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Are «!«0 puWirbed a. IM. ;. -e, an 1 mailed to .abecrlben
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TEttni OF AOTERTISITR.
w«--i.t.—Screnty-SvecenU per «qaare(lo line* or
• r the :lr»t Irmertion, and fifty cent* for each aabee
juent Insertion,
NOTICE.
t,n >Ti:fl, at Now ton Factory, Oa., an experienced
\ V 1 Vl't to take cti.rtte of the Weaving Depart
ed ' Alw tenor tireHre YOUNG LADIES,to operate
In ,1 .1-.artmeut. Experlenoed baud, wontd he pre
fer ...J rne plane L healthy, and good Board can be had
on very moderate term, For addr«.
Preahlrot of the Newton Manufacturing Co.
, Peh. 22d, IS6#. IcbW-atf
20 DOLLARS REWARD.
I, \ V YVV V V from the «nb»criber, near Hawkina
\ Ml'.Oi., on the *sth November laet, my St-JO
Ks, b 1 PAUL lie i. about Vi yeara old, 6 feet, SKH
i,ir!i, weigh, about 110 or 175 Hal., —no ■ilr
~i .i ,r uiark. about bira recollected, excepts very high
brill '!,(« forehcwl. and black. He i. probably making
hia w:yto a tr, ■ State when laetaeen. He was travelling
with «nrae unknown IrLhman. The above reward will be
pain for ~':h Information that I may |'"$ rn ilAl)MmD
THE PECTORAL ELIXIR
18 IlK* OUMKKDKO and prescribed by many of the
moat eminent physician* In the South.
Y r < tiond us t*ie Throat and Lung., It baa no equal,
as ban I- Is of testimonial. In our possession will prove.
lb , , - .eryplea.ant to the taste, It la peculiarly adapt
ed to tii- use of children, lor which elaaaof disease, panic
ul rly Croup, It Is especially recommended.
“ “*» b “ 10 *“*““* °' BAItXKTT A CARTER,
WM. K. KITCHEN,
W. H. A J. TUItPIN,
PHILIP A. MOISE,
martß-dAw WM. H, TCTT.
STONE MOUNTAIN TEMPERANCE HOUSE.
rpillv bt'IWIIRIBER takeethia method of notify-
I Ing the public, that he la prepared to entertain fiS
th ' who in ty call upon him during their visit* to this ro
man!.. I i nos the country, reoewned far the aalubrity
of the ..phere, end the purity of water.
No i. in my part shall he spared to render vlaitors
comfo.ia I : dtt.lng their stay. L. DEAN.
IDii) ID tv Iran
t *'• Temperanre Banner willpleasecopy three rnonthi
and land thi r account to ma. L. D.
CARRIAGES.
1A715 II WK OS HASH, and are receivings good
\V o irtmcnt of CARRIAGES; ItOCKAWAYS; BA
ROIHItK-; MJIKIIRF, and Light OARIIYALLB. Also,
II md Road W AGONS, together with an aswrlraent of
HAKNI Si; llllflGY ; UMBRELLAS ; WHIPS; TRUNKS;
OABi'KI' HAt.S; VALIUM, CHILDRENS’ CABS and
WAGONS; UtltlllAGE BOLTS, by the package or single
on ; allot which will be sold on reason title terms, at the
I tor-- * irtin-rly oc -upied by tltolate 11. 8. Hoadlky.
r -r lIKI'AIItINII dune at short notice.
An a, April 7,1363. WYMAN A DAIIROW.
aprS-wly
SI,OOO REWARD.
Dll. Ill'celebrated SPECIFIC,for theonre
of Uonnrihuja, -tincture., Gleet and AnalagoaiOom
placit" of the Organs of Generation.
, ',r Os nil remedies yet discovered for the above com
plaint, Otis Is the most certain.
. n makes aapeedy and permanent ourewithout re-
Hr, • >on to diet, drink, exposure, or change of application
to IMMIri(JH».
*T It ffl perfectly harmless. Gallons ofit might be
Uk s» without injuring Use patient.
ff It is put up In bottles, with full directions accora
anym r it, s * that persons can cure themselveswithoutre
orting to physicians or other# for advice.
On* 1 oottlol# enough to perforin ncurtalncnre. Price sl.
j.y-Ii in approved and rtEomiuended by the Royal
olh'goof Phjrsicinn# and Surgeon# of London and has
elr«••rtiftciiteenclosed.
c \r It is Hold by appointment In Augusta, Oa., by
PHILIP A. MOIBE,
dor the new Augusta Hotel, and by W. 11. A J. TURPIN.
Oi lors fr->ia the country promptly attended to. Je2
SIOOO REWARD.
Tlll{ AIIOYK lIKWAiID will be paid to any one
who will produce a preparation superior to
DU. PHANOK'H SPECIFIC,
for the cure of Gonorrhoea, Gleet, Syphilis, Strictures and
ill dli us. sos the Khlnles and Bladder. It I# preferable
to ail < thora, because,
Ist. It contain# no mineral, whatever.
2nd. U is purely vegetable.
81. It requires no change of dlot.
4th. It teaves no bad odor on the breath.
6th. It U pleasant to take.
6th. It has full directions, thereby obviating the neces
sity of consulting a IMiyuiclan.
7th. It generally cure# in four or five day#.
Bth. It i >Ol not injure the stomach.
Olh. It promote# healthy digestion,
loth. It is a general purifier of the blood.
This .Sin clflo is prepared by the raoßt able Physician in
Lononn, and sold by WM. 11. TUTT,
fbWU-wtf Solo Agent in Augusta.
THE MONTGOMERY MANUFACTURING COM
PANY SIRON WORKS.
MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA.
Ml Nil FA UTU HK, in superior style, Horizontal and
Upright STEAM ENGINES, of all site#: Steam
BOIL KUS ; LOCOMOTIVES; Cast Iron WATER WHEELS;
Pug u* MILLS ; Saw ami Gri#t Mill IRONS, of every varie
ty, (including Hoxle'scontinueus feet for Saw Mill#;) En
gine and Hand LA tIIES; Irou and Bras#CASTINGS, of all
kinds, Ac., Ac.
All order# filled with despatch.
ap!>2 GINDRAT A 00.
FRANCE’S SPECIFIC,
mutPAAHD nr
ROBERT FRANCK, M. D.,
LOUDON.
IM a certain, speedy and permanent cure for CERTAIN
DISEASES. It is sold by WM. H. TUTT,
mart! Sole Agent, Augusta.
PIANO FORTXS MUSIC, AC?
CtIAHMtH (ATI.IN & IN)., noar
the United State# llotrl, Augusta. Ga.,
aro iHe only authorised Agent# fbr Chick
•ring’s celebniied \! * W \J V
IRON FRAMED PIANO FORTHB,
Also, fbr those luade by Nunn A Clark, and Adam Stod
dard.
The superiority and wide spread oolebrily of these In
truc&ento render any special referenoe to them unnecessa
ry. The universal satisfaction that they have given in this
Mark-. t,for more than 10year#, is good evidence of their
urablllty.
Tl-.ulr stock Is always large and full, comprising every
variety aud p’yle of 0, UJi 0 X and 7 octave PIANOS,
Which iht'v will well at the lowest factory prices, (varying
rom f 200 to fOlH),) and wArrantthem sound and perfect In
' very respect.
Their?tick of MUSIC is large, and they receive fresh
applies every week of all now publications, as soon as they
arc Issued.
AH orders for rianos, Music, Violins, Guitars, Flutes, Ac
ordooua,Ao., Ac., wtll receive prompt and careftil atten
on, and will be warranted to please in every respect.
MELODEONB.
They h'-.to also a complete aaoortmeat of Prinse A Oo.’s
MELODHONB. The Key Board Is preolsely the same as the
Piano or Organ : and the tone closely resembles that of
he Flute stop of the Organ, aud 1# sufficiently loud for
mall Churchss. They grtce from >6O to slo®.
OIIARLMOATLIN keens fbrsale at the same place, a
ar* Stock of fine WATCHES, JEWELRY and SILVER
W \UE, to which he invites tne attention of the pubDc.
mh'JS
p. Busnrnsß)
PIANO MANUFACTURER,
; ’ Quality Rang* } Broad Strut, Augusta, Ga
* TH ready to execute all orders for PI
-1 \w . ,i» ■« •• -ration*, which he war
r:*ntn to be final in tone, quality and do
*• nubility to any that are brought from the « “ « If •
North, T allowing Is one of various testimonials, which
have boor, kindly given to P. B. by gentlemen in this city.
a Plano of Mr. P. Brenner last year,
which iva« of his own make, I take great pleasure in teetlfy
-Ing my perfect approbation of It in every respect. It Is very ,
rich in i->ne, easy of touch, elegantly made and keeps in
tun •no : i ImiraWy. Prom what I have seen of Mr. Bren*
nil's Planus, 1 have no hesitation In recommending them
f»rtluir superior quality, to all who maybe In want of a
flue and durable instrument. J. B. Hast.
Augusta September 15,1852.
Further references: Rev. Mr. Ford, Mr. J. Setae, Mr. 11.
B. * isrr, B. Biinion, Mr. Wm, R. Schlrmer and others.
i’ 4.> s Organs and other musical instruments tuned and
skilfully repaired, at the shortest notice.
P. BRENNER,
'S ly Broad-st, above McKenni-st.
PIANO FORTKB.
K subscribers would resiH*ctfully
i the attention of their friends aud the
pub’, c, to their assortment of Rosewood and
Mai my PIANO FORTES, from the well w 8 Vl/ 9
known . id justly celebrated Manufactoriesof Bacon k Raven,
A. li. tiale A Co., and Dubois k Seabury, New York, which
ar aft ly to be at least fully equal to .
any n aruraents manufactured in this country or Europe.
I would also state than the instruments now
on hand ire **f the latest patterns and fashion, and fresh from .
the manufacturers. For sale at very low prices for cash or
City .vwptauces,at GEO. A. OATES k OO.’fi
my iS Piano, Book and Music Depot, Broad-st.
W. H. & J. TURPIN.
.-uocassoa* to w. h. mrn,
„ OFPRIt TO PHYSICIANS,Pi.ntem, Mer- a
gyff ch.uits, ami tin* public at large, a choiceand SBfr
Yjq i iswrled Mock of DRUGS AND MF.DI- V|
Li\ OU#B, PAINTS, DYESTUFFS, Gla*a ZM
nil fully, Brushes of enrj description, Straw Broom.,
pint? Turpentine, Ac., Ac.
i. We .lurch ise our foods forcAsh, and are prepared to.ell
sjff en the most advantageous terraa. Merchants will find it to
* h**ir interest to look at our prices. All articles warranted
■M ebe what is represented. Give us a call and satisfy your
s elves. _ «*S
*SO REWARD.
M T) AXAIVAY from the subscriber, on Sunday,
a 1 H gay of May, my Negro boy SAM, about 48 Jj®
m years old, five and a half feet high,of a dark copper
m color: his h.wr lip is badly disfigured, baring loet
JW? a part of it in a tight, the upper lip seemingly very promt
nent. lie was wearing acap when he left me.
1 bos .lit sit'd hoy last December of Mesarm Nelson A
Ccab, Negro Speculators from South Carolina. He may .
be making his way back. .
Hi * above reward will be given for his apprehension and
delivery. C. C. KING.
Any information thankfully received, addressed toths
Postmaster, Balnhridgu, Oeo. may 44 "it
PHILIP A. XOISX.
/, lUFORTU ASP DtSLSI I» O
trfi DRUGS ml MEDICINES, PAINTS, OILS, Ats
Y2l DVK STUFFS, window glass, brush- II
LA ES, PERFUMERY, PATENT MEDICINES, ZM
INSTRUMENTS, Ac., Ac.
No. 195 Broad Street, under Vie Auqusta Hotel.
Has awoti hand a very large Stock of the above articles,
wh rh are o'J.-red for sale st very low prices, and on accom
modating terms.
Country Merchants, Physicians and Planters are
nv Ito call and examine, before purchasing elsewhere.
D-B- PLUMB* CO.
n ARP,constantly receiving fresh and pnre a
#Tf4 M L, lues, Chemicals, Choice Perfumery,
Toilet Articles Ac., at their establishment AW
AJ*!, between C. S. Hottl and Post Office corner.
Medicines carefully dispensed at all hours, by calling at Mr
Barnes', corner Green and Mclntonsh strets nSS
TIIH undersigned would call the gv.
attention of Merchants and
Planters to the extensive stork of tiM "
AGRIcrLTLRAL IMPLEMENTS,
which they keep in connection with HARDWARE and
CI'VLKRV. Their slock of PLOW?, HARROW'S, CCLTI-
V VTOItS, Corn SMELLERS. Straw COTTERS,GrainCRA
DLIS, Kan MILLS, FANNERS, BOII.ERi, and all articles
in the Agricuicultural line, is not equalled in the State.
They are prepared to order at the shortest notice the best
kinds of HORSE POWERS, THRESHERS, Smut MA
CHIVES, or any articles in their line of business. They
are also Agents for the Boston Belting Company, and have
nowon hand tudia-Rubber Steam Packing HOSE and Ma
chine BELTING. CARMICHAEL A BEAN.
oSI-wly
WATCHES, JEWELRY, 4c.
