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RuWLaJNi) bPHIMuSi
MTHE Subscriber- beg leave to inform
their friends and the public, that they have
leited the above well known place of re
son, dud (hat they intend keep*ng them during the
summer season in a style superior to any watering
place in the uj>-country. The H juse will b** c; en
and ready for the reception of visitors by the fir»t o;
JUNE next. LANIER dr USHER.
N. B—There • ill be a linco-’ Hacks at the Depot
at Cartersville, at ail times to convey Passenger* to
the Springs, both from up and down 1 rains of Rail
Road apl I-3m L. A’ U.
EAGLE AND FHQJNIX HOTEL.
Auguita,- Georgia*
THE SI BSCRIDKR ba.ins leased
jaitfc the above named HOTEL for a term of vears
respectfully solicits the patronage of the citizens of
Augusta, and the travelling community. His best
efforts will fe diree’ed towards rnakiue the Eagle
and Phenix Hold a pleasant home for regular Boar
ders, ar.d a comf'’rtabie resting place for travellers.
mb7-d!tn<w?m JOHN RICKMAN.
wRaNiTEVILLE HOTEL.
a THIS ADMIRABLY located HOUSE
having recently undergone exteusive repairs
and improvements, is n >w open for the accommoda
tion of the public. For saiub'ity ol climate, beauty
and variety of a:enery. an-i a Ini my and healthful
atmrepuere, this establishment offers attra**tioas un
eq i»lied in the Sou*hero country, either for the in
valid from the Nurtb, or as a summer retreat for the
citizens of the South, to whom the daily communi
cat« nby Roil Road, the fl tirishing Manufactory
near by, and the opp>rtuni>y for bathing, fibbing,
and hunting must prove g'tat adv-images.
Th l ? proprietor, a native of Charleston, will snare
no elf >rt to accom riodate those who uiay favor him
with tiifcir patronage. Graniteville is in eight of
the Rail Road. An Omnibus will always be in
wai ing at the arrival of the curs, and every atten
tion will be paid to b.ig/.ige. An accommodation
train runs *o and from Hamburg daily.
mh!9«4t
WALTON HOUSE,
JESSE 11. ARNOLD,
At Monroe, ll'ulton County Georgia.
fe6 ts
FRANKLIN HOTEL,
« BROAD STREET, Augusta Ga.,
one square above the Globe Hotel, on the
Soudi aide of Broad street,
n 0-wly D B. RAMSEY, Proprietor.
EAGLE HOTEL,
MADISONVILLE, TENNESSEE.
THE SUBSCRIBER. taken pleasure
in returning bis thanks to his friends end gjjii
the public, for the very liberal patronage here
tofore extended to him. And having recently im
proved and extended bis buildings so as to afford the
best accommodations to almost any number of trav
ellers and |*ersons wishing boarding, he confidently
expects an increase of public favor and patronage.
Building Situated on second block south of the
Public Square - one hundred and fifty feet long
rooms regularly laid off and well furnished. He is
also veil prepared to take the best care of horses, &c.
Stable large and secure—careful and attentive ser
vants In short, the greatest attention will be paid,
•nd pains taken, to render all comfortable who may
call at the Eagle Hotel. JOSEPH R. RUDD.
Madisonville, Auguwt3, H&O. au3 wtf
LIVERY STABLES,
MADISON, GEORGIA.
HARKALL A HARRIS
.’"T* leave to announce to gx
their friends in Madison and *?Mn
-TfcLr -w; ■■ the travelling Public gene- vr??*
rally, that they have opened the above STABLES,
•nd that they intend to keep as fine CARRIAGES,
BUGGIES and HORSES, as can be found in any
Stables— with careful driver*. Citizens of Madisot?
always find ready accommodation, logo any where
they wi’h on reasonable terms.
Madison. Jan. 29 ISSO
WANTED,
Ajournkyman carriage ma
ke t, one that can do fine work, and who is of
steady b tbits. None oilier need apply. G»< d wa
ges will be given. JAMES L. DYEti.
Payee eville, Georgia. mhlß *4
SURGICAL INSTITUTE
DRS. H.F. A It. CAMPBELL have estab
lished an INFIRMARY in Augusta, for the
treatment of Surgical tout ( Aronic Diseases. They
respectfully call the attention of the Proleamon, and
the public to their institution. Necessary Surgical
operations will bo performed by Dr. Htrsv Camp
bkll; all oilier treatment will be rendered by them
jointly.
Pa ients sent from the country will receive every
nece->aary attention during their sojourn in our city.
•12-w'f
SPRINGHILL MACHINE SHOP.
JCX FOR BUILL ING AND REPAIRING
gff_ Mill kinds of GO 1 VON AND WOOL MA
—niiik.ng large SCREWS .\ND
GEARING, of al! kinds—TURNING IRON,
WOOD, &c.,
ALSO, WOOL CARDED AND BATTED,
■ix ti iestrom Augusta,on ilie Louisville road, where
the proprietor* will be gratefti I for ulionbra —or they
can beleft atC. A. A M. H. WILLIAMS’S, Augus
t« —ordirectedto Richmond Pactc’-y P. (>.
d?O-tf HACK A DUVAL
TWENTY DOLLARS REWARD.
RANAWAY from the subscriber,on the
niorn.ng < fth * 2 'h of M *rch. my Negro Man
BEN, about 43 ye trs of age, 5 f-*et 8 <r 9
iucue-* high, and weighs about 160 p.mnds. Ben is
of a black comp exiun, and has a down-cast look.
He limps a little in walking, cans)! by a hurt ne
received rme years ago. He is a bloc smith by
trade. He earned off with him a b'uc Jeans (reck
eoat and checked inen pants, and a high crowned
fur hat. As he can write, he wilt no doubt forge
h'mself a free pass, as be did so acme few sears
•go, when he was runaway. I will give the above
reward if he is taken up an delivered to me, 4mi vs
nori h-west of Greensboro, Greene county, ur pul in
any sale jail so that 1 can get him.
JOHN BRANCH.
Greene county, Ga., April 7- apll-ust
RANAWAY
Jtjb KROM the subscriber on the night of the
Aft 31 instant, <av Negro man NFD, about 21 or 1
years old, black complection, low and
chunky, weighs about 160 or 165 pounds ; there is a
tear on his left ch »» k and left wrist, and some scars
or rcra cbe* on the back of his neck at the edge of *
his ba r. I bought saul Negro in Hamburg, S. C ,
from Hugh <*’Neal dt Co. I will give ten dol.ars
reward lor his apprehension so I can get him. .
ENuuH BE! L. c
Elberton, Ga. ap9 wl I
BROUGHT 1O JAIIT
Jill IN CRAWFORDVILLE, Taliafer- '
Al ro coun»y, Ga., a Negro Hoy who calls hnn '
eels SIP, and soys he belongs to one Henry t
Reau, of Putnam county, Gi. He is about eighteen '
years old, and yebow complexion, and has a down
look when spoken to. Tne owner will come lor
ward, prove property, pay expenses and take him
out of jail. WM. Al EXANDEK, Jailor. 1
Crawfordville, April?. ißsl w 3
S2O REWARD.
X# RANA WAY from the subscribers, on the
Al 25ib dav ot December, 1850, a man
named NELSON. Nelson is ab ut & feet 10
inches high ; light coo plection ; about 33 years oil ;
speaks slow ano very low. The above reward will
be given fm his delivery to the subscribers, or for
lodging him iu any jail so that thev may el posses
sion ol him T H. A E. H. BI.C’UNT.
Waynesboro’ Burke County. ja!o-w3m
NOTICE? ~
BROUGHT TO JAIL, a Negro Boy,
who calls himovlf SAM, and says he belongs
man by the name of John Timina* of New
< moans. He is of a dark color, and has a scar I
Above one ot his eyes; ne is about six teet high, and
-e>fh. about one hundred and seventy-five pounds, I
snd appears to be a very intelligent boy, and says he
has been runaway al out six months! The owner
wdl please come for want, pav all cost, and lake him
•w»y p. h Campbell, Jailor.
■ad I son, Morgan co., June 15. 1850. jeVO-lf
RANAWAY
FROM the subscriber, on the morning of
Xl the 17th of May, my Negro Man THOMAS,
about 30 years of age, of a brow n complex-
quick when spoken t \ and rather lisps.
Said man is about 5 feel 8 inches high, well built;
and when he left here had on a blue striped sack
coal, and a velvet cap. He will doubtless en leaver
to make his way to Virginia, as he was purchased
in that state by John M. Cureion *Sc Co., and sold to
me in Greensboro, the 15’h of Inst March. A libe
ral reward will tie given for the delivery, or for his
being lodged in jail so that I get him.
• ’ <>. P. DANIEL.
Greensboro, Ga., May 19, 1850. my 19-tt
gX GEORGIA, TALIAFERRO COUN
1Y : To the CL rk of ihe Infer or Court es
said ccuoty : H nry T. Phd ps, ot said county, tolls
benwe me an esiray. taken up upon h e own free
hold n said couutv, in ths 172nd Dtatnct. G. M. a
brigbi bay Ht>K>F, with a blase lace, le i hind t«x.t
wh te has the spuria, medium wxe and supposed to
be saves years old. Apprawed by Witham C.
H right and W lUiam H. Wilder U* be worth thirty
five uo lais, March fsih, 1851.
Given under my t.d signature this 31 day cl
Apr 1.1851. Arecsrre W. Pl tut, j p-
A l ue extract from the vs'iay book, this April 7,
1851. a,9 QVINEA O NEAL, Clerk.
SvPM TALIAFKHHO COUN FT, GKO.
"k —Mar* Hid, ot .be C.-\i District. G. M.,
t®<>» besore Mic.jih L. Jones, a J tstice o- :he Fence,
In and k< *a:d c an y. *« cs rav HORSE, about a x
seven years old. a sorre’., wish a blaxo so e ak u<
, J~ el b ah. Apprised by M .rd-n Parkerson
*° i l*aoi A la.us. lo h«rt» fire oi'ani.
Gi-tu mder «uy baud and offi ; a . vtgua ure th-*
Marvh Jb U I>M . MKAJaH L. j’e
* the Marra 27th
ISbL
CHRONICLE A \ I) SENTINEL
SELECTED POETRY.
eternal JUSTICE.
EY CHAKI.ES MAOXAV.
The man is thought a knave or fool,
A nigot, plotting crime,
Who, tor the advai.cement of his kind,
Is wiser than his time.
Far him the nemlock shall distill,
For him the axe be bared ;
For him tie gibbet sha I be built ;
For him the stake prepared ;
Him ebal’ the attrtn and wrath of men
Pursue w.th deadly aim ;
And malice, *mvy, spite and lies,
Shall de.-ecrate bis nasi-.
But »ruth shall conquer at the last,
For round and round we run.
And ever tl c right coines uppermost,
And ever is justice dene.
Pae? through thy cell, old Socrates,
Cheerily to and fro ;
Trust to the impulse of thy soul,
And let the poison flew,
They may shatter to earth the lamp of clay
That holds a light divine,
But they eannat quench the fire of thought
By any such deadly wine ;
They cannot blot thy t-puken words
Prom the memory ol min,
By all the poison e’er was brewed
Since time its course began.
To-day abhorred, to-morrow adored,
So r< und and round we run.
An I ever the truth c unes uppermost,
And ever is justice done.
