price. N. B. Storage and Commissions at customary rates. IS—33—If JERRY I’OWLK^ WILLIAM T. WILSON, WARE-HOUSE .f COMMISSION MERCHANT M\cox, Georgia. THE aadmignej having rented the Ware-House recently occupied by J. B. II088,(nearly opposite Mr. J. M. Field's Ware-House.) is prepared to receive Cot- , 1 ton in Store. His personal attention will be ®*voted to the business. All orders promptly attended to. ^D^axces will be made on Cotton in store. /le solicits the M^rcnsgcof his friemfs and the pubhe. Very Uesipectfullv. . W. T. WILSON. ^econ, October 14.18-15. 3 tf SCOTT. CAUIIAUr At CO* Merchants and factors, CONTINUE to keep on hand their usu al stock of Groceries, Ac., which they will ell at the lowest market prices. Advances mode on Cctton or Merchan* -.^"^^■^^dise consigned to them. jDntfo e first of October next, they will remove to the Fite J. 00 * Brick Si'irr^. i,n Third Street, between Graves, ' & Co., and Ren «fc Cottons’. -~j* r ° ii - August 13. i84.',. 47 3m BENNETT BELL, ^REHOUSE and commission merchant, EAST MACON, •‘Podictlu! (’ruiriil Kail Konrf Drsot. 7“ Having leased the Store and Ware* j House, formerly occupied by Henry K- Carter, would respectfully tender his sec vices to Planers and others and will Mrr-i , promptly attend t<» the receiving of Cotton .Cw i , ;r::\^ «h,* s r a «. P ‘ ,fr iro.lu^ 1 '*' f* r * ona l attention to selling Cotton or "fe£vS,^!o;N^'ytk" n,i 5, ' ip,,ine CoMon Wl1 ?' ve aaiiafaction to all who atlcon 1 1,h *heir business. 19tf for when possessod in its highest quantity and strength, what has it ever done for its votaries? What were all those great poots of whom we talk so much ? What were they in their life time ? The most miserable of their species, depressed, doubtful, obscure, or involved in petty quarrels and persecutions; often unap- predated, utterly uninfluenti&l, beggars, flatter ers of men, unworthy of their recognition.— What a train of disgustful incidents—what a record of degrading circumstances, is the life ofa great poet?” This is too true a picture; still, what docs it prove but that this earth is no home for the more spiritual part of our nature —that those destined to awaken our highest as pirations, anil our tenderest S3’mpatliies, are victims rather than votaries of the divine light within them? They gather from sorrow its sweetest emotions; they repent of hope but its noblest visions; they look on nature with an earnest love, which wins the power of making her hidden beauty visible, and they reduce the passionate, the true, and the beautiful. Alas! they themselves are not tvhat they paint; the low want subdues the lofiy will; the small and present vanity interferes with the far and slo- rious aim, but still it is sometning to have look ed beyond the common sphere where they were faicd to struggle. They paid in themselves the bitter penalty of not realizing their own ideal; but mankind nave to be thankful for the gene rous legacy of thought and harmony bequeath ed by those who were among earth’s proscribed and miserable beings. Fame is bought by happinesst BOTTOMLESS LAKES; Near the summit of a mountain in Portugal, in the province of Beirtt, is situated the lake Esurn, the waters of which are ofa dark green ish hue. Although no fishes have been seen in this lake, yet, frequently, fragments of ships, such as broken mast, spars, &c., have been found floating on it, though inland as is its po sition. This curcumstantte has very natural ly led to the belief that it communicates with the ocean by some subterraneous pas- sage—a belief which has been still further strengthened from the fact, that the face of the lake becomes either rough or smooth as the ocean is found to be agitated or calm; and, al so, that during stormy weather it produces a rumbling noise, which may be heard at a dis tance of six or eight miles. It is a notorious fact, that to the present day though frequently tried by the curious, its bottum hes not been discovered. At a short distance from Rosi- nere, in Switzerland, a remaikable spring is known to arise from the centre of a natural basin of more than thirteen square feet in its area. Of the power which operates on it, we may form some conception when it is known to force, with much violence, a column of water of eighteen feet circular, far above its surface. Although tried by the most ingenious and per severing virtuosos in natural ph losophy, its c/eptlr has not yet been ascertained ; thus leav ing to conjecture the only plausible conclusion that this spring is the outlet of some accumula ting subterraneous Jake which has no other issue for its wntepf, A GEM. Site died in beaut;!