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BENJAMIN G. LIDDON.
T. A. BURKE, EDITOR.
MADISON, GEORGIA :
SATURDAY, MAY 24, 1856.
Our Weekly Chut,
With Reader* aiul Correspondents.
“Look out for showers” says our ’jai
ler kirered Grier’s Almanac. So we did,
for a long time, very patiently, and Satur
day, Sunday and Monday we are glad to say
they came, and were most welcome. It
was really pleasant to see the hungry
earth drink in the moistnre—and to notice
bow much refreshed every kind of vegeta
tion was afterwards. “Bless God for
pleasant weather,” sings General Morris
in one of his ballad*. So wo do, and we
bless him for such welcome showers as we
have just had. The drooping hopes of the
farmers aro revived, tho prospect of fine
crops is onco moro in the ascendant, and
all Nature looks as bright and beautiful as
a May morning. Let ns be thankful to
Him who giveth “tho early and tho latter
rain,” and bestoweth on us “every good
thing in its season.”
Speaking of Grier’s Almanac, re
minds us of an anecdote, which was told
long ago on that great almanac maker. —
Traveling on horseback one day from Ids
homo in Butts county to Milledgevilh
be stopped at a house on the road-side to
get his dinner and liavo his horse fed. —
After dinner he called for his horse, in
tending to reach Millodgoville that night.
Tho animal was brought out by a red
headed urchin, to whom t he traveler tossed
a “sevenpence” as he seated himself in
the saddle. “You’re gwine to get wot,
io-dny, Sir,” said the boy looking up into
his face, and holding the coin between his
thumb and finger. “Nonsense,” said
Grier, as he took a survey of tho horizon,
“ there is scarcely a sign of a cloud. —
You’re mistaken this time, my lad; so
good day.” Sure enough, before ho lmd
traveled ten miles, ho was overtaken by a
drench ingrain and thoroughly soaked. Tho
almanac maker was out-gene ruled that time
and determined to see the boy on his re
turn and inquire into tho matter. Two or
three days afterwards he stopped at tho
same house for dinner, and gave his horse
to the weather-wise boy. “IVell, Sir,”
said the little fellow, with a grin, as ho
recognised Grier, “you see I was right for
onetime.” “You were,” replied Grier,
“and hero is a quarter, on condition you
tell me how you knew it would rain.” —
“Why, you see, Sir,” was the answer,
“Wo’vogot one of Grier’s Alnmnncs in
our house and he, tells such awful lies
that I always knows it’ll rain when ho
says it won’t and won’t rain when he says
it will. I’d looked at it that day, before
you come, and it said ‘ fair weather—no
rain,’ and I know’d then we’d have rain
before night. Tlmt’s the way I know’d,
Sir.”
-—Here is another Almanac anecdote,
which will ho new to most of our readers,
ns it was published many years ago. A
Yankoe farmer, not the most acute in the
world, looking over his almanac one day
•aw the words “ Barnstable Thunder ” op
posite a certain day of the month. Hav
ing great confidence in the Almanac
maker's prognostications of the weather,
and being withal somewhat reverential,
he was solemnly impressed with the belief
that thero would be thunder of a most ex
traordinary character, and so lie resolved
to keep tho day sacred. lie dressed him
self in his best clothes and waited in great
suspense for the extraordinary phenome
non, lint hearing one of hist neighbors
threshing, he gave him a call at his barn.
“ Why, how do you dare to work on such
a day?" “ What should hinder my work
ing, pray ?” asked Ids neighbor. “Why,
didn’t you know that this was the day set
for Barnstable Thunder?" “No, I heard
nothing übout it.” ““Well, its in tho Al
manac, you may bo certain.” The thresh
er laid by his flail. But on carefully ex
amining the Almanac, it was found that
the word “Barnstable” was in Roman
letters, and not be read with the following
word thunder , in italics, but with “ Court
sctß” in the same type below.
Miss Clara Kean gave a Concert in
our town on Tuesday evening last, assis
ted by Mr. Camocns. Miss Kean has a
tine voico and sings well. One or two
jieiccs were sung w ith most exquisite ef
fect —among others the beautiful cavatina
from Ernani: ‘ Ernani, fly with me,’ and
* I atn a merry Zingnra,' from Crown Dia
monds. Indeed all her solos were good,
but the duetts were horrid. She could as
well harmonise with an asthmatic hand
organ ns with Mr Camocns. llis voice is
certainly very base —’though we must do
him the justice to say that lie sings “ As I
now view these scenes so charming,” and
Russel's song of “the Maniac" very well
indeed. He is a good pianist.
