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Jfamilnilisifor published jiy 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.