Find in thy cave, grev Anchorite ;
Be wis€r thi (h> peers;
Augment the rai ge of human power,
And trust to coming y*ars.
They may call thee ••izard, und monk accursed, 1
And load thee wi.h dispraise ;
Thou wert born five hundred years too soon
For the comfort of thy divs.
But n A too soon for huxun kind :
Time has reward in feu.ro ;
And the demons of oar sires become
The sa nts that we adore.
The blind can see, the slave is lerd ;
So round and round we run.
And aver the wrens is proved to bo wrong,
And ever is justice dune.
Keep, Galileo, tothy thought;
And nerve thy soul Lu bear ; [ wring
They may gloat o’er the sen.-eless words tuey
Prom the pangs of thy despair ;
They may veil their eyes, but they cannot hide
The sun's meridian slow;
The heel ol a priest may tr»ad thee down,
And a tyrant wor< thee woe ;
But never a truth tus been destroyed ;
They may it and call it crime;
Pervert and betray, or slander and slay (
Its teachers for a time.
But the emrhineayc shall light the sky,
As round and round we run,
And trutti shall ever come uppermost,
And jusiice shall be dune. 1
And lives there bow such men as these— (
W th thoughts bae the (treat of old ?
Many have died in their misery,
And left their thoughts untold ;
A d many live -in I are ranked as mad,
And placed in the cold world’* ban, *
Fur send'Dg their bright, far seeing souls I
Three centuries in the van. 1
They toil in penury and griefj
Unknown, if not maligned, i
Forlorn, forlorn, bearing ihe scorn t
Os the laeinest of mankind. (
But yet the wot IJ goes round and round,
And the genial seasons run,
An I ever the truth come# uppermost,
Andeveri* justice d »ne.
A Remarkable Stoky.—The Presbyterian
a religious paper, published somewhere at the
north, tells the following extraordinary story:
A young men in the township of Warsaw, Gene
see county, N Y., was engaged in cutting wood;
and in felling a tree it became en’angied in the
branches of other trees. While endeavoring to dis
entangle the tree and bring it to the gr<>u d, it sud
denly fell and splitting a' the butt, he was caught by
the foot, at.d thu<* suspended with his head down
ward. In this condition he cried fur help, until bis
voice was gone and his strength well nigh exhausted.
His axe bad fallen, and he could barely touch the
end of the helve with his finger He labored to reach
it. but ii was all in vain. Could he but get t' at, he
could extricate himself. But, alas !it was beyond
his reach What was he to do? He had cried for
help until he could no longer rpvak. He was in the
woods. three-qu irters of a mile from any human be
ing. The we tlier was extr< mely cold, and he was
banging with his he id downward, suffering extreme
pain, n-K only in i'<e font which was caught in the
cleft of t c tree, but also in the head, caused by his
unnatural pueitioa and the great exertion he had put
forth to be heard. Death now t-eeuied inevitable,
unless he could be immediately extricated. There
was no alternative. Summoning all his courage,
thereb re, he camstothe determination to make the
attempt to cut off his leg; and should he succeed in
doing this, there was but a faint hope that be would
■ S'
Dinu tofrtne m-rnjod timb. It sertned rarr- ti.in
probable, therefore, that be would bleed to death
Hu* what h ill a man not do to save hit lite ? He bad
in his pocket an old dull knife. With thia, he cut
<-ff the 'eg.< of his boot and stocking, and then un
jointed hie own aikle.
Tais being done, he crawl*! to his dinner baske»,
and I hiding up'he slump with a no| km which bad
covered h ; a dinne., he Parted upon hands and knees
through the snow for home. When be arrived with
in a lew rods of his house he was discovered by
• >me friends, who hastened to his relief. His
strength was now exhausted. Help had come and
be fainted. He was borne to the house and re
surcitated. .Vow comes the curious facts: and 1
will here say that the getiiL-man whu related tlie
facts to me was present and wont lor the surgeon.
“Go,” said the wounded man. ‘go iinnu diately io
the woods and cu’ out my foot, for it is suffering most
excruciating pain.” Tt.ey did ao, and brought the
fuo> to the bouse. He then said it was cold, and
wished it put into warm water. This request was
3*Bo a ranted. Ii wasn't in the room in which the
unfortunate man lay, \et as soon a- the foot touch'd
the water he. cried out, saying. “It burns me; tlie
waler is too ho !*’ U|—n pu Png the band into the
wa er it was found even so The we ar wjb then
, made cooler, ami he was satisfied I will also add
that a sitrgecn was obtained from B tavia, a distance
of filirrn or eighteen mites, and the limb again
amputated; the man recovered and became a preach
er of the jvspel in the B.ipt st Cbu ch !
SI,OOO REWARD
DR. IIUBTKR'S celebrated SPECIFIC, for
•he curs of Gonorrhea, btnefures. Gleet and
Analagous Complaints of the O gaus of Generation
JJpOi all remedies \et discovered for the above
complaint, tbie is the moat ecrlatn
Ij’-lt makes n speedy and permanent cure with
out restr'ctioii tn diet, drink, exposure, or change of
•pp'icstionto busint.'*.
f*4 Lis ptrlcc'.ly harmless. Gallons of it might
bo taken without injuring the patient.
It is put up in boutes, with lull directions ac
companying it, so that persons can cure themselves
without resorting to physicians or others (or advice.
Jj’t'ne bottle is generally enough to perform a
cure. Price sl.
Jjplt is approved and recommended by the Roy
al College ot Phvticians an I Surgeons of London,
and has their certificate enclosed.
it is sold by appointment in New York by
Poiert Ellet & Son, mid in Augusta, Ga., at No.
195, Metcalf’s Range, Broad street ap!6
TRUSSES.
A SUPPLY of every description, just
received, among which are Infante and
5? '* Boys TRUSSES; fur sale by
m Msd<>w WM. H.TUTT.
THI« CARPSX4TER’S LiE\V GUIDE,
tEIXG i complete Bo k of Lines fi»r Carpen
1> try and Joinery, treating fully on Practical
Geoincuy, Loifite, Brick and Plaster Groins, Niches,
of evtry description, Skv lights, Lines for Rootsand
Dom s. wi’b a grea’ variety of designs for Roofs,
Truavel Girders, Floors, Domes Bridges, dr c.,
Angle-bars tor Shop Fronts, A’c , and Raking Moul
ding. Also, additional Pians for various '
with the lines for producing Hie taee and tad ag
moulds never before published, and greatly superior
to those given m ‘.he iormer edition ot th s work, by
W»n. Johnston, Architect of Philadelphia. The
whole founded on Geometrical inncip ea, the theory
and prac'ice well eaplamed an I fully exemplified on
eighty-three copper plates, including some observa
tions and calculations on the strength of timber, by
Peter Nicholson, fouitaenlh edition.
Just published and tors- lo al
GEO. A. OATES & CO.’S
ap!7 Piano, Bwk *nd Musi D mm. Broad-pt.
JUST it EC El V El> ai the
-s-sag aG K ICULTURA L WAK E
*• Augusta, alotot Üboice
PLOUGHS, consisting of Double Mould Board, Hu
Side Subsoil, Eagle Self-sharpening, and one anil two
Hors Ploughs, ot all descriptions. A Iso, Uy lindrica
Churns, Corn Shetlers,Corn Planters,StrawCutiers|
uruin Cradles, Road Scrapers, .Manure Forks,
• ru*ks, &c., &c.
nh!9-w CARMICHAFi A BF.AN.
LEATHER, LASTS, PdGS. FIND
INGS. Ac.
J VST RECEIVED, a large supply of
He ii’»ck and Oak SOLE LEATHER;
Band and Picker do.
Lace and Roller do
PA TEN T LEATHER;
Black and Russet UPPER do.. Ac.
French ami American CALF SKINS;
Lining and Binding SKINS;
800 l Top uo.
Kid and Goat do.
Buck Skins, &c.
—ALSO—
Boot-trees, Lists, Crimps, Clamps
Shoe Pegs, French Kit, Awls, Ra«ps’;
Hammets, Knives, Pincers, Nippers;
Lasting Tacks. Sparable*, Awl Handles;
Tanners’ Tools, Shoe Thread, Silk Twist’;
Heel Bali. Hoot Webbing, Sand Stones;
Measure Straps. Sixe Sticsa, Peg Cutters;
Punches, Exelet Machines, ic., to which we*in
vit* the attention of purchasers.
FORCE, CONLEY A CO.,
Sign Mammoth 8001, opposite Insurance Bank.
TO PLANTERS
wou'd respectfully t a form the Piasters that ,
t v we furnish
SMALL GRIST MILLS,
e- j suitable to be at-
tached to Gin
Gears, ot dider
ent aJses, aud in
< different pall ns
1! a: tue lowest pri-
ces.
These Mite
have given the
_ j p highest sottflac-
p l ' k ■ ai i‘ a ‘ e d with
I 8 - E I ram the
Xunh -
Mmarr’ 6 "-®. pj ea:W us
a'eaff balore having e re.
SCHIRMER JE WIG AND,
Barr Mill Stone Manulaciurers.
AugoM*, Ga.
ll
mi sews.
Egyptian Antiquities.
Mr Gliddon is delivering a enum of Lec
tures in Washtngton City on “Ejypl and its
Relations T ’ the first of which is thus noticed by
the *• Southern Pretr,”
We ronfesswe wereush’ghly pleased hy thi*
agreeable manner in whten the -uhjprt was
handled, as deeply interested in the matter laid
before us.
The subject was extremely well and clearly
reated, and gave evident sutiefictiuti to an at
tentive and intelligent audience. And there
ran be no doubt, but that, independently of the i
interest which the subject ii*e f creates in all ,
inquiring minds, the fact of the lecturer having j
been for a long time a resident in 'hat singtriar
land, and consequently we! acquainted witn iis '
archeological remains—while he is intimate ’
and has been a fellow-explorer of its womlers,
with some of the eminent men wh > have made
lhe subject their own—ha* tended not a iiule to
increase ’he curiosity which must be felt in the
•‘revelations.”
We have already remarked, in a short notice
we took of bis Panorama of the Nile, that no
subject could be more instructive or entertain
ing We will venture to say even more. We
will a-sert, confidently, that one whioii touches
eo nearly, and has so much r* la ion to the his
torical portion of the Bible, demands, ifi* dees
nnt command, the attenl.on of all rell c ing
minds For whatever can throw an addition J
light upon any of i s interesting details—what
ever can increase the amount and correctness
of our knowledge therein —whatever can elu
cidate doubtful points, or exp'ain errone us
in‘erprenitmn«», is so much gained to the cause
<> rel gio. ,aid so much taken frun supers i
tion.
The m ud, too, is improved, and its comp’e
hetisiun of rigrr th cg-» enlarged by all increase
of knowledge of e > important a nature
The tendency of lhe human mind at the pre
sent day is. more decidedly than ever, towards
ascertaining the Truth not for the purpose of
weakening points of faun, as—from a greater
confidence in religion, derived from a more en
lightened comprehension of its unalterable and
exalting character—to increase its infiuence, by
enlarging the base of factsand common sense
on which it inns’ stand.
