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3, 1851.
degree, what Hamilton has been to your State.
From this time forward, year by year, a class of
ten —more or less—will be sent forth in some
measure prepared to explain the scriptures, and
teach and preach the gospel of Christ. At the
thought of this, even the wilds of the jungle may
well rejoice! They wjll now soon, if Bro. Ma
son is spared, have their own llible in theit own
tongue.” M'e have roctn for no further ex
tracts at present.— Bap. Beg.
foreign.
MINISTERIAL CRISIS IN ENGLAND.
We have recently passed through a minister!- j
al crisis, as every body knows, of extraordinary j
length and severity. We have been assured bv
■every actor in tlmt most complicated and incon
cltrsive drama, that the obstacle to the formation
of a strong, compact and efficient government
wa to be found, not in the clamor for protection
to agriculture, nor in the signal miscarriage of
iJto ministerial budget, nor yet in the ill-timed i
opposition to parliamentary reform, but wholly,
Solely, and entirely in the irreconcilable differ- I
cnce of opinion on the question of papal aggres
sion. This was a matter of principle on “both
sides, which no anxiety for the public service—
no expediency, however manifest—no calls for
patriotism, however utgenl,could induce them to
compromise. . Armed to the teeth in stubborn
•and unbending consistency and fortified with bis
letter to Mr. Howard, Sir James Graham was
not lo be moved; while, firm in conscious recti
tude, and determined to perform.his duly faith
fully to an insulted crown and an outraged na
tion, Lord John Russell relied on bis letter to the
Bishop of Durham, and was equally inexorable.
It was a spectacle, enough lo convince the veriest
sceptic of political morality and public principle,
to see our Premier consent again lo undertake the
government of the country with the very identical
cabinet which he liad himself dissolved as incom
petent only ten days before —ready to endure any
given number of minorities, and to run the gaunt
let throbgh any species of parliamentary misad
venture, rather than betray those hopes which
•he had induced the Protestant people of England
to repose in him as their champion.
Well, the sacrifice has been made—the minis
try has been reconstructed in the full strength of
its original weakness, and Parliament und the
country naturally look with anxiety to the per
formance of those piedges for the sake of which
■%o much inestimable timo and invaluable sup
port have been so freely and cheerfully sacri
ficed. How those pledges—for the sake of which
the affairs of this great empire are now intrusted
to a government which cannot calculate on a
majority in either house ol Parliament, und which
has only retained office for the purpose of carry
ing out the wishes of the people with regard to
the Roman Catholic question—have been ro
deemed, our readers will learn from tiro speech
es delivered by Sir George Grey and Lord John
Russell in the House of Commons. It is actual
ly determined to strike out of the bill which gave
so poor and inadequate an expression to the pub
lie feeling, tire second clause, which renders in
valid all deeds executed under the prohibited
style and title, and lire third clause, by which all
property left or conveyed to persons bearing
these illegal titles is forfeited to the crown.—
The bill MlI, therefore, be reduced to its first
clause, imposing a penalty of a hundred pounds
for the assumption of an ecclesiastical title taken
from any place in the United Kingdom, to bo
sued for by the Attorney General.
* The effect of the measure is, therefore, this :
It is unlawful for Dr. Wiseman to call himself
Archbishop of Westminister, and for Dr. M’ilalc
to call himself Archbishop of Tuam, and the
government may, if it pleases—that is to say,
if it is disposed to create a violent disturbance
-and most pernicious agitation among the Irish
Roman Catholics—prosecute the only party who
systematically so offends. But it is quite law
ful for these persons to convey or receive pro
perty under these illegal titles, and all dona
tions or bequests made to or for the purpose of
supporting or endowing their d’gnitirs, which
Parliament declares to be illegal and void,
will be perfectly valid, to all intents and pur
poses. Lord John Russell told us in his famous
letter that the assumption of authority by the
“Pope and the Cardinal was inconsistent with
our national indcpondenco. lie proceeds to leg
islate against that assumption of authority, and
he openly and avowedly sanctions its exercise,
by withdrawing all prohibition from its endow,
ment, and placing the power of repressing it,
oat in the hand* ol the people at large, but of the
government of the day.— Lon. Times, March 8.
ADDITIONAL INTELLIGENCE BY TIIE CANADA.
Appearances indicate that it is hardly possible
that the Russell administration will hold together
until after the Easter holy-days. The Ministry
lias sustained another defeat in Parliament. 1 lie
agitation on the Catholic question, and on the
final measures proposed by Prussia, continue un
pirated. The Protectionist leaders are making
strong efforts to secure a majority of the House
of Commons, favorable to the establishment of a
<duty of 4 shillings on foreign Corn, and one shil
ling on Bread Stuffs.
IMPORTANT FROM THE CAPE OF GOOD
HOPE—REBELLION OF THE KAFFIRS.
’I he barque Hamilton, Capt. Ilallett, arrived
at this port, at 2 o’clock this afternoon, with ad
vices from the Cape of Good Hope to the 4th of
February, forty day's later than our previous
accounts.
