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VOLUME 111. L. Ei SHEKMAS—Editor. termsT . TWO DOLL ARS per annum. If paid in advance, and THREE DOI.LARS when payment is delayed. , No paper discontinued until all arrearages are paid, ex cept at the option of the Proprietors. r RATES OP ADVERTISING: ; One Dollar per snnare for the first insertion, and Fifty cents for each .Unas,.or less. Advertisements handed in without having thr|numhei of insertions specified, will be published until forbidden. Liberal cor'ract*"ade with those who advertise by the quarter or v-jf. Legal advertisementlnserted at the usual rates. Sale* oflairl aml rn>es by Eiettttois, Administrators “and Guardia'.j are required by law to be advertised forty ‘day* previous .tn the day of sale; and the sales must he held at the d<mr o.'ihe Court-House in the county in which the ’property is si:n *ted between 10 o'clock a. nr. and 3 p. ill. on the first Tuesday in the month Sales of personal property and notice to debtors and cred *ltors of an estate must advertised forty days ; notice that application will be made to the Con .if Ordinary for leave to sell iand and negroes, must • .published months Sheriff’s sales. undvrexecu**£♦-. ,i.cu Lturty nays; u*Kcr rwaftffßge e.vtc.itifinc-s. xty days. Citations for Letters of Administrator's suie must be pub lished thirty days; for Dismission from Administration monthly six months; for Dismission from Uuardianship/orty days. Applications for foreclosure of Mortgages must be pub lished monthly sir months; for establishing lost papers week ■ ly three months. OOfLetters on business to ensure attention, must be post paid. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. Law Notice, THE undersigned will give prompt attention to all business entrusted to his care in the counties of Sumter, Clay, Randolph, Early, De catur, Bnker, Calhoun, Dougherty and Lee, in this Circuit. JOHN LYON, Solicitor General, S. W. C. Newton, March 18,1854 —ly 13 IVES &T IIOBBSL ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Albany, Ca. YTSRACTICE in the counties of Dooly, Worth, •*- Sumter, Lee Dougherty, Calhoun, Randolph, Baker, Clay, Early, Decatur, Thomas, Lowndes, Cliflclo and {/win. In )lie U. S. Circuit Court for Souflio;:; District of Georgia, and in any coun ty in the State by special agreement X J nSTO^IEOZES. •r.B’llD undersigned (as will appear by the above Card,) lias associated Mr. Richard Hobbs with bi n in the practice at Albany, and takes this method of informing his friends of the change, and rhe joint services of the new firm tor the prompt transaction of any business entrusted to them in this section of the .state. R. K. lii.N’ES. Albany, January 4,18 cl. it. XV. PIS A AI .'.I *>’ & KIMKUtIIC.II. ATVOHSSYS ATT LAW. ST A RKV] LLB GEORG IA. February 4,1854.—1 y KSE.YBY C. ALEXANDER, ATTORN BY AT LAW, Albany, Dougherty Caaaty, Georgia. tVEIiL give prompt attention to all business entrusted to his care. Oiticc tip-lairs, over J. C. Davis’ Store. Albany, January 28. 1354—1 y STKOZIfeK & SLA.UgStEK Attorneys at Law, ALBANY, GEOSIGiII. YYfIEE practice in the South-Western Cir ’ * o.iiit. Having opened offices both at Alba ny and Newton, they may he consulted at the latter place during tlie first and third weeks o! each month of die present year. Albany, Jan. 7, 1854. s—ly. DOUGLASS <Jt DOUGLASS, Attorneys at Law. Cuthbcrt. Ga. ELL praciice in the South .Western Cir ’ * cu t, and in Stewart coumv. eugbsius t.. Douglass. | jiaiiclllus douglass Dec. 17. 1853—1 y WARREN & WARREN. ATTORNEYS AT TAW, ALBANY, CRORGIA. My ILL practice in tiie following Counties:— * * Sumter, B iker, Early, Thomas, Lee, Ran dolph, Decatur and Lowndes. LOTT* WARREN, L. P. D. WARREN. and une 17, 1853 —ly k. s. Warren, ATTORNEY A T L A \V, Starkville, Georgia. July 1,1853—1 y II EX B Y lOUGA X , ATTORNEY AT LUV, ALBANY, GEORGIA. XA/TLL practice in the Courts of the South * \ Western and Southern Circuits. vfffice up stairs in the old Franklin Hall, next dnur to the‘Georgia Courier. June 17, ISs3—tf THOMAS C. SPICEII, Attorney -A. A Law, ALBANY, GEORGIA. July 23, 1853—1 y WILLIAM E. SMITH, Attorney at Law, ALBANY, GEORGIA. WILL attend to professional business in the Superior Courts of Sumter, Lee, Ilandoiph, JJaker, Early, Decatur and Lowndes; and in the Inferior Courts of Baker and Lee counties. ALSO, in the several Courts of Ordinary of Baker county. Office, up stairs, one door West of J. C. Davis’ Store, Oct 8,1853—ts ti i o*l as ,r . i> u\ \ Attorney at Law, Jasper, Calhoun county, Ga. V/t/TLL attend to professional business in the * ’ Superior Courts of Sumter, Randolph, Ear ly, Clay, Decatur, Baker, Calhoun, Dougherty and Lee counties.