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nledicines, that the
neither he kept waiting* nor
able to be served with the \vion 0
medicine, from too rnanV’° rts
carricl in basket n*nil,<-r. Oh
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pail and brush, and bc ‘l* e “ r ”
will. Ilia lime-washing- Ai first n
was difficult, as has been said tu
■ i ,1,. i,id to volunteer tor this
induce llie lu , .
| Mr. Ivubv directed
service, amt ,
much nn-umenl and persunsiou to
wards .heir supped leaf o emer
i„„ die coliasc* where people were
Ivfne sick- This was not the rea
son,’however, as Warrender ex
plained, with downcast eyes when
Mr. Kirby wondered what ailed
the lads, that they rail all sorts of
dangers all day long, and shnked
this one.
•“Tis not the danger, I fancy,
said Warrender ; “they are
not so much afraid of the lever as
of going with me, I’m sorry to
say.”
“Afraid of you 1” said Mr. Iyu by,
laughing. “ What harm could you
do them t”
“ ’Tis my temper, Sir, I'm a
fraid,”
“What is the matter with your
temper ? 1 see nothing amiss with
it.”
“And I hope you never mnv,
Sir : but i can t answer for myself,
though at this moment l know the
folly of such passion as these kid.-
have seen in me. Sir, it has been
mv wav to be violent with them ;
nnd 1 don't wonder they slink away
from me. But —”
“I am really quite surprised,”
said Mr. Kirby”. “This is all news
to me. I should have said you
were a remarkably staid quiet, par
ser vering man ; and, 1 am sure very
kind hearted.”
“You have seen us all at such a
time you know Sir 1 It is not only
ihe misfortunes of the time that so
bers us, but when there is so much
to do for one’s neighbours, one’s
mind does not want to be in a pas
sion—so to speak.”
“Very true. The best part of us
is roused, and puts down the worse,
i quite agree with, you, War renti
er.”
The boys wore not long in learning
that there was nothing now to fear
from Warrender. No one was sent
staggering from a box on the ear.
No hair was ever pulled ; nor was
any bov ever shaken in his jacket.
Instead of doing such things, War
render mule companions of his
young assistants, taught them to do
well whatever they put their hands
to, and made them willing and hap
py. While two or three thus wait
ed on him, others carried home the
clean linen that his daughter and a
neighbor or two were frequently
ready to send out : and they daily
changed the water in the tubs where
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the foul linen was deposited. Oth
ers again, swept and washed
down the long steep street, making
it look almost as clean as if it belong
ed to a Dutch village. After the
autumn pig-killing, there were few
or no more pigs. The poor suf
ferers eouid not attend to them ;
could not afford, indeed, to buy
them ; and had scarcely any food to
give them. Though this was a to
ken of poverty, it was hardly to be
lanterned in itself, under the cir-
cumstances ; for there is no foulness
whatever, no nastiness that is to he
found among the abodes of men so
dangerous to health as that of pig
styes. There is mismanagement
in this. People take for granted
ttint the pig is a dirty animal, and
give him no chance of being clean ;
whereas, if they would try the ex
periment of keeping his house
swept, and putting his food always
in one place, and washing him with
soap and water once a week, they
would titid that he knows how to
keep his pavement clean, and that
he runs grunting to meet his wash
ing wii h a satisfaction not to he mis
taken. Such was the conclusion of
the hoys who undertook the purifi
cation of the two or three pigs that
remained in Bleaburn. As for the
empty styes, they were cleaner than
many of die cottages. After a con
versation with Mr. Kirby, Farmer
Neale bought all the dirt-heaps for
manure 5 and in a few days they
were all trundled away in barrows
—even to the stable manure from
the Plough and Harrow—and heap
ed together at the farm, and well
shut down with a casing of earth,
beat firm with spades. Bovs real
ly like such work as this, when they
are put upon it in the right way.
They were less dirty than they
would have been with tumbling
about and Quarrelling and cuffin'’
in the filthy street ; in a finer glow
of exercise ; with a more wholesome
appetite ; and far more satisfaction
in eating, because they had earned
their food. Moreover, they began to
feel themselves litile friends of the
grown people—of Mr. and Mrs.
