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THE CONSTITUTIONALIST. JAMES GARDNER, JR. Teams. Daily, per annum, in advance...••• ......#8 00 I ri-Weekly, per annum 5 00 .Veekly, per annum, <1 paid in advance.... 2 00 Tdese terms are offered to new subscribers and o old subscribers who pay up all arrearages. In no ease will the week!) paper be sent at #2, unless the money accompanies the order. In no case will it be sent at 2to an oldsubscri - per in arrears. fIJF Wuen the year paid for at £2 expires, the piper.if uot discontinued, or paid for in advance, will be sent on the old terms, £2,50 if paid at the Difioe within the year, or £3 if paid after ;he ex piration of the year. [Jj 3 Postage must be paid on all communications and lette. s of business. TERMS OF ADVERTISING. One square 12 liues, 60 cents the first insertion, and 37£ cents for the next 5 insertions, and 25 cent" lor each subsequent in-ertioa. Comraets m ide by ihe year, or for a less period, on reus .liable trim*. LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT. 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At th s announcement there was a move ment through the wnole room; and an expres sion of increased interest. ‘Yes, Mr. President,’ he went on, ‘I have been a taveta keeper, and many a glass I have sold to you, and to the .Secretary there, and to doz ins of others hat I see here”—glancing around upon the company. ‘That's a face,’ oroke in the President,’ many a gin toddy and orandy-punch h*ve I taken at your bar. But times are changed now, and we have begun to carry the war into the ene my’s camp. And our war has not been alto gether unsuccessful, for we have taken prison er one ot tne rumßeUers’ brave a Generals! But go on friei.d W -, let us have your ex perience.' ‘As to my experience, Mr. President,’ the ex-tavern keeper resumed, ‘in rum-selling and rum-drinking, for I have done a good deal of both in my time, that would be rather too long to tell to-night—and one that 1 would much rather forget than relate. It makes me tremble and sick at my heart, whenever! look back u|sm the evil I have done I, therefore, usually look ahead with the hope of doing some good to my tellow men. But there is one incident I will relate.—For the last live years, a hard working mechanic, with a wite and seven small cnildren, came S regularly, almost every night, to my tave.n, and spent :he evening in my bar-room. He came to drink, of course, and many a dollar of his hard earnings went into my till. At last he became a perfect sot —working scarcely one fourth or the time, and spending all he earned in liquor. His poor wire had to take in wash ing to support herself and children, while he Spent his time and the little he could make at h* my bar. But his appetite for was so strong, that bis weeks’ earnings were usually Wone by Tuesday or Wednesday, and then I ad to cnaik up a score against nim, to be paid off when Saturday night came. This score gradually increased, until it amounted to three or four dollars over his Saturday night’s pay, when I refused to sell him any more liquor until it was settled. On the day alter I nad thus refused him, became in witn a neat mourning breast pin, enclosing some hair—no doubt, I thought of a deceased relative. Tms he offered in payment of wnat he owed. I accepted it, for the pin I saw at p once was worth double the amount of my bill. I did not think, nor indeed care about tne question, wnetner he was the owner or not; I wanted my own, and in my selflsh eagerness to get it, I hesitated not to take a little more than my own. X laid the breast pin away, and all things went on smoothly for a while. But he grad ually go behind hand again, and again I cut off his supply of liquor. I’his time he brought me a pa.r of brass andirons, and a pair of brass candlesticks, and I took tnem and wiped off the score against him, At last ne brought a large family Bible, andl tooktnat too —taiuk- ing, 10 doubt, I couid sell it for something. O.i the Sunday at.erwarJs, having nothing to do, tor I used to snut my bar on Sundays, thinking it was not respectable to sell liquor, i opened this poor Uruukard’s family Bible, scarcely thinking what I was doing. The first place I turned to was tne lamily record, i'nere it was stated, that upon a certain day, he had been married to E mly . I nad known Emily , when 1 was a young man, very well, and had once thought seriously of of fering myself to her m marriage. 1 remem bered her happy young face, and seemed sud denly to htar a tone oi her merry , ugnter. •Poor creature !’ I sighed involuntarily, as a thought of tier present condition crossed my mind—ana then with no pleasant feelings I I turned over another leaf. There was the re -1 cord ot the birth of her four children; the last had been made recently, and was in the moth er’s hand. I never had such strange feelings as now cam' over me. I felt that I had no business with this b iok; but I tried to stifle my feelings and thurned over several leaves quickly. As I suffered my eyes to rest upon aa open page, these words arrested my attention. •Wme is a mucker, strong drink is raging; whoso is deceived thereby is not wise.’ This was just tne subject that under the fedings I men had, I wis led to avoid, and so I reterr d o another place. There I read ‘Who hath woe; Wno hath sorrow? Who .j hath wounds ? Wno hath babbling? Wno hath * redness of eye-? They that tarry long at the * wine. At last it biteth like a serpent, it stin geth like an adder.’ ** m 1 felt like throwing the book from me; but once more I turned «.he leaves, and my eyes upon these words— • Woe unto him that giveth his neighbor drink; that puttest the bottle to him and ma gr keat him drmk.’ * I closed the book suddenly, and threw it down. Then, for half an hour, I paced the room backwards and forwards in a state of mind I never before experienced. I had be come painfully conscious of the direful evils resulting from intemperance, and still more painfully conscious, that I had been a willing in tne spread of these evils. 1 cannot tell you how much I suffered during th it day and night, nor describe the fearful conflict that took place in my mind, between tLseUbh love of the gains of my calling, and ? the plain dictates of truth and humanity. It was about nine o’clock i think, on the same k evening, that 1 opened the Drunkard’s Bible I again, with a kind of despairing hope that I I should meet there, with something to direct f me> I opened at the Psalm and re id two or th’-ee chapters. As I read on, without find ing anv thing directly to my case, I felt an in creasing desire to abandon my calling, be cause it wa- injurious to my follow-man. jkfter I had read the Bible, I retired to bed, but could not sleep. lam sure that during ‘ that night I thought of every drunken man to whom I had sold liquor, and of all their beg gared families. In the brief sleep that I ob tained, I dreamed that I saw a long line of tottering drunkards, with their wives and children in rags. And a loud voice said: ‘Who hath done this?’ The answer, in a still louder voice, direct ed I felt, to me, smote upon my ear like a peal of thunder — •Thou art the man !’ From this troubled slumber I woke to sleep no more that night. In the morning, the last and most powerful conflict came. The ques tion be decided, was— ‘Shall I open my tavern, or at once abandon the dreadful traffic in liquid poison ?’ Happily, I decided never to put to any man’s lips the cup ot confusion. My next step was to turn the spicket of every keg or barrel of spirits, wine, bee*-, or cider, and let the con ten s escape on the floor. My bottles and decanters were likewise emptied. Then I came and signed your Total Abstinence Pledge; and what is better, never rested until I had persuaded the man whose Bib e had been of so much use to me, to sign the Pledge likewise. And now Mr. President, lam keeping a Temperance Grocery, and am making restitu tion as fast as possible. There are a<. least a half a dozen families, to whom I furnish a small quantity of groceries every week, in many cases equal to the amount that used to be spent at my bar for liquor. Four of my oldest and best customers nave already signed the pledge by m » persuasion, anl I am not going to rest, until every man I helped to ruin is restored to himself, his family, and society, A round of hearty applause followed thi* address, and then anothej of the reformed drinkeis took the floor. (From the Savannah News.') Mr. Webstar ia Boston—His Speech to the People- Mr. Webster arrived m Boston on Tuesday, and was greeted oy an immense concourse of people who escorted him to the Revere House, where he nude an address. Tne papers con tain a report of this speech, which we con fess has greatly disappoin'ed us. Under the circumstances, we expected a very uifferent speech from Mr. Webster. We expec ed a«. least that he would rebuke the spirit of fans tictsm which so recen iy disgraced the city ot Boston, and that he would exhort hts fellow citizens to support the Constitution and laws, and to put down the traitors to the Union in their midst. But we are sorry to say that no such sentiments were uttered by Mr. Weo ster. He seems to have studiously avoided any direct allusion to the abolitionists and their late revolutionary proceedings, and to have contented himself with a glorification of Massachusetts and the Union. In the course of his flattering panegyric on Boston, he says: When I came rrom the North to throw my self among you, and partake of your fortunes, for good or evil,and to the end of my iite,you are not vain enough to suppose, fellow-citizens, that I have done any essential service to my country in my d.y or generation. If I have so done, however little, or ..owever much, t makes, I owe it manly to the constant, the warm, the unwavering friendship and support of the people of Boston. I am bound the way of all .he ear,h, and shall ere long follow your fathers and my fathers, to my last home; but while I live and