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Jfamilgiisttor
PUBLISHED BY
BENJAMIN G. LIDDON.
T. A. BURKE, EDITOR.
MADISON, GA.:
SATURDAY, NOV. 1, 1856.
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commodating terms. The office is one
of the best country papers in the State.
Or he would sell to a person capable of
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with an equal interest in the Bookstore
owned by the subscriber.
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Madison, Ga.
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self.
Our Weekly (Gossip,
With Readers and Correspondents.
“Dreams,” saith Will. Shakspeure, the
bailiff’s son, “are the children of an idle
brain, begot of nothing but vain phantasy,
which is ns thin of substance ns the air,
and more inconstant than the wind.”
Even so; and yet people will dream. And
why shouldn't they? Tis very pleasant
to “think yourself a king,” though you
wake, unlike Byron, to find it “all a
dream? 1 We dare say, the fair render of
the Visitor, who is honoring this para
graph with a notice now, dreams regularly
of Charles, or Henry, or Augustus, or some
other lucky dog. Hero is the beginning
of a
New Dream Book,
which we warrant to ho “signed I. Butts
on tho wrapper.” All others ure counter
feits.
To dream, and to remember your dream,
is n sure sign that you were not awake,
nor very sound asleep, when you dreamed.
To tell all your dreams, prognosticates
that you might be better employed.
For a young man to dream of tho lassos,
foretells that ho thought about them con
siderably before he wont to sleep.
For Mary Ann to dream very particu
larly of Charles William Henry, is a sure
sign flint she looks at him in church on
Sunday.
To dream of a person's nose, indicates
that you have a nose of your own, unless
you have lost it.
To dream of trouble, is a harbinger of
your having trouble while you are dream
ing.
To dream of happiness, shows that you
will, in all probability, be disappointed
when you wake.
To dream that you are rending the Fam
ily Visitor w th a great deal of pleasure,
is a sure sign that you are a subscriber,
and pay your subscription regularly, in
advance. When you get up tho next morn
ing, examine your last receipt.
Since the publication of tho “Harp of a
thousand strings,” reports of sermons have
become quite common in tho newspapers
and magazines. The following, which is
taken from an old paper published forty
years ago, comes as near being
A Model Sermon
ss any we have seen. It will suit any
preacher, mid is adapted to any audience,
at any time, and in any placo.
Text—“ Man is born to trouble, as the
sparks fiy upward" —Job.
My brethren, I shall divide my discourse
into, and consider it under, three heads:
Ist, Man’s ingress into the world;
2d, His progress through tho world;
3d, and lastly, His egress out of the
world.
Ist. Man’s egress into the world is naked
and bare;
2d. His progress through tho world is
trouble and care;
3d. llis egress out of the world is—no
body knows where.
To couclude—if wo do well here, we
shall do well there;
I can tell you no more if I preach a
whole year.
The following “ Notis,” writes n corres
pondent, might have been seen posted in
a certain lorality in Georgia, not long
since. It certainly deserves a place among
D'lsraeli’s
Curiosities of Literature.
Will be sold at public sail on the thirty
first of This inst. at the subscribers resi
dens in thisCouuty the following Property
to witt Cattle hogs 2 feather bods llewro
1 barrel sider Vinegar three Hives Beeas
Corn potatoes in the Ground Pots Kettles
chears tables and a number of other tilings
two tedious to mention. Sail to begin at
A Leven o’clock Terms maid none on the
Day of sail at the Dwellin of
Job Johnson*.
Singular Death,
Our friend Jones lately returned from a
voyage to Europe, and among other things
enquired for a young lady of his acquaint
enoe.
»* Site Is dead,” replied the person ad
dressed, with the utmost gravity.
“Dead!” exclaimed Jones; “is it possi
ble} What was the matter, pray?”
"She died of vanity,” was the answer.
<> ghe bfiriad her*elf In the arms of an old
fellow of seventy, who wav immensely
rich, that she might have the luxury of a
gilded tomb.”
Jones has learned that this disease is be
coming quite common, and always proves
fatal. Will not some phiianthiopist look
into tho matter?
