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134 Augusta Cotton Goods. —VVe learn 1 that the Augusta Manufacturing Com- \ pany is now working up thirty bags of I cotton a week, an amount which will be ! increased to seventy or more, so Soon as 1 the company'can complete its machine ry and erect its new mill, for which all j the stock is taken. The goods made at i this establishment are in great demand. ] Not long since it sold 210 bales in a sin gle day. More factories are needed to | supply the trade of this city.— Cliron. | <s• Sentinel. The following is said to be a correct estimate of the number of slaves in the following countries : United States, 3,- 095,000"; Brazil, 3,250,000 j Spanish Colonies, 900,000; Dutch Colonies, 85,000; South American Republics, 140,000 ; African Settlements, 30,000. ’ Total, 7,500,000. Ghost Story. —Great consternation prevails among the prisoners in Balti more jail, on account of the alleged ap pearance of the ghost of Vintner, lately hung for murder. Crows. —The number of crows kill ed in Charles county, Maryland, during the past year, and for which certificates were granted, was 7004, amounting to $475,42. Health of Boston.—The deaths in! Boston for the weekending July 27th were 105 ; 10 of cholera. Dubuque, lowa, it is said, contains 4,000 inhabitants, s,o(lodogs, and 50 colonels. A volume in A line. —At the tem perance celebration on tho Fourth at Newmarket, Tom., a little lad appeared i in the procession bear in a flag on which was inscribed the following:— all’s right, when daddy’s sober. “ Why,” said a physician to his in- 1 temperate neighbor, “ don’t you take a regular quantity every day— set down a stake, that you will go so far and 110 fur ther?” “1 do,”, replied the other ; “ but I set it down so far oiF, that I get drunk before I gel to it.” A man who had a scolding wife, in answer to an enquiry after her, said she was pretty well in general, only subject at times to a breaking out at the mouth ! There is a girl up town so modest, that upon Seeing a''candle melting near the stove, she shut her eyes for fear of j seeing a naked wick. A funny book.—Wm. E. Morford, | writing frdtn San Francisco, says: “Ij liave acquired Considerable Spanish, and have found that a Spanish girl is the 1 best grammar in the world ; and since my arrival in town, 1 have been—-sludg ing grammar.” “Can there be a church without n! bishop?” and “May a man marry his deceased wife’s sister?” are no longer; disturbing tho ecclesiastical .peace ofj our eastern friends, but the inquiry now : is, “Can a rumseller be a Christian How can we tell When none of them 1 over tried. ■ ■■ ‘ * .1 No Ma'am. —A lady correspondent wants to know from the editor of the! Newark Mercury, if he considers the I practice of ladies’ using rouge respec table? He replies, “No ma’am wej don’t, for it raises the dickens with a 1 fellow’s lips.” A cockney Philologist says the letter W enters into the composition of wo men in all the relations of life—c. g. Wirgih, Widow and Wixen. ORGAN OF THE SONS OF TEMPERANCE AND STATE CONVENTION. Case of total Depravity.—How i ever much mankind may differ and dis- I pute about the doctrine of “ total de pravity,’” we are sometimes, though I we are glad to say seldom, compelled to behold instances where.'humamty has i sunk into depths of degradation and de- I pruvity, so appallingly low as to -settle i forever this disputed pointi Such a case occurred a few days ago at the | hospital in this city. A sick Irishman, who had fallen under the care of one of the city physicians, was found in a hut almost entirely destitute of furniture, j and with no bed to lie upon but a large box with a blanket spread over it. lie had suffered severely with cholera mor bus,'and had drur.lt liquor thirteen times that day. The physicians had him re moved to the hospital, and having pro vided hifa with food and other necessa ries, loft the man’s wife to nurse him; very shortly after the doctor left, the wife gathered up all the articles that had been procured for her husband, carried them to the nearest grog shop and pawned themf or whiskey, with which she returned to where her husband lay, and immediately got beastly drunk. Her husband died the next day. Let metaphysicians dispute no more about total depravity.