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PUBLISHED BY
BENJAMIN G. LIDPON.
T. A. BURKE, EDITOR.
MADISON, GA.:
SATURDAY, OCT. 18, 1856.
The Latest News.
"We give, in another column, the nows
from Europe by the Niagara. The Persia
arrived in Now York on the 14th inst.,
■with Liverpool dates to the 4th. The cot
ton market is reported active, prices firm
and in favor of sellers. Sales of the week,
60,000 bales, at prices ranging from 6 7-Bd.
to 7 l-4d. The imports since departure of
last steamer, 36,000 bales, and stock on
hand 624,000 bales. Flour has advanced
one shilling, and corn 6d. per quarter.
Consols are quoted at 92 3-4.
There is bnt little political news.
The allied expedition against Naples has
been temporarily postponed, at the request
of Austria.
It is still uncertain whether the Ameri
cans or Democrats have carried Florida.
Both parties claim it.
The News from Pennsylvania is con
flicting. The Constitutionalist of Thurs
day morning contains a large amount of
telegraphic intelligence. The last dispatch
states that all bnt seventeen counties wore
heard from, and that the Union ticket had
probably carrted the State by ten thousand
majority. The Democrats are said to
have elected fifteen Congressmen, aud a
majority of the Legislature.
Scattering returns from Indiana and
Ohio shew that the Black Republicans
have probably swept both those States —
the latter, it is said, by forty thousand ma
jority. The Democrats still claim Indiana.
The Democratic, ticket for Mayor and
Aldermen of Savannah was successful on
Monday last, by a majority of about one
hundred.
Friday morning's Constitutionalist con
tains some additional election news. The
Dotuocrats have carried Florida by a small
majority. Indiana has gone for the Dem
ocrats by ten thousand majority. The
Union ticket has most probably been elect
ed in Pennsylvania, though the Demo
crats claim it by 1000 majority. Ohio lias
gone for the Blaok Republicans by 25,000
majority.
The Weather.
After ten days of most delightful weath
er, wo have to chronicle an unpleasant
change, which occurred on Tuesday night.
At the time we go to press it is cold,
and disagreeable, witli strong probabili
ties of rain.
Georgia Female College.
The Annual Commencement of this in
stitution will begin on Tuesday the 28th
inst. Annual Concert on Wednesday
night. Thursday, the 30th, is Commence
ment day.
A Word to Correspondents.
A much esteemed lady friend has taken
ns to task for publishing so much of late
against the ladies! We might havo ex
pected it. What do yon think of that, Mr.
Jounie Jonquil ? You’ve not only “ gone
and done it,” as far as you arc concerned,
but have got us into a precious pickle.
Now, seriously, we have never endorsed
Johnie’s opinions, editorially, and it’s
hardly fair to call us to account in the
matter. Our lady friends are most heart
ily welcome to our columns, at any tinio.
By the bye, Johhik promulges, this week,
another most outrageous heresy, to which
we call the attention of our fair readers.
He charges that ladies hate no repanl for
time! Where are the two Phrhes and
Susie Snowdrop? Up! ladies, and after
him!
Wo have received a poem from Athons,
which we respectfully decline. Our ad
vice to “Union" is: procure a sheet of
gilt-edged paper, copy the poem carefully,
and send it to the young lady. The pub
lic generally are never interested in such
things, unless the poetry is extraordinarily
good. We say this in no unkind spirit.
Lackadaisical Poetry.
Nothing in literature, says an exchange,
is more offensive than the melancholy,
lackadaisical outpourings of grief and an
guish with which our periodicals are filled.
Almost every magazine and publication of
every stamp has a corner occupied by some
swain or damsel, who pours from an over
flowing fount a nauseating current of grief.
There is no sense in it. There is no truth
in it. It is fictitious and sickly, and ought
to be despised.
Real grief, true sorrow, always disci
plines and chastens the heart, and a real
sufferer, if lie embodies his emotions in
verse, will sound cheerful notes. The
“joy of grief”—the pleasant melancholy
which always characterises the sorrow of
the poet—is not theirs. They see clouds I
and when there aro none they shut their
eyes and fancy them.
