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BENJAMIN G. LIDDON.
T. A. BURKE, EDITOR.
MADISON, GEORGIA:
SATURDAY, MAY 17, 1856.
Our Weekly Chat,
With Reader* and Correspondents.
Living in the country isn’t what it’s
cracked up to be, unless you are raised to it.
It’s all very well to sit in town, behind a
pood cigar, and dream of green fields and
“gently running brooks;” of cherry cheek
ed maidens and rural felicity, and all that
sort ot thing—but when yon come to try
it on, it wont do—it's all humbug—and
you are certain to come back disgusted
and Sunburnt. One of our exchanges tells
of a city youth who went out into the
country to ruralize. Having found a su
burban nook exactly suited to his fancy,
he feasted himself pretty heartily and
went to bed. For sometime, his supper
not setting well on his stomach, he found
it impossible to “woo sweet slumber to
his eyelids,” but at last tired nature yield
ed and he was fast sinking into a delight
ful stato of unconsciousness, when ho was
horrified at hearing, directly under bis
window, a cow bellowing most piteously.
Long time he bore the infliction with pa
tience, lint at length the animal settled
into a regular nuisance, and throughout
the night kept up the most outrageous
noise* until the city nun was well nigh
expiring with vexation. Next morning,
with bloodshot eyes and aching head, he
presented himself to the landlord and said
“There was a cow under my window, my
dear sir, bellowing all night—all night,
sir.” “I guess I know’d it,” answered
Boniface, with a grin of intelligence; “I
guess l knoW’d it. You see, I didn’t hear
her, ’cause I don’t mind any noise when
I’m asleep; but I tuck that cow’s calf
away last night, and I ’spected she’d go
on and bellow, as all cows do.",
Mr. T. B. Petekson is out in a
card, from which we learn that the book
lately issued by him under the name of
“ Courtship and Marriage,” was revisod
by Mrs. llontz but a short time before her
death, and published in its present form
at her request. lie also states that tho
children of Mrs. Hcnt.z are interested in
the copyright, and receive a portion of
the profits. Under theso circumstances,
we think we did injustice to Mr. P. in onr
previous notice of the affair—a thing
which we have no desire to do in any
case.
Up to the time of thus writing,
we have received no reply from our fair
correspondent, Pkggik, to Bob Don’t-
Care-a-Ornt. We nre assured, however,
that a response will be made in duo time
—and that the hat and bonnet question is
still before the house. Touching this
matter, we notice that Mr. Punch, of
England, has undertaken to mako a de
fence of the bonnets. We havo already
expressed our opinion of the fashion, and
have no disposition to join issue with Mr.
Punch at this time. A friend and corres
pondent who writes us on this subject
says “I am always too much enraptured
with tho contents of tho bonnet to notice
the outside covering (or bonnet proper).
1 know little or nothing about them; but
were tho subject under discussion tho
‘ apt-semblance’ ensconced in a beaver, or
the aagirZ-semblance provokingly conceal
ed in a kiss-me-quick or a duck, I’d take a
hand, even tho’ hearts were trumps.”—
Now, wo don’t know what kind of a “head
fixing” a duck is, but take it for granted
it is something handsome—-but we plead
guilty to the first count in this indictment
—to being too much taken with the face
in the bonnet—or in the neighborhood of
it—to care much about the bonnet itself.
But hear Mr. Punch on this subject:
“Mr. Punch, ns the acknowledged
champion of the rights of woman—bless
’em, however right and however wrong—
lias to denounce a mean and cowardly at
tack, made by a medical practitioner in
the human form, upon that delicate and
fairy-like fabric, the female bonnet. The
dastard ati'ects to “ lament the great in
crease of tic-donlonreux in the forehead!”
He, moreover, bewails the predominance
«f“ great suffering in tho ear,” induced,
as he finuly believes, “ from the present
absurd fashion of dressing the neck instead
of the hea-.V’ And why not? The fact
is, poor women havo been put too much
stack—too much on one side—and Mr.
I\peh cannot but look at the heroic at
tempt made by tho dear creatures to
thrust the bonnet on the shoulders, as a
noble resolution to appear as barefaced as
possible. We yet hope to see a woman as
far out of her bonnet as a snail can come
out of her shell; and as for tie-doulour
cux, ear-ache, headache, and so forth, why,
what are such calamities other than glo
rious? Even as soldiers carry scars in
honor and memory of their valor, so may
women have ear-ache, headache, and tic
douloureux, as glorious life-long records
of the courage that faoed all weathers
without a bonnet.