breathe, and while I have the power of language or oi thought, while my ueirt beats or my tongue moves, I shall feel and I shall speak of Boston as the cherished object of my public, political, and, I may say, principal regard Os the Uaion ne siys : Gentleman, let us despair of nothing in be half of our country. We see it growing m pros perity. We shall see that the leturmng sense of the community, the great principle of love of liberty, and we night add, and I would add. with ail the emphasis that l can pour out of my heart —the love of Union, will keep us to gether, (Applause.) If I had ten thousand voices, it I should speak so as to be heard on the shores of the Pacific, if I could gather a round me the whole of this vast nation, I would say, fellow-citizens, union, union, UNION, now and forever ? (Great cneenng.) We have not room for the entire speecn, the substance of whicn is contained in the para graphs selected. We cordially sympathise with Mr. Web ster, in ms devotion to the Union, though for the matter of that, Mr. Seward is not a whit behind him in his profession. We do not doubt Mr. Webster’s sincerity; but we wish he would tell his fellow citizens ot Massachu setts in plain terms what they must do to pre serve the Union. We give Mr. Webster all credit far his course in opposition to abolitionism, but we are sorry to observe what we are forced to re gard as a disposition on his part to quail before the aroused fanaticism of his own State. For a lion of the Constitution, his roaring in Bos ton is very much of tne Bully Bo.ton order, who, it will be remembered, out of res pect to the nerves of auenors, and a conside rate solicitude for his own neck, cond.scended to “ aggravate his voice,” and to “ roar as gen tly as any sucking dove, and ’ewere any night ing le.” Iniee l, the perusal oi this speech bruught forcibly to our mind Bully’s proposed amendment ot th ? prologue to Pyramus and Tmsby. Substitute abloitionahsts for laiiea, (pardon the association) and the point i? strikingly apparent. Bvrr >m —Masters you ought to consider with yourseif; to ring in, God shield us ! a lion among the ladies, is a most dreadful thing; for tnere is not a more tearful wild fowl than your lion, living ;,and we ought to look to it. Snout. —Therefore another prologue must tell he is not a lien. Bottom — Nay, you must name his name, and half nis face must be seen through the lions neck; and he himself must spead through, saying thus, or to the same defect, —L idles, or fair ladies, I would wish you, or, I would request you, or, I would en reat you, not fear, not to trouble ; my life for yours. If you think I came hither as a lion, it toere pity of my life No, 1 am no suen th ng ; I am a -nan as otner men are : and there indeed let him name hit name ; and tell them plainly, he is Snug, the joiner. Mr. Webster’s political life is in danger in Massachusetts, therefore it becomes him to roar gently in the presence of the party who have just signalized thei* strength by elect ing to the U. S. Senate, Mr. Sumner, who is denounced by tne New York Express as the “ Abolition—Disunion—Free-Boil—Higher- Law candidate. Pruning Stonb Fruit.— lt has been bu a few years since the cultivators of fruit have been in the habit of pruning peach trees at the extremities of the branches, instead of cut ting off limbs at the trunk. The system o* shortening in, as it is called, is gaining ground and it is a gre*t improvement. The reasons for this mode are evident on examination.— Most kinds of stone fruit grow rapidly, and bear the greatest part of their fruit on new wo. d, which is of course near the ends o the l.mbs. In this way a tree spreads over much land, and has naked branches near the trunk ; and pruning at the trunk causes the gum to ooze out, which sometimes endangers the health or life of the tree. On the contrary, by pruning the ends of the branches the tree is confined to a small apace* the wounds hare no unfavorable effect, or only effect the twigs and not the trunk, and much new wood is produced ior the produc tion of fruit. Rules for Orcharding.—lst. Select a dry location — if not dry, make it so by drainage. 2d. Make the land fit for a crop—rich and mellow, and keep it so for several years. It is better for the trees to crop with corn, pota toes, etc , then seed down. ' 3d. Make a good fence about the young or chard. I have never known young apples trees to flourish tLat were rubbed or browsed by cattie. Have a good driver and ploughman, when the orchard is ploughed by a ox-team — otherwise, do it yourself. 4th. Set the trees not more than two or three inches deeper than they stood in the nursery —dig a large hole—fill it with rich earth, chip, or other rotten nanure. sth. Transplant ear y in the spring or late in the autumn. The spring is a good time. Do it early, so that the .-pring rains will pack the earth about the roots. 6th. Prune judiciously with a sharp knife, and saw in the spring. 