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BENJAMIN G. LIDDON.
T. A. BURKE, EDITOR.
MADISON, GA.:
SATURDAY, JUNE 21, 185fi.
Our Weekly Chat,
With Renders and Correspondents.
“ It is a good thing to live in tiie coun
try. To escape from tho prison walls of
the metropolis—the great trickery we call
‘the city’—and to live amid blossoms and
leaves, in shadow and sunshine, in moon
light and starlight, ill rain, mist, dew,
hoarfrost and drouth, out in the open
campaign and under the blue dome that is
hounded by the horizon only. It is a good
thing to have a well with dripping buck
ets, a porch with honey buds and sweet
bells, a hive embroidered with nimble
bees, a sun-dial mossed over, ivy up to
the Caves, curtains of dimity, a tumbler"of
fresh flowers in your bedroom, a rooster
on the roof, and ft dog under the piazza.”
So says Mr. Sparrowgrass in his delight
ful “Papers," just issued from the press of
Derby & Juckson, New York, liis dream
of a rural paradise and tho reality were
found to be totally distinct from each other.
The author, Frederic S. Cozzens, al
though a wine merchant nud denizen of
the great American metropolis, writes like
one W ho had tried the country thoroughly,
and knows all about it. The work is
brimful of the most charming and life-like
pictures of country life, touched up with a
rare and humorous fancy, which renders
it tiie most readable and fascinating book
of tho season.
The annual Catalogue of (ho South
ern Masonic Female College just received,
exhibits a flattering condition of things for
so new an Institution. It is established
ut Covington, On., and is presided over by
Kev. Creed Fulton, A. M., assisted by a
competent Hoard of Instruction. The
Masonic Grand Lodge of Georgia hns the
guardiunship of the College. There are
151 pupils enrolled on its lists, for the cur
rent year.
The Catalogue of the Wesleyan Fi
nnic College, at Macon, is on our table.
This institution was opened in 1889, and
is the oldest Female College in the United
(states —perhaps tho oldest in tho world.
Tho faculty is an able one, numbering
thirteen —eight gentlemen ami live ladies.
It numbers at present one hundred and
ssvcnty-soVen young ladies—a larger num
ber than any other in tho State. Since
181 U, two hundred and seventy-five young
ladies have graduated, and the present
Senior Class consists of tivent.v-funr. Rev.
Osborne L. Smith is President.
—Our old friend Col. Robbbt 11. Ta
tum, of Trenton, Dade county, has hail a
streak of bad luck lately, wo learn from
the last Chattanooga Advertiser. On the
hth instant, he visited the City of Jlacon ■
bides on his “line chestnut steed,” which
ho hail but recently purchased, and lmd
scarcely landed before his horse was
claimed by a resident of Chattanooga, ns
one that hid been stolen from him some
time previous, lie gave up tiie animal, iti
his usual amiable way, and says to tiie ed
itors of the Advertiser, “if you will take
n peep out of your sanctum, to-morrow
morning, anil sec me leave your city with
my saddle across my shoulders, my bridle
in my hand, it will remind you of Jie fable
of tho 1 Hoys and tho frogs.’ ” Tho latter
part of the Colonel's letter is very charac
teristic. We shouldn't like to have him
hurl anathemas at our head. If this meets
the eye of the man who stole his horse, let
him read and tremble in his boots: —“To
tho ‘ infernal rogue ’ that stole the horse,
if you ever chance to see this paragraph,
my compliments to you is, that 1 wish you
may have the shaking ague all the days of
your life, that you may have tho '■Big
John Chitwood itch' so long as you may
live, that your bod shall be made of prickly
pears and saw-briers, and that all the
curses enumerated in the 100th psalm,
commencing at tho (ith verse, may he
heaped upon your 1 cursed' head.” For
the full force of this paragraph, the reader
is refored to the 109th Psalm, beginning
at the 6th verse and including the 19th.
Wo find tiie following decidedly
good- story in tho Paris correspondence of j
Tho New York Express. It will he appre
ciated by musical gentlemen with weak j
nerves:
“The sleeping apartments of two gen- !
tlemen, belonging to different grades of 1
the upper classes, joined each other. M. '
,} e v passed his nights in amusing j
Himself at his club, and tamo home to go 1
to bed at five o’clock in the morning. M.
tie I’ , bis neighbor, rose at six o’clock,
and, being an enthusiastic lover of music,
commenced practicing at the piano. This
arrangement not being precisely agreeable
to M. de V , that worthy entreated
liis neighbor to restrain his enthusiasm
until four or five hours later in the day.