— Rochester American. Ci.kanlinf.ss. —When a dirty little 1 ragged boy is seen in the streets in some I of our more civilized towns he is picked ■ up by the authorities and sent to school. ‘| He should in like manner be sent to the pump—and this, you may depend upon it, would be a great assistance to his education. .When offenders are locked up in a jail, the first process they have to submit to is that of being washed and scrubbed. This is all very proper; but surely it is an absurdity to show i greater solicitude for the health of dwel ling bouses. If the men had been j washed in time, we question much i whether they would have been felons at ] all.— Chamber's Journal. Ley a preventative of Cholera. A writer in tho St. Louis Reveille gives it as bis opinion that if oh tho in habitants of St. Louis would take to drinking ley, made from wood ashes, | these would not be a case of cholera iu | tiie city in 48 hours’ time. A gentle- j man called upon us yesterday who con-1 firms the above, for he says that his wife was attacked with the cholera on Sunday last, and that he administered Icy to her, which cured her in a short time. When tho spasms come on, a wine glass full should be drank, made . of wood ashes, six table Spoonfuls to a ! quart bowl full of water, taken cold. ; The extremities should also bo bathed ’ in weak hot Icy, and a flannel, saturated jin warm ley, mould be applied, to tlio I stopiach. This, the gentleman inform | ed us, proved an effectual remedy. For the California Fever.—A ( friend who has seen sonic service, in Camp life, offers to those , afflicted with the prevailing epidemic, the following prescription: “ First, sleep three nights ’ in vour wood-house, with the door open ,j and swinging in the wind—during which I time lot your diet be pork, cooked by i yourself at a smokey fire in the garden, i Second, improve all the rainy nights in j sleeping between your current bushes I and garden fence. Third, on the fourth j day of our regime, lot your diet be mule , steak. Fourth, thereafter dispense with all kinds of food except dog meat. ; If this be followed resolutely, it is con fidently believed a permanent cure will ; be effected.” 4 1 Official retqrns show that there are 1,667,000 infantry, 40,000 cavalry, 34,000 artillery and 53,000 riflemen in the United States; making an aggregate approaching two millions of citizen sol diers. LADIES’ DEPARTMENT. Woman’s Voice. —How consoling to j the mind opppessed by heavy sorrow,! is the voice of an amiable woman! ! Like sacred music, it imparts to the [ soul a feeling of celestial serenity, ands as a gentle zephyr, refreshes the wear- j ied senses with its soft and meliflyous; tones. Riches may avail much in tho i hour of affliction; the friendship of mans may alleviate for a time the bitterness! of wo: but tho angel voice of woman is i i capable of producing a lasting effect on I the heart, and communicates a sensa tion of delicious composure, which the mind had never before experienced, even in the moments of its highest felicity. Wonder she did’nt Die. —In Pitts burg, on tho evening of the 4th inst., a lady imagined she had an attack of the cholera, and called in a physician. He asked her what she had eaten during the day. She told him ten saucers of ice cream, six dishes of raspberries, nine glasses of pop and mineral water, two cherry pies, one gooseberry tart, and any quantity of sweetmeats. The Dr. told her if she had, only drank a glass of buttermilk, she would have saved him the trouble of calling on her. Novel Pet?. —A correspondent of the Boston Journal, writing from Hing ham, Mass:, which place he had visited on a pleasure excursion says : We took tho younger members of the party to visit West River Iron Foundry, and the pond near it, and Miss Thomas’ ■pets —the fish and turtle in, it. This child of nine years has fed these fish four years with bread. She was first amused by throwing the crumbs into, the water when she eat her meals on the stones of the bank, and seeing the fish dart for them she took an interest j in the fish, and has fed them regularly j . ever since. Strange as it may seern, j they know her voice. Oil our request- j ing her to feed and call them, she did so, and called “ turte, turte, turte” sov -1 eral times; directly we could see the turtle popping their heads up Over the pond, then swim to her and take the | bread from her hands. The fish did the ! same ; several hundred of which,, con j sisting of large black pouts, six or eight ! inches long, shiners and minnows of all sizes, flocked around her, perfectly tame. The turtles were of two kinds, “ snappers” and the common yellow spotted ones. Cohasset