M e always feel, when we meet a poem
by “ Leonora Lonebeart," or any of that
family, sueli as“. The deserted," and com
mencing,
“ Life has no light for me.
ily soul is dark aud sad,”
like asking her, “What’s the matter?” and
the immediate response is, You eat hot
biscuit or drink strong coffee, or havo a
dyspepsia of the stomach, or yon would
never be so afflicted with a dyspeptic brain.
Get op early in the morning. Get to bed
early at night. Eat coarse bread—bathe
daily, and become healthy. Or if your
bodiiv organs are in a sound condition, do
in fiiiif fiiifti.
not consume any moro intellectual condi
ments. Read healthy books—think health
ily—and yon will never perpetrate such
mournfnJ, melancholy stuff. You’ve got
a dyspepsia of the stomach or brain, de
pend on it. Take Bliss’ Dyspeptic Remc
dy, or get rid of it in some other way, and
then you will write genially, healthily,
and be read and admired—if you can be.
German Legends.
In Burkliardt’s “Fairy Stories of all Na
tions,” we have a remarkable proof of the
inherent difference that exists between the
various races, which is as manifest in the
mind as in the body. This distinctive
character, remarks a cotemporary, is most
apparent in their imaginative literature,
and in none more so than the German.
There is a picturesque gloom in their fic
tion that throws on air of diablerie over
tlie popular mind, and gives a supernatural
dreaminess to the whole course of life,
which throws an air of romance over even
the existence of a peasant. ’Tis thus that
death fetches vampyres, and every other
description of spectral beings, are the cur
rent inhabitants of the forests and mount
ains of the great land of speculative philo
sophy. The ITartz Mountains in particu
lar are the headquarters of these haunters
of hill and dale, glen and grove. Some of
their legends partake of a certain incohe
rence, which is a peculiarity of the eastern
fal>le. The following legend of The Double
Death is an illustration of this fact:
“A certain queen lay dead on her bed
of stuto in a room hung with black. At
night the room was lighted with wax-ta
pers, and a captain with forty-nine men
was stationed on guard in an antechamber.
Toward midnight the captain hearing a
coacli and-six draw up to the castle, went
down to meet it, when lie was met by a
lady of noble appearance, clad in mourn
ing, who asked his permission to remain a
short time by the dead body. lie object
ed, that it was not in his power to grant
her request; but she called herself by afa
miliar name, ond argued that, ns the late
queen'a goutemante, she luid a right to see
her before she was buried, lie wavered
for some time; but she became so urgent,
that lie could excuse himself no longer.
He therefore led her into the room, and
having closed the door upon her, walked
up and down outside. After a whilo ho
stopped, listened, and peeped through the
key-hole, when, lo! lie beheld the dead
queen sitting upright and whispering to
the lady, with her eyes closed, and without
any sign of life beyond a slight movement
of the lips. lie ordered the soldiers to
peop, one after the other, and all of them
saw the same thing. When ho himself re
turned to the key-hole, the dead queen
was slowly resuming her. former position
on tho state-lied. Soon afterward the lady
came out of the room, anil was conducted
down stairs by the captain, who felt,
whilo lie led her to tho carriage, that her
haud was as cold as ice. The coach went
off ns last ns it had come, and the captain
perceived that the horses breathed fire in
the distance. On the following morning
news arrived that the gouvernante , who
lived at a country house several miles off,
had died nt the very hour at which she
had eat by the dead body.”
The following legend of The Mysterious
Organ is of a very different character.
Burkhardt says it is firmly believed on the
Rhine, to this day:
“ About an hour’s journey from Alberss
weiler, and in a beautiful valley, lies the
village of Ettssertlial, which takes its natno
from a convent that was once celebrated,
but has now completely disappeared. The
choir of the convent church is, however,
still left, ami is used as a place of worship.
All sorts of tliiugs arc said in the village
about the enormous wealth of tho convent,
especially about a certain golden organ
that once stood in tho church and was
played during divine service. When the
convent, on one occasion, was attacked by
enemies, the first caro of the monks was
to secure this treasure. They dragged it
lo a marsh which was formerly in the val
ley, aud sank it as deep as they could.