We are indebted to Messrs. Sccomb, Taylor
aV Cos., for the loan of a file of papers, and also
for the Cape Town Mail Extra, of Feb. 3.
The accounts are most deplorable. The
K-uftir chiefs have generally rebelled against the
English authorities, and it was feared at the la
test accounts that the Hottentots were also wa
vering in their loyalty.
, From the last of December, the date of the
Ust advice*, a war of posts had been continued
between the Kaffirs and the English and thcii
native allies, in which the former were ulways
victorious where the action was in the open
field.
The accounts of the murder of farmers of the
Interior, their families and servants, by the re
bels, come in from all quarters, and where they
were no't,killed they were driven off’penniless,
and their farms and houses plundered and burned.
Sir Harry Smith, the English Governor, was
forwarding levies to the scene of war. The colo
nists were aiding hirh, believing that in a prompt
suppression of the rebellion lay their only safety.
Should any number of tho different nativo
chiefs, with the Hottentots, join the rebels, the
contest would bo desperate. It was thought that
the Governor would'soon be at the head of 10,-
000 men.
The Cape Town Gazette of Feb. 1. says that
on the 23 of January the Kaffirs, 3000 strong,
attacked the colonists and other allies near Fort
Hare. They were repulsed with the loss of
100 killed,
On the 3d of January a strong force of Kaffirs
attacked Fort White. Tin: Kaffirs were dis
persed with ‘JO killed. On the morning of the
7tb, the rebel chief Hermanus, with his horde of
Kaffirs and ilie Hottentots whom he had search
ed or compelled t j accompany him, attacked
fort Beaufort. The assault was repulsed, and
the chief and his son and a number of people
killed, and bis parly completely routed.
Cats Town Mail Office, \
Monday, Feb. 3, 1851, 11 A. M.
The post which arrived yesterday morning,
has brought accounts of a lamentable state of af
fairs in the frontier districts. The Blinkwater
rebels, and many Hottentots who had joined them
had taken post at Waterkloof, in the Western
part of Fort Beaufort district, and were ravaging
the country in all directions.
In the space between Graham’s Toivn and
Fort Beaufort on the East, and Somerset and
Cradock on the West, every farm had been
plundered and the inmates driven away, except
at two places, Daggaborr’s Neck (Mr. Trollip’s)
and Lvndot h (Mr. Dodds Pringle’s.) At these
places encampments had been formed and the
defenders were in constant expectation of being
attacked.
.Most of the Hottentot* who were in the ser
vice o! the farmers had either joined the rebels
or had formed separate encampments, where they
remained neutral—subsisting, however, it was
supposed, on the plunder of the deserted farms.
The Manoazana post has been abandoned and
burned. Mr. Temple Notirse and bis family
were afterwards driven from their house, in the
vicinity of the post, and an English sorvant
named Key was killed. Messrs. Ainslie, Me
Master, Stokes and many others have been in
like manner forced lo take refuge in the towns
or encampments. The loss of properly, de
stroyed or plundered, has been very great.
There were reports of further defection at Kat
River, and that Fort Armstrong had been aban
doned.
Some marauding parties of Tambookics had
entered the colony. In some places they bad
been repulsed by the Boers and Fingoes, and a
considerable number killed.
The colonists, both English and Dutch, were j
beginning to turn out in-some force. A com- \
mnnd of about 150 mounted burghers, under !
Field Commandant Bowker, compo-ed (the Gra- !
ham’s Town Journal states) of about equal num
bers of Dutrh and English, bud gone from. So
merset to attack the rebels at Waterkloof; they ;
were to be followed by 100 more from the same ;
place.
More than 40 Boers were expected from Zwa
ger’s Hoik, under Field cornet Kruger, and as
many from Bruinties Hook. The Boers from
the New Ilantatn would leave on thelGlh ult.,
and those of some other field-cornet would follow, j
Many Kaffirs had been seen about Graham’s i
Town, and there had been some apprehension of
an attack.
It is mentioned in a letter from the Rev. Mr.
Read, sen., that all the mission stations in Kaf
firland are burned down, except the Seminary at
Alice and the (Jliumie station.
From Kuffrnrin the accounts received are
more cheering. Near King William’s Town a
detachment of Cape corps nral Fingoes defeated
a much larger party of Kaffirs, killing many of
them, with the loss ofonly one Fingo killed, and
a Cape corps man wounded.
A letter from (Iraham’s Town, dated Jan. 28,
1851, says:
On Monday evening the mails arrived from the
Northern Sovereignty, Colesburg,Cradock, Som
erset, See., bringing letters which bad been ao
emnulnting in these places during the last three
weeks. These letters contained the most fear
ful and alarming intelligence of the state of
those purls of the colony, and to which, from this
neighborhood, no help whatever can he rendered.
The letters alluded to, some of them down to
the *J4ih inst., confirmed intelligence which had
been received through oilier channels previously,
of the deplorable condition to which various re
spectable families had been reduced. One let
ter states that the Pumbookies, under Mrpassn,
had been ravaging the colonial border and de
stroying all before them.
