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E t p, Qt'Rßi liiDUnl Killlor.
European livt bjr the Aia.
Ttie new* from the East is of fur mure warlik.-
character than W, The greatest activity pre
vails mining the Mligemits on all ainl they
worn t<* •* moving with a degree of activity
hitherto unknown.
■BI’SSUN’S DEFEATED —TWENTY SHIPS CAITt KtD,
ETC.
Misfortune seemed to lie starring the Russians
in the face, whichever wav they turned.
Ti*ey hud been defeated successfully at Kasso
va, Mvrapohs and Sillistria. lii the last lint tie
they sustained a loss of fifteen hundred killed.
To add to their greivances, an immense depot
containing munition* of war had been burned
at Cbuny. (i)
Twenty Russian ships have U-en captured by |
the allies since the bomhanlinciit of < Mi-s-h.
OOHBAHOMFNT OF SEBASTOPOL, ETC. j
The announcement of the bombardment ol j
Sebastopol proves to have Imh*ii correct. I In- j
.place was Uunbardvd for four days l>v the
fleets.
THE ENGLISH FLEET NEAR CRONSTADT.
Oil the 9th ull. Admiral Naiiier’s that was
within 23 miles of Crousladt. The report cir
culated by the London .Sun that the place had
been iHiuiharded, as was anticipated, turned out
a hoax.
>IOBE OPPOSITION TO RUSSIA.
Austria is raising large numbers of troops
and placing them on the frontiers. She do
dares that sho will never submit to he hulled by
Russia.
fi'he fleets of Sweden and Norway had arrived
Rt Helsingfors, it being their intention to co op
erate with the allies.
THE GREEKS.
The Greek insurrection had been nearly quell
and, and little further trouble was apprehended
from that quarter.
ALLIANCE BETWEEN PRUSSIA AM) RUSSIA.
- -4t-i* said that anew treaty of alliance is being
formed lajtwecu Prussia and Russia. Nothing
definite is however known, with regard to tin
nature of these negotiations further than that
the t •Kinur power is in an exeee Itngly unenvia i
ble prodicutK-nt and is desirous.f bringing the
wartu-Mclose as spccdilv as possible.
Austria and l’russia had aeted-together up tj>
the prose i’ tim v but the recent, noth uitative d--
minis ot Russia upon the latter, appear t-i li.av, j
given ntfeqia, p the voting Emperor. and hciirv
his extensive military on the frnii
tigr. Nothing new has traiFpircil relative to
the Dew terms for peace that were to be oiler- |
ed to the Czar by Austria, by an I with the con
sent of England.
‘flie L union Times is urging th s appointment
of anew Minister of War.
DISTRESS AT ST. PETERSBURG.
The inhabit ants of St. Petersburg are reported
■to lie in,thu greatest distress imaginable. Eve
rything they have that in.-tv be required to sustain
the War is seized upon with impunity ; and, be
sides, all who arc able to liear arms are at once
drafted into tip* army—thus leaving the ag<sl and
very young ill ihe most deplorable condition. It
may bi- as well to remark that this re|mrl comes
through English channels.
ORBAT TIKE AT CONSTANTINOPLE.
A tremendous conflagration occurred at Con
stantinople on the 4lh of May. Four hundred
4)otises, with most-of their contents, wore entirely
consumed. The loss, which was immense, had
produced inconceivable suffering among those
who were thus unexpectedly deprived of all they
possessed.
Terrific Explosion.
melancholy lossof life —great destruction
OF PROPERTY.
WiLgUNoroN, Del., May 31. — About quarter
to 11 o'clock this iiioraiug three wagons, loaded
.arjlh flva tons of powder, belonging to Messrs.
Dupout dc Cat, exploded at the corner of 14th
and Orange streets, killing John Keese, Tlios.
Tally and— Chambers, the drivers, a young
jnita in the employ of Thus. Hughes, a colored
waiter iu the house us James E. Price, and a col
ored servant woman at Bishop Lee's. Fifteen
bon** weie also killed.
Jobe .VlcLsughlui’achildi* missing. Thomas
Hughes’ wife and child were seriously injured,’
ami VV.ii. McCoy and Mrs. Richard Reynolds j
were badly hurt. Tbe residences of Hislsop Lee,
James E. Price, and live others, w ith six stables.
Ware completely destroyed, and seventy-live oth
jtr houses badly damaged. Many persons were
wliglitly cotSOld hurt- The loss is cstituiited at
IftO.OOO,
Jhe sceua wham the explosion occurred ex
ceeds description. The neighborhood looks as
though an earthquake hud taken place. There
worn three large Liams, each containing 450
‘|ws, estimatad at five tons, 00 their way from
J&ff {ffMfs to 1m shipped at the wharf. The ex-
took (dune opposite Bishop Lee's elegant
residence, the last wagon being opposite Orange
•treat and the hea>t one about sixty feet iu
Bdvauoa. It it not known which one exploded
louse was terribly shattered, the
off and broken in fragments, the
driven out, the floors broken up, every
door jura from their places, and
fen destroyed. A servant wo
k*-/,..!, ‘ pstlh the house, tlm latter of
the for, *“ r cot ;“
pBmA, Baffle squarfi|%; ;
j Three ’Houses oa 14-th etrSPP
-Were otimpfotely destroyer Os one ol” them,
0 frame struiitare. not .a portion was left.
