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u ( OIH'ISII AKISTOCK As Y
Os all the notable things on earth,
The queerest one is pride of birth
Among our “ tierce democratic ! ”
A bridge across a hundred years.
Without a prop to save it from sneers—
Not even a coudlc of rotten peers;
A thing for laughter, scorn and jeers.
Is American Aristocracy!
English and Irish, French and Spanish,
German and Italian, Dutch and Danish,
Crossing their veins until they vanish
In one conglomeration!
So subtle a tangle of blood, indeed,
No heraldry Harvey will ever succeed
In finding the circulation.
Depend upon it, my snobbish friend.
Your family-thread you can t ascend,
Without good reason to apprehend
V on may find if waxed at the other end
By some plebeian vocation !
Or. wor«e than that, your boasted line
,Mav end in a loop of stronger twine.
That plagued some worthy relation.
AGRICULTURE^
Soils and their Management
Soils are of various kinds, as heavy and
light, wet and dry, fertile and sterile. They
all require different management, in a greater
or less degree.
Heavy soils are often stronger and more
productive than light; but they require more
labor tor pulverization and tillage. They can
not be plowed when very wet, nor so well
when very dry. Although containing greater
or less proportions of clay, they may be dis
tinguished, as a class, from lighter soils, by
the cloddy surface the fields present after
plowing in dry weather; by their cracking in
drought, and by their adhesiveness after
rains.
Sandy and gravelly loams, also contain clay,
but in smaller quantity; so that they do not
present the clodlness and adhesiveness of
heavy soils. Though possessing generally less
strength than clay soils, they are far more
easily tilled, and may be worked without dif
ficulty in wet weather; they do not crack or
bake in droughts. Indian corn, ruta-bagas,
and some other crops, succeed best upon them.
Sandy soils are very easily tilled, but are
generally not strong enough. When made
rich, they are fine for some succulent crops.
Peaty soils are generally light and free, con
taining large quantities of decayed vegetable
matter. 1 hey are made by draining low and
swampy grounds. They are fine for Indian
corn, broom corn, barley, potatoes, and turnips.
They are great absorbers, and great radiators
of heat; hence they b • mie warm in sunshine,
and cold in clear nights. For this reason they
are peculiarly liable to frosts.—Crops planted
upon them must, consequently be put in lute
—alter spring frosts are over. Corn should be
of early varieties, that it may not only be
planted late, but ripen early.
-Each of these kind of soils may be variously
improved. Most of heavy soils are much im
proved by draining; open drains to carry off
the surface water, and covered drains, that
which settles beneath. An acquaintance cov
ered a low, wet, clayey field with a net work
of under-drains, and from a production of
almost nothing but grass, it yielded the first
year, lorty bushels of wheat per acre —enough
to pay the expense, and admitted of much
easier tillage afterwards.
Heavy soils are also made lighter and freer
by manuring; by plowing under coatings of
straw, rotten chips, and swamp muck; and in
some rare cases, by carting on sand—though
this is usually too expensive for practice. Sub
soil plowing is very beneficial, both in wet sea
sons and in drought; the deep, loose bed ol
earth it makes, receiving the water iu heavy
rains, and throwing it off to the soil above,
when needed. But a frequent repetition of
the operation is needed,as the subsoil gradually
settles again.
Sandy soils are improved by manuring, by
the application of lime, and by frequently
turning in green crops. Leached ashes have
been found highly beneficial in many places.
Where the subsoil is clayey, which is often
the case, and especially if clay—great advan
tage is drived from shoveling it up and spread
ing it on the surface. A neighbor had twenty
bushels of wheat per acre on laud thus treated,
while the rest of the field yielded only five.
Evergreen Thf.es forObnament.—Those
of our readers who intend ornamenting their
grounds with the beautiful productions of our
native forest, will do well to bear in mind the
fact, that evergreens should be transplanted in
the spring—deciduous varieties in the fall.
The first rarely succeeds —set in the fall sea
son. It is a beautiful tree, and with proper
management in removing and transplanting,
it is rarely known to fail. In the spring, as
soon as the frost begins to relax, or alter it is
wholly out, but while the nights are sufficient
ly cool to harden the surface of the soil, cut
around the trunk with an axe or other suita
ble instrument, severing the lateral roots at
the distance of IS inches or two feet from the
with as much care as possible,
raise the tree from its bed, with all the dirt
that will adhere to its roots and place it in a
cart or other vehicle to be conveyed to the
place where it is to be reset. The hole for its
reception should be sufficiently spacious to
receive it without doubling up or otherwise
cramping the roots, and be ‘Hilled in” with
soil as nearly approximating that wherein it
grew, as practicable. No heaping up or moun
ding” about the trunk, should be allowed.