Speaking of Concerts, we desire to
suggest that there arc some people who
go to them for the purpose of listening to
flip music. To all such the eternal clatter
kept up at the last two concerts in this
place must be (and is, we know from ex
perience,) very trying. Harper’s Maga
zine for June has a good artiele on this
subject. Here is an e*tract:
“Margaret Fuller once saf at a Concert
pear a party of boys and girls, who laughed
and talked the whole evening. Upon
poniiog out she beckoned to one of the
in iiiiii iistt
girls, who left her friends and came to
ward her. ‘Young woman,’ said Miss
Fuller, ‘I hope you may never lose so
much pleasure as you have made others
lose to uight by your idle talking.’
“It was a severe lesson; but who that
goes to public places docs not know how
necessary sucli a lessou is? We have seen
royal princes hissed in their own realms
for coming late to concerts mid disturbing
the audience. What do you suppose
would be dono to anybody who should,
chatter at a concert of the Conservatoire
at Paris, or of the Sing-Akadamie in Ber
lin?”
Now, we say all this in no unkind spirit.
Those gay persons who annoyed every
body in the Town Hall, this week and
last, did it from thoughtlessness, and we
trust and believe will not be guilty of such
conduct again.
Persons visiting Oxford will find
always at the Covington depot a pleasant
and commodious hack, which will convey
them to tho village in good time and con
dition. Mr. Livingston, the owner, is a
very estimable gentleman, and will do full
justico to all who patronize him.
“You did me,” writes our esteemed
friend, Miss C. W. Barber, “the other
day, the honor of soliciting for'your col
umns a contribution now and then. The
following lines written u year or two ago,
by a member of the Georgia legislature,
and sent to his wife, so far exceed in beau
ty cf diction and eloquence of thought,
any thing that I can pen, that I feel confi
dent you will be glad to publish them in
luo of an article from my portfolio. I
hope the author will pardon the liberty
thus taken with his effusions, should this
chance to meet Lis eye."
to sit wins
On her affecting to fed hurt at being called an old
wife.
The World grows older every day,
And Change its footprints murks on all;
Empires and Kingdoms pass aivay,
And mightiest structures crumbling fall;
But there is one thing, ’inidlhc w aste,
Through age and Change doth ever be
Grcc.ter and fresher for the Past, —
And that is tills heart’s love fur thee.
My friends, like me, are getting gray,
And feebler down Life’s vale we go;
Tho wasting touch of slow Decay
Our persons daily plainer show;
But, if thy furm that touch bath known,
/ do not know, /cannot sec;
The love which made thee all its own,
Confers eternal youth on thee.
And if, when all this world is past,
And the great Life beyond begun,
This only ray from Heaven may Inst
And through Eternal Ages run,
From God’s own throne I would lulitnto
This love so dear on Earth to mo.
And ’mid that all perennial bloom,
Would meet an angel therein thee,
The Treaty of Peace—Maritime Law,
Our exchanges contain the Treaty of
Peace, lately' concluded in Europe. It is
very long, and ns we liavo already given
quite a full and correct synopsis of it, (in
our last issue) wo deem it useless to spread
it in full before our readers. That portion
of it, however, which contains the declara
tion of the parties in regard to Maritime
Law, is important to this country, and wo
give it in full :
Declaration respecting Maritime Law, signed by
the Plenipotentiaries of Great Britain, Austria,
Prance, Prussia, Russia , Sardinia, ansi Tur
key, assembled in Congress at l'aris, April 10,
1856.
“ Tito Plenipotentiaries who signed the
treaty ot Paris of the 30tli of March, 18oG,
assembled in conference, considering—
“ That maritime law, in time of war, lias
long been tho subject of deplorable dis
putes :
“That tho uncertainty'of the law, and
of the duties iu such a matter, gives rise
to difference's of opinion between neutrals
and beligerents, which may occasion seri
ous difficulties, and even conflicts.
“That it is consequently advantageous
to establish a uniform doctrine on so im
portant a point.