CIIAHI.H* CATUN invites the attention of (-»
his friends and the public, to his large and |£7V
well selected stock of fine WATCHES, JEWELRY, gmeMR
Sliver FORK? and SPOONS, PLATED CASTORS, CAN
DLESTICKS, and a great variety of Rich Fancy Goods,
which he will sell on the most favorable terms. He has la
hit employ one of the best Watch makera In this country,
who will attend to the repairing as FINE WATCHES
promptly and in the very best manner. He has also a prac
tcal Jeweler, wahowtU ake or repair all descriptions of
week/. Engravings o(am Mads neatly a sou tad. mb*
Weekly Chronicle & Sentinel.
MISCELLANEOUS.
BOO* BINDERY”
THK I’KOPKIKTOH of the CHRONICLE A SENTI
NEL would respectfully notify his friends and the pub
lie,t hat he ha. added to hi. eetabiiahmen t a complete
BOOK BINDERY,
and having Mcuredtheaerrlcei of ane«cieatand compe
tent workman, I. prepared to execute all orders for BIND
ING in the best style, and at short notice. Havingalaoa
mostapproved
RULING MACHINE,
all orders for BILL DEADS, BLANK BOOKS, Ac., willbe
Ruled to any given pattern, with neatness and despatch.
He flatters himself, therefore, that he will be able to exe
cute every variety of work in a most satisfactory manner.
JOB PRINTING.
The JOB PRINTING department of the CHRONICLE A
SENTINEL Office i* now complete in all its parti, having
been recently re-fitted frith a most extensive supply and
great variety of New Type, of the latest styles and moi
approved patterns. The Proprietor would therefore re
spectfully invite the orders of his friends and the public,
fee ling assured that his facilities, and the superior skill and
taste of his workmen in that department, will enable him to
execute every variety of JOB PRINTING in a style equal
to any establishment in the South, and atmostsatisfactory
prices. mb 20
TO COTTOH PLANTERS.
HA VI.V; secured the services of Mr G T. OGLESBY
as the superintendent,together with other experienced
mechanics, I have established a large COTTON GIN FAC
TORY, at the Shoals of Ogeechee, Ga., where I am pre
pared to make and furnish the Planter with the best arti
cle in the way of a COTTON GIN now produced in this
country.
Mr. Oolhit’s time, devoted exclusively in the shop, and
seenig to the putting up of every Gin under his specie) di
rection, and attaching all the improvements which he (Mr.
Oolbhbt,) has gotten up within the last two years, I am
satiitfled I can supersede any made heretofore, in quantity,
qua ity and durability.
All old Gins, (when sent to the shop,) will be repaired,
and all the improvements attached if desired, at a reason
bit; charge.
Tho new Gina will be delivered at the Planters’ nearest
depot, or at their reskkr.ee if desired,free of charge.
Prompt attention paid to all communications addressed
to me at the above office.
THOMAB J. CHEELY.
SHOAISTOP OGEECHEE, GA., 1
March ft, 1858. f
TO MY OLD FATIOHB AMD FEIKNDri.
As there has been some complaint of my Gins, made du
ring the laat two years: an explanation to you in relation
to this matter is due Mr. Cukkly.
I have been absent a vreat portion of this time, on a
visit to the North, experimenting and getting up a new
Gin, as well as improving, the original Saw Gin, together
with suitable machinery for this business, to its highest
perfection, as will be acknowledged by all who have used
them, both in durability and quality of Cotton.
I shall now devote my individual attention in the shop,
and see that every part of each Gin is put up in the neat
est possible manner : in short, I shall make the original
Oglesby Gin, which has been so celebrated for its durabil
ity and fine Cotton, having taken the premium in this State
as well as that of South Carolina in every instance except
one, and then it was said by foreign dealers that my Cot
ton was of a superior quality. In conclusion, my late im
provements added to my former Gins, cannot fail to give
entire satifaction. I will alter any old Gin (net too much
worn) to do better work than it ever did before.
Yours, most respectfully, G. T. OGLESBY,
mar 8
GHOnnSHIBG * CO’S
MARBLE WORKS, Broad street, Augusta, Georgia
Where we have on hand and will continue to keep a
large stock of both Italian and American Marble, for
Monuments,Toombs, Head Stones, Ac., to which we res
pectfully call the attention of those wanting work in our
ine, We are now prepared to fill all orders at short no
tice, In as good style and as low as work of thesame.quality
an be furnished for from any establishment in the United
States. Plans and prices willbe sent those who cannot ca
and examne for themselves.
P. B.— Orders from the country executed with. neatnes
and despatch. d 27
SPECIAL ORDERB—NO. 12.
HEAD QUARTERS, G. M., 1
MiLLrooBviLLV. 7th July, 1868. f
| A vacancy has occurred in the 2d Brigade of the First
1 • Division, G. M., consisting of the counties of Scrlren,
Bulloch, Montgomery, Tattnall, Burke, Jefferson and
Emanuel, by the resignation of Brigadier General GEO.
W. EVANS, commanding said Brigade.
2. In conformity with the Act of the Legislature, to
provide for the election of General Officers of this State,
the Colonels of Regiments and Officers commanding Bat
talions in the counties where there are no Regiments with
in said Brigude, will give twenty days notice, by adver
tisement In each Captain’s District, and at the place of
holding Company Mu#ters within their respective com
mands, that an ELECTION will be held on Monday, the 8d
day of OCTOBER next, at the place or places established
hy law for holding elections of members of the General
Assembly, under the superintendence of one or more
Judges of the Inferior Courts, o/Justice of the Peace, to
gether with two commissioned military Officers, or two
freeholders ol the county in which the election is held.
8. The Superintendents of the election will make out a
return of the votes received, (aud in counties where there
are several places of holding the election will count out
and consolidate the votes,) and forward the same to the
Governor, agreeably to the laws reguluting the returns of
the member* of the General Assembly.
By order of the Commander-in Chief.
WR L 8 * ROCKWELL, Ald-de-Camp.
LOST,
BY TIIR BUBBC RIUICR, about
middle of June last, his POCKET 800K T
containing Seventy-five Dollars, in five riol
lar bills, and fifty cents in silver; also four Uti&MHfiH
small Notes, drawn by the following persons, and made
payable to me, vis:
One on John P. Mell, for twenty dollars, date not recol
lected.
One on James Lynn, for twenty dollars, dated about the
Ist June last.
One on Isham Kelly, for seventeen 60*100 dollars, dated
about the last March, 1868.
One on John Ewbanki, for six 80-100 dollars, dated in
June last.
All persons are notified not to trade for said Notes, as
payment has been stopped. A liberal regard will be given
to the finder, by application to the subscriber, at Oxford,
Newton county, Georgia. WILLIAM GALLOWAY.
Oxford, Ga., July 9,1668. Jylß-w4
60 DOLLARS REWARD.
QTRA YED or stolen from the residence of the AV--
O subscriber in Burke county, on the night of the
Ist Inst., a sorrel FILLY about two years old, about 14 nauds
high, she has a scar on the noae s< me three or four inches
above the nostiii, also one on the left side in the flank,
eight or ten Inches long, freßh, and a small white spot in
the forehead. The above reward will be paid for the mare
and sufficient evidence to convict any person of stealing.
Twenty Dollars will be paid for the mare, if stolen—if
strayed, any Information will be thankfully received at
Alexander P. O. Jy7-w6 A. J. ROBINSON.
NOTICE,
O ANA WAY from the subsc Tiber about the 20fch
Ati of June, my Negro BOY, Gilbert. He Is about Jfp
five feet high, very intelligent and quick spoken, he<ns
is a bright mulato and has a scar upon one side of
his face, caused by a horse kick, the ocar is opposite one of
h'#ey«s,but forgotten which one. I will pay Ten Dollars
for his apprehension and delivery to me, or lodged in any
safe jail so that 1 can get him. Said boy was in the employ
ment of Dr. JE. A. Strbliug, of Woodbury, Merriwether
county, Ga. Any information concerning said boy will be
thankfully received. My address Is Danburg, Wilkes
county. Ga. Jy7 8 W. F. STRIBLING.
Griffin papers will copy twice and forward account
to thin office.
ASTONISHING.
RUNAWAY from the subscriber, living in flue
Pike county, Ala., near Bug Hall P. 0., on JJT®
the 20th March last, a NEGRO MAN, of dark
complexion, trim made, weighs about 150 pounds, y^
6 feet 6or 8 inches high, a little knock-kneed, thin *■ w
visage, sharp nose, and speaks quick atd polite when
spoken to, by the name of Henry. I purchased him from
Messrs. Henderson k Heckle, tat Janaary, who reside in
Augusta, Ga. Henry says he formerly belonged to a man
in or near Augusta, by the name of Skinner. The said
boy is supposed to be lurking about the city of Augusta.
A liberal reward will be paid for the delivery of said boy
to mo, or lodged in some safe jail so I can get him.
Jyl2-wßmo JAMES U. FIELDER.
GHO KG LA, MADISON COUNTY.
CLERK’S OFFICE INFERIOR COURT, I
Mat 28th, 1858. f
ALL PBRSONB Interested, are hereby notified, that
Allen 0. Daniel, of the 404th District G. M., tolls be
fore Wilson J. Bird, one of the Justice's of the Peace for
•aid district,as an Eatrsy, a small Sorrel, Pacing HORSE,
about eight years old, valued by Hardy T. Sunders and
Uustavus H. Bird, freeholders of said county aud district,
to be worth sixty dollars. The owner of said Horse Is re
quired to oome forward, pay charges, and take said Horae
away, or he will be dealt with as the law directs.
A true Extract from the Estray Book.
CRAWFORD M. STRICKLAND, Clerk.
Juncl, 1968.
TEN DOLLARS BEWAED.
STRAYED or stolen from the subscriber, if\
in Warren eounty, near Warrenton, one 7fc-rf%
Grey MARE, left eye ont, eight years old, and /P*fl *
one bright Sorrel HORSE, a natural pacer,
years old. I will pay the above reward for their delivery
to me, if stolen, and Fifty Dollars for the thief, with suffi
cient proof to convict. Any information of them will be
thankfully reCAtaed and liberally rewarded.
r WM. H. WHITESIDES.
Warrenton, Ga., July 10,1858. Jyl9-w2t
STRAYED, from Belair, on the sth inst., a
Grey HORSE, about 14 hands high, long
mane and tail. No marks recollected, except his having
a very heavy foretop and mane—was unshod. Any infor
mation of said Hone will be thankfully received, and a
liberal reward given on delivery at the G. R. R. Depot at
Augusta, or Belair.
Jyls-dawS __ V. W. BOISCLAIR.
PARHAM S NEW HOTEL,
CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE.
31. I). HOGJJt, Proprietor.
rIK SIBSnIIBKH begs leave to inform bis MB
friends and the travelling public that the above IK
establishment is now open for the reoeptionof visitors. It
it located in the centre of Business, commanding a beauti
ful view of the River and surrounding country.
The interior of the House has been constructed with a
strict view to the comfort of its patrons—affording impor
tant conveniences rarely met with in country Hotels.
At the chief object of the Proprietor will be to give gene
ral satisfaction, his guests may be assured that no exertion
on his part will be wanting to make their stay with him
worthy of their patronage.
There will be an Omnibus in waiting on the arrival of
the Rail Road Cars and Steam Boats, and a trusty, careful
man to take care of Baggage. M. D. HOGAN.
Chattanooga, May, 44,1554. my49-dtf
FOB SALE,
A PAIR of fine Northern DORSEB, well broke to doa
ble and single Harness, fast trotters, stylish drivers,
gentle in every respect, and perfectly scund.
—also^—
A fine BUGGY and DOUBLE HARNESS (Northern
manufactured) Apply at this ofilce. Je-dl4A«Bt.
NOTICE.
THK 81B8CUIBKR, having purchased the Stable
recently occupied by J. M. Stwrsos, is now prepared
te aocomuodate his friends, and hopes, by strict personal
attention to his business, to merit s liberal share of public
patronage. CARRIAGES and BUGGIES for hire at all
hours, with good careful Drivers.
_JunelO-dIUAwS W. A. McCONNELL.
CARDS. CABDB.
COTTON, WOOL, Jim-Crow and Hone Cards of the
above celebrated stamps, are of unequalled quality,and
whereveristrodoced take the placeof all others. They are
manufactured on our new improved machinery, and each
pair is warranted in every respect. Our inferior cards, the
common “ Whitemore’'stamp, are of the usually well known
quality.
Sold by the Hardware houses in all thr cities,and country
Merchants, and to the trade by theManafacturers.
JOS. B. SARGENT,
my 10 wly* 44 CiiffStreet, New York.
COTOOSA SPRINGS, GA
This desirable watering place win be
open for the reception of visitors on the 15th day of
JUNE next. It is located in Walker County,Ga, two
miles from the State Railroad, 118 miles from Atlanta, and
45 miles from Chattanooga, Tenn.
Five hundred persons can be comfortably accommoda
ted. All rooms assigned for families are plastered and
well finished. We hare also several handmme cottages for
families who wish to ba retired.
It is well known that we have the greatest variety of
MINERAL WATERS to be round at any watering place
i n the South, there being more than
FIFTY SPRINGS.
Those who maybe pleased to visit tu msy rest assured
that we will do all in our power to make them comforta
ble and happy, daring their stay with ns.
mayil-Sawdsw H. H. HICKMAN k CO.
