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VILDMAN7 YOl'.N'P A BRO., EXCHANGE BROKERS, So, 110, tiut Mlilt Hroiut St. GOLD, SILVER, BANK NOTES, STOCKS, BONDS, rtrtifn ami Bomrstir Exchange, BOUOUT AND SOLD. UuNVY lN\KSTi;i» S'* PAllTlKS MAY * DiHRUT. ni)' eaitncil Money ^or Sole. fcptnibtr 1. lv-- -Am* EPPING & HANSERD, COMMISSION MERCHANTS, OOLUMDUa, OKO., HVoKWaIid/n'.'.'oFKu" at A™i«hi$S At FoiiMKti meats of Cotton lor 8u»i»uiont tu Blhero |H»rus or to Kunpe wil I receive prompt iSferto K*lwanl Thomas, Augusta, G .i .: I C. Plant. Mu'-ii. Ga.: John l-iituiuc. Oohmi* m an* 14 1m Trisvraph, Macon, and Chroniolo »Y Sentinel, lagu«tt,copy’ null ?cn«l_bill t" u*• «• k COLUMBUS DAILY ENQUIRER. A Strict Construction of the Constitution-"*An Honest and Kconooiiemf Administration of tine Government. , Proprietors. COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 12, 1865. T K K K OF THE AILV ENQUIRER. 10 cent*. ill ho made in Javnr of month meoth*- oath* -- 5ii|rle copiM- A liberal deduction " «*r v “! WK 4 1 » Si> ine ’"’v'"" n oo , ,. three *,|oire.». one *»«' K Si WIST; gt |.«, I “Vor^rertiwm^l" r«>>H«hort le„ thnn om ,, er ,-iusro for tlio ru.-t insertion ^,1 HOeciits |>cr r« for ‘"J^rwnofnf* ln»«rlo.l at intervals to 1,0 . b ,„,a nnr rselt Intortion. AdTcrtUcun'iits ordered to remain <*n ^rti'-olir page, to be charged as new each AdMTliwwentstiot ini-OIM as to time, will , vnhUlhwl until or terV't out. ami I'blire-l AdvcrtiH raare rt inested to stuto htnnmbrr of hoortluns desired. .All advert i*< u.,- n considered diti from the »rd Insertion ml «•-' JANES jm.LTOAN, 1.EOM VOg ZINKEN, NELLIGAN & VON ZINKF.N, COTTON FACTORS, -AND- , General Commission Merohants, 4ti, CAUONDKLET ST., SKW ORhtCANSi l*A. August 29,1865—:‘.m M. A. M’KgN/.IK, U I’. JOHHRTOX, W>1. H. rHAMOKtia. W1W. A. MCKENZIE A C0„ General Commission Merchants, COTTON BKOKKK8. Receiving and Forwarding Agents, APALACHICOLA. FLA. August 3o—Ira WILLIS & CHISOLM. Factors, Commission Merchants, AND SHIPPING AGENTS, Cll Itll.ESTON, s. c. !. WILMS. A. R. CHISOLM W ILL attend to tho purchase,saleand ship ment—< to Foreign end Domestic Ports)— of Cotton, Lumber, Naval Stores ; to the Col lection ol Dralls, Purchase and Salo ot all Se curities. Consignments of Vessels solicited. KtCP*R to: Messrs John Frasier & Co., Messrs Hood Williams A Co., Messrs Geo A lloplcv .t Co., Charleston; S. C.; Gen^Behley^Ks<L«T B Metcalf, “ q * M< This Eatabliahment prepared r.'-i., Augusta, Ga.: Messrs Clark. Dodge Si Co, Messrs Murray Jc Nephew, New York: Messrs K W Clark A. Co., Philadelphia. Ponu.: Messrs PetidergiuH, Fonwiek k Co„ llultimore, Md. At STRASSBURGER, General Commission Merohant, WHOLK8ALH OBOOK15, 11)4 COMMERCE STREET, 109 Maiilgoim ry, Ain. V LWAYS on hand an extounive nnorluicnt of Liiiuors, Wines, Sugars nn>l Western Pro duce. Colton bought to order. Prompt attention given to all consignments: julyli.-nUu • la'b Printing OK A I <1,1 IIC1N I >S NEATEST STYLE OF THE ART. l’EKSONH KKOimilSti LABELS, HAND BII.I.S.] I’l.At'AKD.S, SHOW lltl.I.S. Numerical Strength of the Regular Army. Correspondence New York News.] Wamiington, August 30, 1805, Several vory wild tutcmonU havo boon | tirade in regard to the force lo which tho I army Ims been rnducod. Ono slatcmout J fixes th« nutuhurns low ns IG.OCJ men, ami iviiothor puts it ns high ns 125,(X ). I» >'.h of tho$o statements aro w'nlo ol' v tho mark. Tho truth is, it Iras not yet Leon dolt uninod to what extent tho regular ai y shall be reduced. At pregenL tho numborof white Uoops in tho sorvice is about 150,000 men. It is tlio rlc.-dj»n o! tho t'ri'.ddcnt to*have this force ruJucod t«> i kI'.’uL tU.LOOor 76.COO; but how fioon this I will bo doiK- doponds allogjelhcr upon tho i prop-os# of the restoration of I ho South* ' i i'w fitatos to their former relations. As i the .oriwant M ilitary Deparluicnta •.re kept uj\ >L ISW inU'iiti >m o' me Gov .rnmont !