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VOL. XXXI.
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MACON, TUESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 24, 1857.
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SHREW.
wtl in the bounds of my district there lived
"j preacher, who was a small, very easy,
* featured, pleasant mau ; no was believed
Iy ho» very pious man, and a good and
r M nreacher. His wife was directly the re-
l . of almost everything that was good, sav-
[. liras believed, she was virtuous. Sbo
H Wfh-tcmpered, overbearing, cjuarrclsome,
r! i violent opposer of religion. She would
r” fis her husband’s clothes to go out to
F h a ud was unwilling he should ask a
{'udne at the table, 0 r pray in the family,
i 1 when he would attempt to pray, she would
I conform, hut tear arouud and make all tho
; D • e nnJ disturbance in her power. She
r «Id turn the chairs over while he was reud-
F sin mu", or praying, and if she could not
r s him any other way, she would catch a cat
M throw into his face while be was kneeling
r't ovine to pray, l’oor little man ! surely
was tormented almost to desperation. He
invited several preachers home with hitn
L talk to her, and see if they could not modcr-
. ken but all to no purpose; she would curse
c totheir face, and rage like a demon.* lie
1 insisted on my going home with him sev-
! times, but, I frankly confess, I was afraid
trust invself. I pitied him from my very
rti #n( j so did everybody else that was ac
quainted with his situation. Rut at length I
added to his importunities, and went home
E|, him oue evening, iutendiug to stay all
"After we arrived, I saw in a minute that
Lhe was mail- and the devil was iifchcr as big
F , n alligator; and I fixed my purpose and de-
lemined on my course. After supper lie said
I 0 h ( . r( very kindly, ‘Come, wife, stop your lit
tle iffairs, and let us have prayer.’ That mo
ts, at she boiled over, and said, T will have
bone of your praying about me.’ I spoke to
her mildly, and expostulated with her, and
fried to re non; but uo, the further I went, the
tore wrathful she became, aud she cursed me
st bitterly. I then put on a stern countcn-
_jce. And said to her, ‘Madam, if you were a
rife of mine, I would break you of your bad
|r»T5, or I would break your neck.’
•••The devil you would!’ said she, ‘yes, you
jreApretty Christian, ain’t you V And then
Mi a volley of curses as slic poured on me,
tis almost beyond human endurance.
“Be still,” said I, “we must and will have
iver.” But she declared wo should not.
••.Vow,” said I to her, “if you don’t be still,
tad behave yourself. I’ll put you out of doors.”
ht this she clinched her list, aud swore slic was
e-half alligator, and the other half snapping
jurtle, and that it would take a better man than
I su to put her out. It was a small cabiu we
here in, and we were not far from the door,
Irlikh was then standing open. I caught her
hr the arm, and swinging her around in a cir-
J>. brought her right up to the door, and
Iboitd her out. She jumped up, tore her hair,
pad, and such swearing as she uttered, was
Irldom equalled, and never surpassed. The
Lor, or shutter of the door, was very strongly
ladetokeep out hostile Indiaus; I shut it tight,
|gid it, aud went to prayer, aud I prayed as
it 1 could, but I had no language at my com-
ud to express my feelings; at the saute time
ns determined to conquer, or die in the at-
apt. While she was raging and foaming in
e yard and around the cabin, I started a spir
al »oug, and sung loud, to drown her voice
| mochas possible. The five or six little chil-
va ran and squatted about and crawled un-
tnteath the beds. Poor things, they were
ired almost to death.
| "I sang on, and she roared and thundered
b the outside, till sho became perfectly ex-
luted, and panted for breath. At length,
pa she had spent her force, and became
llm and still, and then knocked at the door,”
lying "Mr. Cartwright, please let me in."
HVill you behave yourself if I let you in ?’
1“■Ores,’said she, ‘I will,’ and throwing my-
■f.t on my guard, and perfectly self-possessed,
opened the door, took her by the hand, led
r in, and seated her near the fire-place. She
<i roared and foamed till she was in a high
kopiration, and looked as pale as death. Af-
t »he took her seat, •(>,’ said site, ‘what a fool
"•les,’ said I, ‘about one of tho biggest fools
'«saw in all my life. And now,’ said I,
* have to repent of all this, or you must go
l devil at last.’ She was silent. Said I,
■ iren, come out licre; your mother won’t
Myou now,’ and turning to her husband said,
putber C. let us pray again.’ We kneeled
r^*® 1 both prayed. She was as quiet as
I “And now, gentle reader, as this was one of
r “truest cases I ever saw on this earth, I
Ijw record it to the glory of divine grace.—
! *° *ce, in less than six montlis after tho
-mb the devil, this woman soundly con-
aed to God; and if ever there was a changed
r*f the better, it was this same wonmu.
uudrcii, as they grew up, all, 1 believe.
r 1 i fdigion, aud the family became a ro-
P°w> happy family, and she was as bold in
l,u US *, tlod as she had been in tho cause
I toe wicked one.”
| Ainericans'at English <*Diners.
loaic surprise ig expressed at the anuouncc-
taOsP r ‘ va,e Americancitixens desti-
M ,!?•* Mnk invited to dine with the
kj . " ® arc told that this is tlie result of
v) Tlcc the Miuistry. America is a
» e v l? Kcr , m th° world. It is her policy—
■ wifiI 1 '® her constitution—to have
lst ' nc ti°ns of rank. The Queen
l»av Ut | m /? cr the major doino or gold stick
L, ? . Herman principality ex comitate,
l,, e, ' rc t° bo on friendly terms with all
<he United States have no
; r •. s or hereditary grand washer women,
yj** “» v « hitherto been by etiquette
» th» r ° m ** ,e c ' rc l° of royal civilities. See-
|wK« a couldn’t go to Mni
E InJ „ has gone the mountain; Palmer-
ILl , ,Wa *Iowcd formulas,” and Queen
rlow, ii'- S the hostess to plain UndG &ua.
jf ” toMy ■Despatch, Dec. 27.
