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ATHENS;* GEO., THURSDAY, MAY 12, 1853.
NUMBER 9.
IPoetrji.
Lexington.
BY OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.
Slowly the mist O’er the meadow waa creeping,
Bright on the dewy buds glistened the son,
When from hi*conch while hie children were
sleeping, '■'» ’
Rote the rebel and shouldered hie gtm !
Waving her golden voil
* ' Over the silent dale,
Blithe looked the morning on cottage and spire;
Hushed was bis parting sigh,
While from his noble eye,
Flashed the last sparkle of liberty’s fire.
From Sharpe’s Magazine.
Last Honrs of Napoleon.
BY MRS. MAJOR WARD.
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Paacricc in the following counties:—Clark
Morgan, Walton. Jackson, Lnmpkin, Forsyth,
Hall, Gwinnett, Habersham, and Franklin.
Ouo of the firm will constantly attend tfaeie
counties, anJ most of thorn will bo attended by
hath partner*.
The office of C. Peepleai* over the store of D.
N. Judaon, who can, at alltimea.eitherhoor Mr,
Hoggin*, give correct information aa to oar ab
end or presence in Athens.
Dec. 1—39—1/.
On the nipbt of the 5th of May, 1821,
a young ensign of the Sixty-sixth Regi
ment, quartered at St. Helena, was wend
ing his solitary way along the path lead
ing from the plain of Deadwood to his
barracks, situated an a patch cf table-land
called Francis Plain*. The road was
dreary, far to the left yawned a vast
chasm, the remains of a crater,and known
to the islanders as.the ’’Devil's Punch
bowl;” although the weather had been
perfectly calm, puffs of wiud occasionally
issued from the neighboring valleys; and,
Oatbe smooth green where the fresh leaf is 1 at last, one of these puffs having got in-
springing, to a gully, had so much ado to get out
Calmly the first-born of glory hove met; 1 of it, that it shrieked, and moaned, and
Hark! the death-volley aronnd them are ringing! I gibbered, till it burst its bonds with a roar
Look! with their lifeblood ibo young grass is j like thunder—and dragged up in its
wot! wrath, on its passage to the sea, a few
Faint is the feeble breath, shrubs and one of those fair willows, be-
Murmuring low in death. neath which Napoleon, first Emperor
* Tell to yonrsons how thoir fathers have died,” I of France, had passed many a peaceful,
Nerveless the iron hand, j if not a happy hour of repose, surrouud-
Raised for its native land, ed by his faithful friends in exile.
Lies by the weapon that gleam, at its aide. | Thia occurr e n ce, not uncommon at
St. Helena, has given rise to an idea,
Over the hilUitlea the wild knell i. tolling. adopted even by Sir Walter Scott, that
From their far hamlets the young yeomanry , he soul G f Napoleon had passed to anoth-
come; jer destiny on the wings of the storm-
A* through the .tpnn-clotjds the thunder-burst | npirit; but, so faT from there being any
ro,Iin o» I tumult among the elements on that eveht-
Circles the beat of the mustering drum. fo| l|Ighl> t h e gus t of wind l have alluded
Fast on the Soldier s path I to W as ouly heard by the few whose col-
I tages dotted the green slopes of the
l= neighboring mountains. But as that fair
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Darken the waves ol wrath,
Long have they gathered and load shall they fall; ]
Red glares the musket’a flash,
Sharp rings the rifle’s crash.
Blazing and Hanging from thicket and wall.
Gaily the plume of thchoraemen was dancing,
Never to shadow his cold brow ngain;
Proudly at morning the war-steed was pranc
ing,
Reeking and panting he droops on tho rein;
Palo is the lip of scorn.
Voiceless the trumpet horn.
Torn is the silken fringed red cross on high;
Many a belted breast
Low on the tnrf shall rest.
Ere the dark hunters the herd have passed by.
Snow-girdled crags where the boars wiud is ra
ving.
Bocks whery the weary floods murmur and
wail,
Wild* wherethe fern by the furrow is waiving.
Reeled with the echoes that rode on the gale;
Far as the tempest thrills
Over the daikcned bills,
Far as the sanshine streams over the plain,
Roused b y'be tyrant band*
Woke nil the mighty land,
Girdled for battle from mountain to main.