“Mr. Punch hardly knows a more
touching sight—a sight so convincing of the
inherent energy and devotion of the sex—
than to behold a beautiful fragile creature
facing the east wind that at this moment
(Mr. Ihincb does not disdain to confess the
weakness) makes him rejoice at the fire
side like a cricket. It is, we say, a beauti
ful and touching spectacle to contemplate
the you i rest ore. with a face relentlessly
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mottled by the east wind, her nose as just
dabbed with a blue-bag, and the wind,
like winding invisible steel, catting at the
very roots of the loved one’s hair, twist
ing like cork-screws into the hollows of
her all-credulous ears, and subtly entering
into the beloved anatomy, making of the
nerves so many death-watches that shall
tic and tie, it may bo for the term of her
natural life. The life may be blighted.
But what of that? Can the beloved one
be less precious? Quite the reverse.—
Even as we pay additional honor to the
hero without arms or legs, so are we pre
pared to render deeper homage to the
woman whose whole existence goes upon
such tic. Indeed, for a woman to be truly
adorable, she cannot lie too rheumatic.
We believe that real affection towards an
object to be idolized inevitably commences
with a cold. It was all very well for
Venus, in her own mild and balmy cli
mate, to take conserve of roses; but the
woman who would inevitably fix a man’s
affections in this country-, must begin with
a mustard poultice. We have inquired of
the registrars of marriage, and find that
nuptials have increased in number as bon
nets have lessened in size. Proceed,
ladies, and may the shadows of your bon
nets never be greater!”
We notice among our exchanges
this week the familiar face of our old
friend, the Home Journal. We have also
been favored with Frank Leslie's Illustra
ted Newspaper, a handsome pictorial week
ly. We shall notice them both more at
length next week.
Bores.
Not the least among the afflictions
which tried the patience of poor old Job,
must have been tbs eternal jowering of
bis three friends, Elipliaz, Bildad & Cos.
Did it ever occur to the reader that there
was more danger of the old fellow being
bored to death by these three comforters,
than of his losing his patience on account
of his bodily afflictions?
Job’s friends were the representatives of
a very numerous class to be found at the
present day—men who are never so happy
as when they can worry others into being
as miserable as themselves. The Natural
History of Bores might be written and we
should like to have Mr. Albert Smith take
hold of the subject. They might bo divi
ded into distinct classes, like other ani
mals and their history would be an inter
esting addition to our common school
studies.
One of the most common species is the
genius who meets you on your way to
dinner, and stops to discourse you of
something which interests himself alone
and to which politeness compels you to
listen patiently, wbiloyou know that your
dinner is getting cold, and your friends
like yourself getting hungry. “ lie lias
no heart. 11c listens to the loquacity of
your diaphragm with perfect composure,
though it speaks of wants unsatisfied and
viands in expectancy. Ho holdcth con
verse with nonentity; he keepeth you in
suspense by leaving bis sentences unfinish
ed ; and lie taxeth your imagination with
wonder ns to what ho will havo to say
next. You go home to a late and cold
dinner with your whole body in ft state of
grumbling dissatisfaction. Yon feel as if
you could knock down your grandfather.
In short, you feel as every man does who
has been bored. It is an awful sensation.
Sea sickness is pleasant to it.”
Another class of bores —immeasurable
bores—are literary characters who insist
on reading tboir manuscripts to you. It
is said that one of this class—a French
dramatist—called once upon a friend to
read to him anew comedy, and found him
in his last moments. In spite of tho fact,
however, he insisted on having it read.—
“Consider,” said the dying man, “I have
not more than an hour to live.” “Ay,”
replied the bore, “but this will not occu
py more than half that time.” Doct.