CHEROKEE SPRINGS
TSTILL OPEN the Ist JUNE, under the superintend-
W enee of Col. Wm. Mraaxr and Lady. These Springs
are parr limpid and cool, consisting of Chalybeate,
White Sulphur, Limestone and Freestone. The medicinal
properties will soon be made public, ai Prof. Means of Em
ory College is now preparing an analysis. They are loca
ted sjg miles beyond the Tunnel! on the State Road, \
of s mile from Col. Ramsey’s platform, (used for Catoosa
alto,) where visitors trill find Hacks always ready. Terms
of board low. may2B-lawd4ew4 J. G. PENISTON.
NOTICE,
era HAT 1 have this day Bold out my GIN MA KING IN
1 TEREST, to ray eon, M. T. WYNN, who will carry on
the same, at ray old stand, at Belair, on or near the Geor
gia Railroad. lam thankful for past favors, and will be
pleased for my old friends to patronise my son, who will
fulfil all my engagements, and s well qualified to do so.
juneS» tam4m THOS. WYNN.
CT The Constitutionalist A Republic will copy, and
forward their account to me. T. W.
CHAMPAGNE —40 baskets in store and for sale by
aayfo K C. GRENVILLE k 00.
WEEKLY
CHRONICLE \ SENTINEL
POETRY.
THE LORD’S PRAYER—AN ACROSTIC.
Our Lord and King who re : gn'st enthroned on high,
Father of Light, Mysterious Deity!
Who art the great I AM—the last—the first—
Art righteous, holy, merciful and just—
In realms of glory, scene* where angels sing,
Heaven is the dwelling place of God our King,
Hallowed thy name, which doth all names transcend,
B* thou adored,our Great Almigh y friend,
Thy glory shine* beyond creation’s space,
Named in the book of justice and grace,
Thy kingdom towers beyond thy starry skies;
Kingdom s* tonic fails, but thine shall rise,
Ornne, let thine empire, O, thou Holy One,
Thy great and everlasting will be done!
Will God make known his will, his power display ?
Be it the work of mortals to obey.
Done in the great, the wondrous work cf love,
On Calvary’s cross he died, but reigns above,
Earth bears the record in thy holy word,
Ah Heaven adores thy love, let earth, O Lord;
It shines trancendeotin the eternal skies,
/* praised iu heaven—for man the Saviour dies.
In songs immortal, acgels laud his name.
Heaven shouts for joy and saints his love proclaim;
Give us, O Lord, our food, nor cease to give
Cm proper food, on which our souls may live.
This be our boon to-day and days to come,
bay without end, in our eternal home;
Our needy souls supply from day to day,
Dally assist, and aid us when we pray;
Bread though we ask yet, Lord, thy blessing lend,
And make us grateful when thy gifts descend.
Forgive our sins, whic> in destruction place
Us— the rebels of a rebel race.
Our follies, faults and trespasses, forgive—
iJebts which we ne’er can pay, or thou receive,
As we, 0 Lord,our neighors'faults o’erlook,
We beg thou’dst blot ours from thy memory’s book;
Forgive our enemies; extend thy grace
Our soul’s to save, e’en Adam’s guilty racew
Debtors to thee in gratitude and love,
Arul in that duty paid by raints above,
Lead f-w* rin, aod in tby mercy raise
Us from the tempter and his hellish ways;
Not in our own, but in his name who bled,
Into thice ear we pour our every need.
Temptation'stnlti charms help us to shun,
But may we conquer through thy conquering Son.
Deliver us from all which can annoy
Us in this world, and may our souU destroy,
From all calam ties which men betide,
Evil and death, oh turn our feet aside,
For we are mortal worms, and cleave to clay;
Thine ’til the rule, and mortal to obey.
Is not thy merry, Lord, forever free ?
The whole creation knows no God but thee.
Kingdom, and empire in thy presence fall!
The King eternal reigns the King of all,
Poster \h with thee—to thee be glory given.
And be thy name adorned by earth and heaven.
Ihe praise of saint* and angels is thy own,
Glory to thee, the Everlasting One,
Forever be thy triune name adored,
Amm ! Hosanna! blessed be the Lord!
OUR DAILY PATHS.
Naught shall prevail against us, or disturb
Our cheerful faith, that all which we behold
Is fall of blessings.— Wordicorth.
There’s beauty all around our path, if but our watchful
eyes
Can trace it ’midst familiar things, and through their lowly
guise;
We may find it where a hedgerow showers its blossoms o’er
our way,
Or a cottage window sparkles far in the last red light of
day.
We may find it where a spring shines clear, beneath an
aged tree,
With the foxglove o’er the water’s glass borne downwards
by the bee;
Or where a swift and sunny gleam on the birches stems
is thrown.
As a soft wind playing, parts the leaves in copses green
and lone.
We may find it in the winter boughs, as they cross the
cold blue sky,
While soft on icy pool and stream their penciled sha
dows lie,
When we look upon their tracery, by the fairy frost work
bound,
Whence the flitting redbreast shakes a shower of crystals
to the ground.
Yes! Beauty dwells in all our paths—but Sorrow too is
there;
How oft some cloud within us, dims the bright still sum
mer air!
When we carry our sick hearts abroad amidst the joyful
things
That through the leafy places glance on many colored
wings.
With shadows from the past we fill the happy woodland
shades,
And a mournful memory of the dead Is with us in the
glades;
And our dream-like fancies lend the wind an echo's plain
tive tone,
Os voices and of melodies, of silvery laughter gone.
But are we free to do even thus—to wander as we will—
Bearing sad visions through the grove, and o’er the breezy
hill?
No I in our daily paths lie cares, that oftlmes bind us fast,
While from their narrow round we see the golden day
flee past.
They hold us from ths woodlark’s haunts and the violet
dingle’s back,
And from all the living sounds aud gleams in the shining
river’s track;
They bar us from our heritago of spring time hope and
mirth,
And weigh our burdened spirits down with the cumbering
dust of earth.
Yet should this be! Too much, too soon, desponding we
yield!
A better lesson we are taught by the lilies of the field I
A sweeter by the birds of heaven—which tell us to tholr
Uight,
Os One that through the desert air lot ever guides them
right.
filial) not this knowledge calm our hearts, and bid rain con
flicts cease I
—Ah, when they commune with themselves in holy hours
of peace,
And feel by the lights and clouds through which our path
way lies,
By the Beauty and the 0.4- alike, we «r*» training for the
iktes.
A lady Offices.—Jean Paul soys that a lady offi
cer, if she wanted to give the word “ halt,” would
do it in this strain: “ You soldiers, all of you.
now mind, I order you as soon asl have finished
speaking, to stand still, every one of yon, on the
spot whore you happen to be; don’t you hear me f
Halt, I s.iy, all of you.”
Now Monsieur Jean, it was an unlueky day
yon wroto that sentence. May you never hear any
thing but that little concise word wo! from cTcry
roaylip you meet betwoen this and your tombstone!
May you “ halt” wifeless through life—may your
buttons be snappish, your strings knotty, and your
stockings holy. May your boot jack bomisssing,
your leet bo corned, your shaving water be cola,
vour razor dull, your hair stand up, and your dickies
lay down; may your beard be poroupiny, your
whiskers be thinly settled, and your mustacli#
curl the wrong way; may your ooffee be mud
dy, your toast smoky, and your tea bo water
bewiithed; may your dream of t’Wradise, and
waken in—some othor place, and with a never
dying desire for affection, may yon crawl through
creation a moek, miserable, nasty, forlorn, fidgot
ty, ridionlons. ruined, dejected, ragged old bach
elor I Amen I Fanht Fbbw.
The Smallest Engine inthb World. —Mr. Ben
jamin J. Warner, the London watch manufacturer,
has sent to ttiis country, for exibition at the
World’s Fair, the working models for two steam
engines. We infer from notices of them in some
of the London papers, that they will be the most
carious specimens of miunto workmanship exhib
ited in the Crystal Palace. The smallest one, an
oscillating cylinder engine, standa upon an English
four-pennypieec, (sire of half a dime,) with room
to sparo. The cylinder is but one-sixth of an in«h
in diameter, the length of stroke three-eighths,
and diameter of tho piston is that of an ordinary
needle. The other is a beam engine, composod of
moro than two hundred pieces. The length of the
stand is throe and a quarter inches, length of beam
two and a quarter inches, diameter of eylinder
three-eighths of an inch, and the length of stroke
seven-eightliß of an inch. Both of these engines
are screwed together with the deltwacy and pre
cision of the work of a watch.
Tho operations, by means of snb-marine ar
mor, upon tho wreck of the frigate Hussar, whleh
sunk in tho East River, nearly opposite Btony Is
land, in the early part of the Revolutionary war,
which have been continued during the three laet
summers, are prosecuted with auooesa the present
season. There have been brought up from the
wreck, cannon balls, pewter platea and dishes,
hourglasses, hand-grenades, leather bale, Ac., Ao.;
and also the bones of one of the nnfortuxute prison
ers who were confined in the vessel’s hold when
she went down. The bones formed a perfect skel
eton, and were no donbt those of a young mAn of
about five feet nine inches in height. Tho teeth In
both the upper nnd lower jaws were perfectly
white, and had not the slightest signs of deoay.—
Journal qf Commerce.
Female Labor. —The New York Day Book says
—and truly, too—in connexion with some remarks
on the present high prices of labor in all the de
partments of industry, that “It would be for the
interest of all hands to change the practice of em
ploying men to sell tape, ribbons, laces, and other
nick-nacks, to that of employing girls. The latter
arc more adapted by nature to the business and
the business is more adapted to their physical ca
pacities.”
It is a false and a cruel pride that compels wo
men to toil severely in their homes at labor a ser
vant at six dollars a month coaid perform, while
their husbands and brothers measure off tape
and lustring at three hundred a year, instead
of pursuing more active and appropriate duties at
twice or thrice that amount of compensation.
Imprisoned Americans.— The Havana correspon
dent of the N. York Times, speaking of the slave
trade, says that three American seamen, of tho sla
ver Jasper, who had been deceived as to the char
acter of the voyage and the vessel, and inveigled
into shipping on board of her in New York, on at
tempting to get away from the vessel, to avoid a
worse fate, were discovered without difficulty, and
are now in the Taoon prison, to be made the “scape
goats” of this expedition.
The W heat Crop of W estebn New York. —The
farmers of Western New York are busily engaged
in gathering their hay and wheat crops. The Ro
chester Democrat says a considerable portion of
the wheat will be cut this week, and that the
weather could not be finer for securing it in first
rate condition. Only a few small parcels of new
wheat have yet beeu’received at Rochester, and it
will be fully another week before prices can be es
tablished.
Sheep Raising in Virginia. —lt is staled there
has been a larger number of sheep brought into
Loudoun county, Va., this year, than for severed
years past, and that there are now about 10,000
fine wool sheep in Fairfax countv, which number
is being constantly increased. The gTeat demand
for wool has induced many of the Virginia farmers
to pay more than usual attention to sheep grazing.
The W ilmington (X. C.) and Manchester
Route. —The Carolinian of the 18th inst., Bays that
there are now about 25 or 80 miles only of stave
travelling on this route, which will be gradually
becoming less. The road is in very fine oondition,
and the running time good.
Illinois Central Railroad More than a hun
dred miles of this Road are already in operation,
and such is the forwardness of the whole line, that
within a year from the present rime, the whole
road from Chicago to Cairo is expected to be open
ed. Ten thousand men are now employed upon
the work.
The lakes in the town of Manlius, Onondaga
county. New York, are cariosities, and are sup
posed' to be of volcanic origin. They are, by the
inhabitants about there, tilled the Green Lakes.
One of them is on the top of a hill, and is in the
form of a tea-enp. The banks are twe hundred
feci high, and the water fouT hundred feet deep.
The water appears of a deep green, bnt when
taken np in a glass it is perfectly dear and trans
parent. Trees and limbs which foil into the water
soon become encrusted with a bright green sub
stance, which on being exposed to the air, beoomes
hard. The timber decays and leaves this in
crustation in the shape of hollow tubes. Wood,
saturated with this water and burned, emits a
strong odor of sulphur. A farmer who resides
near by, once heard a great rush of water, and
looking round saw the lake rising over the banks.
He was alarmed, and fled with his team, bnt the
water soon receded to its usual level, and he re
turned to his furrow, more puzzled then in
structed.
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 1853.
MISCELLANY.
From tiu L/orrdon, Atkenoam.
Profeuor Pmnimj on TmMo Morin*.
The following accounts of tho method panned
end the resalts obtained by Professor Farady, in
the investigation of a subject which has taken
anch strange occupation of the pnblic mind, both
here and abroad has been communicated to onr
columns by that high scientific authority. The
subject was generally opened by Mr. Faraday in
tho Times or Thursday, it being therein intima
ted that the details were to be reserved for onr this
day’, publication. The communication is of great
impertauce in the present morbid condition of
public thought—when, as Professor Faraday says,
the effect produced by the table-turners, has,
without due inquiry, been referred to electricity,
to magnetism, to attraction, to some unknown or
hitherto nurecognised physical power able to ef
fect in animate bodies to the revolution of the
earth, and even to diabolical or supernatural agen
cy ; and we are tempted to extract a passage from
Mr. Faraday's letter to the Times, which we think
well worth adding to the experimental particulars
and trie commentaries with which he baa favored
ourselves.
