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TOP IBE THIEF.
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there can bf-Ut iflih t>,e j l*v, ferea vaiaable
- *. Ccro, taiutr, tad Household and Kitchen
rv . cr ... An* ..: .won** if. -;*.* pai«uhavett*.»vaiu
fci;> i-.an-mUw .« A L. KVANa, who will
V*‘ a y » 0 and can alwajt be
ot <U, , v ,. c .. a. L EVANS,
; . . JOHN EVAN‘S,
Lca-iviUe, Go.
COOSI or UUiiKAHY.
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A lo ooev.ve the t.. »4ors, Aoiu.:..Kri!«»
lot.-. A ii:,c w.it l,e -- r,a upon .1 iltlMHn
for irl. u f»nr:i hr€ not xaade before the ftrr MONDAY
in IKruao otxi LEON P. DVGAS,
jft*-4*iwbw4wß OrtiiOArj.
Weekly Chronicle & Sentinel.
1855! THE 1855!
SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR
A nO.\TIIL¥ J(HR>AL,
j DEVOT£D EXCLUfiIVELY TO T IIK IMPROVEMENT OF
| Southern Agriculture. Horticulture. Stock
Breeding. Poultry , Beet. General
, | Farm Economy 6fc.
Illustrated with Numerous E^rtfligb
ONE dollar a year in advance
siz, ts. D.,
EDMOND, Corresponding Editor.
The J.iccenth Volume will commence in
January, 1855.
I The Cultivator is a large Octavo of Thirty
two pages, forming a volume of 3rA pages irt the
| year. It contains a much greater amount of
reading matter than any .Agricultural Journal in
the South —embracing m addition to all the cur
rent Agricultural topic iof the day, VALUABLE
ORIGINAL CONT RIBUTIONS from many
j of the most intelligent and practical Planters,
I Fanners, and Horticulturists in every section of
the South and Southwest.
TERMS OF THE CULTIVATOR
OKU copy one year, ::::::: $ 1.00
SIX cor-ie* :::::::::: .00
TWENTY FIVE copies, :::::: 20.00
ON K HU* OKED copies,: : : : : : 75.00
Tiik Ca.sii System will be rigidly adhered to,
and in no instance will tlie paper be sent unless the
money accompanies the order. The bills of all
specic-paying Banks received at par. All money
remitted by mail postage paid, will be at the risk
puhhshcr. Address
MW s ATcnis and obtain
*Wwm9K will be furnished with the Paper at
club prices.
CHARLESTON PREPARATORY MEDI
CAL SCHOOL.
'THE FOURTH *fcß*lO.\ of this School w.ll begin on
A the first MONDAY in April,and will tenninite on the
lht: of Jay. Tne different Chairs will be occupied as fol
lows:
Anatomy and Physiology, by F. T. MfL.ES, M. D.
Injtuu es and Practice of Medicine,by D. J. CAIN, M. D.
Materia Medica and Therapeutic*, by F. PEYRE POR
OHXR M. D.
Obate’.iicks and Diseases of Women and Children, by S.
L. LOCKWOOD, M D.
Principles and Practice of Surgery, by J. JULIAN
CHISOLM, M. D.
Clinical inafraction will be given at the Marine Hospi
tal* an«i a*, the Aim House, and the Roper Hospital, it is
hoped, will soon be in operation.
Among the patients of the Teachers, the students will
have axesa to all casta to which they can with propriety
be admitted, and such as can be brought to the Lecture
Room will there be exhibited and explained.
Obhtetrical cases will be shown to the students, who will
be allowed to conduct them under the superintendence of
the Teat he s. Ry which means they will become acquaint
ed with the practical details so essential to the successful
management of such cases.
A complete couree on Operative Furgery will be deliv
ered before the class, and each student will have an op
lortunity of himself performing the various operations
upon the subject.
They beg leave to state also, that each department is
Illustrated by preparations, models, specimens, colored en
gravings, etc., to which additions are made from time to
tim**, as the increasing success of the School fully warrants.
In sh >rt, every opportunity will be afforded for acquiring
practical a wtll as theoretical knowledge of the Profession.
During the session or the Medical College of the Htate
of South Carolina, the Students will he examined regularly
<n the Lectures delivered in that Institution. Further par
ticulars may be obtained by applying toany of the Teachers.
Students should have no fear of spending the early sum
m- r month” in Charleston, a9 the city is remarkably
healthy except when yellow fever prevails, which never j
c >mmences before August or September.
•’rice of the Course (including examinations on the Lec
tures delivered at the College in the winter,) $&o.
We are authorize) in stating that those Students who
l ave followed two full Courses of Lectures in a Chartered
diool of Medicine, of which the last shall have been in
the Medical College of the State of South Carolina, will be
permitted by the Faculty of that Institution to defsr the
i erioil of their examination for graduatiou from March
until July, on showing a certificate of attendance upon thin
*Dr. CAIN is Physician cf the Marine Hospital, and
will give his particular attention to the members of the
cl * BP - ja!3 2amtApl
THE LAFAYETTE CLASSICAL AND ENGLISH
SCHOOL.
npllli I.M(HOhKH of this School will be resumed ,
A MONDAY, January 15th, 1855.
The scholastic year will consist of 40 weeks, and - bo
divided into tw i sessions.
The Principal will be tssisted in the Mathematical De
partment by Rev. R. M. DAK Eh, A. M.
It is i .tended that this Institution shad not be surpassed
iu its mo.al training and sound scholarship by any in Che
rokee, Georgia. It la located in one of the most healthful
and moral villages iu the State, possessing easy access to
the Western A Atlantic Railroad, and free from all the
usual temptations to vice.
TtriTluX roa THK FIBST UMSbIOS OF TWBNTY-FODR WBEKS. I
Spelling, Reading, Writing and Men tral Arithmetic,s 960 '
Geography, Arithmetic, English Grammar and Ai
tebia 14 40 ’
Anci nt Languages, the Higher Branches of Math-
cmatics, Me.dal and Moral Philosophy, and the
Natural Sciences 19 90 t
TUITICM FOR TUK BBCUM) SfeSlOtt OF tiIXTSXM WSKKS. v
Spell ng, Reading, Ac $6 40 o
Geography, Arithmetic, Ac 9 60
Ancu-ut Languages, Ac 19 80 Q
It is important that put ils enter the school a: the begin- .
ning of the session, l uition will be charged from ihe oe- “
ginning of the month durinv which the pupil enters, until *
the end of the session, except in very peculiar casco. 0
Board cau be had at $8 i er month. t
JutlN. W. BAKER, A. M., Principal.
e
I.AFAYKTTK FKMALK BCUOOL. t
THE KXERCIfiKS of this bchool will be resumed the 15th t
of JANUARY, 1855,under Miss 0. U. MERRICK,a Grad
uate of Mouut Holyoke Seminary, and whose experience ]
and su cess >n teaching commend her to the public. The j
Sc ooi will be unae the geuerH superintendence of Rev. ■
JOHN W BAKER, Principal of the LaFayette Classical
and English School, and no pains will !>e spared to make it
worthy of public confidence.
TERMS:
Rea Hog, Writing and Spelling for the flrX Session
of *i4 weeks $ 9so
Arithmetic, Geography, U. S. History and English
Grammar 14 40
Latin, Algebra, Geometry, Physiology, Logic, Bota
ny, AneierU and Modern History, Mental and
Moral Philosooby 18 00
Reading, W riting, Ac., for the eeccud session of 16
weeki 6 40
Arithmetic, Geography, Ac., for the second sessi n
of » xtecn weeks. ® 60
Latiu, Algebra, Geometry, Ac., for the second ses
sion of sixteen weeks 19 C-0
| The Musical Department is under the direction of Mies
L. ATWOOD, who was instructed by the beet Masters in
Boston, ted who is an accomplished and thorough Teacher
! of Vocal and Instrumental Music.
J Music, use of Piano included, S6O 00 per annum.
I Dec.
WOODLAND FEMALE COLLEGE, CEDAR
TOWN POLK COUNTY, QA.
i G'HK first term of this Institution will commence cn
I 1 the FIRSi MONDAY in FEBRUARY next.
FACULTY:
i \V B. CRAWFORD, President and Professor of Moral
! and Mental Science.
J. D. COLLINS, Professor of Natural gclenoe and Lan
! ftuages.
Miss VIRGINIA VKRDERY, Professor of Mnaic.
WM. A. MERCER, Principal of Pr.mary Department.
Prof. CAMILLE LaHARDY, of Charleston, will be en-
I g-ged to give instruction in the French Language, and In
rawin. and Painting.
The Scholastic Year will consist of but one term—of ten
months—commencing on the first Monday in Pebruary,
and closing on the third Monday in November—which
will be Commencement Day. Pupils may be entered for
half the term, (five months) or for tho fall term.
TUITION:
I First Olass sl6pertcra.
1 Second Class “
I lothe College
i Music, (use of Piano included) 40
1 Half the tuition to be paid in advance, In cash, or note
1 —the balance at the end of the term.
Mr. WM. A. MERCER will have charge of the Board
; ‘ng Uenartment. The price of board will be ten dol
-1 lars per month, everything Included, except candles.
I Board may also be obtained in private families in the
For further informative, address WM. PICK, or Rov.
I J. M. WOOD, Agents.
By order of the Board of Trustees. Pso-wßm
GEORGIA MILITARY INSTITUTE.
rpUK KI4UITH of this Institution will
j A commence on the 90th of FEBRUARY.
ACADEMIC STAFF.
001. A. V. BRUMBY, A. M., Cupcrinundent, and Pro*
! lessor of Mi them a ties.
Capt. SAMUEL JONES, U. S. A n Commandant cf Ca
dets, and Professor of Engineering.
31 r. V. U. MANGKT, Profess rof French, History, Ac.
Mr. W. U. HUNT, ▲. M., Professor of Chemistry and
English Literature.
Mr. T. B GOODWIN, Professor of Drawing.
Capt. W. T. BLACK, Assistant Prof, of Mathematics.
Cadet R. S. CAMP, Assistant Teacher.
BOARD OF TRUSTEES.
Davio iawix, President; Charles J. McDonald, James
Brannon, William Harris, A. V. Brumny, David Dobbs,
M. Myers A. N. Simpson, Jeptha Y. Harris, Wa. Root,
David Ardts, Andrew J. Hansel I .,Secretary.
TtkMH—Tuition, Board, Washing, Fuel, Lights, Mu*c
and all ether contingent expenses, per Session of five
months, in advance, sll9 56.
It may be proper to state, in relation to the new Com
mandant, Capt. Jones, that he has aoceptcd the appoint
ment, and wll be here at the opening of the Session. He
graduated at West Point,in 1849, and taught in that Insti
tution from IS4$ to 1854. He comes with the highest re
commendations from the officers of the United States Mil
itary Academy.
! The Trustees have recently appropriated a sufficient sum
I to com; le to ft once the Labors Wry building, and also to
fit up aod furnish the Hospital.
I We have aec.mmsdatiocs for one hundred and thirty
| Cadets.
i Persons desiring further informaCcn, can obtain a copy
of the regulations by addressing the finpsrintendent, or
any mem tor of the Board of Trustees.
ANDREW J. HANBELL, Secretary.
Marietta, Ga., Jan., 1865. jal9 dawSm
A PRIVATE SCHOOL FOR DEAF AND DUMB.
IMlh subscriber takes this me tho. I to inform the public
. that he will teach a new private Bchool for the Deaf
and Dumb, at hi- father's, four miles west of Lexingv n,
, Oglethorpe county,Ga. He has tecured a few pupils,
and wib commence to teach rn the Ist of MARCH nex..
Pupt s can be admitted on more favorable terms than
any School south of the Potomac. Any one who is desi
rous of sendirg their unfortunate children to school, wiii
be furnished with ihe particulars cn appb ation to the
undersigned. J. B. EDWaRDS.
Lexington, 45a. jaW-wtMhl
NOTICE.
