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rpillS \i U)KMV is located so Borke county, on the
1 Middle (irouml Bond fa-tweri Aujputa and Waynes
boro’-, ~n »i* under the c!. >» :■• < f Mr. J. K. 'i..-.
The Tnt U'-s jar !, a* soon a* (V-c U a CLu** reqfflr!ing
ft, order s|/h> Iworth of Klii!o«o|>hii.-al and Chemical Ap
nar.aui for the u«e< f tint Academy.
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GUST next, and el-.wi-h an examination, on TIfUItS
DAY, th 2*l of DKCKMDKIt following.
Tuition for the TL-rtn fin.
MOSKS V. GRK r.S, )
KLMiA A. AI.I.KN, VTrustees.
Jy2l*w4 EDMUND PAbMKK, \
UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE.
UEJ>I( AL DKI'AIiTMENT.
rpilF! SECOND ANNUAL COUKHK OP LECTURES
1 In this Department will c.-iiunence on th« fir. t Mo.xdav
or Novf'UMK next, and continue tilt the Jiratof the ensuing
March .
PAUL Y. EVE, M. I)., Principle and Practice of Sur
gery. JOHN M. WATSON, M. D., o»«trtrfc* and the
Discuses of Women and Children. A. 11. BUCHANAN,
M. I)., Huretcal fihd Pathological Anatomy and Physiology.
W. K. BOWLING, M. !)., Institutes and Practice of Mwl-
Icine. C. K. WfNtiTUN, M. D , Materia Medic a and Med
ical Jurisprudence. ROBERT M. PORTEK, M. I) M Gen
eral and Special Anatomy. J. BERRIEN LINDKLKY, M.
|)., Chcim.ilry and Pharmacy. WILLIAM T. BKiGGtf,
M. D., Demonstratornf Anatomy.
Tip- Anatomical Rooms will he opened for Students on the
first Monday of October. The Student* wiil have access
to the Htute Hospital.
A full PrsUv iftttrg Ao/rse of Lectures wiil he given by
the Professors, commenting al-.o on the first ftouday of
October.
y«e of each Professor, slfl. Matriculation ticket, $5;
DlrwHog ticket, $10; (infOuation foe, $29.
Good hoard ran We obtained in the city at from $2,50 to
$8 per week. Further information may he obtained by ad
dressing the Dean.
J. B. I AND BLEY, M. T)., Du*sr.
NashViHe, Term., June, Ih.VJ. Jy 1-wit
GKOUGM NIUTAttY ISHTITITK,
ftARIETTA, GEORGIA.
Tin: TillIID HKHKiO.N this Institution commences*
on the 7th .»f JUNE, 19112.
Tile Institution Is organised upon the usual plan of four
Collegiate Classes. The following is a synopsis of the
Course of Studies of each Clam:
rowan (xaml
Arithmetic, Algebra, Geometry, English Grammar, Geog
raphy, Composition and Declamation. French.
THIRD CI- C .H.
Trigonometry, Mensuration, Surveying, Descriptive Ge
ometry and Us application*, Analytical Ueometrjr, French
Drawing, Composition, Rhetoric, History.
uKcnsit a.\m.
Differential and Integral Calculus, Natural and Experi
mental Philosophy, Astronomy, Chemistry, Drawing, Evi
dence* of Christianity, Mural and Mental Philosophy,
rik.sr CLAW.
Natural History, Mineralogy, Geology and Physiology,
Political Economy, Law of Nations, Civil and Military En
gineering, and Civil Architecture, Infantry Tactics, Science
and Practice <»f Artillery.
No Cadet will he admitted who is less than fourteen, or
more than twenty-five years of age ; «>r who is afflicted with
any disease or intirmity which would render him unfit fur
military duty.
The Cadet* will be occupied about one hour and a hall
each day in military exercises; but at sucJt Ilmen an not to
interfere with their regular stmllrs. ,
The Course of Instruction, regulations and discipline of ,
the Institution have been published in pamphlet form and ,
will he forwarded to any pm son desiring more minute in
formation, by their addressing the Superintendent, MaJ. A.
V. lIBUMBY.
TCRMfI:
Each Cadet, ns soon as he is admitted, and before he Is
permitted to Join his Class, in the recital ion rooms, must j
pay over to the Burwrintendent the sum of SIOO, fur which (
a receipt shall he given him in full for tuition, hoard, wash
ing, fuel, lights, field music, and all other contingent ex- (
penned, for onk HEseiDN ov Five months, and for each sue
ceedtag session, SIOO in advance. t
Tuition alone (for resident Cadets) per session, payable
in advance $25
Contingent Expen.*•«■ $2 |
Cadets from a distance must provide their bedding and
room furniture. The «• article* can bu purchased in Stori
ette upon reasonable terms.
liy order of the Board of Trustees.
DAVID IRWIN,
Jft2d-wGrn Pi • .!d<>nt l»< :ird Trii-de**ii. 1
GORDON SPRINGS
A Hi: NOW OI’K.V lor the reception of visitors. First
elas*Omnibus* will he run regularly from Tunnel llili
to the bpi fng*. O. W GORDON.
June, ISVJ. «*2O-wkn»
tar* Constitutionalist, flmrlcntor. Mercury, Columbus
Enquirer, Bavannith Republican, Jouri a A Messenger (Ma
con), Christian Index and Southern Christian Advocate,
will ••'■l'.v 2 no.nth*, and send lull t.» Ch W.O. 1
DISSOLUTION.
riMIIS Copartnership of ADAMS, HOPKINS A CO., of
I Augusta, and F. T. WILLIS A CO., of Savannah,ls
Tills Day UlsFolvod by limitation. The business will be set
tled up by L. Hopkins and F. T. Wili.h, and the name of
the firm may !»;• used by either of the Copartners in liqui
dation. Their olDce is kept ns heretofore, at the Ware
house occupied by L. Hopkins, who continue* business on
hi* own account in the city of Augusta.
J. M. ADAMS*
fDuplicate, j LAMBETH HOPKINS,
July 1, 1n52. Jyft wlm F. T. WILLIS.
TO PLANTKRS.
TlfK «L U8(’RID»:il would respectfully Inform Phiut
ers, that he furnishes •
SMALL GRIST MILLS,
Suitable to be attached to Gin Gears, of different siscs,
and of different patterns at the lowest pried*. ,
These Mill* have given the highest satisfaction, and can
be compared with any from the North.
Please give us a call before buying elsewhere.
\VM. It. SQUIRMER.
Burr Mill Stone Manufacturer, Augusta, On. jafi-l.v
IW~ 41 IT n 8 Mi U K 8 1 GDAItC .j&J
(M J/clntosh street, tiro floors from Georgia Railroad
Boak.
JTHT ftlt(/KIVKD, per steamer Africa, the largest
and best assortment of ENGLISH GUNS ever offer
ed In this city, comprising every variety, from Ixmdou and
Birmingham makers, at the lowest rates for cash.
Double and Single Barrelled all sires and prices.
A tine assortment of Single ami Double Barrelled GUNS
or boys.
R1 fIKS and Double GUNS, of my own make, one barrel
Rifle and the other Shot, a tine article for hunting deer and
Turkics. . •
Colts’, Allen's, and other REVOLVERS; also Sirglebar
rclleii, Self Cocking and Rifle PISTOLS, cast steel barrel*.
Common Pistol*, all kinds ; Percussion CAPS, of Wester
y Riobard’*, ('ox’s water proof, Walker’* aud G. D. French,
•ml Military Cars.
A great variety of Powder FLASKS, Shot 15ELT8, and
Gains BAGS, or the finest Patterns.
Al*i', Wash Umls, Drinking Flasks ami Cups, Nipple
Wrenives, Pocket Compasses, Screw Drivers, tine large
bunting Horns, and everything in the Sporting line.
living a practical Gun Maker myself, and having these
guns made to my order, expressly for this market, persons
buying will g*t h much better articles than is sold at the Hard
ware stores, and »t equally low prices, and all warrant
ed to shoot welt.
Powder and Bhot, Wholesale And Retail, all varieties,
f;, U.—RIFLES ma«lc to order, and all kinds of llepair
ng and re-atoeking GUNK, done in the best manner ami
warranted. oHMy K. H. ROGERS.
REUBEN RICH’S PATENT CENTRE VENT WA
TER WHEEL.
CAUTION.— Having been informed that a certain per
son named Klkp, is vending a Water Wheel u]>on
which the water is conducted by means of n spirial scroll, as
upon Reuben Rich’s “Patent Centre Vent,” we hereby notUF
and caution the public, that so will prosecute, in all in
stances for any evasion or infringement upon said patent,
both the maker and party using, and will be thankful for
ju»v information referring u* to parties Urns trespassiug.
3 GIN DRAT & GO.
Montgomery, Ala., June 11, l*fa>. JeH-tf
THE MONTGOMERY MANUFACTURING COM
• PAN Y S IRON WORKS,
MONTfr .'MERY, ALABAMA.
Mi wipAriT HU, in superior style, Horisontal and
Unriuht ENGINES, of all sixes; Steam
BOILKIW Cast Iron WATER WHEELS;
Sugar MILLS* Saw and Grist Mill IRONS, of every varie
ty. imctuding lloxic's feet for isiw Mills 0 Fn
gine and lUnd LATHES; Iron and Draw CASTINGS, of all
kinds, Ac., Ac.
All order* tilled with despatch.
GINDRAT A CO.
a grTcultural IMPUt- m
iv MENT’S.—The undersigned arc
t»ow receiving from the mauufactur
er.« at the North, ami will keep con- *■■»*»* i
ptantly on hand a large assortment of the best auu.u i-- j
TURAL IMPLEMENTS to be had in New \ork or Kew (
England, or this city, and adapted tosJouthern Husbandry, ,
w„,U the, wiU low tor * BKAN . j
Augusta, Georgia. }
iMPnaTAKT IO KILL OWXEKS AND MAIfU
FACTURKR?.
rnrtr.illrd Impr*>i went in lT«/s*r !
THE SI HSI'HIIIHHS are sole aguntsfor making and
vending the best M ater Wheel in the world, known as
YandcwtttcraMater Whevl. We chailengo the World to
produce its equal. It has but recently been Introduced to
the public, and found to be far in advance of all other
wheels both in power and ccouomy in waior, every drop be
ing effective, and none wasted. This Wheel is not v\ the
least iitVw*. » by back water. As we prefer them being
placed below tall water in every instance, consequently we |
git every inch of head*, they being entirely of cast iron,
simple oT construction, are not liable to get out of order,
and are more durable than any wheel now iu use. Me
ija\e riveutly put one in oi*eration for George Schley,
Rsq., at hi* Belvule cotton factory. t»> whom wc w ould give
tW. f c nee. See eertuicate annexed.
AU orders for Wheels or Territorial Rights, will meet with
4-UenUoa by addressing the subscriber*.
J AGGER, TRKADWKLL * PERRY.
Albany, New York. ;
Gr to their Agent, J. J. Ktaun, Augusta.
[cmmnoATt.]
Are.v»TA, Ga., March 24,1551.
Jarsyer, Treadwell A Perry—Geotlcmen : —I have the j
gratification of informing you that your Yandewater Wheel
was succt srfully put iu operation at »uy factory last week, j
and It worked to perfection. It* simplicity, durability, »nd i
unif'rmitv of speed, are recommendations Mon*; but above
all. its highest enewuium is the small quantity of wat«r it j
take? as compared with other wheels. I have been using j
one of Reuben Rich** Centre ' cut Wheels, of three feet •
and a half diameter, and eleven inch bucket, the discharge
openiug* measuring 4To l nch»*s. i displaced that and put {
n one of yours of «U Ret diameter, With discharge open- 1
nga measuring 270 iiKhes, and your wheel run the aune
amount machinery that the Rich M heel had driven, and
here was a difference in favor of yours of eight inches in
he depth iff water iu the tad race. I feel no hesitation
ecommendingyour wheel to all manuJactuicra and mill i
*rm i>, believing it is the greatest wheel of Uje age. « wh
ng you success iu the featrodnetoa of so vaUuihto an ua
*33Ky r,_
IMPORTANT TO MANCFACTDRERS.
rplIK MWCBIBEIW »« prepared to Hipplj ail
CUTTUX AND WOOI.KN MACHINERY,
of* superior nualitv, SHAFTING .nil MII.L (U-AUINO,
with tuipr ved Coupliutf and Pulleys, Setf-OiUn* Hm*»™
whi.-t. leMuire oilin* only .*e* in three nomths ;.
f a great variety of Patterns, for Fancy and Twilled Goods,
rom One to Eighteen Shuttles; also, for Plain Goods, capa
ble of running from 150 to 170 picks per minute.
They are enabled, from their extensive improvements, to
produce YARNS and GOODS, with comparatively MUe
abor; au,t all Manufacturers, before purcliasing their {aa
binery, will do well to visit Philadelphia and vicinity,
where they can see the Machinery with all the latest im
provements, iu full aud successful operation; or they can
be referred to Factories in almu*t every Stato &>uth and
West, by addressing a line to the Subscribers.
ALFRED JENKS A BON,
Feb. 1952. fclS-ly Bridesburg, near Philadelphia.
N. B. Plans of Factories, with the focati<wi of Machinery,
he simplest method of driving, and calculation of speed,
(tirnished free of charge. wly
AUGUSTA FRENCH BURR MILL STONE MANU
FACTORY.