•» Ueoptithdcr tho pjonorals in I coiniiiautl thereof, u huflluieiit number of mop* to ba prepared for ail mnorKonoice. At p^ebont, tlio bulk of lh * forces is cun- (vnttntod in Texaf, on the lino of tho Itio it ramie, ami in the Adjacent Departments .1 ianiisrann, under Clcnoral Can by; of .\li.-*i<8ippi, under (ion. Slocum; of Ar kansas under Gen. ltoynolds; and of i Now Mexico and California, under Gen. 1 MeI>owrll. In those four departments there aro not less than 80,C00 troops, of i u in,>h full onn-hulf, however,aro noffroos. and who vilj very soon bo disbanded,and Anecdotes of Daniel Webster. At ono time, when Mr. Senior kept hardly as much of a nnbH>' as a private house, and ho and all his hand* w rt> busy haying, Daniel Webster, with his family, arrived in a carriage. “Mr. S. nier,’ said Webster, "wo havo com-: lo slay a week, and l want you t<» leavo your having and give us vour company. O a-ionally wo •bbll gaif on tho lake, and ’ n take an other of your men o(JY ") }>• • liy know how to," aid Sente:*, "but. I - : do 1'." While there, WoL-loi* laiki ! about his boyith days, of lh• * family trial-, of the woodchucks, of politics oi government affair*, of tho hiatiiry,*-f cm h State, and of the Union, and evinced as nmiliar- ity with affairs on tho .•* 1 »r i > ■ of tho Atlantic as. on this. "A hi' • u'ui v. -nte.r to Webster knew mu k . i ; 1 di• 1, 1ml I knew on.mg ; t-» i • • >. aim* him sind pick up.tho c’.iip-., D.-wa-.u ho dill VOL. VII,—NO. 218. Great Rater*. From Halls Journal ©t Health.] Grout caters never live long. A vora cious appetite, so far from lining a sign of health, is a certain indication of disense. Some dyspeptic* aro always hungry ; feel host when they aro eating, but ns soon h* they havo onion they onduro torments so diatro^sing in their nature ns to mako their unhappy victims wish for death. The appetite of haulth is that which inclines to eat. moderately when eating tiino comes, and which, when satisfied, leaves no uu- plpasaiit romipulor*. .M ultdudes measure their health by tho amount they can eat ; and of nry ten persons, nine would be gratilind at an inoreaso of weight, as if mere bulk wore an index of health, wbon in reality any cxo« s.i of latnn«s ir, in pro- portioii, dccisiv.j proof of existing disease, showing that tlmiib-invents of the system are too W'"ik l*» di-elmrg'i their duties; l the tc t | and the tendency to fatness, to obesity, ... thing—ho remaiiiii'i.- all im bud | increases until cxorciso is a burden, atid rraid, all lie had seen, and all < l. i i h• .. udilen ilentii olosos the history, Partie- nut now 1 forgot to tell you," a did ,lhu rubir inquiry will almost Invariably oiloit old man, "that when bin wo -k \ t odit, | the fact that fat persons however rubfeond bo a.-ked me Low mud. I i i. ■■ I and jolly, RT'» fd'ver well, and yet they are went and got an account that I had kept, I envied. with every item mentioned that l had While great eaters never live to an old charged bun f'r. J know it wa< a pretty ) age, and are never for a single day wilh- largo bill, but no moru than ho ■ -■..* 1»t ti) j out some "symptom,’’ come fooling Mitli- l"‘.V. Webster looked at tko ImD, then ! dually disagreeable to attract the mind's put Ins big eyed on mo, a.. 1 in a bardi | ulteiiiluii unpleasantly, small oators, those manner said, at tho amo lime throwing i who cat regularly, of ]dain food, usually tho bill down; Senior, don't you ever i havo no spare tlunli, are wiry and cndui- present liio with anything like that again.'’ I ing, and live to an active old age. Ri* l felt bad beeuuso I bad di-pleescd him, j markable exomplilications of those stall*- ROSETTE & LAWH0N, AUCTION (COMMISSION MERCHANTS 131 BROAD STREET. C OLUMIlUS, (IA. pEKHONAL and prompt attention given to X <*oiu>igniu«nts. •^Corriiv pnrehaso 1. jul>U‘»— tf _ IT, L. fULIfnUBY. S. H. W.lRNOi.K, VV A KNOCK A CO., COTTON BROKERS COMMISSION MEItCII VNTS^ Office No. 131 Broad St., {(Rovrttc Si L.iwhon’s Auction ltoom.) Mill*©. Pro luce, Ac. Hr Particular attention given to tho sale of mON. PRODL'Ci:, .Vt*. Bauoiku, lion , A<*., lurnUUcd at the uiaikot l»rice. _ cblynbui. On., Aug. k l - tf a. A. TYI.KR SAM'L K. ROllIAON. TYLER & ROBISON, (■rotery A (oiuiuissioii Bercbanls, NO. 129, [Nearly Opposite the ltank of' (Jotiivibus,) K KKP on h«n«l a good -lock of FAMILY I'ROVEMtfS, rROt’KKlt Fund STOh F. WARE. TOIL FT SO A rj\s. M: FOLKS, WMRS.MOOL-COTTt/X, ItUMFSTIC J>It Y *Meufai,y kind of pro'll tho purchase or andisi joins Johuson, i.. t. eowaiKu JOHNSON & DOWNING, ATTORNEYS AT LAM, COLUMBUS, GEORGIA. ^Scpt. 0, 1805—3111 —. J. T. PEYTON, ATTORNEY AT LAW, MEMPHIH, tHjKKSSKB. 1 >KOMPT attention given to all buiineM ua- X trusted to bin care. Rulers to Uoo. (lino* Holt, Columbus, tla. sept H, 180-3—dm * . R. J. MOSES. SENIOR. K. J. MOSES, JUNIOR, l_AW NOTICE. rnilF. UNDEKSIONKU have formed 1. partnership, under tlio name and style ot It, .1. M08KS, anil will establish an office in Columbus, Ua., on the 1st October next. In the meantime letters addressed as above will be promptly attended to. The senior partner will attend regularly tho United mates District Court SevwnUali, the, Mitireiue Court of,Georgia for tt»ts Judicial District, the Court* of tlio Chattahoochee Oir- ] cult, and upon special retainer in important .•uses will attend any of the Courts in Georgia (Federal or Htate.) SPECIAL PARDONS. In most oases tho intervention of a Lawyer is unnecessary, but when tho services of tlie tlrmare required, applications will bo drawn in term and torwardeu through tho Pro nor chan nels nt from Ten to Twcnty-flvo Dolluni each, according to the trouble involved. Persons wishing applications lor special pardons druwn will state in their Icttors the oxcujiUnnal clauses which prtoludcs them from the general am nesty. It. J. Mgsk*^ Senior, aug 15-tf R. J. MGSKS, Junior. POflTRR INGRAM. MARTIN J. CUAWKORI*. INGRAM & CRAWFORD, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, aug 17-tf f KXPKCT to be in Washington city about I. four weeks, and during my absence Judge Crawford-will prepare, and forward to me by Kxpross, the papers of such persons us may do- TukwT; 10 ” '^'T'Olfl’KU INURAM. ALEX. C. MORTON, Att’y at Law, Conveyancer, A N I» AGENT FOR REAL ESTATE. Offices: No. 100 Hroml Street. H. Morton will practice in tho U. 8. Courts, PROG RAM M KS, BLANK. FORMS, OF ANY KIN’I>, RAILROAD TICKET: STEAMBOAT HII.I.S OF I.AI.lSo, BILLS OF KXCIIAN’OF., BANK CHECKS, Bll.l.-IIF.AOS, Oil ANY OTIIHIl CRASS OF JOB W O II Ft KITIIh.lt IM.AIN or'OU.V A II KVI'A I. Cm. Iiuvn il oneoutoil with Oisputrli. _ ,uk"i tr BEDELL & CO„ Orocers and Commission Merchants, [N«artu opjiotiP- Rn.i'i i f Cnht.nJnit, COLUMllUa, GA„ M which arc held in Georgia; and, on special .iner, will attend to tho adjustment of ms in the States of Alubuma and Honda, lyM-tm JAMES M. RUSSELL, .ttoruoy at Uaw, (Office over Store of Gunby Sc Co.,) K C01' .VIK i" P Rgb! 1 'Uli uf R /i c 1 Vi nt ,lD d | pjAVING resumed tbo practice of L n PHODt'CH of cvers kind. Oe—ignments of Merchandbe solicited. Prompt aueuti >u giveu to tho pur ha. j e a Hie of Goods of even* dc«oriptieu. W. A. JJKDHLL. Jalyll.—tf f.C.¥*yKgRAN, It. J. MKNE McFEURAN COTTON - will hereafter give my undivided attention . _ nil bunitiesj entrusted to me for this and cun- i tiguous counties. & ML\Kri:i;, XjBO-AIj OARI3. , Judge 0. A. Loch rank, I B. A. Thornton, Macon, Ga. | Columbus, Ga. \U r E have iu*xoeiated in the pruc.tico for the II purpose ot attending to all legal businow gr nving out ot tna lute war; also, claim oases antaUM. Jispeciul »**4oorto/V i-siiry TT A X'TTOR ^ against the Lim cantatas. A i A m pardons. .. .. . rarties will.tlndTt to the WhtTal Commivviou Merr,l!Mn«i , no as Judge Luohrone hit AVI, i.FAirwB IV tr,Jin Weehington City, with all tho axuiiealkuain iorms uud iiiBtruotloos. _ PnOViaiONS, OfflcoiaMacou: | (Office in Columbus: >\LE ROPE AMI BAGGING, | { 8g2£&F'. MAIN ST BEET, JIBIWKPN FIRST AN 1> SliCON D STKBKTS, LAW NOTICE. L.OUIHV1L.L.I':, lev. RKIN‘1 AGENTS for tho imclru! 