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The Evil Though!,
A girl, ynunu and beautiful, stood on
the brow of ihe bill; with saddened gnze
she looked on the deep vnlky and die
roofed Inn, slie railed home. Far ns her; 1
eye could reach, stretched verd.int mead- j
ows, waving cornfields nod (arretted
halls; all bore the impress of peace and
plenty, all but that little spot —that alone
seemed desolate, devoid of lieauty—yet 1
that spot, since earliest clii'dhood, had
been her dwelling place.
- She pressed her quivering hands on
her burning broiv, on which were written
sorrow, and despair; poverty and her
handmaid, cans had already darkened !
the voting life. Hitter murmurs burst
from tier lips as die wearisome path or
life loomed before her.
‘Why should all things rest but 7?—
The dainty rippling streams creep lasily |
down the moumniii side; the sultry breeze.’
even, disdains to p'ay with the idle gras-; I
the gaudy butterflies are holding a feast
in the wild cherry tree. O! it is glorious
to possess riches, to dwell in von tieautis
lul grounds, and forever listen to the
sweet songs of birds, as arrayed in costli
est robes, crowned with perfumed wreaths
my early dreams imaged. Why should
others lie more blessed than If Am 1
less lair* Yet 1 must toil and starve.’
She cast Ircr eyes Inwards a wreathing
smoke that rose quite near, and as the
iris tinted mist rolled away, she saw an
ancient tnnnsinn never noticed Indore;
and from its portaled entrance n man
came forth; he was young in manhood's
prime, of noble countenance, jet its beau..
IV was marred by a shade of sadness, or
it might be discontent, that rested upon
it.
With a quickened step be neared (he
maiden: her heart fluttered with a strange
joy, as though it sprang to meet him, as
with smiling lips lie bowed before her.
‘Why so sad, fair one? I have come
in obedience to thy w islie-', to bear thee
hence to yon ball; as its mistress, neither
care nor sorrow shall assail thee.’
As be thus spoke, she thought of her
starving mother; her features writhed
with pain.
‘Give me bread! my mother dies.’ I
‘Not with hunger; thy mother is aged; I
Death hath crept near, ami Time heck- <
tins him to entei; think not of her; a life
of pleasure is before thee. I will adorn <
thy beauty with jewel.*; thy bright wo- i
manhood shall lie spent amid courts,
where all shall ofler homage to thy sur
passing loveliness; all that comprises the ■
happiness of earth shall be thine.’ i
The maiden’s head was proudly erect ‘
as with stately mien she gave her hand to ‘
her princely wooer; Iter tears, her moth- 1
er's love, the home of her childhood, all !
were lurgnitt-n. The proud aspirations
of youth nliom to he gratified, who now I
should slay her steps. A moment, then ■
eatne rushing o'er her soul the memories *
of other days, when ns an infant nursed 1
at the gentle mother’s breast, now her 1
only cotnlort in sad widow hood: how she ’
had taught It r to bow Iter knee to the 1
great God to a-k his protecting care ‘
through the dark night: and w lit n pov.. <
erty and | lersecutiou had driven ahem to I
that lon Iv <"% her humble, trusting t
prayer Intd -till been, ‘Not my will, O 1
Lord, but thine be done.’ To that dear 1
mother the was the only ti- to earth.—
Would not God terribly punish such des
ertion, such ingratitude?’
‘Nay. believe util that,’ said lie wlm
still clasped Iter bands, replying to her
unuttered thoughts; ‘the good I offer thee
ihou mayest enjoy through an infinity ol
endless ages.—l will show thee a carele-s
life, surrounded by all tile dazzling, beau
tiful things of earth, crowned as ‘twill be
with love, is worth more than ever thy
prayers asked of heaven.’
Then the maiden knew him who stood
beside her, and fell that her envious feel- j
ings bad given hi n power over Iter. With 1
a cry, *grl thee hence, te.npter,’ she
sprang from his encircling grasp and lu!
she had been deeping on luat gentle bill,
and the ancient niai siou and the bright
tempter were but the creation ol an evil
thought. She retraced her steps down
the flowered declivity, towards her lowly
home. As she entered the shaded door
way, and looked on the humble board j
spread with frugal fare, she was told the |
latly of the cas It- had heard of their dis-1
tress, and sent the present supply, with a
future promise ol further assistance; her
very heart wept lor thankfulness as she
bent her knee in grateful prayer to God,
the father of the fatherless — Mentor.