—May 6, 1851—ly. A. A. DAIFORTH, DRUGGIST & APOTHECARY; ALBANY, GEORGIA. May 6, 1854. 22—1 y MEDICAL. TARS. JENNINGS &LUNDAY having formed ■*-’ a co-partnership, tender their professional services to the citizens of Albany and vicinity. February 10, 1854. 10—ly. 2!)c (ffikorjto Courier. MISCELLANEOUS. Mr. Hourcicaull’s Sketches of Eu ropean Society. THE LONDON MERCHANT John Oakhcart and Son are Baltic merchants. Youfig John entered his father’s ofiice as a clerk at S3OO a year, of which he paid his mother S2OO for his board, lodging and wash ing, and clothed himself with the odd SIOO. Do not imagine that Mr. Oak heart’s establishment required this as sistance. The old gentleman desired to make his son feel independent—lie was a mart, he earned his own liveli hood, and should feel that he support ed himself. At 25years of age, young Oakhcart marries, receiving with his wife a moderate sum of money. He wants to make a purchase in his fas ther’s business: they cannot come to terms. Young John can make a hot ter bargain with a rival house in the trade. The old man hesitates he likes the sound of J. Oakheart and Son, but business is business. Ilad his son mar ried a peniless girl the father would h< ve given him what he now refuses to sell ; but now buiness is business* and as a calculation, he can’t do it. So young John becomes chief partner :n a rival firm to that which one day must be his, and trades against the old man, whose only aim is to lay up wealth for his son. b-very day at one o’clock, leaning against a particular corner on change, stands the elder merchant, his hands sunk deep!) into his dog’s eared pocket. “ Feel inclined to a discount for 1,200 at lohg date ?” “ What name ?” asked old John. “ My own. I will give 4 percent.” “ I should want more than that, as money goes—say 4 5-S.” “ The brokers only ask 4 1-2 re plies the young man.” “Then give it.” And they sepa rate with an indifferent nod. That was father and son. Every Sundayyoung John and his wile dine at llussell Square, in the same house where old Oakheart has iived for thirty years. His name has been cleaned out of the brass platoon the do Hj Tliis house yoqr!£ John still looks"upon, and speaks of as his home. AH the associations of his childhood are there, —every piece of furniture is an old friend, —every object is sacred in his eyes, from his own picture, ta ken at four years old, with its chubby face and fat legs, to tile smoke-dried print of General Abercrombie. They form the architecture of that temple of bis heait—bis home. After dinner the ladies have retired. The crimson curtains are comfortably closed. The crackling fire glows with satisfaction, and old John pushes the bottle across to his sou, for if old John has a weakness it is for tawney port. “ Jack my boy,” says he, *• what do you want with $6,000 ?” “Well sir, replies young John, il there is a piece of ground next to my villa at BriXton, and they threaten to build upon it— if so they will spoil our view. Emily,” meaning his wife, “ has often begged me to buy it” and inclose it in our garden. Next Wednesday is her birth day, and I wish to gratify her with a surprise ; but I have reconsidered the matter —I ought not to afford it —-so I have given it up. ’ “ Quite right Jack,” responded the old man, “ it would have been a piece of extravagance”—and the subject drops. Next Wednesday, on Emily’s birth day, the old couple dine with the young folks, and just before dinner, Old John takes hits daughter— in—law ! aside, and places in her hands a parch- | ment —it is the deed of the little plot of gronnd she coveted.—He stops her thanks With a kiss and hurries away. Ere the ladies retire frtim the table Emily finds, time to wKjsper tho se cret to her husband. And the father and son are alone. Watch the old man’s eyes fixed on the fire, for he has detected this piece of affectionate treachery, and is almost ashamed of His act, because he ddes not know how to receive his sons thanks. In a few moments a deep, gentle feeling, broods upon the young man’s heart, he has no words’—it is a prayer sylla bled in emotions that makes his lip tremble, he Jays his hand upon his father’s arm their eyes meet. Tut, Jack, Sir ! pooh ! it must all come to you some day. God bless you, my boy, and make you as happy at my age as lam now. In silence the souls of these men embrace. But who is that seraph that gathers them beneath her outspread angel wings. I have seen her at the fireside flutter ing like a dove from bosom to bosom. I have seen her linking distant hearts, parted by the whole world. She is the good genius of the Anglo Saxon fam ily. And her name is home. The Washington Star says that Mr. Sickles return to the United States was preceded bv his resignation. Glad to hear it. ALBANY, DOUGHERTY’ COUiYTY, GEORGIA, JANUARY 18, 1855. Oardeu work for January and February. Everything for the success of the garden must be done in these two short months. There is no time to be lost in the application of manures, if those manures are expected to feed, and nourish plants, instead of burning and withering. There is a great di versity of opinion in relation to the kind of manure suitable for the garden. Manures do not act on all soils alike, ; and the cultivator must exercise his common sense in their application.