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.U.TCMER, EDITOR. \ VOLUME I. THE INDEPENDENT PRESS. Published every Tuesday Morning. r hn ia« N?ts TWO DOLLARS per annum; — in advance to ail not residing in the County. Sates of Advertising.— Legal advertisements inserted on the I'oliowing terms: Letters of Citation, $- 50 Notice to Debtors ami Creditors, "« DO Application for leave to sell land or negroes, 400 t'ate of I’ersynftl Property, by Executors, Administrators or tluartlians, 3 50 Side of Laud- or Negroes, by same. 5 00 Application for Letters of Dismission, 4 50 Yearly Advertisements- —Professional and Easiness cards, measuring twelve lines or less, will be inserted at Twelve Dollars. other Advertisements will be charged SI 00 ■ r every twelve lines or less, for first insertion, and : 0 ets. fi.c every weekly continuance. Advertisements, not having the number of in s-.-ri:<.ns marked upon them, will be published till ihri nd, and charged accordingly. Job Printing of every kind executed with neat ness and despatch oti reasonable terms. OF THE INDEPENDENT PRESS. f TMIE INDEPENDENT PRESS is published * weekly in Katonton, Ga., at the price 0f52,00 ■ annum. uwi'My in advance; except where he subscriber resides in t!ie county. As its name indicates, it is designed to be entire* i : i-mt. "wing governed alone by such rules is decency, gentlemanliness and good morals im - ur-.m every press. It hopes not, however, to NuA ■ licentiousness f->r liberty, nor scurrillous ness tor independence.. Its politics are Democratic —of the school of Jefferson. Madison and Jackson. It, however, subj-.-et t.i no party discipline which would comm-l its Editor to sacrifice truth and honor in behalf <>f his political associates. He will speak what be thinks. One distinctive feature of this press is that it -.Hows and invites a discussion in its columns of •m subjects whatever, proper to form reading mat ter for the popular mind. Communications from -’oliti'd opponents are admitted upon the same terms as c immunications from political friends. — It is required of both, that they make their arteil • - brief to the point, and free from personality m l all illiberal feeling. Religious questions, as well as political, and others, may be discussed. Much i.f the attention of this press is devoted to Literature and Miscellany. It is not entirely tilled with political wrangling and party strife.— la additK n to its literary and miscellaneous matter, it contains articles on Agriculture, &c. And as • ■ ..>r_;ans and Southern people generally are fond of field sports, this subject also aids in filling the columns of this paper. Whatever can add to the prosperity of Georgia, and aid in developing her resources, moral, mental and physical, is considered peculiarly adapted to these columns. The cause of common school edu cation, especially, will be urged upon the people of Georgia with all the ability we can command. All communications must be addressed, post-paid., to the Editor of The Independent Press, Eatonton, Georgia. April 18, ISA 4. J. A. TURNER. professional & justness Carte. J. A. TURNER, .1 TTOII .VJG V .IT 1/ «f If* EATONTON, GA. ! RICHARD T. DAVIS, A'J-U'LiliriS jf &VJ 1 iiATAj EATONTON, GA. OFFICE OVER VAN MATER’S STORE. mm RESIDENT DENTIST. " EATONTON, GA. May 16, 1854. W.T.i)VVIB, 52t|»lesalt anil XAetitil (Grocer: Sells Country Produce on Commission: East corner Jefferson St., Eatonton, Ga. | April 18, 1854. C. L. CARTER, FANCY CONFECTIONER, No. 4, Carter & Harvey’s Range, April 24, 1854. Eatonton, Ga. s. \V. BRYAN, BOTANIC PHYSICIAN, EATONTON, GA. OFFICE up stairs, adjoining the Printing Office, where he may be found during the duv, and at | night at tiie residence of VV. A. Jlavis, unless pro fessionally absent. All calls for medicines or auen f tion promptly attended to. Reference TRY HIM. May 30th, 1854. 4ly "TsTdusenberry, j FJISHIOJYJIRIjE TJtMJLOn | TATE warrant to please all who wish the latest VV style of dress. Shop up stairs, adjoining the Printing Office. I April 18, 1854. j I’ll\\Kl.lN A RRANTLY. hlsis I AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS, SAVANNAH, GA. Juno 6th, 1848. 7—l y HUDSON, FLEMING &C 0“ FACiaas & caMHisaan ksjoiahts, No. 94, Bay Street, Savannah, Ga. r r^ENDER their services to Planters, Merchants, A anddetders in th<> sule of Cotton and all other country produce. Being connected in business with Hopkins, Hudson & Cos., of Charleston, the establish ment of an othc« in this city will afford our friends choice of market? Strict attention will be given to business, and the usual facilities afforded customers. ,1. R. Hijdbojt, ) i Lambeth Hopkiks, IV. R. Fleming, r J Augusta. Savannah. ) (J. J. Cohen, Charleson. % <®lctkl]t Journal:—Clrholeti to fitcnitm, politics. Religion into COURT CALENDAR FOR 1854. REVISED BY THE SOUTHERN RECORDER. Simmon courts. JANUARY. 