“That the plenipotentiaries, assembled
in Congress at Paris, cannot better re
spond to the intentions by which' their
governments arc animated, than by seek
ing to introduce into international rela
tions fixed principles in this respect.
“The above mentioned plenipotentia
ries, being duly authorized, resolved to
concoct among themselves ns to means of
attaining this object; and having come to
an agreement, have adopted the following
solemn declarations:
“1. Privateering is and remains abol
ished.
“2. The neutral flag covers enemy’s
goods, with the exception of contraband
of war.
“3. Neutral goods, with the exception
of contraband of war, are not liable to
capture under enemy’s flag.
“4. Blockades in order to be binding
must be effective, that is to say, main
tained by’ a force sufficient really to pre
vent access to the coast of the enemy.
“The Governments of the undersigned
plenipotentiaries engage to bring the pre
sent declaration to the knowledge of the
States which have not taken part in the
congress of Paris, and to invite them to
accede to it.
“Convinced that the maxims which
they now proclaim, cannot but be received
with gratitude by tho whole world, the
undersigned plenipotentiaries doubt not
that the efforts of their governments to
obtain the general adoption thereof will
be crowned with full success.
“The present declaration is not and
shall not be binding, except between those
powers who have acceded or shall accede
to it.”
Done at Paris, the l«th of April, 1856,
and signed by the different delegates.
The principles enunciated in the second
and third of the articles above quoted are
not new. They have been the settled pol
licyr of this country for years—indeed, al
most, if not quite, since the formation of
our Government. The refusal of England
to recognise the rights of neutrals was one
of the causes which led to the war of 1812.
England lias heretofore been the only one
of the European nations unwilling to meet
us on tin sgronnd—so unquestionably de
manded by the commonest rights of hu
manity and civilization. In the lieginning
of the wnr with Russia, which lias just <
terminated, she so far changed her policy
as to dealurc a willingness “for the pre
sent to waive a part of the b.ligerant j
rights appertaining to her by the law ol
nations” in other words she was willing
to give up her right to seize enemy’s neu
tral goods, not contraband of war, on neu
tral vessels; to seize neutral goods, not
I contraband of war, on enemy’s vessels
I and the issuing of letters ot marque to
privateers. In 1812 she would not recog
! uise this principle because it was not her
interest to do so, hut now the case is dif
ferent—her necessities compel her to it,
and we may hereafter take it for granted
that the American principle that a neutral
flag gives neutrality to the cargo and free
ships make free goods, is the doctrine of
the world.
The principle set forth iu the next arti
ele—that there must be a sufficient power
to enforce a blockade —lias also been the
doctrine of this country, since tiie es
tablishment of our government. At least
two of our Secretaries of State, Mr.
Marshall and Mr. Madison, assumed it in
their instructions to Ministers. It was
not, however, recognised either in Eng
land or Franco, as late us tho year 1800,
when the British Government, under Mr.
Fox’s administration, declared the coast of
the Continent, from Elba to Brest in a
state of blockade, and the French Govern
ment, the same year, returned the compli
ment by the celebrated Berlin decree,
blockading the entire British isles. The
American doctrine, according to this con
ference, is no v the law of nations.
Whether this Government will adopt
the doctrine of the first article, is a ques
tion not yet settled. An effort was made
in the early history of this country, to
have all privateering declared illegal by
tho law of nations. Even before the
adoption of the Federal Constitution,
Poet. Franklin desired to suppress priva
teering by law, and in 1785, it was ex
pressly stipulated in the treaty between
this Government and Prussia that neither
party should, in ease of a war, “grant
commission to any private armed vessel
to attack the commerce of tho other.”—
Kent and Wheaton in their works on in
ternational law both condemn the prac
tice as inhuman and unworthy of the age.
This government lias ever he. li disposed
to discourage privateering -and lias passed
stringent laws to prohibit the fitting out
of private armed vessels in our limits to
bo used against nations with whom we
are at pence, and to prevent such vessels
from entering our ports with their prizes,
and this too when tho law of nations re
quired no such regulations. But for this
law, hundreds of our citizens would have
entered into the service of Russia during
the late war, and England would have
been annoyed not a little. But whether
our people are ready to follow England
and her eon seres in tho Kangaroo leap
which they have lately taken, is yet to be
determined. While we tire disposed to let
alone those who are friendly to ns, we are
not willing to pledge ourselves to give our
enemies all the advantages in n war, and
this we should do if we admit this doctrine
of abolishing privateering between nations
beiigerent. With a navy so much dispro
portioned to tiiose of England and France,
and a commercial marine so much more
extensive, is it politic for r.s to abandon
this strong arm of defence? We think not.