7th. Select the b>st varieties of fruit. A. poor fruit tree is a nuisance. It is cheaper to buy a good fruit tree than to receive a poor one as a present. Btn. Set out trees enough to make sure of all you want, and some to spare. Fruit is the cheapest food raised for animals. <Kh. Set out your orchard this year—or if you have an old orchard of common fru t, nave it grafted this year.— Ashtabula Tele graph. A Queen’s Speech. Everybody knows that the “Queen’s Speech” does not deserve its name. It is not the queen’s; nor is it a speech; it’B a document. The first minister sketches it, subsequent cabinet councils re duce it to shape, and it is men submitted to her majesty. When returned with her ap prova , the speech is divulged (at a minsteral dinner) to the nou-cabmet meinoers of the ad mini : tration. Thus the mere topics of toe manifesto ooze out at the clubs the night be fore the speecn is sp =ken. iut it is the ac.uai text which the puiic is eager for: and. that no time may t-e lost, em ssanes the London evening paper* appear at the treasury about the time when her majesty is preparing her toile'te, at Buckingham Palace, for the cere mony. Tne moment the first gun announces that the procession is in motion, the evening paper envoys are obliged with copies of the document; and betcre the queen has done speaking in the house, her word- are in type. Former y the getlemen of the press were lock ed in a room in the treasury till the cortege was on its way back. Some years ago an escape was made from the official durance which caused some amuse ment. The editor of the government paper in Dublin was most anxious to start for Liver pool by one o'clock, to catch the packet for Dublin. The speech was handed some time before that hour, and the key was turned as usual. Presently, however, the clerks and messengers were alarmed by frantic cries of “Fire.” They opened the door, the room was tilled with smoke, l'ne editor, in the con fusion, made his escape, leaving the frighten ed clerks to exunguisn trie harmless sheet of brown paper he had intentionally ignited. We of the present day improve on tne Irish edi tor’s plan. His was a fire escape; ours are lightuing conductors. It is at sucn a lime as tais that the wonders of the electric telegraph oeeome startlingly apparent, The city ot E iinburg ls -ibout tour hundred miles trom Buckingham Palace. While the state pro cession is wending its slow way back from Westminister, the are charged; and, marvellous fast! at the same moment that her majesty is alighting at the -teps of the mar ole bail, several of ner lieges m tne Socttish capital are begining to read her speech. [Hottsehold Words. Fast Men and Women.—A writer in the City Item “hits off” a certain class of fashion ables in New York, after the following style. Tne picture, thougn perhaps a little too high ly coloured, is correct in the main. The New York “upper ten” are essentially a “fast set,” and they seem to value them selves, as we more quiet people value our trotting horses, for their speed and action atone. To follow out the sarnie, the Ne w York woman is thoroughly broken for the track. The poika, wal z, gallop, scho‘tish, iiedowa, are ail paces wicu wmch she is per fectly familiar—she is always in fine condition —no print trom the Magazin des Modes is more pertectiy faultless in costume —no racer less encumbered with superfluous desh —how ever long the dance or late the supper, she never appears “distressed.” While the pant ing stranger who may have solicited her hand for the dance, is endeavoring to reoruit hi? energies, she takes a turn with several inti mate friends. It very fast, she will probably take a drink with yo jor a smoke with you, or a quiet game of cards at you.r own stakes. To use an expressive word, she is up to any thing. The New York fast man, or the residue of a man which dancing and dissipation haslle t, •‘does his mile” also in the fastest possible space of time. Early in the evening ne looks very much like what an undertaker would call “a handsome corpse,” —his cravat is so nicely tie i, his boots so perfect—his white kids so unexceptionable, and every thing about him so fresh and blooming, save his haggard and colorless face. /Arriving late at the ball he “trots out” some fast woman, who on tne very slightest invitation is only too happy to be put through her paces by him, though he may never vouchsafe a remark. Iu fact he has nothing to say, except that the music is too high or too low, too fast or too slow, and when his dance is over, he drops hia partner and is off to spend the rest of tne night in the various dissipations New York presents. The Mississippi Platfjums . —We perceive from Courier, ihat the renegade, Fuo.e, s r ated m a ree-nt speech delivered by him at Jackson, Mississippi, that if elected to the Convention of that State, which is to meet in November next, he would abide by the Georgia platform—acquiescence iu the past, and a distinct marking of a line for the future, beyond whi h the North must not infringe. This, he thinks, should be