Besides, the nrre the mind is enlightened by ,
facts in eonfirtnaion of truth, lhe more
it is released from iho demoral zing influences
of belief, real or pretended, in things not com
prehended or absolutely inexact Such credit
given to falsehood under lhe g rise ol religion, I
blind® and dulls the Hensen to a right apprecia
tion of ihe higher order of religious sentiment, i
cramps the mind, limits the judgment leads by I
easy steps to a preference for things fake end <
mysterious, and thus owering and debasing the i
moral feelings which cannot be too high or t o
eleva’ed, gives birth to. and goes hand in hand l
with »ha' intolerant spirit which for so many
centuries has filled the world with fanatics, hy- i
pocrtles and aisassins-
We therefore hail with p*ea«ure every fresh
revelation resulting from th*, researches of the
lovers ot truth, of every order, a® an additional i
pile driven into the earth to support the greit
edifice of religion |
The providential preservation of the monu- i
incuts of Egypt is in its way. a miracle, des i
lined to remove much of the stumbling-block I
of error originating in ignorance and imsiuter- i
pretation, and maintained by habit or supersti I
tion.
Religion can never bo shaken by the dncov
enes of the learned, or by the progress of sci
etice. To suppose so, is io suppose a contra
diction and un impo-aibdi'.y—it is to conluav
toge her in tbs mind supe'Slition, or the fail: in
falsehoods or foolish practices, w th rchgiou,
or the faith in truth. As well might men nlk
of arguing away a limb, or ridding them-elres
of a portion of their brains, as of roobng out
or dua’royitig toe sen iment of religion ’ The
worst that has bef.llen a mvn. has been (o be
come, or pre end to be a doub er upon a I
«uch mat ors. through indignation at having
bet n led to give b : m 1 credence to things false
And how many of these has nor political reli
gion—enforced by law lor the benefit of a class
—creatmi? How many, while outwardly prnc
lining every form, and fulfilling every let.er of
the “Rubrics,”have lost a'lconfidefice, in
tie hope oi unravelling an interasted mystified
lion 1
it is not then the discoveries of ’he learned,
nor the writings of philosophers, that injure
the cause of religion; but the obs inaie teach
ings of irra*ional and unnatural superstition,
winch have nothing in common wi h ii; and
that, too, by men who in general do no’ bo
lieve in them or whote convictions are found
ed on habit and interest-
To restore the balance of truth, and place it
on a firm foundation Egypt's urr
as they weie ; and of faith, ttdercniaudlibu a!,
as it ought to be.
The leading subject of Sir Glidden’s fr-t
lecture, was Egypt’s place in ike icorid's k story
at the pre-ent time T'o make ’ .is po nt mure
intel g.ble, he began by placing before iiis
hear rs. first, facts connected by I e anuq tity
of MSS handed down to us in different lan
guages; and sucoudly, by showing al what pe
tied the history of va lous ancient nations
loses itself in fab’e. We have not sutlicientiy
examined the subject to express an opinion as
to lie value of thu proofs tie adduces to bus
ta*n his allegations, lie says of MSS there is
not a copy of Hebrew Scripitire older than
the II th century of our era; or Greek versions
dating faitber back than the 4 h or sih ceiHu
nes.
These ar t but copies of older documents
Now, wo have mul uu >8 of papyri dating as
far back hs the 14 h 1”> h. and 16 h centorus
Chrn*t And Mr. G iddon, pointing to
a mummy which lav near h m s’ated that one
of these curious MSS . 2 751 years old, was
loti rd wrapt up with that body. There is
mis difference between many ol the ancient
copus of ctipus if copies so io speak, handed
down by living men as compared with those
preserved tn the tombs of the Egvotians, that
die formerbave been very fr* -quently mu i’ated
to suit the views of sects and the pR-judi-es
of men, while the latter have remained undis
turbed, telling their own tale in ail their origi
nal simplicity.
Turning to history, and the archmologHd re
mains elucidating «t, he showed that nothing
existed to carry us fur’her back, tn that of
Laly, ilhii 754 before Christ. Os Greece,
everything is fable earlier than the first Olym
piad, B C. 776 The era of Homer, about
900, is disputed. I’bajniria. Carthage. Lyria,
Asia Minor, Arabia, and Judea, have no stiict
chronological data before Solomon’s reign,
B. C. I.UUO. And nothing is tn >re uncertain
or contradictory than the period assigned to
the Exodus from Egypt and the place ol
Abraham, by the majority of modern authori
ties.
Chaldean history, Mr. Giiddoa seems dis
posed to treat in an eq ial'y summary manner;
and ’he evidences derived from he researches
of Lay ard and Botta support more rauderre
chronological computation than the learned
world anticipated. Major Rawlenson. how
ever. admit* a data which is snliisiently re
mote—l 300 BC ahhongh it wdl not stand
bv the side of ihe Egyptian data.
Persian history is lost in Mahometan b-ir
harity ; aud li’tle or nothing can be traced be
yond Cyrus. 528 years. B. C. Major Haw
kinson is disposed (o give that great conqueror
the credit o! inventing a’phabetiral writing.
The invention, if »•’ it may be called, had its
origin a; pirently about h s time.
We now c >tue to H.ndoostan. a country in
which more ex:en*ive forgeries, in the ciuse
of the ‘ faith in falsehoods.” have been perpe
trated than perhaps in any other country. The
Hindoos altogether put into the shade the in
genious inventions of some of our European
worthies of the good old time; who, to tn
crease the fidelity to ttifi lehty thought it no
great harm to interpret truths by inia.'epresen
ung tnetn, or add to their interest by drawing
largely on their own imaginations. We are
not ready, however, to receive without very
great reserve the dates g ven Nor are we
verv ready to admit that all these documents
are forgeries or copies Iroin. or imitations ot,
the Books of M ises. Hindoostan is one ot ihe
most anciently civilized cour.tr es of tho earth,
and stands too near to Chius and Egypt use I.
to have been much, if at all, behind them in
knowledge and civii.zuon. It would be as
wrong to call tn question ihe truths which, in
the ages ol Christianity, were so ot'ten
perverted by ticlious. as t' suppose the Vedas
bad not a foundation in truths preceding them,
and perhaps essentially limuoo That rich
country, like Italy, has been al all ti nes tne
piey of conquerors, who. with true Mthome
dan spirv, destroyed al he early re ords or
monuments of former greatness, they could
hy their hands up< n
Os China, the proofs are to strong, and
chr< nolog.c«l data so well preserved, that rs
history may be distinctly trared back to 3 4t>B
years before Christ, or 5.135 year* ago t’u
like the Hindoos, they hid not suiTered from
invasion so ’requenth. and their records have
therefore teen better preserved The oldest
of th*m can be traced to me 18th century be
fore Christ. Chtna and Egypt are therefore
the onlr two na ions, w h*ch can date back with
certainty lor at leist 4 5.0 years.
Chinese history ceases o be dear about
2,637 B <'*. Egyptian monumental history
begins 35<M) B C. a-cending beyond the tin e
of Abraham some ISOJ years. It is older’han
any inscription found m Assyria by 2 200
and leaves Rome and Greece some
2 500 years behind
Such is Egypt's place in the world's history
in he middie of the 19. h century.
M'. Guddou proceeded to givens an inte
resting account of the researches of
who aline recoin-nendauo » of Humboldt and
Chevalier Bunsen. was sent by the King of
Russia to Egypt in H 42. with a sum of £4 h
000 hi hrs pocket. So amp-y provider With
the sinews of war. and bfiug fully competent
to so important an undertaking, he made the
most succe&dul explorations e*er yet attemp
ted; and, by the discoveries he made has
thrown anew light upon Egvpti.m history
and elucidated many interesting and doubtful
questions. A ter leu months labor the follow
ing are he results ;
2» i\ ratuids were discovered. heretofore un
it ncwn.
He established the succession of Kings iu
wb&tiscayed me old empire of Egypt, from
HJGiJSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING. APRIL 23, 1«5I.
B 0 2 10(1 o B. c 3 500, adding many into
« res ii g details relative to their
He found that each pvrainid wa« a Roya
tomb, and that the great* officers of lhe King
doth and nobility we»e buried around it. O
- these tombs one hundred and thirty were
opened by trim.
He I kewise ascertained the existence oi
L ke Mieris. a point hi.hero deputed ; and
M ''i.-coveied ihe place of t-.ecelebrated labyrinih (
y «i h its three hundred chambers.
Nir. Gliddon concluded by observing that
, civilization ascended me Nde, and that conee
4 q’lentlv, the oldest monuments lie towards lhe
> M diterranean. This opinion, broached by
h tn eight years ago, was in opposition to the
general impression among lhe learned, but
has now been completely set at rest.
A more interesting subject cmnot well be
imagined. \V i have little doubt bui Mr. Glid
i I i fl’*r s will tie duly apprecia ed and that
, I be wil: be repaid by an increase oi friends and
I vtsih rs. an<mu® io gather iust. i«c;ioo regarding
a people becoming every day better known.
From the Union.
Mr. Gllddoik's Second Lecture.
Having e».:ibli®hed in his firs’ discourse (re
ported in our columns of Friday) the place
which Egypt now occupies in the world s his
lory a cor:i;ng Io die arc! ae dogical principles
by the most di* tog'iished of Egyp
tLii enrnnsin ’he yea lt?51, Mr. Gliddon com
menced lasi evening’s lecture by pointing out
and explainitig lhe enormous array of iUusira
'i:»r*s t** elucidate the pyra ’rids &c , suspen
de l round he walls, winch formed a beairi
fui and singular rouo d <sd. dwelling a’ first on
hegr-*at pyritnid—one of the 67 tombs of
.trie Abr ihani.c sovereigns who ruled over
Memphis n.-fir buck as (be third dvna>ty, up
wards ol 53u0 tears ago II has been ascer
tained ihdt Inis enormous •tructure covers
more than thirteen acres of ground at the
bi?e. and ihat the masonry, before he smooth
• niter casing was part.aliy destroyed by th<
Arabs, between he 12. h and 16 h centuries of
eur era, measured nearly 90 000(100 cubic
feet, and weighed 6 818.000 tons. Even now
a/ter (be ravages of five thousand y ears, it em
braces in re than 80 09 \OOO cubic feet of ma
sonry. weighing considerably more than 6,000,-
000 tons Its origin il height was 4SO feet.
No doubt exists ’ha’ it was the tomb of the
monarch whom the Greeks call Cheops, wno
be'onged lo the founi; Memphis dyna-ty. and
lived, died, and was buried in it about B. C.
33(10 years. His hierogly phical name (Shoop
ho) was found in lhe interior by Co! Vyse ;
and a facsimile of the in-cr-ptiou was shown
lo is from the great Prussian work, together
wi’h a copy of his golden signet-
One faci connec ed with this extraordinary
structure—which, if it were converted into
brick, would furnish enough of Ihat material
to b- ild the wtiole city of Philadelphia, and
still le r e granite 8« fficient lo face al! the pub
he cd fl -08 —is. that the chambers und galleries
cut io H are only one sixteen huudreth part of
ihe whole mass. Yet it i« b'K one tomb out
»f 67 similar, of ail sizes, ranging from about
60 t<» 459 feet high, as a minimum and maxi
mum. The lecturer gave some accounts of
th** greit «i stance whence sour* materials had
been Lrought —(he gratii e 640 miles, lhe
white limestone about 15, acro-s me Ndj.
It was shown how uoihirig about ihe pyra
mids was certain unril 1825—hl le until Col.