England is wonderfully magnanimous and
humane now, when it is her interest to be
so, but we are not so blind in this country,
but that we can see through her. There
are some hopes of a war between us, and,
as she claims to he “ Mistress of the Seas,’’
she would find it very convenient now to
rule out all private armed vessels. May
be we will agree to it. We shall see. At
any rate, wo shall take a little time to
think the matter over.
We take it all back.
Two or three weeks ago, we published
a complimentary notice of Life Illustrated,
a weekly newspaper, published in New
York by Messrs. Fowler & Wells. We
hud been reading the paper for more than
a year, mid having seen nothing in its
columns to the contrary, supposed it. safe
to recommend it to Southern readers.
But we were mistaken. A Fowler aboli
tion sheet is not published—and \vc here
by recall the good opinion expressed of it.
The number, bearing date May 17, is lite
rally reeking with matter, betraying its
enmity to the South. Under the head of
“Spirit of tho Anniversaries,” wo are
treated with what the editor denounces
an “amusing play upon a well known
ballad,” delivered at a meeting of the Anti-
Slavery society, by that pink of abolition
theology, Theodore Parker. The lieter
tnd gentleman facetiously calls Kansas and
Nebraska “ the Children of the Wood.”
The mother ot “these pretty babes ” hails
from the New England States, and so, by
tlie-by, does the father, llow his rever
ence makes it out, we don’t exactly see.
The President of the United States is the
cruel uncle” who bargains with “two
ruffians strong ” —Democrat and Whig—
one of whom kills the other and then tries
to kill the babes. This lie fails to do.—
“Ilie Northern mother rises from the
grave: tho Northern father is not dead,
but only sleeping with a Sharp’s rifle for a
pillow, who knows but be, too, will rise
and execute his own will?” May bo he
will, Mr. Parker. Let him try it. We
ruffians of the South have no objection to
hte trying it on a spell. But we have no
idea of criticising Mr. Parker's “amusing
play’ upon a well known ballad.” One
object is to show the spirit of this family
journal. The editor concludes his article
by telling us that “by’far the most brilliant
speeches of the week were made at the
Anti-Slavery meetings.”
One more extract from this journal and
we are done with if, for all time wo hope:
“A good joke of our Minister at Paris,
Mr. Mason, has come over hero. lie was
at a court ball lately at the Tnilerics, and
his eye happened to light on the Cliarge
d'Affairesof Solouque in France, a fine
looking black. Someone, observing his
steady gaze, said :
‘“ Well, Mr. Mason, what do yon think
of yonder blackee in his embroidered
coat?’
“ ‘Think,’ replied Mr. Mason, still re
garding the negro with the eye of a con
noisseur, ‘ why, clothes and all, I think
that fellow is worth a thousand dollars.”’
“ Perhaps,” says Life Illustrated , “the
story is true; and if it be, it only proves
that our Republic is represented at a for
eign court by a brute and a blackguard.”
Does it? Wo think differently. It
proves Mr. Mason to be a sensible, calcu
lating American, who took the true Amer
ican view of the matter. The chances are,
however, that lie was mistaken, for we
don’t believe Solonque’s Minister, nor any
other free negro, to be worth a thousand
dollars.
And now we are done with Life Illus
trated. If we have, by our previous no
tice of it, betrayed any one into subscrib
ing for it, we beg pardon, and hereby
warn all Southerners to beware of it, as
an incendiary publication.
For the Family Visitor.
Bonnets versus Hats.
Mu. Bt KKi: - I am no poet— have never
! yet been able to mount the Parnassian
I steed and soar into tho realms of fancy.
' I n'tii forced to content myself with an
occasional ride on a gentler animal, and
in a mundane sphere. Your correspondent,
I Bob Don’t-ciirc-a Cent, lias the advantage
of me—w hile I mil hobbling mid balling in
! my poor pionicni way, lie Strikes off on
: bis ianey steed and leaves me among the
poor mortals, who, like myself, aro com
pelled to do tilings in a common wav.