It is better to have a concave than a convex
surface. No fermentable manure should be
applied. Old compost is the best stimulant.
Origin of the Pka.ihif.s.—Respecting the
origin of these immense fields, we have no
satisfactory knowledge. It is conjectured,
and we believe with a good deal of probability,
that their surface was once covered with tlie
waters of a lake; and that these having reced
ed, they were left in their natural evemness of
surface, to be encriched by the deposites of
ages, and thus fitted for the most luxurious
vegetation that the world ever saw. There is
something imposingly grand in the idea that
the waters of the great lakes once extended to
the base of the Rocky Mountains, and that
dammed back by those mighty barriers, they
were sent eastward, to be hurled over the pre
cipice of our own Niagara and thence, through
the St. Lawrence, to find enlargement in the
pceau. What a world of waters rolled their
tides over this quarter of the globe, then; and
what a cataract was Niagara! Bv what causes
such a change has been wrought—whether it
was by the gradual draining of the fountains,
which now send their diminished supplies to
i the beds of the Western rivers, or by some
mighty convulsion of nature—it is utterly
useless to conjecture. That the origin of the
1 prairies is such as we have suggested, seems to
• be indicated by the structure, their soil, their
I productions, and the alluvial deposits which
lie beneath their surface. Who can say by
what mysterious process this garden of the
’ world has been preparing for the occupation
and enterprize of Anglo American civilization,
■ or enumerate the ages which have rolled away
since they commenced? In vain does fancy
. grope among the unilluminated labyrinths of
the past, for something which shall satisfy the
’ ever recurring inquiries of the curious, of the
thoughtful mind. lie only who evolved or
der from the primal chaos, can answer such
inquiries; and in His own time, if He so choose,
He will make the revelation. —New York Re
corder.
A New Way to Core Bacon.—A corres
pondent of the Nashville Whig has the fol
lowing receipt:
“As soon as the meat is salted to your taste,
which will generally be in about fivewesk, take
it out, and, if any of it has been covered with
brine let it drain a little. Then take good
black pepper finely ground, and dust on the
fiesh side and on the hock end, as much as
will stick; then hang it up in a good, clean,
dry, airy place; if all this is done as it should
be, you will have no farther trouble with it,
for by fly time in the Spring your bacon is so
well cured or dried on the outside that flies or
bugs will not disturb_it.”
Till: CONST IT UTl(h\ AI , 181
Augusta, orovgia.
FRIDAY MORNING APRIL 27
I3n lUagnetic £clegrapl).
Reported lor the Constitutionalist.
o si: week later from Europe.
ARRIVAL OF THE
I A M B Bit.
A dispatch, from our corresondent, dated
Baltimore, April 26, 4 P. M., says: The steamer
Cambria will probably-arrive to-night, though
very late.
The northern markets remain unchanged, all
parties awaiting the steamers arrival.
An arrival at Boston from Africa brings ad
vices to the Bth March. The captain states
that the schr. Curlew' arrived at the Isle of
Loo, with all hands on board dead, except the
captain and one boy.
LATER.
Another despatch from our correspondent
at Baltimore, under date of April 26, 8 P. M*
brings us the intelligence that the steamer had
arrived at Halifax, and her news received at
St. Johns. Our correspondent informs us
that it will probably be midnight or later be
fore the news by her reaches Baltimore.
Up to the time of closing the office in this
city last evening, (HP. M.) no news had been
received from the steamer.
SAVANNAH, April 26—6, P. M.
COTTON.—There has been a good demand to
day, and the sales reach fourteen hundred and
fifty bales, at extremes ranging from sixoue-quar
terto seven and one-half cents.
Charleston, April 26, 8.2.5 P. M.
Cotton.—The sales to-day reach sixteen hun
dred bales. For the week they sum up fifteen
thousand bales, at extremes ranging from six to
•even and a half cents. The receipts ol the week
are five thousand bales. The market closes at an
advance of one quarter to three eighths cents, and
we quote fair and fully fair at seven three eighths
to seven and a half cents.
