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BENJAMIN G. LIDDON
T. A. BURKE, EDITOR.
MADISON, GA.:
SATURDAY, AUG. 23, 1856.
Our Weekly Gossip,
With Headers and CoRKESroNDEXTS.
Do Women Reason?
Our correspondent JonsiK Joxqcil takes
the negative. Before lie knows it, lie'll
got liimself into hot water. If any of our
lady friends wish to enter the lists, our
columns are open. Where are I.ucie Lilac
nndPicooiE? Are the lady readers of the
Visitor content to let this fellow run “un
wbipt of justice?” We trust not.
Uncle Eppr and General Wjf hirgton.
A correspondent sends us the following
original anecdote of the “times which
tried men’s souls.” Uncle Uppy is well
known to a number of persons in this
community.
To appreciate fully the following anec
dote, writes our friend, you should see the
old man tell it. If I could only transfer
to paper the spirit and animation with
which lie narrates this, arid his numerous
other exploits, I should not fail to provoke
tl hearty laugh from your renders:
The old man’s name is Eparoinondns llo
binson, and his residence Greene comity.
He is full of anecdote, and is highly
insulted if you intimate that he is
going beyond the range of probability.
He was a hoy during tho Devolution;
though, to hear him talk, you would sup
pose he bore a very conspicuous part in
that memorable struggle/ It is scarcely
■well to insinuate that the old fellow wnsa
lory, unless you want his crutch about
your ears. Sometimes lie comes to the
little town of Greensboro, where he is well
known. Catch him with “ two or three
drinks aboard," and usk him :
“ Uncle Eppy, do you kuow anything of
General Washington t”
“General Washington! You ought to
a’ been with ns at tho battle of Little
York! The English wero pushing us
close, I tell you, when the General
comes and todies mo on tho shoulder:
says lie, “ Eppy,” says lie, ‘ we’re in
a box! wliat shall we do? Thar Hint
but three bushels of tutors in the camps,
and _we’ro surrounded by the Brit
ish.’ Says I,” —here the old fellow draws
himself up to his full height, and gesticu
lates violently with his long, bony fore
linger,—“Says I, *’l God, Wash, ice'll give
'em h—IP Yes, yon ought to ’a been
thar, my son. The jar of tho cannon
split tho chimneys for five miles, so that
you could have laid your hand in tho
cracks from top to bottom, and, ’1 God,
for ten acres around, the blood was knee
deep!”
fashionable Lift al tbc Watering Places.
All the watering places, north and south,
are now crowded with “beauty and fash
ion,” and their proprietors reaping a rich
harvest at the expense of those who have
rnoTO money mid time on hand than they
can conveniently dispose of at home. A
correspondent of a New York city paper
says that there aro ten thousand at Sara
toga, more than half of whom aro of tho
coffer eex. In tho same letter lie g'ves
the circumference of a fashionably dressed
woman there, at seven feet and a half!,
What a jam there must he at the hotels in
that delectable region 1 Wo agree with a
contemporary that there wou'd he no such
tiling as furnishing them all with sleeping
accommodations, if their hooped petticoats
were not suspended from a peg at night.
Belle Britt an, who writes spicy letters
to the New York Mirror from Newport,
says;
“We have to dress about nine times a
day here. First we put on a dress to dress
in; then we are ready for breakfast. Af
ter tliat we dress for the bench —then for
the bath—then for dinner —then for tho
•drive—then for the hail—nml then for the
Shed. If that isn’t being put through a
regular course at’ dimity and diamonds,
then I am no judge of suoli performances.”
l’oor creaturosi liow do they manage to
get through with so lunch, especially those
who claim to he in delicate health l Re
quire one tenth as much labor in any use
ful employment,from one of them, and the
dear creature would sink under it!
A correspondent of the sterner sex, wri
ting from one of the fashionable resorts,
declares that yotflkui scarcely get within
speaking distance, even, of a fashionable
woman. He agrees with Puueli, that the
man who intends getting round his wife,
must start early in the morning. Ue
thinks walking round a fashionably dressed
woman would he a capital exercise for in
valids.
Apropos of hoops, the Paris correspond
ent of the London Court Journal tells a
good “‘big about the new fashion, which
he denominates
Tba Triumph of CitnolinS.