They had fixed upon a night to attack Whit
llesoa and Fort Loxton as it is now called, but
were prevented by the arrival at. that place, the
same evening, of a number of Fingoes belong
ing to Cradock, but who had no knowledge of
the intended attack.
In the course of Monday reports reached
town from various quarters that considerable
bodies of Kaffirs had been seen moving round
Graham’s ‘J'own in various directions. This,
was coupled with some intelligence to the im
pression that on attempt on Grulmm’s Town was
-in contemplation. In fact the authorities were
so alive to this, that about three o’clock the in.
habitants generally were aroused and warned to
keep a sharp lookout. However the morning
passed o(Tquietly, and up to this time, Tuesday,
3 o’clock, P. M., nothing further has transpired
to disturb our tranquility.
A letter from Cradock stales tliut Mapassa is
lying within a few hours tide of the colonial
border, at the head of 5.000 men; that spies
have been seen in the neighborhood of the town;
and that in fact they have been informed it is
tho determination of tho Tambokies and Hot
tentots. in conjunction, to destroy the place.—
The Hottentots in that neighborhood are form
ing themselves into camps and legers in the
most formidable numbers. At one place, Water
Kloof, it is supposed, and in this several of the
statements agree, there are not fewer than 1,000
men. In all the cases that have come to hand,
the servants on the farms have turned against
their employers and joined tho rebels.
Somerset, -Jan. 22, 1851.
We arc in a state of much alarm, owing, to so
many Hottentots having turned against their
masters, and 1 fear that (hero is a deep laid re
bellious plot throughout the colony among the
Hottentots. Messrs. T. Nourse, Ainslie, and
Bennett, have severally been ordered off by their
own servants, in conjunction with other rebels.
One of Mr. Nourse’s English servants was shot
dead.
Tho rebels fired a volley at Mr. Nourso and
his man—the man fell, hut Air. Nourse escaped
unhurt and returned to the house, and ognin
went out unarmed, on seening which the rebels
did not again fire, but very eoolly told Mr.
Nourso to give up his arms and property and
leave at once. One fellow, Adam Purdewag
ter, said he was sorry for Airs. Nourse and tho
children, ns they had behaved well to him. I
fear the rebellion among the Hottentots is general.
The latest intelligence received from Wbit
tlesea and Kamastone is to tho 22d inst., at
which dale no attack had been made on the for
mer place, although one was daily expected.
Two brothers of Mapassa had joined tho war
parly. There had boon a skirmish in the neigh,
hot hood of Kamastone between a small patrol of
Fingoes (20) led by one of Kama’s people, and
a party of Tnmbookics. Eighty lambookies,
some mounted, attempted to surround them, but
the Fingoes shot three of the enemy and made
good their retreat.
THE CHRISTIAN INDEX.
Extract from a letter, dated King. William’s
Town, January 2(jfh.
“The Kaffirs have got all tile fielJ allowance
returns and detachment orders I sent la-t mail
to you. Armstrong gave Seyoloa a licking yes
terday and killed 21 of his men. Wc had one
man (C. M. R.) wounded and 5 horses. I ar
rived too lute'lur tlie affair.” —Boston Traveler.
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Birarllnneiiitfl.
07” The Piedmontese Minister of the Interior,
proposes to reduce all national festivities in that
kingdom to one solemn day, and to nppotm flie
second Sunday in May for that purpose.
{K?“The freedom of the two fugitive slaves,
arrested at Brownsville, has been purchased, one
for 8300, by the citizens oT that low n, and the
other for S7OO, which he pnid himself.
OC7"It is estimated that within the last fifty
years 32,000,000 of Bibles have been distributed
over tha earth translated into two hundred dia
lects.
largest locomotive in the world is siiid
to be in operation on the Madison and Indianap
olis Railroad. It weighs 48 tons!
AVilkce, of the late U- S. Exploring
Expedition, lias received a gold medal from the
British Government in honor of his discovery of
the Antarctic Continent.
OO - ’l’llroe Cent Pieces arc now being made
nt the United Stntes Mint. They are threc
quaiters silver and one quarter copper, and about
tlte size of a Spanish sixteenth, though consider
aliy thicker.
00“A Dutch East Indinman nt Liverpool has
an iron mast, constructed of iron plates formed
into cylinders and riveted together. Inside, nt
various intervals, cross-bars are interlocked, pre
serving the shape and the strength ol the mast.
05” Late intelligence from Mexico mentions
that a proposal is now before tho Mexican Legis
lature for compelling the clergy to respect tlte
sovereignly ol the Slnte, and to abstain from
persecuting,, by ecclesiastical censures, those
who claim the liberty of abandoning their moons- •
tic life.
o tj~ Hon. James Morris, the newly appointed
Postmaster General of Canada, is now in Wash
ington, for the purpose of negotiating a postal
arrangement with the Postmaster General of the
United States. At present, letters do not cross
the line from either side unless they ure prepaid.
|C7* Advice from Bermuda to the Silt ult.,
state that there was still a great scarcity of rain,
and sumo of tho arrow root manufacturers had
boon compelled to forgo operations for tho want
of water. A severe galo v isited the island about
the close of February, by which much damage
was done to the agricultural products.
