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1855! THE 1855!
SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR
A JOIBXAL,
] DiVOTED EXCLUSIVELY TO THE IMPROVEMENT OF
ii'iuthern Jpru-ulturr, Horticulture, Slock
Bre&hnf. Bvultry. Bat. General
farm Heonomy Ifc.
lilc-lrated with Eluant Kwrravlngs.
ONii dollar a year in advance
, •; ■; H. .
- EDMOND, Corresponding Editor.
The Volume will commence in
January, 1855.
The Cultivator is a large Octavo of Thirty
tv pyjres, forming a volume of pages in the
y» : ,ir It contains a much greater amount of
riding matter than any Agricultural Journal in
the South—*embracing m addition to all the cur
rent Agricultural topic jof the day, VALUA BLE
ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTIONS from many
of the most inUllisent and practical Planters,,
farmers, and Horticulturists in every section of
the South and Southwest.
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CHARLESTON PREPARATORY M2DI
CAL SCHOOL
r | lilt FOIHTH hKHhIOX of this School will begin on
J tht 2rst MONDAY in Apri ,and will terminate on the
1' oi Ju.y. Tee di3erent Chairs will be occupied as fol
io* *:
Anatomy and Phy*»i logy, hy F T. MILFS, M. D.
Jr.jt.tu e8 »ad Practice of MeJicine,by D. J. CAIN, M. D.
Mat- ria Medic a and Therapeutics, by F. FKYRE POE*
OH EE M.D.
Obate i >cks and Di eases of Women and Children, by S.
L. LOCKWOOD, M D
P laciplee >-Ld Practice of Surgery, by J. JULIAN
CHIbOLM, M.D.
( •icicai in»‘ruction will be given at the Marine Hospi
tal* and at the Aim House, and the Eoper Hospital, it is
hoped, will roon be in operation.
Among the patients of the Teachers, the students will
have a :e«s to all to which they can with propriety
..c -tcimidtil, an J such as can be brought to the Lecture
Hoorn vill tLcre be exhibited and explained.
« intetrical cases will he shown to the students, who will
0 aliow-d tti conduct them under th - *nperln’cadence of
the 1 i he s. Hy which me ms they will become ecquaint
•: with the practical details so essential to the success/ul
man'K’cem of such cases.
A comp ete course on Operative Forgery will be deliv
er- ; beto ethe cla.s, and each studeut will have an op
lor tar ity of himself performing the various operations
up n the Bubject.
T’bry ueg leave to state also, that each department is
iliuitri-t'id by preparations, models, specimens, colored en
gia**.: g.-, tc., U) which additions are made from time to
time, as theincreabingsuccess of thehchool fully warrants.
In h rt, every op, ortunity will be afforded for acquiring
practiea' a w 11 as the- retica l kn of the Profession.
During the less on of the Medical 0 liege of the btate
of . >ut'- Oar iina,the dludenis will r eexamine 1 regularly
- he Le«: ures delivered ir. that Ins'itution. Further par-
Ucular* may beobtained by applying toany of the Teachers.
H'.ud ntii should have no fear of spending the early sum
mer month - In Oha'leuton, as the cty is remarkably
... hy except when ye low fever prevails, which never
t .m-.cneed before August orbtptember.
Price of the (. curse (including examinations on the Lec
turea delivered at the College in tlie winter,) s{o.
We are authorize iu stating that those Students who
have f Howe i twofu'.l Courses of Lectures in a Chartered
« h(* 1 of Medicine, cf which the laot shall have been in
: e MtUical Cohtge of the State of South Carolina, will be
permitted by Ue Faculty of that Institutior todeGrthe
I e i- d of their examination for graduation from March
until July, on showing a certificate of attendance upon thii.
*Dr. CAIN is Ph>aician of the Marine li spital, and
will give his particular attention to the members of the
claui*. jalß 2 amt Api
THE HANNAH MORE ACADEMY.
WILMINGTON, DELAWARE.
nBhNCIPALb: Misses 0. and E. GRIMSHAW and
I \. H. GRIMSHAW, A. M,M. D.
In this institution Young Ladies receive a substantial
a r .d finished education. A French Lady resides in the
house. The home is large and convenient and situated in
the m .t't healthy region oTour country. Wilmington offers
pecu iar advantages to persons who desire to send thtir
daughters to the North. It is ea yof access ; being with
in one hour's nde of Philadelphia and three of Biltimoie.
It is unsurpassed, as regards the salubrity of the air. In
thin Ac ideiny the utmost attention is given to the comfort
and happiuess, at well as to the moral and religious in
strn< t:on, manners ami general deportment of pupils.
Pupil* f <Hi the routh can remain during the hot months,
and pursue a course of He iding and Musical Instruction.
Young Ladies of delicate constitution have been benefited
by a re.-i lence in this Academy. The house is warmed
throughout and is well provided with hot and cold baths,
as wtll as a commodious play house.
RjtFxiuKCas:—Right Rev. A. Lee, D. D., Wilmington,
l> -l.: Hon. Langdon Chevea, Gol.'D. J. M. Cord, Golum
*is, S. C.; Robert Campbell, Esq , John Rones, Esq., Dr.
Jo*. Milligan, R* v. Dr. Ford, E. F. Campbell, Esq., Dr. L.
D. Ford, Augusta, Ga. fit) lawdawSm
VOODLAND FEMALE COLLAGE, CEDAR
TOWN POLK COUNTY, GA.
•'fpHK first term of this Institution will commence on
1 the FIRiiT MONDAY in FEBRUARY next.
FACULTY:
W. B. CRAWFORD, President and Professor of Moral
and Mental Science.
J. D. COLLIN#, Professor of Natural Bcience and Lan
guages.
Miss VIRGINIA VERDKRY, Professor of Music.
WM. A. MBROIR, Principal of Primary Department.
Prof. CAM LLK LaIiAUOY, of Charleston, will be en
g ged to give instruction in the Preach Language, and In
r&witi and Painting.
The Scholastic Year will consist of but one term—of ken
months —ommencitig on th<* first Monday in February,
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 the fall term.
TUITION:
First Class sls per term.
Second Class 90 44
In the College 40 44
Music, (use of Piano included) 40 44
Ualf the tuition to be paid in advance, in cash, or note
—the balance at the end of the term.
Mr. WM. A. M ERG KR will have charge of the Board
ing The prtce of board will be ken dol
lars per month, everything included, except candles.
Uoatd may also be obtained in private families In the
village.
For further information, address WM. PECK, or Rev.
J. M. WOOD, Agents.
By order of the Board of Trustees. nSO-w9m
GEORGIA MILITARY INSTITUTE.
Iqih tslt.lt 111 gKHHO* cf this Institution wlB
commence on the FOth of FJSIiEUARY.
ACADMMiO STAFF.
Col. A V. BRUMBY, A. M., Superintendent, and Pro*
feasor of M« thematic*.
Capt. SAMUEL JONES, U. 8. A., Commandant of Ca
dets, and Professor of Engineering.
Mr. V. H. MANGET, Profem >r of Fiench, History, Ae.
Mr. NY. li HUNT, A. M., Professor of Chemistry and
2d -ileh Literature.
Mr. J. B GOODWIN, Professor of Drawing.
Capt. W. T. BLACK, Assi-tant Prof, of Mathematios.
Cadet K. S. CAMP, Ass stant Teacher.
BOARD OF TRUSTKBB
David lawia, lYcsident; Charles J. McDonald, James
Brannon, Wiiiiini Harris, A. V. Brumby, David Dobbs,
M. Myers, A. N. #impson, Jeptha V. Harris, Wm. Root,
David Aruis, Andrew J. Unused,Secretary.
Thaws—Tuition, Board, Washing, Fuel, Lights, Music
and ah ether contingent expenses, per Session of five
months, in advance, sll2 f>t\
It may be proper *o state, In relation to the new Com
mandant, Capt. Jm *s, that he has aocepted the appoint
ment, and will be here at the opening of the Session. He
graduated at W« st Point,in 1948,and taught in that Insti
tution from 164# to IS&4. He comes with the highest re
commendations from the sflccrs of the United States Mil
itary Academy.
The Trustee* have reoently appropriated a suMeient sum
to com: le;e t on:e the Laboratory building, and also to
fit np and furnish the Hospital.
Wt have accommodations for one hundred aad thirty
Cadets.
Person* desiring further Information, can obtain a oopy
of the regulations by addressing the Superintendent, or
any caemler of the Board of Trustees.
ANDREW J. HANSBLL, Secretary.
Marietta, Ga., Jan., IS*6. jal3 dawlm #
A PRIVATE SCHOOL FOB DEAF AND DUMB.
ri>lit£ subscriber take* thi* method to iuform the public
Jl that he will teach a new private School for the Deaf
aud Dumb, at hi- father's, four mile* west of Lexington,
Og etherpe county,Ga. He has secured a few pupils,
aud wih commence to teach rn the Ist of MARCH nex;.
I'upi s can be admitted on more favorable terms than
any hohool south of the Potomac. Any one who is desi
rous of sending their unfortunate children to school, will
bo furnished with the particulars on appll ation to the
unot nigned. J, B. EDU ARD3.
Lexington, Ga. ja!9-wtMhl
TO CONTRACIOBS AND BUILDEHB.
, - KAft.KD proposals w.ll ♦ e received by the uniers;gn«d
un.il the 15. h day of March text, at 12 oV.cck M.,
f x U e materials aud labor necesiary to car*-y out pro
p id ad i uon.and improvements at the Mate Lunate
A > um, uear MiHodgevule, Ga., to which place the propo
sal* will be direct .d.
The plans and specifications of above additions will be
deposited at the Asylum for inspection, a duplicate of
wtiicn win oe Kept at the siKce of the Archheot* at Savan
nah. aad at either place farther information wid be freely
given.
1. Separate proposals will be received for the excava
tion anc fill ug (percubic yard.)
For abort 5,1**0 barrels best Cherok?e cr Eastern
Lime, delivered ?he building (par bbl.)
S For about 600,000 feet clear Yellow l ine Lumber, of
rang rg lesntlir n, vis: sby 12 inches, 8
Had from 10 to 40 feet long.
4 F r laying to plans and spec fications and
under scpervigion) soar milur ns of bricks, and setting all
necessary stone (per M ) Bricks, Lime, and Stone, be
ing furnished on the ground.
5. For Carpenter’s wor-, necessary to frame and put
Joist -ani Rv of, on (per M.> To furnish material* and
set 520 window frames, and *9O door frames, board the
root<, and * t outside Cornice Bracket*, and fit the building
hr tinniiig pi oe )
6. Fvr about 575 sq :arestln roofing, furnishing all mate
rills—bee. 1C Tin—XL Tin Gutters, (per square) Gal
vanised Iron Leader*, 4 by 4 inches, and about 19n) stet
Galvanised lion o:<rnicc Girling,
The Oomui tsicner* with the ondersh ned, will reserve
to themselves the right of ssch proposals as they
may deem most is factory.
Contra.'.or* v u sending their proposals will name thc.r
securities. BHOLL A FaY, Architects.
By crier or ;he Commissioners. flO-wtMhlO
I NOTICE.
( C. °? abcat tht l!l lo!y, ISSO, I held . Kots m»4e
. v/ by C.ementice Smith, for Twelve 50-100 Dol ars; the
i *** 1 *en lost. I will, at the next Superior Court.
; P |'tis‘“ r l ** ve 50 “ bstit “ e » cr py theretor.
1— ‘ M. JOM£g, Columbia Co., Ga.
S r A T -tof \ WU I FKHHO fOl-S.
j Thom.. J.
M* t, n»i«rtKuUr a .rlHm JJf»*>
r-.-'fd by Wa:. T. F.u.tr »- d Thomw F elm'll
ho er. a Mil coa=ly .ad duuict .a t. , - r STt'r"
Given under my Land and official signature, ;his Jan a.
ry 184, 15 5. Daxtn. H. MxSowa, J“
The above is a tree transer pt from the Eatrav Book,
this February Ist, 1£55-
Fcb. 4,1>55. GUINEA O’NEAL, Clerk L C. T.O.
