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BENJAMIN G. LIDPON.
MADISON, GEORGIA s
SATURDAY, FEB. 23,1856.
AGENTS FOR THE VISITOR:
Mr. W*. B. Wilet, Agent for the Fort Gaines
Academy lottery, for Greensboro, Eaumton and
Madison, it authorized to collect and receipt for
tbit payer.
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agent for this paper.
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and receipt for subscriptions to this paper.
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rlilc, Ga.
TRUE! TRUE!!
A late writer says, no one can want food
and remain virtuous. Making shirts at
ten ccntg a piece would put the devil into
the head of a Vestal virgin. Low wages
and dear beef lead to more seductions than
Byron's Don Jnan.
llow trup, lamentably true! Though a
man's sins may mount to the sky, and they
be of the blackest kind, by a true repen
tance, or artful dissimulation, they may
be restored and received into the best so
ciety. In fact, the more abandoned the
man may have been before, the better re
ceived and more caressed he is after he
reforms. That is right, ami speaks well
for the kind heart of woman.
But how different is this kind-hearted
ness and charity manifested towards one
who lias erred of their own sex. Not the
slightest idea ever enters their heads to
help and save their sister from deeper de
gradation and misery, even though repen
tance may be deep and true in the heart of
the erring one. No, she is scorned and
avoided by her own sex, no matter what
may have been the cause of the first false
step. No hand is stretched out to save,
and even before, none to prevent the im
pending evil. That is wrong, and speaks
bad for the un-christian heart of woman.
On the Mount of Olives, our Savior
gave quite a different example than this.
When the woman was brought before him
and accused of adultery, the penalty for
which crime, according to the law of Moses,
was that she should he stoned, the Savior
“stooped down, and with his finger wrote
on the ground, at though he heard them
not," when the scribes and Pharisees told
Him the law, and asked Him, “ What
sayest thou ?” They continued asking
him, and “he lifted up himself and said
unto them, He that is without sin among
you, let him first cast a stone." And after
“ they which heard it, being convinced by
their oxen conscience had departed, and
Jesus was left alone with the woman, lie
asked for her accusers, and none were
there to condemn her, he said—“ Neither
do I condemn thee; go, and sin no more.”
Oh, how beautiful, how sweet is the
kindly exercise of charity! Hero was a
virtual confession, by our Savior, of the
criminality of the woman, and yet lie
forgave her, and by so doing, saved her
from farther sin.
How different the charity of the present
day I Those who by artful secrecy are
able to hide their own faults, are the first
to expose the same in another, and turn
the lip of scorn even at the hare mention
of the name of the suspected or actually
erring person. What a lesson this is for
the heart to learn, and how much profit,
in another world, and good, in this world,
may he achieved by studying it thorough
ly. There is a fountain of good in every
human heart that would How out if tl e
channels were not turned by the falsity
and absurdity of fashions ami customs.—
Many have already been ruined by weak
ness or treachery, hut millions will not
number those who have fallen by Slander.
Apropos to this subject are the follow
ing verses by Moore:
“ Oh, woman! if by simple wile
Tliy soul has stray’d from honor’s track
’Tis mercy only can beguile,
By gentle ways, the wnnd’rer back.
“The stain that on thy virtue lies,
Wash'd by thy tears, may yet decay ;
As clouds that sully morning skies
May all be swept in show’rs away.
“ Go, go—be innocent, and live—
The tongue of men may wound thee sore;
But heav’n in pity can forgive,
And bids thee “go, and sin no more!”
BALM OF A THOUSAND FLOWERS.
The name is grandiloquent, gaudy, sweet
and ptetty, and leads a person to expect
either much or nothing—either a great
remedy or a humbug. “ Balm of a Thou
sand Flowers!” What a concentration of
sweet things! What an immensity of vir
tue, for flowers are innocent! What an
assemblage of beauty, for flowers are the
ornaments of earth! What an extensive
commingling of delights, for every flower
delights the senses, and helps to elevate
the man! What an excruciatingbleuding
of the aromas of many sweet things. Ah!
it is good!—it is doubly good!—it is ex
cellent !—it is what it is represented!—it
is no humbug! Do you want to beautify
your complexion—to curl your hair—to
shave easy—to have a sweet and perfumed
breath —get the “ Balm of a Thousand
Flowers!” You’ve heard enough of it.
