Newspaper Page Text
in W. S. .JONES.
I ,iit>> >lO.l, &, BLt\ Tift EL.
TERMS, &o
I HE WEEKLY
* Published crerj HUliif-iday,
AT TWO DOLLARS PER A-uTTUX
m advance
k not i*aid within three months
Thkek Dui.uk> M ill. > ritiaMy, be frbarjfc'l.
I'O CLUBS or INOi . iDCAL« sending us Tei
Dollar*. SIX copiee f .ne paper trjL' be sent ferone
year, Unix fumie. i r the paper u the rate of
six utpies ran ten dollars,
or a fr< e op* to ell who may pro,-ure u* El»« mb
. a*'ti forward u> tile money IV Tbepa
.~r w ; n „ p J.or-e p,. -out at ti:.x rate UtilieSi Ibi
Tn 0 „, LA „, la p ßl d«frbWy ,n advanee. Nor will
par.. .i. Club be .. reived. Tk- *kaU .« »’«’
T'TB CHROniCLB & SENTIWIcjI,
OAJI.Y AND Tttl-WEKKLY,
Are a..., pub u hed at thi- fio.t-, and mailed to eoi
«aril.eu at the iVllowtog rat**, namely:
Daily -PAI-LK, it «~nt by nwl, S«w Dom.ab.
t a..n !.■ , m i,.i vaii. e an'l Eioht llolUM it
Mbyro. ut be delayed tH.ee MoSTlts.
Till VVELitLY PAPER Ko'Jfc Doulab* in *d
v . Hud b ivk Ouu.*ki if payment be delayed
THKIiC MoNT iff).
Term* of A overt fate*.
The. Weekl*.—lv venty-five c'-nta per «quar»
TBS 1857!
.>Ol TJIKIi.V CtLTIVATOR,
* tOVIHI.V J4M UNAL,
v .tku to the iii'ih.vtmKf or
ijr, -V H"T'„ •liun. Stock BrrMtlng,
hr, /<■■> lirr'riu farm gr.mimy, Are.
1 ua.rated w.’h Numerous Elegant Engraving*
„St ibJI.I.AK A >*..\K IN ADVANCE,
j, ,!.;]. 1,1.1. j> AM, u REDMOND Enl I OKA
f.., if o OII th Voluitin will ooinmence in
January, 1857.
; .ir.CfMivATr. a .;,r’7rr,rr«M.ufthlrty-twop«vee,
/. ' , Z ‘,o'um.ul !£?*,.* t'.atn. !U than toy ‘/Ctrl
1,1 v A I’.CA ItLB Vi'kiu'in'ab^CONTKlHU i IONS
f~V'. H r -■ O me - '..ry ■ etiun of the South
TERMS:
Os* Oort, i -nr 81 j v!sCon£6,l year #»>
"iXV:'.': ranii'wlll he . - -yahlmred t«. and In
. , «...W.II u,paper he », i,t m !<•»* die money ac
ll,e order Tt.l Bit... . ell specie-paying
i }l . ~a;. AM nun icy rcini; ,f, 4 by uia.il,
,ft «t*KiVp,r,.i Will »►*• »» ttif r.-i. the C-Uhsbern
Advertisement?
i r r :: ’r.V' ,'!:!£!■' v. > dollar;
V , 1 \y VI A. JOVIS, AuKlletn, fill.
*,*f * w,|| i,ef,„ ..-I with the paper el Club raub
ntootifil D cOA D £ MY ,
F<r* mill n i‘ft of li" UHirer tily of Virginia.
s. I ROY BROCK A M > P r lnelD*la
\y ...n, oi (HIHY TI.ItLLS, jvtine.ipaie.
|>lf r \ nl S!i?»SlON of tUm Academy, form
. • tliod iti f ' i Mr. P. 11. UOMDLOU.wIII
outbid l-» oJ i;i' iI- M
i i,< i . t i.i-itiuiiou include* the langlish Lan
/' . .Lfiftiid L ’-raiun- Aud all ilio elementary Mubjects
ii. !o. Kiio.' tb.-. <•! * * iI.H Ancient Itai.Kua.cn ; ILo .Modern
I** ll u-iln . tiorman. Freneb, bpauiah, Italian
nt ii u.t ,ii , i nits Anglo Saxon form ; anil tho pure
a.dl uiix<- tnihr ; .utic ', including Civil Engineering.
Iv'ciiirct* wi i 1-0(1 i. eredonthe subjecU of Oherula-
Uy, Natural. Pl.iio »pb> aud Astronomy.
‘j i;** course Yvilt be iiign'd to lu insli a thorough pre-
I.urauou f.ii the University of Virginia.
'I |,„ vrill con’u. two ternia of five monthu
.
I.xpenses for each terra, for board *nd tuition In all the
departtortitfl, including everything except llghta, $125,
1 j ,i ni'n<!;u» com. nuig more particular Information
ad ir i «;i*!-*-r of the principals, at Ci.arlotte>ivUle,Va
HKFKRfcNCKt
The Faculty of the University of Virginia
Prof A l> Hache. HuperiiiteiHlent United .State* Coast
U, hi i j Maury, Supr-ilnttucb-nt National Obaer-
V< ‘lin'Kxc.-ilcu’.-v Henry A. W Kichmond, Vft
col JclTcf .on Itandolph. C . csville, Va.
11* J hn'bii Ilarimur, E q , Va.
J Ha i ,ili Tucker, fix* W inchester, Va.
lion J. M. Mason, United statoa Senate.
ii lilt ’ { , ,a I ?5 V' , ‘ ilti
Henry Hull, Kaq., A then Ga
i » > .r.inte. s ( P.iilege. Columbia. Je2-W^tu
DHOPSY CURED.
fplir edi.'-da i(*d pros. •cs to cure D ot»*y of every
I .1 .-ip*.on He iia. ben UOA .ful in the treat
m-lit oft) .« d.Hca (forth rtv y«n.s He ran bo ««en
, is, „,:,y rt.ei.t . ■ south of Union Point, or audreKßcd
by icilor io that ■ til- o The inedicmo can be sent aoy
wlier.-i-y li abroad, with direct ;ona for taking it- or I
will att i'd porx,,.idly, if requested, and paid lor my
tiouluc 1 will buy Nogroi s afflicted with Dropsy, or
eur. tie an the owner may prefer. I have never
Lr v„ a.ro. . return when cured by u.y remedy,
batn.laotory referenuea given, If desired
MILES (I BHOOMB.
IToi.-nP • n*, fin . lolv «
ILAWTATION FOR SALE.
*|' lIT. fote rt-biueue’e of Autieraon Ingram, in Wilkin
-1 lua comity, containing Three Thousand A* r* «. tho
part mi«ov feie-r. ami about one half cleared
ih« above pltt <• Iri about o.' mil- from Macon. 17 from
Iro stem, and SU from tho Central Railroad. It is woli
wat I.‘d HQ I timbered . has a good Dwelling, Negro
H uses, tirl ;t Mill, tUu House and all necessary out
buddings For fitrtherpariii ulars, address or call on the
•übt • ‘.her at Otithbeit, Raudoinh county, Ga.
iylHe-.-m WILLIAM INGRAM.
NOTICE THIS.
SI’IIJ an acrlber. having detei oined to move Wont,
ft offers f*.i s-i.e on -of the most desirable PA»MS In
Southwestern Oeergla. teutmuingthree lots or squares.
- mi. ,i tx nr lea north ■» Oglethorpe, in Macon county,
n< »1 a licntihy as any !■ ration in Georgia. There are
fic.n hundred and thirty acres of cleared 1 .and—33o acre n
cl. m-i-i w ith n the last tom ycais—ail ot a Uglit gray
< ,».• i adapted to the production ot cotton All of
tho land! as level as could be desired; well watered,
a d g. (w\ * nier. wuh all lmprovementa necetaary lei a
rtr- 1 rate I arm—Gin House, Gin, Gear and Screw, ail of
the ho t materials, aud aa well ». » do and aj iaugod uu
ran tie
Stock, Farming Utensil*, aud provision* enough for
the place, w dl be furnished t . the purehn er, if desired,
.it fa r price*. A cash purchaser can get a great bargain.
All es the above named arti les and place will be offeiod
on lib* r»i tonus, and if not sold before tho tint Tuesday
In November next will be offered at public *aie In tho
town of ( tg othorpe
lalaootT riny HOUSE and LOT In said town for sale,
and t t:. uk It one of tho most plcasautly situated for a
reslden e in the town. Call and see.
j\9w2m" WII.I4AM ELLIS.
UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE.
fIMIF \ DICAL OF.I'AMTMENT open* NOV EM
I hEli Ile j-’ree Preliminary Uonrso OUTOBBR
t>, lrfo7 App vto (‘AtiLF. EVE, Dean.
Tin: tbil.LF <IA IT 7>EFAR I MENT, Western
M‘ .t ry Institute, cmuieucs w-v ses»ion. SEPTUM
in It cmuprls> n a c »mpl t« t la si al Course, an
El- id Fou so in Engineering, ui Scientific and Agri
cull., d I .iit tluH an a t r-p raiory School Tui-ion,
Hoc d-ng. \v i-.h ng. Fuel SIOO per term, of *2O weeks
Modern 1 ,ngu, K * -• »*tc . act. $lO per term.
La. 1 j ear lb. r. were 3b •: ndeuta ui thu two Depart
DU-uts
Ajp’vto D. R JOHNSON, Bup» rlnt•-ndent.
N.>-tie 1 «». r» nn .-h 11. l-;>7 av 4 w'h*
V/OODLAW H FOR SALE
I 1 HE cr l or. defrirousof mov . We*t, off# s for
1 sa c. WtHm.awu fo.tmerU thgiv* d neo of the Hon
Min 11. i .axvf .i.l, dr.. ted lying tithe Athaus B.arch
ot thu Georgia Kadroa.l, in v . w * f the Lea i gt. u De
pot—a. p-ree coo anting **ool acre* of Land, with a
hand O.uc K. Mdeuce a .1 ail , tv. vary out building—
nil m go«>d repu \l>o, a vorv -i* c releciion of
Fiiii - • all tte • »p .in lhere is n fair proportion . !
it i '«»! siIKU ON Ql iTeR.
ALABAMA PLANTATION Ft R SALE.
r |'UL u to Dgued otiers tm ,bo .is valuable PLAN
I. I Ft ION Butuned in 'he county of Macon, U
miles froi#Mon:gt m ry and Wot Point Railroad 7
mile ft.. keg on Fhoupee eieok, containing I6OU
acuv ot L uni -7t .' >q which min a tine st t. of cultiva
tion These lan is a n well w atered. and finely timbered;
lieal.hy, m,; produces F. ito.i and Corn equal to any
I.;; ds ir.H s.-c;..*n t»a the pretni'O-* ises is a l*ige
i'Wellugilv wiihg**>d v» tU and Screw, and all ne
•<• ->ir> >■ . ;* * For further particulars, inquire #of
U U AH viSTitON i, No*a>Uiga, a a., or the under
ligi.t 'i ou the pt. .v PETER DHIsKILL
FOR SALE,
id!’ * t , d. . ng detiiroua of leaving the State,
-a infers 4 »: private Kale, all his REAL ESTATE in
the u\iu ot Warrauton, Warren county, Ga., consisting
o* a Dwelling llou&c, and Lot of about five acreso«
%ui AUo. his Garriag* Sht.p ana Tools, Machine.
umbi-i, dall his stock, together with all hi* finished
an i unfinished work.
cj- iom fifteen t,» twenty thousand dollars worth ot
ark tueas \ be disposed of, at good prices. thi^
Pci ou> n iahiuK »o purchase, are r-.tspectfully invitee
i* -M-ssDtu will be given at any time, to suit the pm
•baser GEORGE L. BOSUER
m _____
otter u i Kaie u.v entrre River PLANTATION
. or 30 allies >H*iuh of Goluiubus. Ga, iu Barboui
e> V.ty, Ala. lying on the Chattahoochee river, contain
ng 244)0 acics. i-\k) in « tin** st&ie of cultivation ana
go *>i n-iM A good Water t»m and Ferry across th*
Chattahoochee river The above will be for sale at an>
i.jit until *old avid is>*ses-non given. 'Terms *o suit pur
•hascrx i.»auY!-?fl M \TTUEVV AVKHKTT
FOR SALE,
4 I‘LA NT A TION couiaimug 1300 acres Land, well
j\ timbered; 200 acres cleared,%nd produces the bast
s -,4 Di:-.no < ouaodProv s-onstf ail kinds. A good
tw ; irv Dwe ; ng, contamiagseven rooms, with four
firep.a. « and 40 teet Putzta Kltcln n, Sm )ke Hous»
two-ft.uy Cotton Horn-* G’n Ilouss, and other buildings,
are iu ui. preiuMr, with a Well of good water ; e fin*
rang-* or H and Cattle Fish F-ud Oysters convenient
Iu 1» ! »*e a’.mu ianco. A more healthy, pleasant ioca||pr
■> »t t. be i* mu! iu S >uthem Ge>u:gia. Further par
tlcuiars can be ohiaintd by application to the gubeerber
at >ava. s ; . V. WOOLLEY,
CObBMAN HOUbE
BY LANIER A LADY.
EROZTILLK, T*Vl».
rr HR undersigned having taken charge of ltd* largi
X And commodious Houee, solicit ac<
fur.: shed in theai*.«st thorough and m dern style, with $
view tc cenveirence and comfort. It is situated in tht
heart of the city, convenient to all the business, and oi
the priucipai xtreet An omnibus is always in readme*.
k> >•* .> • \ ! a- angi-r.- to and from the Depot* ou the arr*
vii»- iepanurt'»f the cai> The Stage for Montrai*
Springs arrives* and d.*par*s daily.
Tco ia‘de wii: be «nppl : «d witJb the i»e*t tbe marke
affords, aad na pains Will be spared to render gnesb
•omt .rtal > HAMPSON LANIER,
J r - v ‘ tfl JOHN >:ADY
R- BT*Kli n WM P FRANCISCO
BEARDEN A FRANCISCO,
■jßOm i i: %\p t OM HIS**ION MERCHANTS
J M-*u aa . w.il»(*:i ou Commission Bacon. Lard.
