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* U W&W? : Sfrfoortitfßi to ©mjpiwsmirirp Vol. II No. 25.] jE&e SPasfiCiifltoiuan Vlhb BE PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY MORNING, BY JAMES MeCAFFERTY, lit the low pnce of one dollar per annum, for a lingle subscriber, five dollars for a club of six, or ten dollars for a club of twelve sub scribers — payment, in advance. 11l Communications, by mail, addressed to the publisher, must be post paid to receive atten tion. By the rules of the Post-Office Depart-! ment, Postmasters may frank -subscription, money for Newspapers. ILdvf.btisements will be inserted at the follow ing reduced rates:--For one square, not <x-; ceeding twelve lines, 50 cents for the first i insertion, anil twenty-five cents for eachcon ■tinuince, if published weekly; if semi-monthly 37i; and if monthly 43} cents, foi each con-j tinuance. If early advertisers 10 per ct. discount. ~ Curious Agricultural Experiment. The following novel and interesting xperiment has lately been successfully nadc by 3lr. A. Palmer, of Cheam, Sur- V : In July 18-12, he put one grain of vhent in a common garden pot. In Au gust the same was divided into four plants, rhich in three weeks were again divided nto twelve plants. In September these welve plants were divided into thirty wo, which in November were divided in o fifty plants, and then placed in open ground. In July, 1843, twelve oi the ilants failed, but the remaining thirty sight were healthy. On the 18th of Au rusf they were cut down, and counted 1972 steins, with an average of 50 grains o a stem, giving an increase of 08,600! <vow if this be a practicable measure of •(anting wheat, it follows that most of the grain now used for seed may be saved, ind will infinitely more than cover the ■xtra expense of sowing, as the wheat >lants can bo raised by the laborer in his garden, his wife and children being ein iloyed in dividing and transplanting hem. One of the stems has been sent o us as a sample, which is rather more han six feet long, and stoat in propor ion.—London paper. Proper Depth l'or Seeds. Burger’s “ Economy of Farming ,” (re :ently translated from the German, by he Rev. E. G. Smith, of New York,) talcs the following as the result of an ixpcrimont tried with Indian Corn, to de ermino the proper depfh at which seeds houldbc put. That which was planted it the depth of S T o. I.—l inch, came up in 8j days. 2. inches, came up in 91 “ 3 2 inches, came up in 10 “ 4 inches, came up in 11J “ 5 3 inches, came up in 12 “ 631 inches, came up in 13 “ 7 4 inches, came up in 12£ “ 8 — 4$ inches, came up in “ 9 5 inches, came up in “ 10— 5J inches, came up in 17 A “ 11— 6 inches, came up in “ The Nos. 8,9, and 11, were dug up af er twenty-two days, and it was found lat No. 8 had an inch more to grow to each the surface of the earth. Nos. 9 nd 11 had just sprouted, but were short, nd three inches below the surface. No. 0 came up in seventeen days and a half; ut the tender leaf remained only six ays green, and then withered. There i no experiment which shows more clear r the advantage of shallow planting in a ail not too loose, and trodden down, than iis—The more shallow the seed was co vered with earth, the more rapidly the irout made its appearance, and the ronger afterwards was the stalk. The seper the seed lay, the longer it re tained before it came to the surface, our inches was too deep for the maize, ad must therefore be for yetsmaller grain smels. Phosphate of Lime. It has been computed that every person ho consumes 1 lb. of wheat bread dai , will in the course of one year, take ito his system 3 1-2 bearlv of phosphate " lime. “This circumstance (says the lbanv Cultivator,) is supposed to explain le reason why wheat bread is so superi ■ to that made of other kinds of grain, i phosphate of lime forms a principal ement of human bodies. It is found t milk, where nature soems to indicate that it is contained for the nourishment of the young animal, from the remarka-j ble fact that, when they are able to take; other food, the milk loses its proportion of this substance.—Although phosphate; . of lime is contained in considerable quan tities in the adult secretions, it is not known in those of the young:, beinjj all taken up for the purposes of nutriment. jTheshellaof eggs are formed of thissub-: stance, and Dr. Paris has ascertained the {singular fact, that if the legs of a hen ihe broken, she will lay her eggs without! {shells until these are repaired, for which {the lime is required. Hens will also layi their eggs without shells if there is a de- Ificiency of lime in the yard in which they {roam. It is a remarkable circumstance,! ; that although the grain contains the car-! Ibonateof lime, Carbon is, next to water, the principal support of vegetation.”— Farmer's Encyclopedia. Peacock's Pickle for Meat. Admiral Peacock's pickle for meat is preferable to most others when applied to family beef, pork or mutton. It is thus! made—Water 4 gallons ; Sugar, (or nio -1 lasses) Saltpetre 2 ounces; Salt, (the bay or largest sort,) 6 pounds. Boil all together, and skiin, &c. Then let it cool. The meat being placed in a • vessel intended to hold it, pour the cold pickle on the meat till it is covered. In ’ that state keep it for family use.