OCT’ Her Majesty the Queen has appointed
lit. Honorable Sir Henty Lyiton Bui we r, K. C.
It., her Majesty’s Envoy Extraordinary Minister
Plenipotentiary to the United Slates of America,
to be an Ordinary Member of the First Class of
Knights Grand Cross of the Most lion. Order of
the Bath.
00~ Among the lato appointments of President
Fillmore, liy and with the advice and consent of
the Senate, are llto fallowing, conferred upon
citizens of Georgia.
Allen F. Owen. Consul nt Hnvnnnn.
Yelvorton P. King, Charge to New Grenada.
. Thomas Butler lviug, Collector for the Port of
San Francisco.
CO'Miss I)ix is preparing to visit the prisons
in Virginia, North Carolina anil Georgia—to
busy herself, indeed, during the summer, in the
abode of misery, vice, destitution und crime.—
We are pleased, says the Intelligencer, to hear
that she is not completely disheartened by the
failure of her benevolent scheme for tho benefit
of the insane.
OCr The Washington Correspondent of the
Baltimore Sun, in a letter to that paper under
date of 21th inst., says: “It is said that. Mr.
Washington, proprietor of the Mount Vernon es
tate, was asked by the President, on Friday, the
price at which tho United States Government
could purchase Mount Vernon for a Military
Assylutn, and that the reply was, that for two
hundred acres around tne mansion, he would ask
two hundred thousand dollars. Mr. W. re
marked that tho offer of two hundred thousand
dollars had been made to him by private indivi
duals, and that of course lie would expect the
government to pay the same.”
steamer Prometheus from Havana,
reports that a great battle had been fought be
tween the Salvadorians and Guutemalians, in
which the former were defonlod with a loss of
500 killer] and 200 prisoners.
The town of Lomas has been burnt by Span
iards—incendiaries.
Interesting from Central America. —The brig
Frontier arrived at Boston on the 23d ult., with
dates from Truxillo to the Ist March. The whole
of Central America was in quite an unsettled
state—the recent defeat of the army of the State
of Sar, Salvador by the army of Guatemala, un
der Gen. Currcra, had induced fears that tlie vic
torious General might overrun tho country even
to Truxillo. ‘flic English Consul, Mr. Chatfield,
had published a letter, claiming, under the Mos
quito King, the territory close up to Truxillo. —
The English fleet had given up the blockade of
Tiger Island, and sailed toward Guatemala. —
The inhabitants of Honduras, Nicaragua, San
Salvador, &c., look to the United States for conn
tenance and aid against the claims of G. Britain.
Further from the Cape of GooJ Hope. —Letters
from the Capo of Good Hope to Feb. 4ih, .staled
that the rebellion which had broken out has been,
up to the present time, of a more bloody and fear
ful character than any proceeding one. ‘I lie
loss of lifo on tho English side lias been great.
The whole of the border districts arc abandoned.
The English Governor, Sir Harry Smith. Ims
proclaimed that it shall be a war of extermina
tion, and has sent to the Isle oi !• ranee for more
troops. . ....
The Rev. Air. Bryant, the American Mission
ary, died Dec. 23d.
“it is presumed that tho war will not endanger
tho American Missions, although the London
Wesleyan and Scotch Missions will probably
suffer severely.
From China.—hole accounts from China con
firm the report of the death of Commissioner Lin.
He expired suddenly on the 18lh of November,
on his wav to the insurrectionary district of
Quan-si. Whilst the Government seemed to j
have prevailed over the insurgents in that district
a fresh movement has taken place in tho Island j
of Hainan, whe r e ten thousand insurgents aro (
in arms. One body of Imperial troops, sent to !
suppress the insurgents, fraternized with them,
and u second body wore dispersed. The cholera
having broken out, has brought anew calamity
in the province of Quangtong. The Chinese
authorities have captured die pirates who mur
dered Bazt, the Swedish missionary, and have
breaded twenty-eight of them. At Ava, a
frightful con (lag ration has consumed two thou
sand -houses.
title of a Theologian ■ —The Rev. Mr. Fors
ter, student of the Andover Theological Insti
tute,’ committed suicide in that town a day or
two since, lie is supposed to linve hecn insane.
Hi* dead body was recognized by his father,
to sec him.
Philadelphia, March 22d.—Mr. Faddcn, the
apothecary who, through carelessness, adminis
tered it duse. of morphine to a young lady, last
fsumbiMa'Jjajaeby causing her death, has been
srntPjF*ed^B^j£. e months’ confinement in the
pen i teittia
dicted (lie persons charged with aiding in the
late fugitive slave rescue. The jury comes
fi'Otii flilLrem parts of the State.
ISiagara Suspension Bridge. —A few days
since the suspension bridge, over the Niagara,
from Lewiston to Queenston, was tested in the
presence of a la■'ge number of persons. Thir
teen wagons, laden with sand and stone, passed
from each side, meeting in the centre; and at the
sumo t’diie one hundred persons on horseback and
on sept passed over. The result was satisfacto
ry to the parties concerned.