However, they had saved their treasure to
no purpose, inasmuch as they were com
pelled to fly, aud died in distant parts,
while tho convent fell to ruin. Every one
is perfectly aware that the orgnn is still
somewhere in tho neighborhood of tho
church, hut the precise spot whore it lies
is utterly unknown. Nevertheless, every
seven years it rises out of tho depths at
midnight, and its sublime tones are heard
in tho distance. Nothing is at all compar
able to tlie gontle breathings of the golden
pipes in the open air during the solemn
stillness ot tlie night. Soon the soft toucs
swell into mighty billows of sound, which
rush through tlie narrow valley until the
noise again subsides, and ends with a light
echo in the forest. But no one has ven
tured to obtain a sight of tho organist who
holds the music in his power, and thus the
discovery ot the treasure is reserved lor
tlie future.”
For the Visitor.
“ Do Women Reason ?»»
Ibis promises to be almost as endless a
discussion as that of tlie celebrated salt
petre question, which excited the specula
tive world several years a go . Tho truth
is, Mr. Editor, I suspect that your readers
are about half way tired of it, by tiffs time
and yet I am forced to draw upon your
and their patience onco more, lest I be
looked upon as a “ used-up man,” by tlie
fair sex and the “balance of mankind.”
My friend, Oconee —Heaven bless him!
—has savod mo the necessity of replying
particularly to Phebe Lam well, the only
one of my fair correspondents who has re
turned to the charge, and I see no need of
doing more than reiterating what I have
already said. My fair opponents have
written well, but—and I say it respectful
ly—they have not disproved any one of
my positions.
There is another point in which female
inferiority is very strong, and upon that
I wish to touch. I allude to the matter of
time. Women have no right sense of time,
and are never punctual except by chance.
If tlie world wero governed entirely by
women, there would be no such things on
our railroads as time tables. Schedules
would be voted a bore ; trains would start
at any nud all hours, mid collisions would
be so numerous and fatal, that an extra
supply of mothers would bo needed, to
prevent the depopulation of the country.
Clocks ond watches would become mere
appearances, for no woman can keep either
in order. To prove all tiffs to be some
thing more than fancy, I only ask you,
sir, to call to mind any occasion on which
your wife—l beg your pardon ; you are, I
believe, an unfortunate bachelor, like my
self—but I beg any married reader to call
to mind, if he can, any single occasion
when his wife was punctual to an appoint
ment, or spared him tlie vexation of wait
ing for her when about to walk or drive
to a dinner party. I would ask for an au
thentic instance of a woman who was in
tiie habit of winding up her watch regular
ly at night, as men are. The truth is, a
woman does not care for a watch, for the
sake of its legitimate functions of a time
keepor. In that respect, perhaps, she feels
it to be rather an impertinence. She de
sires a handsome gold one, to wear as an
ornament; but as for its works or hands,
why, it may want these things altogether,
for anything she cares, and only have a
mock dial-piece, eternally indicating twen
ty minutes past nine. Tlie imago of a
watch is sufficient for her. Now all
this is very charming. She is really strong
here. Wo feel that there is a kind of in
nocence in this unconsciousness of time.
It looks like an unconsciousness of exist
ence, with all its sins and shortcomings.
And let mo repeat, here, Mr. Editor,
that it is this non-reasoning, non-time
keeping character of woman, that gives
her such a charm. Reason is a hard,
stern, disagreeable, real thing, very useful
for men, no doubt; hut it never adds to
thograco of any character. Now, see how
woman, being happily devoid of this attri
bute, charms us with its opposite! T'ch
her of something she does not like to ad
mit, and the dear creature does not think
of reasoning about it. She contradicts
and is content. Point out anything wrong
in a household, and sho silently answers
by letting you feel the opposite thing in
its extremest forms of inconvenience. Try
to reform her limits, and she disarms you
with her tears. Speak to Mary Ann of tho
empty-headedness of that long-legged so
phomore whom alio adores, and her heart
pleads against the decree by a reference to
bis nice blue eyes. Warn Sarah Jane of
tho manifest bad temper of her fiance,
Augustus, anil sho replies to all, that sho
would dio without him. Til a woman’s
inductions, one instance is quite enough.
Her thought is as good as a fact, and an
inference from a supposition tells with her
irresistibly, provided only, tho feelings are
pleased.