IN THE MI'KHIOH COIUT H A BRUSH AM
COUNTY, GEORGIA.—BILL FOR DISCOVERY, RE
LIEF AND INJUNCTION. OCTOBIR TERM, 1554.
David H. Porter and John R. rtanlord n. Milton R.
Hunncutt.
It appearing to the Court, by the return of the Sheriff,
that the dtsfcnaani, Milton R. Hannieuu, is not to be found
in sakl county:
It is therefore ordered by the Court, that the said Milton
R. Uunnicutt a; pear on or before the nex; term oi this
Co art, and plead, answer or demur tc Mid bill, or the said
Court wiu proceed in the case as to justice shall appertain,
and lha’ servioe of said bill upon said Milton R. Humucutt
be perfects personally or by the publication of this
order weekly k r f.ur months previous to th? next Term of
this Court :n the aagosta Chr< nicly A Sentinel.
JOHN R.fiIANFORD,
Sol. for Deft*.
I certify that the ab.-veis a true copy of said order, ta
ken from the M.nuu* ofaaid Superier Court at October
Te m, l-6a PHILIP MARTIN, Clerk I. C.
November 15,1564.
WANTED 70 PURCHASE,
A FiBfffAATB CARPCNTiR of good character,
21 for which a iberai price w.ll be given. Apply to the
subscriber, [jai4-wS() ERDERY__
X lON»IL.IMhA'T—Hfo.OOU pvund* fine Tecn*e
*6 BaOGN. ids I. W. FLEMING.
WEEKLY
uiRUMiTi & mnm
Cbrlstlaoity \ersas “The Age or rleaaon/’
Weselec*. from a powerful article in the ab.'e
LoaiAviile Journal the annexed ex raciv, which we
are happy !o believe will find a genera! aceor
the sen’imeD’s of the readera of the InWhigm
cer, without exception.— Aat. Intel.
Frvm the LouizcUU Journal of Feb. 2.
The Turners and their L>ejtt.- The citizens of
Louisville were witr esse-* of rather an extraordi
nary exhibition on Monday last. It wa: a rrc-.s
f-iou of infidei foreigner endeavoring to ;c i. or
to the memory cf Tom Paine, not as a polit eal
writer, but ah the author of the “Age* of Reason,”
a book which but little of the genius of the
man who composed the celebrated pape a cut led
4: Common bense,” the “Crisis,” and “The Rights
of Man,” the latter in answer to Burke'.-* -‘Rc-fiec
tions on the French Rev -Jution.” If the Turners
profess admiration for the political and religious
views of Tom Paine, they mu=t regard him as a
great hypocrite; for in his political pamphlet-*,
written daring the revolutionary war, knowing
that he was addressing a religious people, he not
only professed allegiance to the Biolo, but drew
some of hi.* moat powerlal appeals from its page*.
Before tho publication of the “Ago of R aaon”
Paine pcaae-’sed a large space in the popular heart
of this young Republic. Memories of ejection
and gratitude gathered around these Injbors which
hah so strongly animated the colonial struggle,
and which borrowed their “pillar of fire” frorr
the Bible. National gratitude ahowered its favors
upon him, and the people approved tho course of
their representative*. Bat when the stern virtue.-
ol tho revolution discovered that he wss not only
Bu.euemj to ail that was held dear, bat that fa
was a profligate, # * he became as much
aa object of (jonUmpt as he had previously heen
of grs'itnae. i‘hß men of u« revolution vrero
reliEioGß men; they woie firm believers in the
revelation of God, and they knew the foundations
on which it rested. They might have Aolerated
the man if the “ Ago of Reason” had been his
first werk, but they would not forgive the treache
ry that had deceived them in his political
pamphlets. We pity any man v/ho, upon us vital
a question to human happiness as the verity or
t&lsahood of the Christian reveiatim, can de
liberately shut his eyes to the bl&zo ot evidence
which not only challenges but rewards investiga
tion. But he is infinitely more an object of pity
who can lean upon such a work bh the “Ago of
Reason” as a support lor hie rejection of christi
aiuty. We can easily understand how a shrewd,
intelligent mind might ba swayed by the keen,
subtle, sparkling reasoning of Ilaine’s Essuy on
the Miracles; it is easy enough to see how a
neophyte in such matters might be caught and
earned away by the gorgeous diction and splendid
eloquence of Gibbon, or by the mockeries, gibes,
sneers, and wit of Voltaire’s Philosophical Die
tionary, or even by the bold sophisms of Volney’s
Ruins ; but how any sauo mind can be bewildered
and led astray by Paine’s book is beyond our
comprehension, nume’s philosophical principles
on evidence and belief are specious and may elude
the grasp of any but a logical mind well equipped.
Ho created great alarm among the clergy of
dcolland when his essay first appeared, but George
Campbell, of Marischal College, so triumphantly
answered it, iu one of the most masterly speci
mens of pure logic that is known to English
literature, that Hume himself said that ho believed
the old Scotch theologuo had whipped him.
And, in our times, Archbishop Whateley, of
Dublin, takes each principle of evidence on which
Hume proposed to destroy the Christian religion
and as perfectly proves the existence and career
of Napoleon Bonaparte a more fiction as any one
over proved a theorem in Euclid. No one who
rejects Christianity on Hume’ss principles of evi
dence can with any consistency believe that Na
poleon Bonaparte ever lived, or that ho evor was
at Austerlitz, Waterloo, or at Elba or St. Helena.
Tho proof, in Whateley’s work, i-< equally clear that
his remains are not in the B&rcophugus at the In
valided.
The bold, confident, and scholarlike manner in
which Gibbon gives tho five reasons for tho start
and spread of Christianity might deceive a mind
not logically formed, but cannot long hold one
who compares Lis assumed causes with eighteen
hundred years 6f effects. And tho learned Jews
of Portugal, in their immortal letters to Voltaire,
so triumphantly disposed cf his Old Testament
m tters that no one who has read thoso letters and
tho Philosophical Dictionary can bo surprised that
the latter has lulion into contempt.
Os Volney we shall give but a single example,
but that is a crushing one, it was administered
by the Rev. Mr. Faber. Voiuey calls up in review
all tho religions of the earth, the Christian religion
among them, and gives each one a blow. He
makes this decision : Here arc a muhiiudoof reli
gions ; each claims a divine original; bujas no one
ot them will admit the claim of the other, therefore
none of them has any claim. Fuber thus disposes of
this : Suppose a wealthy owner of an ostate dies
without a will. A number of poraons set up claims
as heirs at law, and among them isM. Volney.
Each one thinks his claim must overshadow every
other, and no one of them will admit the strength
of the other. The court meets to decide tho case,
and, assuming tho philosophy of M. '/oinoy,
says: “Here are niuetoen contestants for this
estate; each one has presented his proofs of
tho validity of his claims, but as no one of the
number admits any strength in tho claim of tho
other, therefore no one of you has any titlo to tho
estate.”
All theso things wo can cosily understand. A
toworing genius, a subt.e philosophic power, a mix
ture of the true and false in logical promises and
sequences may shado tho boundary lines of truth
aca error so much that & at vug light may bo re
quired for detectiugaud purifying the mingloment'
of tho hues. liut the inane ravings of Paine’s
“Age of Reason” should deceive no one who has
capacity to tell a gross counterfeit from a good ori
ginal. If Paine had possessed other loaruiug*han
the mere rudiments of an English education, it lie
had been able to road the scriptures in the original
languages, he might have savod himsolf from a
largo part of his “Ago of Reason;” and, it ho had
been naif as much a master of logic as he was of
mathematics, he might havo saved hi-* life from
contempt and his msinory from execration. How
great tho contrast betweou Charles Thomion, tho
Secretary to tho Continental Congress, and Paine,
the clerk to tho Committee on Foreign Affairs!
Such was tho universal laith in the integrity of
Charles Thomson that Mr. Clay, in one of his great
speeches, said that during the Revolutionary war
tho people were so often deceived with false news
that they got so at last that they would believe
nothing unless it had Charles Thomson’s name
suoscribed to it. Not a blemish was ever suspoct
ed upon that sterling honesty. Ho served as clerk
of the Revolutionary Congress until the closo ol
the struggle. When Washington was olectod
President he wished Thomson to servo as his pri
vate secretary, but he declined all farther public
service and returned to private lifo, clothed with
the universal confidence, love, and reverence of
the whole population of tho young Ropublic. He
desired to spend the evening of his life in literary
leisure; and, so universally were his virtuesknown,
that when tho Indians adopted him into their tribe
the Indian name they gave him expressed “the
man of truth.”
While removing to the country from Philadel
phia to enjoy hie retirement he was passing an
auction store at night and heard an auctioneer
crying off a lot of old Greek books. Thomson
stopped in and made a bid, and they were kuocked
off to him. When he opened his package the
next night he found among tho books au odd
volume of the Septuagint version of the Old Testa -
ment. He put it away on his library shelf rLh
tho othor books. One year from that timo he was
in Philadelphia at night and a similar scone oc
curred. When he opened this second package ho
found the other volurao oi the Septuagint. Sur
prised with the singular fact, he commenced read
ing the Greek version of tho Old Testament, aud
was so struck with its superiority to tho common
version that ho determined at once to occupy his
leisure hours in making a translation of the Bible.
He was spared to accomplish it, and his translation
is justlv regarded as one of sound merit. Dr.
Horne, in his great work entitled “An Introduc
tion to a Critical Study of tho Bible,” speaks in
not only high terms of tho goneral merit ot tho
work, but of Thomson’s decided improvements,
especially in rendering some of the (xreek prepo
sitions. *He died sixteen yeais alter tho publica
tion of this work, and was universally beloved.
His death was aa calm and heroic r«8 his life had
been honorable, faithful, and praiseworthy. His
integrity was unbending, aud it was as universally
known and appreciated as that of Aristides. * * *
And what rational mortal, in contemplating tho
lives of these two Araorican revolutionary writers,
would hesitate in his choice of theso characters!
Independently of ali tho elevating and ennobling
glories of Christian morals, what merely good man
would not say let my life run to its end like
Charles Thomson’s, but save me from that of
Paine’s? * * * *
Uo have carefully surveyed the whole ground
of iufidwity, from the days ot the learned Philo,
through ah the grades of such meu as Tindall,
Herbs rt, Hobbes, Hume, and tho re 3; of the phil
osophers, aDd we foe! free to say that the mind
which rejects Christianity on its evidences is bound
to ce an unbeliever in every history that has be: :
written. There is not an event of American colo
niaaiion, not a particle of the American Revelation,
not a phase in the career oi Washington that is
more clearly established by evidence than the tacts
of Christianity. W e can as clearly prove the birth,
life, and acts of J esas Christ and the career of his
Apostles as any man can prove the career of Han ■
nioal, of Seipio Afrieanns, or of Washington. Ivo
one of Tom Paine’s disciples who paraded the
Btroets of Louisville on Monday last, wo presume,
doubts that J ulius Cssar was assassinated while
he was lmperstor of Rome. But the wi.nesses to
the tacts on which Christianity stands were com
panions of its founder and eye-witnesses of the
events of which they testify. There was a time
when their testimony had a beginning, a time
when their books first saw the light, and then
there were persons who could have exposed their
frauds if any had existed. These witnesses met a
great deal of opposition, and tho opposing works
of their enemies have come down tho stream of Cen
turies with tho works of the Evangelists, but these
opponents do not attempt to deny the facts. Puiio,
the Jew, does not deny a fact mentioned in these
books, yet he was as bitter an opponent of them a
Tom Paine himseif.
Let us retnru to the assassination of Julius CV •
sar. These Turners believe that historic tact with
out hesitation. Yet there is not a contemporaneous
wituees who records the fact. Tee first relator of
the circumstance was not bom until sixty years
alter the occurrence. Julius C*sar was the first
man in purely intellectual greatness of his age. He
had become the head of the State and w ,s Sacked
by its military power. The leading men among
those who are said to have compassed his dea'.n
were men who had received gifts from him. Some
of them owed their lives to his clemency, nearly
all of them their wealth and position. Are there
not elements enough of the unnatural to throw a
doubt over the statement that sixty such meu uni
ted together to assassinate a man to whem they
owed so much, and from whose powerful friend
ship they might reasonably expect security cf pre
esut gsina and additional aasistance for the future ?