W.-11, you know the old couplet:
“ Some sulks can i .t be a pact,
So n.orcVi a .beep cm be a ge-jt.”
An l so it's my misfortune, rather than
my fault.
Boh doubtless thinks be lias vanquished
me, but lie hasn’t. True, it is very trying
to tiie u eves of a lone unmarried female,
to he su jeeted to such furious onslaughts
as his, and I would not again venture be
fore your readers, but to show you that 1
an not entirely gone, and to relieve Bob’s
horrible suspense. It would scarcely lie a
source of endless misery to him to know
that lie had caused tho destruction of n
“ fay re lady e.” But, be easy, Bob, I mil
not dead—only scared badly. Bob says:
“ I never thought it worth my while to emanate
a sonnet
Upon n thing so near to nothing ns a lady's
bonnet.”
St> Hob “emanate?* sonnets 1 ’ sometimes,
docs lie? The one in question which lie
has, at length “ thought it worth while to
emanate” about the bonnets, must he re
garded, we suppose, as an especial favor.
It was certainly a great condescension in
him to string his Imrp to so contemptible
a thing. I trust that lie may, when lie
emanates another, have a more inspiring
subject.
But to the matter in dispute. Bob
gives but one reason for wearing his hat
caved-,n, and that 1 consider a very’ poor
one. I should think, Bob, if your sweet
heart or wife were to give you such a lick
as to mnsli in your hat, you would he very
apt to straighten it out as soon as possible,
in order to remove from the eyes of tho
world all traces of such a catastrophe.
Bob seems to liavo great fears of the
broomstick. It may be that ho really de
serves such treatment at the hands of his
lady friends. 1 liavo heard of such in
stances. It lie or any other gentleman
were to wear his hat into the parlor
when lie went to call on a lady, lie would
deserve to have his head as well as his hat
mashed. But Bub's reason, in my opinion,
is not the correct one. 1 imagine that
these lints arc sometimes used for carrying
something beside heads. 1 was walking
down the street, a few days since, and
saw a young man describing a very croak
ed line on tiie side walk just before me.
As I passed olio of the stores, before
which, lor a rarity, quite a number of
young gentlemen were standing, I heard
one of them say: “Bricks iu his hat.” He
wore one of the mashed up kind, mid
since then I have made up my mind that
carrying bricks in them is what so much
endangers their beauty.
Bob’s defence ot the “bec-guins” is both
novel and unanswerable. I have no dis
position, Mr. Editor, to interfere with the
conveniences, or lessen tho comforts, of
that really unfortunate class, old bachelors,
and if they have no other place for “socks,
handkerchiefs,” &c., far be it from me to
deprive them of their wardrobes. I have
heard of men carrying their wardrobes on
their backs, but never before of their being
worn on tiie head. I have learned since
I read Bob’s commuuication that they are
made very useful to their owners, on cer
tain occasions. Gentlemen start out
sometimes, to bo gone several days, with
neither valise nor carpet bag—their whole
stoek of fix-ups in this portable wardrobe
—and I have heard of more Hum one
who has traveled extensively, and carried
not only wearing apparel hot shaving
utensils in the hat.
Bob seems to entertain considerable
fear lest our brains should exude from an
orifice made by a pin’s point. Now, Bob,
that is cruel; arid to say the least, nngal
lant. It lias been said, “the true mastery
is of the mind," and in all ages homage
has been paid to snpenority of intellect.
Woman has in nil civilized countries re
ceived tiie universal homage of great and
little men. Don’t tell me it is a flattery
paid to licr physical and mental weakness.
Men do not respect and adore weakness of
intellect —on tiie contrary, they despise
and abuse it. It is woman’s superiority
which wins this adoration.
But I am off the subject. I do not
tliir.k, Mr. Editor, that Bob has answered
a single one of the points I made in my
first article. He lias not proved that
mashed-up bats are handsome, nor either
the bee-gums, though I am frank to admit
their usefulness. In conclusion, allow me
to say to Bob, that more depends oil ids
hat than he is willing to admit.
“ Have a good hut—the secret of your looks
Lies with the bearer ill Canadian brooks;
Virtue uiuy flourish iu an old cravat,
Hut :oau aud nature scorn the shocking bad hat."
* PEGGIE.
P. S.—“Buile Dogge” complains of
weakness at tho stomach after reading
about bonnets and hoop dresses. Maybe
the weakness was produced by drinking
bad whiskey?
