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THE CENTRAL GEORGIAN.
THE CENTRAL GEORGIAN
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SAM’JL, B. CRAPTON,
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“WorsUlp tlte Lord”
Mr. C/ay.—The following extract is ta
ken from a sermon of the Rev. Theodore
Clapp, of New-Orleans, on Worship, which
we bod in the Picayune:
Ihe mail lately brought us the melan
choly intelligence that the Hon. Henry-
Clay is about to sink into his grave. Tile
last winter of his residence here, in the fam
ily of Dr. Mercer, in a private interview, 1
had the pleasure of listening to his senti
ments on the most interesting of all subjects,
religion. He said, “I believe in the truth
of Christianity, though I am not certain of
having experienced that change of heart
which divines call the new birth. But I
trust in God and Jesus, and hope for im
mortality. I have not for years retired at
night without prayer for the blessing of
Heaven; and that, jn His infinite mercy,
he would be pleased to prepare me for the
joys of another and better world. I have
tried the world and found ite emptiness. It
cannot fill and satisfy the human mind.
My dear sir, how utterly disconsolate should
we be without something better beyond
the grave !” Instructive spectacle ! Here
is a man prosperous and powerful, great in
genius & achievments, whom the whole na
lion had fairly idolised for nearly half
century—whose name had floated across
oceans and reached the utmost boundaries
of the civilized world—who solemnly as
sures us that all terrestrial glories to him
appeared less than nothing in comparison
with a hope in the mercy which Jesus
Christ has revealed.
How sad and mournful is the condition
of those who have no God to worship
They drag a heavy and galling chain—1
chain that becomes more cruel and oppress
ive every moment. The friends andcom.-
pamons of early years are gone. They can
expect nothing further from earth. Affliction
lays a chastening hand upon them ; disap
pointment, like a freezing damp, settles up
on their spirits. In taking a retrospect
they look back upon nothing but a desert
a confused, disorderly, discordant assem
biage cf things alike, vain and mysterious-—
a mass of mere rubbish—the rubbish of vile
cares, wearying and unsatisfying trifles.
The prospects before them are dark as the
tombs to which they are hastening. May
God have mercy on'them and us all. I do
not feel superior to any of my fellow-sin
ners. I cannot utter from the pulpit the
language of scorn, contempt, denunciation
or reproach. But allow me toask, is there
this side the grave a more melancholy spec
tacle than that of one who has nothin 0 * to
worship but the frail and corruptible things
of earth ? All he knows, loves and clings
to is crumbling around him, There is no
outward prop on whiob he can lean; no ob
ject in the wide circumference of his
thoughts worthy of his heart’s love; no
asylum to which he can betake himself in
trouble, disaster, sickness or death. 11$ is
a lone wanderer on a bleak and aw Ail waste
■expecting every moment to sink down and
be lost forever in tb© gulf of annihilation.
Let us then inure ourselves to the habit
of religious worship. If visited with pros
perity it can make that prosperity "more
lo the truly pious person, a piece of
SANDERSVILLE, GEORGIA-
TUESDAY JUNE 1, 1852.
jlSgp The Fillmore meeting of Saturday
was a failure. Mr. So-and-so and Mr.
What-ye-call-’em, being absent, the meet-
ing stood upon its on adjournment, subject
to the call of either of those gentlemen.
We notice that Baldwin, Bibb, Macon
and Monroe have held meetings and ap
pointed delegates. A meeting was adver
tised in Savannah for last night.
School Examination.—The Semi-an
nual Examination of the pupils at the Male
Academy, of this place, will take place on
to'-morrow and next day. The public are
invited to attend.
Temperance Lectures.—S. M. Hewlett,
the celebrated Temperance lecturer, will
deliver an address at Armenia, Scriven
county, on Tuesday next, the 8th inst., at
11 o’clock. At this place on Wednesday
the 9th, and at Macon on the same night.
The friends of Temperance and lovers of
wit and good humor, eloquence and argu
ment, will not fail to give Mr. H. a hearing.
He is a combination of the whole—a per-
faet crowder in that line of business.
Pun. Documents.—The Hon. Alex. H-
Stephens, of the House of Representatives,
has our thanks for a copy of his speech on
the State of the country, and the Hon. W.
