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There is a lip whose nectar oft.
There is a lip whose nectar oft
My lips have longed to taste,
That heavenly form, with cheek so soft,
Within my arms encased.
There is an eye whoso lustrous light
Has long hung o'er my way—
Ilung o’er me in the darkest night,
And shed its beacon ray.
There is a voice whose magic spell
Has bound me in its chain,
Whose tones with hope my heart can swell,
Or rive my maddened brain.
There is a hand of fairy mould
I long to clasp in mine,
And when my vows of love are told,
Hear softly whispered thine.
There is a brow I long to feel
Reposing on my breast,
For then would pleasure set its seal,
Nor fate could break my rest.
£he knows my heart in sorrow bleeds,
Knows well my deepest woes—
How on my heart the canker feeds,
-be haughty Stella knows.
My pride forbids to_ breathe my tide—
Down, down, ye foolish sighs—
The winds alone must he;;r the wail,
That breathes a heart which dies.
But hope! her heart may yet be given—
No t even hope farewell—
To own that heart were all vaf heaven —
I’ve lost it—’tis my hell!
Jan., 1848. L. L.
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»l •llonstcr Hear Story—a
Hunt in California.
A Yankee in California writes to
the Boston Sentinel an account of an
extensive hear hunt, in which he took
part. We give his account of the
capture of a monster bear:—“ Early in
the morning we assembled, resolutely
determined to kill the bear or perish
in the attempt. Our whole party was
armed, and we proceeded to the spot
where we had last seen the monster. —
We soon struck his track, and follow
ed till noon, when we knew that we
were close on to him. We had gone
then about eight miles, and were in
the thickest brush I had ever seen; it
was almost impossible to get through j
it, and very difficult to keep the track; j
we had lost it in fact, and were separa-j
ted—divided off in parties of live to
seven. I was one of the party of live.
We were searching for the track, and
had got into a Small opening of about
eight feet square, when we heard the
brush cracking on one side of us, and
saw old Grizzly going by. One of the
party fired at him at once. The bear
.stood still a moment looking at us;
then two more balls were put into
him. This woke him up, and he start
ed for us. I fired as he was coming
towards us, and took him in the upper
part of his head, but that only made I
him worse; he came on growling and
blowing like a steamboat, and as he
jumped into the opening he brought
with him a mouthful of brush that he
had snapped off. We all stood our
ground. In fact, it was no use attempt
ing to run through such brush as we
were in. But one of us had a gun load
ed, and as luck or fate would have it,
the bear made- straight for the man
who held it; and still more fortunate,
this man Was an old hunter, and kept
cool. He waited until the bear was
within two feet of the muzzle of his
gun, then fired, and took the devil be
tween the eyes. The ball went into
his brain, and was a settler. It hit in
the only spot where a Grizzly can be j
killed at once. He gave one leap lor-!
ward, and fell over dead at the feet of
the conqueror. The rest of us were
standing, shaking in our shoes, and
expecting to see the bear have the man
down. It was all over in less than
- three minutes, but I shall never forget
the scene—or my feelings during those
moments —they seem an age. The
rest of our party had heard our guns,
and were coming towards us, but they
did not arrive until it was all over.—
We got around old Grizzly’s carcass',
gave three cheers, and fired a volley
over his remains.
The brute was one of <hc “ oldest in
habitants,” and a monster. His weight
was over twelve hundred pounds , and
more than eight hundred pounds 'of
meat were carried away. His hide,
when taken off, measured seven feet
square without the head. His feet
were curiosities. They were twelve
inches long, seven inches wide, very
fiat shaped, like a negro’s “heel in
the middle of the foot.” I have got
one of his claws for a trophy, and hope
to show it to you one of these days.—
The man who killed the bear deserved
all credit for his coo)ness. While we
were looking a,t the critter , one of the
party asked him how he felt when the
Dear was coming towards him. He
t laughed, and said he thought of the
prayer a man once made on a like'oc
casion—and he told the story:
The man was out alone hunting, and
„ came on a bear, a very large one: He
‘ could not get away, so he prepared
himself for a fight. " Before commenc
ing the attack he prayed in these
words: 11 Oh Lord, you know I don’t
trouble you often with my prayers,
like the tl—d Methodists, who are al
ways at you lor something —but for this
once listen to me. This “bar” is a
screamer, and I haint got my knife; so
help me if you can, but if you can't
helo me,' don’t help the “ bar ” —but
just you keep dark, and lay low, and
you shall see one of the (feffgt “bar”
fights you ever did see.
