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SEWING MACHINES.
Large Size, Fifty Dollar*-Xumil g, r. Thirty ]U,Uar*
frilK-4Kan tbeonly low-p- i.—! Ma-tin*-* now for
2 *Je f tbtHewo wTh two threx H working directly
work!” ,V A s
Atio, A gouts forth* wile of SUto .v and County “V ‘
C’KKTIi IC‘ATF>.
Mllai.rlf A Andrcv. < *1 nis Wo ae u ;ug
your-mell Gzi CJuak,l • Vy Kewin.; Murlilnri ill our
fatulli awl lliry arr- givuiK peitec: soli-UHion. We
fiiitl them well adaptud to nil kinds sewiug. They
run much ♦-aster, anti from their vroplicity, are fasicr
manage*i and kept in order than the more complicated
biga-priced Ma i: toe, and we cheerfully recommend all
who arc in want ol the article, to call and >. c yonr’s he -
for paying from one hundred to one hundnd and fifty
dollars for a Machine which, in our estimation, i. no bet
ter than then* cheap houeho'd a taut*. We had this
Machine as a truly great invention, ■ id the very low
price for which it is retailed, w.'h * on piece it in almost
every family in the land. v 1* N MORRIS,
% H W. McKinnon.
Bkk I! ISLAND, August 10, I*sß.
Mesura. Halgh A Andrew*—Ueuls :—Wheu iu >*.ur
city, a few week** ago, I pur-baned one of your ..ui.ill
size Quaker City Hewnig Mach , t*ek i l to, an 1
without any Inatruction . ave the printed one accompa
nying tlo* Macb me, comment f.d working it. aid lid it
cootum-M to woik well, and j ive cutuc
cheerfully recomni* nd your Machine to all who are
about to purchase this now ataosl indupcn-al. 1 * artie'e
of household use. Samih. J M. Gi.akkk.
AIiUU: TA, August 11, ItCtt.
Mc-sra. llaigh A Andrews— Oct u : l take pi* a tnv in
wnaouuciog to you that i h ; lieve the Quaker City .Sew -
ing Machine, sold by you, in equal to any in u , Doing
well adapted to either cous .se r lit.* win. . i ihn.k
all wli* purchase one < f ym i ’ Machiucs will consider
their n oney well spent, a; my Machine is giving pi'. -
sect satisfactiou. L. 0. ‘ kinnek
Messrs. Ilaigh A Andrews : You can use my . arm- in
respect to the large size Quaker City Sewing Machine, to
suit yourselves. It hna given entire satisfaction n ail re
spects. E. E Thompson.
Sam Mills, August 1858.
Messrs. Haigh & Andrews—Gents : I have had one of
your Quaker City .'Sen ing Machines iu use in my family
lor the iast six week:;, and would take pie:*.: arc in re
commending them as ev*-ry woy adapted to ii family
any of the higher pried Machines; and should think,
a: the low price which they are sold, would place them
“in the hands of evety family. Kt spectful y your 8.
an 19- (\X will W.M. D. DAVISON
TO Tin; PLANTERS OF 1
MMFI UK S r l’A r TE.
I\\ ill I.D .
frUu’de and the l*laut* rs generally, to an im i incut,
niventea hy myself, aud pa touted on the uOlb October,
1857.
The object of this invention is to increase tL.* pi h!s
of manual labo<*. itr< merits have been thoromrhly test
ad upou my ow n term ; and it has beep pretty _ut rally
introduced to the K 1 on tors in the a<ij>ir.ing counties *f
Georgia and Florida V ho place the highest r tuna e up
on it, and arc availing Jheoiselvcs of it ; great advan
tages. V can assert from .actual tc.4, that \mi nave by
the use of this implement .*kj to 100 per rent manna! la
bor, as will bo testified to by hundreds who are .vquaint
ed with its superior advantages.
The Double-Acting, Circle-Adjusting
1* Tj O A\ r ,
Is ao peculiarly constructed thatyr.u may run t with
one, two, or throe shares of nuy width from .(to 12 inch
os. deep or shallow. A iso, as a subsoi'.cr, l run a turn
share in advance, aid immediately ii the roar a sub.
soiler, turning over the surface soil and thoroughly pul- j
verizing the subsoil.
I otTor liberal inducements in the sale of county and
.*>ta.* right Add ccs C H MAORI KK
ThomasviHo, Ga.
h -co, Qa 17 wtf
L(X)K HEK E.
I'arnirrs. i'linilcrs :nid Keepers ot
HORSES.
“Keep your Hoises in Good Condition..’ i
iii:i\itsiis
Oil VEGETAfiLI HORSE NIKI
r |MIK ex'.i ionlmm i viitiii‘K.l the . : OKU- :
i MAN HORSE FOWDBR. er.-811-K.-l l>> j
b%< have lined it It fa comtmst-d of \ • i ■ Roots j
nd i larbs, and fa big-hly recommended *r tbe cure and .
|ir*Tßt.tion of all tboM-tliseaKts to ivtiieb tiint aii-o al- the I
Horse—•* subject: as Distemper, Uide-bonn:!, Drowsi
ness. Loss Os Appetite. Inward Sprai.is. Yetle-.r Water,
Katiaus tro.’d h ard east rise er w-erk, Indauintatten oi the
Byes Deh.-.ily, Wasting.rf Kli^d -VC. Dear I) all
cross humors, prevents horses fr.-ni bccondi . •If or
I ‘lin.lertsl. purlis-i and eocls the M.>d, at.-I improves
their general oondtiL'ii. The eonsiantiy in, i s s de
mand for tl:i- i-rl- ‘irat-d ■ lIOKtSE MKDIOIM’. is one
of these Htn.iisUki aide ptw'fs of its worth. I- eases oi
Hide tiound, lows of ~ppuu\ Drowsiness Kntntue,
Distemper, Inrinntmation ofti:e r . li i ‘h
ooniiitiim of the Nkm , imparts a tnu gin--, .at oi
Hair . il is a itniver al Condition Powder. Kminers and
Planters should not tie without this valuable is.p-.far.
For sale, wholesale and retail, hr
Fit'll Kit * 111. IN SIS. j
tlolttmb a, S. C.,
PLUMB & LEITNE ft, j
Wholesale and Retail t druggists, Augi Ma, Gta. j
“Lb CY COBB “ INSTITUTE,
AT 111- NS. (il-OlUilA.
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must ho made -v lsih September, bor turn .‘’i.ia
t. a. apply to the Secretary, or cither one ot t Inis-
Til OK R. K. conn. 1
11KNRY HULL. JtL. |
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BTEVKN Ts.'LMAS, |
U. R. J. LONG, J
H. R. J. LONO. Secretary.
TWIGGS’ ACADEMY.