5Iunuf:ie- ur turersof Dme Hope and Uucflng. wo are prepared at all times to furnish said mtick - st lowest cash price, direct from tlio factory. Now pa band i&ffecM Assorted Hrands Ky. IJ irginy, -•on Coils choice Machine H »po. FORWARDING. To thi? branch of our biL* , ino.-« we are ,'ivintr *Hcial attention, any goods sent to our cure W, A ■^•.prompt dispatch. **‘ lt,es ,or *b° handling and sale of m sl ur® L ttn « ,ur PWsfd by any house in lira desired, we will make liberal CASH ADVANCES UD c„usi,;utticiit. to u« or » wtfriwiSin New Vnrk. . «»«a»ni McFBRItAN .V M EN1!FKK. WM. J. U RAN NON & Auction & Commission Merchants, eofabla,ala. PARTICULAR attention given to the F.ile J W# bu< iucas ot COTTON. j AT KIN ST I.UNIIAM ,v CO.. MIItBhtad MIUKIINU \lHU H\M\ APALACHICOLA. FLA HINICS HOLT. I Colmnlmt. Qs., July 6,1S6-A. Af Law Notice. T ill; undersigned, at their old office, Craw- roai). Hassell county. Ala., are | repared to I fitc applications for pardon under the Prcsi proclamution. and also to trans -teuional business. G. D. Sc G. VVm, H00PF.lt. aug 23-tf UR. H. M. CLECKLEY, IX O MBOPATHIST, 'l’ENDEHS hU iwvieu to tho jitir on, of Col 1 Biuhu, and vicinity. Ollioo at hi, roeiilom-i „„ Mclnloob.troot, betwoen Kati[|ol|>h and St Clair, uoxt door tu Dr. Cu«hman » burutcornor. *—*» * a- » ■•"•i trorn 1 to * HUg 18 tf Dr. A. E. Ragland ilonal services to the oitl- nf Oolumbua, Wyuirton mi l the vl* unity : and will attend promptly t.» all profws Mons 1 calls. He may be found at Mr. Uran iuii’h Drugstore during the day, an»l ut In father's residence in Wynnton at lilght. uugt HOOK HINDI N <■>, IN ALL Cf8 UHANCIIHS, PROMPTLY EXECUTED AT TIIE Buqulror Jol> Ottloo ROBERT C. CWYER, SHIPPING- win nun VOl, UJIJI OUWII lmj uiounuuou.ii .:iu«lotn biy aside tho musket for lh tnori* roitnouittl and far moru appropriate tv("i|u*n8, lira shovel and the hoc. In the Dopartmonts of Tonm^.M'n, coin- uiAtidcd by (icn. iSloncnian; Kentucky, t.jii. l’alnrcr; \ iruinia, (icnoral Terry; Mortb Carolina, Gen. ——; South Car olina. Ci*n. Uiimoru; Goorgiu, (Jenoral Stood man ; Alabama, (ion. Wood; and Florida, Uon. Kostor, thorn nro not less iIran 7-3,OUt* troops, not mure than 10,000 ui wInfill nra negr•)«*.-. The nshitu trouiic in tlitie d<<)»trtmeniA will undoubtedly rein a in where they arc* for tunny months to cmiic, probably for a your.or two nt least. The.- • departments embrace, with To.xart, iiouubiiia, Mississippi and Arkan- .- » : , tla' whole ot tlio recently rebellious sinter, and although it i* hoped that ul* limatijiy all of them will bn rnslored to eivil giivernmcnt without tlio conjunction ot military novernmunt, and Lo tho privi- |i*jX0 9I holding elections without tbo pros- enei*,,.f a military forve, yet candor cotn- ! p. ls the ftuleniontto bo Hindu that tlioro is ! i.ti pro.spoet of such a stuto of tilings at ! prent'll t < In ino Department of Missouri, undor (Ion. Popo, euibracing the iStatos of Wia- ! 