Flour com. Gnu, Feathers, aad Tennessee Produce
general, y
Pen»>* t shipping to as can rely upon prompt returns
Mer. ... !.-• ‘<■ ot Knox le . Morgan A Co.
i° ~*£<• u r > -V’ : ;* Cou U*tro:i r. Nashville
F«uSf *u C
Ja. k> 'ir F eus Merchant* of East Tenue»>e gt-nerallv
wtsftbw land. “
IB 1 I*l» sell one half, or all cf mv Interest !n Texa-
L Ni). GO 000 acres)
Tlese Ltnch# lie onth»- Rio Frio and the Perdena-e
- y are located iu the be-1 part of the Stat.
for Stock racing, and the arger part ot them are said V
be as r.ch a« lav Land .r. Texas. Tbe tt e> are per*e*.t
A. U SHEPHERD.
4e?*-wSt* Oolnmhn*. U>
AUGUSTA HOUSE FURNISHING DEPOT,
f I 'll U undersigned are now receiving unusually heavy
1 *u, poeu of Fresh Goods, to which they Invite tin
attention of the rade and Our stixik o
BIOVE* GRATES, RANGES. Tin. WooU and Willov
wAKI S. is now verj c<imj4.ete, Uigcther with our u*u*
variety of FURNISH ING GCxoDb, aad «nail Ware-
Call and MM* for yourseivea S. S. JONHS A CO.,
«P >o *2lO Broad-street
CHEAP bbiatew No. lpickled HER
RING, for tale very low by
j«w*w danizl h. wilcox.
Weekly Chronicle & Sentinel.
£brorark ft Jstntincl.
U
\ r \ NCLIEIX.
If Tan aCTMoROF “THU RED COURT FARM.”
I
A power ful sen sation waa created one day in the
viflatfe of Ebary by n report tiiat somebody bad t&
ktu tbe long auinnabitea with the it one bal
•Muy aiidi*reen verandah, which was? situated in tbe
qei'tre of tbe atreet.
Who coo’d have Lired it ? tbe whole village were
ikkir.g, one of another. Those couains of the Smiths
jT the people whe had come on a visit to tbe bali.
tnd profess* dtel ke Ebary so well ? No. none of
’bese; it was a stranger from London, quit* uo
known to everybody, for there soon appeared a
•hiuiug tine plate on the newly varnished oak door
bearing in large, to-be read-at-a great-distance off
!eiten», “Mr. Gervase Castonel. Consulting Sur
Eburj- was id an ecstasy. A fashionable doctor
v«s what the place waited alx>v*e all things ; as to
A'inninton, he was not Ling but an apothecary, old
now. and stupid. Only thive days before (so the
;ale went round the whist tables,) when he was call
♦id in to Mrs Megor Acre, an elderly dow ager, he bad
•he insolence U tell her he could do her little good ;
hat if she would eat less and wa k more, she would
iot want, & doctor. They Sad put up with Winn in
o*n, especially when he had his young and agreeable
partner, a gentleman of fortune and position, who
bud joined him some time before. Hut this gentle*
man's wife had fallen into ili health, which had
caused him to quit Ebary and seek a warmer cli
mate.
Mr Gervase Castonel arrived, and book
“ion of his residence. Youaii know how fond we
are apt to be of fresh faces, but you cannot know
(iow rapturously fond Ebury at once grew of his
And yet, to a diapassi nate observer r it waa not a
ore posse sing face ; it was silent, pale, and unfath
omable, with a grey, impenetrable eye that dufliked
t • look at you, and daik hair. They tried to guess
his age; some sai I five and tw-enty,<«ome thirty; it
:s li.oMt probable he was near the latter, a small-made
man of middle height.
I* H»r Mr. Winointon! he had attended Ebury
and the county round for forty years, waiting unos
jcntatioufily on his two legs aud never, unless the
distance was really beyond them, using a horse or
carriage, and then it was borrowed or hired. But
be had to witness the debut of Mr. Castonel, in a
stylish cab, with a tiger behind it; both of the new
er! London importation ; Mr. Castonei’s arms being
emblazoned on the cab, and Mr. Castonei’s taste on
the boy’s dress. lie n*-ver stirred a professional
yard without this cab; did a patient the next door
call him in, the cab took him there. Generally tbe
boy would be hoisted up, holding on by the back
s + raps, aMer the approved manner of tigers ; some
times, when it was Mr. Castonel's pleasure not to
drive himself, be sat by his master’s side end took
« reins. Mr. Castonel had a habit of sitting very
back in his cab, nqd the lad also, so that w hen its
head was up they were invisible ; and in t.iis way
the cab would go dashing at a fierce rate up and
down the street. Until Ebury became familiar with
this peculiarity, it was the cause of no end ofter
ror; rhe pedestrians believing that the spirited horse,
without a guide, was making for their unfortunate
bodies. Two of these horses were possessed by Mr
Castonel, tine, valuable animals, and one or the
other was always to be seen, with the cab behind
him. Bure never did a stranger fall into so exten
»*ive a practice (to judge by appearances) as did Mr
G*-rva*e Castonel.
The first patient he was summoned to was Mrs.
Major Acre It may be observed that a family in
Eoury wrote a note of invitation to Mrs. Major
Acre, and omitted the “Mtgor." She at once re
turned the letter, with an invitation that Mrs. Major
Acre declined acquaintance with them; so we
will take <*are not to fall under a similar calamity.
Mr. Castonel was called in to Mrs. Major Acre, and
she was charmed with him. He sympathised so
feelingly with her ailments; but assured her that in
a little time, under his treatment, she would not
have a symptom left. That horrid Wirininton,she
imparted to him, had told her she wanted nothing
but walking and fasting. Oh, as to Winninton, Mr.
Castonel rejoined, with a contemptuous curl of his
wire draw'n, impenetrable lips, what could be expec
led an of apothecary ? lie (Castonel) hoped soon to
leave uo patients to the mercy of him. And this
was repeated by Mrs. Major Acre wherever she
wont; and Him took care to go everywhere to laud
the praises of the consulting surgeon ; so that peo
ple almost longed for a tender fit of illness, that
they might put themselves under th© bland and sos
tenng care of Mr. Castonel.
Time goes ou with us all, and it did with Ebury.
lii six months not a single patient remained with
Mr. Winuiutou, all had flown to Mr. Gervase Cas
tonal; for that gentleman, insoiteof his flaring zinc
plate, proved to be a general practitioner. YVe
must except one or two intimate friends of Mr. Win
nintou’s; and wo must except the poor, those who
could not pay. Mr. Castonel had made an osten
tatious announcement that lie should give advice,
grat is from nine to ten o’clock ou Tuesdays and Fri
days, but the few poor who accepted the invitation
found him so repellant and imsympathizing, that
they were thankful to return to kind old Mr. YVin
ninten who had not only attended them without
charge at their own homes, but had dine much to
ward supplying tho'r bodily wants. Mr. Wiuninton
had been neglectful ot gain ; perhaps his having no
family rendered him so. He had never married, he
and his sister having always lived together ; but
just before her death., a niece, Caroline Hall, th**n
left, nn orphan, came home to them. To describe
his affection for this girl would be impossible ; it
may be questioned if Caroline returned it as it de
served— but when is the Jove of the aged for th©
young ever repaid iu kind 1 The pleasure and de
lights of visiting tilled her heart, aud her uncle’s
home and society were only regarded as things to bo
escaped from. Was he yet awake to this f There
wan s<»tpething worse for him to awake to, by-and
by, soyi'-tiii&g that as yet he suspeoted not. He
whs much changed ; had been changing ever since
the es.ablishuient in Ebury of Mr. Castonel; his
face had acquired a grey cast like his hair, his mer
ry tongue was hushed, and people said he looked as
it his heart was croaking. It is hard to bear ingrati
tude ; ingratitude from those with whom we have
lived for sixty years It was not for the value of
the practice ; no. no; he had that which would last
him his life, and leave something behind him ; but
it was the unkindness that was telling upon Mr.
Wiuninton, the desertion of him for a stranger, one
in reality less skilled than he was.
Frauois Chnvasse stood in her mother’s drawing
foora, and with her the daughter of the Rector of
Ebury, the Revet end Christopher Lecester. Ellen
Leicester had come in after dinner to spend the af
ternoon; for Ebury, though it called itself nn aris
tocratic place, usually dined in the middle of the
day. They were both lovely girls, about nineteen,
though unlike in feature as in disposition. They
were called th**beauties of Ebury. Caroline Hall
got classed with them also, but it arose from her
constantly associating with them, not from her
good lo'iks. She was two or three years older, had
a sallow face with dark hair, and lively, pleasant,
dark eyes. An absurd story had gone abroad, but
died away agalu; that Mr. Castonel, upon being
nuked which »t the three was most to his taste, re
plied that only two of them were, but he’d marry
the three, for all that.
The two young ladies were talking eagerly, for
Mrs. Major Acre had just paid them a visit, ai d
disclosed a piece of intelligence which completely
astounded her hearers—that Mies Hall was about to
be married to Mr. Castonel.
“It is impossible that it can be true,’’ Mrs. Cha
vasse aud hei daughter had exclaimed in the same
quick, positive, eager tone, for they were the coun
terpart of each other in manner. Old Winninton
hates Mr. Castonel like poison.”
“I know he does. And 1 was told it was for tiiat
very reason Mr. Castonel is bent upon having her,”
said Mrs. Mqjor, “that ho may mortify the old
and take from him the only treasure he
ban left—Caroline. ’
“Oh that s a i Bbury gossip,” decided Mrs. Cba
v.'isse. “A well established man like Mr. Castonel
will take care to marry according to his fancy, not
to gratify a pique. Mr. Winuiutou will never give
his consent.'
“He has given it,” answered the major's widow.
“Caroline's will is law there. 1 wish she may find
it so in her new homo.”
“ Well,” added Mia. dubiously. “I
don’t know that Mr. Castonel is altogether the man
I should choose togive a daughter to. Such curious
things .are said of him—about that mysterious per
son, you know.”
“ Grapes are sour!” thought Mrs. Major Acre to
herself. *‘ And now I have told you the news, 1
mUHtgo/’shs said, rising. “ Good by to you all.
My compliments at the parsonage, my dear Miss
Ellen.”
Mrs ChavA&s© went out with the ’ady, aud it hap
pened that immediately afterward Caroline Hall
entered. Etk'ii and Frances regarded her with a
curiosity they had never yet manifested, and Fran
cos spoke miDulsively.
“How sly you were over it, Caroline! Now,
don’t goto deny it, or you'll put me in a temper.
Wo know all about it, just as much as yourself. If j
you chose to keep it from others, you might have
told Ellen and me.”
“ How could l tell you what I did not know my
self?”
“ Nay Caroline, you must have known it,” in
texqn sed the sweet geutle voice of Ellen Leicester.
“ 1 did not know I was going to be married. You
might have seen there was”—she hesitated, and
blushed— ‘* an attachment between myself and Mr.
Castonel, if your eyes had been open.”
*• I declare I never saw anything that could cause
me to thi. k he was attached to you,” abruptly ut
tered Miss Chavassc, looking at her.
“ Nor I,” repeated Ellen Leicester. Aud the
young ladies spoke truly.
“ l may have *eeu you talking together iu even
ing society, perhaps gone tbe length of a little dash
of flirtation,” said Miss Chavasse.
** Tiiat all depends upon the disposition,” returned
Miss Hall. “ You may ; but Ellen Leicester never
will.”
*• Ellen dare not, ’ laughed dances. *• She would
draw dowu the old walls of the parsonage about her
♦*ars if she committed so heinous a sin. But I must
return to what 1 said, Caroline Hall, that was un
friendly not to IM us know it.”
“ The piWxle is, how you know it now,” observed
Caroliue. * The interview, when Mr. Castonel
asked my uncle for me, only took place last night,
and l have not spoken of it to any one.”
* Oh. news travels fast enough iu Ebury,” answer
«d Frances, carelessly. If I were to cut my finger
now. every house would known it before to night.
Mr Winninton may have mentioned it.”
“I am quite sure that it has not passed his lips.”
“Theii the report must have come from Mr Costo
uel : exclaimed Frances. How very strange!”
* My uncle i - not well to day,” added Miss Hall,
‘and i;as seeu no one. He has got a gre-at fire
made up in the drawing room, aud is stewing
aimsel: eioc-e to it. The rooms as hot os an oven
“A tire, this weather ’ repeated Frances. "What
s tbe matter w*:h him I
“Nothing particular that 1 know of. He sits and
dghs, and never speaks. He only spoke once between
reakfast and dinner . and tnat was to ask me it 1
elt Mr. Castonel was a man calculated to make
ue happy. Os eourae he is.”
"Caorline,” whispered Miss Leicester, “do you
;ot fear it is your marriage that is preying on his
-pints?” ~ ,
“I know it is. He wornd not consent for a long
vhiie. The interview was anything but agreeable,
ie and Mr. Castonel were together at first, and
nen I was called in. At last he gave it. Bat be
fees not like Air. Castonel. I suppose from his hav
ng taken his practice from him. ’
■*A very good reason too, said Miss Chavasse
° “ob[ I don't know,’ carelessly returned Caroline.
It is all luck iuthis world. If people perswt in *end
ng for Gervase, he can't refuse to go. My uncle is
>ld now. .
Eden Leicester looked up, reproach seated In her
leep blue eyes. But Caroline Hall resumed.
“It is more than dislike that he has taken to Mr
"aetonel; it is prejudice. He cried like a child after.
G«rvase was gone, saying he would rather I bad
•uoeen any one eleae in the world, he had rather I
: ept single for life, than marry Mr. Castonel. And
duff say* she heard him sobbing and groaning ou
ns pillow all night long.”
“Aud oh Caroline.” exclaimed Ellen Leicester,
u a shocked, hushed tone, “can you think of marry
og him now 1"
My uncle has consented,” aaid Caroline evasive
y v
* Aes \ but in what way ? If you have any spark
f dutiiul testing, you ** ill now prove your grati
ude to your unde for all his love and care of you.”
“ Prove it, how 1 ’
“By giving up Mr. Castonel.'’
Caroline HoL turned and looked at her, then spoke
impressively “It is easy to talk, Ellen Leicester,
( but when the time comes for you to love, and should
s* be nn&seeptable to your parents, you will then
understand how impossible w what you of me.