L. Jhe Bor«elI Murder.
creating an immense
dwiii. ? ,. ew ^ or * c > and tho papers arc
n Uji , estimony taken at the inquest; the
' *** * c cm to point to a Mrs. Cnn-
dZfcl? th . e Pcpctrator of the deed. Wc
|e7dL 0l ' 0,riu e paragraph at titO ’^OT Of
llV^ eports:
1 l | lS ,l ‘ r . L * n “® nnc ®‘ 1 to the jniy that he
dha»- u , ^ r ‘ cn ^ 8 °f deceased that they
l*Word.n 6 W to-morrow. Mfaiitiuie,
Tttea f ,®®* , ththe desire of ,-t t !:>•
ranee, m j 2 cx P cr t u, cnt lately successful in
Stain .I,; 0 a cctaia extent, in one or two
< *tketfa» C0U “ ,r >'. wiU he made, to discov-
l * e, h>l tovr 1 of ‘he e y c > by moans of a
r *W 6 ,as3 > the lost object men
''Mofina ,n order >» tiiis wav', if i.os-
‘ t n 0 > ,, c .’ u . t •omething in reference to the
°°t attainable otherwise.
IT.... Absurdities.
J“ te ®pt to b-jrrow
A Ciootl One.
A Raleigh correspondent of the Fayetteville
Jbserver tells of n joke that occurred in the
benntc, which shows that legislators can some
times be foreou from their gravity, lie says:
Quite an amusing scene occurred in the
benate this week, on a bill to emancipate a
slave who it seems is almost perfectly white.
Some fneud or advocate of thc*measurc, just
as the bill was about to be called up, requested
Mr. lhige, the door-keeper, logo out aud find
the petitioner and stand him at the door of the
Senate so that tho Senators might sec how
white lie was. Page made a mistake in the
man, and brought in a gentleman who it seems
is u candidate for Superintendent of Common
Schools, against the present worthy incumbent.
1 hinking that the election was about to eoinc
on, and that his looks might help him out, he
took his stand in full view of the Senate, look
ing “as sweet as ihc last whisper of a spring
morning,’’ until the speaker called upon the
Senate to look at him: “ lie’s as white as any
of you.” Some one discovered tho mistake—
a roar of laughter followed—the candidate for
superintendent turned oflfin a rage and wacdnt
to know “ who the devil disputed it ?”
A scene equally as ludicrous as the above,
occurred some years ago in the House of Com
mons of the Ninth Carolina Legislature.—
Some women (to be strictly Rcntoniuu) of rath
er Cyprian habits, were mixed too freely eo-
cially, with others of unblemished reputations,
in the gallery. The strange admixture of pitch
and purity soou caught the practiced eye of
the Speaker, who instantly ordered an Irish
door-keeper to separate the goats from the
sheep. The Irishman started immediately on
liis mission, but the House was soon convulsed
with laughter by the troubled phiz of Pat at
the door, and the following announcement in a
loud rich brogue,—“ Mr. Spakcr, I have in-
divered to the bist of my ability to ixecutc
your order, but the Divil tear my jacket, if I
can tell the ladies from the daceut women.”—
Pat was excused from reporting further pro
gress in the premises.—Columbus Sun.
Selling ;t “Drummer.”
A “ drummer” is a traveling dry goods sales
mau, whose business is to “drum” trade for
his employer in New York. The following
good story is from Porter’s Spirit of the Times,
and shows how one of them got sold in a trip he
made down Sonth, iu Renton County, Ala.—
He was riding from Talladega to Renton Court
with Bill Martin in 1840, and found out a new
way to make a well.
Rill and the drummer were riding along and
stopped to get some water at a newly located
farm in the lower part of Rentou County. The
farmer had set fire to an old pine stump near
tlic front door, and at the time our travelers
stopped, the lire was in the tap root some two
feet below the surface, all the wood above the
ground having been consumed.
The smoke issuing from a large hole in tlie
grouud attracted the attcution of the drummer,
and turning to Bill, lie asked the meaning of it.
•Why,’ said William, “my fricud Thompson
here is burning out a well.”
Burning out a well? What do you mean?”
•Just what I say,’ rejoined Bill. “Heis bum
ing out a well. Have you ever seen it done?”
“ Never; nor did I ever hear of such a thing
I would like to have it explained.”
“ Nothing simpler,” says Rill. “Through”
but this section of the country tlie soil is strong
ly impregnated with highly inflammable salts,
land all we have to do when a well is needed is
to dig a hole a foot deep and four feet square at
the top; wet the ground around the surface to
keep the fire from spreading, and in a weeks
time you have a first rate well.”
“Do tell?” exclaimed the Gothamite.
“ Yes,” said Rill wanning with the subject,
“ the fire burns straight down, just the size of
the hole at the top; it burns slowly, and thus
bakes the sides as hard us brick, and continues
to burnuntil it reaches water, wheu of course,
it ceases to burn,” “But,” says the drummer.
“I should think the mass of ashes and cinders
would extinguish the fire long before the water
is reached.”
“A very natural prima facie conclusion.” re-
pliod Bill; “but this is the strangest of the whole
process; there are no ashes! 1 am not chemist
enough to explain it, but Profcsser Brumby of
the University, attributed it to the volatile
principle contained in the inflammable salts.
I wish I could explain it; but this much I do
know that out of at least one hundred wells of
the same sort iu Renton county I have never
secu in all, a bushel of ashes.”
A Fearful Iiiclslctit of War.
A young, daring, open-hearted New York
er, joined Walker in the early days of his en
terprise upon Nicaragua, and bravely shared
in the first bloody and disastrous attack upon
Rivas. Before that time neither friend or foe
had learned to estimate, as they since have,
the power of the rifle in American hands, aud
the native troops abandoned Walker just as
the battle waxed warmest. Thus left unsup
ported, Walker was forced to retire aud leave
his worst wounded on the field. The Costa
Ricans fell upon these unfortunates with bru
tal ferocity, and stripping them of every ves
tige of clothing, aud in many eases hacking
and mutilating their helpless bodies. After
these savages had satiated their malignant lia-
tred of the Americans—or as they even then
began to call them, tho “Rifles”—they drag
ged tho bodies to the nearest wells and plung
ed them in, without distinction between the
living and tho dead.