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tree dropped, a whjsper fell among the
it landers that Napoleon wan dead i No
need to dwell upon what abler pen* than
mine have recorded ; the eagle’s wings
were folded.the dauntless eyes were clos
ed, the last words, "Tele armee,'* had
passed the faded lips, the proud heart had
ceased to beat!
They arrayed the illustrious corpse in
the attire identified with Napoleon even
at the present day ; and among the jew
elled honours of earth so profusely scat
tered upon the breast, rested the symbol
of the faith lie had professed. They
shaded the magnificent brow with the
unsightly cocked-hat, (thd coffin being
too short to admit this array in the order
proposed, the hat was placed at the feet
before interment,) and stretched down
the beautiful hands in ungraceful fashion;
every one, in fact, is familiar with the at
titude I describe, as well as with a death
like cast of the Imperial head, from
which a fine engraving has been taken.
The cast is true enough to nature ; but
the character of the engraving is spoiled
by the addition ofa laurel wreath on the
lofty but insdnsate brow.
Now, about this cast there is a hutori-
zsz L7?oZu:ru;;r™ k ".'o's i t Ti'i 1 which u ,imc ^
1 should become intimately acquainted ; it
caused a subject of litigation, the particu-
Wrap, the proud eagle they roused from his lar8 which are detailed in the Ttmet.n
v * ‘newspaper of 1821; but to which I have
no opportunity of referring just now.—
Evidence, however, was unfortunately
wanting at the necessary moment, and
the complainant's case fell to the ground.
The facts are these:—
The day after Napoleon’s decease, the
young officer l have alluded to, instigat
ed by emotions which drew vast num
bers to Long-wood-house, found himself
within the very death-chamber of Napo
leon. After the first thrill of awe had
subsided, he sat down, and on the fly-leaf
- . .. ... tor n from a book, and given him by Gen-
1 We may be quite sure that our will era! Bertrand, he toot a rapid but failh-
is like to be crossed in the day; so pre- f u j sketch of the deceased Emperor.—
P 8 ! 6 , . , . , .. I Eatlier in the day.the officerhad accom-
2. Everybody in the house has an evil pa nied his friend, Dr. Burton, of tho Six-
nature as well as ourselves, and there- ty-sixth Regiment, through certaiu paths
fore we are not to expect loo much. fo lhe island, in order to collect material
3. To learn the different temper of for making a composition resembling
each individual. plaster of Paris, for the purpose of takihl
4. To look upon each member of the the cast with as little delay after death
family as one for whom Christ died. as possible. Dr. Burton,having prepar-
5. Whonany good happens to any one, ed the composition, set to work and cora-
, °c ej m at ' t 'v , . ploted the task satisfactorily. The cast
6 ’ W1 ?® n ,nc W to g\ ve an an 8 , y «»»* being moist was not easy to remove, and
awer.to lift up the heart in prayer. at Dr. Burton’s request, a tray was
7. If from sickness, pam or infirmity, brought from Madame Bertrand's apart-
we feel irritable, to keep a veiy strict ments, madame herself holding it tore-
knees downwards. Every night, at sun
set, a cordon of sentries was drawn round
the Longwood plantations. Slipping be
tween the sentinels, the venturesome
youth crept, under cover of trees, to a
lighted window of tho mansion. The
curtains were not drawn ; but the blind
was lowered. Between the tatter, how
ever, and the window-frame were two
or three inches of space ; so down kiielt
Mr. ! Some one.waa walkjng up
and down the apartment, whicu was
brilliantly illuminated (Napoleon’s din
ing-room lamp, from Longtvood, ia, I be
lieve, still in the possession of the Nine
ty-first Regiment, it having been purebr
ed by the offirers at St. Helena, in 183G.)
The fifotstepsdrew nearer, and Mr.
saw the diamond buckles ofa pair of thin
shoes; then two well-formed lower limbs,
encased in silk stockings; and,lastly,the
edge of a coat, lined with white silk.—
On a sofa, at a little distance, was seated
Madame Bertrand, with her boy leaning
on her knee ; and some one was proba
bly writing under Napoleon’s direction,
for the Emperor was speaking slowly
and distinctly. Mr. slipped back
to his guard-house, satisfied with having
heard the roice of Napoleon Bonaparte.