“I have been,” says the Professor, “grestly
startled by the revelation which thiß purely phy
eioal subject has made of the condition of the pnb
lie mind. No doubt there are many persons who
have formed a right judgment or used a cautious
reserve, for I know severui snch, and publio com
munications have shown it to be so ; but their
number is almost as u,thirg to tbe great body
who have believed and borne testimony, as I
think, in the cause of error. Ido not here refer
to the distinction of those who agree with me and
those who differ. By the great body I mean such
as reject all consideration of the equality of cause
and effect; who refer the results to eleotricity and
magnetism, yet know nothing of tho laws of these
forces; or to attraction, yet show no phenomena
of pare attractive power; or to the rotation of the
earth, revolved round the leg of a table ; or to
some unrecognised physical torce, without inquir
ing whether the known forces are not sufficient;
or who even refer them to diabolical or supernatu
ral a renoy. rather than suspend their judgment,
or acknowledge to themselves that they are not
learned enough in these matters to decide on the
nature of the action. I think the system of edu
cation that could leave tho mental condition of the
public body in the state in which this subject has
found it must have boen greatly deficient in some
very important principles."
EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF TABLE MOVING.
“The object which I had In view in this inquiry
was not to satisfy myself, for my conclusion had
been formed already on the evidence of those who
had turned tables, but that l might be enabled to
give a strong opinion, founded on to the
many who applied to ine for it. Yet the proof
which I sought for and the method followed in
the inquiry were precisely of the same i atnre as
those which I should adopt in any other physical
investigation. The parties with whom I have
worked were very honorable, very clear in their
intentions, successful table movers, very desirous
of succeeding in establishing the existence of a
peculiar power, thoroughly candid, and very ef
f'ectnal. It is with mo a clear point that the table
moves when the parties, though they strongly
wish it, do not intend and do not believo that they
move it by ordinary mechanical power. They
say the table draws their hands, it moves first,
and they have to follow it—that sometimes it even
moves from under their hands. With some the
table will move to the right or left according as
they wish or will it; with others the direction of
the first motion is uncertain; but all agree that the
table moves the hands and not tho hands the ta
ble. Though I believe the parties do not intend
to movo tho table, but obtain the result by a quasi
involuntary action, still 1 had no doubt of the in
fluence of expectation upon their minds, and
through that upon the success or failure of their
efforts. The first point, therefore, was to remove
all objections due to expectation, having relation
to the substances which I might desire to use ; so,
plates of the most different bodies, electrically
speaking —namely, sand-paper, mill-board, glue,
glass, moist clav, tinfoil, card-board, gutta-percha,
vulcanized rubber, wood, Ac.—were made into a
bundle and plaoed on stable under the hands of a
turner. The table turned. Other bundles of other
plates were submitted to different persons at other
times, and the tables turned. Henceforth, there
fore, these substances may be used in tbo construc
tion of apparatus. Neither during their use nor
at other times could tho slightest trace of electrical
or magnetic effect be obtained. At thesame trials
it was readily ascertained that ono person oould
produce the effect, and that the motion was neces
sarily circular, but might be in a straight line.—
No form of experiment or mode of observation that
I could devise gave mo the slightest indication of
any peculiar natural foroe. No attractions or re
pulsions, or signs of tangential power appeared,
nor anything which ooulabe referred to other than
the more mechanical pressure exerted inadvertent
ly by the turner. I theretore proceeded to ana
lyze this pressure, or that part of it exerted in a
horizontal direction: doing so, in the first instanoe
unawares to the party. A soft cement, consisting
of wax and turpentine, or wax and pomatum, was
prepared. Four or five pieces of smooth slippery
card-boßrd were attached one over the other by
little pellets of the cement, and the lower of these
to a piece of sand paper resting on the table ; the
edges of theßO sheets overlapped slightly, and on
the nndor surface a pencil line was drawn over the
laps so as to indicate position. The npper card
board was larger than the rest, so as to cover the
whole from sight. Then the table-turner placed
the hands upon the npper card and then we wait
ed for the result. Now, the cement was strong
enough to offer considerable resistance to mechani
cal motion, and also to retain the cards in any new
position in which they might acquire, and yet
weak enough to give way slowly to a continued
force. When at least tho tables, cards,and hands
all moved to the left together, and so a true result
was obtained, 1 took up the pack. On examina
tion it was easy to see by the displacement of the
parts of the line that the hand had moved further
than the table, and that the latter had lagged be
hind—that the hand, in fact, had pushed tho up
per card to the left, and that the under cards and
the table had followed and been dragged by it. In
other similar cases, whan the table bad not moved
still the upper card was found to have moved
showing that the hand bad oarried it in tho ex
pected direction. It was evident, therefore, that
the table had not drawn the hand and the person
round, nor had it moved simultaneously with the
hand. The hand had left all things under it be
hind, and the table evidently tendod continually
to keep the hand back.
“ The next step was to arrange an index which
should show whether tho table moved first or the
hand moved before the table, or both moved or re
mained at rest together. At first this was done by
placiiig an upright pin, fixed on a leaden foot, up
on the table, and using that os the fulcrum as a
a light lever. The latter waß made of a slip of
foolscap paper, and the short arm, about a quarter
of Inch in length, was attached to a pin proceed
ing from the edge of a slipping card placed on tho
table, and prepared to reoeive the hands of tbo
table tumor. Tho other arm, of inches long,
served for the index of motion. A coin laid on the
table marked the normal position of the card and
index. At first the slipping card was attached to
the table by the soft cement, and the index was
either screened from the turner or the latter looked
away; then, before the table moved, the index
showed that the hand was giving a resultant pres
sure in the expected dhection. The effect was
never carried far enoughHo move the table, for the
motion of the index corrected the judgment of the
experimenter, who beoame aware that inadvertent
ly a side force had been exerted. The card was
now set free from the table—i. e. the cement was
removed. Tlits of course could not interfere with
any of the results expected by the table turner,
for both the bundle of plates spoken of and single
cards bad been freely moved on the tables before;
but now that the index was there, witnessing to
the eye, and through it to the mind of the table
turner, not the slightest tendency to motion, eith
er of the oard or of the table, occurred. Indeed,
whether the card was left free or attached to the
table, all motion, or tendency to motion was gone.
In one particular case there was relative motion
between the table and the hands. I believe that
the hands moved in one direction; the table turn
er was persuaded that the table moved from under
tho hand in the other direction; a guage, stand
ing upon the floor and pointing to the table, was
therefore set up on that and some future occasions
and then neither motion of the hand nor of the
table oocurred.
“A more perfect lever apparatus was then con
structed, in the following manner: Two tbin
boards, 9X inches by7 inches, were provided: a
board 9 by 6 inches was glued to the middle of the
underside of one of these, (to be called the table
board,) so as to raise the edges free from the table;
being placed on the table, near and parallel to its
side, an uprightpin was fixed close to the further
edge of the board, at the middle, to serve as the
fulcrum for the indicating lever. Then four glass
rods, 7 inches long and in diameter, were placed
as the rollers on different parts of this table-board,
and the upward board placed on them; the rods
permitted any required amount of pressure on the
boards, with a free motion of the upper on the
lower to the right and left. At the part corres
ponding to the pin in the lower board, a piece was
cut out ot tho upper board, and a pin attached
there which, being bent downward, entered the
hole in the end of the short arm of the index lever;
this part of the lever was card-board; the indiea
ting prolongation was a straight hay-stalk 15i nches
long. In order to restrain the motion ot the up
per board on the lower, two vulcanized rubber
rings were passed round both, ut the parts not res
ting on the table; these, while they tied the boards
together, acted also as springs, and while they al
lowed the first feeblest tendency to motion to be
seen by the index, exerted, before the upper board
had moved a quarter of an inch, sufficient power
in pulling the upper board back from either side
to resist a strong lateral action of the hand. All
being thus arranged, except that the lever was
away, the two boards were tied together with
string, running parallel to the vulcanized rubber
springs, so as to be immovable in relation to each
other. They were then placed on the table, and a
table turner sat down to them; the table very
shortly moved in due order, showing that the ap
paratns offered no impediment to the action. A
Uke apparatus, with metal rollers, produced the
same result under the hands of another person.
The index was now pntinto its place and the string
loosened, so that the springs should come into
play. It was soon seen, with the party that could
will the motion in either direction, (from whom
the index was purposely, hidden,) that the hands
were gradually creeping up in the direction before
agreed upon, though the party certainly thought
they were pressing downward only. When shown
that it was so they were truly surprised: but when
they lifted up their hands and immediately saw
the index return to its normal position, they were
convinced. When they looked at the index and
could see for themselves whether they were press
ing truly downward or obliquely so as to produce
a resultant in the right or left-handed direction,
then such an effect never took place. Several
tried, for a long while together, and with the beat
will in the world; but no motion, right or left, of
the table, or hand, or any thing else, occurred.
[A passage from the letter in the Times is worth
reproducing here, as illustrating in other words the
value of this method of self-conviction: “The re
sult,” says Fros. Faraday, “was, that when the
parties ssw the index, it remained very steady;
when it was hidden from them, or they looked
away from it, it wavered about, though they be
lieved that they always pressed directly downward;
and when the table did not move, there was still
a resultant of hand force in the directien in which
it was wished the table shonld move, which, how
ever, was exercised quite unwittingly by the party
operating. This resultant it is which, in the course
ot the waiting time, while the fingers and hands
become stiff, numb, and insensible by continued
pressure, grows up to an amonnt sufficient to move
the table or the substances pressed npon. But
the most valuable effeot of this test apparatus
(which was afterwards made more perfect and in
dependent of the table) is the corrective power it
possesses over the mind of the table-turner. As
soon as the index is placed before the most earnest,
and they perceive—as in my presence they have
always done—that it tells truly whether they are
pressing downward or obliquely, then all effects
of table-turning cease, even though the parties
persevere, earnestly desiring motion, until they
become weary and worn out. No prompting or
checking of the hands is needed —tht power isgont;
and this only because the parties are made oon
scious of what they are really doing mechanically,
and so are unable unwittingly to daoaive them
selves, I know that mom BMJ **y (bat it is the
oard-board next the fingers which mores drst, and
that it both drags the table and also tue table- turner
with it. All I hare to reply is, that the card-beard
may in practice be reduoed toathit sheetof paper
weighing only a tew grains, or to a niece of gold
beaters’ skin, or even the end of the lever, and (in
principle) to the very cuticle of the fingers itself.
Then the results that follow are too absurd to be
admitted: the table becomes an incumbrance, aud
a person holding out the fingers in the air, either
naked or tippea with gold-beaters’ skin or card
board ought to be drawn about the room, etc.; but
I refrain from considering imaginary yet conse
quent results which have nothing philosophical or
real in them.”]
“ Another form of index was applied, thus: A
circular hole was cut in the middle of the upper
board, and a piece of cartridge paper pasted under
it on the lower surfece of the board; a thin slice
of cork was fixed on the upper surfaee of the lower
board corresponding to the cartridge paper; the
interval between them might be a quarter of an
inch or less. A needle was fixed into the end of
one of the index hay-stalks, and when all was in
place the needle point was passed through the
cartridge paper and pressed slightly mio the cork
beneath, so as to stand upright; then any motion
of the hand or hand-board was instantly rendered
evident by the deflection of the perpendicular
bay-stalk to the right or left.
“I think the apparatus I have described mav be
useful to many who really wish to know the truth
of nature, and would prefer the truth to a mistaken
conclusion: desired, perhaps, only because it
seems to be new or strange. Persons do not know
how difficult it is to press direotly downward, or
in any given direction, against a'fixed obstacle;
or even to Unou only whether they are doing so
or not; unless they have some indicator winch,
by visible motion or otherwise, shall instruct
them; and this is more especially the case when
the muscles of the Huger and hand have been
cramped and rendered either tingling, or insensi
ble, or cold by long-continued pressure. If a fin
ger be pressed constantly into the corner of a
window frame for ten minutes or more, and then,
continuing the pressure, the mind b»: lireeted to
, udge whether the foroo at a given moment is all
lorizontal, or all downward, or how much is iu
one direction and how much in the other, it will
find great difficulty in deciding; and will at last
booome altogether uncertain—at least such is my
case. I know that a similiar result occurs with
others, for I have had two boards arranged, sep
arated, not by rollers, but by pings of vulcanized
rubber, and with the vertical index; when a per
son with his hands on the upper board is request
ed to press only downward, and the index is hid
den from his sight, it moves to tho right, to the
left, to him and from him, and in all horizontal di
rections ; so utterly unable is he strictly to fulfil
his intention without a visible and correcting in
dicator. Now, anch is the use of the instrument
with the horizontal index and rollers: the mind is
instructed, and the involuntary or quasi involun
tary motion is checked in the commencement,
and therefore never rises up to the degree needful
to move the table, or even permanently the index
itself. No one can suppose that looking at the
index can in any way interfere with the transfer of
electricity or any other power from tho hand to the
board under it or to the table. If the board lends
to move, it may do so—the index does not coniine
it; and if the table tends to move, there is no rea
son why it should not. If both were influenced
by any power to move together, they may do so—
as they did indeed when the apparatus was tied,
and tho mind and muscle left unwatched and un
checked.
“ I must bring this long description to a closo.
I am a little ashamed of it, fori think, in the pre
sent ago, and in this part of the world, it ought
not to have been required. Nevertheless, I hope
it may be useful. There are mauy whom Ido not
expect to convince; but I may be allowed to say
that I cannot undertake to answer suoh objections
us may be made. I state my own couvictiona as
un experimental philosopher, aud I find it no more
necessary to enter into controversy on this point
than on any other in science, as the nature of mat
ter, or inertia, or the magnetization of light, on
which I may differ from others. Tho world will
decide sooner or later in all such cases, and
I havo no doubt very soon and oorreotly in
the present instance. Those who may wieh to sea
the particular construction of the test apparatus
which I have employed may havo the opportunity
at Mr. Newman’s, No. 122 Regent-street. Fur
ther, I may say I have sought earnestly for cases of
lifting by attraction, and indications of attraction
in auy form, but have gained no traces of such ef
feoto. Finally, I beg to direct attention to tho
discourse delivered by Dr. Carpenter, at the Royal
Institution, on the 12th of March, 1852, entitled
‘ On the influence of Suggestion in modifying aud
directing Muscular Movement, independently of
Volitionwhioh, especially in the latter part,
should be considered in rolerence to table-moving
by all who are interested in the subject.