Kirby, and the Doctor, and the
Warrenders—instead of a sort of
reptiles, or other plague ; and Mr.
Kirby astonished them so by a bit
of amusement now and then, when
he had time, that they wohld have
called him a conjuror, if he had not
been a clergyman. He made a
star —any star they pleased—as
large as the comet, just by making
them look thiough a tube*; and lie
showed them how he look a drop of
foul water from a stinking pool, and
pul it between glasses in a hole in
his window-shutter ; and how the
drop became like a pond, and was
found to be swarming with loath
some live creatures, swimming
about, and trying to swallow each
other. After these exhibitions, it is
true the comet seemed much less
wonderful and terrible than before;
hut then the drop of water was in
finitely more so. The lads studied
Mr. Kirby's cistern —so carefully
covered, and so regularly cleaned
out ; and they learned how the wa
ter be drank at dinner was filtered ;
and then they went and scoured
out the few-tubs there were in the
village, and consulted their neigh
bours as to how the public of Blea
burn could be persuaded not to
throw tilth and refuse into the stream
at the upper part, defiling it for
those who lived lower down.
One morning at the beginning of
December —on such a morning as
was now sadiy frequent, drizzly,
and far too warm for the season—
the lads who went up to the brow
saw the same sight that had been
visible in thesame place one even
ng in the preceding August. There
was a chaise, and an anxious post
boy, and a ladv talking with one of”
the cordon. Mr. Kirby had learned
what friends Mary Pickard had in
England, and which of them lived
nearest, and he had taken the liber
ty of writing to declare the condi
tion ofthc Good Ladv. His letter
brought the friend, Mrs. Henderson,
who came charged with affectionate
messages to Mary from her young
daughters,-arid a fixed determina
tion not to return without the inva
lid.
“To think,” as she said to Mary
when she appeared by the side of
her mattress, “that you should be in
England, suffering in this way, and
we not have any idea what you
were going through !”
Mary smiled, and said she had
gone through nothing terrible on
her o*vn account. She might have
been at Mr. Kirby’s for three weeks
past, but that she really preferred
being where she was.
“Do not ask her now, Madam,
where she likes to be,” said Mr.
Kirby, who had been brought down
the street by the bustle of a strang
er's arrival. “Do not consult her
at all, but take her away, and nurse
her well.”
“Yes,” said the Doctor; “lay her
in a good air, and let her sleep, and
feed her well ; and she will soon
come round. iShe is better —even
here.”
“Madam,” said Widow Johnson’s
feeble but steady voice, “be to her
•what she has been to us ; raise her
up to what she was when I first
heard her step upon those stairs,
and we shall say you deserve to be
herjfriend.”
“You will go, will not you?”
whispered Mrs. Kirby to Mary.
“You will let us manage it all for
you ?”
“Do what you please with me,”
was the reply. “You know best
Iniw to get me well soonest. Only
let me tell Auntv that I will come
again, as soon as I*am able.”
“Better not,” said the prudent
Mrs. Kirby. “There is no saying
what may lie the condition of this
place by the spring. And it might
keep Mrs. Johnson in a stale of* ex
pectation not fit for one so feeble.
Better not.”
“Very well,” said Mary.
Mrs. Kirbv thought of something
that her husband had said of Mary ;
that he had never seen an\ r one
with such power of will and com
mand so docile. She merely pro
mised her aunt frequent news of
her; agreed with those who doubt
ed whether she could bear the jolt
ing of any kind of carraige on the
road up to the brow ; admitted that
though she could now stand, she
could not walk across the room ; al
lowed herself to be earned on her
mattress in a carpet, by four men,
up to the chaise ; and nodded in re
ply to a remark made by one little
girl to another in the street, and
which the doctor wished she had
not heard, that she looked “rarely
bad.”
The landlady at O seemed,
by her countenance, to have much
the same opinion of Mary’s looks
when she herself brought out the
glass of wine, for which Mrs. Hen
derson stopped her chaise at the
door of the Cross Keys. The land
lady brought it herself, because
none of her people would give as
much as a glass of cold water, hand
to hand with any one who came
from Bleaburn. The landlady
stood shaking her head, and saying
she had done ihe best she could;
she had warned the young lady in
tiine.