H. Seward, of the U. S. Senate, for a copy
of his speech for the Collins steamers, on
the question of the American Steam Navi
gation.
Rain.—Since our last, we have had an
abundance of rain, It commenced on Sun
day morning about 9 o’clock, and contin
ued for about 30 hours, without ceasing.—
It fell lightly, however, and for that reason
will wet the ground more thoroughly than
it would have dore to have fallen more
heavily.
Crops are looking well. We have seen
some as fine corn crops this year as we have
ever seen, at the season, and some that look
a leetle of the worst; but in the main it
will stand as an average upon those of sev
eral years past. The cotton is tolerable
foir; it is none of the largest, but on most
of the plantations which we have noticod,
it is in a good condition, clean and well
worked, an&squares are plentiful. The oat
crop has not been a good one hereabouts.
The wheat, though it has been severely in
jured in many-places, will give a fair yield
upon the whole, if not further injured dur
ing the harvesting season. It is apprehend
ed by some that the rains of the past day
or two has done some damage to such as
was ripe and was not cut.
dear.
bread, or a cup of cold water, received as
coming from the Infinite Giver, communi
cates more happiness than an ungodly per
son can derive from all the riches of earth.
In the temptations and conflicts of life, it
will give us strength to rise above the
mean, the sordid, sinful and unworthy. I
have seen one die amid the gay dreams the
bright hopes and anticipations which glit
tered in the fancied future of youth, bloom
and beauty. I have^eheld him, as he bid
a final farewell to earth, with all its splend
ors and attractions; to* friends of unsurpas-
sed kindness, to a home where were con-
centrated all the delights of health, intelli
gence, moral and religious refinement, look
ing with a smile of calm resignation on the
appalling messenger, with no tremor in his
frame, with no distrust or dismay in his
soul. He had learned through life to wor
ship, and therefore knew how to die—his
life had been a scene of pure uninterrupted
devotion, and bad nerved his mind with
the energies of an unfaltering trust in, God,
so that he was enabled to~ descend to his
tomb, “like one who wraps the drapery of
his couch around him, and lies down to
pleasant dreams;” reposing on that Saviour
who has conquered death and all our ene
mies, and lets in upon us the partial efful
gence of that spirit land where dwell the
blest, the immacculate and the immortal.
Philadelphia, May 22.
Trouble Amongst the Odd Fellows.—
The Giand Lodge of Odd Fellows of this
Slate adjourned this afternoon. The pro
posed amendments to the Constitutions of
the Grand and Lubordinate Lodges were
after debate, laid over till the next aunual
session.
The only important business transacted
during the. session was the passage of a
resolution refusing to organise the Widows
and Orphans’ Asylum, incorporated by the
last Legislature, and calling upon theM.
W. G. Master to forthwith demand the
charters and properties of such Lodges as
are connected with it and suspend them.
This movement will excluie eight or ten of
the best Lodges in the State, which will
form the nuclus oi the second Grand Lodo-e
which will be established as soon as author
ity cau be obtained from the Grand Lod^e
of the United States.
ii^rSaid a guest to a gentleman with,
whom he was dinning, and who was a
temperance man: “I alwavs think a certain
quantity of wine does 110 harm, after a good
dinner.” “Oh, no sir,” replied mine host,
inischtef i ” Un * CertaiUqUantitytllat does the
" %P3Phe National Conventions.—The an
xiety felt in the result of these party con
ventions is pretty thoroughly diffused
through the country. So far as the Demo
cratic convention is concerned, (which as
sembles this day) all speculation will be
put to an end in a day or two, by the enun
ciation of their manifesto; and the Whig
convention will be hut two weeks in its rear,
In the meantime we give our readers the
predictions and speculations of some who
profess to be wise on the subject, as they
may possibly draw some conclusion as to
the result. In relation to the Democratic
convention, the^New York Evening Post
figures up the following as the first bollot:
“For Gen Cass, 01 ; Mr. Buchanan, 70 ;
Mr. Douglass, 28 ; My. Marcy, 24 ; Gen
Pieice, (N. H.) 6 ; Gen. Butler, 24 ; Gen,
Houston, 14 ; Gen. Lane, 13; Mr. Allen,
11; Gen. Dodge, 2. Whole number of
votes 288. Necessary to a choice, (two
thirds) 192. This is excluding S. Carolina,
a State which, if represented, will add 10
to the vote of Douglas, and make 199 ne
cessary to a choice.