THB subscriber, thankful for the kind heretofore
extended to the late firm of mxurmeb A Wmaxd, would
respectfully inform Ub Wends and the public, that he contin
ues to execute orders for hw well known Warranted French
BURR MILL ATONES, c 4 every desirable m*c, at the lowest
price and sfiorlesi notice. He also furnishes
ISO PUS and COLOGNE STONES,
• SMUT MACHINES, of various pattern,
BOLTING CLOTHS, of the best brand,
CEMENT, for Mill use.
And erery other artido necessKxy *P * Mill.
Also, for Planters, small GtU>T MILLS to attach to Gin
tjear* •
AU order, promptly to.
FM. R. BCHIKMER,
w it gurrivip| partner of Solurm«r A Wigand.
Weekly Chronicle & Sentinel.
1852. PROSPECTUS 1852.
OF THE
SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR
VOLUME X, FOR 1852.
I)r. DiMEL LEF,, 0. ItEIIXOYD,
Editor. | Amwta-nt Editor.
TE2JIS.-OKE DOLLAP. A TEAE XX ACVAXCZ.
Tiit Somtiß.-«CtrLTiVAT</Ri» issued every month,
and is exclusively davotod to Agriculture, Horti
c :'t-.ire, X'ioriculture, Domeaticand Farm Economy,
'i 'arc and liushaiidry, the Breeding and Bahtin?
of Domestic AnimaU, i'oultnr and Bees, and ti.e
general routine of Southern limiting and Farming.
The new volume for lSog. will lie issued on a ro j al
octavo sheet of Z‘i pares, with NEW TV I'E, Elf. t
i'AI'EK, AND BEAUTIFELI JJ.UBTBATIONSI
It will contain a mnch greater amoni.t of matter
than heretofore—will dSaenee a greater var 'y of
f., i », an twill be in every respect tub bkstAori
ci'i.Ti'KAii’Aeiat in tue f cm! and equal to any in
the Union!
Friends of Southern Agrieulture!!
As the Cultivator wae the Knurr journal established
I in the Cotton Growing States, exclusively devoted
I lo tiio intere.-ts of the I'lrmter; and as it lots ever
been au earnest aud consistent advocate es those
utcrc-ts. wc conAdnntly iioj o tliat, having fostered
and sustained it tint, far,your cordial aud generous
support will still be continued.
I'LAvrEsw, Fakmers,Gaiu>k.nkr“, Fruit Growers,
Sts i: Baisi.hs, Nnt-utvm.N, uud all connected in
a ; . way with the cultivation of the soil, will find the
SocmhjtjiCi LTivAToR replete with new end velr.n
b!e information; aud richly worth ten time, the
riding sum at which it is afforded.
TERMS OF THE CULTIVATOR
ONE copy, one ' t .ir, : f ; : : : : -f 1,00
siXcopms, 5.0(
TWELVE copies, :::::::: 10.00
TWENTY-FIVE copies, ::::::
FIFTY copies, : : : :::::: 37,50
ONE HUNDREDcopiea, : : : : : : 75.«
ALWAYS IX ADVANCE.
JIT" Gentlemen wiio obtain subscriptions, will
plea e forward them as early as poasiblc.
All bills of specie p aviso Banks received at
par aiid all money sent by mail will be at our
risne.
W. 6. JONES, Publisher.
Aaffnata, Ga., January 1, 1852.
KEW YORK ADVERTISEMENTS.
HOE'S CAST STEEL CIECULAE AND LOXG SAWS.
rpilK subacriber* manufacture, from the beat cast eteel,
I CIRCULAR SAM'S, from two inches to five feet diame
ter. These saw* are carefully hardened and tempered, and
arc ground and finished by machinery designed expressly for
the purpose, ajid i re therefore much buj t rior In truth and
uniformity of Mirlafce to those ground in the tL*ual munner.
They require less set, less |>«Wer to drive them, anti are not
so liable to become heated, and produce a saving of timber.
They also manufacture CVt .‘•■etj} MILL PiT and CROSF
CUT BAWS, and BILLKT M KBfsof superior quality, all « f
which they have for sale at their Ware Rooms, Nos. 20 ami 111
Gobi Street,or they may be obtained of the principal Hard
ware Merchants iu the United ft tales.
«. HOE A CO.,
Printing Press, Machine Ami Haw Makers,
29 and 81 Gold Street.
The following extract is from a rei*ort made by a committee
of scientific and practical gentlemen, appointed by the Ameri
can Institute:
“ Your committee are of unanimous opinion, that In the ap
parrtua Invented by Mr. R. M. Hoe, for grinding saws, be
has displayed great ingenuity and tact in the adaptation of
machinery to the production of results in the manufacture of
saws, which may with propriety be denominated the lie plus
ultra of the art.”
Publishers of newspapers who will insert this advertisement
three timer-*, with this note, and forward us a pa per containing
the same, will be paid in printing materials, by purcliasing
four times the amount of their bill for the advertisement.
Jy'jG wCm
OIL CLOTHS.
A IaBRO A IIOYT, Nos. 72 and 74 John street, New
fork, Manufacturers aud Dealers in Oil Cloths, exclusive
ly. At their Factories are turned out (under a patent pro
cess,)
FLOOR OIL CLOTHS,
Which for beauty of design and elegance of finish, surpass
any thing of the kind hitherto produced in this country or in
Kurojie, and for which they obtained the prize medal at the
World’s Fair.
At their Ware-rooms in New York, can be found a large
and complete assortment of Heavy Medium, and thin Floor
Oil Cloths, from 27 inches to 42 feet wide; also Table, Fur
niture, and Carriage Oil Cloths.
New York. dl6
FANCY GOODS.
\mun, Dlf’KSOft A (Formerly BAJLEY,
V \ WARD, A CO.) at thb old STAND, No. 41 M AIDES Lane,
Ni-:w York, ImjHirters of French, German, and English Fan
cy Goods, Brushes, Combs, Fans, Jewelry, Porto Monnah'S,
Work and Dressing Cases, Writing Desks, Violins, Aceorde
ons, Perfumery, .Stationery, Ac., Ac.
t notice that our firm is Ward, Dicksos ft Co.,
and our number 41. n 27 6m
CARDS, CARDB.
/COTTON, \\OOI 4 , Jim-Crow ami Horse Cards of the
\ ) above celebrate*l stamps, are of unequalled quality, and
wherever Introduced take the place of all others. They are
manufactured on our new improved machinery, and each
pair ia warranted in every respect. Our inferior cards, the
common 44 Whitemore ” stamp, are of the usually well known
quality.
bold by the Hardware houses in a'l the cities, and country
Merchants, and to the trade by the Manufacturers.
JOS. B. SARGENT,
mylO wly* 24 Cliff Street, New York.
SAVANNAH ADVERTISEMENTS
BA.UUX HOYT & CO.,
CDISMISSION MERCHANTS & DEALERS IN
AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS,
II fOULD ivlvlse their numerous friends that they keep
YY constantly itt their W arehouse—sign of th** BIG
PLOW, No. 6 WhiUtker Street, Savannah, all kinds of Aori
cri.Ti.RAL Implements. Also, Lime, Uaie, Cement and
Plaster. They have now In btore,
1,200 barrel* LIME,
1,000 do CEMENT,
ROO do. Culdne*! PLASTER.
All thu above at and Retail, at reduced prices.
n 27
SASH, BLINDS, DOORS.
S ALE at No. C Whitaker Street, Savannah, Ga.
1 Glazed Sash, Blinds and Doors, suitable for outside and
side work, by
i,. - SAM’L. HOYT A ro.
BALTIMORE ADVERTISEMENT.
200.000 JtW^KMb?* SHOULDERS;
7 5,000 Small Family HAMS;
*2OO bids. LARD.
For snle by the undersigned, who keeps constantly on hand
a large Stock of PROVISIONS. Parties sending orders,
nyiy rely on getting them filled at as low rails, ns if buy
ing in person. GEORGE A THOMAS CASSURN.
J 16 44 Sooth Btrect, BtltiiftW, Mi.
BOSTON ADVERTISEMENT.
COITON AND WOOLEN MACHINERY,
AND STEAM SAW MILLS AND ENGINES.
I promptly execute all orders for Cotton and Woolen
MACHINERYbf all kinds, and will contract for whole mills
from the water wheel or steam engine to the finishing ma
chine. Steam Saw Mills for gangs or single saws. Ma
chinists’ Tobls of every description. Locomotives and
Freight Cars. Machinery of all kinds on hand, either fin
ished or in progress, so that orders can be filled at short
notice. Terms are very low. Persons contracting for
Milts will be lurnished with drawings for arranging the Mills,
withoutsWurffe. GORDON McCAY, Agent.
np24-wly
TWENTY-FATS CENTS REWARD.
TIIK pub ic arc hereby notified, that on the 17th day of
July, Inst., a man who calls himself J. AV. BELL, run
away from the Johnson House, in this city, without settling
his bill for board; and also borrow ed a line Colt’s Revolving
Pistol, which lie carried off with him. The said Bel! weighs
ufann 160 pounds, talks a great deal, very profane, has
down-east Yankee brogue, largo ugly mouth, one large left
front tooth out, has a supernumerary, or tusk on the right,
btaek hair, (little gray front,) black eyes, fair skin, beard
little inclined to be red, shout 6 feet It) inches high ; wore
oIV a black frock coat, black pants, black satin vest, and
black fur hat. Bell profess s •! to Ik* a Book-binder by trade,
and said he was from Montgomery, Ala. Any information
respecting the said SCOUNDREL, will be thankfully re
ceived by the undersigned.
All newspapers friendly to this, w ill please hand liim
around, and oblige E. H. GILLESPIE,
J. D. WELLS,
j.v2B-wi Atlanta, Ga.
SI,OOO REWARD.'
DU. HUNTER’* celebrated SPECIFIC, for the cure
of Gonorrhoea, Strictures, Gleet and Aiiolagoux Com
plaint* of the Organs of Generation.
Os all remedies yet discovered for the above com*
plaiut, this is the most certain.
£«■* It makes a speedy and permanent cure without re
strictiou to diet, drink, exposure, or change of application
to business.
Iti# perfectly harmless. Gallons of it might be
taken without injuring the patient.
fcS?"** It is put up in bottles, with full directions accom
panying it, so that persons can cure themselves without re
sorting to physicians or others for advice.
One bottle is enough to perform a certain cure. Price sl.
U#" It is Approved and recommended by the Rsyal
College of Physicians and Surgeon* of London aud has
their certificate enclosed.
It is sold by appointment in Augusta, Ga., by
PHILIP A. MOISE,
Under the new Augusta Hotel, and by W. H. A J. TURPIN.
Orders from the country promptly attended to. je*2
GLENDINNING A CO S
M.VRHLE WORKS, Broad street, Augusta, Georgia,
AVhera we have on hand and will continue to keep a
large stock o i both Italian and American Marble, for
Monuments, Toombs, Head Stone*, Ac., to which we rea
peetfcUy caff the attention of those wanting work in our
iue. We are now prepared to fill all orders at short no
tice, in as good style and as low as work of the same quality
can be famished for from any establishment in the United
State*. Plans and prices will be sent those who cannot coil
and examine for themselves.
p. g.—Orders from the country executed with neatness
and despatch. d 27
INTERESTING" TO COTTON PLANTERS,
o R. PARK HURST'S Patent Cottonseed CLEAN-
O# ING MACHlNE,constructed without Saws or Ribs.
The Inventor of this Machine now has the pleasure of an
swering the numerous inquiries from Cotton Planters, res
pecting the performances and results of this Gin. It has
been frilly tested by cleaning the entire crop of a large
planter near Columbia, S. C., (a certificate fr om whom is
appended,) enhancing the value of the Cotton one and a
half to two cents per lb. over that cleaned by any £aw Gin.
This advanced price more than pays for a Machine in one
year's average crop, the cost of it being only $250. It turns
out equally as much or more, than any Saw Gin ; is more
simple and durable, perfectly safe to the ginner, inasmuch
as he cannot cut himself; and the great danger of fire, by
friction, in other Machines is entirely obviated.
Arrangements are completed, to build these Machines
in Augusta, for the State of Georgia ; and Cotton Planters
desiring them, are respectfully requested to send their or
ders to the subscriber. One of the Gins may be seen in
operation at my Steam MilL AV. H. GOODRICH.
* Augusta, April, 1851. »pA&
Copy of a certificate from Col. Wade Hampton, dated at
Millwood, Nov. 4,1550.
Mr. Parkhurst has been, for some weeks, at my plantation
adapting his Gotten Gin, originally intended for Long Cot
ton. to short staple. The experiment has been entirely suc
cessful. He has one Gin in operation, which nil prepare ;
four bales of three hundred and fifty pounds each, per day, |
and the quality of the cotton i* far heUer than JMM ]
erer ee*n. By this process of cleaning cotton, the staple
is uninjured, wh'Jc all the motes and false seeds are almost
entirely tci-ar&led from the lint. 1 deem this discovery of
va«t importance to the country, and I earnestly hepe that l
Mr. Parkhurst may be rewarded for it.
aul9-wly W. Hixtto*
serif e.
DU. HRXBY B.ICOX having transferred his interest
> the ttra c f D. B. PLUMB 1 CO., to Dr. I. P. !
i’-t-’ IN, the umlereigned will cootie.ae the DRUG EUSI
NKSS at the same stand and under the same firm name, ,
anu »iU close up the business of the old firm.