"While upon tho subject sis Crinoline,
it may be as tvqil to tell you the .adventure
which is forming the chief amusement of
the court at this moment, and which imp
pened a day or two ago at St. Cloud. The
Duchess de P., one of the most crinolined
of nil the ladies about the Empress, being
in the fullest feather for the dinner to
which she hail been Invited l>y her inipe.
ritd miatrgsa, was led into the sails aman
ger -by the little Count <le JI., a man of
great renown hut of small stature, Tho
dieliess is of a tall, commanding Bgm - c,
and is, besides, particularly liberal of Cri
noline, which she is accused of exaggerat
ing to most inconvenient proportions.
The doors at St. Cloud are not of the same
mighty dimensions as those at the Tuile
rics; and although the two buttons were
thrown wide open, it was with some dis
may the little count beheld the work be
fore him, wlicu he compared the width of
the door with that of the crinoline of the
lady on his arm! Just at that awful mo
ment of the passage, however, the lady
unconsciously dropped her fan—the eonrit,
forgetful of bis perilous position, confined
between the doorway, having no other
fear before his eyes hut that of seeming to
he deficient in gallantry and good man
ners, imprudently stooped to pick it up.
“At the moment, the duchess was ac
tually passing through the door—in order
to accomplish this difficult feat, she was
just ill tho act of giving that peculiar
swing to the left which the disproportion
of the dress of tho present day with our
domestic economy renders necessary, when,
to the utter dismay and consternation of
the whole assembly, the little count was
missed, and tho duchess remained strug
gling with some n-secn obstacle which
prevented her advancing. The ogre crino
line had swallowed up the knight even
more effectually than in tho fairy days of
old, for no trace of his former existence
was visible. The company following in
pairs was stopped as a matter of course—
those who had gone on before had already
readied their se..ts at the table, and turned
in wonder to behold tho strange scene
which was enacting at the door, where the
tali, majestic, .and unusually dignified
Duchess do P. was capering and caracoling
with a scared and terrified countenance,
and tho rest of the company pressing for
ward to behold what was tho matter.
“Tho confusion and dismay wero at
their height when the little man crept out
on his hands and knees from beneath tho
mountain of crinoline and flounces in
which he had been enveloped, and flushed
and discomfited, but little disposed to
smile, although the tittering of tho com
pany soon broke into a hearty laugh,when
tho Empress, unable to restrain her mirth,
gavo tho signal of a genuine outburst of
merriment, which enlivened tho whole re
past, and rendered it one of the gayest
which had taken place since tho departure
of tho Emperor. Os course, this adven
ture has given ri.so to epigrams and quoii
bets without end, and the poor little count
lias become bettor known within the last
week in the annals of tho Court than by
the three years’ good and honest service
which ho Ims passed at the Tuileries. Tho
Duchess, meanwhile, towers more majes
tically than ever over her fellows; the in
cident has not a whit diminished tho inso
lenoo of her crinoline, which, growing
more prodigious every day, completely ex
tinguishes nil tho ridicule which the ad
venture of the little Count do M. would
otherwise have heaped upon her,”
Bcforo wo dismiss tho subject of fash
ionables and fashionable life, w e wuut to
copy Belle Brittan’s
Definition of a Fast Woman,
Belle is tho Newport, correspondent of
tho Xnn York Mirror , from whom wo
have already quoted. The definition which
follows, says an exchange, is worthy of
being pasted on tho fly-leaf of Webster’s
unabridged:
“ By tho way, I overheard a funny con
versation last evening, between a gentle
man and a lady who were promenading
behind me, from which I learned the defi
nition of a “fast woman.” The couple
were discussing the attractions of a young
lady, who receives a good deal of attention
here from the beaux—(such ns wo have) —
when the gentleman remarked that lie had
not yet been aide to discover the charms
of tho fair one in question. ‘O,’ said tho
lady; ‘she is fast, and that’s what makes
all the gentlemen like her.’ ‘But what
does that mean?’ enquired the gentleman
roguishly. ‘Why,’ said tho lady, ‘a fast
woman is one yon can say anything to.’
I thought 1 should have dropped.”
Col. J. IV. White, of Kansas.'