JJ. de P— cooly responded that his en
thusiasm was of the nature of the “ noon
gqji ” jii the garden of tiie Palais Koval,
and was “ hound to go off” at the regular
hour. The nocturnal gentleman appealed ;
to a neighboring Commisary of police.— j
He was laughed at for ids pains, and ad
vised to go to bed at a reasonable hour.—
fie laid a lease for six years; lie tried to
rent' also>the apartments of the musician,
bal tbimd that lie, too, hud agreed with
titv landlord for a toriu ol six years. J hat
plan was, therefore, indefensible. Should
L- scud the umdviau a challenge? Upon
11l lAi2B«n"9£lSll
inquiry he learned that the object of hia
resentment was an invalid and never quit
ted his room. Asa sort of dernier resort
M. de V caused his walls to bo lined
with thick mattrassc?; but this did not ex
.clude the horrible matinal mnsic. M. de
V concluded to commence the ag
gressive. He bought an enormous cor de
chase and made his scrvatitkeep np a fear
ful din throughout tiie night. M. dc
P , the piano man, cited liis neighbor
before a magistrate and caused him to be
fined for a misdemeanor—blowing the
French horn for amusement being only
permitted during the last days of the Car
nival. M. de V bought a h ammer
and pounded with "all his might on the
wall. M. de I’ waited until lie and
tho servant were both exhausted with
their exertions, and then recommenced his
piano. All this time M. do Y could
get no sleep at all. The hammer wouldn’t
dp—that was clear. The noise couldn’t be
kept up lung cnongli. He must invent
something that would lie lasting and in
cessant .in its din. The piano must he
forced to capitulate. A baud organ passed
one day under M. do Y ’s window.—
He called in tho proprietor, a Savoyard
and purchased the instrument. It was an
organ which had been frozen during its
passage across tiie Alps, and had never
since been tuned. M. de Y bought
a patent turn-spit, which ran eight days
without being wound tip hut once, and
‘adapted it’ to his hand organ. When all
was ready, he put liis organ close to his
neighbor’s wall and set the turn-spit in
motion. M. do P stood it bravely for
nineteen hours, ut the end of which time
he concluded to send a bearer of a flag of
truce, lie was Informed that M. de V
bad gone into the country for eight days,
and had carried tho key of liis apartment
with him. At the present writing the
organ is in rapid motion, and M. do P
is trying to underlet liis rooms—though
with small charges of success,
Lynch Law in California.
Date accounts from San Francisco ro
port that city in a state of unusual excite
ment. It seems tlmt a band of fifteen hun
dred bullies and gamblers of the deepest
dye have had almost exclusive control of
tho city for six or seven yoars. Butche
ries in the streot, in broad day-light, were
of common occurrence, and so great was
the dread of” these desperadoes, tlmt the
press dared not speak out. Os the scores
tried for murder in the city, but two were
punished, and they because tlioy had nei
ther money nor friends to procure an ac
quittal.
Sometime since, the sheriff, Col. Rich
ardson, was shot down in the streets.—
Charles Corn, a gambler who was charged
with the crime, was arrested and con
fined in prison to await his trial. Hut
it was doomed to come sooner than anti
cipated. Col. King, editor of the Been mg
Bulletin, and the only member of the press
in San Francisco who had the boldness to de
nounce this lawless hand of cut-throats,
was cowardly assassinated in the streets, by
Casey, a gambler, who was also imprisoned.
The outraged public assembled, en masse,
and determined to take the law into their
own.hands. A Vigilance Committee was
appointed, which marched out with a large
force, armed with muskets and a brass
six-pounder, to tDo jail, where they de
manded the prisoners from the sheriff.—
After some hesitation on the part of that
officer they were delivered up, taken be
fore a Revolutionary Tribunal, composed
ol twenty-nine citizens, and sentenced to
belmng. The executions were to take place
the day after Col. King's funeral.
Great excitement is said to exist in tho
city. One thousand armed men in tho
interior were said to be ready to march to
the assistance of the citizens. The Yigi
lancc Committee will continue to exercise
its functions until the city is cleared of at
least a portion of the horde of thieves,
vagabonds, gamblers and rubbers which
infest it.
