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OUR STEAMSHIPS. We noticed in our last paper the arrival of the new steamer Tennessee. This week brought back our older favorite the Cherokee. When the former was first exhibited many visi tors thought her a much larger and more roomy ship. We have taken pains to get the dimensions of each and subjoin them. Those of the Cherokee are, 210 feet, 8 inches, length ; 35 foot, 4 inches, breadth; 22 feet, 3 inches, depth; 31 feet, diameter of paddle ; tonnage, 1244 89-95. The Tennessee measures 211 feet, 10- inches, length; 35 f ee t, 8 inches, breadth ; 22 feet, depth ;31 feet, diameter of paddle; Tonnage, 1275 1-95. These vessels were intended to be .alike, and are as nearly go as two ships can be. The greater depth of the Cherokee, though not counted in the Custom House measure of tonnage, makes her more capacious, by Carpenters’ measure, than the Tennessee. The latter, however, is built a little fuller than the former, and there is little or no difference in their actual capacity. The Engines of the two ships are exactly alike, being English side lever marine engines, of 75 inches cylinder and 8 feet stroke. They are as solid and compact as they can possibly be. and do credit to the builders, Messrs. Stillman, Allen & Cos., of the Novelty Works. The ships were built by Wji. H. Webb, who is famous for the fine Liverpool pnckets he has built, and who constructed the steamer United States. We understand that in the maritime circles of New York, these steamers are considered the finest and best, so far ns strength, model, and engine are concerned, that have yet been built there. THE ETHIOPIAN MELODISTS. We had the pleasure of attending a performance of this corps of singers at Macon on Saturday evening last. As they are expected in this city soon, it affords us pleasure to com mend them to the lovers of good music, they are the best by far that have visited the South. I. O. O. F. We have received the following Circular from the Grand Secretary of the Grand Lodge of the State of New York, and lay it before our readers in order that any communication with said body, or officer may receive a proper direction, as it ap pears that the rebellious subjects in that jurisdiction are not content with refusing obedience to the mandates of the G- L. of U. S., but have resorted to the criminal act of intercepting letters. We think the Order is well rid of such brothers. I. O. OF O. F. Office of the Grand Secretary Grand Lodge State of New York : Odd Fellow’s Hall, City of New York, ) March 13, 1849. $ To District Deputy Grand Masters , Officers of Lodges , and Brethren : In consequence of the many complaints made to this Office of the failure of Deputies, Officers of Lodges and Members to receive communication which have been issued from this Office, and of the failure to receive many communications which have been intended to reach this Office, for several months last past, and which have been transmitted by Depu ties, Lodges and individuals, you are therefore notified and requested to address all communications intended for the Grand Lodge, Grand Master, or Grand Secretary, to BEN JAMIN J.PENTZ, Box No. 8.38, Post Office, New York, and in all cases to be particular that Letters and Documents are properly mailed, in order that a failure of papers intended for this, or sent from this Office, to reach their destination, may be traced to the proper cause. Fraternally yours, BENJAMIN J. PENTZ, Grand Secretary. SONS OF TEMPERANCE. We are indebted to the politeness of W. S. Williford, Esq., Grand Scribe, for the following synopsis of the Quar terly Returns for the quarter ending Ist January, 1849. Number initiated, ----- 2325 Violated pledge first time, - - - 113 Signed over, ------ 30 Violated second time, - - - - 11 Deaths, ------ - 5 Total number members, - 6010 Receipts of Subordinates, - - - $8,276 03 Paid for benefits, ----- $399 39 Cash in treasury, - - - $6,752 74 Present number of Divisions, - - 172 Comment is unnecessary. The semi-annual meeting of the Grand Division will be held at Griffin on the fourth Wednesday of this month. the kilmistes. This interesting family have been delighting large audiences for a week past, in our city. Their performance is