111 liiiiil Him VIS3IP4&*
There is an old Catholic legend, intend
ed to teach
The Dangars of Drunkenness,
which runs somewhat as follows:
A certain hermit, not having the fear of
the Lord before his eyes, made a contract
with the devil, according to the provisions
of which he was to take his choice of
three crimes. Two of them were of a
most atrocious character; the third was
drunkenness. He chose the last, as the
least of the three; hut, while drunk, he
committed botli of the others. Dr. Dar
win, in his “ Zooiiotnia,” to describe the
baneful effects of this vice upon the con
stitution, uses the following beautiful alle
gory: Prometheus was painted as stealing
fire from heaven : that might well repre
sent the inflammable spirit produced by
fermentation, which may be said to enli
ven and animate the man of clay. Whence
the conquests of Bacchus, as well as the
temporary mirth and noise of his devotees;
but tlie after punishment of those who
steal this accursed fire is a vulture gnaw
ing the liter, and well allegorises the poor
inebriate, lingering, for years, under pain
ful diseases.”
“O thou inrisilile spirit of evil,
If thou has no name to be known by, let
Us call thee devil.’'
(teorgin Female College Commence*
ment.
A more propitious time could not have
been chosen for tire Commencement exer
cises of the Georgia Female College, which
occurred during the present week. The
weather was delightfully pleasant—far
more so than was anticipated, judging
from the clouds which lowered over us on
Monday, threatening more rain than was
actually necessary to lay the dnst.
We were unable to attend the examina
tion on Tuesday, and Shall, therefore, for
bear expressing any opinion, until we see
the report of the Examining Board. Judg
ing from the past, however, wo ltave no
doubt that everything was highly satisfac
tory.
T|ie Junior Exhibition occurred oil Wed
nesday, in the following order:
Miss Mary J. Dillard, Burke county—
“ Life in but a dream,
Beautiful and brief. 11
Miss Anna Shields,Madison — Little Things;
Miss Ruth M. Whipple, Wilkinson county
— The Sunset Hour; Miss Lizzie Matthews,
Morgan county — The Finger Ring; Miss
M. Augusta Drake, Oglethorpe county—
The Well-Spring of the Heart; Miss Ida
F. Walker, Madison— The Men of Ameri
ca; Miss Carrie M. Sheafs, Clark county—
The Face an Index of the Minel; Miss Fan
nie Leo Moore, Rome—“ 1 number none
but sunny Hours;" Miss Low. Villa Ren
der, Meriwether county— Ugliness; Miss
Loula 11. Smith, Columbia county— What
is Home without a Mother f Miss Mollie E.
Robison, Columbus— Heavenly Visitants;
Miss Mattie M. Neel, Hancock comity—
Vie thrice-closed, Eye.
We were denied the pleasure of attend
ing this part of the week’s exercises, also;
but a friend, in whoso judgment we have
good faith, informs us that the yonng la
dies acquitted themselves handsomely, both
as to the materiel of their compositions
and the manner in which they wero read.
The Concert at night was a brilliant af
fair. The programme did credit to Profes
sor Seals’ taste, while tho performance
gave evidence of his faithfulness and abili
ty as a teacher. We have in Prof. S. a
practical demonstration of tho fact that
Georgia Female colleges can be served,
and well served, by native teachers —lie
being not only an American, but a Geor
gian. It is a fact worthy of mention that
three of tho professors of music connected
with the female colleges in Madison, up
to this time, have been native Georgians.
Thursday was Commencement day.
From various causes the graduating class
was small—numbering but four young la
dies : Misses Carrie M. Peeples, Madison;
Lou. J. Neel, Pike county; Lizzie R.
Siikats, Clark county; and Anna W. Rob
ison, Columbus. Miss Peeples’ subject—
Who would have the Fast forever buried
in Oblivion ?—was prettily treated, and
evinced a good deal of thought. The V'oice
of the Ocean, by Miss Neel, was a good
piece of imaginative writing, and gave evi
dence of considerable poetic talent, Miss
Sheafs, in Captive Chains, dealt a few
pretty hard blows at some of the popular
follies of the day. Miss Robison’s compo
sition—On every Object Change is written
wasliappily conceived and well executed.
