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BENJAMIN G. LIDDON.j
MA33ISO3T, G3EOB.GrXA.
SATURDAY, FEB. 16,1856.
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vide. Ga.
VALENTINE’S DAY
lias passed and many “ gentle swains” and
“ Lonnie lassies ” nro now examining tlic
loving epistles received by tliem, and con
jecturing who the sender was, but the one
ice received not of the most loving
kind. Oh, you should have seen it! —it
had on it a picture, (not ns costly and
pretty as it was funny and apropos,) print
ed with red and black ink, representing
in langnnge and in figure—but we won t
tell. However, the object we carried in
«mr arms lias often disturbed our nightly
dreams. Ladies and gentlemen, we are a
married man.
THE INFLUENCE OF EDUCATION.
The ennobling and elevating influence of
education upon the mind of man may bo
conclusively estimated from the (act that
out of the 1511 men bung in the ( nited
•States during the year 1854, only seven
could read and write. A\ hat a lesson .
"Will not parents profit by it ?
No, alas! they will not. Place an aca
demy in one hundred yards ot every mans
door in the State of Georgia, and provide
each with a competent teacher, and thou
sands would rot to the ground for the
want of occupation, if the teacher asked
ten dollars a year l'or bis services. Build
a bar-room five or ten miles off, and they
will flourish “like a green bay tree.” it
is strange, but true. Wlmt a legacy is a
good education, and how many fail to ap
preoiato its worth ! In our town wo have
two excellent male schools and two female
Colleges, though now well patronized,
the number of whose pupils should ami
would bo increased by hundreds if the
value of an Education were properly un
derstood, or if there were no such feeling as
penuriousness and love ot gain, llietight
purse-string, in this respect, has been the
egase of many crimes tlmt would other
wise never liavo been committed. Parents,
educate your children, for, sooner or later,
the neglect of it may cause you to bow
your head in shame to the dust.
A STATE ON A SPREE.
We learn from a coi respondent of the
last Galveston News that the entire Legis
lat tire of Texas got on a “ royal bonder ” a
few weeks ago. After adjourning to the
street the members managed to knock up
a fight among themselves. The Speaker,
and other officers, were along, and busi
ness wits transacted in the regular maimer
—motions “ to drink,” like those “ to ad
journ,” being always in order. It was n
part of the duty of the “Doorkeepor ” to
rule outsiders from the “ lights.”
That was equal to the spree at Savannah
of the Georgia Legislature, two years ago.
Surely, wo are a remarkably free and easy,
but correct law-making, law-abiding peo
ple. Such conduct in Legislators is hard
ly worthy of Imitation, and yet the dignity
of tlicir station may cause many to follow
the exiunplo in a motion “to drink.”—
llettor go to the Penitentiary than to such
Legislatures, so far as the credit of the
thing is concerned.
THE GREAT NATIONAL MAP.
During this week wo have boon allowed
to see the elegant map recently issued by
Mr. S. Augustus Mitchhi.i., whoso name
has boon so long before the public as a pub
lisher of the best Geographies, Atlasesand
Maps with which our country is supplied.
This gentleman is now offering to the pub
lic, through his travelling agents, what lie
calls MitclidVs Mew Matioiuil Map, a
splendid copperplate engraving, surround
ed with a border of surpassing richness
and beauty, colored in counties, adapting
it to the wants of the Southern States.
This map extends from the Atlantic to
the Pacific Ocean, and from the 60th
parallel of north latitude south to within
a few degrees of the equator; shewing the
Lulled States and Territories, (including
the new divisions,) the British Provinces
of North America, the Canadas, New
Brunswick and Nova Scota, the Sandwich
Islands, Mexico, Central America, Cuba,
Ilayti, Jamaica, aud the West India
Islands.
We have never before had a metallic
plate map representing so great an extent
of territory on so large a scale. The vari
ous points of interest—towns, cities, new
settlements, missionary stations, stopping
places on the overland routes to Oregon
aud California —hays, lakes, rivers, canals,
railroads, post roads, stage, roads, moun
tain ranges, die., &e., are given witli great
accuracy.
The true sourco of the Mississippi river
is here given—shewing that it does not
rise in the lake of the woods, as represent
ed on the older Maps, but flows from nu
merous small hikes in Minnesota.
lAHI&Y ■■...