“ M. Faraday.
“Royal Institution, June 27,1858.”
Aspect or our Indian Affairs—Congressional Neg
lect.
Our Indian affairs, never too well administered,
are now perhaps in a worse state than ever before.
With the accession of tho vart territories of Texas,
Oregon, New Mexico and California, immense
hordes of aborigines wore taken under the cover
ture of the United States Government “ for belter
or for worse.” Hitherto the change of circum
stances haß been to the Indians almost wholly for
the worse.
In time past, with occasional exceptions, they
were able to supply themselves with food and cov
ering ; latterly toe rule has been for them to be
devoid of either. They were once in the main a
brave and noble race; now the almost universal
report is that cunning, cowardice, treachery and
meanness of spirit have supplanted the better
qualities that once distinguished them.
Every year is pushing them further away from
their accustomed means and modes of support,
changing their habitations, breaking in upon tboir
invoterate habits, ana otherwise r.—loving then;
from that routine which by immortal custom had
come to be instinctive, and hence to their appre
hension essential to their existence.
Some considerable abatement of this must be
made for those semi-rcclaimed tribes who have
been dispossessed of their original seats in the
country now occupied by the organized States of
the Union. The merciful policy of the Govern
ment has conferred upon them in exchange for
their abandoned homes, in several esses unneces
sarily large, in all fully sufficient areas of habitable
and fertile territory. Some of the tribes thus lo
cated, as the Creek, Choctaws, Cherokees, &c.,
among tho larger; the Weas, Peorias. Kickapos,
certain of the Ottawas, Chippewas ana Winneba
gos, <fcc., among the smaller tribes, may bo con
sidered as occupying a place in the scale of civili
zation equal, if not superior, to the mass of the
people inhabiting Eastern Europe, or the decend
ants of the Spanish and Portuguese settlers of
South America. Some individuals are highly edu
cated.
But with these exceptions the present condition
of the Indian race is deplorable—and this is espe
cially true of those Indians who have been brought
under our control since the period of the annexa
tion of Texas. Our Indian legislation since that
period compares most unfavorably with what pro
ceeded it. It is but too apparent that the legisla
tive mind has been less beneficially affected to
wards, far less sincerely concerned, about the wel
fare of its Indian wardß than used to bo the case
in the older time—more selfish and self-seeking,
more given to party, and less impressed with the
sense of tho parental in its authority, than it form
erly was and always ought to be.
The condition of most of tho Indian tribes in
Texas, especially the feebler, is so bad that it can
hardly be worse. They have been driven from
their ancient localities, hunted like wolves, and
have not been assigned any homes, suitable or un
suitable for their residence. Starvation and death
seem inevitably to awaitthem. Successive admin
istrations of the Indian Department have made
honest efforts to remedy the bad footing of the In
dian affairs in Texas, but untoward (influence in
Congress as well as in the State Legislature, have
been hitherto too potent to allow any scheme to
take root and develops its capacity for good.
For the use of the Indian service for the current
year in Now Mexico, in and around which from
twenty to thirty thousand savages roam the arid
wastes, the paltry pittance of ten thousand dollars
was doled outlast session from a plethoric Treasu
ry. Disallowed by the stronger tribes of the great
plains, the Camanches, Arrapahoes and Cheyen
nes, &c., from the pursuit ortho buffalo, and pre
vented by the arms of the United States from com
mitting raids upon their natural enemies, the Mex
icans, the tribes of New Mexico have been reduc
ed to a most fpreoarioua support. To steal or to
starve has been the alternative presented to them.
It has cost hundreds of thousands per annum to
make a show ot keeping them in subjection by
military moans, but our congressional economists,
though forever oomplaining, will not take the pains
to understand how peace may be maintained and
improvement aroused by an expenditure of one
tenth the present amount, if made in the proper
direction.
As for California Indian matters, the vacillation
and weakness betrayed by Congress in respect to
them, have been for some time matter of profound
surprise. The Commissioners sent out in 1851 to
conolude treaties with the Indian tribes,andthere
by give peace and quiet to the countrv, was with
all its labors and results, good, bad and indifferent,
(and we admit a proportion of all three) extinguish
ed at one fell swoop, without distinction or dis
crimination, and nothing whatever substituted in
its place. A great number of treaties had been
made with the tribes all over the State, promises
had been held out to them based upon the honor
and good faith of the United States to be fulfilled
at times now long past,—but all these were dealt
with in the Capital as if they merited nothing bet
ter than contempt.—Theconsequenees of this <lisa -
vowal to both whites and Indians in California
have since been the sorrowful burden of many a
despatch, and it cannot be asserted that the end
has come yet.
Again, in Oregon treaties solemnly concluded
with the natives by regularly commissioned agents
of tbe Government have received a similar go-by.
Carrying with them the importance and prestige of
representatives of the Government, these agents
were successful im making valuable treaties, but
their stipulations not being carried out, the Indian
lias become highly dissatisfied, and looks upon the
whole white race as polluted by falsehood and bad
feith.
Oar most recent ad vices from Oregon touching
the excitement amongst some of the tribes, bear
witness to those statements and opinions. Are
turn to the old paths must be undertaken and
Congress more feithlully discharge itself of its du
ty. No censure in these matters lodges with the
particular executive department charged with In
dian Affairs; bound as it is by the acts and negli
gences of the Legislative authority, a considerable
portion of its labors consists in correcting the mis
chief and smoothing the roughness produced by
congressional mismanagement.— Bali. American.
Dmxs on Bc»ab.— The sugar planters of Louisi
ana have held a convention at DonaldsonviUe, for
the purpose of “siding the Government in the
execution of the revenue laws.” It seems that an
extensive sugar refinery in the city of St Louis, to
avoid the loss from leakage and fermentation of
molasses imported by them, have reduced the
weight and diminished the tendency to waste, by
preparing the molasses before shipment. The ar
ticle has then been invoiced as “Melado,” “Con
centrated Syrup,” Ac. The duty upon these arti
cles being much less than that upon raw sugars,
has occasioned a strict sppUcation es the law by
the custom house officers of New Orleans. The
planter* of Louisiana also have taken a deep in
terest in the introduction of a preparation of sugar,
which, pro tanto, supercedes their own produc
tions, and neutralizes the protection afforded by
the tariff of 1846. The custom house officers alleg
ed that the concentrated syrups, Ac., had been
undervalued in the invoice; they appraised them
again and teqnired the importers to pay dutv on
the excess of valuation, and a penal duty of twen
ty per oent, to the collector. This decision was
affirmed by merchant appraisers; from this decision
the importers appealed, and the matter is pending
before the Secretary of the Treasury. The plan
ters ot Louisiana have, as above, offered their ser
vices to aid in the enforcement of the revenue
laws, “as they understand them.”
Death of Gen. Shorter. —We have received the
melancholy intelligence of the sodden death, bv
■ppoplexy, of Gen. B. C. Shorter, of Eufcula, Ala.
For many years a distinguished and useful mem
ber of sodety, bialoe* will be greatly felt by the
oommunity m which ha has so long lived Cotom
bui Tfateo.
■ M ■ i in ■■in. Pi—————
From the Louisville Jammed.
HOPES AND MARI.
Oar hope* are Hke the wreaths of tosm
That slitter on each ihiniog wave,
When with a gashing toand they can*
The whit* sad thirsty b**ch u lave.
The water* part—the ripple* gleam
A atumaat on the silent shore,
And vanish, as the hopes that seem
A moment bright, and are no more*
Seeking for love, for fame, for power,
To tbe frail threads of life we cling,
For hope will coll a icithered flower
And tone a harp with broken string.
And hope will shed a glimmering ray
Os light on pleasure’* rained shrine,
For moaldering columns still look gay
When summer sunbeams o’er them thin*.
Though severed be love’* magic chain,
Still to its broken charms we trust.
And Aopeto mend the links again,
Wheo grief has eaten them like rntt.
Frail at the bubbles on the beach
That hope may be—a transient beam.
But rest of joy, ’tis sweet to teach
The heart to hush its grief and dream.
Our hopes are like the flowers that bloom
Upon the mountain’s verdant side,
That mountain’s heart a burning tomb,
Cleft by the lava’s scorching tide.
They spring and flourish, fade and die,
Like human hopes—as frail and fair,
While quenchless fires beneath them lie,
Like human passions hidden there.
Our fears are like the clouds that shed
Their gloom across a summer sky.
When life is fairest, some wild dread
Os grief is ever hovering nigh.
The gloom may pass—the shadows fade,
And sunlight only seem to reign,
But still there is a lingering shade,
A fear that clouds will come again.
Where the bright wells of gladness spring,
Hope will the youthful heart decoy.
But fear is hovering there, to fling
A shadow on the path of joy.
Acanker-worm within the fruit,
A serpent in the linnet’s nest,
A sentry ever grim and mute,
Is fear withi* the human breast.
A rainbow never spans the sky,
But some dark spirit of the storm,
With sable plume, is hovering nigh,
To watch its soft and fairy form.
Hope never chaunts her angel song,
Or bids us rest beneath her wing,
But fear, with all his phantom throng.
Is in the distance hovering.
We seek the lanrel-wreath of fame.
And all her fickle favors trust,
To live—perchance without a name,
And find the chaplet turned to dust.
Life wears away, ’mid smiles and tear*—
The wedding peal, the funeral toll;
But though o'erehadowed still by feara,
Hope is the sunlight of the souL
Rosa.
rfintAn Plaro. r.n
Klectrlc Gas.
A late foreign paper gives an aocount of a suc
cessful attempt to produce gas from water, at a
rate which will prove a saving of at least 50 per
cent, oil the present cost of ooal *ja&. Another
great feature of this discovery is said to be that by
means of it a small machine may be appended to a
locomotive, which will produce a sufficient amount
of heat to do away with the lurnace, and the use
of coal altogether. It can be applied to the ma
chinery of steam ships in tho same manner. The
production of gas by this new system requires no
expensive materials, nor are large premises neoes
sary—each machine requiring only 18 feet in
length, 4 foot in width and 6 feet in height. Tho
danger of explosion by burning two gases toge
ther, which has heietofore rendered the process
impracticable, is entirely removed by this new dis
covery. Mr. Gamblo, a scioutifio gentleman con
nected with gas works and railways, has made a
report on this electric gas, in which he says:
“ 1 cannot find langungo sufficient expressive to
convey the astonishment I experienced at witnes
sing tho effects of the electro-magnetic machine in
tho production of gas applicable tor the production
of urtifical iigbt aud heat by the decomposition of
water. Wator is found, on a chemical analysis, to
be composed of two permanently elastic fluids, or
gases, called oxygen or hydrogen. When water
it decomposed, tin enormous increase in volume is
the result; this increase is about 2000 times. It
has been long known that water is decomposable
by electrical agency, but this has been generally
effected by the action of a galvanic trough. at an
expouso so great as to be commercially prohibito
ry. But by the magnetic apparatus tho expense
is very trifling, being little more than the interest
on first cost of tho machine with a small addition
for renewals, and the cost of tho motive power.
The decomposition of water for the purpose of
obtaining a gas applicable for the production of ar
tificial light and heat has long engaged the atten
tion of chemißts, and numerous discoveries profes
sing to uttain this desideratum have boon made.
All these (so far as I am acquainted with them)
have for thair object tho separation of the hydro
gen gas only; no attompt I believe has hitherto
been made to make use of the oxygen. The gen
eral mode in which tho hydrogen is obtained is by
passing steam through scrap iron, or a variety of
other materials heated to a high temperature; in
this manner the vapor of water iB decomposed, the
oxygen unites with the heated solid body, and the
hydrogen is liberated in the gaseous form, aud col
lected in a gas holder. But the gas resulting from
the decomposition of water by the magnetic ma
chine is altogether different. Here is oolleoted
not merely tho hydrogen but the oxygen also; this
increases tho volume ofproduction one-third, and
tbe gas is altogether different in its composition.
From coal or any other fuel, an enormous
amount of carbonic acid gas, some sulphuretted
hydrogeo, aud other gaseouß bodies inimical to
animal and vegetable life, are generated during
the process of combustion j also avast amount of
nnconsnmed carbon is carried and held in suspen
sion in the atmosphere in the form of smoko.—
This cannot bo the result of the combustion of the
gas produced by the magnetio machine. The
oxygen and .hydrogen again re-unite, and the re
sult of their union is the re-formation of tho com
pound from whicli they were originally taken,
viz: water. 1 am afraid I shall tire with this
long report of a subjoct which 1 consider is of a
magnitude that renders it superior even to the
most gigantic of this age of wonders."