It would require an immense stretch of credubtv
to believe for a moment that any one of t> e n. r -v
struck one blow for freedom. And then "am tier
weak link in the evidence ia found in the fact trl
the first writer who records these transactions was
not born until sixty years alter the death of (d d,7
Yet who doubts this poitioc of human history ! ’
Alas, for the vagaries of the human min i M--,
can be infused with the wildest fabler, and i- d ■ ed
to reject the plainest matters of truth. Bu- * «•
inns, be the state of that heart and of that raid
that haa no paat with its clustering fruits, no fu
ture with its bright, glowing, and ennobling t 7s’
He who has oeparity to weigh facts in the scale of
evidence, who does not find from the most rigo
ioas investigation that the Bible is the revelation
cl God to man, that its histories are records of ao
tnal occurrences, its teaching the inspirations of
HeaTen, its predictions the breath of eternal wis
dom waited into the stmoaphere of time, and its
whole contents, in its parts and relations, a .iving
trutk, e*n believe nothing whatever that lies in
the past beyond the shadow of his own genera
tion. buch a being has no p-ast, and car have no
vision for the future. Upon that narrow isthmus
of time, the present, he stands, and even that
present is bounded by his immediate surround
ings. To him a.l other things are vain alike. To
him Eden presents no bowers; the choral anthem
cf the angel, on the morning of creation utters no
AUGUSTA, GA. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1855.
j mn - : - for him; Eg>p r wa* no nursery of arts and
j fOttnotHj Canaan no iand flowing with milk and
honey; to aim and Persia utter no sound;
| 1 Greece is voice’an her poetry, her history, her
I philosophy, and her arts; Marathon brea'hes no
! m orniQg coil t --the battles of freedom. Ail, ali is
I no vast dreary blank.
i But If for * moment this mind, thus “cabined,
i crfbhel, .uflotd,” shall forgot its inconsistencies
j bn ui-same the po*er of reasoning, what happens
to It f Let it survey and believe the progress of the
j human lami y. A:.d v hat w?s ali that Egyptian
j As:-y rias, Grecian, r.ud R Jinan civilization aceom
p. sued c -mparca to that which originated in the
m.• uLc.uth p rtio.'ui of Judea! It is possible
:■ at even t Turner might summon faith enough to
relieve hat. So*.ride- was the author of his own
j :: io-oph* ; he may ueiieve ...at Plato and Zeno-
I Oli «i»d no justice to their master 1 * system;
but Socrates attained a height in Lumau inteili
tr- i.cj. jur rcyond aii h e predecessors that he
wa considered at the apex of numan intelligence,
-cl he fckep ic on thetubjact of Christianity tell,
if ho «jid, Low that Ntzarene and those Galilee
fishermen became the promu gars of a doctrine as
mfi iitciy beyond the utmost attain ent* of Socra
tes .l. uii that belongs to mere humanity as Socra
tes was thorn the philoaophere of the fogs of
Bu; a i And if Jvs a* Christ was not precisely
y. no CiUimcd to be, 4 *the Ota ot (rod, made vis
it.e o-y a wordy’ if the companions who walked
U.c eurth rdt.i him ar Jiot the most truthful of
Luyn, they were at once li;irs of the grittiest magLi
tudoapd fools oi the utmost folly; jor they adopt
ed wnd proc.aimed their statements in view of cer
ta n personal ruin. There was not one of them
v*u» did noi know that he was rushing upon sure
destruction. \\ here is the - onceivablu motive for
these tiiiogc that is not more a monstrosity than
au> one can show the simple truth tobef But
towering above ail other tniugs is one conspicu
ous objaot which rises superior to ull the headland
of unbelief. Iu what iniLlelity calls its remon it
utters this startling siwraelo in human affairs—that
the viloefr impostors, lire thorough ctarl^tani*,
Wiuich«sirthtts.evijr were sleeps ’
in folly, uovised,' projluTffieo, era isbofea with
ince - ane toils, dndi r- coivant r:tr<jcsf sorrows,
Bngej’inps. and perils to establish not only the
pnresijiyst-. m of morals, the most perfect means
for hum«i»%devc.opmeiit, and the surest methods 1 '
for happiness even in this world that had ever
been uttered, but upon which the myriads of Va '
zing intellects that have adorned every age of the
pas: eighteen hundred yeare have no f 6veu pro
pohed an improvement. He who can b :lieve that
such a system of morals had 6uck an origin and
support ( ugbt not to distru-t his capacity for bo
le.i, for his -ower arc far beyond any exorcised
by a Christn n believing the Holy Scriptures. 1
There arc forme of testimony that may grow !
weak by lapse of years ; but increasing lime adds
to iho strength r.ud beauty cf the internal eviden
ces to which we lefe*. Sceptic, if vou boast the \
power of reason, the force cf mind, 6how your !
claims by looking narrowly into tbe*e things. You
stand whore tho stream may bo muddy and you '
. ! ■ at the fountai ; but
trace that stream to its iountain head, and, by no ’
other ligli'.a than such as you trace and prove any
other historic event, •, ou shall find superabundant
:acts gathering around this school of power, which 1
began in Judea in the rebrn of Augustus Caspar, ]
aid has commanded the world ever since. From :
the obsc-jro and uncouth province of Galilee went ]
forth the voice v/hich, in ho plenitude of the pow- l
or of the Camara, sapped tho foundations of a J
Pagan roiigion that seemed to be more firmly root J
od than the R man empire itself, triumphed over 1
the power of the empire itself, rolled its stream of ‘
light into all tlie institutions of men, and has iu- *
fluenced tho civilized earihever since Peter opened (
the doors to Jews and Gentiles. If the world 1
could now have blotted from its history all that J
the Galilean proclamation Las impressed upon tho :
paths of its progress, tb .ckuet-a of night would bo 1
found resting upon the race, a night through .
which no light could penetrate.
Wo cannot-believe that men can bo found, even 1
in the sma'l number that m<do up that little pro- c
Os last Monday, who have attempted any 1
.such examination of the evidences oi Christiuirty
as they would undertake in a contested will c&se
in which they might think ikomselves interested.
We implore them, if they wish to find that liuppi
ziess which has blessed the human race, that
power which alone can enfranchise the soul and
give the mind its vast pluy of faculties, to lay Tom
Paine’s “Age of Reason” on the shelf, at least
until they have used some of their own reason.
Under the enlightened and harmonizing powers
of revealed religion the lathers of the American
Republic made oil the perfections that belong to
this u.sylum of the oppressed. All the bright in
telligences which built this fabric of freedom wore
believors in the evidences and power of Christiani
ty, and embarked its future fortunes securely upon
the faith that as long as the vital ides of Christianity
wore the life blood of this Government the per
petuity of our republicanism would be safe. Wo
entreat these Turners to look into those things
before they get up another public demonstration
for such a system as that which naturally springs
from Tom Paine’s Age of Reason.
From the Philadelphia Enquirer.
The Criiio of 185 4—The Pail, the Present,
and the Future.
We are indebted to an esteemed friend for a
copy of a very valuable circular that has jubt been
issued by Messrs. Mario and Kanz, of New York,
in relation to the “Crisis of 1854.” It abounds
with interesting facts, and widle it compares tho
past with tho proaent, it furnishes a highly en
couraging view in relation to lho futuro. Tho
crisis of 1854 is attributed to five causes, viz:—
Our .American system of granting too long credits;
a too rapid extension of our bunking system, aris
ing out of the gold discoveries of California; tho
extraordinary dovelopement of our railway sys
tem, exceeding c’T r aim*, a; .1 \ uvauj -m-..
anticipating our wants; the war m Europe, where
by tho current of European capital has been diver
ted from America to the Black JBea; and finally, the
frauds and speculations which, by shattering con
fidence, precipitated the contraction of crodits.—
But nil idea that tho recent troubles should be re
garded as but precursors to a crisis similar to
1887, is discouragod, and for these, among other
reasons:
1. Thu country has undergone a material change
since 1887. Thus, tho territory of tho Union has
increased about one-half. The last census makes
it 2,230,572 square miles.
2. The population lias iucroasod in tho most sig
nal manner.
3. The tonnage shows a gain of more than 150
per cent.
4. Tho amouut of coin in the country has more
than trobled. In 1837 the gold mines of tho At
lantic (States produced scarcely three-quarters of a
million annually. The present steady, and we may
say inexhaustible, production of the California
mines, is at the rato of more than four millions a
month.
5. In 1837, the total debts of tho twonty-six
States amounted to $128,000,000. In 1858, tho total
debts ol the thirty-one States did net exceed $216,-
167,000.
6. In 1837, tho taxable property of six States,
namely, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Ohio,
Indiana and Kentucky, amounted to $1,644,517,012.
In 1852, to $8,233,587,291.
7. In 1537, our coal mines yielded 887,000 tons.
In 1854, 6,550,000.
8. In 18S7, there were 1400 milev of finished rail -
way in tho country, lu 1854, there woro 19,260
miles in operation, and 8,000 miles in progress.
9. In 1887, tho population amounted to 15,808,-
000 souls. In T 854, to 25,750,000.
10. In ISB7, the annual yisld of gold was $700,-
OCO. In 1854.. $58,000,000.
11. In 1837, the spociein the Banks amounted to
$88,000,000. lu 15T4 to $10,000,000.
12. In 1837, the specie in circulation amounted
to $55,000,000. In 1854 to $131,000,000.
18. In 1387, the total specie in the country
amounted to $78,000,000. lu 1854 to $241,000,000.
14. In 1887, the balance of trade against the
country for seven years amounted to $188,984,000,
and for the seven years tiding in 1864, to
$98,755,000.
And bo in relation to other leading items. Tho
chango lor tho bettor ic truly extraordinary. The
circular concludes with this language :
“Tho drajn of specie seems to have ceased. Ev
erything leads us to expect cur banks will
oontinue to increase their reserve of coin. Confi
dence, however, revives but slowly. We must
expect some failures in the spring, but that period
once passed, we look forward to a permanent im
provement. Should Europe renew on a large
-scale her investments in our securities, as wo have
roason to believe, the revival of prosperity will bo
more rapid.” The prospect, indeed, is full of en
couragement.
Abuse of the English Langlazb.— We do not
mean to assume the pedagogue’s function of cor
recting the ‘compositions’ of our contemporaries,
and though sorely tried by the manner in which
not a few of them abuse the English language,
vulgarising the taste, and confusing tho ideas of
tho public, wo suffer in silence. They may “deny
facts,” talk of their “feilow couutrymo ol the
“funeral obsequies” of “distinguished men,” and
of “je.pardiz.ijg” their reputations, *fce., <fcc,, and
we possess our souls in patience, but when they
write of an event “transpiring,” meaning that it
“occurred,” “took place,” wo must be pardoned
for pointing out that they uso a word of the mean
iug oi which they are entirely ignorant. The
word “transpire, means literally “to pass
through,” and is the exact synonyme of “per
spire ;” the latter, however, has, by common con
sent and use, been set apart to express the passing
of a secretion through the pores of the skin, wkhe
the former is used only in a figurative sense, to
express the passage of knowledge irom secresy to
publicity. As, for instance,—The Know Nothing*
held a grand council at Syracuse, but its proceed
ings have not yet transpired. We know that
Webster gives, happen to come to pass,’ as
tho last or his definitions of this word ; but this
is only in conformity with his pernicious practice
of making his dictionary a record of all the modes
in which words are used and misused; and the
present instance shows well the evil effects of
snch a departure from philological practice. Oar
remarks are provoked by the statement of a prom
inent journal that “the Mexican War transpired in
the year 1547.” It might as well, and, comridering
the latitude in which the battles were fought, it
might better have been said that ‘the Mexican War
ptrtpired in the year 1547.'— 5. Y. (Jour, dt Enqr.