D. B. PLUMB,
. U GARVIN.
Augusta, January 81st, ISM. fel
OEGCERLES, GHOCEKEES.
THE subscribers continue to carrv on the Wholesale
sml Retail Grocery Business, at their Old Stand, just
above the Globe Hotel, in the city of Augusta, and they
beg to infrrtn the public that they are roar receiving their
Full Supply of Heavy and Fancy Groceries, which they will
sell on the most reasonable terms.
—THEY NOW OFFER FOR SALE
-100 bales 46 inch Gunny Cloth,
500 corls hails inch Bale Rrpe,
50 hbds. N. Orleans and Muscovado Sugar*
100 bbis. Stuart’s Crushed and Granulated do
800 bags prime Rio aud Laguira Coffee,
45 chests and half chests Tea,
60 hh.U. Cuba Molasses,
100 bbis. Hiram Sadia and Baltimore Pouf,
100 boxes Sperm, Ada., and Tallow CandJrrs,
#OO kegs Cut Nails, all sites,
75 boxes Tobacco of various ou«!!t;«a,
|5 660 lbs. Hams Sides and Shoulders,
1,600 sacks UterporiSalt.
Spice*. Pickle*. Preserve* Segura, and all articles usually
■ kept in the best Grocery House*.
Strict attention given to country order*.
! aolS-w J* B AW. W. DOW.
BOI.TINtiT uFrTIb. of warranted quality, tarnished
and jut op in boils to order.
I Mill Slone Plaster, prepared lor backing Mfil Stems, cheap
; and of the beat quality, tar sale b L
JU« wtf AWP«me, ia
WEEKLY
CHRONICLE & MjjL
MISCELLANY,
HTK BEAUTIFUL SOUTH,
nr l. riKci.MA smith.
“Know’ll thou the iand” where the Summer is queen.
And her royal profusion enriches the scene,
Till earth i* enrobed in her emerald dyes,
And legal emblazonry glows on the skies;—
Where the rignet of loveliness ever has shone,
And the bpirit of Beauty established her throne*
JLirt heard of a clime where the eare-haunted bosom,
I - -rotbed by the spell*of the balui-brea*hingblossom;
\Y h* rc th free rpirit mirrors the height of the n ountaln,
of the f-rent,the of the fountrin.
And loses its shadows of grief and of gloom,
In tropical Tallies all Hunt with bloom*
Ur st sought over crannny savannas, the wood
With its arches Titan tic, and *till solitude.
Where bland airs are curling the emerald billows
Os far-waving fofitge, and under the willows
The fawn nestles down ’mid the feathery fern,
And the wild lily holds up Iter delicate urn *
Hast joined in the melody -weeping along
With a waring of plumage, a gushing of song,
Where the bob-o-link warbles, the oriole sings,
And the mocking-bird’s mogriz il gleefully rings.
Where the stately nngnolia the woodland j»eifumes.
And the parroquet Suiters his rich tinted plumes ?
Hurt looked on the MU-sde the south-wind has kissed.
With bold breath up-lifting iu veiling of mist; —
Or s'lft-shadowed vDtas lit up by the gleams,
Os glittering sunshine, and far-lhubing -dreams,
Whose sweet waters tn«*!t on the coraiine shore,
Like murmurs of love from the lips we adore V
I>Y;st dream of an F ieri whose bright, flowing waters,
Find rivals as graceful and pure in it 3 daughters,—
Os a lip’s living coral—a cheek where the rose
Sheds its soft dimpled freshne- , and dewy repose,—
Os an eye oriental where witeb'-y sleep*
Fkuhrintd in its kindling and passionate deeps*
Can’at tell of her sons, ever chainlc-* ar.«l free
As their proud rivers seeking the blue-rolling sea,
By frost never festered: —whose spirit of fire
Flash forth the quick impulse of love, or of ire.
As noble,*s knightly, as brave, as in years
Long past were their father’*, the bold Cavaliers !
Oh ! swift a.s a bird to its bowery nest.
The glad spirit Hies from a world of unrest,
To the sheltering hearts, all sglour like the prime
Os summer, abroad in their glorious clime, —
And with pride wc proclai it, wherever we roam,
4, 1 too am a Southron, —the South is my home !*’
Fre.m the Eagle A Enquirer.
A LITTLE THOUGHT.
DT L. VIRGINIA gMITIT.
Where the sweet waters met
Gracefully sweeping,
Lay the white violet
Peacefully sleeping,
And a star-thadow fell
Silvery gleaming,
Nift on the snowy bell
Blissfully dreaming.
Up from the ocean’s lone •
Ftorni-haunted dwelling,
Came a deep thunder-tone
Mournfully swelling.
Through the air-solitude
Cloud-banners waving,
Marshalled the tempests rude
Angrily raving. •
Morn o’er the billows shone,
Playfully roving,
Where has the tlow’ret flown
Lovely and loving ? **
Far down the chilly tide
Broken and faded,
Wanders the 44 fairy’s pride”
Lorn, and degraded.
Thus on the stream of years
Youtii, is a blossom,
Hour, like the star appears
Bright on its bosom.
Agk is the coming cloud
Faltering never,
Borrow the tempest-crowd
* Blighting it ever!
Address to Mrs. Clay.
The following address from the young men of
Cincinnati is to be presented tq Mrs. Clay:
To the afflicted Widow and others of the bereaved family
of Mr. Clay.
The Almighty Ruler of tiie Universe governs all*
created things by immutable laws. Hence, God’s
gifts cannot be permanent, 44 but the Lord giveth
and the Lord tnketli away.” Jehovah, in lii* iu
linite goodness, created a man. That man he gave
unto the world aa the champion of univer.-al lib
erty ; unto the American Union and the people of
this glorious Republic as u defender of its consti
tutional rights, and protector of their civil and re
ligious liberties; and unto a devoted family, an
aifectiouate husband, a fond parent and zealous
guardian; and although an admiring world, an
idolizing nation, and those who bore tiie tenderest
and most endearing relationship toward the de
parted, could it avail, would have said to the enemy
of mankind, 4 * Spare him ! sever not the vital cord
that binds to us a beacon light, a national safeguard
and beloved relationyet the fiat proceeded from
heaven, the laws of nature and omnipotence were
obeyed, and Henry Clay fell beneath the sword of
time. lie has passed from the scene of his terres
tial trials aud triumphs to one of celestial ease, un
ending peace aud infinite glory. While we arc
tauifht that God grants boons and revokes them
at His will, wc arc shown that He wounds to heal,
and lacerates to restore to soundness.
lie has implanted in our bosoms a holy feeling
of gratitude and reverence that enables ua to say,
yet• 44 blessed be the name of the Lord.” Let the
bereaved family and aifectiouate consort of Mr.
Cluy remember that in the midst of their bereave
ment and affliction they can find consolation and
hope. They can derive consolation from the fact
that not only do* the intimate friends of the de
ceased share their grief and pungent agony at his
death, but the prayers of a nation, of almost every
soul beneath the firmament of intelligent Christen
dom, are united with theirs iu behalf of the calm,
peaceful and unbroken rest for the spirit of him
who lias departed. They can find hope in the
promises of the great God whoso dispensations are
inscrutable, for the Etornal One has provided
means whereby the father and child, the husband
and wife, the brother and sister, shall be united
hereafter iu the regions of paradisian blissfulness
ami bands of inseparable union.
Yes, Clay Ims gone to join the throng of illustri
ous sages, immortal patriots and venerated men
who surroijnd the throne of Jehovah, and unite in
paying unceasing devotion to Him who has given
to a world, to a nation, and to a host of friends,
and taken from them, the lamented dead—whose
name and fame will continue to be hand
ed down from generation to genera An, until the
dawn of eternity.
Peace be to his soul, consolation to his widow,
and perpetuity to the memory of Ilenry Clay !
11. Ci.ay Pate, j
AY. C. Thorp, / Committee.
JamesP. Pond, )
The Teachings of a Great Lesson. — The
Louisville Journal makes the following forcible
observations in regard to the detraction with
which our public men are but too commonly as
sailed in their lifetime :
44 It is true that Henry Clay’s death has disarm
ed his political foes, but bis glorious life should
have disarmed them. There were in his life a
thousand deeds that should have called forth from
them as American citizens, admiration, reverence,
applause and gratitude,but thire was little else in his
death than the calm and peaceful return of dust
to dust.
u Formore than a quarter of a century Mr. Clay
was the most fiercely abused man and the most in
cessantly abused man that ever lived in this coun
try. No other ten, twenty, or fifty men were so
much abused as lie. Throughout nearly the life
time of a generation, numberless charges, for
which, they if hud been true, he would ha\c deserv
ed to be lnintcd out from all human society, were
brought against him, aud daily reiterated against
him by the whole banded press and by almost the
whoie banded masses of one of the great political
parties of this country. And now all the charges
so ferociously asserted and so obstinately perse
vered in, charges which nearly broke the heart
of their illustrious victim, mighty as that heart
was in its energy ami its power of resistance to
wrong, arc retracted by those who uttered them,
and are succeeded by the loudest and most enthu
siastic praises that ever vainly fell upon the “dull,
cold ear of death.”
“These things have their lesson. They should
teach old assailants of Henry Clay to be careful
how they denounce the great living benefactors of
their country. These very men are now engaged
in pursuing Gen. AY infield Scott as if he were a
public enemy, entitled to no more forbearance
than a traitor, a pirate or a wild beast. General
AY in field Scott is an old man, and he, in th© course
of a tew years, will die as Henry Clay has died,
and then, ns in the case of Ilenry Clay, the assail
ants of his living fume will nnite with the
rest of the people of the United States in
giving tears aud blessings to his memory, and
warmly and enthusiastically proclaim him what he
is, a pure, upright, noble and most devoted pa
triot, who has consecrated his life to his country,
and done incomparably more than any other man
on the stage of existence for the promotion of that
country’s glory.
“Oh, arc there not thousands and tens of thou
sands and hundreds of thousands of honest dem
ocrats, who will vindicate the living Scott against
his infuriated traducers, instead of waiting to have
*the late remorse of love* awakened within their
bosoms by the closing of the grave over all of him
that is mortal ?”
The Knickerbocker on Drummers. —The New
York Knickerbocker thus hits off the professional
mercantile drummers of New York :
“During the ‘dull season,’ Mr.Brussface Doolit
tle, uniting business with pleasure, make* » touer
through the thickly settled portions of the neigh
boring; Slates, where country merchants most
abound, and returns a wiser, and in mercantile
parlance, a ‘better man. In these perigrina
tions he necessarily becomes partially acquainted
with a (frost number of men, to whom he warmly
proffers his services as cAiptron, when they come
to town: and. that he may not seem wanting hi
hospitality, and the better to enable bitn to recog
nize them again, he keeps a diary, descriptive of
persons and eveuts worthy of notice whieh ooine
uuder his observation. In this wise is his journal
White, Whiteviile; New York ; red hair
one eve, green spectacles, long legged, worth ten
thousand ; eloae buyer, and great antipathy to
‘drummers.’ Promised to take him to see Jenny
H'john Walworth, same place : tall, lame in both
legs ’ fond of toddv; pretty wife ; keeps a stnd
horse ; cousidered 'doubtful. Rich grandfather ;
good if the old man will endorse for liim ; but
old man's <•/«*<•’
‘John Christian, Allentown, Sxiehigan : a very
hard Christian, but an excellent Jehu. Owns five
thousand acresAt' wild land, which keeps liim
poor • will do weell if he sells his land; not more
honest than the law allows ; will probably ‘scU’
tbc New Yorkers eventually. Promised to take
bim to a trot,' ”
iNOKNtors Machine. —A paging machine, iu vent
od bv J & W. McAdams, of Boston, is a most in
genious contrivance, and by its means enables
blank book manutaetnres to furnish account books
paged throughout, without the tedious process of
printing the fiurcs by hand. The machine con
fain, a set of figures, from 1 to 144, worsting on an
endless chain moving oil rollers. At the top of
the cases containing the chain is a set of inking
rollers, one of which applies mk to Uie numbers
at every movement of the treddle by which. the
apparatus is revolved, and at the same time brings
together two hammers which press the pages
against the types, aud make two impressions at
one movement of the treddle. The numbers are
east and m elted to small plates tonning the end
less chain. A second case accompanies the mi
chine containing tiie numbers from .44 to l,ow.
so that books of the moat bulky description can
be paired with equal facility. The cost of pagm£
by iiand used to oe twelve and a half cents per
hundred, but with the aid of this machine it can
be done at one-fourth the expense, and of course
much more neatly and accurately. The machine
should be seen to' be appreciated.— Pico?"**.
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4. 1852.
| Trade with tiie Amazon.—National Observatory.
Washington, June T, 1852.
! Dear Sir :—I am in receipt of your letter of 2Sth
j May, inviting me, by direction of the “Merctrn
| tile Library Association of Charleston,” to deliver
a public lecture or address before their body at
such time during the next fall or winter as shall
best suit me.
I am not master of my own time; but should
my official engagement permit, 1 am always and at
any time, at the service of the Fellows of "the Mer
cantile Library Association.
You appear to intimate, by alluding to what yon
are plea.ed to term my “labors in the cause of
Southern trade and commerce,” tliut the Associa
tion, “composed mostly of young men,” would
be most pleased tliat 1 should select that lor my sub
ject. The cause of Southern trade aud commerce
is very near my heart, and in opening the way for
them. 1 wa,,t the help of young men, of men who
have the energy and spirit of young blood in bine
veins to animate them.