Vyse explored 390 f them in 1837--’4O. which
brought us io Lepsius's discoveries among
these monumeti’s iri i"43 lie ascertained
ihat 28 moie pyramids had been overlooked
by preceding liavellers —the superstruc’ures
having b u en carried away by lhe Ar-.bs, &c.,
long ago.
Mr. Gliddon explained lhe process of build
ing the pyrami'ls, upon a black board (see
his O ta, page 32-33,) ho as to sliuw that their
size correspond® wi.h the length of lhe mun
aren s reign. We do nut dwell upon mis sim
ple but mu*t important law of c >ns ruction
because (he wuodcut on Air. Git L-mn’s pro
grammes explains lhe method. L-ipstus es
lablisiied thereby that large pyramids are the
’ombs of kings who .ived a long tune—small
ones of those whos* reigns were short. Dr
L psiu.s discovered the sres of twenty-eight
pyramid®, which, added to the thirty nine ex
plored by Vyse, make sixty-seven—ad tombs
oi kings who had reigned and been ga hered
to their ftilhars before Abraham s vis.t to
Esybt. Mr. G explained Hie reason why the
Penta t ueb makes no mention of them. The
Arabs, who a«e b *rn on the apo:, if asked who
udt them, gut r d of the question by answer
ing •Sidiau!’’ in the mind of the modern
Arab the pyramids ixc te n > emoiion, for he
ts accustomed to lhe sight of them ; a'<d so
no doubt t was with the Israelites. Yet Job
(HI, 14) probably alludes to the word pyramid
tn the Hebrew text where our version has ‘‘de-
Hol ue places.”
The anc ent burial ground of Memphis, 22
mike in leng'h, came next unde? review.
The detai s were most curious. The regal
pyramids which lie on this space, and were
Jia last resting places of monarchs, are &ur-
F--- _• Irrfhpqn tnmhw
=»ro bormd the houseiiok of t?akiag, :L » o
btlity of those ancient days—a succession of
generations eit- ii.g long before Abraham, ex
rending backwards fur 1 50 ; years, from the
221 century bus re the ChrKtian era. it was
cleariv shown that the sand wit ch now exist-
V. IV '1 « ‘ - nil. I •• II ' ■* ■ .... .... ..V.. .
along tho brow of Um Lybiui hills, on winch
Hand the pi ratuids* is the accumula ion of th'*
lam 1500 years, and that there was l-.'.Ce or none
in the primitive ages of winch ho was treating.
But the most interesting portion of the lec
ture to us was the explanation of one hundred
and thirty private’ouihs opened by Lep.-ius in
he year 1643, m >st of them belonging to the
fourl l . fi th, and sixth dynasties, rang ng from
28 to 34 centuries B C Thoso tombs con
min complete hisiories ol their occupants,
with infihi e pictorial de'ails of iheso antique
Egyptians’ lives and times—sometimes for
six successive generations —great grandfather
graiidfa'her, father, son, grand-on, and great
grandson Mr Gliddon exhibi ed a ropy
m-d -by L?psius of a scene iu the oldest tomb
known io eiisl in the world, and now, wnh
three others of a een ury later, built into he
museum of Berlin I i* that ol a royal prince
of the third dynasty, 3500 years B. C. H*i?
rrpre-enlud in his leopard -kin robes, einblo
matical us the priesthood, aud is the cen’re of
a group of serfs and <ie; i-nJao!-, from whom
he is receiving the rent-roll vl bis estates. It
i» beautiful v colored. From a amps which
were taken f' tn the t<»mhs carried by Lepsius
to Berlin, and rxhihitod by Mr Giiddoa, there
remains no doubt that the Egyp'ians were in
conformation a genuine Caucasian race, and
that tney, and no otner nation, built the pvra
uiids. Specimens of the limestone of which
these monuments are constructed, and of the
granite which line* them, (the latter brought
down the Nde 640 miles) were exhibi ed.
Among the (ormer was a fragment ol the al’ar
found by Mr. Perring at the brick pyramid of
Dashoor. ’he da e of which is in the third dy
nasty, or 5300 years ago ! It is sculp.tired in
low relief, aud corresponds with the p'a‘e ot
the other fragments in Col. Vyse’s great work
Mr. G brought it from the spot m 1839. to
gether vith two ancient skuhs from th-* pyra
mid of six < ep-, figured by Dr. Morton in his
AlgyjtMtH. Tney are probably the
most ancient akuiia known, and h ive entirely
’ost all their annual matter in S,UUO years ol
time.
The verifies i»n of the discovery of Like
Mreris occupied next our attention. This
g-eal wo«k, which brought 373 U()0 acrei inm
cultivation, belongs o tne reign of Arri'nem/ia
ill, of the twelfth dynasty, B. C. 22iM) He
was the grea’est hydraulic engineer ot antiqui-
ty, having a'so constructed immense harbors u
duns, and fortresses at the third cataract,
1000 miles up the Nde. The Greeks called t ,
tins king Mce’is by mistake, taking ihe name c
of the take lor tha' of a king! The province gl
is now called ihe Fayoom. The same king t |
(Ainenemha III) built tne famous labyrinth
which had ta ii hidden for centuries, wi h its
pyramid and three thousand chambers, until ir ’I
wax discovered bv L puus. Toe Arabs had ”
dug a canal through the ruins, and explcrers, f
who were satisfied that the labyrinth must have h
been in the neighborhood, hsd examined on y
on one stile of the canal. Leosius explored u
the ether, which, strange to say, none of his o
predecessors tiad thought of doing, and came h
upon its ground-plan at one* 3 . The tomb oft;
this king is the pyramid adjacent, and it is the v
last budt of the 67 ; for pyramiJal construe- a
lion at Memphis was put an end to in the next t
reign bv the invasion of ihe Hyksos, about B t
C 2159, and the later Pharaohs are bur.ed t
ehivfiy at Tnebes. I
The mo*’, novr-l lecture of the three will be a
delivered on Tuesday evening. In it Mr t
promises to lay before us the philoso (
pmcal deductions established by this primordial ♦
civilization of iha oldest monumental nation t
of tne universe. We refer tons advertise- i
merit lor the subjects—with one remark, due ’
to the lecturer who bring* these immortal dis i
covenes to our very doors To southern j
rnen. and especially to southern legislators, ;
few subjects cm be more interesting. Argu- t
men sol much force are drawn against tne i
necroph i le aboli ton wtsof the North from the
mmumenta of the Nile. And when, again. ,
wdl such an opportunity prevent itself! la
all probability not in our dav, nor in that of ’
the present generation. The works of the ,
Pru*-ian commission may not be published (
(900 fjl.o plates, besides the German text) —
at hast ia a form *o pop ilar a to render them !
accessible to the masses—in many years.
From the Richmond
The Negro Race*
In the able and learned lectures of Mr. Glid- |
don, our at en ion was particularly excueu by
his accounts of the antiquities in the Egyptian
Province of Meroe; because those antiquities
consulate ihe most striking illustration Gt Negro
Civilization which history and archaeoh gy can
produce. Meroe was a country on tne Nile
above Egv pt When me last natnjdand most
famous seat of ancient civilization was overrun
i by Camby»es and the other cruel conquerors, a
p portion of the inhabitants re’rea’ed up me river
I and established themselves iu Meroe Hither
! thev trar.sponed their oid forms of government
and of whurship, the»r oid arts and theirantique
» cu*toms. They bu I: temples and excavated
tombs; they erected obe isks; they cover u
, them with inscr.puoii* iu their hieroglyphic al
phabet, and the inscriptions and sculptures
; which date wi n me first generations ot this
j colony, ara found to be as perf c: as those of
I tr.e Lower Nile. But ihe colony was cut off
. i irum tr.e body of die nation by intervening
deserts and fierce nomads. Tne number ol
Q I emigrants was never increased from the old
“ ’ race. Necasaarjy, the men were tn a great
e ' Oi-prupurtion to t»»e and they wer
forced to Like their wives and concubines froi
al 1 t e captives which they made in their wa?
u- with the eurroii’ ding and barbarous tribes
)f Now, the Egyptians wj*re white men. bur them
e tribes were Hence the second gener
ation of the iMemetes were mulattoes. 'Phi
>f prices- of amalgamation continued. Thej
d formed har ms from their sable captives, am
i, • by (heir sable purchases; so that lhe third gen
eraiion were Simbnes. The next were stii
it nearer the negro iy pe • and the work proceed
! ed until all trace* of Caucasian bio d disap
e peared, and Meioe was inhaoited by a pure
y black race like that of the vast regions on its
b boundaries.
t The interesting circumstance connected with
hese facts, is the continued deterioration in ’he
3 sculptural remains of the country an 1 their
- j fiiihl cessation with the disappearance of the
• white blood. The inscriptioug aru j portraits of
I the original emigrants as before said, are equal
; to those of lhe Old Empire. But in those of
th» ir 1U datto children, there is a great differ
ence. The sculpture is clumpy; the inscrip
ti ’ns in bad frammer and in worse orthogra
phy. ihe next are inferior even to these;
an : in he succeeding generation it becomes
evident that they had wholly lost the language*
and no longe understood what they wrote
I’he ii.ecripii ins are nothing more than misera
ble copies from the earlier works; so that on
< foinb which is evidently of a late date, will
be found a badly executed copy of the inscrip
tion on the tomb of ii owuw’s great grand
father—even the date and name being unalter
ed A her ’hat, they lest even lhe power of
■nteiligible imitation, and a few scrawls on un
craven rocks are lhe latest remains that are
luund The Meroei esih n cease te be Egyp
iiaui even in the name -‘-id 'tradition Tney
and arts ■*Wey\ k ?dvS noo'iifmngs, ana no en
during tombs. The province is no longer dis
ungut.-hed from the country. The race has
reiaused into abs-huie negro barbarism
This illustration of their incapacity, not
merely to attain civilisation, but even to re
tain it when given them, is a type of the uni
versal history of (be negro race. The world
has’heir history iu i's hand* fora space oi
nearly five thousand years Negroes appear
on the aculpturesofold Egypt. Butin that wnl
titudinous country tney were utterly valueless
I’he Egyp iaus consideied them 100 stupid to
be worth teaching even agricultural drudgery ;
and we only see their figures when led as cap
lives in ’he ’riumph of some belligerent Pna
raoh From that day until this, lhe negro has
never appeared save in three forms of exis
tence ; —Captivity, Barbarism, or Slavery
Tne last is the highest form of social life of
which experience, at feast, Hermits us to suppose
him capable.