There was a shout over the story,
and then the butchering commenced. I
got home late in with
thirty pounds of “ bar Ton my back;
and so ended my Grizzly Bear Hunt,
the first and last one l shall ever un-
The Crcat Billiard Alatch
for Tu'o Hundred Hollars.
The following we copy from the Sy
raccse Daily Depublican of the
inst:
The match at Billiards for S2OO, five
hundred up—cannon game—was play
ed at the Malcolm Hall Billiard room,
Syracuse, on Saturday night the 13th
instant, between two of the best play
ers in the world, Joseph N. White
of 332 Broadway, New York, and
George C. Smith of Rome,
The interest in the game increased
by the knowledge that White had giv
en a challenge (and which now stands
open to play with any man in the world
for from SI,OOO to SIO,OOO, and which
has never been accepted; and Smith
previously played seven match games
for large sums of money, all of which
he won with ease, which of course gave
him the confidence of his friends, who
were quite ready to back him largely,
and which was ready to be taken by
White’s friends if offered.
At about nine o’cloek the competi
tors took their positions at the table,
surrounded by a “cloud of witnesses,”
composed of the most respectable peo
ple in town, and amateurs of the game
from abroad, who were on the qui vive
to see the play. The competitors were
in good spirits, and “ eager for the fray,”
each confident of winning and thereby
sustaining a high reputation. They
strung for the lead, which was won
by Smith, who also made the first
count. White then took up the game
and turned the first corn*, r 40 ahead.
Smith making small runs. White al
so turned the Second corner 79 ahead,
the third 103, the fourth 151, when
j Smith commenced gaining, and White
turned the fifth 31 ahead. At the
sixth corner. Smith turned 34 ahead,
(White having had brakes,) and the
seventh 59, and the eighth 40, and the
ninth 34, when White commenced
gaining; and when Smith had made
484, White had made 307, and had the
play; upon which he ran up 20, put
ting him 9 ahead, and left the balls
comparatively safe, when Smith, not
counting, White ran the game out,and
won by 10 points.
Thus ended the most beautiful, and
at the same time the best contested,
most exciting game, that perhaps was
ever played in this country, as both
players exhibited the strength of the
game. Smith, although beaten, could
not lose any reputation, as he played
a very strong game; and White still
retains the cognomen of “ Pope’s Nun
cio,” as his friends have humorously
styled him.
fkrsDital.
If *. €?. Simms, llsq.
The second lecture of Mr. Simms
will be delivered this evening, at Hi
bernian Hall, at half past eight o’clock
precisely. We extract from a recent
number of the Athens (Tennessee)
Post the following account of a visit
by a correspondent of that paper to
Mr. Simms’ country residence at i
Woodlands: — Chas. Courier , oth inst.
“ Woodlands is a fine old place, about
two miles from the South-Carolina
railway. The family mansion is a
massive structure of brick, almost bid
den from the eye of one approaching
it by the noble and stately live oaks
which encompass it about, and which
together with other evergreens, gives
the grounds a cheerful aspect, even in
mid-winter. Mr. Simms is, in one
sense, a planter, since he owns lands
to be. tilled and servants to till them.
