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We ere fn receipt of a very neatly printed
copy of the Report of the President and the
Superintendent of the Central Bail Rood, for
the past jeer. The total earningaof the Road
for the fiscal year, axe *1,853,722. Ordinary
expenses, $541,126,88, leaving a balance of net
earnings, amounting to 8812,595,62. This is
an increase of *270,286,40, over the net earn
ings of the preceding year, a result highly
gratifying to the friends of that institution.
This Road under the Superintendence of tha
lamented Emerson Foote, who fell a victim to
the epidemic in Savanriah, a few months since,
was most admirably managed, as the foiegcA^
figures show, and we congratulate the Compa
ny on their good fortune in procuring the ser
vice* of the present Superintendent, Mr. Geo.
W. Ad'^tms, under whose auspices, we feel con-
the Road will continue to go on, pros
pering and to prosper.
The ftnitei Bill—Ho*. L. J. OartreU.
We publish to-day, the Pension Bill, as re
cently passed by the House of Representatives
of the United States’ Congress. We present
ed our readers with the remarks of our imme
diate Representative, Hon. L. J. Gartrell, in
favor of this measure. We are gratified to
know that a majority of our Representatives
in Congress, appreciate the services of those
brave soldiers, who so gallantly fought the
battles of our second revolution. Those of
them who now linger upon the shores of time,
are generally worn down by the decrepitude
of age, and those who have gone “to that
bourne whence no traveler returns,” have left
widows and orphans, who are needing the aid
of their country’s benefaction. We trust the
Bill may pass the Senate, and become a law.
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from the text,
Qplfe.
Tile New Year.
The excitement which has prevailed in our
city for the last two or three days, has preven
ted us from offering our congratulations to
our readers and patrons upon the opening of a
new year. We take this occasion to make
amends in this particular and now offer you
our best wishes for your prosperity and happi
ness, during the year 1859. The old year has
been strikingly remarkable on many accounts.
Events which will long be remembered, are
recorded on the annals of 1858.. Many a heart
has been made sad, and many afflictions have
been sent upon whole communities, whereby
desolation, blight and distress have run riot
oyer whole populations. But amidst all these
calamities, the great disposer of human wants
has showered manifold blessings upon our
common country, for which we should all be
thankful, and look forward with hope for
good and prosperous times during the year
1859.
Negroes Stolen.
Three negroes, one belonging to Gen. Aus
tell, one to Mr. John S. Wise, and one to Mr.
Collins, were conducted from this city, a few
days ago by a man named Goodnight. They
were taken by the thief to Chattanooga, and
there parted Company, Goodnight having got
drunk, and the negroes taking the Cars for
Nashville. On their anival at the last nam
ed place, they were arrested and placed in jail.
Mr. Wi^ pursued them to Chattanooga, and
^ad Goodnight put in jail, where he now
awaits the requisition of the Governor of this
State, to have him brought back to Atlanta
for trial. Mr. Whit Anderson, our very vigi
lant police officer, pursued the negroes to
Nashville, and brought them to their respect
ive owners. Other parties in this city are
strongly suspected of being complicated with
this transaction, and efforts are being made to
find out the principal offenders, Goodnight be
ing considerd only as the agent for others who
concocted this scheme. We hope every means
will he adopted to ferret out all those who
have participated in this crime, and bring
them to merited punishment.
GREAT EXCITEMENT!;
While we are writing, a large crowd of our
citizens met in council at the City Hall, about
the m,urder of Webb hy Choice. Many are for
an immediate execution. There was an at
tempt, on Friday evening, to hang Mr. Choice,
m>d but for the vigilance and determined op
position of our city authorities, and the per
suasions of several of our citizens, Mr. C. would
have been suspended from the bridge, just hy
the Guard House.
The mob on, Friday evening, aroused with
in us several serious reflections. We have nev
er seen a more excited people. We put our
hands in our pockets, and walked among the
ma*es of human beings, and the very atmos
phere seemed freighted with feeling. It was
with effort that we kept cool. How awful
must Mr. Choice have felt in his cell, when
more than 500 men were outside, and most of
them panting for his blood, and some trying j
Mr. W. stated to his
■nhshmm pf,a conversation
with tha unfortunate murderer, Mr.
Mr. C. exhibited great Borrow and
on account of his awful con
He eent, a ipedal request by the preach
^phristitnttofnyforfcim. Expect-
boon to atone for his crime against the law
■ttd against hmaanit.iy, he seemed determined,
if poeribfe, to make peace with his Maker.—
Hfe spoke of a ptour ■, mother, whose warning
voice he had not rr garded and who would go
heart-broken to tJje grave, on account of the
horrid career of her ungodly eon. O how
that word, weather, hums and stings and writhes
the heart of the criminal, in his moments of
agony, aftejr his tin. has overtaken him, as he
reflects upon a mother’s tender warnings and
holy tea dung. O that I had obeyed my
mother, is now the lamentation of poor Choice,
as he r effects upon his disgrace, his gallows,
his condemnation, his banishment from the
preF/ence of God and the glory of his power!
M .ay God have mercy upon Mr. Choice, who
would have no mercy upon himself. Poor
mother of such a son. This is more heart
rending than widowhood, orphanage,|or death.
No doubt now, she can truly say, O William
my son, would to God, I had died before thou
wast bom!
Mr. Choice desired it to be stated, that in
toxicating drinks and gambling had brought
him to his present state of misery and wo.—
From his prison-house if never before, he now
warns the young and all his associates, to shun
the haunts of intoxication and all the accom-
panients of gaming. Shall the voice of the
criminal be heeded, where the voice of the
preacher has been lifted, in vain ? Shall the
wails of wo, as they come scalded with,
the burning tears of remorse, from a heart
crushed beneath its mountain of.sin, pass by
as an idle tale and exert no restraining influ
ence upon our dissipated young men ? Wild
young man—fast young man—young man,
whose cheek is now beginning to show the
blossoms of revelry and of Rum. Pause, pause
now—wait not another warning. Quench the
fires of passion, with self-denial and prayer.—
The way of the transgressor is hard.” “The
guilty shall not go unpunished.” “Be sure
your sin wiil find you out.” “Vengeance is
mine and I will repay saith the .Lord.” It
was not the will of Providence that our incensed
and indignant citizens, on last Friday evening
should visit upon the criminal a summary
execution and now he is suffering a thousand
deaths, as he weeps and groans and trembles
in his solitude, where conscience is stinging
and retributive justice is tearing his already
bleeding heart. Who for worlds on worlds
of lustful pleasure of riot, or of gain would
take the place of Choice ? What a preparation
has his been to meet his God !
After a few words upon the character of the
deceased, the text was developed something
as follows :
1. The sinner has a God.
3. He has that God to meet, face to face
scorn, despise, reject him, the sinner may, but
meet him he must, to be driven to perdition,
or be raised to Glory.
3. Preparation is absolutely necessary for
that meeting. Without preparation that
meeting will be in the midst of weepings, of
wailings and gnashing of teeth.
4. Proper preparation consists in a godly
sorrow for sin, faith in Jesus Christ, and holy
living. Tears freely shed by many an eager
listener, evidenced the sympathy of the hear
ers and the unction and power of the preach
er. The Pastor, Rev. A. T. Holmes conclu
ded the solemn services with an exhortion so
appropriate and so befitting the occasion
that we sincerely hope it will not soon pass
away, but will do great good to the young,
to whom it was mainly addressed.
Young men oi Atlanta, let me pray you
make this year a- church going year, to you
all and to many of you, our churches will be
as the gates of Heaven.