OX OK about the Ist July, ISSO, I held a Note made
by Clementine Smith, for Twelve 50-100 Del a rs ; the
! same uas been lost. 1 will, at the next Superior Court,
apply for leave to sabstituie a cepy therefor.
WM. JONES, Colombia Co., Ga.
OTATBOF GEORGIA. TALIAFBRRO COI N
TY —To theCkrk of the Inferior Coart of sa d county :
Thomas J. Wall of the dts., G. to.is before me
a* xn esirar taken up upon the ftee hold of him, the said
Thomas J. Wail, in s*id county and district, a small bay
Mare, no particular mark on her, about six years old; ap ■
praised by Vs. T. Fiuitr and Thomas F. Comb*, free
holders cf sail county and district to be worth Thirty
Dollars. . _
Given under my hand and cffidal signature, '.his Janua
ry isd,l9’s. DasgklH.Mxaix ws, J. P.
Tfe abeve isa true tracscrpt from the Estray Bock,
this February Ist, 1856.
Feb. 4, 1555. QUINE A O’NEAL, Clerk I.C.T.C.
T* IHK 81FKK10R COURT HABFKSHA.M
: 1 FOR DISCOVERY, RX
nfvti' uCHON. OCTOBER TERM, 1554.
Pcrter JoLa k* Stanford vs. Milton R.
j Center* of the gheriff,
in »4id couniy : **’’ Hannkott* is net to be found
! ! h f Court, xhui the said Milton
i Court, and p.t^dknswe? or **** t*” 2 oi this
!
, oraer lor rt-ar months previous to the next T>rm
JO&K STANFORD,
I-- Sol, for
1 certify tb»t the Above U t tree copy or .aid order ti
keo from the Mioate. -jfsjtid Baperi.r Court u Ocwber
Tee, 1564. PHIUP MASTIK, Cl.rt g c
November 15, ISM.
WANTED TO PURCHASE
,* HHb f -KATK CARPKNTSB of good chunuaer,
V for which » price will btr gireo. Apply to the
luMet.brr. AL'GkNE viIEDbRY.
i-f MU I Prch groottd, frem the Gr.cite Uil.. tot
M. uie by GEO. W.LEWIS
a He. 1 Wirreo Block,
WEEKLY
UHRUiMCIJ 4 SENTINEL
For the Chr.jnicU <Sc Sent.r,el.
TU MI3S LOGAN.
W hen firs; I heard thee, e’en applause was hushed,
That voice of wondrous music softly gushed
Upon mine ear—it was thy woman eoal
That made me weep or smile neath thy control:
Thy heart to love and faith responsive bends,
And all thy goodness with thy genius blends.
How calmly proud thou art with cold disdain,
How wild with joy—in iignant now, with pain,
High in the listener’s soul each passion swells
We lire with thee as ’neath some fairy speiir;
The &unn> smile, the deep and thrilling -one,
Positss a magic charm that’s ali thine own.
I love to watch thy young cheek’s varying hue
As chaste Evadne with a hsart so true,
Italien Juliet’s love, ** the hapless wife,”
And poor Bianca’s sad an) jealous life;
Parthenia’s winning ways— sacrifice
Os lon to his country as he dies.
Then teil me not of plsy-fcouse paint and glare
The actor’s home, his deep and studied care,
TKy iut- Bcctual rou! can mould and bring
The poet’s thoughts to life, and make them ring
With melody and music half di vine;
Such power, oh! richly gifted one, is thine!
Ne’er heed the world’s cold blame, although it say
“Thou leavest woman’s lot for vain display;”
Thine is the right to elevate, subdue
Acd make the human heart to virtue true
By showing vice in all her dark array;
Then speed thee on, i; is a noble way.
May Earth’d dark cloula of sorrow never rise
To dim the sunshine of thy skies;
May love and hope beam brightly on thee aHll,
are dear.
Irafmte? that one warm heart toves thee dear!
Auousta.
For the Chronicle dk Sentinel.
To tho memory of Augustus M. Baldwin, a
me»bor of Iku Augusta Home Circle , who departed
this lifo on Friday, February 2d, alter a brief ill
ness of a tow days only. This piece was written
by a brother member, and is respectfully dedi
cated to Mrs. Baldwin by those who can fool, with
her, the great loss wo have sustainei.
Oh, I’m lonely, of this life I’m weary—
For all the bright world teems dark and dreary
Since he I loved hath w.ngtd Lis way
To fairer worlds of everlasting day.
Oh! how my heart lingers o’er memory’s throne,
As fancy brings to view each look, each tone,
Os one for whom my stricken heart doth sigh,
And burning tear-drops dim my anxious eye.
Oh, let me lay down beside him to rest.
Why cannot I too in Death’s arms be prest?
For, oh! the deep anguish that fills my heart,
Will find a balm the world cannct impart.
Forget him! No, I never will forget,
’Till the tear-drop no more my cheek can wet,
And memory itself shall cease to be —
Then only can he be forgotten by me.
Oh, God ! I feel the well directed blow.
Thou, from wh >m blessings continual flow,
Will bind the bleeding h art, and well sustain
My sinking soul, nor let it cry In vain. R.
Toweling for “Town Kump’ny.”—That incor
rigible wag, Hooper, of tho Montgomery Mail , bo
well known aa the “Chickon Man of Alabama” is
responsible for tho following:
Hornstapple’s First Wife.—A gentleman who
lives in this city, told us, not very long s nco, of a
rather funny occurrence that has as its locus in quo ,
tho SltP.c of South Carolina. Our informant was
traveling iu one of tho upper districts, with two
young ladies, relatives of his. A broken axle—or
some other devil’s trick—forced him to stop for : he
night at tho house of a rich but hogish family,
wno burrowed in a single room, without any fur
niture but such as might bo found in any negro
cabin. A tattored bed-quilt curtained oil* the end
*qf tho room appropriated to the use of tho girls:
’ while our friend and tho people of the houJb “piled
in,” in tho more public portion of the apartment.
Early iu tho morning—in fact, before the crack of
day—“minohost” wis seen by tho narrator to rise
and go out, without other garment than that which
shall bo “nameless here, forever.” The old wo
man followed, and presently our friend hearing a
sound as of the rending ol strong cloth, put his
faco to a big crack in the chimney, and saw tho
lady of tho house tugging manfully at the back of
her lioge lord. Ho also heard the following collo
qny:
“Nay, Nancy,” said tho husband, “you’re
’posing’ on this bore shirt. This is the second
you’ve tuck off, now in two weeks!
“Well, well, John,” returned his cjriesima,
“ you know, yourself, those town folks wiU have
wipe-rags to dry on—jest as et they couldn’t dry
off at the tire !”
“ Darned of I care—my first wife novor tuck but
one off a shirt; and wo had as much town
kutbp’ny toon as wcii&vouow. ’dido?, whon she
tuck tho one, sho always made ’lowancc of an inch
or two for the play of tho waisband of my
trousers 1”
Here tho old fellow jerked away in a huff, but
something botwosn brown and white flattered in
tho gado wife,s hand, as sho turned the chimney
corner, in tho faint, grey light.
Our informant omitted to sa\ whothor tho young
ladios remarked, at all, on tho descrip’ion of the
toweling with which they were served that morn
ing.
Ulchard IIS aud the Bonch-Legged Flee.
Cometh into our sanctum our friend Robert the
Merry, nnd leaving dignity and all that behind,
telleth us tho following little incident of his young
er days. We let him speak:
“When 1 was at college, years ago, thoro came
to Athens, Georgia, a company of strolling playors,
very vagabondish, aud by general reputation,
wanting especially in tho attributes of sobriety and
chastity. They performed in a long room, nt o e
ond of which something remotely resembling
scenery was placed. They had foot-lights, too;
indeed, the tallow candles that constituted that
feature were iu some instances more than a foot
long. .
“The play was Richard the Third. Many of the
students attonded. I sat very close to the foot
lights, and so did a ‘drinking’ fellow named
Burleson, that would do anything lor a dime or
two. lie had his bench-logged lice with him,
asleep at his feet. Tho dog had a very largo hea
vy body, and legs proportioned like those of a
dinner pot —you’ve seen such.
“The play dragged and dragge ' and dragged
on, to the infinite annoyance of tho students who
were koen for tho farce. At length the strapping
fellow who “did” Richard, extended himself upon
thotlagoto dio; but ho was more tenacious of
life than any stago hero I over saw. His convul
s ou3 and contortions woro horrible, and most
unnecessarily prolonged. Wishing to end the
confounded show, 1 whispered to Burleson —
“throw your fieo on that fellow, and I’ll give you
a dollar.” No sooner said than done. Seizing
the lice by his legs, Burleson hurled him at the
rattier protuberant abdomen of tho gasping mon
arch, with so true an aim ai to produce a tremen
dous squelch and grunt from the player, and an
indescribable howl from tho fico.
“Tho house was electrified 1 So was Richard
tho Third 1 Up rose ho and drew his sword, and
swore he could “do for” tho man that hit him
with that dog l The audione- roared aud roared
again, while tho indignant actor stood with uplift
ed sword in one hand, the other palm soothing
his stricken paunch.
“ * Hollo, you play-actor toiler 1’ shouted old
Abram Lunsford, ‘wo give fifty cents a-piece to
*ee you die thar, and if you don’t lay right down
thar an’ do it accoidin’ to Gunter, I’ll have my
money back,7ft* or nojlcel”
“It is needles* to say that all was farce after
that. But I give you ir.y word, that in my mind
Richard the Third is inseparably associated with
a stump-tailed, bench-legged Fice I”
Fusion on Sleeves and Sauce.—Tho most stupid
and ugly lushions always last the longest. How
many years the long dresses have swept the street?
For the last twelve mouths bonnets have been fly
ing off the head, and so probably, they will con
tinue for twelve more. However, the bonnets aro
simply ridiculous. As to long dres&oe, there is
something to bo said for them. They are conven
ient to aged ladies. They enable them to enjoy,
w thout attracting remark, the comfort of sl ppers
sm laced Uockiugs aud rollers for their poor old
ancles. They render it impossible for young ladies
to wear bluchers and highlows, thereby avoiding
damp feet, and to save washing, by making one
pair of stockings last a week. So they will boubt
fess continue to be worn whilst the iaws of fashion
aro dictated by a splayfooted bcacty, or a Udy
troubled with bunions.
But this kind of apology cannot bo made for
hanging sleeves. They are not only absurd, but
inconvenint. They are alwa> getting in the wa}*,
and the sauce, and the butter beat. Your wife
cannot help you to a potato across the table but she
upsets her gloss, ana breaks it with her dangling
s eeve. It may be said that your wife Las no busi
ness to help potatoes —that there ought to be foot
men in attendance for that purpose. Certainly, or
else, she ehould not wear sleeves. But ladios
must, of course follow the height of fashion wheth
er suitable to their circumstances or not. Could
not the leaders of fashion, then, in pity to the Ices
opulent classes, devise and sanction a kind ol
sleeve*, adapted to life iu a cottage—whether near
a wood or elsewhere—to be called cottage sleeves
and to be worn by the genteel cottager-classes
without prejudice to their gentility }
Fanny Fern Daguerrectyted.--She is full forty,
is Fanny. Sports curls iike a girl of seventeen.
They are auburn—poetically so. Has a keen
flashing eye. Nose between Grecian and Roman,
rather th n and rather good looking. Cheeks with
a good deal—quite too much—ooloring. Come of
rouge. Bad taste, bnt no business of ours. Lips
j well turned and indicative of firmness rather than
of—sugar. Chin handsomely chiseled. Whole
countenance betoken- a woman of spirit and high
nature generally. Form fine. Chett a model.
Not surpassed. Carriage graceful and stately.
Rather tail and emphatically genteel. Pretty foot.
Aukie to match. Hand small. Likes to show it.
Dresses iu the cut-and-dash school. Fond of rib
bons, iaoes millinery? &c., generally. Talks rap
idly. Is witty and brilliant, catting and lashful.