W.’lalan pen :**r the • J ‘ .’Ky.BKK
f? 20th, lAVi i > v ..awl* ot study is *- -e— in
cluding the h’gher MatbematicP. Ancient ai Modern
Languages. Terms per Quarter >f eieveu w *•-r .>> t
to the Sc. 00l
W J. BURNSIDE. A. I’r ja p
•ugg-wbt u s. via.
V>*nstitutionalist will publish six times iu Vee. v.
V KIU. Dl’KMNtt FOB TEACH
INTKMMMi to re’, n. . -- t “••• ■
ing. at the v v loe of the pre>eut year, the undersigoe
ofHerafor aale bk SCHOOL FIXTURES, cons>:mg |
tweaty double Peaks and Chairs, handsomely mv’e. . < |
cherry, three Pianos cue Organ McUnioe ‘ . w,ta v
stops, having as much power and more vai t ty taaa ai ‘
'ue thousand dollar organ. ? complete ‘ hemic a. a; ;
Philosophical Apparatus; Map- Charts, a Also. :
unexpired portion of a lea Uinm w- AvaU my Ba:
ings. ,
To one desiring a good payiug Sc hoc wi - every .v
cility and convenience at hauci, uo p ace in •• i j.\ a ot
ter* so many vuuuceiuenLs. L E. BRANUAM.
au2B-wu. Eatonton. Ga. ■
SITUATION AS TEACHES WANTED.
, \m NO SKNTIiKHAN ;
i\ was educated at one of the test U-uleges iv. --
i mted States, wishes a SITUATION a* Principal ot m.
Academy, Assistant Teacher in some go*J Schoo; cr
Tutor in a private family
Would be competent to teach the Latin. Greek and
Itathematiea. The best of reference given, as to chai’
• cter and capacity. Please address
an ildA wtf H V SMITHSON. Augusta Ga
A SITUATION WANTED.
1> Y aNo 1 WHEELWRIGHT, witna good piantev
Would be preferred iu Richmond or any of the ai
iotuing counties. Those wish Jig such, will pieae ad
dre- me at Richmond Factory Post Office.
aulfLwtNl JOHN W SHAW
IK YOU HAVE DYSPEPSIA.
I se the Columbian Bitters
ifyeahtive HEADACHE.
Ise the Columbian Bitters.
HyJB h*ve GIDDINESS OP THE HEAD.
Ise the Columbian Bitter
If yi'U h&vw DKPUESSED Si'Hill'S,
Ise the Columbian Bitters.
it you have PII-ES.
Ise the Columbian Bitters.
If you bsve NO APPKTITK
Ise the Columbian Bitters
If you have PAIN in SIDE tjid BACK.
Ise the Columbian Bitters.
jf you hsvt SICK STOMACH,
Ise the Columbian Bitters.
If you have JAUNDICE,
Ise the Columbian Bitters.
If yoor IJV EK IS DISEASED
Ise the Columbian Bitters.
If yon art subject to COSTIVENESS,
Ist the Columbian Bitters.
Sold at FIFTY CENTSa Bottle, by Merchants
generally, and by
HAVILAND. chichkstek a CO.,
WM H. TUTT
PLUMB & I.KITNEK
jelthdAwdin Augusta. Geo.
EARLI COUNTY LANDS
I- FOE SALE.
; \ye offer for ue Fifteen Hundred Acres of frst
; T ? quality Oak a.d Hickory and Haiinocn LANDS,
eig. mi,* iTo:.: iakeiy, on theCcthbert road, joining
I Fr :. Grht, and the late Ma r Jbel Crw-
I'rJ.kLri -r iii in the neighborhood o kgff.'e Dr.
H O. K pianta 1 . 02- Three huedrod and fifty
j acres are i high state of ctJUratios, the tmgar
!. vel. wafpr goodtxi- -1 ahun -ant good G -d
t ‘a
Kkflkk?*cj Coi.tr w. Dudley. D C. K. i>
fori, Amerif:us (ia ; Ooi. Wm. K. DeGraffeuned 1
j cm. Ga , ai. - Col. S. l> StalTord. Blakely, Geo.
We aleo offer for sale the H IEL AND sTA ;LES,
J i*i tb** town of Biakely. now occupied by B
For particulars, address the proprietor, at Blakely
Ga Price and payment will be made to suit th'.* pur
-4m /. W. LEE A BROTHERS.
IIIBIi 111. vn L.IMIS
FOR SALE.
r rJIK - h (Tiber offer- for sale the following pro- er
i J ty, viz; A large and convenient DWELLING,
I with outbuildings, a splendid gandflß, orchard >t boice
.■ru;. tree*, Ac , and thirty-seven acres of land attached,
cr, the Powder Springs r and, 5 mile* from Marietta, ami
1 from the Geo- ,:a M Ktary luaLtute.
A no, & PLANTATION near by, containing S.x Hun
c.r-d and ten acre 100 c eared ; about one hundred and
- xty acres rich Greek bottoms, seventy of which are
cleared and in cultivation. On the p’ace are Negro
Uabim Barns, Gin Home, Screw, dec.. <kc Iu conneo
! • W..i, the above i Will a, o sell, 12 or 14 likely NK
•iK *KS, MULES a ! HORSES, CATTLE
11008, CORN FODDER. OATS, dec, &c,
‘J'# rtns: One ti.irdca; h, t-a.ance in one and two years,
R. W JOYNER,
iyJl wtf Marietta, Oa
. The Col limbi’n Enquirer and Tallahasse (Fla.)
• i ntirel wiil publinb the above weekly, till forbid, and
‘ ‘ 1 fj’f : “” tftai.uing the ame to RW. JOYNER
PLAOTATION
IN MONROE COUNTY, GEO.,
FOR SALE .
* STILL h.ioldbef>re tie. Courthouse door in tbe
S V tov. nos For ,yth. Mourse county. Geo., on the
tiisr in OCTOBER next, the PLANT ION fct-
I l .rising to the estate of Wm. Freeman, late of Spalding
j couuty. 1 cVd. It lies ah ut 12 mile- northeast, of For*
tb. 15 mill! southeast of Griffin, and 3 east of Liberty
j Hi!!, Pike county, and contains 11141 acres, 635 ot which
I are clear- <i and in u ILgli atatf of cultivation. There
J :■.-■ai.out 170 acre*. <.ip<-od BOTTOM LAND, of which
ritenr. 70 are in flue cultivation There is on the premi
> i, a good Dwelling House, comfortable Negro Houses,
t.m ll une, witli (Ir iit Mill attache'!, run by water, a
g o 1 Screw, and other m cessary buildings.