On the same sheet, and finished in the
same elegant sty le, are two maps of tfie
world, one on Mercator’s and the other on
the globular projection. They are very
finely executed. From them we learn the
relative position and comparative size of
the various grand and sub-divisions of the
globe. The map on Mercator's projection
is constructed with tlie American Conti
nent in the centre, giving a definite idea
of the course of sailing from any port of
the United States to Europe or Asia. It
also shows the advantage* the proposed
Pacific Railroad will afford in opening a
direct and speedy line of communication
between Europe and Asia via. the United
States. It is evident that whenever that
project is carried out, the United States
must become the centre of the world’s
commerce.
Beneath the border is a table containing
the names of Counties in the United States
and Territories, with connty-seat and
population of eacli county placed opposite.
The location and names of the County
Towns aro on the map, so that, with the
aid of the table, the precise location of the
connty is found. By looking along the
column of county names, which are ar
ranged in alphabetical order, we see op
posite the name of the county sought, the
name of its capital, and, by referring to
the map, we see it in its proper position,
thus enabling us to locate the county —the
map not being encumbered with county
names, leaves much morespnee than other
wise would he the case, to he filled up
with the names of cities and other impor
tant matter. There are also tables of dis
tances, the height of mountains, and the
lengtii of rivers.
In short, Air. Alitciikll seems to have
spared no labor or expense to make this
map just what it should he—a complete
and reliable map of oar great republic, ac
cording to its present extended limits, in
connection witli other parts of the North
American Continent.
AVc learn that Mr. Mitchell has em
ployed the Rev. Dr. Earle to obtain can
vassers to sell these elegant maps in all the
counties of the Southern and Western
States yet unoccupied. That gentleman is
now at Augusta, where he will remain
long enough to canvass that city himself,
mid, ia the meantime, procure agents for
other parts. lie l.as appointed Afr. -Jesse
AV. Jackson to canvass Baldwin, Putnam,
Morgan and Clark counties.
It is, without doubt, the most reliable
map ever published, and wo liopo Air.
Jackson will proceed to give it an extend
ed circulation.
A Shakespearian Dun.
Wo should certainly preserve the fol
lowing ingenious persuader for future
use. It is a dun from an editor some
where out West, hurled at his delinquent
patrons. If ho don’t get the money nf*
ter they have read it, they must bo the
meanest people this side of sundown :
“ Friends, Patrons, Subscribers, and
Advertisers: Hear us for our debts
and got ready that you may pay : trust
us we aro in need—and liavo regard for
our need, for you have long been trusted ;
acknowledge your indebtedness and dive
into your pockets, that you may prompt
ly fork over. If there bo any among
you—one single patron—that don’t owe
us something, then to him we say, step
inside—consider yourself a gentleman.
If the rest wish to know why we dun
them, this is our answer : Not that we
euro about cash ourselves, but our cred
itors do.
“ Would you rather that wo go to
jail and you go freo, than you pay your
debts and wo all keep moving ? As we
have worked for you; as wo have fur
nished our paper to you; but as you don’t
pay, we dun you ! Here arc agreements
for job work, contracts for subscriptions,
promises of long credits, and duns for
deferred payment. Who is thero so
mean that he don’t take a papci ? If
any, ho needn’t speak—we don’t mean
him. Who is there so green that he
don’t advertise ? If any, let him slide
—ho ain’t the chap either. Who is
there so bad that he don't pay the prin
ter? If any, let him shout—for lie’s
the man wo’er after, llis name is Le
gion. lie has been owing us for onei
two or three years—long enough to
make us poor and himself rich at our
expense. If the above appeal to his
conscience does not awake him to a
sense of justice, we shall have to try the
law and see wlmt virtue there is in “ writs
and constables.”
Another Revolutionary Hero and
Pioneer Gone. —Rev. Phillip W. Tay
lor, a native of Caroline county, Va., a
soldier of the Revolution, and one of the
early pioneers ot Kentucky, died on the
24th ult, in Shelby county, Ivy. Ho
was present at the surrender of Corn
wallis, a soldier in Colonel Mathew’s
regiment. In 1781 became to Ken
tucky. On his wav down the liver, his
boat was attacked hv the Indians twenty
miles above Louisville, and several of his
companions killed and wounded, him
self among the latter. lie know person
ally Koonq, Kenton, Todd, Harlan, and
indeed all the pioneer heroes w ho settled
the State. He was for many years a
Justice of the Peace in the county of
Shelby, for two years its High Sheriff,
and for sixty years a minister of the
gospel.