Proud as Lucifer. Fond of fun. H&les most or
her relations. Treats her father acd Nat. most
brulaliv. lias three as pretty girls as ever wore
curls. 'ls proud of them, and justly. Ts heartless.
Is a flirt. Lives in clover. Is worth $20,000.
Got it by pen and ink. When passing the street
takes eight ey«s out cf ten. On the wnole—won
derful woman is Fanny.— Foster*.
A Lady in Pants.—That unpleasant occurrence,
the discovery of a lady in breeches, took place in
Cincinnati a short time since. She boarded at the
Ludlow House and mi*ht have escaped detection,
but the other female boarders not fancying the
seeming neglect shown them by the handsome
vout*’,accounted for it by intimating that he was
not a man. This led to the discovery. Her story
was a short one. She loved, w&s promised marri
age, and fell. Her destroyer fled, leaving her in
danger of havirg her shame made pubfic. She
(better to screen her real sitnation) put on male
habiliments, and pursued her deceiver to Cincin
nati. He waa net found. She is 20 years old, and
very nandaomo.
In the United States there is one child attending
school to every five peracna. In Denmrrk there
is one to every four. InSwtdenone to five. In
5 ; one to BiX * Norway one to eeven. In
Belgium and G reat Britain one to eight. In Franoe
r one to leu. 1 Austria one to thirteen. In Hoi
| to tmrieen. Iu Greece one to eighteen.
In noacia one to fifty. In Portugal one to eighty.
AUGUSTA, GA. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1855.
A VINDICATION OF THE
HON. AUGUSTIN S. CLAYTON,
AGAINST THE Afil'EßSlONfi OF GEOEGE R. GILiIEB, AS
CONTAINED IN Hl= SKETCHES OF GEORGIA.
To the People of Georgia. —Tne reputation of
your public mel. who havo served you in the
council or the field, as a common hor.-age, and I
claim rho privilege of vindicating the character of
one whose memory is cherished with affection, and
whose virtues arc a never-failing source of admira
tion. In the ot this right I feel that lam
doing justice alike to the living and the dead. I
scorn to plead the sanctified immunities of the
grave ; I ask no indulgence to the feelings of
those who survive ; I challenge the strictest scru
tiny into his every act, whether official or private;
I appeal to his cotemporaries at the bar or in the
councils of the nation, to speak out, if they know
any thing which attaches to his ;ame, and I cal!
up the records to protect the consistency of his
character and the integrity of his life.
i have had placed m my hands a book entitled
“Sketches of some of tho First Settlers of Upper
Georgia, of the Cherokecs, and the Author,” by
Gfc - rge R. Gi'mer, containing, among other things,
a v* iiful, wanton, and malignant attack upon the
character and integrity of Judge Clayton. It is
my purpose in this vindication to show tne mo"n
ness of the assassin and the misrepresentations to
which he has resorted. An to the book 1 have but
wv.Ait.io uw i vouimjw. at! IU bile iWJA 1 JiUVC UUfc
little to say; aud if the author had confined him
self to telliDg that his wife “gave him a salutation
worth more than all the .-hiking oi hands and
plaudits which he had received from the listeners
aud lookers-on” when he n.ade a speech iu Con
gress, with which he him&qLf was very much
piea-ed ; or how “Mr. Adams took occasion to
of him in the most fluttering terms, when
fie took out his groat grandfathers watch, aud
held it up to the fcpuakor, aud bowed eut of the
hall of the House of Representatives,” and an
nounced that his right of representing the people
of Gsorgia had terminated ; or of the “mocking
bud that flew against his window” when every body
thought he was going to die; or to the collection
of “minerals, Indian pipes, idols, amulets, laucos,
and arrow beads” which ad.rn his domicil —it
would hav passed ns the innocent garrulity ol an
old man withpatljhfl-, bet.efit oi ekoorif-ftek But
. . olives
or owners,” he must be a? tFexcOHscquences which
truth and justice exuct in their defonco.
His attack upon Judge Chyton is three fold:
first, his intelligence as a lawyer; second, he en
deavors to create tho impression that, iu his judi
cial character, when the controversy between he
Cberokeesh'.d the State of Georgia was boiug dis
cussed, he favored tho General Government, aud
not the State ; and thirdly, he insinuates that his
mind was influenced to this course by ihe rela
tionship which existed between him and Mr.
Wirt, wno was the attorney of the Cnerokees be
fore the Supreme Court of the United States. As
to tho first, I have no disposition to discuss in this
other than incidental; with lo
the two, I wili skow to the satisfaction of
every honest man their utter aud complete futility.
To havo a proper undestanedug of the points, it ;
wiil be well to state that, while Mr. Gilmer was
governor of Georgia, l o received, some time in
the month of June, 1880, i letter from Wm. Wirt, 1
informing him that “the Gnerokoe nation had con- 1
suited him professionally as to their rights under 1
their various treuties with the United fetates, and, [
among other questions, whether the State of Geor- !
gia had a right to exteud her laws compulsively '
into their nation ; and suggesting to his excellen
cy that “tho decisio may be expedited by making J
a case by consent, if thut course should suit the
viows of the State of Georgia.” The governor
declined, without expressing much indignation or ;
exhibiting much courtesy, the proposition, which
he thought proceeded from dishonorable motives. ]
That I may do him justico, 1 give his own words:
“No one knows better thau yourself that the gov- j
ernor would grossly violate his duty and excoed 1
his authority by complying with such a suggestion, ]
and that both the letter and the spirit of the * ew
ers conferrod by tho Constitution upon the Su- {
prome Court forbid its adjudging such a case.”— ,
All this happened in 1880 ; in 1854, the same year
with tho publication of Baruum’s Biography, his 1
biography appears, and informs os that ho “never 1
felt so indignant as he did upon reading Mr Wirt’s 1
letter.” To understand why, ho givostho iol.ow- 1
ing reasons, page 354 of his book : j
“Mr. W’irt’s first wife was my kinswoman, tho 1
daughter of Dr. George Gilmer, of Albcrmario,
tho brother of my grandfather. Mr. Wirt was
poor, unknown, and undistinguished, whon Dr.
Gilmer took him into ais house, gave him his
daughter, aud introduced him into the society of :
his friends—then the best in that part of the coun
try of hiß residence. Soon after the death of his
first wife, Mr. Wirt romovod to Richmond, aud
then to Norfolk, and was in danger of being ut- '
terly ruined by dissipation, when he again pros- |
pored by marrying the daughter of Col. Gamble,
of Richmond, my wife’s first cousin. My wife
lived with Mr. Wirt’s family in Richmond when '
she was a little girl going to yohool. Mr. Wirt
had been so groat a favorite with my own family
friends, that he was named for his executor by my 1
grandfather Gilmer. His niece, a young lady who
had resided with him during tits lifo of his first 1
wife, was, after I)r. Gilmor’s death, taken into his
house by my wife’s lathe , Mr. Grattan, with whom \
sho remained until hor marriage with Mr. Dabney
Minor. AH these circumstances induced me to ■
believe that Mr. Wirt expected that his age, high ]
standing, aud intimate relationship witkmy fami- ]
ly friends, would induce mo to do, at hnypequest, J
what I would refuse to another. A fee m twenty 1
thousand dollars was certainly a verwmjont in- 1
duooment to every means of success.’’/
I pass ovor tho fact, that while he considered a fc
dishonorable proposition hud boen imde to him f
upon the presumption that they W£jo*of tho same (
family, and that he never felt so Indignant in his 1
life at receiving ihe letter, not one word of indig- #
nation is expressed in hie answer. I refer to ♦his '
passage in his biugraphy to show hew low that t
man’s mind must be who would suspect that Mr. I
W ril was governed by such considerations iu ma- (
king tho proposition ho did. There had been 1
nothing in the history of Mr. Wirt’s life to ♦
excite the least suspicio . of dishonor; tho guilt 1
might havo been sonic where else. “All things ap- 1
pear yellow to the jaundiced eye.”
About twenty days after Mr. Wirt’s letter was
rocoived, Mr. Giltnor addressed a letter to the Hon. 1
Augustin 58. Clayton, who was then judge of the
woslern circuit, informing him that ho had ro
coived a formal notico from a very distinguished
lawyer of Maryland that ho was counsel for tho
Cherokee Indians, and giving the contents of Mr.
Wirt’s letter, without mentioning his name. This
letter is found in his book, page 856, and, strange
to say, he omits to publish J udgo C.’a answer. My
distance from Georgia prevent* mo from giving
tho same, though I am able to supply what I havo
no doubt was tho purport of it from another docu
ment. He informs tho judge iu said letter, dated
July 6th, 1880, that “I am induced to write thus
freely aud fully, because it is understood in Wash
ington city that you are desirous that the Federal
court should assume the jurisdiction of determin
ing tho extent of the right of the State to govern
its Indian population;” and then continues iu his
book: “Judge Clayton, to whom this letter was
addressed, was ielated by marriage to Mr. Wirt in
several ways, and his association with Mr. Wirt
and his family vory intimate.” In this letter, and
tho subsequent statement, thore aro two misrepre
sentations on which to build his calumny; first,
that he, Judge Clayton, was desirous of submitting
tho question to the adjudication of tho Federal
court; and secondly, that his association with Mr.
Wirt and family were very intimate. No man in
Georgia, I assort without the fear of successful con
tradiction, can point to a syllable ovor written, or
a word over uttered, that Judge Clayton ever de
sired any such thing. All hfe writings prove the
oontrary; perhaps no man in Georgia ever con
tended more strenuously for tho rights of the
States, or was more jealous of the assumptions of
the Federal Government. As tohia intimacy with
Mr. Wirt’s family, my recolleolion is, that up to
that time he lad never aeen any member of it,
including Mr. Wirt himself. In his AUicus he
had animadverted with some severity upon his
conduct; besides, he waa the warm personal and
political friend of Mr. Crawford in the controversy
with Mr. Calhoun, wherein Mr. Wirt was on the
other side : and in an article published in the Geor
gia Journal of April 21st, 1881, signed A. 8., he
spoke of Mr. Wirt iu such manner, as one of tho
witnesses against Mr. Crawford, as to show that
his associations with him and hia family co_ld not
havo been intimate. But why this reference to
the relationship of Mr. Wirt in this connection 8
Doos he intend to insinuate set 1 is judicial deci
sions wore biased by any such consideration ? He
can mean nothing else; and nona but a low, mean,
debased heart alone could havs justified such a
conclusion.
Let us boo how far tho charge of a desire on the
pari of Judge Clayton to submit tho question to
the arbitrament of the supreme oourt is sustained
by the records. In August following this letter,
in a charge to the grand jury of Clark countv, he
holds this languago:
“ Besides tho fact officially announced in the
couucil of tho Indians lately assembled, I have re
ceived information from the Executive branch of
this Government, that counsel havo been em
ployed by the Cherokee nation to raise for tho
adjudication of the Supreme Court of the United
States the question, ‘whether the State has a right
to puss iaws for the government of the Indians
within its limits.’ Now, without intending the
least disrespect to that court, to whose constitu
tional authority this and alt other State courts
wiil, I hope, cheerfully submit, this question cau
novor go from a court in which 1 preside until the
people of the State yield it, cither from a convic
tion of error, ascertained by their own tribunals,
or the more awful sense of their weakness to re
tain it; and it is useless to disguise the matter—
to this issue the question must come, if the State
is true to itself.” Again, in another part of the
! same charge, he says: “So long, however, as the
law remains unrepealed, the country has my
: solemn pledge that it shall be faithfully and im
rartially administered, so far as I am concerned,
only reqmre the aid of public opinion, and the
arm of the executive authority, and no court on
» earth besides our own shall ever be troubled with
this question.”
How malicious thea is the allegation, and how
badly sustained by the records. 1 will venture to
soy that not a contemporary of Judge Clayton
heard that he desired to let this question go before
the Supreme Court of the United States: and
from the low inainuation, that he was influenced
by his relationship with Mr. Wirt, I am justified
in believing that it originated in the brain of
George K. Gilmer.