That calamity may come.”
“ Never,<>'was the almost scornful reply to Mir«
Leicester. “My father and mother* wishes will
ever be first with me.”
“ I tell you you know nothing about it,” replied
Caroline. 4 Remember my words hei ©after.
44 Do not be cavil about whet you will never
agree upon, interrupted Mi.*? Chavasse. When
i<! the wedding to be, Caroline ?”
“ I suppose almost immediately. So Mr. Gasto
uel wishe-.”
“He is not eogieat a favorite in the place as he
was when he first came. People also say that he is
a general admirer. So take care. Caroline
44 1 know few people with whom he is Dot a favo
rite,” retorted Caroliue, warmly. ‘ My uncle if
one; Mi. Leicester, I believe, is another. Are there
any more ?”
“ You need not take me up so eharply.” laughed
Frances. “ I only repeated wuat I Lave heard
fake your things off, Caroline, and remain to tea.”
Caroline Hall hesitated. “My une’e is so lonely.
Still," abe added, after a pause, “ I can do him no
good, and as to trying to raise his spirits it’s a hope
less taek. Y'es, I will stay, Frances.”
She was glad to accept any excuse to get away
from the home she had so little inclination for, utter
ly regardless of the lonely hoara of the poor old
inau. Frances, careless and pleased, hastened to
help her off with her things. But Ellen Lt-icester,
more considerate, painfully reproached her in her
heart of hearts.
Mr. Castonel found his way that evening to the
house ot Mr. Chavasse. Boon after he came, Mis.
Chavasse, who wan in her garden, saw the rector
pass. She went to the gate, aud leaned over it to
nhofce hands with him.
“Have you heard tbe news !” she asked, being
one who was every ready to retail gosnip. ‘“Caroline
Hall ingoing to be married.”
•‘lndeedhe answered, in an accent of surprise
“I have been r "uch at Mr. Winninton’s lately, and
have heard nothing of it.”
“She marries Mr. Castonel.”
There was a pause. The clergyman seemed as if
unable to comprehend the word ‘ Mrs. Chavasae.
I hope you are under a mistake,” he said at last. “I
think you are.”
“No; it was all settled yesterday with old Win
ninton. Caroline told me so herself; she and Mr.
Castonel are both here now.”
“I am grieved to hear it! Mr. Castonel is not the
man I would give a child lO.”
“That’s just what I said. Will you walk in ?”
“Not now. I will call for Ellen by-and-by.”
“Not before nine,” said Mrs. Chavasse.
There we e those in Ebury who had called Mr.
Castonel an attractive man. but I think it would
have puzzled them to tell in what his attractions lay.
He was by no means good looking ; though perhaps
not what could be called plain ; one peculiarity of
his, was, that he hated music; and in society he
was silent, rather than otherwise. Yet he generally
found favor with the ladies ; they are pretty cer
tain to like one who has the reputation of being a
general admirer. Had a stranger, that evening,
been present in the drawing-room of Mrs Cha
vasse,he would not have suspected Mr. Castonel
was on the point of marriage with Miss Hall, for hi*
gallant attentions to Frances Chavasse and Ellen
Leicester, his evident admiration for both, were in
consistently apparent —especially considering the
presence of Caroline. What she thought, it is im
possible to say. She left early, and Mr. Castonel
attended her as far as her home.
Mr. Leicester had taken his way to the house of
Mr. Wiuninton. The surgeon was cowering over
the fire, as Caroline had described. He shook bauds
with Mr. Leicester without, rising, and pointed in
silence to a chair. He looked very ill; scarcely
able to speak.
“I have heard some tidings about Caroline,” be
gan the rector.
Mr. Winuington groaned. “Oh, my friend, my
pastor,” he said, “I have need of strong consolation
under this affliction.”
“You disapprove, no doubt, of Mr. Castonel ?”
“Disapprove!” he repeated, roused to energy ;
“believe me, J would rather Caroline went before
ine, than leave her the wife of Gervase Castonel.”
“Then, why have you consented ?”
‘“I had no help for it,” he sadly uttered. “They
were before me, in this room, both of them, aud they
told me they only cared for each other. Mr. Casto
nel informed me that if I refused my consent it was
of little consequence, for he should take her without
it. She is infatuated with him ; and how and where
they can have met so frequently, as it appears they
have done, is a wonder to me. Oh, he is of mean,
dishonorable spirit! And I have my doubts about
his liking her —liking her, even.”
“Then, why should he seek to marry her?” cried
the rector, in surprise.
“I know not. I have been thinking about it all
night and all day, and can come to no conclusion,
save one,” he added, dropping his voice, “which
is firm upon me, and will not leave me ; the con
viction tnat he will not treat her well. Would you,”
he asked suddenly looking up, “would you give him
Ellen ?”
“No,” most emphatically replied Mr. Leicester.
“1 believe him to be a bad, immoral man. My call
ing takes me continually among the poor, and I can
tell you Mr. Castonel is much more warmly wel
comed by the daughters than the parents. But
nothing tangible has hitherto been brought against
him. He is a deep man.”
44 His covert behavior as to Caroliue proves his
depth. What about that strange person who fol
lowed him to Ebury, and took, the little lodge ?
You know what I mean.”
“I can learn nothing of her,” answered Mr. Lei
cester. “She lives ou, there, with that female at
tendant. I called once, aud she told me she must
beg to decline my visits, as she wished to live in
strict retirement. 1 suppose I should not have seen
her at ali, but the other person was out, and she
came to the door. '
“ I met her once,” said Mr. Winninton. “ She is
very handsome.”
* Too handsome aud too young to be living in so
mysterious away,” remarked tbe rector, signifi
cantly. 44 She Las evidently been reared as a gen
tlewoman • her accent and manner are perfectly la
dy-like and refined. Did you mention her to Mr.
Castonel ?”
“ I did. Ai d be answered in an indifferent,
haughty manner that the lady was a connection of
his own family, who, chose, for reasons of her own,
good and upright, though they were kept secret, to
pass her days just now in retirement. lie added,
that her character was unimpeachable, and no one,
to him, should dare to impugn it. What could I an
swer T”
“ Very true. And it may be as he says: though
the circumstances wear so suspicious an appear
anoe.”
“Oh. that he had never come to Ebury!” ex
claimed the surgeon, clasping his hands with emo
tion. “ Not for the injury he has done to me pro
fessionally: aud I believe striven to do, for there
was room for us both: I have forgiven him this
with all my heart., as it becomes a Christian, near
the grave, to do. But my conviction tells me he is
a bad man, a mysterious man—yes, my friend, I re
peat it, a mysterious man—l feel him to be so,
though it is an assertion I cannot explain ; and I
feel that he will assure Caroline’s misery instead of
happiness.”
“ Still, unless he is attached to her, I do not see
why he should wed her,” repeated the rector. “She
has no fortune to tempt his cupidity.”
“ Nor do I see It,” replied Mr. Winninton “ But
It is so.”
Mr. Leicester sat there an hour, and then pro
ceeded to visit some cottages. On his return, lie
cut across the fields, a near way, tor he found it
was getting dusk, and close upon the time he in
tended to call for Ellen. Ashe passed the corner of
Beech Wood, a retired spot just there, near to the
pretty, but very small lodge originally built for a
gamekeeper, who should he suddenly encounter but
its present inmate, the lady he and Mr. Winninton
haa been speaking of. Her arm was within Mr.
Castonel’s, and she was talking rapidly in a tone, as
it seemed, of remonstrance. The gentlemen bow
ed as they passed each other—both coldly—and had
Mr. Leicester turned to scan the doctor’s face, he
would have seen on it a sneer of malignant triumph.
“1 never saw a case more open to suspicion in my
life,” muttered the clergyman to himself. “And he
just come from the presence of his wife that is to
be!”
111. *
“Come, Hannah, look alive," cried Mrs. Muff,
some two mouths subsequent to the above details ;
“wash those decanters first; there’s one short, but
I’ll see to that. Now you need not tnuch the
knives ; Jem will clean them all iu the morning,
Do as I bid you, aud then get out aud dust the
best china.”
“There’s the door bell," said Hannah.
4 Go aud answer it, aud dont be an hour over it.
I dare say it’s the man with the potted meats. —
Tell him the rolls must be here iu the morning by
ten o’clock.”
A most valuable person was Mrs. Muff in her vo
cation, aud highly respected throughout Ebury.
An upright, portly, kindly looking woman, of four
or five End fifty, with an auburn “front,” whose
curls were always scrupulously smooth. She had
for many years held the important situation of
housekeeper at the Hall; but changes had occurred
there, as they do in many places. On the death
of Mrs. Winninton’* sister, she had accepted the
post of housekeeper to him, and had been there
ever since. Hannah, a damsel of twenty, being
uuder her.
“Well, was it the boker ?” she demanded, as
Hannah returned to the kitchen.
“No, ma’am. It was auother wedding present for
Mi*s Caroline, with Mrs. Major Acre’s compliments.
I took it up to her ; she’s in the drawing-room with
Mr. Castonel.”
“Ah!” groaned the housekeeper. “Look at the
dust ou these glasses, Hannah. I thought you said
you had wiped them."
“And what harm, ma'am either?" returned Han
nah, who undeislood very well the nature of the
greau. She’ll be his wife to-morrow.’
‘•Whosaid there w*as harm ?” shortly retorted Mrs.
Muff*. “Only—my poor master! —he is so lonely,
and it is the last evening she'll be here. Wbsre are
you ruuning off to, now ? I told you to finish the
decanters.”
“Master called out for some coal as I passed the
nailor,’ answered Hannah. “The puzzle to me is,
bow he can bear a fire, this sultry August weather.”
“Ah, child, you’ll come to the end ot a good xrany
puzzles before you arrive at iny years. Master’s
old aud chilly, and breaking up as fast as he can
break. 11l take the coal in myself.”
Mr. Wrinninton did not lookup as the housekeep
er put the coal on But afterward, when she was
busy at tbe sideboard, he called out in a sudden,
quick toue—“Mrs. Muff."
“Sir ?” she answered.
4 ‘ What are you doing there ?”
“1 am changing the sherry wine, sir, into the odd
decani er. We want this one to put ready wriththe
others."
“For the show to morrow ?“ he went on.
“To be sure, sir. For nothing else."
“ Ay, Muff, put everything in order,” he con
tinued “ Don't let it be said that I opposed any of
their wishes , an old mau like I am, whom they be
glad to see out of the world. And you ueea not
irouble yourself to put things up afterward, they
wili be wanted agaiu.”
“ For what purpose, sir ?" she inquired.
“ For the funeral.”
Mrs. Muff, as she said afterward, was struck all of
a heap. Aud Mr. YY'inninton resumed:
“ Affer a wedding comes a burying. She is be
ginning the cares of Lite, and I am giving them up
tor ever. And something tells me she will have her
share of them. I shall not be here to stand by her,
Muff, so you must. ’
The housekeeper trembled as she heard. He had
a queer look on his face that she did not like.
“I'll do what I can, sir,” she said. ‘'But when
Miss Caroline has left here, that will be but little."
“ You cango where she goes, Muff.”
“ Perhaps not, sir.”
"Perhaps yes. You will promise to do so if you
can—it any possible way is open? Promise me,”
he added, eagerly and feverishly.
“ W eii, sir, she answered, to humor him, “ if it
shall be agreeable to all parties, yes, I will.”
“ Aud yon will shield her from him, as far as you
can ? “
“Yes, repeated the housekeeper, most imperfect
ly understanding what Caroline was to be shielded
trom.
“Now, Mrs. Muff,’ he concluded in a solemn
tone, “that’s a death bargain. Remember it.”
“You dont seem well, sir," was Mrs. Muff a re
joinder. “Shall I call Miss Caroline to you ?”
“No,” he sadly answered. • “Let her be.
She was in the drawing room with Mr. Castonel,
as has been stated ; laughing, talking, joking, un
mindful of her fond uncle, who was dying under
neath. Her dress was a cool muslin, very pretty,
with its open sleeves, her d ark hair was worn in
bands, ana her dark eyes were animated. She began
showing him some of the preeen te she had received
that day, and supped a bracelet on her arm to dis
play it.
“That s an elegant bracelet,' observed Mr. Casto
nel. “Who is it from."
“Ellen Leicester. 1 *
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 1 £ 18.>7.
■ 4 Oh," he hastily rejoined, * I heard it said to day
hat she is not going to church with you —that tbe
*arw*n a starch will not let her.”
“It is true,” said Caroline. “I did not tell you of it
;*rva*e. because l thought it mignt annoy you, rs
it had done me.”
Annoy me! O dear no. Let me hear what his
objections were ; what he said.”
4 I only gathered the substance of them from Mrs.
Leicester. You know my uncle does not approve
»t our union, though ne did give his consent. So. oil
he* score, I believe Mr. Leicester declined to allow
Ellen to be one of my bridesmaids—that be would
iot directly sauctiou what he was pleased to call an
undutifu! measure.”
“I wonder he condescends to marry us.’ remark
ed Mr. Cartel, with that peculiar sneer, cunning
md malignant, on his fa~e, which even Caroline
disliked to see.
• 111 at he couid not refuse. It .a in his line of duty.
Ellen is so vexed. We three had always promised
-acj other that the two left would, be bridesmaids
o whichever was married first, I, Ellen, and Fran
ces Chavasse."
Mr. Castonel laughed astrsnge, ring', .g !. -gl ,as
f something amustd him much , and Caroline k >k
-fd at him in surprise.
The wedding day dawned; not too promisingly.
In the first place, the nue, brilliant weather had sud
denly changed, and tbe day rose pouring wet. In
the second, Mr. Winninton, who, however, had
never intended to go to church with them, wa? too
ill to rise. Miss Chavasse was bridesmaid, and by
lalf poet ten, Gervase Castonel and Caroline Hall
had been united for better for worse, until death
lid them part. Next came the breakfast, the
Reverend Mr. Leicester, who had officiated, do
dining to go and partake of it, and then the bride
and bridegroom started off in a carriage-and-four to
spend a short honeymoon. Before they returned,
Mr. Winninton was dead.
I\ r .
Again, reader, six months have elapsed, for time,
as I told you, slipped on at Ebury, as fast as it does
at other places. No medical opponent had started,
so Mr. Castonel had the professional swing of th i
whole place, and was getting on it at railway speed.