Tho lust Empire State contains a card
signed by thirty citizens of Griffin, (among
them tho editors of that paper,) recom
mending Col. J. M . IV Hite as a gentleman
and “an ardent and efficient supporter,
advocate and defender of the cause” of tho
South. We aro anxious to think well of
Col. White. Wo have heard him speak
on several occasions, and were pleased
with his bold and manly defence of the
South, nml his thoroughly original and
unstudied manner, hut tliero aro some lit
tle matters which it is necessary for him
to clear up before ho.can stand well in
this community. lie made a speech in
this place on the 21th of July, in which lie
stated that a company was organizing in
South Western Georgia, to leave for Kan
sas on tho 11th of August, under the com
mand of Col. .M. Brown, of Marion
county. One or two young men of our
plaeo agreed to join this company, and
were to meet it in Atlanta on the 11th.
One of them, Robert M. Pkxick, Esq., lett
hero on the 9th, for Atlanta, expecting to
start with tho company at the time pro
posed. After waiting tico days beyond
the time , lie writes us that tho company
had not arrived, nor could he hear any
thing of it, or of Col. Wrim:. Ilis conclu
-B,‘C‘tt was that there was “ something rotten
in Deti’uark.” Was any such company
cver projected? I? so, why did it fail?
If not, why did Cdl. White so report and
induce oi»r young friel'd to enter upon a
wild goose chase?
Again: Ctd. W, stated here, publicly and
privately, that he made a speech to a large
fltid enthusiastic! crowd, j.n Athens, and
there collected, in a single night, ekvei i
hundred and fire dollars. We have since
been in Athens, and had it from undoubted
authority that he never made a speech in
that place nt all, nor did he ever collect
one dollar, so far as we coaid learn. On
the contrary, the friends of Kansas made
an appointment for him—lie having ar
rived too late to fill his first—and the
crowd assembled, hut the Colonel was non
est. Ilis friends there were entirely ig
norant, three weeks afterwards, of the
cause of the failure. If Col. White can
clear up these little matters, we shall he
glad to set him right before our readers,
Until he does, we shall be compelled to
think, with our friend Penick, that “some
body hasn’t done the clean thing.’’
A Vegetable Rarity.
Our respected townsman, Nathaniel
Allen, Esq., has laid on our table quite a
curiosity—the result, of a singular freak on
tho part of Dame Nature. We scarcely
know how better to describe it than as
thirty hco ears of corn growing in a com
pact hunch. Each one has a distinct cob,
covered with kernels of corn, and on a
good number of them the kernels are fully
formed and matured. It can he seen at
the printing office, for a few days.
New Cotton.
The first bale of now cotton was sold in
this market on yesterday, by Mr. John W-
Hanson, for 11 1-2 cents. The purchasers
were Copeland, Harris & Cos.
Our thanks are duo to fl/c lions.
N. G. Foster, Howell Conn and John 11.
Lumpkin, for valuable public documents.
Southern Education.
The editors of the New Or leans Picayune
have been favored with a copy of a circu
lar letter addressed by Bishop Polk of the
Episcopal Diocese of Louisiana, to his
brother Bishops of Georgia, Alabama, Ar
kansas, Texas, Florida, Mississippi, North
Carolina and South Carolina, on tho suh-_
ject of education in tho South, with a pro
posal of a concert of counsels and unity of
action for tho establishment, at tho South,
of a University of the highest grade.
“Thoparticular considerations urged by
Bishop Polk,” says the Picayune, “are ad
dressed to those of his oavu communion ;
and itis desiro and design is to have such
an institution organised under Episcopal
auspices, and to supply tho wants of the
members of Ids own church, with which,
in his ministrations and associations, lie
has become thoroughly acquainted. But
tho genera] purpose is more wide, and the
want which it recognises arid desires to
supply is universally felt throughout the
Southern States.
“With such few exceptions, in particu
lar localities, as only serve to mark the
rule ns nearly universal, even the el men
tal and preparatory branches of education
aro very insufficiently provided for in the
South. Tho puld'c school system, for pri
mary instruction, is hut imperfectly under
stood anywhere upon a scale adequate for
the training tip of the youth of a State;
and the .seminaries and the colleges aro
few, inadequately endowed and rarely pa
tronised to the extent of their claims and
merits by Southern parents. For a high
er, liberal education, we have no institu
tions endowed as they should he, possess
ing tho advantages which aro olfero 1 by
the principal colleges in the Northern
States of tho Union. Southern families
have been constrained, in order to give
their sons tho benefits of a thorough edu
cation, to submit to the sacrifices of send
ing them away from their homes, beyond
the roach of parental care and affection, in
an uncongenial climate, and we will add,
which tho Bishop merely intimates, sub
ject, of late, to inauspicious influences.