For the accommodation of purchasers, the place will
he id In two* M-ttlements, one of 252i acres, the other
rtrj acre ; It is one of the very BEST WATERED
•PLANTATIONS m the county, and as for HEALTH,
f.-K. Ka? the L. ad of the list. Near tbe Dwelling House
; a very large bold Spring of tbe purest water. The
neighborhood is mo-t excellent, Churches qui e conve
nx'iit. Parties wiihing to purchase, can see and exam
in- th - preiii i't ;, by calling upon Mr. John llamil, the
over r. who :iv-s on the place, and who will take
pleasure in -bowing it to any and all who wish it. ,
ALSO,
Will he Hold on the first ’! uesday in NOVEMBER
,< xt before the Courthouse, door iu the city of Griffin,
Spa.-ii- g county, Ga., one lot of Laud, lying .wo miles
*outh of Griffin,containing 202A acres— 50 of which are
in cult i\ation. A 1 o. the Mouse and Lot known, as tbe
‘‘PLANI HRS’ HOUSE,” in the southwest part of the
city of G; i Gin. ‘1 -i ■•is a most desirable place either
<-r a resilience or Boarding Hor.se. The Dwelling has
nine rooms, large and comfortable; two side buildings
with two rooms each, good Stable, out-build.ngs, &c.
Terms of the above sales —Notes with good security
due Ist of January, 1860.
“ ADELINE J. FREEMAN. Ex’trix.
J. W- SHACKLEFORD, ExY.
au22-wtol
TANARUS) XAS LANDS ! TEXAS LANDS !
()! 1,000 * U hvavily'rimhVrod. ami wiaiailVp*.
<*d t'> the culture of Cotton and Grain, possessing the
aovsu*: g< of pure water, good health, and convenience
t Railroad.. already projected, leading to both Shreves
portand Gniveston Titles clear, and wiil be sold in
quantities to .nit purchasers.
The h Poik, Trinity, Angelina,
10 A e in Me
•Jlehand county, within five miles of Waco, the couDty
Hite, al! of which will be sold lov. for cash, or Negroe
'vii Ibe taken in payment, at a cash valuation ; also, old
Pianta'iocs will ne taken in exchange from pur -hasers,
when desired, as a matter of accommodation, at a fair
valuation.
All communications, addre sed to me at Augir ta Ga.,
or Woodville, Green county, will receive prompt atten
tion.
Personal interviews are preferred, as I have in my
pc session late maps of the State of Texas, and “trace
l>apcr*’ p!atts of tbe Lands offered—also, a fu l descrip
tion and h story of ev ry county iu the State, uo to the
present year, 185.. J XMES M. DAVISON,
Land Agent, Augusta. Ga.
August 11, 1858. dlwA’ wtf
TAL i.. ADEGA LAND FOR SALE.
1 OFFER for sale66sacres of LAND in Talladega
county, Ala , 24 miles from Oxford, ou the road lead
ing trom Talladega to Boiling Springs. 250 acres cleared
and in cultivation. Tbe tract, fronts Choekolotko creek
for one mile, contains 250 acres prime bottom laud, which
will yield Bto 12 barrels corn, 25 to 30 bushels wheat, and
I2t* (;>oo lbs, cotton per acre. The upland, mostly
oak ami hickory, will yield half these quantities. The
location is healthy; range for stock of 3 11 kinds, prime ;
cu.mmnity, moral, social and intelligent; schools and
. tire;..- . 1., dandcouvei- Wu- cars ou the Ala
bama >n.i Tonne e Railroad run in 30 miles of the
plate, ami IS nil road is graded 30 miles beyond, aud runs
. lin two 1 iiilcs ; :.o that the crop of 59 or ’6O may be
iu salubrity of cl mate, fertility of soil, accessibility
to market, intelligence and morality of the community.
For particulars, apply to tbe undersigned at Silver
Run. Talladega county, Ala.
jy 14 w.Jm S. G JINK INS, Agt ut.
GORDON COUNTY LANDS FOR
SALE.
‘IHIII subscriber, wishing to move West, offers for
j I sue his FARM, lying in Gordon county, Ga, im
mediatt iy qn the Western Al Atlantic Railroad—half •
wav be wc.-u Calhoun and Resaca—containing 570
Acres, more or lens. Ibis is an upland Farm which is {
)?! .•• ed tor s lc. but of good quality One hundred and
filly aces cleared and under a good fence and cultiva
tion the remaining lo ir hundred aud twenty acres well
timbered with pin*., oak and hickory.
There is on the place a comfortable log Dwelling,
Negro and t houses, with good stables . several wets
a;..! two springs of good luuestmc -.vator. Also, a j
, Ww>d .r 1 Water .Station, where the wood from the
Farm ul• oU of at remunerating prices. The
growing crop of Corn, v. ith Stock of various kinds, will
j Too -e who wish to got a good bargain ;u Gordon comi
ty land bad better come am! look at my place. For par
ti. uUrs address JD INGLES,
| ru 14 w3m Calhoun, Gordon county, Ga.
PIKE COUNTY LANDS.
i 1 VA MM 111 1: PLANT AT ION f r sale, lying in
! f\ Pik- c<>untv. It joins Zehuion on the Noith. 11
1 uni ’s from Griffin, it contains 1,21)0 acres, and 200 of
L that i> bottom land ; 40 or 50 of the same iu cultivation,
j which w 11 br ug 10 barrels of corn per acre. There is a
{ good mil ‘ cat on the place. The improvements are all
good ad new , and well watered. Convenient to mar
ket. and church, and school. Two Gin Houses and
Screw. 1 w ould sell the crop now growing, as 1 desire
moving W • Anyone hingto buy, would do well
t*> cal’ and exa m orth, mselves. Low for cash. \
JAMES BECKHAM j
IV S. There can he had 400 acres joining if any person
wished more. UyTwSm) _ J■ B |
PLANTATION FOR SALE
‘I I IIK sub-c:iber i. ollVriagfor rale his PLANTA j
} 1 TJON in Olay county, Ga., containing about 730 J
j acres—about 250 acres cleared, good Dwe.ling, Gin {
I House and Screw, all new, and lyingou the river ab. at
8 ir miles above Fort Gaines. ;.
j fehS wtf JAMES GRIER, j
BANKS! BANKS! LANDS!LANDS!!
j 4 I.A ULf- quantity of the best Planting and Farm- 1
I ing LANDS iii southern Georgia, and elsewhere, in i
! rrncts -f 250 to 2,000 acres suit purchasers Also. .
j ten to fifteen leagues of select Texas Lands, with clear J
I titles Is now off-, ring at verv low rates at the tbe Georgia
I Land Office, in Augusta
2 Bills of the Augusta Savannah, Athens, and the 1
j Charleston and Hamburg suspended Banks, wil beta- I
km in payment at pur value. Negroes will be taken a!
so. and the Ufabest oa d> prices allowed.
Person desirous ot forming settlements, or making j
safe investments, will find it to their interest to call at j
iur Office. V, arren Range Augusta. Ga.
JAMES M DAVISON,
l and Agent and Real Estate Broker. ?
octl7-dlwAwtf j
FOR SALE,
r i fig subscriber offers for sale, 320 acres good LAND, j
i 1 near A Ipkaritta. whereon he now resides. There!
lis about 90 arres cleatod and under good fence, and j
about au hundred acres of bottom and. lying m a body, j
hc more than two miles d'srant firom this place. There j
is also* g.KHI Mill-seat on the premises.
