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VOL. XLIM 22—Nli\V SERIES VOL. 5. NO. 5 g •iteur'i* Miscellaneous; FlTCSidC Jifiscellctjiy. I plash into a quantity of foul liquid | sort of yellow halo around, revealing o mud, and turned to look np at me. I only ourselves, the slimy brick walls, the circular roof, and the black rush ing water, ou which the light shimmer ed and danced. I must confess to a id staud Mur dejudge mudus crime nli do SUWMEV A NKWTOS. HarTPSt Home. All safely gather’d in Is Autumn’s golden grain; How sweet to hear the ringing cheer That greets the last full warn. We may not even call ~ iii ear*bf wheat orir own, But where’s the heart that takes no part In hailing Harvest Home ! Then let thanksgiving songs Be o’er the country spread. To Him to whom the praise belongs For sending daily bread. All safely gathered in! No tear that famine now Will with grimace upon its face Triumphant ride th* p*r»w. Fori He whose gracious eye .... His slumbered not, nor slept; Again has sent a rich supply, And well His promise kept. So let thanksgiving songs Both fur and wide be spread, To Him to whom the praise belongs, IRON, PLOW STEEL, STEEL, HOES, NAIL*, PLOWS, MILL SAWS, COTTON GINS, And General Hardware and Cutlery, at Wholesale and Retail. L : ■ • svxMtr* uxwtqn HTHtni evans; 18 A‘SfOS8,) announces to ind vlelDltv (hut he : Sloie of Dr. We. kind* of re pel re on WITH Hiisinoss ©iroetdry. V» too citliens of Athens located st tha Now Dm Under London Streets. It f ir the V> itsis* ® n * H ■ ’leTOj 1 \ I If > f f sirti.m t fkiokiIi. I f T Olf? K Y S 'AT LAW, i. llrnwrll, llart Owmly. licorga. I PITTMAN H HINTON, I ttouneys ATI. A Mr, El Jrfftraoe, JncVion cubit, (it. ’ ' * I SAMl’EL P. THI/KIIOND,' * M I TTO It N K \ A T L A Wi„ V. .t then. <it. OlScron Droid atrnet, .over 77A Sen■, Store. Will tire special attention lie, in luiilriiptc-j-. Alw, to Ikecuiloctlon of claim' enlru.lcl to Ml car*. 4- liutie Co., Ale., which I change (or real estate la thU tfrat clfore.l, 33»fit the best creelt, producing 50 to 75 bus! ..( IM ISUKD WSKKI.Y, lilY s. X ATKINSON,) ruREE dollars per annum, STMCTL) - V ADVANCE. ,, li-'ui J W., oty Jyll Huggins. 1,-eiwtneiit* will he inserted at One Dollar and ivhi« i»»r Square of IS line*, for the lint, and ssagasay iIIBJT- D. G. CANW.FR, . rTORNKY at law, V. Ilonirr, Rinks County. «a. Will pnwUce he o^.iiiiir* «*f lUnks, Jackson, m %n\ ( ) ( ) a ) t 1 *\*T1X H. BIDKX, T T O R N E Y A T L A W, K*ve UdonVthe . lection ofdalm., and will act at kationto 'h" „ nilKlleof real esl. e .nd ,11,1 lands. JnnlStt J. J. * J. V. ALEXANDER, DEALERS IX HARDWARE, M.VAN ESTES, TTOItXEY AT l lUiucr, itiaks County, Ga. L A W, hUOYKIl.VBAKEU feWIXt): MACHINES! U ca.ilH, a. 8- KAWUT. nowmm conn- kt ^*” r i;«UB, ERWl^ af^Y’ijcr' L^Athens, «)e»rgla. OIBce in the Dcuprec ¥M. WOOD, DEALER IN ALL KINDS OF p V KNIT WHS . IT'URNITURE REPAIRED.1UP- 1. bolstered and varnished, also a large variety of wood coffins and Fisk’a Patent Mctalic Burial Cases always on hand. Wntorooms on Clayton 8t„ next to EMtcopal aurcb. Scp9 6m. WILLIAM WOOD. For Sale or Exchange. cres of land in will salle! eity.j T! best bottqtn lana cm Cape, bushels of corn per acre, and cotton in proportion. The remainder is in the woods. The farm is 20 miles from the Selma, ltome and Dalton Railroad, oneandaquarter miles from the county site, Ed war,Grille, 6 miles Aram the located depot of the Columbus and Chat tanooga Railroad, and one mils from tha route of the Griffin and Sorth Alabama Railroad There la an excellent store house (not be longing to the place), which can be bought or Tented chpa,p and la a Splendid Stand for a Country Store. ,Titles indisputable. For further information ap ply to, or address Dr. J. March 31*3m w. MURRELL, Athens, Ga.. which we are offering at very low pricea. stoves sold by us . V WARRANTED IN every particular. SUMMEY & NEWTON. * *-l. — U aL-L. lit, ‘ *tHi To Housekeepers. JUST RECEIVED, a large assort- WB2 All J. II. MTLKSkKV: “ v ' \ ttouney aY law, Y IVnesrllle, Franklin countr, Ga. Office >1; scrupled by J. F. Langston, Esq. tall