“The merely economical view, in the
largo expenditures which aro annually
made abroad for what would lie infinitely'
better if it could ho Avell done at nil at
home, is but a secondary consideration, al
though one in itself of no small moment.
What is of value —not to ho expressed in
dollars and cents—is that tho benefits of
good education up to the highest attaina
ble anywhere, should ho brought within
the roach of the people of tho Southern
States; and this necessity is felt more
keenly since tho tendency of Northern col
leges has lately developed itself in so many
instances to ho in favor of doctrines and
tra nings which aro repugnant to tho
inodes of thinking, and hostile to he so
cial organization in the Southern States.
It is becoming unsofo to trust the imma
ture iplnds of Southern youth to teachings
which are assuming the tones of propa
gandism in many places that are of an in
sidious character, and likely to unsettle
principles that aro believed to he essential
todomestic and political peace at home. So
many of the distinguished professors in tho
great institutions North have become pub
lio deelaimers for abolitionism—public re
vilors of the,whole frame-work of South
ern society as sinful, and public partisans
in schemes to overthrow them, by insidi
ous or by violent means, that few thought
ful men of tho South can reconcile it to
themselves to p’aco their children under
such guardianship, or within the contami
nation of the teachings which must accom
pany such fntia icnl sentiments. There is
a growing sense in tho slaveholding States
that it is becoming the highest of domestic
duties, as well as a great political duty,
that tho South should provide within it
self for the education of its own sons, as a
measure of self-protection against system
atical aggression which has passed from
legislative halls, tho forum and the polls
into academic groves, the pulpit and the
college commons. It is a preparation for
defence which must he made, and the ne
cessity being acknowledged, the public
mind is ready to receive with favor any
project which gives promise that it shall
be done thoroughly and well..
“There is a great public Avant, disclosed,
acknowledged, patent and urgent, and thev
who offer a plan of relief, something that
meets fully the whole want, or promises
to supply fully a part of it—a plan which
is practicable, and within our means
should command the most earnest and fa
vorable attention, and, if made acceptable
in its details, receive a generous and
prompt support. There is, in this plan of
Bishop Polk, an idea which concurs with
tiie ardent wishes and most earnest con
victions of the thinking mass of the South
ern people. We believe it has been the
subject of a good deal of consultation and
correspondence already among leading cit
izens in tho States named, and that it is
received with much favor, irrespective of
tho denominational character which it w ill
have by being brought forward under Epis
copal auspices, and placed under tho direc
tion of the Bishops of that church. There
is a liberal disposition, and there aro am
ple means. The South is rich enough to
endoAv a university so amply that nothing
shall be wanting which can be obtained
elsewhere for a complete education; and
it is ready to listen to proposals, which
come under such imposing auspices as those
which Bishop Polk indicates, and such ex
tended and weighty influences as he in
vokes to the cause.”
For the Visitor.
Do Women Reason f
Some weeks ago I heard a distinguished
clerical gentleman, on the subject of Fe
male Education, and I have thought several
times since, tliat I would give my views
on tho great question of equality of the
sexes. Now, Mr. Editor, I like the ladies;
I wish that distinctly understood. lam
deeply scnsiblo of their many delightful
qualities. In a vast number of tilings
they greatly excel us men; indeed in cer
tain matters wc can’t pretend to match
them at all. But when some over-gallant
gentleman, like Bishop Pierce, or some
outro specimen of her own sox, gets up
and proclaims that woman has exactly the
same amount of intellect as man, and is
therefore capable of exercising the same
social and political functions, and ought
to enjoy tiie same rights, I must back—l
can’t go in with that, Sir. Such an idea
strikes nt the root of all thoso very prop
erties in woman, which I find so agreeable.