— Some writer has beautifully said, that A lichen, fastening upon the barren rock, hy its absorptionr from the at mosphere and shedding its decompos ing parts, would in time make a fruit ful soil. This is the way that nature renovates the earth. And we contend tlmt a garden, to he fruitful, must abound in vegetable matter. A gar den that is already rich in hnmus, may be stimulated to an astonishing pro ductiveness by the application of gu ano, but where there is one abounding in humus, there arc ten without it.— And here the cultivator must bring in his common sense. If the soil is light and dry, it needs that kind of manure, which, in its decomposition, generates and retains moisture, such as the well rotted scrap ngs of the horse lot and stable, the scrapings of the cow pen, rotted leaves and straw, leached ash es. &c. Or if it be a heavy cold soil, fresh stahle manure, guano or any of the heating manures may be applied. But as we have before said, we look upon guano as a dangerous manure use it with caution. The practice of manuring vegeta bles in the drill, we most heartily con demn, for, if this would answer all the purposes of feeding the plant, a quar ter of an acre garden would be equal to an acre manured broad cast. It is true, the tap rooted plants, like beets, carrots, parsnips, salsify, Ac., run down a long ways in search of food and moisture. So, it is also true, that they send out innumerable fibres from the sides, coursing near the surface in pursuit of that food which gives th :in their best edible qualities; hence the space, between the rows, should be as rich as immediately uiuhir the plant. Whatever manures are Supplied, put on broad cast, and ssffn Ahem deeply under. Deep, Deep trenching, is the great secret of success ifi garden cul ture_. To those who have prepared the hot bed, we would say plant early cab bages, lettuce, radishes, spinach,cress, Ac. South of us, they may he plant ed in the open ground, with English peas, salsify, carrots, celery, onions, leeks, mustard, turnips, kale, cauliflow er, and all half hardy vegetables.— Next month, all the above may he planted in this latitude. Soulh of ns, tender plants, such as egg plants, to matoes, cucumbers, melons, squashes, Ac., may now he started in the hot bed, and the same may he done here next month. To have cabbage head in the spring, they must be planted early, so that they can commence heading before the not weather comes on. Manure a piece of ground with fresh s able manure on the south side of a building or fenee, on which plant the seed ; have some straw conven ient. to cover over on cold nights, and with a little care and attention, you may have cabbage fit to transqlant as soon as the season will permit them to stand alone. Eettuce may also be started the same way ; and the ten derer plants next mouth. All of the onion tribe may now be planted, both through this, and the next month. The soil for onions should be very rich and mellow. This vegeta ble fully exemplifies the principles of broad cast manuring. Planted eigh teen ineheis apart in the rows, when half manured, their roots will lock across the row, and the cultivator should use the hoe with caution, as every rofit cut, or fibre mutilated, is a check to /the growth of the plant.— The button or top onion, and the small set, mature a bulb in May and June, if put out this or the next month.