well adap ted to produce the effect this little extract particularizes: lmcard Influence of Outward Beauty. —There is many a road into our heart besides our ears and brains; many a sight, sound, and scent, even of which we have never thought, all, winks into our memory, and helps to shape our character, and thus children brought up among beautiful sights and sweet sounds will most likely show the fruits of their nursing by thoughtfuln ess and affection, and nobleness of mind, even by the expression of the countenance. Those who live in towns should remember this, for their own sakes, for their wife’s Bakes,*for their children’s sakes. Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful. f be Kilmistes leave here to-day for Macon, and we bespeak f'i them a kind reception, as they are a highly interesting and deserving family. MEETING OF THE STOCKHOLDERS OF THE CENTRAL RAIL ROAD &. BANKING COMPANY. An adjourned meeting of the Stockholders was held at the xchange, on Tuesday, 3d inst., to consider the propriety of granting aid to the Chattanooga & Nashville Rail Road Com- I m y* tht u weie 14,207 shares represesented. His Honor the Mayor took the Chair, and Joseph S. Fay, Esq., acted as Secretary. A If ttei from V. K. Stevenson, Esq,, President of the C. ’ * together with the resolutions of the Board of sectors oi 16th May hist, and a part of the Annual Report, re read, when the following resolutious were otfered, seconded and passed: terest°/n we cannot but feel the warmest in- Road Cc , U> success °f the Chattanooga & Nashville Rail other j, rit !. n^ obligations of this Company for iron and absorb airt° V r ments * ts w °rks imperatively demanded, will us available means. Resolved , That any new issue of bonds or any increase of the obligations of this Company, or committal to new enter prizes are calculated seriously to eirect its resources and credit, to impair the value of its stock, and diminish public con fidence. Resolved , That in view of these facts (aside from the ques tion of right under the charter of this Company) this meeting feels constrained to say that it cannot sustain the recommend ation of the Board of Directors of 16th May last, in favor of affording aid to the Chattanooga and Nashville Rail Road Company. LIF List of passengers sailed in the steamship Cherokee, Capt. Lyon, yesterday evening at 4 o’clock : Robert Love, AY m. Messer, J. N. Taft, B. J. Hathaway, S. Porter, Wm. Habersham, AY. B. Hodgson, J. R. Wray, J. H. Carhart, 11. R- Conklin, A. B. Sand, O. Hicks, jr., H. Hutchins, W. M. Fieldeu, M. Aillieux, Benj. Baker, D. B. Moore, H. AV. Mercer, Mrs. F. AV. Ferrel, Mrs. D. R. Wad ley, Mrs. Hogan, Miss Aillieux, Miss S. C. Hogan, and 40 steerage. - 1 —i s a m m a ©nn ß “My dear,” said an affectionate spouse to her husband, “am I not your only treasure?” “Oh yes,” was the cool reply, “and I would willingly lay it up in heaven.” Peter Smith, the watch-maker insisted upon calling his oldest boy, Peter, after himself as he considered his little treasure, valuable enough to he called a re-Peter . He much admired its little face and hands. “Mary, my love,” said a not very attentive hus band to his wife at the dinner table, “shall I help you to a piece of the heart?” “I believe” said she, “that a piece of a heart was all I ever got.” There was a commotion amongst the dishes. Why is a chap who escorted different ladies six nights in a week,l ike another who was too late at an inauguration ball ? Because he waited on a gal-a night . “Bill, you young scamp, if you had your due you’d get a good whipping.” “I know it, daddy, but bills are not always paid when due.” The agonized father trembled lest his hopeful son should be suddenly snatched from him. Why is a lady who accidentally falls into a gentleman’s lap, like a barbarous nation? Be cause she is a lap-land-er . Good nature is one of the sweetest gifts of prov idence. Like the pure sunshine, it gladdens, enlivens and cheers. In the midst of hate, revenge, sorrow and despair, how glorious are its effects. Why is the science of self-defence hkealow tide ? Because it develops the muscles. A young lady in New Orleans the reason she carries a parasol is, that the sun is of the masculine gender, and she cannot withstand his ardent