We caunot too highly commend the admi
rable manner in which all the pieces were
road.
We wero unable to hear President
Browne’s Address to the Graduating Class,
when he delivered tho Diplomas, but have
no doubt it was characterised by his usual
good sense and correct judgment.
In the afternoon, at half past three
o'clock, the Melpomenean Society celebra
ted their first anniversary. The very neat
and tasty badge of the society made the
young ladies look, if possible, prettier than
usual, as they marched in and took their
places; and we dare say many a bachelor’s
heart thumped against his ribs at the
sight. The Address was delivered by the
Rev. A. T. Spalding, of this place. His
theme — Mythology a Witness of the Chris
tian Religion — was somewhat novel, but
the more interesting on that account. We
are unable, in consequent* of the lateness
of the hour, to speak more fully of it, than
to pronounce it worthy of the occasion
and of the orator.
We cannot close this hastily written
notice of the Commencement exercises,
without protesting, in the strongest terms,
against the rude and ill-mannered conduct
of those boys, who on Commencement
day disgraced themselves and The town in
which they reside. Such conduct would
have been outrageous in a heathen land—
what it was in a civilized commnnity, and
at a Female College Commencement, our
limited knowledge of the English language
will not permit us to express. If such
chaps have no respect for themselves, com
mon regard for the feelings of the yonng
ladies pf the school should prompt them to
a better course of conduct; and if they are
unable to behave better, tfty ought to re
main at home.
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Fire.
We learn with regret that the gin-house
of Dr. W. G. Ballard, near this place,
was consumed by fire, on Wednesday night
last, with its entire contents, consisting of
cotton, wheat, oats, Ac. Loss about two
thousand dollars.
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Southern Parlor Magazine.
We learn from the New Orleans Crescent
that Messrs. W. A. Leonard & Cos. will
shortly issue in that city a monthly peri
odical, with the above title, to be edited
by Mrs. V. E. W. McCord, who is well
known throughout the Southern and West
ern States as a talented and accomplished
writer, both of prose and verse. We agree
with the Crescent that there is a fine open
ing at the South for such an enterprise,
and that it will prove highly remunera
tive if managed with ability, prudence and
energy. We are loth to believe that South
ern people will suffer a well-directed effort
of this sort to fail for want of support.
The fair editress seems to he sanguine of
success, as will be seen from the following
extract from the prospectus:
“ Believing, as Mrs. McC. does, that the
South ought, and will, sustain a well-di
rected effort to establish a home literature
—that there is ability and enterprise
enough to develop the ample materials
within its own borders, and to call from
tho misty Past its romantic legends, and
its historical and traditional reminiscen
ces ; she now throws herself upon the gen
erous support which she feels will ever lie
afforded to one of its own daughters en
gaged in so glorious an enterprise.”
We most heartily wish it success. Mrs.
McCord i's a native of Elbert eonnty, in
this State, and resided for several years in
Augusta. She is a woman of undoubted
talent, and deserves a generous apprecia
tion,at the hands of Georgians, particular
ly. iMt those wb*> desire- So-encourage na
tive talent and develop a home literature,
send oil their names for the Southern Par
lor Magrzinc. Each number will contain
sixty-four royal octavo pages of reading
matter, one steel plate engraving, one piece
of music, mid, fashion plates, with other
embellishments. Subscription price, three
dollars per annum, payable* in. advance.
For tho Visitor.
Something about Names.
“ Whut’s in a imriic? Arose
By any other nume would smell ns sweet.”
Shakspeure.
Mr. Editor —As a lot of your male cor
respondents have taken it into their hoads
to abuse us, I shall anticipate them on one
subject, which I propose to defend. I
have already heard some grumbling, and
proposo to weaken tho blow which might
follow, by being on the defensive before
hand. I allude to the new-fashioned way
we have of spelling our names, by ending
all of them in if. Now, Mr. Editor, it is
the French way, and it sounds so inncli
sweeter than tho old English style. In
stead of saying Martha, wo now say Mat
tic; Anna, Annie; Susan, Susie; Marga
rette, Maggie. Every fasliiou, everything
pretty uml ftm-ish, conies from France;
and while tho politics of this country aro
getting Frenchie, 1 do not seo any impro
priety in we harmless females eschewing
the English names given to us by our old
fogyish and mothers, and taking
to the now way.