It’s all true. Read the advertisements,
and call at the Book Store before the sup
ply m exhausted.
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DEATH OF MRS. lIENTZ.
We regret to learn from the Marianna
Patriot, (Florida,) of the death of Mrs.
Caroline Lee llestz, so well known to
the reading world as one of the most
popular and charming ofSouthern writers.
An abler pen than our own should indite
an appropriate eulogy to the memory of
the deceased.
MANUFACTURE OF BROOMS.
There are eight manufactories of brooms
in the town of Poland, Ohio, which turn
out about three hundred dozen per week,
or 150,000 dozen tbrongli the year.
Yes, and if one of those factories were
in Georgia, even though they made ever
so good work, they would starve to death
for want of support. Southerners must
have every thing they use bought at the
North, so as to enable the abolitionists to
have tlie use of the money for “ under
ground railroad ” purposes. We have
known of several “ broom factories” that
were started in Georgia, and failed just
because they would have promoted home
industry had they been patronized.
PROTECTION OF GAME.
A hill is before the House of Delegates
of Maryland, (which is very humane and
necessary,) to prevent the “taking, killing
nnd sale of partridges or quads, woodcocks
and pheasants” out of season. It should
become a law in every State in the Union.
The wanton destruction of game at all
seasons of the year is foolish, and ought to
lie punishable. There is nothing gained
by it, for if a person kills one bird in Jan
uary that, it allowed to live until October,
would have produced ten more, we think
many shots and much good sport is lost—
besides, in October we would have tat
birds, and plenty of them. The same ap
plies to every State, with only a slight
variation in the seasons in different cli
mates. We wish that the Georgia Legis
lature would pass a similar law, and make
it, like the Maryland law, punishable by a
fine of five dollars nnd accruing costs, for
any one so offending, “ half the fine to go
to tlie informer, who is made a competent
witness to the facts in the case.” Game
is not too abundant now, and is gradually
getting less so, nnd if we have not luws to
protect it, soon the sportsman’s “ occupa
tion will bo gone.”
SAVE YOUR MONEY.
Yes, after it is once made it ought to ho
saved. It is within our recollection when
we once had plenty of money—at least
more than we needed for our daily sup
port, hut wo could not keep it, nnd now
we are in want. Why was it? Because
Heiiiiino had not then made one of his
celebrated (however, read the advertise
ment, tho name is too long to repeat now,)
Safes. If we bad bad one, nobody could
hive taken that which “was mine, ’tis his,
and had been slave to thousands,” (that’s
not exactly tho quotation, though,) nnd
we would now have been in comparative
ease—no debts, a house full of provisions,
a fence round tlie lot. good garden, two
pigs, a cow, nnd—baby. Those Safes are
wonderful!
THE “GREAT USED UP."
Bnrnnni is broke—“gone by the board ”
—as everybody says. The great Clock
making establishment of Jerome <fc Cos. lias
failed, and Barnum, who was endorser for
the concern, is said to have lost his all.
The price of clocks must advance at least
one-eighth to a quarter of a farthing each.
What a pity. Those who have clocks, let
them keep 'em, for they are getting valu
able ; those who have not, had not better
buy, for time is now a precious article and
will be more so.
Wo don’t believe that Barnum is broke.
It is only a change in the schedule of hum
buggery, to elicit symputhy and get great
prices for his property. We’ll liet (though
not a sporting character) tlie slump of a
cigar which we now gracefully hold in our
mouth, that it will not be long before
Barnum will own the whole of that clock
factory, and—more too. He didn’t give
the least intimation of his connection with
this factory, in his autobiography, or we
would have been prepared for these “ as
tounding developments.”
We think tlie following remarks of the
Charleston Mercury are very true, and
worthy of being copied. We think so:
“ As for Barmiin, nobody need spend a
sigh on him. lie will always fall on his
feet and be sure of a living. But the ideu
that tlie inventor of Joyce Heath, the
Fcejee Mermaid and Tom Thumb, should
at last lie circumvented by a Wooden-
Clock Company, in his own native dis
trict, has something in it very melo-dra
matic, retributive and edifying.”