Johnson suffered deeply from this style of
bore. On one occasion bo was called upon
by a literary man of the day who com
menced unfolding a huge manuscript, with
tho evident intention of inflicting it upon
the lexicographer, but that great man
jumped up and with a shout which sent
Bozzy trembling into a corner, roared
“At your peril, Sir, at your peril 1”
Madame do Stiiel was easily annoyed by
theso literary bores. There was at Geneva
a certain professor Dragg, who came un
der this head. He belonged to the best
society and tho celebrated authoress of
Corinno was compoled to submit to his te
diousness. On one occasion sho had n
party of friends at her house, who were
enjoying themselves in pleasant conversa
tion when in walked the much dreaded
professor. Seizing the first convenient
opportunity, lie drew out a huge manu
script and began to read it aloud. Impa
tience and weariness were soon plainly de
picted on every countenance. Dumont,
one of the company, was soon set fast
asleep by the length of the manuscript and
the drawling monotonous tone of the
reader, while poor Madame do Stiiel,
being in her own house, was compelled to
submit, with all the apparent patience
possible, to the unmerciful bore. After
a half hour’s time, Dumont awoke and
rubbing his eyes, said apologetically, “ I
hope I haven’t been long asleep!” “My
dear Dumont,” cried the afflicted author
ess, “according to my computation, you
have been asleep two entire centuries!”
Drngg took the hint and sloped.
Hclvetius relates a good anecdote which
affords a hint to a certain class of bores.
One of them, having nothing else to do,
went on a certain occasion to call on nis
neighbor—“a man of letters.” lie was
j received with all possible politeness and
entertained as well as could be,- until he
left with his tediotisness, when the man of
letters proceeded quietly with his work
and entirely dismissed the whole nutter,
visitor and all, from his mind. Shortly
afteT he heard that his neighbor had ac
cused him of a want of politeness in not
returning his visit, upon which he called
on him and thus addressed him: “I hear
that you complain of mes yet you know
full well that you called, not because you
wished for my company, but because you
were tired of your own. I, who was not
at all tired of my own company, received
you as well as I could; the obligation con
sequently, is on your side, and yet you
charge me with rudeness. Be yourself
the judge of my conduct, and decide
whether you ought not to have done with
complaints which prove nothing more
than my independence of them, the inhu
manity of boring your neighbor and the
injustice of abusing him after boring him.”
Another very common class of bores is
made up of those who are invariably the
heroes of their own stories. Their con
versation is plentiously interlarded with
“says be” and “says I,” and is invariably
dull, if true, and otherwise so absurdly
untrue as to provoke the contempt as well
as try the patience of the listener. But
there is another variety of this species—a
harmless, good natured sort of creature,
who boros you by making you a party to
the transaction. You are not only com
pelled to listen patiently to him, but to
take a part in the performance. The la
mented Willis Gaylord Clark encountered
such an one, “once on a time,” and thus
describeth him:
“ Not long ago I met him on ’Change,
at a business hour, when all the commerc
ing multitudes of the city were together,
aud you could scarcely turn, for the peo
ple. The old fellow fixed his eye on me;
there was a fatal fascination in it. Get
ting off without recognition, would have
been unpardonable disrespect. In a mo
ment, bis finger was in my button-bole,
and bis rheumy optics glittering with the
satisfaction of your true bore, when he lias
met with an unresisting subject. I lis
tened to his common-places with the ut
most apparent satisfaction. Directly he
began to speak of an altercation which he
once had with an officer in the navy. He
was relating the particulars. ‘Some
words,’said lie, ‘occurred between him
and me. Now you know that ho is a
much younger man than I am; in fact,
about your age. Well, be made use of an
expression which I did not exactly like.—
Says I to him, says I, ‘What do you mean
by that ?’ ‘ Why,’ says lie to me, says he,
‘ I mean just what I say.’ Then I began
to burn. There was an impromptu elevn
vation of my personal (landriff, which was
unaccountable. I didn’t waste words on
him; I just took him in this way,’ (here
the old spooney suited tlio action to the
word, by seizing the collar of my coat,
before the assemblage.) ‘ and says I to him,
says I, ‘You infernal scoundrel, I will
punish you for your insolence on the spot,’
and the manner in which I shook him
(just in this way) was really a warning to
a person similar situated.’
“I felt myself at this moment in a
beautiful predicament: in the midst of a
large congregation of business people; an
old gray-headed man hanging, with an in
dignant look, at my coat-collar; and a
host of persons looking on. The old fel
low’s face grew redder every minute; but
perceiving that bo was observed, lie low
ered bis voice in the detail, while he lifted
it in the worst places of bis colloquy.—
‘You infernal scoundrel, and catitF, and
villain,’ says I, ‘ what do you mean, to in
sult an elderly person like myself, in a
public place like this?’ and then, said lie,
lowering his malapropos voice, ‘then I
shook him, so."