The Expected Great Comet.— The eminent as
tronomer, M. Babinet, member of the Academy of
Sciences, gives some very interesting dett.il b re
lative to tho return of that great comet whose
periodical course is computed by the most celebra
ted ooeerver at three hundred years. ur cycli
cal records show that it was observed in the year
104, 892, 652, 975—agsin in 1264, and the next
time 1556—always described as shining with the
most extraordinary brilliancy. Most c-f the Euro
pean astronomers had agreed in announcing the
return of this comet in IS4S ; but it has hitherto
failed to appear. 11l fact it is not so easy orsimple
a matter to compute those vast cyclical periods as
come superficial persons—who do not Icok beyond
the day of the year in which they 1. re—may imagine.
We sre, however, ..ssured by Mr. Babinet, that,
up to this moment, this beautiful star “is living on
ns brilliant reputation ;” so that Sir Joha Herschel
himself was wrong when he despaired of its re-ap
pearance, and put crape on his telescope! We
are now informed that a celebrated and accurate
computer—M. Bomme, of Midd eburg—with a
patience and devoted ness truly German, has gone
over all previous calculations, and made a new esti
mate of the separate and combined action of all the
planets upon this comet, of 800 years ; and he hss
discovered tkat it is not lost to us, but only retard
ed in its motion. The result of this severe labor
gives the arrival cl this rare and renowned visitor
m August, 1858, with an uncertainty of two Tears
.ST ,!* s ’ ! tat between 1556 “d 1850, those
may b °P e t 0 «» the (treat
Cfa - ri * v -‘°
cr^^^^r iDg,^ti “ l GW
- QOS * u art!cie c pon the next Presiden
*.x&» witn the following home tfcrn't
lhy.resent oecawmt of the While He ate:
We hope that Democrats and Democratic
h»l3 will observe that prudence and cirenmapeotioj
wh:ch ere so eseenusf to success, end by melns of
winch they here so often acquired sudceJ we
beheve that eU parties have come to the conclusion
that obscure, unknown, and incompetent men
shall not flb the Presidential ohair. They are sick
and tired of such men. They want »bie, useiul
and eminent men—men who have rendered pub
lic services—men who are known and honored—
Zutz who £ll & l*rge apace in the public eye.
d Proposed j+hro&ds to i'ueiflc.
i I The Soiuiio je%: a biU (wjich is yet
■i to be o>u Adored i; the House of Beprewntativet)
r ! atiti- r z «’ -3 c nk* junction of three Railroads to
o ! . . ‘ ; ,q * • >,r C Territories 01 tho United
3 ; Stiles, ii.ibz unnfeloto icc-oudlc confliotmg in
♦er:s s • the 1 utisrA of the road, ih;# bill pro-'
- red & Southern, sod a
5 Central i, rn 'X ewet upon each a line of
Magnetic Wc give a summary of tiie
3 bill: —Sat. l. Jrd. M ! , .
The fi. -u-ion provides that, 'fiXu. the view of
aidiajf ,i. ens; rafcon cf suitable rftiiroedsand
teleffra - H oummunjfeons between the Missi3-
1 fcippi vLi and I tie Ffecifo ocesu, there shall be
* ana i= hereby a; pr prated and set apart & quan
tity of i u i.- la*;d eqpd to the alternate sections
for the vp o: t -re miles on each side of said
road:: fro it :u‘r c; 3&b to their western termini,
as follows:
One road and Li.giq h to commence on the
western border of tht 3vt itxas, and to pur
sue tho moat eligible roile to the oavigable waters
of the Pacino, in thj fttaio of C.diiornia; which
line shall be known as the Southern Pacific Bail
road.
One road and to commence on the
western border of tho Slates of Missouri or lowa,
and to pursue the mosts eligible route to the bay
of S*n Francisco; which liue shall be known as
the Central Pacific EauflSd.
And one road and telegraph to commence on
the western border of the Sta*o of Wisconsin, in
the Territory of M.une»s>fc», and pursue the moat
eligible route to the navigable wafers of the Pacific
in Oregon cr Washington Territories which line
shall be known as the Northern Pacific Kailroad.
Such lands to be *»*eot«d from the section#
which shall be designate* in the public surveys
of said land (when m*d-& by odd numbers, and
to b« held and convened as herein provided ; and
in all cases when the United ■States may have dis
posed of said lands, or lay part thereof, or shall
from any cause ..*> o ■ • Jk*> convey a title thcreio,
the daficien iy v« pf >y cz
parties who may bew.-me-C ied *h%feto from any
unoccupied and ianda belonging
to the U States wlthiftfifce distance of thirty*
miles of suid road : £r '-¥n4* That *ior
. Mich deficiency witliiu tm?"UiTsTf California, and
also in lieu of all mine Ji lands in said State
(which are hereby exeepfd from the appropria
lion herein made,’) feucbJaeli-cUcce may no made
from any unoccupied f bJ unappropriated lauds of
tho United States witkifr fit v > mhea of said road
in the said State.
The seconi section require* the Secretaries of
the Interior, War, end NaVy, and the Postmaster
General to advertise and invite proposal© for the
construction of each or either of said lines, stating
the time in which the ion, &c., are to be corn
plefcod. The Bum of S3OO Jer mile is to be paid for
carrying the mails daily b# ways on these routes;
and the contractors to *t*io the rate per mile,
whilst the road is*in .coulee of construction, r.:
which troops, nayal rmpjjiee. and munitions of
war are to be transported Ter fifteen years. After
thut period rates are to fixed not exceeding
those on other roads.
The third section provides that tho several Sec
retaries before named, incqaj unction with tbo Post- j
mastor General, shall for ouch road. t
and also lor a telegraph liifjfthereon; and that tl
party or parties whose prd&osai maybe accepted
shall doporito with tho decjtetary of the Tro..si*v
the sum of five hundred thousand dollars, or ibe
value thereof in bonds or ce»ifle:\tes of stock of the
United States, or State hofp£s, whose market val
shall be at or abovo par at tie time of making tho
said deposite, which may bp Bubsoquontly draw*-
out by thorn in five thousand dollars,
the work proceeds, outha production of vouchor -
showing satisfactorily thetgn amount equal the
to has been applied in gocii faith to tho construc
tion of said road.
The fourth section provides that the roads shut!
be divided into sections of mac h andred miles each;
and three fpurtha of the land pertaining to lc |
contract to be converted to ifco contractor- 1 , reser
ving tho other fourth asse«OTit> (orthocompietio
cf the next hundred milafc; ami so on until t~~
whole shall have been com#: bled. The service in \
carrying tho mails, &c. to be nnder the proper de
partment. No money t**» be puid except in the
proportion of tho service rendered.
The fifth section relates to tho mode in which ;
lartol urcs are to accrue if fha contractors led to ,
perform. The Postmaster Genera 1 (
to relet the work in such eojjßii:gen y, but no high
er torms to be offered,
Toe ninth section requjnfci the routes te bo loca
ted and the eastern and iftedtern termini t: bn fixe<’
a i soon as pruaticable, but lime not to exceed
two years from the dath of the contracts. The
President to cause the public lands to bo surveyed
on each side cf the routes to tho extent of fort:
miles, and the Indian title to be extinguished.
Pro emption rights provided for, and the reserved
sections not to bo sold son-10. s than double the ,
minimum price of tho lands when sold. No
lands to be sold until all have been surveyed and
the alternato sections selected by the contractors.
The seventh section requires the party or parties
receiving grants under the act to sell one-balf of ,
the tame within five yc.arsaftcr being patented.— (
All lands hold at the expiration of ton years to bo
forfeited to the United Btates.
Tho eighth section requires the lands of the U.
States for two hundred feet wide along the lino of «
said roads to be sot apart as a highway for railroad
and telegraph purposes, materials therefrom to bo
used by the contractors., Afl contracts to provide
and require the roads &q : . to be eonstrueted in a
substantial and workmanlike manner. A tele
graph lino along oach roa** A and the Government
not to bo charged higher&les than individuals.
Tho ninth section allowiono or more additional
trucks along said ’ wilh the
road s to bo made umfc> * indirections ol the States
or Territories through pas*
The tenth sacti«fn prd’videTChht wnen the road
or roads havo boon surrendered to the United
Slates, so much as passes through any of tho
States lo be convoyed to them as their property,
subject to the use of the United SUvtes for postal,
military, and other Government service, subject
to such regulations as Congress may presenbo, &c.
Section el .venth provides for now advertise- i
men's, if the first should fail to secure proposals,
once in each year until each of said roads, &c M
shall bo put under coutract unloss Congress shall
otherwise order.
American Indebtedness. —lt is a theory with
some that the occurrence of financial disasters in
England or Franco, followed by a fall in the secu
rities of those countries, American securities
would bo sent homo upon us, for sale, in order to
invest the proceeds in Consols or Rents. Iu rela
tion to this idea tho New York Economist says:
The amount of stocks due by tho States of tho
Union was never per se, a cause of discredit. They
are, in themselves, in the eyes of tho people, like
foreign capitalists, who are accustomed to see the
most inordinate debts, balanced upon the exertions
of a handful of people, but an insignificant uum.
Thz American people number 24,000,600 in round
numbers, of the most active, industrious and
thriving race, occupying a country ot tho most pro
lific wealth. Thi3 people owed, if wo allow tho
national debt at the close of the Mexican war to
have boon $64;000,000, an fggregate of $338,G00,-
000 or £64,830,U00. This national d bt is now but
$81,000,000, £10,000,000 having been paid in gold
in tho last year. This debt is, with us, however
('oubtless, a serious matter, but in the eyes ot for
eigners not so. Groat Britain, for instance, with a
population of 27,000,000, has a debt of £772,580,-
Tfifi. As Ireland cannot be depended on for tbip
debt, it may bo all charged upon the English, and
amounts to $l9O per head, against $7 per head oi
debt in the United States. This English debt rep
resents property once had and spent, now gone
forever. A largo portiun of that in tho United
States represents substai tial public works, worth
tho money they cost. Holland has a population of
$2,915,696, about ns many as the State of N. York;
and the national debt is £165,000,000 say $825,000,
000 $275 per head. The debt of France, including
the now loan of $100,000,000, is $1,171,163,636,
nearly S3O head. Other countries of Europe, are
no better off. Now bankers and stock jobber:,
who have been helping to create such debts by
collecting the surplus revenues of rich and poor
and investing them in these securities, were net
frightened by the debt of $7 per head due by thf
United States.”
Be Gentle at Home. —There aro few families
wc imagine, any where, says the Springfield K.
publican, in whioh love is Lot abused as furn’sh
iuga license for impoliteness. A husband, fath
or brother, will speak harsh words to thoso whom
he loves tho best, and those who love him the
best, simply because tho security of love and fami
ly pride keeps him from getting his head broken.
It is a shame that a man will speak more polit6i.,,
at times, to any other female, except a low ana
vicious one. It is thus that the holiest affection
cf man’s nature prove to be a weaker protectic
to woman in the family circle than tho restraints
of society, and that a woman usually is indebted
for the kindest politeness ot life to those cot be
longing to her own household. Things ought not
so to be. Tho man. who becaut-a it will not be ro
Eonted, inflicts his spleen and brd tempei on
those of his own hearthstone is a small coward,
and a very mean man. Kinu wor ' are tho circu -
lating medium between true gect’cman and true
ladies at h, me, aod no. polish exhibited in -oc.ety
can atone for the harsh language and aisresj. -ctfL'
treatment too often indulged in by thoee bound
together by God’s own tieacf blood and tho still
more sacred bonds of conjugal love.
Daniel W ebsteb. —Tha N. Y. Evening Mirror
of Saturday, says: “The reversal of the opinion
of Dr-nicl Webster, when Secretary of Suite, in
regard to the Lobos Islands and_ the Guano trade,
and the correspondence published in relation
thereto, is fresh in the recollection of our readers.
It seems that this was fraught with great pecuniary
damage to Mr. A. G. Benson, who fitted out and
sent vessels enough to have netted him three mil
lions of dollars profit, hsd ho been p.rmitted to
load them, as explicitly authorized by the Secreta
ry to do. He was not advised of Mr. Webster’s
altered judgment until too late to recall his vessels.