Circumstances would never have kept down
any race for 1.-e thousand years, which were
capable of rising into civilisation. All lhe
wniie races, have been iu tune barbarians ; but
ail its branches have in tune left it and attained
their natural grade of civilization. Bui the ne
gro has never left the lowest type of barbarian
ism, save for captivity or slavery In (he vas’
Continent of Africa they have always existed
m millions, with no circumstances io depress
them. But there, we never he sr of them save
nscanuibil savages No such thing as a negro
government has ever existed in Africa. H-tty
Kingdoms have and do exist there —some with
so called ciiies like Timbuctoo. But the bare
breeched rulers in all these kingdoms are
Muofs or Fellahs—a branch of lhe Arab fami
ly ; and ihe people of Timbuctoo are Arabs
and Fellahs The Republic of Liberia can
scarcely be called an exception, since it is
wa.ched and guided by the Coionixauon 8< c e
ty euppoitui on all sides bv England and by
other g'lvernmen s, is re-infurced every year
from ino United States, and is governed by
mulatioes Even with all ibis assistance i. w
evidently fa. Lug io pieces in the growing bar
ban-iu of the people. Dr Mechlin, who lived
in L’beiia five years, and for part us that time
w-js Governor of the colony, liasdecl t'ed trie
experiment to be a failure,—and d.ed in Mo
bile with ihe declaration that ho saw no hope
ol ever rendering the negro race fiil'orsel/-
goviirnmeiit Ou this continent they have re
ceived the most signal trial. In lf-iyu tl ey
achieved (heir freedom by the midnight murder
oi their masters. They were pro ected by
c vilixed 8 ale-. They possesied lhe richest
Island on the globe, with the richest com
merce at their doors The result is very
notorious Fam tie ravages often that ferula
land i’ttty but hideous wars occupy ns sec
tions. The only government which subsists is
that of a loody and stupi I beast who >s empe
ror over one corner ol the island. Off tiom
the seaports, the people have lost arts, religion
industry, decency—Lave relapsed nuo abs.dti e
cannibalism Dr. Nott states, on the audiori'V
of au eye witness, that on two occasions while
travelling in Hayti, he saw the negroes roasting
and eating their Domi ncan prisoners by the
road side.
in tne free States of this country, the negro
race can roach every advantage which the wi i(e
poa»etHMd«K A Urge porpou es thqm are eau-
*' J • A#',, - * 1 *■ • r»o| *• -» ,7* *» V
.nuke uj o c-i civilization ? VV«wi©Ra»e
their best classes achieved a de-tinv than
that of tavern Wher« have their
masses risen above the very lowest level of th
worst population ? Where has any individual
....... ■.4 .. r , * i
even, attuned not lo si distinction, but even
respectability, in any profess’on ? In England,
many negroes who were supposed to exhibit
(a'ent when children, hive been suljncted ma
hot bed process of culture, aud two or three ol
be e have been brought up to ihe mark of
wiitmg verses. These have been collected in
a volume; and Bishop Gregoire of Blois has
written a a upiJ book to prove therefrom the
intellectual equah'vnf th r ) rue*. B»it anv one
who will ’ake the trouble to read these verses
will find them for the most part a dogger*! too
poor io be called vursc stall; and whenever a
copy occurs of sutlicient merit tor the poet’s
corner of the s i allee-t kind of country news
paper, its author is sure to turn up a mulatto
or quad oon when the accompanying biogra
ph:es are referred to.
By the history of the negro race, it i* there
fore incontrovertibly proven that they are ut
t**r'y incapable of civihzauofi or development
I bevo.’ d the point ot slavery. When thesiurv
■ ed barbarian i* taken from the wilds of Africa,
j clothe! well, fed well, and associated wph the
. whites, he quickly acquires a certain degree of
health, strength and intel ueucc. He will
quickly aye Lbe white. But ihere his develop
meatcea-es. Beyond that in no instance, Las
ha over gone Without amalgamation with
the white race, he remains where he began,
and sinks so soon as the superior influence is
withdrawn
These phenomena arc peculiar te the black
race. None of 'he divers-fn d families of the
white race exhibit them. To which one of the
while ruces could the advantages be given
which lie ba ‘ro the negroes us the United
S:a es, wiihout an itnmi dia.e assertion and
proof of ns talent and its intellectual superior
i y. in hundreds and hundreds of instances?
All the whit races have been civi'iztd and de
veloped iu lime, and where circumstances
have thrown them back into barbarism, they all
exhibit capacity for civiliz%li ;, n again. But the
1 exact contrary is the characiensiic of me ne
gro
What deduction ii to be drawn from the
1 fact / The plain and inevitable deduction is
this: That iho negro is a totally dis’inct and
in eriur animal or species of animal from the
’ Caucasian; that the negro is the connecting
‘ link between man and the brute creation; that
1 the n« gro is intended by nature for a similar
‘ dependance upon the Caucasian man in which
* only the ox. the ass, and the h «rse, fulfil the
...j . .. .. -
intent of lheir creation; that the negro race is
ihe result ot a different act of tne Creator from
that which originated the Caucasian, and is
Consequently beyond the scope of those ab
stract axioms of (he while race which declare
,hat all hen have equal rights.
A Lxs’ox for Girls —An intelligent gen
tleman of fortune, says the Bangor Whig, vis
ired a county villagj in Maine, not far from
Bingor and was hospitably en ertained and
lodged by a gentleman having three daughters
—two of whom, in rich dresses, entertained
me distinguished stringer m the parlor, while
one kept herself in the ki’chen, assisting her
mother in preparing the food and selling the
table lor lea, and as er supper, in doing the
work till it was finally completed, when gAe
also joined her sisters in the parlor for the re
mainder of the evening. The next morning
the same daughter was again early in th;
kitchen while the other t” o were in the par
lor The get tlemnn. Ike Franklin, po-ses-ed
a discriminating mind—was a close observer
ol the habits of the young ladies—watched an
opportunity end whispered some bmg in the
ear ol ihe industrious one, and hen le l for a
ume, bat revisited the same family, and io
ab ut one year ihe lady of the kitchen was con
veyed to Boston the wife of the same genie
man visile r, where she now presides al an ele
gant mansion. Tr e gentleman, whose fortune
•he shares ehe won bv a judicious deportment
and well directed industry. So much for an
industrious lady.
If it was not a well ascertained fact, that
all the young lad.es at the South, especially
among the “ upper ten.” are perfectly familiar
with all the duties of the housewife, we wou d
commend to them ihe study of the above ‘ les
son.”
Short Drxsses. —Mrs. Bloomer, editor of
the has adopted the • short dress and
trowstrs,” and says in her paper of this month
ihatm iny of the women in that place, (Seneca
Falls.) oppose the change; others laugh;
oherss hi are in favor; “and many hive adop
led the dress.*’ She closes the article upon
.he subject as follows :
“Those who think we look would do
well to look back a fe w years lo the lime when
they wore tenor fifteen pounds of petticoat
and bustle around body, and bal.oons ou
ir.eir arms, and then imag ne which cut the
merest figure, they or we. We care not for
the frowns of over fastidious gentlemen ; we
nave those of better tas .e and less questionable
morals to sustain us If men think they would
be comfortabe in long, heavy skirts, let them
put them on—’»• have no ob ecuon We are
more comfortable without them, and so nave
est them off- VVedenoi say we shs‘l wear
this dress and no other, but we shall wear it
for a common dress ; and we h »pe it may be
come so fashionable that we miy wear it a - a i
times, and in place*, wuhout being thought
singular. We have already become so atiaca
ed'io it that we dislike caangiug to a long
» one.”
re i A Qutiii’liuy,
. Gen James Hamilton is one of the tw(
grea’ residuary legatees of Mr. Calhoun’s un
revealed opinions; Mr. Richard 11. Crallc
i r . being the other. Or, perhaps, wo might bet
>e ter say, says the Richmond Whig, that the for
mer is the heir; the latter, the testamentary
.j. executor. There may be a danger that the two
ill j should clash. The modern Mahomet dead,
I lamism may, as of old, break into two ad
verse sects, and have its Omar and its Ali of
[8 i secession, both proclaiming “There is no God
but Separation; and Calhoun is its prophet;”
but utterly unable to agree what s rt of Sepa
r ration, sole or manifold, singular or plural, the
b M ihomet of South Carol na meant. For it
1 was lhe prophet’s won’, at last, to be a little
J. obscure and ambiguous. Taught by the
many contradictious of his previous career ©f
- doctrines, he at length, thuugh late, learnt just
* wisdom enough to be generally unintelligible.
’ Not qm eso discreet, however, are his fol
r lowers at home. They have not waited for
the oracle to speak; but, taking the words out
of its mouth, have with almost one voice, pro
( nouncud “Separate State Action” the only
genuine creed of Secession, and every Oa
manlee who boggles at it, a renegade, a rogue,
a slave and adas ard to boot! Now, this was
over hasty : a boy should not say his lesson
before be has looked into his book.
Just at this moment of the finished recitation
rises the usher in chief, now successor to the
school, and informs the bewildered pupils that
here’s not in the book a word of what they
have been saying : but just tne opposite. Im*
aginc the contusion and dismay that must
ensue!
Su h is exactly the position into which South
Carolina Disunionism is at thia moment put,
by a letter under dale of the 2d instant, lo the
inhabitants of Bluffton, which Gen. Hamilton
Las pubii-hed. Tne citizens of that small me
tropolis had, it appears, determined to have
a funeial encomium on Mr. Calhoun pro
nrurced before them; and for this purpose
had chosen Gen. II- as the orator. His pre
sent letter is an apo ogy for his not having
peiformed the duty thus assigned him After
slating various impedimen s which had exist
ed, he proceeded as follows:
‘ But 1 must confess lo you that I was con
strained by another consideration, if I had
addressed you, as it was anticipated, in di«
cussing (he principles and opinions of Mr.
Calhoun as illustrative of bit public life, 1
should have felt myself bound to have com
municated an important fact, that, up to the
period ot his death, he never contemplate 1 the
s partite and isolated acron of South Caroli
na, even on an exigency so vehement and
preening, in his opinion, as the admission of
California, lie looked alone to the united
and co-operative action of Virginia and a
majority of the cotton States. He never, for
a;i instant, cherished the idea of devoting
South Carolina to desolation, or our people
to slaughter, thd other Spates of the South
might be dragooueJ into our support. Hi*
whole policy was founded on a friendly and
pacific union of the South, for the pr iteciieo
of the South. Wr.h that sanguine tempera
ment which belonged to his noble nature,
which belongs to the very conntituu >n of go
mtis, he cherished this hope to the last. Tais
extinct, he did not look beyond the great moral
lesson which the motto impressed on our own
Palme: to holds forth for the irisruction of her
sons— "Animis oyibusqusyarati." That these
were tho opinion* ot this great man, i h ive in
my possession the most irrefutable testimony,
which at a fitting time shall be made public, if
need be ”
We long to see what the “solitary and im
mediate Secessionists ’ will say to this 1 He who
doubted was denounced, just now ; ho who
dallied was a dastard. What, then, is their .
idol, their (raster their philosopher, their sole
thinker, their inigh.y minded, their man moun
tain of Statesmanship and reason, beneath
whose huge legs they were content to creep
and be L iipuiians—what is Ao to be called /
And hereupon ariseth also a further ques
tion. most pertinent and (we fear) most puz
zling; Will the so’itary Secessionists “back
out V 01 will they not ?
Why not/ They had belter. Certainly,
they are hi what logic calls a dilemma, what
Latin a httl- barbarian entities a non-plus, aiu
what is (m not the purest vernacular) denomi
nated •• cornered, 1 in “a fix,” and (so to
apeak) tn an exceedingly ‘ light place.” But
what Hien /
To recede wi‘l be inconsis ent But the
in -re inconsistent, the more like their master.
They will have flinched. Bit that is only
proper for men who have taken for ihe.r lead
er one who al ways shrank Pom the du-'igtaehe
ha* 1 contrived.
True, they may, by receding, avow that
ihev have been unwise. But then their fepii
iHiion tor wisdom is such as cannot be much
h *ri. Tne -vend <viii p.wanw cut* uie Wi
sest folly h> y ever performed.