“Butyou were quite out in ynur
warning,'’ said Mary. “You were
sure I should have the fever : but 1
have not.”
“You have not!”
“1 have had no disease—no com
plaint whatever. lam only weak
from fatigue.”
“If is quite true,” said Mrs. Hen
derson, as the hostess turned to her
for confirmation. “Good wine like
this, the fresh air of our moors, and
the. easy sleep that com£s to Good
Ladies like her, are the only medi
cines she wants.”
The landlady curtisied low—said
the payment made should supply a
glass of wine to sombody at Blea
burn, and bade the driver proceed.
After a mile or two, he turned his
head, touched his hat, and directed
the ladies attention to a bottle of
wine, with loosened cork, and a cup
which the hostess had contrived to
smuggle into the pocket of the
chaise. She was sure the young
lady would want some wine betore
they stopped.
“How kind every body is !” said
Mary, with swimming eyes. Mrs.
Henderson cleared her throat, and
looked oit of the window on her
side.
(Concluded next week )
jMrsrtllnng.
ANECDOTE OF RUBINI.
Some thirty years ago. the little
town of Bergamo, in Italy, became
eminent ff r its chorus-singers, while
by a singular contrast, the actors
were in the inverse ratio but indif
ferent. Some of the former became,
afterwards, most distinguished, and
indeed immortalized themselves
throughout Italy as singers, compo
sers, ancl musicians of the first emi
nence, in the names of Donizetti,
Cridelii, Leonora Biancho and Ma
rio ; all of whom commenced their
career as simple chorus-singers at
Bergamo. Among other aspirants
to fame, at this period, was a young
man of very humble extraction, and
to use a common saying, “poor as
a church mouse,” but withal of a
most amiable disposition—unassum
ing, and much beloved by his com
panions. In Italy the orchestra are
not, or were not, so recherche as in
France; in the former country you
enter the shop of a tailor, and, ten
to one, you find the master thereof
playing “first fiddle,” while his ap
prentices, by way of winding up
the day agreeably, will make their
appearance at the theatre with
their various orchestral instru
ments. The subject of this anec
dote was one of this class ; and, in
order to contribute to the support of
an aged mother, united the functions
of a chorister with the less harmoni
ous,” but more lucrative occupa
tion of an humble snip. One morn
ing it chanced that it was his good
fortune to be sent to the celebrated
singers, Nozari, in order to accom
modate him with a pair of inex
pressibles. After gazing on him at
tentively, Nozari asked the boy if
he had not seen him before. “1 be
lieve so, signor,” he replied ; “I
have seen you at the theatre while
l was engaged in the choruses.”
“Have you anything of a voice ! ”
asked Nozari. “No,” was the re
ply, 1 can hardly go up to sol.”
“Let us try, my little fellow,” said
Nozari good humoredly, as he ap
proached the piano. “Now begin
your gamut.” Thisthe youth timid
ly attempted, but when he arrived
at llie awful sol , he jjot quite out of
breath. “ Now, out with la “ said
Nozari. “Impossible, Signor, I can
not.” “Out with it, you rascal.”
“La —la—la”—cried the lad.—
“Now for si.” “O, Signor, I can’t.”
“Out with it, or I'll out of the win
dow with you !” roared Nozari.
“Oh, don’t be angry, Signor—l'll
try,” exclaimed the terrified hoy,
beginning with la—si —la —si and
ending with do. “That will do,”
said his perceptor, patting him
caressingly on the head, “and,” con
tinued Nozari with an air oftriumph,
“follow it up, and you shall become
the first tenor singer in Italy.”
Nozari’s prophecy was realized ;
and the poor chorus-boy through
the introduction of a pair of inex
pressibles, became. “Tl jrrimo tenor
d'ltalia ,” and the destined possessor
of the immense fortune of two mil
lions—and his name was —Rubini !
Vulgarity—u nsuccessfu l a fFecta
tion. Fashion—successful affecta
tion.