As Mr. Berson had been encouraged and assured
by the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the .Navy,
and the t resident, he sets forth bis grievances in a
very long memorial to Congress, wherein ail the
correspondence is brought mrward, and the awk
wardness of the Administration made apparent.
As the loss occurred by the blunder of the Gov
ernment, Mr. Benson thinks they should.compen
sate him therefor.”
Babometeb and Cannonading. John Wise, the
aeronaut, writes to the Scientific American an ac
count of his experience as to the else,.. of concns
«;ons upon the atmosphere, and the result of tie
observations tends to confirm the statements made
by M. LeMaout concerning of the
mercury in a barometer being affected by .he con
cussion produced by a heavy cannonading at a
dU’ance of fifteen hundred miles from the instru
ment. Mr. Wise, in bis letter, remarks that even
the beating of a large drum produce.i an atoms,
pheric wave which rises to a considerate distance
from the earth. The concussion caused by a four
pound cannon is such as to tway a balloon a mile
above the earth and several Hiiles distant. He sayo
that he has sometimes, when the air was perfectly
calm cn the earth, ascended to a height of e.gh.
or ten thousand feet, snd found there an atmos
pheric wave undulating along lute a wave cl the
sea, new up and now down, at a. rate of a mile a
The cannonading at the batnes of Baiak.avaand
Ickermaun, hes.js, must have produced immense
atmospheric waves. It is well known that when
a file of soldiers march across a suspension bridge
in “mark lime” order, their continued regmar
motion cause* a corresponding wave of tje struc
ture upon which they walk, and would cause the
bridge to give way, when it wou.d with ease sus
tain twice the actual weight of the men, in cattle
or merchandize. So it probably was at ln.er
mann. The battle lasted eight hours, and the
successive discharge of batteries during that time,
caused a succession of atmospheric waves, which,
following, overtaking and increasing each other,
must have finally produced an immense undula
tion, tha. extended many hundreds of miles, and
compressing the air wherever at its downward
wave it approached the earth, caused the mereury
in the barometers to riße accordingly.
Oil Contract.—We learn that the contract for
suppiymg the U. S. Government with ICa.OCO
gallons of Winter and spring oil, for the suddlv of
lighthouses, baa been awarded to Mr. Charles A
Leonard, of New York, at an average price *1 $3
per gallon for that deliverable on this ooest. ard
II lits per gallon fey the lakes. h i
From the FeUitb -i 'j Erpstss.
A SQsktin the Stomach.
The possibility of these occur roue** has been set
down by many whose phii ropLy of thii gs in
Heaven and on. earth, is oi u ii uAod nature, as a
4 ‘ ssakestory” ot the imrginafioMV fancy. And
when we n«.»w ini-.'rm our xoaders that we yester
day,, saw a lit in g snake which was this morning
ejected from a young man's stomach, some in.
credulous readers wi l bo found who wi 1 not
1 * A-—pardon wo •ui i have said credit
well, we never c&ro for “bulling things
nolens votens down people’s throats; but we shall
present those facts ior what they may
. For some time back, a gentleman named Hsr
naon Tyler Wade, ou a visit to a friend’s in the
neighborhood of Reedy Creek, car Cox’s Road,
lolt at certiia hoar., a choniug or suffocating
symptom, naif something was being forced up his
throat. This was attended with pain, and rest
iesfcne3s ; indeed he seome as if going rtf aud
deniy into a consumption, and puzzled both the
friendly and medical faculty to know what ailed
him. When this suffocating-sensation came on,
Mr. W. tell always as ft ho uad an uneasy load on
his stomach, which as he fancied, if removed
Wyixld cure him, so he resolved to try the merits
or an al‘2dghty powerful emetic on his constiiu
lion, in order to bring forth whatever v/as bad in
him 1
The remedy he made use of was vary near giv
ing him a quietus in mors Kays than one, lor it
nearly turned the snaks laden gentleman inside
out completely. Alter very v olenl spasmodic
workiugs and retchings, a s nail milky co'orod
snuke leaped from his throat aud seemed most
thunderstruck at finding itself iu broad d*y!ight,
and suddenly transferred so unceremoniously into
a *.oli temperature. Indeed tho gentleman him
self seemed quite as imrh astonished as aster
Snake, when ho perceived what an inside passou
ger ne had so long boon carrying about with him
aa a bosom friend.
The ttoaiee vas aim >1 1 ? >... c r*s-idish
eyes of great brilliancy, and- was nvo add a ounrter
inches long. It made undry efforts to turn n few
lofty comcrsote, protruded itstongcr rhFas if in .
agony of frnof, at an ejectment by such a njjj-hod
(which can only llud its equal i;. Irc’and UiStwoon
landlord and tcuaHt) from snug quarters, the mtll
nnfco died. Wc assisted at its interment : nto a
■bottle of alcohol, (excuse tho bull) and noted tho
whole down as othing very uncommon.
Mr. Wad'- during last summer, while out in tho
fields used frequently t-> t lake l.is thirst at rivu
lets, and creeks, and may then have swallowed the
snake when it was of very small dimensions. lie
corlainly felt considerably relieved alter having
got rid of tho creaturo w ich he prefers koei ij
in a bottle much butter than in himself. Mr. VVY
wao a teetotrther, and we have just been informed
by a jolly fellow from behind “a horn,” that (his
fact uccouatod for the snake’s being aiiv*? iu tho
stomach as “no snake could live agiin*t liquor.”
What is poison to snakes, is in our opinion unfit
for man, and we presume that it i*on this account,
thet so many drunkards at limes see visionary
snakes which are no doubt the ghosts of a I tho
snakes the liquor in said drunkards would have
killed.
Capital Punishment.— -At what point, morally
speaking, the Penitrnitiarj system of the South
west will “bring up,” it iB difficult to conjecture.
Tie present Auks are painfully manifest to evory
observer, in tho mostjeriibic abounding of the
most horrible crimes. Murder is moro common
than petit larceny used to bo; aud with features
of evor varying atrocity, it hardly attracts a mo
ment’s attention.
Tho abolition to a great extent of"capital punish
ment is at tho bottom of this lear nl increase ol
grout crimos. This may bo demonstrated by a
comparison oi the criminal calendars of those
States which have and enforce the death penalty,
with those that are cursed wit’ the Renilen iary
systems. *
In South Carolina, a man who murders, ravishes,
commits arson, burglary, or negro stealing is
hanged, lu Alabama, these offences are punisnod
(with very .re exceptions in casts of murder,)
with imprir -mment. Now for tho practical woik
mg. In Alabama we cannot o rtamly have loss
than about live muiders, <fco., v/here one occurs in
South'Carolinn. Our population is quite as good,
quito as inio'ligont-—in fact wo believo ito average
of cultivation is better ?
It is pretty w<:!l established that if a man is bung
for hisj&vf murder, he cannot commit his second.
Soot all other crime l . If those seventy fivo or
one hundred v. ho are now in our penitentiary, for
killing, rcbhii g and burning, l ad been hanged
instead of being imprisoned, can any one doubt
that the number cf flagrant ode uses which will be
chronicled in the next ten years, would bo greatly
less than they will be ? The deop-dyed v Ilian is
only made tho stronger haler of society, by bciDg
shut up lor a torm of y\.ars. If there was ever a
case of reformation on the part of a penitentiary
convict, (wo speak ct thc:-e sontonoed for the de
liberate comnrssion of infamous offenses,) we
never heard it. We do not believo such a case
ever existed. We cannot imagine how such a case
could exist! Yet it is the policy of our laws, in a
spirit of mistaken philanthropy, to cage these
beasts until every vestige of humanity is oblitera
ted, and then to tarn them loose again upon so
ciety.
How often is it the case, that when some crime
is c roniclod which rends n thrill ol horror to
tho heart, the statement is enlarged by tho fact
that the perpetrator “has but recently finished a
term” in some State’s prison. It is a very impor
tant truth, that u very largo proportion of the
crimes committed throughout the country is per
petrated year after year, by tho same individuals.
It is so in every Stale and in every county. Any
man may satisfy himself, on this point, by ox
aßiinir.g dov>kc.i« vs any eoat f through '
a series of years. It follows, thon, that if wo
reduce (by hanging,) tho number engaged iu
nefarious practices, we diminish the amount of
crime.
This is the least strong ol tho arguments iu f .vor
oi'tho death penalty, butis tho one most apprecia
ble, on a hasty glance at the subject. In our per
sonal experience, wo have known cases, again
and again, in which if the find murder had been
followed by hanging of tho murderer, it would
have prevented several subsequent killings. Lot
the reader, if long resident in Alabama, just tax
hie memory’, and ho wi l find that the same is the
case with himself.— Monty. Mail.
Rev. Gliarics Wadsworth, in tho Arch street
Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, on the 14th
inst., made an eloquent appeal in behalf oi the
unemployed and destitute, and the congregation
immediately responded to it by contributing tho
largo sum of si,ulo.” A telling charily sermon,
that.— Exchange.
We in this country, ! ava no ne d of such charity
sermons for the benefit of our negroes. They are
woll oared for, as a gcuerai thing, and are not
“destitute.” That’s the difference. And yet,
Abolitionists will groan over tho imaginary t:nrd-
Bhips of our slaves, while under their own noses,
and looking them, all tho time, full in tho luce,
uraobjects of charity,-demanding all the sympathy
they may have in store for any body. In their
own mi st are the hungry and famishing, ;.hi!o
our slaves aro well fed and cared for, and yet those
brainless fanatics still groan on.— Port GiUson
(JfM9.) Herald.
Why, neighbor, tho Abolitionists don’t care a
for the slave, or the system of slavery. They
nover did and never will. Their philanthropy is
not even skin deep. Their sympathy is all affecta
tion. Their groanings aro '»uly made to attract
attention, people to : “how pious,
how charitable, their benevolent hearts yearn
for the poor, oppressed slave 1” That is all. They
clothe themselves with hypoeriby as a garment,
and resemble, to all intents and purposes, tho
“white BopnloltfUfr to by ur Saviour—
fair to the sight, btu full of hideous foulness wLh
-sn. If they Trero at all sinceie—if they possessed
the slighted particle of honesty—they would strive
to elevate, and render the iroe negroes of the
North, as a mass, as comfortable and respectable
.is are the slaves of the South. But, they care no
thing about th q free negroes. They are free to
starve, freeze, rot and die—are not proper objects
of sympathy because they are free — while tho hap
py siave, who has no conceptio n of the meaning
of the word want, is an object of unbounded com
misseratiOu! Wonder if a ranting Abolitionist
has given a penny to relieve the tuff -ring among
the blacks and wki.e.. in the Northern cities this
winter! Wo doubt it. They preach eharit*, but
never practice it.
The following, from a,Philadelphia cotcmpcrary,
of tho Ist inst., is illustrative of the freedom aud
comfort cf tii-t negroes of tho North enjoy JV. O.
Bulletin.
Turned into the Street. —A poor colored fami
ly named Baker, resi ling in tho rear of Eighth
street, below Bedford, was turned into th? street
this morning by a heartless landlord, because the
rent wan not paid. Tho place from which they
were turned i«a miserable hovel at best
Broadcloth Factories Stopping. —The Auburn
(N. Y.) Woollen Manufacturing Company, which
for two years pant have been making broadcloths,
has, jt is sti.ted, suspended operations. Their
building u'initially cost $148,000, but in 1852 was
sold for s4s,u<H).
A siraila r factory nt Burlington, N. J., who o
building ai d mills orivinr.lly cor! s2'u.f , but a
year alter be: g nuaaceessfu’, said for $46,000, is
new only working five-eighths time. At Little
F**de, (N. Y.; t ''ery largo mills, maunf.'.during
broadcloths, the Wooigiowers and tho fchxony
Woollen, have Swopped. In Utica and its neigh
borhood, the Empire mill, the Cl&yvilie, and the
Washington, run no longer, aud tho Globe mill,
the New York Post Buys, h?.a lo*t its capital, and
the stockholders Lave been assessed to pay its
debts.