TANARUS rms n known by application to the subscriber. t
au24 w3r ‘ RICHARD I. SEALE
SAVANNAH RIVES LANE
FOR SALE.
’ IMIK UNO K14N114 NK I> offers for sale, his PLAN -l.
X TATION, lying three miles below Barksdale s Fer- j
r - a tbe Ba\ aunah Riwr u: Lincoln county. Geo , eon- I
tainiug twelve hundred and three acres, six hundred j
a-'d ninety aore> . f which is now iu cultivation, and ot
wuich cne hundred is goodriver bottom, and between
! two hundred and huv and three hundred fresh cleared, j
j Toe-e is between three hundred and four hundred acres j
Cl wood ’nad. The place i’ very well iiui*roved, has a j
comfortable Dwelling, a good Gui House and Screw. ,
.m.d all necessary oat-buUdings, witn a never-failing j
Well of first rate w ater in the yard.
More particularlar description is deemed 1
ui this advertisement Persom w ishing to buy, are re- .
quested to come and examine for themselves. 1 am .
anxious to sell, tor the purpose of removing westward. *
and wili hold out nuucements to an approved purchaser. ;
JAMES L HEGGIE. 5
j Lmc..ln Geo , 1858. augldwtf
I fcj# Abbevu’c Banner wiil copy until ordered stop- !
FOR SALE,
-A. CUES
Y.ILI''ABLE LA Ml ?!
! A GREAT BARGAIN OFFERED!
lAfcjK subscriber effers : r sale, oa the mot liberal
tarm*. a PLANTATION .ontaining 3,250 acres !
lying upon the waters of Springe ek, in Early county .
(ta, composeduf Creek ftwmp. Hammodh, and Pine !
Lands. There is about twelve hundred acres upened ■
Xli .j inn high state of ett’e.ration, good water, and fce&uny 1
Reixu determined to sell, I will gi.ee the best bargain I
to be Lad m a valuable Plantation w western j
1. S. STAFFO nil.
(yli wici BAkrty. B*rij eonnty, Georgi*. \
VALUABLE PLANTATION FOR SALE
I \YI 1.1. se'J oaOie terms, my PLAI
- TATION Cjntmining 537 ecres. loexud mi 1
wesl H West P.not. ou tbe ro*C to Lfyette. Tbe
I.face is well uurroved. geoJ IrineJ Dweiimg House.
w ; lb lour rooms, i'nuued -moke bon e negro bouses. I
stibles. bro and sir ot the best gin bouses aud seen |
n ite ss'Ußtry All ‘.L. improvements art* new A con- |
siderabie portion of tbe dewrad land is from, ail strong
and good; tbe woodland is finely timbered.
I am determined to sell this place, acl trill give sucb
• haream a- Las not been offered in thi- country tor
’ THOMAS J WINSTON. -
1 Chambers county. Ala. August 5, lnoe.
auis>w4t j
OCOEE HOUSE,
CLEVELAND. TENN.
■ i \ \ M n \ itti ii •i o
J • V\li 1| J .V . 1 JLJ DO ,
Proprietor.
I'HIS HOTEL :s * spacious new Brick building
just completed. The Proprietor incurred a heavy
eipens* in fitting - p &ad fnnuahing the rooms to make
them neat ami comfortable The is noir open for
the reception of Boarders, Visitor* and Travellers; And
the Proprietor ran atford Ample accoauuodaUoßS for 130
person**. An Omnibus, with a good *i*t >afe teAm. will
btt At the Depot to convey to the Hotel and
back to the Depot again. The Proprietor intends to try
to make it a hi st cla** Hotel, ami hopes to *nare a liberal
patronage DANIEL A. TIBBS. Proprietor.
Cleveland; Tena, Aug. 13, lS3d augl^-wbt
(titnmick tc Remind.
A THRILLING NARRATIVE.
The London Time3 of the 11th nit., pives the fol
! wing narrative from a young English lady, who it
will be remembered waa reported to have escaped
•he horrible at Cawnpore, and after un
dergoing incredible privation and unparalleled ad
ventures, was restored to her friends The Times
.- -.ys it has vouchers of due authori*y for the des
patch of the story from Calcutta .and its receipt in
England, an endorsement called for by an appaient
discrepancy in one or two dates, ft has also the
} oung lady’s name and particulars of her family :
“I wai 16 years ut age when I accompanied my
r .-'er and her husband to Cawnpore, about i*lx
months before the mutiny broke out, and suffered
v* ith the Christians under general Sir Hugh Wheei
- Accounts had reached ub on the I7thof May
the disasters at Meerut, and then we were ap
prehensive of an outbreak at Cawnpore. We were
gathered into the barracks on the ilst of the same
conth, and suffered ureadful privations from want
• t provisions and water, and from the frequent at
tacks which where made by the mutineers on our
. nail body of about 450 altogether, consisting
partly of officers of native regiments, and 60 Artil
lerymen.
“An unfortunate treaty was entered into between
Gen. Wheeler aud Nana Sahib on the 24th ot June ;
t! - latter swore by his gods and upon the Gungo to
11 - tec* us and see us safely taken to Allahabad in
buate. We entered these joyfully, never for amo
i;ent expecting treachery, and were taken quite by
dirprise when we were tired on. The river in many
phxcea in the middle had no more than six feet wa
ter, so that most of the boats were soon aground.—
Some of the small ones managed to push on, and
even then with difficulty. The tiring at first was irre
•nl&r, but after a while the balie came whizzing
{ ast us as thick as hail, sinking many boats. I was
< n the deck of my ooat, seated atupified with ter
ror and amrzenient, when I was further convinced
of immediate danger by seeing a party of Sepoys
miter the boar I was in. 1 was seized in an instant
by the arm by one of these savages—for savages
and ruffians they looked. I was asked to deliver
a 1 I possessed ; money and jewel? to tbe amount of
IDO rupees, the sum 1 managed to take with me
vhen I proceeded to the barracks, was now snatch
ed from me.
“On replying in the negative to questions whether
J had more money and valuables ny me, my person
was searched rudely. My senses nad very nearly
forsaken me. I wph in a sort of stupor. The search
was made on my person while 1 was standing, but
‘>■> speak more exactly I was made to stand while I
was searched. The ruffian, as if to tantalize me,
itff off his gun over my head and shoulders in the
most deliberate and cold blooded manner. They
afterwards shot two sweet little girls, sisters, who
were between the ages of six and eight. The poor
creatures were clinging to each other when they
committed the diabolical act. Next they shot an
Eurasian, whose name was Kirk’ atrick, a merchant
in Cawnpore. How many others were killed by the
miscreants I could not know, for I felt dizzy and
.sank on the deck. For what time I remained in this
i-tate I have no idea. I returned to consciousness
by feeling myself suddenly and rudely seized aud
thrown into the river.