1 never knew a w oman who was in the
habit of scolding able to govern a family.
Wliat makes people scold? The want of ,
self governmet. Mow then can they gov.. |
ern others? Those who govern well are
generally calm. They are prompt and
resolute, but steady ami mild.
‘ Withdraw thy foot from thy neighbor’s
house,’ says Solomon, ‘lest he lie weary
of thee, and so hate thee.’ Never make
your friends glad twice: glad to see you
come, ulad to see you depart. Lit your
visits b • short, say wuat you say, do
wiui you do, and off, off on business.
The Col,ln, Rule.
The New EngM Ministry.
The defeat and resignation of the I
Whigs, and. the accession of the conser
vatives to power, are about to produce a
marked chance in the internal policy of
Ktigland, which, if the new premier the
E trl I>f De ity receives the support lie
anticipates, will react in a very consider
able degree on the exportation of bread
stuffs from America.
Under these circumstances, it is of
some importance to ascertain, as f>r as .
po>sible, wliat prospects the new premier
lias of carrying out his plans; and wliat
aniounl of opposition is likely to lie array
ed against him. In the first place, it is
j not to lie denied, that (lie Karl of Derby,
j notwiili-iandiug the principles lie espous
j es, is very popular as a ntan Asa
J statesman, he possisses many qualities
, which are in the highest degree altrac
i live In the great mass of Knghsh people,
jMe is bold, frank, fiery, feat less and in
dependent. However opinions may vary
iu respect In tlie pi iiu iph-s lie advocates,
no one denies the great force of bis per
sona 1 character. For a long lime known
l i AtiiPiiran readers, ns Lord Stanley,
the earl of Darby has all the best quali
ties which historians have been accustom
ed to consider as appertaining to the
character of that fine nil) Knglish family.
lii the policy of his administration, we
may be assured of one tiling—there will
be no half measures, no compromises, no
tergiversations. Whatever bills may lie
brought forward, whatever plans may be
Inrined, the objects will be distinctly en
unciated, and gallanty defended.
The support which the Karl of Derby
will receive, will he derived from the
land-owners, the farmers, a large pro
portion of the Irish members and from
those country boroughs w here the man
ufacturing interest does not prevail. Be
sides these, we have not the least doubt I
that be will carry with him quite two- |
third of the members, composing the |
house of lords.
Taught from infancy to, ‘stand by
their order,’ conservatism has always
been the most cherished policy of those
hereditary legislators, indeed, so stub
bornly have they clung, at times, to an
cient usages, that more than once new
batches of peers have had to be created
for the purposes of breaking down their
opposition to liberal measures.
While Lortl Derby assumes the lead
ership f the Moose of Lords, he has coin
mined that of the Mott-e of Commons
into the hand of D’ Israeli, it is an ev
idence of the new premier’s sagacity, that
so excellent a choice lias been made, and
were the other members of the cabinet at
all comparable in genius lo D’ Israeli, a
conservative ministry might be able to
maintain itself iu power, for some years
yet to come, by mere intellectual force.
The great battle which is soon to lie
fought between the Agricultural, and the
Manufacturing interests, will be fought !
almost wholly in the house o( commons, j
1 1 has already been announced that a (
duty will lie placed upon foreign grain,
anti that the reform in the franchise, about
to be proposed by Lord John Russell,
w ill meet u ith no favor from the new min
istry.
As the corn law is again to become the
great question by which the strength of
the conservatives i- lobe tested, the lat
ter are boldly preparing for the shock.—
The olil corn law league is about to be I
revived throughout the country, and
Cobden, its most distinguished champion,
is preparing fora renewal ol the struggle
which be succeeded before in closing so
triumphantly.
There cannot lie a doubt that the con
servative party in Kni’laiul is very strong;
nor that its leaders are among the very
ablest nten of belli houses. Supported
by the Lords on the one band, and by
many of the gentry in (fie lower bouse,
the ministry may find it practicable iti
maintain itself for a considerable time
yet to come but its eventual overthrow,
and the reassertion of more liberal are not
the less rertain.