4th Monday, Richmond 2d Monday, Chatham Muscogee 4tii Monday, Richmond AUGUST. FEBRUARY. 2d Monday. Clark Ist Monday. Clark 3d Monday, Campbell 3rd Monday, Campbell Walton Walton 4th Monday, 4th Monday, Baldwin Monroe Jackson Taliaferro Monroe Marion Marion Baldwin Meriwether Jackson Sumter Meriwether Taliaferro Sumter. MARCH SEPTEMBER Ist Monday, Coweta Ist Monday, Paulding Chattooga Coweta Madison Madison Morgan Chattooga Paulding Morgan 2d Monday. Butts 2d Monday, Polk Cass Cass Crawford Crawford Elbert Butts Greene Elbert Gwinnett Greene Harris Gwinnett Polk Harris 3d Monday, Cobb 3d Monday, Cobb Fayette Twiggs Hall Fayette Putnam Hall Twiggs Putnam Talbot Talbot Columbia Columbia Hart Hart 3d Thursday, Bulloch 4th Monday, Gordon Monday after, Effingham Newton 4tii Monday, Gordon Macon Macon Washington Newton Wilkes Washington Clay Wilkes Last Thursday, Rabun Clay OCTOBER. APRIL Ist Monday, Cherokee Ist Monday, Cherokee Fulton Fulton Murray Randolph Randolph Murray Warren Pike Wilkinson Warren Taylor Wilkinson Tuesday after, Pike Camden 2d Monday, Forsyth Taylor Whitfield Thursday alter, Rabun Dooly Friday after, Wayne 2d Monday, Forsyth Hancock Whitfield Montgomery Dooly Laurens Glynn Thrsuday after, Tattnall Habersham 3d Monday, Lumpkin Hancock Worth Montgomery Franklin Laurens Early Thursday after, Mclntosh Henry and Tattnall Stewart 3d Monday, Lumpkin Emanuel Worth Jones Franklin Oglethrope Stewart Pulaski Early 4th Monday, Union Henry Decatur .Jones jPP DeKalb Liberty Houston Oglethrope Jasper Pulaski Lincoln Emanuel Scriven Thursday after, Bryan Telfair 4th Monday, Union Catoosa Decatur Thursday after, Irwin Dekalb " Bulloch f Houston Monday after. Effingham Jasper NOVEMBER. Lincoln Ist Monday, Scriven Kinehafoonee Telfair Fannin Catoosa Heard Thursday after, Irwin Walker MAY Upson Ist Monday, Ist Tuesday, Bulloch j: Kinchafooneo 2d Monday, Bibb Fannin Gilmer Heard Chattahoochee W alker Baker Upson Jefferson 2d Monday, Bibb Hade Gilmer 9h Monday, Spalding Chatahoocheo Pickens Baker Burke Chatham Camden Hade Calhoun 3d Monday. Spalding Troup Pickens Friday after, Wayne Burke 4tl Monday, Glynn Calhoun Thomas Troup Doughtery 4th Monday Thomas Floyd Dougherty Tlursday after, Floyd Mclntosh Monday after Lowndes, Monday after, Lowndes Monday af Lowndes, and Liberty Clinch Tl ursday after, Bryan Thursday after Clinch, Monday after Lowndes, NV are. Clinch. Monday after Ware, Tl ursday after Clinch, Appling. Ware. Wednesday after, Minday after Ware, Charlton. Appling Friday after, Tlursday after • Coffee. Charlton JUNE. FT (lay after, Coffee Ist Monday, Jefferson DECEMBER. 2d Monday, 2d Monday, Lee Lee Carroll Carroll 4tl Monday, Museoogee *On the Ist and 2d Moi days in October next (for one term only.) f F’all Term, 1854. \ After Fall Term 1854. How to get Plump* A correspondent <fr the Home Jour nal, recommends 1 dies desirous of looking plump and resit, in the first place to rise with t.e sun, eat a slice or two of bread and oast, drink a cup of tea or coffee, thei ride six miles, (either trot or canter) At 11 o'clock, take a spoonful of col liver oil, follow ed by a couple of h;,rd crackers, then walk heartily for at hour—drink a.t dinner a half pint o - the best English or Scotch ale, to be increased to a pint as soon as she can stand it. Drink tea in the evening anl coffee at break fast. On retiring/ between ten and eleven, take a spoonful of cod liver oil and two crackers. These prescriptions faithfully follower 1 will impart fresh ness, plumpness, md a glorious appe tite. A delightful rtgimen that! -The Cod Liver Oil indices the plumpness we suppose. —— Lather Mathew /is still administer, ing the in Ireland. I ' “WITHOUT FE.IH, F.SFOR OH AFFECTION.” EATONTON, GA., SATURDAY, JUNE 10, 1854. ftoefej). Song to Kate. Wo find the following, says the R. Weekly Post, in the Burlington (Vti) Sentinel, and feel' pretty well assured that we do not err in attributing the authorship to John G. Saxe, the witty editor of that paper, My eyes! how I love you, You sweet little dove you— There’s no one above you, Most beautiful Kitty; So glossy your hair is— Like a sylph’s or a fairy’s, And your neck I declare is Exquisitely pretty! Quito Grecian your nose is, And yonr cheeks are like roses— So delicious—O, Moses! Surpassingly sweet! Not the beauty of tulips, Nor tiie taste of mint julips, Can compare with your two lips! Most beautiful Kate! Not the black eye of Juno, Nor Minerva’s of blue, no Nor Venus’s you know, Can equal your own! Ah! how my heart prances, And frolics and dances, When its radiant- glances, Upon me arc thrown 1 And now, dearest Kitty, It’s not very pretty— Indeed ’tis a pity, To keep me in sorrow! So, if you’ll but chime in, NVe’ll