Written for the Visitor.
Choir Singing and Church Pews.
Bishop Pierce, who is not of the old
Fogy school, is out severely against choirs
iu churches leading tho music—and the
movements somewhere in view of [Hit
ting [>ews in tiie churches—both being
contrary to the original plans of metlipd
ism. The Bishop will not be so strenuous
on l.ii points when he reads Dr. Garvin’s
reply in the last Christian Advocate. —
The old droning, nosey way of singing
may yet be tolerated iu out of tiie way
places but it will not do without scien
tific attention in cities and large villages
where music is considered one of the
modern sciences. The present state of
tilings as to [tews for families require dif
ferent arrangements than were common
thirty years ago. If a family is willing to
pay for a comfortable pew or sent where
tohaei o spittle is not spattered over the
floor, or o' seen • langi a;e sc il>’>! and o i the
buck or front of the scats —and where of
fenders of this kind can be moved back a
little—surely, no harm or evil can grow
out of it. Progressive times require im
provements in accordance with then*—
The Bishop’is probably quite conscientious
and fears innovations; but all innovations
are not to he condemned because we do
dot follow up old usages, many of which
are better laid aside as tilings which have
been—and not as things which should be.
PRACTICAL.
Written for the Visitor.
Desecration of the Sabbath.
The great diplomatic representatives of
the kingdoms in Europe niado Sunday
their great conference and final settlement
days, using the 30tli of March and the 27th
of April tor the exchange of ratifications.
Both the Catholic and Protestant bibles,
forbid by a strict fundamental law, the use
of the Sabbath for such work. Christian
ity, doccncy, respect for divine command
forbids such action. These great dignita
ries have disgraced themselves; and wo
imagine it would not have been done in
any other country except France, where
the people neither fear God or keep his
commandments. PRACTICAL.
Pen-and-Scissoriugs.
The editorial department of the Dalton
Expositor lias changed hands. Its late
editor, Col. William Gordon, lias retired,
and is succeeded by Mr. 0. L. Barbour, re
cently ofthe Atlanta Examiner Queen
Victoria’s steam yacht is said to be as
large as the steamship Persia A pro
position will be introduced in a few days
in Congress tor n recess from tiie first of
July until the first of October A let
ter from Constantinople says: “Omar
Pasha has been married to a daughter of
Hafix Pasha, a young lady not quite 15.”
....It is said the Hon. Reverdy Johnson
has been secured as counsel by the friends
of T. Keating, who was killed iu Washing
ton by Mr. Herbert We learn that an
accident occurred on the LaGrange rail
road on Friday, which resulted in the
death of Mr. Isaac Smith, the engineer of
the train Mr. Herbert has been re
leased from custody on SIO,OOO bail
A Kansas Association has been formed at
Petersburg, Ya Congress lias been in
session nearly six mouths and lias passed,
it is said, eight public bills, and very few
private ones “ Poor rule that won’t
work both ways,” as tiie boy said when he
threw tiie rule back at his master Tiie
prospect of a good sugar crop in Louisiana
is very poor A bill lias passed tho
Senate of Massachusetts devoting SI,OOO
to experiments by Prof. Agassiz in the
artificial propagation of fish The Gen
eral Assemblies ofthe Presbyterian Church,
both Old and New School, commenced
their sessions in New York city, Thursday
last Mr. Daniel Burgess, an eminent
book publisher of New York city, died on
Tuesday last at his residence in Brooklyn.
Tiie Nashville Whig, ofthe 14th inst.,
says a free negro named Stratton was ar
rested in that city for stealing $2,00.0 from
tiie Steamer Huntsville Mrs. Napole
on’s baby lias been enrolled as one of the
Grenadiers of the French Imperial Guard.
M e should have supposed a place in the
rants of the infantry would have been
inoreappropriatc. His grandmother should
have an appointment among the granny
dean k The largest water wheel in the
world is at Troy, N. Y. Its power is
equal to one thousand horses. It drives
machinery which works up annually 10,000
tons of Iron into horse siioes, spikes, and
various other small manufactures
The President has determined to dismiss
! Mr. Crompton, the British Minister, and
will carry it into effect next week A
man has been arrested in Yillenow, Wal
ker comity, Ga., charged with passing
j counterfeit bills on the Planters’ Bank of
Tennessee, ami spurious bills of the Louis
iana State Bank Tp many of our rea
ders it must be a great relief to know that
Pulmonary 'Consumption can be perma
nently cured in many cases bj - tl e Wild
Cherry preparation of Dr. Wistar —that
such cures have been effected is beyond a
doubt Mrs. Rossiter, wife of T. P.