— The black seed will mature fine bulbs, by June and July, which will keep longer than those produced any other way. Those, about making new aspara gus beds, should lose no time now in doing so. As asparagus is almost en tirely an artificial production it must have rich ground. There has been so much mystery and fuss about its culture, that many have been deterred from attempting if. But it is exceed ingly simple. A bed 4 feet by 20. will supply a large family with dainty cuttings for six weeks, with a more delicious and abundant supply of healthy food, than ten times the amount of ground will produce in any thing else in the year. Make the ground rich and trench it deep ; plant one or two year old roots, about ten inches apart, all over the bed. As the weeds and grass begin to grow, dress the beds with salt. Asparagus is a marine plant and wiH be none the worse for salt, but the weeds will siok en and die. We notice an article go ing the rounds of the horticultural press proving that asparagus is not a marine plant, because it is found wild in inlandjjlocalitics. This proves no thing ; the seeds are carried by birds great distance* and as it adapts it self to any neijrrich soil, might seem to be indsgenioiis there. At any fate, it loves salt. The bed planted out af ter the above banner, will be fit to cut from the sfcond year, and may be cut from tVVehly years afterwards. In starting cabbages, those who have not the means fur a hot-bed, may dig a slight trench, put some good manure in the bottom ind plant the seeds ; have a plank at band to cover over in very cold Weather. Anything may be started in that way, that is to be transplanted ; and English peas may be planted permanently in trench. Nexf month is emphatically the great gardening month of the South, and vet nine-tenths of the seeds put in tfic ground will be killed by cold or fronts. But never mind try again. You will never learn to gar den until you have been bit a few times. Soil nj the South Kb'iik’ to Sonic Purpose. Miss Frederica Bremer; communi cates the following story to Sartain’S Magazine, for the truth of which she is ready to vouch. In the Univarsity of Upsain, Swe deu, lived a young student, a lonely youth, with great love for studies, but without means for pursuing them, lie was poor and without connections Still ho studied; living in great pover ty, keeping a cheerful heart; and try ing not to look at tho future, which looked so grimly at him. His good humor and gOi*d qualities made him beloved by hisyoung comrades. Once lie was standing with some of them in the great square oi Upsalft, passing away an hour of leisure, when the at tention of the young men became ar rested by a very young and elegant lady, who at the side of an elderly one, walked slowly over the place. It was the daughter o( Upland living in the city, and the lady with lief was her governess. She- was generally known for lier beauty and for her <j<*odnesß asm geiitlel't-ss of character, and was looked upon with great ad miration by the students. As the young men now st ,od gazing at her as she passed on like a grateful vision, one of them exclaimed: Well, it would be worth some thing to have a kiss from such a mouth.” The poor student, the hero of our story, who was looking intently on that pure and angelic lace, exclaimed as if by inspiration, “ Well I think 1 could have it.” *• What!” cried his companions in a chorus, *• are you crazy ! Do you know her ?” ‘• Not at all,” lie answered, “ but I think slio would kiss me now, if I ask ed her.” *• What in this place, before all our eyes.” “ In this place L - m ini, all our eyes.” “ Freely >” w "f “ F.eely.” J “ Well, if she will give you a kiss in that manner, 1 will give you a thou, sand dollars, exclaimed one of the party. “ And I! And I!” cried three or four others; for it sp happened that several rich young men were in the group, and bets ran high on so improbable an event; and the challenge was made and received in less time than we take to relate it. Our hero—(my authority tells not whether he was handsome or plain.— 1 have my peculiar reason for believ ing that he was rather plain but sin gularly good looking at the same time) —our hero immediately walked off to meet the young lady, aWJ said.- (mfn frofeetb) my ferine is ifi your hand. She locked at him in astonishment, but arrested her steps. He proceeded to j state his name and condition, his as- j piration, and related simply and truly what had just passed between him and his Companions. The young lady listened attentively, and when he ceased to speak she said blushing, but with great sweetness: ‘-If by so little a thing so much good can be effecled, it would be foolish in me to refuse your request, ’* and she kissed the young man in the open square. Next day the student was sent for by the governor, lie wanted to sec the man who dared to ask a kiss from his daughter in that way, and whom j she had consented to kiss so. He re ! ceived him withy severe and scruti . nizing brow, but after ail hour’s con versation was so pleased with hint that he offered him to dine on his table du ring his studies in Upsala. Our young friend now pursued his studies in a manner which soon made him regarded as the most promising scholar at the University. Three