We are now in the cold drizzly month of February,
and it is a drizzling, dirty wretched day. Iu the
bright kitchen, however, of Mr. Castonel, little signs
are seen of the outside weather. The fire bums clear
and the kettl© sings on it: the equare of carpet, nev
er put down till the cooking wh9 over, extends ifself
before the hearth, and good Mre Muff is presiding
over all, her feet ou a warm footstool, and her spec
tacles on nose, for she has drawn the stand bet'oie
her on which rests her Bible. Presently a visitor
came in. a figure clothed in travelling attire, limp
and moist, introduced by the tiger, Johu, who had
encountered it at the door, as he was going out on
an errand for his master.
“My goodness me, Hannah ! it's never you ?”
‘•Yes, ma’am, it is,” was Hannah’s reply, with a
very low obeisance to Mrs. Muff.
“And why did you not come yesterday, as was
agreed upon ?”
‘*lt rained eo hard with us, mother said I had bet
ter wait; but as to-day turned out little better, I
came through it. She'd have paid for a inside
place, ma'am but the coach was full, eo I caine out
side.”
“Well, get off your wet things, and we’ll have a
cup of tea," said Mrs. Muff, rising and setting the
tea-things.
“Mother sends her duty to you, ma’am,” said
Hannah, as she eat down to the tea table, after obey
ing directions, “and bade me say she was k'udly ob
liged to you for thinking of me, aud getting me a
place under you again.”
“Ah ! we little thought, some months back, that
we should ever be serving Mr. Castonel.”
“Nothing was ever further from my thoughts,
ma’am”
“I wished to come and live with Miss Caroline; I
had my own reasons for it,” resumed Mrs. Muff;
“and as luck had it, she had a breeze with the maids
here, alter she came home, and gave them both
warning. I fancy they had done as they liked too
long, under Mr. Castonel, to put up with the control
of a mistress, and Miss Caroline, if put out, can be
pretty sharp and hasty. However, they were leav
ing, and I heard of it, and came after the place
Miss Caroline—dear! I mean Mrs. Castonel —
thought I ought to look out for a superior one to hers,
but said she should be too glad to take me if I did
not think so. So, here I came, and here I have been,
and when a week ago, the girl under me misbehave.!
herself, I thought of you and spoke to mistress, bo
we sent for you. Now you know how it has all
happened, Hannah.”
“Yes ma’am, and thank you. Is Miss Caroline
well ?”
Mrs. Castonel,” interrupted the housekeeper.—
“Did you not hear me correct myself? She is get
ting better.”
‘‘Has she been ill?” returned Haunah.
“I'll ■ I believe you. It was a near touch, Hannah,
whether she live or died.”
“What has been the matter, ma'am V
“A inis—— Never you mind what,” said the old
lady, arresting her speech before the omnious word
popped out, “she been ill, but is getting better,
and that’s enough. I’ll step up, and ask if she wants
anything.*’
llannah cast her eyes round the kitchen ; it look
ed a very comfortable one, and she thought she should
be happy enough in her new abode. Eve ythtng
was bright and clean to a fault, betokening two
plain facts, the presiding genius of Mrs. Muff, am!
plenty of work for Hannah, who knew she should
have to keep things as she found them.
“Mrs. Castonel will have some tea presently, not
ju.-t yet” said Mrs Muff, returning. “How ill she
does look ! Her face has no more color in it than a
corpse. It put me in mind of my dream."
“Have you had a bad dream lately, ma’am *" in
quired Haunah. For there was not a more invete
rate dreamer, or interpreter of dreams, than Mrs.
Muff, and nothing loth was she to find a listener for
them.
“Indeed I have,” she answered, “and a dream
that 1 don’t like. It was just three nights ago. 1
had gone to bed, dead asleep, having been up part
of several back nights with my mistress, and I
undressed in no time, and was asleep as quick.—
All on a sudden, tor I remembered no evert that
seemed to lead to it, I thought 1 saw my old m-.s
“The squire ?” interrupted Hannah.
“Not the squire; what put him in your head?
Mr. Winninton I thought I saw him standing at
the foot of the bed, and after looking at me fixedly,
as if to draw my attention, he turned his head slow
ly toward the door. I heard the stairs creaking as if
somebody was coming up, step by step, and we
both kept our eyes on the door, waiting in expecta
tion. It began to move ou its hinges, very slowly,
and I wuß struck with honor, tor who should appeal'
at it but ’*
‘‘Ah A a a ah!” shrieked Haunah, whose feelings
being previously wrought up to shrieking pitch, re
ceived their climax, for at that very moment a loud
noise was heard outside the kitchen door, which waa
only pushed to, not closed.
“What a simpleton you be !” wiathfully exclaim
ed Mrs. Muff’, who however, had edged her own
chair into close contact with Hannah’s. “I dare say
it is only master in his laboratory.”
After the lapse of a few reassuring 82Conds,Mis.
Muff, who, moved toward the door, looked out, and
then went toward a small room contiguous to it.
“Ilia as I thought,” she said, coming back and
closing the door; “it ismasteriu his laboratory. But
now that’s an odd thing," she added, musingly.
“What is odd, ma’am?"
“Why, how master could have come down and
gone in there without my hearing him. I left him
sitting with mistress. Perhaps she has dozed off,
she does sometimes at dusk, and he crept down
softly, for fear of disturbing he.”
“But what was the noise /" asked Hannah, breath
lessly.
“Law, child ! d’ye fear it was a ghost ? It was
only Mr. Castonel let fall one of the little drawers,
and it went down with a clatter. And that’s auother
odd thiDg, now I come to think of it, for I always
believed that top drawer to be a dummy drawer.
It has no lock and no knob, like the others ’,
“What is a dummy drawer ?” repeated Hannah
“A false drawer, child, one that won’t open. John
thinks so too, for last Saturday, when he was clean
ing the laboratory, I went in for some string to tie
up the beef olives I was making for dinner. He was
on the steps, stretching up his duster to that very
drawer, and he called out, ‘This here drawer is just
like your head, Madame Muff.’ ”
‘“How eo V asked I.
“ ‘Cause he has got nothing in the inside of him,’
said he, in his impudent way, and rueed off the
steps into the garden, fearing I should box his ears.
But it is this very drawer master has now let fall,
and there were two or three little papers and phials,
I saw, scattered on the floor. I was stepping in,
asking if I could help him to pick them up, but he
looked at me as black as thunder, and roared out,
‘No. Go away and mind your own business.’ Didn’t
you her him?”
“I heard a man’s voice,” replied Hannah ; “I did
not know it was Mr. Castonel’s. But about the
dream, ma’am; you did not finish it.”
“True, and it’s worth finishing, answered the
housekeeper, settling herself in her chair. 4 * Where
was I ? Oh —I thought at the foot ot the bed stood
Mr. Winninton, and when the footsteps came close,
and the door opened—slowly, Hannah, and we
watching in suspense all tbe time —who should it be
but Mr. aud Mrs. Castonel. She was iu her grave
clothes, a flannel dress and cap, edged with white
quilled ribbon, and she looked, for all the world, as
she looks this night. He had got hold of her hand,
and he handed her in, r inainiDg Himself at the doer,
and my old master bent forward tuid took her by
the other hand. Mr. Winninton looked at me, aa
much as to say. Do you see this 7 and then they
both turned and gazed after Mr. Castonel. I heard
his footsteps descending the stairs, and upon look
ing again at the foot of the bed, they were both gone.
I woke up in a dreadful fright, and could not get to
sleep again for two hours."
“It’s a mercy it wasn’t me that dreamt it,” ob
served Haunah. “I should have rose the house,
screeching.”
“It was a nasty dream,” added Mrs. Muff, “and if
mistress had not been out of sli danger, and getting
better as fast as she can get, i should say it beto
kened—something not over pleasant.”
She was interrupted by Mrs. Castonel’s bell. It
was for a cup of tea, and Mrs. Muff took it up. As
she passed the laboratory, she saw that Mr. Casto
nel was iu it still. Mrs. 'Castonel was seated in an
arm-chair by her bedroom fire.
“Then you have not been asleep, ma’am ?” ob
served Mrs. Muff, perceivirg that her mistress had
the candles lighted and was reading.
“No, I have not felt sleepy this evening. Let
Hannah come up when I ring next. 1 should like
to see her.”
Scarcely had Mrs. Muff regained the kitchen,
when the bell rang again, so she sent up Hannah.
“Ah, Hannah, how d ye do?” said Mrs. Castonel.
“I am nicely, thank you, miss—ma’am, ’ answer
ed Hannah, who did not stand in half the awe of
“Miss Caroline” that she did of tbe formidable
Mr?. Muff. “I am sorry to find you are not well,
ma’am."
“I have been ill, but I am much better. So much
better that I should have gone dowu etairs to-day,
had it not been so damp and chilly.”
Hannah never took her eyes off Mrs. Caatoue! as
she spoke; she was thinking Low very much she j
was changed; apart from her palenet* and aspect oi ]
ill health. II r eyes appeared darker, and therr j
was a look of care in them. She wore a cap, and
her dark hair was nearly hidden under it
“Now, Hannah," she &aid, “1 hope you have made
up your mind to do your work wed, and help Mrs.
Muff all that you can. There is a deal more work to
do here than there was at my uncle’s.”
“Yes, ma’am,” answered Hannah.
“Especially in running up and down stain* vou
must save Mrs. Muff ; your legs are younger than
hers. Let me see that you do, and then I shall be
pleased with you."
“I’ll try,” repeated Hannah. “Shall I take your
cup for more tea, ma’am T”
I should like some," was Mrs. Castonel’* reply,
‘‘but I don't know that I may have it. This morn
ing Mr. Castonel said it whs bad for me, and made
me nervous, and would not let me drink a second
cup."
Hannah stood waiting, not knowing whether to
take the cup or not.
“Is Mr. Castonel in his study ?”
“If you please, ma’am, which place is T"
“Tbe front room on the left hand open
ing opposite to the dining parlor,” Cas
tonel. ,
“I don’t think it is there then, ' replied Hannon.
“He is in the little room where the bottles are
to the kitchen. I forget, ma’am, what M r ®- Moil
called it.” ,
“Oh, is he ? Set this door open, Hann&h.
The girl obeyed, and Mrs. Castonel called to him.
He beard her. and came immediately to the foot
of ihe stairs. “Wnat is it?” be asked.
‘‘May I have another cup ot tea ? ’ 4 ._
He ran up stair* and entered the room. Have
you taken your tea already T*’ he said, in ac accent
of surprise and displeasure “I toftd you to wait till
•even o clock.”
I was so thirsty. Do say I may have another
■ cun. Gervase. lam sure it will not bur me."
“Bring up half a cup,” said to tbe servant,
; “and some more bread and butter. If you drink.
Caroline, you must eat.”
Haunah went down stairs. She procured what
; was wanted, and wo? carrying it from the kitchen
! again, when >lr. Ca tob*-l came out of the laboratory
j to which, it appeared* be Lad returned,
i “Give it me,” he saitfko Hannah. « I will take it
j myself to your mis're».”
| So he proceeded up stairs with tbe little waiter
\ and Hannah re turned to the kitchen. “How much
she's altered !” was her exclamation, as she closed
the door.
“What did she say to you?” questioned Mrs.
Muff.
W ell, ma’am, sb* briefly told me to be attentive
and save your legs,” -returned Hannah. “I nev-r
knew Miss Caroline so thoQghtful before. I thought
it was not in her.”
“And that has surprised me, that jßhe should
evince so much lately,” assented Mr?. Huff
" Thoughtfulness do«_s not come to the young sud
denly. It’s a thing that only comes with vears—or
sorrow.”
“Sorrow! ’ ecnoedHaunah. “Mi^Careliuecan’t
have any sorrow."
—Dot that I knew of,” somewhat dubiously,
responded the housekeeper.
“Is Mr. Castonel fond of her? Does he make
her a good husband/” asked Hannah, full of wo
man ? curk-sity ou such points.
“ W hat should hinder him ?” testily retorted Mrs.
Muff.
“ Has that—that strange lady left the place ?”
was Hannah’s next question. '“She tiiat, people
said, had something to do with Mr. Castonel ”
" What to do with him?” was the sharp demand.
“ \V as hi? cousin, ma’am, or sister-iu-law, or some
relation of that s-trt,” explained Haunah, with a
lace detnuie enough to disarm the auger of the fas
tidious Mrs. Muff’.
“I believe she ha? not left,” was tho stiff response;
“ I know nothing about her.”
“Do you suppose Misa Caroline does?” added
Hannah. «
“Os course she does, particulars ” returned
Mrs. Muff, with a •peculiar stfiff. which she invaria
bly gave when forcing her tongue to au untruth.
“Bur it’s not your busiuess, so you may just put ft
out of your head, and never say any more about it.
And you may begin and wash up the tea things John
don’t deserve any tea for not coming iu,aud I have
a great mind to make him go without. lie ia al
ways stopping in the street to play.”
Hannah was rising to obey, when the bedroom
bell rang most violently, and Mr. Castonel was
heard bursting out of the room, and calling lofidly
for assistance.
“ Whatever can be the matter?” was the terri
fied exclamation of Mrs. Muff. 44 Mistress has nev
er dropped asleep, and fallen off her obair into the
fire! Follow me up stairs, girl. And that lazy ti
ger playing truant!”
Not for mauy a year had the house keeper flown
up stairs so quick. Hannah followed more slowly,
from a vague consciousness of bread of what she
might see ; the dream she had shuddered at, being
before her mind in vivid colors. Mrs. Castonel was
iu convulsions.
About the same hour, or a little later, Mr. Lei
cester returned to hisjiome, having been absent
since morning. “ Wei!,” he cheerily said, as he
took his seat by the fire, “ have you any news ?
A whole day from the parish seems a long absence
to me.”
I think not,” answered Mrs Leicester, “ except
that I went to see Caroline Castonel to-day, and
she is getting on nicely.”
“I am glad to hear it. Is she quite out of dan
ger?”
“ Completely so.”
“ She told mamma she should be at church on
Sunday,” added Ellen.
“ Yes, but I told her that would be imprudent,”
returned Mrs. Leicester. “ However, she will soon
be well now.”