He does not, however, devote his at
tention to the plantation, the superin
tendence of which gives needful occu
pation to his father-in-law, Mr. R, a
gentleman of the true Carolina stamp,
and the very embodiment of courtesy,
hospitality and intelligence. Mr. Simms
loves the country for the healthful in
fluences it exerts upon the brain and
temper of the student and the mind
worker, both of which he is, in an ex
traordinary degree. He does not dis
dain its natural sports —for he can car
ry a gun or hold a rod, or follow a deer
with the best of his country neigh
bors. When 1 reached ‘Woodlands’
he was away upon a fishing expedi
tion, with rod and line, in the bright
waters of the Edisto. I have heard
him describe, with the ardor of an en
thusiast, his own adventures in the
coon or ’possum hunt. It is in the
country that Mr. Simms works most
freely and successfully. He is at home
here, with the patriarchs of the forest
waving about him and the music of
nature sounding ever in its varying
tones in his ear. He is a man of sim
ple habits, in the observance of which
tie maintains, at middle life, an elastic
ity and vigor of young manhood. The
industry of the poet-novelist is almost
unparailed. His published works
make a formidable catalogue, but be
side-s lie has immense MSS. works, in
variors stages of progress and in al
most. every department of literature.
I know of no author in all our land of
so teeming a brain of such diverse
development. lie has achieved nobly
* n tfie highest and most dissimilar
fields. Asa novelist he has unques
tionably no living superior of Ameri
can birth; as a poet he has won a rep
utation which possibly posterity alone,
may fitttngly acknowledge; as a dra
matist, ] unhesitatingly place, him in
the very front rank, and appeal for my
justification, to his “Norman Maurice”
and “Michael Bonham,” and finally, as
a critic and essay ist he possesses such
admirable powers, that he has, during
five years passed, infused extraordina
ry vigour into the Southern Quarterly
Review, which but for his energies
would probably have ceased ere this to
exist, I am noteulogizing my friend, but
telling you the simple truth, in a very,
straight forward manner. , I honor him
for his greatness of intellect, and for
his nobleness of nature. Ido not
think, (between you and me my dear
Post) that-the South has any just con
: ception of her indebtedness to Mr,
Simms for his life-long labors to indi-
utsautc fi
am sure that South-Carolina is-especial
ly ungrateful and recreant in this re
gard. She has not honored " her
‘ “prophet” as she ought to have done,
and this is none the less to her discred
it, that it is a verification of a Bible
maxim. I venture to say that South
Carolina is better known to day in for
eign lands through the works of Mr.
Simms than she is through any other
single medium—and what other name
has she, indeed, in her literary records,
that stands in comparison with his?
“I have often seen him, as I now
have the pleasure of seeing him, in his
well filled library at “Woodlands.”—
He has collected about him the fullest
representation of American literature,
which I have ever seen in a private li
brary. lie has, indeed, the archives
of American intellect in his custody.
Nor is his library deficient in the
choice works of the old world. It is
well supplied with history, biography,
fiction, belles letters, and poetry, from
all parts of the great Republic of Let
ters. Here the author passes his time
chiefly, while his active mind and busy
pen are taxed sometimes I fear, im
moderately, in the increase of his al
ready gigantic product. Match me,
if you can, “as a slave of the lamp,”
my friend and host of “Woodlands.”
“Mr. Simms is one the best story
tellers I have ever met with. He will
keep the table literally “in a roar,”
with his anecdotes. He has, moreover,
the rare and elicitous faculty at mim
icking characters, and this, coupled
with a fine dramatic taste, enables him
to act his stories most effectively. No
one who lias enjoyed the hospitalities
of his country seat, can possibly be ig
norant of his admirable powers in his
line.”
•
M. Victor Hugo has recently writ
ten a preface, which will shortly be
published, to anew edition of his
“Odes and Ballads.” The Sieele has
received a proof cop}?-, but doubts
whether it would be safe to quote a
few lines, and being in doubt, abstains.
It, however, in an article noticing some
remarkable circumstances in M. Victor
Hugo’s career, gives the following ex
tract from a letter received from him
by the editor: “I am convinced that
the expansion of intelligence will suf
fice to ripen ideas. I write, I speak, I
do my duty, and I peaceably contem
plate the whitening of my hairs in
exile.”
llliscdlctnMits.
if Wonderful Clock.