Mr. had an opportunity of peeing
the great captive at a distance, on, the
very last occasinu that Bonaparte breath
ed the outer air. It Was a bright morn
ing when the sergeant of the guard qt
Longwond-gate Informed otir ensign
that “General Bonaparte” was iutlic gar
den on which the guard-room looked, Mr.
seized his spy-glass, and took a
breathless survey of Napoleon, who was
standing in front of his house with one
of his generals. Something on the ground
attracted his notice; he stood to examine
—probably a colony of ants,whose move
ments lie watched with interest—when
the music of a band at a distance stirred
the air on Deadwood plain, and lie who
once liad led multitudes forth athisslight-
est word, now wended liis melancholy
way through the grounds of Longwnod,
to catch a distant glimpse of a British reg
iment under inspection.
We have in our possession a small sig
nal-book, which was used at St. Helena
during the period of Napoleon’s exile.—
The following passages will give some
idea of the system of vigilance which it
was thought necessary to exercise, lesl
peror.” I cannot remember the exact
words; but such was their import.—
Comte D’OtSBy died a few weeks after
this.
Green be the graves where her martyrs are lying!
Borne on her northern pine,
Long o’er the foaming brine
Spread iter broad banner to storm and son;
Heaven keep her ever free.
While as o’er land and sea
Floats the fair emblem the heroes have won.
tho world should ogam be aoddenty up^'S*** o torch at the tomb of her Em-
roused by the appearance of the French T * 1 ' "
emperor on the battle-plains of Europe.
It is not for me to offer any opinion on
such a system; but I take leave to say
that I never yet heard any British officer
acknowledge that he would have accept
ed the authority of governor under the
burden of duties it entailed. In a word
although every one admits the difficulties
andresponsibilitiesof Sir Hudson Lowe’s
position, all depreciate the system to
which he considered himself obliged to
bend.
Choice Family Groceries*
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Family Groceries;
Hermetically Sealed FRESH OYSTERS
SALMON, CLAMS If-LOBSTERS;
Asserted Preserves, Pickles and
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WHnc, are.
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Athens, Oct. 14,1859.
I RISH POTATOES forplaoting end Uble
—25 barrels Mercer Potatoes, 25 barrels yel
ovv do, 10 red do, Just received and for sale
cheap for cash by D- N. JUDSON
Dec, 30.
J UST received, st
COFFER.
Feb. 3.
Rio Coffee.
of prime RIO
& SLEDGE.
T7ILOUR, FLOUR! just received from
A Penfield Steam Mill, a Ireslilotofthat choice
rloar, aad for sales, (Terms cnah!)
reb..ir, D.N. JUDSON. Agt.
Cj YttUP.—A choice article of New Orleans Sy-
Novels' 1 * 1 reCeive::l ^ T ' BiSHOl’-
SACKS 8ALT large sice and in fine
order, foraale very low by
“arch io. T BISH0P .
miscellaneous.
Family Harmony.
watch over ourselves..
ceive the precious deposit. Mr,
8. To observe when others are so suf-{the ensign above alluded to. imnressed
Coring and drop a word of kindness and with the value of such a memento, offer-
syempathy suited to their state. e d to 1 take charge of it at his Quartern rill
>;«■ - , , c ... .. i- -—charge of it at his quarters till
9. 1 o watch for little opportunities it was dry enough to be removed to Dr
of pleasing and to put little annoyances Button’s; Madame Bertrand, however'.
° U t e 0f ^ e W i ay ’ i „ pleaded so hard to have the care of it,
10. To take a cheerful view of every-1 ibat the two gentleman, both Irishmen
i F* Jr encourage ftope. anrl soldiers, yielded to her-entreaties,
11. lo speak kindly to the servants, audshe withdrew with the treasure,which
mroend them for little things when she necer a forward*,
No. 4, Granite Row.