The dissolution of the late whig cabi
net is not at all regretted, even by those
must friendly to the policy it professed to
espouse. It bad retained only a sort of
galvanised life for some years past, and
had been compelled to resort to stimti
j lants rather than to healthy food, in order
Ito preserve the little vitality which really
I did exist in the system, 7t has died at
last, and there are none so poor as to do
it reverence. Even the “Times,” al
though opposed lo the new Cabinet, be
speaks lor it a calm and impartial trial ;
a manly recommendation in which (he
other leading opposition papers appear •
disposed to acquiesce. One tiling we
think may be set down as certain—the
walls of the Knglish House of Commons
will witness during the next few years,
a scene of vigorous ass mil anddetermin- j
cd defence which to the future historian |
will mark it as an epoch of more than
ordinary interest.
An old gentleman who has dabbed all
bis life in statistics, says lie never beard of
more than one woman who insured here
life. He accounts for this, by the singu
lar fact of one of the questions on every
insurance paper being, “YVliat is your
age?” J
THE mnS-VBtISMMUV
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C, B. YOUNGBLOOD, EDITOR.
OGLETHORPE APRIL, 2nd 1852.
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WE are aiulioiised lo announce the name
of 11. H. Map, as a candidate for Magistrate
at the election to take place on the 12th inst. -
Our Soperiot Court adjourned on 1
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j
A short Treatise on the mind. ,
The human mind is the brightest dis- i
play of (he power and skill of the Infinite t
Mind, with which we are acquainted.— I
It is susceptible of a higher cultivation i
Ilian any other created thing. It is i
found in a variety of conditions, which,
lor convenience may be divided into three
classes, viz: First, die uncultivated or
natural state. Second, the cultivated and
enlightened, and, Third, that God-like
pow er which is termed genius.
The first is possessed by man in a sav.
age and unimproved condition—the sec
ond by civilized and- enlightened man,
and the third, though much desired, is
seldom found.
In the first place, we will attempt to
show, in a condensed manner, the limited
enjoyments of the man whose mind is
shronded in ignorance:
He grows up to manhood like a vege
table. He exerts bis physical powers
merely because it is necessary for bis sub
sistence. His views are confined lo ob
jects immediately around him. His circle
of society is limited to bis Parish, and
his knowledge of die world is confined
w ithin the limits of the blue bills which
skirt his horizon. He knows nothing of
the aspects of the globe in other countries,
or of the numerous order of beings which
people the ocean, the air anil the land.
In regard to tile briundless legions which
lie beyond the firmament, and the innu
merable worlds that roll there, in magni
ficent grandeur, be has the most confus
ed and inarurate ideas. Indeed it is a ,
matter of (rival importance to him, wheth
er the stars be great or small, w hether
they be near us, or at a distance, or
whether they move or stand still.
In his hours of leisure, his thoughts
eilhei run wild among the most grovel
ling objects, nr sink into sensuality or in
anity—solitude and retirement present no
charms to bis vacant mind.
While human beings are thug immersed i
in ignorance, they can never experience >
those pleasures, which flow from the ex- ,
- ercisc of the understanding.
In the second place, we will attempt to I
draw a contrast between the ignorant nnd
enlightened mind:
The tnan whose mind is irradiated
with the light of science, has views and
feelings, and exquisite enjoyments, to
w hich the former is an entire stranger.—
In consequence of the numerous ideas he
has acquired, he is introduced, as it
( were, into anew world, where he is en
tertained with objects, of which a mind
enveloped in ignorance, can form no cons
ception. He can trace back the system
of time to its commencement and gliding
along its downward course, can survey
the most memorable events which have
happened in every part of its progress
from the primeval ages to the present day.
He can give date to the rise of empires,
the fall of kings, the revolutions of na
lions, and the pi ogress of civilization,
1 from the foundation of the world lo the
present time. With the mental eye, be
Can survey the globe in all its variety o t
aspects, and contemplate the continents
j islands and oceans which compose it, the
numerous rivers by which it is indented,
j the lofty ranges of mountains w hich di
j versify its surface; can visit the dark re
cesses of its winding caverns, roam
thr nigh its majestic forests, stand on the
brink of (he silvery lake and gaze upon
its smooth surface, lit up with the golden
hue of dcpaiting day.
| He can* by the imagination, descend
’ into the subteranean grotto, can climb to
: (lie summit of the flaming volcano, listen
toils stibterauennt bellow ings, beheld its
lava bursting from its mouth and rolling
down its sides like a flaming river. He j
can survey from the lop of the Andes, the
lightnings flashing and the thunders roll
ing far beneath him. Stand on the brink
ot ibe dashing cateract and view its mags
nif)retire. He can contemplate the ocean
rearing its billows in a storm, the liuri
enne and tarnado, tearing up forests by
their roots and tossing them about as
•nibble.