At that moment the church bell rang out with
its three times two, denoting the recent departure
ot a soul. The church, situated at the end of the
village street, was immediately opposite the par
sonage, the main road dividing them. The sound
struck upon their ears loud and full ; very solemnly
in the stillness of the winter’s night.
Consternation fell upon all. No nue wa? ill in
the village, a least ill enough lor death. Could a
sister—for they knew, by the strokes, that it was
not a male—have been called away suddenly.
“ The passing bell!” uttered the rector, rising
from liis seat in agitation. “ And 1 have been ab
sent! Have I been summoned out ?” he hurriedly
asked of Mrs. Leicester.
“No; I assure you, no. Not any one has been
for you. Neither have we heard speak of any
illness.”
Mr. Leicester touched the bell rope at his elbow.
A maid servant answered it Benjamin was at
tending to his horse. “Step over,” said the rector,
“and inquire who is dead ?”
She departed. A couple of minute.? at the most
would see her back again. They all had risen from
their seats, and stood iu an expectiug, almost rever
ent attitude. The bell was striding out last strokes
now. The girl returned, looking terrified.
“It is the passing bell, sir, for Mrs. Castonel.”
The morning was cold and misty, and the Rever
end Mr. Leicester felt a strange chill aud lowness
of spirits, for which he could not account, when he
stepped into the chariot that was to convey him to
Mr. Castonel’s.
“Mrs. Chavasse and Frances came into the par
sonage—ostensibly for the purpose of inviting Ellen
to spend the following day with them ; in reality to
see the funeral. They had not long to wait.
The undertaker came first in his hatband and
scarf, and then the black chariot containing the
Reverend Mr. Leicester. Before tbe hearse walk
ed six carriers, and the mourning coach came last.
It was a plain, respectable funeral.
It drew up at the churchyard gate, iu full view of
the parsonage windows, all of which had their blinds
closely drawn, out of respect for the dead. But
they managed to peep at it behind the blinds.
The rector stepped out first, and stood waiting at
the church door in hia officiating dress, hi? book
open in his hands. There was ?ome little delay in
getting the burden from the hearse, but at length
the carriers had it on their shoulders, and bore it up
the path with measured, even steps, themselves
being nearly hidden by the pall. Mr. Cast* nel fol
lowed, his handkerchief to his face, lie betrayed
at that moment no outward sign of emotion, but his
face could not have been exceeded in whiteness by
that of hi? dead wife.
“Ob !” said Ellen, shivering, and turning from
the light, as she burst into tears, “what a dreadful
sequel it is to the day when he last got out of a
carriage at that churchyard gate, and ?he was with
hirn in her gay happiness I Poor Mr. Castonel, how
he must need consulate m !”
“It s nothing of a funeral, after all,” said Mrs.
Chavasse, discontentedly; “no pall hearers, no
mutes, nor anything. I wonder he did not have
some!
The Faculty op Feigning Death. —There are
cases on record of persons who could spontaneous
ly fall iu a death-trance. Monti, in a letter to Hal
ler, mentions several. A priest by the name of
Cfelius Rhodaginus had the same faculty. But tbe
most celebrated instance is that of Col. Towushend,
mentioned in the surgical works of Gooch, by whom
and by Dr. Cheyne and Dr. Beynard, and by Mr
Shrine, an apothecary, the performance of Colonel
Townehend was seen and attested. They had long
attended him, for he was an habitual invalid ; and
he had often invited them to witness the phenome
na of his dying and Coming to life again, but they
had hitherto refused, for fear of the consequences to
himself. Accordingly, in their presence, Colonel
Towushend laid himself down on liis back, and Dr.
Cheyne undertook to observe the pulse. Dr. Bey
nard laid h e hand on his heart, and Mr. Shrine had
a looking-glass to hold to his mouth. Alter a few
seconds, pulse, breathing, and the action of the
heart were no longer to be observed. Each of the
witnesses satisfied himself ot the entire cessation of
these phenomena. When the death-trance Lad last
ed half an hour, the doctors began to fear that t heir
patient had pushed the experiment too far, and was
dead in earnest, and they were preparing to leave
the house, when a slight movement of thevbody at
tracted their attention. They renewed their routine
of observation, when the pulse and sensible motion
of the heart gradually returned, and breathing aud
consciousness. The sequel of the tale is strange —
Col. Townshend, on recovering, sent for his attor
ney, made his wili, and died, for good and all, six
b“urs afterwards.— rhantamnala , by R. R. Mad
den.
The Great American. — The Giant of the
World — MUe§ Darden. —Some weeks ago we gave
a few fauts in regard to the weight and dimensiODS
of this extraordinary mau, and promised our read
ers, through the courtesy of a friend in Henderson
county, further items of interest. The friend we
referred to was the Rev. John Brooks, whose va
racity, we believe, has never been questioned by
any one. He writes as follows .
Air. Darden was born in North Carolina, in the
year 1798, aud departed this iife at his residence in
Henderson county, Tennessee, on the tiJd day of
January, 1857, n the 59th year of his age.
He joined the Baptist Church in early life, and
shortly after emigrated lo Teunesse , where he con
nectea himself with what is called the Christ&iu
Church, but had not been a member of any church
for years past, but was moral Mia fond of conversing
on religious subjects He was an obliging and kind
neighbor, and fond of company. About fifteen
yeare ago he joined the order of Masons. lie was
twice married. His children are very large, but
probably none or them will ever be more than half
the weight of their father. II- was quite active
aud lively, and labored until about lour years Hgo,
when he became so fleshy that ii • was compelled to
stay at home, or to be hauled a! tout in a two horse
wagon.
Iu 1819, he made a contract with a tailor to fur
nish him a suit of clothes for $50 —the cloth was to
cost five dollars per yard. Upon measurement, it
took twelve yards of cloth. So ihe tailor lost ten
dollars aud the making. The tailor states that three
men, each weighing over 200 pounds, put tbe coat
on, buttoned it around them, and walked across the
square at Lexington. Iu 1850, it took 13$ yards of
flax cloth, yard wide, to make him a coat. It took
sixteen yarns cf cambric tor his shroud; 24 yards oi
black velvet to cover the sides and lid of his coffin;
125 feet of plank to moke fais coffin.
His coffin was eight fe*t ioug.
Across the breast 32 inches.
“ head, 18 “
“ foot, 14 “
Its depth 35 _ “
He weighed in 1845, 871 pounds.
His height was 7 feet 6 inches.
His weight, when he died, as nearly as could be
ascertained, was a fraction over 1,000 pounds.—
Jackson (Tenn.) Whig.
How Strangers Live in Rio Janeiro. —The
Hotel dos Estrangeiroe is a large house kept on the
French plan ; the Hotel Johnson is where English
men “most do congregate," and where one can find
mere comfort ritual any other establishment for the
accommodation of the public in the city. B*»tii are
surrounded by verdure, whether we consider the
neighboring garden?, or tbe adjacent hills, whose
r-ides are covered with luxuriantly foliagiki trees
aud clambering vines.*-
The stranger at R. 6 de Janeiro is usually sur
prised at the scarcity of inns and boarding* houses
There are several French and 1 alian hotels with
apartments te let; and these are chiefly supported
by the numerous foreigners constancy arriving and
temporarily residing in the place. But among the
native population,- an d intended for Brazilian pa
trocage, there are only eight or ten inns in a city of
three hundred thousand inhabitants, and scarcely
Hny of these exceed the dimensions of a private
house. It is almost inconceivable now the numer
ous visiters to this great emporium can find neces
sary accommodations. It may safely be presumed
that they could not, without a heavy draught upon
the hospitalities of the inhabitants, with whom, in
many instances, a letter of introduction secures a
home. Iu the lack of such a reeoYt, the sojourner
rents a room, and, by the aid of his servant and n
few articles of furniture, soon manages to live, with
more or less frequent resorts to some caza de paste,
or restaurant. Most of the members of the National
Assembly keep up domestic establishments during
their sojourn in .he capital. A? a conaequen •« of
this lack of hotels and boarding houses, some of the
commercial firms maintain a tabia for the conve
nience of their clerks aud guests. This was once
much more common ; but since 1850, probably tbe
greater portion of those formerly thus accommoda
ted, club together, rent a house in Bolafoga, Parta
Granae or on the banta Th.-resa, and keep up an
establishment of their own.
Green llair. —Tne Bulletin Tberapeutique con
tains the curious case of a worker in metals who
has wrought in copper only five months, and whose
hair, which was lately white, has now turned to a
decided green. Chemical analysis has proved that
his hair contains a considerable' quantity of acetate
of and it is to this siroumstanee that it
•worca efcaega of soior.
EUROPE AN INTELLIGENCE.
BY THE SUROPA.
Front the London Times , July 16.
The Mutiny in India —The danger of the crisis
in the North-Western Provinces of India seems at
length to be appreciated by the Queen s Govern
ment. It haa beeu resolved to act with vigor, and
that resolution will no doubt be fortified by the in
telligence which for some time to come we shall re
ceive by eacn successive mail. We would commu
nicate in a few words the genera! nature of the pre
cautions already taken. A steam squadron is to be
sent to India. As the exigencies of the service have
already absorbed the number of seamen actually
voted, it is intended to apply to Parliament for au
additiou*U vote ot 2,000 seamen, an application
which wiil, no doubt, at once receive the sanctum
of the Legislature. We should gladly hear that
this squadron, or a portion of it. was to be used for
the conveyance of troops. The advantage of a
steam squadron in the Indian Seas is, cf course, un
deniable, but it must not be forgotten that the pres
ence of one European legiment in Upper India
would outweigh that of a steam frigate m the Bay
of Bengal.
The primary value of these steamships for this
emergency is as transports. They cannot bring
their guns to bear upon the mutineers as the scene
of their operations. One fact, however, we may
speak of with certaiuty. A considerable force of
artillery is to be despatched by the most rapid con
veyance at haad; and in this arm, as it appears
from the reports forwarded home, the Bengal estab
lishment is. unfortunately, deficient. With regard
to the regiments actually ordered to the scene of
hostilities—independently of the regiments which
have been moved from the other Presidencies aud
from the Persian Gulf upon the dis'urbed districts—
the force which had been appropriated to the Chi
uese operations, has been intercepted at Point de
Galle by summons from Canning, and this measure
has received the entire approval j nd confirmation
of the authorities at home. In order to fill up the
vacuum m the China service caused by the with
drawal of these troops, it is proposed to despatch a
battalion of Marines to Hong Kong with tne least
possible delay.
Let there not exist any self-deception as to the
real nature of the contest upon which we have just
entered. The result is certain success if we do but
i use the moans at our disposal with judgment aud
energy ; but it would be difficult to exaggerate the
imp:>r Lance of the crisis. So much of India remains
British India as is under the control or the awe
i of British troops, but not a square league more.—
* Let us a. least act upon this conviction as the safest
r earnest of a speedy success. For a long time past
ii has been whispered among men who had expe
rience ot Indian affairs that sooner or later luaia
would revolt from our rule, and perhaps be lost to
, us loreyer. The first part of the prophecy is fulfill
ed or in course of tulfillment. It rests with our
selves to avert the latter and more formidable evil.
The Alleged Revival of the Slave Trade.—
Iu the House of Lords on ihe 17th, the subject of
, the intended transportation of negroes from Africa
to the French collides by the imperial government
, was taken up, when the following proceedings took
place:
“Lord Brougham described the circumstances
uuder which 10,000 free negroes had recently been
transported from Africa to the Fl ench colonies, and
said he apprehended very serious consequences
from this measure aud the revival of the slave trade
At the same time, he had no intention whatever of
insinuating anything against the jusiice or honor of
[ the French Emperor ; and lie was sure it was only
necessary to call the attention of the French gov
ernment to the subject, to induce them to abandon
the policy which appeared to have been adopted.”
In the course of his speech the noble Lord said :
“ But it was unnecessary to advert to further in
stances iu order to demonstrate to their lordships
that exaggerated statements and a complete per
, version of facts were not confined to the advocacy
of the plau of free emigration. They dated from a
, period even further back than 1788. The plan of
free emigration had an ominous resemblance to the
original scheme by which it had been sought to
bring about a stale of things by which the cruelty
which had been inflicted upon the native Indian
tribes in America might be obviated, aud their
places supplied by the importation of negroes from
Africa. That scheme, which he might term the
union of short-sighted benevolence with far sighted
| self-interest, it was which had first produced the
monstrosity the African slave trade. Iu accordance
with that plan, a license to take out 4,000 negroes
from Africa had been obtained—a license which had
afterwards been annually renewed.
“ The terms proposed to be offered to those ne
groes wete 9s. a mouth, and it wits said that negroes
having been purchased and liberated on the Afri
can coast, would immediately have their minds
opened as to the nature of au indenture of appren
ticeship, and would immediately enter into such in
dentures and go on board ship to be conveyed to
the West Indie?, at wages of 9s. a month. Now,
the negro nature was completely misunderstood by
those who advocated such a scheme. The negroes
were naturally simple utiuded aud innocent, but
they possessed almost—as did the ancient Egyp
tianu —an absolu e horror of the sea. That feeling
had always been rooted in their nature, even before
the commencem mt of the slave trade, and it had
gathered additional strength from that infernal traf
tic and the middle passage connected with it. To
propose, therefore, to free negroes to emigrate from
Africa and cross the ocean, was one of the wildest
schemes which ever a perverted imagination had
invented’.’
Having appealed in powerful language to the
House to do all in their power to discountenance
the slave trade iu every shape, Lord Brougham
concluded by moving an address to her Majesty,
which stated that, even if the system, adopted by
the French Government were not iliegal, it had a
direct tendency to promote the slave trade; and
that her Majesty had, therefore, been requested to
use her endeavors to discountenance all measures
which tended, directly or indirectly, to promote a
revival of the slave trade in any shape.
The Earl of Clarendon said the noble and learned
lord had correctly stated the opinion of Government
upon this subject; and he had but done justice to
the Emperor of the Fr«-nch and the French Govern
ment when he said they were incapable of giving
any encouragement, directly or indirectly, to the
. lave trade.
The opinion of his noble and learned friend would
receive the most n spectful attention of government.