In speaking of the first ballot in the
Whig convention, a correspondent of the
Baltimore Sun, ftom Washington, says:
“That without South-Carolina, 145 con
stitutes a majority of all the electoral-Votes,
of which the South, exclusive of Delaware,
casts 111. Add to this number 13 from
Massachusetts, 5 from Vermont, 1 from
Maine, 3 from Ohio, 2 from Pennsylvania,
3 from Michigan, 3 from Wisconsin, 2 in
Rhode Island and 2 in Connecticut, and it
is apparent that, even without New-York,
Webster and Fillmore conjointly, can con
trol the whig nomination for President. If
the whigs of Georgia, Alabama and Mis
sissippi join the administration whigs in Vir
ginia, North Carolina, Kentucky and Ten
nessee, it will be difficult for the friends of
Gen Scott to effect a lodgment in the South.
The few whigs in the South who have join
ed the Scott movement are merely actuated
by the belief that Gen. Scott is the most
available man.”
It is now, more than probable that South
Carolina will be represented in this cunven-
tion. If so, the friends of Fillmore and
Webster think it entirely probable that
they can oontrol its action, a result which
has hitherto been looked to as a matter of
impossibility.
Mr,
Prop. Lake.—Our citizens have had the
pleasure, during the past week, of hearing
several lectures from Prof. Lane, of Ogle
thorpe University, on Bible Societies, Sab
bath Schools Colportage, &c.; the lat
ter only incidentally, as the evening desig
nated for a lecture on that subject was so
unpleasant as to occasion a postponement.
We did net have an opportunity of hearing
all of his leetures, but those we did hear
were highly interesting, and elicited much
commendatiou from all who heard them.
Apart from the interest which the subject-
matter of his lectures would excite, the
Prof, has a happy tact of placing it before
an audience in a most interesting manner.
He has taken advantage of a respite from
his Collegiate duties to visit adjacent coun
ties as a Colporter, with the hope of excit
ing 9uch an interest in that cause, by lec
tures and otherwise, as will induce the peo
ple whom he visits and to whom he lectures,
to sustain a regular plan of Colportage,
thereby advancing the cause of Christiani
ty and carrying the means of religious in
struction to every fire-side.
It is a noble work, and we hope that the
Professor will meet with abundant success.
He will certainly meet with the cheerful
co-operation of all Christians -and good citi
zens, who prize the interest of their coun
try and their fellow-men. Believing it to
be a matter fraught with much good, we
commend it to the attention and support of
all.
Professor Lane will go from this place to
Dublin, and from thence to Irwinton,
where he will lecture on Sunday next.—
Our readers in either of those counties will
be pleased with the matter and manner of
his discourses.
Horse-Racing in California—Ahorse
race came off at Los Angelos, on the 21st
of April, for two . thousand head of cattle
and two thousand dollars in money. The
distance was nine miles, which was made
in 19 minutes and 20 seconds. Pretty re
spectable distance, and pretty good running
that.
JtST The Texas papers say there never
was a better promise of a large cane crop
on the Brazos. The cotton, although re
tarded by the recent cold weather, has gen
erally recovered, and the crop bids fair to
be a large one. The corn has suffered some
from the drought, but is iu a forward con
dition. The prospect for large crops is very
good in that section.
t£T The Hon. John M. Clayton is said
to be industriously cultivating his farm three
miles from New-Castle, Del.; and instead
of running a race with political competitors
in the political field, is endeavoring to dis
tance his overseer in agricultural pursuits.
Each has selected his field, and a wager lies
between them which shall produce the rich
est crop from his allotted portion.
“The Rev. Calvin Fairbanks, lately
convicted in Louisville, Ky., of having ab
ducted a female slave and assisted her after
her escape to Indiana, has been sentenced
to fifteen years imprisonment in the State
Penitentiary.”
