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EDITED AND PUBLISHED BY ) EDWIN T. JONES. ) VOL 3. ®|jc §.mmnm plantar!) COTS PUBLISHED^) Every Thursday Morning. -OTKIiMS :0- TWO DOLLARS A TEAR, Invariably in Advance. tar The cash system will be rigfdly ad hered to, aud in no instance will the paper be sent to nete subscribers unless the money •©company the order. All remittances by mail, if “ registered,” arc at pur risk. Regulations of the Standard. PjiiiiiatfiiH#li><l*” fi~Tft*♦kTntw from all quarters, are solicited. No letter or communication will bo inserted •unless the name of the author accompanies it All communications and letters muat be writ ten on one side only of the paper, to ensure attention. Rates of Advertising. \ One Dollar per square for the first insertion, and Fifty Cents for each subsequent insertion. A square is thirteen lines, or leas. Advertise ment* handed in without having the wltoiber of insertions specified, will be published forbidden. \ Liberal contracts made with those who ad-J vertise by the quarter or year. Legal advertisements inserted at the usual . rates. Sales of lands and negroes by Executors, Administrators and Guardians arc required by law to be advertised forty days previous to the day of sale; and the sales must In held at the door of the Court House in the county in which the property is situated, be tween 10 o’clock a. m. aud 3 r. m., on the first Tuesday in the month. Sales of personal property and notice iw Debtors and Creditors of an Estate must/ue advertised forty days; notice that applieaK ion will be made to the Court of Ordinary for leave to sell land *nd negroes, must hfe pub lished two months. ~ -* ** Sheriff’s sales, mpder executions, must be advertised thirty dftys; under mortgage exe ecutious, sixty daymt. Citations for lAz tters of Administrator’s Sale must be publiSfced thirty days; for Dis mission from Adnjhislration monthly six months; for Discussion from Guardianship, forty days. Apn!icati<i for Foreclosure of Mortgages must be piw)lishcd monthly six months ; for lost papers weekly three months, fryteonal (Curbs* • und Business men can have their ctirds n *®rtd tbtls hea4* forono year, at the rates c f uot more than sixllncs, and $lO more than thirteen lines. ■IbANY, GEORGIA. t \v or ®°- SSBsOfo A** • irUtt- P re P are d ,0 tr a tQW9BSB% ’ Bl<^fcl L^^hp er lonn all opera- U cases an. manner known to the profos tionsin the * Auffl* 16, M 5 ’ ‘ BC - 1 ?- BotanicaT Physician, his rional ®r ches of the HEALING MY RT ’ to Lens of ALBANY andime sn-rroae country. He will be iMI'M all tWkg. un tal professionally engaged, at Ins redteonce and office, on the second floor ot the Patriot January 25, 1855. DR. A. C. HILL [1 OFFERS his professional services \° the people of the neighborhood in ‘ which he is located—seven miles South® of Albany, at the plantation formerly known as Mrs. Jane Hamptons on F.mtßw May 17, 1856. ~ ’ _ wSTE attorney at eaw,U ALBANY, GEORGIA. S October 8, 1854. M “ RICHARI> m|Oß3‘ RICHARD K. UIWKB. X HINES & lIOBBS< Attornics at Law. / ALBANY, GEORGIA. T>RATICEin DOUGIIKU.TY aud the s.tfrrinudinp 1 counties. [July 12lh, 1855. 3.32-ts. LAW & COXSBLLY, Attorneys at Law, Albany, CJa. WILL practice in the South-Western Cir cuit and in the Counties of Macon, Dooly and Worth, of the Macon Circuit HENRY M. LAW WILLIAM C. CONNELLY. January 18,1855. ts. ~STROZIER & SLAUGHTER, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, ALBANY, GEORGIA. WILL practice in the South-Western Cir cuit Having opened offices both at Albany and Newton, they may .be consulted at the latter place during the first and third weeks of each month of the present year. January 7, 1854. 5-1 v. WARREN & WARREN, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, AlKmny, WILL practice in the following Counties: Sumter, Baker, Lee, Randolph, Deca tur, Worth and Calhoun. LOTT WARREN,. , L. T. V. WARREN. June 7, 1855. ly. R. VV. Pcarman & G. Kimbrough, Attorneys-at Law, STARKVILLE , GEORGIA. February 4,1855. ly. K. J. WARREnT STARKVILLE, GA. July 1, 1865. ly. 2tmerix<w ** — s ; . . joetrii. LINES UPON A YOC.NO BEItALB KKICNP PINISO IN CON SUMPTION. . Not long for earth! hast thou not long to stay. Poor dying sulPrer wasting in demy ? Must thy young spirit droop its tired wing. While Life yet blushes in its roseate spring t Say, werit thou made like some ill-fated flow er, That blooms to perish