The best way to keep good acts
in memory is to refresh them with
new.
A bachelor is like a jug without a
handle ; there’s no taking hold of
him.
When a man is unhappy, people
are ready to find him faulty, lest
they should be forced to pity him.
It is proper to have the conscious
ness of having done well, but it is
the height of vanity to wish to be
informed of it.
Some confine their view to the
present, some extend it to futurity.
The butterfly flutters round the
meadows, the eagle crosses the
seas.
Public opinion is a jurisdiction
which the wise man will neter en
tirely recognize, or entirely deny.
Philosophy, like medicine, has
abundance of drugs, few good rem
edies, and scarcely any specifics.
The pains we take in books or
arts, which treat of things remote
from the use of life, is a busy idle
ness.
The glutton is the lowest souled
of all animals, the butcher’s boy is
to him an Atlas bearing heaven on
his shoulders.
Knowledge will not be acquired
without pains and application. It
is troublesome and like deep dig
ging for pure waters ; but when
once you come to the spring, they
rise up and meet you.
There cannot be a more glorious
object in creation than a human be
ing, replete with benevolence, med
itating in what manner he might
render himself most acceptible to
his Creator, by doing most good to
his creatures.
There is nothing on earth so lu
dicrous as the affected caution of
a fool, after you have humbugged
him.
Perhaps the most acceptable kind
of flattery consists less in eulogizing
a man’s actions, or talents, than in
decrying those of his rival.
It is only the bitter time of afflic
tion that the sancluaiw of man’s
heart is open ; in quiet times the
temple of Janus is closed.
The vain abhor the vain ; but
the gentle and unassuming love
one another. It is the effect of
sympathy with the latter, the want
of it by the former.
Hard boiled eggs are said to be
a cure for love. They lie so heavy
on the stomach, as to make the
poor sufferer forget the weight on
the heart.
THE BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS.
Beautiful flowers’, why are they
not in every home ? There is no
dwelling into which some ray of
sunshine does not enter. The
earth is cheap ; the l.ittle one may
want can be had for asking ; and
surely there are some in a family
with sufficient ingenuity, be it ever
so untutored, to nail together a few
rough boards, and make a box for
the smiling daises, or the red lipped
rose. It is a pleasure, as the toiling
dame busies herself with her ardu
ous duties, to see, in some cozy
I nook, or on some cleanly window
seat, the pietty fragrant things,
speaking all unconsciously of the
heavenly Father’s kindness in en
riching the dreary world-path
through which his children travel to
a better home. The heart of the
hard working man grows kindlier,
and softens even towards the task
master from which he earns his
slight pittance, as their rich and
dainty colors feast his eyes. The
little ones are wealthy if a single
velvet leaf is bestowed upon them ;
for they see nothing so beautiful
out of doors, poor things! nothing
but red bricks and damp pavements,
in whose grey and black crevices
not a blade of grass dare grow.
A little sufferer laid in a high,
dreary garret; and the beams above
his head, and on every side were
black and foul. His cheek was
scarlet with the flush of fever, and
the unnatural light of his eve
flashed in the dimness of coming
evening, like a diamond in its
gloomy bed of anthracite. Some
thing told the child that death was
busy with its heart. It might have
been the heavy struggling for
breath ; it might have been an an
gel; for angels gather in bands
around the despised couch of pov
erty. “ Mother,” he whispered, and
a pale, bent woman knelt beside
him, “ mother, is there one blown
now? look, look !” For the twen
tieth time the sickly woman lifted
the tiny box of violets, and ihe red
blood rushed to her face as she lie
held one little, drooping bud, just
beginning to unfold. iShe carried
it to the boy, the child, almost an in
fant ; and a sweet smile lighted up
his innocent features.
“ Put* it down, mother, where 1
can look at it till I die.” With a
wild sob the poor widow placed it.
upon his pillow, and watched his
glassy eagerly as they watch
ed the flower. Hours passed ; the
brow grew whiter; the fingers
that she clasped, more clammy;
the round lips that had so often
called her mother, more purple, fa
ding into a bluish wniic, tremulous,
as though the failing voice strug-
O 00
gled for utterance. IShe placed her
ear closer to his little face, and heard
him utter distinctly, “ Good-bye
mamma ; lake care of my violets.”