We Shall not undertake either to ap
prove or condemn tiiis course of conduct
on tiie part of the citizens of Sail Francis
co. Occurring at so great a distance from
ns, we can .scarcely appreciate the circum
stances of the case. It. is a melancholy
reflection, however, that this total disre
gard of law and order is becoming too
common in tiiis country. Hut a little
while ago, the mayor of New Orleans de
clared on the Stand, in a Court of Justice,
the entire insecurity of either life or prop
erty in that city, unless citizens went
properly armed. All over the country
riot and bloodshed are common. There
must be a reason for it, and it may bo the
one which our brother How ard of the At
lanta Intelligencer gives:
“The evil lies in the fact that those en
trusted with the punishment of crime fail
in doing their duty. To hang a man for
murder now-a-days is a thing of the most
unusual occurrence. The consequence is
that there is scarcely any thing more usual
than a murder. The merest quibble often
shields a man from the consequences of the
heaviest offence. The slightest provoca
tion justifies him in taking tiie life of liis
fellow creature. Murder in America lias
become something like the Spartan’s idea
of theft, disgraceful only when punished;
otherwise high spirited and chivalrous.
“Tiiis evil continues to grow upon us;
eaeli year presents a longer catalogue of
j crime, until we are almost forced to con
; less the tourists’ charge, that in the Uui
j ted States there is no protection for life,
! anil unless there be a radical change in tho
j course so long pursued by our Courts and
j legislatures, Revolutionary tiibtinnls will
i become necessary elsewhere than in San
! Francisco npd New Orleans.”
The Home of the Dead.
It is well sometimes, in this hustling,
selfish world, for man to be reminded of
liis mortality'—to be mado to know and
feel that he is not hero “for all time,” but
for a brief season, the close whereof, at
farthest, cannot be a great way in the dis
i tance. And nowhere does he more fully
and feelingly learn the lesson than among
the silent habitations of thd dead. They
are voiceless bnt impressive monitors
teaching biin the folly of concentrating his
mind upon tlic tilings of, the world; re
minding him of that future state to which
lie is rapidly tending; warning hitn, in
language neither to bo mistaken nor disre
garded, of the awful fact that he too shall
ore long sleep in this last resting place o?
the dead and swell the number of those
who are mouldering into dust.
There is no more grateful trait of hu
manity than is illustrated by the solici
tude manifested by the living for the dead.
Not alono is it right and proper that we
should honor and care for those we lovo
while on earth, but our solicitude should,
and does, extend beyond that period anil
their ashes are sacred in our eyes—relig- !
iously to he protected from sacrilege and
guarded against oblivion. This is right j
and proper, and is demanded no less by i
our nature and instincts, than by our faith
in tlmt holy religion which teaches us that
tho “corruptible shall put on incorrup- i
tion”—that the unconscious mid inanimate
dust shall be reformed into a living and
breathing existence, far exceeding in glory j
and majesty any thing we can now con- i
ceive of.
This duty, too, is universal in its de
mands It is not peculiar to civilization,
for tiie savage forgets his ferocity as lie
raises the mound over the remains of the
deceased brave, and thus invokes the sym
pathies of posterity. Evidences, too, nro
not wanting, that nations whose history is
almost hidden by the mists of time, were
moved by this same commendable disposi
tion to preserve and cherish the memory
of their departed relatives and friends.—
If then, savage and uncivilized nations
from the world’s earliest history, have been
thus actuated, how much more is it a duty
with us, who are surrounded by every spe
cies of elegance and refinement? Do wo
owe nothing to those who sleep beneath
the sod? Have they furnished us with no
examples worthy of imitation? Have
•they taught us no lessons of wisdom? —
Have they left with us no improvements
anil discoveries which have blessed the
world? Have we, in this country, no rea
son to thank those who now slumber in
onr thousand grave yards for tho blessings
of a free government? And should such
claims upon our veneration and gratitude
he totally disregarded?
Among the ancient Greeks great respect
was paid to the dead. The costliest per
fumes and choicest wreaths and garlands
were lavished upon tiie last resting place
of departed friends and relatives. A pen
alty was imposed even on those who
spoke slightingly of the dead, while the
monuments erected to their memory were
ever objects of honor and respect. “A
good name was regarded by the heathen
as the only human blessing of which death
could not deprive a man.”