» B. M. HILL & CO.
l»wertte;h”v“«n a !JT° h L Pri, ! t ^ do L “ in< *
feb.3d, bo “ sht 10 Now York.
commend them for little things when I she never afterward* would retisnt.
IsT^lYh': r.,i , ... - There can ecarcely. Ihereftre. be.
" ,l l fp P leasurea which questton that the casts and engravings of
13 To^rv* a3 f’ Napoleon, now sold as emanating from
turnetli awaj wrath!*" 80 * atls wer that the skill and reverence of Automarchi,
14. When we have been pained hvmn^W ^ ^ ^ Dr * But '
an unkind word or deed, toask our* rial” .J? rest on circumstan-
selves,—“Have I not often done the* fowhtch the reader wil! allow
same, and been forgiven 1” I It is to be regretted
In conversation not to exalt ourselves 1 to hn v«"i 8 cast * and t,iat supposed
but bring others forward. ? ot ^ ^. Allt ^ archi ’ were
16. T. b. ,.r, gee,le will, tbevoung. ."Sl hMn"""'
.rone. a„,l ..ear .hem with re,pec,, The engravin- I have S p„ tc „ of h a ,
remetnbenog that we were once young been Italianized by Automarchi? the
t0 T«-*r . , j name, inyribed beneath being Nanolt-
17. Never to judge one another, but I on. 1
att 1 11 o bU . t r 8 g °° d m ° tive When >' ou can - S ° com P 1e, ely was the daily history
. l8 ’ compare our manifold bless- of Napoleon’s life at St. Helena a sealed
ings with the trifling anuoyances of record, that, on the arrival of papers
10 T„ r ci.t, • fromEngJand, the first question asked
19. to read the scriptures every morn- j by the islanders and the officers ofthe
ing, and ask God’s blessing to attend garrison was, “What news of Bona-
eachmembcr ofthe family through the parte ?” Under such circumstance it
day.— iW York Organ. | was natural that an intense curiosity
should be felt concerning every move
ment of the mysterious and ill-starred ex
threshing wheat 1 In tho last-named room
xxri tw ® P al ' iet,c mementos of affection.
When Napoleon’s remains were exhum
ed, in 1846, Counts Bertrand and Las
Casas carried off with them, the former
a piece of the hoarded floor on which fhe
Emperor’s bed had rested, the latter a
stone from the wall pressed by the pil
low of hU dying chief.
- rf Would^that I had^he^ftjtacoqe to re-
MtWAbihtUlie Britfsb gtiVernment, that
these ruined, and I must add, desecrated
buildings should he razed to the ground;
and that on their site should be erected a
convalescent hospital for lhe sick of all
ranks, of loth services, and of both na
tions. Were the British and French
governments to unite in this plan, how
gvand a sight would it be to behold tho
two nations shakings hands; so to speak,
over the grave of Napnlcon!
On offering this suggestion, when in
Paris lately, to one of the nephews of*
the first Emperor Napoleon, the prince
replied that “the idea was nobly philan
thropic; but that England would never
listen to it.” 1 must add that bis high
ness said this “rather in sorrow than in
anger then addressing Count L., one
of the faithful followers of Napoleon ir
exile, asking him which mausoleum he
pteferred—the one in which we then
stood, the dome of the Incalides, or the
rock of St. Helena—he answered, to my
surprise, “St. Helena; for no grander
monument than that can ever bo raised
to the Emperor!”
Circumstances have made one little in
cident connected with this, our visit to
the Intalida, most deeply interesting.—
Comte D’Orsay was of the party ; in
deed, it was in his elegant altclier, we
had all assembled, ere starting, to sur
vey the mausoleum being prepared for
the ashes *»f Napoleon. Suffering and
debilitated as Comte D’Orsay was, pre
cious as eritiquet on art, were the words
that fell from bis lips during our pro
gress through work-rooms, as we stup
ed before the sculptures intended to
adorn the vault wherein the sarcoph
agus is to rest. Ere leaving the works,
the director, in exhibiting the solidity of
the granite which is finally to encase
Napoleon, struck fire with a mallet from
the magnificent block ;■—“ See,” said
Comte D’Orsay, “ though the dome of
the Invalides may fall, Fiance may yet
General Bonaparte has left Long-
wood.” - ■
Geueral Bonaparte has passed the
guards.”