This is the same reverend thief who but a
few years ago gained admission into the
Kentucky Penitentiary for a similar offence,
and was indebted to Executive clemency
for his escape. He will hardly escape a
second time by virtue of the Governor’s
pardon.
Clay.—Dr. Jackson, Mr. Clay’s
physician, says that the exertions which
Mr. Clay made in 1849-50, in behalf of the
passage of the Compromise Measures, in
which he manifested such intense feeling
and interest, precipitated his life ten years,
at least, and that he is now, in consequence
of such over exertions, which employed him
night and day, and which occupied all his
thoughts as well as all his time,—where he
would have been in the ordinary course o
nature, without such an effort, at the age
of eighty-five years. The excitement while
it lasted kept him alive, but bodily decay
soon followed, until now there is not suffi
cient physical vitality to prolong life.
Younger men with good constitutions have
a recuperative power sufficient to enable
them to master such physical relaxation
but at 75 no one can expect so to overdo
and so to master nature.
Shocking Railroad Accident.—On the
the 24th ult., on the Fitchburg railroad, at
Waverly, Mr. William Sawyer, an eminent
lawyer of Charlestown, Massachusetts,
whilst riding in an open carriage with his
wife and three daughters, attempted to
cross the track of the railroad, and came in
contact with the down train, running at the
rate of 40 miles per hour. The carriage
was completely demolished and Mr. Saw
yer and his daughters were insantly killed,
whilst the driver received fatal injuries, and
Mrs. Sawyer had her skull so badly fractur
ed as to cause the brain to protrude. The
Savannau Eiver Water.—The Savan
nah Republican of Saturday makes the fol
lowing extract from a letter received from a
passenger on the steamship State of Geor
gia, for Philadelphia :
“By the way, Capt. Walton, when in
Savannah, filled his tanks from the river.—
By the time we reached the Breakwater, it
got well settled and was as clear as pump
water, and the passengers on board were
highly pleased with it. The Philadelph
ians preferred it to Schuylkill, and said that
it was much softer. I have always been
prejudiced against our river water, but I am
now convinced that there is none better,
and the sooner our water works are under
way the better for the people of Savannah.”
Important Movement at Washington.
—There is a rumor of an important move
ment at Washington, of the Union Demo
crats of the South. It is said that,they
have drawn up a very skilfully worded pledge,
embracing a general approval of all pro
visions of the Constitution, and a special
concurrence of the Compromise as a finali
ty which is to be presented to every candi
date of the party previous to the assem
blage of the National Convention.
Better to be born Lucky than Rich.—
The Dillon family, descendants of Lord
Dillon, of Ireland, have inherited an estate
valued at upwards of $7,000,000. The
Louisville Journal says that Dr. John Bull,
the great sarsaparilla man, of that city, is
an heir by marriage, and comes in for a
snug little share, amounting to three or four
hundred thousand dollars.
The Troubles in New Mexico.—Air*
Allen, late Secretary of New Mexico, who
has arrived at St. Louis, is of opinion that
the rumors of insurrection or disaffection on
the part of the Mexicans, are greatly exag
erated.
Plank Road.—A correspondent of the
Augusta Chronicled; Sentinel, writing from
Waynesboro’, says that the mass of the peo
ple of that county, will send their cotton to
Savannah, unless they have a Plank Road
Augusta. The people, says the writer,
alk of it, and want such a road, and will
patronize it.
Resignation.—The Hon. Jno. McPher
son Berrien, has resigned his seat in the
U. S. Senate, to take effect this day. Gov,
Cobb has appointed the Hon. R. M. Charl
ton, of Savannah, to fill the vacancy.
Profits of Poultry.—A gentlemen of
New Jersey says that on the 1st of May,
1851, he had ten hens valued at 3s each,
that the cost of their feed till the first of
May, 1852, was $8 47. They produced
eggs to the amount of $21 62, and all of
them are still alive. - So that the clear pro
fits are $13 15 for the year.
JB3T Ex-Senator Hanne^an, of Indiana,
has given himself up to the proper authori
ties for an examination into the circum
stances resulting in the death of Captain
Duncan, his brother-in-law.