NEWS ITEMS.
lt seems not to bo generally known
that Congress at the last session provid
ed for a consulship at Monrovia, Liberia,
with a salary of SI,OOO per annum. If
the office is still unfilled, is it not owing
to some other cause than that there are
no applications for the office ?
R. W. McCune, Esq, late solicitor
of the Flint Circuit, and formerly a State
Senator, died a few days ago at his resi
dence in Griffin.
Mr. Thomas Connelly has been
elected to the House of Representatives
from Murray counly, in place of Mr. B.
F. Carter, resigned on account of ill
health.
Mr. Thurmond, of Downing Hill
Nursery, Atlanta, in a communication
in the Intelligencer, calls upon the Le
gislature to pass more stringen' laws for
the protection of gardens and orchards.
The Roman Catholic Bishop of
Toronto lias issued a very remarkable
political pastoral, in which he specifies
several “mortal” sins, against which the
faithful should guard with peculiar vigi
lance, suclj as going to a Protestant
church, and sending Catholic children
to Common Schools.
During his sojourn in Boston, the
Hon. Robert 'Toombs visitefl both
branches of the Massachusetts Legisla
lature, where lie was introduced to many
members, and was treated with courtesy.
New York harbor still continues
full of ice, much to the inconvenience
of the shipping, many vessels being
frozen in their clocks.
The Missouri Democrat conlains a
long communication in favor of Judge
Wayne of the U. S. Supreme Court as a
candidate for the Presidency. Col. Ben
ton lias been heard to express a similar
preference.
The New Yorkers have at last
made sure of their great Central Park,
embracing an area of several hundred
acres of ground. All the legal obstacles
opposed have‘been removed, and the
work of preparing the ground will he far
advanced by next summer. It will cost
$5,000,000.
The thermometer at Atlanta on
Monday last, stood at 4" above zero.
Snow in many parts of the State lias re
mained on the ground for three weeks.
In Elbert county it was 0 inches deep
at one time, and in Lumpkin 8 inches.
Wo learn from the Augusta pa
pers that Mr. Thackeray has been en
gaged by the Young Men’s Library
Association to deliver two lectures in
that city on Monday and Tuesday even
ings next. The course, which is to con
sist of six lectures, will he continued by
Mr. Win. Gilmore Simms.
There are 500 miles of streets and
1,000 miles of pavements in New York.
The Tribune of that city estimates the
cost of freeing these latter from the snow
that fell on the sth ultimo, at $50,000.
A costly snow, that.
The Wisconsin Mirror is printed
in the Woods. There is not a dwelling,
except that, of the editor, w ithin half a
mile. The wild foliage of the forest
looks over the office, and w ild game shy
around it. Still, the editor is in fine
spirits, and expects a large village to
spring up.
An exchange tells us that Airs,
Parton (Fanny Fern) brings as her dowry
two daughters and $25,000, coined from
Ler fertile brain. This beats Jupiter
hollow, for his brain only sent forth one
daughter, Minerva, without any dollars,
while Fanny’s brain produces two daugh
ters and $25,000.
Wo regret to learn from the Alil
ledgeville correspondent of the Chronicle
& Sentinel, the demiso of Mr. Caldwell,
of Pike, a worthy member of the House
(Jf Representatives of the Georgia Legis
lature, from the county of Pike, lie died
at his residence, of pneumonia, on Sun
day last.
The greatest remedy of the day is
unquestionably Perry Davis’ Pain Killer,
for the instant relief of all pains, scalds,
bruises, etc., and for pains in the stomach,
and bowels; it is used with encouraging
success in sudden attacks of cholera
and cholera morbus. No family should
pretend to keep house without it always
by them.
The lion. Millard Filmore was in
Rome, Italy, by last accounts, sitting for
his bust in marble to Bartholomew, the
celebrated American sculptor.