introduced ver batim in the November Convention, and pass ed withou delay, after which that body snouid adjourn. Mr. Hooker, one of the Southern Rights candidates ior the Convention, in Hinds County, in reply to this, stated that he desir ed the Convention of November to demand of the G neral Government a running of the line ot 30 30 to the Pacific; a division ot the State ot Calif rnia, and a repeal of tne law abolish ing the siave tra iemthe District of Colum bia. He desired a Convention of the South era States to be called, which should make the same demand. In the event of the refusal of Congress to do these things, he was for im mediate and unconditional secession These are tne two platforms, as we under stand from our exchanges, wnich are submitt ed for the consideration of the p ople of Mis sissppi.and we are much gratified to be ena bled to state hat from presents ppearances.tne la'ter is far more popular than the -former. Tne Vicksburg Sentinel, of the sth inst., commenting on the meeting at Jackson above alluded to, says that Mr. Hooker vanquished Foote at every point, so much so, that the little trickster was evitdenly chagrined and hap-faiien.— Palmetto Banner. German Hot-beds.— Take white cotton cloth, of a close texture, stretch it, and nail it on frames of any size you wish, mix two ounces of lime-water, four ounces of linseed soil, once ounce white of eggs separately, two ounces of yolk of eggs, mix the lime and oil witlf a very geqtle heat, beat the eggs sepa rately, and mix with the former. Spread this mixture, with a paint brush, over the cotton, allowing each coat to dry before applying an other, until they become water proof. The following are some of the advantages these shades possess over glass ones : 1. The cost being hardly one-fourth. 2. Repairs are easily and cheaply made: 3. They light; they do not requ re water ing : no tnattei how intense the heat of the sun, the plants are never struck down, or faded, or checked in growth, neither do they grow up long, sick and weakly; as they do under glass, and still there is abundance ot light. 4. The heat entirely arsing from below is equable and temperate, which is a great ob ject. The vapor arising from the manure and eartn is condensed by the cool air passing over the surface of the shade, and hangs in drops upon the inside, and therefore the plants do not require so frequent watering. It the frames or stretches are made large, the* 7 should be intersected with crossbars, about a foot square, to support the cloth. These articles are just the thing for bringing forward flower seeds in seasou for transplanting.— Plough, Loom and Anvil , A great many people are croaking in Eng land, about the danger of plague and pesti lence. during the great exhibition. Others de monstrate how perfectly possible it is for French soldiers to be sent across the channel in plain clothes, with their uniforms in their carpet bags ; and in a few hours, at a conser ted signal, Lmdon would be under the do min.on ot the tri-color, etc. To Pbevent Sneezing A correspondent of the London Medical Gazette states, that toclose the nostril with the thumb and finger during expiration, leaving th-.m free during inspiration, wtii relieve a fit of coughing in a short time. Iu addition to the above, we state from personal knowledge, that to press the finger on the upper lip just below the nose, will make the severest premonitory symptoms of a sne za pass off harmless. A Question for Algebraists. —Two Arabs had sat down to dinner, and were accosted by a stranger who requested to join their party, saying “ that as he could no. get provisions to buy in that part of the country, if they would admit him to eat only an equal share with themselves, he would willingly pay them for the whole.” I'he frugal meal consisted ol eight small loaves of bread, five of wh ch be longed to one of the Arabs, and three to the ocher. The stranger having eaten a third part, and each of the two Arabs a third part of the eight loaves, arose and lard before them eight pieces of momy, saying, “ My friends, there is what I promised to give you ; divide it between you according to your j ust rights.” A. dispute, of course, arose resp cting a divi sion of the money ; but, reference being made to the cadi, he adjudged seven pieces of the money to the owner of the five loaves, and only one piece to him who had owned the three loaves. Yet the cadi decided instantly. The following characteristic toast was given by one of the Boston Marshals, at a collation given them by Mr. Potter at his plantation, during their stay in this city: The North and the Sjuth —May the links of the chain that binds their Union stronger than ever —the abolitionists pitched into h—l, and Bunker Hill Monument rolled against the gate. If the author was a Southern man,he would be denominated a fire-eater. — Savannah News. The New York Courier gives the proceeds of an invoice of g ods shipped by a firm of chat city to Calif .rma.the prime cose of which was $l2O. The sum realiz don it was $533,- 50. about 400 per cent. The charge, how ever, for freight, storage, auction duties, &e. f amounted to $533.36, *eaving a balance due on the original shipment of 14 cents, which, with 36 cents more were used up i«. paying the postage from San Francisco on the le ter conveying an account of the transaction. Chair versus Ottoman. — The English pa pers are just now gre-tly excited on the ques tion whetner the “holy cnair of Sc. Peter” exhibited by the catholics in the Yatician. really belonged to St. Peter or Mahomet. La dy Morgan positively affirms that Napoleon when in Rome ordered the sacred chair to be stripped of its covering and found inscribed upon the tront of the seat—“Tnere is but one God, and Mahomet is his Prophet.” The catholic journals say that the chair cannot have belonged to Mahomet, for the s mple reason that gentleman never had a chair and always sat on an oaoman. The London Times, on the other hand, proves pretty conclusively that it could not have oeionge to St. Pater, as he never was in Rome at all. Aitogethei this must be egarded as one of the most unsatis factory controversies extant. Four and Twenty Fiddlers. —By a singu lar imitation of French uus.oms and Louis XIV. King Charles introduced a baud ot twenty-four violins, with violas and basses, instead of the grave tones of the majestic or gan, into the service of the Royal Chapel at Whitehall. TomD’Qrfey made ms »onguoon the innovation, “Four and-twenty fiddlers all m a row.” Ihe King immediately withdrew his new music. The fast sailing schr. Fakir, Capt. Gardner arrived here yesterday from Havana, in four days, having left that port on Thursday, the 24th iost., two days after the sailing of the steamship Isabel. We have received no pa pers by this arrival, but learn from Capt. G. that every thing was in the same sta e as at tne time of the sailing of the Isabel.—Savan nah Republican, 29th ult. As the steamer Wm. Seabrook was coming up the river last night, a row-boat containing four men, was discovered a short distance ahead, when the engine was immediately backed. Those in the boat finding that the steamer had stopped, imprudently undertook to row across, but drifted under her bow ; and coming in contact with the steamer, the boat upset. Three of the persons were saved by the exeitions o, Capt. Dixon —one, named Patrick Sullivan, was drowned. Had there beei a light in the boat, or other meaus by which it could have been discover ed a little sooner, (the night being very dark,) the accident would not have occurred; but it was not until the steamer was ..lmost upon it that any intimation was had of its proximity. —lb. After Dinner Dozing. — Dr. Combe, who is good authority, says that sleeping after din ner is a bai practice. On a walking from such indulgence, there is generally sfime degree of febrile excitement, in consequence of the lat ter stages of digestion being hurried on; it is only useful in old people, ana in some cases of disease. Sleep becomes wholesome only to the healthy when taken at those hours point ed out by nature; and excess of it produces las situde and corpulency, and utterly debases and s r upifcies the mind. Corpulent people should sleep little and upon hard beds, while they should take abundance of exercise and live abstemiously, that their unhealthy bulk may be reduced. 3 THE CONSTirCTIONALISr. Augusta, (Seargb. THURSDAY MO SWING, MAY 1- Southern Rights Meeting. The members of the Southern Rights Party of Richmond County , are request - ed to meet at the CITY HALL , in the city of Augusta , on TTJESDA Y , 6th of MAY, at 4 o'clock, P. M, to appoint Delegates to the Convention to nominate a Candidate for Governor at the ensuing election. Democratic Southern Rights Convention* The day generally agreed upon is Wednes day, the 28th of May, for the meeting of this Convention. To Warehousemen- Propiietors of Warehouses in this city and Hamburg will please have their stocks ol Cotton carefully counted for us this morning. Mail Irregularity. We received no Charleston pa pers last eve ning, but in their stead the bags intended for Columbia, S. C. Our Charleston papers have no doubt gone to Columbia. Boydtll’s Illustrations of Shakspeare- It is interesting to look hack a few years, and see what rapid progress the arts and sci ences have made in Ameiica, even since the year 1800. In the year 1802 there was but one public picture gallery in America, and that was in the city of iNew-York. It was established, and kept up for many years, by David Longworth, Bookseller, and who, for a period of about 25 years, published the New- York Direct try. In the' Directory for that year, Longworth gives a catalogue of his Gallery,” the admission to which was 12£ cents, nearly equal to ha,f a dollar in these days. Almost the entire contents of this gallery consisted in the “ Boydell Illus trations of Shakspeare,” in handsome frames. Mr. Longworth was one of two, who subscrib ed to this magnificent work in the United