Infokmaiion Wanted, —A man bv
the name of William Reeves, who was
residing with his family in this city, has
been missing since the 24 th of January,
lie is a common laborer, and is about
fifty years of age. It is feared that he
has fallen into the hands of the “ lime
juicers,” who have shipped for parts un
known. Any information respecting
him would bo thankfully received bv his
family aud friends iu Charleston.— Char.
Mercury.
Have Something to Do.—The secret
of all success in life, of all greatness, nay,
of all happiness is to live for a purpose.
There are many persons always l usy,
who yet have no great purpose in view.
They fritter away their energies on a
hundred things, never accomplishing
anything, because never giving their in
dividual attention ta any ona thing.
NEWS ITEMS.
lt is stated that foreign despatches
received at Washington show that peace
is definitely settled, leaving specific terms
to be arranged by negotiation. Con
ferences will be held at Paris. Lord
Clarendon was to have left London for
Paris on the 28th of January.
Nicaragua, or the Walker Rivas
government, has suspended diplomatic
intercourse witii the United States, be
cause tho President refused to receive
Mr. French as minister.
lt is believed in Washington, that
the American convention which is to
assemble at Philadelphia on the 22d
inst., will postjione the nomination of a
candidate for President.
Captain Judkins, of the steamer
Persia, gives it as his opinion, that the
missing steamer Pacific has-been dis
abled, and returned to the nearest Eu
ropean port.
Tlie Nashville race course was sold
a few days ago for $25,000j W. J-
Phillips was the purchaser.
We learn from the Chattanooga
papers that the first train of ears passed
over the Tennessee bridgo on the 15th
instant.
Tho Capitol of Oregon lias been
destroyed by fire. It is thought to be
caused by an incendiary.
A letter from Paris says:—“Paris
is in a state of fearful commotion,
which is daily extending itself through
out the whole of France. The growing
unpopularity of Louis Napoleon is such
that tho citizens refused to acknowledge
with one cheer of welcome his soldiers
on their return from the Crimea, which
sacrifice of national character to personal
hostility, was bitterly commented on by
the emperor, who exclaimed: I can easily
understand your silence as to ‘ vivo I’om
pereur,’ but not this reception of your
brethren on their return from a glorious
campaign.”
Tho ice blockade has subjected
Richmond, Va., to a slate of siege. The
allowance of coal it is stated, is
very nearly exhausted, and the quantity
brought in daily from the pits is not
adequate to the wants of the e.oimnuiiiiv.
Already tho gas lights are turned off
before midnight, in consequence of u
deficiency in the supply of coal at the
gas works. It is also said that the stock
of corn, meal and sugar is rapidly di
minishing, and the price of the latter
articles have gone up almost to the war
figure.
lntelligence has been received bv
the government, by the steamer St. Louis,
at New York, that the sloop of-war John
Adams had burned five of the largest
towns on the Feojee Islands, in conse
quence of several American ships having
been plundered. A treaty was after
wards signed.
Tho Evening Post contains a let
ter from Sam Houston to the President,
in which the writer declares that no con
sideration could induce him to remain
at Washington in an official position.
Tho freezing of the Mississippi
river throughout its entire length is set
down as a circumstance unprecedented
in tho memory of any one living, nnd
tradition fails to furnish a parallel. The
“oldest inhabitant” has for once been
deficient in a record.
The ice has partially broken up
in the Baltic, and navigation was being
resumed in the Crimea. Gortschakoff
has turned over his command to General
Luders. The army was healthy.
On the 9th of January, the Rus
sians made an expedition over the ice
with a view to attack Kertch, but find
ing the allies on the alert, they with
drew.
A steam boiler explodeded in Lon
don, Canada West, a few days since,
blowing the building to atoms, and
burying 30 men in the ruins. Five of
the men were killed and nine wounded.
Os the forty-nine Greenfield ladies
who gave as many gentlemen a sleigh
ride last week, and a supper in Deerfield,
sixteen were single, and thirty-three
were married—and of the thirty three,
only ten invited their husbands; the
quotient twenty-three found more agree
able companions. Such are leap-year
amusements.
On Sunday morning last, says the
Baltimore Clipper, the wife of Mr. Wer
ner Knoble residing on Cotton Avenue,
gave birth to a female child, which pre
sents a most singular case of malforma
tion. It has neither legs nor arms, and
the feet seems to be growing from the
side of the body. The child is living
and doing well.