Assisted by his microscope, be can en\
ter into a world unknown to the igno
rant and altogether invisible to the naked
eye. He beholds in a single drop ol wa
ter, thousand: of animated beings, and
the very air tlint we breathe he discovers
to be filled with living insects.
The enlightened and well educated
mind is enabled to siar aloft, through
the ethereal regions, and contemplate the
beauties of myriads of revolving worlds.
ll is evident that a mind capable of
such excursions and contemplations as
we have now supposed must experience
enjoyments infinitely superior to those of
the individual whose soul is enveloped in
intellectual darkness, and the enlighten
ed mind must enjoy gratifications ns far
superior lo those of the ignorant as man
is superior in station and capacity to the
worms of (lie dust.
Having attempted to show you wliat a
striking difference exists between an ig
norant and unenlightened and the culti
vated and enlightened mind, we w ill pro
ceed lo the tliiid part of our subject:
Men haveOLinelimes appeared of such
transcendent abilities that their slightest
and most cursory performances excell all
that labor and study can enable meaner
intellects to compose. But it is no less
dangerous for any man to place himself
in this rank of understanding and fancy
that he is bom to be illustrious without
labor, than to omit the cures of husband
ry, and expect from his grounds the'blos
sonts ol Arabia.
Genius is a gift, and it may be greatly
improved by art ana study; but by them
alone it cannot be acquired. /1 matters
not where it is loutui, whether with a
lord or peasant, it will rise to eminence.
You might as well try to obscure the rays
of the noon-day sun as to suppress its on
ward course toglory and renown; —it will
—“through learning, and through sum y
take its flight sublime, and on the loftiest
lop of fame’s dread mountain sit.”
Adversity is but its cradle and misfor
tune its nurse. As he who stands in the
deep cave, sees stars at noon-day, so the
child of genius looks up from the depths
of alfliction’and reads stars in the silent
heaven of thought, tiudazled by the glare
of this world’s sun-fight.
Were not mind gifted with this power
to tise superior and even to derive nour
ishment from mislortune, creative as it i-,
it must have lost its proudest tmpliies.
WliatTtave not the gifted enduied?— j
Imprisonment aud torture exile and scorn
and the withering coldness ol the world. !
The history of genius is but the history
ol suffering, a record ol sleepless nights
and weary days, and aching hearts. The
exquisite perception oi all that can aflfoid
pleasure, renders it the more keenly alive
to all that can give pain; yet, as beauti-;
‘fully said by another, ol men of genius:
“It would seem as if all their sufferings
had but sanctified them, as if the death* ‘
angel in passing, had touched them with
the hem of his garmeut aud made them
holy; as if the hand of disease had been
stretched out over them, only to make
the sign of the cross upon their souls;
aud as in the sun’s eclipse we can behold
the great stars shining in the heavens, so
in (his life eclipse have tliese men beheld
’ the lights of the great eternity burning
i solemnly and forever. ’
VVe cannot close this treatise without
saying something in regard to the won
j dertul powers and exquisite beauties of
the mind in general.
Mind is that mysterious emanation
which leads us from depth to height, and
over endless space; culling, abstracting,
combining, and seeking by every effort of
thought and experiment, to iuvestigate
the cause of seeming trifles yet each dis
covery leads deeper nnd deeper itMo the
labrynths of mystery, exciting more and
more the restless enquirer, till bewildeted
by the might, the majesty and the mercy
of God, he seeks rest at his teet and bows
in bumble submission to bis will.
Notbintt ts beautiful but mind.—Rest
of tltat atribute, the bright earth has no
charms—the glorious heavens no splen
dor. Man looks around about him with
careless eye and unenlightened soul, —he
sees no beauty in the mechanism of nature
—hears no delicious melody in her har
monious anthems—the finest prospect
is lost to bis unenrnptured sight—the
sublimesi imagery moves him not. No !
like the unintellectual herd that crop the
grass, he has no emotions apart from
the demands of his apetite.