—like a rose Blown from its parent stem J Site died in beauty!—-like the pearl Dropped from some diadem; She died in beauty!—like a lay Along a moonlit lake; flhe died in beauty!—like the seng Of birds amid the breke; She died in beauty! — like the snow On flowers di 4 lived away; She died in beauty like a star Lost rii the brow of day. THE PRICE OF FAME. In one of the most original and thoughtful Frtim Bicknelta Reporter. Olr Cowntrv and its Resources-*-C&Hort, Hay, Corn, Rice, Aye.—A very useful little volume might be prepared under this title.— The progress of our country within the last half century has been ntost extraordinary.— Villages, towns and cities have sprung up as ir by magic. The mighty work, too, is still on* ward. We arc increasing in population and resources at a more rapid pace than any of the civilized nations of the earth. Our nation is yet a new one, as compared with most of those of the old world. We can date back but a few years—but what has been accomplished in that brief time? Our population now amounts to something like 20,000,000, while our rank as a nation is certainly enviable. Our resources too, in coal, in cotton, in iron, in tobacco, in grain, and the many other products that are found in or extracted ftom Mother Earth, are indeed most valuable. Tlie Cotton Culture is of itself the great modern agricultural wonder. Alluding to this staple, an intelligent correspondent of the New ^ ork Gazette, states that the first cotton expor ted from America, was in 1791, which consist ed of 189,316 lbs. taken from Virginia to Eng land. In 1792, the quantity was 138,328 lbs. 1794,1,601,760; 1795,5,27*6,300; 1837,444,- 211,537 lbs. In 1831, there were in 12 of the United States, 795 mills in which were 1,246,- 503 spindles, and 33,506 looms. 77,517,316 lbs. cotton were consumed, and 67,862,652 lbs. yarn produced. In these factories were em ployed 18,539 males and 38,927 females, or together 57,466. Their wages amounted to SI0,294,444. In 1834, the amount of cotton produced in the world was in round numbers, 900,000,000 lbs., which quantity 460,000,000 lbs., or more than half, were produced in the United States. In the same year, the capital employed in con nection with growing cotton in the United Slates, amounted to 8800,000,000. The num ber of persons employed was 1,000,000. Notwithstanding all that lias been said of the great value of our cotton crop, it is only about half the value of the hay crop. The quantity of cotton produced in the United States in 1840, was 747,660,090 lbs., and the amount of hay 15,419,S07 tons. Cotton was first manufactured in England, in 1641; from 1700 to 1705, the average annu al import of cotton into Great Britain, was 1,- 170,881 lbs. Tlie value of all tlie cotton man ufactures in 1670, was about .£200,000. The number of persons engaged in spinning cotton in Great Britain in 1817, was 110,763 —steam engines were employed to the extent of 20,768 horse power. The number of spin dles in motion was 6,645,833, and the number of hanks of yarn produced was 3,9S7,500,000. Tho quantity of coal consumed in their produc tion was 500,479 tons. The value of the cotton manufactured in Great Britain in 1836. was estimated at the enormous sum of £34,000,000, of which amount was paid tor tho raw material, a£7,000,000 Wages of workmen, &c. 23,000,000 t’rofits, 4,000,000 the United States and they wilt recognise them selves as still belonging to the United Sidles.—- Let this mail, moreover, be extended regularly across tlie Pacific, and like the leading wing among birds of passage, a countless flock will surely follow. Soon will Columbia river have her fleets and the swarthy skins of the east— our new “far west,” become familiar in fhd spreading streets of our Pacific emporium.