And yet, Heaven bless her, what ft dull
world this would he without her? Who
would havo her different from wiint she
is? Not 1. She is not perfection, but
lacks just enough of it to make her all tho
moro charming.
“Ah [ woman—iu this world of ours,
What gift can be compared to thee ?
How slow would drag life’s weary hours,
Though man’s proud brow were wreathed with
flowers,
And his the wealth of land and son,
If destined to exist alone.
And ne’er call woman’s heart his own."
Jounie Jonquil.
Madison, Geo.
for the Visitor.
Is the Schoolmaster abroad t
Mr. Editor:- I picked up, the other day
in your office, a copy of an oducational
journal, published in one of our Georgia
towns. Its nyat typographical appearance
first attracted my attention, hut I soon lost
sight of all else, in my admiration of a
scries of “ School Exercises, for Teachers
and. Pupils!" which it contained, and
which I herewith send yon. There are
four kinds of questions propounded, and
answers requested— Arithmetical, Gram
matical, Geographical, and Philosophical,
and I venture tlie assertion that any mem
ber of tho Freshman class in either one of
the Colleges in tiffs place can answer tho
entiro lot, without a moment’s hesitation.
I propose, now, to propound a series of
questions of a scientific! character, in the
hope that tlie author of those under con
sideration will give them his special atten
tion :
Arithmetical Questions.
1. How many yards of carpeting, one
yard wide, will it take to carpet a room,
ten feet high, in tho basement of a two
story house?
2. A gentleman received a note for $lO
for a cow mid calf—the party owing him
the money ran away without paying.
How much did he gain by the operation,
and wliat was tlie rate per cent.?
3. If a frog jump six inches at a time,
how long will it take him to get around
the world—if he keeps at it industriously ?
4. If cotton is worth 12 cents a pound,
what will a load of shucks come to ?
5. If two and two make four, what are
sweet potatoes worth at fifty cents a bush
el?
Grammatical Questions.
1. Parse what iu this sentence: “What’s
what ?”
2. Is there any difference between a sac
simile and a sick family *
3. M list is the difference between ticec
- died am and ttcecdhdct t
4. Correct this: “ Forsyth is some
town.”
5. Correct these expressions: “ Some
editors 7 is green;” “Oh whar ,did yon
come from?” “Does your mother know
you’re out ?”
Geographical Questions.
1. How far is Forsyth from the centre
of the earth ?
2. Where is Buckhead ?
3. When it is 12 o’clock in Washington
City, what time is dinner ready at Colum
bus, Geo. ?
4. Which is the most populous city, At
lanta or Rutledge?
5. What is the height of the tower on
Stone Mountain ?
Philosophical Questions.
1. Last winter, on an exceedingly cold
morning, I saw a man coming up the
street, with a very red nose—what was
tlie cause of it ?
2. Why is the path of an inebriated in
dividual zig-zag ?
3. On a perfectly calm day, a married
man says something to offend his wife, and
immediately a storm ensues. Why is
tiffs?
4. Why does it rain in wet weather?
6. What is the reason Irost bites potato
vines?
I beg to call tlie attention of the scien
tific societies of Georgia to these questions,
'lhe person sending the greatest number
of correct answers shall receive a copy of
the last year’s comic almanac.
PIIILOMATUEAIS.
Madison, Geo.
BTT ho questions alluded to by our
correspondent will be found below.— E».
Visitor.
Arithmetical Questions.
1. How many yards of carpeting, 8-4
yard wide, will carpet a floor that is 24
feet 8 inches long and 18 feet 4 inches
wide?
2. A gentleman received SB.IO simple
interest for 2 years, on a note of S3O;
what was tlie rate per cent, per annum?
3. A merchant buys cloth at $5 a yard,
aud wishes to sell it so ns to gain 30 per
cent.; at what price must he sell tlie
cloth?
4. 7 1-2 is what per ceut. of $45?
5. If 2000 rails will fence one acre, how
many acres must a field contain, so that
each rail will fence one acre ?
Grammatical Questions.
1. Parse what in this sentence: “ What
you told me, I can never forget.”
2. Compare tlie adjectives old and late.
3. \V hat is the difference between a per
sonal and a relative pronoun ?