The Telegraph—Despatch
If our Baltimore despatch, under date of 8
P. M., is correctly headed, it is the quickest
through since the line was put in operation,
for it was received at the office in this city at
eight o’clock five minutes, making the transit
between the two cities, allowing for dif
ference in time, in about fifteen minutes. If
this speed is kept up, there willbe.no cause of
complaint against the Company.
Rain. Rain
We had a fine shower of rain last evening,
accompanied by some hail. It has been a great
relief to our citizens, who have suffered much
the past three weeks or a month from the dust.
To planters in the vicinity, it must be of im
mense benefit, as what was left by the late
frost, of the crop planted, of corn, &c., w r as
suffering for the want of it.
We understand that on Wednesday last
there was a heavy fall of rain in Columbia and
Lincoln counties.
Home Made Steam Engine
We take pleasure in recording another
achievement in machinery, by our Augusta
mechanics. We were shown yesterday by
Messrs. Taliaferro & Torbet, at their excellent
Iron Foundry, a Steam Engine of twenty
horse power, built by them, which for strength
and beauty of finish, is not to be excelled. It
will be put together, complete iu all its parts
in the course of to-day, and will well reward
the curiosity of onr citizens who are disposed
to inspect a fine specimen of Augusta skill and
enterprize.
Our attention was called to a polished brass
plat£, with the name of the makersjengraved
upon it, Uy Messrs. Smith & McLaughlin, of
our city. It is done in a style that will vie
with the skill of Northern engravers.
This Engine is built for Messrs. Glenn &
Daniels, of Woodstock, Oglethorpe Co. Geo.,
who intend it to drive a saw and two run of
stones in a Grist and Saw Mill they have erec
ted at Woodstock.
In addition to the steam engine, Messrs. Ta
laiferro & Torbet have cast all the gearing and
shafting for this extensive Mill, and it is done
in a style which will doubtless prove satisfacto
ry. The heavy gearing and shafting for the
two extensive merchant Mills of Messrs. J. L.
Coleman and Jno. Cunningham, have also
been cast at this foundry, which demonstrates
that it is not necessary for citizens of Georgia
to send beyond our own Slate for such ma
thinery.
Bank Reports
We have published the Semi-Annual Re
ports of the different banking institutions in
this city, (with the exception of the Bank of
Augusta,) and they are all in a sound and
healthy condition, with ready resources on
hand (after paying handsome dividends) to
meet all liabilities. For the information of
our numerous readers, we publish a synopsis
of the Report of the Bank of Augusta ; and,
in answer to many inquiries why we have not
published the statement in full, as heretofore,
we can only say that the Bank must be doing
an excellent business, as this year they have
been so saving they have denied us the privi
lege of doing so in our advertising columns.
BANK OF AUGUSTA.
LIABILITIES.
Capital Stock, SOOO,OOO 00
Bank Notes in circulation, 463,520 65
Dividends unclaimed, 3,024 00
Deposites, 116,559 25
Surplus profits, 50,876 94
Total Liabilities, $1,233,980 84
ASSETS.
Dis. paper running to maturity, $457,099 38
Bills and Notes lying over, 89,724 54
Adv's on cotton Se other securities, 125,742 00
Real Estate, Rail Road Stock, See., 275.785 00
Bal. due by Banks and Agents, 198,973 03
Notes of specie-paying Banks, -19,374 00
Specie in vault, 60,334 26
Protest account, 33 75
Expenses and Taxes, 6,914 88
Total Assets, $1,233,980 84
Postage ox Prices Current. —The Charles
ton Courier, of 24th inst., says—“ The follow
ing circular, with a copy of which we have
been politely favored, will shew that the is
sue of these commercial documents from
newspaper offices, are put on their proper
footing by the General Post-office Depart
ment. The illiberal course, heretofore pur
sued, in reference to this matter, has been an
annoyance to merchants, and a restriction on
the transmission of commercial information,
which we are pleased to see abolished. It
speaks well for the practical views of those
who administer the aflairs of that Department*
Post Office Department, )
Contract Office, April 21st, 1849. >
Str My letter of the 20th ulto. was no suf
ficiently explicit. Prices Current sent as cir
culars, when signed by the parties issuing
them, are under the convention with Eng
land, treated as letters.