They will’be ridiculous But what else did
they expect ? What else have they been, for
the last fiueen year?, aiming at or achieving?
. ~ ..I ■ ■ w■■, *.k ... I oh i..oti oHa tI, 0n rt t. k
The only rational objections that we sue to
such acotirri - on their parts are, ft st, that it
aiH bo rational ; and second y, that the public
is er*pared for such a mutation; so that they
wi: astonish nobody; whereas io astonish the
world seem* <»ng to have been the great aim of
their ex stence.
But, then, their doctrines—that icimorta!
parr of lhemselvej—what will become of their
doctrr.es 1 Nay, when men’s doctrines won't
itke care of them, why should hey lake care
of the doctrines ? Besides, hey can easily,
like their instructor get new ones. What’s
the use of being a Caihounite, if one cannot
afterwards make any doctrines that he wants
They need not fear; a destitution of politi
cal absurdities is a thing they are in no danger
of fahing into. Il heir cobweb systems ol the
morning have been swept away, they tan spin
o hers quite as good and as strong before night.
They a-e a party who were prophecied ci in
the Dunciud:
As whirling, spun round by skilful swain,
ck the ihreads in, then give them o tt again ;
Ail nonsense, thus, of old or modern date,
Shall in dice centre, from thee circulate.
A large mne which appears not to hive
been worked so a thousand years has been
accidentally discovered near VVisloch in Bad
en It is supposed to have been worked by
the Romans who mined only for silver and
lend, and left everything else. In the mine
are about filly thousand tons of cadima or
oxide of z nc. a substance of whose value
the Romans were ignorant, but which is new
used in the manufacture ol zinc pp.int. It
has hitherto been supposed that the mines iu
New Jersey were the only ones containing
zinc in this form
Capital Punishment in Morocco — A late
I letter from Tangier has the following account
of a case of capital punishmentln my la?t
I believe I gave you an a count of a Moorish
execution ~ Another instance of capital pun-
> ishment here was attended with the fol owing
singular circumstances. A Moor of the village
I of Sbarf had shot with a pistol, iu the market
. at Tangier, a fellow villager whom he sue iect
, ed ol intimacy with his wife. The brother of
[ the murdered man started immediately for
r Meyui; ez, where the Sultan was then residing,
i and claimed the life of the murderer. The
> duitau heard the complaint acknowledged the
jus ice of the demand, and summoning the
plaintifFinto his presence, delivered the lollow
ng decision:
We grant you our permission to take the
life of the murderer of your tru her with the
same instrument of death with which he was
assassinated, and an the same spot, and at the
vame hour of tne day. ‘‘But*’ added the Sul
tan. ‘why seekest thou also to be a man-layer 1
Accept the p’ice of blood winch is lawful unto
true believers, and we wi I guarantee you its
payrnei t from our Sharafian hands, and two
mrzakel shall be the sum.”
To this ihe plaintiff replied: Can that sum
purchase me a brother I”
•‘Go thy way,” said the Sultan; ‘‘we have
heard and understood, a lei.er will be given
you by the vizier, in which our mandate shall
be written ”
fu'mahed with the sentence of death the
man returned to Tangier, and presented it to
the Governor. Ou toe same d»y of the ween
and at the same hour, the murderer was
brought out of prison arid seated on the very
spot where he had taken his fe low villagers
hie, while crowds of people attended to wit
ness his death. The pistol wis now given to
me bro her of the murdered man. who loaded
it, went up to the criminal, walked slowly
round him and said —* in the preseuceof God
and man I call upon you to answer me tru
ly : Didst thou -ay my brother 1 To this ’he
criminal replied ‘ I did ” One of .he multi
ru ie now stepping forward, addressed rhe
brotuer of ihe murdered man: “Accept the
price of blood;” sa*d he, “and I promise you
one hua red ducats in addition, which those
assemb ed will gladly give.'
“Worthless words,’ said the villager: and
again he waked round his victim. Again he
a.-Ktd him the same question, and again the
seme reply was given. A secund offer wai
now made ol two hundred dneats; and again
tie villager walking around the chain al, re
peated n.s question, adding, “Say wnat thou
beiievest; I am about to lake thy life ”
“That God is God, and Mahomed is the
Prophet of God,” responded the criminal.
Scarcely were the words uttered, when the
pistol was’discharged. Tne muzzle had been
placed at me smiii of the back, being the same
spot where be bad shot the man for whom he
was now about to die ; but the wretched crim
inal, although mor-ally wounded, did not expire
for some hours.
A Dyiko Wife to hi« Husband The fol
lowing most touching fragment of a Letter
from a dying IFife to her Husband was found
by him, »ome months after n»r death, between
ne leaves of a religious volume, which she
was very fond of perusing. The letter, whieb
was literally dim with -ear-marks, was wr.tten
long before the husband was aware that the
grasp of a fatal disease had fastened upon the
ovely form of his wife, who died al the eariy
age of nineteen:
“When this shall meet your eyes, dear
sums daygwuea you are turning over
4fr. 3.3, I3SI
the relics of iho past, pa-sed away
o forever, and the old wffldstone will be keep
|w ing its lonely watch over the lips you have so
often pressed, and the sod will be growing
0 green that r-hall hide forever from you-sight
t- the dust of one who has ho often nestled cio<B
r . to your warm heart. For many long and
sleepless nights, when all my thoughts were at
y rest, 1 have wrestled wilh tho consciousness
° of approaching death, until at last it has forced
I, itself upon my mind, and although to you and
[. to others it might now seem but lhe nervous
imagination!) of a girl, yet dear G — it it go!
Many weary hours have I passed in the en-
J deavor to reconcile myself to leaving you,
> whom I love so well, and this bright world of
sun-hine and beauty; and, hard, indeed, is
it lo struggle bilently and alone, with lhe gure
s conviction that:l am about to leave ail forever
t and go down alone into the dark valley! ‘Bud|
5 1 know in whom I have trusted,’and, leaning
upon His arm, •! Tear no evil.’ Don’t blarne
me for keeping even all (his fiom you How
I could I subject you, of all others, to such sor
• row as I feel at parting, when time will so
soon make it apparent to you? I could have
wished to live, ifouly to be at your side when
your time shall come, ard pillowing your head
upon my breast, wipe the death damps from
your brow, aud usher your departing spirit
into its Maker’s presence, embalmed in wo
man’s holiest prayer. But it is not to be so—
and I submit.
Yours is ihe privilege of watching, through
long and dreary nights, for the spirit’s final
flight, and of transferring my sinking head
iroin your breast to my Saviour’s busom!—
And you shall share my last thought, the last
faint pressure cf ihe hand and the last feeble
kiss shall be yours, and even when flesh and
heart shall have failed mo, my eve shall rest on
yours unril glazed by death —and onr spirits
shall hold one last fond comrdunioL, until
gently fading from my view—lhe last of earth
—you shall mingle with the first bright glnnp
see of lhe unfading glories of that better
world, where partings are unknown. Well
de I know the spot, dear G ,where you will
lay me ; often have we stood by tbe place, and
as we watched the mellow eunr-ei as it glanced
in quivering dishes through the leaves aud
burnished the grassy mounds around us with
stripes of burnished gold, each perhaps has
thought that one of us would come alone; and
whichever it might be, your name would ba
on the stone. But you loved the spot; and I
know you’ll love me none tho less when you
see tho same quiet sunlight linger and play
among the grass that grows over your Mary’s
grave. I know you 11 go often alone mere,
when lam laid there, and my spirit will be
with you then, aud whisper among the waving
branches, ‘lam not lost, but gone before!' —
Knickerbocker Magazine.
Swallowing a Pin.— Probably a Fatal Illu
sion—An Interesting Case.—Under this head
the Mobile Tribune gives ’he particulars of «
very singular case now under treatment in that
city by Dr. Williams, who says that it is noth
in? more nor less than an illusion of the mind.
These are the particulars:
The patien’ is a lady who is somewhat ad
vanced in years and positively asser.s that
she has swallowed a pin end it has lodged
crosswise in her throat. Under this belief sh?
refuses to receive food o>- nourishment, saying
that it is impossible fur her to swallow. Previ
ous to the timt when she said she had swallow
ed it, about ’hreo weeks ago, she was a woman
of stout constitution and robust habit, but has
now dwindled almost to a complete skeleton,
and was yesterday lying without the power
' to speak.
Her throat has several limes been examin
ed, not only by Dr. Williams, bu other ptiysi
cians, and they all agree in the opinion that
there is no pin there. There is a complete
absence of inflamation in he throat, externally
and inter ally; as far as can be seen, and she
does not complain <> f pain from the pressure ot
lhe parts. For the first two days after this idea
became fixed in her mind, she partook of her
meals as usual, and since that lime has refused
any nourishment whatever. There is ah
sence of fever, and the pulse is slow and
weak.
After the doctor had told her repeatedly that
there was no pin in her throat, fa mi that he
could do nothing for her, she continued to
vend for him. He’bought of a plan at list by
which she might be cured of this strange fancy,
So he takes with nim several surgical iiutru
men's, providing himself with a rusty pin
which he crooked for the purpose. He inser
ted in her throat several times one or more
of iheso instruments, having a hooked point
and, at his last and greatest effort, pre’euding
to draw out die very pin which had given her
so much pain and trouble, and produced it in
his hand. This sa isfied her. She knew it
was then out, and thanked the doctor with
lhe warmest expressions for the preservation
of her life. In a few hours her imagination
was again at work and she positively declares
that there is another one there, and under that
beliefshe is now prostrate from debility and
unless this phantasm is in some way removed
from her mind, she will probably die wiihin a
few duvs.
Machine f»r Making Envelopes.—The
Worcester (Mass.) Spy gives the following
account of a new self-feeding machine for
mannf-cturing letter envelopes, invented by
Dr ilawpiof that city :
•’Af er the paper is cut from tho ream by
the usual process common in all manufactories
of envelopes, all that is required is to place it
within the reach of ihe iron fingers of ihe mi
chine, when it is taken up, sheet by sheet
folded, ptsted .pressed so as to make the paste
adhere more firmly, and not only de ivered
in o a receptacle lor the purpose, but actually
cuuhted i< tv packages of twenty five, needing
do fur her care on the pirt of the machinery
tender than to put a slip of paper round the
package,and olaced them in baskets ready for
the market. Three of these machines are now
running, when turn off* thirty-six thousand en
velopes a day O hers are being built, and wi I
soon be in readiness, when the Doctor will
be able to fill a contract which ho has made, to
furnish ono hundred and twenty thousand
envelopes a dav.”
Kailroals in Massachusetts—An inter
esting table is published in the 80.-ton Trans
cript. compt’ed from the various official reports
ma le to the Legislature in 1849. 1850 and
1851. It exhibits, says the Baltimore Ameri
can, the operations of the Railroad in Massa
chusetts. and of those running from that into
the adj lining States. During the years named
25,594 000 persons were carried over them, a
number nearly equal to the entire population
of the United States. The number carried in
1848 was 7 333 870; 1849. 8,633.230; 1850
9 973,681. The cost of fifteen of the roads
named in the table, on the first of January,
1848 (t-c others not being completed at ?hat
time) was §34 038 700; January 1, 1851,
§42 055 200 Increase, in three years §7,016,-
500 The net earnings of the same roads in
1847, were §2,564,190 ; in 1850, §3 032,788
Increase, §468 598. The De! earnings of the
whole number during the year 1848 w re §2.-
785,897; iu 1849 §3 115 420; in I*so, § 1,-
480 347. The gruss receipts in 1848 were
§5 908 144 ; in 1849, §6 421,967. and in ]pso,
86 903,328 Their total length, including
branches is. 1120 miles.