There is now in the possession of,
and manufactured by, Mr. Collings,
silversmith, Gloucestershire, England,-
a most ingenious piece of mechanism,
an eight, day clock, with dead-beat es
capement of maintaining power, which
chimes the quarters, plays sixteen
tunes, plays three tunes in twelve
hours, or will play at any time re
quired. The hands go around as fol
lows : —One, once a minute ; one, once
an hour ; one, once a week ; one, once
a month ; one, once a year. It shows
the moon’s age, the time of rising and
setting of the sun, the time of high and
low water, half ebb and half flood; and
by a beautiful contrivance, there is a
part which represents the water, which
rises and falls, lifting the ships at high
water tide as if it were in motion, and
as it recedes leaves these little automa
ton ships dry on the sands. It shows
the hour of the day, day. of the week,
day of the month, month of the year.
In the day of the month there is a
provision made for the long and short
months. It shows us the twelve signs
of the zodiac ; it strikes or not, chimes
or not, as you wish it; it has the equa
tion table, showing the difference of
clock and sun every day in the year.
Every portion of the clock is of beau
tiful workmanship, and performs most
accurately, the many different objects
which are called into action by the in
genious proprietor, who is most willing
to describe all its various achievements
to any one who may feel a pleasure in
paying him a visit.
Selections for a Newspaper.—
Most people think the selection of suit
able matter for a newspaper the easi
est part of the business. liow great
an error. It is by all means the most
difficult. To look over and over hun
dreds of exchange papers every week,
from which ,to select enough for one,
especially when the question is, not
what shall, but what shall not be se
lected, is no easy task. If every per
on who reads a newspaper could have
edited it, we should hear -less com
plaints. Not unfrequentlw is it the
case, that an editor looks over all his
exchange papers for something inter
esting, and can absolutely find nothing.
Every paper is dryer than a contribu
tion box; and yet something must be
had—his paper must come out with
something in it, and he does the best he
can. To an editor who has th% least
care about what he selects, the writing
that he h .s to do is the easiest part of
the labor. Every subscriber thinks
the paper printed for his own benefit,
and if there is nothing in it that suits
him, it must be stopped—it is good for
nothing. .] ust as many subscribers as
an editor may have, so many tastes he
has to consult One wants something
smart, another something sound. One
likes anecdotes, fun and frolic, and the
next door neighbor wonders that a man
of sense will put such stuff in his pa
per; Something argumentive, and the
editor*is a dull fool. And so, between
them all, you see, the poor fellow gets
roughly handled. And yet to ninety
nine out of a hundred, these thing! qo
not occur. They never reflect that
what does not please them may please
the next man; but they insist that if
thd paper"doesnot stilt them, it is good
for nothing.
llenrv' Ward Beecher says that
“dress does not make the man ; but,
when the man as made, he looks better
dressed' uhT •
I Aqueducts.
Below we give from the N. Y! Sun,
a table of the length and volume of
some of the largest aqueducts ot which
there is any authentic record in his
tory.
Comparative Lcnyth. —Anio Noviis
was about 60 miles in length and had
about 2,000 pipes.
Aqua Marcia was nearly 60 miles
in length, and had about 741 pipes.
Aqua Claudia was nearly 44 miles
(with the Novus) and had about 4,882
pipes.
Anio Vet us was about 40 miles in
length and had about 1,981 pipes.
Croton aqueduct is about 42 miles
and wifi have in all 157 pipes.
Daily supply —Croton aqueduct, 60
million gallons.
All the Roman aqueducts, 43 mil
lion gallons.
London Water Works, 80 million
gallons.
Edinburgh, 2 million gallons.
Philadelphia, 2 million gallons.
A CENTURY OF RUSSIAN EmPK
rors.—Such a list as the following
cannot be prepared from the annals of
any European Kingdom, and scarcely
from an Asiatic monarchy. Russia
has aptly been described as an abso
lute monarchy, tempered by regicide:
1718. Alexis, son and heir of Peter
the Great, put to death by order of his
own father.