have clone with our rhymin’: Swap Cupid for Hymen, And be married to-morrow. Hfeallinieoits. roil THE INDEPENDENT PRESS jProgress, , S*e. "We live in an age which is at once important, eventful, and progressive; one which constitutes a great epoch in the cvele in which time is now advanc ing. It casts its brightening glories be fore,and most significantly revealsto the ken of thinking man, the exalted des tiny which will be his. It is the soil in which is planted the millenial tree, whose roots are striking deep, and whose branches arc rising and expand ing to shelter universal man. There is one great principle which characterizes o"r times more decidedly, than any period of the past. Mind is fast advancing in all that can promise glory and happiness. It is soaring high into the realms of the material uni verse, and unfolding its God-announc ing wonders; it is piercing deep into the dark recesses of our little world, and reading power, and wisdom, and goodness in the hand-writing traced by the finger of God, upon the tablets of bis own workmanship; it is dissever ing matter, and displaying the magical properties of its component parts; it is subduing the long established tyranny of the old elements, and compelling them to yield their power subservient to the good of man; mind is in short, obtaining a glimpse of the true God through the media of his word and his works, and unravelling the mysteries of the nature of man; evolving the transcendent powers with which he is endowed; unfolding the laws to which he is subject, physically, intellectually, and spiritually ; and more than all, if anything can be more, is abandoning error —av, breaking the thraldom ol sin, and becoming free to take a high stand in the moral grades of the uni verse. Thus progress is onward.— Heaven says “come up higher,” and man would obey. There are two species of progress es pecially prominent incur times. These relate, first, to the achievement of mind—and secondly, to liberal senti ment. M mtality is rising, it is employed up on the noblest subjects which can en gage the attention of man. Mind is coming in contact with mind, and new channels of thought are being struck out. Fact after fact, phenomenon after phenomenon, are being collected and generalized, principle upon principle educed, and truth accumulated. From the contact of mind proceeds harmony. Thought is falling in with thought, truth with truth, and the stream has begun to move, and is gathering force, and volume, and purity, as it proceeds. Thus the portals of light are opened, and those who open their eyes may see. Mind obtains the touchstones whereby opinions may be tried. Error and truth are thus assayed; conscience re jects the former, and takes the latter into its embrace. Hence the man of mind and principle abandons “old po sitions,” and assumes new ones. "YVhat- ever lie finds wrong he rejects, howev ortliodox it may have heretofore been considered. Whatever reason and con science tell him is right, he receives, however heterodox he and others may have regarded it. Thus the honest, thinking man attains to freedom, bursts the bonds of ignorance and bigotry, and becomes liberalized. The liberal sentiment of our times traces its genealogy back to the days of Luther. The orthodox of that day were made to feel there is a time, when corruption must contend for every par ticle of dominion it is permitted to re tain. Liberalism is gaining ground daily. The ratio of its increase seems to be in geometrical progression. Where but a few years since there was nothing heard of but regular orthodoxy, we now hear of new ideas. Where the puritanical spirit formerly reigned, we now find a whole host of free-thinkers, and there a,re men who even dare breathe the spir it of Progress and Reform. Indepen dent journals and news-papers are start ing into existence at the voice of reason, and have Liberalism and Reform stamp ed upon every column. Every act done in the great work of human progress will he as long as the race survives. Every act which tends to the annihilation of error is a little rock started from the mountain top, which gathers force on its way down ward, and starts others at every bound, which in turn augments the number, until, before the rushing mass reaches the base, it bears down all before it,— Let me then start a little pebble, if nothing more. Every act which tends to the establishment of the reign of truth amongst men, is a germ set in the soil, which in time will become a mighty tree. Let me then plant a lit tle acorn, that it may shoot up, and, by the richness of its foliage and the stateliness of its form, add to the beau ty and grandeur of the millenial plains. PATTERSON. The Southern Mian. T\ e copy from a late number of the N. V . Times, the following beautiful, eloquent and affectionate, and in the main, just and discriminating notice of the “Southern Man,” by the Key. W. H. Milburn. The truly patriotic, pa ternal. catholic and Christian spirit of the Reverend lecturer, were it general ly to pervade the Northern mind and heart, would indeed weld our union in dissolubly together, and render it per petual : Lecture by Rev. Win. 11. Milburn.