Do this and we will venture the prediction
that it will be a long time^hefote our city will
have to bear to the grave another murdered
man. Do this, and Atlanta will suddenly riae
from her present depression and terminate this
year in greater prosperity than ever. Ijet
us he instrumental in persuading you to do
this, and we shall feel thankful for this privi
lege of conferring a blessing upon you and of
contributing to the rising greatness ©four
city, where with success, we expect to spend
the balance of our days.
to force through the fence, to get him out. A f jesty of the Law.
• .11! u 1 , .
flT* The following Resolutions were passed
at a meeting of the Citizens of Atlanta, on Sat
urday last, in relation to Choice, the murder
er of Webb.
Resolved, That the Mayor of tte City, he in
structed to appoint a Committee of Sixty re
sponsible citizens to guard the prisoner, Wm.
A. Choice, until his final comaritment.
Resolved further, That the Justices of the In
ferior Court, be likewise instructed to appoint
a guard of five responsible citizens, whose du
ty it shall be to aid the Sheriff in taking the
prisoner, after his commitment, to MUledge-
ville and see him safely lodged in one of the
cells of the Penitentiary, there to remain un
til his trial by the Superior Court.
Resolved, That we view the killing of Calvin:
Webb by Wm. A. Choice, as one of the most-
wanton and cold-blooded murders ever com
mitted ; but believing that justice will be me
ted out to the Murderer by the authority, and
for the purpose of saving our young and be
loved city from the stigma and disgrace which.
must attach to it from the unlawful execution.
of the prisoner, we hereby pledge ourselves to-
aid the civil authorities in protecting the ma-
single sight of him would have been enough.
The crowd would have borne bjuy gladly, and
over all apposition, to the bridge to hang. The
ropes were on the ground.
Again, the crowd, so far as we could gather,
f-:eeic'‘ i moved upon by the feeling, that if
Mr. Choice was allowed to take his chances in
or Courts, that he would escape. We felt
\ to see he people manifest so little confL
>• in the integrity of our legal tribunals.
’ the crowd have been convinced that Mr.
would be dealt with according to law,
uld have walked quietly away. Could
a mob at all, in this age, and where
.hie to protect ourselves legally, if we
* should have felt like an immediate
on. But when the people take the law
ueir own hands, and defy statutes and
dicers, there is no telling where the mat-
will end.
Order is the first law of nature, and we should
all be law and order men. Let us all see to it
in the future, that law and order be the mot
to of our young and growing city. We have
often read that eternal vigilance is the price
of liberty. We are seriously convinced by the
movements yesterday, that nothing but vigi
lant officers and an executed law, will keep
anarchy from reigning in our streets, and con
stitutional liberty from bleeding at every pore.
Citizens of Atlanta, give the law a fair trial.
Keep cool as you can and wait for the wagon.
We are not powerless to protect ourselves yet.
Again, we regret this affair, passing the life
taken from a dependent family, the orphans
and the widow, and the thousand sorrows that
cluster thick around those sad words, on ac
count of the effect that it will have upon At
lanta. We had just spoken, perhaps vainly,
of our peace and quiet. Our city has been
looking up fast, lately. People from abroad
may rest assured, that the effect of this be
reavement, will be to arouse in our citizens a
double determination, to promote law and or
der. Our whole town feels bereaved and mor
tified.
Resolved, That'after the forms of a legal tri
al shall have been gone through with, and we
become satisfied that the murderer is in dan
ger of being turned loose unwhipped of Jus
tice, we pledge ourselves then to execute sum
mary punishment upon him.
Public Lawi of Georgia,
Passed by the General Assembly, at the session
held in November and Dec. 1858. Embra
cing many very important Acte, to which is
added a list of all the Counties in the State,
in which the time of holding the Superior
and Inferior Courts have been changed, at
the late session, and giving the time of hold
ing said Courts therein, as changed, com
piled and published by H. H. Waters, Esq.
We acknowledge the receipt of one of Mr.
Water’s pamphlets, and hope that he may he
abundantly successful in securing a reward for
his promptness in furnishing the people of
Georgia, so early, with a copy of our most im
portant late laws.
Price $1, except to those who have hereto
fore subscribed, and to them on the terms then,
proposed.
End or an Outlay.—Thos. J. Meddletonr,
known as Thos. Middleton, a noted despera
do, who was captured in Louisiana and taken
to Bastrop a short time since, was taken by
the people from the hands of the officers and
hung, within a short distance of Bastrop, a few
days since. He was charged with, and doubt
less guilty of, many crimes, including robbery
and murder.—Civilian.
Weather—River—Boats. Floods of rain
hav“ fallen here since ten o’clock last night..
The river has been steadily rising for ten days
and will probably overflow the low lands on
the river the present rise. We expect to see the
bend opposite the city nnder water in a few
days. The St. Nicholas leaves for Mobile this
evening ; the LeGrande is due ; the Duke due
to-morrow ; the King due Saturday ; the St.
Charles and the Kimball due Monday; the
Czar due Tuesday ; the 'Handy due Wednes
day.—Mont Mail.
For the Atlanta tetolttgencer.
in weld-re in, la ear own Heart!. 1
tin fell upon our earth, there was a vis.
Ible Eden—fairer than aught that the enrap
tured Poet has ever sung—more beautiful than
has ever been pictured hy the skillful pencil of
the grand old Masters—pure and perfect in all
its delineations, as when fresh from its Maker’s
hand, a creation so gloriously beautiful, has
never since met onr wondering gaze. Bathed
in the perpetual sunlight of Heaven, and nur
tured by its dews—looked down npon by ho
ly stars, and watched by countless Angels, it
was a fit dwelling place for sinless beings. The
touch of Divinity rested on it; his footprint
was upon its portal; the ^whispers of his love
were borne upon every zephyr. Stately trees
were there clad in the richest verdure, and
glistening in the radiant light of day, and cho
ral songsters in notes of sweetest melody, sung
ceaslessly among their branches. Delicate
flowers diffused a rich perfume, and received
in their star-gemmed cups the tears that fell
from weeping skies. Limped rivers swept with
® grand and musical flow through its woody
groves; sparking streams murmured low
through flowery meads. Exhaustless foun
tains scattered their bright waters upon the
emerald sward, and swaying vines hung in
graceful festoons from drooping boughs, and
fluttered softly in the evening breeze. All was
beauty and purity, and loveliness. God look
ed upon his faultless work with an approving
smile, and seraphs sang when the last touch
had been given by his wonderous hand. Ah!
that all this loveliness was so soon to be desert,
ed by humanity's vileness—that this Eden from
which should have ascended only the incense
of holy prayer and thanksgiving, should so
soon resound with wails of anguish from sin-
burdened souls. But it came—the tempter
triumphed—man fell—-Paradise was lost. Did
not all nature mourn in unison with the fallen
ones, as “through Eden hand in hand they
took their solitary way?” Ah, methinks she
grieved, if aught “inanimate e’r grieves,” at
this the loss of souls, and gain, oh frightful
gain of death. Methinks, could we have heard
the flowing of those streams, they would have
murmured in tones of moumfulness alone. The
breezes must have sent a plaintive wail, and
the beautiful flowers veiled their starry eyes,
to weep for the departure of Eve—their beau
tiful protectress. Soft dews fell gently on the
deserted bower, and the pure stare turned their
loving gaze from the ruined “Temple.” Di
vinity himself, shut out the light and glory of
his love, and man oppressed, accursed and
stricken hy this frown, went forth to toil, to
suffer, to die. Banished from all the happiness
and purity of this, his first abode—he could
but pine for a shadow, at least, of his former
bliss. In vain he sought it in his surround-
ings, for all, like himself, bowed under the
primeval curse—offered him not the sweets of
consolation. Then there arose a second Eden,
invisible, but as holy and beautiful as was that-
of old. It was the Eden of the heart. With
in was reared a Temple dedicated to God and
all the holiest and best emotions of the soul.