“ Here he pushed me to aud fro, with
his septuagenarian gripe on my collar, as
if instead of a patient, much bored friend,
I was his deadly enemy. When ho let go,
I found myfelf in a ring of spectators.—
‘Shame, shame! to insult an old man like
him!’ was the general cry. ‘ Young pup
py 1’ said an elderly merchant, whose good
opinion was my heart’s desire, ‘ what ex
cuse have you for your conduct ?’
“ Thus was I made a martyr to my good
feelings. I have never recovered from the
stigma of that interview. I have been
pointed at in the street by persons who
have said as I passed them, “ That’s the
young chap that insulted old Goueral ,
at the Exchange!’ ”
This article lias already grown too long,
and we must close without relating one or
two more illustrative anecdotes which are
in onr mind’s eye. We did not intend to
bore our readers with a long article, but
fear we have.
Latest News.
Padro Vigil, tho Nicaraguan minister,
lias been recognised at Washington. The
President, in his speech, says the neutrality
laws will be preserved.
In the Senate on the 14th, Mr. Clayton,
of Delaware, proved by Mr. Crittenden, of
Kentucky, that Crampton, the English
minister, had admitted in February last
that the British title to the island of
Rnetan was unfounded.
It is currently reported in Washington
that the President is about to send a mes
sage to Congress, recommending a forcible
maintenance of the Clayton - Bulwer
Treaty.
The U. S. War-stoamer, Susquehanna,
has been ordered to proceed to Nica
ragua.
Accounts from Nicaragua state that
Col. Schlessinger had been re-captured. .
Efif” T. W. Lane, Esq., has become cd-
I itor of the Columbus Sun.
Musical Entertainment.
We have not attended a Concert, for a
great while, with such genuine satisfac
tion and delight, as on Wednesday evening
last, when we had the pleasure of listening
to the performance of Messrs. Vanhocten
and Cbtlbb, two talented blind mnsicians
who gate a concert at the Town Hall. It
» usual, with persons of this class, to de
pend entirely Bpon the sympathy of the
public for success, but we can assure onr
friends, wherever these gentlemen may go
that their Concerts possess a very high
order of merit, independent of any extra
neous influences. The performance of Mr-
Yaniiouten, on the Piano Forte, for bril
liancy of execution, we have rarely heard
equalled and never excelled. His knowl
edge of the instrument is really extraordi
nary, when the fact of his blindness from
early boyhood is taken into consideration.
Mr. Cutler is a very superior violinist,
and only needs a little more practice to
give Idm an eminent position. He sings
well, both in comic and sentimental songs.
“Eight dollars a day” is richly worth the
price of admission.
These gentlemen gave another Concert
on Thursday evening, which was quite as
satisfactory as the first. They go from
here to Atlanta, Griffin and Macon—and
we most cordially recommend them and
tlieir very gentlemany agent, Mr. Morri
son, to our editorial brethren in those
cities.
Literary Intelligence.
Messrs. Tioknou A Fields, of Boston,
have in press an edition of Browning’s
Poems, more full than any yet published,
but Dot complete—“ Bordello,” and some
other of bis least satisfactory productions
being omitted.
The same firm are publishing a library
edition of the “ Waverly Novels”—the
original three volume romances to appear
each in two pocket volumes, executed in
the best style of Boston typography.
T. B. Petekson, of Philadelphia, an
nounces as nearly ready for publication, a
new edition of Mrs. Ilentz’s beautiful story
of “ Linda, or the Young Pilot of the Belle
Creole.” This is a capital story, and we
are glad to know that n new edition is
called for. It will bo published in two
volumes, paper, at 75 cents; or one rol.,
cloth, for SI.OO.
Derby & Jackson, of New York, are
preparing a uniform edition of those de
lightful old novels—“Thuddens of War
saw,” “Children of the Abbey,” “Scot
tish Chiefs,” “ Romance of the Forest,”
Ac. Each novel will be complete in one
voltuno.
The same firm will soon issue a life of
Col. David Morgan, of the Continental
Army, prepared from bis unpublished
letters and papers, by bis grandson, James
Graham, Esq., of New Orleans. Will be'
out iu June.