Jityiltof SaVnnnnl, l. —At a merting oflheDi
rcQtorpof the Hank of Savannah held yesterday
at the office of L. F. Harris, Esq., W. 11 Tins
ley of Milledgeville, was unanimously elected
Cashier for the present year. We congratulate
tile Directors on the result, they could not have
made a better appointment.— Sav. Geo. 21s/ ult..
A New Stale in New York. —There aro move
ments on foot, it appears, to form anew State
within the territory now constituting the Slateof
New York. The new State as proposed, will
comprise the city of New York, and the counties
of Kings, Queens, Suffolk, Richmond, and some
othetyyflw tile river.
Refused. —The Mayor and Al
dermelfflWftoston have refused to grant ihn use
pf Fnnkmil Hall, on the 26th of March, to It. E.
Allliprp and others, for the purpose of holding n
mass meeting of those opposed to tile fugitive
slave law.
The Denth. Penally Abolished. —Tho Senate
of lo’.va has just abolished the penalty of death.
Wisconsin hits barely failed to abolish the death
penalty ibis winter. A bill for that purpose
passu! last session hut somehow failed to reach
tho Governor so as to receive his signature.
This year it has failed. In Michigan, repeated
attempts to react the death penalty, abolished five
years ago, have been defeated.— Col. Enq.
Depth of Mnj. Gen. Brook. —The steamship
Louisiana, as wo learn from tho N. O. True
‘Delta, just arrived front Lavaca, brings the mol. i
ancbrily intelligence that the veteran general,
Qeotfce M. Brooke, U. S. A , died at San Anto
nio, Texas, on the 9lh tilt., after nn illness of
two days. In the last war with Great Britain
lie was with Scott on the northern frontier, and
shared with tlmt great commander tho glory that
was so gallantly achieved in that memorable
struggle. During the greater portion of the 1
Mexican war bo was stationed at New Orleans,
where h contributed essentially to the success
of tlmt war, by hastening forward supplies and
men to the scene of strife, lie was about sev
enty years old, and had never been married.—
Cot. Enq.
Hcfrlli of~Edrtnrs. —Three of the ablest and
molt einincirt ol llio Arnei icun Editors of the last
half century Imve died within a few days—John
Skinner at Baltimore, Isaac Hill in Washing.
Inn,nd Mordecai M. Noah in this city. Mr.
Hill bus been for some years in bail health, but
Col. Skinner is cut ofl’ by n deplorable casualty,
while Mitj. Noah’s death was also sudden, caus
ed by palsv. Each of them had been connected
witlf the. Press from a period antedating our re
colloptiun; nil were of the Democratic school of
Jefferson and Madison but Col. Skinner, from
early life an ardent devotee of Agricultural im
provement, mid an advocate of Protection to
Home Industry. All three of these veterans
were between sixty and seventy years of age,
nearest to seventy. It is not often that the Edi
torial profession is called to mourn so heavy a
loss in tho course of two or three days.— Tri
bune.
Death of Joanna Bnillie. —Joanna BniHie, tho
pocloss, expired at llampstcacJ. near London, on
Sunday evening, ilio 22.1 of February, m the
very advanced age nfß9. She lived tlio greater
portion of her life with a maiden sister, Agnes—
also n poetess—to whom she addressed her beau
tiful poem. Walter Scoltt was a
devoted admirer of Miss liaillie, but never suc
ceeded in drawing her into society. Born in the
year 1,702. in the manse nl Bolhwcdl, near Glas
gow, of which place her father was minister, her
! ,rrent her with a period signalized
hv tho niost remarkable events, and equally so
hy intellectual impulse which then
( leavened the social mass.
A Great Discnrrn/. — Wo saw some weeks
i n" o, in a Pennsylvania paper, nn announcement
lliiit n motive power had been discovered which
| would supersede the use of stcum. It is said
that some facts have recently come to light
, which entitle the statement to credit. Professor
Solomati, of Uarrodsbtirg, Ky., has successfully
applied the power of carbonic acid gas ns a sub
stitute for steam in propelling enginery for every
purpose, ‘file power of this gas lias long been
known to chemists, but their inability to regulnlo
and govern it lias prevented its use as a propell
ing ngeit. Prod. 8. claims to be able to control
it with perfect safety, and asserts that it will af
ford a power equal to steam in one-fiftieth of the
space, and one hundredth part of the expense
with both furnace and boilers. Experiments
have recently been made in Cincinnati which are
said to be entirely satisfactory.— Nash. Banner.
Indian Affairs in Texas. —lt is stated in some
of that (Jen. Harney is to bo placed
of the contemplated movements
and other hostile Indians
in hope this intelligence is correct,
for wo’ know no inari better adapted to this ardu
ous service. In vigor, enterprise, and decided
gallantry, (Jen. Harney lias few rivals, and
tin’s# arc the qualities to fit men for this prairie
warfare. The Cumanclies oro hold horsemen,
rapid ‘and fearless in action, mid adventurous in
a most extraordinary degree. They should he
met by tho same energies, and repulsed hy the
supeiof skill and courage of civilized warfare.