A. ilVAiirviiar, "Ti . f iraf Panasylvsnia Agricultural Works, inr of Iroprond [YORK, Pxsw’A. rv^v h «vt'vpq SOLID STEEL SWEEP8, CkaON SWEEPS, and SCRAPERS, STEEL PLOWS, SHOVEL 1U)W cc B L^RS, Bom-Powers, Thrxsh- ri I iiG. I . , !IS^:5!L. Selected with care by one of the firm, in New • DClMi for lUlStrdtee latHlO^nCv York, to which they invite the attention of their customers and the public. They liave a good assort ment of STAPLE&FANCmYGOGDS sathutuun, raariaaoim, (I.4KD11 A RF. E. S. ENGLAND & CO., ^IlE NOW RECEIVING THEIR NEW FALL STOCK! rtliltdlAt til THE BEST IN I’SK >Y ALL WHO HAVE TRIED * ihrni. Tliev* machine!., with all the Il’HOVEMKNTS AND ATTACHMENTS, * liad, at maniiihcturer'a prices, freight ltd, at the RANKER OFFICE. TICK OF ( HAME OF SCHEDULE < i F.<) kgTTi^aTlroAD. 7 hr ir«]a ami .Mnmn A Aueustn lUilrnado / , s AxtrtwasB&y. CKOCKRHV, IIA IN. CAPS, ROOTS, Mil OKs. And tn short, everything In the way of npHE undersigned has just returned JL from Now York city, with i. Large and varied Stock FALL & XVSjffc TER ^tmw$! •V CONSISTING OF JD Dry Good?, : :-rr i{ ■: Crockery, Shoes, Hats, Caps, BAGGING AND TIES HEMLOCK LEATHER, Salt, tire., tire. which he oflere to the country at large at as j REASONABLE PRICES as the tame goods can be bought IX AXY MARKFA IN THE SOUTHERN STATES, IFreight added. As I am determined to Sell as Low ns Anybody, Id this or any other market, I Invite my old custo mers and the public generally, to $!V1 MS A DALI l ^ AD EX A MINK FOR THEMSELVES. I shall continue to Buy Cottonand Country Produce, At the Highest Market Prlee. S. C. DOBBS. seyt 15-tf 7 19 AV 0. - 6AILEV;i" J NVITES ATTENTION TO HIS mW: FALL STOCK viiluiitJiiy^*~QFTr7.!ii;j„ J iLij , <moo3Ei»gr » . : —i—AN D — ) ■' ) | m. 'Vl'ma •» CHIMNEYS AND PORE KEROSENE OIL! Cal! ami examine liU stock belore purchasing, sept 15-tf. NORTH EAST 5EOROIA Family and Plantation Supplies, They will pay the HIGHEST PRICE FOR CQIT07i[urqtherprudUu«,»nd • f ,, iVill Kfofe ','dlton ,rs III t’rnl, n Bair We’Sre t«d»aU4*ta. teUlmr/aadW £ me attention tn business hope tu please old eutto- ' January -."Jd. ItSTI, the Passenger Trains will yv from. Daily, Sunday Errcptcd. l«i, i'i-!!-i , 00a.m. low Aibnliai 7 10 a.m. Inn,.at Ailsuual — t> 30p.m. •torn H Aiwuriaal-, _3 40 p. m. Nnjht Patscuyer Train. * I'n't St AlUata at 6 40 a. m. 'rrinf.t Ali*u«laal.'.U43lAe.i...™. 7 SO a. m. Btndia Passenger Train. Aseustsat ...,4 lap. m. Dst. Kmrlbst 7 SO a. m. Arriwsi Augu>ia .9 ?5tun. Uriiit ai lb r/dia „.6 «Op. m. k.th Par ami Ni?ht 1‘awnger Trains will mske >v <»nn<vtions at Augusta and Atlanta with “ruins of (Minuccting road*. ‘lington, ing \ht Iconned- Train, 7n the same day at 7 40 p. tu **■**^wpinnGamonall Night Trains. f Wnbon Macon \ Augusta Ballroad. wijrr Train Daily, Sunday Excepted. 7^” 11 Miron st ........7 40 p. tn. T "" r *' A»S'»U at 1 45 p. nt. ’‘^'wprrTr.ln arriving’ at Macon at ««&'^uTsiZT enoDl w “ b Tr “"‘ of .!’>’> n «M*cou at G a. in., will make list, I’.ii'road. and w . eta At* Faunte, Mm. & Nisi, a rAln* of connecting road*. Povissr* from Allsntov Athens, We ^ -otij Unilmnd, by t ■wiili*tin* Mncab l*oSsiinc Will T. close mer^afid msktutan^ new ones. .-opU^tf NE\V FALL GOODS. p ENTER & REAVES have now i V-f store and to nrrlvc, 150 lings t'ofl. c, !i lOO Barrels Sugnr, 400 Hacks Mall, to T.at Iran Tira, 11,000 \ nrd. Itnggiug. Als.i a Isigt ana.wrif-seleolod stpcdl of ,,. ., STAFLi© GOODS. which tre offer low to the public for cash or pro duce. We arc al4o agents for the celebrated I'lltYt'R COTTON GIN. aug S.VSm " GRAND EXHIBITION 1! •#or rat Farmers, Mechanic in^-Ilouseicivcs of KsfttkGVfiVwT 0 - Open''Kvery Day! T HE SE ASfS Jj'for Fairs is st hand and being nn- wnnn| that Athena should be behind other placet of ^less importance,I have determined to have A Comineccial Exposition, Al My Old Stand, No. 7, Broad Sl To make the display attractive, I have visited the Northern markets, and brought out many Embracing a very handsome display In seasonable DRY GOODS! ( °m mlY3f onMerchants UG '^.I U.LVTsI w, OA., 1 ■ mJaitimore, md. ! ' 1°” ~ n,l ^“* n ret2^" U ^ifour Old Funiitureto v wood's ,r ''EP.YJ R shop, Buggy & Wagon t ^ATKIUAL. & NEWTON. Jwi Blacking Brushes, * r >' 1 I’i.it DOZEN vr THE DRUG STORE- SHARP & FLOYD, Successors | to George Sliarp, Jr., / Jewell*?