—The beef, after lying in the pickle for ten weeks, has been found as good as if it ’ had been salted three days, and tender as ja chicken. If the meat is to be preserv ' ed for a considerable time, the pickle must he boiled and skimmed once in 2 months, throwing in during the boiling two oun ces of sugar, and a‘half pound of salt. Thus the same pickle is incomparable for "Icorning hams, tongues, and hung beef. j When tongues and hung beef arc taken out of the pickle, cleanse and dry the . pieces, then put them in paper bags, and • hang them in a dry, warm place. Some who have tried the method choose their mi at salter, and instead of G, use 8 or 9 ,’ pounds of salt. In very hot weather it is | necessary before the meat is put to the pickle, to rub it well over with salt and let it lie one, two, or three hours, till the bloody juices run off. If the meat, in j this case, is the least tainted before it is put to the pickle, it will be entirely spoil ed in a day’s time, in hot weather. Pea cock’s pickle is found so valuable, that no family ought to be without it.—Far mer's Gazelle. i The deg:ailing habit of Swearing. It is not easy to perceive what honor s or credit is connected with swearing. I Does any man receive promotion because he is a notable blusterer ? Or does any . man advance to dignity because he is ex pert at profane swearing ? No !—low must be the character which such imper tinence will not degrade. Inexcusable, therefore, must be the practice which has neither reason nor passion to support it. The drunkard has his cups; the leecher his mistress ; the satirist, his revenge : the ambitious man, his preferments ; the miser his gold ; but the common swearer ihas nothing; he is a fool at large ; sells -|soul for nought, and drudges continually II in the service of the devil gratis. Swear ing is void of all plea. It is not the na ) tive offspring of the soul, nor interwoven , with the texture of the body, nor any , how allied to our frame, for, as a great ; man (Tillotson) expresses it, ‘tho’ some ilinen pour out oaths as if it was natural, ;jyet no man was ever born of a swearing ■ constitution.’ But it is a custom, a low, i! paltry custom picked up by low and pal i try spirits, who have no sense of honor, •I no regard to decency', but are forced to i substitute some rhapsody of nonsense to > supply the vacancy of good sense. Hence ; the silliness of those that adopt it.— Dr. • Lamont. . The Rights of Women, i A bill has passed the Senate of the Tennessee Legislature by a large majori ty securing to married women the use of their own property. This is as it should be.—The justice of such a law is appar ent to all. It is a matter of surprise that every State in the Union has not hereto fore acted on this subject. The Union, holds the following language:—“Under the old law, which has been miscalled the “perfection of wisdom,” how many wor thy women have been reduced from com petency to beggary! how many have been the victims of worthless fortune hunters ! how many have suffered cruel AUGUSTA, GA. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 25. 1843. | privations from miserly husbands! hows | many have been left penniless widows! 1 their property being taken to pay their \ | husband’s debts ! The law now propos- i ed simply provides that the wife shall r have the same undisturbed control of her I jown estate after marriage which she had t before. It prevents her property from passing out of her hands, on marriage, by mere operation of law, without her consent. It elevates women one step higher in the scale of being, and gives t her a rank which in all Christian coun-j tries she has proved herself to deserve.{, And besides all this, the measure injures t no one—it takes from no man anything f that belongs to him—it will prevent frauds , and the smuggling of property; and last , {though not least, important in its conse- ] jquerices, it will decrease the number of , jold maids, who now refuse to many lest ( their effects should he squandered. Huntsville Democrat Conversational Powers. 1 Fluency in conversation must he as ’ cribed as a test of talent. Men of geni us and wisdom have often been found de ; ficient in its graces. Adam Smith ever retained in company the embarrassed 1 manner of a student. Neither Boffon | nor Rousseau carried their eloquence in ‘to society. Tho silence of the poet 1 1 Chaucer was held more desirable than '{his speech. The conversation of Gold ’{smith did not evince the grace and ten -1 derness that characterise his composi tions. Thompson was diffident and un ‘ interesting. Descartes seemed for soli -1 tude. Cowley was a quaint observer; ’! his conversation was slow and dull, and ’ his humor reserved. Hogarth and Smith • were absent minded, and the studious r Thomas Parker said that he was fit for • no communion, save with the dead. Our ’own Hamilton, Franklin, and a host of ‘ others were deficient in that fluency which often fascinates a promiscuous cir - ele. r ) Death, s A few days may, a few days must— ? Repose us in the silent dust.