glances. Mary Foote , supposed to have a hand in ab stracting a watch from a man named Bickford, was committed for trial. Mary had a time of it, but is likely to suffer some for her unfortunate attachment. It is stated that three millions of bushels of wheat will be at Chicago at the opening of navi gation, ready to go forward from Lake Michigan. Frank! —A musician, a while ago, informed the public in his bills, that a variety of other songs might be expected, “too tedious to mention.” The dumb waiter. —A lady purchasing a second hand dumb waiter, asked whether he thought it would answer? “Yes ma’am,” replied the bro ker, “without a question!” A joke for a newspaper office. —Editors cannot be on bad terms with each other for any length of time ; for, however much they may quarrel about the paper, they must “make it up” before they go to press. A gentleman observing an Irish servant girl who was left handed, placing the knives and forks on the dinner table in the same awkward position, remarked to her that she was laying them on left handed. “Oh, indade !” said she, “so I have—be pleased to help me turn the table round.” An Irish washerwoman was complaining to her husband, who was sometimes in the habit of flagilating her. He endeavored to persuade her that her complaints were groundless, and with arguments that she “always had plenty of wood and wather in house.” “An’ ye may well say that,” she keenly retorted, “I’ll always have plintv of that while I’m wid you ; for i’ll niver be without a stick to my back or a tear in my eve.” J A Challenge. —A little fop conceiving himself in sulted by a gentleman who had ventured to give him a little wholesome advice, strutted up to him with an air of importance saying:—“Sir, you are no o-entleman —here is my card; cons>idei self challenged. Should Ibe from home when you honor me with a call, I shall leave word with a friend to settle the preliminaries to your satisfac tion.” To which the other replied—“ Sir you are a fool! —here is my card, and should I not be at home when you call on me, you will find that I have left orders with my servant to kick you into the street.” Beauty of Jewesses.— -It is related that Cha teaubriand, on returning from his eastern travel, was asked if he could assign a reason why the women of the Jewish nation were so much hand somer than the men, when he the folio whim one;—“Jewesses,” he said, “have escaped the curses Avhich alighted on their fathers, husbands, and sons. Not a Jewess was to be seen among the crowd of priests and rabble who insulted the Son of God, scourging him, crowning him with thorns, and subjecting to infamy and the agony of the cross. The women of Judea believed in the Saviour, and assisted and soothed him. under af fliction. . A woman of Bethany poured on his head precious ointment, which she kept in a case of alabaster. The sinner anointed his feet with per fumed oil, and wiped them with her hair. Christ, on his part, extended mercy to the Jewesses: he raised from the dead the widow of Nain and Martha’s brother Lazarus; he cured Simon’s mother-in-lawr, and the woman who touched the hem of his garment; to the Samaritan woman he was a spring of living water, and a compassionate judge to the woman in adultery. The daughters of Jerusalem wept over him ; the holy women ac companied him to Calvary, brought him spices, and weeping sought him in the sepulchre.— “AAVman, why weepest thou ?” His first appear ance after the resurrection w T as to Mary Magda lene. He said to her, ‘Mary !’ At the sound of his voice, Mary’s eyes were.opened, and she an swered, ‘Master!’ The reflection of some beau tiful ray must have rested on the brow of the Jewess.” A comparison. —A clergyman on one occasion stepped into a public garden, in which old Adam, its keeper, was diligently engaged in grubbing up a plenteous crop of weeds, which had over run a portion of the ground. Clericus condoled with the old man on the trouble the operation occasioned him ; while the latter, after clawing his casuality for a moment said “ When ane thinks on’t, after a’, —‘whatever is, is right;’ for weeds are like sinners ; and if it were na for weeds and sinners, there would he nae need for gard ners or ministers. Nae use for you or I, sir.” To