And after the rough pine coflin
was carried away and covered with
the mould, while her worn fingers
were nervously stitching on the
ill-paid for garment, the spirit eyes
of that mother could see a vision of
beauty filling the wretched garret
with light and loveliness, a vision of
her early buried child, in the pure,
white robes of heaven, bending
above the box of violets.— Olive
Branch.
•
An Irish gentleman was in com
pany with a beautiful young ladv,
to whom he was paying his ad
dresses ; when on giving a shudder,
she made use of the common ex
pression that someone was walking
over her grave. Pat, anxious for
every opportunity of paying a com
pliment to his mistress, exclaimed :
“By ihe powers, madam, but I wish
I was the happy man !”
“What a dreadful prodigality
some people manifest,” remarked
Mrs. Partington after a call upon a
neighbor. “There’s Mrs. Mayweed
couldn’t be satisfied with the old
bihle, that’s been a handloon in the
family from the time immemorable ;
she must go and get one with the
apothecary in it. If people are go
ing to read sich biblesjreligion will
get to be a real drug.” And the
pious old lady sought her closet to
open her heart in prayer.
editorial Cleanings.
Woman with all her accumula
tion of minute disquietude, her
weakness, and her sensibility, is
but a meagre item in the catalogue
of humanity ; but roused by a suf
lieient motive to forget al! these, or.
rather continually forgetting them,
because she has other and nobler
thoughts to occupy her mind, wo
man is truly and majestically great.
— Mrs. Ellis .
Vice does not depend so much on
a perversion of the unde:standing,
as ot the imagination and pas
sions, and on habits originally
founded on these. A vicious man
is generally sensible enough that his
conduct is wrong; he knows that
vice is contrary both to his duty and
to his interest ; and therefore, all
labored reasoning, to satisfy his un
derstanding of these truths, is use
less, because the disease does not
lie in the understanding. The evil
is seated in the heart. The imag
ination and passions are engaged on
its side, and to them the cure must
be'applied. * *■ * ‘lfany
thing can rouse, it is the power of
lively and pathetic description,
which traces and lays open their
hearts through all their windings
and disguises, makes them see and
confess their own characters in all
their deformity and horror, impress
es their hearts, and interests their
passions by all the motives of love,
gratitude and fear, the prospect of
rewardsand punishments and what
ever other motives religion or na
ture may dictate. — Gregory.
On tht Beauty of the Psalms. —The
fairest productions of human wit,
after a few perusals, like gathered
flowers, wither in our hands, and
lose the ir fragraney ; but these un
fading plants of paradise become,
as we are aeustoined to them, still
more and more beautiful ; their
bloom appears to be daily height
ened ; fresh odours are emitted,
and new sweets extracted from
them. He who hath once tasted
their excellencies, will desire to
taste them yet again ; and he who
tastes them oftenest will relish them
best. — Home.
Crowding our memory is no more
improving our understanding, than
filling our coffers with pebbles is
enriching ourselves ; and what is
commonly the name of learning,
what usually denominates us very
learned is, really, no more than our
memory heavily and uselessly bur
thened.—Anon.
The inconsiderate and thought
less may laugh at vice— may give
soft terms to very had actions, or
speak of them as if they were rath
er matter of jest than abhorrence ;
but whoever will reflect whence all
the misery of mankind arises—
what the source is of all the evils
we lament ; he cannot but own that
it anything ought to make us seri
ous — if we ought lodetest anything,
it should be that from which such
terrible ellccts are derived.
For llic very same reason that
we prefer health to sickness—ease
to pain, we must prefer virtue to
vice. Moral evil seems to me to
have a necessary connexion with
natural. .According to my notion
of things, there is no crime but what
creates pain, or has a tendency to
create it to others, or themselves;
every criminal is such, by doing
something that is directly, or in its
consequences, hurtful to himself, or
to a fellow creature. — Anon.