For my part I am astonished that peo
ple will name their children after their
kinsfolk ; for in endeavoring to preserve
the recollections of their fathers, mothers,
brothers, and the friends of t heir early and
latter days, they entirely overlook eu
phony. That we, tho females, may be
with the age, I proposo we shall call our
selves YoungiE AmericiE.
NkttlE.
For the Visitor.
“ Do Women Reason ?”
Mr. Editor— Having seen a paragraph
under the above heading in the Visitor of
Saturday, October 18th, and trusting to
your kind assurance of the same date, say
ing, “ Our lady friends are most heartily
welcome to our columns at any time," I
take the liberty of ottering a few remarks
ou the subject, "Do Women reasons"
What a very singular question for any man
to thiuk of submitting to the public for an
answer! Mr. Johnie Jonquil must have
very little reason himself, or he would
never think of doing so. However, he
comes very near the truth, in one part of
his beautiful production, when lie says, “I
suppose your readers are about half way
tired of it by this time.” That they aro,
and wholly tired of it. I would advise him,
if ho intends writiug any more for your
very valuable paper, at least to change the
subject, for it is, to use a very common
saying, well worn out.
AsTo a woman’s idea of time; I would
venture to say that I do not know one la
dy who could not form a better estimate
as to its value, than he can; for none of
them would waste so much in writing
nonsensical trash as he does, and he shows
ho iv perfectly devoid of reason he is, and
in the very part of his communication
which I suppose ho thinks the smartest,
let me ask, What man would be annoyed
with a non-reasoning or a non timekeeping
wife? and in that he says rests the princi
pal charm in a woman's character. Such
a thing may be borne, in a very small de
gree, by a most devoted lover; but the
husband who would suffer such a thing
would want as much sense as his wife.
However, I hope one lady, such as Mr.
Johnie Jonquil describes, may be found,
(hut I doubt it) to make him happy, and
at the end of twelve months I should like
to hear if he thinks non-reasoning and non
time-keeping adds a charm to the character
of any lady as a wife.
I have no doubt at all but Mr. Johnie
Jonquil thinks he was originally intended
for an author, and considers the nonsense
he writes for your paper a duty he owes
to society at large; and very likely he
thinks the rising generation would suffer,
had he neglected to do so; but he should
be quite sure of that; and in conclusion I
will add, should Mr. Johnie Jonquil persist
in his present style of writing, as a charity
to the world at large, and Madisonians in
particular, all of whom admit he is a so
cial nuisance , I think he ought to be in
dicted, under a certain act in the English
code termed Martin’s Act, which prohibits
cruelty to animals.
Sincerely hoping I shall never have to
reply to anything so paltry ami uninterest
ing, I remain, Mr. Editor, your very much
obliged Noiia.
Madison, Ga.
For the Visitor.
To the Ladies:
Do you desire to read a defence of your
cause, worthy of woman’s nature and po
sition? Then read Mrs. M. Martin’s “Re
view of Prof. Sasnott's ‘Theory of Female
Education,’ in the ‘S. M. Quarterly Re
view’ ” for October, 1855.
Do you wish to see the said Prof.’s “ Pe
culiar Opinions” on flic same subject lite
rally demolished and scattered to the
winds? Then read in the same nnmberof
the said “Quarterly,” Prof. I!. F.Larrabee’s
“Review of Prof. Sasuett’s ‘Views of Fe
male Education’.” Tis.
Ocl. 1856.
Pen-arul-Ncissorln^s.
Gen. Walker has declared null and void
the decree which abolished slavery in Cen
tral America, some forty years ago, and
which was re-affirmed in 1838.... Vicious
—To persist in kissing a pretty, black-eyed
girl, when she resolutely declares she wish
cs you not to. It looks just ns though yon
wouldn’t take lier word. ...It is rumored
that several parties in New York are en
gaged in fitting out slavers, in consequeuce
of tho recent decree of President Walker
in re-establishing slavery in Nicaragua....