Improvement in Ocean Steamships — The
New York Courier and Enquirer publishes a
r coinmun cati a from a Mr. David Davidson,
of that city, to which some wonderful diecove
rie< in the art of propelling boats by aie ira are
1 hinted at Whit they are is for rhe present
kept secret by the parties who are in*erested.
but the results to be accomplished sre disclosed
in offers made for the building of two vessels
on the proposed plan —one to run ou the
North River and the other on the Ocean. It
will be agreed with responsible contractors to
build the first named siearners in nucha man
ner that it shall perform the trip between New
York and Albany in five hours, and possess all
the ftdvan’ages of the rnoAt substantial and
elegantly built steamboat —and a similar agree
ment will be entered into for the construction
of an ocean steamer, wnhin eighteen mon'hs
which shad run at least one hundred miles
further in twenty-four hours than any vessel
ail'jat or being built, and which shall be un
equalled for strength, capacity for freight and
pa-sengers, safety, durability, ecoDumy of
construction, propulsion, and so forth.— Phda.
Amer.
Export of Specie—The export of specie
to Europe appears to be steadily on the in
crease Fur some time back it has ranged
from §1 500.000 to §2,000,000 per moidh bui
now it is far beyond that amount. During
last the precious metais exported from
the port of New Y’ork amounted to §1.191,0-9
The us tr.is drain, in consequence of
the heavy impor’s, is made the more apparent
from the fact that the present shipments are
not in silver, which commands a premium in
Europe; but, the supply of that metal being
nearly exhaua’ed. or the premium of it being
driven up too high in consequence of the
large demand, nearly the w ho’© of ihe amount
now going forward is in gold, and the larger
po'lion in American com —;V»it Intel.
The Arctic Search. —It is a.ated in the
London Globe that trie A hmralty have resolv
ed to send a pop tr?ul aieamer into Barrow’s
Straits, this summer, in order to communicate
with Capt. Austin, and bring back mteliigence
of the operations of the equadron in seaicd of
Sir Juhu Franklin.
India Rub .er.— Tne Newark Mercury
states that Daniel McCurdy, of that city, has
taken out a pa’.eut for the maoufac'.ure of In
dia Rubber. It is claimed that by this new
process, a l metallic combiuaiions in ihe pre
paration of rubber are dispensed with, while
yet the eutire s :r ngth and ductility of the
gum is re.rained, and the fabric, unl ke that
made by any other known process or previous
invention, effectually resists the changing
effects of cousiant exposure to the air and
weather, being in fact almost indestructible.
, White Zinc Paint.— I’ne society for the
encouragement of na iona' industry in Peris
has granted a medal of gold, worth 3,ooofrancs
1 iu M. Leciaire for his substitution ol white
i zinc for white lead. la 1828 not less than
j 3,142 persons entered the Paris Hospitals at
tacked by diseases originating in *he use of
3 lead ;of these 1.893 persons worked at white
* lead or at minium, 712 painters, €3 grinders
e ofculurs and 10 preparers of visiting cards
w;lb porcelain surface. Bmce 1-816 no person
nasbeen attacked m M. Leclaire’s establish
mem, nor is there any further danger, the san
r i .ary qualities of zme rendering all farther dan
ir ger of chouc or paby at an and. j
VOL.LXV—NEW SERIES VOL. XV-NO.
' News ot the Week.
t From the N. O. Picayune, IRA ingt.
Late from Texas*
By the arrival of the steamship Galveston.
Capt Place, we have Galveston dates to the
1 Bth in st.
A remarkable hail storm took place at Gal
veston on the sth, about 12 o’clock M The
weather was warm the mercury at 68° fahren
hei’, tho wind blowing, but not violently, from
the north, and some showery looking clouds
floating in the sky. Suddenly a shower of
hail stones fell that in many instances split the
shingles on the roofs, and in fifteen minutes
breaking all the panes of glass on the north
side of every building in the city. The stones
1 tawere of various sixes, the smallest being about
the size of grapes, while others were as large
as oranges. Very few were gathered until af
ter the storm ceased, it being dangerous to
wnture into the streets whilst they were fall
ing Some of the atones were measured
after tho storm, and when they were lessened
bv melting, were ten inches in circumference.
T hey fell only in the city. A thunder storm
followed, during which the Star Hotel was
struck by lightning and set on fire. It was ex
tinguished without damage. A young clerk,
in ’he building, was knocked down by the
shock and rendered senseless. Ho recovered,
however, without injury.
The small pox is prevai’ing in Hous’on.
The prospects of the crops on tbe Brazos are
favorable.
There are six candidates for the Governor
ship. four for Lieutenant Governor, five for
Congress, and two for Commissioner of the
General Land Office. Gov p ’
have tho most chances fore.
The Indians, in V« extern Texas, stiil con
tinue their old business of stealing horses and
murdering whenever they have au opportuni
ty. Three Mexicans, names unknown, were
killed at or near the crossing of the Aransas
river, hy the same party of Indians who eap
tared Mr. Hart’s son at Refugio, a fe w weeks
age. On the 16th ult. they stole ten or eleven
horses from Messrs. Jas. &. L. C. Watts and
a Mr. Holt, twelve miles above Goliad. On
the night of the 21st ult. they paid a visit to tbe
farm of Mr. T. C. P. Lott, eight miles above
Goliad, and stole several animals belonging to
Mr Lott, Dr. Cameron and Judge Lea. Judge
Ua and lady were on a visit to Mr. Lott’s at
the lime, and as all the horses were stolen they
were left afoot. One of tha Indians was seen
near the house of Col. Lott after daylight in
(he morning. The Indians were permitted to
depart in peace wi’h their plunder, as they
could not be followed immediately for want of
horses to ride.
Tho citizens of Dallas county are still en
gaged in removing the raft from the Trinity
river. They have already expended between
$2,000 and $3,000.
A large business is now doing on the Sabino
river and at Sabine Paw. Tl e river has been
greatly improved. The iron steamer Liberty
brings cotton directly from it to another port
Another steamer and two (schooners run in the
trade.
The Messrs. McGuflin, long known as
among lhe heaviest Sama Fe and Chihuahua
traders, have abandoned lhe Independence
(Mo.) route across the Plains, and adopted ihat
from Lavaca to El Pasj, San Antonio, as
cheaper and belter.
The dates from Brownsville and Matamoros
are to tho 2d inst. The steamer Yacht brings
a pretty large amouui of specie every trip she
makes from Brazos Santiago to Galveston.
From Nicaragua.
High- Handed British Inlrigues Americans
jarced to leave ths country and Murdered.
From Mr. J. Cavalry Hall, of Granada,
Nicaragua, who came pa»senger in the steam
er Mexico, we have obtained late and impor
tant news to the sth inst, from Nicaragua and
these-cailed Mosquito Kingdom. Mr. Hall has
been a merchant in Granada, and gave his in
formation in a clear and straight forward man
ner, that leaves not a doubt of the truth of
hia statements.
A great change has come over the friendly
feelings formerly entertained by the inhabi
tants of Nicaragua and Mosquito towards lhe
Americans. The Governor himself formerly
acknowledged to Mr. Hall, that his country
was certainly destined to become incorpora
ted either wi h England or the United Stales,
and that he and the Nicaraguans generally in
finitely preferred the latter.
Since the last trip of the Prometheus how
ever, that is, within about six weeks, a feeling
of hostility of so decided a character has sprang
up against this country, that lhe Americans on
the Isthmus, from Ilealejo to San Juan, have
thought it best for their i .leresis and personal
safety to leave. About eight hundred of them,
who had established themselves in the towns
and villages, and who confided in lhe friend
ship and protection of the Nicaraguan Govern
merit, have been so ill treated—lhe natives re
fusing to buy from them or sell tham provis
m«w—«l»st thav all broke uo their business ar
rangements, many at tnucn low to
camo down to San Juan and embarked for this
port or Now York. The few American mer
chants in San Juan (or Greytown) hate on
hand provisions and other stock for sixtee ,
months, which they had made sure of selling,
but are now forced to le; remain in the ware
house® useless, rotting aud ruinous.
Tho main spring of this sudden revulsion of
feeling lies in the continual intrigues of the
Consul at Ban Juan and his colleague. Foster,
al Kealejo The latter is materially assisted
by a certain mysterious Count Deza'do, a sort
of Frenchified Spaniard who is known to be
energetically forwarding British pretensions
and intorests on the Isihmus, whilst he pretends
to remain neutral; and also by a Mr. Manning
a wealthy and influential English merchant in
Realejo The latter is a heavy creditor ol
the Nicaraguan Government, and exercises
great influence in all its movements. Ho and
his fellows have at la*l succeeded in strongly
prejudicing the Nicaraguan authorities and
citizens against the Americans.
The best proof of this sudden and decided
hostility is the fact that fi teen of our country
men have been mudered wi hin the las twenty
five days:, on the road from Realejo, on the
Pacific across to San Juan, where they for
merly travelled without fear ofharm or danger
and ever which they were making iheir way
ns rapiaiy as possible out of the country *o
return home.
Our informant did not remember the names
of all these unfor unales; he however cited
those of two, one of whom was killed and the
other was left tor dead in the road. The firs
was Mr. A. C Maynard, from the western
part of New York where he leaves a family.
He was travelling to San Juan, carrying with
him several thousand ullars. On the morn
ing of the sth of March, between 8 and 9
o’clock, he was attacked bv an ambushed par
ty a league thia side of Maleries, (a small town
between Leon ana Granada.) and literally cut
iu two with blows from machetas His body
was found in the road in this mangled and mu
tdated alate. The money was stolen.
In the other instance, Daniel M Mooney,
of St. Louis, was a tacked in a similar manner
on ihe same road. He was left tor dead, with
bis head dreadfully cut in several places. He
regained hi# consciousness, however, and
reached San Juan, bringing the news of May
nard’s murder.
In these, as in the other cases, redress was
sought tor from the authorities, but they every
where turned a cold shoulder to their peti
fjoners, and answered thoir just demands with
pretex a too gross to deceive the most iguo
rant.
Our informant gives some particulars of the
hypocri’ical manner in w .ich the English real
ly govern San Juan and the Motquito territo
ry whilst pretending to be under the dominion
of a trumpery king,
An Etig'ish stripping, about twenty or
twenty od°
tain of the port of San Juan. He is also one
of the Supreme Judges of the Mut>qiiito
kingdom, the English consul sitting with him
on the bench wish two native Nicaraguans not
naiive Mue-qui os, as associates, The fines they
iidlici are charged and collected in pounds,
shillings and pence, the currency of the coun
try never being heard of. They take posses
sion of the paper® of all vessels entering the
port, keep them during detention there and
return them at departure, though San Juan,
they assert, is a free port
They have six strapping Jamaica negroes,
dressed in blue a d armed with clubs, acting
as policemen. The pour Mo»quitu king has
gone up the coast aud will be absent fora
year, leaving these sham subjects of his to
manage things their own vay. The English
Consul will only receive such communications
as are addressed to him at “Greytown, Mos
quito, to her Britannic Maj sty’s Acu g and
Consul General,” not in the least recognizing
ban Juan da Nicaiagua as the name of the
place.