Geo.. (Jurney is the man for the occasion, and
wo hope ho will scour the pluinf of Texas, us
he did tho everglades of Florida, and inspire the
“(h sort warriors” with tho sumo terrors that
made them turn polo at his nnnie. These In
dian wars nro not to be trifled with or procras
tinated With them it should boa “word and a
blow,” and the blow struck first. (Jen. Harney
is the man to adopt and carry out this policy.
This will soon end the war.— Washing! m Unioiu
Anns for California. —The Secretary ot War,
estimating the quota for the militia of California
at SIOO,OOO, has forwarded to that state, at the
request of Senator Gwin, 100 Coil’s pistols, 200
muskets, ami the remainder of the State’s quota
in rifles.
Steamboat Collision. —A fearful collision took
place between the steamers Lowell and S. F.
Vinton, about 25 miles below Wheeling, which
resulted in a terrible destruction of life and pro
perty. The Lowell sank almost instantly, car
rying down with her to instant destruction, 15 ol
those on board, among whom were the duel En
gineer, and n lady with her three children. The
whole cargo of tho Lowell is a total loss, inclu
ding tho mails and an iron boat which sho was
carrying to its destination. The Vinton escaped
uninjured.
Colonization in Virginia. —The Presbyterian
Synod in Virginia at its last meeting, held at
\\ inclmsler, earnestly recommended its mem
bars to co-operate with the Slate, in giving effi.
ciency to the act lately passed by tlie Legisla
ture ot Virginia, appropriating $30,000 for five
years, to colonize the Iree blacks of the Slate in
Liberia. The congregations of tlie Synod were
recommended to take up collections in aid ol tlie
purpose. The Synod also approved of the pro
posal to establish a lino of steamships to Africa.
Denth of Gen. Brooke. A telegraphic de
spatch was received from Now Orleans, at the
War Department, announcing the death of Bre
vet Major G'eiierut George M. Brooke, which
took place at San Antonia, Texas, on the 9;h
ult. Gen. R. entered the Army from Virginia,
in 1808, and served gallantly at the defence of
Fort Erie, and in the Mexican War. At the
time ofliis death ho was in command of the Bth
military department, (Texas,) and engaged in
planning an expedition against the Indians.
Naval Chaplain —The Rev. J. S. Lennart,
formerly of Newark, New Jersey, cliuniplain in
the United States Navy, who te.crnlly returned
from a three years’ cruise on tho Brazil station,
has been ordered for duty on board the United
States receiving ship North Carolina, oft - New
York.
A Clock for Sixty Cents. Mr. Clinuncey Je
rome, nt New Haven. Conn., lias actually made
a time-piece, which ho will warrant to keep good |
reckoning, and which lie sells fir sixty cents at !
wholesale, and one dollar nt retail. Tho works !
are all made of brass, lie makes upwards of
eight hundred a day of these articles.
The World's Pair. —lt is proposcJ in New
York to send out a first class ship, to remain six
weeks nt London, with visitors to the Fair, ifen
courugcrnenl be offered. The party will live on
board the vessel from their departure till their re
turn.
The World's Exhibition. —The sale of season
tickets for the great exhibition of all nations
commenced on Thursday, tha27th of February,
and up to the sailing of the steamer 2500 tickets
hud been sold. Persons aro not entitled to free
admission on account of thrir being exhibitors,
unless they state their intentions of attending for
the purpose of explaining or koeping in order
tlieir contribution. The executive committee
have decided that no free admissions shall bo
granted. The completion of the interior ol the
exposition building, and the reception of goods is
going on rapidly. The coloring is nearly com
pleled, upon the principle proposed liy Mr. Owen
Jones, being a combination in certain definite
propoiliens of blue, red, and yellow, and al
though there was nt first a universal outcry
against it on the part ol the learned in such niat
| ters, who demonstrated that it was all wrong, it
is now deservedly pronounced to realize the
highest expectations.
An American Citizen imprisoned in France. —
Mr. \V m. E. Petty, o native of the United States,
writes lum*u that ho has boon incarcerated for
fifteen months past in tho prison of Puimhoof, in
j Franco, on a charge of which he is entirely in
i’ nocent, and that ho has had no assistance from
* the American consul, i\fr. Iloquca, at Nantes,
AiUohiogruphy. —lt is understood that Major
Noah has left behind him an autobiography
which his sons will publish. It will, no doubt,
be very interesting, for it will comprise a history
of politics and other matters for nearly half a
century.
Accident lo President Sparks, of Harvard Col
lege. —We are pained to learn that ns Mr,
Sparks, President ofllarvard College, was cross
ing Cambridge bridge, about 9 o’clock on Satur
day evening, lie was knocked down by n horse
and buggy, which enmo upon him as he was
passing from the north to the south side of the
bridge, at tho Cambridge end of it. The road
was muddy, so that ho wns unable to bear the
vehicle approaching, and it was going at such a
rapid rale that when the occupants culled to him,
just as they wore upon him, ho was unable to
escape. Iwo students of tho College wore near
hy, and at once ran to the assistance of Mr.