General Bonaparte is at Hutt’s-gate, 1
(at one time the abode ofthe Bertrands:
it over-looks the valley containing the
tomb.)
“ General Bonaparte is missing.”
The latter paragraph resulted' finin' ’j
General Bonaparte having, in the course
of his ride, turned an angle of a hill, or
descended some valley beyond the ken,
for a few minutes of the men working the
telegraphs on the hills!
It was not permitted that the once Em
peror of Frauce thould be designated fay
any other title than" General Bonaparte;”
and, alas! inuumerable were the squab
bles that arose between the governor and
his captive, because the British ministry
had made this puerile order peramptory.
1 have tiow no hesitatiou in making
known the great duke’s opinion on this
subject, which was transmitted to me
two years ago, by one who for some
months every year held daily intercourse
with his grace ; hut who could not, wlrile
tba duke was living, permit me to pub
lish what had been expressed in private
conversation.
“1 would have taken care that he did
not escape from St. Helena,” said Well
ington; “but he might have been address
ed by any name he pleased.”
I cannot close this paper withojit say
ing a word or two on the condition of
the buildings once occupied by the most
illustrious and most unfortunate of ex
iles.
It is well known that Napoleon never
would iuhabit the bouse which was lat
terly erected at Longwnod for his recep
tion ; that he said “it would serve for his
tomband that the slabs from tho kitch
en did actually form part of tho vault in
which be was placed, in bis favorite val
ley beneath the willows, and near the
fountain whose crystal waters had so of
ten refreshed him. This abode, there
fore, is not invested with the same inter
est as hi3 real residence, well-named the
"Old House at Longwood;” for a more
-crazy, wretched, filthy barn, it would
scarcely be possible to meot with ; and
many painfttl emotions have filled my
tgp* “How very seldom it happens,'
said one friend to another, “that we find
'editors who are bred to their business.”
“Very well," replied the other, “and
have you not remarked how seldom the
business is bread to the editors!”
heart during nearly a four-years’sqjourfi
on “the rock,” as I have seen French
soldiers and sailors march gravely and
decorously to the spot, hallowed, in their
eycB, of course, by its association with
their invisible, but unforgotten idol, and
degraded,' it must be admitted, by tho
change it has undergone. Indeed, few
French persons can be .brought to be
lieve that it ever was a decent abode ;
and no one can deny that it must outrage
Gel flag an Appointment.
The following good thing was related
to us a fow days ago, by a friend, as an
undoubted fact:
Under the Taylor administration, the
offiefe of Daniel Webster, then Secreta
ry of State, was besieged for some time
by a 8portly handsome specimen of hu
manity from St. Louis, who, keenly
scenting an office, and not fastidiously
particular as to what it Was, posted him
self at the elbow of the “god-like," at an
early hour in the morning, and remained
there nearly all day, determined to wear
him out., Mr. Webster noticed his per
tinacity—-of course he could not well do
otherwise, even though absorbed itt busi-
nq*a,aud heentertained a kind of remote
tope that the silent applicant would be
disgusted with his inattention to the ev
ident purport of his family visit, and
leave.
But our Missourian bad no idea of
vacating the fort when once in it; he
had come all the way from Puckedom
for an office, and he was not “going to
give it up so.” And so it went on for
a week or ten days—the applicant look
ing quietly over the papers, counting
the flies on the ceiling taking aim at the
smallest spittoon by the fire place; in
short, doing every thing to pass the time
but talkiug. He had made his applica
tion once to the great dispeuser of offi
cial good things, and now it was the oth
er’s turn to speak out. Meanwhile the
case with Mr. Webster grew desperate;
he had evidently mistaken his customer;
he wasn’t the kind of a mau to be put
down by such tectics; ho wouldn’t be
snubbed; he was good for a month or
six weeks in just that same position
counting the same flies, spitting at the
same mark, and leisurely spelling the
news out of the same papers. Some
thing must be done; to get rid of him
without an office of surne kind, was
seemingly as difficult as to fabricate a
chpwder without cod fish. But the
time came at the expiration of about
fourteen days pf incessant companioh-
ahip. .