-—- Oregon is becoming populous, in three years its trade will be an “object;” every facility extend ed to the emigrant will be repaid a thousand fold, and a monthly mail to the coast of Asia will make the mouth of Columbia liver a centre, to from which profitable consequences, commer cial and political, will radiate most luminously The route from this to Oregon, as is known, may be travelled at all seasons of the year—- the expense is nothing; a contract for steam con veyance over the Pacific, may be effected at mijst reasonable rate; China would soon be within seventy-five dnys travel of New York and the speed of Whitney be urged with re doubled energy to make the time still less. It is, perhaps, a too frequently used spur to exer tion, but “if England wore in our place,” &c —St. Louis Reveille. An English publication gives the following of the Lord Steward, or head cook, of Queen Victoria's Royal household, for one year. It is worth looking at Bread, Butter, Bacon, Cheese, and Eggs, Milk and Cream, Butcher's meat, Poultry, Fish, Groceries, Oil, Fruit and Confectionary, Vegetables, Wine, Liquors, &c., Ale and Beer, Wax Candles, Tallow Candles, Lamps, Fuel, Stationary, Turnery, Braziery, China, glass, «fcc. Linen, Washing table Linen, Plate, $10,000 25,000 7,000 47,000 18,000 10,000 22,000 8,650 8,350 2.400 24,000 9,000 14,050 9.400 3,300 23,350 34,100 4,100 1,700 4.400 6,550 4,450 15,500 1,750 £34,000,000 This immense business afforded subsistence for 1,400,000 persons. The same intelligent writer gives the follow ing brief and comprehensive view of the com parative value or the different crops in the Uni ted States in IS40. as follows : Indian corn, 8207,309,153; Hay, $138 778.- 263; Wheat. SS0,000.000; Cotton, $74,766,- 004; Oats, $30,482,492; Potatoes, 826,439,- 039; Sugar, 87.5S4.088; Rice, S2,996,374; Burley, Sl.610,261; Rye. 817,563,062; Buck wheat, say 84,000,000; Tobacco, 85,571,960; and Flax, Hemp, Silk, and Wine, §1,000,000. Curious Sub-Marine Substante.—John L. Dimmock, Esq., president of the Warren In surance company, (Boston,) has at his office a very curious specimen of the wonderful oper ations of the sea upon substances deposited up on its bottom. It is a concreted mass of sub marine substances, such as various shells, &c., united with the solidity and weight of stone, from which are protruded several silver Span ish milled dollars. This is part of a large quan tity which has been recently taken up from the place whore the Spanish ship San Pedro was blown up, February 11th, 1815. An enter prising company fitted out the brig Frances Amy, Capt. Binney, from Baltimore, for the recovery cf the money known to have been on board the Spanish ship at the time of her de- struction. Wc are happy to hear that the at tempt has so far proved successful, that they have raised and brought home over $27,000— nearly all of which was in tlie same state as the specimen of which we have here spoken.— Among other curious formations which were raised in the course of the search, we learn that a single cannon-ball was brought up with thirty dollars firmly embedded in it. Some of the solid masses of rock and shells, on being broken open, were found to contain rows of dollars, as if they bad remained there in the same order in which they came from the boxes in which they were originally packed. This property is now brought into use again; dfter having lain thirty years on the bottom of the ocean, subject to all the wonderful changes incident to such a situation.—Boston Atlas. $316,500 Ncy's father, who loved him tenderly as the son of his pride and the g'ory of his name, was never told of his ignominious death. He was at this time eighty-eight years of age, and lived to be a hundred years old. He saw by the mourning weeds on his family that some catas trophe had happend, and his father’s heart told him too well where the bolt had struck; but he m->d« no inquiries, and, though lie lived twelve years after, never mentioned his son’s name and was never told of his fate. “Talcc my Hat. u — An enthusiastic New Yorker lately made a visit to the Lakes,and after witnessing a storm on old O.itario found himself safe and sound on the btink of the mighty cata ract. What he did there is thus related by the Rochester American: “Outlie morning of our arrival, we proceeded to the American fall, not a word was said by our companion. We next went to the horse shoe fall, and after gazing for some minutes up on its untold sublimity, each seemed anxious to hear an expression from our hero. He stood like a statue, perfectly motionless. I saw the blood rushing to bis head. His eyes and face assumed a ntost fearful expression. I started towards him—not a liltie alarmed, and was about to take his arm, when he suddenly raised his hand to bis head, violently throwing its cover ing into tlie cataract, exclaiming ‘there—take my hat." Characteristic of tkt Alan.