The Buffalo Courier says the Erie
Railroad has been, for some time, at a
daily expense of $2,000 for fodder for
cattle on trains detained by the snow
storm.
The New-York Times says; There
are, at present, about one hundred and
fifty vessels over due, many of them
heavily freighted with living cargoes.
Tbe Richmond papers state that
counterfeit notes are said to be quite
abundant in that city at this time, es
pecially on the North Carolina banks.
The Dispatch has been shown one on
the Bank of Cape Fear, which eould
have been passed upon the unsuspecting
without trouble.
—Ou the night of the 15th, the store
of Mr. B. L. Schmitt, No. 46 Dev st,
New York, was entered by burglars and
robbed of between fifteen and twenty
thousand dollars worth of dry goods.
The thieves got into the store from the
hall leading into the upper part of tbe
building, by cutting out one of tbe pauels
of tbe partition.
ln New Brunswick, the operation
of the liquor law has caused much ex
citement and some rioting. Several
officers, while searching for liquor near
Woodstock, were assaulted by a crowd,
and in the fight which followed, a num
ber of persons were severely injured.
The down passenger train on the
Georgia Railioad ran off two miles be
low Slone Mountain on Saturday, killing
a dozen beavesand injuring—not serious
ly—five or six passengers.
The defaulting Wisconsin Trea
surer has turned over all his property to
the State; sufficient, it is supjiosed, to
cover the abstracted sums.
ln obedieiieo to tbe call of the
Mayor, the citizens of Augusta were to
meet on Friday evening to consult to
gether as to the policy of subscribing
$500,000 of stock in tbe Savannah Val
ley Railroad Company.
ln the Senate on Wednesday, Mr.
Sumner pres, nted the joint resolution of
tho Massachusetts Legislature, complain
ing of the slave law as uncon
stitutional, and asking its repeal; also,
calling on the President of the United
Slates to take effectual means to protect
the sovereignly of the people in Kansas
against outrages from invaders.
Col. Orr and Mr. Howell Cobh
have returned from their exenrsion to
New Hampshire, where they addressed
large and enthusiastic bodies of men, on
the poliiio-.il topics of the day, and made
a most favorable impression.
W. 11. Lewis has been sentenced
to two years’ imprisonment, for robbing
tho United States mail, at Cahawba-
Alabama. Daniel 11. Smith has been
sentenced for a like offence in Monroe
county, Ala., to teu years’ imprison
ment.
ln the House of Representatives,
on lhui'sday sen'niglit, memorials were
presented contesting the seats of Mr.
\\ bitfield, of Kansas; Mr. Allen, of III.;
Mr. Gallegos, of New Mexico, and Mr.
Euslis, of Louisiana.
Mr.- Cass has so far recovered from
tho effects of his recent accident that he
will resume his seat in the Senate prob
ably next week.
lf you can paint fire with charcoal,
light with chalk, and make colors live
and breathe, then you can with words
give a faint idea of the excellence and
magic effects of Perry Davis' Vegetable
Pain Killer. Its reputation is of world
wide renown; its introduction is received
with great favor iu foreign lands.
Win. A Harris, Esq., Senator from
Worlh county, lias been appointed one
of tho Governor’s Aid-de-Camps, with
the rank of Colonel.
The President's Proclamation re
lative to affairs in Kansas, appears to
have been called forth by the fact of Mr-
Robinson, the Governor elect of Kansas,
hnv ng sent an appeal to the Northern
States’governments for aid against the
apprehended invasion.
1 lie Milledgeville Recorder thinks
the Legislature will not adjourn before
the last of next week, if then. No tears
will he shed when it disperses.
The Supreme -ourt of Georgia
has decided ill favor of Messrs, ratten
and Mustain, in the matter of the sale
of the Muscogee Railroad stock.
—On Wednesday night, 6th ins*.,
Lugg's paper mill at Papertown, Cum
berland county, Pa., was destroyed by
fire.
The statistics of the Massachusetts
Legislature state that one geutieman be
lungs to that body.
Dr. Orestes A. Rrownson has taken
up his residence in New Yoik.
W. D. Howard, said to be tbe
richest man in California, died on the
19th ult.
The Missouri river is frozen over to
the depth of tlia-e and a half feet at St.
Louis.