The Romans were not behind their
neighbors in regard for the memory of de
parted friends and relatives, and to them
are we indebted to the beautiful and now
common custom of scattering roses over
the graves of the dead. “The rose was a
favorite flower among the Romans, and
always used in the greatest profusion on
festive occasions. Their poets abound in
allusions to tiiis habit, which prevailed
even to the latest period of the empire.—
But one of these alludes to roses also as an
emblem of mourning. Indeed so grateful
was their odor believed to be to the manes
of the dead, that entire gardens are said to
have been bequeathed by Romans for the
adornment of their tombs; whilst the less
fortunate citizen was satisfied with the
humble appeal to the wayfaring man,
“I pray you, traveler, scatter roses o’er iny urn.”
The Turks even disregard a law of
their religion, which forbids them to place
dver a tomb anything more than a simple
wreath of flowers or myrtle, for they erect
monuments of marble, “inscribed with all
the beauty of Eastern imagery,” and re
cording the grent virtues of the departed
otic and the strong friendships which have
been severed by the iiand of death. Some
of these inscriptions are very beautiful.—
“The nightingale which charmed us on
earth is gone to sing in the groves of I'ar
mlist*,” adorns the grave of one of their
poets, while, over that of a young girl, is
found tiiis lovely inscription: “A tem
pest lias swept over a garden and borne
away a blossom to adorn tiie courts of
heaven.” On the grave of a little child a
mother lias written: “The little bird of
my heart lias floil from its cage.”
We might continue tiiis subject to an in
definite length, if we had time and space,
by noticing the manners and customs of
various countries and peoples. We might
speak of the ancient and time honored
custom of burying the dead in church
yards, handed down to us from our Eng
lish forefathers and now gradually giving
way to tho requirements of public health.
But our object is simply to call attention
to the demands which the dead have upon
the living, and awaken, if possible, an in
terest on tiiis subject in_our own immedi
ate community. Are the people of Madi
son doing their whole duty in tiiis matter?
Is our cemetery, where sleep those who
were near and dear to us in life, and
whose remains we ought to cherish—is
their last resting place, we say, all that it
should be? There are wealth and taste
and refinement in onr community; the
houses of the living are decorated with the
beautiful in art and nature, but the home
of the dead is gadly neglected, we fear.
Many of our readers will recollect tho
conversation between tbe old sexton and
little Nell, in Dickens’ beautiful story:
“ 1 1 have seen some flowers and little
shrubs about,’the child rejoined, u there
are some over there, you see. I thought
they were of your rearing, though indeed
they grow but poorly.’
“ ‘ They grow as Heaven wills,’ said the
old man; 1 and it kindly ordains that they
shall never flourish here.’
“ ‘ I do not nnderstanil yon.’
“ ‘ W 1 y this it is,’ said the sexton, * they
mark the graves of those who had very
tender, loving friends.’
“‘I was sure they did!’ the child ex
claimed; ‘I am very glad to know they
do!’
! “ ‘ Ay,’ returned the old man, ‘ hut stay.
! Look at them, see how they hang their
! heads and droop and wither. Do you
guess tho reason ?’
“ ‘ No,’ the child replied.
| “ 1 Became the memory of those who lie
below passes away so soon. At first they
I tend them morning, noon and night; they
j soon began to come less frequently, from
I once a day to buce a week; from once a
i week to once a month; then at long and
| uncertain intervals; then not all!”’
Poor little Nell! It grieved her heart
|to hear it. “I’ll make tiiis place my gar
| den,” she said; “It will be no harm at
i least to work here, day by day; and pleas
' ant thoughts will come of it, I am sure.”
■ And soon the brightest flower of them all
was planted iri that garden, and little Nell
found a resting place where she had so
! much loved to be when living.
Let the home of tho dead he made at
tractive —let it become the constant resort
of young and old, and wo shall all be better
and none worse for it.
Furnitnre Wareroonts.
Nothing more clearly indicates the stan
dard of taste in a community than tho np
pearance of private dwellings. A people
who nro content, at the present day, to live
in houses laying claim to neither comfort
noreleganee anil surrounded by evidences of
carelessness and neglect, are apt to receive
from tiie passing traveler but little credit
for industry or correct taste, nor do they
deserve a more favorable verdict. If it
ben weakness to beautify and adorn our
dwellings, it is certainly an amiable and
excusable one. Hut all the parts of a
handsome dwelling should be in keeping.