Again, at psge SSS of this biography, we have a
repetition of the calumny:
“ By a clause of the law ali agents of the United
States were exempted from its operation. The
judge of one of the circuits which included the
Cherokee territory, the relative of Mr. Wirt,
imagined that he had read somewhere that mis
sionaries among the Cherokees were agents of the
Government. He discharged several missionaries
who were brought before him upon a writ of
habeas corpus, upon his own ascumption that
missionaries were agents of the United Siatee Go
vernment, and therefore exempt by law from
arrest.”
He has again to resort to misrepresentation to
keep up the calumny, without the sagacity this
time to perceive that the decision was prejudicial
to the interest of his relative ; for if the missiona
ries were discharged the ea-e couid not go to the
supreme court; and unless it went to the supreme
court, Mr. Wirt wc-ald not get the fee of twenty
thousand dollars, width Mr. Gilmer in his book
says “ was certainly a very urgent inducement to
ezmeans of success.”
One would suppose, from his assertion, that the
court had assumed that the missionary was the
•gent of 'he Government, without any evidence
to establiah the fact. At the March term cf
Gwinnet superior court, ISSI, Worcester and
others were brought t-efore the court npon a
habeas corpus, charged with violating the law
of Georgia which prevented all white persons
from residing within the limits of the Cherokee
nation without taking an oath to support and de
fend the constitution and laws of the State of
Georgia. It U useless to quote more of the opinion
of the court than is necessary to show that there
was evidence indicating that these missionaries
were agents of the General Government. The
extract runs thus: -‘Under all the foregoing
views of the sn-’ject, I am of the opinion tbat the
law is perfectly constitutional, and that ita pro
visions must be carried into effect. But there is
one provision in it which two of the individuals
in custody seem, for reasons best known to them
selves, to have overlooked, and wnich will dis
charge them from their present srrest, if I have
been oorrectly informed as to the Jaci*. Both of
them are missionaries, and one of them s pcst-
master In the character they are there with
the consent of the Gpera! Government, and, as
it* age 3 are in the nation tor the purpose of
i civilizing and christh nixing the Indians; and as
evidence of their befog Government agents, they
have the disbursement of large snms of public
; money tor he aforesaid objects.” Subsequent to
this, this tv me Wore''ter and eleven others were
convicted and sent to the penitentiary, Judge
Cay ton presiding; and y.t Mr. Gilmer in his book
omits to mention tbe d -ct that the 44 judge of one
of the circuits which included the Cherokee Ter
ritory, the relative of Mr. Wirt, presided on the
occasion.
11 will thu? be observed, that if he, the judge,
had been correctly informed as to the facts, they
were both o f . them agents of the General Govern
ment, and disbursed large sums of money in their
public capacity; and yet Mr. Gilmer prints it in a
book that he discharged these men npon his own
assnmption that missionaries were agents of the
United States. If this were so, why is the fret
referred to in the opiniia that they disbursed pub
lic funds ? I have no means or coming at the
testimony, except from-the opinion of the Court,
and such is the vigilance of the legal fraternity,
I that it is unreasonable;to suoposc that they would
have permitted such a statement to go uncontra
dicted. It is, not to be expected that
justice could or would be done, either to the acts
or motives of Judge piayton by one who is so
gratuitous in his assertions.
Besides the positive assertion to the contrary in
his charge to the grands jury of Clark county, (au
extract from which I have quoted above,) that no
other Court had or should have the jurisdiction
of the question as long ns be had the honor to
preside, the whole previous life and writings of
Judge Clayton stamp the allegation with impossi
bility. He had contended, upon every occasion,
as a member of the Legislature, as a judge on the
bench, in his political assays and in his public
speeches, for the rights 'f Georgia, in this contro
versy. It is not saying too much to assert as my
firm bolief, that he had written more than any
other ten men in Georgia in vindication of her
rights in the controversy with the General Gov
eminent in regard to hCjyX'idian relations, and yet
George R. Gilmer, enemy whan hascaa--
; lito, c.. v?- iu. :•,! v ooh iaC as history the
assmbplidn that hfs leanings were against his
native State, and in favor of the United States.—
The bare mention of the fact, without a comment,
should be sufficient to bring to any human faoo a
blush, where there was a heart which had the
sensibility to feel. Aud then, too, the insir nation
that he was influenced by his relationship to the
distinguished Wirt, who was the attorney of the
Indians before the Supreme Court of the United 1
State?, betrays a low, base, degraded meanness, to
which falsehood could be no addition. To the ,
contemporaries of Judge Clayton, it would have
been only sufficient to havo announced that George
it. Gilmer had printed a book, and published as
matter of history these things against him; but for
the beuetit of the rising generation, who are not ,
familiar with the history of Georgia at this tirno, I
havo fojt it my Hnjy to be more elaborate than I
otherwise would. i have, I think, shown the utter ,
improbability of the truth of either assumption by ,
his accuser, and prove from the records, that upon j
every occasion whore he rises above an insinuation ,
and attempts to assert a fact, he is not sustained. ,
One word as to the assertion that Judge Clayton’s ,
associations with Mr. Wirt and family were very
intimate, and lam done. According to the best
of my rocollection, Judge Clayton never saw Mr.
Wirt, or any member ot his family, until after he
look his seat in Congress in January, 1882, when
his duties as judge had necessarily ceased. Ido ,
not now remember that Mr. Wirt was ever in ,
Athens, Georgia, in his life, and lam certain that .
hi.-i relative, the judge of the western circuit, was 1
never at bis house, unless it was aftor January, (
ISB2. I will go one step farther. Ido not now
remember that Judge Clayton ever wrote a letter ,
to, or received one from Mr. Wirt in his life, and (
my confidential relations with him were such that
I would have known something of it, if there had ,
existed anything like intimacy between them.
What occur rod, after he was elocted to Congress,
here in Washington city, in receiving and return
ing the civilities aud courtesies of life, I know not; j
they may have boon intimate, but it was subse- •
quent to the judicial action against which Mr.
Gilmer has made his misrepresentations and di
rected his insinuations. Ido not give importance
to the assertion that ho was intimate with Mr.
Wirt and his family, bocause I attach any impro
priety to it if tho fact oxisted, but to show the
utter unworthiness of what is intended as history,
when it is written to gratify a personal revenge, or
is the offspring of disappointed ambition.
There arc many other remarks in Mr. Gilmer’s
book relative to Judge Clayton which I deem it
unnecessary to n >tice. Suffice it, he never speaks
of him in respectful terms, of whieh I make no
complaint; ho had the right to consult his own
taste in writing his own boob, and I am not dis
posed to deprive him of a solitary enjoyment he
derives therefrom.
In this communication I have not appeared
before the public to praise Judge Clayton—l
come to defend him j and in this connection it
will not bo considered inappropriate to refer briefly
to the cause which separated him aud Mr. Gilmer
from those relations which existed prior to tho
controversy about which I am going to speak.
Tho cause of difference was not any of the cases .
I havo referred to above; there was no conflict
between tho executive or the judiciary of Georgia
in oither tho case of Tassels, the Indian who was
hung for murdor, or tho missionaries who were
first discharged as coming under the provision |
which exempted the U. S. agents from tne opera- ,
tion of the law, or those who wore aftorwards (
sent to tho ponitentiary, having no right to olaim
such exemption. Tho collision was on account j
of the decision of the judge in the case of Cana
too, a Chorokeo Indian charged with digging
gold in his own nation, which tho legislature of
Georgia had made a ponitentiary offence. The
gr«xaud upon which tluit made and
tho Indian toleasod, was, that the law was un- 1
constitutional and violated numerous treaties made
with the Indians, and expressly guarantying the
undisturbed possession and occupancy of all their
lands not coded to the whites. lam not going to
arguo the correctness of that decision; at no very
distant day I contemplate presenting to the pub
lic tho life and wrtiings ot its author, at wnich
timo I trust I shall be ablo to do justice to the
legal ability by which it was su tained. My pre
sent purpose is to anpeal to tho public, ana in
that public to include his worst enemy, George
R. Gilmer, to know if Judge Clayton did not de
serve, in what was intended as a history of the
controversy at that timo, to have had justice
moted out to his motives. What are tho facts I
Mr. Gilmer and he belonged to the same political
party; they had been personal friends ; every in
ducement upon earth, save the conscientious
discharge of duty, existod why a contrary deci
sion should have been made*. His own political
friends had passod the law ; ho in common with
every cit’zen of Georgia was anxious to have the
Indians removed to the west of the Mississippi;
his docisiou he knew must have the effect to em
barrass that hoped-for object; the discovery of
gold had phronzsod the people, and all were so
licitous foi au occupancy of tho Territory; his re
election or defeat as judge was within sixty days
of the timo; there was not tho possibility of a
personal benefit to him or his friends by diacharg
ingthe Indian, and yet, in the face of all these
difficulties, ho did nothing more than what he
conceived to be his duty. For all which 1 do nol
claim for him any credit, but I do not think, that
when tho true history is written he should be
exempt from censure. Tho sequel was as every
one predicted —tho legislature relused to re elect
him Judge, though the people elected him to Con
gress in less than sixty days thereafter. Mr. Gil
mer was defeated for governor about the Bame
time having rendered himself obnoxious to the
people of the State. It had tho effiact upon him
of hydrophobia, from which ho has never recov
ered. Ho has been snapping and snarling at every
successful statesman and every politioal organiaa
tion in tho Slate over Bince ; the clear and pellu
cid stream of charity throws him into convulsion*
and he will scon pass away unwept, unhonored,
and unsung, with tho melancholy remembrance
that tho only true services he has ever rendered
his country or his kind are his omissions.
In speaking of political parties subsequent to
tho time of which I have been writing, Mr. Gil
mer, at pago 465 of his book, has the following
passage: “A sow dayß after my return home,
(from the Anti-Tariff Convention at Milledgevillo,)
1 received a letter from James Liddell, a leading
member of the legislature, in which he stated that
lie had heard a portion of my remarks against the
doctrine of nullification; that he did not under
stand the subject, wished to be informed, and
asked me to give him my views fully, saying that
my letter should be strictly confidential. I wrote
to him what my opinions were about the resolu
tions which had been adopted by the convention,
particularly that which set forth the extreme opin
ions of Mr. Calhoun of the power of a State to
control the legislation of Congress on the subject
of the tariff, Btating to him that they were given
to himself, and not for others or the public. I was
thus cautious, because I wished to avoid writing
any thing against my party triends. I kept a copy
of my letter. When tho Democratic State-Rights
party were about selecting a candidate for governor
in 1537, those who were opposed to my being a
candidate, and desirous that Judge Clayton should
fee, obtained a mulilated copy of my letter to
Liddell, and used it to excite the nulliflers into
opposition to my nomination. I in Virginia
whilst this iutriguo was going on. Upon being
informed of it, I wrote to Liddell that I had heard
of his having communicated to others the contents
of my letter, aud asked him to send me a copy.
The sorry fellow having no suspicion that I had
kept a copy answered that he thought the letter
did mo great honor, sent a copy of the part which
he knew to be offensive to the nulliflers, and
omitted that which qualified what made it so,
averring that his eyes were so sore, and he so un
well, that it was as much as ho could do to copy
what he sent. I aftorwards saw Judge Clayton
and General Harris, who had been very busy cir
culating Liddell’s mulilated copy of my letter ;
showed them the entire copy j and convinced them
that they had been misled.”
Where no record* exist to substantiate facts, we
are dependent entirely upon recollection; and
while I would not say that Mr. Gilmer, in this
narrative, has suggested an untruth, I have no idea
that he has given all the facts as they existed at
the time. My recollection of the facts are these :
On account of Mr. Gilmer’s position, which was a
perfect willingness to receive favors from the
State-Rights party, while at the same time he was
denouncing their principle ß to their opponents in
letters, around which he threw the sanctity of
privacy, many Btate -Rights men determined not to
support him
while he and his friends were wy anxious to
secure the nomination of the State-Rights party, or
perhaps it was after he had been nominated, the
letter to Liddell was produced, to which he gave a
meaning and signification that removed, some of
j the objections which had been urged against him.