— “Jiie Southern Man."—This Rever end gentleman last evening, delivered a hignly interesting lecture on the sub ject of the “Southern Man,” at Hope Chapel, in the presence of a large and respectable audience. He believed that the rich and luxuriant climate of the South had a great effect in moulding the moral, intellectual, and physical character of the “Southern Man.” He was a line and noble specimen of the physical man, from being constantly engaged in the sports of the field. Yet, notwithstanding this, there was an ap pearance of lassitude and languor, which rather imparted to him a grace ful negligence, rarely possessed by the inhabitants of Northern climes. The “Southern Man” was manly, stalwart and graceful, and remarkable for his self-reliance, acquired by the conscious ness of power which came to him al most as an hereditary birth-right. In his literary tastes the “Southern Man” addressed himself to the old thinkers. Shakespeare was his constant friend, never thrown aside for any other, and the light of Milton wasnever obscured by any new star that arose in the po litical firmanent. He loved newspapers too, for, from his earliest infancy, he had been probably associated with some John C. Calhoun, and thus ac quired a taste and aptitude for political life —and that this was the case, was particularly apparent from the fact of the ascendency of the Southern party in the halls of Congress. The “South ern Man” reads little or none, [here we dissent from the lecturer—the “Southern Man”'reads more than he supposes, and by no means confines himself to Shakespeare, Milton, and the newspapers.— Eds. Courier. ] but he took it all out in talking. The thought of the South exhaled itself m the per fume of conversation, and there was a grace, a beauty, and an aroma about it, which was rarely to be met with in other latitudes. The South looked up on the book-making propensities of the North as fraught with the most peril ous consequences to society, and con gratulated themselves that they had nothing to do with it. The Reverend gentleman then reierred to the vices of the South —their extravagance in speech and action, intemperance, [in spite of the Maine Liquor Law, the South would not shun a comparison North, even in this particular. The lecturer forgot, too, that the Father Mathew of the Temperance cause in the United States, hails from the South. Eds. Courier ,] and idleness. But, said he in conclusion, he is not a stranger and an alien from the other side of the deep, with no common origin, or com mon association, with no hallowed as sociation of the old times, but this man is your brother, surrounded by other circumstances, and other scenes, than those which' surround you. In our veins flows a blood of the same old father’s that bedewed the soil of our country —the blood that flowed in the veins of Henry, and Jefferson, and Han cock, and that seemed to rise to its ve ry sublimest essence and purity in the character of one whom neither the North nor South can claim as its own special privilege of raising—that man whose name is a beacon of Hope to the oppressed and down-trodden —George Washington. The Southern and the Northern man kneel round one altar, and one communiontable together, and they have a common father in Heaven to whom they pray. The same book lies upon the pulpit cushion, and the same word of hope is uttered by the bedside of the dying man. The same benediction is pronounced at the altar when two plight their faith together for life or death. Shall we not then look on one another in the spirit of love and friendship, and amity and concord, and feel that we are brethren ? Shall we not drop the party cries and watch words of bigotry, be willing to ac knowledge each other’s excellence, and assist one another in remedying wrong and perfecting right? The province of our national life is to be reconciled to each other, and in the unity of Demo cratic Government to harmonize all ap parent discords. “ ’Tis a consummation devoutly to be wished.” It can be done. [Loud cheers.] —Charleston Courier. AfincnltuniL English Estimate of Guano. Admiral Morseby lias forwarded to the Admiralty the best information he could obtain respecting the amount of guano now remaining on the Chincha Islands; he is of the opinion that at the present average rate of exportation the Islands will be exhausted of the guano that would pay freight or be saleable in the