I years were now passed after the first kiss when the young man was allowed to give a second one to the daughter of the Governor, as his intended bride. lie became later, one of the great est scholars in Sweden, as much re spected far his learning as for his character. His work will endure lor ever among the works of science ; and from this happy union spraYig a fam ily well known in Sweden in the present day, and whose wealth offor tune and high position in society are regarded as small tilings, compared with its wealth of goodness and love. [Correspondence ot the Biliimne Sun ] Tlie New ‘Csitriff IVojeci. Washington, Jan 7, 1855. On Tuesday next the committee of ways and means will introduce its new tariff laws, adopting the “revenue standard.” Want that standard, in this transition period of commerce, manufactures and credit, is, cannot easily be ascertained. The revenue is certainly falling off rapidly, and al most in the same proportion the ex penditures of the government are in creasing; thus rapidly doing for the treasury what the new revenue bill is expected to do by a change in the ex isting laws. The present Congress has already,; during its first session, increased tlie compensation of postmasters—it has raised the salaries of clerks and other j employees SO percent.; it, has added j six ships to our steam navy, and it has i increased the pay of our soldiers and ; sailors. Congress at its present ses sion will probably further increase the : navy, ami it will add four new regi- 1 meats to our army, (whether it will make a great many new staff officers ! and increase, their pay is somewhat i doubtful.) Then there is a resolution j pending doubling tlie Compensation ! of members and senators; there may ; be money wanted for the purchase of one or two islands in the Gulf, or the Pacific ; for the building of postoffices and t : . S. Courts in some ofour Atlan tic cities, and for fire-proof buildings for the State, war and navy depart ments. All these things joined to the fact that the revenue from customs, owing to thu general stagnation of trade, want of public confidence, and the war now going on in Europe, is rapidly falling off, must convince every unso phisticated political economist ihcU the ‘revenue standard” of the tariff will come of its own accord, without precipitating the catastrophe. A Merited Rebuke. Tile English papers have ulterd the most dolorous complaints about the barbarity ol the Russians in firingjUpon their own cavalry, as well as ‘upon that of the allies at the battle of BaN aklava According; to the national morality of John Bull, an act so atro cious should disgrace Russia in the eyes ol all good people, forever and ever, ilie Boston Courier gives them a brief extract from history,which may possibly correct the tone of th'* British press, and teach them a useful lesson. The Courier says : ll'any of the advocates of the Allies and denouncers of Russia will turn to the third chapter of the life of Gener al Nathaniel Greene, by W. Gilmore Simms, they will find that at the bat tle of Guilford, which was fought be tween Greetp and Cornwall's, when the British Guards were in full retreat before the American cavalry, and the battle was nearly won, Lord Corn wallis. saw that there was but one thing he could do to save the day and hurrying on the hill on which McLoud had bosted his artillery, he gave the terrible order to repel the progress of the American.cavalry; b}’ pouring out torrents of grape upon the field. Mis own guard must feel the storm as heavily as their adversaries. -Nev ertheless he gave the--order. “It. is de ■stroving euiwc/n:s,* said O’Hara. “ Tt;t is true,” said Cornwallis, ‘‘but it is unavoidable “ ‘The expedient was fatally successful. It repelled the American cavalry, and it rescued the victory ft’orri their clutches. About one half of the splendid battalion of the Guards was swept to ruin in the storm, cut to pieces in the open day by the guns of their own army. Southern <'on volition. New Orleans, Jan. 11. The convention to-day discussed the subject of a railroad to the Pacific.— Albert Pike,'of Arkansas, offered res olutions similar to those he advocated at the Charleston convention in April last. Resolutions ere also offered —asking Congress for an appropria tion to aid in the construction of a railroad across the peninsula of Flor ida, and asking liberal appropriations for the same object from the States bordering on the Atlantic and the Gull of Mexico. In favor of a material modification of tin tariff:—Recom mending to Southern men to vote for the entire abolition of the duty on rail road iron :—ln favor of the navy yard at Memphis—all of which were refer red to tlie general committee, and then the convention adjourned- Mystery of the “ Hard Times.” One of the editors < f the Hon e Journal lately addressed a note to a lady in the highest social posit ioh in New York, to ascertain “ for vvh t sum a lady can clothe herself during tlie year, without attracting observa tion either for extravagance or par simony, and move in the highest la.