There was a shrine in which were treasured,
the precious relies of the past; sorrowful mem
ories of lost joys and vanished bliss—a gleam,
perhaps, of the light of Paradise ; a lingering
echo of its angel tones ; an amaranthine flow
er ; a whisper of this love ; mournful dreams
ot what he had been, and happy imaging of
what he might he; all these were gathered
there. An altar too, was reared, on which
were offered humble prayers for mercy and com
passion, sighs of contrition for disobedience
and pledges for the f uture. In time, God look
ed upon this second Eden, and blessed it as a
shadowy antitype of his own glorious creation.
Beneath the genial influence of his protection
it has become a place in which man may find
his purest joys, his sweetest hopes of bliss. The
air is heavy with perfume of incense daily of
fered up, and kept pure hy ceaseless prayer. !
Delightful bowers invite the way worn travel
er to enter and repose. Spirits of love and
beauty beckon the sad and lonely ones to the
feasts of souls, and a charming light and glory
hover in the air. Birds build their nests, and
sing, as they swing upon its swaying twigs and
festooning vires. FriendshipVgarlands ever!
wreathe its columns, and love guards its stain
less portal. There bloom roses that shed their
balmy fragrance, and bask in the genial sun
light of affection. Spotless lilies smile in th
bright diversities of a cloudless day, and orange
flowers are there, delicate offerings from Hy
men’s hand. Effulgent beams of love rest on
each shady bower, and gratitude scatters its
refreshing dews. Beauty crowns each 1c *.flet,
and happiness paints each hud with roseate
hue, lingering in the azure sky that is al 1 un
dimmed hy sorrow’s shadowy cloud. Sacred
fountains emenate from secret springs of love
and friendsliip, and water the surrounding
plants. Pleasant fancies flit like white-robed
angels around this cherished spot, for every
feeling steeped in the still sweet dew of affec
tion—every pleasant thought that cheers us—
every happy reminiscence, on which the mind
loves to linger, are congregated here in this
inner temple of our being. And when all else
is dark and drear—when the soul is ready to
sink ’neath the heavy burden of life—they
beckon to rest, to meditation, to repose. They
stand within the shadowy entrance, and bid us
welcome to this Eden. And entered there, the
world with all its “saurian schemes” is for
gotten. We become, for the moment, the
happy inmates of a Paradise as fair and beauti
ful as that in which our first parents wander
ed. This is man’s Eden—all that remains to
him of bliss once given, but forfeited and lost
by his own frailty and weakness. Earth of
fers the soul no other Paradise. Like a wear
ied dove, it wanders ard finds no rest, unless
it he within the Elysium. It is the sacred spot
in which we plant those pure feelings and af
fections that are to be eventually transplanted
to a heavenly Eden, for there is, oh sweet assu
rance, another in which the world-worn spirit
is to find unending rest. Away beyond the
din and turmoil of earth, God has prepared it.
Of its glories and beauties, eye hath not seen,
nor car heard the half. There are chrystal
rivers and evergreen trees—cloudless skies and
balmy airs—unfading flowers to wreathe the
brow with the chaplets of immortal bliss, and
more than all, the all inspiring presence of Di
vinity himself. There, like some tranquil lake
upon a mountain-top, the stricken soul may
rest, high above storm-cloud and tempest, ra
diant with its fullness of bliss and perfect peace,
and man wUl have regained the Paradise so
ignoininiously lost. FLORA.
Appalling Railroad Accidents.
Columbus, Ga., Dec. 31.—-The train from
Macon run into a creek about 17 miles from
this city, before day light this morning.—
About 40 persons were believed to he on the
train, and 13 only are reported to have been
saved, and it is feared that all the rest were
either killed by the crashing ot the care or
drowned.
The following persons are known to have
beeu on the train, hut their fate has not yet
been ascertained: Themas O’Bryan, of Charles
ton, Dr. A. M. Walker, Conductor Snell, and
young Snell, three females, Laura West.,
Georgia Van Ness, and Celeste Sharp, of Col
umbus, and Mr. W. P. Dupree, of Houston
county. We have no other particulars at
present.—Columbus Suu.
Another Report.
The Agent of the Associated Press is indebt
ed to the politeness of Dr. L. F. W. Andrews,
of the Macon Georgia Citizen, for the follow
ing report of the disaster :
Macon, Dec. 31.—The morning train from
Macon ran off about 20 miles'from Columbus,
owing to a severe wash caused by the recent
heavy rains. The fireman and woodpasser on
the train were killed, and the engineer, G. W.
Smith, had his jaw broken. No passengers
were injured.
The morning train to Macon ran off at
Odum’s Mills, owing to the washing out of the
culvert. The engineer, J. H. Miller, and the
firemen and woodpasser, and Mr.'Snell, the
conductor were killed. Several passengers
were drowned, but their names have not yet
been ascertained. It is stated that only about
one dozen were saved, and it is believed that 30
or more passengers were on the train.
John Peck, a train hand, was saved and
he carried the first news of the accident to
Columbus. The statement he makes is rather
confused. If possible to obtain a more reliable
and Jsatisiactory report, will communicate it
to you.
Further particulars of tile Railroad Acci
dent.
Columbus, Ga. Dec. 31.—The train which
was due here this morning, from Macon, ran
into a culbert near this city, killing two train
and severely injuring the engineer.
The train which was going East this morn
ing fell through a bridge into a creek 16 miles
from Columbus, killing seventeen persons.—
there were twenty-nine persons on the train,
hands,(including train hands, &c.
The following bodies have been recovered :
Two Misses Guice, of Salem Ala; W. H. Snell,
train hand; a lady and her three children,
from Texas; two ladies from Columbus—
names unknown. The other bodies have not
been recovered.
Twelve persons arc known to he saved,
among them Dr. Walker, of Georgia; Dr.
Phi llips of Alabama; S. M. Blake, of New
York; Qonductor Snell; a gentleman from
Texas; a gentleman from Alabama, with four
others—names not ascertained.—Chron. Sf Sent
Lack of Reverence In the Young.
Rev. A. Smith, Commissioner of Public
Schools in Ohio, in a recent report, makes some
forcible remarks upon the want of good man
ners, shown by the youth of the present day,
in their conduct toward the aged. After allu
ding to the deference and respect which the
yonth of former days were taught to extend to
their superiors in age and wisdom, he says :
“But where, in all our land, does this good
old practice now prevail ? Where are the evi
dences in our children, of the possession of that
spirit of kind respect, and appropriate regard
for their superiors in years and wisdom ? Who
does not know that hows and courtesies, on
the part of hoys and girls, are obsolete, both
in idea and practice, and are numbered with
the lost arts of the ancients ? It has been re
marked that ‘there are thousands of hoys in
this great country, not one of whom has ever
made a how, unless when he had occasion to
dodge a snow-ball, a brickbat, or a boulder.’
‘Some eight or ten winters since, ex-Govcr-
nor Everett, of Massachusetts, with the late
Amos Lawrence, was in a sleigh, riding into
Boston. As they approached a school-house, a
score of young hoys rushed into the street to
enjoy their afternoon recess. Said the Gover
nor to his friend, ‘Let us observe whether these
boys make obeisance to us, as we were taught
fifty years ago. ’ At the same time he express
ed the fear that habits of civility were less prac
ticed than formerly. As they passed the school-
house, all question and doubt upon the sub
ject, received a speedy if not a very satisfacto
ry settlement, for each one of those twenty ju
venile New Englanders did his best at snow
balling the wayfaring dignitaries.”