“The next moment I was buffeting with the wa
fer. I managed, with some difficulty, to get to land
and scrambled on shore. I crawied on my hands
Hid knees till I reached a tree about halt a mile
from the banks, and hid myself as well as I could.
My thoughts, oh heavens ! were agonizing. My eis
t r. her husband, and children had, I had not the
slightest doubt, been ruthlessly murder* and. I shud
dered to think of their dreadful t&te. My thoughts
next reverted to myself. What was Itodo 7 where
could I escape ? surrounded as I was on all tides by
he dieadlul, revengeful, and bloodthirsty enemy.—
i had no hope of escape. I offered up a fervent
prayer to God, —Gracious and merciful Father.
f ii>u wil not. desert mein the time of need! Oh
Lord! have mercy on me! and suchlike prayeis
Durst forth from my innermest soul.
“I fell by degrees into a sort, of drowsy fit, occa
ioueti perhaps from weariness, from which I was
iroused by approaching stealthy footsteps. In an
aslant I spruug to my feet, but, instead ot the ruf
bans whom 1 expected to see, to my great relief
tin; well-known lace and form of Miss Wheeler, the
General’s daughter, were before me. in a few
vorcis I understood that she had been dealt with in
i lie same way as myself- i. c., thrown into the wa
■ t r oy ihe men, who perhaps thought she was not
worth a builet—that being insensible she would
ooou sink to the bottom of the liver. Our agitation
old fear, however, were so gi eat that we had not
•nuchot consolation to offer each other. We had
not been together more than an hour, I should aup
poß , when a party of the enemy surprised us. We
were dragged in different directions, and of Mies
Wheeler's fate I knew’ nothing till very lately. I
was pushed and dragged along and subjected to
every indignity.
“Occasionally I felt the thrust of a bayonet, and
n my protesting against such treatment with up
fitted hands, and appealing to their feeling as men,
l was struck ou my head, and was made to under
stand, in language too plain, that I had not long to
live ; but before being put to death that I would be
made to fell some portion oi* the degradation their
brethren felt at Meerul when ironed and disgraced
before the troops. After a walk of about four
hours 1 was brought, to a place about four miles
| from Cawnpore, very near Hithoor, where some of
ihe mutineers were encamped. 1 was almost in a
state of nudity, for my clothes had been torn- to
pieces when 1 had been drngged along by the men,
Mid I had the mortification of being made a specta
cle before these heartless and cruel wretches.
Clapping of hands and crie* of ‘Khoob-Kea!’
(Well done!) b* ret upon mv stupified senses. A
circle fox med around me. I sunk ou the ground
and buried my lacs iu my hands. Oh, the agony of
those moments.
“At length 1 heard a voice speaking to my perse
outers iu rather a conciliatory tone —‘Spare the poor
creature and have compassion on her ; let her alone,
he seems dead already.’ I looked up, and saw an
African. There was something mild aud compas
sionate in his look. He relieved me in a great mea
sure trom the shame I was suffering by throwing a
covering or clmddur on me. He .asked me to ac
company him. 1 immediately followed, and was
ushered into a tent, where I was desired by my
benefactor to take rest. lie made me understand
ihat he would do all in his power to have my life
spared. I thanked him for his kindness. After a
! while he procured me a suit of native clothes,
j which lie said i should put on. ‘You are very un
j well,’ he said, ‘your eyes are bloodshot, and face
i very much llusned.’ i knew that I had strong
level on me, aid felt exceedingly weak. I replied
that a little sleep would perhaps do me good. I
laid my aching head oil the mattress and fell fasl
asleep.
“On waking I still felt so weak that 1 could hard-
I ly lilt my head, i had a chupattie, or hand-bread,
aud a little dhall served to me, which 1 could not
oat. My sabie benefactor 1 saw no more till I went
i > Lucknow —he was a eunuch iu the King’s em
ploy, and had arrived in Cawnpore as an avant
t ournrr with some despatches trom Moulvie Ali
medoollab, Shah of Fyzabad, to Nana Sahib.
“1 heard of some ladies whose lives had been
spared, aud who were in a building called the As
sembly-room. How 1 wished that my sister, at
least, was among the number.
“I uad been some time now with the mutineers,
and was treated brutally, llow 1 survived my se
vere illness, having uo proper nourishment given
to me or care taken of me, is a source of wonder th
me now. Sinful as was the wish, 1 wished and
prayed for death, but Providence w illed it other
wise.
“As 1 understood the Hindostanee language
I tin-r* uglily l managed to glean from the conversa
; li not the men that spies had couie from Ailaha
i bad willi news 1 hat the British were makiug ar-
I rangeinents to march on Cawnpore. A ray of
j hope shot through me at the prospect of being
j thus relieved from the hands of these merciless
I men.
I “On the morning of the 15th of July, on getting
, ip, I sound lhat our camp was in an unusual bus
! ;,i , having leached tin- Nana that the vict i
■ lious British were marching on Cawnpore, after
j having routed the rebels first at a place called
; K aga. about five miles from Futtebpore on Mon
’ day. the 12th of July; then r. f Aaong on the 15th;
j a: *3 finally at the bridge on the Pandoo Nuddee, or
.* stream.
” An order was issued by the Nana for the wo
! iii'ii, children, and sick to be removed half-way to
• Lucknow. 1 vainly hoped to be excluded from
j forming one of the number I w’as dragged and
! pushed along in my weak state, and w hen 1 actual
| ly sank from fatigue. I was put on a cart, but not
i before 1 had accomplished 30 miles on foot without
I shoes. On the 21 at we were joined by nearly the
i wnole o: the mutinous troops who had evacuated
} Cawnpore ana Bithoor, and I could easily guess
trom our hurried marches for days that we were in
i full retreat. Whenever tbe news came of the pur
• uing ‘garahs,’ or white soldiers, the flight was con
tinued with a peraeverence worthy of a better
I cause It can be easily imagined from this iu what
; dread the Sepoys held our soldiers,
i “I had To accompany the dying enemy, aud made
a detour of a great portion of the Northwest Pro
vince- ou t >ot, viz : Bareilly. Rohilcund, Fatter
! ghur, Shahjebanpore, and the district* near Delhi.
! .Viter travtliing through ail these rlaces w'e joined
I the mutineers at Luefcuow r . Ou our arrival hers. 1
i met my sable benefactor, who informed me tha*
j Moulvie Ahinedoollah Shah, commonly called the
Fyzabad Moulvie, was one of the principal men or
: gene.ala among the mutineers, and he was certain
j that the Moulvie would shelter and protect me if I
• wrote to him. stating my hard case. The Moulvie.
! though he had a very great antipathy towards Chris
j Tians. especially Euglish, was still in eve.y v. ay a
i good feeling, warm-hearted man, and had declared
| his intention of protecting women and children.—
i Asa steadfast]believer of the Koran, he thought it
’ outrageous to harm them. Very different was the
1 ease with the Nana s*ahib.