As well might one furnish himself with all
the necessary articles of clothing, and"
think to appear dressed with a “shocking
had hat ” upon his cranium, ns to dream of
setting off a handsome and costly residence
without./brnifkre to correspond.
It would be curious and interesting to
trace tho history of furniture from the
earliest ages until tho present moment;
hut we have neither time nor space to
penetrate its ancient labyrinths, from
whence wo might draw huge stores of
fancy; nor does it require that we should
go so.fur back in the world’s history, for
our business is with an establishment of
the present day. We refer to tho exten
sive Furniture Warerooms of our much
respected friend, A. Shaw, of tins town.
The massive and unwieldy furniture
of onr forefathers has given place to light
er and more graceful, and at tho same
time more convenient styles. IVe have
seen nowhere a more complete assortment
of tho most fashionable patterns of the
day than are to be found at bis Ware
rooms. Lounges and sofas of gorgeous
finish, greet tbe eye with most inviting
look ; beautifully carved bedsteads of va
rious patterns pnd styles, with tiie much
improved spring mat trass, put to shame
the old fashioned sleeping arrangements;
rocking chairs, the very sight of which
has a kind of magnetic influence; bureaus,
with highly polished-mirrors, in which
beauty can see itself reflected; marble
topped centre and card tables; wardrobes,
quartette tables, liat racks, “whatnots”
and many other things “ too numerous to
mention ’’ are to he found most tempting
ly displayed.
Let the people of Madison extend to
wards this establishment and its proprie
tor—who is one of onr oldest and most
respectable citizens—such a support as lie
deserves and he will need no more.
A New Potato.
A subscriber, whose name we are not
at liberty to mention, hns sent us a fine
specimen of a native tuber, which is evi
dently a species of tho Americanos Con
volvulus Batatas. It is found, through
out tiie Southern States, growing wild,
am! yet it is not mentioned in any one of
the botanies, to which wo have had access.
The very excellent description below,
which accompanies the specimen, is, so
far as we can learn, the first which lias
ever been published. IVe trust it may be
the means of drawing attention to this
new plant, tbe cultivation of which might
be the means of adding a most excellent
variety to our stock of potatos:
Americanos Convolvuli's Batatos
American Sweet Potato. — This tuber is
a native of the Southern North American
States. It lias a vine, leaf and blossom
very nearly resembling the yam of the
Indies, China and Africa. It has a singlo
tuber which measures, as you find it in its
indigenous state, about 10 to 12 inches
long, and about two inches at its greatest
diameter, having its extremities pointed.
It has a rind which surrounds its escnleut
portion, both of which exude a starchy
like fluid. Its whole, tuber, peduncle, leaf,
blossom and growth in the earth, are
identical with the yam potato.
It will require cultivation to make it an
i vdu>is tuberosum, but it promises as much
! in its indigenous state as did the solanum
tuberosum, of South America, without
! which the Irish could not now live, or
| the diascorca latatus, about which we hear
ranch from onr patent office reports. —
What I mean by cultivation is the digging
up and housing this tuber Tor fonr months
in the year, then propagating by hot bed
sprouting, spading and hoeing, excision
of its succors and vines, and such irriga
tion as will enlarge and tender its tuber.
This American sweet potato grows ten
to twelve inches below the surface of the
earth in the soiid-clay, no fibrous
roots; consequently, supported through
its leaves it is perennial and delights to
grow in a soil compound of sand clay and
oxide of iron, or what the farmers denom
inate a loamy soil. An examination of
the natural history of this plant wonld in
cline to tiie belief that it is worthy of cul
tivation and experiment. IV.
Fourth of July.
Tiie eighty-first Anniversary of Ameri
can Independence is near at hand, and we
respectfully suggest the propriety of mak
ing some arrangements for its proper ob
servance in Madison. Tiiis glorious day
should ever be kept in grateful reraein
brauce, by American citizens, and its an
nual return ought always to be a season
of rejoicing and thanksgiving. We trust
that it will not be passed over in Madison,
as is becoming too common throughout
the country.
From the Coast of Africa.