Pliny says that the way roses were produ
ced prematurely by the Romans, was by
watering them with warm water when the
buds began to appear Tho vintago in
Italy is generally satisfactory, Indian corn
a good crop, and rice most abundant, but
the silk crop is very unfavorable... .Cor
pulent, persons desiring to lessen their cir
cumference should apply to sonic newspa
per establishmeutfor the office of collector.
... .A fanner in Southern Alabama advi
ses persons smoking hams to throw upon
the fire occasionally a handful of China
berries, which, lie says, will he an effect
ual preventive against skippers. It is
•worth trying, anyhow.... Children talk of
what they are doing; young peopio of
what they will do; and the old of what
they have done....A German paper ns
sorts that Prussic acid only causes suspen
sion of life at first, and that one who takes
it can he restored to animation by pouring
acetate of potash and salt dissolved in wa
ter, on the head ami spine. Rabbits have
been thus recovered Like the ocean,
love embraces the earth, and by love, as
by the ocean, whatever is sordid and un
sound is borne away A silver-plated
fire engine, intended for San Francisco, is
now on exhibition at Roxbury, Mass.
Cost. SBOOO. The silver on it is worth
S3OOO. ...Treesnremigratory in their hab
its, for wherever they may winter, they
are sure to leave in the spring— most of
them are very polite and full of houghs....
Prof. W. T. Brantly, of Franklin College,
has boon invited to Philadelphia, as pastor
of a Baptist Church. Wc do not know
whether lie is likely to accept the invita
tion. .. .Eliza Cook has very aptly said
that commentators are folks that too often
write on books as men with diamonds
on glass, obscuring light with scratches.
... .Rev. Leon Merybeck, a Jew minister
of New York, fell dead in tho street Tues
day, a few moments after preaching a ser
mon... .“Josh, I say, I was going down
street t’other day, and I seed a tree bark."
“ Golly, Sam, I seed it hollow." “ I seed
the same one leave." “Did it take its
trunk with it?” “O, it left that for
board," .... The Oxygenated Bitters are
better entitled to confidence than any rem
edy known, and their peculiar action on
the system excites the surprise of those
who havo tried various medicines without
benefit The crowning success of the
wa?—the coronation at Moscow.... Pro
fessors Brown and Attaway have been
elected by the trustees to the charge of the
Griffin Baptist Male College... .The pop
ulation of New York is dying ofF at the
rate of one every seventeen minutes, day
and night, all the year round. What a
steady succession of agonies!... .It saved
my life—Such is the testimony of hun
dreds in regard to the magic effect of Per
ry Davis' Pain Killer. Where all other
medicines have failed, it has often effected
a speedy and complete cute Did the
bullet ever pay for its lodgings in the
man’s thorax ?.... Bishop Onderdonk, of
Pennsylvania, has been restored to the
ministry... .Cruel inhumanity—Railway
clerk asking a sea-sick passenger if lie is
anxious for a return ticket... .The illness
of Senator Clayton is said to be of so seri
ous a nature as to preclude the hope of a
permanent restoration to his accustomed
health A lady never knows how yonng
she looks, until she has had her portrait
painted The Indianapolis Sentinel says
that Willard’s (democrat) majority for
’ Governor of Indiana is over seven thou
sand At a hall in Moscow, on the eve
ning after the coronation ceremonies, the
Empress of Pmssia danced with the Turk
ish Ambassador.... Ex-President "V an Bu
ren was thrown from a wagon, on the 25th
ult., and had <ftie arm broken Beautiful
extract—helping a young lady ont of a
mud puddle.... The Danish papers an
nounce the settlement of the Sound Dues
question.... It is good to make a jest, says
old Thomas Fuller, but not to make a
trade of jesting.... The board of health of
Charleston have discontinued their daily
reports.... An Irish girl being enquired of
respecting her mistress, who had gone to
a water-cure establishment, replied that
her ladyship had “ gone to 50ak.”.... Dr.