A petition is now before Congress praying for
the establishment of a line of mail steamers from
Norfolk or Charleston to the city of Para, at the
mouth of the Amazon.
This line will bring Charleston within ten days
sail of that magnificent river basin. From Para
there is a line of Brazilian mail steamers twice a
month to Bio. It touches at the various interme
diate ports of Brazil, and by the new schedule its
steaming time is to be reduced to ten days, and its
trips increased to three times u month. ’
Joining on to this at Kio, there is another line to
Montivideo at the mouth of the Bio de la Plata.
This line also touches at the ports intermediate, be
tween that Kiver aud Bio. The valley of the La
Plata is nearly as large as the valley of the Missis
sippi; it is more fertile.
Hosas, wiiose policy w ith regard to its commerce
was Japanese, has just been driven away, and the
Ministers Pleiiqioteiituiry of Brazil. France, En
gland and the United States, ore said to be there
now, “r on their tvay there, t ' treat for the open
ing of the navigation of the Bio de la Plata and
Us tributaries, upou fair and equal terms to all the
world.
It has never before been opened to commerce,
except recently, for six months, when the English
and French blockading squadrons suddenly forced
it open. Two fleets of merchantmen, numbering
some seventy-five vessels each, were convoyed up
the river and its tributaries, and without precon
certed arrangements between merchants and plan
ters, those fleet* found produce enough on the
banks to exchange fur sixteen millions of dollars’
worth of merchandise.*
The importance of navigable rivers to commerce
is estimated according to the extent und fertility of
the country that seeks through such rivers an out
let to market. And so, too, as to the cities at tho
months of ull rivers; wc are are iu the habit of es
timating tiie commercial resources of such cities
by tho extent of buck country by whieh they are
supported, uud winch depends upon them lor a
market, or an outlet to market.
Let us, therefore, compare the extent of country
drained by the Mississippi, the La Plata, the Ama
zon and other navigable American rivers .hat emp
ty into the Atlantic, with the extent of hack coun
try drained by the navigable rivers of Europe and
Asia that empty into the commercial parts of the
ocean.
Extent of back country drained by tbe navigable rivers of
Europe that empty into tiie Atlantic, Equare
miles 632,940
“ “ “ “ Mediterranean 6T5.430
“ “ Asia “ Indian Ocean 1,661,760
“ “ “ “ .Pacific 1,767,230
“ North America that empty into Atlantic 314,31)0 ,
America into Gulf of Mexico and Caribean Sea.. .1,241.440
Amazon and Its confluents 2,048,480
Other Brazilian rivers 443,090
La Plata 856,40 rt
Total Europe 1,211,370
“ Asiatic 3,429,040
“ America 4,854,770
Thus you observe that the navigable rivers of
America which empty into the Atlantic Ocean,
drain a baek country larger, more fertile, and capa
ble of a greater variety of agricultural production,
than all the navigable river basins of Europe and
Asia put together. z\nd that the proposed line of
steamers to tho Amazon will bring, not only
Charleston, but every seaport town of the Atlantic
coast within twenty-five or thirty days of the most
remote outlet of any of these American river ba
sins.
Suppose the navigation of the La Plata be—and
no doubt it will he—made free. We are about six
ty days off from it uuder canvass. England, by
mcans of her line of steamers from Southampton
to Kio, is about thirty-five, aud our channel for
correspondence and intelligence is through Eng
land. England has, and until wo set up this Ama
zonian line in opposition to her, will continue to
have from ten days to two weeks the start of us in
meeting every demand that may arise in the La
Plata markets She has already tho same advan
tage in tho markets of Rio and Brazil. Now Kio
and the mouth of the La Plata are about five hun
dred miles nearer by steam to Charleston and Nor
folk than to Liverpool.
From Charleston or Norfolk, via the Amazon,
touching at Porto Bico, would not be more than
one day’s steaming out ofthe direct route to Kio.
This line would bring tho mouth of tho Amazon
within ten days, Bio, within twenty, and Buenos
Ayres nnd Montevedio, at tho mouth of the La
Plate within twenty-five steaming days of Norfolk
and Charleston, and indeed of tho whole Atlantic
seaboard. . •
Ourcommcree with these countries, with tho La
Plata shut up, is about sixteen millions the year.
And this schedule would give ns the advantage
over the English of some days, if not of weeks, in
those markets.
The enterprizo »f tho South is socking to display
itself in the workshopas well as in the field and
on tho ocean. The South want* a market for
coarse cottons. There is no market in the world
for coarse cottons like the intcrtropical regions of
South America—like the valley of the La Plata,
with its three or fonr millions—the valley of the
Amazon and Brazil, with their seven millions of
people. And as for the capacities of tho valley of
the Amazon, for this and other species of merchan
dize from the South, when those capacities shall
be stimulated and developed by settlement, agri
culture and commerce, there is no end to them ;
they are boundless.
This Amazonian line of steamers will place the
whole South within ten days of tho Amazon—it
will draw via Norfolk or Charleston, or whatever
city be its terminus, much of the business, the
corrrespondenco and tho travel that now go on
from South America. Bio and the La Plata, to En
gland.
Now, gentleman, here a “chance for the
South,” afield for your enterprize. Go into it
nnd with your talents and your industry, lend a
hand now to wake up the country and Congress to
the importance of it.
Tho fall or winter is too late; now is the time to
move in the matter—to discuss aud to agitate.—
Circumstances are propitious. 1 can’t let this sub
ject sleep ’till the fall, to be wakened up in a lec
ture. Let ns be up and doing now; and then in
the fall or winter, as it shall best suit the conven
ience of the gentleman ofthe Mercantile Library
Association, we will, my duties permitting, have a
talk about the matter.
Respectfully Ac.,
M. F. Mavrt, Lieut. IT. S. Navy.
Wm. Blanding Esq., Corrrespouding Secretary
of Mercantile Library Association, Charleston.
•Vide Statistical anil Geogriphal of Montgomery
Martyn.
A Gloomy Prospect.—Mr. Thurlow Weed, of
the Albany Evening Journal, as ardent a lover of
freedom as our republic ever produced, holds tiie
following language with respect to tiie European
continent:
It is sadly true, that tho whole continent of Eu
rope is in “ a condition of profound repose.” The
despots have retracted all or nearly all, that luul
been extorted from them. Martial law, or law
scarcely less rigorous, pervades the continent.—
Freedom is “crushed to earth," and in most places
even the hopes of freedom have perished.
Three rears ago the European people held their
destiny iu their own hands. The Etni>eror of Aus
tria and the Kings of Prussia, Bolguim, Saxony,
Sardinia, Naples,.Ac., Ac., unable to resist, offer
ed terms to their subjects. The people compro
mised with their rulers. Constitutions were giv
en. To save their crowns they promised to sur
round their thrones wilh popular institutions. All
this was to gain time. When tiie popular voice
was hushed, and the people returned to their oc
cupations. their rulers augmented their armies,
and with the aid of Russia, recovered their power,
nnd now their rule is more grinding than ever.—
In Naples there is a despotism as unrelenting and
cruel as any that existed in the darkest ages. In
Austria tiie masses toil, not for themselves, but to
support an expensive court and an overwhelming
army. In Belgium and Sardinia alone have Kir.g>
kept faith with the people. Everywhere else they
were perfidious.
But there is no probability of any “ immediate
revolution” in Europe. Despots have it all their
own way. The sad failure of republicanism in
France gave despotism advantages which it is im
proving.
Mendicant Dog.—“l was travelling,” sayß M.
Blaze, “in a diligincc. At the place where we
changed horses 1 saw a good looking poodle dog,
(chiai canirht.) which came to the coach door, and
sat upon its two hind legs, with the air of one beg
ing for something. ‘Give him a sow,* said the. pos
tillion to me, ‘and yon will see what. ho will do
with it.’ I threw to "him the coin, he picked it up,
ran to tiie baker's, and brought back a piece ot
bread, which he ate. This dog had belonged to a
poor blind man. lately dead: he had no master,and
begged alms on his own account."’
SrßSTrrrrE for Quinine. —Anew vegetable salt,
the sulphate of bebeerine, is proposed by Dr. 11.
S. Patterson, of the Pennsylvania Medical College,
as a substitute for quinine, it is obtained from the
bebeeru, or green heart of British Guiana, a tree
of considerable size, and extremely abundant. The
bark yields the alkaloid largely, but is particularly
abundant in the nut. A decoction ofthe bitter is
the ordinary remedy for intermittent lever in De
merara. The process es extracting the aetiYe prin
ciple is not more expensive than that for procur
ing quinia. If, therefore, the new medicine proves
efficacious as quinine, an economical substiute
will be in reach of all.
What Wmisery is Good l or.—The Lynchburg
(Ya.) Express states that two sons of the late Ilez
ekiah Fuqua, of Bedford tnear Liberty in that
State,) together with a little negro boy, a few days
since, were severely bitten by a snake :
The lads went out hunting, and having started
a rabbit ran him into a hollow log, when one of
the boys put his hand in to haul him out. Very
soon he felt something bite, or as he thought the
scratch ofthe bare. His brother tried it with a
like sensation, so he declined repeating the opera
tion. Then little Cuff (brave as Ca'sar) tries it
with like success. In a few moments the hands of
tl.e parties commenced swelling at an alarming
rate, when medical aid was immediately procured.
Tiie Physician dosed them well with liquor un
til the patients became prety well intoxicated, and
after recovering from the effects of the medicine
the swelling subsided, and we are happy to hear
the trio are entirely convalescent. Tbe log wa»
j split open, and to the surprise of affi a huge copper
1 head snake exhibited himself in allDiis native fe
rocity.
Ditch Possessions in SrßixAM.—The Frank
further Journal, of thi 4lh, says: “It is rumored
that the Dutch Government has addressed to all
the Government* of Germany a note which lias
been laid before the Germanic Diet. In the note
in question, the Cabinet of the Hague invites the
German Governments to favor as much as possible
the colonization of the Dutch possessions in Suri
nam, the Dutch Government being inclined, it
says, to give every possible facility to Germans de
sirous of settling there.”
Fkoosk* of Mormontsm.—Eider Curtis E. Bol
ton, writing from Paris, under date of June 14th,
speaks nnwt encouragingly of his sneces*. He is
now holding public meetings, and in the last three
weeks had baptized fifteen persons.
Elder William Willis writes from Calcutta, May
2d, that since last Christmas Day his Indian breth
ren had increased from six to one hundred and fif
ty, and “if we,” says lie, “were to include child
ren. we could show more than three hundred
Indian Saints of all sizes, colors and languages—
not to sav a word about dress aud undress." The
statistic-, of the Mormons in India at that date were
three elders, eight priests, nine teachers, eight dea
' con*, Hid one hncdrfd tod twea«f-tw» ascraWc*.
iOUR PICTURE GALLERY.
PORTRAITS OF THE PEOPLE.
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN.
[THE DANISM AITIIOR.j
Were it not for Hamlet tho Dane, tho little an
tiquated Kingdom of Denmark would hardly be
known to the world ot every day men. See what
literature ha* done for a kingdom, to make it
known to the world by one fictitious character!
Hereafter Denmark will be better known a* Hie
birthplace of Hans Christian Andersen, whose
father was a poor shoemaker, and whose mother
was a simple beggar girl. Which of the Kings of
Denmark has done so much for it as this, or which
of the great warriors or statesmen ot that little
kingd mi lias made it renowned and talked about,
as thi* poor person Ileus Christian has done ! He
ha* fought no battles, made no laws, killed
nobody, but only written a few little songs, and
some simple stories for children, and yet ho has
made himself famous by these trifles, and his
country better known. The thought of it must
muke linns very happy. Wc have given in anoth
er part of the Magazine a portrait' of this feeble
little groat man, and now we will give the render
some idea of who ho is and what be was, whieh
we shall borrow from his own autobiography,
which has been translated into English by Mary
llowitt. We have rarely read a book so full of
pleasant and profitable reading ns this. See how
simply and like a Christian, as he is by nature as
well as name, liana writes :
“ My life is a lovely story, happy and full of
incident. If, when 1 was a boy, uud went forth
into the world poor and friendless, a good fairy
lmd met me and said ‘Choose now thy own course
through life, und the object for which thou wilt
strive, and then, according to tho development of
thy uiind, and as reason require?, 1 will guide and
defend thee to its attainment,’ my fate could not,
even then, have been directed more liaptiilv, more
prudently, or better. The history of iny life will
say to the world what it says to me —There is a
loving God, who directs all tilings for the best.
“Mv native land, Denmark, is a poetical land,
full of popular traditions, old songs, and an event
ful history, which has become bound up with that
of Sweden and Nor < av. Tho Danish islands arc
possessed of beautitul beech woods, and corn and
clover fields : they resemble gardens on a great
scale. Upon one of these green islands, Kunen,
stands Odense, tho place of my birth. Odense is
called after tho pagan god Odin, wno, ns tradition
states, lived here : this place is the capital of the
province, nnd lies twenty-two Danish miles from
Copenhagen.