* AND $ilve?»mii&% \ tlanta, Ga. ^E OFFER a large variety of FINE WATCHES, , CLOCKS, JEWELRY, SILVER WARE, SPECTACLES, FANCV GOODS, 1 *' ' • FINE BRONZES, AND STATUARY. WE IIAYE A FULL CORPS OF - - . A. C>C>vT' i T ' fatoliaake^, jrt eUns&^sgfkTm Manufacture many Fine Goods in our own shop, and are prepared to FILL ANY ORDERS for goods or work promptly. M. All goods engraved bee of chargo. We make aapecialty or PREMIUMS FOR , PAIRS! and are prepared'to give ant' Information on ap plication. We guarantee the LARGEST ASSORTEMNT, THE FINEST GOODS, THE LOWEST PRICKS, ANDTHEBEST WORK. Call and aae na. SHARP & FLOYD, lVhiichall Street, Atlanta. May 35-1 j .. ■Eff For Men, Women and Children; and an unequalled rarictv of usefhl articles for A For Home and Farm! In foct, the Establishment, heretofore known as the “ Planter’* Store,” it 80. 1 • . -. ! (■} I An attractiva feature of this Grand Exhibition, will be its display of AND GLASSWARE, Lamps and Lamp Fixtures, Far ahead of anything heretofore offered, and atitutlng a leading well worth the attention of Housekeepers. There will alwayp be ^complete assortment of FAMILY GB0CHB1ES1 °£S£2S?SS&IK$SSVtSir?!£“ x PROVISIONS GENERALLY. For the accommodation of builder, a large supply o may alwaya be found. An all th*ee attractive and naafut goods arc to be my old customers and the public are invited to call and exMolnotham. If they have anything to sell, will always be paid tor ‘ the Highest Market Prlee “ J. H. GGINS, •r *>1*1 m » d march 31 CHILD8, N'ICKERSON * CO. ( I ILL & I1UYDYE, at tlic old es- i—L tabilshcd B A.R BER’BHOP, on Broad stroot, over tho otoro of Messrs. J. IL A hf!. Mattbewa, have the best and most attentivo ism dies and •r norths. - ' Lkineou*)’' ^{fdliug 001 SUAV> rtc. La- will reed re July IS. when desired. I'ncro, at RGE and ■ ml. *rf.f •«mn’SS FOR YOUNG LADIES, ATHENS, GEORGIA. A CLASS FOR PAINTING IN rv WATER COLORS has been orguixed. It la designed to afford full instruction in this beauti ful art and wUl be cou.iuctod by a thorough master. Young ladles not in daily attendance at the Home School, are In riled to Joihahd to make application »the PrincipaL jTJ* hours of practice Akaphg* oathenftoraovpof Moodsyssmi Thors- , ^^^Prind^a Se^hool »TiHTsUBSCRIBER HAS safe, eomfortabte and commodious Wsgon on .River street, naar the Upper Bnfge, A Wagon Os-^Saa trr* A CO. 1 M -j -ShoreCorniFodder, 7 and:nU other nepcrsarj'ap- TWO* «aife.:.mia>W4R6. !S5»3arS«iSSSSS}i«S wn.mr hoo: in e DD. There it is again, George, worse than ever! I’m sure, if you studied that dear child’s health, you would see to it at once. A man, too, with your power on the press—it’s disgraceful.” “ What is ? My power on the press?” There was a rustle of Gros dc Naples and a whirlwind that nearly swept up a hassock; a tragic look that would have made Miss Glyn envious of its withering scoru, a loud closing of the breakfast-room door, and mamma—on my wife’s side—left me alone. My power on the press consists in the right—when it suits the editor— to appear iu the poet’s corner of the Northwest London Journal, a journal that appears weekly; and the it that Was “ there again” is an unpleasant effluvium. Mamma, who is not al ways particular in her language, called it by a far less polished term; but then, .when angry, she is strong in Saxon.