English market, in eight or nine years. He says that from the northern or principal island more than a third of the guano has been removed, but there remains about 3,500,000 tons of that termed “ English guano,” as formerly alone selected for English market; about 1,500,000 tons of that exported uv ships to America and elsewhere, and about 500,000 of inferi or guano reserved for the coast trade. On the centre island, he says there may be about 800,000 tons of the first quality, and 700,000 of the second. — The southern and smallest island has not yet been worked, but from its windward position the guano is inferior, and has no great depth. Our repre sentative at Lima writes that the com mission sent by the Peruvian Govern ment lately to survey the Chincha Is lands have not yet published their re port, but he has reason to believe that the amount is calculated at 7,000,000 tons, and that at the actual rate of ex portation, it will take 14 years to ex haust the islands. He adds that there is plenty of guano to be found in the Lobos Islands and other parts of Peru but that the guano of the Chincha Is lands is considered superior, oil account of the great quantity of ammonia in it. He has been instructed to obtain infor mation respecting the deposits of ni trate of soda on the surface of Pampa of Samarugal, which stretches along the coast of Peru. It ’s believed that there are large beds of nitrate of Soda in Mexico, and our consul at Vera Cruz has been re quested to make inquiries upon the subject, In a letter to the Earl of Clarendon dated the first ult., he states that there is no doubt of the existence of this salt in many parts of the tabic land of Mexico, but that the difficulty of communication with the coast pre vents the hope of its being brought to the Gulf for shipment at any thing like a reasonable cost until railroad are established, of which the prospect is very distant, lie reports at the same time that it has recently come to his knowledge that guano has been discov ered on several islands' in the Gulf of Mexico, particularly on those known as the Triangles, not very far distant from the coast of Yucatan. He states that two American vessels were load ing there very lately, and one of them with upwards of 200 tons guano on board stranded in a storm on one of the cluster of islands called Arenas near the Triangles, and so the matter is brought to light. But he learns that the Mexican Government has granted for ten years a. monopoly of all the guano to be found either on the Atlantic or Pacific side of Mexico to an association at the head of which is Mr. Joseph O. Forms of Mexico ; the only inlands excepted from this grant are the three Islands known under the name of the Marias in the Pacific. [London Times, March, 5. Eclipus. j Preaching for the Times. We with pleasure, copy the follow ing extract from a letter written by a gentleman at Bullard’s Bar to the edi tors of the Sierra (Cal.) Citizen. It contains sentiments, which, though in tended for the Pacific section of the Union, are applicable to every quarter. Whether or not the city of Washing ton should be included within the scope of the remarks, we respectfully defer to the judgment of the reader: “But California wants preachers — preachers of the gospel of Jesus Christ, preachers whose hearts are big and brave, full of the warmth of Christ’s love for men, who are willing to work, and preach, and pray out of a genuine Christian zeal. Arc there any such ? California wants preachers who can take hold of men’s hearts here, and fill them with early memories, and kindle the hopes of goodness, well nigh dead, and renew the longings of by-gone times, when the heavens seemed full of good spirits, wooing them to purity— preachers who can not only reprove, in a loving spirit, the sins which all ac knowledge, but give a chance to us poor devils to grow better. We don’t want, when now and then we get in to a church, to be made to feel that we are utter devils—fairly shocking to the tender sensibilities of the amiable min ister, who thinks his best plan of draw ing us to a better life is by painting, in the highest coloring, the iniquities for which we arc already sorry, and perhaps, ashamed. “I know that lam a great sinner; 1 never go to church to learn that. Put when lam edified by half an hours painting of all my worst faults, and many which are neither mine nor any body’s else, it would be pleasant to have something said which would ap peal to what little good there may be crowded down into the bottom of a soul, by the weary burden which has somehow gathered over it during a hard life. How often a man is forced to wonder at the ignorance of very smart preachers ! How little they know about men ! Is it because their religion separates them so far from us ? May