“ In tho year 1805 there lived hero, in a small
mean room, a young married couple, who were
extremely attached to each other; tic was a shoe
maker, scarcely twenty-two years old, a mat: of a
richly gifted mid truly poetical mind. His wife, a
few years older than himself, was ignorant of life
and of the world, but possessed a heart full of
love. The young man had himself made hisshoo
mtiking bench, and the bedstead with which he
began housekeeping ; this bedstead lie bad made
out of tbe wooden frame which had borne only a
short time before the coffin of tho deceased Count
Trampe, as lie lay in stato, and the remnants of
the black cloth on the wood work kept tho fact
still in remembrance.
“ Instead of a noble corpse, surrounded by crape
nnd wax-lights, here lav, on the second or April,
1905, a living and weeping child—that m ils myself,
Hans Christian Andersen. During the first day of
my existence my father is said to have sate by the
bed and read aloud in Holbcrg, but I cried ail the
time. ‘Wilt thou go to sleep, or listen quietly !’ it
is reported that my father asked in joke ; but 1
still cried on ; nnd even in the church, when I was
taken to bo baptized, 1 cried so loudly that tho
preacher, who was a passionate man, said, ‘The
young one screams like a cat!’ which words my
mother never forgot. A poor emigrant, Gomar,
who stood us godfather, consoled her in the mean
time by saying that tho louder 1 cried as a child,
all the more beautifully should I sing when l grew
older.
“ Our little room, which wns almost filled with
tho shoemaker’s bench, tho bed, and my crib, was
tho abode of my childhood; the walls, however,
were covered with pictures, and over tin work
bench was a cupboard containing booksand songs;
tho little kitchen was full of shining plates ana
metal pans, and by means of a ladder it was possi
ble to go out oil tbe roof, where, in the gutters be
tween and the neighbor's honse, there stood a great
chest filled with soil, my mother’s sole garden, und
where she grew her vegetables. In my story of
THK CHILD’S FOOTSTEPS.
ST MRS. E. R. STANS.
I.
There is a sound most musical and sweet,
A sound that ever bringeth joy to me,
And thoughts of innocence for angeis meet,
And warmest love in all its purity :
’Tis the light bounding step, all gay and fleet,
Os happy childhood, with its tiny feet.
ii.
No noisless gliding, a* on sin intent,
Nor slow and measured entrance at the door;
Each footsep, with a music eloquent,
Sounds clear on winding stairs or polished floor;
And ere the little dimpled face appears,
The quick, sweet bound hath charmed away my caret,
in.
Whether in satin slipper delicate,
Or in Us native freedom springing by;
If in proud palace halls its petted fate,
Or in the lonely home of poverty ;
Alike its buoyant gladness charms the ear,
And bringeth thoughts of heavenly beauty near;
ir.
I wondor not, if, in His lowly guise,
Surrounded by the hardened and the rile,
A sudden splendor lit the Paviock’s eyes,
And His lips parted with a holy smile:
When, with their upward, sunny gaze, drew nigh
The little fearless forms of infancy.
Ah, blessed little ones 1 Their rosy charm*
Leaned on His bosom, ail unpaied by fear ;
Nerenely resting is liis mighty anil
Who framed the glory of each starry sphere;
No thoughts of sinful years for (Asm uprose,
No grief or shame to mar their sweet repose.
YI.
Then let His lowly followers not disdain
To guard such flower-like beauty t r their Lord,
Nor deem the moments wasted, while they train
Fair infant minds obedient to his Word.
Nay, rather let us, as their bloom we view,
Seek our own innocent pleasure to renew.
As Eloqfent Eclooicm.—Anson Burlingame
delivered an oration at New London, on the sth
inst., which is spoken of in the highest terms. In
it he made the following beautiful allusion to Cal
houn, Clay and \Ycbstcr.
“Mr. Webster is the only survivor of that il
lustrious trio of statesmen,
‘Who shook the nations through their lips, and blaz’d
Till vanquished Senates trembled as they praised.’
One sleeps this beautiful day in the sweet shade
of the magnolia’s blossom, his great heart is still,
and queuehed is the light of hi* glorious eye for
ever. Another and fit companion of the great
South Carolinian fell but yesterday on the field of
his fame, nr.d now, cold and dead, is borne on his
bier through a weeping nation, baek to the gener
ous soil of old Kentucky, there to sleep the sleep
that knows no waking. The orator, the chivalric
gentleman and noble friend, is beyond tbe reach
of malice or of praise : never again shall he rouse
tis with his bugle blasts, or melt us into tenderness
hy the touching melody of his voice.
And he, of the imperial intellect.
‘With the Athenian’* glowing ityle and Tlnly’s Fire,’
wanders compassioniess and alone, by tbe deep sea
he loves so well, gazing, with his great eyes, into
that undiscovered country, from whose bourne
no traveller returns.’ 0, long may he live—
and may the refreshing breezes tan his brow and
brine baek the roses of health to his fading
cheeks.
1 refer thus to those great Americans, not to
conciliate their friends—not as a partisan ; no,
no, let the bugles of party this day sound a truce;
but in obedience to the
Emotions that Flart,
When memory play* an oid tune upon the heart.’
I could not better illustrate the glory of our insti
tutions than by reference to these great men, their
noblest offspring.”
The Association of the Alciini of Harvard
College. —The festival of thi* learned association,
yesterday, at Cambridge, was a most brilliant affair.
There were present distinguished men from vari
ous parts ot the Union, who came once more to
view the scenes of their youtii, and to enjoy the
festivities and pleasures of the occasion. The ora
tion. whieh was delivered in the morning, in the
first Church, by Hon. R. C. Wintlirop, was a per
formance es gieat merit—d.,-; laying a treasure of
learning and thought. Its theme was the power
of public opinion and the duties of educated men.
The orator, in a most felicitous manner, contrasted
the past with the present in relation to thi* matter.
He occupied nearly two hours in the delivery of
his address.
The dinner was spread beneath a great tent on
the college green. The Hon. Edward Everett pre
sided, and his “ welcome to the Ainmni” was a
speech of surpassing beauty and elegance- It ww*
worthv of his reputation as an orator, a scholar and
a man of taste, and was received as it should be,
with hearty plaudits. After a toast to the “memo
ry of Harvard, and another complimentary to Pre
sident Sparks, who was necessarily absent, ex-Pre
sident Quincy made a speech in response to a toast.
Other addresses were made by Chief Justice Shaw,
Hon. B. C. Winthrop, Kev. Dr. Taomwell. Presi
dent of Columbia College, South Carolina, Kev. Dr.
Fuller, of Baltimore, Mr. Preston, (brotherof Hon.
W. C. Preston,) of Sooth Carolina, and Hon. Jas.
Savage* of Boston. The speeches were all lofty
aud patriotic in sentiment. During the festivities
at the dinner table, a poem w: * recited by Hon.
G. S. Hillard. —Boston Courier, 23d intt.
Imroktation of Wine into England.— lt is
shown by a parliamentary paper jeat issued, that
in the month ending on the sth njt., there were
onlv 594,187 gallons of wine imported, whereas in
the corresponding period of 18-71, there were 1,-
182,801 gallons imported,
the Snow Queen that garden still blooms.
“ l was the only child, and was extremely spoil
ed, but I coiitiuuuliy heard from my mother how
very much happier 1 was than she luul been and t hat
1 was brought up likea nobleman's child. She, os a
child, had been driven out by her parents to beg,
and once when she was not able to do it, she lmd
sat for a whole dav under a bridge and wept. I
have drawn her character in two different aspects,
in old Dominica, in the Improvisntore, and in the
mother of Christian, in Only a Fiddler.
“MV lather gratified mo in ull my wishes. 1
possessed his whole heart ho lived ibr me. On
Sunday, he made me prospective glasses theatres,
and pictures that could be changed ; he read to mo
from Holburg’s plays and the Arabian T»lcb ; it
was only in snch moments as these that 1 can re
member to have seen liim really cheerful, for believ
er felt himself happy in his life und as a handicrafts
man. His parents hud been country peoplcingood
circumstances, but upon whom many misfortunes
bad fallen; tbe cattle had died; tbe farm honse had
burned down and lastly the husband had lost ins
reason. On this the wife had removed with him
to Odense, and there put her son whose mind wus
full of intelligence, anprentiee to a shoe maker ; it
could not be otherwise, although it was his unieut
wise to be able to attend tho Grammar School,
where lie might have learned Latin. A few well
to-do citizens had atone timi spoke of this, of club
bing together a sufficient sum to pay for his board
and education, and thus giving him a start in life
but it never went beyond words. My poor father
saw his dearest wish unfilled ; und he never lost
the remembrance of it. I recollect that once, as u
child, I saw tears in his eyes, as it was when a
youth from the Grammar School came to our house
lobe measured for a new pair of boots, und show
ed us his books and told us what he had learned.
“That was the path upon whieh fought to have
gone 1” said my father, kissed mo passionately,
arid was silent tho whole evening.
“lie very seldom associated with his cquuls.—
lie went out into the woods on Sundays, when lie
took me with him; ho did not talk much when lie
was out, but would sit silently, sunk in deep
thought, whilst 1 ran about and "strung strawber
ries on a straw, or bound garlands, j)nly twice
in the year, and and that in tho month of May,
when the woods were arrayed in their earliest
green, did my mother go with ns, and then she
wore a cotton gown, which slio put on only on
theso occasions, and when she partook of the
Lord's supper, and which as long ns I can remem
ber, nuts her holiday gown. She always took homo
with her from tho wood a great many fresh beech
boughs, which were then planted behind the pol
ished stone. Later in the year sprigs ofSt. John’s
wert were stuck into tho clunks of the beams, and
we considered their growth us omens whether our
lives would be long or short. Green branches and
pictures ornamented our little room, which my
mother always kept neat and clean ; she took
great pride in always having tho bed linen and tiie
curtains very white.
“ The mother of my father cainc daily to our
house, were it only for a moment, in order to see
her little grandson. 1 was her joy and her delight.
Slio was aquiet aud most amiable'old woman, with
mild blucevcs anda line figure, which life hud se
verely tricil. From having been the wife of a
countryman in easy circumstances she had now
fallen into great poverty, and dwelt with her
tceblo minded husband in a litle houso, which was
tho lust, poor remains of their property. I never
saw her shed a tear. But it made ull ‘the deeper
impression upon mo when she quietly sighed, und
told mo about her own mother’s mother, how slio
had been a rich, liable lady iu tho city of (.’asscl,
aud that she had married a ‘comedy-player,’ that
was as she expressed it, and run away from pa
rents and homo, for all which her posterity had
now to do penance. 1 never can recollect that I
heard her mention the family name of lier grand
mother : but her own maiden name was Nommes
scn. She was employed to take care of tho garden
belonging to a lunatic asylum, and every Sunday
evening she brought up some (lowers, which they
gave her permission to take homo with her. These
flowers, adorned my mother’s cupboard ; but sti 1
they were mine, and to me it wa» allowed to put
them in tho glass of water. Ilow great was this
pleasure 1 She brought them all to ino ; slio loved
me with her whole boul. I know it aud I under
stood it.”
I Maine Liquor Law.— The Maine liquor law went
into operation in Rhode Island last Monday.
From the Providence Journal ofSaturday it would
seem, that the provident people of that good city
were putting their houses iu order for the great
chunge about to come over them. Soys the Jour
nal :
“The Maine law goes into operation on Monday.
After that date it is illegal to manufacture intoxica
ting drinks, or to sell them except for medicinal
ana mechanical purposes through tho agent ap
pointed by the city. Alcohol may be manufactur
ed for exportation, or for sale through the city
agent.
“With tho provident temper which has always
characterized our people, they huyo been making
gradual and pretty ample preparations for tho
event, which in the eye of some of them, is to
‘shut the gates of mercy ou mankind.’
“As near ns one may judge from the activity dis
played in our liquor stores, and by the unusual
quantity of deuujons, bottles and mysterious pack
ages going through the streets in all directions,
we should say that the city is in a stato of prepar
ation to stand a siege for at least a year.
“Very different opinions have been formed of
this law ; but all good citizens will join in tho dis
position to give it a fair trial, to yield to it proper
obedience, and to render proper aid to the author
ities iu the difficult and delicate duties which it
imposes upon them. If the law shall succeed
in putting down tho tippling shops which infest
the city it will prove such a blessing that its strin
gent provisions and arbitrary penalties will be
overlooked, aud few will cail for its repeal. If,
on tiie other hand, it shall fail of that objeot, some
other mode of relief must be adopted, and some
new mode of regulating the traffic.”
Cuba.—By the last arrival from Cuba, we re
ceived a small printed sheet, entitled “La Vozdel
Pueblo, Organ de lndepcncia.” It is full of revo
lutionary sentiments, and we are told that in spite
ot all the efforts of the government and police
copies of it arc scattered everywhere in town and
country, find their way to the public offices, and
even to the private residence of the Captain-Gen
eral. The government has offered a reward of
?3,000 for the apprehension of any one connected
with the printing or circulation of'this sheet, (two
numbers of which have been issued) but without
sucocss. This shows that there is either a remark
able tact ou the part of tbe publishers and their
azeuts in conducting their business, or else that
there is a prevalent sentiment in the hearts of the
people adverse to the betrayal of the parties im
plicated. If the latter supposition be correct, the
end i» not yet.—A’. T. Jour, es oom.
The New York Times contains a statement of
the various accident* that have occurred during the
last twelve months from the explosion ofcamphine,
spirit ga», <fee., which sum up a* follows:—Four
teen persons arc recorded as having died from
their burns. Sixty-two burned—most of them very
badly; many of them have probably died. Nearly
all ofthe accidents recorded have occurred in New
York and Brooklyn. No doubt there were many
more which escaped being noticed.