—Burns. t How seldom do mortals think of the ? short duration of life? Every day’s ex i perience forcibly reminds us that our bo. s dies must soon return to the earth, anc - commingle with the dust from whence - they spring. We appear upon the stage t of life, and chase the phantom of earth - ly happiness, which eludes our grasp at every step, until we find ourselves de i scending with rapid strides into the house appointed for all living—to slumber upon tho “rocky pavement of tho tomb,” unti lime shall have been lost in eternity, and r chaos shall cover the face of the earth ! . “What shadows we are, and what sha clows we persue !” , When we look at the duration of life . we are forcibly struck*with its shortness. r The sojourner on earth has but a few years . allotted him to work out his own salvation; , and how prodigal is he of his precious s time ! A few years that “hang on the , swift wing of time,” witness him “pass r away as a tale that is told,” and his : friends mourn for him a season, but it j will soon lie over, and he will in a short - time bo “forgotten and clean out of mind.” 5 This is the way of life. I How often have we been called upon . to witness the fact that man’s days are . few! That youth who now sleeps his i last sleep, was but a few days ago full of promise. Wayward, unthinking mortal I remember this. A few days more—a few i years at farthest—and the place that now . knows you will know you no more for r ever. What a solemn thought! You , may revel in the dissipations of the world, . with the promise of reformation after a , while, but the impartial conquerer has his i time, and you must go at his bidding, j Fancy not to yourself that many years will be yours, for the hope may be deeeit , ful, and your frail bark may be “wrecked upon the unknown shores of eternity,” ere the gray hairs shall have come upon your head. i “ The important vow employ. And live as those who never die.” Reader, when a few more years shall have been numbered with those that pre ceded the flood, von will have passed away to that “undiscovered country be- i yond the land of death, from whose mys- < terious bourn no traveller returns.”— « Your life is short—but as a span, and it ] behooves you to employ it in the most I useful manner. The grave will soon j cover you up, but with the countless > millions that now sleep in the peaceful | bosom of their mother earth, you will * hear the voicp of your Saviour when he < speaks, and will go forth to meet him atH his coming. God grant that you maybe] prepared for that august occasion when | it shall be proclaimed that time shall be.i no more, and “the sun shall slumber be-; < hind a cloud, forgetful of the voice of the i| morning. ” — Highland Messenger, From the Knickerbocker. The Printer. “The printer, in his folio, heraldethj 1 the world. Now come tidings of wed-; 1 lings, maskiugs, mummeries, entertain ments, jubilees wars, fires, inundations,j 1 thefts, murders, massacres, meteors, com ets, spectrums, prodigies, ship-wrecks, pi-1 racies, sea-fight law suits, pleas, procla- Sl mations, embassies, trophies, triumphs,! revels, sports, plays: then again, as in a new-shifted scene, treasons, cheating tricks, enormous villanies of all kinds, robberies, funerals, burials, new discov-; erics, expeditions; now comical, then tragical matters. To-day we hear of new offices, created, to-morrow, of great men deposed, and then again of fresh hon ors conferred; one is let loose, —another prisoned; one purchaseth,—breaketh : lie thrives—his neighbor turncth bank rupt ; now plenty, then again, dearth and famine: one runs: another rides, wran gles, laughs, weeps, and so forth : Thus do we daily hear such like, both public and private news.” Old Burton. He stood there alone at that shadowy hour, By the swinging lamp dimly burning, All silent within save the ticking type, All without, save the night watch turning; And heavily echoed the solemn sound, As slowly he paced o’er the frozen ground. i Oh! dark were the mansions so lately that shone, With joy and festivity gleaming, And hearts that were beating in sympathy then, Were now living it o’er in their dreaming; Yet the Printer still worked at his lonely post, As slowly he gathered his mighty host. And there lay the merchant, all pillow’d in down, And building bright hopes tor tho morrow; Nor dreamed he Fate was then weaving a wand That would bring him to fear and sorrow: , Yet the Printer was there in his dim lit room. And he set in his frame that rich man’s doom! The young wife asleep, whom lately had hound The ties death only can sever, And dreaming started, yet woke with a smile, For she thought they were parted forever! ■ The Printer was niching the types would tell I On the morrow Z/ielrur/iofthatmidnightspell. , And there lay the Statesman, whose fev’rish brow i All restless the pillow was pressing; For he felt thro’ the shadowy mist of his dream.. His loftiest h pes now possessing; , Yet the Printer toil'd on ’mid silent gloom, And dug for Ambition its lowly toinb! And slowly that workman went gathering up ' His budget of grief and gladness.; ■ A grave for the noble—a wreath for the low; > For the happy, a cup full of sadness; ; Strange stories of wonder, to startle the ear, i And dark ones of terror, to curdle with fear. . Full strange arc the talcs that sheet shall bear ) To palace and cot on the morrow; But welcome—thrice welcome to many a heart! To many the bearer ofsorrow! ! It shall go like the wild and wandering air, For life and its changes are printed there. Royal Plate. Every one, perhaps, is not aware of the 1 many useless expenses to which the peo who exist under a monarchial Govern ment—the free Government of Great Britain, for instance, arc exposed. It is said that the hare plate, at Windsor Cas tle, is valued at $>8,500,000. 