clean black satin. —ln a quart of water boil three pounds of potatoes to a pulp. Strain the water through a sieve and brush the satin with it, upon a board or table. The material is not to be : wrung, but folded down in clothes for three hours, and then ironed on the wrong side. It is starting on a false principle to suppose that a man can escape from his own deeds, be it good or bad. As sood as he has committed it he has given it an existence, an individuality, which lie can never destroy ; it becomes independent of him, and goes into the world to deal its influence in widening circles far beyond his view. Meteor. — A remarkable meteor exploded at Ba ton Rouge, La., on the 24th ult. The noise shook the houses and alarmed the citizens. It was very brilliant. osxwsrjf&Ya The interesting subject of the following notice, Miss MARY LAWRENCE CLARK, departed this life on the 23d ult., in the 21st year of her age. She was a native of Geneva, New York State, and accompanied her anxious parents to this place in the fond hope that the genial climate of Georgia might restore her to that health which, until a few brief weeks, she had enjoyed in her own native clime. Divine Will, however, had otherwise ordained, and consumption, that insiduous scourge of the Northern regions of our country, put a period to a life that was as brief as it was lovely. To those few who had the happiness of knowing her here, she had endeared herself by her amiable manners, cheerful and resigned in the face of approaching death, she alforded an eminent example of the manner in which the Christian should meet the last enemy of our race—unwavering in her hopes— confident to the end. She left this world in the full assurance that she was about to exchange it and its fearful scenes, for one “ where there is no more sorrowing or sighing, but where all tears are wiped from our eyes.” To her distant friends it must be gratifying to see this brief memorial of the esti mation in which she was held even among strangers. To her pious and exemplary parents, she has left all the consolation that the living can enjoy under such a bereavement. The contemplation of an end as calm and peaceful as her life was lovely and endearing. A sorrowing friend, whose acquaint ance with the deceased, though brief was eminently pleasing, under all its melanchoily features, has claimed the privilege of rendering this short, but sincere and heartfelt tribute, He has not attempted to set forth her virtues, nor to detail the graces exhibited in her short and exemplary life—suffice it that they are recorded in the bosoms of those who knew her longest and best. And to them is commended her bright and glorious example in life and death. C. FOR a term of years, that commodious LUMBER WRD, known as “ Pooler’s Dock,” and which has been occupied by Mr. A. A. Smets, for the last twenty-five years. This property has a front on Savannah River of two hundred and twenty feet, and extends back on the eastern line five hundred fcet; on the western line six hundred feot, and fronts on Indian street, two hundred feet. Possession given on the 10th es June next. For terms apply to ROBERT AV. POOLER, Sen., Attorney for Caroline M. Fraser and Rebecca M. Pooler. April 3 D ~HOUSE and sign painting, glazing, &c. THE subscriber having taken the store No. 121, Brough ton street, has re-commenced in the above business/and will be happy to receive orders for work. He will also keep for sale all kinds of mixed paints, window glass, putty, {oil, turpentine, &c. March 22, ’49. 3m. JOHN OLIVER. New York & Savannah Line Steamships- To leave WEDNESDAY, Ajrril 11/A. The new and splendid Steamship TENNESSEE, Collins, master, THILL leave Savannah as above. Passage to VV New York $25. No berth secured until paid for. The ship and owners will not be accountable for any ar.ielo sent on board, unless bills of lading are obtained for the same. Bills of Jading signed by the Clerk on board. For Freight or Passage, apply to ‘ PADELFORD <sc FAY. The ships of this line carry a clear white light at masthead, green on starboard side and red larboard. iW N o Freight received after 9 o’clock on the day of sailing. No colored persons will be allowed to go on board for any purpose- April 5. Fashion for Spring-, 18-19. IVTOBLE LYON, (Gibbon’s Buildings,) Hatter, Successor to Ives, Horsey & Co.