Advance in Nemlpaper Printing.—Just thirty
seven years ago, the proprietor of the London
Times inserted in his paper a triumphant notice
of ita first impression by steam. “The reader of
this paragraph,” he said, “now holds in his hand
one of the many thousand copies of the Times
newspaper which were taken off last night by a
mechanical apparatus. * * * No less than
eleven hundred sheets were impressed in one
hour.” Eleven hundred in an hoar! Prodigious!
At this rate, and with its present circulation, the
Times would take just thirty-live hours to print.—
With the machinery now in use, 12,000 copies an
hour arc possible; 10,000 are actually produced
within that time. Truly wc are the spoiled child
ren of progress, the very Sybarites of speed.—
The Italian voluptuary murmured at a crnmpled
rose leaf; we complain if the European news of
yesterday is not punctually upon our breakfast
table. •
The New Congress Lxbrarv.— The proposed
arrangement of the new library at the national
eapitol, is Upon a plan worthv the nation and the
age. It embraces, a* we learn from Norton s
Literarv Gazette, a suite »f five rooms, extending
in tho agirrcirate thr e hundred and two feet.
There will be two stories of alcoves, the second
one receding three feet from the first, so aa to ad
mit of a gailerv with but little projection, and
above the second story of alcoves will lie a third
story, with book cases against the wal.s. The
whole interior is to be of iron, and fire-proof, so
as to avoid the possibility of another calamitous
fire, and to to be finished in a style of great archi
tectural beauty. The shelves will be of porcelain.
Tbc cxpeoHj will amount to $« 2,000, and the li
brarris calcnlated, when finished, to acoommo
date'oO.OOO volumes. Ten thousand dollar* have
been appropriated, and the book. purcha*ed to
take their rsace in the new library; and valuable
additions wUi be n*de to the library from time to
time.
Railroad Connection between Cleyelad and
Wheeling.—The announcement i* made by the
Cleveland Herald that sufficient subscriptions have
been secured to insure the immediate completion
of the extension ofthe railroad from Wellsville to
Wheeling, whereby the latter city will be put in
direct connection with Cleveland and Lake Erie.
The work is to be put under contract_ during the
coming month. The completion of thi* link is an
important one for Baltimore, and will afford anoth
er avennne by whieh trade and travel will be at
tracted ' to the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad at
Wheeling.
from Harper t A«w M'miMy Magazine for August.
HENRY CLAY.
Personal Anecdotes. Incidents, Etc.
We have just returned from the Park and City
Hall, and from witnessing the long procession,
“melancholy,slow,” that accompanied the remains
of the “Great Commoner” nnd great statesman,
Henry Clay, to their temporary resting place iu
tho Governor’s Boom. It was not tho weeping
flags at half-mast throughout the city; not tho
tolling of the bells, the solemn booming of the
minute guns, nor the plaintive strains of funeral
music, which brought tho tears to the eyes of
thousands, ns tho mournful cavalcade passed ou.
For hero were the lifeless limbs, the dimmed eye,
the hushed voice, that- never should move, nor
sparkle, nor resound in eloquent tones again!
The last timo we had seen Ilenrv Clay was,
standing in an open barouche, on the vory spiot
where his hearse now paused, in front of the City
Hal . lie was addressing then a vast concourse of
hi* fellow citizens, who had assembled to do him
honor; und never shall we torget the exquisite
grace of liis gestures, the melodious tones ot his
matchless voice, and tho interior look of his eves—
as it ho wore rather spoken from than speaking.
It was an occasion not to bo forgotten.
it is proposed, in the present article, to afford
the reader some opportunity of judging of the
character and manner of Mr. Clay, both as an
orator and a man, and of his general habits, from
a tew characteristic anecdotos and incidents, whieh
have bean well authenticated heretofore, or are
now for tho first time communicated to the writer.
Biography, in Mr. Clay’sense, ha* already occupied
much of tho space of all our public jonrnalsdkvc
shall, therefore, omit particulars which are Bow
more or less familiar to the general reader.
it was the remark es a distinguished Senator,
that Mr. Clay’s eloqucneo was absolutely intangi
ble to delineation; that tho most labored und
thrilling description could not embrace it; and
that, to bo understood, it must be seen nud felt.
During his long public life ho enchanted millions,
and no one could tell how ho did it. lie was an
orator hy nature. His eagle eye burned with true
patriotic ardor, or flashed indignation and defi
ance upon his foes, or was suffused with tear* of
commiseratiou or of pity; and it was hecauso ie
felt that he made others reel. “The clear concep
tion, tho high purpose, tho firm resolve, tuo
dauntless spirit, speaking ou the tongue, beaming
from the eye, informing every fenturo, and urging
the whole man onward, right onward to his ob
ject”—this was tho eloquence of Ilenry Clay ; or
rather, to pursuo tho definition, “it was something
greuter and higher than eloquence ; it wns action
—noble, sublime, God-like.”
While the coffin containing all that remained of
the great orator of Nature wns being carried up
the steps of the City Hall, a by-stnndcr romurked
in hearing of the writer :
. Well, wo shall nover look upon his like again.
What an orator ho was 1 1 heard him speak but
ouee, yet that onco I shall always remember. It
wasa good many years ago, now. Itwas in tho im
mense car-house, or depot, at Syracuse. The
crowd was immense ; and" every cyo was turned
toward the platform from whieh ho was to speak,
as if the whole crowd were but one expectant face.
Presently he arose—tall, erect os a statue; loolt
od familiarly around upon the audionee, as if he
were in an assembly of personal friends (as in
truth ho was) and began. He cotnmoneed amidst
the most breathless silouec ; and ns ho warmed up
with his subject, there was not a look of his eye,
not a movement of his loug, graceful right arm,
not a swaying of his body, that was not full of
grnco and effect. Such a voice I nover heard. It
was wonderful.*
Onco ho took out his snuffbox, nnd, after taking
a pinch of snuff, and returning the box to his pock
et, he illustrated a point which ho was making by
an anecdote :
“While I was abroad,” said he, “laboring to ar
range the terms of the Treaty of Ghent, there ap
peared a report of the negotiations, or letters rela
tive thereto'; and several quotations from my re
marks or letters, touching certain stipulations in
tho treaty, reached Kentucky, and were rend by
my constituents.
“Among them, was an odd old fellow, who wont by
tho nickname of 'Ohl Sandunky,' und ho was read
ing one of these letters, one eveuing, at n near re
sort, to a small collection of tho neighbors. As ho
read on, he came acrqes tho sentence, ‘This must
be deemed a tine qua non.' ”
What’s a tine qua non V said n half-dozen by
standers. 0
“ ‘ Old Sandusky’ wns a little bothered at first,
but his good sense and natural shrewdness was
fully equal to a ‘mastery of tho Latin.’
“ ‘ Sine—qua—non F said ‘Old Sandusky,’ re
peating the question very slowly; ‘why, Sine Qua
Aon is three islands in PussninaqiioiMy Bay, and
Harry Cluy is tho last man to givo them up 1 No
Sine Qua Aon, no treaty,’ he says; and he'll stick
to it 1’ ”
You should have seen the'laughing eye, the
change in the speaker’s voice and manlier, said the
narrator, to understand the electric effect the story
had upon tho audience.
Previous to Mr. Clay’s entrance upon public life
in the service of ids country, and while he was yet
young in the practice of the law, in Kontucy, the
following striking incident is related of liim:
Two Gormans, father and son, wore indicted for
murder, aud were tried for the crime. Mr. (flay
was employed to detend them. Tho act of killing
was proved hy evidence so clear and strong, that it
was considered not only a ease of murder, but an
exceedingly aggravated one. The trial lasted five
days, at the close of which he addressed the jury
in the most impassioned and eloquent manner ;'and
they were so moved by his pathetic appoals, tliat
they rendored a verdict of manslaughter only. Af
ter another hard day’s struggle, ho succeeded in
obtaining an arrest of judgment, by which his
clients, in whose ease he thought there was uu ab
sence of all “malice prepenso,” were set at liberty.
They expressed tlioir gratitude in the warmest
terms to tlioir deliverer, in which they were joined
by an old ill-favored female, the wife of one and
the mother of the other, who adopted a different
mode, however, of tendering her thanks, whieh was
by throwing her arms round Mr. Olay’s neck, anil
repeatedly kissing him, in tho presence of a crowd
ed court-room!
Mr. Clay respected her feelings too much to ro
pulso her; but he was often afterward heard to
say, that it was “the longest and strongest em
brace lie over encountered in his professiouul prac
tice 1”
In civil suits, at this period, Mr. Olay gained al
most equal celebrity, and especially in tho settle
ment of land claims, at that time an important Mo
ment in Western litigation. It is related of him,
at this stage of his career, that being engaged in a
case which involved immense interests, he associa
ted with him a prominent lawyer to whom he in
trusted its management, as urgent business de
manded his absence from court. Two days were
occupied in discussing the legal points that were to
govern the instructions of the.court to the jury, on
every one of which his colleague wns frustrated.
Mr. Olay returned, however, before a decision was
rendered, and without acquainting himself with the
nature of the testimouy, or ascertaining tbo man
ner in which tho discussion had been conducted,
after conferring a few moments with his associate,
ho pepared and presented in a few words tho form
in which he wished tho instructions to bo given,
accompanying it with bis reasons, which were so
convincing that the suit was terminated in his favor
in less than one hour after he ro-ontered the court
room.
Titus early, and in a career merely professional,
did Honry Clay commence his sway over the minds
of deliberative men. .
Tho subjoined incident, connected with Mr.
Clay’s style of “stump-speaking” is relutod in
“Mallory’s Life” of our Illustrious subject. It il
lustrates his taet and ingenuity in seizing and turn
ing to good account trivial circumstances:
Mr. Clay had been speaking for some time, when
a company of riflemen, who had been performing
military exercise, attracted by his attitude, conclu
ded to “go and hear what the fellow had to say, as
they termed it, and accordingly drew near. They
listened with respectful attention, and evidently
with deep interest, until be closed, when one of
their number, a man of about fifty years of age,
who had seen much back-wood’s service stood lean
ing on his rifle, regarding the young speaker with a
fixed and sagacious look.
He was apparently the Nimrod of the company,
for he exhibited overy characteristic of a “migh'tv
hunter.” Ho had buckskin breeches, and hunting
shirt, coon-skin cap, hlaek bushy beard, anil a
visage of tho color and texture of his bullet-pouch.
At his belt hung the knifb and hatchet, and the
huge, indispensable power-horn across n breast
bare and brown ns the bills ho traversed in liis fo
rays, yet it covered a brave and noble heart.
He beckoned with his hand to Mr. Clay to ap
proach him.
Mr. Clay immediately oomplied,
“Young man,” said ho, “you want to goto the
Legislature, I see.”
“ Why yes,” replied Mr. Clay; “yes I should
like to go, since nty friends liave put me up as a
candidate before the people. I don’t wish tube
defeated, of course ; few peoplo do,”
“Are you a good shot, young man V' asked tbe
hunter.
“I consider myself as good as any in the county.”
“Thon you shall go : but you 'must give us a
specimen of your skill; wo must see yon shoot.”
“I never shoot any rifle bat my own, aud that is
at home,” said the yonng orator.
“No matter," quickly responded the hunter,
here’s Old Beet ; sno never failed yet in the hands
of a marksman. She has put a "bullet through
mauy a squirrel’s head at a hundred yards, and
day light througli many a red-skin twice that dis
tance. If you can shoot any gun, young mau, you
can shoot ‘Old Bess.’ "
“Very well, then,” replied Mr. Clay, “put up
yonrinark ! put up you mark ?”
Tho target was placed at about the distance of
eighty yards, when, with all the coolnesand steadi
ness of an old experienced marksman, he drew
“old Bess” to his shoulder, nnd fired. Tho bullet
pierced tho target near the centre.
“Oh, that’s aobance shot!” a chance shot!” ex
claimed several of his political opponents ; “he
might shoot all day, and not hit the mark again.
Let him try it over ! let him try it over I”
“No, no,” retorted Mr. Clay, heat that, and then
I will!”
As no one seemed disposed to make the attempt,
it was considered that he had given satisfactory
proof of being, a* he said, “the best shot in the
county:” and this unimportant incident gained
him the vote of every hunter and marksman in
the assembly, which was composed principally of
that class of persons, as well as the support at tho
same throughout the county. Mr. Clay was fre
quently heard to say : “I had nover before fired
a rifle, "and have not since!”
It was in turning little things like these to ac
count, that Mr. Clay, in the earlier period of his
career, waa so remarkable. Two other instances
in this kind, although not now may be appropri
ately mentioned in this oonueotion.
In 1905 an attempt was made to obtain the remo
val of the capital from Frankfort, Kentucky. Mr.
Clay, in a speech delivered at the time, reverted to
the physical appearance of the place, us furnishing
an argument in favor of the proposed removal.
Frankfort is walled in on all sides by towering,
rocky precipices, and in its general conformation,,
is not unlike a great pit. “It presents,” said Mr."
Clay, in his remarks upon the subject, “the model
of an inverted hat. Frankfort is the body of the
hat, and the lands adjacent are the brim. To
change the figure, it is Nature’s great penitcutiarv;
£nd if the members would know the bodily
sedition of the prisoners, let them look at those
poor creatures in the gallery.”