4. Correct this: “A good uame is moro
preferablo than riches.”
6. Correct those expressions: “I don’t
keer,” “Gim mo my book;” “To-day
John has went to town;” “Take a cheer
and set down.”
Geographical Questions.
1. M lmt aro tlie Capitals of the several
Southern States?
2. What the metropolis cities of Geor
gia, Alabama, Mississippi, S. Carolina, and
N. Carolina?
3. When it is 12 o’clock at Washington
City, what time is it in Columbus, Ga i
4. Which is tlie most populous city in
the world ?
5. Which is higher, the source or month
of the Mississippi river?
Philosophical Questions.
1. Last winter, on a very cold morning,
I noticed that the inside of the window
panes of glass in my room where I had
fire, tho air seeming dry inside anil outside
of my room, were covered with ice; why ?
2. Why is the path of lightning zig-zag?
3. On a perfectly calm day the farmer
goes out to burn off’ his “ new ground,”
and soon whirlwinds arc seen among tlie
brush-heaps. Why is this?
4. What is echo ?
5. When cold enough, why is there no
frost (luring cloudy nights?
Answers requested.
Pen-and-Scissorlngs.
Tho Post Office Department has decided
that letters to the State Department at
Milledgeville need not be prepaid There
is a man out west so forgetful of faces, that
his wife is compelled to keep a wafer stuck
on the end of her nose, that he may distin
guish her from other ladies; but tiffs does
not prevent him from making occasional
mistakes.... A friend writes to the Savan
nah News that tlie crop of Sea Island cot
ton, this year, in Liberty county, will not
amount to more than half a crop Tlie
man who was “tilled with emotion,” was
unable to mako room for a dinner.... Hon.
R. McMillan was thrown from his buggy
on the 2d inst., on his way to Elberton,
and met with such severe injuries that he
is now confined to his bed A maiden
lmly, while in company ono evening, al
luding to her youthful precoeiousness,
among other things said that at six months
old sho went alone. A wag present re
marked, “ Yes, madam, and yon have been
alone ever since.” Counterfeit fifty
dollar notes on tho Bank of Tennessee are
in circulation... .The man who took pas
sage on tho wings of the morning returned
on the shades of night, lie is doing well.
....The Governor of Maryland has set
aside tlie 20th of November next for a day
of thanksgiving... .The following question
is being considered in an out West debat
ing society: “ Which lias mined the most
men, giving credit or getting trusted ?” At
tho last accounts tho disputants were about
“nip aud tuck.”. ...Among tho list of
young gentlemen admitted into the Naval
Academy at Aunapolis, Md., and with the
rank of acting midshipman, we notice tho
name of John J. Hunt, of Georgia The
remains of the bachelor who “ burst into
tears” on reading the description of mar
ried life, have been found Tbo Mobile
Register recommends that in the event of
Fremont’s election, the Southern members
of Congress, instead of going to Washing
ton, should repair to their respective State
Capitals and take counsel with their State
Executives and Legislatures as to what is
to be done Don’t get in a fluster and
go on a buster, nor allow yourself to terri
fied be; but keep a cool head, and never
be led, to join in a hurrah and spree....
The Baltimore papers announce the death
of Hon. John Johnson, (brother of the Hon.
Reverdy Johnson) who died in that city
on the 4th inst... .People become ill by
drinking healths. He who drinks the
health of others, drinks away his 0wn....
Tlie corner stone of anew University
Building was laid at Anderson, S. C., on
the 2oth ult., with Masonic ceremonies.
A boy, on being told to decline the
word “boil,” said, “Positive boil, com
parative boiler, superlative bust.”... .The
decrease in the receipts of new cotton at
ail the southern ports, during September,
compared with last year, at same date, is
about sixty-five thousand hales.... A poli
tician who has no resource of his own, al
ways connects himself to some great tem
porary excitement, just as a hungry shark
rushes along in the wake of a ship, to pick
up the damaged provisions, amputated
limbs, nnd even old shoes that may he
thrown overboard... .Judgo A. G. Ma
grath, in answer to a recent re-nomination
by his friends, most positively refuses to
be a candidate for Congress from the
Charleston district of South Carolina, and
says lie “will not serve if elected.”....