1 A single gold service of George 4th’s contains all the utensils requisite to dine one hundred and thirty guests. There is in this collection a vessel which once be longed to Charles XI of Sweden ; ano ther taken from the King of Ava; oth ers were taken from the Spanish Arma da, and others again were brought from China, Burmali, and India. There are also thirty dozen gold plates, worth 8130 each, besides splendid gold shields for snuffboxes, worth from 830,000 to 810,- 000. Aphonia. The Rev. John N. Laws published in the New York Commercial Advertiser a statement ofa cure effected on him, which seems to be worthy of consideration.— He lost his voice so entirely as to be una ble to utter a loud word. He was treated a considerable time for bronchitis, but it i was found that the disease was aphonia. produced bv a paralysis of the muscles of articulation. He was induced to apply croton oil extensively to his throat— I [One Dollar a Year. | three or four drops were strongly rubbed 'on several times a day. These produced .pustules, and finally sharp pains were felt iin the seat of the disease, and in a few jdays his voice returned, clear, loud and permanent. He says: On the sixth evening I felt shooting pains through my throat—not very sc jvere, but repeated at brief intervals.— |This encouraged me, for down to this time I had very little hope. The next morning—-judge of my surprise and de light—as l commenced reading the Scrip tures in family worship, my voice came i forth clear and distinct asever. Several | more public experiments, within a few jdays, were equally satisfactory. On Sabbath, the Ist inst., (the first ap plication was made on the 16th ult.,) it was my privilege once more to preach the | Gospel, in a voice full, clear, and strong. I have preached several times since— twice on last Sabbath; and though in three instances the weather was very damp and rainy, I find no reason to doubt the completeness and permanence of the . cure. Ferocity of the Royal nengal Tiger, i On the way from Balasorc to Bustom, in Bengal, is a very extensive and dense s jungle verging upon the high-road, and it . is by no means an unusual circumstanco lor travellers travelling by dark in the a bovc tract, at dawn of day, to perceive a huge tiger crossing the road from one side of the jungle to the other, xvithm a very short distance of their palanquin. It very rarely happens, however, that any molestation is offered by these ferocious beasts of prey to a posse comilalus of peo ple provided with lighted torches ; but if a single passenger were progressing on his route through these dreary wilds, he i, would be inevitably carried off into the jungle and devoured. It is calculated that 370 natives, upon an average, are destroyed annually by tigers on the dif ferent farms of the Sunderbands, and so exceedingly daring and intrepid are these animals, that they will boldly swim the estuaries of the bay of Bengal and at , tack the dandees in their boats. In June j last, during the rains, an instance of this kind occurred near the estate of a Mr. J Broadhead, of the Bombay marines. A boat-man, in a “dingee,” was paddling a short distance off from the shore, when he esspied a royal Bengal tiger making II after him. He immediately redoubled I his speed, but finding his adversary gain v ing rapidly upon him, he became alarm ed for his safety, and abandoning his bark, , plunged into the water. The sanguina ry brute, nothing disappointed, still con tinued to pursue his quarry, the man div ing the instant ho found his enemy ap proaching him. As the poor fellow rose to the surface for the purpose of venting, he was capable of distinguishing the re lative position between himself and the tiger, and contrived by that means to keep at a safe distance from his pursuer, until the latter, completely worn out and ex hausted, and finally foiled in his sanguin ary object, turned back towards the iun -1 gle. Laughable Adventure. A winter since, a reverend clergyman in Vermont, being apprehensive that the accumulated weight of the snow upon 2 the roof of the barn might do some dam - age, resolved to prevent it by seasonably . shovelling it off He therefore ascend t ed it, having first, for fear the snow might 3 all slide off at once, and himself with it, . fastened to his waist one end of a rope, and giving the other to his wife, he went 3 to work ; but fearing still for his safety, ; “my dear,” said he, “tie the rope around s your waistno sooner had she done this, - than off went the snow, poor minister ■ and all; up went his wife. Thus on one . side of the barn, the astounded and con - founded clergyman bung, but on theoth i er side hung his wife, high and dry, in i majesty sublime, dangling at the end of I the rope. At that moment, however, a ■ gentleman luckily passing by, delivered them from their perilous situation. Lawyer’s Fee.—A young pert law yer said to another that he received 25 guineas for speaking in a certain case. •* And I,” said the other, received double that sum for holding my tongue in the same cause. Five things are useless unless they aro accompanied by one thing else : Words without deeds, riches without economy, learning without good manners, alms giv ing without charity, and life without health.