— This unpleasant scent had a knack of ooming up stairs and diffusing itself through the house, and though we had set traps innumerable to catch it, we had never succeeded. Again and again had the workmen been called in,. the sole result being a bill. At all events, ;he charming villa residence upon a gravelly soil, with all the modern im provements, and draining right into the main sewer—see house-agent’s ad vertisement—was decidedly ineligible respecting sundry odors; and to get it hahitable necessitated the construction a drain, during which I had an op portunity of gazing down into the black watery way running along beneath our road, and became so interested in its appearance, and moved by so strong a desire to explore its mysteries, that I presented myself one day at the coor of the palatial building in Spring Gar dens devoted to the Metropolitan Board of Works. Nothing could have been more cour teous than my reception; and after a few minutes’ conJ&rsation, I was fur nished with a couple of cards—pass ports to the lower regions; and the same day I presented myself before a man who looked at my cards, looked at me, and then smiled. I don’t think os you’ll like to go down, sir,” he said. “ Why, you’ll have to wade through swage up to your middle; but we can dress you up, you like.” I did like—or at least I said so; the 'same spirit that has urged me on to do several similar things was thrusting me on now, at the same time keeping me in a most horrible stew, by presenting to my excited imagination rising waters, strangling men, and corpses swept away into the river. In twenty minutes I was fitted with a suit of extremely unpleasant clothes of an india-rubbeiy texture; and fol lowing my guide, who was provided with a lantern, we stopped at last at an iron door in the pavement, over which, key in hand, my leader stooped what time I was seized with on exceed ingly strong inclination to say, “Thank you; that will doand to go back, . However, I said nothing, but watch ed my friend while he raised the door, revealing a grating, up which stole villainous mist, pale, blue, ghostly-look- ing, and seeming like the vehicle that would bear disease through the streets and courts of the great city. I knew tbatmut in a moment ; it was the par ent of that nasty smell that pervaded onr house. It was vile, mephitic, drainy, gassy, and repugnant to the nostrils, and I involuntarily shrank back. My companion, however, was not deterred; he quietly performed an act which raised a new sense of discomfort in my breast—he lowered the lantern by the string, and stood watching see if it burned brightly. “ If that there wouldn’t burn, we shouldn’t breathe,” he said. “ Many poor chap’s heeu stuffocated by that the^ bad gas, sir.” The lamp horned tolerably - well prid he. then began to descend a square, well-like place, provider! with iron foot holds, till he stepped with a hollow done enough. The next minute the hugebootsT wore had taken me sud denly into the mud, for one slipped from the damp iron upon which it rest* ed, and I was beside my guide, look ing through an opening whereinto glid ed along a - black, whispering river, through which my guide waded, and I followed, the water' being about two feetdeejL *Vi*’-'-'-”' • If you will iiniginc what your coal- cellarwould-bel^^tivere continued for miles, its walls wet and slimy, and a filthy stream ever running through it, you have the exact appearance of one of the main sewers of one of those sub terranean channels tliat, varying in di ameter from three feet to nine, form a vast network beneath London’s streets for the measured distance of two thou sand miles. The figures sound large, but they are correct; and ever through these slimy veins flows on a current of impurity towards the outfalls at Bark ing on the north, and Crossness on the south side of the river Thames. Ail this I learned as we slowly wad ed along, our voices sounding hollow, as did the whispering hurrying waters. “ What’s that?” said my companion. “ Well, that’s a small drain coming from a side-road, and into that, you know, there are small drain-pipes run from the houses. Well go up it, if you like, only you’ll have most to creep.” I did not like, so we did not go ; but I waded on, keeping inconveniently dose to my companion, for did he not know the mysteries of the place ? and did he uot bear the only light we had through those dank shades? “Accidents? Well, gas collects sometimes, and we have a bit of an ex plosion ; but the men are very careful. The water, too, comes down with a rush sometimes, after a heavy rain— six, eight, or nine feet—and then, of course, it sweeps all before it; hut our men are very careful when they do