From Turks Island.—Accounts from
Turks Island has been received at Boston
to the 30th of April. An unusual quanti
ty of Salt (for the season) of a very superior
quality, has already been piled up on the
beach. Shipping is dull and salt abundant.
The market price is nine cents per bushel
and no prospect of its being higher for some
time.
[CORRESPONDENCE OF CENTRAL GEORGIAN.]
Spring Hill, AiAfMay 16,1852
Mr. Editor :—After a very late and dis
agreeable spring, we have had some days of
fine weather. During the month of April
there were some of the hardest rains through
this section that ever descended prehaps ;
they were also accompanied with hail to
some extent, which caused many of the
farmers to plant their entire cotton crop
over, but your correspondent received no
serious injury from it.
My crop is very good ; corn is from 5 lo
6 feet high, and my cotton from a foot to a
foot and a half high, with squares upon it.
It grows surprisingly since the weather has
turned warm.
We have any quantity of vegetables, of
all sorts, and have had them for sometime
back. I passed through Sumter county a
few days ago; the crops were not so good
as they are on this side of the Tom-Bigby,
though they appear to be growing. The
land is rather sandy; it is more like your
county (Washington) than any that I have
seen.
At a wedding party in this county, I met
Dr. J. P. W. and lady, and Miss M. T. W
formerly of your county. The Dr’s plants
tion is on the Mississippi side. He is well
pleased with it, and says it is very produc
tive. I was anxious to visit that State but
did not have time. Yours truly,
MOSCO.
the country, who send on here to buy shares
in the companies formed in this city. Th
most popular company, and that which
numbers the most respectable men
its directors and stockholders, is the “Grass
Valley Gold Mining Company,” the Secre
tary of which is a gentleman formerly con
nected with the Dress of this city, Mr R 1
Richards of 107‘Fulton Street. I think it
pretty hard sometimes, when I see men all
round me making money, that I am an-
parently doomed to get none. But how
can a scribbler ever expect to make money*
A vessel has been wailing here for some
time, to convey passengers to Port Philiu
in Australia, but the gold mines there'
wonderfully rich as they are said to be, do
not attract our Yankee adventurers as Cali
fornia did ; and it is doubtful whether a full
compliment of passengers will be obtained
although the day of sailing is fixed for the
2oth inst., which is now near at hand.
Messrs. Maillefert and DeRaasloff, the
bombastic engineers who have been bom
barding the rocks at the bottom of Hell-
gate Channel, have made proposals to the
State authorities, to remove the well-known
Austin s Rock in Hudson River, near Al
bany, for six thousand dollars. I hope that,
if they get the contract, they will be more
prudent.and careful in this new operation
than they were in the management of their
affairs here. Maillefert sacrificed three lives,
and an immense quantity of powder, in his
submarine experiments on Pot Rock; and
although it appears that some of the rock
was chipped off; it would be difficult to show
any advantage that has accrued to the city.
There has been considerable excitement
here for the last two or three days, caused
by the strike of all the pilots of the three
principal ferries to Brooklyn. The Union
ferry company is enormously wealthy, clear
ing, last year, more than $150,000, being
above tender cent on the capital invested.
The pilots, who are industrious men, main
of them having families to support, work
nine hours a day, in all weathers, raiD or
shine, winter and summer ; and, for their
exposed and responsible labor, they receive
only about $60 per month. High rents,
and the extravagant prices of provisions,
render this sum altogether insufficient; and
they reasonably demanded an advance of
$10, per month, which the Company un
reasonably refused to grant. But it has
been found impossible to procure compe
tent persons to fill the pi lots’places, and the
boats are now very imperfectly managed—
thumping against the ships, terrifying pas
sengers, and doing more damage than the
small increase of wages asked for would
pay. Yours Truly,
PULASKI.
CORRESPONDENCE OF THE. BALTIMORE SUN.]
Washington, May 24th 1852.