)\ hen the}* are publshed and sent as news
papers—that is periodically issued, contain no
manuscript whatever, either of signature or
item, they will be held subject to newspaper
postage only, which is two cents each, pre- j
paid here, with one penny to be paid on de
livery in England, and with a penny stamp
duty in Great Britain, when sent from that
country to this, subject to a further postage of
two cents, to be paid on delivery here.
Respectfully, your obedient "servant,
S. B. IIOBBIE,
first Assistant Post Master General.
To Post Master of Charleston, S. C.
(communicated.)
Small Pox-
Iron Works, Ga., April 24, 1849.
Report for the week ending 24th April ;
Deaths, none; new cases, 2; sick, 15.
All the cases heretofore reported, are now
recovered or convalescent, except the fifteen
now reported sick. The disease is confined to
its original localities, and it is now very prob
able that it can go no further, but will ex
haust itself within its present limits.
No contagion at or near the Flour Mill, or
Rolling Mill, or in the route to either, except
that passing the Furnace.
The Editor of the Georgia Constitutionalist
will please publish the above and oblige the
subscriber. MARK A. COOPER.
(for the contitutionahst.)
A Review of Mr. Clay’s Letter on Eman
cipation.
BY A SOUTHERN CLERGYMAN.
( Continued .)
This I should not have time to do, not even
if I expected that my reply, (as Mr. Clay did
of ills letter, from the orderly arrangement of
it into chapter and verses,) would be stereotyp
ed and bandied over New and Old England. I
must then, be excused for dwelling a little
longer upon the glaring sophisms of the 2nd
verse. Mr. Clay thinks further, that.. “if
slavery be fraught with these alleged benefits,
the principle on which it is maintained would
require that one portion of the white race
should be reduced to bondage, to serve anoth
er portion of the same race, where black sub
jects of slavery could not be obtained; and
that in Africa where they may entertain as
great a preference for their color as we do for
ours, they would be justified in reducing the
whites to slavery in order to secure the bles
sings which that state is said to diffuse.”
Are we here to understand Mr. Clay to be
playing into the hand of abolitionism, by in
sinuating that the institution of slavery justi
fies the violent seizure of men, whether white
or black, entitled to freedom, and thus by
force subject them to a state of bondage?—
Does he place the rise of the institution of
African slavery among us, upon such footing ?
If so, we call upon him to give the proof, till
which, he must excuse us for considering this
absurd sophism a disingenuous thrust at the
sacred rights of the South, and an unhallowed
misrepresentation of God’s institution. The
whole of his 3d and 4th verses are made up of
the same sort of sophistical misrepresentation,
suited well to please northern fanatics, and
strengthen their hands in their mad disregard
of the Bible and the American Constitution
in their threatened onslaught upon Southern
rights.
As Mr. Clay has perhaps neglected to exam
ine the Bible plan of slavery, through his
many engagements in electioneering for the
Presidency, and in the duties of the high
offices of State which he has filled, he will
pardon us for showing him God’s method of
making slaves. If he will turn to chap, xlvii.
of Genesis, he will see how a very large num
ber of slaves was made without any violence
whatever to their persons or their wills. The
Egyptians through their improvidence and
want of foresight to take care of the copious
products of the seven years of plenty, as did
Joseph, were forced them to pay out first
all their cash for corn, and then to sell
their lands and themselves into servitude
to Pharoah; and they felt the spirit of
true gratitude for having their lives pre
served on the terms of becoming slaves. —
This then, illustrates God’s benevolent insti
tution of slavery. It is intended to take under
its protection and safe keeping the improvi
dent and reckless who may have forfeited
their title to liberty through poverty, crime,
or t * ie disasters of war. (See Levit. xxv. 39 ;
Ex. xxi. 1; Joshua, ix. 23.) The curse inflicted
on Canaan, (Gen. ix. 24, 28,) for the crime of
his father, was an exercise of divine mercy
toward the father, in sparing him and punish
ing tiie son; and the punishment was dis
pensed in mercy to the son, in preserving him
and his posterity alive, with diminished intel
lect, instead of cutting them off; and it is
doubtless, under such diminution of intellectu
ality|that the negro race in their native state,
have ever shown themselves so improvident
and incapacitated as to forbid their rise from
a condition of savage barbarity, under their
own management. The Bible however, by no
means justifies their enslavement by any en
lightened and more powerful nation, nor do we
recollect any particle of history, showing such
to be the manner in which our negroes were
enslaved, as Mr. Clay would be understood to
insinuate in several parts of his chapter on
emancipation. He speaks in the sth and 25 ch
verses of the piteous “ wrongs” done to “Afri
ca” and “ her children,” through the in
stitution of slavery. Whether this soph
ism is designed as a blistering unguent to