One morning, Mr. Webster came into
his office rather riled on some official
matter, and there, as usual, sat the per-
tinactous Puke, at perfect ease with him
self and tho world. Webster went to
his desk, sat down, tossed the heap of
documents abrut in a sweet fume, or to
take a simile, like the crater of a volca
no just before the breaking out of the
fire. Forbearance ceasing to be a vir
tue, be turned and looked at hts torment
or, hut Missouri was firm as a rock, not
to be moved by a. look, even, though it
came from the “God-like.” He clut
ched the small bell Missouri knew the
crisis was -at hand, and read the paper,
or seemed to read, more intently than
The applicant rose, bowed graciously
to the Secretory, and walked out, as Mr.
Webster sank into his arm-chair, ex
claiming, “ Thank heaven hehas iton'j
at last!”
The Missourian went to Mexico, ns a
special messenger, in a steamer express
ly provided for him
.. From tkr New York Qcyau.
TRo Tyranny of Custom.
Wherever there are men, says Goethe,
there are modes.
Custom - is an odious despot. It
chains our spirits; it empties <>ur purse;
itshortens our life by ruining our bealth;
It annihilates our sense of the beauti
ful in Nature and in Art; ofthe agree
able in food, of the comfortable in cloth-,
ing, of the manly in conduct. Yet even
in Freedom’s chosen laud, few men have
been found who have published a De
duration of Independence to it. What
ever is not lieroical is not prudent; hut
conformity to Custom’s laws is what the
world calls prudent. Severe are pen
alties for non-conformity. Spurn Cus
toms sway ond act as your head directs
or heart dictates; and you will find that
a great city is a great solitude; that the
advocate for personal independence or
the eccentric as you will be called, is in
our times sliuned, as seventy-eight years
ago the birth of National Independence
vyas avoided* If you differ from soci-
ciety on any religious or philosophical
subject, yon will be branded as hetero
dox or as an infidel; or if your walk
and conversation is so noble that such
calumnies cannot render you odious,
you will be pitied as a semi insane en
thusiastic, and shunned. If you refuse
to wear costly raiments which you can
not afford, or which do not suit your
idea of convenience, and attire your-
selfin manly garments, even if they are
not as elegant as one of those anima
ted clothes-horses called dandies, would
appear in; if you declare lhat you pre
fer to look at a country maid in whose
dress envelopes, not deforms her; whose
form is that of a woman, not that of
figure 8; whose visage is as Nature
made ir, not as rouge deformed in to the
artistic female beauty who adorns (or
otherwise our great cities; if you say
that you prefer Columbian or Scottish
songs to Italian airs ; that you would
rather pay*to hear Ben Boltlir the Old
Folks at Home sung by one person than
walk ten rods to listen in Metropolitan
Hall, to “Barber of Sevi!l’’orother fash
ionable music by a “troupe of seventy
distinguished performers”—if, in short,
you refuse to iusert the Infallibility of
the Majority as an article in yourereed;
if you resolve to be a man and refuse
to be a mere morsel of society, you will
be shunned by it; in the midst of your
countrymen you will be an exile.
It is better to suffer punishment than
to submit to tyranny. Rather be a
martyred Man than an idolized Atom.
Tyranny is a spiritual chameleon; it
changes its aspect in every country.—
In continental Europe it wears a martial
from; in England it crushes the peo
ple by an ingenious system which ii culls
a balanced and glorious constitution; in
America it seeks to retain its heated
power by promulgating that most blas
phemous dogma “the yoice of the peo
ple is the voice of God,” aud by incul
cating the degrading doctrine of “pas
sive obedience” to Public Opinion.
We do not advise the reader to be
come a member of an organized opposi
tion to the popular will. Far from it.
God never sent any man into this world
to act as a snag. The Man who always
follows the crowd is less foolish tliau be
who always opposes it. The first is not
necessarily what the second necessari
ly is—an egotist. The true philosopher
always journeys—as all men should-
on the road to right; he entreats all wil fa
in bis call to bear him company; if the
people do so, he gladly marches onward
with them; it is only when they turn
aside, that like the angel which appear
ed to Balaam’s ass, he stands with the
two-edged sword of Trutb in his hand res
olutely opposing them.