A Picture of New York Life.—A letter
writer of New York relates the following touch
ing incident:
The next day we accompanied a friend on
board one of the Southern steamers. After
seeing him comfortably located for his short
voyage, and bidding him “Good speed,” we
hastened on shore among the last lingering
leave-takers, but after the last hawser was
cast off, to the consternation of every one, a
woman sprang the boat; A dozen hands
were extended, and landed her safely on the
dock- She was perfectly calm, and with a
slight how of thanks to her deliverers, turned
around for a last look atr the now fast receding
vessel. In an instant she was overwhelmed
with ancontrollable grief—the most agonizing
passionate grief. Sympathy was offered, and
we soon learned her history. In her own lan-
goage, made elequentby grief, she said: ‘I am
a stranger, and alone. My husband has gone
South, he can never, never return. They
will make his grave far away, and I shall not
be there.” And with tears and sobs she tur
ned away. A gentleman near me said, ‘Mad
am, wky did you allow it in his feeble health ?
Why did you not go with him.”
With a dignity of sorrow that silenced all
comments, she said, “Sir, I had not the
means.” What a world of meaning was con
veyed a short sentiment. Atone glance you
saw the whole. The true heroine, fitting out
her husband for his last voyage, with the un
dying hope that lasts with life, the privation,
you could see.it in her scanty robe and pinch
ed look, that had evidently known of happier
days, and the despair that followed, as her
last sad duties accomplished, she looked at
the insatiable ocean, bearing on its restless
bosom one for whose quiet and comfort she
had sacrificed all. Here was a scene from a
drama, more powerfully portrayed than “Zer-
lina,” but the foot lights were missing, and
the gay decorations gone; the only 'music, the
requiem of the wind through the ocean’s leaf
less forest, and the careless snrgings of the
waves. No entranced audience, ready to crown
the queen of the hour with thornless roses, but
a group of laborers, each with their own cares
and sorrows. Such is New York life—the sad
and joyous so blended as to form the light
and shadow of the picture, that otherwise
would he incomplete. God help the poor un
fortunate that form the shadow.
Suicide.
On yesterday morning about 4 o’clock, a
man, supposed to be about twenty-five years
of age named N. McLarty, committed suicide
hy jumping from the window of his room on
the third floor of Gee’s Hotel, He came to
this city one week ago last Monday, and was
very sick when brought off the boat. His
travelling companions said that he had been
sick twelve or fifteen days. As soon as he
was couveyed to the Hotel, medical aid was
called in, hut the disease, typhyid fever, had
too strong a hold and could not be checked.—
On Monday night last, two young men of this
place, went to sit up with him, and between
3 and 4 o’clock they stepped out of the room,
as he was apparently resting easy, and soon
after they left, he raised the window-sash and
jumped out, which caused his death in a few
minutes. His attending Physician says that
he could not possibly have lived longer than
through yesterday. A letter was found in
his trunk, directed to John N. McLarty, Bell-
view, Texas, dated at Dark Corner, Ga., and
signed ‘yovr sister, Lizzy.’ The letter spoke
of a brother by the name of William in Texas.
The remains of the deceased were interred
on yesterday evening. His trunk and clothes
are in the possession of the Gee Hotel.—Selma
Reporter.
For the Intelligencer.
Messrs. Editors— '
As officers elected by the people, whether
in State, County, or- City Government, are
supposed to reflect the views of those who
elect them, particularly on those questions in
whieh the voter is immediately interested, it
may not be amiss to ask an expression from
the candidates for city officers, even on ques
tions of State policy. This will appear the
more reasonable when we take into account
the fact, that public officers often give cast to
opinion, and exert a controlling influence in
the community they serve ; and also the fact
that our general prosperity as a city and coun
ty is greatly affected for weal or for woe by
the policy, in some particulars, adopted hy the
Executive of the State.
Impressed by these considerations, we res
pectfully submit the following question to
the candidates for city officers : Do you de
sire, and will you promote, as far as conveni
ent and proper in your private capacity?, the
nomination and re-election of Gov. Brown?
MANY DEMOCRATS.
Atlanta, Jan v 3d, 1859.
A Mysterious Capitalist.—The San Francis
co Bulletin has a letter from a correspondent
in Australia, dated Melbourne, June 1st, in
which the writer says :
One of the most extraordinary characters of
the day, here, is a Mr. Gabrietli, a London
Jew,' who advances any amount, of money re
quired of him—“half down and half in six
months”—at eight per cent per annum. The
other day he advanced the corporation of this
city a million of pounds, and in a neighboring
town another million; and after having an
nounced that he is ready “to do” eight mil
lions for the Government, for the railroads, he
offers to invest a million here, and a million
there, in “testing the mines” of the country,
upon terms which, when complied with, he is
never backward in producing the major part of
the needful, and the remainder at the end of
the specified time. The beauty of it is, no
body knows where he gets his money from
The members of the Government have fre
quently “pumped” him on the subject, hut
the only answer he deigns to give, is the pro
duction of the cash. Some say he is an agent
of the Rothschilds, hut this is merely a sur
mise, founded on the known great wealth of
that firm. This London Jew is really a “re
markable man.” He has his prejudices, how
ever, for upon my mentioning to him Cal
ifornia as presenting a fine field for speculation
in, mines and railroads, he unequivocally ex
pressed*his doubts as to ‘ ‘securities, ’ ’ &c. Bar
ing & Co., of London, have advanced the eight
millions for the railroads.
The Latest Wonder.—A dispatch from
Washington dated the 23d, says :
“Father Boyle, of St. Patrick’s Church
Washington, opened the Senate, this.moming
with prayer, in full priest’s dress—the surplice
and cassock. This is the first occasion since
the foundation of the government, that the
entire vestments of the Catholic elegy have
been worn in either chamber of Congress.
Father Boyle read, from the Breviary, Bishop
Carroll’s prayer for those in authority. The
Senate chamber happened to be crowded at
the time, much interest and curiosity-was man
ifested, with every appearance of devotion,
both in the senators and spectators.’ ’
Mirabile Diclu ! An affable and pious cler
gyman, long and well-known to the citizens of
Washington, receives from the President of
the U. S. Senate a notice inviting him, as-the
other clergymen of the city are invited in their
turn, to open the proceedings of that body
with prayer on a certain day. Anxious to
oblige his distinguished fellow-citizen, he does
as is requested, and forthwith the wonder-ma
ker of the capital telegraph to all sections of
country the astounding fact that a Chatholic
priest ‘opened the Senate this morning with
prayer ! Ye gods ! We are tempted on this
occasion to exclaim with Sainivel Weller, and
from the very depths of our sol we make the
exclamation, ‘Veil, vot of it ?” Really, we
are now convinced that we live in a ‘free and
glorious kedentry.’—Mont. Mail.
What Next?—A -safe has been invented
which locks on the inside, aud leaves no key
hole ot other opening. A clock work within
opens it at an hour regulated by being set be
fore the door is shut.
gg” Men are sometimes accused of pride f D1
more because their accusers would be proud j •
themselves, were they in their places.—Shen- \ The proprietors of the Boston museum have
tUme I given $360 to the Mt. Vernon Fund.