A y**ing Inshnae, hoarding with- Mr*. M -
fUsMguliu, was fatnffy injured and died soon after
wards. McLaughlin was badly cut, his clothes
being Vwu oiT ol bias, and his wifeverv seriously
b<m- His child fell into the oaHar and was Liken
Mt of the ruin* uninjured.
The residence us James Cauby, At the corner J
if Market and I4lh street, was terribly shattered
find will have to he torn down, The inmaies
Were badly cut with glass mud falling plaster. His
liriek stable* and- barn, together with his car
rbuK ftwMlfce garden., were destroyed.
Ou the opposite side the elegant residence of
latwns E Price wa* ao much injured that it will
ha toktttbttijhU
Oo.the Wrath 4it the boras and stables of Jno.
& Jas. E Price were all
nrn|~*itrfr ifqffnfeait ‘ln tlm letter a colored s
r**n, aaided Hpwr, was killed. Th* trees along
liiMriiyjfipffY ’fit |f-1 — were strippedof
their leaves, and some of them torn up by the
rout*. The fragments of the wagons and horses,
anddrtvers were blown in various directions. A
human arm was found at the distance of 300
feet. One of the drivers was blown over the
tree*, and the fragments bulged on the shore
of the Brandywine, behind Bishop Lee’s house.
All the w ails and other objects in the buildings
injured were driven towards the place of cxplo
■ sioti. The great vacuum caused by the explosion,
hud caused the air in the houses to hurst them.
In Price’s Inuisj, the heavy folding doors, which
were closed at the time, were forced violently
■ from their hinges, to the end of the room. Thy
w iudows and doors in every case were driven out -
ward.
The tin- of one of the wagons, weighing 100
lbs, was thrown to a distance of 200 feet, ami
the fragments of another tire, 4 inches broad,
were driven m arly through the trunk of a large
tree. Though nothing but small pieces can be
found of the wagons, tin- places whereeach stood
are marked in tin* bed >f the road, which has
lieen sunk nearly 2 fret.”
On Market street adjoining the residence of Jas.
K. Brice, the elegant dwellings of J. li. Plates,
.1. 11. Price, and Joseph T. Price have been great
ly injured, and the furniture, dec., broken.
Seven dwellings on 13th street, called Bright’s
1 Row,were much damaged iti the windows and
I walk The explosion caused a terrible sensation
j in the citv, and tin- people rushed out from their
! dwellings. A gentleman riding on horseback
jat some distance felt the ground tremble, arid
was lifted upon his horse, ami seeing tbe win
dows fulling into the street thought an earth
quake hud occurred.
Manx think that persons passing at the time
were killed and no traces of them left.
So far. those More mentioned are the only
ones known to have been killed.
The explosion was felt 35 miles south of \\ il
mington.
Tin- total loss is estimated at not less than $75,-
000, including the power and teams, valued at
$5,000. M ■ssrs. Dupont are on tbe ground, do
ing all they can to alleviate the distress of the
sutferers, and express their determination to pay
for all damage to property.
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The Shame of Georgia.
\ writer in the “Federal Union” of recent date
draws the following appalling picture of the tide
of ignorance which is now rolling, with increas
ing darkness -amh volume, over the “Empire
State of the'South
•‘A guierous patriotism is startled by the fact
as it stood in IW4O. Upwards of thirty thousand
free white grown up citizens in Georgia unable
to read or write a word of their mother tongue !
This number equals the entire adult population
of the Slate as it stood seven veai-i afterthechjsi
-rrf'tbe-Rovo'utioii. Ten years roll by. 1850 comes,
md the number in that short time has swollen
10 forty-one thousand! Many have looked with
anxiety at these figures, (and surely not without
the best of reasons) who have not noticed the
most distressing feature of the case. We refer
to the rapidity with which the number of entire
ly uneducated freemen in Georgia increases.—
It incrtants more rrt/nilh/ thiin the entire popula
tion does. By reference to the last census, it will
seem that lietween 1840 and 1850, the rate of
increase of the entire white population was a
little under 28 percent. During the same time,
the rate of increase of the number of adult citi
zens in the State unable to read or write, was
over 34 1-8 per cent. It is only by distinct
!v observing this rapid increase, that wo see the
facts in their appaling magnitude. This vast army
of forty-one thousand iriii he more tktn double
in thirty years ’ At the rate of increase shown
by tbe census, it will have within its ranks in
the year 1900. upwards of one hundred and sev
enty thousand of the citizens of Georgia. This
is the rigid result yielded by the figures. The
bov of fir-day who may live to old age, will see
the time when this host of darkened, unlettered,
imeared for multitude in our State, will have
grown to over tiro hundred thousand, unless an
entirely new and effective effort he made to
drive this sore evil from the land. Let it be
remembered that this vast amount of ignorance
accumulated and accumulates, right in the midst
of a great variety of legislation on the subject.
We may, thou, relatively do just as much as
hit hoi to. We may still levy the poor school
tax, still divide the interest on the poor school
investment, still have regular meetings of the
Seuatns Academious ; and yet, unless we do/-
measurahly more, the appaling facts above giv
en will stand out over growing in each succeed
ing census, the saddest, darkest chapter in the
history of Georgia.”