But give him a mind elevated by cul
tivation, expanded by knowledge, then
he looks proudly upon the works of his
creator. Every particle of matter, he
feels, is filled with the presence of deity.
With loving eye he gates upon the gran
deurs of nature, and lier beauties, until his
’rapt, soul drinks in melody for sweeter
than the sound of harps or the song of
bards. For him there’s music in die
j deepened thunder, in the voice of the
tempest, and loud roar of the Ocean.
He turns his eye to the bright arch of
Heaven, he beholds the glorious sun iu
splendor rolling: fondly lie gazes until
the last expiring beam lias flashed upon
the departue of day. Still he upturn; hi;
delighted gaze to the concave firgianeni,
its brilliant azure is no longer illumined
by the bright blush of Eve; for she with
silent tread lias stolen away into the hush
ed city of night. Hut now the sweat
smiling eyes of the hour are gleaming
bright upon the soft rest of heaven. Ele
vated by the contemplation Divine his
soul tehispen him worship thy God lie
kneels, and now beneath ;he pale qiuon,
and brighter, stars, he pours forth the
feelings of soul; his mind divested of all
iinholiness, he seeks communion with that
Eternal Mind of which his is but an ema
natjon.
Mind is the light of life the
power that renders map superior to all
creation, —the only tie that links him to
iiis maker. Be it what if tnay, we believe
it divine and imorial, destined by the
Eternal in the begining, to he gathered
hack to himself to be freed from all im
purity .and sopyrjor Iq nnilitlalion, she
dark chamber; of nonentity cannot con
tain it; the unmeasured void of chaotic
nothingness has no receptable for it—
No! like the divine source front whence
it sprang it is superior to aught w e can
conceive of it, it is in itself mighty, great,
grand, wonderful, sublime and incuui
prebensihle.
“ Mind, Mind alone—bear yyiiqe;; earth
and Heaven,
The living fountain in itself contains
Os beauteous and sub|iiqe.”
Montgomery Wide Awake.
The citizens of Montgomery, Alabama,
seem to be determined to go largely into
the work of internal improvements, in ike
shape of Plank Roads. The subject of
Plank Roads has, within the last two nr
three years, been very thoroughly dis
missed in that section and the people
have been benefited by the experiente
of one successful Plank Road, already
in successful .operation from that City.—
Investigation and experience, it seems,
have resulted in a clear conviction of the
advantages of such enterprises, and a dis
position to give every posfilileenrourage
ment to a further prosecution of these im
provements. In the Inst Montgomery
Journal, we notice the Report of a Cmn
| niittee of thirty citizens, appointed at a
j public meeting some lime since, to take
j into consideration and systematise various
projects for giving aid to different Plank
Road Companies. The result of the
deliberations of the Committee, is a re
commendation that a general elet lion of
: the qualified voters of the city be held, to
decide on several propositions submitted
by the Committee, for loaning the credit
ol the city in aid of several enterprises
1 named in the Report. The propositions
of the Committee are to give assistance
to the South Plank Road Company to
the amount ol $30,000 ; to the Mont
; gomerv and Wetumka Plank Road cotn
; pnny, $20,000 ; to the Union Springs
Plank Road Company $20,000 ; to the
Montgomery and Tuscaloosa Plank
Road Company $30,000 ; to the Coosa
and Tidlapoosa Plank Road Company
SIOO,OOO, —the whole amount of aid
proposed to lie extended by the city* be
ing $3 n O,OOO. The Journal represents
these propositions of the Committee, as
meeting with very general favor among
the citizens and as probable to be carried
out with but little opposition.
Spirit Rappings.— /imong the ma
ny wonders of the Spirit Rappers, we
learn that in a country village, not fifty
miles from Cincinnati, a poor fellow bad
lost bis favorite dog. He enquired fur
Towzer, and the raps came.
Man— ‘ I* your spirit happy ?’
Dog— ‘ Yes.’
Man— ‘ Are there any coons there ?’
Dog—• Yes, but they are twice the
size they are in your country, and 7 can’t
catch them.’
Political.