Man can of himself give birth to
no new idea, can originate no new
thought. But some men may be
made mediums of ideas which are
directly received from attendant
spirits ; while the mass of mankind
can only receive ideas from other
men, and in their turn communicate
these same ideas to others like
tben'iselves ? they act like interme
diate wheels to extend the action or
perhaps vary its direction ; and a
third clagsis found so stupid that no
important idea “can be beat into
them;” they may, perhaps, (ill the
lowest offices of the social machine
shop, may like posts and sills sus
tain some of the more perfect parts,
but can enter into none of the men
tal or moral movements of the age.
As man’s natural province is to
vary and convert to his convenience
the various physical forces, so in a
higher view he may adapt the spir
itual and moral influences he re
ceives, to the special wants of bis
mind, or having modified them by
bis own peculiarities, transfer them
to those who are in a capacity to re
ceive them. As many of the mo
tions of machinery are reversed by
intermediate pullies or the crossing
of belts, so those powers which
were originally given to man for di
rect and useful purposes, are by
him converted to such as are quite
opposite to the primary design.
One powerful engine is often
made to set in motion many little
wheels. So in the intellectual
world, one great mind will put in
motion ideas, which require q#ite a
community of smaller minds to
bring down into the numerous ulti
mates of -thought.— Anon.
Women have the choice of many
means of bringing their principles
into exercise, and of obtaining in
fluence, both in their own domestic
sphere, and in society at large.
Among the most important of these
is conversation ; an engine so pow
erful upon the minds and characters
of mankind in general, that beauty
fades before it, and wealth in com
parison is but as leaden coin. If
match making were iudeed the
meat object of human life, I should
scarcely dare to make this assertion,
since few men choose women tor
iheir conversation, where wealth or
beauty are to be had. I must,
however, think more noblj’ of the
female sex, and believe them more
solicitous tomaintaiu affection after
the match is made, than simply to
be led to the altar, as wives whose
influence will that day be laid aside
with their wreathes of white roses,
and laid aside forever.
If beauty or wealth have been
the bait in this connexion, the bride
may gather up her wreath of rosps,
and place them again upon her
polished brow ; nay, she may be
stow the treasures of her wealth
without reserve, and permit the
husband of her choice to
“ Spoil lier goodly lands to guild bis waste ; ”
she may do what she will—dress,
bloom or descend from affluence to
poverty ; but if she has no intel
lectual hold upon her husband’s
heart, she must inevitably become
that most helpless and pitiable of
earthlv objects—a slighted wife.—
Mrs. Ellis.
FRIEND OF THE FAMILY.
E. J. rURSE, CITY PRINTER.
Proceedings of Council.
SAVANNAH, October 24 th, 185 h
Council met.
Present His Honor R. Wayne, Mayor;
Aldermen Posey, Turner, Cohen, Mallery,
Screven, Griffin, Walker and Purse.
The Minutes of the last Meeting were
read and confirmed.
The Information and Fine Dockets were
read and confirmed.
Reports Read and Adopted.
The Committee on Streets and Lanes, to
whom was referred the Petitions of sundry
lot holders, to have removed the obstructions
on Lot No. 24, Curry Town, on Montgome
ry Street; to open a street to the Hebrew
Cemetery, and to open West Broad Street
from Rail Road Street to the City line, re
spectfully report in favor of the same.
Hiram Roberts and Solomon Cohen, Esqrs,
have with a praiseworthy liberality offered to
give to the City whatever ot their ground is
required for widening West Broad Street;
and the Committee are of the opiniou that
other patriotic citizens, in view of the in
creased value that will be given to the prop
erty in that section, will be induced to follow
their example. The Committee offer the
following Resolution :
Resolved , That the Mayor appoint five
freeholders, to act under and in conformity
with the piovisions of the sth and Gth Sec
tions of an Act passed by the Legislature of
Georgia, in December 1839.
TITOS. PURSE. j Com. on
JOHN F. POSEY. I Streets
THOS.*M. TURNER, s and
ROBET H. GRIFFIN, j Lancs.
His Honor the Mayor appointed as such
Committee, Thomas Purse. Thomas M Tur
ner, John W Anderson, Robert Luchlisou,
and Richard R. Cuyler, Esqrs.