States, when it was first published by Boy dell. The subscription price was then SI,OOO The other subscriber was a Virginian, and that copy wes cut up and divided among the children of the owner, (a Mr. Peyton,) after his death, some twenty years ago. j.he old Directory of 1802, alluded to, has been sub mitted to us by Mr. Macomber for our in spection, and now lies before us. We find in it much curious information of matters and things in New-York fifty years ago. It con ains an Almanac for 1803, the United States Tariff of duties, ranging from 10 to 15 per cent, generally, on imports, &c. &c. The Shakspeare Gallery, of which the list is given, consisted of eighty-one of the one hundred Engravings, issued by Boydell, the remaining numbers not having then reached this country. The Juvenile Concert- We are reques'edto call attention to the Juvenile Concert, which is to be repeated to night, at Concert Hall. This is a part of a very clever humbug, got up by Mr. Kamerer, for which we give him due credit. The Concert itself is a very en tertaining affair, as the sight of so many well dressed children, with happy faces, “ and each hearing a bouquet,'' is worth the admission money. The singing (so called) may be con sidered as so much more thrown in gratis. Mr. Kamerer has certainly afforded the ju veniles of our city who have joined his class, a good deal of innocent amusement, which may be considered cheap at fifty cents each. The actual amount of musical instruction they have derived, we would not value at quite that much. Southern Surgical and Medical Journal. Tn * May number is on our table. Besides the selected matter the following are the ori ginal articles which will doubtless be inter esting to the Medical profession. Scarlet Fevf-r. By H. A. Ramsey, M. D., of Calhoun, Ga. Surgical Cases treated by Prof. Dugas. Re ported by H. Roßsignol, M. D., of Augusta, Ga. Injuries of the Cranium. By H.F. Camp bell, M. D., Demonstrator of Anatomy in the Medical Coliege ot Georgia. Case of Permanent Stricture of the (Esopha gus. By Paul F Eve, M. D., of Augusta, Ga. Death of P. A. Wbat.— The Montgomery (Alabama) Journal of the 26th ult. says: It is with regret that we announce, from tele graphic intelligence, the death of one of our well knowns citizens, Mr. P. A. Wray, at New-Orleans, on Wednesday night. He left this place about ten days since, in very feeble health, for Cooper’s Wells, Mississippi. He was exhausted on reaching New Orleans, and deceased after an attack of a few days. His wile accompanied him on the trip, and was with him during his last v inoments. We learn that his remains will probably be received here this evening on the “Farmer.” Mr. Wray was originally from Oglethorpe county, Georgia, but has resided in this county, since 1842. [From the Southern Recorder.] Agricultural Fair at Macon, on 27th October Next- It is said the Executive Committee have, through the aid afforded by the proposition of Macon, appropriated about twenty-five hun dred dollars ($2500) already to the Premium List. The principles adopted in the offers have been to collect and d ffuse information on agricultural and other subjects, through means of Premiums for Essays on general Agriculture, adapted to the soil and climate of the South, and some on particular subjects, ringing from fifty (50) to twenty dollars (S2O) for the best on each subject—for the exhibition of improved agricultural imple ments and productions, especially for those which the South have, more or less, allowed themselves to become dependent upon the North, and for improved animals, with certi ficates of the mode of making, or producing, or breeding. The same principle and influ j ence are earned out in tne offer oi Premiums for mechanical and manufacturing specimens of the productions of thr South, with the view of diffusing information and exciting in terest on these subjects, and thus encourage the South to make herself independent, and keep her money at home for the developement of her own resources, and the improvement and embellishment of her own country a glorious country, which requires only the in telligence and energies and capital of her own people to be properly applied, to make her equal, if not superior, to any country. We trust the Farmers, Mechanics, and Manufac turers, of the whole State, especially of the immediate and surrounding counties, and more particularly those of Bibb, will “put their wits to work," and their “ shoulders to the wheel," and aid the Society tb get up A Fair worthy of the reputation that Georgia has, of late years, been acquiring ; and that her neighboring 6ister States, as well as otherß of the South, will unite with her in the attempt to make the South independent of the Northern Sta es ; since they are not content to allow our increase, to give freedom to the course of trade, and quiet to oui do mestic institutions. The carrying out of the above principles will more effectually protect the South ani control the North within the limits of