1 'irihln, Iosya, Missouri, ivnnsas and Min- I no* uta, ami the Territories of ^Nebraska, j Montana and Dakotah, a region of im** meiihU territorial extent, fur groalnr than i any other of tho military departments, and in which the threatened Indian war, if il lafvt place, will bo fought; and in the dopafflinoiil created for tho bravo and tinl-rlnnale-Won. Wright, embracing the Slate of Oregon, and tho Territories of Washington rand Idaho, tlioro aro proba- bly 4G»<IW troops. In tho Dopartinonl of ■'ll.o Kasu eOOiinandod by Gen Darke and fieri. ill-Miwr, embracing tU<» ^tiste* o<- Now York anil Noty Jersey, and th^ New Kngliind StAtci*! in tho Middle Dn^ : partuioul, undor Uen. Hancock, ombrut- I ring i'onnsvlvauia, Marylund, i)olawure (and now Washington and the District of (.’olumblft,) both of which departments I ate included in (ion. Meade’s grand Mlli- | tnry Division of the Atlantic—and in the : Department of tbo Ohio, commanded by 1 (ieii. Old. itnbraciiig the great Status of Illinois, Ohio, Indiana and Michigan, ;U nro tiro ui tblodly JO.OUO troons -ul- 1 | bougie )uy of them, with 30,000 morn | from tl. -tlior departments, will proba bly ho sent ultimately to tho .Southwest, to take tlio places ol tho 60.000 negroes w ho are humi to bo disbanded. Thus, win n the blacks aro eliminated, there will remain about 160,000 white troops, and this will constitute tho foren of tbo army until our diplomatic relations with Mexico arc resumed, either with tho Republican Government, or with tbo Ln»-_ peiml Government undor Maximilian.' ! \\ hen Liikcvoi.t takes place (and it is not to be looked for untier six months or a 1 year* tho army will probably bo reduced to 100,000 men. And when tho Indian ' trouble are sottled, which, under the im> l faVOJtkle circumstance;, cuntiot be looked lor under a year 01 two, the army will probably bo induced to 60,000 or 00,0.10 m.*n, and they will ho kept in tho 1 Southern Scutes for two or throe years 1 from now. Tho ultimate strength of the army, ns finally reduced, will probably never bo l«m than 50,000 mon The mili tary departments in tbo Northern States wi>: projmbly b« kept up until tho army is finally reduced to that figure, and then they will ho abolished. It may bo proper to stale that tbo above information 16 not derived from tho War Departmont, or from any officer in tbo army. Much of it is the result of the pa th dUli.in of detached facts, obtained at diMWent times and from inonls are found in tho lives of tho eenten- nuriuns of a past ago. Galen, one of thu most distinguished physician* of tho an- cionts, livod very sparingly after tho ago of twcnty*«ight, and died in his HOI It your. Kontigern, who never tasted spirits "t* wine, at d had worked hard all his life, routhud 186 yours. Jenkins, a poor York- | shiro iishorman, who lived on the coarsest for ho had always boon gener< -d and kit to me, ami I wouldn’t have ellend.-d him for tho world. ‘Senior,’ lie added, l l want you always to guess what my bill should be. 1 have takon you and v.-ur men from haying—uiy family ha- had a great deal of attention—now guess at what my bill should he— guoss double u* much as you havo chargud inc on that document, and then I’ll pay it-’ "Now, sir,’ 1 said Mr. Sot.ter, "1 want diet, was ono hundred and sixty- to toll anolher story about Welder. I | yt* M ,- old whop bo died. Old Harr lived know it’s tooltsb in you to lorar an old ; to a hundred and lifty-throe; his diet be man like me talk. Hut that Daniel \\ oh- jn^ milk, choose, whey, small beor and ster one time hunted mo up out .■! two i e.iarse bread. Tho favorite food of Henry thousand persons, and coaxe 1 mo to go j Frimecseo, who lived lo be one hundred homo with him. I can’t think why ho forty, was tua, broad and butter, and baked umdo so much of an ignorant man like 1 apples, Kphraiin l*ratt, of Shutesbury. nm. Hut, as l was going 011 to ted yon. M n -., wi„. <ii 1 aged ono hundred and Webster oneo owned near hoi" nil old < ..oventoon, liva.l ehu lly on milk, and oven ono story houso and half im ncro of land t tliat in .small «prantit> ; his son Michael, by that sotnobody gave him. \t one time 1 similar manner, 11 v• •«i Lo be KW years obi, the soloetmen talked of selling thi- c-.ialo I Father Cull, a Methodi-t olm-gyiaan, to pay tbo taxes. \Sonler,’ is 1 I.