Another African Republic.—lt may not
be generally known that the colony planted and
maintained’ on the west coast of Africa by the
Maryland Colonization society, though forming
part of the country generally termed Liberia, is
not subject to the independent republican gov
ernment of which President Roberts is the able
executive, but up to the present time has remain
ed under the jurisdiction of the Maryland Socie
ty and officers selected by it, maintaining a sep
arate existence. From a statement which ap
pears in the Maryland Colonisation Journal , it
appears that this connexion, which has been so
long maintained, is pow about to terminate. The
colonists of the region referred to, some time
back adopted a constitution, and expressed their
desire to set up a government, independent alike
of the society and o I the neighboringrepublic
fn order to effect this purpose they sent to Balti
more two commissioners, W. A. Prout and
William CnsaeU, to confer villi Maryland Colo
uixation Society on the subject. The commis
sioners have been in Baltimore, aod on the 22d
of February, the twentieth anniversary of tbe set
lleoientof Cape Bakuns, miUclncf Agreement
wera drawn up, which, if ratified . within 0 year
by the n*w government, wifi Mpgate ihacolony
twfc w<nr KHMw tv© ioci6tY
cede* afi its public lands to tha-people and gofj
srfiijiyiftiof fine new State*n’ d*|t am conditions,’
of bind L> bo
(ranteil society is to base
tiro all its stores, pro
visions, etc., free of duty, and all vessels charter
ed by tbe society shall be free of lighthouse and
anchorage charges. Recaptured Africans shall
lie admitted into the country if the United States
Government desire to semi them there. All emi
grants sent, out bv the society shall have tbe same
right of citizenship as those heretofore scut out.
All public projH?rty in the colony is to be ced
ed to the new government. The commissioners
sailed for Capo Palmas in the Linda Stewart, on
ifie 27th February. Ou their arrival the whole
matter will be referred to the colonists, and a
vote taken thereupon ; and the constitution sub
mitted to the board of managers by the commis
sioners will also come up for final approval and
adoption; after which will follow the organiza
tion of the government of the new State. Thus
we shall have two republics on the coast of Afri
ca, founded, succored, aod sustained by American
benevolence and Christian philanthropy.—Colo
nisation. Herald.
GRIFFIN, GEORGIA.
VATUiDAT loREIVG. JEVsloiliMT
**r Th* dehitc before the I.yoemn.on th* Cu
ba Question, will be continued this (Siturday) evening,
At Concert 11*11. at Sn'olocfc The pnblic are invited to
attend—the Ladiei particularly
l). N. MARTIN, Sec y.
Hon. P. Phillips, of Alabama, and Hon. D. A.
Keese. and Hon VVni C Dawson, of Georgia, will
pleas* accept our thanks (or public documents.
To Correspondents.
Gentlemen who desire to make thoir favors ac
ceptable to the press, must learn the art of con.
dentamm. No one bus the right to expect that
his effusions will find place in a newspaper to the
exclusion of other mutter of as much, if not more
importance. Some men write as if they thought
a multiplicity of words made up for a deficiency
of ideas. It is a mistake, and a fatal one to those
who would win favor with proprietors of the press
We make these remarks now, that there may be
no misunderstanding of our motive should trans
gressors of the rule find their productions consign
ed to that bourne from whence discarded manu
scripts never return. To fill the paper u ith two
or three communications which may not interest
more than two or throe of its readers is manifestlv
unjust to the remainder. We hope correspondents
will hear this in mind
/ Concert.
A few of our “Bachelor'’ friends, assisted by
Prof Baldwin, gne u concert on Saturday eiening
last, for the benefit of the libraries of the two fe
male colleges of this city The audience although
respeetuble in character, was not in numbers
what, under the circumstances it should have
been. The loss, however, was on the side of those
who failed to appropriate the pleasures of a rare
musical entertainment. The fact is. (and it is a
consolation to know it) we have ample material in
our midst from which to manufacture, at any mo
ment, an impromptu musical festival of no mean
capacity Wo have seldom been more gratified
with a performance than we were with that of Sat
urday night; we have paid a half dollar frequent
ly to strolling minstrels fur much inferior music.
Mr. Baldwiu, who is an entire stranger to u*.
handled his instrument (the violin) with the skill
of a perfect master. The different members of
the *’ Bachelor < ‘iuh,” did the “ pathetio “ in “ Rosa
May,” Nancy Til),’’ &o in a way that oertainly
“ knocked at the door “ of the hearts of the female
audience, and gave assurance that performers so
susceptible of music s charms, could not he callous
to those of “ lovely woman !” We advise the 8.-ich
elor Club to attune its voice to the good old song
of •• Rock the cradle Lucy,” fur to •• this complex
ion it must come at las'. ’’
Can't Truit their own Work.
After alLgtbe hurrah about the triumph of a
“great Southern principle in the passage of the
Nebraska Bill, we find the Savannah (icoroian (a
warm advocate of the measure) warning its read
ers against confiding in the “siren song” of peace,
which it has been claimed would be the result of
the adoption of the Nebraska policy. The Uenrgian
professes to some confidence in the President and
those Northern men (about half of the Democrats
in Congress) who went for the bill, hut at the
same timeciutions the South that iier inaitL-de
pendcncc must be upon herself—that she must be
•vigilant.'’