Mr. Bayard Taylor is preparing a
Cyclopedia of Modern Travel. It will
comprise the voyages, explorations and
adventures of more than fifty celebrated
travelers “of the half ceutury between
Humboldt’s journey to the equinoctial
regions and Dr. Barth’s return to Tim
buctoo. The mass of information con
tained in many of tlieir works, though of
great value and interest in every point of
view, lias never been made accessible to
readers of the English language.” The
work will grow to boa most agreeable
and attractive one, we dare say, iu the
bands of Mr. Taylor. It will contain
about eight hundred pages, and be sold by
subscription only. The publishers are
Messrs. Moore & Cos., Cincinnati.
Messrs. Putnam & C’o., New York, will
soon issue the third volume of Irving’s
“Life of Washington.” They are also
printing a cheap edition in duodecimo.
Savannah Georgian & Journal.
We observe that the Savannah Georgian
and the Savnunali Journal have been
merged into the Georgian <fc Journal, un
der the control of R. B. llii.ton, Editor,
and I. S. Clark and S, P. Hamilton, As
sistant Editors.
Written for the Visitor.
Reveries and Realities.
Been reading about small bonnets and
hooped skirts—feel powerful bad—stom
ach somewhat nauseated—took ten doses
fish hooks, and road medical almanac—
felt much better. AValked up Main street,
planning for a fortune. Saw the fickle
goddess in the flower garden—bowed
politely, and went on dreaming. An idea
struck me! How to make a fortune.
Matrimonial alliance. She has darkies,
i. e., tin, alias quill feathers, alias money!
Her daddy’s worth one hundred thousand.
Grand scheme! Only daughter! Con
solidated lottery— Havana Plan ! I take
one chance. Must have something
fast horse a good ticket! A dust in the
rear—mighty rapping of horses’ feet!—
Rich Hollis and the trotter; clear the
road. Held on to the fence and my new’
beaver. The trotter past—he will suit—
I’m bound to have him. Saw bob-tail
high head 240 and Rich turn the corner.
Adieu, me love.
In pursuit of fortune find difficulties, by
ugliness on my part and two rivals on the
second part—distance ’between ns. See
Dives and Lazarus. Went home despond
ing reflecting. Energies exhausted—
physical economy caved in. Sought re
pose—fell asleep but didn’t feel the fall
—lit on a night more—challenged Rich
for a trotting match—Rich accepted—
distance, to the moon; apparel, shirt col
lar and spurs. Night filly rears, bob-tail
snorts. Both start; filly takes the lead;
bob-tail gains on her; filly re-starts and
leaves bob-tail in the lurch. Got in in
2-10. Natives astounded—was an object
of great curiosity to the moonites—per
plexed awfully! —in a foreign land with
out baggage. In the depth of agony )
apostrophised the moon, “ 0 Lana, thou
art the moon.”
Woke up—found myself badly bitten—
an army of chinches around—resolved to
quit single life and chinch gallery. Matri
mony yes, blissful matrimony how
can I accomplish it? Eureka! Adieu
ugliness—charms come along. Bought a
bottle of Balm of 1000 Flowers. Washed
my month with it—teeth became alabaster
in two minutes; —pnt two drops on my
■having brush; razor jumped out of its case
walked square up, waited till I lathered,
and then shaved me without aid. Rubbed
four drops on my sace —a handful of pim
ples fell at my feet,
*• Like leaves in Valambrosa.”
Put eight drops on one rival; havn’t
heard from him since—totally eradicated ;
(the other I will eradicate with a pair of
new boots;) wonderful balm —if success
ful my children shall rise up and call you
blessed—yea, they shall play to you on a
harp of 1000 strings.
Madison, Ga. BULLE DOGGE.
For the Family Visitor.
Mother.
This is the most endearing name that
language can express. It is filled with
love, gentleness, peace and soul cheering
joy. It nnfolds to our enraptured minds
a thousand themes of pcacefnl and plea
sant meditations. It throws around the
spirit of our dreams a halo of happiness
and pure delight. Is there a being be
neath the canopy of heaven who is so far
lost to justice, that lie would presume to
wound the feelings of her who bore him,
and who was all bis strength in weakness,
and a help in every time of trouble?