The steamship Illinois, which sailed
on Tuesday for Aspinwall, took four
hundred soldiers from Governor’s Island,
destined for Oregon and California,
where they will, no doubt, he employed
in operating against tho hostile Indians.
The election to iw the vacancy
in the State Senate, occasioned by the
death ot Hon. Andrew J. Alilier, is or
doled to take place on Monday, the 3d
of March next.
lion. O. 11. Singleton, of Miss., has
been appointed consul to Havana.
The Delaware river and bay are
filled with floating ice. The ice boat
succeeded in getting up on Wednesday
morning.
An attempt was made on the night
of ihe 9th inst. to assassinate Denis Cor
coran, one of the editors of the New Or
leans Delta, lie is badly injured, but
will probably recover.
—At the Paris review, on the 15tli of
January, the Duke of Cambridge, in the
name of Queen Victoria, presented the
British Crimean medal to 14,000 French
troops. Vive l entente cordiale !
—Mr. Dallas will take his whole fami
ly with him to London. Ilia son will
fill the position of his private secretary.
—lt is said that a million of acres of
land will be brought into market in
Kansas Territory' by the first of next
June.
Preparing for War.
The Mayor of New York, in a recent
special message, advocates warmly the
construction of additional defences for
that city. In case of war, he thinks
there would bo concentrated the boldest
effort and most effective power at the
command of an enemy. In the event of
a war with England, her immense ma
rine of armed steamers and transports,
could concentrate at Bermuda and Hali
fax, and land upon the south side of
Long Island a sufficient force to cross
the Island and take possession of the
heights opposite to New York in a few
hours. The Mayor therefore proposes
an extended line of circumvallation, em
bracing die hills between Brooklyn and
Jamaica, and resting upon Fort Hamil
ton on the light, and Newtown Creek
on the left.
As to the harbor proper, they are in
good and excellent condition. The fort
lias already in posiliou more guns of
heavy calibre than Sebastopol had at
the attack of tho allied armies, or than
Cronstadt has’at the present time. More,
however, can he done towards protecting
the defences of the Narrows and Sound,
and aflcr consultation with Gens. Scott
and Sanford, the Mayor recommends
that the attention of the government he
drawn to the propriety of erecting ad
ditional batteries at the entrance to the
outer hay and at Hurl Gate. He adopt,
the motto—“ In time of peace prepare
for war."
An Old Printer.
AYc liavo in our employ, an old printer
seventy-six years of ago, who commenc
ed his apprenticeship of seven years
in the King’s Printing Office, London,
in 1784—04 years ago. He was a
soldier under Sir John Moore at Corun
na, in Spain, in 1808, when lie received
a hall in the right arm. He was pre
sent at the burial of Sir John Moore, and
remembers tho minutest particulars of
the scene. He was also with the Duke
of Wellington through his whole cam
paign, and lost an ancle hone by a grape
shot in the battle of Waterloo. This
old man, after all his hard service, is still
one of the swiftest and best compositors
wo have ever known, and though lame
from his wounds, is still able at “early
morn and dewy eve,” while younger
men are wasting the golden horns in
sensual pleasure or snoring them away
in bed, to ramble over tho fields and
through the woods in search of wild
flowers, with which lie forms tempting
bouquets for the belles of the village, or
to gratify the wishes of somo favorite
little girl. It speaks well for the heart
of the soldier that all tho children love
him. —Blackstone Chronicle.
Extraordinary Story.
During the stay of the Persian Am
bassador in Moscow, a fire of charcoal,
lighted by his servant in a stove of the
room where his son and the servant
slept, caused the death of the former by
suffocation, while the latter narrowly
escaped with his life. The ambassador,
in order to avenge the death of his son,
commanded the servant, to whose care
lessness the accident was attributed, to
be flayed alive. Tho Russian police,
however, interfered, alleging that such a
punishment could not be allowed in
their country. Accordingly, his excel
lency ordered a box with air holes to he
made, for the purpose of transporting
Iris unfortunate servant to Persia, there
to suffer tho fearful death which even
Russian civilization prohibited !
Air. Buchanan has written a letter to
a friend, in which occurs the following:
“The next will be the most important
and responsible Presidential term since
the last war with England, or per
haps since the origin of the government.