1780. Peter the Second, the son of
Alexis, “died suddenly, deposed and
murdered ;” with him ends the male
branch of the house of Romanoff'.
1740. Ivan Antanovith, an infant,
succeeded his aunt Anna in the year
1740. In a year he was deposed by
his ctfusin the Empress Elizabeth, who
confined him in various prisons. In
1767 he was privately put to death by
Catherine the Second, during an in
surrection.
1763. Peter the Third murdered by
his wife, the Empress Catherine the se
cond.
1801. Paul, her son, murdered by a
conspiracy of his nobles.
1825. Alexander, supposed to have
been made away with by the conspira
cy which broke out on his death ; but
later discoveries—from Russian sour
ces, however—throw doubts on this
rumor.
Wonderful Eggs.—ln 1848 in con
sequence of a land slip on the side of a
hill in Madagascar, in the county of
the Sakalaves, the eggs and bones of
an immense bird were brought to light.
In 1850, two eggs and some fragments
of bones were sent to France, and pla
ced in the Museum of Natural Histo.iy,
at the Jardin des Plantes. M. Goffrey
St. Hilaire declared these eggs and
bones to belong to a species to which
he gave the name of Epynoris. Capt,.
Armango, of the French merchant ser
vice, has just brought home two others
of these eggs, and he declares that
Malgaches assured him, in the most
positive manner that a huge bird still
exists in the interior of the Island, and
that it was able to carry off a cow. —
Up to the present time no fact has come
to light in support of that assertion. One
of the two eggs now brought home con
tains, Capt. Armange declares, a litre
and a half more than those in the mu
seum.
o
Anecdote of Mr. Webster.—The
Boston Correspondent of the Journal
of Commerce relates the following an
ecdote of Mr. Webster:
Soon after Mr. Webster removed to
Marshfielhe made his masterly speech
in the United States Senate in reply to
Hayne. The gentleman of whom he
bought his farm at Marshfield, Oapt.
Thomas, a great admirer of Webster,
both before and after he knew him per
sonally, had read the great speech of
Hayne, in the Boston Centinel, a pa
per that he subscribed for, not without
asking Mr. Webster what paper he had
“better take.” Capt. Thomas regard
ed the speech of liayne as unanswera
ble. He was gloomy and quite sick at
heart about it. He took to bis room,
and even went to bed.
In a day or two the mail brought
along another Boston semi-weekly Cen
tinel. It contained a report of Web
ster’s speech in repl y to Hayne. It was
carried to the chamber of Capt. Thom
as, with the announcement of what it
contained. Capt. Thomas was scarce
ly aroused by it. lie was not believ
ing, but faithless. He said, “Hayne
cannot be answered; it is of no use to
think it.”
The newspaper was left and the bear
er took his leave. Soon a joyful noise
was heard in the chamber of Capt.
Thomas. The sick man had read the
spesch ofWebstei’, was cured, and cri
ed at the top of his voice, “bring me
my boots.”
(fliilin'cn.
Q ■
The Cloud.
Translated from the German of Reinick.
One hot summer morning, a cloud
arose from the sea, and, like a bloom
ing, playful child, looked through the
blue sky, and over the wide earth,
which for some time had laid sad and
languishing from the effect of a long
drought.
As the little cloud sailed through the
heavens, she looked on The poor peo
ple below, working in the ' sweat of
their brow, and suffering from fatigue,
while she was free from care and toil,
and was boriie along by the. 1 iglit breath
of the morning.
“Alas!” said she, “if I could. but do
Some good to the poor people there be
low—something to lighten their labor,
to soothe .their cases, to supply food to
the hungry, to refresh the thirsty!”
And the day went on, and the cloud
grew larger; and, as she grew, the
hopes of men were turned towards her.