The Committee on Streets and Lanes to
report upon the Petition of lot holders on
Jones Street, relative to front steps, made a
verbal report adverse thereto, and were, on
motion, discharged.
The Committee on Streets and Lanes, to
whom was referred the petition of H. A.
Crane, through Aid. Purse, Chairman, re
ported verbally that they had made arrange
ments to abate the nuisance.
Petitions.
The Petition of O. H. Lufburrow. Attor
ney for Mrs. E. Smith, praying the renewal
of lease of Lot No. fi, New Franklin Ward,
was read and referred to the Committee on
Public Sales and City Lots.
Resolutions’ Read and Adopted.
By Alderman Purse, seconded by Aider
man Walker,
Resolved , That the lot holders in Wash
ington and Green Wards, be allowed three
months to complete their pavements.
Resignation Real and Accepted .
The Resignation of Donald M. Mclntosh,
as Inspector of Turpentine for the City of
Savannah, was read and accepted.
On motion of Alderman Purse, the Clerk
of Council was directed to give the usual no
tice than an Election for Inspector of Tur
pentine, for the City of Savannah, will be
hold at the next Regular Meeting of Coun
cil.
Amount of Accounts passed, $1,578,19.
On motion. Council adjourned until 10
o’clock Monday next.
EDWARD G. WILSON,
Clerk of Council.
Board of Health.
Sexton's Report of Interments for the week ending
October 23, 1850.
Anthony Bet ran, 34 years, Billions Fever, New
Orleans, non-resident; John 11. Brown, 49 years,
brought deed to town. South Carolina, not.-resi
dent—lnquest ; Ann Dolan, 16 years. Congestive
Billious Fever, Ireland,, non-resident; Margaret
McGrath. 58 years, Fever, Ireland non-resident ;
Frederick Srhundat,* 25 years Prussia, non resi
dent; Zachary Russel, 3 £ \eaf-q Spasms, Savan
nah, resident; William Hogan 7 mouths, Infantine,
Savannah, non-resident; William Storbuck. 6
.Years. Billiou* Fever, - Florida, non-resident; Marv
* , 15 years, Bidious Fever I:eland, non-re
sident ; John McMahan, 21 years, lever Ireland
non-resident; Andrew F. Bennett, 35 ye-rs, con
sumption, South Carolina, resident— Total, 11.
*Died at the Poor House and Hospital.
Black and Colored * —Charles, 15 years, Fever;
|Wtt. 6 years, Fever; infant, 6 days, Infantine ;
g'fant, 3 days, Spasms ; John, 10 davs, Convul
sions ; Infant ten day 9, Spasms; Infant, 8 days,
..‘•■anting; Infant, 10 clays. Cholera Infantum ; In
‘ant, 6 days, Spasms—Total, 9.
T ~ B. Lathrop, Sexton.
„ E - J - HAEDE N, Chairman p*o tem B. H,
o. A, T. Lawrence, Sec.
THE FRIEXD OF THE FAMILY
SAVANNAH, OCTOBER 26, 1850.^
TO CLTJB3.
The Friend ot the Family and Arthur’s
Home Gazette will be sent for one year for
three dollars, in advance.
The Friend of the Family and Godey’s
Lady’s Book or Graham Magazine for oi, e
year for three dollars and fifty cents, in ad
vance.
The Friend of the Family and the Daily
Morning News for one year for five dollars
in advance,
Or three copies of the Friend for $5,00
“ SrtVcn “ “ “ “ 10,00
“ Twelve 4 ‘ “ tc 15 00
“ Twenty “ “ it 20 00
Oj The Friend of the Family, Arthur’s
Home Gazette, either Graham’s Magazine
or Godey’s Lady’s Book, for one year will bo
sent, for five dollars in advance.
Wo would call the attention of the
public to the advertisements of Mr. Job,,
Poole, wholesale and retail dealer in Paint#
Oils. ice. House, Sign, and Ship Painting,
Gilding, Graining, and Glazing, are also ex
ecuted by him in the best possible manner
and with great promptitude.