What! After alt the bullying and brow-beat
ing. after all the -‘blarney” on the one hand and
detraction on the other, to fix this great measure
of‘pacification’ on theoountry. arc tho Southern
people now to be told that they can enjoy no qui
et—thnt they may not look to this ‘vigorous’ Ad
ministration for the preservation of peace that
the measure which has absorbed the almost entire
attention us the present C ’ongress and swallowed
up every other interest of importance, is, after all,
hut as a ‘siren song.’ proclaiming peace, where no
peace iB likely to exist ? After the mighty battle
basjust been fought—after the splendid ‘triumph’
which has been achieved, is nothing left to the
South but an heritage of constant anxiety, dis
trust am) 'vigilance V If this he so, Heaven save
us from many such victories ! The following is
the extract from the O-nrgian :
****** Are we to join in the siren song
now flowing from so many lips, that the Nebraska
Bill having passed all will henceforth ho j-eac- ?■
As journalists of the South—ns sentinels upon her
watch-towers—we dare not doit. However pleas
ing the task—however delightful to yield ourselves
and others up to the fascinating delusion—we daro
not proclaim to our readers that nbolitionism is
deaa or dying. We believe the Abolitionists to be
more numerous, bold and potent now than ever be
fore. Let not the South then be bullied into a
feeling of false security. While she readily and
cheerfully gives all honor to the President and the
faithful band of Northern men to whom sho owes
the fact that the Nebraska hill is now a law of the
land, forget thnt her ultimo safety must depend
upon herself; upon the union, patriotism and
lanct of her own citizens.
Query ?
Should the populace of Boston succeed in their
present undertaking to trample the Constitution
in the blood of its inheritants, and thus violate the
rights of southern citizens, shall we resort to a le
gal and practicable system of non-intercourse in
trade for our own protection and a feeling argu
ment to them ? Or, shall we bluster and pass res
olutions I— Albany (G a ,) Patriot.
Why, resolve, to be sure. We had supposed that
Ahe Patriot could be at no lorn for an answer.-i-
Datpoerntwapd Southern Right* precedent is clear
upon tbi* point. Wm it not resolved to have “54-
49 ut Iflitf* Wa* it n<A rttltml, at Nashville,
that tbe Missouri Compromise was the line, and
ibat tke SoetK MM u etit loom’’ from the North
If It was not extended through California ? Wa, it
-*ot revolted by Southern Right* Democrats that
allpfftlo*at the North wejfi corrupt, and that
they (Southern Bights Dettoonita) would have
nothing to do with national dominations ? Wa*
it not resulted by the Patriot's party that the Com*
promise measures of 1850 were fieg*>ling to,’’
and a “fraud upon the South ?” 1 ertainly them
things see so. a*d we are astonished that the
Patriot should now presume to doubt that a sys
tem which has worked so well for the Party— *
system whieb has led Democracy triumphant to
power—could fail Again to commend itself to the
appreciation of even Sout ern Democracy, which
resolves a great principle with a facility only
equalled by it* abandonment of it. “Bluster and
paas resolution*,’ by all means! Those who hare
read Judge Ijongetreet’s -Georgia Scenes’ will un
derstand th* motive at once. Yob desire simply
to show the abolitionist*, how you ‘could hate JU!’
If the North doe* not know the value of “bluster
ing resolution*” by this time, it is hot tbe fkult of
Southern Rights Democracy. We commend tbe
Patriot to the study of that branch of political
eemnne. as illpetrated by the history of the. cub
peign of 1860. Is there any policy of the present
Administration which was not resolved against, in
some shape or other, by the fire-eaters of that day?
We believe the Patriot's resolving propensities are
in favor of nan-inleramrte. Hud its editor imbib
ed that principle with hie mother's milk, he would
certainly have cut off the supply of a very impor
tant article of home consumption! How could he.
with such strong antipathies to yankeedom. con
sent to owe hie very existence to yankee milk ?
He reminds us of the American son of Irish parents
who was highly indignant because bis father pre
sumed to whipbim. He would not have minded
it, he said, if it had been done by a native Ameri
can, but the idea of being whipped by a -blamed
foreigner,"’ that was what galled him—boo-lioo
oh! fn conclusion, “resolve.” friend Patriot, any
thing you please but he assured that those resolves
will never be allowed to interpose an obstacle to
political eifieiliency. It is a fundamental doctrine-,
especially of Southern Democracy, that principles
may be sacrificed, but party never.
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Prospects of the Eastern War.
The following extracts from a private letter to
a citizen of Baltimore, received by the steamer
Asia, and daied “Constantinople, May 4th,” may
prove of some interest to our readers.
“Strange events are transpiring around us.—
Twelve thousand English troops are at Soutari,
and 6,000 at Gallipoli. The French are all at
Gallipoli, some 20,000 in number.
It is understood that nothing vvill be done by
land until the end of Juno. The allied fleets
are off’ Sebastopol, but can never take it without
troops to flank it.
The Turkish fleet has just sailed from the Cir
cassian coast.