Judge Clayton or his friends had nothing to do
I with any intrigue to defeat his nomination, or pro
cure or circulate any mutilated letter for any such
; purpose. Mv opinion is. that a correspondence
took place between Mr. Gilmer and Cj©d. Harris at
| the time, which I have no doubt would have thrown
j more light on the subject than Mr. Gilmer wa3
i willing should meet the public gaze,
i I have one extract to notice in his book, and I
| conclude. At page 455 he says;
i “I was opposed to rechartering the Bank, and
j yet did not approve of the means used by General
J Jackson for putting it down. The Georgia mem
| bers of Congress who had been elected on the same
| ticket with my sell were favorable to the Bank, and
j partisan opponents of General Jackson.”
■ This reters to the Congress of 1583—’4, at which
i time the Hons. Roger L. Gamble, Seaborn Jones,
Thomas F. Foster, Richard H. Wilde, Augustin S,
1 Clayton, and, if I mistake not, James M. Wayne.
! were elected with Mr. Giimer upon the same ticket:
i and by reference to pages 458—’4 of House Journal
for the first session of the 23d Congress, it will be
I perceived—with the exception of Mr. Wilde, who
voted for the Bank, and Mr. Gamble, who was ab
| sent—the rest vot6d with Mr. Gilmer against the
| Bank. Why this misrepresentation in a book that
purport* to be history, I am at * loas to understand.
] I have said nothing of hi* book in reiaton either
! to the credit it will reflect upon the State, the in
j formation it gives, or the place B will occupy in
j the world as * literary production. I have not
| sought a controversy, and therefore I have avoided
i every thing like attack. Besides, I should be justly
; chargeable with more than an ordinary malignity
I to subject his book and his taste to the rules of
criticism ;as it is. I have no defence against the
unkindness of directing public attention to it.
The misrepresentations wnich abound in his
r i *‘Sketches, l ' when he speaks of the acta and motive*
• ‘ of other xnsc, are bo common and to froquant, that
I have the charity to grant him the benefit of the
habit, to rescue his own character from the infamy
into which his autobiography has plunged it.
__ r. Clayton.
Washington City, Jan. 28, 1555.
Funeral of Bishop Capera.
The death of this excellent and distinguished
Minister has been already notioed. On Friday
morning, the body, enclosed in a metallic coffin,
was removed from his home near Anderson Court
House, accompanied by his bereaved family and
several friends. Judge Whitner, Mr. Osborn and
others aocompanied it on its way to Columbia, as
fer as Belton. At this point they were met by tho
Rev. Dr. Wnitefoord Smith, who had been request
ed by the family of the deceased to accompany the
remains to Columbia and preaoh the funeral ser
mon.
On arriving at Cocesbury, a large number of
weeping friends visited th • car in which the body
was conveyed, an gazed for the last time upon
those features so calm aud plpcid in death, and
which had been so endeared to them in life. A
committee, consisting of the Rev. Dr. Boyd, Rev.
Messrs. J. W. Townsend, G. H. Round and J. W.
Wightmen, had been appointee by the community
of Cokosbury to unite in the procession.
The funeral escort reached Columbia at four
o’clock, P. M,, and was met at the depot by a com
mittee of tho clergy and laity, where a prooession
was formed and the body con veyed to the residence
of the Rev. N. Tally.
And here we may mention a singular fact, that
Bishop Capers had passed the night al this same
house of his esteemed aud valued friend just two
weeks before, as he was returning home, in unusual
spirits, from his episcopal duties at tho Florida
Conference.
On Suturday morning, at 10 o’clock, the body,
accompanied by his family and the clergy of Co
lumbia, was conveyed to tho Washiugton-street
Methodist Church, the following Ministers acting
as pall-bearers:
Rev. P. J. Shand, Rev. A. Wigfall, of the Pro
testant Episcopal Church.
Rev. Dr. Boyce and Rev. Mr. Curtis, of the Bap
tist Church.
ii.iaua &nd Howe, and Rev. Mr. Fra
ser, of the Bresbyterian Church.
Rev. Messrs. Crook, Game well aud S. Townsend,
of the Methodist Episcopal Church South.
At the church a large aud sympathixiug audi
ence had already assembled. Tfaosolemu services
were conducted by Rev. Dr. Whitefoord Smith,
and opened by the choir singing the 787th hymn—
“ What thoujh the arm of conquering death.” This
was followed by a very impressive prayer. Tho
7SSlih h>mn —“Servant of God , well done,” was
then sung. The lossoua were tho 90th psalm, aud
a portion of the 15th chapter of Ist Corinthians.
Dr. Smith then read his text from the Acts of
the Apostlos, x : ii chapter and part of tho 86th
vorse:
“For Davi 1 after ho had sorvod his own genera
tion by the will oi God, 101 l on sleep.”
Os course it would be impossible for us to fol
low this eloquent minister throughout his dis
course. It was one that would have to be heard
to be fully appreciated. We are glad, however, to
notice from the proceedings of tho preachers’
meeting that a copy has been asked for publics
tiou, and to learn that Dr. Smith has consented to
comply with the request at his earliest con venie ce.
In the meautimo, however, wo will endeavor to
give a very brief synopsis of this eloquent aud im
pressive sermon, for the benefit of our numerous
readers.
The sermon was introduced by stating tho fact
that thore were occasions when our feelings woro
too overpowering for utterance. Such was tho
present occasion.
Dr. Smith said the lifo of the deceased emphati
cally illustrated tho text—ho had “served hfe gene
ration by tho wiil of God.” The text indicated
that usefulness should be tho greut end and aim
of life—that lifo was not measured by success, but
by usefulness ; and proceeded to illustrate this
truth in the life and ministry of Bishop Capers.
This eminent and useful minister was converted
in 1808, and the latter pari of the same year was
recommended and licensed to preach at Remberts
camp-ground, and entered on his ministry n 1809.
He was appointed to the Watoree Circuit, and soon
became a useiul and popular preacher.
Dr. Smith then passed rapidly over the early
years of his ministry until 1819-’2O, when he was
stationed in Savannah, during which time the yel
low fever raged with great violenco throughout
that city. Dr. Capers, in conjunction with other
ministers, was over found at his post miuißtering
to the wants of tho sick and dying, and exuibiting
the utmost devotion to tho groat cause in which ho
was engaged. He, himself, was attacked with the
prevailing epidemic, and for some days hovored
on the brink of the grave. During his illness ho
was nursed bv a lriend, tho pastor of a sister
church, Dr. Kollock, of the Tiosbyterian denomi
nation. Scarcely had Dr. Capers recovered, ere
his friend was stricken by the same disease, and
he in turn nuraod that friend, but his nursing and
attention was of no avail, for Dr. K. died in a few
days in tho arms of Dr. Capers.
In 1821-’22,Dr. Capers was appointed mission
ary to the Indians on the Georgia frontier. To
him, this arduous duty was a labor of love, aud
the time ho labored among the red men were, aud
have boen regarded as his years of most signal
success.
About the year 1827, his attention being called
to the subject by C. Cotes worth Pinckne , he foun
ded tho missions to the slaves on the plantation,
and at the opening of tho work, found effectual
co-operation from John Honour and J. H. Massey.
To Dr. Capers belongs the credit, under God, of
establishing these missions, now eo important and
interesting a department of the operations of the
Church.
Dr. Smith said that Bishop Capers himself said
that he had the distinguished honor of preaching
to three distinct races of men—the white man in
his refinement and civilization ; the red man in his
savage and barbarous state; and the negro iu his
low and ignorant oendition. To numbers among
them all he was the messenger of glad tidings aud
salvation, and through his instrumentality many
had boon brought to rejoice in their Lord and Sa
viour.
In 1828 the General Conference of tho then unit d
Church, acting upon the scripturo maxim honor to
whom honor is due, elected him a delegate to the
British Wesleyan Connection.
In 1886 he was chosen by the General Co sfer
once, editor of tho Southern Christian Advocate,
and founded that journal. In his editorial capac
ity he was eminently useful to the Church, and by
his zeal, piety and ability, established a paper which
to day is prosperous and flourishing.
In 1840 ho was elected by tho still united Churoh
to the responsible and important office of Corres
ponding Secretary of the Missionary Society. In
this, as in other spheres of labor, ho rendered
signal service to the Churoh.
In 1844, at the General Conferenoo whore the
unfortunate division of tho Church took place, he
noted a conspicuous part in tho proceedings re
lating to tho oase of Bishop Andrew.
In 1845 he was among the leading spirits which
tho Southorn portion of the Church had appointed
to moot at Lou’sville to organize the Methodist
Episcopal Church South. In 184$, at tho first
General Conference of that Church, ho was chosen
bishop with great unanimity.
From that time until his death he was constant
ly engaged iu tho faithful discharge of his episco
pal dutiee, notwithstanding afflictions and infirmi
ties. Ho did not hesitate, whenever tho Churoh
appointed him to go, to obey her demands. Un
applied by past sickness or tho dread of fatal
epidemics, ho was ever found at tho post of duty.
The eloquent preacher then entered on an
analysis of the Bishops character, alluding first to
hia apostolic eimplicity and spirituality. He never
sought popularity, and shunned ils delusions.
Humble, faithful and active, uaefulnesi alone was
his graat and daring object.
Secondly, ha spoke of hia self-aacrificing and
devoted character. The call of the Church was
always with him to be obevod, adopting as hia
motto “ as much as in mo is.”
Third, tha mildness and persuasiveness which
characterised his preaching. Iu the scripture,
some of the dispensers of the gospel were called
Boanerges, or “Sons of Thunder;” ethers were
called “Sons of Consolation.” To this latter cluss
the Bishop belonged, and while he was not defi
cient in warning sinners to flee from the wrath
to come, his most dearly cherished occupation was
to exhibit the love of God.
In the next place he aliuded to tho catholicity of
the Bishop’s religious affections and ministry;
and no man, perhaps, during fifty yean’ service
as a minister, could be found who was less in
clined to be involved in religious controversies.
He had room enough in hia heart and affections
for all, of whatever name, who loved the Saviour in
ainoenty.
Tho preacher then alluded to the desire ol the
oommunity of Columbia to have his body ioterred
at this place. This he characterized as the “self
ishness of love.” But there was a peculiar fitneas
in the location of that renting place. In 1881, as
pastor ol the ohnrch, he had laid the corner siene
of the church in which they now worshipped, and
his name was inscribed on that stone. Hia min
irttry here, too, was peculiarly blessed.
Another reason why this was the appropriate
resting place: Here his remains would rest near
his intimate friend and pastor, Rev. W. M. Ken
nedy, who to him was peculiarly eudeared.
Dr. Smith then very feelingly alluded to the
Bmhop’s return home, after attending to the last
official duties for the year at tho Florida Confe
rence. He had returned to the bosom of that
family, whose members almost worshipped him,
to “ fall on sleep.”
“ Fell on sleep!” how beautiful was this ex
pression. The Scriptures loved to designate death
as a sleep. When tne Saviour spoke of Lazarus,
he said ne “ was not dead, but Bleepeth.”
In the hymn sung at tne opening of the ser
vices was this line;
“ At midnight came the cry.”
This too was peculiarly appropriate; he was at
tacked by intense pain on Thursday night at 12
o’clock. Two lines in the same hymn also pre
sented a striking coincidence:
u Hia tent at sunrise, on the ground
A darkened ruin lay.”
He died exactly at sunrise on Monday last.
The Friday previous to his death was his birth
day. (he was «6 years snd 8 days old when he
died.) On the evening of that day he told his
children he “had liked to spend his birth day in
Heaven.” When death approached he told his
children that they had nothing to do but give him
back to his God, and be thankful that He had
spared him to them so long. He said to them with
the confidence of the Christian, that “the prepa
ration was not then to be made.” With him it
had been made for many years.