Rossiter, the American Artist, died in
Paris ou the 30th ult. She was greatly
esteemed in that city Richter says:
“No man can either live piously, or die
righteously without a wile.” Avery
wicked bachelor of our acquaintance says
to this, “O, yes! sufferings and severe
trials purify and chasten tho heart.”....
On Thursday 13th and lfitli inst., 234 va
cant lots in Brunswick, sold for the ag
gregate of $89,4-25 We are curious to
know how many feet in female arithmetic
go to a mile, beeanse we never met with a
lady’s foot yet whose shoe was not, to say
the least, “a mile too big for her.”...
The Brunswick and Florida Railroad Com
pany have determined to proceed on with
their line of railroad without regard to
the Main Trunk road The editor of
the New York Dutchman, speaking of a
drink he once had an occasion to indulge
in, says he couldn’t tell whether it was
brandy or a torchlight procession going
down his throat A gold mine is said
to have been discovered in Montgomery
county, N. Y., and a lump weighing over
18 ounces taken out of it Naomi, the
daughter of Enoch, was live hundred and
eighty years of age when she was married.
Courage, ladies!.... Avlona is the name of
anew Post Office in Putnam Cos., of which
N. S. Walker isP. M One of the Irish
newspapers contains an advertisement an
nouncing as lost, a cloth cloak, belonging
to a gentleman lined with blue The
present graduating class at Cambridge
numbers 105 members, being the most nu
merous of any class which has hitherto
been graduated lion. Thomas Butler
King, was in -Jackson, Miss., the lOtli inst.,
o i his return home from a visit to Texas,
o t business of the Southern Pacific Rail
road Company According to tho Na
tional Review, Louis Napoleon lias bor
rowed since the coup d'etat, 1,700,000,000
francs Mr. George Shute, tho first
violin player of the Campbell troupe, died
suddenly at the American House, Chicago,
of disease of the heart, a few days ago
A Spanish danseuso was once asked where
abouts in Spain she thought the women
most virtuous. “Bn hi emin,” (in the
cradle) she replied Franz Tides, agent
tor Ole Bull, on his last visit to Richmond
absconded with a large quantity of that
gentleman’s funds The subscription in
aid of Col. Walker, in New Orleans, is
over $5,000, and daily increasing. .. .The
bill to prevent the adulteration of milk by
lino and imprisonment, has passed the
Massachusetts House Every day af
fords new proofs of the peculiar effects of
Perry Davis’ Pain Killer. In cases where
a disordered condition of the stomach,
liver and bowels, is combined with great
debility, nervous weakness, and intense
melancholy, its effects are most beneficial
and wonderful. It should be kept by
every family The London Times is
about to put in operation one of Hoc’s
“six cylinder lightning presses.” The
Great Thunderer lias to call in the aid of
5 ankee lightning The Washington
Star states that the President having re
ceived the new Minister from Nicaragua,
has determined to prevent, at all hazards,
the departure of armed bands from the
United States lor Central America
Ihe Old School General Assembly of
Presbyterians have chosen Lexington, Ky.,
as their next place of meeting.:.. .George
W nlker, Esq., of Pulaski county, is en
gaged in the laudable enterprise of boring
an Artesian well, with good prospects of
success ... The wife ot ex-Senator Uphatn,
ot Vermont, died at Moutepelicr on the
Bth, aged 61 The Deficiency Bill lias
been approved by the President. Its ag
gregate of appropriations amounts to
about $4,200,000 One hundred Polish
families, mostly fanners, have settled in
Kansas county, Texas, near the San Anto
nio river.
The Florida Rail-road.
The Jacksonville News of the 10th
inst. says:
W e learn from the Secretary of the
Florida Rail road, who has just returned
from the North, that the Company has
just purchased four thousand tons of
h nglish Rails, sufficient to iron about
forty miles of their road, the delivery of
which will commence early in August,
so that the Company will be enabled to
open about that much of their road to
the public about the first of next year.