Through the politeness of our esteemed
friend and townsman, Dr. IV.u. S. Meiere,
we are enabled to present our readers with
several extracts from a very interesting
letter, lately received from his brother,
Lieut. Julius 0. Meiere, of tiie U. S. Na
vy. Lieut. Meikre is off the Coast of Af
rica, in the L T . S. ship St. Louis, and
writes from Loaudo, a town in Lower
Guinea.
“My last was written from Monrovia,
about two months since, in which I gave
you a full account of all my movements
since I left you. Since our arrival at this
place, I have been on shore every day, and
dined with tho American Consul, who is
quite a gentlemanly man, and is very glad
to have the officers make his house their
head-quarters. This place is like all the
rest of the Portuguese towns, with the
exception that the houses are larger and
much cleaner. It was formerly a depot
for the slave trade on the coast, but of late
years tho government has put a stop to
the traffic, which, in my omnion, is the
greatest curse tlmt could have befallen the
negroes, for they are far better off in any
other country than in this.
“Tho population of Loando amounts to
about 20,000, among which there are only
two thousand whites. Tho negroes are
tiie most miserable looking objects you
can imagine, and are kept in subjection by
a large military force. They are obliged
to do all the heavy work, and to take the
place of horses —of which there arc none
here. The place has throe - ports and
about one thousand soldiers, and yet it
could be taken by our ship’s crew.
“ \Ye had a visit from the Governor
Genera), his Staff, tho Portuguese Oommo
modore mid liis officers, on which occasion
your humble servant appeared in all his
finery, at the head of tiie Marine Guard,
i was unable to converse in their lingo,
but talked through an interpreter. After
their departure 1 went on shore and took
dinner with the Consul, who told me tiiat
tlio Governor complimented the Marine
Guard very highly and admired my uni
form very .much.
“We have not yet fallen in with Com
modore Crabbe, lie having preceded us
down the coast about a month, bnt expect
to find him at Port Praya about the Ist of
April, when 1 will be transfered to liis
ship, as tho Marine officer who was in
command of the Guard of the Jamestown
lias returned to the States invalided.
ir To-ilay the court gave its decision in
the case of the brig ‘ General Pierce,’ sup
posed to be from New York, whie,h was
taken on the coast by the Portuguese
Commodore the day before our arrival.—
She was taken about six miles from this
place, without any papers, and, when first
seen, hoisted American colors, but when
boarded no flag could be found. She bad
a slave deck, water casks and every ne
cessary arrangements made for taking a
cargo of slaves, but none were found on
board. The decision was that sho was a
good prize to the Government and she
was accordingly condemned. The crew
will bo tried next month and will sutler a
punishment, hut not so severe a one as
they would have received if they had been
condemned in the United States. The brig
belongs to a house in New York, which is
largely concerned in the trade.
* * * * * * *
“1 intend to bring a monkey home for
tiie children. Our ship presents quite an
amusing appearance with monkeys, par
rots, birds, and mungoose. The latter
looks very much like a good sized rat, but
has no particular love for that animal.”
Eaily Cotton Blooms.
Mr. George 7Y. Smith has sent us a cou
ple of cotton blooms, from his farm in this
county. Pretty early, for this section.
fcWThe Charlestonians are luxuriating
on green corn, and ripe figs taken from
the gardens in and around Charleston.
Our Charleston friends are not far ahead
of us. IV e had green corn on Thursday.
It is reported that a'carpenter in Alle
ghany city, a few days ago refused to
hang a door; giving as his reason that
he v as opposed to capital punishment.
Pcn-and-ScissoriDgs.
At a Kansas meeting in Unionville, S.
C., on the 2d inst., $1,250 and 18 men
were raised John G. Dale has been
duly appointed to the charge of the British
"consulate in Philadelphia by Mr. Mat
thews, the retiring consul Nearly
2,000 immigrants arrived at New York
Monday kf»t The crops in Troup coun
ty, Ga., are very promising An ex
change paper wishes to know if there is
any harm in young ladies sitting in the
lapse of ages Col. Charles F. M. Gar
nitt of Virginia, has been tendered by the
Emperor of Brazil the appointment of
Chief Engineer of a great National Kail
way, to be constructed from Rio, to some
point several hundred miles in the interi
or of the Empire The name of the
democratic candidate for Vice President is
spelled Breckinridge—not Breekenridge.