As he said this, he directed the attention of tho
members ofthe Legislature to some half dozen
einnciated, spectreLlike specimens of humanity,
who happened to be moping about there, looking
as if they had just stolen a inarch from the grave
yard. On observing the eyes of the House thus
turned toward them, and aware of their ill
favored aspect, they screened themselves with
such ridiculous precipitancy behind tbo pillars aud
railing, as to cause the most violent laughter.—
This well-directed bit was successful; and the
•A gmtlemsn, alter hearing one of Mr. Clay’s magnifi
cent performances in the Senate, thus describe* him:
“ Every muscle of the orator’* he* was at work. His
whole bodr seemed agitated, as if each p.irt was instinct
with a separate life ; and his small white hand, with it*
blue reins apparently distended almost to bursting, moved
gvaeefuSj, but with all the energy of rapid and vehement
gesture. The appearance of the speaker seemed that of a
pure intellect wrought up to ita mightiest energies, and
brightly rhining through the thin and transparent veil of
Seek that toveated It." It ia much to be lamented that no
painting exists of the departed statesman that really doea
him justice. What a treasure to the country, and to the
Fiends of the “(treat Commoner,” would be a portrait, at
this time, from the (aithtal and glowing pencil of »ur pre
eminent artist, Elliott 1 But Ills new "to« Ist*."
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House guvo thoijr votes in favor of the measure.
The second instance is doubtless more familiar
to the reader; but having “spoken of guns,” it
may not be amiss to quote it here:
During an exeited political canvass, Mr. Clay mot
an old hunter, who had previously been his devo
ted friend, but who now opposed him, on the
ground of the “ compensation bill.”
“ Huvo you a gooa rifle, my frionil i” asked Mr.
Clay.
“ Yes,” said the liuntor.
“ Docs it over fiasti iu the pull i” continued Mr.
Clay.
“ It never did but once in the world,” said the
hunter, exultingly.
“ Well, what did you do with it! You did’nt
throw it away, did you!"
“No; I picked "the flint, tried it again, and
brought down tho game.”
“Have leva r ‘flashed,’” continued Mr. Clay,
“except on tho ‘compensation bill
“ No, 1 can’t say tliut yon ever did.”
“ Well, will you throw me awuv i” said Mr.
Clay.
“ No, no 1” responded the huntsman, touched
on tho right point, “no I'll pick the flint, and try
you again!"
And ever afterward ho wns the *nwavcri..g
friend ot Mr. Clay.
From tbo same authority we doriveanotlicrelco
lion anecdote, which Mr. Clay was wont to men
tion to his friends. In a political canvass in Ken
tucky, Mr. Clay and Mr. rope, a one armed man,
were candidates for tho sumo office. An Irish
barber, residiug at Lexington, hud always given
Mr. Cluy his vote, and ou all occasions, ,wliau bo
was a candidate for office, electioneered warmly for
him. Ho was “ Irish all over,” aud was frequent
ly in “scrapes,” from which Mr. Clay generally
succeeded m rescuing him. Somebody, just be
fore the election took place, “came the evil eye”
over him; for when asked who ho was going to
vote for, ho replied, “ 1 mane to voto for tho man
wlm can’t put more nor one hand into the treasu
ry 1”
. A tow days after tho election, tho barber met
Mr. Clay in Lexington, and approaching him, be
gan to cry, saying that no had wronged him, and
repented liis ingratitude. “Mv wile,” said he,
“ got round mo, blubbering, mid tould me that 1
wns too had, to desert, like a base spalpeen, me
onld frind. ‘Niver’s the time,’ says slio, ‘when
you got in jail or in any bad fix, niver'e the time
lie did’nt come and 1 1 oip you out. Och 1 bud luck
to yo for not giving him your vote!’” Mr. Clay
nover failed to gain lus vote afterward.
An anecdote is related of Mr. Clay, aptly illus
trating his ability to encounter opposition, in what
ever manner presented. A Senator from Connec
ticut had endeavored to inspire tho younger mem
bers of the Senate with a respect for him, nearly
allied to awe; and to this end was accustomed to
use toward them harsh and haughty language,
but especially to make an ostentatious display of
his attainments, and liis supposed snporior knowl
edge ofthe subject under discussion. Mr. Clay
could ill brook liis insolent looks nnd language,
and haughty, overbearing manner, and took occa
sion in his speech to hit them off', which ho did by
quoting Peter Pindar’s Magpie,
“Thus have I seen a magpie in the street,
A chattering bird we often meet,
A bird of curiosity well known,
With head awry,
And cunning eye,
Peep knowingly into a marrow bone!”
“It would be difficult,” says the biographer who
relates this circumstance, “to suy which wns the
greater, the merriment whieh this sally caused, or
the chagrin ofthe satirised Senator.
-A striking instance ofthe simplicity ns well as
humanity of Mr. Clay’s character 1s given in the
following authentic anecdote of him, while a mom
ber of the llouso of Representatives:
“ Almost every body in Washington City will
remember an old lie-goat, which formerly inhab
ited a livery stnblo on Pennsylvania Avenue. This
animal was tho most independent citizen of tiie
metropolis. Ho belonged to no party, although
ho frequently gave pedestrians ‘ striking’ proofs
of his adhesion to tho ‘leveling’ principle; for
whenever a person stopped anywhere in tho vi
cinity, ‘Billy’ was sure to ‘ muito at him,’ horns
und ull. Tno boys took delight in irritating him,
und frequently so annoyed him that he would
‘butt’against lamp-posts and treosto their great
amusement.
“ Ono day, Ilenry Clay was passing along tho
avenue, and seeing tho boys intent on worrying
lliliy into a fever, stopped, and with characteristic
humanity expostulated with them upon their cru
elty. Tne boys listened in silent awe to tbo olo
quentnppeal oftho ‘Luminary of tho West,’ but
it was all Cherokee to Billy, who—tbe ungrateful
scamp I —aroso majestically on liis hind legs, and
made a desperate p tinge at his friend and advo
cate. Mr. Clay, however, proved too much for bis
horned adversary. He seized both horns of tho
dilemma, and then cume the ‘ tug of war.’ Tho
struggle was long and doubtful.
“ ‘Ha 1’ exclaimed the statesman, ‘l’ve got yon
fast, you old rascal! I’ll teach you bettor man
ners than to attack your friends! But boys,’ he
continued, ' what shall 1 do now V
“ ‘ Why, trip up bis feet, Mr. Clay.’ Mr. Clay
did as lie was told, and after manv severe efforts,
brought Billy down on bis side. Here ho looked
at the boys imploringly, seeming to say, ‘ I never
was in such a fix a* this before 1’
“The combatants were now nenrly exhausted;
but tiie goat bad tho advantage, for ho wns gaining
breath all the while the statesman wns losing it.
“ ‘ Boys!’ exclaimed Mr. Clay, puffing and
blowing, ‘ this is rather an awkward business. —
Wlint ntn I to do next f'
“ ‘ Why, don’t you know?’ said n littio fellow,
making lus own preparations to run, as he spoke :
‘ all yott’vo eot to do is to let go, and run like
blazes !’ Tho hint wa* taken at once, much to tho
atn nsemont ofthe boys who had beer, ‘lectured.’”
Tiie collisions between Mr. Clay and Randolph,
in Congress and out of it, are well known to tho
public. The following circumstance, however, ha*
seldom been quoted. When tin! Missouri Com
promise question was before Congress, and tho
fury of the contending parties hud broken down
almost every barrios of order and decency, Mr.
Randolph, much excited, approaching Mr. Cluy,
said ;
“Mr. Spenker, I wish you would leave the House.
I will follow you to Kentucky, or auy where elso In
the world.”
Mr. Clay regarded hint with ono of his most
searching looks for an instant; nnd then repliod,
in an tinder tone :
“Mr. Randolph, your proposition is nn exceed
ingly serious one, and demands most serious con
sideration. Be kind enough to call nt iqy room
to-morrow morning, nnd wo will deliberate over it
together.!’
Mr. Randolph callod punctually at tho moment;
they tulked long upon the much agitated snhject,
without coming to any agreement, and Mr. Ran
dolph arose to leave.
“M r. Randolph,” said Mr. Clay, as the former
was about stepping from tho house, “with your
permission, I will ombraco the present occasion to
observe, that your lnngimgoand deportment on tho
floor of tho House, it has oocurred to mo, were
rather indecorous aud uneentlemnnly, on several
occasions, and very annoying, indeed, to mo ; for
being in tiie chair, 1 had no opportunity of ro
plying.”
Wlitlo admitting that this might, perhaps, bo
so, Mr. Randolph excused it, on the ground of Mr.
Clay’s inattention to his remarks, and asking for n
pinch of snuff while ho was addressing him, &c.,
&c. Mr. Clay, in reply, said :
“Oh, you arooertuinly mistukon, Mr. Randolph,
if you think Ido not listen to you. 1 frequently
turn away my head, it is true, and ask for a pineti
of snutf; still, I hear everything you say, al
though I may seem to hear nothing; aud retentive
as I know your momory to bo, 1 wifi wager thut I
can repeat as many of your speeches, as you your
self can 1”
“Woll,” answered Randolph, “I don’t know
but 1 am mistaken ; and suppose wo drop the mat
ter, shake hands, and become good friend* again ?”
“Agreed,” said Mr. Clay, extending his hand
wiiich was cordially grasped by Mr. Randolph.
During the same session’, and some time before
this interview, Mr. Randolph accosted Mr. Cluy
with a look and manner much agitated, and ex
hibited to him a letter, cotiohed m very abusive
terms, threatening to cowhide him, &c.; and asked
Mr. Clay’s advice as to the course lie should pur
sue in relation to it.
“What caused the writer to send you suoh nn
insulting epistle, Mr. Randolph ?” ashed Mr. Olay.
“Why, I suppose,” said Ruudolph, “itwas in
consequence of what I said to him the other day.”
“ What did you say !”
“Why, air, I was standing in the vestibule of
the house, when the writer came up and introduced
to mu a gentleman who accompuuicd him; aud I
asked him wlint right lie had to introduce that mau
to mo, and told him thut the man had just ns good
a right to introduce him to me; whereat he was
very indignant, said l bad treated him seandulous
ly, und turning on his heel, went away, I think
that must hats made him write the letter.”
“Don’t you think ho was a VUtU out of hie head,
to talk iu that way ?” asked Mr. Clay.
“Why, I’ve been thinking about that,” said Ran
dolph : “I Aaiasotne doubts respecting his sanity.”
“Well, that tieing the ease, would it not be tho
wisest oourse not to bring the matter before the
House! I will direct the »ergcant‘ut-arms to Keep
a sharp look-out for the man, aud to cause him to
be arrested should he attempt any thing improp
er.”
Mr. Randolph noquiesced in this opinion, and
nothing more wns ever heard of tho subject.
Anothor incident,, touching Mr. Clay and Mr.
Randolph, will be road with interest:
At ono time Mr. Randolph, iu a strain of most
scorching irony, had indulged iu somo personal
taunt towards Mr. Clay, commiserating bis igno
rance and limited education, to whom Mr. Clay
thus replied:
“Sir, the gentleman from Virginia was pleased
to say, that in one point ut least ho coincided
with me—in an humble estimate of my philologi
cal acquirements. Sir, I know my deficiencies. I
wa* born to no proud patrimonial estate from my
father. I inherited only infancy, ignora»ce anil
indigence. I feel my defecta; but, so far
as my situation in early life is concerned, I may
without presumption say, they are more my mis
fortune than my fault. But, however I may de
plore my inability to furnish to the gentleman a
better specimen of powers of verbal criticiam, I
will venture to say ray regret is not greater than
the disappointment of this committoe, as to the
strength of lit* argument.”
The particulars of the duel between Mr. Ran
dolph and Mr. Clay may be unknown to some of
our readers. The eoentric descendant of Pocahon
tas appeared on the ground in a huge morning
gown. Tbia garment constituted such avast cir
cumference that the “locality of the swarthy Sena
tor,” was at least a matter of very vogue conjecture.
Tho parties exchanged shots, and* tbe ball of
Mr. Clay bit tbe centre of the viable object, but Mr.
Randolph waa not there. The the latter had fired
in the uir, and immediately after tho exchange of
shots he walkeu up to Mr. (liny, parted tho folds of
his gown, pointed to the hoi* where tho bullet of
tho former had pieroed his coat, and, in the shril
lest tones of his pieroing voice, exclaimed, “Mr.
Clay, you owe Inc a coat—you owe me a coat!” to
which Mr. Clay replied iu a voice of slow and
soinlemn emphasis, at the *omo time pointing di
rectly at Mr. Randolph’s heart, “Mr. Randolph, I
thank God that I am no deeper in you debt!”
The annexed rejoinder aptly illustrates Mr Clay’s
readiness at repartee:
At the time of the passage of the tariff-bill, as
the house was about adjourning, a friend cf the
bill observed to Mr. Clay, “We nave done pretty
wcl today.” “Very well, indeed,” rejoined Mr.
Clay— "very well; wo madoagood stand, consider
ing wo lost both oar feet;" alluding to Mr. Foote
of New York, and Mr. Foot of fAmnecticnt, both
having opposed the bill, although it was confident
ly expected, a short time previous, that both would
aupport it.