be applied to the consciences of Southern
slaveholders, to induce them to submit to be
rifled of their property without resistance, or
to be an electioneering salvo to calm the mor
bid sympathies of Northern abolitionists, I
shall not feel bound to decide. But I shall
like to be informed more specifically, in what
sense either the country or the inhabitants of
Africa, or the negroes brought from there
have ever been wronged by God’s merciful
institution of slavery. Were the belligerent
parties engaged in struggling warfare, wronged
when this benign institution interposed to in
duce the conquerors to make slaves of their
captives instead of butchering them in the
most cruel manner ? And were those captives
thus mercifully spared as slaves, wronged on
being transported from a state of savage slave
ry, under unfeeling tyrants in their native
land of sickness, ignorance and idolatry, to the
protection and guardianship of kind, christian
ized and civilized masters, in a land of Bible
light, of civil and gospel privileges, and of
* health and plenty ? Has this divine institu
tion of God’s appointment, done our Southern
slaves wrong in placing them beneath the pro
tecting banner of the Constitution and laws o*
the most civilized portion of the world; and
under the guardianship of owners, whose
christain sympathy and personal interest com
bine to furnish them (parents and children) a
comfortable home for life, and such supply of
food, raiment and medical aid. as may be best
calculated to secure health artd prolong life !
thus rendering their civil condition superior
to that of any class of poor in any section of
the known world ? Has the heaven-born in
stitution done our slaves wrong in providing
them apartments in every house of worship
throughout the Southern country, where they
may sit with their owners, under the procla
mation of gospel grace; and through which
thousands of them are enabled to rejoice in
the glorious hope of a blessed immortality ?
Have our slaves, then, in fine, been wrong
ed in being raised, through the institution of
slavery, to a condition of moral, intellectual
and civil improvement, and to a state of pro- |
teetion, comfort and happiness never else
where nor in any period of the world’s histo
ry known to any portion of the negro race?
Wrongs done by the institution of slavery,
indeed ! . Mr. Clay had better contemplate
the wrosgs which the spirit of fanaticism has
done the poor negroes of this country, in
abusing God’s institution of slavery, by at- |
tempting, under morbid sensibility, to confer
freedom upon them, which has doomed the |
great mass of emancipated slaves to wretched- I
ness and want. He had better look at the
cruelties which his plan meditates against his
subjects of emancipatien. Supposing those
barn alter 1860, and destined to be free at
twenty-five, and to be sent to Africa at twen
ty-eight, marry, at the usual ages of their i
forming such connexion—say the men at j
twenty and women at sixteen years of age:
then, at the expiration of eight years, the :
husband must be torn from the wife, with
from four to seven children, and thus leave
his family to follow him, at long intervals, to
the African colony. After four years, -the
mother is to be severed from her children and j
shipped to Africa, there, perhaps, to weep !
over the grave of her husband, and to ;
wait, it spared by the inhospitable climate, 1
fourteen years for the arrival of her eldest
child, and fifteen or sixteen years, as the case
may be, for the second, and in that proper- |
tion for the rest ! But, alas, in the meanwhile, |
what security fur the safety of her bereaved i
children would cheer her disconsolate reflec
tions that, none having a personal interest in j
them, they would most likely suffer for food
raiment and protection ! Mr. Clay says, such’ |
a state of separation “ will be far less distress- I
mg than what fiequeutly occurs in the state
of slavery, Sec. Sec. We are inclined to the !
opinion that separation of families among I
slaves seldom happens in their removal or ex
change of owners, as most people feel disposed
to keep them together, where they desire it;
and, in any cases of separation, the parties are
always assured that their friends or children
will fall under the care of masters whose per
sonal interest will not allow their property
ever to want the necessaries to preserve health
and lile. Mr. Clay had better consider the
overthrow he is, perhaps unintentionally, de- i
vising against his free negro paradise ; for, I
am much mistaken if his annual shipment of
five thousand emancipated slaves from Ken
tucky, (should he succeed in blinding and
deranging the people of that State so far° as to
induce the act of manumission,) would not be
the inevitable destruction of the African colo
ny. The foreseeing author, before quoted,
gives the friends of colonization a timely hint
on this point. He says, “I perceive in colo-
f nization reports that the owners of slaves fre
quently offer to liberate them, on condition
of their being sent to Liberia. * * * Better
discriminate carefully, in the selection of emi
; grants, than to send out such numbers of the
least eligible class, to become burdens upon
the industrious and intelligent, who might
j otherwise enjoy comfort and independence.