Sliainyl lias been declared Emir (Prince Gov
ernor) of Circassia, and assistance has been sent
him.
Tuikoy is done up Sho has no resources and
can get no money. 1 never expected to see the
British troops leave this couutry until England
has all she wants. 1 hope that England’s influ
ence and power will be exerted hero for the ben
efit of Turkey. The French have no interest in
the queation, and have been coaxed into it by the
English.”
Proclamation of the President.
Whereas, Information has been received-that
sundry persons, citizens of the United States and
others residing therein, are engaged in organiz
ing and fitting out a military expedition for the
invasion of Cuba ; and whereas, the said under
taking is contrary to the spirit, and express stipu
lations of treaties between the United States and
Spain, derogatory to the character ofithis nation,
and in violation of the obvious duties and oldi
gations of faithful and patriotic citizens; and
whereas, it is the duty of the constituted author
ities of the United States to hold and’ maintain
the control of the great question of peace or war,
and not to suffer the same to be lawlessly com
plicated under any pretence whatever; and
whereas, to that end all private enterprises of a
hostile character within the United States against
any foreign power with which the United States
are at peace, are forbidden, and declared to be
a high misdemeanor by an express act of Con
gress :
Now, therefore, in virtue of the authority ves
ted by the constitution in the President of the
United States, I do issue this proclamation to
warn all persons that the General Government
claims it as a right and duty to interpose for the
honor of its flag, the rights of its citizens, the
national security and the preservation of the pub
lic tranquility from whatever quarter menaced ;
and it will not fail to prosecute, vi ith due energy,
all those who unmindful of their owu and their
country’s fame, presume thus to disregard the
lavvsof the laud and our treaty obligations. 1 earn
estly exhort all good eitiaeus to discountenance
and prevent auv movement in conflict with law
and national faith, especially charging tbe sever
al District Attorneys, Collectors, and other offi
cers of the United States, civil and military, hav
ing lawful power in the premises, to exert the
same for tbe purpose of maintaining the author
ity and preserving the peace of the United States.
Given under mv hand aadthcscal of the United
States, at Washington, the thirty-first day of
May, in the year of our Lord, one thousand
eight hundred and fifty-four, and the seventy
eight of the Independence of the United
States. Frankun Pielrce.
W. L. Marcy, Secretary of War.
o .
Rain Storm — Death by Lightning. —On
Tuesday night last. Montotnery, (Ala.,) was vis
ited by a very hard rain, lasting for hours, and
accompanied by the most vivid lightning and
tremendous peals of thunder. During the height
of the storm, and at about 12 o’clock, the house
of Mr. Hiram Roper, in the eastern part of the city
was struck by lightning. Several persons, male
and female, were at tho time sitting up with a
sick man in the house, and among them John
Cunningham*—a workman iu the carriage estab
lishment of Messrs. Quinhy, who was instantly
killed. It appears that Cunningham, Hiram
Roper, and a young lady wore sitting side In
side on a couch at the time the house was struck.
As already stated, Cunningham was instantly
killed—Hiram Roper was thrown senseless from
the couch—his clothes were burnt and torn from
his body, and his back so much burnt and lacer
ated as to seriously endanger his life ; though
we understand that the physician called to him
thinks he will recover. Nono of tho other per
sons present received any injury.
Mr. Cunningham is said to have hail a t>owie
knife or large dirk on his person, which was
drawn from ita sheath by tbe fluid. The light
ning struck the portico of tho house, and de
scended by the columns supporting it to the
room where the persons were in attendance on
the flick man.
The Weather — Crops. —We have been
blessed with abundant ruins during the week
past. Off SdliSb; a neat amount of rain fell
accompanied for a short time with a gale of
wittd, which kid Iffit tha 00m and uprooted
many tiifi* in its path. Tile belt of this toran
do, bowircr, was narrow, andNfne damage don 4
tljmMpr Some hail fell during its passage. The
Spßlier hits continued very warm—the mercury
reaching on some days 92 to 94 degrees in the
shade. * ■
Crops are looking well generally, and improv
ing. The corn crop promises to be abundant
which is good news for consumers. At present
it is selling for $1,25 per bushel, and is very dif
ficult to be had even at that price. The oat
crop* just now coming in, is jpx>d, and supplies
to some extent the want of corn. Cotton is
coming forward'very rapidly, and in many sec
tions looks well—much better than would have
seemed possible four weeks since. Grass too is
doing finely, and it requires the utmost vigilance
to keep it down.
At the time of this writing (Thursday, P. M.)
we are having a pouring rain, with the atmoet
pbere cooled down several degree! from the fe
ver heat of the past two Weeks-—Couri
er. 94.
IcomimKATUß.]
BALMAGUVDI.
A Pot-Pie Hotch-Poteh Boiled Down to a Cir
cumstance.
NOT BY WASHINGTON ISVINC,
“lio! make us here s grand pot pi*,
That we inaj fill oar maws
And b* glad 1 What, ho!
Spokeshart—King Cttjtt, Act 22.