Away with the thought! It is too pre
posterous to bo harbored for a moment.
The following extract from a favorite poet
very beautifully illustrates the ardent af
fection of a mother:
“ From childhood's dawn to manhood’s hour,
Thy tender love was still my guide ;
It nurtured first the opening flower.
And all mine infant wants supplii and.
Yes, every iife-pulse of my heart,
Drew from thy breast its vital part.
What viaious of mine early years,
What scenes of love, what sounds of joy,
What prayers, caresses, smiles and tears,
What counsels to the wayward boy.”
Our highest ambition should ever be to
make, by our kindness, the gloomy eve of
a mother’s life a morning of joy and peace.
The religious admonitions of the mother
are never forgotten. They may almost
expire, hut will survive all else, and preach
to us in tones of thunder while she is
mouldering in the grave. The love for a
mother should be as immutable us the
rock of ages, and as sweet as life, and
strong as death. The language of the
heart should ever lie:
“ Where’er I stray, my heart is thine—
It ceaseless beats for thee;
For thee 1 would all else resign,
And give the world were it but mine;
That radiant peace from heaven divine,
In lucent rays might ever shine
On thee, my mother true.”
Marietta, Ga. ANONYMOUS.
Tribute of Respect.
Madison Lodge, No 29, A. Y. M. \
Friday, May 9, A. L. 585(i. (
The death of the M. W. G. M. of the W.
G. Lodge of the State of Georgia, being an
nounced by the W. M., immediately upon
the opening of this Lodge, the following
Preamble and Resolutions were offered by
Bro. D. E. Butler, and when read, were
unanimously adopted:
The will of God bo done; to Ills fiat we
humbly bow. The last enemy of mankind,
Death, has not only invaded onr ranks,
but seized upon the very chief. And
while the fact is incontrovertable, so sud
den and appalling lias been the sad occur
rence, that our love for M. W. G. M. Wil
liam Crosby Dawson resists and will not
accept tho terrible reality. While his
mortality mouldors in that mansion com
mon to all the dead,
“He yet liveth, anil his works do follow him.”
As but a feeble expression of our grief
and declaratory of the estimation in which
we cherish his memory as well as to place
upon record some testimonial of “that
love wherewith wo loved him ”
Resolved, That in the death of our
Grand Master, William Crosby Dawson,
we experience a mournful and afflicting
Providence.
Resolved , That Masonry in Georgia ha g
lost its wise counsellor—one of its noblest
hearts whose pulsations beat responsively
to every emotion of “brotherly kindness
and affection,” one whose life for many
years was a shining light, burning bright
and brighter on all the “ noble designs ”
his wisdom and benevolence had drawn
for the instruction and immitation of the
willing craftsman.
Resolved, That we desire most tenderly
to sympathise with the stricken and
crushed partner of his bosom, and to her
and the bereaved children we do hereby
offer the condolence of our sincere regard.
Resolved, That the jewels and furniture
of this lodge be clothed in the drapery of
death until the close of the next annual
communication of the Grand Lodge of
Georgia.
Resolved, That a committee of three be
named whose duty it shall be, suitably to
convey a copy of this Preamble and these
Resolutions, signed by the W. M. and Sec
retary, to the widow and family of our
departed brother.
Ordered to be published in the Madison
Family Visitor.
CHARTER CAMPBELL, W. M.
Joel C. Barnett, Secretary.
tf* “Godey” for June is on our Table.
PEN-AND-SCISSORINGS.
James Walker, the father of Gen. Wal
ker, of Nicaragua, is a resident of Nash
ville The Small Pox, but not in a ma
lignant form, has broken out at Nashville.
... .The Hon. M. H. McAlister, Judge of
the C. S. Court, California, is at present
on a visit to his old home in Savannah.
Rio Janeiro and Buenos Ayres are
now lighted by gas The cost of living
in California has become quite reasonable,
and prices have come down on many ar
ticles to pretty much the same rates as in
the Atlantic States Dr. Graham who
was recently pardoned by the Governor of
New York, has resumed the practice of
medicine in New Orleans Hon. W. A.