—We are in formed by a gentleman, who wa3 an officer un der General Jackson, during the attack on New Orleans, and an eye witness, of the following: ‘•On the memorable 28th December, the Gener al repaired to one of the forts, with an eye ex pressing the great mind of the man, when he coolly exclaimed, ‘My boys you see the enemy is advancing on us in two solid columns, to the right andj left; now recollect you are to bury them in the ditch, or die yourselves.’ This was immediately cheered and passed along the whole line. The enemy lay dead in the ditch, while the Americans had but few, if any, killed and some three or four wounded.”—Baltimore Republican. THE TARIFF. And able writer in tho Union, in a series of essays, has shown the iniquitous operation of the tariff* in all its bearing. His last commu nication however is particularly forcible, and contains facts which we have often dwelt upon, bftt canrrot too frequently be laid before fhfe piny- pie. These demorrstrate that the present tariff discriminates in favor of the ntaYidfacturer against the producer of the raw mateiial, and also in favor of the rich against the middling classes and poor—fhat it taxes labor and ex- j exempts capital, and thus tends to build up an | aristocracy founded upon money and chartered | privileges. i We shall condense into as brief a eompnss as possible the array of cases by which these positions nre sustained. 1. The present tariff discriminates itt favor piiil a NTimorY of abolitionism. We lintfe been favored wi:!; an extract from a private letter written by Dr. R. T. Brown, of Indiana, to his brother, the Hon. VViliittm J. Brown, /n’-rnber of the last Congress. It will soon be a serious question with the labors mg classes of the Northern and Middle State* to inquire into llie purpose and design of the abolition faction, .and the result they have hr view in the event of their success. Wheft it will be shown that the success of abolitionism Would Create inevitably a pinching competition between black labor and white labor, and con taminate tlie industrious and laboring classes of the North by a revolting admixture of the black element, those philanthropic politicians in this State who opposed the annexation of Texas, will he as ready to denonnee tlie abolition movement, as they we're to Welcome the ' I me star” afier exercising all their trickery to pre vent its addition to our galaxy? r You arc in <r fair way to have the Capitol tlooded with abolition petitions, in one f <rm or of the manufacturer, against the producer of j another, Well, I am opposed to slavery in the raw material, who is the agriculturist. j principle and practice. But I am as much op- In the first place, it admits, duty free, or with very light duties, a large class of articles used in manufactures, while it Imposes very heavy duties on all articles consumed by the agricul turist, which come in competition with the arti cles produced by the manufacturer. It admits all berries, nuts, and vegetables; and, in dying, all dye-woods in the stick, bnril- la, Brazil wood, kelp, lac dye, madder, madder root, crude saltpetre, shellac, sumarc, tumpric, j and numerous other articles entering into man- ufac'ures, duty free. Indigo pays a specific ■ posed to the white slavery as it exists in the N- rtiiern States, as I am to negio slavery in tlie South. Is ibers not philanthropy enough in tlie South to form a society for the abolition of Northern slavery? The system of lured labor as it exists in the Eastern and M i- die, and even in some parts of the Western States, op erates tu reduce those who are the subjects of it ton con Jition which the slaves of tbe South should not cnvy< Cfur abolition knights re commend (lie system of ‘hired labor’ to thu planters of the South, as a matter of economy, duty of five cents per pound, which is equal to j avowing that it is cheaper than the labor of the an ad valorem duty of six per cent. And | slave- Admit this,- and tbe conclusion follows United Stales Overland Mail to China.