, the feelings of a people like the French,
tie. Our young soldier one night fairly so especially affected by associations, to
risked bis commission, for the chance oft see the bed-chamber of their former era-
a glimpse behind the cutrains of the peror a dirty stable, and the room in
Longwood windows ; and, after all, saw which he breathed his last sigh, appropri-
nolhing but the imperial form, from the * l ®d to the purpose of winnowing and
ever.
The bell rung arid the cheif clerk ap
peared.
“ Is there any vacant place on this
side of H—1?" thundered Webster
pointing to his hearer..
The chief clerk understood the whole
matter at a glance, and replied lacotit
c a 11 v —- -
“ There is a special messenger want
ed for Mexico.”
“ Then send him to Mexico or H—1!
but never let him come back here.”
1853, then remaining in the •„
nee of Silt57#37,86. ,
tonal receipts up to D« c. 13. II ,
»um to 81,27)6,003,95.—
I3 rR- ?U,St ; m< “ , ' ,R , tV,im ° ct - 20 > ro Dec
J,’l 8 ,-« (| uced this balance to §736,-
ag«in we encounter an '
ostensible balance. - Thu aratfahl"
amount is rfrdy^$41D,91l.23. After the
payment-of * fow necessary espemefe .
we then find that the net: cash balfnre in
Hie Treasury, on the I3th Dec. 1*52 is
$402 666*6^ And
roadetipas follows;
Certificate ofl)epo3it,from
the Bank of tho State of
Georgia, Savannah " 179,054,70
Do. do. from Augusta Irtsu- * £ 1 ,
raiice and Banking Co., .
Augusta ' 57,167,53
On Deposit in the Bank of
the Republic, No v .
I York • • *
Certificates of Deposit on
various Banks
Cash in Treasury Vault
*Ih lbs spring of. 1774, a few month* before
the llrst glorious Fourth. Juhu Adams was sliun-
usd by the leading citizens aid senators in the
streets of Philadelphia, for having presumed to
hint at a desolution ofthe Union with iLe moth
er country.
Finances of Georgia,
REPORT OP THE FINANCE COMMITTEE.
We have been kindly favored with a
sight of this important document—or
rather of such partions of it as have left
the hands of the printer
The Committe seemr to have gone
about their work with systematic indus-
32,758,24
23,611,81
110.W3.58 j
$.4026*5,86
Brom statements presented by WaJleV
H. Mitchell, Esq., State Treasurer, the
Committee report the whole public debt _
outstanding on the 20th p*:t.,T,852, to be
8:1,432.472,22,—of this amount 87^5,*
000 has been created by bonds issued
during the past year. These Bonds
brought into the Treasury $757,522, 72,
a fait which the Committee justly es
teem highly flattering to the pecuniary
character of the. State. Qur engge-
ments have all heetr promptly met, and
throughout the direst commercial revul
sions, our credit has never been shaken.
The great mass of the public debt has
been contracted in behalf of the West
ern and Atlantic Railroad, and the com
mittee feel satisfied that it has been wise
ly and profitably applied.
The Committee report at length upon
the condition of the Central Batik, and
the W. & A. Railroad. The Committee *
conclude after careful deliberation that
the whole of the Bond debtofthe.Central
Bank, to w.it; $369,500 must be Consul*
ered as added to the Pubtic debt proper.
The annual interest upou the State debt
is about $176,000. -
The affairs of lhe W.*&. A. Railroad
are considered with great'care; and fur
nish by far, the most interesting portion «
of the report. We shall resume our
consideration of the subjects treated by
the Committee, at the'earliest oppbrtu- ' 1
nity—meanwhile wo return' our thanks
to them tor their clear and lucid exposi
tion, of our fiscal aflfairs.-rXJcogia Tele*
graph. . .
From the Constitutionalist & Republic.
ARRIVAL OF THE STEAMER .
Baltic. ; '
• ' Charleston, May 1.
The steamer Baltic has arrived at
New York bringing advices from Liv
erpool to the evening of the ,1,9th ult.
She brings 92 passengers.