the Constitution, than all the political jugglery and electioneering tricks of tne world. These are the proper weapons of the Farmers and the Mechanics, and Manufac urers, and they should use them, and put down the political jugglers at home and abroad, who are the cause of all our excitement and troubles and alarm. The Farmers form the overwhelming majority in the South; and, as yet, they have had but little direction in the affairs of State. They can direct and control if they will. Let them but give proper encouragement to their Mechanical and Manufacturing brethren of the South, and the work will soon be done. It will be perceived, as soon as the proceed ings of the Committee at Atlanta, with the Premium List, shall be published and distri buted, which, we are tcld, will soon be done, that the Southern Central Agricultural Society , and Macon have, by removing the Fair to Ma con, done much for the neighboring counties, and this part of the State ; and it is hoped they will show to and the Society, by exerting themselves to add to the exhibition, their appreciation of the uct. Enquirer. The Contemplated Cuban Invasion.—Move ments at Washington. — The following items relative to information and movements at Washin'ton, in connection with the contem plated Cuban invasion, are of interest. The steam frigate Susquebannah, Capt. Aulick, is ordered to be in readiness to frustrate the ex pedition. The Spanish Minister has had a long in terview with the Preside it on Friday, in re lation to the meditated at ack upon Cuba. The Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy were sent for, and remained during the interview. In addition to instructions to the Marshal and other Office r s, the vessels of the Home Squadron have been ordered to cruise in such away, as to lender any attempt to reach Cuba almost, if not wholly impossible. The Saranac is at Penacola, and the Ger mantown at Havana. The Albany will reach. I there by the first of May. A despatch from Washington, d.ited at I ! o’clock on Saturday, says: I “Authentic information has been received by the Government authorities here, that large numbers of men have assembled at Mo i bile, Apalachicola, Savannah, and other cities : South, for the purpose of emoarking in the | expedition against the Island of Cuba. “Among these persons, it is ascertained ti. ere are considerable numbers of Hungarian refugees, recently arrived in the U. States, — men who have had an extensive experience in war, of late, and who therefore were ex pected to make first rate soldiers. ‘•This information has created no little stir, here, but the general opinion seems to be that if Cuba is invaded, he invaders shoul d not rendezvous upon the soil of the U. States, if the Administration at Washington can pre vent it. “Orders have been forwarded to New Y ork for the immediate despatch of a Revenue Cut ter, to cruise along the Southern coast.’’ Hon. Caleb Cushing, formerly in Congress, voted against Sumner, free soil, in the Mas sachusetts Legislature for U. S. Senator. Mr. C. is a democrat. The Abolition Common weal h, therefore, most atrociously assails him, making a vampire allusion to his having I buried his only sister the day i revtous, and I charging that he hurried from the grave for the purpose of being on hand to vote. The vindictive slander is repelled by both whigs and democrats. (Telegraphed for the Baltimore Sun ) PiTTjBUkG, April 26. Jenny Linds Concert. — The concert last evening v - very bniliant. The full receipt* exceed $9.0J0. A California., bought the first ticket for SSO. The commissioners appointed to select a site whereon to erect a custom house have pur chased one for $35,000, Mauch Chunk, Pa., April 27. Powder Mill Explosion. —The txtensive powder mill, owned by Messrs. Doroietzger.in Mahoming valley, three miles irom Lehig ton, known as Hanline Mills, exploded on Friday last with a terrible noise. One man was killed instantly, and several others very badly wounded. The buildings were shatter ed to attorns. Daring Robbery.— Tne house of Mr Rob ert C. Gordon, who resides four miles north of this place, was entered on the night of the 23dinst. and between nine and $lO 000 in cash, and about twenty thousand in notes, were taken irom his desk. It was .iot discov ered until morning, w en the place wnere horses had be£Ti tied was seen and a number of clubs found. Had Mr. Gordon been arous ed, no doubt tvs life would have been taken. No clue nas yet been given of the perpetra tors of this outrage.— Abbeville Banner, 2 6th ult. —M—MW——M—BM—MWM—B MARRIED, In Warrenton, on Sunday evening, the 27th ult. by the Rev. P. IN. Maddux, Mr. William W. Hammond or Eiber on, and Miss Ann E. J. Blount, daughter of the la e Jauues M. Blount, and grand tiaugi ter of Wm. H. Blount, of Warren county Ga. DIED, On Monday the 28t in- ant, in the 19th year of his age, Jas H. Ardis son of Mr. David A'dis, of Beach So, Ca. f|lO PLANTERS. A nauiDer of fine Med. X cine Chests on hand by a P 2 I*. B. PLUMB Sc CO.