Sparks, and after some time procured a carriage,
in which he was convoyed to Ins house. Ur.
Wyman was at once called and nn examination
showed that the collar bone and one of the ribs
was broken, while his face, especially about the
eyes and forehead, wns badly cut olid bruised.
He had also experienced much pain internally,
hut it is hoped that he has received no other in.
juries than those which are at present apparent.
It is obvious, however, that the blow received
was un exceedingly severe one.— Boston True.
MARRIED,
On the liU 1 February, at. the house of Col. John
Mercer, in Palmyra, by the R v. E. W. Warren, Mr.
Wm. F. Owes to Miss Jank W. Watsis, all of Lee
county, Ga.
On the 27t’i Feb., by the Rev. S. G. Daniel, Mr.
W. F. Brand to Miss Rebecca Bi. land, all of Mil
ledgovillc, Ga.
On the lltli March, by Rev. T. U. Wilkes, J. R.
Lawrence, Esq. to Miss Mantua A. Goui.ev, both
of Putnam.
On tiie 18th of March, by the Ilcv. S. G. Panic),
Dr. It. Gnom on llarit:ii, of Lincoln county, to Miss
Ann .1. Barkk-ujeli., of Baldwin county, 0 i.
OBITUARY.
W* •*-
“ 1/Nivcs have thnr time to fall,
Ami llowcrs to w'thor at tin* north wind’s breath,
Ami stars lo rot- hut all,
Than hast all WQuoiifi for tliy own, O, death !**
Uop:irl*d this lift*. 3tl of March. ISM. Uov. John Mon man,
in the <l si year of his ain. I lis diserwo was that of Typhoid
Pneumonia. 110 had Ihmjii liiigariusc for sonietim** ho loro his
(loath, lie joined the. Hmrcli, at Rcliolmmli. Wilke* comity,
fia., in lH2i, and when the ohuith at I lepliKibnh in Lincoln
comity, was ooiiHiitntcd. lie looted Ins membership there,
niul the churc h triad# Inni a Dencoti, and afterwards licensed
him to preach the no*pel. In 1814 lie moved to Meriwether
county, (Ja., and wa. a member of the Union Church, north*
west of Oreeuville, w here lie was ordained, and where lie
lived as a Christian till his death. The Union Church mourns
her loss.
Resolutions adopted hy the Union Church,'March 15th,
1851, on the occasion of Ihe death ofbrni her John Merman.
Resolved, Ist. Thar we will retain an affectionate remera
bcranceofour departed brother, for his many virtues and ex
emplary piety, and the interest which he manifested in the
fulfilment oft lie various duties and offices assigned him bf
the church.
R solcalMd. Tlmt we deeply sympathize with our belovtMl
sister and her friends in their great loss, and feel our Fervic
hound to afford her all tlie assistance that she may stand in
need of at any lime, and to remember her at a throne of grace,
that God would hear ajid answer his prayers in behalf of hie
companion and the church*
R. solved. 3 (l. That these resolutions be recorded on our
church bo-*fc,and a copy thereof he given to our bereaved sis
ter. NATHAN BRAZIL,)
JOHN T* BROOKS. [ Committee.
W. W. PRATHER.)
Departed this life, on the 15th inst.. at the residence of bet
father in Meriwether county, Ga., after a short illness, of
Pneumonia. Rebecca A. Montgomery, daughter of Ilese
ktah Ik and Susan Montgomery in the lHlhyear of her age.—
She died, we believe in the triumphs of faith, though she had
not attached herself to the church. Her parents have had
strong hopes for her, for the two years past, as she seemed tu
manifest ihc deepest interest for the prosperity of zion, we
mourn not aferherus one having no hope.
W. vv. PRATHER,
God in the dispensation of Hi Providence has ta&en froiri
amongst >* <>ur well beloved and highly esteemed brother
Nicholas Perry, who dstarted this life at his reddened
in Meriwether county, Gn.,on tho 15th of January, 1851, aged
G 7 years. Brother Perry was a member of the Baptist Church
(Mount Hope at tlie warm springs.) and it truly may be said
of him. that ho honored the profession he made by a well or
dered life, a pious and godly conversation. He wria a Jeal
ous supporter of the Gospel at home ami abroad, ever ready as
he has often told his Pastor (the writer ofthis notic£) id gHa
an account of his stewardship here. Our brother has left aii
aged companion (but for a short time) and several interesting
children and the church and community to which he belonged,
to mourn their loss, but they mourn not as those w ho have no
hope, for our brother, gently as the infant turns to sleep on tho
bosom of its r.ioiher, sank into his last slumber, Without tliHUi
tnur or a sigh. The. aged Christian pose***! away from hi* bi
bora below to his reword high up in heaven, leaving on his
placid features the signet of everlasting peace. Blessed is
such a life, and still nnre blessed is such a death.