come down, which isn’t often: they keep pretty close to the openings." But suppose a heavy shower came now ?” Well, we should have to get up as soon as we could.” I looked to see if the water was ris ing, and it seemed certainly two inches higher up my boots. Ten minutes af ter, I was sure of it “ Here’s the water getting into my boots l’’- I ex claimed. -* •< Ah, ah! it often does,” was the re-’ ply. “It’s a bit deeper here, for an other big sewer joins just below.” ' But don’t you tbiuk it is raining ?” Well, perhaps it is,” was the cool reply; “ hut, os I told you afore, if it came much, we should have to scud.” To scud! Fancy scudding in hip- boots dowu iu a hideous drain, with the prospect of being swept away and drowned, like a rat in a sinkhole !— The idea took away my breath, and I must have gasped, for my companion exclaimed : “ Ah, the air isa bit bad down in this part, but it’il get better d’reckly. IFAafs that opening /—Ah, that’s the way up into another street. Hadn’t ice better get up t Can t get up there, and, besides, them’s the places where the bad gas collects. Come along, sir; I wont to show you the way we get rid of the storm-water, and how the sewers were altered. There’s mil lions of rats down here, but they scud off before the lights, and we dou’t see 'em. They keep mostly in the little drains and pipes, and feed on the grease that comes down the sink-holes, and the filth and stuff that’s put down here. People throw every thing they can into the sewers. There’s tons of entrails put down by some one ; and more than onoe,” he added in a whis per, that seemed to.die away in. the gloomy hack vista ahead, “ we’ve found here. Poor little things! I wonder what sorter stuff their mother’s arts were made on.”. „ We went on and on, past openings large and small, my companion talking away all the time, heedless of the quan tity of mephitic air he was swallowing. The walking was not of the best, the curved brick bottom of the sewer being rather awkwtud, and Wading mid-deep in water is not fnvorable to progression.- Suddenly a thought occurred to me —“ Suppose we should be lost!” and I asked my friend whether any one ever did lose his way: “ Well, as to that,” was the reply, “ there’s so many ways up, and If there was no gas in them, a man might knock till some one heard him ; and there’s always plenty ef people walking over the iron doors in the pavement.” . ’ ‘f If there was no gas,” I repeated to myself, and theri I tried veiy hard to take it coolly; but in spite of the dark ness of the place, arid the fact of ray wading iu water, I was bathed in per spiration, and could not avoid an occa sional shiver as I looked forward or !backward, the dim light [ shedding tremulous desire to see a swann of rats swimming away from us in haste, but none were visible. I learned, though, that os-many as a hundred a day are, in spite of their swimming powers, swept away drowned, and afterwards caught in the screens used for strain ing the water at the pumping stations, where it is raised from the low to the high level sewers, that it may find its way by gravitation to the Thames, at th<? owt&U reservoirs; “This is what I wanted to. show you,” said ray companion, stopping be fore some brick-work; aud theu he ex plained to me that the old sewers used to run down at ouce into the Thames, the new system of drainage being ar ranged so as to intersect all the old sewers, the lower parts of which were stopped to nearly the height of the roof, but left open there, so that iu time of extra pressure from storms, when the main sewers get too full, they overflow iuto the old, which channels carry off the nearly pure rain-water by the old way into the river. At last I declare that I will liave no more of it, for I find that cvey fifty yards is but a p.ecise repetition of the fifty yards before—nothing but elon gated cellar, black and slimy with the rushing water, aud here and there some sluggish tributary stealthily pouring in its adjunct of filthly water. Two thou sand miles meandering beneath Lon don, from Highgate, Paddington, Ac ton, and Chiswick on the north