A Yankee Irick.—A tellow in Ver
mont turned New Year’s day to some
little account, lie crossed the “line”
and drank three glasses of French brandy.
He immediately returned home and
charged his neighbors twelve and a-half
cents to smell bis breath. Our inform
ant says that he made nineteen dollars
in three hours. This, we think, conies
uuder tbe bead of sharp practice!
Report
OF THE SENATE COMMITTEE.
Below we give the report of the Com
mittee on tbe Tennessee suits against the
State Railroad, which will, no doubt, be
interesting to all of our readers ;
Your Committee, appointed by Re
solution of the Senate, in accordance
with the recommendation of bis Excel
lency the Governor, contained in his
message, in relation to Suits, by certain
citizens of tbe State of Tennessee in the
courts of that State, against the State of
Georgia, for alledged damages claimed
to have been sustained by those citizens,
for failing to ship promptly, and for un
seasonable detention of produce and
merchandise owned by said citizens, and
registered for shipment or transportation
over the Western and Atlantic Railroad,
have had those suits, the evidence and
the proceedings had therein, under con
sideration, and beg leave to make the fol
lowing report:
To have a proper understanding of the
question under consideration it will be
necessary to examine the Legislation of
the State of Tennessee, conferring on
the State of Georgia, the right to con
struct a paitof the Western and Atlantic
Railroad in that State.
The State of Tennessee by an act of
her Legislature passed January 24th,
1838 —granted to the State of Georgia
the right to extend and construct the
Western mid Atlantic Railroad from the
Georgia line to the Tennessee river, with
all the privileges, rights and immunities,
and subject to the same restrictions, as
far as they are applicable as were grant
ed by the State of Tennessee to the Ili
wassee Railroad Company. The State
of Tennessee by act of her Legislature
passed Febuary 3d, 1846 —conferred
upon the State of Georgia, so far as the
Western and Atlantic Railroad is con
cerned, all the lights, privileges and im
munities, with the same restrictions as
were conferred by that State on the Nash
ville and Chattanooga Railroad Compa
ny. By virtue of the privileges confer
red by these acts, the State of Georgia
constructed a portion of tho Western
and Atlantic Railroad iu the Slate of
Tennessee, upon the terms specified in
tlie above recited acts. Your Committee
are of the opinion, that the State of
Georgia by accepting the terms, privi
leges and immunities, as well as the re
Unctions specified in the acts above
mentioned, becomes liable to be sued in
the Courts of Tennessee, and consented
to waive so much of her sovereignty, as
to Authorize suits to bo brought in those
Courts, for causes of action arising in
the State of Tennessee, for injuries, de
fault, or negligence on the part of the
Agents of the Western & Atlantic Rail
road. Your Committee are of the opin
ion that tho causes of these suits origi
natod for the want of a sufficient equip
age of locomotives aud cars to transact
the business of the road.
In the year 1852, the amount of pro
duce offered for transportation over the
Western and Atlantic Railroad was very
large, and the facilities of the road for
doing a heavy business were very limited.
The road was- mainly dependent for
freight cars, on the Georgia, Macon it
Western, and Central Railroads, which
roads to some extent claimed and exer
cised the right to prescribe the quality of
freight transported in their respective
cars, lit consequence of the exercise
of this right, great difficulty arose in
transporting the freights over the road
in the order of their registry, and mos.
of the suits submitted to our examina
tion were predicated on a claim tor dam
ages in behalf of the plaintiffs for non
shipment of pioduce, registered by them
for transportation over the road, within
a reasonable time, and in the order of
their registry. Annexed to this report
is a statement of the number of suits
brought, for what brought, of the amount
claimed, and of those determined, how
much recovered, together with a brief
of the evidence, iu those cases, and the
proceedings had therein. The suits have
lieen brought not against the State of
Georgia, as defendant, but against the
Western & Atlantic Itailroad, which
your committee consider irregular and
erroneous, inasmuch as there is no such
natural person as the VVestem <fc Atlan
tic Railroad, neither has there been
created by the legislation of tiie Stale of
Georgia or Tennessee, any such artificial
person or corporation, for all tlie righ s
privileges and immunities conferred by
the State of Tennessee, were conferred
upon the State of Georgia, and not upon
a company called the Western <fc Allan
tic Railroad. The Western <fc Atlantic
Railroad is not a company or corporation,
but simply the name of a line of rail
road, extending from the oity of Atlanta
to the city of Chattanooga, and is the
property of the State of Georgia; con
sequently, we are of the opinion, that
there is, and was, no defendant in these
cases, and the proceedings bad tßerein
were, and are void as against the State
of Georgia, and the judgments had
thereon of no binding force or effect
U|>on the property of the State of Georgia
situated in Tennessee or elsewhere.—
Most of the cases decided, have been
determined by submission to arbitrators.