it not be that they entrench them selves so closely within professional walls, that they know nothing beyond them? Do we not (I put it to sinners like myself,) unconsciously treat the few preachers we meet, as if, as a mat ter of course , they knew nothing of the world ? Are we not utterly surprised, and inexpressibly pleased when we happen upon a man who can be talked to just like other men, although he is a preacher ? How eagerly we listen to such a man ; how gratefully we listen to his counsel, though, alas, we may not follow it; how our hearts warm towards his goodness; how we wish we were Christians, like him; and how we tell our ungodly cronies about him-—always remembering to say, ‘he has got common sensei ” j TERMS, $2,00 A YEAR. NUMBER 8. Consecration of the SSishops. A Columbus correspondent gives us the following account of the cere mony of consecration, which took place in that city on Thursday last: “One of the most impressive ceremo nies in the present Conference, toek place on Thursday last (25th inst.) af ternoon, at 4 o’clock, yy bich yqnsLted of the ordination of the newly elected Bishops. The ceremony had been given out for Sabbath, but Bishop An drew had been called home by family affliction, and the ceremony came off to-day. The exercises were short and devoutly performed ; first by prayer and the reading of a chapter from the Acts of the Apostles, both by Bishop Andrew: then another selection or two from the New Testament, by the ven erable Bishop Capers. And his read ing was decidedly more fervent, more spiritual'(if I may use the word) than on any occasion when I have listened to him. His recitation of “ Simon Pe ter, son of Jonas, lovest thou me ; and the answer of the Saviour, “Lord Thou knowest all things; Thou lenowest that I love Thee were the imper sonifieations of both voices ol the two speakers themselves. Then followed the calling up of the candidates to the alter —each one being accompanied by his friend, Mr. Pierce by his aged and venerated father. It was singular to see the son created a spiritual father over the natural parent, but the voice of his compeers had so decided. A series of questions were propounded to the oandidates by Bish op Soule —and Prayer offered by Bish op Payne, to which responses were made by all the Conference. Then Bishop Soule laying both his hands, (and each of the remaining Bishops one of theirs) on the heads of the kneeling Candida, tee, ft solemn in junction to prove themselves worthy disciples of their Lord and Master, v» as uttered, and the benedictions of the Almighty invoked on each. Prayer followed by Bishop Capers; tne com missions regularly signed by each o*> the officiating prelates and the new Bishops were declared to be July oi dained to the sacred offices to which they were chosen. Conference will probably adjourn about Saturday of next week.'’ [Georgia Citizen. « Who is Mrs- Partington ? ,r The inquiry is frequently made, “Who is Mrs. Partington ?” We first read of the old lady in a speech of Sidney Smith—the wittiest and proba bly the wisest man of his day—at Taunton, England, in 1831, on the subject of parliamentary reform, by which Great Britain was then much agitated. lie was insisting that the possibility of the House of Lords de feating the reform movement was the most absurd notion that ever entered into human imagination. And to il lustrate the futility of resisting popular demand, he said : ‘I do not mean to : be disrespectful, but the attempt of the Lords to stop the progress of reform reminds me very forcibly of the great storm of Sidmouth, and of the conduct of the excellent Mrs. Partington on that occasion : In the winter 1324 there set in a great flood upon the town; the tide arose to an incredible height, the waves rushed in upon the houses, and everything was threatened with destruction. In the midst of this sub lime and terrific storm, Dame Parting ton, who lived on the beach, was seen at the door of her house with mop and pattens, tumbling her mop, squeezing out the seawater, and vigorously push ing away the Atlantic Ocean. The At lantic was aroused. Mrs. Partingtou’s spirit was up; but I need not tell you that the contest was unequal. The Atlantic Ocean beat Mrs. Partington. She was excellent, at a slop or puddle ; but she should not have meddled with Ia tempest. —Buffalo Com. Advertise)'. Tobacco Ciiewers, Beware.—Be sides the poison contained in the weed itself, many of our tobacco chewers arc absorbing into their system an ox yde of lead—the same which kills so many painters and paralizes others. ~ Lead foil is cheaper than tin foil, and some of those who put tip tobacco for ceewing, use the latter instead of the former. The counterfeit may be known by its dark blue or blueish color, where as tin foil is nearly white.