It would make her out to be something,
indeed, which avo men shoilld regard
with indifference, if not disrespect. No,
Sir, tho true individualism of wotiinn, her
attraction and Iter strength, lies in her be
ing something engagingly less than man—
a charming imperfection , if I may ?o ex
press it. •
A distinguished logician and divine of
tho prdSont day gives the following defini
tion of woman: “ A creature that cannot
reason, and who pokes tho fire from the
top.” Thut'e just precisely iny idea of the
sex. They Can do a hundred fine things,
with and without Berlin wool, within and
beyond the bounds of crochet: but they
cannot reason. But for the fact that man
possesses the gift of reason, I question if
humanity would yet liavo attained to the
power of kindling a fire nt all. I am
pretty sure Avoman never would have ac
complished it. 1 take it upon mo to say
that sho Avould never, by herself, have
thought of floating a ship, planting corn,
or fashioning a flint into nil arroAv or a
knife. Now, don’t get in a passion with
me, gentle readers, for I liko you all tiie
bettor for it. I doubt if she ever Avould
have arrived at tho idea of baking or cook
ing, of sewing or woaving. Man has con
ceived all her tasks, set her to them and
kept her at them, she going on in unrea
soning, mechanical, beautiful obedience
from tho beginning. And so far is she
from suggesting any scientific improvement
in any of them, site can hardly he brought
to understand, much less to admit and aet
upon, any such improvement which man
may suggest to her. I never yet knew a
Avoman put on a fire upon rational princi
ples, or in any other than a haphazard sort
of Avny. Os the expedients for making its
kindling certain, sho lias not, and appa
rently cannot torm the faintest conception.
Then look at tho dear creature’s Avays
and doings regarding dress. What a record
of preposteronsness in her Avhole chronicle
of fashions. It is evident tliat sho has no
idea of making one thing fit or tally Avith
another- -is for instance, a shoo big enough
for the foot, a bonnet big enough for the
head, or a bodice wide enough for tho
waist. It is mere chance whether she
wears sleeves large enough to hold her
Avhole body, as they Avcro twenty years
ago, or diminished to a mere hand across
the shoulders, such as Avero worn by an
Irish literary lady; Avlien a gentleman who
met her at a ball, ami observed her laugh
ing at him, congratulated himself that at
least sho Avas candid and downright, and
clearly had no thought of laughing at him
in her sleeve. Neither has she any percep
tion of Avhat is convenient and what in
convenient in dress. Just now the whole
sex are found wearing dresses of such vast
circumference that they aro almost unap
proachable. The fame garments are loaded
Avith six or eight flounces, which the la
dies themselves understand to be an ele
gant ornament to their figures, but Avldch
practically, in tho eyes of rational, observ
ing men, only serve, on their rising from
,ilie table, to give them the most ludicrous
profiles that could by any means bo de
vised, and aro the more remarkable as be
ing ahvays the last feature of the fair Avear
er Avhieh leaves the room. We see them
also exhibiting hanging sloeves, and orna
ments pendulous from tho wrist, as if alto
gether blind to the fact that these super
fluities arc liable at table to he al wavs
draggling in the soup and sauce, and are t
in short, a nuisance to themselves and all
who sit near them. To shape means to
ends, or to adapt things to each other for
a serviceable result is in the power of
many of the interior animals, as all stu
dents of natural history know; but—now
don’t be offended, dear ladies, for I protest
that I like you all the better for it—such
ingenious adaptations are clearly beyond
the scope of the human female intellect.
They cannot understand such things, even
when explained to them by AA-ell-meaning
specimens of the reasoning eex, Avho may
take an interest in seeing that self-incurred
inconA eniences brought to an end. So they
go on, bearing with an insensitive weak
ness evils altogether beyond masculine
philosophy; eA’en, it may be, ineonlmo
diousnesses that threaten health and life
itself; as, for instance, compressing the
Avaist to about one third its natural propor
tions, or Avearing thin shoes in damp
weather; the first marring all the func
tions of some of the most delicate organs
of the human frame; the other ensuring
consumption and death.
But lam becoming prosy. Women do
not reason, though—that’s beyond all
question. No use to talk to her after her
mind's made up. Dear, enchanting, un
reasoning creature, sad and many are the
scrapes von fall into from want of reflec
tion, and vexing sometimes are your argu
ments —which are no argnments at all ——
and conclusions without and in spite of
data. Kut avlio would have you other-
Avise than as yon are?—the most enigmati
cal, incalculable, thoughtless, delightful of
all creatures! „
“ Ruptured we quit each dozing sage,
Oh woman, for thy lovelier page!