and west, to form junctions at Old Ford and Abbey Milk, and then flow on to Barking; and on the south side of the Thames, from Putney, Balham, and Morwood, to join at Greeuwich, and flow on to Crossness beyond Plunstcad Marsh. There k traveling enough for the enterprking who like to try it, hut when, in answer to my solicitations, and after feeling positively certain that we had lost our way, and taken a wrong turning, my guide brought me to where I could once more breathe the pure air of heaven—that k to say, the air as pure os we get it in London streets—it was with a feeling of ineffa ble satisfaction that I saw let down, first the iron grate, then the diamond- pattern iroa trapdoor. Clay and Bachanau-lnterestfog Re- 1 mlniseenees. -ii reproached Clay for his .harshness, be shrugged hk shoulders arid said : “Ob, hang him, he deserved it! He writes letters:" On another occasion Buch anan defended himself' against •' the charge of hostility to the [second war with England by showing’that he had formed a troop of Lancaster Krirse, and rode to Bidttowe to resist the invader. “ Yes, Mr., President,” was Clay’s prompt rejoinder, “ I remember also that by the time the Senator got into Maryland the. enemy had firid. Doubt- lcess they had heard of the approch of the distinguished ^gentleman and retir ed before the prestige of hk> cour age.” ; But time, if it does not: make all things even, mollifies the passions of men. Mr. Buchanan was too much a man of the world—too accomplished a courtier—uot to soften the asperity of so proud a spirit as Clay. They frequently met in society in after years, especially at the dinner table. If they did not become friends, they at least ceased to be enemies. And in 185G, when Buchanan became the Demo cratic candidate for president he had no more hearty supporter thau the son of the great Kentuckian, Janies B. Clay, who, after having served in the confederate army, died at Montreal on the 29th of January, 1864. Benton, who had always opposed Buchanan’s aspirations, because he re garded him as weak and timid, power fully championed him in that year, eveu against hk own son-in-law, Fre mont. Rufus Choate, Webster’s near est friend, was on the same side; so were John Van Buren and bk father, notwithstanding both held Buchanan’s friends accountable for the nomination of Polk in 1844. Cromwell’s Skull. Henry Clay never fully forgave James Buchanan for the part he play ed in 1824-*25 in foe celebrated bar gain and sale by which it was charged that Clay gave the vote of Kentucky to John Quincy Adams for President in stead of Gen. Jackson, in considera tion of his subsequent appointment by Adams to the department of State.— Buchanan was then a representive in Congress from the old Lancaster, Ches ter, and Delaware district in Pennl sylvania. Chosen originally ns n Federalist, he became a Democrat un der the influence of Jackson’s popular ity, while Clay, originally a Demo crat, became a violent Whig antago nist of Jackson and hk party. Ih 1824-’5 “Buchanan \\‘ns in hk thirty- fifth year, and Clay* in his forty-eighth. The accusation that Clay Had sup ported Adams for a place in his cabi net, long insisted upon by his adversa ries, aroused the bitterest passions, and was haughtily arid indignantly repell ed by himself. He was made to be^ lieve that the story was started by the young member from Lancaster; but this whs always denied by the latter, and he wrote several letters effectually disproving it, hut they were not satis factory to the imperious Kentuckian. It win he recollected that John Ran dolph ofVirgtriia was One of Clay’s fiercest assailants, and he carried hk enmity so far that it led to a duel be tween them, which terminated without bloedshed. Some teu years later, Clay 1 and Buchanan were in the United States Senate togother, and the latter was one of the leaders of the Democr acy. Clay did not conceal hk dislike of the Pennsylvanian, and sought every occasion to show it. One memorable day he rose and made a studied attack upon the Democrats, and especially upon Gen. Jackson. Mr. Buchanan was put forward to