with the morning's hour? Thus in tho freshness of thine early day. To bow thy head ami pass from earth away S Ah! was that form thus moulded bright and fair, That envious death should stamp his signet there! Yes! atrieka victim ! thkui artl‘ending low Beueatli the dread, s(Jyer’s cruel blow,; Thine earthly race, alas nearly run. Though few thy years—life’s journey just begun : That canker’d cheek and hallid brow bptfny The Spoiler’s triumph o'er his tender prey. Those withered charms the poisonous blight reveal. And mark the impress of Consumption’s seal. Yet, lift the heart! let Faith dispel (lie gloom, Tho dismul shadow hanging o’er the tomb. The hand that smites, inflicts the 'Stroke in love— The voice that calls, breathes mercy from above. Thou wer’t not made those angry- blast to hear. Which rudely boat tho pilgrim’s pathway . here. ISeyond the vale there lies.a tranquil shore, Where storms a sa*l and tWmpestfl break no j fciore. Them silent bow, and meekly kiss the rod: Thy V.Miie is heaven, and lay father God I Fix them; thine eye, nor dread the stroke of fatCT-J “ _ * The Aravc is not thy prison, but the gate lcadeth up to realm* of light on high, jot here fays unfading wait Jiiee in the sky, Tran splinted there, in that, unclouded clime, Far past the sorrows, griefs and woes of Time, Thy sainted spirit washed from every stain Os earth’s dark scene, and freed from every chain, Supremely happy and forever blest, Will sweetly sleep in Heaven’s eternal rest. 11. M. L. THE DYING CALJFORNIAN. Lay up nearer brother, nearer, For my limbs are growing cold, And thy presence seemeth dearer, When thy arms around me fold. I am dying, brother, dyiny T Soon you’ll mi.-s uie in you F birth, For my form will soon be lying ’Neath the ocean’s briny surf. Hearken to me brother, hearken, I have something 1 would say, Erejhe veil my vision darken, And I go from hence away. I am going, surely going, But inv hope in God is strong, I am willing brother, knowing That hg d<M'th Tell my father wit greet him, 1 That iu death 1 prayed for him— Prayed that I might one day meet him In a world that's free from sin. Tell my mother God assist her, Now that she is growing old. Tell her that I would glad have kissed her, When my lips grew pale and cold. Listen brother, catch each whisper, ’Tis my wife I’d speak of now; Tell, oh! tell her how I missed her When the fever burned my brow. Tell her—brother closely listen, Don’t forget a single word — That in death my eyes did glisten With the tears her memory stirred. Tell he:* she must kiss my children, Like the kiss I last imprest — Hold us when last 1 hold them Folded closely to my breast. Give them early to their Maker, Putting all their trust in God, And he never will forsake lier, For he has said it in his Word. Oh ! my children, how I love them ; k They are all my life to ne— Woulct 1 could once more caress them, B Ere I sink beneath, the sea. \Twas for them I crossed the ocean, J W hat were my hopes 1 will uot tell; *Vet I have gained an orphan’s portion, M Yet ho doeth all things well. my sister I remember w Every kindly parting word— my heart has been kept tender With the love their memory stirred. Tell them I never reached the haven, Where I sought the precious dust, Bui. I have gained a port called heaven, Where the gold will never rust Urge them to secure an entrance, For they’ll find their brother there ; Faith in Jesus, and repentance, Will secure for each a share. Hark! I hear my Savior speaking, ’Tis He, I know his voice well; Wheu 1 am gone, oh! don’t be weeping, Brother, hear my last farewell! A Middy Enthused. — A “Middy” has been visiting Niagara. Inspired by the sublimity of that great demonstration, he seizes his pen and dashes off the lol lowing for the Home Journal: “ Next came the horrid desire to write something—something eloquently touch ing and sentimental —and in a moment of thoughtlessness I gave way to it. Re gardless of consequences, “ I took my pen in hand,” poetically speaking, but truthfully my pencil —and in the next instant the following simple but beauti ful lines were gazing at me from the paper: Niagara? Niagara! o’er much of Mother Earth, And much of Father Ocean, I have stumped it from my birth ; But never have I witnessed, from old Gotham to Peru, A creature play the “ drop game” as com pletely ns you do! “ I did it in my shirt,” like the chap who plays Pompey, in “ Love’s Labor Lost,” —I forgot his name —but the ef fort nearly overcame me, and I am still so faint that, with the kindest regards to Mrs. , I must say adios. JtAiT A young lady being asked by a feminine acquaintance whether she had any original poetry in her album, re plied— ‘No; but some of my friends have fa vored me with original spellings.’ ALBANY, DOUGHERTY COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1855. miscellaneous. LINDA KAY. Linda Ray was scarce seventeen, and beautiful as-an liouri, of course, us all heroines are. But more than this, Linda had a mind, and a heart of goodness, 11s well as personal. Linda was the brightest scholar of Mrs. ’s Seminary; was the joy of her father, tho pride of her mother, tho go between and confidant of a quarter of a score of little Rays—-her noisy y'oung brood of brothers—and the friend and. consoler of all tho poor and distressed who came withinher knowledge. Linda was v->itng Slocum, talent, who haaonly tnVsla'nder income of his profession to depend upon, but. which, added to the modest little fortune of Linda, would enable the young cou plo to live quite comfortably. It was now the fitful month of April. The following Juno was to witness the bridal of Linda and her Lawyer lover, upon which event tho happy pair were to start for tiic springs. Linda looked magnificent on horse back, anil on tlus April morning indulg ing in her favame exercise she was sitting like the quefji of-beauty, glowing witi freshness and radictit with joy, upon the back of her matchless bay, the most knowing and graceful piece of horse llesh to bo lighted on by a fond and indulgent parent. Young Slocum was by her side and descanting upon tho beauty of the morning, and upon tbo ‘morning’s queen,’ when suddenly the lattersped from sight like the morning breezo. Linda’s ‘‘bay” had taken fright, and was flying with his mistress through the air, scarce touch ing tho paving stones, at a frightful speed. “She will certainly bo thrown and kill ed 1” And Slocum’s heart as lie exclaim ed thus—or the place where it should have been—beat with a feeling akin to despair. When, however, Slocum arrived some three or four miles farther towards the edge of tho city, a scene met his view that called up other emotions than those of pleasure at tho safety of his beloved. Linda was seated upon the turf, reclining against tho a tree. A tall, handsome beudingovor her, laving her brow with water, and pouring the magnetism of his warm life into her fainting energies. The look— rtlie stranger, the mysterious look—that of soul recognising soul, that passed be. vwSflTTfteiii v>Sri, Linda opeu lier eyes full upon him, haunted young Slocum like a disagreeable nightmare for a month after. The next day tho tall handsome stran ger called upon the lovely girl he had rescued from certain death, to enquire after her health. Some how or other, it was full three hours before the call was concluded.— Time had passed so pleasantly in that easy flow of thought and sentiment, in which soul met its kindred, and both wore surprised at its rapid flight. Again and again, they met, always talking as they had been friends forever so unconstrained and easy was the thought between the two. It generally happened, too, by a strange chance, that Slocum was out on some fishing excursion, or something of the sort, whenever tho tall haudsomo stranger called on the bride elect. The middle of May arrived. The wed ding day was drawing nearer and near er. In’ a maze of bewilderment, the young betrothed awakened as from a sud den dream. “Do 1 lovo him enough to become his wife ?” asked shoos her own heart. Alas ! a deeper depth had been sound ed in her young heart. A deeper depth than the shallow lino of the groom elect could hope to sound. But the spirit thathad taughtber—her own heart—had taught her the meaning of the word lovo. The tall, handsome stranger had gone as suddenly as he had come. Business had called him to a dis tant country and clime. True, he had never spoken of love, but when he was gone Linda found, to her dismay, that he had taken her heart with him, and Slocum seemed to her now noth ing but a sort of automaton man—brain less and heartless. “But I will be true to honor and my promise,” said the courageous Linda, resolutely. “I will marry him, and make him a true wile. I will bury my heart and its love, and perform my duty faith fully.” Alas! alas 1 “there is many a slip be tween the cup and lip.” A rich old undo of tho portionless Slocum suddenly arrived from tho golden East, sought his nephew, made his will, and Slocum, the almost penniless lawyer awoko iu tho morning a rich man. His undo scouted at tho idea o’s his wedding the fair Linda, with her mode rate fortune, tolling him that such a handsome, accomplished and wealthy fellow as he (Slocum) could pick a mil lionaire heiress from almost every bush. His kind uncle bid lnm travel, and choose from any of the aristocratic and wealthy beauties of Europe. Elated with his sudden fortune, puffed up with personal vanity, Slocum follow ed his und’s advice, sotting sail with a high heart to cross the ocean for Europe and success. He dropped a careless note to his bo loved, telling her of his determination to travel, and—to leave her. Somehow or other Slocum’s remittan a auuli ces from his uncle did i|t arrive as he had leason to expect, #d he had not much sooner crossed th4.Atlantic than he re-crossed it, What was his dismayfllpon arriving home, when ho found lii Muondani ,bride elect had married bis riciyajd undo, that the “will” had b?en re-fwtte, that he (Sloeum) was cut off’ withpft even a shil ling, thewill being made fifavor of Lin da and her successors. SB • This discovery was j:fc*(dening; but worse than all, the rich ffvti uncle had thrown awav his ugly (he hump 0:1 his back, aud the wprtpfcleg, and be stood up as Linda’s youtli A bridegroom —the tall, handsome atia'jgar!—he who had once rescued her tYgvi dVatli. IVHi Cue Tfiii/dniiJi-ii.ervci. Himioious Answer. That funny little paper, the Prairie News, of Mississippi, “gets tis” the fol lowiwing jeu d)esprit\ and although it is somewhat at tho expense of a renown ed professor in whose medicine's wn have every confidence, we cannot, refrain from the re-printing it. Publishers of news papers in particular will know how to appreciate it: [Correspondence of the Prairie Yews.] 80 Maiden Lane New York, ) August 10th, 1855. j - Dear Sir ; —A correspondent of yours in this cily has recommended your pa per tome as an advertising medium.— Ho mentioned the circulation but may have been mistaken in the amount. — Will you kindly inform nu as to the cir culation of your weekly, and I shall ho glad to make a contract for tho insertion of my advertisement, &c., in your paper. I am unlimited in my advertising, and shall bo glad to add your paper to iny list, already amounting to 1300. My payments tire made in advance. Await ing your reply, > remain, Yours, respectfully, Thomas Horn away. To Prop. Thos. lloi.laway, ) 244 Strand, London, [ Very Dear Sir: —Your favor, direct ed to mo from Now York agency, is at hand, and 1 make haste, at tho sacrifice of much importaiitcorrespondonce, which demands my immediate attention to re ply* The circulation of the Prairie News, which has been increasing with unexam pled radidity for more thiyi two years, now amounts per subscription list, to forty-three, though Lain Lai nil iu honor ►to say that two of *ys*n'- v ieii.gi very precarious pay, I shaißrobably cut them off’ before tiiis lotterseackes you, so you are at liberty to coasider the lisi as reduced to 41. To this number should be added seven gratis copies sent to as many friends of mine at a distance, ou! of compliment to their indefatigable ex ertions in procuring 1110 subscribers.— This number should furthef be augment ed by a permanent exchatgo list of six ty-five, making in all a constant weekly circulation of one hundred and thirteen, besides an average of half, a dozen sur plus copies a week, which ®e sent, with religious scrupulosity, to tpost-mastors and other distinguished individuals in be nighted parts of the world. These last, however, I will not includdln tho calcu lation, nor my tri-weekly tjnd daily cir culation, being, to tell the [truth, incon siderable, and I understandjthat yon pro pose to limit your advertLlig patronage to my weekly paper. I have good grounds for 3timating my reading patronage a', fort -nine persons per copy. It is impossibl in tho limits of a letter, to go into the 1 rinutke of tho calculation, but I will siinijy refer to the fact that the more widely tho circulation of my paper extends the iLs 1 find it to be quoted—a circumstance wliisli evinces very plainly that it is hat’ ‘.tally, either stolen from the tables or surrep titiously abstracted, from tji j mails by the post-masters, in like manna” as they filch ed all my exchanges immediately after the Tennessee and Alabah a elections.