At a meeting of the Union party of
Wilkes county, to appoint delegates lo
the Milledgeville Convention, the follow
ing resolutions were adopted:
1. Resolved, That we approve the
call of the Convention to be held at the
Capitol, on the 22d of April next, to take
into consideration the next Presidential
election.
2. Resolved, That we will send dele
gates to said Convention, without instruc
tions as to any particular course they
will be guided in their conduct, by honest
efforts to subserve the interests of the
country and maintain the principles and
policy of the Constitutional Union Par
y-
The following resolutions have been
adopted by the Union party of Cobb
county :
Whereas, The emergency which
called the Onfon papy into existence, still
remams-rstbat Pfliergenpy wa§ to main
tain ttie Constitutional remedy—tq pre
serve the Union wliicli was endangered
by the Nashville Convention, and to,
maintain die rights of the States which
were assailed by Northern abolitionist;.
And Whereas, The Union
having overcome the more immediate
danger which menaced the peace of the
Country, in the total qverthow of the se
cession psqty, it becomes qur dqty n>q
to rela* our vjg'dffnce j hot l<> gourd a
gainsl the insidious enemies of the Uuinq
and draw more closely the bonds of our
brotherhood ; Therefore,
Resolved, Thai we will support op oqe
for President or Vice President, who is
not unequivocally in fayor pfrecognizing
the compromise as a final atfiii;tmsnt of
the slavery agitation.
Respited, That tye hqye the utmost
confidence in the prudence of the Unioq
Convention w hich is to assemble at Mil
ledge-ille on the 22(1 of April next and
confide the whole question of sending
delegates to the Baltimore Cqnygntloq
lo them.
Yankee Speed. —The Missouri Re
publican is responsible for the following
anecdote :
An Englishman, boasting of the su
periority of the horse; iq bis country,
mentioned that the celebrated Eclipse bad
run a mile in a minute. ‘My good fel
low,’ exclaimed an Ameripaq
that is rather le;s than thy average rate
of our cqinqion roadstyrs. 7 live at my
country seat, near Philadelphia, and
when I ride in a hqrry to town, of a
morning, mv own shadow can’t keep tip
with me, but generally comes into the
store to find me, from a minute lo a min
ute and a-Half after my arrival. One
morning the bea;t wa; restless, and Jj
rode him as fast as 7 possibly con'd, sev
eral times around a large factory—-just
to take (he old Harry out of him. Well,
sir, he went so fast thqt tlie whole tiqie 7
saw q>y back directly befqre my, and was.
twice in danger of riding over myself.’
A Doctor’s Joke. — A well known
physician, in a certain city, was very
much annoyed by an old lady, who wa?
always sure to accost him in the street
for the p trpose of telling ovyr hyr ail
ments. Once she met him when he wa;
in a great hurry :
* Aha ! I see you are quite feeble,*
said the doctor, ‘ shut your eyes and
show me your longue.’
She obeyed and the doctor moved off,
leaving her standing there for some time
in this ridiculous position, lo the infinite
amuseuien; of all who witnessed the funny
All old lady of Threadneedle street,
being at a loss for a pincushion, made
use of an onion. On the following morn
ing she found that alt the needles bad
tears in their eyes. ,
Good Endorsers. — 4 Will you rise
now, rny dear?’ said a broker's wife to
her sleepy spouse : ‘ the day broke long
ago.’
‘ I wonder,’ replied the somnolent fi
nancier, • if the endorsers were secured.*
Tills is said to have actually taken
place. We have it on the best author’
ity.
‘ Wliat are you looking after my
dear,’ said a very affectionate mother to
her only daughter ?’ The daughter
turned around, and thus replied :
Looking after a son-in-law r or father.’
Prize Talk.—The sun sank beauti
fully behind the western bills >
(To be continued.)
Cation ftlarlifts.
Cotton Statement, April 2d 1852.
RMBat djfcthorpe for the
■Bt, ending April 2nd 298 bales
Ship and per S. W. Kail Road, 243 “
Total receipts up lo this time, 34.495 “
Total shipments “ 31,197 “ u
Total baland on hand, 3,298 “
Oglethorpe April 2nd 1852. a
The market is fair, 4 to 7 ei
t rentes,
Charlston March 10.
Cotton 6 a 8, “ ’