Death on the Cars.—The Alton Democrat
notices a touching incident, which took place
last week in one of the cars of a down train
on the Chicago, Alton and St. Louis Rail
road. A poor respectable woman was on
hoard with a young infant in hey arms. She
had a ticket from Chicago to *St. Louis.—
When half way down, a lady passenger dis
covered that the infant was dead—died in its
mother’s arms, she holding it thus for about
five hours, fearing to make the fact known
lest she should he put out Of the cars having
no money. The case excited much attention
and feeling among the passengers. A hand
some purse was made up for her, and Conduc
tor Parsons telegraphed to Alton to have a
coffin purchased at his expense. The woman
thus relieved, passed on to St. Louis, there
expecting to meet her husband a journeyman
carpenter. Our whole-souled friend Road-
night, of Bloomington, was on the train, and
managed the subscription, and to him and to
Conductor Parsons much praise was accorded
by the possengers.
Boil your Molasses.—When molasses is
used in cooking, it is a very great improve
ment to boil and skim it before you use it.—
It takes out the raw taste, and make it almost
as good as sugar. When the molasses is much
ued for coolring, it is well to prepare one or
two gallons in this way at a time.
Accident to Louis Napo£ean.—TTie french
Empetor’fe horS$ foil with him lately, while
climbing a ban nk ithe forest of Compiegne.
Both horse and rider rolled to the bottom of
toe enbankment, and, the journals being for
bidden to mention the mater, it is supposed
that his Majesty was severely contusionne.
One of the Rarey brothers is taming horse
and mules at Vicdsburg .. Miss.
The Thames river, England, was thinly
frozen over a few weeks since.
The house of Itotschlld has formed a branch
at St. Petersburg.
Great Railroad Convention at Memphis, on
the First Monday in February- Next.—The
officers, and others connected with our Wes
tern railroads, have requested that the time
for holding the proposed Convention in this
city, he deferred to the first Monday in Febru
ary next. The Southern Pacific, and the Mem
phis and El Paso Roads will he laregly repre
sented, as well as all roads touching the Miss
issippi from the East, for all are alike interest
ed in the construction of a Pacific Road on the
best and most practicable route. It is said that
the terms of consolidation of the Southern Pa
cific and Memphis and El Paso Roads have been
already agreed upon, and that cx-Seuator Jas.
C. Jones, of this city, has been tendered, and
will accept, the Presidency of the newly organ
ized company. This is, however, only a ru
mor which has reached us. We sincerely hope
that such is the fact. The energy, capacity
and experience of Governor Jones, would soon
unite us with Texas and El Paso by railroad ;
and his very connection with the proposed
road from Memphis, would give it additional
importance before the National Legislature.—
Memphis Avalanche.
FTom the Nashville Union k American:
The Soldier’s Pension BUI.
The following is the bill granting pensions
to soldiers in the late war with Great Britain,
and to other parties therein mentioned, which
has passed the House of Representatives by a
majority of 53 votes. The bill was introduced
by Mr. Savage, and received the support of
the entire Tennessee delegation we believe,
with the exception of Hon. George W. Jones.
Sechon 1. That each of the surviving offi
cers, non-commissioned officers, musicians
and privates who shall have served in the
regular army, State troops, volunteers or
militia, for a term of six days or more, or who
have been engaged in actual battle with the
enemy, in the war declared by the United
States against Great Britain on the 18th of
June, 1812, be authorised to receive a pension
from the United States, to commence from
the first day of the present Congress, and to
continue during his natural life.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That each of
the officers, non-commissioned officers, musi
cians and privates who have served in the
regular Army, State troops, volunteers or
militia, of any State or Territory, for the space
of six days or more, against any of the Indian
tribes, during or preceding the war of 1812
with Great Britain, or who were engaged in
any battle fought by the United States against
any Indian tribe during the aforesaid war with
Great Britain, shall be entitled to all the bene
fits of this act.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That if any
of the officers, non-commissioned officers, mu
sicians or privates, have died, or shall hereaf
ter die, leaving a widow, such widow shall be
entitled to receive the same pension to which
her husband would have been entitled under
this act, for and during her natural life.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the
pay allowed by this act shall, under the direc
tion of the Secretary of the Interior, be paid
to each officer, non-commissioned officer,
musician, private, or his widow or their au
thorized attomies at such times and places
as the Secretary of the Interior, may direct;
and that no officer, non-commissioned officer,
musician, private, or his widow, shall receive
the same until he furnish the said Secretary
of the Interior with satisfactory evidence that
he is entitled to the same, in accordance with
he provisions of this act; and that the pay
hereby allowed shall not he in any way,
transferrable or liable to attachments, levy, or
seizure, by any legal process whatever, hut
shall go unencumbered to the possession ef
the officer, non-commissioned officer, musician,
private or his widow.
Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the
officers, non-commissioned officers and marines
who served for the time of sixty days in the
naval service, or engaged in battle with the
enemy, during the war with Great Britain
aforesaid, and their widows, shall be entitled
to the benefits of this act, iu the same manner
as is provided for the officers and soldiers of
the war of 1812.
Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That the
pension provided by this act shall in no case
exceed the full amount of ninety-six dollars
per year, and shall he graduated according to
the length of sen-ice, as follows : For twelve
months’ service, or more, ninety-six dollars;
for six months service, but less than twelve
months, seventy-five dollars; for sixty days’
service, but less than six months, fifty dollars;
provided that the survivor, or surviving widow
of an officer, non-commissioned officer, musi
cian, or private, who participated in actual
battle, in said war, shall be entitled to the
maximum pension given hy this act.
Death at a WEDniNG.—Tuesday evening, at
Washington, D. 0., a sudden an unexpected
death occurredjin the midst of wedding festiv
ities. The States says :
After the marriage ceremonies had been per
formed, and the happy pair, with their rela
tives and a large number of invited guests
had taken their places at the festive board
the aged grandmother of the bride, who was
one of the party, was suddenly summoned to
to her Maker’s presence hy the hand of death
The joyous throng was in an instant changed
to a group of mourners. The deceased was
Mrs. Mary Ann Scrivener, the mother-in-law
of Grafton Powell, Esq., one of our most esti
mable citizens. Every one of her children,
and almost ever)- living relative witnessed her
last breath, and sootiied her last earthly mo
ments. They were deeply afflicted, for she
was the idol of them all,
An Important Fact.
Exercise for the body, occupation for the
mind, these are the grand constituents of
health and happiness, the cardinal points up
on which every thing turns. Motion seems
to be a great preserving principle of natnre,
to which even inanimate things are subject
for the winds, waves, the earth itself, are rest
less, and the waving of trees, shmbs, and
flowers is known to he an essential' part of
their economy. A fixed rule of taken several
hours exercise every day, if possible in the
open air, if not, under cover, will he almost
certain to secure one exemption from disease,
as well as from the attacks of low spirits, or
ennui, <hat monster who is ever waylaying the
rich and indolent. “Throw but a stone, the
giant dies.” Law spirits cannot exist in at
mosphere of bodily and mental aotivity.
Genuine Eloquence.
There is no people in the world with whom
eloqnence is so universial a gift as with the
Irish. When Leitch Ritchie was traveling in
Ireland, he passed a man who was a painful
spectacle of pallor, squalor, and raggedness.—
His heart smote him, and he turned back.
“If you are in want.” said Ritchie, with
some degree of peevishness, “why dou’t you
beg?”
“Sure, it’s a begging I am, your honor.”
“You did n’t say a word.”
“Av coorse not, your honor; hut see how
the skin is spakin, through the lioles of me
trowsers! and the bones crying out through
me skin! Look at me sunken cheeks, and the
famine that’s startin’ in me eyes. Man alive!
isn’tit begging’ that I am with a hundred
tongues ?”