But on the earth the heat still in
creased, The sun glowed, and scorch
ed, and beat on the heads of the labor
ers till they were near fainting; yet
they must work on, for they were very
1
;.... They cast a loot: of entreaty towards
the cloud, as if to say, *‘Ah ! you can
kelp- us!”
“Yes, I will help you,” said' the
cloud; and immediately began to de
scend gently towards the earth.
But now occurred to her what she
had heard in the bosom of the ocean,
when a child; namely, that the clouds
found death whenever they sank too
low, and came near the earth.
For some time she descended, and
allowed herself to be carried hither and
thither. At length she stood still, and
said, boldly and joyfully—“ Men, I will
help you, happen what may!”
This thought made her suddenly gi
gantic, strong and powerful. She had
never even thought herself capable of
such greatness. She stood over the
earth like a beneficent God, and rais
ed her head, and spread'her wings over
the fields. Her splendor was so great
that man and beast shrank from it; the
trees and grass bowed their heads; but
all saw in her a benefactress.
“Yes I will help you!” continued to
cry the cloud. “Keceiveme! I die for
you!”
It was a mighty purpose which she
therein executed. A bright light shone
through her; thunder roared; undying
love transpierced her, and she sank to
earth dissolved in a flood of rain. This
rain was her deed ; this rain was her
death; in it she was glorified. Over
the whole land as far as the rain spread,
arose a bright bow, made of the finest
rays of the sky, It was the last visi
ble manifestation of her great, self-sac
rificing love. In a short time, it also
disappeared, but the blessing confer
red by the cloud upon suffering and re
lieved man long remained. —Tlte /School
fellow.
Ifinitoits.
Integrity a, Jewel.
One of Simon Suggs’ first financial
experiments was to jocky a Mr. Jones
out of a considerable sum of money
and he exchange horses, under pretense
that lie (without a dollar in his purse)
is hurrying on to buy the same lot of
land which lie lias wormed out Jones
Itobe on his way to purchase. Suggs'
overtakes the traveller, and as the cap
tain struck his heels against Ball’s sides
Mr. Jones seemed to grow nervous.
“ Where aboutsdoes your land lie?”
he asked.
“Up in Tallapoosy,’ replied Suggs;
and again he thumped Ball with his
heels. Mr Jones evidently grew more
uneasy.
‘ What part of the county ?’ he asked
‘ Close to the ’ Chambers line, not
far from Dodd’s store (let along Ball?’,
was the Captain’s answer.
‘ Stop, sir, if you please—perhaps—
I would like—we’d better, perhaps,
under”—gasped Mr. Jones, in great
agitation.
‘To be sure we had,’ said Suggs,
with great sangfroid. ‘lt’s jist as you
say; but what the devil is the matter
with you?—are. .you coing to take a
fit?”
Jones explained that lie though it
likely they were bpfhn going to enter
the same land. ‘What did
you say was tliemfivA* ”
asked. • /
‘I diqfnt mention no numbers, as 1
now recollect. However, Squire Jones
as it looks like your gear don’t fit you,
somehow, I’ll jist tell you that the land
I’m after is ad. and little, no-account
quarter section, that nobody would
have but me; its poor and piny, but
Ist got a snug little shoal on it, with
twenty or twenty-five feet fall; and
may be they’ll want to build a little
town at Dodd’s some of these days, I
might sell’em the lumber. Seein’ you’re
pretty much afoot, even if you wanted
it, I may as well, give you the numbers
if I can, without looking’ in my pocket
book. Its ten—ten —ten section, ten,
township- oh, d-—n the number, I
never can remember —’
‘S. E. quarter of ten; twenty-two
twenty-five—ain’t it?” asked Jones,
who looked perfectly wild.
‘Now you hit me! good as for acres
them’s the figures,” said Captain
Suggs.
‘lts the same peico I’m after I’ll give
you fifty dollars to let men enter it,,’
said Jones.
‘ You wouldcn’t now, would you?”
‘ I’ll give you a hundred.”