He Loped Ike House would agree to the address,
because it would strengthen the hands of the govern
ment, though they needed no stimulant,for the sub
ject had been a matter of constant and confidential
communication between the two government*, aud
that no effort should be wanted to prevent the re
establishment of the slave trade The noble earl
then detailed wuat bad been done, aud said that if it
turned out that the slave trade was revised, the go
vernment would not hesitate to use the power vest
ed in them to stop it.
Lord Harrow by said : —“To show the light iu
which this system was likely to be viewed by the
native chiefs in Africa, he would take the liberty of
reading the copy of a very curious letter eent by the
King of Calabai iu answer to a British merchant
who had written to his Majesty to know whether
any of his people would engage themselves as free
laborers. The letter was as follow* :
“Old Calabar, June 5, 1850.
“Dear Sir:—l Received your kind letter by the
magistrate, through Captain Todd, and by your
wish I now write to say wk be glad for supply you
with slaves. I have spoken with King Archibury,
and all Calabar gentleman be very glad to do the
sain. Regard to free emigration we man no will
go for himself. We shall buv them alsam we do
that time slave trade bin. We be very gla i for
them mau to come back again to Calabar; but I
fear that time they go for West Indies he no will
com back her. We have all agreed to charges four
boxes o; brass an i copper rod for man, woman and
children—but ?!mll noi be able to supply the quan
tity you mention. I Link we shall be able to get
400 or 500 for cue vessel, and to load her in tbree
or four months, for wocauuot get them all ready to
wait for the ship. iShe will have to com and take
them on board as they com We have no place on
shore to keep them. The ship will have to pay con
vey to me aud Archibury, but no other gentlemen
—say 10,000 coppers for each town in cloth, or any
other article of trad. I shall be very glad if the
term I mention will suit you, for we shall not be
able to do it a less price, and man to be paid for with
roads I shall be very glad when you write me
again to mark arrangements with your captain what
inn the ship must come, hoping you are quite well,
beleeve ine to be,
“My dear sir, your humble servant,
“Eto Honesty Kin«.”
This letter showed that the system would be but
another form otthe slave trade, aud that the so-call
ed free laborers w f ould be bought and sold. No
doubt tho horrors of the middle passage could be
prevented by the proper regulation of the vessels
employed in conveying the negroes ; and after the
laborer arrived iu a colony in which slavery had been
abolished he would no longer be the victim of op
pression. Yet, ou the coast of Africa the effect of
the plan would be to revive the gambling spirit
engendered by the slave trade, together with all the
atrocities connected with the capture ol slave in the
interior, while the course of peaceful commerce
and agriculture now extending rapidly over the
shore of Africa, would be entirely arrested.
Lord Brougham briefly replied, quoting the favo
rite organ ot the slave party in the Carolines, to
show that the slaveholders in America regarded the
example proposed to beset by England and France
in the matter of the exportation of “free negroes
trom Alrica as au encouragement aud a justification
for them to procure as many slaves as they chose for
the Southern States. The enforcement of any cou
rract for wages wou'd be entirely within the jurisdic
tion ot the slave State in which the negro was locat
ed j and it was easy to see what would become of
the “freedom” of the Africa emigrant m the event
of any legal dispute arising.
The address was then agreed to.
From the London Times, July 18.
Mr. Marcy’s Letter.- When the Convention of
Paris was transmitted to Washington, Mr. Marcy,
tfith au amiable candor, declared his intention of
considering it with a view to the inteiestsof the
United States in the contingency of a war with
England. The Americans have as much to lose at
sea as ourselves, but they have comparatively in
significant navy. It was therefore natural that they
should wish to diminish captures; but they were
iikely to suffer a disadvantage by allowing ships of
war a monopoly of plunder. The Secretary us state
was perfectly justified in looking to the interests of
hie coiuftry, although he used an untenable argu
ment when be assumed that private enterpr se
would make up for the deficient strength of the na
tional marine. It is well known that privateers
never fight, but that it cannot be denied that in a
war with England they might be a formidable wrap
o i iu the hands of tbe United States. Mr. Marcy
offered to su jscribe three out of the four articles ot
the European Convention, but the parties to the
Treaty of Paris had agreed to make the concession
to any port conditional on the acceptance of the
whole.
As an alternative, he made a bold and compre
hensive proposal. The American Government un
dertook to renounce the use of Letters cf Marque on
condition shat the property of belligerents at sea
should be wholly exempt from capture, and, it the
offer was made m good faith, it is to be regretted
that England did not at once close with the sugges
tion. Lord Palmerston in imated in his Manchester
speech an inclination to acquiesce in the priject,
but it was necessary to consult Lke Powers which
Lad signed the treaty of Paris, and it was thought
- desirable to examine the various results which might
from such a revolution in Maritime Law. Be*
lore a decision could be formed the Cabinet at
Washington became alarmed at the possibility that
tts offer would be accepted. Mr. Buchanan and
Gen. Cass have intimated their die inclination to
ioiiow up the discussion, nor is there any reason to
hope that so desirable an object wili soon become
a; tain able. In the meantime the laws of war be
tween England ana America are whol y unaffected
by the Convention ol Paris.
The maratime weapon which is really indispensa
ble to England is the light of blockade. Mr. Marcy *
plan would have relieved traders from the neces
sity of procuring convoys, while it would have en
abled the Eugtitih fleets to close the prin.ipal po’uj
ot the enemy, and in this manner the mtntmun . of
efficiency m the navy would have been combined
with the minimum of loss to commerce. The tid
ings of the proposed bargain were, as experience
has since proved, much too good to be true. If,
nowever, the Government has not obtained every
thing wmch might have been wished, it has done
the country solid service in procuring the abolition
of European privateering.
Highly Interesting from Italy.—The advices
by tne last steamer include several interesting
items in relation to the affairs of Italy. A Havre
paper of the 14th says ;
“We learn from the Italian prints that Miss White,
, who was incarcerated after the Geonese insurrec
tion, occupies a chamber adjoining the apartment* of
the Governor of the Prison. The revolutionary
heroine appears so be a prey to the liveliest enthu
siasm. Oue singular circumstance will suffice to
give an idea of the political enthusiasm which ani
mates this romantic womau.
“ When the carbineeer came to arrest her, she
threw herself upon a portrait of Mazzini and kiss
ed it with intense and pious fervor. It was rumor
**d that she had declared that she was married to
the oid eh es of youug Italy ; she is engaged, on the
contrary, to a poor young man, whose nama is not
even known. As for Mazzini, he is her gud, not
her husband. Ihe passion with which he inspire?
her i? not love, but a religious respect. One does
not love a prophet, buteerveshim humbly and de
votes one’s self to his gl<»ry.
“ Certainly Miss White has given proof of an ac
tive seal. By moans of subscriptions she obtained
in the *i> gle city of Geneva a sufficient sum for the
purchase of ten thousand muskets.”
“ The events which have recently taken place in
Italy, ’ the Courier says, “must necessarily have
their consequences iu the European Cabinet.”—
Therefore, we cannot be astonished to learu that the
Austrian Cabinet is about to deinaud of Prussia that
that government should address a note to England
praying her to exercise an active surveillance over
•if J, eeß wilu have sought an asylum iu ihe Brit
ish Island?—that is to say, to modify the English
regulations relative to foreigners.
, h wnofc yet known how Prussia will reply to this
demand, but it is certain there is in preparation a
united assault upon Lord Palmerston by the Italian
powers to obtain the expulsion ot Mazzini and his
contrerees trom England. Vienna correspondence
says upon this subject :
The lute events iu Italy cannot pass without
punishment. Ihe diplomacy of the Italiau States,
including Austria, will find sufficient cause for re
clamation, and we shall see in a few weeks a con
stituted coalition ot Powers against the pertuber
ators of the peaoe aud tranquility of the Italian Pe
musula. The result will probably be, that the great
Reyototionary Dictator of Italy and hi? partisans
will be forced to emigrate to America. If ali Eu
rope rise against the disturbers of European peace,
Eugland, it is to be hoped, may at last be persuaded
to withdraw her protection from the anarchists of
our time.”
t Statement of Mrs. Marble—Mrs. Marble
| who, with others, was recently made a prisoner by
i a party of Sioux ludians, had an interview with the
i Commissioner of Indian Affairs ou Tuesday. The
* Union says:
t I Q her application for indemnity' for properly de
t stroyed by the Indians, she states that on the 13,h
of March last, a parly of Sioux Indians, numbering
i about seventy, of whom thirty were warriors, be
, longing to Ink pa-du tail’s band, in amity with the
United Sta es, came to her residence, ou the west
side of Spirit Lake, killed her husbauff, and destroy
ed and carried away property a mourning in the ag
gregate to $2,229, of which S7OO was gold coin. As
s ter having murdered her husband and buried his
body in the snow, they claimed as their prisoners
Mr?. Noble, Miss Gardner, Mrs Thatcer, and her
self, and compelled them to bear heavy burdens,
and plod their weary way with their feet entirely
i naked through snow to the depth of two, three and
i four feet, occasionally crossing rivers when they
l were forced to wade where ofteutime the water
i would nearly immerse their persi ns, and compel
them to ward off the drifting ice with their feeble
f hands to keep it from bruising their shivering bodies,
f 1 11 this maimer they were driven before the savages
r for the space of ten weeks, during which time the
squaws were allowed to abuse them in the most
! cruel manner, striking them with clubs, axes, &c.,
anu their sufferings were of such a character that
language is inadequate to the task of a truthful des
cription.
i After suffering these hardships and privations,
she was rescued by a party of friendly Lac Qui
r Parle Indians, to whom agent Flandreau paid sl,
i 000 for her ransom. Some two weeks before her
f release, Mrs. Thatcher was thrown into the Big Si
. oux river. Upon attempting to get out rifle ball?
, were fired into her body until she expired. Her
- husband, prior to his murder, held a pre-emption
, claim of 160 acres of land, on which he had settled;
and Mrs. Marble believes that she is entitled to ap
t propriate remuneration to the amount, of S2OO in
, lieu of this claim, which she was forced to abandon.
[ She adds that she has not recovered any portion o
I the property which she has specified, and haa rot
. herself, nor through others, sought to claim revenge
l on these Indians. She, therefore, claims indemnify
[ under the 17th section of the intercourse act of
June 30th, 1834, and prays the department to reta n
a sufficient amount from the annuities which may be
due to this tribe of Indi-ns, to satisfy her claim, as
she is ia indigent circumstances. If this cannot be
i done, then she petition? the department to present
her case for the favorable consideration of tne next
Congress.
Tragedy on Staten Island. —A startling trage
dy took place on Staten Island last Tuesday morn
ing, t l e particulars of which are given by the N-
Y. Herald, as follows :
Mias Emma Brewly, residing in Brooklyn, and a
Mr. John G. Souler, of New York, have beeu on
intimate terms for the past two years, against the
wishes ol the young lady’s parents, who repeatedly
forbade her lover their house ; but ho persisted,
little dreaming that his acts would subsequently call
hie loved one to tLe final judgment seat.
From statement of the father, it appears that
the lady had a rejected lover, who, exasperated at
the conduct of his successful rival, determined to
either end his own life or theirs. With this deter
mination, ou Tuesday morniug about 11 o’clock, lie
repaired to Staten Island, where he learned that the
lover? were sojourning, for the purpose of ascertain
ing the lady’s true state of feeling for him ; but
judge of his ieslousy aud surprise, when, oil reach
ing Fort Washington, he discovered his fair Juliet
reposing in the sweet sleep of innocence in her
lover’s arms. Driven to fury by this sight, lie drew
a pistol for tbe purpose of ending bis life, when the
snapping of the trigger awoke Mr. Souler, who, per
ceiving his purpose, struck the pistol from the youug
man’s hand, who still infunateu, hurriedly picked it
up aud fired at the sleeping form before him, the
ball entering her heart and causing instant death.
The murderer immediately escaped, before Mr.
►Souler, who wa* awe-stricken at the act, could give
an alarm. Several persons on hearing the report of
the pißtol, hastened to the spot, and after conveying
the lifeless body of the female into the fort, started
in pursuit of the murderer, who, unfortunately,
eluded his pursuers by jumping on tho boat which
was just starting from the dock, and escaped to
New York.
Chinesi Infxrnal Machines. —Trie following
account show* how great the perils to which the
British fleet at Canton are exposed from the ma
chinations of the Chinese :
On Sunday, the 3d of May, at 4 A. M., it being a
daik, rainy morning, a tremendous explosion took
place exactly ahead of the Acorn, and so close a* to
shake the ship all over; immediately afterwards
fragments of a very large infernal machine floated
past und many pieces were • aught by the spars that
are rigged out all aroud the ship as a protection
against fire rafts. The pinnace and cutter were
sent ahead, and discovered at the distance of half a
mile a strong bamboo rope, attached to a pile driven
into the bed of the river. This rope was found t#
lead from the pile under water to the Acorn’s cable,
to which it was attached some feet under water. —
This must have beeu done by a diver during the
night, as the anchor had been weighed the day be
fore.
Ihe machine which had contained the powder
was attached to rings, by which mears it would
slide easily along the rope fastened to the cable.—
From each bank wa? a line also fastened to the ma
chine to guide it. The banks of the river being
nigh would entirely conceal tbe men employed to
guide it. Part of a tine triggerliue was also found
i leading to the nearest bank of the river. The ma
i chine had evidently been floated down along the
i bamboo rope, and guided by the lines directed
ahead of the Acorn, and had the tiring been delayed
one minute it must have exploded immediately un
i der the bows and destroyed the vessel. Most for
tunately, however, the guard boat, which had re
i turned to the ship for a fresh crew, had just shoved
off and was pulling in the direction of the exact
i point of the bank behind which was the man, gui
i ding the machine. He must have thought himself
discovered, aud pulled the trigger an instant too
, soon. From two pieces of the fragments of the
whole length and breadth it was found that the ma
chine had been a strong wooden tank rendered
water-proof, aud capable of containing more than
2,000 lbs. of powder.
i W ool. —From the most reliable information which
i can be procured from persons who traveled through
i the wool growing district* of the State, the dealers
i are satisfied that the aggregate clip of this year will
exceed that of 1856, by three millions of pounds
A large part if not all of the wool has now passed
r from the farmer to the merchants, and a considera
ble portion into the hands of the buyers for Ihe New
York market and Eastern manufactories The
i prices paid for the greater portion of the wool crop
range from forty to fifty cents, and in some of the
best districts fifty-five to rixty cents have been paid.