These forty miles will bring the Flor
ida Railroad to or near to the point
where it intersects the Central Rail-road,
the grading on .which last is also beirnr
puslted forward with great rapidity, so
that our friends in the interior and tile
middle portion of our State will soon
have a choice of outlets to the Atlantic.
LATEST NEWS.
OSE WTiSr LATER FROST EVROPr
.Arrival of the Canada.
Halifax, May 21.—The British msil
steam ship, Canada, Capt. Lang, has !r
rived, with Liverpool dates to the i 0 tU
instant.
The Brokers’ Circular quotes th e Cot
ton market unchanged. The sales of
the week were 40,000 bales, of which
speculators have taken 13,000, and ex
porters took 5,000. Fair Orleans 7J
Middling Orleans to Ofd.;
Mobile, Ojvl.; Middling do., 6^d.; F a j r
Uplands, Gfd.; Middliug do., Sales
on Saturday (the day the steamer sailed)
10,000 bales. Slock on hands, 539.
000 bales. '
Flour lias advanced Gd. to I*.
barrel.
Corn lias improved, and prices ad
vanced 6d. to 9d. quarter.
There is no change in rice.
Business in the manufacturing districts
is unchanged.
The money market is unchanged.—
Consols have advanced -J, and are quoted
at 92L
Bell ik Son’s Circular quotes the de
mand for American Stocks quiet, and
the market unchanged.
The new loan of £5,000,000 has been
offered, and the bidding was entirely in
consols.
The bullion in the Bank of England
had increased £83,000.
Tile political news is unimportant.
The English Parliament has been
prorogued or continued in session.
The Queen bad pardoned all offender!
except those who escaped.
The American clipper, Racer, is re
ported to be lost, but all the passengen
were saved.
Arrival o 1 the Fulton.
Here York, May 21.—The steamship
Fulton, from Havre, has arrived, with
dates to the 7th inst.
Lord Clarendon’s reply to Mr. Marcj
is received. He says that if the laws of
the United States have been infringed,
the American government is entitled to
demand, and England will not hesitatu
to offer, the most ample satisfaction ; but
tho British government unequivocally
disclaims any intention to either infringe
the laws or disregard the policy of the
sovereign rights of the United States. It
is further stated that Crampton, the
British minister, and the consuls at Nov
\ ork, Philadelphia and Cincinnati, sol
emnly deny the acts charged against
them ; and that the United States non
has the opportunity of weighing the de
clarations of those four gentlemen, of
unimpeachable honor and integrity,
against evidence upon which no reliance
ought to be placed.
Lord Clarendon concludes by hoping
that these explanations may prove satis
factory, as it is the desire of tho British
government to continue unbroken rela
tions ot friendship between the two
governments.
Congressional.
Washington, May 21.—The bill grant
ing lands to aid in the construction of
several railroads in the State of Alabama,
has passed lire House.
Ihe President is considering anew
proposition for the settlement of the
enlistment question, which is regarded
by many as not likely to be available.
The President has sent fresh orderi
for troops in Kansas to sustain the laws
at all hazards. \Ye are expecting to
hear news of bloodshed hourly.
New York, May 21—The Know
Nothings and Fusionists of Connecticut
have nominated James Dixon for United
States Senator. The vote stood, Dixon
seventy-seven, and Gillette sixteen.
A etc York, May 21. —The British
steamer America left Boston to day with
$750,000 in specie.
New York, May 21.—There is only
a moderate business doing in Cotton,
a though prices are unchanged. Sales
today 1,200 bales. Middling Uplands
lOf cents.
I I lour. — There has been a decline of
8 cents per barrel to-dav.
Washington, May 29.—The House
of Representatives has refused leave for
the introduction of a resolution for in
quiring of the President in relation to
the recent alleged murderous assaults in
Kansas.
The House passed joint resolutions
authorizing the Secretary of the Navy
to dispatch a vessel to Cape Verdes with
provisions privately contributed.
St. Louis, May 17.—The Hon. John
G. Miller, a member of Congress from
the fifth district of this State, died on
Sunday last.
St. Louts, May 16.—The committee
of Congress are now in session at Leaven
worth, and it is understood that when
they return to Washington, Mr. Oliver
will make a minority report.
Gen. James Gadsden, our minister to
Mexico’ was in Augusta jfon Wednesday
last. He left that night for Charleston
ert route for Washington.