After the nomination of General Taylor as a can
didate for the Presidency, made by the Whig Con
vention at Philuielphia, in June, 1848, many of
tbe friends of Sfr. Clay wore greatly dissatisfied,
not to say exasperated, by what they deemed an
abandonment of principle, and nnfairoess in the
proceedings of that body: meetings were held iu
this city, at which delegates from the northern and
westorn part* of tbie btate and from the State of
New Jersey attended, and various arrangements,
preliminary to placing Mr. Clav again in nomina
tion for that office, wete made, and perfected.
These steps were not coaccolod, and many of the
friends of General Taylor were so uncharitable as
to avow their belief that this dissatisfaction Vas
fostered and encouraged by Mr. Clay himself. The
following extract from a letter written to a friend in
tbie city,* one who had from the beginning op
•NlehoUs Dean, Esq., President •! ths Cretan ' i--,
iMrd, a llf«-l*ng friend of Mr. Clay, .»
pueed the movement, will exhibit Mr. Clay •
sentiments on that subject:
“Ashusd 16th October, 1666.
*‘Mt Bex* Sir—l duly received your obliging |y_‘* r “
sth instant, and 1 have jierueed It with the greeted **
" “The vlved picture which you have drawn of the enthuel
aetlc attachment, the unbounded confidence, and
tire devotion of my warm-hearted frlenda In the y
New York, has filled me with the HvoUest emotloiu of gran
“there was but one more proof wanting of their g»odn»**.
to complete and perpetuate my great obligations Ulhem,
and that they have kindly given, In deference to “jF
lous Wishes; It was, not to Insist upon the use of my name
as a candidate for the Presidency, after the promulgation or
my desire to the contrary." ’
In another letter, to the samo party, wr^{ en
weeka earlier, occurs the following touching pas
sage, indicating his Benseof tlio oppressive loneli
ness, with which he wnu then aOTTOonaea. Re
ferring to the (Mint departure of his son James
on his niiasion to I’ortugal, accompanied by me
family, lie says : *
“If they had, as 1 hope, a prosperous voyage, they will
have arrived at Liverpool about the same day that I yearn
ed home. My separaUon from them, probably for a lengto
of time, the uncertainty of life rendering It not unlikely that
1 may never see them again, and the deep and affectionate
Interest 1 take In their welfare and happiness, haa been ex
tremely painfitl.
“I find myself now, toward the close of my life, In on*
respect, In it condition similar to that with which I began It.
Mrs. Cloy end I commenced It alone; and after having bad
eleven children, of whom four only remain, our youngest
son Is the sole white person residing with us."
Wcare indebted totho same obliging gentleman *
from whom wo derive the foregoing, for the follow
in® gnyphio description of a visit pKid to Mr.
Cluv in ilia aick chamber at W indtington :
“On Monday, the tirnt of March Inat, at about
one o’clock, at the National Hotel, Washington,
having aent in ray name, Mr. Clay kindly admitted
mo to hie room. I found it darkened by heavy
closed curtains, and the sufferer seated in an eaay
chair at the remote end, near a moderate con] nre.
1 approached him rapidly, and, taking Ilia extend
ed soft hand and attenuated Angers, said, My dear
sir, I um most honored and grutifled by this privi
lege of being ngiiin permitted to renew to you,
personally, the expression of my unabated attach
ment unci rovorence.’ , ,
“But, my dear sir,” he playfully answered,
‘you have u very cold hand to convey these senti
ments to an invalid such aa 1 am. Come, draw up
a chair, und sit near ino ; I am compelled to use
my veioe but little, and very care'ully.’
“Doingas ho desired, I expressed my deep re
gret that ho was still confined to a sick room, and
added, that I hoped the return of spring, and (he
early recurrence of warmer weather would miti
gate’his most urgent symptoms, and enable him
again to visit the Senato chamber.
“Sir,” said he, “these are the kind wishos or a
friend, but that hope docs not commend Itself to
my judgment. You may remember tliut last year
I Visited the Havana, In the expectation that it*
remarkably gonial anil mild climate would benefll
mo—but i found no relief; thence to New Or
leans, a favorite rosort of mine, with no better re
sult. Feveu became impatient for the return of
autumn, thinking that possibly its clear bracing
atmosphere at Ashland might lessen aav distress
ing cough; but sir, the Huvana, Now Orleans, and
Ashland luivo all failed to bring to mo any percep
tible benefit.’ _
"May 1 ask, my donr sir, what part of the twen
ty lour hours nre yon moat comfortable I”
“ • Fortunately, sir, very fortmiatoly— l should
add, mercifully —during tne night. Then, I am
singularly placid and composed t I tun very wake
ful, and during the earlier part of it my thought*
tako a wido range, but 1 lie most tranquilly, with
out any sensation of weariness, or nervous excite
ment, and toward day fall into a quiet and undis
turbed sloop ; tills continues to s late hour in the
morning, when I rise and breakfast about ten
o’clonk. Subsequently my cough for an hour or
two, is very exhausting. After one o clock, and
during the ovening, I am tolerably free of it, and
during tliiß period, I see ft few of tny oloee person
al friends. And thus pusses tlie twenty-four
“‘ I wits grieved to loom, through the publio
prints, that Mrs. Clay has been ill; may I hop*
that she is better!’ , T
“‘Shelias been sick; Indeed, at one time, I
was much alarmed at her situation; bnt I thank
God,* (with deep emotion,) * alio le quite recover
“ ‘ I almost exported the gratification of meet
ing your son Janies and hi* wife here.’
“ 1 No, sir; you may remembor that I once told
you that ho had nmdc u very fortnnnte investment
Sn the suburbs of fit. Louis. This property lias be
como valuable, and requires liis attention and
management t iio has removed thither with hi*
family. It’s a long way otT, and 1 would not haro
them make a winter journey here; beside, 1 have
every comfort and attention that n sick man can
require. My apartments, as you perceive, are far
removed from tlio noiss mid bustle of the house;
ami 1 am surrounded by warmand anxious friends,
over seeking to anticipate my wishes.*
“ During this brief conversation—in whioh we
wero quite alone—Mr, Clay had several paroxysm*
of coughing. Onoe he rose and walked across th*
room to a spittoon. Tlio most careful use of hi*
voico seemed greatly and eoiißtantly to irritate hi*
lunge. I could not prolong the interview, though
thoroughly impressed with the belie f, since mourn
fully verified, tliftt it would be the lost.
“ I rose, took my leave, invoking God’a blessing
on him j and, as in the presence of Royalty, bow
od myself out of the room haokwurd.
“ Oil rising from his seal, as above remarked, ho
stood as oreet aud commanding os ever; and while
sitting in close proximity to him, his burning eye
fixed intently upon mo, it seemed ns if rays of
light wero emitted from oneli. This phenomenon
is not Unusual in consumptive patients, the extra
ordinary brilliancy oftlio eye being often remark
ed : but in Mr. Clay’s cuse it was so intense as to
make mo almost nervous, partaking as it didofthe
supernatural.
■•I have thus given you the arrangement, aim
very nearly the preoise words,* of this my list in
terview with ouo oftlio greatest men of tut age.—
It was altogether a sceuo to be remembered--*
siqk room, with tlio thoughts of ft nation daily di
reotud to itl It is fall of of pathos, and approach
es the sublime.”
The day previous to the call and conversation
above described, tlio editor es tlio JCnielerhotker
Magazine saw Mr. Clay in the street at Washing
ton, und thus mentions the fact in the “ Gossip
of his April number: “ Bussing ths National Ho
tel at two o’clock, on this bright and cloudless
warm Sunday, wo saw a tall figure, clad in a bluo
coat, attended only by a ludy and child, enter a
carriage before the door. Once seen, *t was a face
never to bo forgotten. It waa Ilenry Clay. That
eagle-eye was not dimmed, although the great
statesman’s force was abated. W» raised our hat
and bowed our reverence and admiration. Our
salutation was gracefully returned, and the oor-
Mago was driven away.
“ As we walked on, to keep an engagement to
dine, we thought of the late words of that eminent
patriot: ‘ If tlio days of my usefulness, as I have
too much reason to fear, bo indeed passed, I de
sire not to linger an impotont spectator of the otV
scanued field ofiifo. I have never looked upon
old age, deprived of the faculty of enjoyment, of
intellectual perceptions and energies, with any
sympathy; and for such 1 think the day of fata
cannot arrive too soon.’ One can hardly clioosa
but drop a tear over such a remark from such a
man.”
•Thus “broken with the storms of stats,” and
scathed with many a fiery conflict, Henry Cloy
gradually descended toward the tomb. “During
this period,” says one of his Kentucky colleagues,
“ho conversed much and choerfufiy with his
friends, and took great interest in public affairs.—
While lie did not expert a restoration to health,
ho cherished the liopo that the mild season of
spring would bring him strength enough to re
turn to Ashland, that he might die in tne bosom
of liis fimiily. But, alss! spring, that brings lift*
to sll nature, brought no life nor hope to mm.—
After the month of March, his vital power* rapidly
wasted, and for weeks ho lay patiently awaiting
the stroko of death. The approach of tne destroy- ,
or bod no terror for him. No clouds overhung hi*
future, lie met his end with composure, »nd hi*
pathway to the grave wss lightened by the immor
tal hope* which spring from the Christian fsith.—
Not long bofors his death, buying just returned
from Keutucky, I bore to him a token of affection
from his excellent with. Never can 1 forget hi*
appearance, hia manner or his word*. After speak
ing of liis family and his country, he changed th*
conversation to Ms own fortune, and, looking on
me with liis fine eyes undimmed, and Ms vsiea
full of it original oompass and melody, he said: ‘I
am not afraid to die, sir; I liuve hope, iaith, and
some confidence: Ido sot think any man ean be
entirely certain in rogard to Ms future state, but I
have nn abiding trust iu tho merit* and mediation
of our Saviour. ’ ”
“On the evening previous to his departure,”
writ&a liis excellent pastor and faithful attendant,
Butler, “sitting sn hour in silence by his
siflpl could not but realize—when I beard him in
the slight wanderings of Ms mind, to ot her dsys and
other socnes, murmuring the words, ‘My mother,
mother, mother!’ and saying, ‘My dear wife I’ aa
if she were present. 1 could not but realize then,
aud rejoiced to think, bow near was the blessed re
union of his weary heart with the loved dead, and
tlio living who must soon follow him to his rest,
whose spirit* even then seemed to vieit and to
cheer his memory and hi* hope.”
Mr. Clay’* countenance immediately after d**th
looked like au antique cast. Hia features seemed
to be perfectly classiest; and the repose of ail the
muscles gave the lifeless body a quiet majesty, sel
dom reached by living human being, ifis last re
quest was that Ilia body might be buried, not in
Washington, but in hia own family vault iu hia
beloved Kentucky, by the side of his relations ftnd
friends. Muy lie rest in peaco in hia honored
gravel
• They were reduc'd te writing Immediately afterward.
SWEDISH MOTHER’S HYMN.
Mary Howitt, (aent’e Mary Howltt, a< the li sometimes
called,) has translated from a favorite Swedish author, the
following beautiful hymn, sung by a mother to her children
just before the parting “good night
There eitteth a dove so white and fair,
All on the lily spray,
And she llsltneth how to Jesus Christ
The little children pray.
Lightly she spreads her friendly wings,
And to Heaven’s gate hath aped,
And unto the Father In Heaven > he bears
The prayers which the chUdren have said.
And back »hc comes from Heaven’s gate,
And brings—thut dove so mild—
From the Fattier In Heaven who heart her speak.
A blessing on every child.
Then children lift up a pious praytr,
It hsars whatever you say,
That heavenly dove to white and fair,
All on the lily spray.
The Will and the Wat.— l learned grammar
when 1 waa a private soldier, oa the pny of* six
pence a day. The edge of my berth, or that of my
guard bed, was my peat to study in; my knapsack
was my bookcase, and a bit of board lying in mv
lap was my writing table. I had no money to pur
chase candle or oil; in winter, it wss rarely that I
could got any light hut that of the fire, and only
my turn even of that. To buy a pen orpieoeof
paper, I was compelled to forego some portiou of
food, though In a stale of half-starvation. I had
not a moment of time that I could call my own ;
and I had to read and write amid the talking,
laughing, singing, whistling and bawling of at
least half ascore of the most thoughtless men—and
that, too, in the hours of their freedom from all
control. And I say, if 1, under these circumstan
ces, could encounter and overcome ths task, j«
there— can there be, in the whole world, a youth
who can find sn excuse for the non-performance.
milium GoiitM.
Rom* years ago a servant girl who bad robbed
her mistress, a miliner in London, was transported
to Sydney fora term of years. Since the discovery
of the Bathurst plains, the female convict, has writ
ten to her former mistress that the colony was a
good placo; that os she now kept, her carriage
she was happy to return tho amount which aha bad
stolen with interest; that ahe earnestly reccom
tnended her to come out ftnjJ get up hhop . , nd
that in that caso she wo- jld be happy to extend
*r patronage to a lady whom .bifoa ao
an esteem. °
Hih :/AB» College Library.—lt appear*
ii? number of volumes in the library of
uar '"..d College, including the theological, law,
IP .«dical, and society's libraries, is #2,000. There
are *6,000 unbound books and pamphlets. Thera
have been added during the year 161# volumes,
exclusive of #,056 pamphlets. Os these, 676 vol
ttmea and 1,66# pamphlets war* special donation*,