We are informed that oue buyer in this city ha? hi
store in Licking county, over two hundred thousand
* pounds, which cost over fifty cents per pound. The
s amount of cash distributed in the State for wool this
year will exceed six millions of dollars. The State
\ has become the leading woolgrowing one in the
i Union.
Besides the increase in the number of fleeces, the
sheariug occurred a month later this year than la?t,
and the increase of the growth of wool during th s
time affords an increase of eight per cent, to the
clip. Buyers are confident that the supply of wool
in the country will fall short of the demand, and the
pries cannot recede. This seems probable, as the
territory in which woof is raised, haa been of late
years narrowed to the Western States, with which
the Eastern could not compete; while theconsump
r tion haa increaaed, tbe Eaatern States have aban
, doned the competition, and left Onio to furnish the
best wools now grown. The counties of Stark,
Wayne, Holmes, Licking, Franklin, and others in
i the centre of the State, are now aa famous for their
fine wool, aa they formerly were for their great crops
of wheat. — Cleveland Plain Dealer , July 24.
* An Indian Adventure —The following incident
waa narrated to Lieutenant Beckwith, of the Pacific
Railroad Expedition, by a Delaware Indian guide,
aa they were traversing a mountain pasa which was
marked by numerous gullies and ravines :
He was traversing this pass at midnight, accom
panied by his squaw only, both mounted on the
same horse, and the night so dark that he could
neither see the outlines of the hills nor the ground at
hie horses feet, when he heard a sound,(which he
imitated) so slight as to be scarcely perceptible to
an Indian's ear, of an arrow carried in the baud,
strikmg once only with a slight tick, against a bow.
Stopping, he could hear nothing, but instantly die
mounted—bis pquaw leaning down upon the boree,
that she might by no posaibilty De seen—and placed
his ear to the ground, when he heard the same sou o
| reputed, but a few feet distant, aod was therefore
! satisfied that however imminent the danger, he Lao
i not yet been seen or beard, for no Indian would
mak*3 such a noise at night in approaching his foe ;
he, therefore, instantly arose ana took his horse bj
the bridle ©lose to.his mouth, to lessen the chance?
J of hisimo veil, g or whining, and one hundred and
. seventy of his deadliest enemies, the Sioux on a
[ war party, filed past him within arm’s reach, while
he remained unobserved.
Fashionable Call and all they Said.—
“H »w do you do, my dear 2”
‘ Putty well, thank you.” (They kite.]
“How have you been this age 7”
“Putty well. How have you been t”
“Very well, thank you.”
“Pleasant to-day.”
“ Yes, very bright—but w# had a shower yes
terday.” J
“Are your people well T”
“Quite well, thank you ; how are your* V'
“V ery well, I'm obliged to you.'
“Have you seen Mary B. lately !”
“No, but I’ve seen .Susan C.”
“You don’t say so ! Is she well I”
“Very well, I believe.” {Rising ]
,l Must you go 7”
“Yes, indeed ; I have seven calls to make.
“Do call again 600 n.” „ 5n
“Thank you ; but you don’t call oit me once in
an “'oh, you «hould not •>: I'm I'm very
good." . ■
“Good bye.”
AceiDiKT.— We learn that on yesterday tbe
derrick Med in conetrncting the iraproventente at
the’reatwrvoir tell, killing two of the workmen and
wounding a third. We were unable to leara the
names <d the unfortunate Tiatime.— Kmtkmlle Ban.
VOL. LXX.—NEW SERIES VOL. XXI. NO. 32
The Letter of Thamna W. Tho man.
It was with feelings of irrepressible inortiticatiou
and grave surprise, mingled with indignation, that
we read the letter of Thomas W. Thomas, of Elbert,
which appeared in tbe Constitutionalist of th* ‘>3d
in t. Where the writer could have gleaned the
idea that such bitter exasperation and malignant
opposition as 1 e has fulminated against President
Buchanan, would be pleasing to the ears of Georgia
Democrats, we cannot tell, unless it be in the fierce
uprisings of his own heart. He will have to come
down from the high horse he has mounted so un
ceremoniously, or travel alone upon his up-hill
journey.
The. entire letter is penetrated with a vein of sar
casm and invective, and seems to have beeu con
ceived in a captious, acrimonious, a d snarly spirit.
Facts which have transpiied since the adjournment
of the Convention, going to mollify the asperities of
Gov. Walker’s conduct—the rapid change which is
coming over public opinion, since time and circum
stance* have favored a dispassionate abd accurate
survey of Kansas affairs ; the lack of official ex
pressions of sentiment upon the subject, from the
Democracy of other Southern States, equally or
more interested thau ourselves, when such demon
?tratine resolutions would not have been wanting,
had such been deemed necessary by them ; these]
aud many additional reason? which must naturally
have presented themselves to the mind of any can
did enquirer after truth, seem not, for an Instant, to
havedeterr 2d the author of this explosive commu
nication from deliberately penuing his reckless
statements, interspersed with tha most daring and
insulting denunciations.
It would require us to oopy tbe letter entire, in
order to give our readers au adequate idea of the
bitterness and malignancy which pervade it; but
we have not room for that. After freely bestowing
upon Walker the epithets “ satrap ,” and
some less significant—after pouring out the vial ot
his w r ath upon the Washington Union, accusing
the editor of wielding a “venal pen”—of telling
“/A.e truth when the truth will do, and inventing
when the necessity of the case demands it** —after
representing the President as a dictatorial “mas
ter,” meting out rewards aud punishments, and
seeking to ride rough shod over the Democracy—
after alligning our worthy and conservative Chief
Executive with abolitionists and traitors, as if he
occupied their line of policy, and sympathised with
1 heir movements and designs—after thus and much
more insulting the mau whose triumphaut election
to the h'ghest office within the gift ot the people
was preceded by a national contest unequaled in
political bitterness and uncompromising hate of De
mocratic principles—the tnan who carried the glo
rious flag of our party, inscribed with its cherished
doctrines, upon his broad shoulders, to victory
through a storm of obliquy and ferocious hostility—
the man who has appointed a Southerner to be Gov
ernor of Kansas, ana a Southerner to be hi? Sccie
tary—the man who is the first President'that ha?
planted himself boldly and unmistakably upon the ,
Southern view of our rights in the territories, and (
who has a majority of Southern men in his Cabi
net—of him, ot James Buchanan, the patriot and
statesman, Judge Thomas thus uses his vindictive ,
pen^
“lie (meaning the editor of the Washington
Union) is a lit and proper o gan for Mr. Buchanan,
if he retains Walker- in that oase his organ in
worthy of him and he is worthy of his organ In
that event, history, ‘with her pen of iron and her
tablets of brass,’ though not condescending to men
tion the organ, will write down the master in the
same list with ARNOLD !”
Is this double-distilled bitterness of approbrium
called for ? No!—no!—we will not believe it. It
is the gangreuous expectoration of a deep seated
viudictiveneee—nothing more, nothing less. Origi
ns ting in ingratitude, it has found its vent in ingra
titude. For who is this Judge Thomas, that lie
should thus take the initiative in abusing and mis
representing President Buchanan f Not more than
two years ago he took shelter in the Democratic
party, in company with many noble-hearted Whigs,
against the hurricane of Kuow-Nothingism that was
sweepiug over the country. Now, like the serpent
which the generous husbandman warmed into life
at his fire-side, he turns to sting the bosom that nf
foroed him hospitality and protection. But does he
suppose that any body who stops to think will se
riously believe his charges I —or that any feeling
besides iudignation will be awakened by his treaoh
ery ? Shall a man who scarcely has his political
>-yes open—the unfledged politician of a few short
years—revile with impunity the statesman who has
grown gray in the service of his party and of his
country ? No!—the only, Arnold in this case, who
has basely betrayed the interests committed to his
keeping, is Judge Thomas himself ; and, could lie
hear the bitter execrations which arise spontaneous
ly from every honest Demoorat’s heart, at the read
ing of his letter, be would cower before the whirl
wind of indignation his own conduct has aroused.—
But here is another extract:
“Soon he (President Buchanan) must take his
place in the history of tins country —au honest mm
who dared to do his duty, or one who tread erouriy
deserted and violated the great principle on which
lie was elected, and sold himself to the Abolition
foes In had jurt defeated ’’
And why re those fierce denounoiations heaped
upon the head of President Buchanan ? What has
he done that he should be called “ traitor and
enrolled with “ Arnold V' Simply this?—he ha*
i ot recalled Robert J. Walker from the Governor
ship ot Kansas, at the instance of the third resolut on
passed by the late Convention of 24th of June—a
resolution that now mee s with the hearty disappr ».
bation of many of the very men who, under the
exciting circumstances of the occasion, and led away
by confiding too trustingly in the judgment of others,
united in the affirmative vote. This unceremonious
haste in pronouncing James Buchanan a traitor
and an Arnold , must, it seems to us, have motives
which lie deeper than the surface of Judge Thomas’
leltei. Can it be poss ble that he is simply the cat's
paw in the hands of designing politicians—that he is
p aying second fiddle to other parties who prescribe
the tune —that ho is a mere tool of scheming opera
tors behind the scenes, the puppet before the curtain,
bowing and grimacing as the wires are pulled in
'he rear ? Can this theory ot the letter be correct ?
If so, then is the puppet worthy of its managers, and
the managers worthy of their puppet. — Rome
Southerner.
From the Savannah Republican.
Col. Ganlden and h!« Democratic Frlends.
Hitherto the opponents of Col. Gauldeu and the
Ifolmesville Convention have had f be newspaper
field pretty much to themselves; and they have not
allowed their opportunities to pass unimproved, as
the columns of the Georgian and News will abun
dantly testify. The scene, however, seems to be
shifting, and the Colonel aod his men getting fairly
in the field. Col. Long opened a responsive can
nouade in the Georgian of Saturday, and yesterday
the Chief himself lets off a regular broadside of can
ister and round s ot, through tho columns of the
News—so loud a report, indeed, that one woluo
suppose he had exhausted his locker. We woufu
be unfaithful to the times did we fail of presenting
at least a synopsis of the Col. s manifesto. It will
amuse our Amerii au friends, and no doubt be in
finitely diverting to the friends of Col. Seward.
Col. Gaulden opens, by a special tender, of his
compliments to our neighbor of the Georgian, to
whom he reads a lecture on “vanity and weakness,’
and would ridicule the idea of the Georgian’s set
ting up as “the arbiter to restrain the party,” when
it was yet but “two days old." He tells our neigh
bor he is independent of his support, and says i
“I believe that my name has a higher and holier
place that It can ever have at the head of the col
umns of the Georgian, to wit s in the hearts and con
tidenoe of my fellow citiiens of the first Congres
sional District -a confidence which, if we mistake
not the signs of the times, will roll up such a major
ity for me, on the first Monday iu October next, that
the defeat which you received at Armory Mall, sig
nal as it was, will be but a gentle symptom.”
The Colouel then ‘ pitenes into," fore and aft, the
various newspaper correspondents who have been
writing against Ifim, whom he affectionately char
acterizes as “cowurdly conspirators and “midnight
assassins.” Their communications, he »ay are “tU
Bues of willful lies and slanders from beginning to
end.” Three gentlemen from Liberty his own coun
ty, come in For a specially pointed and particular
notice. In reply to all of them he save i
“They bark most beautifully now, but the barking
will be turned into lugubrious howls about the first
Monday in October. They will be visited by the
scorn of an indignant people. What, sir, has it
0 »me to this, that thirty odd freemen of the State of
Georgia, representing thirteen counties of the dis
trict, cannot peaceably assemble in Convention and
peaceably nominate a oanaidate for Congress, with
out bringing down on them, and their candidate, the
anathemas of these gentry ? Are we freemen, or
are we the slaves of this faction? What crime
have we committed, I iu accepting, or this Conven
tion in nominating me 7 Is the Democratic party
a free and independent body of citizens, or does it
live, breathe, and have its existence in and through
Col. Seward and a clique or faction?”
“Had Col. S. been nominated, all would have been
as smooth aamai riage bells ; not a word would have
been said ; but because he was not nominated, I
mid the Convention are denounced throughout the
length and breadth of the land. Col. Seward has
been au independent candidate since December
last, atid again declared himself an independent
candidate at the Holinesville Convention ; this is
all r ght, but as soon as I am nominated, the ire of
i his faction is excited to the utmost degree. Oh !
how ang.y they are. The principal reason assigned
a, that the Convention did not represent a majority
of the District. Let us see how this will tell with
the history of Col. Seward. In 1863 Col. Seward
was nominated by six counties. They now say ht
was recommended, but this is a distinction without
a difference ; when a man is recommended by a
Convention, lie is nominated and when li is noun
natad he is recommended. He was very g'.ad to get
it, as I will show hereaitor. C 1. S ward, I say, war
nominated by six counties only, and was elected
uot a word was then said, but all was right will
those who are now so loudly denouncing the
Holinesville Convention. Now permit me to ask if
six counties were so potent when Col. Seward war
nominated in 1853, why are thirteen counties so en
tirely insufficient in 1857, when CoL Gauldeu ir
nominated ? Will these knights of the quill and as
sarsiua of the dark answer 7”
After reviewing their articles separately, he throws
down the gaunilet as follows, to all who may con
sider themselves offended by the matter or manner
of hie strictures :
“ But I cannot follow these cowardly assassins in
their dirty windings and twisti gs; but in taking
i ave of them I wou.d remark that if any or all oi
ihem feel that they are aggrieved by anything said
in this communication, ibat if they will come out of
heir hiding holes, any call that they may make on
me for satisfaction, shall be promp ly attended to
I will respond to tuem all on the same day or on
consecutive days ; and as there are ago many ol
them, and I would not like to lose much time with
-o dirty a pack, I hope they will all call together,
and at once, as I would like to dispose of them be
fore the 25th of August, as at that time I expect to
take the stump, to expose to the people the vile
tricks ot them and their aiders and abettors.”