A Juror Correcting a Judge.—A Judge in
Cincinnati last week had just charged the jury
in a very important case, to the great aston
ishment of all present, a professional juror,
who happened to be on, arose from his seat
and hegged to call the attention of his honor
to a slight mistake he had made in his charge,
and actually quoted authorities to sustain his
opinion. Upon referring to his citations, it
Yvas found, to the no small amusement of the
spectators, that the juryman was right and
his honor was wrong* whereupon, with all
due gravity, he informed the bench that he
knew he was correct, as he had been charged
at least forty times on the same point, in the
last four months, and couldn’t he mistaken.
Interest on Open Accounts.—The act pass
ed by the last Legislature, to authorize the col
lection of interest upon open accounts, provides
that all accounts in this State, made after the
first day of January next, shall he held and
considered as becoming due on the first day of
January next, after such accounts are made,
unless a different flay is agreed upon by the
parties ; and that all accounts, after becoming
due as aforesaid, shall draw interest at seven
per cent, per annum, and shall be placed up
on the same footing, as regards interest, that
liquidated demands are.”
“I live in Julia’s eyes,” said an affected dan
dy in Coleman’s hearing.
“ I don’t wonder at it, said George, fori
observed she had a sty in one of them when I
saw her last.
‘George, what does CAT spiell”
‘Don’t know sir.’
‘What does your mother keep to catch
mice?’
‘Trap, sir.’
'No, no, what animal is very fond of milk.’
“A baby, sir.
‘You dunce, what was it scratched your sis
ter’s face V
‘My nails, dr.’
‘I am out of patience. There, do you see
that animal on the feuce!’
RAILROAD MEETING.
Gainesville, Ga., Dec. 30, 1858.
The Board of Directors of the Georgia Air-
Line Rail Road met : present J. Norcross,
President, Thomas Morris, W. R. Pool, Geo.
Kelogg, M. W. Brown, and E. M. Johnson,
Directors.
1st. Resolved, That the President be reques
ted to confer with the Air-Line Rail lioad
Company in South Carolina, and ascertain the
prospect of the immediate construction of the
road from Anderson Court house to the Sa
vannah River.
2d. Resolved, That Yve are ready to close
contracts for work as soon as the first and
second instalments on the stock is paid in.
3d. Resolved, That a meeting of the Stock
holders of the Company he called to meet at
Gainesville on Thursday the 3d day of Febru
ary next, to elect a President and Directors
for the ensuing year.
4th. Resolved, That the President and At
lanta Directors he authorized ]to change and
perfect the location of the Road near Atlanta
if they deem it advisable.
5th. Resolved, That we deem it inexpedient
to make the final location of the road from
Gainesville to Carnesvilie until the county
site of Banks county is permanently located.
6th. Resolved, That the Stockholders yvIio
have not paid the first and second instalment
on their stock be requested to do so at once
before the 3d day of February next.
7th. Resolved, That the Atlanta and Athens
papers be requested to publish the proceedings
of this meeting. J. NORCROSS,
D. G. Candler, Secretary President.
A TowUng Incident.
A correspondent writing from Philadelphia
to the Louisville Democrat, rel&tes the follow
ing
® Whilst an aged and poorly clad female was
asking alms at the corner of fourth and
Chesnut Streets, a smart looking young sailor
passed within a few feet of her gazing intently
for several seconds on her haggard face. She
approached him and extended her palm in si
lence. Instantly his hand found its way to
his capacious pocket, and when he drew it
out it was filled with gold and silver, which
he forced her to accept, saying—
“There, good mother, take this, yon may
as well have it as the kuidsliarks. The last-
cruise I had out of New York found me with
$400 on band, hut, as the neighbors told me
my old mother was dead, I got on a spree
with the money, spent it all inside of a week
and then shipped again.”
“Oh! good—good sir ! you are too kind to
an old body like me. For your sake, I will
take it. Oh! you remind me of my poor son,
George, who shipped and was drowned. Oh !
George—George White ! where are you now."
“George White !” hurriedly exclaimed the
now excited sailor. “Why, that’s my name !
—you—you are my mother !” With this he
seized her in his arms, and caressed her affec
tionately, whilst the big tears of joy ran down
his bronzed cheek. The poor woman was en
tirely overcome hy the recovery ot her long
lost child, and wept and groaned alternately.
A carriage shortly after conveyed the mother
and son away leaving many a moistened eye
among the crowd who witnessed the scene.
Hiring Time.
A large number in this community can
realize all that the following paragraph con
tains, which we find in the Richmond Whig
of yesterday:
The negro hiring days are come, the most
woful of the year! So house-keepers think,
who do not own their own servants, and even
this class is hut little better off than the rest,
for all darkey-dom must have holiday, this
Yveek, and Yvhile their masters and mistresses
are making fires and cooking victuals, or at
tending to other menial duties, the negroes
are promenading the streets decked off in
their finest clothes. Thistis one feature of the
‘peculiar institution’ of Yvhich the Yankees
are entirely ignorant. While their OYvn half
fed peasantry see no difference between Christ
mas and any other period of the year, in res
pect to personal comfort and temporal pleasures
the darkies of the South hail its ad\ r ent with
heartfelt pleasure. Each of them receives a
bran new suit of warm clothing from their
owners, and hy means of their own little
earnings, and thc“gifts of money bestowed
upon them by the “white folks,” they are
enabled to spend their week’s holiday in a
grand splurge—treating themselves and each
other to whatevcrjdelicacy or knickjknack they
may be tempted to purchase. Ere the close
of the week, most of them will have grown
tired of idleness, and will he seeking homes
for the ensuing year. The agent’s office will
he thronged, as usual, Yvith dense crowds of
men, women and children, for hire. We pity
those employers who, in changing serY'ants
this Christmas, Yvill find hereafter that they
have hut “sYvapped the deY'il for a witch.”
Tfceatarrte**.,,,,,
RT B. Q. LAPIUS, R. j
Returning home at dead of »■
Who urges on a family
Because I happen a “httif^ t?
My’
Who calls me darling
And robs me of the cash I <*,
And runs me headlong int^
Who gives no time to darning
But gives to missions m„ J Vta
missionsmvSimY
And threatens oft’ to
Mv,
Who looks on me Yvith fear
And often in her heart hi
“I wish my husband he
The Old Folk’s Room
The old man sat by the chimney
His face was wrinkled and
And ho leaned both hands’on h™
As if all his work was done st0IIt ««k
His coat was of good old fashioned
The pockets Yvere deep and wi,i. r >
■here bis“SDecs” and . >
Where his “specs” and
lay snugly by his side.
\\
The old man liked to stir the fire
So near him the iongs were kept •
Sometimes he mused as he gazed
Sometimes he sat and slept ' |
What saw he in the embers there *
Ah, pictures of other years ■
And now and then they awakened
But oftener started tears.
His good old wife sat on the ether s i,i„
In a high back, flag scat chair J
I see ’uenth tb« pile ofher muslin cap
The sheen of her silY ery hair.
There’s a happy look on her aged
As she sits and knits for him ’
And Nelly takes up the stitches dron™
lor grandmother’s eyes are dim
Their children come and read the new.
To pass the time each day ; s ’
How it stirs the blood in the old man-, i
To hear of the world away. 5 *#1
’Tis a homely scene, I told you so
But pleasaut it is to view ; " ’
At least, I thought so myself,
And sketched it down for you.
Be kind unto the old, my friend
They’re worn with this worldly si r -f e .