— It may not boitmiss to not; -e, par jtaren tlicsc, a funny occurrence which Ims late ly taken plane. A number of nice young men in Mobile, who have curved at years of discretion; —facetiously so called —since the Prairie News became Knee, having become possessed of a copv of Josephus, (not Flavius, but 110 of the ■H?i-i, , )-e'oinie<flv ed the idea of publishing abuiuorous pa per, christened it Oint Ga-l, and pro claimed it the “funniest paper in tho South,” and all this in utter ignorance, as they themselves confess, there ex isted either such a paper as tho Prairie News or such a place as Okalona. For tho bet ter appreciation of this joke, you must know that Mobile is a village on the tide waters of the Gulf of Mexico, where our planters sell their cotton and buy their groceries. Lamentable as is this want of information concerning mat ters and things in general, and geogra phy in particular, it is surpassed, if pos sible, by their blander in ornithology, in claiming superiority for their bird on the score of his being a town-raised ou>l; their idea of an owl evidently being form ed from the bird which may ho seen picking up offal in the streets of Charles ton. But enough of this digression, the scope of which was to show how much these newspaper pilferers havo to answer for. Before leaving it, the way, let mo remark that you would probably find tho “Our Owl” a cheap Advertising me dium, since judging from tho verdancy it has manifested on the Honeycut ques tion, there is littlo doubt you could drive a bargain on your own terms. You may safely Calculate that the 5537 readers’of my paper would con sume, on an average, ten dollars worth per annum, each of your pills aud oint ment, particularly-lho pills, for 1 cannot promise you an oxtonsiyp sale of your ointment in this region, cutaneous dis ease*! beinjaf rare, fti may bo inferred from the fact that the foreign bor;i population of Mississippi is or,! .- one in 32 of the aggregate. So perceive, I shall be the means of Opening a market to you for *55,370 wtVPSh of.itivaluable remedies which have immortal-hYs’d your name, on which, after deducting the cost of the material, boxes, &e., your profit will be about 85 per coni, or 0(14 50. Upon this handsome increase of jour profits, accruing through .my instrumentality, 1 .propose to chjyge tiic-aiof u s ‘ sion of one per cent, or?’ iW; is slightly above tho average of what you are in the habit of paving, as £30,000 divided among 1300 newspapers, would give only about sllh apiece; but that! expresses within a small fraction, the es- j timatc I place upon my paper in compar-. ison with the average of papers —my loo; partial friends estimate it higher, it these terms do not suit you, ‘come over : by the next steamer an t we’il talk about! it'. If you at e satisfied with them, for j the first quarter installment of sll7 (in,, bo so good as to pav for me one year’s ! subscription to I’uneh, L'vg. rws. and tho Times, all of which are good papers and should he encouraged, itifcl send the balance in cuttings of the London Par ticular Madeira grapo vino. Subsequent installments may bo sent at your option, in cheeks on tho Bank of England, or any truck oxc -pt your moduli-- s. Give my respects to tjuoen V iotoria, the next time von see her; tejl her she is a lady whom 1 greatly esteem, and that l often thick with - what i-itisfaction, while this disastrous wards s.t> thinning tho population of her realms, she must j reflect that she, at least, Ims done her du- j ty in the way of keeping it up. Y’ottr obedient servant. Tuts Enron. if??’ Mr. Thomas 1 lollawny will please consider tho above its our reply to Ids last proposition, ns it covers tho whole grounds. —Editor Amuutcan Standard. A “ Saddi.ehaos Gnocrnv*—Airong the presentments of tho Grand Jury of Cass county, Ga., tho first week, we no tice tho following: “ The Grnnd Jury of the present week would also most respectfully represent it as their opinion, iiwrt like a snii*Jle-b;igs'grocerir nns bet TV’ liejit by the Superior Court of this week, in the august personage of one of llio consta bles, without license; wherefore we can not safely conclude that the temperance cause is highly esteemed hv that arm of the law, aucl while we exonerate the Court from a knowledge even