“As the Moulvie could read and write English. I
’ had not much difficulty in making him understand
my deplorable condition. On a piece of dirty pa
: per in which some salt had been served to me. I
| managed to scribble with a bit of charcoal a tew
i lines to him, mating my case in a tew words, and
I begging of him, in the name of his prophet. Ma
! homei. to help me. &• it was impossible to drag on
i my miserable existence with the native soldiers,
| whose conduct to me was cruel in the extreme. —
’ The kmd African, under whose advice I acted, nut
■ onlv promised to take my note to the Moulvie, but
to olead my cause for me. A day alter he brought
;me verbal reply from the Moulvie to tbe effect
I the Beg .;r. her mother in law. would take me
I under his protection, and that I should be one of
! the ladies of her household.
• The following day a suit of etuihee similar to
‘hose worn by Mafcomedan ladies ol distinction w„s
I brought to me. and I was instructed to bathe and
proceed to iba Begum s Palace at the Kaiscrbagh.
•1 shall briefly Dm} over the particulars of my
j conversion to the faith and icscalla
’ ’.ion as a Lady of the Household, a** i fee! pained to
j mini: ot this period of my eventful existence suf
■ uee it to that I had to contend with suffering- 1
j enough to bena —nd subdue any woman. The ei
I feet of the ill-treatment 1 had'endured tended to
, me a downright hypocrite. J could have
! fleet. iS3tie to do anything, and 1 played my part as
a convert the Mahomedan creed in a style at
which I feel astonished now. 1 was obliged to learn
I by heart portions of thr txoran (Mahomedan Bible, >
j had. mornings and evenings io get through my
j devoi*uL~. It I excited the least suspicion in the
1 minds of Ukxw* about me of being a Christian in
j slant death would Lavs inevitably followed. When
• I accompanied the troops x was at one time order
i ed lo be blown from a gun. but on account of a
! nasty retxeat 1 tortunately escaped, thougu a: the
time 1 was gtadof the order, for my life was well
nigh intolerable.
“In ever}- respect I was weii cared for and treat
ad by the Begum. My health rapidly improved,
and iha desire to live was now strong in me. l was
I well aware that the Br.tish would relieve the garr.
con of Lucknow, and that troops were on their way
! f rom England to punish the mutineers,
j i have already mentioned that I became a hy
pocrite. The Begum and the ladies of the house
hold believed ma to be a devout Mahomedan. I
w&s much praised when I said that I thought the
English would not b* able to relieve the garrison or
even to approach Lucknov
“Things progressed very favorably with me. The
approach of General Havelock gave me some hope
ot escaping. 1 was here, 1 might mention, during
nearly the whole siege, and oh 1 how often did 1
offer up my silent prayers for the little band of he
roes struggling for life against an overwhelming
force —‘The way of God is in the sea, and His ppth
is in the great waters. His footsteps are not known.
But although thou sayest thou canst not see Him,
yet judgment is before Him. therefore Lust thou in
him ’
“Great was the boasting around me because
AUGUSTA, GA.. WEDNESDAY MC US ING, SEPTEMBER 8, 1858.
General Havelock had twice to fall back upon
Cawnpore. but they miscalculated his pereeveraiic e.
On the 23d of .September be and Gtruei al Outram
fought their way into the Residency. The muti
neers retreated tastily in every direction. Even ,
the littie British force, con.-isting of only 2,500 1
men, and these infantry and artillery, with me'-: !y j
a handful of volunteer cavalry, intimidated t .tir j
enemies, who appeared very numerous, in tat, j
countless. All that tiie miserable Sepoys could
now do wa:: to occupy loopholed houses round the
garrison, and keep up an incessant fire.
“Nearly a mon'h had elapsed thus, aud report* !
were rile tLat the Commander-in-Chief of the Bi it- 1
isb forces, Sir Colin Campbell, was advancing es- j
tectually to relieve the garrison, aud the way in j
which he afterwards achieved his purpose has fit en |
acknowledged by all as excellent.
“The Begum, with whom I was now putting up. !
was a grim # aud suspicious woman, and when thwart
ed or annoyed, acted with prompt cruelty. She
understood we:! her position, and on rumors teach
ing her of the frtquent defeat of her troops by the
British, she was irritable to the last degree. On
the approach of the Commander iu-Chief her equv j
uimity entirely forsook her. She treated me with j
great severity ar:d Housed me frequently, call.ng |
me Kaffir, or unbeliever, hypocrit, a slut, and i j
serpent who would yet sting oer benefactors. Her
treatment of me ai last became cruel. 1 tried to !
bear up with her ill humor as well as I could, for to f
have said a word to he r would have been need loss. I
Death, 1 knew lull well, stared me in the face should I
my conduct be in the least offensive.
“One morning she entered my apartments in a i
frantic state, and commenced, as usual, calling me
names. I thought it wa- one of her usual fits but I
my eyes were opened wh-i she taid, ‘Your general
is approaching, out will find >t no easy task To take
Lucknow, for we have doue all iu our pow r to
strengthen our defences. You are, lam sure, very
pleased to bear of his coming. I can see it in your
very countenance. Wretch you shall die rather
than escape. 1 therefore advise you to prepare
yourself to-day, and make your peace with Al/ak ,
ior to morrow at dawn of day you shall be shot.’—
Tiie reader can iim.gine my state of mind at this un
expected and appal ing news. To die now when 1
bad survived so many hardships. But God in Hie
wisdom sent me succour and cot solatio in my own
servant.
“The ladies of the Regum's household are allow’
ed servants or gatoms , slaves, as they are c ailed.
The one in attendance on me proved a fa.tbful
creature to me in my time of need. This poor, ill
used creature entertained an affection for me be
cause I was kind to her. The slaves are not gent
rally treated well; they are frequently thumped,
kicked and abused by the ladies. They approach
their misstresees with trembling and fear, so that
the slightest kindneSiN goes a great way with them.
On hearing from me my sentence she said with
tears. ‘Mistress, I will try to make you tffect your
escape irom this p'aoe, for what the Begum once
says is never recalled I heard belore you entered
these apartments that you were to be shot to-mor
row ; but, thank God, there is yet time left to act.—
You must go into the garden by the back door, and
1 will wait for you at midnight under the Pepul tree
at the further extremity of the garden, where you
uua change your clothes for coarse apparel which
I will provide for you. The guards know me and
will allow us to pass without molestation. We will
proceed to the Moulvie Sahib ; and when you are
at once under liis protection the Begum dare not
touch you. I wiil provide you with a few rupees,
which >ou must present to him on your approach
as nuzzur , or present. Tie will be pleased if this
respect is shown to him. Use flattery, and ap
proach him as if you wre his slave.’