Both our foreign and our domestic af
fairs will require the guidance of an able,
firm and skillful pilot to steer the vessel
of State clear of the breakers. I pray
heaven that the best mau may be select
ed for the crisis; and to me it is a mat
ter of indifference whether he comes
from the North or South, East or West.”
Georgia on Slavery.
The. New-York Post, fanatical always
upon tile subject of Slavery, attempts to
make capital out of the debate in onr
State Senate on the prohibition of ne
gro traders introducing for sale all soits
of negro cut-throats, house-burners,
vagabonds, (fee., from other States. By
our present laws, slaves from other States
are not allowed to be introduced for
purposes of speculation. But a bill has
passed the Senate of this Legislature to
repeal that salutary law. Air. Pope,
with other considerate men, took his
stand against the repeal of the law, as
the practical effects of the introduction
of such characters was highly injurious
to the State. The Post, catching at
some of liis words loosely reported in
the debate, maliciously charges aboli
tionism on Air. Pope. Nothing is furth
er from the truth. Air. Pope is a slave
holder from principle as well as birth,
and had not the slightest idea of throw
ing his influence adverse to slavery.
We tritely hope the existing law will
not he repealed by the vote ot the house.
Tho effect would be destructive to the
morals of our slaves and otherwise ex
tremely injurious to the interest of our
State. We speak as a slaveholder and
political economist. Alorally and finan
cially we are opposed to the repeal of the
law. When we need good servants,
every facility is afforded us for obtaining
them; but deliver us, if you please,
from the thousands of miscreants that
would he imposed upon us by unscru
pulous slave traders from other States.
We are no advocates for making Georgia
a Botany Bay for those too wicked to he
kept by their owners at home. — South
ern Recorder.
Prof. Liebig, in a letter to Prof. Silli
inan, says:
“ The method of roasting is obviously
the best to make flesh the most nutri
tious. But it docs not follow that boil
ing is to he interdicted. If a piece of
meat he put into cold water, and this
heated to boiling, and boiled until it is
‘done,’ it will become harder, and have
less taste, than if thrown into water al
ready boiling. In the first case, the
matter.-''grateful to the smell and taste
go into the extract, the soup; in tho se
cond, tho albumen of the meat coagulates
from the surface inward, and envelopes
the interior witli a layer which is impen
etrable to water.
Saltpetre in Tennessee. —A Ten
nessee paper has the following statement
in reference to the manufacture of salt
petre in a portion of that State :
“ The caverns of East Tennessee, at
least a great number of them, contain
immense quantities of the nitrous earth
from which saltpetre is manufactured.—
This is no new discovery. Many years
ago, its manufacture was carried on in
several localities, though to a limited ex
tent. Then the facilities for operating
wore limited, and this section of country
being cut off from all the principal mar
kets, the eostof transportation, combined
with the expense of working it, rendered
its manufacture profitless, and it was
abandoned.”
Persian Barbarity; at Herat.— The
last Indian mail brings intelligence from
Caluil, respecting the affairs at Herat, to
Nov. 1. The Sindian cf Dee. 8, has the
following:
“The intelligence from Herat is hor
rible ; the whole of Yar Mahomed’s
family, old and young, have been put to
death, except tho mother of the two
princes who were recently murdered by
the Persian troops. She had great in
fluence in Herat, and was called “the
nawab of Herat.” Her life was spared
with the view of extorting from her the
treasure she was known to have possess
ed ; but she was prepared for this, for on
the murder of her two sons, she collected
all her jewels and burnt them, and allow
ed, her slaves to distribute the spoils
among themselves. She is now tortured
with red hot irons to make her give up
her hidden wealth.”
A Brave Woman.
A correspondent of the Baltimore
Sun, writing from Lane county, Oregon,
November 21st, says:
As au indication of the kind of wo
men we have on this coast, let me give
vou the following heroic incident: The
house of a Air. Harris was attacked in
the afternoon. The inmates were him
self, wife and little girl. In one hour
he had fallen in the conflict. Before he
expired he gave his wife some directions
as to how to load and fire. The house
was a log one, and at every assault the
Indians would make on the door she
would give them a deadly fire from a
musket loaded with buckshot, and also
by firing a revolver.—They would then
retreat, not knowing the number whom
they assailed. She held them at hay
until 8 o’clock the next morning, when
she was relieved by the volunteers. She
literally strewed the yard with the dead
and wounded.