The estimate of the- relative strength ©*T
Mr. Buchanan and of Gen. Cass, to feta Bal
timore Convention, as made k bv the New
York Post, is erroneous in giving Tennessee,
to Gen. Cass. The best information here
is that the Tennessee delegation will go
for Mr. Buchanan. As matters stand, it is
possible that Gen C., and Mr Buchanan wilS
have about a hundred and sixty-seven votes
on the first and several subsequent haflotsv
The whole number of electoral votes will
296, but the nine votes of South Carolina
will not be represented in the convention.
The nomination is to be made by 287 del
egates, two thirds of which will be 192.
Gen. Gass and Mr. Buchanan, by uniting
their forces, may control the nomination.
The twenty-four Marcy votes will be, ac
cording to the best authority, divided be
tween Gen. Cass and Mr. Buchanan, and
ultimately given to one of them. This would
give 191—uot quite two thirds. It is evi
dent that the friends of Gen. Cass and Mr.
Buchanan can give the nomination to eith
er of those gentlemen. Is it not probable
that they will give it to one or the other ?
I know of no particular repulsion between
them. Is it likely that, having a sure game
in their hands, they will agree to take up
any one else ? The fact ri that the shrewd
est and most influential of the Cass and
Buchanan delegates have already expressed
their settled determination not to take up
any outs-der.
For a long time, these two gentlemen
have been considered as the preferred can
didates of the party; and now, within a
week of the nomination, no one has arisen
successfully to dispute their choice, though
many have been disposed to dispute the
right of experience and service in public afc
fairs—i. e. foggydom—to any preference.
If these two leading candidates be thrown
aside, it will be a most remarkable occur
rence.
The candidate most likely next to be ta
ken up, in that case, will be the man for
whom the New York delegation will be
willing to pledge their State. But they
will not be willing, perhaps, as a body, to
pledge it to any one. Some of them say
that no one will be so likely to carry it as
Gov. Marcy. He can unite the democratic
party, with more certainly than Gen. Scott
can unite the whig party of that State.
Ths Democratic Convention possess an
advantage in the fact that all their leading
candidates are avowed friends and suppor
ters of the Compromise measures. They
will make a mistake, if they reject those
measures as their platform. As their nom
inee will be one who is pledged to the final
ity, they will gain nothing by evading the
pledge themselves.
Killed.—The Southern Recorder says
that Berkely Babb, living east of
the Oconee, in Baldwin county, was killed
by a stroke of lightning, together with his
horse and dog, on Monday afternoon (24th
ult.) during a thunder storm.
Destructive Fire.—A destructive fire
occurred in Savannah on Wednesday after
noon, by which about $75,000 worth of
property was destroyed. The fire commen
ced at a carpenter’s shop on York street
and burnt an entire block of buildings.
23T Wm. Hunter, Esq. for many years
an able and efficient clerk in the Depart
ment of State, has been promoted to the
chief clerkship of that department, in the
place of Wm.S. Derrick, lately deceased.
It is said that a child is born every
seven minutes iu London, and that one dies
every nine minutes.
Earthquake at Apalachola.—A shock
of an earthquake, of several minutes’ dura
tion, was experienced at Apalachicola, Fla.,
on Monday the 10th ult. The water in the
Bay was agitated, bouses were shaken and
walls cracked. A«imilar shock, though not
so violent, was experienced on the Friday
previous.
B8T A verdict for $1,300 damages has
been rendered in New York, against the
Harlem Rail Road, for killing a step-daugh
er of Thomas J. Oldfield.
The Russians carry fish on a long
journey in a warm climate, by dipping them
dreadful occurrence is attributed entirely to; in hot beeswax, which acts like an air-tight
the rashness of the driver in attempting to covering. The fish are thus kept sweet and
cross the tract.
fresh for a long time.
Every bitter has its sweet. Poverty
brings good appetite, while hard work
makes you sleep and snore like a huming-
up. If you live on cold potatoes, just recol
lect that cold potatoes are no wav related to
the gout. If an acquaintance cuts vou mere
ly because you have fallen from purple to cor
duroy don’t get in passion about the nincon-
poop, but return thanks that the number
of asses you have been compelled to nod
to, has been reduced by one.
[CORRESPONDENCE OF CENTRAL GEORGIAN.
New York, May 21,1852.