We have given a very brief and imperfect ab
stract of this most excellent and noble tribute to
the deceased distinguished minister ol the Cbnrcb;
but, as we said before, we are glad to see that it
will be published. As to ourselves we will only
remark that it was a tribute worthy of the preach
er and of the great and aolemn occasion.
At the close of the services the ohoir, which
seemed to be a union of ali the oboira of the dis
ferent churches, sung with great effect the beau
tiful hymn (781) of Bishop Heber.
° Thou art gone to the grate, but toe will not de
plore thee /”
In conclusion, we may say that we have never
seen a more affectiDg scene. There were few pres
ent in that large congregation who did not shed
tears of sympathy and sorrow.
At the olose of the services in the church, s large
portion of the congregation passed around the
altar, taking their last look at one they to tenderly
loved. The oolored people, to whom the deceased
was peculiary endeared by his many aerrices, ware
then allowed the like privilege.
The body was then removed to the grave in the
rear of the pulpit, where the servioe tot the burial
of the dead was read by the Bev. Nicholas Tally.
Thua closed the melancholy scene, and the mortal
remains of a great and a good man were left to rest
till the Beeurrection of the last Pay.
One of the most affecting features of the occasion
was that of so many Ministers of the different
denominations, deeply affected, sitting by the altar
around the oorpa. It seemed e fitting tribute to
the memory of one whoee eharsc er through life
had been marked by eo much liberality and catho
licity.—Caroienxan.
It* at st. ArecsTii-x.—The weather during the
past week, has been very disagreeable indeed—
particu.ariy as regards the severe cold weather
1 which waa experienced from Monday until Thurs
i day. On Thursday, after the continuous and heavy
, rain on Wadneaday, ioe from the fourth to half
i inoh thickness, waa observed in the streets. It was
s certainly the coldest and most severe weather we
t Ud the whole winWr.-Anew** Cty,
Minutes ot Points
Decided by the Supreme Court of Georgia, at Colum
bus, January Term , 1855:
Morcer vs. The State—from Btewart.—l. A ques
tion being put to a J uror by tho State, and not ob
jected to at the time by the def6nda r t, and alter
verdict put in for ground of new trial, is not a
decision subject to review, and the objection, if
any, is waived. 2. Instructions to the Jury must
be taken as a whole, and if the court should
charge that confessions when freely made are the
highest evidence, and are to be weighed as other
evidence—saoh a charge is not erroneous, if no
modification is requested. 8. Though the evi
dence may show that the prisoner was drunk when
the act was committed—though such drunkeness
was excessive—-yet a new trial will not be granted
by this Court. 4. A juror, though he has formed
and expressed au opinion hypothetically, and is
not put on his voir dire , is still competent. 5. Af
ter verdict, a jury can not impeach the verdict.
Tucker, for Plff. Sol. Gen’i Ramsey and B. K.
Harrison, for Deft.
Robinson vs. Banks—from Muscogee.—l. An
execution issued in favor of a witness, on a sub
pesna from the Superior court, can not be levied on
real estate, a. On an issue made as to the attend- i
ce ot a witness, the execution issued on certifi
“ P J U f a *“ c ‘“ evidence of the laot, eubjeot to
8 ; A w -fne»» is not boand to «ut ,
for di termination ot the cause to obtain bia com
pensation for attendance. 4. Where a witness ■
has been summoned by the same defendaut in i
several suits, the pkintitf being different pe eons
in the d-tferent auits, the witness may legally i
oharge for attendance in e chc.ee, 6. It i. the
d ity of a witness to know every direction given
by he court iu relation to tha oauee iu wbich he ia
summoned—tnd it the court announced that the
case would not be tried within a stated period,
such witness cau not charge for hie attendee ye
daring that period, whether he heard the an
nouncement or not.
Ingram & Crawford, for Plff. Dougherty, for
Deft.
ideit.
Keaton vs. Stoddard—from Dougherty.—The
evidenoe in the record as transmitted i» in.-m
cno j-oameni, and the cause remanded.
Morgan, for Plff. Lyon & Clark, for Dost.
Mahone vs. Central Bank.—l. A Bill in Equity,
•Bled by one who alledges that he was the third
endorser on a Bill of Esehaugu discounted at the
Contral Bank, and that said bill was drawn in
blank, and the name of the first endorser was
erased by tho assent of the Bank, and became the
acceptor, and asking for a discovery, contains
bquity. 2. The Statute of Limitations in an aotion
by the Central Bank is not a good defenoe. 8. On
a bill of exchange held by the Bank, demand and
notice aro not neoessary to chaDge endorser. 4.
Staleuess of demand iu this case iB not sn equitable
oar. 5. Where no no ioe is given by a creditor to
an administrator within the time prescribed by
law, and such administrator administers the estate
in part, he is liable only to the extent cf assetß in
hand at the commencement of the suit; because,
by tho Act of 1792, a debt due the public is re
quired to be paid in a certain order.
Hill & Joncß, for Mahono. Johnson & Sloan,
for Central Bank.
Terry vs. Tho Stale—from Muscogee.—lf a
specific chargo is requested by a prisoner, and if
thero be any faot or fads in evidonoe to whioh
such charge is applicable, a refusal to give it is
error in the court.
801. Qen’l Kamsey, Jones & Dougherty, for the
State. Wellborn, Holt & McDougmld, for Terry.
Young ve. Harrison—from Randolph.—l. The
value of land taken by a Corporation for the ben
efit of such Corporation, is to be estimated at the
time it is taken. 2. In estimating the value, the
circumstances affecting its value are to bo taken
into consideration; and value depends upon de
mand and supply. 8. Bonefit to the proprietor
from the public appropriation of land, Is also to
be considered by the jury in assessing compensa
tion. 4. A plat of ground sought to be condemned
for publio use, is evidence proper to be submitted
to the jury.
Lines Uoit for Pl’ff. Jones & Jones, and John
sou & Sloan, for Def’t.
Snelling vs. Cook— from Stewart.—l. A motion
for a new trial, sotting out certain grounds for
granting the same, may bo amended under the
statute by inserting othor grounds, subject to the
imposition of reasonable terms by tho Court. 2.
A Kale m n for a new trial, constitutes a part of
the pleadings in a cause.
Tuoker for Plff. Gaulden and Jones & Jones
for Defendant.
Thornton ve. Hightower—from Muscogoe.—l
Where numerous persons are interested in the
subjoct matter, Equity in certain cases will dis
pense with the necessity of making all of them
parties to a Bill. 2. If a defendant in Equity be
in contempt for a failure to answer within the timo
prescribed, he may purge himself from such con
tompt by a proper showing to the Court, and if
such showing bo made, tho Court ought not to
enter a decree “pro coufesso,” but should allow
defendant time to answer.
Holt & Hill for Plaintiff. Dongherty for Defdt.
Clayton vs. Brown—from Muscogee.—l. If the
possession of personal property be consistent with
the Deed, such possesion is not prims faoie evi
dence of fraud. 2. A purchaser at Judicial talcs
is not a bonajidt purchaser as contemplated in tho
act of Elizabeth, and he gets no benefit from the
want of notice ot an outstanding titlo to the pro
perty purchased.
Ingram tor Plff. Dougherty for Deft.
Walker vs. Cook—from Muscogee.—lf a de
murrer to a bill be sustained, the Court mey still
permit the oomplainant to amend upon terms and
retain the bill, and this Bhould be done if the
cause has been carried to the Supreme Court and
remanded.
Dougherty for Plff. Kamsey and Jones & Jones
lor Doft. —Columbut Jtnouirer.
Coi’i'BH Smelting. —A propt Bition iB now on foot
to establish work* for BmelLug copper ore at Chat
tanooga, to accommodate the rapidly increasing
mining interests of East Tennessee and North
western Georgia. John Caldwell, E.-q., a gentle
man long and favorably known in connection with
the mineral developments of the regiou named, is
now on a visit to Bihimore, and in a letter to the
editor of the Athens P st, says the policy of Bhip
ping ores to Baltimore has hitherto b=en a matter
of necessity, in the opinion ot the miners, and
laboring nnaer that necessity, already nearly, if
not qaiie, half a m l ion of dollars bave been paid
on the transportation ol rock aud other useless
matter. He wishes to impress epoo those inter
ested the great importance ol doing nearer home
al that ia accomplished by sendiog tbe -ire abroad,
thereby saving me cob ot transporting the retnse
matter alluded to. He examined tbe works ot
Messrs. Keener A Sous, wnich are, perhaps, the
moet complete aud extensive in th« Doited Btates.
Theso works are established on a capital of #5lO,
00(1, and employ a hundred men. Mr. C. says,
Messrs. K. <fc Son are receiving ore« from Cabs,
from, the Northern Lakes, from Tennessee, ana
Virginia, and are making more pme copper thau
all the other smellers in tbe United States. They
buy the ore, giving to the miner #4.00 per ton for
each one per cent, of pn e copper it will yield op
to 25 per cent, and three cents additional for eaoh
per oent. up to 80 per cent. This gives the miner
about $lB5 per ton for 80 per cent, ore, which is,
in fact, above the average yield of Duoktown ore.
Thus, it will bo seen, alter deducting $U per ton
tor transportation, the cost at present prices, the
best Duoktown ores will nett the miner about $l9O
per ton.
The saving secured by the ereotion of such an
establishment as Messrs. K. A Son's, would soon
resay the capital invested; besides, in the language
of Mr. Caldwell, a very large smount of money,
whioh now goes to foreign shippers and smelters
would be kept at home and put in circulation
amongst our own people—a spirit of emulation, in
all branches of manufacture, would be increased,
and an accessible and profitable market opened
for our rich and almost inexhaustible beds of ooal.
That State ia unquestionably the richest whioh
can boast the largest amount of productive indus-
These are considerations which cannot fail to
have their influenoe; and urged by one so well ac
quainted with the mining interest* as ia Mr. Cald
well, will doubtless determine the suooeas of the
enterprise he has in view.— Sew. Rep.
The Epidemic Yellow Eivhh oh 185$.—The City
Council of New Orleans, in eonssquenoe of the
virulence of the yellow fever in that city in 1858,
submitted to the Board of Health au inquiry into
the causes of that disease, its orgin, mode of trans
mission, and the customs and conditions of the city
which affected or influenced it. A aepeci al commit
tee, to whom the subject was entrusted, has report
ed noon it, and the result of that report we find in
the National Intelligencer. The oommittee are of
the opinion that the presence of two general hygi
enic conditions are absolutely indispensable to the
origination and transmission of the disease, the
one of them atomßpheric, the other terrene.
These must meet in combination, or tho disease is
not generated. The absenoe of one, so fares yellow
fever ia oo noerned, is equivalent to the absence of
both: and, as ono of those oonditiona is almost
wholly within the oontroi of man, and the other
partially so, it mast follow that his power extends
to its prevention and expulsion. Tho oorollary
from this is, that the disease ia of local origin ; that
it is under uo circumstances, personally contagious
aud that its infectious properties are only com
municable in a foul or infections atmosphere. It is
not by this intended to be denied that tho disease
is often imported; that is, persons infected with it
may arrive from abroad, or vitiated and infectious
air may be brought ,1a goods and various ways;
but neither the one nor the other can propagate the
disease, except under the combination or the con
ditions mentioned.— Savh. Rep.
The Bust Machine—Novel Appioation of Steam
Poweb. —The New York Evening Post of Satur
day says:—We were favored this morning with
the inspection of a curious machine for the pur
pose or copying busts and other similar masses,
either in ivory, marble, wood or metal, and this
either the Bize of the original or in any reduced
proportion. Some heads of Victoria on ivory
knife handles were most exquisitely end sharply
chiselled.
It would seem strange how this can be expected,
but a momentary glance at the machinery raises a
smile at the fact that so obvious an application of
a well known instrument has never been made
before. Like printing with movable types, it
might bave came into general use loug before the
thought occurred to its promulgator.