Among the passengers in the Baltic, ’
were the Hon. GeHrguW. Crawford, _ of
Georgia, and Dudley Mann.
Cotton Market.^—Brown & Ship-
ley’s Circular states lliat the last steamr
er’s advices had a depressing effect on
(he Liverpool market, and that Ordi
nary and Middling had declined one-8ixr
teenth to one eighth—the lower qualities ,
had declined most. Fair Orleans and
Uplands remained unchange, and a mod
erate business was doing at previous
rates. The sales of the three days reach
17,000 bales, of which speculators took
2,500 aud expurters 1,500. The market
closed dull.
QUOTATIONS :
Fair Orleans ’ 6|
Middjing 513-16 -
Fair’Mobile r 6£
Middling 5£ •
Fair Upland 6£
Middling 5g
At Manchest er trade had fallen off blit
were not lower, . r - . r
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer’s
Statement proposes a general reduction
on duties. Opinion was divided on the
subject, and; it is believed the measure
will overthrow the Ministry.
The Kossuth affair remained unex
plained. Kossuth remained apparent
ly guiltless. Hale, th&owner of a. Fac
tory tliieatens - to prosecut the govern- ,
ment for munition ol war seized-und de
posited in Woolwich Arsenal.' , ., '
Mrs. Stowe was enthusiastically ye-" *
ceivcd. , - •. , ,
The remains of Napolejti first, wdrd?
to be removed from the'Invalids to St.
Dennis, on the first < f May.
The Spanish ministry has been form
ed, ond the Cortes disfolyed,it is averred'
on account of Concha’s exposures of Ca
ban slave trade, '
The Government of Holland had pro
tested against the establishment of a Cath
olic hierarchy and Iras withdrawn her
minister from Rohie.
The English and French ambassodors
had arrived at Constantinople,, tiitd the
former had assured tboraurchants ofa
continuance of peace; '>**•:
Liverpool Coton Market, .Wednes
day-—Cotton, has been freely offered at
a decline, and the sales readied 6000
bales. All the circulars quote a decline
J of Pearly one-ighth on the Middling
try. Tbe result is, that we have before
us, a clear, accurate conscientious state
ment of the fiscal affairs of the State of
Georgia. Tbe report is well digested,
well arranged, arid well expressed.—
The Committee deserve thanks for the
manner with which they have perform
ed their important and perplexing du
ties.
The condition of the Treasury is very
plainly set forth. At the close of the
fiscal. year, ending on the 20th Oct.,
1851, the Committee found in the Treas
ury, an ostensible balance of $423,415,-
45. We say an ostensible balance, for
outof all this sum, tbe Committee found
only 118,069,45, in available funds—the
qualities.
Consols 100J a §.
A Patriot.—The Maysvillo (Ky.(
Eagle says that there is a man in Ken
tucky, who is recommended by bis
friends as a candidate for Congress for
bis disregard of all geoprapbical divi-.
sions. The Eagls endorses this, and
saystig&l- »*■. *
“ When we last saw him, he knew
no North; no South, no East, no Weet!
We kindly extended our atm and led
him up an alley.”—South Carolinian.
Don’t Garb—-“Come, sonny, get
up,” said an indulgent father to a hope
ful son tho other
remaining portion being composed of j , * 80n ‘ l “ e °ther morntng, “remember
unavailable Bank Stocks. Railroad tllat lhc ea,1 y blld etches the first
Script,'etc.*.*v'-J
At the close • of the fiscal year, end
ing Oct., 1852, the receipts of the Treas-
u t v a mou iitedto §1,142,405,27. ' Add to
that sum the ostensible balance of 1851,
and we have as the aggegate $1,565,*
820,72. During the same fiscal year,
the total disbursements amounted to
$597,882,86. Of this sum much the
largest item was for the repair and equip-
worm.
“ What do I.care for worms 1” replied
?the hopeful, “mother won’t let me go a
fishing.”
- y ' .—--—( ! :—i <
A conespondent of the Nashville
Gazette who signs herself “Sophia” saye
that woman is twice as good as man, ana
proves it by the very orthography—
W O-M-A-N—rdouble you, 0, man !