Sweet book! unlike the books of art,
Whose errors are thy fairest part;
In whom the dear errata column
Is the best page of all the volume.”
Joiinie Jonquil.
Madison, Geo.
Peii-and-Scissorings.
An eastern paper says that in the State
of Maine there are about one hundred and
fifty Baptist churches destitnte of pastors.
Ladies are like watches—pretty
enough to look at —sweet faces and deli
cate hands, hut somewhat difficult to
“ regnlute” when once set “ agoing.”....
There was n very largo fire in Chicago on
the 13th, destroying several railroad depots
and other buildings, valued at about $200,-
000 There has been no rain in DeSoto
cojiutv, Tennessee, for over seven weeks-
All vegetation has parched to such a de
gree that there is not only no prospect for
crops, but the cattle are suffering for food.
Tlie lion. Itufils Choate, of Massachu
setts, lias published a long letter favorable
to Mr. Buchanan An Irish paper de
scribing the results of a duel, says: “The
ono party was wounded in the chest, and
the other fired in the air.”... .There were
268 deaths in Chicago in the month of Ju
ly “ Lord Stanley, a son of the late
Earl of Derby,” says an English paper,
“has announced a penny paper, to appear
in a short time, under his immediate direc
tion.”. .. .The yellow fever panic still pre
vails at Fort Hamilton, near New York
city Vessels arriving from Charleston,
says a Now York correspondent, are nar
rowly watched for fear of yellow fever;
and yet tliero are probably fifty cases of
that disease in New York to where one
occnrs in Charleston John O. Lawler,
a soldier in the U. S. Army, is in custody
in New York in consequence of a volunta
ry confession he Ims made, of having mur
dered a girl named Mary Dunn, in Ireland.
Mrs, June M. Biddle died in Bucks
county, Pa., on the 11th iust. She was
the widow of the celebrated Nicholas Bid
dle .... An extra session of Congress con
vened on Thursday The papers in the
interior ehroniclo tiie almost total failure
of the cotton crop. The crop of cotton
will also bo light lion. TVm. A. Rich
ardson, of Illinois, has resigned his seat in
Congress Mr. Stephen 11. Branch, the
well known “Matsell case investigator,”
has most singularly disappeared from New
York A lady of fashion stepped into
a shop not long since, and asked the keep
er if lie had any matrimonial baskets, she
being too polite to say cradle..... Tho
floating rainbow arches the wildest tor
rent. So stands God in heaven, and the
streams of time rush and roar, and over all
the waves hovers the bow of peace
Seventy thousand dollars’ worth of prop
erty was destroyed in the village of West
Troy, N. Y., on the morning of the 2nd
inst A destructive fire occurred in
Paterson, N. J., on the 2d inst., consuming
five largo stores. Loss from $15,000 to
$20,000. Partially insured We learn
from the Selma Sentinel of the 7th inst.,
that Col. Buford was at Ent'ala, Barbour
county, engaged in raising emigrants for
Kansas No proof of temperance—a
man with his hat off, at midnight, explain
ing to a lamp post the principles of his
party....A fire occurred at Alexandria,
Va., on tho 4th inst., by which property
to the amount of SB,OOO was destroyed.
Tho firo was caused by an incendiary
It said tiiere are but two tilings
worth living for—to do what is worthy of
being written, or to write what is worthy
of being done Lient. Maury left SO,OOO
on las recent visit to Minnesota to be in
vested in real estate It turns out, after
all, that Greeley and Bennett don’t go for
Jessie Fremont. They go for Mary Posa ,
whose metal is of an entirely different
character... .No medicine ever offered to
the public has met with snch universal and
signal success as Terry Davis’ Vegetable
Pain Killer. It is a sure cure for all kinds
of pain. Try it and thank us for the sug
gestion. .. .The first halo of new cotton at
Charleston was received on Thursday. It
was from the plantation of George Norris,
of Orangeburg District... .Russia refuses
to surrender Kars until the last of the al
lied soldiers have quittedTurkey Crops
throughout the Cherokee country are
ranch injured by the drought, and accounts
from Tennessee (particularly East Tennes
see) are exceedingly discouraging. Corn
must be scarce.... When laboring under
any disease of the throat or lungs, rest as
sured that speedy relief can be obtained by
using Dr. Wistar’s Balsam of Wild Cherry.