Health in Hot Weather. —Few things are eas
ier than to lose one’s health in hot weather. Yet
nothing ia so easy to maintain if tho right course is
followed. It is not even necessary to invent now
Sanaceas, or to suggest novel modes of life, in or
erto keep disease at arm’s length in Jnly and Aa
gnst. Tho whole secret consists in adopting the
advice, so often given by physicians, to avoid ex
cess. And by this is meant, not merely excess in
dripking, but also excess in eating, in excrcisng,
aud in all things. Every man of sense knows how
fallacious is the idea thut pouring down heating
sherry cobblers and othor pernioious drinks, will
cool one’s person. But not every mau is willing to
admit that gorging himself with turtle soup, lob
ster, or other delicacies that overtask the digestive
organs, are dangerous to health still more. Muy
who will concede that excessive indulgence at taolo
is injurious, would stare if told that ttieir absorb
ing devotion to business is liable to prostrate them,
at uDy moment, victims to the disorders of the sea
son. Yet anything, which weakens the powers
leaves the body comparatively defenceless against
tho assults of sickness. To exhaust, in this way,
and especially in summer, one’s oapacity to resist
disease, is to act liko a General, who, at the ap
proach of an enemy, should weary ont his army
in useless evolutions, so that when tbe battle came
to be joined, his soldiers would be too fatigued to
fight.
If one is forced even to remain in the eity,
health may generally be preserved by avoiding ex
cess. Had the soventy who died of sudden death,
in New York and Philadelphia, within the last
fortnight, abstained from working so much in tho
sun, from drinking intoxicating Honors,or from
swallowing large quantities ot cola water, they
might have been living to this day. But it ia not
alone those who remain in town, we should remem
ber who should avoid excess. The too common idea,
that at a watering place one can eat, drink, and
exercise without limit, has killed many a foolish
victim.
To fish all day under a broiling sun may not
injure persons accustomed to such exposure, but
it can do no good, at least to people used to a city
life; and when the fishing is accompanied by co
pious draughts of brandy, or other inflammatory
drink, as often the casp, is pretty sure to do harm.
Bo to sit up to late terrapin suppers, or to drink
jtleps all the morning, or to commit excesses
quite ordinary at watering places, is not the road
to health. And if one sex should avoid excesses
in one way, the other sex should in another.—
Ladies who dance all night cannot expeot to
return home with rotes on their ohecks. In a
word, people of proper habits ean defy even the
sultriest weather. But perons guilty of exoesses,
no matter of what deacription, dismantle the for
tress of health, and, as it were, invite the enemy
to enter. — Phitad. Ledger.
The Cbtstal Palace Exhibition.— On Fridsy,
the exhibition was opened to the public, end was
visited throughout tho day by about 7,000 ladies
and gentlemen, besides the exhibitors and those
holding season tickets, and tho receipts amounted
to $8,039.50. Workmen are still busily employed
in different parts of the structure, particularly in
the Machine Arcade, which is, at present, only
about half finished. About one-third of the ex
hibition stalls have been arranged, and it is thought
that tho exhibition will not be complete in ail its
parts for about two weeks more.
The total amount of spaoe on the floor oocupied
by different countries for exhibition, exclusive of
the naves, is about 152,000 square feet, of which
94,102 is on the ground floor, snd 50,000 is in the
eailerv. This space is divided as follows:
Ground Floor. Gallery.
England 10,570 7,081
Switzerland
Holland and Belgium 2,91* 0,058
Austria 1,458 729
Denmark, Sweden and Norway 2,918 U*ls
Russia, Ac
British Guiana and West Indies
British Colonies S,M$ $,410
The total amnnnt of space occupied by foreign
countries is 98,749 square feet.
The United States contributions occupy 84,685
square feet on the ground floor, and 15,945 square
feet in the gallery.
The total’number of exhibitors from abroad are
2,605, of whom England sends 677; France 521;
Switzerland 116; Zollverein 818; Holland and
Belgium 155; Austria 100; Italy 185 ; Sweden snd
Norway 18; West Indies 8; Prince Edwsid’s Is
land 18; Nova Scotia 2.
This list will be somewhat larger, from the fact;
that the local committees of Canada have not yet
sent in their list of contributions, snd it doee not
include quite a number from British Guiana. A
small number of Turkish snd other contributors
are «l*o to be added, making the sum total of for
eign exhibitors not far frem 2,700.
In the United States department the number of
exhibitors is 1,178, snd applications have been re
ceived since the Ist of March, amounting to over
400, which have not been acted on for want of
space. The total number of exhibitors, both for
eign and American, is 4,338.
A Youthful Traveller en bo uti for California.
—The Wheeling Times mentions the arrival in
that city, of John Jacques, an orphan boy, aged
fifteen years, from the State of New York, en route
for California, overland. He states that he reach
ed Philadelphia by stowing himself in a car or
freight train; and remained there two weeks, eleep
ing in the market house, and subsisting on offal
given him by the servants at the hotels. Finally,
a railroad conductor allowed him to ride on the
platform of a car to Baltimore, where he staid for
more than a month, serving as an errand boy and
newspaper carrier; after which he proceeded on
foot to Frederick, begging enough to eat from the
farm houses on the road; here he engaged as ostler
at a tavern, but left in a week on the top of a bag
gy wagon for Harper’s Ferry, where he acciden
tally picked up a $5 bill, and took the cars for Cum
berland; a gentleman there paid hie way to Wheel
ing, at the Utter place, he is endeavoring to en
gage as a cabin boy on board of a steam boat for
tit. ixmis, where he hopes to engage as herdsman
or cattle driver to California. Persevering boy,
that.
A Profitable Exooioscxication.— The article in
the Washington Union exoommunicating the Buf
falo Kebublio—said to have received, in maiiu
script, the personal approbation of the President
—has been followed by an advertisement worth
near SI,OOO given to that paper! We suppose the
western organ of New York Barnburneriam would
Uke to be excommunicated weakly on tbs tame
tanofc— PtwUmm JmmaL
Osmspondtnst rs tin Missouri Republican.
Ballglou la California.
Saw Fbahoisoo, April 32.
The time has been wheu religion was a scarce
artioie in this country. It is better nor, and the
moral and religious sense of ffTe people is im
proving every day. The Methodists have their
oonferenoes, their oirouits, their stations, their
praaohers aud exhorters. all over the oonntry. The
Presbyterians, ever vigilant and industrious, are
in all the cities and towns, aoquiring an influence
and swaying tho popular feeling to a great extent;
and the Baptists are equally industrious if not so
numerous or influential. The Episcopalians flour
ish in the cities, where they have able ministers
and the handsomest churches; and the Oatholioa
are prosperous at the old missions in San Francisco
and some other places. The American population
oomplain of laok talent in this ohnrcli among the
‘■Fathers.” The emigrant need not fear being with
out his acoustomed ouurch privileges in this coun
try. The greater danger is that he will leave his reli
gion behind him. There are several ways leading
out of California to the “ great highway,” of which
we read in the good book.
The Methodists, Baptists, Episcopalians, Pres
byterians aud Catholic*, all nay their lines, which
they say connect with the “ iic-fray of holiness,"
and each line is furnishing suitable’oars to accom
modate the “ travelers to eternity,” who start from
California. Do you soe those plain looking oars
yonder? That is the M.-thodis! train. Tholittle, noi
sy, strong-looking locomotive you see there is tho
“John Wesley.” It always starts off with a tre
mendous load. The road rims meandering up and
down tho rivers, across the prairies, through the
woods, by all the towns, ulong all the settlements,
past every hut, and to tho vory tops of the moun
tains, and the train stops at every place for pas
sengers. Tho conductors are plain, practical and
energetic mon. The passengers are zealous and
enthusiastic. When they start off they give a
loud, long shout, and you would think “the king
dom of heaven suffered violeuoe, and the violent
(were about to) take it by storm.” On their ban
ner is inaeribod “Religion in earnest,” and as
they pass through the woods, they make tho wel
kin ring with the song—
“ Bright Canaan I bright Canaan I
We are bound tor the land of Canaan.”
Yonder is the Baptist depot. Their cars are
stout, the seats uncushioned, the conductors cx
aoting and circumspect, and the passengers nu
merous and pious. Tho train is drawn by the
“ Baptisto,” (a Greek work, to immorse.) It is
surprising how so small a locomotive cau take so
hoavy a train ovor suoh a rongh road. They have
tunnelled “ mountains of sin,” and bridged the
hollows of “ iniquity,” but water has no terrors for
them, and henoe they go plumo through the “River
Jordan”—
“ To Canaan’s fair and bappy land,
Where my possessions He.”
But see thoro! Do you notice that beautiful
traiu of cars yonder, with handsome gothio win
dows and velvet cushioned seats ? Do you see the
snrplioe, the silk gown, aud the golden cross ?
That is the Episcopal train. That gorgeously
counted and _ smoothly running looomotivo is
“ Henry the Eighth.” It sweeps over the solid T
rail as if propolled by Eriosson’s new “Motor,”
There is a largo sprinkling of lawyers in that train.
It is tho mOBt fashionablo and genteel train that
runs oat of California. (The Unitarians aro not
fairly under weigh yet.) They tako towards hea
ven a vast amount of worldly wisdom, theological
learning and piouß gentility. It is supposed that
St. I’etor, who has the koys, is of opinion that tho
passongors who ooine in these cars are his rola-,
tivos and descendants ;lalbeit ho doesn’t like the
name of the looomotivo—“ Ilonry the Eighth,” in
his opinion, having been agreatßcamp.
Tho Presbytoriuns, however, aro doing the best
business iu California. They train the mind, in
enloate inflexible morals, havo skilful engineers,
intelligent conductors, and well arranged oars.
They run through a hostile country; they come in
contact with Sabbath-breakers, gamblers and
drunkards, and pounce on the “ hosts of sin” evo
rywhore. They are skilful in a manoeuvre, and
display superior generalship in a fight. Their road
runs through all the towns, they have missionaries
in all important plaoes, they have colptcurs or run
ners on the Bteamboats, beating for passengers,
and Satan himself esnnot get up an enterprise
without danger of having a Presbyterian after him
to spy out his plans, and to borrow his lliundor.
But listen to those chimes! tho Catholio traiu is
about to start. Thoso old cars look as though they
wero made a thousand years ago—antiquated,
dark, gloomy, rusty, but very stout old cars. They
run full, however. See the crosses and Latin in
scriptions, and soe those “ sisters’ ” bonnots. Tho
moro one looks around hero the more ho sous to
interest him. The road from California conneots
with that old line from Rome, whioh was started
eightoon hnndred years ago, aud is supposed to bo
tho most direct way to Heaven. It enters at the
front door, while all tho other linos “climb up
some other way.” So thoy say.
Bouscxa of Comfort. —Comfort docs not mean
merely warmth, good furniture t and good eating
and drinking. It meanß something far more than
tllis. It includes cleanliness, pure air, ordor, frugal
ity—in a word, honso-th rift and domestic govern
ment Comfort is tho soil in which tho human being
grows—not only physically, but morally also. It
lice indeed at the root of many virtues. Comfort
is in a great measure a relative term. Whatis
comfort to one man would bo deemed wrctched
uess by another accustomed to nicer habits of liv
ing. Even the commonest meohanics of this day
would oonsider it a misery to have to live alter
the styles of nobles a few centuries back; to sleep
on etraw bode, and live in rooms littered with
rashes; without gluzed windows to their apart
ments, and these lit up in tho evenings by a pine
torch, the wind careering through tho dreary
chamber. In respect to the elements of substan
tial comfort, there can be no question that tho
English people have made extraordinary progress
during the last few centuries.
See tbe working man’e cottage now—what it is,
or what it ought to be. All tight, and snug, dry
and clean; the floor swept and sanded; a bright
fire blazing in tho chimney; a clean warm bed to
lie in; books on the shelf, and flowers in the win
dow ; a home of contentment, tasto, and oomfort.
That is what every house, oveu the poorest man’s,
ought to bo. But thut is not all. Whore there is
comfort, there is contentment and absenoo of fidget.
Comfort depends «b much on poisons as on
“ things.” And it is ont of tho character and tera
ter of those who govern households that tho feel
ing of comfert arises, muoh more than out of hand
somo furniture, warm rooms, or any sort of home
luxuries and conveniences. Comfortable people
are kindly tempered. That may bo set down as an
invariable condition of comfort. There must bo
peace, mutual forbearance, mutual help, and a
disposition to make tho best of everything.—
“Ifetter is a dinner of horbs whore love is,
than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.” Comfort
able people are persons of sound oommon sense,
discretion, prudence, and economy.
They have a natural affinity for honcßty and jus
tice, goodness and truth. They do not run into debt,
for that is a specios of diahoncsty. They live within
their moans and lay by something for a rainy day.
They provide for tho things of their own house
hold, yot they are not wanting cither in a proper
hospitality and bcnevolcnoo on fitting occasions.
And what they do in the latter direction is done
without ostentation or loud talking. Comfortable
people do everything in order. Thov are system
atic, steady, sober, industrious. You will never
find thorn in a bustle of tyding-up. As they ds
everything at the right time, so nothing is done
in a hurry or “ slobbered over.” Comfortable peo
ple dress comfortably. They adapt themselves to
the season—neither shivering in winter, nor per
spiring in summer. You will find they exp ind
more on warm stockings than ongoldringß; and
prefer healthy good bedding to gaudy window cur
tains. Their chairs are solid, not gim-craok.
They will be ar sitting upon, though they may not be
ornamental. Fverything they have is convenient,
snng, comfortable, and you have pleasure in feel
ing youreelf in the midst of them,— Elm. Cook.