“ Oh, I pant for glory, I pant for renown,”
said a ragged son of genius to his friend,
j “ Well, if you’ve a pair of pants you’d bet
| ter put them on,” was tlie cool reply....
I Mr. John Phillips, of Greenbrier county,
| Va., committed suicide on theW2lst ult.,
by taking a quantity of arsenic....A
Southern editor thinks his children are
choriibim and seraphim, for he says “ they
continually do cry.”... .The Abolitionists
at the North have published the life of
Anthony Burns... .The largest angel we
ever read of was seen by Mahomet iu tlie
third lie .veil, which the Koran says had
two eyes seventy thousand days’ journey
apart....A company of 150 Virginians
arrived at Westport, Mo., on the 12th ult.,
on route for Kansas.... A contemporary
describing a dance at a village in the neigh
borhood, said, “The gorgeous strings of
glass beads glistened on tlie heaving bo
soms of tlie village belles, like polished ru
bies on tlie delicate surface of warm apple
dumplings."... .Tho large cotton factory
at Alisonia, Teun., was destroyed by fire
a few days since. ... It is said that bleed
ing a partially blind liorso at the nose will
restore him to sight; so much for tlie
horse. To open a man’s eyes you mnst
bleed him in the pocket... .Mrs. James
Gadsden, wife of lion. James Gadsden, for
mer Minister to Mexico, died in Charleston
on Wednesday morning last....We have
heai'il of an economical man who always
takes liis meals in front of a mirror; he
does tiffs to double the dishes. If that
isn’t philosophy, we would like to know
what is... .The Hon. John J. Seibels, Uni
ted States Minister at Brussels, and Jerotno
Bonaparte, are passengers in tlie Arago.
.... Tlie best “ life preserver” in tlie world
is a young wife. Young men please copy.
... .N. P. Willis has written a letter in
favor of Fremont....A wag says it is
I “folly to expect a girl to love a man
whom everybody speaks well of. ' Get up
a persecution, and her affections will cling
so last that a dozen guardians can’t begin
to remove them.”. ...The daily supply'of
Groton water for the city of New York is
50,000,000 gallons. There is no getting
at how many gallons ot alcohol are mixed
with this large body of aqueous fluid....
A man out West, who had married a vul
gar but amiable girl, used to call her
“Brown Sugar,” because, lie said, she was
very sweet but unrefined The number
of votes to be cast in the next Presidential
election will probably reach 3,500,000
There are two languages that are univer
sal—the language of love and the language
of money; the girls understand the one
and the men the other, all the wide world
over ... 1 0.0. F. —There are one thou
sand three hundred and five members of
lodges in Georgia... .“Come, Bill, it’s ten
o’clock, and I think we had better bo go
ing, for it’s time honest men were at
home.” “ Well, yes,” was the answer;
“I must be off’, but you needn’t hurry on
that account.” The St. Louis Republi
can says the Free State party of Kansas
run no ticket for Congress or the Terri
torial Legislature... .A gentleman should
possess a man’s courage and a woman’s
tenderness—says a lady Hon. William
Poreher Miles, Mayor of Charleston, has
been brought forward by bis friends as a
candidate for Congress, from that district.
.... Jeff, wrestled with a romp the other
day. In the midst of the fun, he says, she
rounded her lips like a wedding ring and
gave him a kiss so - perfumed with orange
blossoms that it made him feel connubial
for a week. Jeff, should drive himself
with a curb Mr. John N. Genin an
nounces that it is not his intention to run
as an independent candidate for mayor of
New York.... The woodman who “ spared
that tree” has run short of wood, and is
almost splitting with vexation to think
how green he was. He now “axes” a do
nation from the gentleman at whoso re
quest his destruetlveness was stayed
The Oxygenated Bitters is the best remedy
for Dyspepsia ever discovered; for proof
of this, read the certificates from members
of Congress and other well known citizens.