1 Many a colonist, at this moment, sacrifices his.
interest to his humanity, and feels himself
kept back in life by the urgent claims of com
passion.”—African Cruiser, ch. v. pp. 34.
I had thought to pass to the 7th verse, con -
taining Mr. Clay’s emancipation proposition,
and apply* to it the Constitutional and Bible
test of the right of slave property ; but I mus:
be excused for noticing yet a little further the
sophistical attempt to cast sand in the eyes,
and throw the chain of fanaticism around the;
consciences of his slaveholding brethren of
Kentucky, and the South in general, before
he would exhibit his bitter pill of abolition
ism. Mr. Clay knew well that no man in his
right senses would destroy his property, or
relinquish his rights for nought. Hence the
! labored effort to produce utter blindness to
the rectitude of the institution of slavery. It
is not only* ridiculed and sneered at,
strongest arguments which abolitionism has
usually produced.) but an appeal is made to
public opinion, as certainly* calculated to con
vince any sickened conscience that might still,
through pecuniary interest, cleave to the de
tested institution of slavery, lie says, “ A
vast majority of the people of the United
States, I believe, regret—lament—deplore”—
Sec. See. Sec., concerning the hatefulness and
evils of slavery*. If there indeed be so vast a
majority against slavery, Mr. Clay may*, I sup
pose, think his chance for holding a certain
high office good, especially by this timely an
nunciation of his long-entertained sentiments
of abolitionism. But, are majorities alwav.s
right ? If so, whatthe is use of constitutions
to prevent the minority from being wronged ?
Mr. Clay’s assertion that the abolition faction
of this country are so vastly in the ascendency,
must surely strengthen their hands; and, as
the cheering message has ere this commenced
its perigrinations in old England, the infamous
Sturge, of corn memory, Thompson, and oth
ers of like calibre, will feel that their mission
and labors among abolitionists of New Eng
land (for they* dared not show their heads at
the South,) were not in vain; and Lord
Brougham and other friends of the celebrated
Clarkson, will certainly think it needless to
attempt any* further answer to Gov. Ham
mond's letters, which involve the task of
gnawing at a file. But, when Mr. Clay shall
have answered the several interrogatories pro
pounded to him in our comment on the 2nd
verse of his chapter, he will have found God,
and Christ, and all holy* men of old, sanction
ing slavery* as the most sublime institution of
mercy, next to that of Redemption, and in
! tended by God, as exemplified in the Bible,
I to be incorporated with every* well-organized
society. What, then, must bethefoariul pre
! dicament of Mr. Clay and his abolition friends
i both of Old and New England: Are they
* not all, whether few or many, fighting against
i the God of heaven?—Lifting their puny fists
( in opposition to Him who sits upon his lofty
throne and laughs to scorn the impious at
tempts of his enemies to frustrate his designs
or thwart his appointments? Leaving Mr.
Clay and the friends of abolitionism to con
template the fearful results of their unequal
conflict, let the advocates of slavery* humbly
rejoice in finding the God of the Bible with
them, and that truth is mighty* and must pre
vail. But it is time to redeem our promise to
apply the test of truth to Mr Clay’s plan ot
abolition. After filling the preamble and six
verses of his chapter with matter suited to
the taste of free-soileas, and secondarily
intended to blunt the sensibilities of South
erners to the rectitude of their institutions,
Mr. Clay comes out, in the 7th verse, with
1 the preliminaries of his long- concoctedscheme
of abolition.
[To be continued.]
Arrival of the Steamship Isabel
This regular packet steam ship keeps up her J
reputation for punctuality. She reached her I
berth in Charleston at 9 o’clock yesterday j
morning, having left the port of Havana at (3 I
I o'clock on the afternoon of the 22d inst., ma- j
king the run in sixty-three hours from wharf to
j wharf, including the stoppage at Key* West,
and the delivery of the mail at Savannah.