-h ----ionable circles.” To it the lady replied (in part) as follows :—“ As to what it Costs to i dress a lady, now a-days (your ques tion), differant persbhs* would answer very differently. I should think the least, lor the mer dress of one who goes out a great deal, might be a thousand dollars a year, and that spent very carefully. Two thousand is near er lhe average, probably, though even i this is without including furs and Jew elry. Russian sables and diamonds i are bought, of course, hut once m a lifetime, and yet there afe other ! adornments upon which a uoirian wlni : drfesses at all thoughtlessly, rriav eas ily spend three or lour thousand.” Again : It is reported, says a Poston paper, “that a lady in this city has spent, during the year l-35f,at a lace and embroidery store, the, sum Os tfjj.ouo, ! arid that several ladies have each con ; traded bills at the dry goods stores ; varying from 55.000 lo SO,OOO each ” i Floyd Grand Jury vs. Tlie XVild Cats; j We take great pleasure ifi laying before our readers the followihg * < x ’ tract from the Presentments ot tin ! very intelligent Grand Jury of Flo\d £ounty: 1 We also feel it our duty to call the, ! attention of the eitizens'ot theemm j ty, to the great financial fraud at - ; tempted to he placed upon them, by the circulation amongst them of cer tain Bank Bills commonly known as “ Wild Cat,” or One Horse banks of the State, such as the Merchant's Bank of Macon, Atlanta Bank. Planters’ and Mechanics’ Bank of Dalton, Bank of Milledgeville and a Bank at Columbus. These institu tions are all controlled and stock o ti ed by a few speculators in the North and West where they have managed to give them a circulation alino.t in credible. These bills are itffused ov all the Banks in good standing in the State. Yet we know that they are gradually obtaining a circulation in orr midst which will ultimately (ifnm discontinued) result, in loss not only to the holders blit to the comimmi v at • large.” This is a well-aimed Mow from ilia right quarter and in the proper diree (ion. The Grand Jurors coin pose the grand inquest of the country, for t e conservation oflhe public morals and the good order and peace of society. It is eminently proper, therefore, that they should take into consideration and present the Wild Cat ‘Swindling Shops. We thank the Jurors of Fb>\d tor their patriotic.conservative course and sincerely hope every intelligent, jury in the State will do likewise.— Chron. ar.d Sent. The Mail Difficulties.—The Sa vannah Republican, of the 1 Oth ins!., says : By reference to our telegraphic despatch from Charleston, it will he seen that the Post Office Department and the South Carolina Raildroad have at last come to terms and an arrange ment has been Completed Which we are Sure will be entirely satisfactory to the public—There will in future be two mail trains each day over the South Carolina Railroad, and letters and papers from the North which have been compelled, for the past year, to rertiain at Wilmington twelve hours (if they arrived there in the wrong train.) will now come directly on to their destination. PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOUTH BUN Con vention.—NewOri.eans, Jan.!) —The Southern Convention was perma nently organized by the election of Gen. Lamar of Texas as President and tWo vice-Presidents from each state represented. There Ure ten States represented by 1 tiO delegates, including 83 from Louisiana. Reso lutions were offered for the improve ment of Galveston harbor and bar, and the establishment of* a Marine Hospital at that port. Tlie conven tion then adjournid. According to the London Medical Circular, the campaign in the East lias in point of sickness and mortality, been one of the most disastrous on re cord. More than 10,030 men have disappeared from the ranks since the army landed in the Crimea. Many of them are only sic.f, it is true, an I will soon again appear on the scene. The Russians, the poor soldiers say universally, are nothing to the cholera and diarrhoea. “ Dear sir,” lisped a great lady, in a watered silk, at the World's Fair, “ have the goodness to inform me if there are noblemen in the U. States/ “ Yes, ma’am,” answered a full fed Jonathan, “ I am one of them.” J&O. 7.