Praising God by Eiteam. —The bellows of the
threat organ in Tremont Temple, Boston, is worked
by steam. So, we Yankees are going to bo relieved
oi the work of praising God. Wo have not even
to turn a crank to grind out our praiee, but invoke
the aid of steam power. What would Fulton ray,
if he could look into the Temple aud see that
veritable steam with which he propelled his boat
up North River, is employed to drive an organ
in praise of God ? The time is not far distant
when we shall have miniature organs attached to
tea-kettles, and boil tea to the tune of Yankee
Doodle.— WcUerbury J/emocrat.
The Connecticut editor appears to be rather
jealous of Boston enterprise. Is probably afraid
we intend to make oar own nutmegs for export. —
Potion Poet.
New Way of Ripening Grapes by Stbvw and
Wool. —ln Hovey’s Magazine of Horticulture for
ebruary, just published, Is a letter from Mr. M.
H. Simpson, of Saxonville, giving ar» account of a
method of ripening grapes in December and
January. Mr. Simpson tollows the business of
manufacturing blankets. Reflecting hov/ they
keep heat in the human body, he bethought him
self of trying something like blankets upon vines.
Fcr ten ye*rs he has made six hundred pairs in a
day, making, on the whole, between three ana
four millions. To retain tho heat of the ground in
tho borders which contained the roots of his vines,
he covered them, for a foot in depth, with dry
hay, using two tens for tho purpose. Over the
hay, he laid what might be called a blanket of
waste wool and manure. The heat pnnnod off
very elowly from the borders thus protected; as
the cold weather came on, the temperature dimin
ished about three degree.-; a week. On tho first of
December it was sixty degrees. His grapes be
came fully ripe under this process in i- ecembor
and January.
XaE Effect oy Baxleoads. —The beneficial effects
of railroads upon the productive interests of the
country, is strikingly illustrated just now in this
city. Before the burning of the Bridge npon the
Geirgia road, Bacon was seiiing bore at 7c hog
round. The destruction of this bridge, which cuts
us off ia some degree from our export market, has
caused a clear decline to i:j>J. The loss thus sustain
ed by the farmer upon one load of Bacon would pay
his raiitoad tax for three years. The sarfie is true
of other articles, the production ofTenn essee farm
ers, whien are exported in large quantities to Geor
gia and the southern seaboard.— Sai/.viUe Whig.
AusocpaEmc Gas.—One of the Philadelphia pa
gers Btates that the pateoiee* are now in that city
endeavoring to introduce into use a new and cheap
gas light, which they call Atmospheric Gas It is
produced by forcing a stream of atmospheric air
through a liquid in which benxule is a constituent.
It it be what is claimed for it, it will be a valuabie
article for use in the country, and other places
where coal gas cannot be bad, and where cunphene
asd similar tempo unde are now burned.
From the CiVumbut Times <& Sentinel,
Letter from Bishop T. F. Scott, of Oregon.
• Portland, O. T., Dee. 20, 1854.
Messrs. Ed~o*%: —Remembering that we are in
Eat. 45 deg. 80 min. N., you would very naturally
suppose wo must be quite familiar with ice and
snow at thus date, but in this your supposition is
at fault. Twice during the present month wo have
had frost so intense as to make ico upon the stand
ing water in the streets, cf about the thickness of an
ordinary window glass. We had expected to see
little else than thick cloud*, fogs and rains, after
the first of November; but thus far, all has been
otherwise. There has not been sven as much rain
as we have been accustomed to see in the States
daring the same season, while we have had a largo
preponderance of bright skies.
Accustomed as we nave been to the temperature
of the.South, the last summer was something now.
Although travelling most of the time, and thus
experiencing what belongs to different localities,
there were not more than a dozen days that wo
would call hoLwhile all the nights were delight
fully cool. what made this appear the moro
strange, was, that but lew showors of rain fell
from May till October. Added to this was the
length of tho days—the sun during the long days,
rising not much after 4 o’clock in the morning,
much before Bin the evening. And
»i he glorious 1 lingering till
iffw ? ° m ' h « Bv«mn,, and re-appearing
soon after two m tho morning.
t h T! : ? 0 on y b»»rd thnnder, and that in
tho distance towarda tho moantaina. The Indians
bay it l-evor thundered here until the Botttms
came.
The crops of the jte&t season have been abun
dant. In many respects, this is unsurpassed by
any portion of the country in agricultural advan
tages. Farmers can commence sowing Fsll wheat
in Septomber, and ooutinue until January. It
this be not enough, they can sow {Spring wheat
during all cf April and May. Tho grain thus sown
will ripen in a similar succession , from the mid
dfr c: »r y until tho last ri August. More than
this the grain is little if any injured, by standing
unharvested for a week or ton days after it is ripe,
and there is very seldom any rain tointerfeje with
the harvesting. Now with such a margin for both
sowing and reaping, and with a elimste so genial
and soil so productive, (yielding without manure
and with very imperfect tillage, from 20 to 40
bushels per acre,) what is to hinder our standing
at the head oi the list as agriculturalist* ? All
other Crops usually planted here are equally aao
ceesfnl. You have probably noticed some “long,
yarns” in tho papers respecting our vegetable pro
(uctions—cabbages, cauliflowers, turnips, beet*,
ifec.; but I afsuie you the threads arc not stretch
ed. And in no part of the States have we seen
anything to surpass our apples.
It ia foir to ask then, why, with all theso ad
vantages, are we Dot more prosperous! for, indeed,
the times are hard and money is scarce. The so
lution of this question is not difficult. But little
progress had been made in settling the country,
or iu cringing it into cultivation previously to
1349, and yet more than onough was produced for 1
the wuuts of the people. But “when the mines
broke out in California,” (so the phra&o is) every
thing was thrown into confusion. Many of tho
people wont to the L'.ines, and a portion of them
never returned. Os tl ose who returned, tho
m: j r part were poorer than when they went,
while u sow ‘‘made thoii pile.” In tho moantime,
tho price of everything had risen to an enoimous
figure, Those who returned from the mines dis
appointed, 1 ad lost their relish for farm labor, and
those who returned enrichod preferred to livo upon
they money. The rosult of all thia was that pro
visions becamo soarcc, and as the California market
was well supplied from abread, purchases could
be made there cheaper than in Oregon. This
process of importation of breadstuffs, of oourso,
caused an exportation of money, and a£ the price
of lumber (our only remaining resource) wont
down in California, we are pretty fairly stranded.
However, as necessity is the mother of invention,
so is it likewise of enterprise. During tho year
just closing, large crops wore harvested, affording
a fair surplus for exportation. The people are
turning their attention in good earnest to develop
ing tho resources of tho country. Our merchants
arc endeavoring to introduce a direct trade with
the Sandwich Islands, China, &c., and as we are
nearer to Japan than anybody else, wc arc hoping
for a share of its forthcoming commerce.
It was my purpose to allude to tho difficulties
our people nave experienced f;om the provisions of
the ‘‘Donation Law,” so kindly intended by Con
gress ; but as my sheet is nearly filled, this topic
must bo deferred.
While fearful scourges have visited so many
portions of the Stales, God has mercifully spared
our coast. And ye% lam sorry to say, that our
authorities have not even recommended a day of
thanksgiving. Yours, truly, T. F. 8.
Later from Texaa.
By the arrival of the steamer Perseverance at
New Orleans, dates from Galveston to tho 15th
inst have been received. The News of the Isth has
tho following paragraphs:
The prairios are burned from Bed Rivor on the
East to Fori* Belknap and Chadbourno on the
West. It has been mainly done by the Indiana.
From our exchanges and persons from the inte
rior visiting our city, wo learn that planters are
actively engaged in putting in or preparing to put
in the new crops. The weather, generally, has
boon very dry, and with the exception of a few
cold days, pleasant and agreeable.
Wo understand that Major Neighbors passed
through here on Tuesday from W ashington city.
It will be gratifying to many ol his friends to
know that ho has succeeded in obtaining from
Congress sufficient moans to give the Indiana’ col
onizatioc nromiafin'. character, as we un
do! stand one hundred thousand dollars have been
appropriated lor that object.
‘ The Austin papers of the 10th instant, contain
exciting Indian news. Mr. J. D. Brown from the
frontier, reports numerous depredations committed
by the red men, on tho Medina, Salodo, Guada
lupe, Perdinales, Leon, and San Saba. Within,
tho last two woaks eleven men have been killed,*
and four taken prisoners. On Woduosday Mr.
Brown eaw one of the murdered men, Thomas
Neal, on the Austin road, fifteen miles from Fred
ericksburg. He was lying on the road dreadfully
mangled, with fifteen arrows in his body.
Os course the frontier settlers aro greatly excited.
They have assembled their families together for
mutual protection, while small parties are constant
ly out on the soout in every direction. Three In
dians have been kihed. Indians have recently
been seen thirty-five miles above Austin on the
Frederieksburr road. It would appear that the
Indians are making a simultaneous attack in foroe
at various points.
Five companies of troops are being organized at
Fort Cbadbourne to proceed against the Southern
Camanches, as soon as provisions for tho expedi
tion aro supplied.
The Times says : “The Southern Camanehes are
leaving for tho up-country. They design joining
the Northern bands. Shanoo tore up all his pa
pers and said there was no longer He took
his band and left the head of the Canadian. The
general impression is that a war is inevitable.”—
Shanco is a noted oharuoter, and son of the chief
who was killed in San Antonio in 1840. He has
committed many depredations and murders.
Mr. Brown brought a petition from the frontier
settlers praying Gov. Pease to take measures for
their protection. The Governor being absent and
tho matter urgent, Mr. Brown has made a call on
tho citizens to fit out an expedition to chastise the
Indians by a quiek and decisive blow. He has
suggested Brownsboro, on the Guadalupe, where
tho San Antonio road crosses, as the plaoe of ren
dezvous, and the 24th inat., as the time.
The Nows, of the 18th, a&ys:—We learn by a
gentleman just from the Trinity river that thoro is
yet no appearauce of a rise of water. The tountry
is very dry. there not having been any rain tor a
long time.
The prospects are indeed discouraging, both for
our planters and merchants. Several of our citi
zens have lately returned from the interior, and
they gay the crop of cotton will fall considerably
short of that of last year.
Death cf Abner MuGehrb, Ba^.— ‘Abner McGe
beo, Esq., one of our oldest arid moat influential
cit zens, died on ’ esterday evening at his residence
in this county. Few men have been so long aDd
so well known in our community. Prominent in
e very movement, that was connected with the pro
gress and improvement of thiß section of country
—possessing largo wealth aDd using it with prince
Iy generosity—full of public spirit, and always
road; to lend a helping hand to everything enter
prising and humane—ho haa exerted a wide end
powerful influence over the interests of this and
sections of the Blate. Montgomery owes
mu™j to him. One of the first projectors of the
West Point Kailroad, he was indomitable in his
efforts to carry through that work. By hia mu
nificence the Bible society of Alabama, located in
this city, waa furnished with a valuable house for
its purposes. Schools, Benevolent Funds, and oth
er means of moral and social advancement, have
bad his warm support and liberal patronage.
A more act'jre, industrious, ana energetic man
probably never lived. So constitutional was his
enorgy and so fixed his habits, that he continued
until within a few months of his death, the same
untiring and laborious person.
Heaven kind ly grantod him “length of days”
and good health. Ago brought as fovr infirmities
a* could be consistent with its nearness to tbegrave.
His pathway to the tomb was gently umoothed ;
and the ties of life were unloosed by the same ten
der hand, which bad guided his trusting feet for
seventy-live years.
A devoted friend, a noble citizen, a true philan
thropist, a sincere Christian, ho has left a memory
to be hallowed, a character, to be appreciated in
the warmest sentiments of our beiDg, a lilo to be
studied, prized and imitated.
His cnarities, which were very great in his life
time, were not forgotten in death; and we learn,
that a considerable portion of his estate, is to be
appropriated in thia way.