... .A Yankee, being asked by a Russian
the boundary of his country, said, that it
was bounded on the north by the aurora
borealis, and on the south by the day of
judgment The real estate in Richmond,
Va., has just been assessed at $17,681,699,
an increase of $3,946,392 over the assess
ment made a few years ago Marriage
is designated the bridal state, and indeed
it puts a curb upon most people A
pleasant traveling companion, and one
that no traveler should be without, is
Perry Davis’ Pain Killer. A sudden at
tack of Diarrhoea, dysentery or cholera
morbus can be effectual’y and instantane
ously relieved by it.... A valuable bed of
coal has been discovered on the banks of
the Brazos river, in Milan county, Texas,
by Mr. W. Tyson... .A writer in an Irish
journal, in mentioning the wreck of a ves
sel, rejoices that “ all the rrew were saved,
except four hogsheads ot tobacco.”.... The
citizens of Washington, D. C., in public
meeting, irrespective of party, have "re
solved on arrangements to receive the
President on bis return... .The board of
health of Charleston report three deaths
in that city, from yellow fever, for twen
ty-fonr hours ending at 9 o’clock on Mon
day night last. .. .Girls should never ob
ject to being kissed by editors. They
should make every allowance for the free
dom of the press. Keep this in mind
A few days ago, a little girl, seven years
old, daughter of Mr. Ernstein, of Colum
bia, S. C., was strangled to deatli by the
rope - of a swing, which by some means be
came entangled around her neck.
Three Days Later from Europe.
Halifax, Oct. 9lh.—The steamship
Niagara has arrived with three days
later news, having left Liverpool on the
27th ult.
The cotton market was active and had
advanced 1-10 to .Sales of the week
73,000, of which speculators took 20,000
and Exporters 5,000.
Quotations: Fair Orleans
Middling lfo 6§d ; Fair Mobile 6fd ;
Middling Do 6 5-10d; Fair Uplands
Ofd ; Middling Do 6 5-10d.
The stock on hand is 042,000 bales.
The Flour market was dull and had
declined 6d. to Is.
Indian Corn had declined 6d.
Consols had declined £ —quoted at
93$
The advance in cotton is chiefly on
the lower grades.
The stiles of Friday, the dav tho steam
er sailed, amounted to 12,000 bales, of
which speculators and exporters took
4,000.
George Holt & Co’s circular quotes
Middling Orleans at 6 7-16d; Middling
Mobile 6§. Middling Uplands o§%
The Flour market was slightly easier.
Wheat has declined Id. a 2d.
Private letters dated on Friday, are
unfavorable to the Grain and flour market.
Money was more in demand and rates
advancing.
Bullion in the Bank of England had
decreased £9,000.
American stocks were drooping.
Tbe Havre cotton market was active
and advanced If. Sales of the week
13,000 bales.
Italian affairs are the all engrossing
topic m Europe at this time.
An Anglo-French fleet is being or
ganized destined for Naples.. Eight
English ships are preparing at Spitbead.
King Ferdinand of Naples is actively
engaged in fortifying his coast.
Lord Harding, Commander-iu-Chief
of the British army, is dead.
Tho Banks of Prussia and France,
have raised the rate of interest to 6 per
cent.
The council Ministers at Madrid have
stopped the sale of church property. —
The Ministerial .crisis has ceased.
Later from California.
New York, Oct. 13.—The steamship
George Law, CApt. Herndon, from Aspin
wall has arrived, bringing $3,000,000
from California.
In California the Democrats have
nominated Charles Scott and Joseph
McKibben for Congress.
Dnrkee and Rand, tried for piracy
have been acquitted.
Trade in California is dull.
The town of Colusi has been destroyed
by fire.
“ During the last war, South Caroli
na could not defend herself, and it was
a Northern blacksmith, Greene, who
went and fought the enemy for her.”
So says Mr. Single Speech Burlin
game. Does he tell his hearers that
during the same war the New England
States were defended by George Wash
ington and that Gen. Greene, the only
great leader produced by the North
during the revolution, became a South
erner by choice and adoption, Un
fortunate Burlingame!! Great in every
element and attribute of slander, false
hood and malignant sophistry, except
the redeeming feature of variety. Some
fabricators have displayed such resour
ces of invention and memory as never
to teli the same lie twice. Burlingame
is so stinted in mendacious constructive
ness that he has never achieved but one
stale monotonous and unvarying lie.-
Charleston Couritr.
Tired of Politics.