— We perceive by the eastern journals, that Government has received proposals for a month ly mail to Oregon, the cost of which is estima ted at two hundred dollars per trip, to Oregon city and back to St. Louis. These proposals contain the germ of a great undertaking, no less than that of an Overland Mail to China; for should this monthly communication, with the most remote of our territories, be authorised, the Jiue of communication could at once, and with comparatively little trouble and expense, be ex'e ded to Asia. A few clipper built pro pellers sent round to our Pacific coast, would find active and profitable employment in the trade between the Columbia, the Sandwich Isl ands and China, which is annually increasing in importance. By this means a communication would be established between our country and the Atlantic Continent, which would afford us direct intelligence, more frequently and rapidly that is now obtained through tho accustomed channel. We make tho suggestion with duo defer ence, but, at present, it appears to us not only feasible and desirable, but (as far as Oregon is concerned) imperatively called for. Already do the emigrants feel themselves as in a foreign land. Already is a separate government talx- fd of. Let them receive a monthly mail from Evidences of Feeling.—Oh ! how I detest your sentimental people, who pretend t.o be full of feeling; who will cry over a worm, yet treat real misfortune with neglect. There are your fine ladies that I have seen in a dining room, and when, by an accident a ear-wig has come out of a peach, after having been half killed in opening it, she would exclaim, “Oh, poor thing! you have broken its back; do spare it; I can’t bear to see even an insect suffer. Oh, there, my lord, how you hurt it; stop, let me open the window and put it out.” And then the husband drawls out, “My wife is quite remarkable for her sensibility; I married her purely for that.” And the wife cries, “Oh, now, my lord, you are too "ood to say that; if I had not had a grain of feelin?» I should have learnt it from you.”— And so they go on, praising each other; and, perhaps, the next morning, when she is getting into her carriage, a poor woman, with a child at her breastj and so starved that she has not a drop of milk, begs charity of her, and she draws up the glass, and tells the footinan another time not to iet those disgusting people stand at the door.—Lady Ulster Stanhope’s Memoirs. A Spider Catching Fish.—Tlie following cui 'otis occurrence was witnessed by an artist, a friend of ours, says the Fittsburg Chronicle* while taking a sketch a few miles distant from this city, last week. It strikes us a curious and novel incident in the natural history of tlie spi der. Our friend had seated himself beside a char limpid pool, fed by a small stream, and was carelessly casting small fragments of some cake upon the water, which tho numerous fi>h were jumping at with greedy voracity. All at once he observed a large spider creeping down ihe limb of a tree which extended into the wa ter, as one of tho numerous fish came to the top for a crumb of the cake, the spider seized it with great dexterity and carried it safeiy to the shore, notwithstanding the fish was at lenst an inch and a half in length.— Charleston Transcript. ■ bleaching powder pays a duty of one cent per pound. The articles above enumerated, and many others, are admitted without any or with very slight duties, in order to benefit or “protect” the manufacturer. While tbe agriculturists, and others who purchase them are taxed on all articles of manufacture coming in competition with domestic articles of the same kind, from 30 to 300 per cent. To benefit tbe manufacturer, tbe low-pri ced wool—the only wool which comes in com- j petition with that raised by the American woolgrowor—is admitted at five per cent ad- valorem. While the farmer who raises wool, has to pay for the cloth into which it is manu factured, 40 per cent. To benefit the manufacturer, flax is admit ted at a specific duty of $20 per ton, which is equal to 8 per cent, ad valorem ; which the consumer is laxed 25 per cent, on all articles into which it it is manufactured. Raw hides, which Como in competition with the farmer, are admitted at the trifling duty of per cent ad valorem ; while the sole leath. er, into which they are manufactured, pays a specific duty of 6 cents per pound—equal to an