The actual running time of the Isabel from
Havana to Charleston, was but a few minutes
j over fifty hours. She brigs upwards of one
hundred and twenty passengers.
A telegraphic despatch, received here yester- j
day morning announces the reception of the j
mail at Savannah, at 5 o’clock A. M, yester- j
j day- (
At day light, on Monday morning, about I
I 14 miles from Kev West Light, Capt. Rollins
saw a large ship on her beam ends on the Dry
Rocks, Florida Reef, with a number of wreck
ers about her, having probably gone ashore in
the course of Sunday night.
“ HAY ANA, April 22,—We hand you, as
, usual, a copy of our report, It enters so fully
j into the state of our markets, and no altera
tion having occurred since it went to press,
that it leaves us nothing to add.
“ Exchange on New York and Boston has.
however, gone up to 2 a per ct. prem.”
| The Park.—We were delighted a few days
since by a short visit to this delightful smii
j mer retreat. [The place is, perhaps, better
i known as “Shultz’s Hill.”J And we observe
that the owner is now making some very neat
and praiseworthy improvements, intended as
they are. solely* for the comfort and conveni
ence of those who may please to visit the
grounds.
We have seldom seen a more romantic or
beautiful spot, being so situated on the sum
mit ot a beautiful sloping hill, as to give an
extended view of our town and Augusta, as
well as the surrounding country*. The spot
was once the location of a fort, all vestiges of
which have passed away; but, still it stands
boldly up some hundred feet above the coun
try around, proclaiming that it is still a place
where battles might be won. It embraces an
area of about thirty acres, or a half mile
square, and will be, shortly*, enclosed by a '
deep ditch and a parapet wall of several feet
in height. —Hamburg Republican, 26th inst.
Celebration.— The I. O. O. F. belonging,
ing to Calhoun Division No. 13, celebrated
their first anniversary in this place, on Satur- ’
day last. About ten o’clock, A. M., a proces
sion. was formed by the members of the Lodge, ,
in front of their Hall, and marched under *
direction of their Marshal, C. W. Styles, E-q.,
to the Georgia end of the Bridge, where they
were joined by a large number of the order
from Augusta. The procession then moved to
the front of the Presbyterian Chruch, where
a large number of citizens had assembled to
witness the presentation ol a beautiful Ban
ner that had been prepared by Mrs. S. E. Bow
ers, to be presented to the Lodge of this place.
The ceremony of presentation was interest
ing and imposing. Miss Bowers, who had
been selected to perform the pleasing task,
advanced with the rich and splendid banner
in hand, waiving it aloft, and displaying to
the view of those assembled, the significant
motto of the Order “Love, Relief and Truth, ”
presented it to the N. G. C apt. W. VV. Sale,
making a short but most pertinent and beau
tiful address, to which Capt. Sale made a very
appropriate and feeling reply. This ceremony
being concluded, the Order marched to the
Baptish Church, making a splendid display
with their banners and glittering regalia. On
arrival at the Church, the brethern found dif
ficulty in obtaining seats on account of the im
mense crowd that had assembled to hear the
address of A. P. Aldrich, Esq., of Barnwell
District. The ceremonies at the Church were
of deep interest, having been opened by prayer
from the Rev. Mr. Lee, followed by the sing
ing of an original Ode by the fraternity. The
Orator was then presented to the audience by
the master of ceremonies, and proceeded to
make one of the most chaste and elegant ad
dress we have had the pleasure of hearing for
a great while. We can pay no higher com
pliment to this beautiful address than to say
it was one ot Mr. Aldrich’s happiest efforts.—
We hope to be able to procure a copy of the
different addresses for publication, which we
have not been able to do in time for this
paper. — lb.
Gold Mines xv Gilmer County. —We
understand that the gold fever prevails to an
alarming extent, in the county of Gilmer, and
if half we hear about it be true, we would ad
vise those who have gone to California in
search of the precious metal, to return forth
with, and goto Gilmer. In a mine near Elli
jay, but a few days ago, a man found a “wedge”
of solid gold, worth fifteen hundred dollars !