of this newly established feature in the traffic, still we must set our faces against all saddle-bags groceries, and more espe cially when kept’ by a constable in at tendance upon the Court. The partic ular constablo we have concluded thus to cannonize, and hand his deeds oft-on suraraato eft’rontry and shame down to future constables, as a well marked in stance of wilful contempt of Court. We did not see the liquor, but wo did see the saddle-bags, —and it is tho deliberate opinion of this Jury, that no other Jury ever gaw a pair of saddle-hags as much like a big jug of brandy before —for they smelt lik tho jug had been broken. Now a constable is quite a small appendage to the Court any bow, and when ho grows so “ beautifully less,” as to become part and parcel of saddle-bags that smells just like a broken jug of brandy, Ilo.attains to a station so small in our eyes, that we think lie’s of no use at all. Georgia School Masters. —It is a somewhat singular fact, that two of the prominent Free Soil Members of the ’United States Senate in early life taught school in this State, viz: Lyman Trum bull, of Illinois, and William H. Seward, of New York. They did not remain long in our midst, otherwise the country might have escaped tho curse of two such arch agitators, and the South the annoyance of theirdenunciations. Both of them belong now to tho Third Class of Senators, whose terms expire in 1801, nni owj of (Wm. U. ia the most prominent candidates tor (he Presidential nomination of the Fusion Party of the North. Trunibull taught school in Meriwether, and Seward in Putnam county in this State. [Journal it’ Messenger. “ There was a dry old fellow,” says the Rome Sentinel, “ whoso wit was [ho amusement of the residents ot the eOun ty of Jefferson. Ho was sitting one day in the village store; a gentleman who came in thought ho recognized a friend, and said: “ Ilow do you dp, Mr. Under hill?” The old man said, “Sir, you have described my circumstances, but that is not my name.” —Tho same old fellow called one day on tho meriber of Con gress elect; the family wire at break fast; there was a vacant beat, but tho old man was hardly in plight to be in vited to the table. The following con versation took place: “How do you do, Mr. ? What i tho news 2” “ Nothing much,” said the old man, “ but one of my neighbors gavo his child a queer name-” “ What was it 2” “Come and-eat.” Tbo name sounded so peculiar that it was repeated. H.What! come and eat 2” ‘ v Yes, thank you,” said tho old man, “I doiPt care if I do,” and drew up to the tablo. Extracts ol a J.cUt-k- hum All - S wrjiilo, Usq,, tv Mr. Beujaifiiia Ba vjs. From the federal Union. Kansas, JJV ONE WHO IIAS nEKNJltfcllE. Indian Sorekc, ) Oct. Btb, 1855. j’ To Mr. Benj. Davis — Dear Sir:—l was informed a few days since of your Uitentiou of removing to Kansas Territory, and (h,it. you are very desirous that l should address you, giving a description of tho pnintrv. both for your own, and for tiie iffonpaiion of others disposed to emigrate*c lltul ooun trv. Feeling a deep iutqfoL sef ilflTS-it m ILm-ns Ty I Tr iVk.rYis'oT Georgia, and of Fimthorn Slates, it af fords me pleasure to respond as.early as possible to your enquiries. Ade-n-rip- I lion embracing all the pole's an 1 iuduoe | meats desirable to those dispose ! to cm- I would require the space k-Amd I the limits of a com unification of ilfis na | lure, which other engagements neccssa | rily compel me to abridge. Not l oing advised as to what particular facts vou : mainly seek to be informed of, 1 shall | present to you as general, an account, !"!h of tho advantages and ohjeationa jMe leatun sos that cotmtrv, as mv obser vation rnd information enable me tints to communicate; addressing myself chief ly to that, portion of it through, which l have passed. To aid you in more fully and accurate ly u iderstanding the position and de scription given, I would refer vou to Monk’s map of the United States, Mexico, feo., tho best map l have seen of that country. Tracing the lines of the 371 h degree of North latitude, from tire West ern border of Missouri to New Mexico, land tho 40th degree of North latitude j fr -m tho Eastern border of Utah back to Missouri, you have the whole of Kansas IVrritory, comprising an area twice as large as the State of Georgia. Kansas River runs from West to’East through the territory, and empties into the Mis souri river at its great Southern bend; immediately on this line of Missouri, and at this juncture, is located Kansas city. It is hot laid down, however, on the map. Commanding an extensive trade, though built up within the last seven years, it is destined to become tin important com mercial mart in the West. From hence, this city will he your place of approach ing Kansas Territory, h’roceed.vog thence iu any direction, a beautiful and fertile -■nidge . v!