Tho’ bravely once, perchance they fook
The stern, fierce Lottie of life. 6 “
They taught our youthful feet to climb
Upward life’s life’s rugged steep •
Then let us gently lead them down’
To where the weary sieep.
Look to Your Policies.—Lord St. Leon
ards, a great English Judge, in his recent
book called ‘Handy Book on Property Law,”
says :
“Very few policies against fire are so fram
ed as to render the company legally liable.
Generally, the property is inaccurately des
cribed in reference to the conditions under
which you insure. They are framed by the
company, Yvho probably* are not unwilling to
have a legal defence against . any claim, as
they intend to pay Yvhat they deem a just
claim without taking advantage of any tech
nical objection, and to make use of their de
fence only, against, what they may believe to
he a fraud, although they may not he able to
prove it. But do not rely on the moral feel
ings of the directors. Ascertain that your
house falls strictly Yvithin the conditions. ’ ’
Generally, there is a whole page of finely
printed ‘conditions’ on the back of the policy,
any one of which, ingeniously drawn as they
are, may be the subject of a law suit Yvith a
fair prospect of success against the insured.—
These conditions are some times resorted to
in order to entirely defeat the policy, or else
are used as a screw in connection with the ne
cessities of the insured, to bring about a de
duction from the fair amount which ought to
be paid.
Cruillj- Killed by Kindness.
A young woman in Vermont married a poor
but Yvorthy man, against her fathers wish. He
drove them from his house and closed his door
and heart against them. They came into the
vicinity of Poston; went to Yvork, and prosper
ed. After many years the father had occasion
to go to Boston. He concluded to go and see
his daughter expecting a cold reception. His
daughter and her husband received him most
kindly and lovingly. After staying with them
aYvhile he Yvent back to Vermont. One of his
neighbors, hearing where lie had been, asked
him Iioyv his daughter and liusbaud hail trea
ted him.
“I neY'cr was so treated before in my life,”
said the Yveeping and broken-hearted" father.
“They have broken my heart and have killed
me—I don’t feel as though I could live under
it.”
“What did they do to you?” asked the
neighbor. “Did they abuse you ?”
“ They loved me to death, and killed me with kind- i
Hess,” said lie. “I can neYer forgive, myself
for treating so cruelly my OYvn darling daugh- |
ter, Yvho loved me so affectionately, I feel as I
if I should die, whenlithink howl grieved
my precious child, Yvhen I spumed her from
my door. Heaven bless them, and forgh’e
my cruelty and injustice to them.
Who does not see iu this an infallible cure
for difficulties between man and man ! There
is not a child or man on earth yvIio would not
feel and say that the daughter, though so
deeply wronged and outraged hy her angry
father, did right in treating him as she did.—
That father, Yvas lier enemy, hut she yvus not
his. He hated her, hut she loved him !
Tile Schoom rSasan Wrecked
Mobile, JjJ
The British war steamer Basilisk f -
Phayre, arrived in the lower bav >3
! from the Belize, Honduras, with H(k
Yvrecked Americans, Yvho were pa&J?
in the schooner .Susan, and who were *
on hoard on the 26th Dec., by order si
Governor of the Belize. ’Die America®
treated in a gentlemanly manner bv tul
cers of the steamer during the trip. 1
’The piissengers from the wrecked
came up in a tow boat, formed a p tc<
and marched through tho streets
Nicaragua flag hoisted. Capt. Ml.
called out and made a speech to the",
gathered to Yvitness the return of their t:
who had escaped the perils of shipwrajH
The folloYving communications have J
received in this citv :
“Belize, British HoNDnui.
Dec. 20, 1858.
‘On the 16th inst., at 3 o’clock in the a
ing, the schooner Susan, Maury master
wrecked on Glover’s Coral Iteef. about ;
miles off the Belize. The vessel
loss. No lives were lost. The
landed safely on the Middle Bay o
inst. The distance from the wreck tt-J
Berlize, hearing N. W., is 55 miles.
Another letter, dated at the same p!*J
the 24th Dec., says :
City
Oregon.
Gen. Joseph Lane, the “Marion of the Mex
ican War,” as he is called, has writen a letter
to the W’ashington Union, in Yvliich he contra
dicts the rumor that Oregon has only a popu
lation of 43,000
In 1850 the populations was about 10,000.
In 1855 the census though imperfect and
leaving out some 5,000 to 10,000 residents,
showed a population of 43,700. Judging
from this rate of increase, Gen. Lane thinks
that the present population of Oregon is at or
near 95,000.
Telegraph.
It is in serious contemplation to connect the
Executive Mansion, the different Departments,
the Capitol, and Willards’, Browns’, and the
National Hotels, hy telegraph wires, Yvith an
office at each building. Messages of ten words
can he sent from any one station to another
station at an uniform tariff of 25 cents, and to
all stations for $1. By thus connecting these
different points, it is thought that a great
many steps may he saved, and that it will re
sult in great com’enience to every one. This
method of ‘Yvire-pulling’ has been proposed be
fore, hut has never lieen put in operation.- -
The telegraph Yvires, however, cannot be
Yvorked in had weather, no more than the po
litical Yvires can, when the political atmosphere
is not serene. There is already a net-work of
telegraph Yvires throughout the city, but when
these new lines are erected, we shall be elec
trified all round.—The States.
“Capt. Maury having arrived fn® j
Yvreck of the schooner Susan, endeavo
charter a vessel to convey his passengaj
their point of destination. Gov. Seymm
the Belize, rendered the British war a
Basilisk to convey the passengers I
Southern port in the United States.
Yvere reports circulated to the prejudiJ
the passengers hy an American captaia,/
Gov. Seymour said that the shipwrecked
had violated no British law. and he aske>:3
who they were, or Yvhere hound, but ck^
regard them as shipYvrecked citizens
tion with Yvhom he desired to cultivate fid
ly relations, and would gladly and prwrSL
give any assistance needed. Capt. MaimH
cepted the offer on behalf of the passenc-??
The steamer leaves to-day to take the pa&lf
gers from this Island and they will prw' J
directly to Mobile.”
The passengers feel grateful to Capt.
for his efforts in their behalf, and acquit rig
of all blame for the YYTeck of his schooner r
Additional News by the America.
Halifax, Jan. 2.—The Irish treason i*
lieen carried to a greater extent than raj
first believed. Daily discoveries are Uejj
made of pikes and manufactured arms.;*
are knoivn to have been imported.
Lord Malmesbury has refused to inter*;
in the Mortara affair.
Cardinal Antonelli has stopped all forati
correspondent's letters, and threatens to e..
them out of Rome.
Italian affairs appear more serious. Ans| :
seems preparing for an attack*
The editor of the Central Independent says,
“the Yvords of women are more intoxicating
than Yvine, and dearer ! ’ ’ Jones says it is so.—
It costs him $10 every time his wife calls him
“My dear,” while nothing less than $20 is
deemed an equivalent for ‘* Her dear Hubby’ ’.
Ten stores and seven dwellings were recent
ly burned at Raymond Miss
(fPWhat weapon does a poung lady resem
ble whose acquaintances pass her in silence
Yvithout notice ? A cut-lass.
Count dc Chatel of Paris, recently bought
his wife a lot of jewelry, among which Yvas
one ruby for which they gave $80,000.
A Tobacco Fair has been held at South
Windsor Conn., the first exhibition of the kind
n the State.
Then tell me what C-a-tjspeils ?’
‘Kitten, sir.’