Among the wounded was this young New
Yorker, who bore the name and shared the
blood of Dewitt Clinton, the illustrious father of
our State*Canal system. The brutal usage of
the Costa Ricans recalled the fainting sutlcrcr
to consciousness, and on the brink of the well
he murmured some words of home, and sup
plicated for a glass of water. ".Shall wc not
spare this poor wounded ‘Rifle?’” pleaded jin
under officer of the Costa Rican army.. “No;
Death to all Americans!” thundered liis supe
rior; and then he added in brutal jest, “Hur
ry him in ; he will find water enough to drink
at the bottom of the well.”
The wounded man was then cast in, and
other wounded men were thrown upon him.—
His body went down, surging aud striking
against the stony sides of tho deep well, and
that was tlie last seen of young Dewitt Clin
ton.—yar York Sun,
L of ■
money on the plea of
P** 1 * ptaj by their attend-
0 m-iko w!'
I . ll * s,TV;UJ ‘ lS tell lies for you. and
an E r 7 at them because they lie
I win i. r ow ” s<, erets, and believe other
m k «P them.
itlcdical Poisons.
Wc would commend the following from the
Baltimore American, especially, to our Physi
cians and Druggists. M e hope the awful tra
gedy lately enacted at Baltimore Will teach a
lesson, not to be forgotten by the members of
tin s,- !c,ncrald,• 1 ’nUis-Mum-, and serve as a
warning to the people not to entrust their
lives, and the lives of their households o care
less and incompetent Physicians and Drug-
gists.
In the present practice of medicine, sat’sthe
Baltimore American, the deadly poisons are
3i ,iv m frequently used than formerly, aud
consequently the greater care must be used,
and it behooves our citizens to make earnest
inquiry as to tlie most reliable druggists.to
whom' to entrust their physician’s prescrip-
ti,m-. The sale of medicines, has iu many
cases heretofore, been entrusted to careless if
,,‘ot incompetent hands, and the wonder is,
tint -o few accidents have occurred, the cir
cumstances considered. It is quite time that
more cautiou should be exercised. _ Human
life is too
Col. Sun
precious to be recklessly trifled with.
From tho South Western News.
** Who Pays the Duty.”
IVe arc glad to see this question eliciting
inquiry. And while the instances and illus
trations in the communication of Sumter, in
your last issue, exhibit some of the facts and
principles involved in the proper answer to the
question, at the head of liis article, there arc
ns we think others to be considered. He does
show that immediately upon a repeal of the
duty on imported goods, the consumer would
not be the solo beneficiary, but that the foreign
manufacturer, the importer, the wholesale aud
retail merchants would all for a time, have in
creased profits, while the consumer would pur
chase at reduced prices. So when a duty is
lirst imposed upon any article, the price being
raised and the consumption lessened, the for
eign manufacturer, the importer aud others
engaged in the sale of the article will lessen
their profits in quest of a market for the sup
ply on hand. For the whole sum of their prof
its depends upon the quantity sold, as well as
upon the per centage at which sales are made.
And sometimes to wake up tlie sleeping capi
tal which is snugly wrapped in accumulated
piles of goods, the vendors abroad may even
submit to a loss by way of enforcing sales,
thus shouldering tcinporaly almost the whole
burden of the duty our government may have
imposed. But is this taking the “ whole field
into view ?” Arc there not other items to be
embraced in the premises, which will give the
truth as the conclusion following frota them,
iu answer to the question, " who pavs the du
ty ?”
We suggest as another clement in the prop
er premises, the commonly received fact that
labor seeks employment where it is best re
munerated aud (other things being equal,) that
employment which pays a better profit than
the average of other callings will attract to it
self other competitors for this higher remuner
ation until it is reduced to the common level.
Let us say that the foreign maufacturcrs of
iron receive an average profit upon sales at
$50 per ton; 40 per cent upon this will make
it $70, and $10 more for expenses of transpor
tation, commissions, &c., will make it $80 per
ton to the consumer.
Now let the duty be removed, and as Sum
ter properly assumes the reduced price to the
consumer enlarges the consumption and quick
ens and increases the sales of the retail and
wholesale mereliants. the importer and manu
factures. And the demand becoming relative
ly greater than the supply in the hands of these
several agents ; they are enabled eaeh to raise
the price of the service he renders iu furnish
ing the manufactured products to the consum
er. But if before the business of eaeh yield
ed an average profit, now the compensation of
each will be above the average, and the course
of trade will continue to collect competition iu
the business of each, until it is reduced to the
common level of profits. $50 per ton was a
fair profit to the iron manufacturer, and upon
removal of the duty, lie may sell for a little
while at $<»5, but an influx of competition com
mences and continues to tlow iu until he is
forced back again to $50 per ton; about the
average of profits in other employments. Aud
this same law of trade and compensation for
labor operating iu the same way upon the im
porter, the wholesale aud retail merchant and
driving them all back to their old average prof
its, leaves the whole benefit of the relief from
duty (so far as price is concerned) to the con
sumer.
Take another instance, adduced by Sumter:
A duty is imposed upon American wheat iu
foreign markets. The price to the consumer
then is thus raised, the consumption lessened,
and the American wheat grower complains of
a necessity to sell at unremnneratiug prices iu
order to find a market. The profits falling
below the average in other fields Of industry,
only those iu the most favorable circumstances
for the growth of wheat continue in the busi
ness. And the diminished supply enables the
wheat grower to resume liis accustomed and
average profits, and the foreign consumer is
compelled to pay a price cnchauccd in propor
tion to the duty his government lias imposed.
Yet another illustration is offered in his ar
ticle ; of the effect of a duty upon American
cottons iu foreign markets. And the instance
is in point as to the temporary effect upon the
producer; only with this difference, as we hap
pened to be very large consumers of the man
ufactured articles, we have to lift at both ends
of the handspike, and pay both that portion of
the duty which falls to the producer and con
sinner. The manufacturer being but little af
fected by it.