“I accordingly waited till the appointed time, and
when I was convinced that all was queit I made
my way in the daik from the palace as noiselessly
as I possibly could. 1 met my faithful campanior.
at the appointed spot. After changing my apparel
I threw my clothes I had taken off into a'well. Af
ter wending our way along an avenue cr grove of
trees, we w ere challenged by a sentry on duty. My
companion explained that we were proceeding to
join our husbands at the Mouivie’s camp. We were
allowed, alter due search to proceed on our way.
At dawn we reached the Moulvie’s camp. The Gen.
Sahib, we were informed, was not to be seen
tiil 8 o’clock, at which time he would drill his men
After waiting with feverish anxiety for two hours
there was a bustle among the men, and I was in
formed that t hey were preparing for drill and were
to have a sort of wham-fight. In a short time the
plain was covered with infantry, cavalry, and ar
tillery. The bugle sounded the ‘assembly,’ and
those who had not joined the ranks rushed to them
from all quarters. The hum of voices suddenly
ceased as I perceived a cavalcade proceeding from
the Moulvie s quarters. 1 was informed 1 h*n. the
General and his stnlf were approaching. Moulvie
Abmedooiiah Shah was a middle-aged man, and had
a somewhat distinguished mein. I could see that he
had won the respect and confidence of his men Af
ter riding with his staff from regiment to regiment,
inspecting them, the infantry were made io go
through some manoeuvres. The cavalry tad to
wheel round, trot and charge Hie infantry while they
formed squares and knelt to receive the charge, and,
when the troopers were within a short distance,
tired a volley into them ; they wheeled and retreat
ed, and then the artillery opened lire on them
“Various other manoeuvres were gone through.—
The infantry regiments marched in open column,
while the bands played ‘The Blue Bells in Scotland’
to their slow march, the troops and hors* artillery
ou the right and left. The force assembled, I was
informed, consisted of 20,006 men ol all arms.—
Marching in this fashion, they reached the General
Moulvie’s palace, when the order wai given to halt,
front, dress, advance for general salute, and to my
utter astonishment,‘God save the Queen’ was struck
up briskly. After lodging arms the whole fc rce was
dismissed, the men cheering on the Mouivie express
ing himself satisfied with the way in which the ma
noeuvres were gone through.
“After the parade I approached with the rupees
id my hand.-.; with suitable phrases I won the Moul
vie to interest himself in m*-. ‘Nobody,’ said he
graciously, but in an upstartish way, ‘will molest
you.’ Take apartments in the palace, and have the
slaves to attend you. You have followed our creed,
and we must protect you.
“I was very comfortable so long as 1 remained
at the Moulvie’s palace, aud waa free from all es
pionage from the men as well as women; for tbe
Moulvie was a despot, and could order any persou
uuder him to be put to death, and his orders would
be cheerfully carried out by his soldiers; in fact,
lie was a determined sort of person, aud as he had
taken an iutere-t in me, i was not. interfered with.
“1 had made my es ape trom the Begum's palace
in the beginning of November, aud remained un
der the Moulvie’s protection till the l2thofthat
month, when he went out with his troops to meet
Sir Colin Campbell, then advancing to the relief of {
Lucknow. Before his departure he sent me again {
to the Begum, with strict orders that I should be j
well treated. She was still residing at the Kasier j
Bagh, ami received me with moody silence.
“My feelings during the Ci.mbat which ensued in |
Lucknow may be imagined. I would have escaped }
at its commencement if I dared, but to have at •
tempted it would have been certain death.
“After a dreadful combat it became evident that j
the B.itish would be everywhere successful, aud \
then began a frightful rout in our camp. Horae6, ’
camels, elephants, and carriages were prepared for
the Begum and her household. The mutineers were i
flying in all directions. In the contusion 1 escaped I
through a loophole of the palace, but. the shot and
shells were still whistling around. I knew not vvhal j
to do It was evident I was little cared for or !
thought of in the confusion whic.: reigned around J
me From pursuit, therefore, I had nothing to fear. •
but how to i each the English camp I knew not. I j
advanced a short distance, but to have continued j
my course in that direction was to encounter certain j
death, as an incessant shower of grape whs pouring ;
in from every side In this extremity J had to join a !
body,of mutineers who took the direction to the north, j
J wandered about—l cannot exactly say how long, j
We made a detour to Glide. 1 journeyed ou foot, j
and put up with coarse fare. I thought the chupa
teen and dhall now bonne hoacke. I was strong. I
was well treated, and able to bear any amount ot ;
fatigue. Our numbers could not have been ices |
than 1,000 men, with two guns ; but they were aug
merited by fugitives joining in twos and threes
daily. If the British after the retaking of Lucknow
immediately had continued pursuit g the enemy for
days in every direction tuey would by this time
have been totally extinct. As for me, ir.y safety
lay in accompanying them ; nor would they have
let me depart
“Councils of war were held among the chiefs, but
having no regular leader to guide them and bring j
their discuseions to bear upon their movements,
they wandered about, a regular set of fugitives. I
until w T e were nearly 30 mi’es from Allahabad. )
when they came to a standstill. They were now ? in
a fearful state of mind, and, being exceedingly stu
pid, could be made to believe anything, fur ail Aey
cared for was to have their lives spared. The Brit
ish never before contended with such contemptible
foes. 1 kept very silent for days ; but when I found
that the men were so ready to take in everything, 1
spoke to them aud called for a council. They were
eager to hear me.
“I explained to them that as their only hope was
in the clemency of the Company Bahadoor, the best
filan would be to send me with proper escort to Al
nhabad, where I would explain their case to the
Governor General through the magistrate of Allaha
bad, who, I said was my cousin. I said that if they
allowed me to manage their affairs, they would
come off” with their lives and Überiy. I made them
understand that, though a Maho nmedan now. I
had on e been a Christian, and, Having influential
relatives, I would urge their kindness to me as h
sufficient ground for their lives being spared. 1
tried to convince them that the British looked more
upon their sparing the life of one female than the
slaughter 500 men.
“Alter reasoning and discussing the matter, they
at last consented to let me go. They were, in fact,
like drowning men, eager to catch at a straw to
save their lives. I was made to give, before I start
ed, to the chiefs or captains certificates that I had
been well treated, for they said it W’as better to have
something, in case I played them false. I readily
agreed to this, and drew up about 30 certificate:
accordingly, as they cost me nothing, and I was
very anxious to get away from them. I left them
with a light heart, and journeyed on foot with about
10 men. Oh! I cannot sutiicientiy describe my
feelings when I left them. I offered up a ailen;
prayer of thanksgiving to God that He had safely
brought me out of such sufferings, degredation aac
misery.
After I crossed th*Ganges. zemindars. laDdhold
ers. thanadars, beads of mofussil police, one and al:
rebels at heart, perhaps, and disaffected, hearing
that 1 had *mporiaut despatches from the rebel camp
for the Governor General, r.3adily supplied me with
paikies and bearers, and heaped presents on me. J
arrived safe on the third day at my uncle’s factory,
a day’s journey from Allahaoad. Tne oid ma j and
his family at first could not recognize me ; my Ma
hommedan costume, sunburnt face, andemanciated
form tended effectual y todisguise me; but this was
only for a few momenta, and then I was clasped in
their warm embraces. I .-hall leave the reader to
imagine the joy of th&i meeting.