Its success in such cases is unparalleled.
Three Days Later from Europe.
New York, Aug. 17.—The United
States mail steamship Baltic, Capt.
Comstock, has arrived from Liverpool,
which port she left on Wednesday, Au
gust 6th.
Brows Shipley Cos. state that the
cotton market exhibits no new feature,
the quotations are steady and the de
mand fair. The sales for the three days
ending the Ctb, were 20,000 bales of
which speculators and exporters took
7,000. The quotations furnished are:
for Fair Orleans 7d.; Middling Orleans
6fd.; Fair Mobile 6fd.; Middling Mo
bile Fair Uplands 6fd.; Middling
Uplands 0 3-16d. The market closed
firm.
The weather lias been very favorable
for harvest operations, and prices incline
downwards. The Flour trade is dull,
and prices have declined 1 shilling.—
Wheat has also receded in price, from
9d. to Bd. per 70 pounds. Indian Corn
is unchanged in value.
The business in the manufacturing
districts is rather moro active than pre
viously reported, and prices aro fully
maintained. Yarns have advanced in
price.
Money was in active demand at from
four to four and a half per cent. Con
sols unchanged and quoted 9GL
The Africa had arrived out safe at
Liverpool.
Spain is tranquil, as the insurgents at
1 Saragossa have surrendered.
Tho Naiionnl Guards have been dis
armed.
The Frencli army on the Spanish
frontier has been withdrawn.
Russia has sent fifteen thousand, more
men to Kars to repair the fortifications
at that place.
There has been a dreadful powder ex
plosion at Salonica, by which many
buildings were destroyed, forty persons
killed, and one hundred wounded.
The London Times accuses Russia
of bad faith in carry it g out treaties.
Difficulties arc apprehended.
[second despatch.]
Pales of Cotton on Wednesday 10,-
000 bales. ■
The latest news froiti the explosion at
Salonica (a large seaport in Eastern
I urkey, and next in size and importance
to Constantinople), reports that seven
hundred persons were killed and wound
ed, including tho Russian, Dutch and
Sardinian Consuls. Ono hundred per
sons were killed instantly. There were
two hundred barrels of contraband pow
der exploded.
Arrival of the Africa.
The steamship Africa has arrived from
Liverpool with dates to the 9di inst.
Tire cotton market is urn-hanged;
Middling Orleans, 0 5-10 ; Upland, 6£.
The sales of the week amount to 53,000
bales, including 12,000 fin- export and
speculation. The stock at Liverpool
consists of 780,000 bales, of which 050,-
000 bales are American.
Breadstuff's have largely declined;
Canal Flour 24a285; Southern 29a30s ;
Ohio 32a335. AVheat9alos. Spiritsof
Turpentine 31 6a325. Rice unchanged.
Tho weather has been favorable for the
crops. Consols 95.
Two London firms—Peckford k Keen,
and Courtenay, Kingsford & Cos. have
suspended payment.
The Mexican bondholders are dissatis
fied with the position of their claims, and
have resolved to memorialize Comonfort
to give his attention to tho matter. They
have also resolved to seek the aid of the
British government to enforce the de
mand. If no relief be granted, the sug
gestion is made that the Americans be
invited to purchase the bonds, and make
Mexico pay in cash or territory.
Spain. —The terms of the surrender of
Saragosa is unknown. Passports are
given to Frauce to all who ask for them.
All persons under arrest are released ex
cept two.
All the Russian authorities in the Cri
mea have resumed their functions. The
fleet has retired from tho Black Sea. It
is rumored that all the supposed difficul
ties have been satisfactorily resolved by
Russia,
Kansas. —We have a telegraphic de
spatch from Chicago, a source which is
especially tainted with the strong spirit
of Abolition, stating that the Southern
ers are concentrating men and arms for
a general attack on tho Freesoilcrs,
Twelve block houses have been built at
different points, with supplies of arms
and have been garrisoued by Missourians-
At a meeting in Kansas City tbev re
solved to send two thousand meii into
the Territory.