It will be seen by reference to the
advertisement of Messrs. McArthor & Morse
that they have on hand a very extens ve as
sortment of Tin Ware, comprising everv arti
cle in their line of business. Also a great
variety of Stoves of all descriptions, not to
be surpassed for durability and excellence
of workmanship.
We invite attention to the advertise me at of
Mr. J B. Cubbedge. in another!column. He
has been at considerable expense to enlarge
and otherwise improve the appearance of
bis store, and is now laying in a very hand
some stock of Books and Stationery and fancy
articles, and is prepared to suit almost any
customer in his line. Mr. C. deserves the
support of our citizen and we cordially re
commend his establishment to the public.
HP 1 Since the rains of last week, we have
been experiencing some of the finest weath
er, the real bracing, lively, comfortable sorr,
surely all trnco of Break Bono fever, and
such like disagreeables, must entirely disap
pear under its health giving influences.
•
Arrival of the Steamship Florida.
The Florida arrived in this City’, on Tues
day Morning at half past 8 o’clock, having
made the run from New York in G3 hours,
with 202 cabin and 89 steerage passengers,
an unusual large number for a single trip.
Among them, were many of our own citi
zens, whom we felt pleasure in welcoming
home.
Depopulation of North Carolina.
The Fayetteville Carolinian says, that
large numbers of persons, comprising men
of substance as well as the poorer classed,
are preparing to remove from that State, to
the West and South West.
Inquest.
Mr. Coroner Eden held an Inquest on
Thursday afternoon on the body of a negro
man named George, the property of Mr.
James S Wilkins, of Bryan Connty. The
body was found in the Canal on Thursday
morning, about three miles and a half from
the city, which lie left on Wednesday Inst,
on his way to the Patent Brick Press, where
he was employed. Verdict,‘‘found drown’d.'’
The Electrical Eel.
Dickens in “Household Words” gives the
following description of this marvellous fish,
which is in the possession of the proprietors
of the Royal Polytechnic Institution, in Re
gent Street. London :
“This specimen of the Gymnotus Electri*
cus was caught in the River Amazon, and
was brought over to this country by Mr.
Potter, where it arrived on the 1 2th of Au
gust, 1838, when he displayed it to the pro
prietors ofthe Adelaide Gallery. In the first
instance there was some difficulty in keeping
him alive, for whether from sickness, or sul
kiness, he refused food of every description,
and is said to have eaten nothing from the
day he was taken in March, 1838. to the I9;h
of the following October. He was confided
upon his arrival to the care of Mr. Bradley,
who placed him in an apartment the tempe
rature of which could be maintained at about
seventy-five degrees Fahrenheit, and acting
upon the suggestions of Baron Humboldt, I®
endeavored to feed him with bits ot boiled
meat, worms, frogs, fish, and bread, which
were all tried in succession. But the ani
mal whouid not touch these. The r ,nn
adopted by the London fishmongers for I# 1 *
tening the common eel was then had recoup
to ; —a quantity of bullock's blood was put in
to the the water, care bein': taken that it
should be changed daily, and this was atten
ded with some beneficial effects, as the ani
mal gradually improved in health. In
month of October it occurred to Mr. Brad
ley to tempt him with some small fish, ! 1
the first gudgeon thrown into the water l- e
darted at and swallowed with avidity, from
that period the same diet has been continued
and he is now fed three times a day, and u[ -
on each occasion is given two or three carp,
or perch, or gudgeon, each weighing l ,tlH
two to three ounces. In watching liisnio'e
ments we observed, that in swimming about
he seems to delight in rubbing himself B£ alllSt
the gravel which forms the bed above which
which he floats, and the water immediflt*
becomes clouded with the mucus from wh 1 * 1
he thus relieves the surface of his body-
When this species of fish w T s first discos
ered, marvellous accounts respecting h iea
were transmitted to the Royal Society- 1
was even said that in the River SuiinaW,
the western province of Guiana, son e e*
ted twenty feet long. The present
men is forty inches in length : and ®
eighteen inches round the body, 00
physiognomy justifies the description £
by one of the early narrators, who ie o
that the Gymnotus “ resembles one o