Every day we hear the remark, “ I
wish election was over, I’m tired of poli
tics.” Nor are we astonished at it. For
months nothing has been talked of but
politics. It has been politics at break
fast, politics at dinner, politics at supper,
politics in tho parlor, politics every
where. The thing has been carried to
an absurdity. It has affected business,
soured old friendships, and even sown
dissentions in families. Well may it be
said, “ I am tired of politics.” People
seealso thatmuchof what they read about
politics in newspapers, and hear from
stump speakers, is either false in fact or
sophistical in argument, and frequently
both. Demagogues declaim, by tho
hour, against this thing and that; law
yers prose away all night about the or
dinances of’B7, on the right of seces
sion; profligate politicians blacken each
other’s characters with the fury of fish
women ; and ambitious seekers promise
every thing and anything. The public
mind, surfeited with such nauseous doses,
begin to revolt. The cry is, “ we are tired
of polities.” We must candidly sav,
that so far the present contest has been
productive of more barm than good.
The canvass, conducted as it has been,
has done that to exasperate South and
North mutually against each other,
which years will be required to allay.
Whatever may be the issue of the con
test, a bitter, suspicious feeling will re
main in the bosoms of thedefeated, which
will long rankle and irritate. Confi
dence has been shaken, and, as Burko
says, “ confidence is a plant of slow
growth.” When so vast a fabric as this
Union has been set rocking by sectional
criminations and recriminations, by
threats of North against South and South
against North, it will be a long while
before it subsides into quiet. In this
respect, the wisest and best are “ tired
of politics."— Philadelphia Ledger.
Horrible State of Affairs in
• Africa.
The Rev. Mr. Beachman, a member
of the “London Wesleyan Mission," has
recently returned from a visit to Africa,
and in a sketch of tho negroes inhabit
ing the Geld coast and its vicinity,
which we find in the Honolulu Religious
Journal, ho furnishes a picture exceed
ing in horrors anything we had yet be
lieved of beings wearing the human form.
Who can read without a shudder of such
bloody deeds and Pandeinomium cus
toms as those which he records:
“Scarce any one of their bloody cus
toms has been abandoned since they first
became known to Europeans. They
will even pave their court-yards, palaces
and even the streets or market places
of their villages or towns with tho skulls
of those butchord in the wars, at feasts,
funerals, or as sacrifices to Bossum.
When Adahansen died, two hundred
and eighty of his wives were butchered
before the arrival of his successor, which
put a stop to it, only to increase the flow
of blood and the number of deaths in
other ways. The remaining living
wives were buried alive, amid dancing
singing, and bewailing, the noise of
muskets, horns, drums, yells, groans and
screeches. The victims were marched
along with large knives passed through
their cheeks. The executioners strug.
gled for the bloody office, while the vic
tims looked on aud endured with apa
thy.
“Upon the death of the king’s broth
er, four thousand lives were thus sacri
ficed. Upon the death of a king of
Ashantee, a general massacre takes
place, and there can be no computation
of the number of victims. At their Yam
customs Mr. Bowditch, (another English
man) witnessed a horrible sight. Every
cabocer, or noble, sacrificed a slave as he
entered the gate. Heads and skulls
formed the ornaments in their possession
The blood of tbe victims is collected
and quaffed as a delicious beverage. —
The king of Dahomey paves the ap
proaches to his palace and tbe battle
ments ofhis castles with the skulls of
his victims, and the great Fetchie Tree
at Bodagra, has its wide-spread branches
laden with human carcasses and limbs.
■ m »■
Hon. Pierre Soule.—We are in
formed, by authority which we deem
entirely leliable, says the N. O. Bulletin,
that the Hon. Pierre Soule, of this State,
is about permaneully to remove fro®
the United States, and lake up his resi
dence in Nicaragua. Our information
is confirmed by the following paragraphs,
in El Nicaraguense:
We are happy to state that the Ho®
Pierre Soule has purchased the R
of Chomorro,*belonging to the Republic
and known as the Mercedes Haoienda
The purchase money involves the nfc®
little sum of fifty thousand dollars.
We learn that the Hon. Pierre Soul®
returns to the United States by the n9,t
steamer. We would regret this muoh
were it not that we infer from his p ur "
chase of the Mercedes Hacienda, that
he will shortly make Nicaragua bis plao®
of permanent residence.