Stephen Bailey, a prominent citizen of
Butts county, died suddenly, of bilious col
ic, at his residence, on the 19th u1t....
Pius IX. is so corpulent, it is said, that he
plays billiards every day, for the purpose
of reducing his size. There are many not
Catholics, who are willing to take the cue
from liis holiness.
Later from Europe.
New York, Oct. 28. — The American
steamship Atlantic, Capt. West, has ar
rived, with Liverpool dates to Oct 15th.
Brown, Shipley &i Cos. report the cot
ton market firm. Sales of the past three
days 30,000 bales, of which speculators
and exporters to“k 10,000 bales. Fair
Orleans 7^d; Middling 0 7 16d; Fair
Mobile 6|d ; Fair Uplands 6fd.
News from Madrid, announces that
O’Donnell, first Minister of Spain, had
resigned, and Navarez been appointed
his successor. Anew Ministry has been
formed.
The affairs of Naples tire daily getting
more inexplicable, and nothing reliable
is known upon the subject.
It is reported that Russia has demand
ed tlie resumption of the Paris Confer
ence, to setllo the difficulties growing
out of tho Bessarabian frontier question.
France has consented.
The drain from the Bank of France
is subsiding.
Later from California.
New York, Oct. 28. —The steamship
Illinois, Capt. Boggs, has arrived from
Aspinwall, bringing later intelligence
from California. -
The Illinois brings $700,000 in treas
ure. The news generally is not interes
ting. There appears to have been con
siderable speculation in California war
bonds. The trial of Collector Hammond,
has resulted in tile jury failing to agree,
Late news from China represent that
the rebels had obtained a great victory
over the Mandarins. At Pearl riven
twenty thousand persons were preparing
to attack Canton,
From Nicaragua-
New Orleans, Oct. 22. —Tho steam
er Tennessee brings later and important
advices from Nicaragua in regard to
tho position of President Walker. [A
previous dispatch has tailed to come to
hand.—Reporter.]
Walker finding the enemy advancing
on Massaya, withdrew his small force
there and the enemy, four thousand
strong, occupied that piace. Walker
then left, a small force at Granada and
advanced towards Massaya, with one
thousand men, and met tho enemy on
tho 12th, near the city, repulsing them
and driving them back on Massaya,
where the battle lasted until midnight.
At daylight a courier arrived stating
that 1,400 Natives and Guataraalians
were beseiging Grenada. Walker ar
rived at the heights surrounding the city
on the morning of the 13th, at 10
o’clock, and found the city barricaded
by the whole force of the enemy. He
immediately charged, and drove them
from their posts, capturing the Com
manders with all their field pieces, and
routing them from the city with great
slaughter. The total loss of the enemy
in killed and wounded was 1,100. —
Walker’s loss was only 10 killed and 30
wounded.
Walker was to march immediately on
Massaya and Leon. His troops were
in the highest spirits. The citizen of
Grenada had held the Government build
ings for 22 hours, when Walker arrived
to their rescue.
Messrs. Shawless, Wheeler and Fer
gurson, American citizens, having no
connection with Nicaraguan affairs had
been by the Natives.
Horace Greeley Indicted. —We
learn from the Clarksburgh (Va.) Regis
ter, that at the recent term of the Harri
son Circuit Court, the grand Jury found
about seventy indictments. Os these
one was against Horace Greely for cir
culating in Harrison county his “Tri
bune,” which was considered by the
grand jurors as incendiary in its charac
ter. Two citizens of the country were
presented for aiding in the circulation
of that print.
From Kansas.
Wesport, Oct. 14.—C01. J. C. Ander
son has just arrived from Lecompton,
bringing some important news. Two
hundred and fifty abolit : onists, under
Pomeroy and Eidridge, were captured
on the 10th inst., a few miles from the
Nebraska line by Col. St. George Cooke.
Lane and Brown escaped. These men
were fresh from the east, under military
drill and equipped with all the munitions
of war. Among other things, they had
thirty dragoon saddles, and not a single
horse ; they expected to “ press,” alias
steal horses, for their saddles. That is
the reasonable conclusion. It is expec
ted that Gov. Geary will disarm them
and escort them out of the territory
leaving Pomeroy and Eidridge, perhaps
for trial on the charge of treason.