The oontrivanoe will be instantly recognised by
every school boy as the pentagraph, an adaptation
of that iastrument which every land surveyor or
map maser u es so ingeniously ia the trsßsfer and
reduction of maps and plans.
On a frame work of iron, weighing nearly a ton,
ia fixed a horizontal table, provided with slides.—
Attached to one pair of these elides a metaiic bust,
(life size,) is made to route slowly in parallelism
to the traDsverße diameter ot the table. At the
other end of the table is a bust in marble, weigh
ing, perhaps, 6 pounds, placed, and rotating simi
larly at equal speed.
Over the larger bust is a metaii c point which
hung loosely describes in falling every indention
of the work intended to be copied. Descending
by a worm it passee from the apex to the base of
the object.
Os course the “working” point allowed to as
oend and descend, aud made of sharp steel, is
doing the same thing, at a rapid epeed of rotation,
upon the block su-jeciej to iu action and the de
scent by gradations almost imperceptible as the
winding of the finest cotton filament round a bob
bin, by machinery, presents, when complete, a
beautiful reduced ropy of the original.
The inventor is Mr. Thome* Blanchard, It Do
ver street, Boston who hsa e patent tor it’ the
operator ia James Lee, at 101 Cliff st, in this'city.
The machine is very curious but extremely sim
ple, and iu application in tbe art*, in copying the
thoughts of sculptors *nd multiplying them cor
rectly and indefinitely, will probably it length su
persede all the piaster casts and other fragile sub
sunees hitherto used for th»t purpose The in
itrument is well adapted for die sinking.
The Literary Gatette lays that the greatest beau
ty in female iresa, ia that which ia moat simple
ana at the same time gracefully adapted to exhibit
the catnral bcanty of tbe female form. This sim
plicity should be obae'ved even io oolor • a profu
sion of tawdry and glaring oolora beepeaks ataate
less and vulgar mind, even, if tha wearsr were a
Ducheaa. Colors should always be adapted to
complexions. Ladies with delioate rosy complex
ions, bear white and blue better than dark oolora,
while Ballow hues of complexion will not bear these
colors near them and require dark, or
I colors to Improve their appearanoe. Yellow is tne
most trying and dangerooa of all. and oan on, {
1 wore by the rich-toned, healthy looking brunette.
VOL. LXIX.--NEW SERIES VOL. XIX—NO 7 i
UioitoiA Lunatic Asvlux.—The last Legislature
passed an aot authorizing the appointment of a
committee by the Governor, charged to “investigate
aud determine upon the buildings necessary to be
erected for the accommodation of lunatics, at the
Lunatic Asylum.”
Governor Johnson appointed as commissioners
Messrs. K. D. Arnold of Chatham, Philip Minis of
Dougherty, Hines Holt, of Mnscogee, R. D. Moore
of Clark, and A. M. Nesbit, of Baldwin.
Having accomplished the work, the commission
ers have made their report to his Excellency, who
has ordered its publication in the Federal Union.
It is from the pen of Dr. Arnold, who writes as
follows :—Savannah Courier.
“After a full investigation of the subject, it was
unanimously sgroed that it was necessary to pro
vide accommodation for one hundred and fifty ad
ditional patients; and that some of them should
be such as to be suitable for that class of patients
able to pay, who are now forced to go to the insti
tutions of other States, for want of proper accom
modations iu oar State Asylum. Plans for such a
building were advertised tor, and at the meeting
of the commissioners held on the 12th of June,
alt, the one submitted by Messrs. Shell and Fay,
architects of Savannah, was adopted, with such
modifications as to interior arrangements as should
be found most suitable for making the building a
oompleteone in every respect.
“Messrs. Shod and Fay have matured a plan,
which, it is confidently believed by tho commis
sioners, will render tho building, whon finished,
worthy ot the State ot tfeorgia and ot the enlight
ened benevolence aud liberality whioh have in
duoed her to provide for that unfortunate olass of
our fedow bemgs who havo beeu deprived of the
light of reason.”
The pieaent buildings are to be retained, and
tbe additional buildings placed in front of them,
and ere thus described:
“Tho whole extent of the new front will be 486
L et. At tbe extreme right and left are buildings
ex'ending bacs 165 feet, and thence returning at
a right angle to the existing buildings, a distanco
a V totrastyle
lonio portico, 16 feet deep and 47 feet front.”
Tne Report adds:
“Tne wnoie building wili be repleto with all tho
modern improvements and oonveniences, suoh as
the introduction of water, walor closets, baths and
thorough ventilation, and when completed will, in
all its apartments, compare with any institution of
tho kind in America.
“In addition to its present capacity, tho Asylum,
when thus completed, will aooommodato one hun
dred and fifty patients in the wards with separate
rooms, and about thirty in the associated dormito
ries, besides thirteen patients in tho rooms in tho
central building, making the additional building
capable of accommodating one hundred and ninety
three patients.
“The cost of the central bnilding is estimated at
(89,822; the wings at (75,481; making a sum
total of (115,808.
Extraordinary Balloon Ascension by a Lady,
and Miraculous Escape.—Wo announced a sow
days ago that Miss Louisa Bradley ascended in a
balloon at Eaßton, Pa., on the 25th ult., and that
she mado a miraculous escape from death. It np
poars she filled tho balloon with gas from one of
tho street mains, that it was made of old silk, and
that she know very little about tho business sho
had undertaken. The balloon ascended at first
about 20 feet, when Bhe made a short addross to
the crowd of people. It then rose gently, still held
by the rope, until she was one hundred feet from
the ground, when sho cut tho oord, nnd the bal
loon roso perpendicularly, with groat velocity,
until she had reachod a mile, or a mile and a quar
ter. A spectator says:
“W hon she reaohed this height she states that
the balloon, whioh was not entirely filled whon it
left the earth, expanded, nntil the gas began to
osoape at the seems, and beoamo vory offensive
to her. She had been so absorbed by the enchant
ing prospoot Bpread out beneath her, whioh Bho
says was maguifleont beyond the power of lan
guage to describe, that ahe had not notioed the
Walloon. The escape of gas alarmed her, and she
pulled the valve rope, but permitted but^ little gas
to escape, as she was afraid she would fail into tho
Dolawaro, whioh was dirootiy beneath hor. In a
sow moments after this the balloon collapsed, ana
to our horror and alarm, wo saw her fall with
frightful rapidity for the distance of Bix hundred
or coven hundred foot, her progross then being
cheoked, ftom whatouuso wo below oould not boo,
although we thou obaorved that she was descend
ing quite slowly. ~, . ...
“It seems that when tho balloon burst it was
torn into ribbands, except the lower part or neok
of the balloon. So completely was the upper part
torn to pieoes, that large pieces of silk blow away,
and the remainder hung down oven below the car.
When sho had fallen this distance tho nook of tho
balloon suddenly blow up, turning msido out, ana
c&tchiug against the net work, formed aparaohnte,
which bore her safely to the ground. Bhe came
down in an open field, and so lightly did the car
strike the earth that she says there was not the
slighteat jar.”
Important Arrest.—Leonard Vangarden and
Erastus Eggleston havo been arrested in Philadel
phia, on suspicion of having passed a note pur
porting to be ol tbe denomination of (50, of the
Wilmington and Brandywine Bank of Delaware,
which had been altorcd from a (5 bill by means ot
the paste process. In their possession were ionnd
new ißsnos of counterfeit notes amounting to (suo
or (600, also a quantity ot one and three dollar
gold pieces. These men subsequently made affi
dauit that they purchased the money of John
Mangos, near Mnncey Dam, Lycoming county, Pa.
The police proceeded to the house of Manges, bnt
not finding him home went to tho residence ol
Abraham House. Here' they found several per
sons in bed, among them Mangeß, who was taken
into custody. Under the pillow on which he slept
was found a large pooket book, containing several
hundred counterfeits, ranging in denomination
from one to fifty dollars, also a quantity oi gold
coin, consisting of one, two and a half, and twenty
dollar gold pieceß.
Among tne notes is one of the denomination of
(50, elegantly chauged from a (6 bill of the Bank
ot Penn Township. A number of papers con
taining the operati ns and negotiations of this no
torious man was also found, together with a state
ment of the transactions botween him and Vaugar
uen and Eggleston. For several years tho police
have be n endeavoring to arrest Manges. On one
oocasion he eluded them by conooaling himself in
the seeond story of his kitchen, between the floor
boards aud the lathing of the ceiling. In search
ing the iouse at that time, the officers stepped ovor
him Beveral times.
DrsooußAaiNo.—The Mountain Signal, Dahlone
ga, Ga., a Democratic paper which supported Gov.
Johnson in 1858, thinks it will be very bad policy
to nominate his Excellenoy for re-electiOD, and en
dorses the opinion expressed by the Atlanta Intel
ligenoer, another Democratic paper—that ho is
weaker, by ot least five thousand votos, than he
was on the day of his inauguration. Tho Signal
then reviews tho vote of the State in the Guberna
torial canvass of 1868, and oonoludos with the fol
lowing discouraging prediction:
“Now suppose all these figures to be oorreot,
and he (Johnson) is re-nominated, his defeat will
foot up as fallows: fourteen thonsand four hun
dred and ninety majority for his opponent 111”
Really, Gov. Johnson is an uniortuuate man, for
whilst hia political opponents are clamorous for
him to attempt another raoe, his politioal friends
discourage the idea, without showing him the com
mon courtesy to oonsalt hiß inclinations upon the
subject. This is too bad. If he did make slow
time in 1858, it is not certain that he has “ let
down” altogether, and if he has tho spirit to at
tempt the race again, he ought to be permitted to
star . Wo wißh to be considered'ancf understood
as protesting emphatically, against hiß withdrawal
frem the oontest. —Macon Mestenger.
Jonu Roexaa, the Bmithtield Martyr. —On
Sunday next, the fourth of February, it will be
Just three hundred years since John Rogers, the
prosto-martyr of the Marian persecution, was
burned at the stake at Smithfleld. Wo hear that
some of tho descendanta of that famous man, re
sident in thiß vicinity, aro making preparations
for an observance for this anniversary. One of
our friends, whose family is allied to that of the
martyr, and whose ancestors, far more than one
generation, have been honored and respected in
the ranks of the New England clergy, has a genu
ine portrait of the illustrious man of Smithfleld,
whose sufferings have been the theme of so mueh
nursery pathos, and the exact number of whose
children has so long taxed the brains of juvenile
readers. This relic has been hunted up for use ot
the gathering of tho descendants of those nine or
ten children, (we belong to the party which be
lieves in ten children,) who form that melancholy
group in the woodout in the old editions of the
“Now England Primer." —Boston Transcript Ist
iral.
We learn that most of tho stocks offered for salo
at the Court House yesterday, were withdrawn in
consequence of the low prioes offered. The pres
sure for money not being so groat as it was some
time baok, holders insisted upon higher rates.
Small sales of Central Railroad stock were made
at (95 to (95.50, which iB a gratifying improvement
upon the price at which this valuable stock was
Belling some weeks ago. Tho two lota on Brough
ton street, owned by the Savannah Hotel Compa
ny, and extending back to Broughton street lane,
were sold for (15,500. The two lots immediately
in tho rear of these aud fronting in Congress
street, also owned by the Hotel Couipuny, were
offered, bnt withdrawn for want of a bid.— Sav.
Republican , 7 th inst.
Large Hoa.—Mr. PhilipT. Pierce, of this city,
slaughtered a hog last week, thirty-onemonths old,
which weighed, after being buchered, 525 pounds.
He melted out from the fat portion 254 pounds of
lard, made 92 barrels sausage meat, 22 pounds
souß6, and sold the hams and shoulders for (11.40.
Such a hog would bring in market some (65 st
present prioes.— Floridian. Fsb. B d.