All the offices and shops of tho Rail Road have
been closed to-day as a tribute of respect to his
worth ; and as we write, numbers of our leading
citizens are leaving the city to attend Lis Funeral
this afternoon.— Mont. Mail, 2QtJi inti.
Kefokm oe Oca BumoHATio and Consclab Sts-
Tiii —The bill having this object, which has
passed the House of Representatives, establishes
the following missions and salaries:—Great
Britain *17,000; France and China, $15,000;
Spam, Russia, Austria, Prussia, Mexico and Bra
zl $12,000; Peru $10,000; Turkey and Chili
*9,000 ; and Switzerland, Rome, Naples, Sardinia,
Belgium, Holland, Portugal, Denmark, Sweden,
Argentine Republic, New Grenada, Bolivia,
Ecuador, Venezuela, Guatemala and Nica
ragua, $7,500; in all twenty-eight missions, hav
ing an aggregate of salaries amounting to *259,600
armualiy. There is to be one comm's-ioner (to
the Sandwich Islands) with a salary of $5,000.
The secretaries to these legations are to receive
salaries of throe grades, viz: $1,500, *2,000 and
$2,500. There are to be thirty consulates, with
salaries varying from SI,OOO to *7,500 ; Amster
dam alone being fixed at the former, and Liver
pool and London at the latter. Havana and Eio
are fixed at $5,000; Parle and Havre at $5,000;
ar.d moet of the others at $2,000 and $3,000. The
change will effect some considerable saving, but
the commendable point is that it substitut s fixed
salaries for outfits and fees, and removes the
temptation to bad faith on tha part of tha appoint
ing power and the appointee, and aiao limits the
exactions by consuls. It is to be hoped that the
Senate will ooncur in the measure Bait. Amtr.
Age of Otstees.—A Loudon oyaterman can tell
the ages of his flock to a nicety. The age of an
oyster is not to be fonnd ont by looking in into its
mouth. It bears its years upon its back. Every
body who haa bandied an oysterehell must have
observed tbat it asemed as if composed of succes
sive layers or plates overlapping each other
These are technically termed “shoots,” and each
of them makes a year’s growth ; so that, by eonnt
ing them, we can determine at a gUrnce the year
when the creature same into the world. Upto the
time of its maturity, the shoot* are regular, and
arc piled one ever the other, so that the shell be
comes more and more thickened and bulky.—
Judging from the great thickness to which some
oysterehell* have attained, this moliuss is caps
b.e, if left to its natural chsngea nnmolestsd, of
attaining a patriarebieol longevity.
Polish Wheat.—A Loudon correspondent men
tions the fact that the Russian government hss tm
tally prohibited the exportations of whealisnd •*•'7
other article of consumption from Poland, im ,
says, will be severely felt in the pronnoe.offi.ll.as
and Austrian Sileai*. which are d
pasdect cn PolAsd tor thair gopplle* of wc*-t.
VOL. LXIX.--NEW SERIES VOL. XIX.—NO. 9 •
Correspondence of the iksn Fr meisco Herald.
Description of the New Territory known as the
Gadiden f*archuse.
Tho new territory recently purchased by tho
United States, in the uorih ot Sonora, seems al
ready to attract considerable attention, if 1 may
jadge from a number of settlers who have uiHdo
Tuxon their permanent place of residence, aud the
exploring parties who arc now crossing the country
in various directions, in soarchofgold,.-ilvor and
copper mines, all of which undoubtedly abound.
The new boundary line has not been run yet, aud
1 am, therefore, unable to say with any degree of
certainty what towns will bo included; it seems,
however, generally understood, that besides tho
town of Tuxon, Tuboc, Tumucacori, Santa Cruz,
and Calabasas, form part of tho American acquisi
tion. Although but a very narrow strip of land,
yet tho country abounds in fortile woll watered
valleys—is eminently adapted for stock breediug
—offers great facilities for a lively trade with Mjx
ico, aud has a speedy prosperity to hone, even with
out the mighty agency of the Pacific Railroad, aud
the hiddon treasures of its mountains. From Cal
ifornia, as well as from Sonora, all the valleys of
tho country aro perfectly acoes iblo by conveyance
of every kind, good wagon roads loading into and
out of it. The ciimato is lemperato and lioalthy,
avoiding alike tho extreme bout of Lower Sonora
and the rigor of the north, und tho fertility of tho
soil ia extreme.
Tho country possesses every element of prosper
ity, aud our government would, instead oi a thiuly
populated and now apparently worthless territory,
find a populous and flourishing one, if it were not
for tho curse ot the Northern {States of Mexico,
the Apachoa—who, eiuee IS4S, Lava comiuiUoa
upon the small village ol Tuxon dopredulioua to
the amount ot 411,000. Tuxon is tho most north
ern and largest village of the new territory, and
counts a population of perhaps 500 souls. It istn
old Spanish presidio, erected as a safeguard against
the Apaches, but now almost entirely useless, and
in a state of decay. A number of so-called sol
diers, however, arc still koi;.. there, under command
of a captain, whose prifloipal busmesY is to ruin as
much as possible tqe inhabitants. Understating
that the country was about to pass into American
possession, he has taken hold, with his officers, of
certain mission lands, properly belonging to the
Mexioati government, but cultivated, since time
immemorial by tho of the town. These
men are rudely thrust from what the possession of
years has isaght the ?- to consider their own. Mr.
Captain gels a grunt from Mexico dated a sow years
back, and with his missions Will appear before a
future American Land Commission, claiming a
tract of land no more hie, in fact, according to the
reoent treaty, than ft silver Bnuff box of which a
Maricopa Indian robbed me the ether day. The
limits of an ordinary letter would never permit mo
to explain to you the villainous impositions under
which the poor but industrious people of this ter
ritory are buffering; it would not express their
feelings simply to say that they are glad at tho
proapoot of a change of government—they aro in
ecstacies about it. Tuxon is diituut from Ilermo
sillo about Buo miles, and 400 from Guaym&s—a
good road, ss I Baid, leading to all parts of the So
nora department.
Tho oisl presidio of Tubao, with the mission of
Tumacacori, (throe miles from Tubao,) is siuated
to the south of Tuxon, 54 miles distant from that
town. Besides a lew ragamuffins yclept soldiers,
but few whites aro living there, although thoro is a
goodly population oi “tamo Apaohos. Rich lands
in a state of neglect surrounded the pre* idio. The
mission lands of Tumacacori are industriously
workod by a company of Gormans and one trench
man, although a misfortune happened to tho asso
ciation a few weeks back, difficult to repair and
discouraging to oven tho stoutest energy.
Tho Frenchman, a Mr. Chouart, and Mr.
Neningor, one of the Gormans, wont.to Tuxon on
business, together with &omo Mexicans. A sow
days afterwards tho corpses of tho two foreiguerß
and throe Mexicans were found three leagues from
Tubao, speared by the Apaohes. A monster, Lieut.
Carlos Data, commanding Tubao, refused to the
remaining partners their request of an escort to go
and bury their companions, but Bent out on tho
following day a party, without knowledge of the
settlers of Tumacacori, with orders to burn the
five bodies, to bury tho banes of the threo Mexi
cans, but to loavo the boueß of tho two foreigners.
CarlcßOdta ia tho narno of this amiable aud nu
mane youth. Our only consolation is, that all
these gentlemen, the Captain of Tuxon aud his
officers, and several other military authoriti. s ot
these northern presidios, aro dissatisfied with their
respective situations, and talk of throwing up their
commissions aud remaining hero mb American
citizens, with thoir ill-gotton gains, iu which cases
it is pretty evident they will soon learn that they
cannot with impunity outrage all decency and
humanity whilo clothed with a little brief authori
ty and afterwards quietly enjoy tho fruits of unpar
donable brutality and unwarranted assumption of
power.
A Coot Swindle.— A moat singular gamo was
played off on a visitor to our City, Thursday, which
reminds us of the successful swindles so common
in the Northern cities. The gentleman alluded to
is a drover from Kentucky, and having dono a
good business in tho country came hither a few
days since to get sundry drafts cashed at the banks
and counting houses. Thursday morning he went
to the Marine Bank on business oi this kind, and
whilo at the counter made tho acquaintance of a
stranger. It seems tho drover, who is a plain
countryman, did not understand the forms of
banking, and asked for information, which the
stranger politely gave. Business transacted, the
two left tho bank in company. “You are not from
these parts,” said tho stranger. “From Kontuck,”
answered the drover. ‘‘All 1 that is my own State.”
“From what section!” “From Louisville.”
Arrivod at the Pulaski, tho newly made acquain
tances separated. The drover perhaps to count
over his bills, the stranger to devise some scheme
for relieving his friend of so much lucre. Tho
drover Borne time afterwards entered the saloon
and found tho stranger quietly enjoying a cigar, n
walk was proposed. “It was so dull to lounge
about a hotel. Suppose we visit tho now cemetery.”
“Agreed.” And tho two sauntered, in agreoablo
conversation, across tho beautiful squares.
In Laurel Grove, after udmiratiou of the grounds
and monuments, the friends acaiaei.laUj/ fell in
with another; general conversation ensued, and fl
nally a dispute urose. A hot would decido tho
matter. Tho drover’s friend was evidently in tne
right and of course would win. But he had no
rnonoy, nothiug but a $12,000 cheek. Tho drover
lent him SSOO cash aud took tho chock for security.
Business pressing, he returned alone to the hotel
before the bet was decided. Sufficient time was
allowed for the return of his friend, butstrango to
say, thongh the Polioe have looked evorywhoto, he
has not yet made his appearance. Sirauger yet,
tho Banks will not cash tho $i2,000 check. The
drover is SSOO oat of pocket, but gains more than
that in wisdom.— Savannah Ge rrgktn.
Waoery.—Colt's Manufactures and his plans.
—A Washington correspondent of tho New York
Herald, alluding to the defeat of the bill for ex
tending tho patent right to Colt’s Kovolver, in
dulges his wagery in the following arch manner:
Col. Colt left here very soon alter the defeat of
his bill. He took the action of the House upon it
much more kindly than his agents and friends of
the lobby who got him into the sorupo. Upon
hearing tho Una 1 vote he said, “It is right; and
tho faot is, I am opposed to all this mono ply legis
lation myself; but my affectionate friends mani
fested such deep concern in my behalf as to be
perfectly irresistible.” Col. Colt’s sp cial agents,
ex senator Jt re. Clemens, Mr. Lawyer Dickerson,
and others, on the other hand, are disconsolate,
end could only be temporarily comforted by a first
class oyster supper, garnished with champagne
and segars. The poor newspapers’ correspon
dents, who expected to bag so muoh in various
ways, Bomo in kid gloves and perlumory, and other
articles ol French bijouterie (so indispensable to
tho ladies) some in revolv re, some in cash, some
ia fancy stocks, and what aot, will never get over
Ho makes the following allusion to Col. Colt’B
Bohemos for the future:
Col. Colt, in the meantime, has pone off to New
York to make preparations for such an increase of
his pistol factories aa will bring him in a milllion
dollar* a year. He has now an immense factory
at Hartford, Conn., and a still larger one at Lon
don ; and he ia rer»olvod to prove his neutrali y in
this European war by furnishing all the bcdiger
ents with the same six shooting pistols. To this
end he propones establishing a factory respectively
in France, Austria, Russia, and Prussia, and prob
ably one also at Constantinople.
Improvement in Artificial Teeth.—A late
English paper slates that a patent had just been
taken out by Mr. Ephriam Moseley, a dentist of
London, for the application ol cbemioal y purified
white iudiarubber in the construction of artificial
t?cth, gums and palates. A long acknowledged
desideratum, by many eminent practical dentists
fruitlessly sought for, is now at length happily
found, and by the patentee’s progress moi-t in
geniously adopted. The fortunate wearer of teeth
constructed on this principle, is astonished to find
adhesion perfect, (a thing never yet perlected,) a
fit the most accurately secured, and the use of
those troublesome adjuncts spiral springs, entirely
dispensed with.