Desperate Affray in a School
House.
The Lebanon (Tenn.) Herald of the
241 h ult. gives the following account of a
terrible and fatal tight in a school room,
in Wilson county, in that State:
“The most distressing homicide we
ever heard of, occurred in this county,
about three miles north-east of Lebanon,
on last Monday morning was a week
ago, between Rufus Watson and his
three sons on one side, and two sons of
John New on tW other. The unfortu
nate difficulty occurred in a school room.
Young New, aged about nineteen years,
was shot through the heart and expired
immediately; and his little brother, some
thirteen or fourteen years of age, was
almost to pieces—receiving
no less, we leant, than seven dangerous
wounds. Strange as it may appear, he
is still living, and 'hopes are entertained
of his recovery. Rufns Watson received
the contents of a pistol loaded with bird
shot, in the breast, but was not seriously
hurt. The difficulty grew out of an old
grudge that has existed between the
heads of the respective families.”
What the French think of Us.
The Paris correspondent of the Phila
delphia Inquirer, speaking'of the recent
contest at Washington, for the Speaker
ship, says:
“The French cannot comprehend such
a state of things,” said one to me yes
terday evening, as he was glancing over
his evening paper, the Presse, when he
came to the paragraph which told him
that the House had voted twenty-six
times for Speaker—President, as the
French translate it—without an election,
“you Americans are singularly patient
witji your Representatives. If France
were a Republic, and such a thing had
occurred in its National Assembly, the
people would Lave assembled en masse,
burst open tbs doors of the Chamber,
and driven their unworthy servants out
of doors, or if repulsed bv the troops,
there would have been a general rising,
and the streets of Paris would have flow
ed with blood. There would have been
a revolution.”
“ It is for this very reason,” I replied,
“that you are nut and never can he tit
for self government. We Americans
vote, and vote on day, after day, if ncoes
sary, until at last a majority has pro
nounced. The ballot is our only arm in
political contests.”
Locomotives.
When locomotives were first built
they weighed less than five tons. This
was in 1828; since then passengers and
freight have increased, car after car has
been supplied for their accommodation,
and ton after ton has been added to the
weight of the engine, in order to enable
it to move the additional burden imposed
upon it, until those of the largest class
upon the English roads have attained the
enormous weight of 32 tons, and in the
United States to between 20 and 30 tons.
The first locomotive perfotmed 28 miles
an hour. They now perform from 40
to 80 miles. This increase shows a rapid
improvement. The first locomotive cost
§3,000. The St. Clair, belonging to the
Hudson River Railroad, cost §12,500.
Tire first locomotive used in the United
States, was the “John Bull,” on the Al
bany and Schenectady Railroad. This
engine is now at the Albany Nail Fae
tory, w here it is kept tvs a curiosity.
The First Locomotive in Texas. —
Wo learn from a letter from Houston,
Texas, to the Galveston News, that the
first locomotive upon the Galveston,
Houston and Red River Railroad was
put in motion on the 29th ultimo. The
writer says:
“About 4 o’clock, P. M., amidst the
huzzas and cheers of an enthusiastic mul
titude assembled to witness the starting
of the iron horse, he was brought forth
from his temporary resting place and
placed on the road seemingly in fine
travelling order. After exhibiting some
signs of restiveness, he set out steadily
on his western journey—the first of his
species that ever left the junction of
White Oak and Buffalo Bayou. Quite
a large number of our citizens availed
themselves of the privilege of taking the
first ride on the locomotive, which con
tinued to make short excursions hack
and forth the distance of some half a
mile, during the afternoon, much to the
gratification of all persons.”
King George, of Hanover, has just
abolished trial by jury for political of
fences in his dominions, by his mere de
cree. Trials ou account of published
writings are also withdrawn from the
cognizance of juries.
Mr. John S. C. Abbott has received
from the Emperor of France a rich gold
medal, and a letter in acknowledgment
of the Emperor’s appreciation of Mr.
Abbott’s History of Napoleon, a copy of
whiel? the author had transmitted to his
Majesty through Hon. Mr. Mason, our
Minister in Paris.”