Your committee would recommend, that
the cases still pending, be vigorously
defended in the courts of Tennessee, and
that no more of them be submi:ted lo
arbitration. Your committee would fur
ther recommend, that the road be equip
ped in such a manner as to enable the
agents to transact the business offeredi
with dispatch and promptness, which we
believe would largely increase the profits
of the road, and greatly benefit the citi
zens of our State residing on that line of
the road. We would further recom
mend, that a freight list be established,
graduated iu proportion to the distance
which freights are carried over that road.
Your committee are divided iu opinion
on the question, as to whether Georgia
ought or ought not, to sell, or disjiose of,
that portion of the Western Je Atlantic
Railroad lying iu the State of Tennessee;
and upon that subject, beg leave to m ike
no further report.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
F. 11. Cone, Chairman.
Tho War in Kansas.
Gen. Stringfellow is still “slashing
round " iu Kansas. He has just issued
a notice, in which he says :
“It seems now to be certain that we
shall have to give the abolitionists at
least one good thrasLing before political
matters can be settled in tins territory.
To do so we must have arms; we have
the men. I propose to raise funds to
furnish Colt’s revolvers and other arms
for those who are without them. I pro
pose to do so without taxing any one
but myself. I will sell some shaies of
town stock in the territory, and bind
myself to invest all the money in the
above articles, which shall he loaned to
such soldiers as are unable to purchase
them, and shall remain for such use for
the space of one or two years. The arms
to be used by the volunteers and militia
of Atchison count) - , when iu service.”
Singular Fact.
No citizen of the United States was
ever executed for treason. It is quite
probable that this is the only govern
ment in the world in which the same
thing can be truly said. Our people
make the government, and they will do
no act that will tend to destroy their
own work. Treason can only be medi
tated when there is no political liberty.
—Northern Exchange.
That no citizen of the United States
was ever hung for treason is no evidence
that there are no traitors in the United
States that deserve hanging. It open
and avowed hostilty to the constitution
and laws of the country, if the doing of
“acts that will tend todeslroy” the gov
ernment, is treason, then traitors might
lie stiung up like Wealherstield onions
in some of the free Slates, where, if all
accounts are true, there are scarcely
sound men enough to do the hanging.—
Savannah News.
Fike. —We regret to learn that the
dwelling hout-a, gin house, and othei out
buildings, on one of the plantations of
our townsman, Win. M. Morton, Esq„
together with a large quantity of cotton,
were consumed l>v fire on Friday night
last. We have heard no estimate of the
value of the property destroyed, but pre
sume it to be considerable.— Athens
Watchman.
Great Snow Storm.
At Oswego, N. Y.. a snow storm set
in on Friday, the Bth iust., and continued
four days. The Palladium thus describes
the scene after the storm ceased :
“ Our city rivalled the winter scenes
of tho Arctic, region, and such a storm
could only be equalled there. The
streets in many parts of the city were
impassable, the snow ranging from four
to ten and twenty feet iu depth, and in
some places the drifts are thirty feet
deep. Many of the residences were
banked up with snow to the second
story. Water street is totally impass
ible. The river is almost entirely closed
up to the lower bridge—an extraordinary
occurrence—and wild ducks look refuge
in the little open water near the bridge
during the storm, from the raging ele
meiits on the Lake. Os course the roads
into the interior are completely impas
sable, and it is impossible to say bow
soon we shall get a communication with
the country. The snow stoim now lies
to a depth on a level of from six to eight
feet in the woods.”
Ode to the Shanghais. —Cover, of
the Grant County Herald, has been writ
ing an “Ode to the Shanghais.” The
following is the first verse, which is as
much as our readers wi.l be able to bear
at once:—
“Feathered giraffe! Who lent you wings ?
Who furnished you those legs ?