Notwithstanding his activity and
the determination to establish a peace,
the abolitionists in the neighborhood of
Prarie city are still robbing and ordering
away the pro-slavery inhabitants. —
Several families passed through here to
day leaving because they could keep
nothing and had been advised to leave
or take the consequences. They were
objects of pity. Having lived through
the war and breasted all the difficulties,
they only left when starvation stared
them in the face and the rigors of a
Kansas winter, to which they would be
exposed, and for which they were nnpre.
pared, began to forshadow themselves
in the early frost of October.
Tho Governor having sent all his
available force to the North, has not
yet been able to break up old Brown’s
nest of pirates on the South side of Kaw.
As Col. Cook is returning we may expect
it to be done speedily.
Gen. Whitfield was elected without
opposition. The abolitionists ran a tick
et in Atchison county, and were badly
beaten. The vote was in favor of a con
stitution. It is said that the Governor
will convene the Legislature soon ; of
this we know nothing certain.
Fire in LaGrange-
A destructive fire took place in LaGrange
on Saturday night last, about 1 o’clock
which destroyed the entire West side of
the public square. It was first discovered
in the Millinery establishment of Mrs.
Witham, from whence it soon spread to
all the adjacent buildings.
Those who suffered were a Mr. Jacob,
Mr. Thornton, Mr Prophet, (Daguerrean
artist,) Mrs. "Withham, Mr. Nimity,
(Confectioner,) Messers. Radford, Cohen
and Noack, Drs. SmitlufcHolt. A two
story building was blown up and severely
injured Dr. Smith and Mr. Buchan.
The dry goods establishment of Whit
field dr Reid, owned by Win. Pullen, des
troyed ; also that of Kidd <fc Young. The
building occupied by Myers, Herring
Bros, and Turner & Cos. consumed. The
fire raged three hours and a half. Exact
loss not known.— Atlanta Intelligencer.
Officers of the S. C. A. Society.
The following are the names of the
officers chosen for the Southern Central
Agricultural Society for the next year :
Hon. M. A. Coot’Eß, Cass Cos. Presi
dent. Col P. M. Nightingale, Camden Cos.,
Ist. V. P., D. W. Lewis, Esq., Ilaucock
Cos., 2d V. P.
Executive Committee.
Col. J. S. Thomas Milledgeville,
R. Peters, Esq., Atlanta,
W. B. Mercer, Lee Cos.,
Col. John Bonner, Hancock Cos.,
Maj. W. J. Eve, Augusta,
W. W. Clayton, Cass Cos.,
J. C. Mannerlyn, Thomas Cos,
Dr. T. P. J anes, Green Cos.
Secretary.
James Camak, Athens.
Southern Quarterly Review.
We regret to learn by a late number
of the Carolina Times , that this work is
not sustained as it should be. The pub
lisher, Mr. E. H. Britton, states that
1,300 copies of each number of tho Re
view have been disturbed, which should
have realized £6,500, of which only 1600
have been received, whilst the expendi
tures have amounted to £1,250; and
states that unless subscribers remit their
subscriptions, he will be compelled to
discontinue the work, at the end of the
present volume. If one-half of the sub
scriptions, were lemittfd, he would be
encouraged to go on. Apart from all
questions of patriotism, the Review ad
dresses itself to the cordial support of
every scholar in the land. Edited by a
man of profound ability and learning,
and ranking among its contributors, the
first scholars of the country, it will com
pare with any Review published on the
Continent. The maintenance of such a
work will reflect honor upon the State,
since it will show, that whilst we have
that talent to sustain, we have the dis
cernment to appreciate, and encourage
the enterprise.— Abbeville (S'. C.) Ind.
Press.
Col. Jacob Delamotta. of Savannah,
died in New York ou Thursdav.
A Second Monroe Edwards.