MCSINGS
What soft, sweet influences steal over our souls!
and melt our spirits down ns we sit in the mellow’
twilight, and memory bears us far back into the
history of the past. The past, with all its dreamy I
recollections its hours of stirring joys, its days of
sadness and its nights of sorrow ‘ the past, with
its panoramic scenes moving as a waking vision be
fore us : dancing sprites of youthful hopes followed
by dim phautoms of disappointment: bright float
ing fairies of fond wishes aud tender joys haunted
by foul goblins of defeated ambition and wretched
anticipations; high arching rainbows of heart-stir
ring promise and lowering clouds of woe speeding
on the wings of misfortune’s blast to dnrken the
fair vista : joy. grief, pride, ambition, hope, love,
despair, all the prompting spirits of the human
heart, dwelling in ifs secret chambers, there build
ing altnrs or defacing shrines, twining green ten
drils round some worshipped sane or scattering
faded flowers in the empty cells of Hope and Peace,
how swiftly in their phantom array do they glide
along 1 e-fore the spirit s eye as we muse on the
past arid memory unrolls her dreamy picture.
Perhaps too. as we gaze dreamily upon that pic- ;
ture, we see the love-1 ono of former years in all
the witching loveliness of youth and health, with j
the “ love-light in her eye.” and the glow of con
scious beauty mantling her che’ek. while, sitting’
by her side on the mossy bank in the beechnut's’
shade, the lover breathed into her listening ear the
eloquent story of his heart. “ Love's young
dream”—how blissful, how hopeful,yet how often
closing in the crushing reality of disappointment!
And mayhap, as we sit in the twilight watching
some little star slily peeping out from its curtain
of clod, we rouse on the days of our youthful love,
anil as memory points us back we recall Love's
birth, its joyous hour-life and its mournful death
as we saw the rainbow's ruby lips quivering with
the answer we fondly hoped to make her ours for
ever. but which came, not in the soft low murmur
of tho heart's sweet language, but in. the careless
merry- “ No, Sir-roe! I'm engaged to Johnny
Smith.’’ I hate musing when it comes to that
It's neither amusing nor musical. Speaking of
musing reminds me of tbe Muses, and very na
turally comes up
poethy.
Oh! ye pestered Nine ! Would that 1 could
afford you the assistance you surely most need to
drive from your Parnassian haunts the motley
crew of doggerel rhymesters and sickly sentimen
talists who bore you with their peeling sonnets or:
invoke you from your celestial homes to their
mo ldy cellars o-cob-web-canopied garrets. Par
nassus used to lie in days “ lang syne” a region
where the good and great alone could and ell o
even dared to ebnib: hut nowadays, in accord
ance with the progressive, invasive, and and soover
atic spirit of Young \mertea. every groveund peak,
every nook and corner, every crag and cranny of
that once favored haunt of tbe great, the noble,
and the exalted, is now crammed with presumptu
ous scribblers and rhymestiieken riunanc r*. whose
inad lucubrations nr peeling stanzas of sickly non
sense have disgusted the former occupants and j
driven the unfortunate Goddesses into a galloping j
consumption And the poor suffering public, its
daily ory is—“ How shall we remove this great
evil froru Israel
‘"Will not some latter-day Hercules cleanse these
.Egean stables into which the once famous mount
has been converted? Alas! we have but me
remedy, perhaps two neither of which is a cure
We must either throw the lime of satire into some
of the puddles of would-be poetry and prevent the
piraregnatiim of the atmosphere with its miasm,
or, standing upon the brink of the great cess
pool of sum- ty. hold our martyred noses -and ex
claim u ith Byron
“ Ojr ridienlis arc kept in Ike hiiek-groutid,
Kiilieiiluusenougli, Put also -lull ;
Professions too, are mi more In he found
I’rolcssioutil, aud I here is nought to cult
Os folly’s fruit: fur though great fowls abound.
They’re barren aud not worth the pains to pull I
Socioty is now one polished horde
Formed of two might y tribes-tie- Soicsand Bored.”
Odes to eyebrows, sonnets to cherry lips, stan
zas to daniusk cheeks, r cetera arc all the rage
these days and with a furor as intense as it is su
premely ridiculous, a whole llert with double reef
ed topsails, sittd double shotted long-tones, is bear
ing down upon us with many a gav pennant
flying, upon one of which is inscribed the follow*
ing:
“AITTFMN RKFT.FICTIONS.
“ Autnion wind* are sighing round me.
Faded leaves are fleeting part;
Summer flowerr are with'ring now.
In the chilling northern blurt.
Summer birds hare flown away.
To a distant sunny land.
Where flowers bloom and skies are bright,
And whirp'ring zephyrs always bland.
The sky assumes its yellow hoe —
The woods in dying robes are dad ;
All nature mourns the year’s decline,
la accents mournful, low aud sad
Mournfully, oh ! the passing breeze
Until wail among tin- leafiest: trees
And echoes sad are borne along
Like fuiK’ia(dirge or mournful song “
Now apart from the o hi fancy of •• Autumn Re
flections in the opening blomn of Summer -there
is such a conglomeration of metres, ryihnt, and
rhyme, that tho poem (!) is quite a metrical curi
osity shop It seems to me that •• Summer birds’’
are now warlding the r sweetest notes, and the
joyous mocking-bird in the -pple tree opposite nty
casement considers the no v •• wltisp'ring zephyrs ‘
as quite “ bland ” enough for him Perhaps the
forlorn bard invoked the *• prince of the powers of
the air” and was wrongly informed ns to the sea
son. If so we must overlook his odd assertions
in tho first three stanzas
How grievously sad he must have felt as he ex
claimed in the fourth verse •• Mournfully oh!”