And the result to us as producers and con
sumers is the same when our own government
imposes a duty upou the manufactured import
of cotton, as when imposed by foreign govern
ments upon the raw materials wc furnish them
aud which is sent back to its.
We conclude then that uuder the influence
of a permanent and fixed law, the current of
commerce between individuals and. nations
tends contantly to drift the duty imposed by
government upon the consumer. There arc
doubtless disturbing causes, producing tempo
rarily a refluent wave, but this as it seems to
ns is the general tendenev of things.
* AMEIUCUS.
Brogan Manufacture.
There is probably no branch of the maun
factoring business which could be more suc
cessfully pursued in the South than the manu
facture ot brogans. The demand for them,
wliicli is great, is now supplied principally by
Northern manufacturers, who import their
hides from the South, and pay much more for
bark and labor than it can be had here; yet
notwithstanding these disadvantages under
which they labor, they grow riehon the profits
which accrue to them from the sale of their
shoes in the Southern markets.
One glance at the advantages which wc pos
sess is sufficient to convince any mau of judg
ment that we can, not only compete success
fully with Northern manufacturers, iu the pro
duction of this article, but that wc have the
power, if properly exercised, to keep their
work entirely out of tho markets.
The bark required for tanuiug, is worth in
Mobile, $5 per cord, and in the North it sells
for $15 per cord. We state this upou the au
thority of a merchant now in this city, who
purchased here, last summer, 45 cords at
per cord, and shipped it to Boston, where it
soldfor$14 per cord.
Southern dry hides are quoted hero at 15
cts. per pound, and iu New York the quota
tion is from 20 to 21 j cents per pound.
Negroes who arc crippled, or in any way
unfit for heavy work, can learn in three or
four months all that is necessary for tho man
nfaetnro of shoes. Such negroes can be had
at a cost of from two to four hundred dollar
eaeh; and the interest on this last sum, to
gether with the cost of their clothing, tuod,
&c., would probably amount to about $12 per
mouth. This would he over 100 per cent, less
than is paid for the same labor at tlie North.—
.Mobile Tribune.
Killed by the Curs.
We arc informed by the mail agent, that
man—name not given—was ran over yester
day morning by the one o’clock Macon and
South Western train aud instantly killed. Hi
was drunk at the time, and sitting faced in
ward on the track, near the lattice bridge,
spanning the Ocmulgee. What learful aud
horrible terminations to existence are often
caused by that liquid, whose use is poison aud
whose result is death!—Columbus Sun.
From the Chsrloston Jlercury.
Progress of Sectionalism.
Wc take the following significant paragraph
from a late number of the New York Times:
Ciiangks in the Senate.—It is remarked
as worthy of note that not one Senator from a
free State, who took part in the passage of the
Kansas Nebraska Act of 1854, lias been return
ed to that body. Even General Cass, whose
great personal popularity, and intimate con
nection with public affairs, for many years,
seemed to give him a prescriptive right to par
ticipate in tho honora and responsibilities of
office, has been displaced in the Senate by a
new mau, liaviug forfeited the confidence of
those who so long delighted to houor hint. Iu
no instance has popular justice been more prom
inently displayed than in liis case.”
The statements iu this paragraph are true;
and it is well for us to bear in mind that this
sacrifice of Northern public men has been made
solely on the ground, not of favoritism to the
South, but because they had acknowledged the
equality of the States, and tlie propriety of
leaving to the people of a Territory the deci
sion of the questiou of their own domestic in
stitutions. This proscription of her public men
by the North, therefore, is simply the assertion
of a right to dominate and tyrannise over the
Confederacy. It has been a growing feeling
in that section. Even on tlie admission of
Missouri iuto the Union, it showed itself iu
striking down a noble victim among the Rep
resentatives from tlie North who had sustained
that measure. Afterwards this spirit rose a-
gainst Webster, aud refused him a hearing in
Faneuil Hall, because he had made a speech
which faiutlj- hinted that justice should be done
to all p„rts of the Confederacy. Now it blind
ly attacks every man who refuses to denounce
aud make war upon the South. It has depriv
ed Douglas of his long established popularity
iu Illinois. It has unseated Gen. Cass, emi
nent for may high offices he has held, aud the
distinguished ability with which he has dis
charged their duties. Iu his place, by way of
showing their contempt for every thing but
their own particular fanaticism, ihc Frecsoilers
have selected one whose name is utterly un
known in politics, and whose sole qualification
is that he embodies their creed. In New York
an old aud honored Whig, Hamilton Fish,
has been displaced by a notorious Frccsoil dem
agogue, l’reston King. In short, wherever
men hare shown the least disposition to sustain
moderate and peaceful measures towards the
South, they have been hunted down at the
North as public enemies. The recent Presi
dential election is the crowning proof of this.
No man could have been, by liis general bear
ing as a statesman, more acceptable to the
North than Mr. Buchanan, but he' was not or
thodox ou the vital article of the Northern po
litical creed of our times: that is to say, lie was
not a Freesoilcr. The result was that lie re
ceived a popular majority in but a single State
this side of California, and that majority, even
in Pennsylvania, was less than three hundred
votes; and since that election the Legislature,
though nominally Democratic, lias elected a
political opponent oyer a prominent friend of
Mr. Buchanan, to represent Pennsylvania in
the Senate of the United States.
This, then, is the state of tlie case. The
House of Representative, comprised of alarge
majority from the North, is hopelessly against
us. The President elect, a Northern mau, has
owed his success almost exclusively to South
ern votes. The Senate—the great conserva
tive body of the Confederacy—is now assailed,
and assailed with such force that wc have every
reason to believe that the majority, in favor of
moderate and peaceful measures, will soon be
undermined and lost. What have wc left ?
What can we do for ourselves but prepare to
separate from a Confederacy that has proved
itself nothing but a union of opposites—in fact,
an attempt to reconcile what is irreconcilable?