answer him, which he did with hk best ability. When be took his seat, Mr. Clay rose with well feigned surprise, and sarcastically re: marked that “ he had made no allu sion to the Senator from Pennsylvania. He was referring to the leaders, net to the subordinates, of the Democracy.” Upon which Buchanan took the floor and said that tho Senator from Ken tucky was certaiuly in error, because he had pointedly and repeatedly look-, ed at him while he was speaking. Clay quickly and sneeringly retort ed by alluding to Buchanan’s slight obliquity or vision. “Ibeg to say, Mr. President,” he remarked. “ that the mistake was the Senator’s and not The skull of Cromwell k still above ground, and it k in the possession of a citizen of London. Several years since it was exhibited publicly. The hkto- ry ot the head k os follows: Cromwell was buried in great strite at Westmins ter Abbey. At the Restoration, how 1 ever, hk body arid those of some of hk associates were dug up, suspended on Tyburn gallows for a whole day, and then buried under it. The head of Cromwell, however, was taken off; car ried to Westminster Hall aud fixed there; where it remained some time; hut the great tempest at the commence ment of this centuary blew it down where it was picked up. by the great grandfather of its present possessor. Thk is a significant commentary on earthly greatness. The popular idol of one generation may become the scorn and loathing of another. The body of Cromwell, carried to hk burial in royal, state, only a few years after his interment k rudely torn from its last resting-place, and the half-decayed carcass, dragged by the heels through tlie mud and mire of London, k hang ed upon Tyburn, tree, the head after wards torn off and placed so that in grinning horror it ever looks towards the spot where King Charles was exe- cu ed. l ...a, The Sugar Gane Orator. The monotony of Justices’ Counts Courts is occasionally relieved by tlie appearance of characters whose eccen tricities are so marked os to excite par ticular attention, or by tlie entrance of persons who, not being satisfied with the efforts of Attorneys, attempt to pre- Pruin de expungement oh de Law(!) and de row-dacity. ob de witness you can see he sm gulty oh de: trust after de delegation, and he *tund up befiwr . de presents ob de . honorable judge and tell a big lie—-^aws he gone in de cane patch and fairly tief de juce out oh dc pugar-catie. ahd ’den-left de diy-up stalk standing jiit ftte de purpus* dr deceibing dfa Court I! d) >■ -ih De Gal (a witness in dis caso) cum up to testify agin hum, hut caws ho used to go to see de Gal two time a week, de Gal stand up uh befor God and tell'a falsifier! • Now Mass’r Judge de extificatiou of dc satisfy am laid down in de Consti tution oh de Nighted State which gib ehbry body de exemplify—liberty, fur protection of lie rights! 8o under^ dese case, tiwl I ax is to bab dis nigger turn ober to dc jail so dot dc zemplify ob de law is carry out and de men I- ment to de Constitution fulfi lsl iu 4* spirit oh do truth aud de jestice—enws he can tief aliuose is had is sum ob bo Yankee sojer what Mnss’r Sherman bring down uh! Data my remark Mass’r Judge! Men of Humble Origin. : Apropos to a letter in which tlie writer seems disposed to controvert tlie poetic maxim asserting that “honor and feme from nil conditions rise,” wc may say that almost any collection of dktinguished names may set him to further reflection on the subject. The history of our own country is full of il- lustratiois, fifatu John Adam , wl o was the son of an humble fanner, and Franklin, who was the son of a tallow chandler, down to the .nien of our own time. It finds hrilliririt examples even under aristocratic institutions. Popo, one of the greatest of English poets, was the soii of a linen-draper. *BIoqm- field wrote his best poem, “ The Far- ' mcr’s Boy,” while working in ri garret,^ ns a shoemaker. Gifford, the first edi tor of the Quarterly Review, began life as a sailor boy, and afterwards served an apprenticeship to a shoemaker.— Ben Johnsoti, the dramatic poet, work ed for sometime os a bricklayer.