It will be recollected that about a year
ago, a man named George Gomer was
arrested in this city on the charge of
having sold to the house of Brown,
Brothers <fe Cos., forged bills of exchange
on England for considerable amounts,
and after having been kept in jail for
some time, was discharged on bail of a
nominal amount. It appears that prior
to his arrest he had also written to
Messrs. William Howell <fc Son, a forged
letter of introduction, purporting to be
from a house of good standing at St.
Bartholomew, with two bills of exchange
which he requested should be sold and
the proceeds placed to his credit. The
letter stated that a firm name M. Beau
mier bad deposited £7,000 in that house
in coin, which was to be shipped by the
first vessel. A subsequent letter stated
that a vessel had been procured, which
would proceed to St. Bartholomew for
the specie, and thence to .Porto Rico,
where she would take iu a cargo of
sugar and coffee for a port in the United
States. About two weeks after that
time, Messrs. H. & Son received a letter
signed M. Beaumier, at Norfolk, stating
that he was sick, bat as soon as he re
covered he would come on to Baltimore
and see them.
A few days more elapsed and a letter
was received from the same party from
New York requesting that the monev
for tho bills of exchange should be sent
on to him as he had an opportunity to
send some things to the West Indies, by
which he could make a handsome profit.
The money was immediately sent to a
hanking firm in New York, but was
never called for, and in a short time the
bills werereturned protested. Ilealsosold
hills of exchange in Charleston for sll,-
000 for which he received cotton, which
was shipped to New York and there soil
at the order of George Gomer, the name
he then assumed. His next transaction
was at Wilmington, N. C., where he
purchased one thousand barrels of spir
its of turpentine to be sent to Bordeaux,
but the trick failed because the forged
bill of exchange he presented could not
be negotiated in that city. Though he
had been subsequently arrested in this
city he again returned here in June last
and presented a forged tetter of introduc
tion, to one of our principal shipping
booses, purporting to be from Messrs.
Indoes & Cos., of St. Thomas. Ho was
preceded by a letter purporting to coma
from that house which bore its private
marks, and was a ship letter endorsfor*
his credit and character, but which was
subsequently ascertained to he a forgery.
On presenting the letter of introduc
tion he proposed to purchase and did
purchase flour to tlie amount of $4,30G
for which he paid a bill of exchange pur
porting to be from the hands of Roths
child & Choen, arid payable in England.
I’lie flour was shipped to New York
where that too was sold and the proceeds
paid over to Louis Richard, the name ho
had there assumed. He next went to
St. Louis where he succeeded in selling
forged bills of exchange on the same house
to the amount of SIB,OOO, to the banking
house of Messrs. Clark, Dodge <fc Cos.
As soon as they discovered the swindle,
the police of New York were put on the
alert and sometime since he was arrest
ed and thrown into prison, aid on Tues
day of last week taken to St. Louis for
trial. On searching his premises but
$2,500 were found secreted in a blank
book, the leaves between which the
notes were placed having been pasted
together at the edges. From adviees
received in this city, there is no doubt
his real name is Beanmies, a native of
Martinique, whence he was banished
for smuggling and his vessel confisca
ted. He speaks English and French
fluently and is a shrewd business man.—
In his various forgeries he has used the
names of Alexander Gray, J. Impart,
Maline Dutton, Louis Rechard, and
Adrian de George. It is said he has a
wife living in Martinique but when he
left that place he look with hitn the
daughter of a wealthy Italian merchant.
How much he has obtained by his for
geries it is impossible to tell, but there is
no doubt the amount is between $50,000
and SIOO,OOO. It is to be hoped that
justice will now be done him and that he
will be accommodated with quarters
where his faculty of imitation will not
avail him except for the benefit of the
State in whose service he may be em
ployed.—Baltimore American.
Fish with legs. —The Rochester (N.
Y.) Union says that several fish, with
four legs each have been brought from
Fort Defiance, New Mexico, where they
were caught in a small stream. They
are about seven inches long and resemble
a young codfish, with legs like an alli
gator. They have been sent to Prof.
Agassiz, at Cambridge, Mass.
What Is man ? The Quaterly
Review in answer to this question says
chemically speaking a man is 45lbs
of Carbon and Nitrogen diffused through
5 J pails full of water.