Mr Hall corrects the statement we made
yesterday, in announcing the arrival of the
Mexico, tba/ the Briush naval forces had been
withdrawn from ban Juan. The day the
Mexico went into that port, a British war
s earner also entered, for the purpose us re
iieving the war schooner Bermuda
p is certain y time that our Government
should take decisive steps, if not to put down
- tnese absurd, protectorate claims of England
iu Nicaragua, at least to protect the lives and
property us our citizens there. We should
have a consul—an energetic, determined man
i —in the country ; whilst the frequent visits to
San Juan ot an American ves.-el oi war
wouid lend materially to restrain British mach
mauona and Nicaraguan aggressions.—-Pte. 11.
Rose Cuttings —One of the bert methods
t of securing the success of these is to st ck the
} cutting an inch deep into clean river sand, with
- properly prepared sni about an inch below to
1 receive the routs as soon as they strike. The
clean sand prevents the wood from rutting. A
g correspondent of the Horticulturist succeeded
g with this, when every other mode failed, and
s says he dues not lose one in twenty.
e
a A Fight with Indians.—The Western
- Texan us the 27 h uit. gives an account of a
f t a ile between Lieut. Dodge, of the s’h Insan
e try, and sis een dragoons from Fort Lincoln,
s win a party of Indians, eight in number, who
8 bad been cumtr.iiting many deprtda’iun.-
n around Castroville. The Liesen mt and h «
i- men followed their trail a lor.g distance, c:m*
i- on them on the San baba river, killed two o
them, and captured ah tneir horses, ten in num
kef.
From lhe N. O. Picayune
• Ih« Soesrro Affair.
“ Asotber awo divvbbbbt satbbbbt la
this paper, on the 86th and 28th alt., wepab
lished accounts of B truly tragical B ff s j r j ß|b<
hanging of certain individual, for acta of via.
i lence and bloodshed at Socorro, in El Paso
t county, Texas. Wo received these aceounta
from a source altogether reliable, and it is true
' that the acts of lawlessness and murder as
9 reported, were committed ; but we have con
versed with gentlemen who were in Socorro
1 at the time, whose version of the whole affair
* and circumstances connected with it, give it a
' somewhat different phase ; and being desir
’ ous that the matter should appear in a fait and
’ impartial light before the public, we shall here
1 give the statement subsequently received by
' us.
1 We are informed that the “ bands of armed
ruffians,” as they were styled in our previous
accounts, were, many of them, the teamsters
aud other subordinate employees of the Boun
dary Commission, who had been discharged at
Socorro, by the Quartermaster, Mr. James
' Myer, three thousand miles from their homes,
without money, provisions or employment.
It is admitted that many acts of violence
and outrage were committed, as complained
of; but it is told us that these things were
done by frontier desperadoes, who had been
a long time in the country, and in no way
connected with the Commission. On the
night of the 28th of January, the man Alex
ander Young, who never had been connected
with or attached to the Commission, murder
ed, without cause or provocation, an old aud
inoffensive man named Wood, at a fandango.
[This man Young, it may be well enough to
stare, was well known tn ‘.wo of the editors
, He
was considered - nr.-, .. B _.
untrustworthy character s a sort of hanger on
about the camps of our army ; pretending at
times to act as servant or guide ; but always
looked upon by those who know him as a de
signing, unprincipled fellow and daring plun
derer. He co doubt mat with his deserts whoa
be was hung.]
In regard to this case, we are bow informed
that there was no indignation felt er manifest
ed by those persons who afterwards took so
active aud interested a part in the capture,
trial and execution of the men who wore
hung ; but that on the contrary, Yeung, du
ring the whole of the next day after the killing
of the old man Wood, was at large in the
streets of Socorre, and frequently in compa
ny with his subsequent executioners.
Respecting the assassination of the unfortu
nate Edward C. Ciark, we are told that, not
withstanding the murder of rhe night before
—that of Wood—Clark gave a fandango at a
bouse, rented by him for the purpose, at
which these " desperadoes ’’—Young includ
ed—were admitted. During the Bight seme
disturbance and noise arose at the mom. ta
ble. in adjoining apartment., which Clark, as
was hl.duty, endeavored to suppress ; and in
attempting to preserve order be was wantonly
attacked by Young with hie bowie-knife, from
which be received some eleven wound., eab
cequen.ly causing hi. death. When Young
made this unprovoked assault on C lark a gene
ral row took place.
We are further informed, that the aeeonnt
of tho maltreatment of the whole party of men
and women on this occasion—placing senti
nels at lhe doors, brine pistols at the candles,
and otherwise terrifying lhe women,dte.—all
took its origin in the “ frightened vision ”.f
our informant, “Philo Justice." Besides
the murder of Clarke, Charles Gates also re
ceived a wound from a pistol shot, in attempt
ing to rescue Clark.
On tl>e 30 h January, we are also farther in
formed, there was great excitement among
the members of tbe Commission stationed at
Socorro. An express was sent off to San
Elezario for assistance from the United States
troops at that place In the meantime, certain
members of the Commission at Soeorro met
and held a consultation, in which they unani
mously agreed that this band of •• armed ruf
fians ’’ should at once be arrested and hung.
They set to work immediately, when Marcus
Butler and William Craig were found at their
own quar ers and arrested without resistance.
A Mr. B.rtele, the acting Mexican alcalde,
(not lhe Chief Justice,) was called upon to
organize a court; but he not understanding
the English language, this was effected by an
individual attached to tbe Commission, who,
in lhe various capacities of Judge, interpreter,
clerk and witness, summoned ajury composed
of six Americans and six Mexicans—th. six
Americans being of the number of the Com
mission, who were present that morning at
the consultation, and who had expressed opin
ions The "court” assembled, armed with
r Iles, six-shooters and double barrel gons.
Butler and Craig were put upon their trial.
John Wade, a witness, was called to the bar,
sworn and examined ; but not being able to
answersatislactorily.be was told that be had
“ sworn falsely, and must take hie seat with
the prisoners.” The trial progressed, when
the testimony againts Butler not being euffi
c.ent to convict him, one of the jurors was
A —l .... . ux'ona... «nH 'O.uhx.l that I * But
, lor had told him, on lhe way up to El Paso,
that he, Buller, had hung two Mexicans near
! San A'touio, for stealing horses ” Tho trial
was not closed until next day, 31st January,
_C... .l . .. I— 1 4 -I _
when, after the testimony was concluded, the
jury retired to make up a verdict. Being ab-
M*nt, however, longer than was deemed neces
sary, one of the “ court ” entered the room
w here the jurors were delibera’inj, and in a
kw moments returned with the jury, and an
nounced that “nine of the jury had found all
three us the prisoners guilty, while the throe
other members dissented ; but that a majority
must rule.” Immediately on the rendering of
this verdict, (bat before which the ropes were
sent for and prepared,) the prisoners were
marched out surrounded by an armed force, and
hung; notwithstanding their protestations of
inuucence and their solemn appeals fora just
rial.
McNevin was arrests i on the same evening
of the execu ion; put into the “ s ucks,” and
con fined in the same room where the dead
bodies were placed all night. Next morning
he was tried by tne same jury, who finding noth,
mg to c< nneCt him, in the remo’es degree, with
the transaction, sentenced him to take an oath
to leave the county of E Paso within one
hour, under the penally of being shot; and it
was proclaimed that any person who should
see him after that time should be at liberty to
execu'e the sentence.
Yon ng was arrested about tea days after
wards; taken to Socorro, and tried and hung
the same evening.
[We have here given, a®briefly as possible,
(omitting several severe remarks on the course
of those individual who took it into their
hands to arrest and punish these men ) another,
or counter version of the terrible tragedies of
bccorru. We have nothing more to say. The
details are with the public.)
7 he Brazi'ian Slave Trude.— Private advices
from Rio Janero say “The Government is
periling its very existence iu its efforts to sup
press the Slave Trade. The or.ce notorious
slave steamer, the Serpente, now the Golfinhe,
of the Brazilian navy, has made several cap
tures. Last week she ca**ried off* 200 newly
imported negroes from the island of Maram
bai i. They are supposed to have belonged to
Joaquim Breves, the well known and opulent
slave dealer. This man is the owner of en
large farendas, and the master of some 2,500
slaves. His large possessions give him great
political influence, and the seizure of his slaves
shows p'ainly the energy and determination of
tht Government It is to be hoped, now that
the Brazilian authorities have given such sub
stantial proofs of their good faith and sincere
determ nation t<> put an end to the traffic, that
the officers of the cruisers will abstain from
interfe ing, end confine their operations to the
1 high sea®. Irritating the people, will be ’» ere
ly throwing new difficulties in the way of the
Government, whose task is already sufficiently
ardu ou a ”
Terrible Hurricane. —Tne Sandersville
Georgian of Saturday, speaking of the hur
ricane which swept through Washington
county last week, says:
“In passing over a part 4f the plantaven
of Col. Jno. J Long, it levelled every thing
iu its course; fortunately no houses were in
jured. Over the plantation of C. T. Hines,
Esq., it swept with resistless fury. Trees of
all sizes were uprooted; fences carried en
tirely away—some par’s of which will never
be found—foddervtacks swept off* and some
us it carried for miles, and even large pine
logs which had lain until they were half buried
in >he earth, were raised from their bsds and
removed. The plantation of Mrs Haines,
widow of the late Nathan Haines, near the
Og* echee river, suffered severely
Ou it every nsgro house was unroofed,
poul ry. dogs. &c , were carried off and have
not since been seen. Providentially bo lives
were lost to far as we have learned, although
many hair breadth escapes might be related.
One young man, finding the house in which
he was going to pieces, sprung from it and was
whirled by the wind some distance into a
peach tree; to this he clung for a moment
when it was blown up ; losing his bold of this,
be wa*< swept on into another to which he
c'ung until the siorm had passed. It is impos
sible <o estimate the damage s isla ned by those
who have suffered most, but it is very heavy.”
The Rain-—From all accounts the rain, lata
night was a week was one of the heaviest and
most extensive that has fallen fora number of
' years. Every where around, for huncreds of
miles, it seems to have poured down its wrath
in something like unbroken sheets, swelling
rhe flooding and washing away the
firms, and playing sad havoc with the mills,
s bridges and sac oriee. We doubt whether, for
J the duration of the storm, more water ever
i fell on this city. For three or four hours the
i elements were in a constant blaze, the thunder
rolled in unceasing peels, and the rain deecend
i ed as if it would drive things into the very
i earth. Tne next tnorntog wascalm and cloud
-1 les-, and it looked almost unnatural to sec the
rapidly rising river, as it swelled and rushed
uh ward to the Bay. But it is all past now.
n Our farmers have suffered immensely m every
a -ection from whence we have beard. Our
). manufacturing friends have been seriously in
j, -ured by breaks in their water works, jn
g 'bort, the calamity has mure or less affected
i- very body. Ins true that our river was not
j. -o high by ten or twelve feet as it was in 1841,
it vet the sudden n-e, giving little op-
ii poriunny to save property exposed to
a- teas, has occasioned an amount of damage
hitherto unknown tn thia Motion ot the State.