Perhaps the emotions which then agitated his bo
som rendered him somewhat oblivious as to the
rhyming arrangement and metre of the previous
verses. Continuing his “reflections,” the melan
choly poet thus propoundeth : „
“ Oh 1 what is this that weighs me down !
That warns me of some coming blow ?
Some gushing sorrow by the iuturc veiled,
Presaging death ! and crushing woe 1
Why do our tears unbidden start,
When nil looks gay around ?
Why doth the sign unhidden rls* ~
At every joyous souud t
Alas! there is seat hidden power,
Thnt breathes upon these silver strings—
And warns us, e'er s tender flower
Is heme awy on angel wings.”
Doubtless it is the weight of ponderous ideas
And huge conceptions which “ weigh* him down
and it is to be hoped that, having relieved himself
■jUjflTnWMpseß. of the jffighty bgrd n he wife’
soon recovef from thu'elF-ct* ofetfruncomfortable
pressure. By the that last verse is a gem
(in its way) It is not only very d-ff-rent in me
tre and rhymo from its antecedents, hut quite su
perior in other respects The “ idee “, contained
in it corruscates, scintillates and sparkles with
the fire of genius, but it has blinded my eyes with
the intensity of its brilliance, end I shall have
to leave it to cooler and subtler metap iysi
oians to determine and expound how a “hidden
power” can “breathe upon these silver strings.”
(what silveritrm,’?) and ‘- warnus” that “an
gels wings ” are about to bear away “ a tender
flower.”
Again, in a “ Sonnet to Memory ” from the same
inspired pen, the following agony occurs :
“ Com* hook to met—l know thy heart is sore
With its pent up grief, and through the dewy brine,
I see thy fall eyes swimming up to mi**.
And feel thy warm onus clasping ns of yore;
And dr*om of th**, so beautiful they ehine.
I feel within ma that a spirit stirs
The rustling, breaches of the balmy flrs
ThU stood nesid* the deer, aud breathe to the*
Some soal-Cflt thought, semeioyea* pbnntsiy—
Some minge of thec*rt, ns draws thee sow to me.
Ye God*! and Goddeeees too! Whet immortal
conceptions! How extatic the poet must have
felt when he saw her “ full eye* swimming up
through the dewy brine “to his! But-it strikes
my dull apprehension that it would be qaite a mi--
ruculous feat for a spirit to stir “ balmy fin ” which
“ breathe thoughts.’’ “ phantasies,” and “ mirages.”
If 1 were a botanist I should desire greatly to visit
that locality where fir trees breathe such sffticlea.
Now for wit, exquisite humor, and inimitable
drollery.
” ANNEIt MOKIER.
How I’ve hop'd, and I've wish'd,and I'rcdrtam’dof yoor
love
But time tell* ie hope is h liar,
Aud I’m forc’d to conceal all my worshipping “ fed—
lay.” from you my dear Anner Morier.
The words are not “ eoin’d ’’—there’s no language so rich ,
That can tell how I love—whnt a fire
Is consuming my mul—that my heart’s In s blase,
That I'm bunting—dear Anner Morier.
Oh ‘ happy theAojt as it roams in the field,
And liuppy the swine in the mire ;
They each have a mate, but I—l’m alone,
And despairing dear Anner Morier-”
That harmonious line:
“ And Fin forced to conceal my worshipping fed
Ing—”
strongly reminds me of the rustic jurtnile bard
who sung :
•• Daddy built a well-sweep;
A wind came aud Wow’d it down.”
Rut that would nt do for rhyme. A bright thought’
suggested itself. .Sheep would suit exactly; so
lie wroth his ** pome ’’ thus:
“ Daddy built a well-sweep;
And a wind come and blow’d it down —Sheep.”
And the metre of “ Anner Morier” is strongly sug
gestive of the little fellow's scriptural poem com
mencing :
“ Pharaoh was a mighty rascal
Because he woul’nt let the children of Israel go out sot
forty days and survey the land of Pascal.
How chaste and truthful is the metaphor em
ployed in the third stanza: and how beautiful at
well as witty ami delightfully droll is the imagery
of the second line of that verse. Yet, whatever
tuny ho the poet’s other accomplishments, it ia
clearly evident that he is no zoologist. For the
hart “ invariably prefers the forest or the prairie
to tho -- field,” ana it> seldom found in the latter,
except with a pack of hounds at his heels, and hia
•• happiness ”is then rather questionable. Then
! how unique and apropos is the comparison of the
poets self with “the swine in tbe mire.’’ But,
while the bard envies the Bliss of the latter, he
seems to forget that masculine porkers are univer
sal polygamists, and- ne “ Anner Morier” would'nt
begin to Mjfhce. Rut perhaps the minstrel had
“an til j e in the use of that similie. As to the
■ words not being coined —shade of Ren Johnson'.