**, Tl.i, dioil last year at the age of ono hundred woithudol- and llvu, llto main diot of liis life having i n i,id, anu j t,|..,n salted swine’s Ibt-h (bacon) au»l ol the select** } (,vond nitulo of Indian meal, Kroin thut»»- 1h mean ; the old pi tiro lar ; it never should have I it shan’t bo again.' As 01 men, ho aftorwurd put a with bur three daughters tbo house, giving to her Lh On a certain occasion, a- Wei family worn tiding by thF c.-up woman, 1 ^tutcmonls, nine general renders out of ten, l '‘U] ei, into will jump nt tne eoi.elusion that milk is lroou-eof it. I hoaltky; us are baked apples and bacon, md his | Thgso conclusions do not legilimaloly - .. - °f bis, iblKiw, Tlio only inlbroneo that run hi im ordered the coachman to call the wo- > safely drawn is Ir.un the only fact running man to him. On her approaching, with | through all those ea-e- llraL plain food stern ness ho urged tho payment of her I and u life of slowly labor tend to a groat rent. She pleaded poverty, said sho was n « r e. ulncod in tho housoby the solocLmen, mid — \v 0 , UUf »t not. expect lo live long by had nothing with which to pay. Taking Jb,i„g any one thing which an old man from his pocket a live dollar bid, lm mid t iia and omit nil ottiers, but by doing all •Here, madam, take this ui < a ui .vour j 10 ai«l, that is work steadily ns well a** »al landlord should over call lor his r~- *’ " Mr. Sontdr's veneration for Daniel Web ster wo found hardly *urpn..-« d by Mr. Cram’s, whoso silver locks wo met oi*»the highway in ono ol' our )ieiamhuhilbins. "How do you do, sir ? ' said tlio old gou- Llomun vory politely. "Very w■■:!, thank you, «ir.” "Are you from Ho a u,ji am, sir.” "Did yon oyor sei stor tlioro?" "Yes, indeed , from boyhood; J havo heard him make soino of his ttno epoouhos,'’ "Y«m are a fortunate man. Which do you think tho greatest orator, Paul or \V*b.-F*r."’ "Hotli superior men in that re pt. , dr.’ "Well,” said tho old gentleman, walking more closely to us, "I lovu to r»::»d tho writings of both. I was one 1 in!r—lin • n to Webster us ono that had i• b>11 . • I him for fmly years, when h : look me by the hand and hold on seven minui . 11•* had n heart as big as an eight foot ox, sir. mainly u particular didi. A Fight witll I ho Musketoes. Tuo physical powers of muskeloos are unusually vigorous this season, consider ing the fact that they are up -•> much of nights. With tho Hlhgle exn pli<»n «d* re tiring late, their other habits, we boliovo, are regular. They have a peculiar syslom of gymiiHKtics that gives a sturdy do- volopmcnt to their muscles, and using thoir voices 11 good deal in festive chorus has tho tilled to atrenghon their lungs and ward oil’any tondoncyto pulmonary com plaint. They sat up with ua last night in ptrong forco. Conliding in the integrity of our "bar," wo wont to sleep, not dream- that wo were to be ruthlessly availed be- Comlral I.aw-Sniu-l lii cc JiihGccn lit Trouble* From lime immemorial the populace havo loved to circulate anecdotes at the ’ ;:t i expense of Ihosa vury moUul officers d.i 1 Fin lid \v «.'• 1 n.iiniiiHlod JidLu'-. of the 1’trace. Proba- J knew tutu 1 Hly tho most humorous book in tho world would contain all tho jokes, storios, anil bonmols ctmneeted wile the administra tion of the law in magistrates' offices. A friend relnU d t‘> us recently a divert ing story-f tlm very great perplexity in which three worthy old justices of Ham ilton wore entangled by the mischievous sophistry of Iavo wily old lawyers of the same county. A worthless fellow was arraigned before the justices for a preliminary examination on the charge of peg or v. Judge Keith appeared for the iir ’secution, and Levi fore morning, nor dreaming an\ thing ul that we remember. Our siumbi r was of brief duration, and wo a wok.' lo liud that a strong force of the muskgtwo tiibo hud got beneath the bar, and had made every preparation to pass tho night with tit. We fancied that we could see s -mo of them tying on their night cap.. Dtlu.ii had ue ually gone to bed with th^-ir l.'