ad valorem duty, according to the Treasu ry returns, of 53 per cent. Linseed pays a duty of only 5 per cent., while linseed oil, into which it is manufactured, pays 25 cents per gallon—equal to 43 per cent ad valorem. Rags pay a specific duty of 1-4 of a cent per pound—equal to 6 per cent ad valorem : while the paper into which they are manufac tured pays from 3 cents to 17 cents specific— equal to an ad valorem duty ranging from 16 to 97 per cent. 2. The present tariff discriminates in favor of the rich consumer, against the poor consu mer—in other words, it imposes the lightest duty on the articles consumed by the rich, the heaviest duty npon those consumed by the poor; thus exempting capital, and taxing labor. A few examples must suffice. It taxes the rich man but 31 to 34 per cent, on his fine Wilton carpet,-while it makes the man in mid dle life pay from 46 to 99 per cent, on h<s com mon ingrain carpet. It taxes the rich woman but 30 per cent, on her fine French muslin dress, while it taxes the poor woman as high as 160 for her aheap cal ico. It taxe3 the rich man only 14 cents per yard, on his fine flannel, which costs in E nglanti 31 cents, which is equal to a duty of 40 per cent, ad valorem; while it taxes tlie poor man 14 cents per yard on his coarse flannel, which cost in England only 14 cents, being equal to an ad-valorem duty of 100 per cent. It taxes the rich silk dress worn by the lady of fashions but 22 per cent.; while it taxes the poor woman for her silk dress, made of the poorest and cheapest material, 42 per cent. It taxes the sad-iron of the poo r washer-wo- man from 80 to 150 per cent.; the hatter’s and tailor’s irons from SO to 150 per cent.; and the farmer, for his axes, hoes, shovels, spades and chains, from 30 to 175 per cent.; while it taxes irresistibly, that the hired laborer root ivrs less compensation for a given amount of labor than the slave, who gets his food,- clothing, and pro tection. A late writer on political economy has presented us with the cheering prospect of speedily escaping the ‘curse of slavery’ by the inevitable laws of population;’ demonstrating that when the population of » country arrives f t a certain density, slavery is bat.idled by the free competition of 'hired Iubor.’ A common- sense version of all this is, that no n an will om a slave and become responsible for his maintenance, because he can proci.fe the same amount of labor done by hiring f.t a less ex pense than the support of a slave! And just i.i the proportion that free labor becomes cheap er than slave-labor, in the same ratio is the condition of the free man worse than that of tlie slave. But it is urged that he is still a free man, a citizen of the freest government Oti tlie earth, and politically equal to the proudest cap italist in the land. Well, that is a mengrfe lib erty that cons'stsmerely in the privilege to vote.- Tied down to the earih by toil—incessant, un remitting toil—what opportunity lias he to ac quaint himself with the great questions on which be is calicd to exercise a freeman’s fran chise? But lie may rise above this condition of dependence. True end he may fall below i'. He may be reduced to pauperism, and even starvation. It is a grave question, whether the alternate illusions of hope, and the dark bodings of despair* minister much to incteasd tho aggregate of human happiness.” The people of the South arc frequently ac cused ot displaying too much rashness and sen- sibility to the operations ar.;i proceedings of abolitionists. Reverse the conoi ions and see whether they are rightly judged. If the peo ple of the South were to form societies, hire travelling missionaries, purchase presses, make large pecuniary contributions, and enter into schemes to burn our cities, destroy our pro ductive manufactories, and sink in the ocean onr ships* such incendiary proceedings would not be regarded by us as very neighborly or fraternal. They would lead to retaliatory vio lence. Yet tbe case supposed, falls far short of that which norlhern fanaticism has attempted in the South. It is not ihe mere destruction of property demanded by abolition; but tlie maf- sacre of men, women and children. Tho phi lanthropy' of abolition consists in arraying tho North against the South, in rcducingthe dignity of white labor by a pinching competition with black, and in contaminating our political, social and physical systems, with a vile aomixture of the black element. The barriers to its pro-; gross are the great wot king interests of the North—the Democracy.