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(rtruiinal. FOR THE IXDEPKSDEXT PRESS. q§ % 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. ni ii ii (Hi in. »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 them for sale, will find it to their act vantage to ad 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.” I use such remedies only, as act strictly in harmony with the known laws of the animal economy: These I select from every kingdom of nature, but with a careful and discriminating hand: Office up stairs adjoining the printing office, where I may be found during the day. and at night, at the residence of W. A- Ida vis. ft. W. BRYAN, M. D. Eatonton, April 25, 1854. ts GEORGIA HOME GAZETTE. A Southern Literary and Pauiily Journal, publish edat Augusta, Geo. James M. Smytiie, and Rob ert A. W yte, Editors. The Home Gazette is devoted to Literature. Art, Science. Agriculture, General Intelligence, and Southern interests. 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Grateful for the liberal encouragement which has been extended to our efforts to build up at the South Literary and Family Journal of high char acter, we shall increase our exertions to juJdlfy this public confidence, and make the Gazette’ still more j worthy of general patronage. TERMS. Single copy, one year, in advance, §2 00 Two u 3 00 Five “ "X&f' “ 800 Ten “ “ V J “ 15 no Address Smyth & Wuyte, Editors Home Gazette, Augusta, Georgia. T he S ?ru Eclectic. | cspHE ECLECT I -be composed of carefully | A selected art’ ~ from the leading Periodicals | ofEurope, w : me or more original papers in I each munbe e pens of Southern writers. 1 XVn ”’ ;n alar receipt, by mail, among g standard Foreign Journals: • iew, The North British Review | Aiie Westminster Review, The London Quarterly | Review, The EclectiutJEeview, The Retrospective 11c j view, Chamber's Edinburgh Journal, Ei’i/a Cook’s | Journal, Household Words, United Service Journal, j Colburn’s New Monthly, Dublin University Mag i Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, A ins? ! worth’s Magazine, Fraser’s Magazine, Hood’s Mug- I azinc, Sharp’s Mugaz-ine, Tail’s Magazine, Gentle man's Magazine, Blackwood’s Lady’s Magazine, The Repertory of Arts and Inventions, Bentley’s Miscellany, Revu les deux Monds, Hogg’s In structor, Annuls of Natural History Weiser Eeitung, London Literary Gazette, The Spectator, The Critic, The Athenaeum, The Examiner, The Times, Punch, &c. These rare and costly publications which sel dom, in their original form, find their way into the hands of American readers, and yet are ‘know ledged to embody the latest and "choicest pro ductions of the best writers ofEurope, will be. care fully examined, and their most attractive and valu able articles will be reproduced in the pages of the Eclectic. Thus, for a mere fraction of the cost of any one of these works, the readers of the Eclectic will obtain the select portions- of all of them: With the ample resources thus at our command, in the British and Continental Journals, together with such assistance as we expect from our native writers we hope to publish a Periodical which shall prove, in every respect, acceptable to the cultivated reader: The Eclectic is the only Magazine of the class ever attempted in the South, and is designed to supply an obvious void in our literary publica tions: We need scarcely add, that it will be con ducted with a special regard to the sentiments, the institutions and interest of the Southern people: While no topic will be excluded from its pages that comes properly within the scope of literary journalism, particular attention will be given to such subjects as are of practical and permanent im portance: The Eclectic will bo published at Augusta, Ga., the first of every month—each number containin-g 80 large octavo pages, in double columns,' on good paper and new type, making two volumes of 480 pages, each, in the year: TERMS for one year: One copy, §3 00 —Six copies, §1500; always in advance: The first volume can be had at the reduced price of One Dollar, by early application to the Edit:or D. K. WHITAKER, Autrusta Ga. SOIL OF THE SOUTH, FOR 1854. An Agricultural & Horticultural Journal, Published at Columbus, Georgia, on the first of every month. .JANES M. CHAMBERS, Agricultural Editor. CHARLES A. PEABODY, Horticultural Editor. bk m.w s«*s «• One Dollar a Year in Advance. One Copy, one year ® j Six Copies, one year !......... ’’ ’ ’ ]•’}' * ''" 5 twenty-1 ive Copies, one year 20 One Hundred Copies, one year ”75 All subventions must commence with the volume This Journal, now entering on its Fourth volume, is two well known to need any panegyric from the publishers, ihis much wo will say—wo intend to enlarge, and beautify it. Each number will nave a handsome cover, upon which advertisements cau .. bo i u f orte h without taking up the reading matter of thepaper. 1 b Ihe editors wili each, in his department, give a re-cord oi the progress and advancement of 'airri enlturo and' horticulture, especially, as adapted to the soil and climate of the South. Each number will contain plans for the month, for the farm orchard and garden ; now plants arid soeds adapted to Southern culture will roceive the careful atten tion ot tho editors, and a faithful report made tion ilVln “ thcreon > tlu 'P ub!io from much iinposi- In our patrons, we appeal; how large an edi tion shall we start with, sor 10,000 t Wo know there arc more than 10,000 reading farmers, gurd ners, and Worsts around us, who would save immev bv takinathe SoiTof the South. But it is not conWn cotton or corn n° c}iiss - Ever - v 1118111 that plants cotton or corn, a eaobage, or a turnip, keeps a horse or a cow, raises an apple, pear, plum, peach, ompo fig or strawberry ; every lady that cultivates a” rose’ a CfTf : 6Very house-keeper that makes W c pot of soap, will find in the Central jpbmisnntnts. MECHANICS it MANUFACTCRMc!** YItTILL find the Scientific Americana j OUr y V anl exactly suited to their wants. It is issue? : regularly every week in form suitable for bindii* Each number contains an official list of patent cluing I notices of nc.v inventions; chemical and meohunici,,’ urticles upon Engineering, Mining, Architecture- Internal Improvements, Talents and Latent Laws’ Practical Essays on all subjects connected with thj Arts and Sciences. Each volume covers 410 page, of clearly printed matter, interspersed with Irons four to six hundred!engravings, and specifications of patents. It is the REPERTORY OF AMKkI CAN INVENTION and is widely complimented at home and abroad for the soundness of its v : If success is any cricripn of its chr.:-act. , th. pub lishers have the'Satisfaction of believing it the first among the many Scjenfifio Journals in the world Postmasters, being authorized agents of the U i entific American, will very generally attend to for warding letters containing renvHunecs. The Patent Claims: are published weekly, and arc invaluable to Inventors and Patentees. 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The Cultivator is a large octavo of 32 pages, form ing a volume of 884 pages in the year, it contains a much greater amount of reading matter than any sin ilar publication in the South—embracing, in ad dition to tho current agricultural topics of the day, Valuable Original Contributions from many of tho most intelligent and practical Planters, Farmers and Horticulturists in every section of the South and South-west TERMS. 0110 copy, one year in advance, 41 00 Six copies,..' 5 ou Twenty--five copies, 20 Ou One hundred copies,']..... f 75 Cv The Cash system will be rigidly adhered to, and in no instance will the paper be sent unless the mo ney accompanies the order. The Bills of all speeie naying Banks received at par. All money remitted by mail, postage mid, will be at the risk of the Pub lisher. ‘ : y Address \YM. S. JONES, Augusta, Geo. WyppS' THE SATURDAY EVENING POST. 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