! Try again.,’
‘ Well I’ll give you a hundred and
fifty, and not a dollar more,” said Jones
in a decisive tone.
‘Let’s sec —wall, I reckon—though
I don’t know—yes, I suppose I must
let you have it, as I can’t well spare
the money to enter it at this time, no
how,” remarked Suggs, with much
truth, as his cash on hand did not
amount to quite one fortienth of the
sum necessary to make the entry.—
‘ But we must swap horses and you
must give me twenty dollars boot.”
This agreed to and Captain Simon
Suggs received the the one hundred
and seventy dollars with the air of a
man who was conferring the most sub
stantial favor ; and made divers remarks
laudatory if his own disposition, while
Mr. Jones counted the bills and
changed the saddles. Turning his
horse’s head homewards, Capt. Suggs
soliloquized somewhat in this vein:—
A pretty toloble fair mornin’s work I
should say. One hundred and seven
ty dollars in the clear pizarinktum a
horse wuth fifty dollars more than old
Ball. That makes two hundred and
twenty as nigh as I canguess, without
JDolbear along. Now, some fellers, af
ter making sieh a little decent rise
would milk the cow dry by pushing
on to Doublejoys, startin’ a manner
the nigh way to Montgomery, by the
Augustv ferry, and enterirf that land
in somebody else’s name before Jones
gets thar ! But honesty’s the best pol
icy. Honesty’s the bright spot in any
man’s,character! Fair play h a jewel
but honesty beats it all to pieces! Ah’
yes, honesty, honesty’s the stake' that
Simon Suggs will allcrs tie to. What’s
a man without his integrity ?”.
irnrral AtolistiWl.
:;L..
i. G. k ANiurt, Wm. Murdock, Geo- L. Summers,
SUCCESSORS TO A. ATKINSON, &, CO.
rrUItS Establishment has been in
I tion fora number of years. The Quarries arc
well opened, and the Marble is superior to any in the
United States. „ . ... .
We have so perfected our facilities for getting out
and finishing work, that we furnish Monuments,
Tombs, Tablets, Headstones, and everything ni
our line of business, in better style and at cheaper
rates, than any yard in the country.
Wneii it is considered that we saw our ov n Mar
ble, pay no jobber's profit, and no high freight Horn
the* North, ft will be seen tliut we do possess material
advantage over all competitors. ,
We cordiully solicit our friends and the public to
oxamine our work, and compare our prices with t.iose
of other yards, before ordering Marble. _
We have on hand in our yard at Marietta, a large
assortment of finished work—Monuments, tombs.
&e.~where our agent, Mr. G. W. Summers, will sell
at our prices. Our principal work is done at the
mills. Address J. O RANKIN, & CO.,
Marble Work F. 0., Ga.,
May 9, 1854 1" m
LAND IN WARE
I3EHUONS wishing to.purchase No. 253 in the
A District of originally Appling now Ware county
in the State of Georgia are requested Jo correspond
with the undersigned, J. A. TURNER.
Eatonton, Putnam Cos, April, 1854. ts.
MJIGS, K.'tGS, RAGS !
THE HIGHEST PRICE GIVEN.
ErMIE Subscribers are paying the highest price for
A good Cotton and Linen Rags ; persons having
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dress WALKER, WILLIMAN, & CO.,
Paper Commission Merchants,
Charleston, S. C.
Agents of the
S. Carolina Paper Manufacturing Company,
May 9 1854
To the Citizens of Putnam County.
BOTANIC PHYSICIAN.
HAVING permanently located in Eatonton, I re
spectfully tender you mj professional services:
I have spent tire last four years with an old and ex
perienced physician of the reformed school, and have
during that time, treated under his supervision, many
eases of most of the diseases incident to this section
of country:
My motto is, that “ Poisons are not medicines.”
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SOIL OF THE SOUTH,
FOR 1854.
An Agricultural & Horticultural Journal,
Published at Columbus, Georgia, on the first of
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.JANES M. CHAMBERS, Agricultural Editor.
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