Where ib the West !— On Friday last at half
past four p. in., Bsmucl Lawrence, Esq., was in
Boston, having left Lasalle, Illinois, at throe
o’clock Wednesday p. m. preceding. He came
byway of Chicago, looked in upon Cleveland,
oallod at Buffalo, was sped ovor tho plain by the
“lightning express” tram to Albany, and whiskod
over the Western and Woioester railroads to Bos
ton 1 Once—and within the memory of the mid
dle aged man of tills day —Buffalo was considered
quite “ out west." Chicago, but yesterday, was a
“far offland.” Now, a merchant shakes hands
and bids good bye to his customers one hundred
and eighty miles west of that, and in two days and
one hour and a half greets his friends in Boston 1
It is, in fact, only eleven hundred and fifty miles !
Boston Journal.
Judge Johnson.— The friends of Mr. Johnson,
are greatly annoyed because tho pooplo will be
lieve that he was once a disunionist. Now we do
not recollect to have stated that he is a disunionist
although we have not a very large amount of con
fidence in his Union principles and feelings. It is
well known, wo presume, that he cordially acted
with the secession party in 1850~’51—that at the
great disnnien mass meeting, he was, in feeling
and action, with Bhett, Colquitt and others, for
resistance—that on a certain occasion he said that
“the Union as it once was, was worth preserving—
that he denounced the Union Convention as a
“contemptible pack"— that ho approved the Nash
ville Disunion Convention—that a Disunion Gov
ernor appointedhimUnitedßtate’sSenator. These
interesting facts and incidents are before the peo
ple. We are willing that they should draw their
own inferences, ana act upon their own enlight
ened conviotions.— Southern Becordtr.
The Prospects. —We are informed from various
sections that the prospects of the crops are bright
ening, the rain 3 which have fallen within the last
two weeks has brought them out astonishingly,
indeed if the seasons continues as favorable as
they have been for ten or a dozen days past, our
eounty will nearly if not quite make enough to sup.
ply the wants of her people. We have been in
formed by several farmers, that corn which was
absolutely yellow half way up the stalk, and look
ed two weeks sinoe as if it was lifeless and dying,
now presents an entirely different appearance, the
yellow has disappeared and the stalk looks as
green and flourishing as could be desired. The
ootton too. seems to be doing finely, with good
seasons all may yet turn out well—but it is best not
to holler till we get out of the woodß.
We have had two fine rains at this place since
our last, one on Tuesday evening, the other on
Saturday night. The latter extended pretty gen
erally in the county, in the E. and S. E. we near
that it was lighter than in other parts of the coun
ty. We notice that different counties in the State
begin to render more cheerful accounts of their
crops.— Sandernitle Georgian, 19Wi intt.
To Dsstrot 801 l Womb.—A correspondent of
the Miasissippian, discoursing on this important
subject says:
Various means have been resorted to without
any, or at best, but partial effect to accomplish
this purpose. The burning a portion of the flies
which produce the worm on log fires, or ensnar
ing some with plates ot molasses, still leaves a
sufficient number to generate worms enough to
make great havoc in the fields. The only way to
avoid the evil, is to apply some general remedy
which will prevent the fly from approaching the
plant altogether. The writer of this was lea by
accident to the discovery, in 1850, of such a reme
dy as he believes will answer that purpose, at
least bis experience that year was such as to con
vince his own mind.
The period of the year is now approaching, when
anxiety in regard to the crop is predominant with
all, and he gives it to the community for what it
may be worth: A Bmokeof tar and sulphur, made
between sunset and dark every night for a week,
the last of July, or first in August; and then
thrice a week afterwards, for two or three weeks,
has been found, by actual experience, effectually ta
prevent the flies from depositing their eggs on the
plant. The fires should be placed one on every
five acres at least, and nearer if convenient. An
old stamp or rotten log of any kind will do to make
the fire with. _
A novel ectertainment is announced in the
Hartford papers, heingno less than a “Swimming
Excursion” or exhibition, by the pupils of a swim
ming sobool. The entertainment takes place when,
according to the Hartford Times, “ the participa
tors in the trial for superiority will go up in boats
as far as the Railroad Bridge, and swim down op
posite the Bathing Place, where floating supper
tables will await them, and the swimmers will
ewtmaa they eat."
VOL. LXVI.-NEW SERIES VOL.'SVn.-NO. 29
From the Xeic-Orleans Picayune.
HEART HISTORY.
BY BOBBRT JOBLYX.
Onoe upon a time, a maiden
Sat beneath a hawthorn tree,
And her lover close beside her,
• Murmured vows of constancy.
Fairer, sweeter than the blossom
Wkaogfng over her, waa ahe,
% •. And her heart within her boeom
Throbbed and glowed tumultuously.
Both were young, and fond, and foolish;
Neither rich, the story g» ee;
Ma was proad, and Pa was mulish,
Great their loves and grout their woes,
80 they kissed and wept, and parted,
Swearing to be ever true:
Died the maiden broken-hearted?
Waa the lover Lithful too?
Pshaw! she wed a wealthy banker,
(81ander whispered she was sold;)
And no city dames ont rank her
With her pookets full of gold;
Queen at every ball and part),
Decked with lace and jewels rare,
Looking very fresh and hearty,
Reigus the victim of despair!
Ho, confound the lucky fellow— -
Took a widow twice bis years.
Fat and forty, ripe and mellow,
W’ith a race of little dears;
Big plantation, servants plenty,
Splendid mansion, pomp and ease,
Oared the boyish love of twenty,
That inourable disease.
Learn from this, jp u doting lover,
In your anguish not to break
Anything of greater value
Than the promises you make;
Hearts were mode to put in motion
Blood that otherwise would cool;
Pleasure, profit and promotion,
Graduate at Cupid’s school.
HEAVEN.
Oh! Heaven is nearer than mortals think,
When they look with a trembling dread
At the misty future that stretches on
From the silent home of the dead.
*Tls no lone isle in a boundless main,
No brilliant, but distant shore,
Where the lovely ones who are called away
Must go to return no more.
No—Heaven is near us; the mighty veil
Os mortality blinds the eye,
That we see not the angel bands
On the shores of eternity.
Yet oft in the hours of holy thought,
To the thirsting soul is given
That power to pierce through the midst of sense,
To the beauteous scenes of Heaven.
Then very near seems its pearly gates,
And Bweetly its havpings fall;
Till the soul is restless to soar away,
And longs for the angel call.
I know, when the silver chord is looted,
When the veil is rest away,
Not long and dark shall the passage bt
To the realms of endless day.
The eye that shuts in a dying hour,
Will open the next in bliss,
The welcome will sound in a heavenly world
Ere the farewell iB hushed in this.
We pass from the clasp of mourning friends,
To the arms of the loved and lost;
And those Finding faces h ill greet us then.
Which on earth we have valued most.
The Difficulty Settled.
Whatever wero the differences which arose be
tween Mr. Buohanan and the Executive in regard
to the dutiuß to bo committed to him as Minister
to England—and that there wore some, whiflh for
a timo threatened, says the National Intelligencer,
to cat his mission short, wosnpposo from somuoh
concurrent testimony to have boon the caso—thoy
appear to have been roeoncilod at the mooting be
tween the President aud the Minister last weekjat
Philadelphia. This wo infer from the annexed
evidently authorizedartiolesintho Union of Satur
day:
•‘lt is understood that tho Hon. James Bucha
nan, whoso appointment as Minister Plenipoten
tiary of tho United States at the Court of St. James
bus ulroady been anuouncod, will soon proceed to
Loudon to assume tho duties of his mission. Wo
learn also that the Hon. Mossra. Soule, of Loui
siana, Gadsden, of South Carolina, Borland, of
Arkunsas. Green, of Missouri, and Bedinger, of
Virginia, having nearly completed their piopara
tory arrangements, are about to proocod to thoir
respective destinations to enter upon the duties of
the sevoral missions oonfldod to their charge.”
From unofficial but probably well-advised sour
ces wo add tho subjoined paragraphs on the British
mission and other political mutters:
“The English Mission. —The rocont interviews
betwuen the President and Mr. Buchanan in Phila
delphia, and en route thence to Now York, have
ended in the determination of Mr. B. to relent.
We are exceedingly glad of it, for his own sake, as
well as for that of tho Government.”
“Hon. Edmund Bunas, ox New Hawshikx.—
During this gentleman’s recent vißit to Washing
ton his exact sentiments towards the Adminislra
tion wore developed. He is determined to pitoh
into it indirectly on all passing oooasions. He,
however, says, we hear, that he will not oppose it,
though proposing at once to orgauize an opposition
to the re-nomination of the present Executive, sum
moning to his aid in this work the Union party
every where. Ho will give any amount of trouble
to his old friends, or he has lost the former eun
ningof his right hand.”— Owning Star of Satur
day.
Tho following, apparently authentie, we oopy
from a Washington letter to tho New York Times:
“Mb. Buohanan and the English Mission. —The
recent unfortunate difficulties which soemed likely
to deprive the country of the services of the Hon.
Jumoseßuchauan at the Court of St. James havo
been adjusted. President Piorco had an interview
with Mr. Buohanun at Philadelphia on Wednes
day morning, tho result of widen was that Mr. B.
signified his acceptance of tho important trust oon
filled to him, and his determination to prooeed
upon his mission at as early a day as will suffice to
mako the necessary arrangement*.
“Os tbetorms of truco Between Messrs. Mercy
and Buohauan wc aro not, of conrse, authoritatively
advised. We do know, however, that the Se
cretary of State has maintained his ground, insis
ting upon his own mode of arranging the diploma
cy of the country, and providing the means of its
conduct; and that Mr. Buchanan has hod the good
sense toaoknowlodgo, by his acceptance, the right
of tho Premier to direct and control the business
of his department of tho Exceutivo Government.”
The Fierce Administration's Favorites. —We
have made frequent allusions to the appointment
of the notorions W illiam J. Brown to the offloe of
mail agent for Indiuna. and Illinois. Wo have
also, in speaking of this appointment, alluded re
peatedly to the diegrucc which Mr. Brown, as a
member of the Lower House of Congress, brought
upon himseilat the commencement of the session
of 1849-’6O. Believing, howover, that most of oar
readers may have forgotten some of the circum
stances of that affair, we propose to give a brief
statement of the leading facts of the case for their
information. We desire that the people may have
an opportunity ofseeing what kind of a man tho
Locotoco administration has thought proper to se
lcot as tho spooial agent and confidential super
visor of the mails in tho great Northwestern States.
Mr. Brown took his scat ns a member of the
House of Representatives in December, 184*. That
body had considerable d.tfioulty in eleating a
Speaker, tho Whigs and Democrat* being so near
ly equal in numbers that Mr. David Wilmot, tho
notorious abolitionist, with his Abolition squad,
held the balance of power. Wilmot andhissqnaa
of course wanted a Speaker, who, in his official
capacity, would extend tavors to them. The De
mocratic members supported several candidates in
succession, and in one of tho ballotings, they gave
11* votes lor Brown. There was a general under
standing, that, upon the next ballot, Brown would
be eloctcd. Tho ballot was about to be taken, but
an interruption occurred. The Richmond Whig
thus states what followed:
“Mr. Stanloy, in making a motion, thraw ont some
insinuations of an nndorstanding between the Lo
oofooos und Freesoilers. Gen. Bayly repelled thess
insinuations with a becoming and moat virtucras
indignation. This provoked Mr. Ashmen, of Mas
sachusetts, to refer a little more preoiiely to the
reported coalition. Mr. Bayly repelled it 81111
more vehetnontly, and appealed directly to Mr.
Brown—who responded approvingly to his denial.
Mr. Bayly then htated that he was authorized to
say that thcro was not a word of truth in the »u •
mor. A short time afterwards, however, having
hada convoisation with Mr. Brown, he stated that
there had been a correspondence, bat Mr. Brown
assured him that he refused to pledge himself. In
less than half an hour utter this emphatic and au
thorized denial of any pledge, Brown himself was
compelled to read to the House his own letter to a
Freesoilor, written two days before, in which he
explicitly pledged himself “ to constitute the com
mittees of the judiciary , etc., in such a manner as
shall he satisfactory to you and your friends." —the
Freesoilers. There never was such an exposure—
never a more direct and palpable oonviotion of
falsehood Gen. Bayly, overcome by the devel
opment, thanked Stanly and Ashmun for making,
tho exposure—and growing devout as he proceed
ed, thanked God that they bad been saved from a
load of obloquy. Mr. McMullen stated that Mr.
Browu had that morning mado the same assurance
to him that ho had given no pledge. Mr. Burt, forall
the chivalry, protested that if these facts had been
known he would have considered a request to vote
for Brown as an insult. Other gentlemen were
quite os emphatic, and a Mr. Kaufman, of Texas,
coming from a country where they call a spade a
spade, talked right out about duplicity and false
hood.”
Here is the correspondence which passed be
tween Messrs. Wilmot and Brown, referred to
above, and which the latter denied till the letter
itself was produced:
December, 10,1849.
Dear Sir: In the conversation which I had with
you this evening, you were free to say that, if
elected Speaker of the House of Representatives,
you would constitute tho Committees on Terri
tories, the Judiciary, and the District of Columbia
iu a manner that should be satisfactory to myself
and the friends with whom 1 have the honor to
act. I have communicated this to my triends; and
if, in reply to this note, you can give them the
same assurance, they will give you a cheerful and
cordial support. Respectful'y, yours,
D. Wilmot.
Hon. Wm. J. Brown,
Wabiiinoton Citt, Deo. 10,1849.