Brother PerryV funeral is to be preached nt his church on
the Ist Sabbath in May next. G. VV. EPPS;
Departed this life in Holmes county, Miss., on Thursday
morning, January9th, 1851, Mrs. Mary Elvira Denson,
in the 50th year of her age, and in tlie full assurance of the
Christian’s hope.
Mrs. Denson was n native of Sumter District, 8. C..and
the daughter of Thomas Brumby, sen., deceased: ghe lived
fr many years, up to her decease, a pibiis member of the Bap
tist church. For several years she was the subject of protract
ed a file! un. gradually yielding to the ravages of consumption,
which was borne with Christian inerkness. Speaking of her
religious state,she of'imes repeated the words, ‘‘To tne Jesus
i.iMvect*” Assuring her friends that Christ had Ibng bceh
It rshield and support in all her afflictions, whether of htißtl
or body, and ns the candle of life grew dim she was wonder
fully sustained by tho grace of God, bloused with a peaceful
and perfect mind in view* of a glorious immortality. Thus
she was enabled to depart, and her Christian friends and re
latives to exclaim in the language of the Scripture, ‘ Blessed
are they that die in the Lord.” She was an affectionate wife,
nn ! mother of four children, all of w hom are members of the
Baptist church, except the two youngest, and they can truly
say of her, though dead she yet speaketh. B.
Died, in Jefferson county, on the 2d inst., Mrs. Temper
ance 1.. wife of Mr. James M. Jones.
Mrs. Juno.? was a member of tlie Bark Camp (Baptist)
church, and pros* nted, during her last illness, irkltibi table evi
dences if'the sincerity and truthfulness of her pro!es>ion.~
Although the hand of death seemed unusually relentless iH
tearing ossunderthe ties of her mortality, it was nevertheless
powerless in silencing her tongue from telling of the consola
tiuna of the religion which supported and sustained her in that
trying moment. Even when she became so weak as to he
scarcely able to articulate, she would shout glory to God and
the R deemer. Thus died Mrs. Jones, kind and charitable
in her feelings, anient and enduring in her attachments.—
Slu* won the strongest oiler lions of her family and tlie respect:
of n numerous acquaintance. She left an affectionate husband
three children, mid a large circle of friends to mourn her loss.
Receipts of payment for the Chris
tian Index to April 1, 1851.
C. 11. Griffin to No. 13, ’52,.. 2 00
Bryan Duncan to No. 30, ’51,.. 5 00
L. Galloway to No. 10, !52,.. 5 Otf
John Evans to No. 10, ’52,.. 7 50
M. 11. Leggett to No. 25, ’52,.. 4 00
W. \V. Prather to No. 37, ’51,.. 2 06
P. Robertson to No. 38, ’51... 2 00
Mrs.L. C. Curtis to No. 21, ’53,.. 4 06
Mrs. L. A. Amos to No. 4, ’52,.. 1 60
J. J. Spratling to No. 9, ’51,.. 0 35
It. E. McUinty to No. 48, ’51,.. 3 00
Win. Johnson.. to No. 40, ’52,.. 5 00
| James Canada to No. 47, ’51,.. 2 00
J. G. Davis to No. 8, ’52,.. 5 00
Mrs. Julia Stovall to No. 0, ’52,.. 2 00
Stephen Borders to No. 12, ’53,.. 2 00
Branch Ligon to No. 35, ’51,. i 2 30
Joseph Robinson to No. IS, ’52,.. 2 00
Thomas Pierce to No. 11, ’52,.. 4 00
Sam. M(.’Cunts to No. 17, ’52,.. 2 00
Wm. Butler to No. 9, ’52,.. 5 00
M. Morenum to No. 14, ’52,.. 2 00
11. Monoritd to No. 14, ’52,.. 2 00
John Thomas to No. 14, ’52,.. 2 00
Wm. Nichols to No. 14, ’52,.. 2 00
John Florence to No. 14, ’52... 2 00
S. J. Brown to No. 50, ’51,.. 7 00
J. A. Moseley ~,to No, 10, ’52,.. 2 00
A. Everett.. to No. 19, ’52,.. 2 00
James Carter to No. 25, ’53,.. 2 00
T. Brunson to No. 21, ’52, a 200
T. Giddens to No. 10, ’52,.. 5 00
C. D. World to No. 13, ’52,.. 2 00
Dr. G. IS. Powell to No. 13, ’52,.. 2 00
W. E Barnes to No. 13, ’52,.. 2 00
T. 11. Blunt to No. 50, ’61,. .10 00
E. 11. Blunt to No. 50, ’51,., IQ QQ
A. C. Duggan to No. 14, ’52,.. 2 00
James Riley to No. 9, ’52,,, 2 00
llov. Wm. Byars to No. 5, ’01,., 2 0 0
D. San lord. to No. 50. ’51,.. 7 00
Rev. A. P. Norris to No. 31, ’52,.. 2 00
J. R- Martin to No. 48, ’51,.. 2 00
C. M. Dickerson to No. 48, ’51,.. 2 00
W. T. Howard to No. 13, ’52... 6 25
Win. Nasworthy \o No. 27, ’51,.. 2 00
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