And the oftener the attempt is made to con
ciliate these two sections, the broader and more
glaring appears the chasm that separates them,
it is tliege very attempts at compromise that
fight up the gulf between us ; for it is not a
difference of opinion, or couviction, but an un
forgiving strife of sentiment. How are we to
reconcile this? How are we to hope that those
who hold us in enmity, who arc taught to do
so from their very infancy, and who have no
means of correcting their prejudices, arc ever
to be reconciled to us, aud to ackowledgc a
common faith and brotherhood iu the interests
of our political union ?
More Alabama Iron.
The Mobile Tribune has received from Jef-
fersou county, near Elyton, several fine speci
mens of iron ore. That paper says that “ the
quantity of ore at this place, it is said, is inex
haustible, and it can be obtained without any
difficulty. On one side of the mountain it
drops out from the summit to the base. It is
unmixed with the earth, and presents the ap
pearance of being a solid bed, which comprises
more than half of the eminence. The ease
with which it can be broken up is remarkable
—with a crow bar and sledge hammer, it is
estimated that one man can break up from
three to four tons per day.
“A small furnace lias been put up in the vi
cinity, which is now making bar iron, to a
limited extent. The process of manufacture
is very rude ; yet, notwithstanding, tho iron
made by it is preferred to best imported, by
all who have used it. The ore, we have been
informed, is neither roosted nor crushed, hut
is thown into tiie furnace in its natural state
where it is melted, aud then, without further
preparation, made iuto bars by the trip ham
mer.”—Columbus Sun.
Preventive of Scarlet Fever.
A correspondent of tho Boston l’ost suggests
a simple preventive of scarlet fever. He says:
“ Glfibule bella dona, taken every morning
by each and every member of a family—adults
childrcu, servants aud all inmates—will cer
tainly prevent the spread of this dreadful disease
in every household that may adopt it, as cer-
taiuly as vaccination will prevent tlie small pox.
Ten edits will purchase avear’j supply from
any of our homnepatblats. A wet finger applied
toaglobulo and placed upon the tongue of a
child or adult is all that is necessary to be done
to prevent the spread of this disease.
A Br.ir.iiT Rustic—A few days since, a
countryman came to town at Lowell, Mass.,
and going to the post-oifiee with a bank bill,
called for a dollar’s worth of postage stamps;
the clerks wanted speeic, and he straightway
returned withfonr Spanish quarters ; and these
being denied admittance, except at a discount,
lie came a third time with a hundred coppers,
and a very copperish !"ok of exultation. Be
ing informed by the official behind the window
that coppers were not a legal tender to a larg
er extent than three cents at a time, the man
from the rural districts eooly purchased a sin
gle stamp, and repeated the operation till his
persecutor caved and took in the remaining
cents in a lump, much to the internal satisfac
tion of the individual outside.
Good News.—M'e learn from a perfect re
liable source that tlie bill giving $2UU,000 to
the Mobile and Ohio railroad lias been passed
by the Mississippi Legislature, and has receiv
ed the signature of the Governor. It is, there
fore, now a law, niul must prove the beginning
of those financial measures to which all are
looking for the perfection of this great enter
prise. On it so much of our future prosperity
depends, aud so palpable are the proofs that all
must bail with delight what all have so direct
an interest in.—.Mobile Jlttrisirr, Feb. 1.
Supply of Cotton in England.
Interesting Commercial Report—A Short Supply of
Cotton Anticipated, ect.
At the annual meeting of the Manchester
Commercial Association, James Aspinwall Tur
ner presided, and a large number of members
were present. The annual report was very
lengthy, referring to nineteen subjects; among
others, to relations with Brazil and to the At
lantic telegraph. The chairman, in addresstug
the meeting, reviewed some of the main feat
ures contained in the report, and congratulated
the commercial world, that since the close of
war our exports had increased by £20,000,000,
amounting, this year, to £115,000,000, thus
showing their commercial and manufacturing
prosperity; but there wan one cloud which
darkened it, aud to which he regretted having
to refer.
He alluded to the probable distress which
was likely to be felt, autl before long too, in
this community and the manufacturing dis
tricts, from the inadequate supply of the raw
material which afforded employment to a vast
number of the inhabitants of that district.
[Hear, hear.] From 1847 to 185(1 the imports
of cotton from the United States into England
had doubled. Iu 1847 tlie imports were 1,-
2B4,000 bales, and in 185G 2,4(57,000 bales;
but in the face of this, such was the progress
of British manufactures and the extension of
their cotton trade, that whereas at the end of
1840 the stock ou liaml at Liverpool was 450,-
000 bales, or twenty weeks’ consumption—in
ten years afterwards, that was in 1850, with
an import of 2,4(57,000 bales, they ended the
year with a stock on hand at Liverpool of ou-
ly 3:12,000 bales, or eight weeks’ consumption.
[Hear, hear.]
The estimated crop from America this year
was only 3,000,000, and at the present rate of
consumption we could not, with that estimate,
have anything to spare iu hand at tho end of
the year, for at the present time the United
States and t:he continent were using as much
cotton as Great Britain herself. This, then,
was a serious questiou. [Hear, hear.] IIow
were they ever to provide for the contingency
to which lie had alluded ? The manufacturer
here had been in the lmbit of putting himself
iuto a railway train, going down to Liverpool
and telling his broker to buy him so much eot-
ton; but if this stato of affairs to which wc
have alluded should he realized, what was to
be done ?
Ho believed that if all the spindles now in
operation continued going, and these addition
al ones which he (the chairman) knew were to
be set in motion, should be in use, there would
not be a bale of cotton in Liverpool at the end
of 1857. [Hear, hear.] The consequence
would be, that either cotton would get to such
a priee that those who were the weakest must
stop their works, aud au immense number
of people he thrown out of employment, or
otherwise the entire stock of cotton would be
exhausted. [Hear, hear.] What, then, was
to be done? Tcu years ago they in that room
had reflected on what was now approaching.
Africa, Australia, tlie Cape of Good Hope,
Natal and the West Indies, had all been spoken
of, aud in time those places would, no doubt,
supply this country with cotton.