Dog in the Manger—Because he had’nt the
heart to fall in love himself, he must spoil
the little love of every body else; just like
the who babbled about the stolen apples, only
because he had’nt the courage to get into the
orchard himself.
|8?° During the last moments of Winn, a
Rochester printer, who lately died, he was
heard to say :—“I’m on my last stickful—I’m
coming to a paragraph—and I suppose I’ll
have to wait for old Death to put in the pe
riod.
A Boston paper says that a >ankee has in
vented and eight day clock that runs sixtsen
days without Yvinding or stopping, and gives
two quarts of milk per day ! Its value could
not be calculated, if it only churned its own
milk, and would stop ticking in family pray
ers.
The number of prisoners in the Illinois State
Prison Dec. 1, was 642.
Fanny Kemble’s charity readings in Balti
more yielded $1200 for the Home of the
Friendless.
Lawless Doings In Kansas.
The Jefferson City Examiner learns from a
reliable source that Fort Scott, Kansas, on
the night of the 15th, was attacked hy the
outlaw Montgomery, at the head or 200 men,
and the toYvn taken and some five or six per
sons killed. The object of the attack was the
release of one of Montgomery’s men, Y\*ho Yvas
confined under an indictment for murder. It is
feared that the town Yvas entirely destroy
ed.
It is reported that a band of thieves and assas
sins from Kansas entered Vernon county, Mis
souri, and killed David Cruise, and stolen lot
of cattle and horses. About the same time
tYvo parties , under Brown and Montgomery,
entered Missouri, on little Osage River, anil
stole a negro Yvoman, took Wm. Lane prison
er and carried him into the Territory, hut re
leased him the folloYving day. An. express
had been sent to the Governor of Missouri for
assistance to protect life aud property.
Obedience to tiie Mother.—“Come away;
come instantly, or I Yvill call your father,”
I heard a mother say to her child, Yvho Yvas
playing in the street before her Yvindow. 1
did not stop to learn the result; hut I pitied
the poor mother Yvho had not poYver enough
Yvithin herself to control her child, and Yvho
so unhesitatingly declared her inefficiency.
A mother sli mid never thus appeal to the
father’s authority to strengthen her own, nor
should she admit hy thought, word, or deed,
that her poY\*er is inferior to his. God never
made it inferior; and lie requires as prompt
obedience to the one as the 4 other. Tfie
mother who allows herself thus to appeal to
another is continually Yveakening the authori
ty she should exercise over her children. She
is herself teaching them to disobey the ‘com
mandments which promise, for what child
can honor a mother too Yveak to govern him ?
—Mother's Magazine.
The Wanderer Case.
Savannah, Jan. 3.—The examination id
the Wanderer case was resumed this inoni
Dr. Duke testified that he had been calk
professionally to visit a gang of negresaj
Mr. Montmolin’s plantation, sixteen miisa
the river. The negroes did not appear tof
derstand, nor were they able to speak tki"
glish language. He thought they could ssCl
the Spanish language. He was not ablep
say that the negroes were Africans. The pi
oners Yvere committed for trial.
Market Reports.
Savannah, Jan. 3.—Sales of Cotton to5i
960 hales. The America’s neYvs caused
advance in prices. The market closed witiq
advancing tendenev. Middlings quote i
111 cents.
Charleseon, Jan. 3.—Cotton.—Salesofii*
bales to-day at unchanged prices.
New York, Jan. 3.—Cotton.—800 bale: j
Cotton Yvere sold to-day. Middlings 11
@ 11 ll-16c. Flour firm, with sales of9.'"J
barrels. Wheat firm, with sales of lb. 1 *
bushels; Red $1 10 @ $1 20; White $11
$1 56. Com firm, with sales of 8.500 busts
Mixed 78 @ 80c; White 75 @ 761c: le&j
73 @ 75c. Turpentine firm, at 50c.
firm, and held at $1 55. Rice quiet.
Savannah January 3, 4 P. H
COTTON.—A fair enquiry existed to-h? :j
The total distance between St. Louis and
San Francisco by the new overland route is
2,755 miles.
fP“ Mr. Crisp has written a letter to. Mr.
G. J. Loyd, agent of Temperance Hall, Colum
bus, stating that he will visit that city, with
his dramatic company, for a season, to com
mence on the 7 th of February, 1859.
All the passions make us commit faults, but
love makes us guilty of the most ridiculous
ones.
A Sight Never Before Seen.—A veteran
sea captain made the statement that on last
Sabbath he saw such a sight :is was never be
fore seen, as he supposed, in this or any other
country—the communion service administered
onboard a ship of the United States Navy—
the receiving ship North Carolina. He said
that, in connexion Yvith Rev. Mr. Jones and
others, from the Mariner’s Church of this
city, he Yvent on board this old ship at the
navy yard, and there, in connexion with the
religious services, the pastor and delegation
from the Mariner’s Church receh-ed into the
same, twenty-three sailors, in full membership
after Yvhich the holy sacrament of the Lord’s
Supper Yvas administered. It was a precious
season. Five of the tYventy-threc Yvere bap
tised; eighteen had been baptized in their in
fancy, sliOYving that they Yvere the children of
pious parents. A finer set of good, intelligent-
looking men he never saw. Some of them
could speak several different languages, and
five or six different nationalities were repre
sented.—Christian Intelligencer.
flT Some tavern jokers hailed a clergy
man in Nashua, N. H., the other day, with a
request that he would settle a dispute among
them.
“What about ?” said he—
“Tell us how old the devil is ?” he answer
ed.
“Keep your own family records,” said he;
and the fellow yvIio said that he could “head
off the ministcr,” went in and treated.
and prices are firm at 4c. adY*ance over >5**'
Friday’s quotations. Sales are irregular,
in some cases more th:m |c advance has^M
jiaid. The news per America has to!'
little influence. The transactions foot
hales, as folloY\*s: 32 at 10$, 22 at 11. 9 at!!:
11 at 11 5-16, 27 at Ilf, 216 at 11$, 82atl^*0
223 at 11$, and 346 hades at 11| cents. § ^
——.— a
A Fertile Brain.—Galignani relates
folloYving story of a Parisan spandthriit:
The Prince of Conti Yvas embarrassed -IS
Yvant of money—Yvould to Heaven that
want weTe confined to th - Priniv of Coni']
People refused any longer to trust him.
coachman came to him one morning,
said :
“The horses, my lord, want hay
corn.”
4 ‘Give them hay and corn, then,” saiii°|
Prince;
“But, my lord, the farmers and the 0*1
chandlers refuse to supply me any more b*|
their accounts are discharged.”
*‘Ah ! that alters the matter,” quoth 1
Pr ince very gravely.
“But, j*our highness, what shall the 1
haY*e ?”
“HaY*e!—call my steY\*aid.”
The steward appears. _
“So the com chandlers refuse to cro®'|
the rascals—do they !” said the prince-
“Yes, my lord.”
“Humph ! who does gh*e us credit ;■
“Noone!” '
“Yes, now I think of it; my lord thef**|
cook does,”
• Honest fellow, we encourage him.
the Prince. “Coachman, your affair is j
tied—give the horses cheese-cakes and 1 j
tards.”
(IT* The Christian says that the clergy
the United States six million of dollars
ally, the criminals nineteen, the lawyers . I
ty-five, tobacco-forty, and rum one hun 1
million.
idinfljj
Abscence destroys small passions, an]
es great ones; as the wind exU ”
pers and kindles fires. 0 ^
fitT The population of Europe, is .
000 of Asia, 720,000 000 ; of Ame»**£
000 000 ; of Africa, 89,000 000; of
2,000 000. Total population of the gb**-
283 000000.