At another one, in Gilmer, about thirty mi lea
from this place, a poor laborer picked up a
“lump,” one day last week, worth eleven
hundred dollars! The laborer concealed it,
a id was shortly afterwards taken with a fit of
♦•leaving.” Ilis employer, however, had him
apprehended, taken before a Justice of the
Peace, and examined, but tailed to get posses
sion ot the “ lump.” As soon as the man was
set at liberty, he left the “ diggings,” but ex
hibited his prize to several persons in the
. neighborhood, who think he will not have to
labor at fifty cents a day for some time to come.
The richest mines, we understand, are found
in the aides of mountains, and new ones are
I being discovered almost every day. Those
who own lands in Gilmer would do well to
look after them, and not dispose of them for a
“ song.”— Mountain Eagle, 2 4 th .
Death by suicide in this county— We learn
from a person Avho witnessed the scene, that
a young man named Pleasant Dugan, shot
himself through the head, with a ride, o, n
Saturday last, at the Justices Court "grou/ul
in the Alev Culsey District, of this count vl
He stepped aside from the company, placed the
muzzle of the gun in his mouth, and puli the
trigger with his toe. The ball came out at the
top of his head, and he dropped dead without
uttering a groan. The deceased was a single
man, of very intemperate habits, and it is sup
posed that drinking to excess, caused him to
commit the act, as no other reason can te
given. —Mountain Eagle.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
TURTLE SOUP !
STEAKS AND FINS.
£s***& A fu,e ,at GREEN TURTLE, weigh
‘»g seventy-three lbs., will be served
at Hngrefe A Scheiders, Mclntosh
street, TO-MORROW (Saturday) MORNING, at
11 o'clock, from which hour until 2 F. M. custom
ers can be served with SOUP, STEAKS and
FINS.
ICf’ Families can he supplied by sending,
april 27
CLAM SOIP.
CLAM SOUP, will he served up at the I
fayette Hall, THIS DAY, as II o'clock,
april 27
ART UNION ENGRAVING AND
DARIA’S ILLUSTRATIONS OF “Rip v A \
WINKLE,”
(liven to the subscribers for 1848, to he deliver
ed in May. A specimen ol each just received
and can be seen at Chas. Cvtlin’s Jewelry ami
Music Store, a few doors below the United State*
Hotel.
Subscriptions received bj the undersigned for
1° I*, s■') per annum. I hose subscribing early in
the year will get their Engravings sooner, and it
is very desirable, that the Institution collect their
funds at an early day. The Engraving for 1819,
will be the plate of “ YOUTH ” being the second
Picture of Cole’s celebrated series of the “ Vov
age of Life,” an etching of w hich can also he seen
as above. As an extra inducement to early sub
scription, every member is entitled to receive gra
tuitously, copies of the Bulletin, which are is.-ued
after the payment ot his dues, provided he signi
fies his wishes to that effect to the officer who
takes his name. H. W. ‘FARGO,
a P»I 26 Imo Hon. Sec’y.
NOTICE TO THE HOLDERS OP
GEORGIA 8 PER CENT BONDS.
CENTRAL BANK OF GEORGIA, )
Milleugetili.e, April 17th, 1849. (
The holders of Georgia State 8 per Cent Bonds,
are hereby notified lo present them for payment,
at the Bank State of Georgia, Savannah, the
Bank of Augusta, and this Bank, where they are
respectively made payable, on or before the first
day of MAY NEX I'. After that day no inteiest
will he paid on any of the said Bonds.
By order of the Director,
a P 20 cG A. M. NISBET, C
A CARD,
PAINTING AND DAGUERREOTV-
I -NG L. S. DODGE, Artist, would re
spectfully inform his friends, and the citizens of
Augusta, and vicinity, that he has returned to the
city, and taken rooms over the store of Messrs.
Glark, Racket! & Co., formerly occupied by Mr
Johnson, where he would he pleased to accommo
date all who may wish a highly finished Miaature
on Ivory, or one of his beautiful Daguerreotypes
richlv colored.
A large number of specimens of his PAINT
INGrf and DAGUERREOTVPJNG are tf> h
T" ** T"”- I aJi “ a,,d f-'Um.. wilt
please call and examine.
Materials for Daguerreotvping, for sale. Aho
Johnson s celebrated Quick Stull
Oct. 27
- bmo
SCHOOL.
ENGLISH AND CLASSICAL.
BUCK’S nextte.m will commence on
TUESDAY, April 3d.
School Room on Broad street, opposite Wbeel
"apnl 1 i S ' M BUCK, A. B.