How could such everlasting tilings
As those come eat of eggs!"
Ruteian Civilization,
The speech of Mr. Bright, M. P., be
fore the Mechanics’ Institute of Man
chester, England, on “Education and
W ar,” contains the following significant
passage:
“We are told that the Russian em
pire is a barbarous empire; that the
Czar is a half savage despot over hoards
of savages; that the barbarian of tb»
North menaces the civilization of tk«
South and West of Europe, <fco. Is j t
not a singular thing that St. Petersburg,
the capital of this barbarous empire
though but a modern city, has a library
which, in size, ranks the third in Europe,
and is said to contain 10,000 volume*
more than the- British Museum » Is j t
not strange that at the Southern ex
treniily of this barbarous empire there is
a city which some wretched and san
guinary fanatics in this country wish that
the allied fleets should utterly destroy; *
oily, the foundations of which were laid
hut sixty years ago, and which exported
to this country in the year 1848 lfi»
year of famine in Ireland— more than '
5,300,000 bushels of grain ? Surely
there is something more and better tlun
barbarism in facts like these, and yet tli»
people of England have been supplied
with mental ailment, for two years past
or more, full of prejudice, full of exag.
ration, and full of falsehood, and the
policy they have applauded lias been
based on misapprehensions of the gross
est character.
Dog Fat —The dogs thrown into the
River Seine, to avoid the payment of the
heavy tax recently established, have
been so numerous, and have proved so
fat, that the workmen at Javelle, a short
distance below Paris, who carefully fish,
wd them up on their passage, have ex
tracted from them one million of kilo
grammes (about two millions of pounds)
ut tat, a substance which sells at the
rate of two francs and a half (about fifty
cents) |>er kilogramme, and is used in the
preparation of tine gloves, particularly
those of a straw color.
Courier des Etats Unis.
Western Hog Trade.—The receipts
of hogs at Cincinnati up to the 22d ult.,
amounted to 389,174 head, against 332,*
470 to the same date last season. The.
receipts at North Madison, Indiana, were
00,957 head, against 75,813 to same
date last year. At Louisville the num
ber killed is 803,300, which is 20,000
more than last year.
The Tvi-e Baiteky.— Mr. Frv, of the
New York press, being called on to reply
to a toast in honor of the craft, at the
late celebration of the Typographic
Society, made a very excellent speech
the speech of the evening decidedly
in the course of which he said ;
There are two kinds of weapon-
W e have Paixltan guns; Minie rifles, and
Mtarpe’s rifles; but there is one thing
that shoots further than all these. It ii
the shot from the type battery. It goa
around the world ; it circles cities and
threads plains; it wends its way through
woods; it rattles it, the rigging of tin
S '"P on t,ie most distant seas; it is nev«
s|K-nt when aimed high, but ricochet!
-'titking with fresh force every form of
evil, dishonor and oppression. In firing,
then, let your aim always be true, and
remember that to hit the mark, aim «
little above it.
The Expected French Heir.—Tin
Paris correspondent of the New York
T!ma ' vritus great events arc said
to ho preparing for the accouchment of
the Empress, which will take place in
about a month.—The personnel of tbi
I cileries is to undergo important mod
ifications ; there will be a perfect showet.
of new titles; some changes are amici
; listed in the Senatus Consultant ; great
fetes will be ordered at the expense o!
the State; a political amnesty will bt
declared, “ and the joy of the peopli
will he great ”
Gentility is neither in birth, wealth,
manner, nor fashion—but in the mind,
A high sense of honor, a determination
never to take a mean advantage of anoth
er, an adherence to truth, delicacy and
|H,liteness towards those with whom *•
have dealings, are its essential character
istics.
The Methodist Book Concern.—
The North western Christian Adrocat
says of the Methodist Book Concert
that “it commenced in 1789, in Philt
delphia, under the sufiervision of tbt
Rev. John Dickens, the first book stew
ard, agent, and editor of the Metbodin
Episcopal Church, with a borrowed cap
ital of $600: and tliough loosing it
1832, by fire, nearly $300,000. Tb»
institution possesses a capital of ov«
three quarters of a million, and a grand
total of its sales for the past fiscal year
reached the sum of $631,169. It haa |
now been in existence sixty-six yea* ‘
The tract and periodical department at*
bnt branches of the great trunk concert-