Pbeparing for in Canada.—
The recent idle rumors set afloat ty the
Washington correspondents of the New
York papers of a suspension of friendly
intercourse between the United States
and Great Britain, have alarmed the
good people of Canada, and they are
making preparation for war. We are
informed by a gentleman direct from
Toronto that fourteen loads of ammuni.
tion are now on the road from Kingston
to Toronto. Each load is drawn by four
horses. Mink, the stage proprietor, is to
receive 81,200 for the transportation
service. This looks warlike, as if the
people of the Province were alarmed.
The transportation of ammunition by
land such a long distance is unusual, and
must cause some excitement among the
good people along the frontier towns.
Rochester Union.
A correspondent of the Philadelphia
Ledger, writing from Leghorn, says:
Ihe only person who was permitted
to land in advance ot all the rest was a
\ouiig Austrian officer, (some 19 or 20
years old.) Ihe other passengers, among
whom were our most excellent ex Presi
dent Fillmore, and the Duke of Mont
pensier, (son of the late King of the
I reneb, aud a capital, handsome fellow
withal,) had to stay on board of an ex
ceedingly filthy steamer until the police
wore satisfied that none of the strangers
brought into port were likely to give the
State danger or trouble. For the first
time in my life a real (filibuster feeling
came over me, and I felt as if I could
throw the officer overboard, when I saw
the ex-President of our Republic (may
God preserve her from the fate of the
Italian Republics) walk past the petty
officer of the absolute power of a petty
State, in obedience to his brutal maudale.
lhe Duke of Montpensier followed with
a smile, and 1 could not help whispering
to him in English that he probably real
ized himself that America and England
were the only’ two free countries in the
world.
Simple Mook of Ccttino Stone.—
Among tile French machinery will ho
.‘bund a very ingenious and simple mode
of cutting stone, exhibited !>v a man
named Chevaliere. He causes a wire lo
run at a high velocity over the surface
which he wishes to dissect, and l.y drop
ping on it a mixture of sand and water
the operation is rapidly completed. Th e
hardest graites yield so quickly to this
process that the inventor can with one-
horse power seperate it at the rate of a
square toot per hour, the wire running
at the rate of forty feet per second.—
1 s ing (lie ordinary saw, the same amount
ot work would require three-horsepower,
aud would expend fifteen fiancs worth of
material, instead ot one franc, which is
all the wire costs.— London Mining
Journal.
I here has lately been shown, in Paris,
a huge concave mirror, an instrument of
a startling species of optical magic. On
standing close to it, it presents nothing
hut a monstrous dissection of your phys
iognomy. On retiring a couple of feet
it gives your own face and figure in true
proportion, hut reversed, the head down
waid. But retire still tardier, standing
at the distance of five or six feet from
the mirror, and behold, you see your
selt not a reflection—it does not strike
you as a reflection—but your veritable
sell, standing in the middle part between
you mid the mirror ! The effect is al
most appaling, from the idea it suggests
of something supernatural; so striking,
indeed, is the exhibition, that men pos
sessed of the strongest nerve will shrink
involuntarily at the first view.
A letter has been received at the State
Department at Washington, D. C., from
Honolulu, Sandwich Islands, dated De
cember 4th, in w hich the w riter states
that strong fears were felt by the citizens
ot Hilo that the lava w’ould destroy the
town. The fiery stream had reached
within eight miles of the place, and
from the activity of the volcano and the
rapid progress of the lava, the worst ap
prehensions were entertained.
I he I exas Debt Bill, which has passed
the Legislature of that State, distributes
about seven millions of dollars from the
Uuited States Treasury, to those who
hold claims against Texas, One-third
of these claims are held in Philadelphia,
one-third in New York, and the remain
der in various cities. Some of these
claims were bought very low, and the
profit realized will be large.
Alleged Discovery of a New Is
land. —Capt. Cantillan, of the Belgian
bark Independence Beige, informs his
government that on the 20th of August
last, he discovered a small island in lat.
46 deg. S., and long. 53 deg. 43 min.
M., off the coast of Patagonia. Im
mense numbers of birds were seen flying
above the sea grass which surround it
for miles. It is very dangerous, as it is
not described on anv chart.