It is pronounced by the Kentuckians
Bracks nridge lion. A. 11. H. Stuart, <
of Staunton, Va., communicates to the
Richmond Whig, the official announcement
to Mr. Fillmore of his nomination, and his
letter of acceptance Prof. Dimitry is
now translator of the State Department at
Washington Palmyra and Ossawato
mie, two Free State towns in Kansas,
were sacked by Georgia emigrants on the
6th inst Judging by the enormous
circumference of the dresses worn by
young ladies at the present day, we feel in
clined to assent to the truth of the old
saw, that a “miss is as good as a mile.”
.... He that is ashamed to be seen in a
mean condition, would be proud in a
splendid one Mr. Edwards, a member
from New York, lias given notice of his
intention to introduce a bill to remove the
seat of Government from Washington to
within five miles of Cincinnati Mr.
Brooks lias been burned in effigy at Cam
bridge, Mass Most of the popular Ton
ic Medicines contain more or less Alcohol
ic Stimulants, which prevents their gene
ral use. Tiie Oxygenated Bitters beiug
entirely free from every intoxicating qual
ity, give a healthy tone to the digestive
system The population of Kansas Ter
ritory is about 25,000 The Seeeders
have nominated Commodore Stockton as
their candidate for President, and Kenneth
Kayner, of North Carolina, for Vice Pres
ident The Wilkes Republican and Dal
ton Times have come out in favor of the
Democratic nominees Cotton blooms
have made their appearance in Chambers
county, Ala The prosjaict of the corn
an I eottonerops in Western Tennessee is
very good. The same is true of the South
western States. The crops are backward
hut healthy and look well If the
greitest sell on record is Mat-sell, what is
the dearest? Dam-sc I Col. Benton
has accepted the nomination for the gov
ernorship of Missouri, mid is going to
stump the state Mr. Breckinridge is
slid to have been a strong advocate of
Gen. Taylor'in 1817 The Boston Ad
vertiser says the New England Emigrant
Aid Company have resolved to rebuild the
Hotel at Lawrence G. B. Du Vul,
Esq., has become the principal editor of
the Montgomery Advertiser & Gazette.
V telegraph dispatch, received yester
day, states that by a lute arrival from
Havre, papers announce that Spain will
declare war against Mexico, if the claims
oi her citizens are not paid A party of
Kansas emigrants were reported to he
rea ly to leave Epson, l’jke and Spalding
comities on Tuesday Judge Mcl.ean
was born in Morris county, New Jersey,
in 1785. lie is thereforeseventy-oue years
of ag > Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Crawford, of
Cincinnati, were married there on Mon
day, started the same day, and on arriving
at Rome, New York, Mrs. Crawford died
having only felt ill a short time The
lion. Charles J. Jenkins and lady, ot Geor
gia, are in Washington Hon. Andrew
Stevenson was elected Rector of the Uni
versity of Virginia, in place of the late
venerable Joseph Cabel The Corner
Stone of the new State Ilonse was laid at
Columbia, S. C., on the 9th of June. The
structure will be one of the finest edifices
in tiie Union The Legislature of Mas
sachusetts is about to appropriate money
for a statue of Faith, to surmount the
national monument at Plymouth The
book trade of Boston, it is estimated,
amounts to $5,000,000 per annum
Godard, the icronaut, has returned to New
York from Havana. He proposes “to go
up on horseback” on the 4th of July
David Martin, Esq., the distinguished edi
tor of the Baton Rouge Advocate, died in
that place on tiie Ist inst When you
go to drown yourself, always pull off your
clothes—they may fit your second wife's
husband An exchange says a Mormon
preacher has made his appearance in Sur
ry county, North Carolina Sir Benja
min Brodio f the leading surgeon in Eng
land has an iucome of .£17,000 a year
The marriage of Prince Frederick William
with the Princess of England is now an
understood fact, and the officers of their
future household are already selected
Persons afflicted with any of the diseases
arising from a disordered liver, stomach,
nervous debility, dyspepsia or liver com
plaint, should try Perry Davis’ Pain Kill
er. It seldom fails to effect a cure in a
very short time Mr. Maroy has noti
fied the Danish Minister that our com
merce will continue to pay the Sound
dues, under protest, another year The
Methodist general conference has estab
lished a Kansas conference, embracing
Kansas and Nebraska, and all that part of
Utah mid New Mexico lying east of the
Rocky mountains Recent arrivals from
the Pacific inform us that another battle
had taken place in Oregon, in which the
Indians had been routed, and nearly thirty
killed The happiest period of a mau’s
life is when he has a pretty little wife, o,ne
beautiful child, more ready cash than he
well knows What to do with, a good con
science and is not even in debt for hil
newspaper An exchange tells ns that
“by an act of Parliament, passed May 21
1640, England was declared a Republic’
and that the act remains unrepealed on
the statute book of England to this day.”