Girls. —The Philadelphia Times says that girls at Cohasset make nothing of going into tho water and bringing out a shark or mackerel by the nose. They dig clams with their toes, and open quuhogs with a pinch of their fingers. They live chiefly on sea fare, so that'when kissed they taste salt, and when they die are preserved half a cen tury. Their hair in old ngb turn& into dry seaweed, and if they have-worn caps in thoirold age, the cap is stilF and glittering with crystallions of salt; and if you fall in love with them in their youth, you find yourself in a pickle. African Gallantry. —We often hear of Irish gallantry, but Africa is equal to Ireland. A negro driver of a coach in Texas, stopping to get some j j water for the young ladies in the oar-j ! riage, being asked what he stopped for, - replied, “ I am watering my flowers.” A more delicate compliment could not have been paid. A lady was recently asked to join the Daughters of Temperance. She repli ed that it was impossible, as she was going to join one oPthe Sons soon. Dr Franklin used to say that'rich wi dows were the only piece of second hand goods that sold at prime cost. JUVENILE DEPARTMENT Marion- County, June 27, 1-49. -Vr. Editor, —As I hnvc st i-n several f-rtigtuns sn your paper, I send you one winch you may ! insert if you think proper. ; lam composed of thirty-four letters. ■ My l 23 14 is a Small animal. „ 5 9 19 is a kind of drink very much superior to whiskey. ~18 28 3 1!) 32 is a county in Georgia, j ~.26 7 IS4 10 1822 13 is the name ofa month. 1 „ 18 31 34 28 21 2i) is a science. , „ 11 33 322 is it county in Alabama. | „ 2t) 4 is a pronoun. ! „ 12 10 10 28 is a woman's name. „ 27 22 2 16 6 is it kind sf fruit. , „ 33 23 31 25 is a kind of.tnetal. „ 15 24 203 12 4 25 is a kind ofcloth. „ 31 10 31 15 177 is a river iu the Unite States. „ 30 13 33 20 1,4 2!l is a day of the week. „ 33 2526 33 2 20 28 is one of the United States. „ 28 32 2 13 14 8 is a place mentioned in the Bible. „ 34 31 18 2 10 16 31 is an article very mttch it! use. My whole is what every Son of Temperance should do. Peculiarities- Perfectly white cats are deaf. The bones of birds are hollow, ami filled with air instead of marrow. A single horse-fly produces in one season, 20,080,320 eggs! The flea jumps 200 hundred times its own length,equal to a quarter ofa mile for a man. The black ostrich stands seven feet. The knowledge of the arts and sci ences, which is possessed by the differ ent inembersof the animal creation, has not ur.frequently been a subject of won der to the naturalist. We may exam ine the subject with profit to ourselves. Bees are geometricians. Their cells - are so constructed, as with least quan j tity of material, to have the largest sized ■spaces and least possible loss of Inter j stice. I So also is the Ant Lion. Ilis fun i nel-shaped trap is exactly correct in i conformation, as if it had been formed by the most skilful artist of our species, with the aid of the best instruments. The tuple is a meteorologist. The bird called the kine killer, is an arithmetician ; so also are crows, the Wild Turkey, and some other birds. The Torpedo, the Ray, and the Elec tric Eel, are electricians. The Nautilus is a navigator. He raises and lowers his sail, and casts the anchor, and performs other nautical ev olutions. The Beaver is an architect, builder ami wood-cutter. The Marmot is a civil engineer. He not only builds houses, but constructs aqueducts and drums to keep them dry. Ihe White Ants maintain,a regular army of soldiers. The East India Ants are horticultu rists, they mukp mushroons upon which they feed their-young. Wasps are paper manufacturers. Caterpillars-are silk spinners. The bird Ploceus Tex tor is a weaver. He weaves a web to build his nest. The Prima is a tailor. He sews the leaves together to build his nest. The Squirrel is a ferrvriian. With a cljip or a piece of bark for a boat, and his tail for a sail, he crosses the stream. Dogs, Wolves,- Jackalls, and many others, are hunters.--Western Cadet. ‘ ! Dow, jr. says: “Ibe'lieve that sitn- I pie honesty, the naked truth, pure vir. tue, and a straight up and down way of dealing with the world, has as much advantage over vice, trick and strata gem, in the long run, as a good square trotting horse has over a pacing pony or a racker that goes a mile or two like mischief, and done for the rest of the journey.” “If a man makes me keep my dis. tance,” says Pope, the comfort is, he keeps his at the same time.”