The East India Compauy ought loug ago to
have made that country a cotton-producing
country [hear, hear, and loud cheers;] and if
ludia had been in the hands of the Yankees,
it would long ago have beeu such. [Renewed
cheers.] There was laud enough in the East
Indies to grow all the cotton that was wanted
here, and it was the duty of the company to
facilitate its growth. [Hear, hear.] He did
not say it was the Company’s duty to grow it
themselves, but it was their duty to aid in its
production, by making roads and supplying
the means of irrigation so as to tnako the land
available, aud this they had neglected to do.
[Hear, hear.]
The speaker then referred to the instauccs
of commercial immorality which -had taken
place during the past year, aud said the coun
try had reason to feel humiliated at these a-
bominablc crimes, which had been so condigu-
ly punished by the judges of the land. But
there were others, too, whom the law had not
reached, including men iu Lombard street.
He did not want to libel anybody; but when
he saw men who had held situations uuder gov
ernment guilty of these breaches, he would not
say all he felt, but he would say that they de
served the contempt of every well-constituted
mind. [Hear, hear, and loud cheers.] The
report was then unanimously adopted.
An influential meeting of merchants and
brokers was liehl in London on the lffth Baron
Rothschild iu tho chair. The object of the
meeting was to induce tho government to pass
au act placing warrants, bills of lading, and
other documents relative to the delivery of
goods, on the same footing as bank notes or
bills of exchange.
Robson, the crystal palace forger has become
a maniac, and there is stalk of removing him
from prison to Bethlehem Hospital for the ln-
sane.
Tiic Wandering Jew.
A sensation was created in William street.
New York, a few days ago, by the appearance
of a man ou the pave with a long floating
beard, and dressed in loose pantaloons, with a
turban on his head. He carried in liis hand a
little manuscript Hebrew book, out of which
he read to the crowd that gathered arouud him.
He represented himself as the veritable Wan
dering Jew. Nobody knows who lie is. or
where he came from. A learned Jewish Rab
bi was sent for to convene with him, which
they did in the Hebrew language, aud the
stranger was found to he perfect in his knowl
edge of that most difficult tongue. The Rab
bi tested him iu Arabic, iu Phoenician, and in
the Sanscrit, hut soon found that the aged
stranger far surpassed him in intimacy with
them all. The Rabbi invited him to his house;
but, said the stranger, “ nay, 1 cannot stop.
The Crucified One of Cavalry has pro
nounced the edict, and I may not rest. J must
move on—ever on !” He was last seen on
Thursday, but to where ho lias departed uo
one can tell.
Tho New Yorkers have been crowing over
Philadelphia because their harbor was only
obstructed by floating ice; but they charge
three thousand dollars for towing a ship from
sea up to the city, aud a house paid one per
cent, insurance on a ship and cargo valued at
$100,000 for the risk of a voyage from New
York to Brooklyn, with the agreement that
she should employ three towboats! Beautiful
harbor, that New York! Has the “Atlantic”
steamer got to sea yet ?—Philadelphia Ga
zette.
The Indiana Senators Elect.—It was
said at the Capitol this morning says the Star
of Friday hist, that these gentlemen arc ex
pected to arrive in Washington to-night, and
further that the Sergeant-at-arms of tho Senate
of that State is expected to arrive at the same
time, bearing a protest against the validity of
their election from the Kepublii.au members of
the said State Senate.
Factory Burnt.—Wc regret to learn from
the Madison (Fla.) Messenger, that the Cotton
Factory of that pluee, hitherto a successful en-
terprize, was burnt last week ; loss $10,000.
We deeply sympathize with Capt. Willard, its
energetic proprietor. The establishment had
been insured, but the Messenger says the po
licy was about out.—Georgian Sy Journal.
NO. 30.
The Duck Trade.
Among other sources of wealth which have
been developed by the establishment of a line
of steamers between this port aud New ^ ork,
we have heretofore overlooked the traffic in
wild ducks, which gives employment to a large
number of persons, and requires little or no
capital to carry it on. 1 low many are employ
ed in the slaughter of tlie web footed tribe,
wc arc unable to say; but we will take for ex
ample the operations in this line as carried on
by Edgar Burroughs. Esq., a substantial and
respectable farmer of Princess Anne, on Long
Island, Back Bay, (which he lias lately pur
chased,) from time immemorial famous as the
resort of wild ducks and geese. He has bad
twenty men employed constantly, since the
commencement of the season, and up to the
30th of December they had consumed in their
vocation twenty-three kegs of gunpowder,
with shot iu proportion. The ducks which
they killed were brought to Norfolk once a
week, and piled up in the warehouse of Kemp
Bosky, on Roanoke square, where, on eve
ry Wednesday, they were packed in barrels
and shipped for New York by the steamship
Jamestown. The number of barrels thus sent
oft’ weekly, have, up to tins time, averaged
from fifteen to twenty-five barrels, and one
week tiie number reached as high as thirty-one.
They consist of all the varieties of the duck
species known in our latitude, such as canvas
backs, red beads, mallard, black ducks, sprig-
tails, bullnccks, baldfuces, (or wigeous), shov-
elers, &c„ to which may be added a good pro
portion of wild geese. Yesterday being pack
ing day, wc were invited by our friend, Mr.
Burroughs, to step in and see the display of
game; there was enough to fill sixteen bar
rels, a considerable portion being canvas
bucks, which were uncommonly fine. Here
tofore the season has been highly favorable
for the success of these operations, as ducks
will keep a loug time in such cold weather as
wc have had, and will probably continue to
have through the season. We should be glad
to obtain some further statistics respecting
this new traffic; such as the expenditure of
ammunition, the wliolo number of barrels ship
ped in a season, the number of ducks and
geese contained in them, the number of per
sons employed, the average price sold for per
pair iu the New York market, and the proba
ble amount netted to the enterprising individ
uals who carry on the business. It would
form a curious record, especially to those who
remember when Norfolk was the only market
that was supplied with game from the same
quarter.—Aorfolk Herald.
A French Hat Story.