Richardson has been nominated as the
Democratic candidate for Governor of Illi
nois The price of ice in New York is
only 18 cents per hundred. Last year it
sold at 50 cents It is said that a Yan
kee baby will crawl out of his cradle, take
a survey of it, invent an improvement,
and apply for a patent before he is six
months old The officers of the steam
ship Orizaba have been officially advised to
forcibly resist the British frigate Euridice
in any future interference, on the part of
that frigate, with the Orizaba at San Juan.
... .The City Council of Columbus, Geor
gia and Alabama, has fixed the salary of
the newly elected Judge of the Municipal
Court at one hundred dollars per annum!
....lion Mr. Herbert, of California, who
killed the Irish waiter at Willard's Hotel,
Washington, last week, is a native of South
Carolina.. ...Five thousand slaves in the
city of Charleston, S. C., it is stated, have
contributed the last year to benevolent
objects $15,000 The Frankfort Com
monwealth says there aro over eleven
thousand free negroes in Kentucky
When yon go to drown yourself, always
pull off your clothes—they may fit your
wife’s second husband Henry Gilman
was shot in Nashville on Friday night last
by Charles Wright, his brother-in-law.—
Wright surrendered himself to the author
ities .... The damage done on the Nash
ville and Chattanooga railroad, by the late
freshet, occurred at the Wartraco bridge.
Os course all through business has been
measurably suspended Rev. James E.
Evans preached his farewell discourse to
his congregation in Macon on Sunday
night last. He goes to Nashville to take
charge of the Methodist Book concern in
that city The sum of $165,000 has
been subscribed at Covington, Ky., to
build a bridge over the Ohio River
The popular writer and estimable gentle
man, G. P. It. James, Esq., British Con
sul for Virginia, lias determined to make
Richmond his future residence Hon.
F. W. Pickens was in Augusta, at the
Augusta hotel, on Tuesday The Su
preme Court met in Milledgeville on Mon
day last. There were only five cases on
the docket Mrs. Rusk, wife of Gen.
Thos. Rusk, U. S. Senator from Texas,
died at Nacogdoches on the 25th of April.
She was the daughter of Gen. Cleveland,
of Habersham Cos., Ga., from which coun
ty Gen. Rusk went to Texas A couple
of men, Knight and Turner, had a “scrim
mage” in Atlanta the other day, in which
the latter was severely cut with a knife-
. ...Mrs. Clayton, who was lately charged
with having caused the death of a negro
in Columbus, Ga., has been sent to an in
sane Asylum in Kentucky—a raving ma
niac A large number of the citi
zens of Louisville, Kentucky., have laid
out a town in Kansas which they call
“Prairie City.” One hundred families
will leave Louisville for it, about the first
of June Mr. Crumpton, it is said, ad
mits that the reply of Lord Clarendon on
the enlistment question will be unsatisfac
tory to the United States The Ameri
can State Convention of Arkansas has
nominated Col. James Yell for Governor
... .Smcddlepipes thinks instead of giving
credit to whom credit is due, the cash had
better be paid. Sineddlepipes should not
be impertinent “Keep your dog
away from me!” said a dandy to a butcher
boy. “Darn the dog, he’s always after
puppies,” said the boy The French
Government denies the contemplation of
an expedition against Madagascar. The
New York Times says Mr. Thackeray took
home with him $15,000 as the proceeds
of his lectures The Washington Union
advises war-like preparations on the part
of the United States, to resist inroads upon
their interests and rights by the European
governments James G. Percival, the
poet, died at Hazelgreen, Wisconsin, on
Friday 1a5t..... .The Cincinnati Democrat
ic Convention meets on June 2d—being
the first. Monday in the month Boston
lost by fire during the month of April,
$325,000 worth of property In New
Haven, recently, Jerome Clock Company
paper, endorsed by Barnum, has been sold
as low as sixteen cents on the dollar
The Charleston papers announce the ap
pointment of A. Gorden Magrath, to the
office of United States Judge, to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of Judge
Gilchrist A mass meeting of the
friends of Nicaragua was held at National
Hall, New York city, Tuesday last The
Massachusetts Legislature has resolved not
to elect a U. S. Senator this session
Frederick Lewis Ferdinand Wardig, a
Prussian, cut l3s throat in Atlanta on
Wednesday evening last The Georgia
Railroad have bought the Atlanta Bank
Building The City Council of Colum
bus have raised the salary of the Judge of
the City Court to SSOO, ...David Clop
ton, M. W, G. M. of the Grand Lodge of Ala
bama, will deliver the address at the com
mencement of the Southern Masonic Fe
male College, Covington, Ga., on the 24th
of June next.