Dear Sir: In answer to youra of this data, I will
statethat, should I be elected Speaker of the House
of Representatives, l will constitute the Commit
tees on the District of Columbia, on Territories,
and on tho Judiciary in such manner as shall be
satisfactory to yourself and your friends. 1 am a
representative from a free State, and have always
been opposed to the extension of slavery, and be
lieve that the Federal Government should be re
lieved from the responsibility of slavery where
they have the constitutional power to abolish it.
I am yours, tanly, Wm. J. Brown.
Hon. David Wilmot.
It is not necessary for us to dilate upon tho in •
famy which Mr. Wm. J. Brown thus earned for
himself. And this is the man whom President
Pierce baa seen fit to select trom among the
whole people, for a valuable office involving high
responsibility. Thousands and tens of thousands
of Democrats of pure and spotless characters are
passed by, and a fellow is made tbe custodian of
great and important public interests, who sought
to secure his election to a high station four years
ago, by making a secret bargain, entering into a
clandestine traffic, with the Abolitionists, stipule
ting in consideration of their votes to grant them
official favors after his election, and then, when
interrogated upon the subject, endeavoring to
escape disgrace under the cover of downright
lying!
And it cannot be alleged that President Pierce,
whilst appointing this man to offloe, did not know
what sort of man he was appointing. Brown’s
application for tbe Indiana and Illinois mail agen
ey and snpervisorship was ponding for many weeks
at Washington city, and the most strenuous op
position was made to it by numerous influential
and respectable Democrats; and of course tho ap
pointing power was made fully acquainted with
the incidents in the House of Representatives in
December, 1849, by far the most notorions inci
dents in Mr. Brown's life. Well, we appeal to
any candid man to say whether an Administration,
guilty of appointing suoh a man to an important
office with a knowledge of bis oharaeter, deserves
popular support, or even a panicle of popular
respect.— Louisville Journal.
Famine | B IrWla—Wholsaale Mortality.
▲ late Dumber of the Bombay Time* says: "
have ftmilne occurring elmoet decennially, some oi
whioh, within our time have swept their millions
away. In 188», 80,000 persona in the month of
September In Lucknow ; at Khapoor 1200 died of
want: and £soo,ooo sterling were subscribed by
the bonntifiil to relieve the destitute. In Q untoor,
160,000 human beings, 74,000 bullocks, ljWiOvO
milch cattle, and 800,000 sheep and goats died or
starvation. Fifty thousand persons perished in
Uarwar ; and in the Northwest provinces 50,000
human livoa are supposed to have been lost. xhe •
living proved upon the dead; mothers devoured
their children ; and the human imagination could
scaroely picture the scenes of horror that pervaded
the land. In 20 rnontha’ time 1,600,000 persons
must have died of hunger or of its immediate con
sequences.
The dlreot peonniary loss to the government by
this single visitation exceeded £5,000,000,000 ster
ling—a sum whioh would have gone far to avert
the calamity from whioh it rose had it been ex
pended in constructing thoroughfares to connoot
the interior with tho sea coast, or districts whoro
seareity prevailed with those where human food
was to be had in abnndance ; or on camels to boar
forth to the soil, thirsty and barren for waul ot
moisture, the unbounded supplies our rivers ourry
to tho ocean.”
Whet a fearful picture; and in what broad con
trast is onr own happy country. How many rea
sons have we to be grateful! Here, the death of
one individual by poverty or want is a raro ooeur
ronoe, while in India thousands and tens of thou
sands are swept away every sow years. Startling
piotnres like these are calculated to make us ap
preciate oor position and our many blessings.
A Fern Leaf.
‘•We are not to suppose that tho oak wants .sta
bility because its light and ehangoublo leaves
dance to the music of the breexes—nor aro wo to
conclude that a man wants solidity and strength
of mind bocanso ho muv exhibit an occasional play
fulness and levity.”
‘No, Indeed 1 So, if you have the bump of
uiirthfnluoss developed, don’t marry a tombstone.
You come skipping into the parlor with vour
heart ns light as afouther, and your brain full of
merry lanoies. There he sits stupid—solemn—and
forbidding.
Yon go up and lay your hand on his urm : he’s
magnetized about as much as if an omnibus driver
had punched him in the ribs for his furo; and looks
in your face with the same expression ko’d wear if
contemplating bis lodger.
You tarn away and take up a nowspapor.—
There’s a witty paragraph; your first impulse is
to read aloud to him. No use! lie wouldn’t see
through it till the middle of next weok. Well, ns
a sort of escape valve to your ennui, you sit down
to the piano aud dash off a waltz ; he interrupts
you with a request for a dirgo.
Your little child oomeß in—heaven bless her l—
and utters some one of thoso innocent prettiness
that aro alwuys dropping like pearls from ohildren’s
months. You look to see him catch her up and
give her a smothering kiss. Not ho I He’s too
dignified 1
Altogether, bo’a about oa gonial as the north
si do ota meeting house. And so yon go, plod
ding through lire with him to tho dead march of
his own leaden thoughts. You revel in tho sun
beams'. Aslikea the shadows. You aro on the hill
tops; he Is in tho plains. Had the world been
made to his order, earth, sea and sky would have
beon one universal pall—not a green thing in it
oxcopt himself. No vino would “oling,” no breeze
“dally,” no zephyr “woo." Flowers snd children
—wornm and squirrels, would novor have exist
ed. Tho sun would not lmvo existed. Tho
sun would havo beon quoncked out for being
too mercurial, and wo should huvo orept through
life by the light of the pale cold moon t
No—no—make no such shipwreck of yourself.
Marry a man that is not too asoeotio to enjoy a
food, merry iangh. Owls bill humming birds I—
‘anny Fern.
From the Utica Gazette.
An Interesting Relic.
Wo ware muoli gratified in examining, a day or
two sinoo, the last will and testament of Frederick
William Baron De Steuben.
The renowned military man wasoxtremly eccen
tric in his private life, and his will contains some
singular provisoes. His property at tho time of his
death oould not have been oqual to what he possess
ed in Germany before ho oame to America. Hav
ing been aid-de-camp to Frederick tho Grout und
Lieut. Goneral in tho Prussian army, his knowl
edge of military tactics was exiousivo, and of im
mense benefit te the Amerioan army ut the time he
made a tendor of his services.
He emigrated to this country under an assumed
name, having been porsuaded to tho stop by his
friends in Franco at the time the French wore secret
ly a ding the Americans, bringing letters of intro
duction from Dr. Franklin to Gen. Washington
and the President of Congress. Ho fiist address
ed himself to Washington, requesting admission
into the service. A portion of this letter, which
we flind in Frost’s Amerioan Gonerals, is highly
complimentary.
“ I could say, moreover, wero it not for fear
of offending your modesty, that your Exool
lenoy ia the only person under whom, after
serving under the King of Prussia, I oould wish
to pursue an art to which I havo wholly given
up myself.” Washington referred him to Con-
SroRB, and in laying his papers before that bo
y, ho stated what be had left, to engage in the
American service, and made on offer of his ser
vices without any other remuneration than his ex
ponpes. exoept that in case tho Americans nhould
gain their independence, he would expect an
indemnity for the office ho had resigned In Eu
rope and a proportionate reward fbr his services.
Notwithstanding his groat exertions during the
whole war, and the immense valuo of his services
to tho Amerioan army, it was soven yoare utter
peaoe was declared before Congress took an} no
tioo of bis claims. He had left affluenoe aud ba
romal diguity among tho monarohs of Europe to
waste his life in our struggle, and now when tho
great object had been reached, ho was poor, home
less and unprovided for.
Through the oxenions of Washington and Ham
ilton, Congress acknowledged his claims and made
him a grant of $2600 atinally. And tho New York
Assembly voted him 16,000 acres of laud; upon
this lund he built him a log liouso aud livod
tboro until his death, with a tow mule domestics,-
with no companion but bis aids Walker and North,
to whom he left most of his property. Ilis will
reads:
“ Sufficient masons having determined me to ex
clude my relatives in Europe from any participa
tion in my estate in America, and to adopt my
friends and uld-de-oamps Benjamin Walker and
William North as my ohildreu, and mako them
sole devisees of all my estate thorein, except such
as shall bo horoinatterward otherwise disposed
of;
“ I bequeath to Bomjamin Walker tho eum of
three thousand dollas, and my gold-hiltod sword
given me by Congross. To Wm. North my silvor
hiited sword, and the gold box given me bv the
city of New York. To John J. Mulligan I give
and bequeath the whole of my library, maps und
charts, and 26 hundred dollars to complete it. To
each of my servants living with mo attholimeof
my deoease, one year’s wages, and to my valet de
obambro all my wearing apparel.
“ But I do hereby deelure that theso legacies to
my servants are on the following conditions, that
on my deoeaso they do not permit any person to
touch my body or even to ohunge tho shirt in which
I dio, but that they wrap me in my military cloak,
and in twenty-four hours after my deoease, bury
me in such Bpot os I shall before my decease point
out to them, and that they nevor acquaint any per
son with tho place where I shall bo buried.
“ I give and bequeath tho rest of my estate,
real and personal, to Benjamin Walker und Wm.
North, and do hereby make them my executors.
Signed, New York Fob. 12,1794.
“He died, Nov. 24 of the same year, and we
oopy from Judgo Jones’ history of Oneida county,
a description of his burial place.”
In his will, the Baron provided that his body be
burled in the place designated, but after his death
it oould not be ascertained that he had to any
friend designated the place. The only remark
that oould bo recollected that had any bearing
upon tho subject was, that ho was once heard to
say, that undor a certain hemlock North of his
residence, would boa good place to be buried,
without however oxpressing any wish as to his re
mains.
In the absence of any other expreßa wish, that
plaoo waa seloolcd, and his remains there interred.
A few years after a road was laid out, so that the
grave was included within its limits. The impro
priety of such a state of things induced Col. Wal
ker, of Utica who was one of the baron’s aids in
the revolution, and who waa one of his executors
aud principal legatees, to remove the remains to
a more suitable resting place.
The place selected was in the centre of five acres
of heavy timbered woodland, and Col. Walkor
gave one of the Welsh Bubtlst societies in the vi
cinity a lease of fifty acres of land, of which the
five acres of woodland was a part. Tho only rent
and consideration to be paid is the keeping said
five acres substantially fenced forever, and no cat
tle or other animals suffered to go within its
bounds, and the title to fail whenever the lessees
shall fail In the performance of tho stipulations.
Up to the present time the society has scacrcdly
kept its trußt, the forest having tho most primeval
appearance, and the little tiny saplings as well aa
the largest beech and maples bear the impress,
that here man nor beast hus trespassed.
The monument erected by subscription, when
the “ nation’s guest,” LaFayettc visited this coun
try, is becoming dilapidated, and for tho honor of
the. town and county, it is hoped that it will be
shortly repaired. The tablet is aboout seven lcet
by four, and nearly a foot in thickness, of the
purest limestone, and kept in place, will withstand
the ravages of oenturics.
Singular Arrest oi a Thief, and Reoovkry of
MO,OOO.—A few weeks since, a Frenchman, named
Charles Jeane Godard, a manufacturer of fancy
paoer boxes, doing business at No. 400 Broadway,
»old some arlioloH to a ladv, and was referred for
payment to the firm of Wilson & Brown, No 88
Beaver street. He called on the 6th instant, and
found the clerk, who was left in charge, asleep at
his desk. A large book containing railroad bonds,
certificates of stock, and other documents, to the
amount of 130,000, was lying on the desk, and
Godards attention being drawn to this book, he
succeeded in getting possession of it, without
awakenmg the clerk. He immediately lolt the
office, unobserved.
Among the contents of the book was a dividend
check on the Bank of Commerce for S2B, which
was the means of recovoriDg the rest of the pro
perty, and of getting the thief arrested. It hap
pened in this wise : The bonds and certificates
were advertised, but no allusion was made in the
advertisement to this dividend check. The omis
sion was purposely made, in the hope that the
thief, believing its loss to be unnoticed, would go
to get it cashed, and the Bank of Commerce was
noticed accordingly. The bait took. Godard,
being unable to negotiate tho moro valunble docu
ments, engaged a boy, whom he casually met in
Reude street, under promise of a situation, to sell
the check at an exchange office.
The boy went to the Bank after business hours,
and presented it, when it was immediately recog
nized by the clerk. Some money was given the
boy, and the clerk followed him into the street.
The Frenchman was seated on the steps of a house
on the opposite side of the street. He rose hur
riedly to meet the boy, but at the same time no
ticed the olerk, and started to run away. The
clerk, however, detainod him, and with the as
sistance of Officer Van Winkle, took him to the
Station-house. The prisoner was brought before
Justice Osborne, who committed him to the
Tombs, in default of $5,000 bail. On searching
the store kept by the prisoner, the whole of the
stolen proper was found.
The late Samuel Appleton, of Boston, left u w ;|]
datod Fecruarv 28!h. 1851, and a oodici’, dated
October Btb, 1862, and a million dollars <-, t t , roper .
ty. He leaves to his widow specif bequests
amounting in value to $200,000. makes forty
two other beqneste to and nioct s nnd
others, amounting in all to $820,000 more, among
which may be
pa l -torj Rev. Ephrajr., Peabody,” $5,000 to the ser
vants living il) bft family at bis decease, to bo dis
tributed among them in the manner nnd according
to proportion, to be fixed upon by hiß widow.—
He then bequeaths to his exeoutors manufacturing
stocks of the value of $200,000, “to bo by them ap
plied, disposed of, and distributed for scientific,
literary, religious or olutriUble purposes,” 1