A French law journal, tho Gazette dcs Tri-
buuaux, contains the following strange report.
“A man, named Giromc, a discharged Zouave,
was yesterday tried by the Tribunal of Cor
rection-Police, for swindling. A person, named
Trique, stated that he is a great fancier of cu
rious animals, anil that the prisoner one
day eatnc to him, and offered for sale a rat
with a trunk. As he had never seen or even
heard of sueli an animal, lie asked to see it,
and the man showed him a large rat, which
had on its snout a long excrescence. He could
hardly believe his eyes, and to satisfy himself
that lie was not the victim of fraud, lie prick
ed the trunk with a pin; the animal uttered a
cry and a drop of blood fell. Convinced by
this that the trunk was real, lie paid 5Uf. for
the rat, and lie subsequently gave another 50f.
for a female, in order to increase the breed*
He expected to render himself famous by
briugiug to the knowledge of the public a spe-
eies of rat, of which neither Buffon nor any
other naturalist had made mention ; but to liis
mortification, his two rats with trunks produ
ced youug without any.
“lie one day described his rats to an officer
who had served m Africa, and the latter hurst
into a roar of laughter. Having asked the
cause of liis mirth, the officer told him that no
such things ns rats with trunks existed, and
that they were an invention of the Zouaves.
‘An invention of the Zouaves!’ cried the per
plexed naturalist, ‘why, how can that he ?’
The officer then related to him that the Zou
aves arc accustomed to take two rats and fas
ten them to a flat board, tlie snout of one to
wards the tail of the other; they then cut a
hole iu the suout of tlie second rat, and insert
the tail of the first into it; they then bind the
snout up, and leave the two rats together for
forty-eight hours; by that time the tail lias
become firm in the incision; and they then
separate the two rats by cutting off the tail of
the first at a small distance from tlie snout of
the other. The second thus remains orna
mented with a trunk, and in about a month
the incision in the snout is perfectly healed,
so that the trunk appears part and parcel of
the animal. Indignant at this imposture the
complainant had the Zouave arrested as a
swindler. The tribunal, however, did not con
sider it swindling, and dismissed the case.”
How Peter an<l Paul J.ooked.
It is allowable to mention the general notion
of the forms and features of the two apostles
which has been handed down in tradition, and
as early represented by early artists. Paul
is set before us as having the strongly marked
and prominent features of a Jew, not without
some of the finer lines indicative of Greek
thought. His stature was dimiuutive, and liis
body disfigured by some lameness or distor
tion, which may have provoked the contempt
uous expression of hts enemies. His beard
was long and thin. Ilis head was bald. The
characteristics of his face were a transparent
complexion which visibly betrayed the quick
changes of liis feelings; a bright gray eye un
der overhanging and united eyebrows; a
cheerful and winning expression of counte-
uancc, which invited tiie. approach and inspir
ed the confidence of stangers. It would ,bo
natural to infer, from liis continual journeys
and manual labor, that lie was possessed of
great strength of constitution. But men of
delicate health have often gone through the
greatest exertions, aud his own words, on more
than one occasion, show that he suffered much
from the lack of bodily health.
Peter is represented as a man of larger mnj
stronger form, as his character was harsher
and more abrupt. Tiic quick impulses of a
soul revealed themselves in the flashes of a
dark eye. The complexion of liis face was
full and sallow: and the short hair which is de
scribed as entirely gray at the time of hi<
death, curled black and thick arouud his tem
ples and chin, when tlie apostles stood togeth
er at Antioch, twenty years before their raar-
trydom. Believing, us wc do, that these tra
ditionary pictures have probably some foun
dation in truth, wc take them tis helps to the
imagination.
Capt. William Manors, wo arc grieved to
learn, says tho Texas Advocate, of 31st Jan.,
died of pneumonia in Houston on Thursday
night of last week. But a day or two before
we had conversed with him on the streets in
Galveston. He was an old Texan; an honest
and a good Christian. He had for many long
years been a devoted member of the Metho
dist Church, ('apt. Manor was a native of 8.
where he leaves many relatives, and was
well known iu Florida, where lie resided sev
eral years.
Tar Water, as combined with other sim
ples, by Dr. Wistar in his celebrated Balsam
of Wild Cherry, has a peculiar power over all
diseases of the lungs. Many physicians have
used it in their practice and generally with
marked success.
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Mnnibty Ji\ eiiin.;>. A.lvertis,
inx' in their favm-. -
Itoiiiul to Marr} -
A young couple from
Egypt, came to tlie city the
avowed purpose of getting li
tho traces of matrimony. I
well developed Im-t and a fo
uati platform—broad enough
country. Her gallant was si
with a list like a sledge haw
of hair like the remains of a
He was rather verdant to hr.
hut as love can transmogrify
swordfish, itwas working wo
oredSucker. lie “putup,”
started to get a shave, and a justice of the
peace. The barber too!: off his wiry beard in
short order, and gently hinted that he. wanted
shampooiiing.
“Sham what?” said the Illinoisian—never
having heard the term used before. On be
ing told what shampooiiing meant, lie consent
ed to undergo the operation. Ili< head wnt
thoroughly scoured, scrubbed, lathered and
rubbed, washed and squeezed, and he felt
like a new man. But the slmmpooning had
so bewildered his brain, that when he left the.
barber’s lie was perfectly oblivions as to the way
he should steer, to return to his bride, llo
wandered about the city in perfect bewilder
ment, and lias not been seen since.
The lady, iu the meantime, had awaited in
great anxiety for the return of her swain, and
finding he did not conic, concluded lie had in
continently absquatulated. She declared, how
ever, that she would never go back to Egypt
without a *• feller” of some sort, and hinted
that she wasn’t over particular what name sho
went by hereafter. A good-looking young
boatman, who was stoppingat tlie house, hear
ing of the youug lady’s distress, concluded to
“buck up” himself. He was not long in ma
king known his intention, and his advances
were received in about the same spirit that a
pot cat submits to the caresses of a soft hand,
When the boatman put the important ques
tion, the girl replied:
“Well, I don’t care«f I do. I was focht
over here to git married, and I’m bound to
marry somebody afore I go back. The gals In
the bottom would never git done laughing at
me of I went home without a feller.”