Mr. Editor:—The “wires” will of course
have informed you that the Africa arrived
here this morning, bringing us three day
later intelligence from Europe. Cotton
continued active, with an upward tendency
Breadstufis remained unaltered; and in
money there was no material change. The
trial of Col. Fremont, in London, who was
lately put in “durance vile,” for sundry
debts incurred in California on the account
of the United States, during the Mexican
War, was not yet concluded. I am unable
to confirm the story of the escape of Meagh
er, the Irish Exiie ; on the contrary, a friend
of mine has just received a letter from
Smith O’Brien, of later date than the as
serted escape, but the writer makes no men
tion of the circumstance. "The Queen of
England intends to confer the Order of
Knighthood upon Charles Kean, tbecele
brated tragedian. Mr. and Airs. Kean,
keenly appreciating the royal favor, will
shortly retire from the stage, and become
teachers of elocution to the royal children.
Rejoice, great Shakespear! The tine Yacht,
Titania, one of those beaten by the Ameri
ca, last autumn, has been burnt up, off
Cowes, which catastrophe is, of course, a
loss for the Bulls.
Old Dame Rumor is circulating a variety
of schemes about the English Crystal Pal
ace. Some folks say it has been bought
for £70,000, and will be re-erected in the
neighborhood of London. Several sites
have been surveyed, but none, as yet, decid
ed upon. An enterprising Yankee, how
ever, has proposed to employ the material
of the present Crystal Palace in the forma
tion of a gigantic tower, 1,000 feet high
a modern Tower of Babel—to be used as
the grand central station of the A£rial Nav
igation Company, from London to the Aus
tralian Gold Mines, &c. The builders of
the original Crystal Palace have expressed
their conviction that the project is quite
practicable. I may mention in this con
nection, that the silk-weavers of Lyons,
France, are actively manufacturing many
magnificent contributions to the World’s
Fair in New York. But the French people
also intend to erecta Crystal Palace of their
own, in the Champs Elysees, the height of
which will exceed that of the towers of
Notre-Dame.
The anniversary of the death of the Em
peror Napoleon was celebrated in Paris on
the 5th inst., with unusually imposing cere
monies. Paris is, at present, overflowing
with strangers attracted to witness the
grand fete of the 10th of May, in tb (\Champ
de Mars. Ten thousand cards of admis
sion have been issued. It is thought that,
on this occasion, the assembled troops will
request the President, “for the good of the
country,’' to proclaim himself Emperor;
but I scarcely think he will dare to assume
that title, at present. However, the steam
er which leaves Liverpool for Boston, on
May 16, will probably bring us a full ac
count of the great French fete and its re
sults.
Reviewing the reports made by the trea
surer at the recent anniversaries in this city,
I have thought it worth while to add them
all up, and to ascertain the sum total con
tributed for missionary and other charitable
purposes, in this city :
Am’can Bible Society, $308,744 81
“ Tract Society, 212,858 9
“ Board of Coramis- )
sioners for Foreign >■ 211,062 54
missions, )
“ Sunday school Union, 193,846 44
“ Home mis’ion Society 160,062 25
Seaman’s Friend Society, 23,660 64
Educational Society, - - - 36,240 18
Female Guardian Society, - 15,490 32
Foreign Christian Union, - - 56,649 91
Magdalen Society, - - - - 2,090 11
Ass. for the Supr’n of Gambling, 3,665 00
Total,
$1,354,379 13
These figures speak more eloquently than
any verbal qulogium upon the liberality of
the religious community, and show that,
although hypocrites are numerous, there
are still a great number who contribute of »■ u ■ T , - . .*
their substanceforthe promotion of Charity, ! 1 <>?'«. »»*». objection to
There ie an amount of money invested : Betty eourte.ed withdrew and toot
in gold mining, at present not only by
New Yorkers, but by persons in all parts of
£3T A maiden lady, suspecting her fe
male servant was regaling her beau upon
the cold mutton of the larder, called Betty
and inquired whether she did not hear some
one speaking with her down stairs?
“Oh no, mam,” replied the girl, “it was
only me singing a psalm!”
“You may amuseyourself, Betty,” replied
the maiden, with psalms bullet’s have no
the hint.
Cotton is worth 11 cts. in Charleston*