Judge McLean, it is Stated, has writ
ten a letter to Chief Justice Hornflower of
New Jersey, taking strong republican
grounds for Kansas, and urging its admis
sion under a Free State constitution.
Some of the Mormons are on their wav to
the Eastern States for machinery fo r a
steamboat, to be used on Salt Lake
When the steam whistle first sounds on
those waters there will be a terrible flat
tering of wild fowl A correspondent
i of the N. Y. Tribune, from Kansas, states
that there are seven free-soilers there for
one pro-slavery man A young lawyer
trying to establish himself in business is
in one respect like a young physician—h 0
needs patience.
Another Coalition Against
Walker-
There seems to be prospects of more
hard fighting in Nicaragua, before Wal
ker shall be firmly established. The
condition of affairs, shortly after-tbe bat
tle of Rivas, when Walker received as
surances of a pacific nature from the
neighboring States and the Costa Ricans
were making a hurried retreat from Nic
aragua, seemed to bode a final cessation
of hostilities. But matters have recent
ly assumed a different aspect, and Wal
ker’s position is again becoming decided
ly critical, if we can credit the latest ac
counts from Central America. A gen
era! combination of the most powerful
of 'he Central American States is said to
bo already formed tor the purpose of
driving Walker out of the country and
largo bodies of troops are already on
tiie march. Without speedy and con
siderable assistance Walker will find it
difficult to hold his position.
The Panama Star, a paper, by the
way, bitterly opposed to Walker, has
the following in regard to liis prospects:
“By a recent arrival from La Union,
we learn that the Central American
States had at length formed a coalition
to oppose Geu. Walker, and that three
thousand troops from Guatemala, two
thousand from Salvador, and one thou
sand trom Honduras were actually ia
march for Nicaragua.
“ lliese forces are to join Cosfa Rica,
in which event we see little chance for
Walker's party.”
We should hardly be disposed to cred
it this re|K>rt, considering the source
from whence it emanated, if it wasnot
corroborated from other quarters. A
correspondent of the New Orleans True
Dill't, writing from Greytowu, under
date of the 29th nil., says :
“ Late news from the interior has just
b"on received from the Official Bulletin
at L ion, in which the decrees of Gua
temala and San Salvador are published.
The purport of these documents are that
they are raising, and have probably ou
the line of march now. 4,000 troops,
against Nicaragua. Honduras has grant
ed them permission to pass through her
territory, aud also sands some 700 troops,
into the field. Something must be in
the wind there.”
Black Republican National
Convention-
Pim.ADEL.riua, June 17.—The Black
Republican National Convention met to
day.
Col. Jos. Lane, of Indiana, was elect
pd President, and Vice Presidents and
Secretaries were selected from every
State represented in the Convention.
Col. Lamb made an animating speech,
hailing the movement of the Conven
tion as the resurrection of the North—
predicting success—and claimed that
the party was national and not section
al.
The Committee on Rules reported
that delegates should vote by States,
through their chairman.
The Committee on Resolutions will
report to-morrow.
The ballotting for a candidate for the
Presidency will immediately follow.
The Convention passed resolutions
that a platform should be adopted be
fore the ballotting commenced.
Rev- Dr. Crawford-
A paragraph published by us a week
or two since from a Nashville paper,
stated that Dr. N. M. Crawford, the
popular President of the Mercer Uni
versity, had accepted a situation at
Union University, Tennessee. In no
ticing this paragraph the Temperance
Crusader, published atPenfield remarks:
We are prepared to say that Dr.
Crawford has not accepted a Professor
ship in Union University, andsofaras
we are apprised, there is not the least
probability of his doing so. The Journ
al very truly observes that his removal
would be a serious loss to the denom
ination in this State. We hope such an
event may never take place. No friend
of Mercer University coaid see him re
tire from the Presidency without tbs
most profound regret.