—N. Y. Globe; the gold watch of tho dandy but 7J per cent.; diamonds, gems and cameos, per cent.; and jewelry, but 20 per cent. On foolscap writing paper, used by all clas ses of people, it imposes a duty equal to 97 per cent.; but gilt paper pays oniy 25 per cent., billet doux paper 30 per cent.; and French en velopes, “plain, ornamented and colored,” 30 per cent. It compels the planter atul f .rmer to pajr frrim 30 to 150 per cent; on the iron implements which they use; from 65 to 100 ppf cent, on 1 the sugar they consume; 35 to 170 on the mo- 11 -* lasses, and 106 to 170 on the salt they have to purchase. But it is unnecessary tn multiply instahes of this enormous extortion upon the producing and consuming cla s -s, fot tlie benefit of tbe manu facturers, through tlie instrumentality of the present tariff And what is the effect of this in famous system—Infamous; with its piratical de vices of the minimum and specific duties? It is to transfer money from the pockets of the consuniidg classes to the pockets of the manu facturers. Its tendency is to impoverish the many, and to enrich the few. Its direct effect is to create immense f rtuncs for the recipients of its bounties; while it abstracts the substance from, and degrades ihe masses of the people.— It establishes an aristocracy of wealth. Money brings with it political as well as moral power. Money brings with it political as weil as moral power. Tlie rich employers control their de pendants; they dictate their votes at the ballot- box; they control their bread, and thus coerce their subserviance; they weave about them the web *f inexorable necessity, which makes them victims of a worse system of slavery than the in herited servitude of the African.—N. K. Even ing Post. Coi-RT Scaxdall.—Wills intimates ih 6nb ofhisletters that it is not improbable that the author of “Mrs. Caudle’s Lectures” took hi» idea from the Palace, and therefore this most popular hit of literature of the time ’• a very fair exponent of her Maj sty’s re gn. The hereditary mndnet-s of the family makes it dan J gerons to oppose her wishes, and a remons; trance or objection is seldom vrh nred upon.—^ If Victoria escapes being called Qurcri Caudle in history, it will be by Ihe alacrity with whifch oblivion disposes of gossip—for there are a thousand and one s cries afloat of her Majes ty's “having her way,” to tlie great inconve- niente of Prince Caudle^ Introduction of Indian Corn into Great Britain.— From an article in the Now York Courier and Enquirer, we perceive tfiat “ no; lice has keen given of an intention; «t tho next session of Parliament, to move for tlie admis; sion of Indian Corn into Great Britain free of Men will sometimes be driven to thd performance bf an act of simple justice to themselves and their fellow beings by nothing less than absolute necessity. Such is the caso in this instance, and nlihough the inttoductieh of this valuable article of consumption intd Great Britain will no doubt be attended with difficulties on account of the remission bf of the duty and the vulgar prejudices against its use as an article of food for hu man beings, the benefits to be derived from its introduction must be of the highest and most incalculable importance to the people bf that country. The laboring population of England not being able to eat wheateo bread on account of its high price under the operation of the Corn Laws, they are obliged to find substitutes i n other articles far inferior but cheaper. The introduction of Indian Corn would furnish them an agreeable and substantial substitute which after being habituated to it, they would prefer to the wheat bread. In addition jo the advan tages which E' gland worid derive fiom this movement, it would be of very great impor-* tancetothe U. ited States. Raising far more of this staple than we can dispose of at home, the opening ofa new markt t, such as England would add much to ourwea'th, and thus, in the language of the Courier and Enquirer, the in- Rich—The property belong.ng to Harvard terest of both countries would be greatly prom- University is s nd to worth $700,000; | ted by the step projxs.-d.’—Petcrslurg Rep.