LATER PROM EUROPE.
New York, May 12.—The American
mail steamer Atlantic, Capt. West, with
Liverpool dates to Wednesday, April
30tb, has arrived at this port.
There had been only a moderate bu.
siness done in Cotton since the sailing 0 f
the America on the 26th April, and Cot
ton had declined £d. The sales since
Monday (three days) are 27,000 bales,
and speculators and exporters took only
4000 bales. Middling Orleans 6 5-16-
Middling Uplands frjd.
Trade in the manufacturing districts
unchanged.
Flour.—The flour market has ad
vanced one shilling.
Wheat. —lmproved Id. to 2d.
Indian Corn.— Advanced Od.
Herman, Cox & Co.’s circular quotes
prices in favor of buyers, in consequence
of the continued increase of receipts
this country as advised by the Asia
which carried out the news up to the
16th April from the United States, that
the trade here was well supplied and the
cotton markets heavy.
Brown & Shipley's Circular quotes
a decline in the cotton market of |d,
and that the decline is confined princi
pally to the lower grades.
Consols quiet, in consequence of the
new loan of £20,000,000. There was
somo fluctuation, and prices declined to
9l£, but subsequently recovered and
closed at 92^.
Money easy at previous rates. Con
sols had declined
The treaty of Peace at Paris lias been
officially published. As will be seen in
the epitome of the articles, brought by
the America, the stb, 6th, 7th and Bth
are omitted. The 6th and 6th articles
provides for a general amnesty and ex
change of prisoners. The 7th and Bth
admits for Turkey her present political
relations to the laws and public svstem
of Europe, and secures to her the inde
pendence and integrity of her territories.
The political news is not very interest
ing.
By recent arrivals at Liverpool ftom
Ilotig Kong, of the British possessions
in China, and from Prome, in Burinab,
news of great fires in those places have
been communicated. At Hong Kong
eighty houses were destroyed by fire,
and Nice Brothers, an American house
had failed, and their liabilities reached a
million and a hall, hut whether pounds
sterling or dollars, the present accounts
do not state.
'I ho sales of Wednesday, in Liverpool,
were 8000 bales, of which exporters and
speculators took 1500. Fair Orleans
oL; I-air Uplands 6sd. The market
closed steady.
The British Reply to American
Demands.— lt would appear says the
Richmond Dispatch, from Lord Claren
don’s remarks in the House of Lords
that the British government, instead of
giving a specific answer to Mr. Marcy’s
peremptory demand for redress on the
enlistment subject, will enter into a long
argument upon the subject, seeking to
show that our governmei t has no right
to seek redress, and thus throw upon the
American cabinet the burden of seeking
the redress which is refused, the only
pacific mode of which is the dismissal
of the British minister. The Richmond
Enquirer, which seems to speak by the
card on this subject, entertains no doubt
that the British minister will be dismised.
This is not necessarily a cause of war,
but war may grow out of the irritated
feeling which it will engender.
Instinct.
Mr. Putnam, of the Adams’ Express i
Cos., some eighteen or twenjy months
since, brought to his residence on Flovd
and Main streets, two fine partridges.—
These he kept and fed attentively until
last spring—one year ago—when they
were taken to the country and set fre«,
about two miles from Middletown and *
ten miles from the city. During the
intensely cold weather of the past win
ter these birds returned to the city and
sought the residence of their former kind
protector. One bleak wintry day Mr.
Putnam was astonished by a rapping at
his window, and found, upon investig*’
tion, the two partridges seeking an en
trance. He instantly recognized them
as his old friends by peculiar marks upon
their bodies. Os course, he could but
take them in and treat them tindly.
They are now habitues of his grounds, |
“ circulating ” promiscuously among tb« |
fowls and making themselves at hon» "
within and without doors. We bar* |
never, in the course of our reading, ® {1 ‘ f
with a more striking instance of tb* ■
development of instinct. It appe* 15
indeed, beyond belief, that a couple o r
partridges released from a cage, twel r!
miles from the place where they * el4
confined, should, after a lapse of nearj
two years, return to their old home''
driven there by the pangs of hunger a c
cold.— Louisville Courier .