Tne nominee then strikes for what he seems to
consider higher game, and pnys h's respects to Col.
reward, his opponent, upon whom he calls fo* the
redemption of his bond, as follows :
“I proceed now to a graver and more important
branch of tbs subject. I assert, htldiDg myself
responsible fur the truth of what I say to Col. .Sew
ard and the country, that Col b. met me at the Con
verities in 1853, at ilolmesville; that he made the
most earnest appeals to me to retire from the con
test, and let him have the race that time; that be
did not desire to run but once, and that if I wouu
do so that he would at the next canvass, or any
time after that, if I desired to run, be oat ot ttt*'
way and give ne his support. I beß, . tA^i_ rkf . (
time about comply ng, and Col. Bawardl
that outside and independent ot any y . f j
he could make, (fradtude “'“Xvei luldTave ad
but with tb,
the nomination of ““ j retired and told mi
view to harmomae tte under>tMdiß j
friends to Domwftew h a V e in my possession the
relation in Col. S.'s handwntmg, which
tendered that Convention, and which was pass
bv them, a copy of which will be found below ”
After producing a formidable array of certifi
cates from certain gentlemen of Appling, Camdeu
and Liberty, to the contract between himself and
Col. Sewafdat the Holmesville Convention in 1853.
he publishes the resolutions of Col. Seward, as
follows: *
"Resolved, by this Convention. That we tender
to Col Win. B, Gaulden our hign appreciation of
his generouK.desire to harmonize coufLo ing feel
b gs and produce harmony amongst friends strug
gling for a oomtnon cause.
• ‘•That his inclination to heal q fficulties, manifest
ed by the withdrawal of his name trvm among those
trorn whom a candidate might be selected, Tor the
Ist Congressional District, speaks much in his favor
and should endear him to his party, and he will
doubtless receive the warm oommendation <0
mu friends throughout the Difftriek”
iln view of the certificates and the abov *■ resolu
tions, he continues and concludes as follows.
“ Here is proof strong as Holy Writ, and I won'4
ns 'k the independent voters of the District how C' 1.
Reward can continue a moment in the field opposi d
1 to me. In conclusion, 1 would say to this small* f: j
ot knights of the quill, who have been so industri
ously assailing me before and since ray nomiuition,
that if it is their object to frighten me from my pro
priety, to drive me from the field by bullying i f
abuse, they are sadly mistaken iu their man. I a;i
neither to be frightened from the even tenor of m/
way by paper bu'lets of the brain, nor by bullets * t
a more tangible character. I have been nominate 1
by as fail, free, honest and respectable a conven
tion as ever assembled iu the Distriot, and I hav i
no doubt that it was a much larger and more conn •
ties represented than any Dem ocratic Convention
that has ever assembled in tbe District. I have ac
cepted the nomination I give my banner to th »
breeze; it shall there float, and proudly float, until
the first Monday in October next. I appeal from
the decision of all cliques and factions. I spurt*
their authority as I abhor their dictation.
“ I appeal to the independent voters of the District
to aid me in throwing on the chaius which faction
and cliques have woven astound us, and which
would deliver over the Democratic party into the
hands of one man and a few of his satellites, lor
ever.”
Home “ Souiher»ler ,, —Tlio Third Resolution.*
The Editor of the Southerner (which is regarded
as >h** home organ of Judge Lumpkin, the over
boat d Democratic candidate for Governor) has been
bottling h :* wrath tor some time over the third reso
lution of the Democratic Convention. In his last
issue, however, he is determined to come out with
bis st utunents, and tell the whole truth, “ without
fear, f»vo»- »r affection ” Not having the fear of
Ylr. Jv»e Brown and nisS ‘Uthern Rights supporters
before his eyes lie deliberately delivers himself as
follows :— Sav. Rep
44 The time has come when we can no longer iu
justice Hold our peace. Silence now ceases to be a
virtue ; to speak out becomes a duty.
44 Plaiuly, then, we distinctly see and understand
that this movement agaiust Governor Walker, of
Kansas, is not a movement generally based upon
patriotic feelings, or a oevotiou to principle. It is
as the delegate utiguardedly said iu the couvei ti n,
aplau 4 to roll the administration of Buchanan out
of power on the Cobb of Georgia.’ If the Presi
dent will permit the lenders of this crusade to re
construct the Cabinet for hi'r } Waker need not be
recalled. The Senators and others who recom
mended and end. r.ed him so highly for theiespon
sible position of Secretary of Slate, will stand ready
to smooth down the ruffled feathers of their wrath,
and become his earnest anol .gis’s. The notes of
alarm— the trumpet tonesot warning, will me away
into a buz of approb itiou, and the scowl that wrin
- les the blows of so many angry politicians and
exasperated editors, will smooth down into the most
complacent and winning ot smiles
“We think the action of the Convention in pass
iug the third resoiuti >u was hasty and inconside
rate. The delegate were ill-prepared to consider
the question iu its propor light. Tue Inaugural Ad
dress of Governor Walker i.a I been made public at
Lecompi* u only on the precedingX27th ot May. Be
tween this ate and its first publication some little
time elajsei Even then the production fell into
but few hands. Its great length precluded its ap
pearing in the uewspapets geueially. The Consti
tutionalist itself did not commeuoe publishing the
address until the 15th of July, three weeks utter the
assembling of the Convention, and then only
through repeated solicitatious, and with an apology
based on the ex. i eme length of the production, tor
not having done so previously. was under sttoh
circumstauces that t ie delegates cuiuo toget her.—
Very few of them had lead tue Inaugural; fewer
had read it carefully aud w th sufficient understand
ing to pas-* resolutions denouncing its sentiments.—
The meagre extracts of the Constitutionalist, and
comments thereon, were about all the data which
the mass of delegates had to go ou in funning an
opinion The whole fact is, they saw knowu lead
ers of the party, in whom they had been accustomed
to confide, whole judgments they thought might, be
trusted, and who seemed to have examined the
question thoroughly, uniting ou the resolution of
censure and recail; aud, believing these men would
not wantonly carry them astray , they voted with
them, presuming the tacts to be precisely as repre
sented Were the delegates assembled again, how
ever, to-day as then , the third resolution would bo
in a hopeless minority —in a resurrect iois less
condition. We speak of that which we do know."
« H n * * *
We say, therefore, that, under existing ciroutn
stances we shall sustain the administration even if
it does uot recall Gov. Walker ; uud the gieat. mass
ol* the Democratic and patriotic voters of Georgia
will also sustain him ”
Law or Banka —The New York Courier reports
the following cases, which are ot interest to business
men :
There ate new phases in banking occurring al
most daily', and requiring great watchfulness on the
part of tellers and other bank officers A case oc
curred a few weeks since among two up town banks
which is somewhat novel. Bank A discounted a
note for one of their customers, purporting to be
made by a merchant, a customer ot bank B, where
it was made payable. At its maturity the note was
Bent to bank B tor payment, and was duly certified
by the paying teller, and then paid in the exchanges.
A t'-r the lapse of three weeks or a month, the note
being charged to the customer’s account it was dis
covered that the m&ker’s name was a forgery.—
Bank A was called upon to refund the money there
for ; but declined ou the ground that bank B in
certifying and paying the note, assumed its validity
or genuineness, hi d thus guaranteed the signature
r.f t heir own customer.
This is iu accordance with recent deoisiona of the
English and American Courts, whereby a bank
paying a torged check of one of their own custom
ers, guarantees its genuineness. In the present
ca.-e bank B has recourse upon the endorsers of
the note iu question, but not upon b mk A, and if
the endorsers are men of straw, the loos fallß upon
the former.
Another highly important oaee haa been decided
by the Supreme C'o..rt of this State viz ; Where iho
holder of a promissory note sent it when due to the
bank at which it was payable, and flie bank erro
neously supposing the maker to be in funds, credit
ed the holder with the amount, on discovering its
mistake next day. corrected it, and served the en
dorsers with notice of non-payment.. It wan hold
t y the Supremo Court of New York in an action on
the note i gainst the endorsers, that, it had not been
paid, atid that due step-i had been taken to charge
them, ho mk to render them liable.
Here the note is puyubb- at a p irticul »r place, a
personal **eniaud is not essential It is the business
- f the maker to furnish funds at the place, ready to
uke up the p»per on the day it tails due ; and if
the holder, or any one for him, is there wiih it, so
hat h»- may be iu a situation cud ready to receive
;ne money and give up th- not*, it is sufficient.
Sad Accidknt. — On Sunday morning last, as the
4 o’clock iu< ruing tram from this place to Macon,
reached the crossing ot a small stream ab rnt 7 miles
helow the depot, the track gave way, precipitating
the locomotive, tender uud baggage car into the
water and mud below, killing the fireman, Mr Jack
son Bryant of this place, and so severely injuring
Mr. Patrick Sullivan, temporary baggage master,
shat he died during his transportation to town. Mr.
George Smith, the engineer of the train also had
one leg and arm broken ; and it is something re
markable how he escaped thus lightly, as he whs
found on the body of Mr. Bryant, who was not only
killed outright, but bo scalded hy the hot water, that
he had the appearance of having been par boiled
The passenger ear was not thrown from the track,
and therefore no one else was injured.
As hood ns the occurrence was known in town,
the H'liiroad Company despatched another locomo
tive and ear, with o.»mpetent surgeons and oilier aid
to the help of the wounded and t i<e relief of the de
tained. They returned to the city during the morn
ing, and energetic measures were immediately
adopted to put the road in sound repair. An extra
train left Macon, Sunday morning at 7 o’clock,
reaching this place at 4 p. m.
This terrible accident—one of the worst that has
ever happened on the Muscogee road —was caused
by the heavy washing rains that have daily fallen
for two weeks past; the Southwestern road near
Macon has likewise been so washed that trains were
delayed for two days the past week, but no accident
had occurred. The regular train oame through yes
terday morning ou'y a little behind its usual tune—
so that uninterrupted communications from this city
eastward is once more establish^ d.—Columbus En
quirer, 4th last.
Louis Napolkon un ihe U .iied States.— -In a
work once written by L uis Nspoleon. before his
accession to power, he said, in a chapter, “ On
Governments in General i"
“ I speak it with regret, I oan see but two Gov
ernments at this day, which fulfil the mission that
Providence has confided to them; they are the two
colossi at the end of the world ; one at the extremity
of the old world, the other at the extremity
of the new. Whilst our old European oentre is as
a volcano, consuming itself in its crater, the two na
tions of the East and the West march, without hesi
tation, towards perfection; the one under the will of
a single individual, the other under liberty.
“ Providence has confided to the United States of
North America the task of peopling and civilizing
that immense territory which stretches from the
Atlantic to the South Sea, and from the North Pole
to t.e Equator. The Government, which is only a
simple administration, has only hitherto been called
upon to put in practice the old adage, Lotssez Jinre t
Lais*ez paster, in order to form that irresistible in
stinct which pushes the people of America to the
West."
The only other government in the world which, in
the writer's opinion, fulfilled its mission, was Hus
da, to the imperial dynast' of which, he said, was
.•wing all the vast prog less, which in a century and
a halt has reached that empire from barbaiism.
Such were the opinions which Louis Napoleon held
of the United States *md Russia before he at
tained his present position. It would be an instruc
tive lesson to have another chapter “on Govern
neuts in general," and the United States and Rus
sia in particular, from the Emperor of France.—
Rich. Dii.
Coal Trade of Great Britain. —The coal
trade of Great Britain is bwcoiniug quite an im or
ant branch of the industrial movements of that
kingdom. The total quantity of coal shipped from
porta in England, Ireland and Scotland to other
porta in the United Kingdom was 8.882,037 tone,
besides 37,226 tons of oind*-rs and 189,843 t» ns of
culm. A new article of fuel appears in the British
parlianaenta-y ret urns, called “patent fuel" much
used in steam navigation, «.f wlnoh there were ex
ported coast-wise iu i 856 86 335 tons The grand
total of coal, cinder , and culm ♦Xfi»*ro , d in the coast
ini' trade of the United Kingdom in 1856 wae 9,110,-
076 tons, against 8.853.142 t< us in 1855
In the foreign expor’ trade he total quantities of
coa s, cinders, and culm exported to an
including British commies, amounted to 0,879 ,<79
rons, exclusive of 69.462 tons -f “ par.ent fu«-1, and
the declared valu- thereof was sl4 133,910, besides
$213 24'; the value of* pmtent »«al ’
i. h „ nnanntv <>i coal exported in 1855 was 4,976,-
902t0n; ao.ointi.mil) value to sl2-231,705. The
f-.llowiui statnf-ent will show the countries to which
c al alone waa exported in 1856 :
O uutrltes. Ton*.
Egypt 75,2*9
A g ria 26,578
Aden 54,2x9
Ka t Indl p 128 594
I Au* raiia 33 949
I Cbina ... .33,Mi8
I Brush N Ameiica..93,s2l
I British West Indies.. 94 336
i 'Jlher West'ladles.. 124 530
[ Luned States 230.938
i B aZ.i 87,10 i
I Chili 57,556
<"**. mm
fcfce.r-«i
tin Towui.i.. ..45i 7*J I
Hjia d.'u. ai |
France > 5 <5 |
Spai&ana Island*..s 7 i
L&ly *4 , 7u (
M ots let ,60i :
Turkey 235,41* |
Daring the year the United States exported to
.oretgn countries, cruefly to Canada, Cuba and
New Granada, only 136,.;94 ton*, at a value of
$077,420. Tne quantity ot coal imported into the
United States trorn me British North American
possessions in was 843 tons, at a value oi $4978,
being an average oi $4 64 per ton.— Wa*k . Union.
The Vatican —The word *‘ Vatican ’ is often
used, out there are many who do not understand its
its import. The term refers to a collection ot build
ings on one of the seven hills oi Rome, which cov
ers a space of twelve hundred feet iu leuglh, and
about one thousand iu breadth. It is built on the
spot once occupied by the garden of the cruel
Nero. It owes its origin to the Bishcp of Koine
win in the early pa:t oi the sixth cenluiy, erected
an humble residence its site. About the year
1000, Pope Eugeni us' rebuilt it ou a mugniaoeut
scale. Innocent 11, a few years after warns, gave
it up as a lodging to Feter 11, Kt.-g oi Auagoii.—
In 1605, Clement V, at the instigation oi tne King
of France, removed the Fapal 8«a from Rome to
Avignon, when the Vatican remained iar " "K
--ditkmof obscurity for many yearn, j/
repository of multitudinous treasures of#
My