The border towns are intensely excited
A general muster of the Missourians is
demanded. An attack on Franklin was
to capture the arms collected there.—
One block bouse, with 50 stand of arms
and cannon, were taken.
Senator Douglas’ Report on the
House Kansas Bill.
Senator Douglas, from the Territorial
Committee, to whom was referred the
bill passed by the republican majority
of the House of Representatives, pro.
viding for the' admission of Kansas as a
Slate under the Topeka constitution
made an elaborate report thereon on
Wednesday, rejecting the same. His
objections to the House bill in substance
were:
First, it incorporates into Kansas a
portion of the Cherokee county which
the United States has by treaty pledged
the faith of the nation should not be in
corporated into any State or Territory.
Second, it also incorporates into Kan
sas about twenty thousand square miles
of Mexico; establishes slavery therein
until 1858, and prohibits it thereafter, in
violation of the compact purchasing
the country from Texas, and of the
compromise measures of 1850, which
guaranteed said territory should coiue
into tho Union with or without slavery
as the people should determine.
Third, it legalizes and establishes
slavery in Kansas, and over a portion of
New Mexico until 1858, and provides
that children heretofore born shall he
slaves for life, and their posterity after
them, provided they are removed into
a slave State or Territory prior to 1858.
Fourth, it recognises the validity of
the existing laws in Kansas, and pro
vides for the faithful execution of tliene
except those punishing murder, rubberv,
larceny, and other crimes.
Tilth,it provides no guarantees against
illegal voting, frauds in conducting tho
elections, or violations, or violence at
the polls, but legalizes all such outranks,
by declaring that the law under which
they could be punished shatl not he en
forced.
The report recommends the passage
of the hill, which has twice passed the
Senate, declaring all the obnoxious laws
null and void, and allowing the people
to form a constitution.
Kissing a Queen.
There is now on exhibit'd! in our
print shops an excellent picture of
Franklin at the Court of France; not,
however, critically true to history, if my
memory serves me right. In this priii*,
Franklin stands as he ought to, in tint
foreground, he being the soul of the sub
ject; his plain attire contrasts well with
a brilliant court, embroidered from heal
to foot, anil bedizenoil with diamond*
and hair powder. Franklin, 1 under-1
stand, was dressed in .second rate home-1
spun, yarn stockings, substantial shoes.l
and his hair of its native color; and 1
not at all conscious of any inferiority. I
however, but with that self-possesskrl
which is tho distinguishing trait of well-1
bred people everywhere. His native I
dignity was his sole decoration. As s|
stranger, he must have observed tiij
common practice in Franco, of kissilifl
even in the streets, and other places
when friends meet, after a lon«- or short
absence, without regard to sex. Tlri
kissing, however, is no more than o»|l
shaking hands, and is performed by api
plying ono cheek to another—once!
twice or more according to the intimacy j
of tho feelings. It may be called cheek J
by-jowling. Franklin may not liavel
observed minutely the modus of tins!
practice, but have thought that a kivl.
was a kiss; or not thought at all abort!
it.
It is said that he was reminded by ofcH
of the dignitaries of the court, '.tig
when he was presented he must kiss t-ijj
Queen, who it was also said, was a vfjl
kissable woman. The Queen appnMCfJ
ed familiarly and very near probs-ll
impelled by curiosity to see well '-1.1
handsome savage. Franklin reineml'la
ing his lesson, without reluctance prtfl
in practice, in the only way he had M
been taught to kiss, and gave the H
a mighty Yankee buss on the lips, t-> ;! y
great amazement and horrificatio’ 1 ||
the old maids, but to the great am** I
ment of all others—especially the K*l H
who was delighted with this savage s |C jM
plicity ; and it is said that he cried
—“Encore Biss, Da cappo” or “D o ®
again.” How many more things "‘j*
said or done, it is not my business t-W
to vouch for. Therefore I only
to the piint for not being truly hi* lo ■
cal, and especially for not having c^io tS
one of the most remarkable of Fra r - I
Jin’s court feats. Some of the wags
Paris had not tho most implicit faith||
Franklin’s simplicity, and said that B
know- more than he pretended to. [J
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