-uls on. YVo coulu fuel their spurs distinctly. They made thomsolvos at /non 11. . i t, lh«*y hummed in our ear con!b...rally. Wo would rather they would bile t >\ Nothing puts us into such COMM 19910N MERCHANT" No. 01 Water street— Netv Yot k. Consignments of COTTON, lTRl’ES 11 N K. UO.SIN, Xc.e Ac., soliciuwl. • JtuferczMerchant .V Co., Mobile. % Joly26-3ii> _ • vous agitation us the hum of 41 mu-kelo. various j jt somns to go to the nervou e. j- , ,1 ur* -s. whooco it is transmitted \viUi**i*r 1* ; ' ^ ecstatic pain ••*thf* no ! di'lienic lib 1 - ol 1 (be body. W j« anend K\ ymi mi kg JioTXuita m Wt!L<- -.—It I iwlerublo patience; hut tin 1 *.. i rti*‘ gi i brnHy knowrt, we think, bow | euntatlons drive m. Irutielii v ii unitor it is to examine the bolt Trowhitt /or thodcfeinlunt; both old, ntde, and adroit biwyurs, who were hi. familiar with all tho sharp turns of tho law no Paul Morphy is with tho combinations of the chess-board. Judge Keith objected to ono of tho jus** lines on the ground that he was warmly prejudiced in favor of the defendant, and would therefore not do justice lo the State. His objociiofi was nevertheless overruled. Nothing discouraged, tho prosecution tried a new lack, and had the obnoxious justice subpeHue l us a witness for the State! Tho remaining two justices hem med and hawed lor some time, but finally carno to tho conclusion that Judge Keith hud tho right to imbpum* any witness he chose. As soon us lira motion was grant ed, the prosecutor demanded that the wit ness be sent out oi tlio room during the examination, which was grunted also. Mr. Trowhitt was not lo he outwitted iu this manner, so he instantly moved asuh- piona l’or tho other two justices us wit- nurses on his sld», which the hoeommo* dating magi.-trates granl-d, retiring in like manner, as their predeeOc-or had done, from tuo room, llero was a nice sing* I slalo of utfairs—the three ’squires all out - , of tho room, and tmbndy presont 1 villi DOCTOR STANFORD on.I Hurfcry. Cases Irom ii nnraieal aUenliou can ll uiodatioui in th« city. Office hours from 11 till 2 0VI00K, P. M. Rent i). l8‘-»— tf i LIVERY AND SALE STABLE. >reparfsl to lurnish parties th tho lirnl of with tiuo horrcs, ai>d .. Vo will do our inm• t ... please all who uiuy favor uswithtbeirr.il- ronmge. Our stable* uru on 0«loUn-ipc street, opposite the old Oglethorpe Homo. auk ll*lm A. ZultKGWaKV A' UO. FIRE PROOF WARE HOUSE. W K HA V'K comer led our Urge and «*><iu- modious Liverv Stable into u Wm • ll«>u-e for tboBtornge of Cotton and MerchandDc, and will be open on Monday next, Auil 1 tth. \) o tollcit the patro people Ktiiei.illy, a uk lh 1 friends and tho 'VKKNOY k MAHAFFEY For Sale or ReDt. T llKlurKo twoetory building on Fr»>nt!Street, containiiiK ten rooms. Has bc< u kept u ; a boardinK house, and dono a good huaine** for many year«. Will he older rented low For terius apply to J. F.iDWAUp. uuK-U-tf At Pal ecu .Mills. For Sale—Weems’ Place. fitted up with every comfort Miid nien. c*. Po««tt«dongivau any day ' AuKtut".! w .1. A .*v| KoTIIbit. ,l it is to exurni cistern, or pond of water, by •Ira iiso of u common mirror. Tnu Now Hnwwiwd^’e.tl'ivU'Ual of Agriciibtire mo*: \f lir.ii the tui\ I* bhining brightly, liold a innrur go that t. •• «il n tml lays •>!' light vili ‘ail into the water. A bright spot \vi.: \ys Boon at 'ho bottom so light a* to tOtow tbo Uoallbet object very plainly.— Hy ;!.ir mean- v.c havo examined ihobot- t jin- ' w«*ils fifty feet d- ep, whan half full <f '.utor. Tho Fintillegt straw or other -m dl object can bo perfectly scon fi n) the surface. In tho -amo way ono . an examine tho bottom of pond* and riv ers, if tho water b« somewhat eleii.