—The following varieties may be found at the above named Hat Store : Fine Black and Drab Beavers, White, Otter, and Pearl Brush, No. 1 and 2, Moleskin, Drab and Black Brush. Also, Plantation Hats, Leghorns, Rutland and Palm Leaf, Men’s and Boys’ and Children’s Coburg, and Infants’ China Pearl Hats, <Ac., <3cc. For sale wholesale and retail at New York Prices, mar 29 Reform Vour Washing Bills. THE only way in which this can be done effectu ally, is to procure one of Sabin’s patent WASHING MACHINES, manufactured by Mr. Quantock, corner of Montgomery and Liberty Streets. This truly useful Machine is warranted to wash perfectly clean, without injuring in the slightest degree the finest article of clothing, in three minutes; time. The most economical soap which can be used with these machines is the Soft Soap manufactured by Geo. H. Brock, 111 Bay Street. The soap is warranted t & start the dirt , and to be the cheapest Soap which can be used. Ample reference can be given. mar 29 4 DEPOT OF FOREIGN FRUITS. DE MARTIN, CORNER OF BAY AND WHITAKER STS. T r EEPS constantly on hand a supply of Fresh J_V Fruits, with a complete assortment of Preserves, Bran dy Fruits, Pickles, Sauces, finest quality of Segars, Tobacco and choice Wines. Orders from the country most respectfully solicited, and will be supplied on the most accommodating terms. March 22. SPRING UtoOtosT THE Subscriber has just received, by late arri vals from New York and Philadelphia, a handsome assort ment of every kind of BOOTS AND SHOES, for gentlemen, ladies, youths, misses and children, all of which he offers for sale on reasonable terms. SAM. A. WOOD, March 21. ‘ 105 & 106 Bryan-st. HOUSE FURNisiUNCI STORE. pOLLINS & BULKLEY, No. 10S Bryan-st., \J would respectfully invite the attention of purchasers ta their large and varied assortment of Crockery, Glass Waie, and House Furnishing Goods, consisting in part of Flowing Blue, Mulberry, and W. G. Dinner setts; China and W. G. Tea setts; Mugs Vases, Ornaments, Glass Lamps, Straw berry Wines, Ashburton Goblets, Solar Chimneys and Shades, Julep Tubes, and a general assortment of Glass Ware. Stone Butter Pots, Pickle Jars, Churns, Jugs, &c- LAMPS AND TIN WARE. Burning Fluid Lamps, Miniature Solar Lamps, Hall Lan terns, Bronze Candlesticks, Nursery Lamps for Invalids, Tea Waiters, a fine assortment, Slop Pails, Foot Tubs, Coffee Big gins, Oyster Stew and Venison Dishes, Dish and Plate covers, Cake Boxes, Ac. FAMILY HARDWARE AND CUTLERY. Ivory Table Cutlery with Knives only, Buck Horn and com mon Cutlery, Razors and Pticket Knives, Coffee Mills, Sauce and Stew Pans, Sou}) Digesters, Ovens, Pots, Skillets, Spiders, Gridirons, Wafer and Waffle Irons, Furnaces. Brass Shovel and Tongs, Andirons, Stair Rods, Whips, Quilling Scissors, Paste daggers, Ice Breakers, Cork Screws, Mouse Traps, &c. WILLOW AND WOOD WARE. Buckets, Tubs, Wash Boards, Sieves, Piggins, Churns, Beef Steak Pounders, Lemon Squeezers, Wood Spoons, Butter Prints, Cake Beaters, Butter Pats, Rolling Pins, Towel Roll ers, Faucets, Bird Cages, also Market Baskets, Waggons, Hobly Horses, Travelling and Work Baskets, Dusting and Scrub Brushes, Sweeping Brooms, and other brushes. MISCELLANEOUS. Straw Satchels, Knife Baskets, Paper Lamp Shades and Frames, Tliermometers, Spool stands, Swifts for windingsilk,leo Cream Churns, Knife Cleaners, Nut Picks and Crackers, Gravy Strainers, Toy Hoes, and rakes, Apple Corers and Peelers, Buckwheat Cake Griddles, ot Soap Stone, Table Mats, also Door Mats of different qualities, together with a great variety of goods not enumerated. Also Camphine and Burning Fluid of the best quality. Housekeepers, Planters, and others, are invited to call as their prices are as low as elsewhere. BOOK AND JOB PRINTING, Os all kinds, executed at this Office, with neatness and despatch. HAVING lately put our Office in complete order and made large additions to it, we have now the most ex tensive Job Printing Office in the City and are prepared to execute all kinds of PLAIN AND FANCY PRINTING, with neatness and despatch, and on the most accomodating terms. Office 102 Bryan-street, entrance on Bay Lane. Savannah, March 22d, 1849. EDWARD J. PURSE-