The couple were accordingly united in due
form, ami when last head from were the hap
piest pair this side of Salt Luke.—ST. Louis
Herald.
Dentil.
On Friday morning, January II, a prisoner
sentenced to solitary confinement in the Mich
igan State 1’euitentiary, and confined in one
of tiie life cells, was fouml dead. On exami
nation, the officers found that tho steam pipe,
that passed through the cell to warm it, had
burst during the niglit, and scalded the poor
man dreadfully, liis throat was cut, and an
old knife' found iu liis cell with which the deed
was committed. lie undoubtedly cut bis
throat to escape bciug slowly cooked to death
by the escaping steam, ns no cry for help ut
tered by him could be heard by the keepers.
Chicago Journal, January 27//i.
!i.\ro\ CARMLGR DEPOSITORY,
to Ismiirr Slon^c, jl.tron, fin.
GFOKUE and ROBERT SMITH,
\ rAN’FFACTtTIKUSnmtriL il is
1YJL in ('A K It IAI: EN, Itocknways,
Itiiggies, Jcr.-t-y Waggons. Harness,
Wuips, Ladies and Gents Sole Leather Trunks, Va
lises and Travelling lings. Hut Cases mid linnnet
Hexes, Baby Carriages, a very nice article, with two
and lour wheels.
Wo also receive regular supplies of the genuine
Ilrnttlebnro’ Buggies, manufactured expressly forus
by Asa Miller.
Repairing of every description neatly and prompt
ly executed.
’ Carriages of any desired pattern built to order ou
short notice. *
Wo respectfully solicit » call from our friends, and
the public generally, ns we are determined to (ell
low for Cash, and ou the most reasonable terms, to
responsible parties.
Macon Ga , February 10, 1 So?, ly
CARRIAGES. UARIV!5S S, Ac.
1 'lie Subscriber is note Bccciciiig at hi*
REPOSITORY
OX CONSIGNMENT,
A X extensive stock c f CARRIAGES of tlie vari
ous styles in n$e. They have been selected
with great care by II. C. McREEC, who is aeknnwl-
ed one of the best judges and buyers of work in tho
Northern market.
The Stock will be constantly replenished, nr. 1
consist of tlie latest and most fashionable styles of
VEHICLES, combining
Elrgancc ivith l.icbXi»r*-< nnd Htmucli.
Built by J. M. Quinbv A Co., Mott & Co., Brews
ter Ac. Sou, W. Dunlap. Iled -nburg A Little. (L A* D.
Cook & Co., L. II. Goodwin aud other reliable man
ufacturers.
RSF* Persons wishing the very hc*t wnrk^ on the
most favorAblo.tenna, will do well to examine *
Stock before purchasing. T. 11. PLANT,
feb 10
F1T/GBBAI
WHOLESALE
Drntf
11) <v -»ot : ris
ISO HKTAIL DEALERS IN
Itlediric
?hcutical«, YY Mu:!*,
Pcrfinurry, Fniscy Ai licit
SHOP FUKX1TL I«*E,
Paint*, Oil**,
Vninisltcs, Glass war*,
.**u rtf it* st I f list rii men G dr si Me
K. FITZGERALD, X. D. C. B. NOTTINGHAM, M.
nov 13 ly
DAVID ItOSS,
BOOK binder;
AND
BLANK KOOK MANUFACTUREi£,
CORNER THIRD AND CHERRY STREETS.
He is prepared to <!n work promptly and at wa-,
sonnble rates. feb'!
BOOK & JOB PRINTING ! ! !
For CASH and CASH only.
j • Hi >m this data the CASH will be required feral.
1 Printing executed, „n the d-iiv. ry of the w< rk
—This rule will not be deviated from iu any initancu
Customers will please notice anil govern then-
selves accordingly.
feba—fan LEWIS II. ANDREWS.
Ornri or tbeCitt Councii., Jim. 31, it?57.
1YOTICK 'i’O CL v 3 75 \ Vi'S.
■pEUSOXS holding claims against the City, aro
JL respectfully nntifi, 1 to present them quartet ly,
os near as may be, the tir.-t ,,l January, April, July
and October of each
feW—it
1 i, HAl.'l: • TKP, City Clerk.
V.4M
ABLJE FKOAOEUTA
Fon sv ■ .
rrtliE subscriberc)m s f.,r ids vatadfle prop-
L .Tty, consisting „f STORKS In Macon, and
Dwellings ami Lots in Yinevilte, including House-
bold Futnitore. As he has passed the allotted peri
od of human life, ]■•- ,i.-in ~ dispose of his entire
property and clra his bus!
All nt-monshaving claims again ! him will ;>!>•:>
present them, and all persons indebted to him, will
come forward and Bottle. Thepropertv will be sold
Oil liberal form-.
f.l, in—In: 11. I ) i. 1 * ’ - !■ \\V.
M'i'i atko w'A.vr;:D,
4 YOl XG »u n, a gradual. .. li,,- \ 1 -1 A Mi-i-
A tan* Iiislitut,-. ci,nip, tent :•■ . 1, : i;„ ... .
Latin, Fr-nclr and Span! 1, K„, . .
it branches of Matlicn. -.lie, \ .. ., is
Principal or Assistant in : Ac , i„y i , , V
iurthcr inform,
ian 27.1m
napply to
GE<' W. BKUMLEY.
DR. A. 1’ICRCR,
ITOIS l C KOI VVTHLST,
I NTENDS niiikiiitf tlii' city hi" i ia< t* of permanent
roiileii' c. Those uho tleMiv his services mny
find him, when not prolc.-AomiHy at liis Of
fice over
T. J. LANE’S STOKE,
ready at all times to answer their calls.
Macon. Jan. ltLV/.
~~ ~ AI imumcslorl s 57~,
1 ") KCEIVKl) and for sale by
L nov 4 J. M. HOAJRHMAX.