*, and nut *.gi:*d* I by winds or rapid motion. Il a ny i .1 >*r eiriern ba under cover or shaded by ini', lings, so tlml tlio sunlight will not lull i.e* r tho opdning, it is only necessary t<* ampl y two mirrors, using ono to fo il'rt Ihv opening, and another to send it ilarly into fits Wlkr,"* I, htiiiHV b* thrown fifty or a hundred yard t" tbo precise spot desired, and then r, cd downward. Wo havo used the tu n r..r - with Mice®** to refiewt tho light around a field to a shaded spot, and also t.» ;.rry It from a south window, through two rooms, and then into u cistern under the north side of fho bouse. Half a do/.* m>u refi, clibn.* of tho light* may bo made, m zOim+m <fii * * * *’ jm" • light n.iltar with ti»method try it, and ho will find it n »L only tueftil, but a plea-ant ex- periiTtoi-F It will perhaps reveal a ina»« i.| sediment ul tlio bottom of a Well which ftt* t.«*i I ill 1 e thought of, hut which may fruitful source nf dneasu by the watei. y .,u"r I mirror diminishes tlio bril* | part muskoto. , Lot any ono not fa- — 'J hoy attacked us in And battalions. While our :«t'■ i» diverted by a brisk sltirtni ' if : our right, tho enemy Ira 1 nra-'" l o loft, and mauoso sudden and w«il -’i an attack, that wo w«*ro diivon h.uf y 1 of ; bed. Taking advantage a lull in bos. tilitics, during which tlio enemy seemed to bo holding a coneiiltutioii ol war, wo crawled stoltliily out of nod, lea'.', * tho iiiuskcloes beneath the bar, mid loi-k t*» tho sofa. They missed us very »m, and sent out a scout, who we-; not \ .1 y \- ng in asccrtairing our whereabouts anil re porting, wbon the whole force charged upon uh with n violence that wi - i 1.» : * od by rage nt our looincntHry F.ithe contest raged all night, lighting Ih*m :he bed to the sofa, and from if.- • .fa i » th« bod. Our lo.-s was a pint of Mood uni. a total loss of sloop, Los* of tlm enemy not known. They worn sever' limn.. ,>ury- ing their dc*au, however. ‘ ,:d not pars such another night though ’t worn to buy a world of happy days. 1 ’ liosides lira Mi-ra Sketons wo nro < eilain wo rocognixed tbo voices of old Mr. and Mrs. Skotoo, Tlio JSkntoo faim v w*»- largcly representad in cuipin*, relative (•;, marriage. Sce. Wo felt before iii-'M..: 1 _• that they were all blooded re'iiT i. ■ > n and that we had become a cm ol ••raid the defend sot, two U *ryers, ami a witnos.. I-..*- tvro. it was, however, exactly what 1 i icwhilt wanted, for ho stepped t-« lira 1 client a^d whirp 1 l in his oar, "Now I slip out ordoors and run, yen ra«eal, a< n* | fust as your legs i‘aJ; tul.o you, and never how your fa< *) li ro ii:; um ' Tho follow • •* I i-umpficd. titid when l h-• l«. 1 ru in mod, 'I re-.vliitl e-'olly told them that hi-* client had rframl hlmaelfl yNuehoFlf Freoiti. l)mnriMu in H\vatu v.—WilhnrfnrcH, in his "Social Lite in Munich,” says; " Liston t<» the eonvcr-utinu of Havariaira —it turns on he. r. To wfrat do tho tlmught* of tbo oxilo recur t«» tin* b<*er «»f hra country. Sit down in u eoflbc house or euting-hou e, and tho waiter brings you boor unorJered, uiul when you have omp tie.l your gfa*.*, replenish-- it without a siimnioiiR. J’.*ll n doctor the climate of Munich does n->t :.greo with you, and Iih will ask il yod drink enough boor. Ai l ive at a p!u •) he: the sU.umer or tram i due, and you aro told you havu so long to drink h-- r. Gu t.o hulls, and you find that it rcpl iCos clmmp.-m uo with tint rich, iiiJ dancing with tl e |, ,.r. I .»ne« to a sorvunts’ ball, and .-.uiycd there some lime; but wbon 1 came away dancing had not begun, and alt the so. oty wore u ting still as ever, drinking b-ter.*' "Demagogues are ever strong strong side, if limy know which . J. \V. Fornoy, author of tho a* « r 1 an illustration of its truth. "Unripe fruit h daiigemu ," old maid to her young net. e. rayed,’’ replied lira iir.pudet i hu