Marriage and Death.— On Saturday coroner
Cunningham held an inquest over the remains of
a gentleman who died under circumstances of a
most peculiar nature. The deceased was named
David Thomas, aud he roaided at No. 245 Ann
street. He was married on the previous evening,
Friday, snd retired to reat with his bride, who in
shout sn hour at erwsrde heard him breathing in
a singular aud unusual manner, inducing her to
think something was wrong. She arose to S6e
what was the matter, inasmuch as he replied to no
question, and found him breathing hie last. The
jury rendered a verdict of death from an crganic
disease of tho heart. The deoeasod was in the
neighborhood of sixty years of ag o.—Baltimore
Patriot.
" Ram? hackles. " — Certain Democratic papers
are making merry over the name whioh they say
Mr. Stephens bestowed upon the Know Nothings.
Now, Mr. BUphenftdid QOBochthiug, but adopted
the language of the old man in North Carolina,
who said the Adminifttration had been defeated
by ‘‘the Ramahackiea,” thereby meaning that it
wag done by a cot..bination of ail the element#* op
poeed to it. Thin, we are aware, i« a matter of
ftmail moment ; bnt we wish to “vindicato tbe
truth and majeaty of history.” —Athens Watch
mam.
Providence, Jan. 80.—The brig Molunkus, Capt.
Bailey, ol Eastpoit, from Havana, for Boston, with
a cargo of 400 hhda. of ,“" U c wJTiTan “crew went
day on Block Island. lb« , hore >he
ashore to obtain aa-iataoce, "“'J heard of
vessei got eff be ™'‘> fell in with by a boat
crew of Newport.
_ C„ 4T , T , Jacx Boro.— Tho Supreme Court,
„n T l?rkUv Lt, pronounced judgmentpn this case
0n * r lu.nsnir the judgment of the Court below.
wifi he sent back to th. Superior Court,
which sits in Jooe, when santence will be again
pronounced upon tb. prisoner Unless the Gov
ernor reprieve- and the Legislature pa.dons him,
there la nothing now but time between the unfor
tunate man and death by the gallows.— Oolutnbus
Times.
The weather yesterday was warm and windy,
with no signs of rain. Tho dust has become eo
plentiful as to b’ quite dismgreeble, especially as it
is unnecessarily active and ethereal.— RaekviiU
Whig 78*.
A Double Execution in Kentucky. —The Cin
cinnati Uommoroial has a long aoconnt of the exe
cution of Stephen Short and William Banning, for
murder, at tireonupeburg, Ky., last Friday. They
wore both, according to tho Commercial, worthless
drunken fellows, and oach had a large family. The
same papor givos the following Bpeeohes and inci
dents at the gallows:
Short roao and said—“l want all of you to take
warning by me. See what whiakey and bad women
has brought me to. I have been to a good many
hanging scrapes mysolf, and thought it was great
fun, but I never thought I’d be hung myself. This
is the work ot Captain Whiskey. lam willing to
die for the life of the man that I took. Talk of
pleasure—l have tried all kinds of it—about shan
ties drunk and everywhere else—but I have had
more real ploasuro up in that old jail, than ever
before in all my life; and chains on my legs, big
heavy chains at that. I just took off this old ooat,
and whipped Satan clean out, fair. I’ve mado my
election sure, l think. Yes, sir, I think my elec
tion is sure. [Some one in the crowd oalled out,
“If you are sate, I don’t think there is muoh dan
ger for the rest of us I"] lam perfectly willing to
die The man you have got in jail for aiding me
is perfectly innocent, and ought to be let go; but
that Blair deserves all that l'vo got. [Blair was
tho man who told him to shoot.] He was as much
to blame as I was.”
Some one inquire*: “ Are you willing to die.
Stove!’’ Said he: “Yeal 1 hate thie world ana
my own life;’’ and he continued, with an air that
was nearly exulting, “and I’m going to leave it;
I’ll be in i’aradmo before aundown. Now, fare
wolll farewoll! meet mo in the ether world. I
want to sec yon all in Hoaven.” An old man,
somewhat drunk, presaed npon him. Bhort said;
“Whiskey brought mo to thiß; I expect you along
in a few days I’’
Hanning, then, quaking in ovory limb, got up
and Baid: “I haven’t got anylliing against any man
in tho world, and I hon» .—i— v>- e-
against me now.”
I Shoit repeated this remark. Large numbers of
I his acquaintances crowdod about, shaking bands
I with him and asking questions, until the last mo
ment. Ho know all his old friends, and exchanged
smiles and words of good will with them until the
white cap was drawn over his faoe. Ho stood up
firmly as the wagon was driven away, and said, at
that instant, vory distinctly: “farewell I all my
frionds I” whon tho fatal nooso cheoked his utter
ance.
The Philadelphia Ledger has an editorial, de
signed to Bhow tho absurdity of tho favorite boast
oi Americans, that their government is almost
the only one in the civilised world which is not
deeply plungod in debt. Tho boast, it is true, so
far as it rolates to the United States in ite Federal
capacity, is well founded; but the Lodger believea
that so far as it rolates to the ono and thirty Com
monwealths, of whioh tho nation is composed, it
is an absolute absurdity—since the majority of
those latter are deeply, if not inextrioably, in debt.
The totul indebtedness of the various Common
wealths is about two hundred and twenty-one
millions of dollurs, divided among twenty-seven
States, four being so fortunate as to owe nothing,
viz: Now Hampshire, Vermont, Delaware and
Florida. Os thoso twonty seven the debts of sev
en are nndor a million apieco. Maryland, Texas,
Illinois, Ohio, Virginia, Now York, and Pennsyl
vania, are the States most deeply in debt. The
largest absolute debt is that of Pennsylvania,
which is over forty millions; the smallest is that
of New Jersey, which is but seventy-one thou
sand. The boavioat debt in proportion to tho
population is, as wo mentioned a few days ago,
that of Maryland, whioh oxceeds fifteen millions
in a population of five hundred and eighty-two
thousand, including Blaves. The debt of Virgin ia
iB twenty-six millions, and that of New York
twonty-fivo millions. It is considered, however,
that relatively the debt of the former is twice as
heavy as that of tho latter, whon population and
developed resources aro taken into tho aocount.
Tho entire debt of the nation, estimating the
fedoral debt as well ae that of tho States, exoeods
two hundred and seventy five millions of dollars.
Attxmit at Kidnapping.— Tho New York Times
gives a long account of an attempt to kidnap a boy
from a school in Clavereack, N. Y. The Spanish
Coobul, by authority of a letter from tho boy’s fa
ther, now in prison in Havana took him from
1 school and embarked him on board the steamer
Empire City, when an uncle of the boy’s residing
> in this county, came on board just on the eve of
ho steamer’s departure, and carried him off. The
father and uncle were both lately Cuban revolu
tionists; the father has been imprisoned; the
nncle, a resident of Now York, has providod for
tho boy’s education. The father, it is said, has
turned traitor to save his own life, and the Cuban
government, it is conjeotnred, wished to get bold
of the boy as a heslage for the good behavior of
the rebel nncle in New York. If so, its purpose
was foiled. The question seems to be, whioh ig
the kidnapper—uncle or Consul.
The Norfolk Argna a tales that, during nine
months of the yoar 1797, Norfolk with* popula
tion of about six thousand inhabitants, lost, by
French cruisers, two ships, eight brigs and eleven
schooners, making twenty one vessels in all,
which, with their cargos, made an aggregate of
(800,000 suddenly taken from merchants and
others.
A Sub marine Telegraph has just boon con
structed at Berlin, on Morse’s system, to be laid
down betwoen Varna and Balaklava, which wilt
be finished at the same time as tho one which oon
nocte Varna with Bucharest. Sevastopol will then
be in direct telegraphic communication with the
capitals of Western Europe.
Boston exported 458,450 tons of ice last year.
The most of this was sent to Southern cities, par
ticularly New Orleans and Mobile. The amount
consumed in Boston was about 80,000 tons—
making the amount cut in that vicinity (818,548
tons.
OrxNiice of the Panama Railroad.— Tho steam
er George Law, which sailed from New York on
Monday for Aspinwall, took out a delegation of
stockholders of the Panama Railroad Company
and others, who go to Panama on the ocoasion of
the completion of tho railroad track across the
Isthmus, from ocean to ocean.
G**. Cass oh thf. Kxow Kothinos. —ln his speech
in the Senate against tho right of the Legislature
of his State to instruot him, Gen. Cass mado an in
cidental attack on the Know Nothings, or no party,
as ho styled them.
Bazam of Dzstatohis It is stated that a son
of the Hon. John Y. Mason goes out in the next
steamer as bearer of despatches to his father.
Young Mason visits Paris to be near his father
during his illness. The poet of bearer of des
patches is entirely honorary, withont pay.
WaooHsiN U. S. Srnafob.—Tho Hon. Charles
Durkte has been choson D. S. Senator from Wis
consin for six years from the 4th Maroh next. He
was the nominee of the “ fusionists,” and is a free
soil anti-Nebraska Democrat. He suoceeds the
Hon. Isaac P. Walker, democrat.
The Washington Union elaborately defend* tho
Control American Expedition, and intimates pret
ty clearly that it has nothing to fear from govern
mental interference.
Owing to the interruption of travel on the rail
roads, in consequence of the groat depth of the
snow, the Illinois Legislature was without a quo
rum up to the latest accounts, and therefore no
eleotion of a Senator from that State has been held.
Tho Minnesota Democrat announoos the remo
val of Gov. Gorman from the office of Superintend
ent of Indian Affairs, to take effect on tho Ist of
March next, and states that other removals may
shortly be expooted.
The London papers brought by thelaat arrivals,
mention the death of Sir James Kempt and Sir
Andrew Barnard, two of tho most distinguished of
W ellington’s officers.
A supplement to the act, passed a year or two
ago, authorizing the eale of tho Main Lino of the
Public Works of Pennsylvania, is now pending
before the Legislature of that State. The original
bill limited the price to not less than ten millions
of dollars—the supplement lessens this prioe two
millions, fixing the minimum price at eight mil
lions of dollars.
Louis Napoleon, Emperor of France, in answer
to a memorial of the Protestants in that country,
praying for permission to exercise the rights of
conscience in matters of religion, replied through
his Minister of Worship “that he reoognires the
rights of liberty of conscience in his subjects, but
not liberty of worship.”
In the late annual message of Governor Bigler
of California, to the Legislator# of tbst Hlate, he
calls their attention to a large portion of land ac
quired by that State under the act of 1880, which
is covered by a heavy growth of tula, indigenlone
to tho soil, from which papor of good, if not
superior quality, can be manufactured. The plant
is coated with heavy, strong fibre, and internally
filled with cellular tissue. The stalk, when ripe,
and before it is colored by rain, is nearly white.
Several parcels hsvo been Bent to the Atlantic
States for the purpose of testing, by aotual ex
perience, it# adaptation to the manufacture of
paper. m
Tbk Kitxb. —No boats have been op from below
since Friday last owing to the low stage of waters,
and the effect upon business transactions is very
peceptible. Wo learn that the Jefferson and Lady
of Augusta which cleared oar port on Friday for
Knoxville have been detained some miles above.
When we shall have a froe river we are nnable t<>
say, bnt the indication are favorable for rains.
The winds are high from the sooth Chat. Adv. tU.
inst.
Boat Snaooid.—Wo learn that the steamer
Fashion No. 2, while on her passage from Augusta
for this city, struck a snag and sank. The aergo,
consisting of about 800 bags of eotton, will all be
saved. A steamer has been chartered to go up
and bring the cargo down. The boat will no doubt
begotoiv— Stmi £*p.
LyN'.'Hß'.rg and Tbnnbssxk Kaiueoswe —We
learn that the receipts on this railroad for the
month of January, were upwards of SIB,OOO,
about 185 per cent, more than the receipts of the
same month in 1864. Ws are glad to hear of the
prosperity of this grsst improvement. It promisee
to do much in the regeneration of Old Virginia
that is to be wrought by her pubUo work.