— Shakspeare was the son of a poor man, who could not write hk name. Bums was the son of a small farmer; Allen Cunningham of a gardener ; Hogg was a shepherd; Ebenezer Elliot worked in an iron foundry; Falconer was n bailor boy; Thomas Moore was the .spu: of a grocer, who, however, contrived to give him a classical education; Ger ald Massey k the son of a cannl hont- man, and: began life as on errand hoy, t rind was next an operative in a silk mill. Daniel Defoe, the author of “ Robinson Crusoe,” began life as a hosier, and was almost, wholly self- taught, Cpbbett was- iu early life a frirmer’s boy, and afterward a private soldier. Isaac Walton, the “CqiuplctO; ( Angler,” was n linen drajier. I)r.. Issac Miller, Dean of Carlisle, and hi* brother Joseph, another of a History of a Church, began life as wearers.-— Dr. John Prideaux, Bishop of Wor cester, got hk education at Oxford, hy entering the University- a* a kitchen boy. John Buifyan; author of the “ Pilgrim’s Progress,” was a tinker, and entirely self-taught. Joseph Ames, the antiquary, was an ironmonger.— Hugh Miller, the geologist and jour- . nalist, was a qttarrvmnn. Camden, the great historian was the sou of a h(*ti-*e painter. Caxton, who w tl.e sent tlie facte in a stronger light, so first ffil **. "P 11 printing press in Eng- food, was apprenticed to a weaver.—■ The dramatist, Holcroft, was a groom. Tom Paine was the son of a slaymaker. Sam Pepvs was the son of a tailor.— Richardson, the novelist, was the son of a joiner. Among scientific men, Simpson, the mathematician, was a weaver. Captain Cook was the son of peasant, who. at seventy years of age, learned to read that he might pe ruse tho narrative of his son’s voyage*. Sir Richard Arkwright, the inventor of the cotton spinning machine, com menced life as a Imrlwr. Brindley, the engineer, began life as a mechanic.- Sir William Herscjiei; the illustriou* astronomer, was a musician in the band of a regiment. Farmday, the chemist and natural.philosophcr, was the son qfa blacksmith. Ferguson, the astronomer, was a shepherd. John Hunter, the celebrated surgeon, and his brother William, the eminent phy sician, were sons of a former. Chan- trey, the sculptor, was a. milk-boy; and Flaxman, another great sculptor, was the son of a plaster-cast maker. Sir [Thomas Lawrence, the painter, was heek of his boots were each run the son of an inkeeper. Opio, the i on the outeide, Ctesar. maintain-^ painter, worked in r saw-pit, and cd his footing even , when his bodyHogarth, the satirist, begun life as a writhed into exclamation points at the j working engraver of coate of arms.— erd of each sentence. The . Justice iCohden, the statesman, was tho sou of and the lawyers were all attention! a former, whikt Caesar spoke as follows i, that the Justices inay be certain to give decisions such as shall accord with the notions of the world-be pleaders. Am ong the latest efforts,of this kindiu the following speech of a would-be prosecu tor, delivered a day of two since. The wise was one of larceny after ttuqt delei- gated. The Attorneys had spoken, and the Justice was about to give a decision, when Noah Csssar,, colored, asked permission “ to remark on de subjection before de Court.” Noah Cseasr k a(tall.plantation hand. His complexion k as dark as a black ket tle, and hk large eyes sparkled and rolled in poetic frenzy. On the occa sion of his last speech he wore a pair of black pants, each kg of which was tucked into the top of a dozzar boot— Closely fitting hk body was an old blue and swallowtailed coat, with large brass buttons gleaming in single line from neck to the waist The coat-sleeves were too short, aud Cscsar’s long and tapering fingers wildly described many curves and tangents in the air when hq was making the closing , appeal in behalf of the prosecution. Though the down Sir Johtr Hawkins, the fa- Mass’r Judge—Frum de delegation ob de foe in dis ease de accusatiou-man, who I prostitute in di*3 case, come be- mous general; l>cgan life as a hotu-e- buildcr. These names may serve to set our correspondent thinking.— Phil adelphia J.edyer, it