•*,. Us v< up Kansas Rivet, by ian'l, you reach the famed city of Lawrence, located on the Southern Bank of tho River. This city is fntned as the head quarters of tho abolitionists in tho terri tory, and is named in honor of Abbot Lawrence, the father of tho Northern emigrant aid societies. In this trip you will pass through very rich Prairie coun try, Hu abundauco ol timber for agricul ture, and the very best well and spring water, ibis ts a very desirable section. The most fastidious could hardly fail being pleased in making a selection.— This is part of the lands laid down on the map as Shawnee lands, and a part of the lands reserved by the Indians. Up tho River about 80 miles by land, from Lawrence city, just below the confluence of Smoky Ilill and Republican Forks, is tort Riley. As far as I have travelled this route, this is equally as -inviting as tho country I have just, described. 1 am credibly informed, the rest is not, any of it, the less desirable. These fertile lands are not confined to tho vicinity of the river, but extend, to my own knowledge, south thirty miles, and from others, 1 learn they continue one hundred miles, or more; and north of the River for two hundred miles west of tho fine of tho State of Missouri. As far North as Ne braska and Platte Rivors, the country is all as rich and inviting as those lands ly ing South of Kansas river, hut they are yot so well timbered. One hundred miles West, timber is scarce, and at the distance of two hundred is very scarce.— It is prairie land in every direction, but on all the rivers, creeks and branches, there is ample timber, in most of it for agricultural purposes. When Isay this whole country is rich, I am aware many will not appreciate the meaning of .this common cxDiessipii, as applicable to the extent of-its fertility.— The soil all over the limits I have men tioned, will average Hi feet of the most productive lime soil. It will produce 50 bushels of corn, or 20 bushels of wheat, and such of it as is adapted to tho cul ture, one thousand pounds of hemp to tho acre. Tho cultivation of hemp has been limited, blit judging from tbo yield of this article in Missouri, immediately on the line of Kansas, on soil not supe rior, tho above yield may be safely calcu lated on. It is worth $5 per hundred. One good hand can tend ten acres, and as much corn, wheat, oats and hay, ns if ho had no hemp to take care of, which, independent of the other crops, will pay lfis time, besides all expenses, will make the profits on the labor of one hand fivo hundred dollars per year. lam aware that this statement may bo doubted. I questioned it myself when I first hoard it, and before I had an opportunity of seeing it demonstrated. A brief expla nation will render it plain and satisfacto ry. Hemp is sown in tbo spring—it re quires no attention until August, when it is cut and passes through the subse quent process, not necessarily here to be named. Thus it will be perceived, be tween the time of sowing ami cutting the hemp, full crops of Corn, Ac., may ( • TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: 1 $2.00 A VEAU—PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. be cultivated mid housed. ‘An estimate of the value of 1 those rich lands, and of labor upon them, may readily be per ceived, when it is shown that a good strong negro man will hire on these hemp farms for f 250 per year, and such a ne gro iv ill sell for from *I3OO to SISOO. — Tlte crop must bo very valuable, or such prices could not be paid. .The informa tion riiave is, that these rich hemp farms, well improved, near the Missouri river, are held at from fifty to one hundred dol lars per ay re, according to tlie improve ments aiid eligibility of location. Stock is raised in Kansas in great abundance. There is always a ready market far cattle, at profitable, high re muiHviting prices. On the Missouri %'L rxu!A. LuuJiXv JJoiLa* *>r is a market town, and pro duce <>f any kind readily