This alono would be sufficient to stamp the mer
it of the patent; but lurther, the superiority of tho
substance employed over every other; t discover
ed, is seen in the perfection with which it can be
moulded to every inequality of the gums and teeth,
and in its supplying an artificial periostoura, as it
were, to tho teeth when they become p tinful by
the wasting away of the guru. Added to this is
the great comfort tho patient feels in being able to
u«o any degree of force in masticating or striking
the teeth together, wnhout that percussion or rat
tling that attends the action in general cases, the
permanent elasticity of the agent employed obvi
ating this and every other disagreeable motion;
and in its rendering the teeth, in fine, part and
parcel of the mouth itself, it may be said thus tru
ly to attain the ne plu* ultra of art.
The New Telkobaphio Inmrdment —ln our no
ice of this new nveuiion we inadvertently said it
was not necessary for the operators to be in the
effioes to secure tho transmission of a dispatch.—
It should have been, tho operators in the receiving
offices.
Those who have examined this new invention
say that the action of this machine, by the holding ,
instead of the receiving power of electro magne
tism is a great advantage overall other telegraphic
apparatus. It prints with great rapidity. The
keys, containing the letters, occupy a space of 8 by
2 inches, and tne telegrtphing is accomplished as
rapidly a» the keys can be touched. No matter
how many keys may be touched, the correspond
ing letters are impressed npou the paper. Any
one who c m spell can use this instrument.
One cop of Morse’s battery will send a message
by this instrument as far as one hundred cups can
by any other telegraphic instrument. Thus a
Grov#battery capable of sending a message 800
miles by the instruments now in use, will send it
80,000 miioe by tire machine, lie ay magnets are
unnecessary in using this instrument.
The small size of the instrument, the cheapness,
simplicity of construction, and tho small expense
required for workingit are striking commendations
of it. The instrument has been wel tested and its
friends believe it will accomplish all we have men
tioned, and on ihe terms we have expressed.
[ Louitville Journal .
A Lira Nobleman. —There is an amusing story
ooncern ng the iaat arrival of the Meaico at Gal
veston ft appears that among tho Hit of
gers on the manifest the name of the “Earl or u -
nam” was legibly recorded. The news qai y
spread, and was auiokly ooonunnnicated
English Consol, who, in the generosity of his na
tore, took room's for 'his r,ohi,
Tremont, snd then proceeded to l ihe stoi™ “
convey him to his < f a ‘ rt ?/* l of Durham on
miat.k. »- d.soo«r«d. ™f Darhtim bu „ [rom
the Mexico prowl to *>• 5,r n ~ well at last ac-
Kentaokr. The Consul wa* doln* wen a« xasi ac
counts .-JT. O- D tUa - -
Aenoss- — The bark Morning Star, C'apt.
Sn S ear from New Vork, bound to this port, went
„ I earn, during the night of ihe »th test.,
three^nilea to the westward of Pass a h’Uutre.
The bark has a valuable cargo of merchandise on
board. We are glad to loam that there is every
hope of her being got safely off. At lateat accounts
there was a schooner lying alongside, lightering
her.— N. O. Pic. XUh. t tut.
The Parisisn Jewß have introduced organa into
their synagogues, and tho Greeks have done the
B&me. This is so icnovatiou upou old custom*,
SiNouLA.il Optical Illusion. —Tho Paris corres
pondent of tho New York Times Btetoe that a gen
tleman living in Brussels, somewhat troubled by
ODbwebs and Bpots in his eyes, rubbed them one
night with a few drops of extract of belladona. In
tho morning the cobwobs wore gone, but tho whole
outer faco of nature had chaugod. His newspaper,
wh'ch had been placed by his bedside, was com
posed of type bo small that ho could hardly deci
pher it. He rang the bell, and his stout serving
wonch had sunk into a thin little girl of ten yours.
He«got up in a great fright, and looked after his
clothing; they were the garments of a child; but
as his own limbs had diminished in proportion, ho
easily got into them. Ho found his wife and
children at the table, the former a dwarf, and the
latter a row of dolls. He hurried off to his phy
sician ; the horses he met looked like dogs, and
dogs like rats. Everything was Lilliput and Cin
derella. Lotions wore applied to tho victim’s eyes,
and the next day Brobdignog returned, bringing
back the cobwebs and spots. This phenomenon,
called microscopio, does not seem to havo occurred
more tjian half a dozen times, though it may be
brought on at will by the employment of certain
substances.
A number of coiuors of falso money and note*
escaped in September last from tho fortress of
Kcanigstcin, in Saxouy, und established themselves
in Saxon-Switzedand on tho summit of a moun
tain 1800 feet in height, called tho Pfoffenatein.
There they worked incessantly in fabricating false
paper money in a cavern some sixty or eighty feet
from the summit of the To this cavern ac
clss could only be obtained by descending a rbpS
—a perilous operation; but one man was always
left on the summit to keep watch and let down
provisions. The notes which tho gang forged,
and which purported to be of ’ the Austrian and
Hessian banks and of tho Govornmoutaof Kootben
and Dessau, wore put into ciren'ution by aocora
plicos in the adjacent villages. A short time
since a detachment of tho B&xon gendarmerie
climbed up tho mountain at tho peril of their lives
and succeeded in arresting the whole of the gang.
A now banking bill is now before the Legislature
of Indiana, which proposes to organize a new State
Bank, and to divide the State into not less than
fifteen nor moro than twenty bank distriote. Each
district to bo rostrioted to one bank or branch
bank, and the aggregate capital of all banks shall
not cxcoed six millions of dollars. No branoh ?fl
to be organized until SIOO,OOO are subscribed, and
ten thousand paid in—the remaining capital re
quired to bo paid in bofore tho first of January,
1857.
In melting gold at tho United States mint, 100
pounds of silver to 50 of gold iB placed on onch
crucible, the rule being two of tho former to one of
the latter. After an hour and a quarter tho two are
rondered fluid ; tho mixed metal is then dipped
out, and poured into a large ooppor vessel Ailed
with cold water, tho metal being swung round in
tho prooosa. This rotary motion prevents tho solidi
fication in a mass ot the metal, causing it to Biuk
to the bottom in the form of flukes or grains*
Hence it is called the process of grauulating. •
Tho ship William Goddard, whioh arrivod at
Boston ou Thursday, from Calcutta, had on board
a noble elephant when she left port, but soon
after getting to sea, the animal became very s<»
sick, his sulTerings being apparently proportionate
to his size. He also experienced much inoonvoui.
enco from cold weather, although he was well
clothed infiannels, and finally ho died. The value
of the animal in this country would have been
about $50,000.
Advices from Kio do Janeiro to the 14th nit.
state that a Brazilian fleet, consisting of three war
steamers'and one brig, had sa'led for Pamgnay,
under command of tho Marquis Do Olivira, to
settle, as alleged, several questions of territorial
difference with the Government of Buenos Ayres.
It is thought that the Brazilian Government will
send mere Bhips, and endoavor to udjnst the
“balanoeof power” by an appeal to arms.
The progress of Minnesota Territory is truly
wonderful.* It was organized only six years ago;
thirty counties havo sinoo been laid off, and nearly
all organized; the population has increased from'
five thousand to thirty thousand or more; the tax
able property of the territory is estimated for 1855 "
at $7,000,000; a wire-ausponsion bridge has been
thrown over the Mississippi rivor, above the Falls
oi St. Anttiony; agricultural societies have beou
organized, and one oouutry has rejoiced in a very
» oroditablo fair, a terri’orial university is in open*
| tion, well endowed by Congress, and a syatmn of
, common schools, with effioient superintendence,
has been established, which guarantees tho future
; intelligence of the people.
SnoBT Credits. —The Now York papors state
that a movement has been made by the wholesale
jobbers of that city to reduce the term of credit to
six and eight mouths, the notes given not being
subject to renewal. It is urged that dealers gene
rally would consult their own permanent interest
by resolving on tho shorter oredit without renew
als, aud those who do this bnsiusssonly will havo
the advantage over those who give the longer
oredits. A large business of this extended credit
need not be envied. It requires a larger rate of
profit on all the business transacted to make that
particular kind at all aafe. The best oustomers,
therefore, are made to contribute for the risk at
tending extended oredit to other oustomers. The
chief obstacle in the way of bringing the new cus
tom into goneral use is the difficulty of securing
uniformity upon the part not only of the jobbers of
New York, but those of other cities.
Old Bake Note.—A SIOO Note of the Farmers’
Bank of Maryland, issued 28th December, 1807
signed by John Muir, President, aud Juoa. Pink
ney, Cashier, has turned up in Malboro’, Md. It
is an exeollent state ol preservation, and its latj
owner, (reoently deceased,) is supposed to have
had it carefully laid by for tho last twenty years—
an evidence of groat confidence in the excellent
Inslitntion that issued it.
Ala*ajma and Florida Railxoad. —The Pensa
cola Gaaetle denies the statement of the Montgom
ery Mail, that the Alabama and Florida Railroad
project is an utter failure, and says that the Florida
portion of the road will be constructed long be
fore the Alabama portion can bo ready to go Into
operation.
The Springfield Republican says the action of
the frost upon the earth on Tuesday night main
tained a eonstaut sucoession of explosions, simi
lar to those which oocur in the Arotio regions,
varying in charaoter and intensity from a light
pistol shot to a light earthquake. Fiseures in tho
earth were seen in various places, and by one of
those operations the file shop of the U. 8. Armory
waa eraeked from the roof to the ground.
The Pacific Railroad has been opened to Wash
ington, on the Missouri river, a distance of £4
miles from St. Louis. The event was oelebrated
by a grand excursion on the 10th inst. The tit.
Louis Democrat is confident it will be built to the
Missouri fticto boundary, and from thence will
take its course westward to the setting snn, as the
great central highway of the world.
Snow Storm at the West. —We learn by tele
graph from Chicago, that another severe snow 1
storm was experienced there on Wednesday. The
snow had again blockod up the Illinois Central, the
Chicago and Mississippi, and the Galena roads.
The Galena road waa in a worse oondition than it
had been before.
There is now a fair prospect of a revival in the
boot and shoe business, says the Abington (Mate.)
.Standard. Orders are coming in various quurters,
and though not very large as yet, it is hoped that
at the opening of spring, the demand will be li -cly.
Some of the manufacture™ in Weymouth and vU
ointy havo received orders from the New England
trade, but their operations will probably be oonfim d
to the wants of customers.
A writer in the Portland Advertiser states that
shortly before his death, Mr. Web-tor wrote to
Mr. Fillmoie, then Preeident, manfully taking
upon himself all the blame of tho Lobes Islai d
affair, out of which bas grown Mr. A. G. Benson’s
guano claim against the government.
The ship Levanter, which cleared at Now York
last week for Kamsebatka, took out a cargo of
7,000 barrels rye flour and 495 barrels wheat flour,
the whole valued at upwards of $50 ,000 for tho
Russian Government.
The Pittsburg Gazette gives the good assets of
Gen. Larimer, as appraised by bis assignees, at
$409,000, and his liabilities at from $450,000 to
$500,000. .
A b : l! has been introduced into the Senate of
Indiana, to break up the Know Nothing odgea
in that State. It declares it a oonspiracy tor per
sons to band themselves under solemn oaths for
the purpose of depriving any oitiaen of the State
of political rights under the Constitution.
Kaw Cotton Gin.— We learn from the New York
Poit that a new cotton gin haa been invented,
which ia specially applicable to Sea Island cotton.
The inventor is a Mr. Spear, brother of Judge
Spear, of New Jersey State.
Two Year’* Imuioration— The total number of
immigrants arrived at New York during the last
two years is said to be 604,188, of whioh more than
one-third were Germans.
Women.— ls women knew their real power, and
wished to exert it, they would endeavor to show
sweetness of temper; for then they are irresisti
ble.
Pitt.—We have great pity for a man who la
raining himself, but very little for the man who ia
reined.
The Elmira Daily Republican learns that a stage
diiver, in going from Buxville to Tiogo, on Tues
day night week froze to death. The paesenger*
were alao badly frozen.
Galignaui’s Messenger, published in Paris, saya.
that Mr. Mason's health ia still farther improving,