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Tj^'forctiitlclfffnipl) __ r v JOSEPH CMSI1Y. ,1,e i*" 6 ® of ,hl * 1,a r> er wiU 1 0 DOLIARS per annnm, if paid in advance, *** ^ u , |ho office before »Uo expiration of the y CTf . If loft to be applied for by the or fata A sent, Tiro Dollars and a Half ^• be required in every case, without exception, to ^ ebarff®^ » n,i coinmi^ions. „ fee the Tinoiur h to new subscribers ^ be accompanied with Cask to secure atten- j^Correspomienen rcspectfuUy solicited. r*r. Cartwright Tamed a Mia VOL. XXXI. vmfmg. r • I ,r willl., MACON, TUESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 24, 1857. II0 " 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. press at 3 o'clock, will oblig, by hand- !*01|) I: odjr. ithern Illinois, or other < lay* for tho itched together in ’ho vnfl iden, with a ot like i to CO Vi v feet r the Cincin- er the whole liner a; i.l a shock small hurricane. ho fur from home; r an oyster into a >nders i n theennm- with h is intended. i and ii rnmediately A DVFRTISFMKM - it ti.< l < r ’ M , ... , sertion, unit /■',/'/y C. ,.\ ■ ... I lien. All :,.| .-r!i-.-in• nt-> i>„! -]>• will publUlu.l until forl.M ,I, I irmly Or.i I e.Mir Noth . - , v , ; ho published ; rails; but at tie tar for every ten m iun-’ ript 1::. number, must necoinpsny »H ] will bo cot short. ’ATI,,' Tei.EGRAI'11 ::... 1 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.