dispos ed of at good prices for cash. The arti cles raised in that cqpntry, hemp, wheat, < , orn, meet with as ready sales in these towns as cotton does in the mar kets of (leorgia. No production or sur plus ol” subs.mice but may he sold for a h whenever ottered in market. This is surely no ordinary advantage. The farmer can not only dispose of his sur plus, but can obtain means promptly, to me t all his uiouied engagements, A better illustration of the advanta ges of Kansas as a country for making money, cannot perhaps, be given, than by referring to that part of Western Missouri, which is the same of country. I knew many'men there, J who to!i#me that when they landed in’ Missouri, ten or twenty years ago, they had scarcely means to buy a quarter sec tion of Inn 1 at government prices, and some who had to borrow the money, and that they are now worth respective ly from ten to fitly thousand dollars!— Such instances arc numerous. Those who have been ordinarily industrious an 1 economical, have not failed to make themselves comfortable and independent in a very few years. An enquiry more frequently made than any other, is that respecting the climate of this Territory. This I con sider, taking th? year round, not objec tionable. The winter is colder, but the systems of both men and animals are as well prepared, and suffer perhaps no more from cold than in Georgia. The henlthfulncss of Kansas is another mat ter of solicitude from those who speak of emigrating west. It is oxempt from many of the diseases common and dis tressingly prevalent at times at the South. The water is as pure, cool, and doliglit- JiMy pleasant in taste as 9?s letter used. It is abundant and easily prewir ed, both from springs and wells. On ac count of their convenience, wells aro mostly used. 15y sinking only from 10 to 20 feet, the greatest abundance of this superior water is procured. I never saw a country better supplied with good water—an element so desirable and im portant to the pleasantness and health of a country. In an agricultural point of view, Kansas, 1 have no hesitancy in stating, possesses advantages and in ducements greater than any country west of the Mississippi, such as to make it the interest of every one desirous of moving West, to seek a home there. — The Southern farmer, with his slaves cannot move to any country affording hotter advantages, or greater prospects of wealth, health, and happiness. Eve rything to make life pleasant, and for tune abundant is there to he found, if beauty of country, fertility of soil, ex cellence of climate, and purity of water, are promoters of wealth, comfort, health and happiness. It may, perhaps, aid you in making the trip more direct by my referring to the route to reach that country from hero, most directly. I suppose you will travel by public conveyance. 1 go to Nashville l>y railroad, thence down the Cumberland by steamboat to the mouth of Ohio river, from thence up the Mis sissippi to St. Louis, thence up the Mis souri to Kansas City. Change of boats is probable, at the mouth of the Ohio, and again at St. Louis. This trip is made in in about ten days. Expenses, cabin passage about S4O from Atlanta, on deck about $25. It would swell this communication to too great a length, were 1 to outer into more minute descrip tions, or to give information fully on many other matters desirablo to bo re ferred to. With the assurance of my entire willingness to afford you informa tion on any enquiries you may address to mo. Your friend and ob’dt. serv’t. Augustus Cargile. £rß” Mr. Gout says people should never eat to excess. It’ properly cooked, a quarter of lamb and a bunch of aspar agus, areas much as any person with sedentary habits should desire, even for a late dinner. ifi?” ‘Go it, Bobtail, lie’s gaining on you,’ is now rendered—‘Go it, Robert’s extremity, the gentleman in the rear is approximating to an inconvenient vicis situde of the longitudinal appendage, which subtends the lower extension of your caudal elongation.” Buttons, rivalling jet in beauty of gloss and finish, are now made from India-rubber. The United States navy and several largo clothing houses have adopted the new style. tt3T The subject of a verdict of a re cent coroner’s jury on a man who died in a state of inebriation, was “ Death by hanging—round a rum-shop.” g£§~ -‘ Fusion.” —Under this head, Ohio papers now place marriage notices. NO. 48.