; Let's burn our dictiuuui ics and adopt “AnnerMo
rier as our uitie-graphical criterion. Rut these
are only trifles, like the spots on Ihe disc of the
sun compared with the effulgence of his genius,
which, ftke the brigh ness <-t thnt luminary, pre
vent the eye IY<an iieuoldiag them except through
telescopic mediums. For instance, in a lyric entij
lied “ Nil Desperaiidiim “ we find this verbal em
bodiment of the pure sublime :
*’ ."'ll” certainly were calicoes.
Quill- economical; -
Ami as to “ rfiC'.vjiig ” otherwise, *
Woalii'ut suit a cannibal.
I
But others tlio’t unnumbered yean
No change could well presage.
And giu-.-s and at theiu, alt bo’ she was
Due -'ui eerUitn ug f.”
The exquisite wit and intense humor of the
above prciiioni'h us that oblivion awaits the fame
of Toni Hood ns soon as an appreciative public
Ciiehinatcs over a tew mure dJ! ■oc of the “same
suit “ In fact, the high tuned and refined (f) lit
erary journal in whose column*.the lai/s of this
bantam minstrel are weekly hatched, has more
than once immersed him in editorial soft-soap, and
the counterpart ot uiteof these Imptisms can b
joundiii a New York journal—thus illustrating
those mysterious cnniiiciderices in thought and
exdression w hich in cur so frequently tn the liter
piry world.
| It is a gm>d ihing that the lleei before mentioned
(consists, not in ships of the Uae. frignt-s, or war
j steamers, but in small tnnuy-rigged / trig ■, cairy-
I ing _uns of small calibre, mid itieupubleof encoun
tering even u •• tempest iu a teapot.” O herwiso
our literary furiifieations might be endangered.
\our lyre, my dear fellow, was made f r music,
nut poetry : and uiany a sweet strain have you
swept from its silver chords. a:.d often have I lie
tened with delight to its soft suites tb-nting gently
on the night wind's breath, as yon touched with
mnstcr-i.aiid its quivering strings and waked to
life the spirit of its melody. You're a trump iu
music, hut you play ihe deuce with poetry.
Griffin.
(■COM MONICA TED ]
Permit me. Messrs. Edrfozs, to offer your read
ers a few thoughts upon tile-question of the restric
tion proposed to he placed the traffic in ar
dent spirits. I set out with Yne startling fact that
there is not an individual in *Jte whole country,
old, or young, male, or female, high or low, who
has not been a sufferer by it eitls-r personally or
relatively If there is such an i.aie I have been
unable to find him and I have sought with some
dilligeneo; and now I make known to all men
who may see this communication, ifthe**i such
an one in this country I w.int to know kua*. It
doessco o that ail -vil mi general, so aU-pexva<Ux£
| would not reqivre any extraordinary ir.caas to- ha
j used for its suppression Yet such is the force of
habit and prejudice, not to say partizan attach
nv-nt and love of office, that we have not been thl*
up to the present time to constrain those whoi
ought to be the friends of the tern pent nee erfbeaa
to sustain a measure confessedly to calculatafita
remedy the evil No one pretends to believe that
any evil would result to the community therefrom,
and it is capitally questioned whether any on*
single individual has ever been benefited by the
traffic—indeed it is contended that awo and
curse has ever attended those dealing therein, and
if money was even made therefrom, it proved to
tho makor more injurious than beneficial, while,
on the other hand, evils of immense incalculable
magnii ude have universally attended its retail. U
is needless at this late day to enter the sanctuary
of the private circles of what ought to be domeetio
happiness to prove the damning nature of the aw
of intoxicating drinks-or to speak of hopes Moat
ed, happiness destroyed, health wrecked, and a
legacy bequeathed to the community at orphaned
pauperism: to this oauae we traee tbe carte of
the thirty thousand army of adulte ia this State
who can neither read nor write, more than to all
others. This measure comes fraught with all
to oa ondotw children. ’ It eomes with
“Sealing ia it* wings ” It Commend* itself to the
statesman, the philanthropist, the Christian in *
thousand
from the suppression of the tniffio hat * feefe,
neither ean|i be made manifest ft eaittaaloie
in imagination however, ttfli cjegß of
ogwneahpf tl,is measure who claim otfrftfimedi-
TWWftlßnon. They are the genteel, fashionable,
| church going, alms giving, (aye, they blow their
: trumpet, saying ho! ye. come up nnd set how
much I am going to give totliis or that ohjeet,) char
act- rized by our >nvior as “ whited tepuichnt.”
•• generation of vipers,” Sic. ■ They werehere and
arrayed them wives in o position to tha heavenly
doctrines of Him of Nazareth, “ who spake w pav
er man spake,” and even persecutor bim ante
death—they have been in at the death of all the
martyro. from tho death -of Stephen to the pmeeht
day. inciting and contenting unto their murder,
and they stand to-day arrayed in oppotitioß to tho
spread of the same gospel*of “ peaoe and good will
to men,” first preached by angels to the tiitpberdt
upon the plains of Judea—They will token driuk
in a fashionable, genteel way, they are not going
to make beasts of themselvee—not they. They
don't aee why we should daire to moke people *O
- “by force.” They are good temperanoMom
themselves—we were doing very well by meatil
suasion and their great and only fear seems to be
that the temperagpe reformation will he nteM.
The same-groand- wm awromed Mr* tbemttsiffr
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