“I shall now draw my hasty sketch to a close by
informing the reader that I am very happy in the
midst of friends and relatives at Calcutta, whither I
came ai'tar residing with my uncle for a month.
“The date on whrnh I reached my uncle’s factory
was the 20th of Jane. IBsh. exactly one year since
the Cawnpore massacre. lamc *w residing with
my aunt and receiving 100 rupees a mor/'* from the
Belief Fand. and I need hardly add that I am as
happy and comfortable as I could wish to be.’
A Scene in the St aits ok Malacca.—One day,
jyhile laying at anchor and wishing for a breezs, the
steward"rushed in with the straLge announcement
that a shark and & turtle were engaged in a tight
alongside. Doubttul and amazed at the account of
so unusual and so unequal a combat, we all rushed
on deck, and there, sure enough, we saw an im
mense shark and a turtle of veuera- le antiquity, if
we might judge from his size and the profusion of
barnac.es and other parasites with which he w>:
decorated. Without respect for his age and Q
Rer like habits, the shark made furious charges at
poor turtle, who opposed the dangerous jaws of the
enemy with full front of his back, on which no im
pression could be made. On one occasion the tur
tie did not turn quite sharply enough, which cost
him a greater part of one unlucky flipper. Indig
nant at the perversion of euch an aldermanic ban
quet to the voracious and indiscriminate appetite of
a shark, our skipper intervened with a harpoon,
but with such ill-judged aim that it feii butt-end
foremost instead of on the potet: whereupon, in our
disappointment, we would gladly have pitched him
after it. It, however, answered the purpose of
scaring away the shark for a tew moments, which
the turtle made the most to scuttle to tbe bottom,
where he was safe from the attacks of his ravenous
admirer.
Death of I>k. Harnl* .—Dr. Harney, of the U.
S. army, and a brother of Gen Harney, died at
Baton Rouge on Sunday.
Highly Interoriuc Account of the Voyage of
the Agamemnon.
j The correspondent ol the London Times who was
! on board the Agamemnon furnisher an account of
tbe laying ot the *able by that ship. We copy such
\ portions as are interesting because differing from
j the experience of the Niagara in performing her
1 share of the service :
j Os the voyage out there is little to be said. It
was not chequered by tiie excitement of continual
| storms or the tedium of perpetual calms, but we
Lad a sufficient adwixtur of both to render our
p-usage to the rendezvous a v ry ordinary and un
interesting one indeed. F. r the first week the
barometer remained unusually low, aud the uum-
I here of those natural bt loetira. Mother CaryV
! chickens, that kept in our wake, kept us in conti
nual expectation of heavy weather. With every
iirtle breeze ot wind the screw was got up and sail
itude, so a* to husband our coals as much as poa
sible, but it generally soon fell calm and obliged
Captain Preedy reluctantly to get up steam aga-n.
; 1 .. oneequ f these c ntinued delays from steam
i> sail, and from sail to bream agnin, much fuel
) was expended c; i not .n re than 80 miles of die
tance made good each -fry.
By dint. !• >*ever. j i <: ir expenditure of fuel,
! and a libs r ‘ use • : Ihe . apei motive powe of
j Wednesday, the 18 h of July, just II days after our
departure trom Queenstown. The r est of the squad
ron were iu sight at nightfall, but at such a con
siderable distance that it v fa? past 10 o'clock on the
morning of Thursday, tht -‘Th, before the Agamcm
| non joined them. We were as usual greeted by a
perfect storm of question;- as to what kept us so
much behind our time, >md lea- lied that all had
come to the conclusion that the ship must, have got
on shore on leaving Queenstown Harbor. The
Niagara it appeared, had arrived at the rendezvous
ou Friday night, the 23d. t. e Valorous on Sunday,
the 25th, and the Gorgon on the afternoon of Tues
day, the 27th.
The day was beautifully calm, so uo time was to
be lost before making the y ticej boats were soon
lowered attendant the two vessels
made fast by a hawser, vd rtfci- Niagara's end of
the cable conveyed on board the Agamemnon.
About hail past 12 o’clock the splice was eiloctual
ly made, but with materials very different Irom
carefully rounded semicircular boards which had
been used to enct< se the junctions on previous oc
casions. It consisted merely of two straight boards
rod and
leaden plummet attached to the centre.
Iu hoisting it out from the side of the ship, how
ever, the leaden sinker broke short off’ and fell over-
board ; and there being no more convenient weight
at hand, a 32 lb. shot was fastened to the splice in
stead, and the whole apparatus was quickly drop
yed into the sea without any formality, for those on
board had witnessed so many beginnings’ to the
telegraphic line, that it was evident they despaired
of there ever being an end to it. Tbe stipulated
210 fathoms of cable having been paid out to allow
the splice to sink well below the surface, the signal
to start was foisted, the hawser cut loose, and tiie
Niagara and Agamemnon started for the List time
for'their opposite destinations.
For the first three hours the ships proceeded very
£ owly. pay ing out a great quantity of slack, but af
ter tin expiration of this time the speed of the Aga
memnon was increased to five knot;- per hour, the
cable going at about six without indicating more
than a few hundred pounds of strain upon the dy
namometer.
Shortly after six o’clock a very large whale was
■ eeu approaching the starboard bow at a great
speed, ruling and tossing the ea into loam all
round, and for the first tin;© we felt the possibility
■
age of tiie cable rnigfr have been caused after all
oy one of these animals getting foul of it under wa
ter. It appeared as if it were makiug direct for the
, i iet of all when the pou
derous living mass was seen slowly to pass astern,
just grazing the cable where it entered the water,
but fortunately, without doing any mischief.
Ail seemed lo go well up to about 8 o’clock; the
cable paid out Irom the hold with an evenness aud
regularity which showed how carefully and perfectly
it lmd been coiled away ; and to guard against acci
dents which might arise in consequence of the ca
ble having suffered injury during the storm, them
. i • v was never al
lowed to go beyond 1,700 iID., or less than one quar
ter ot what the cable is e.-lmvaud to bear, and thus
far everything looked promising of success. But in
such a hazardous work no one knows what a few
minutes may brirg forth, for ro; u after eight an in
jured por:ion oi Ibe cable was discovered about a
mile or two from the portion paying out; not a mo
ment was lost by Mr. Canning, the engineer on du
> up the injury
as well as time would permit, for the cable was go
ing at such a rate tha: the damaged portion would
be pn and overboard in less than twenty minutes, and
former experience had shown us that to check
either the speed of the ship or the cable would,
in all probability, be attended by the most fatal re
sults.
Just before the lapping was finished Professor
Thomson reported that the electrical continuity of
the wire ceased, but that the insultatiou was still
perfe ct, attention uas naturally directed to the in
jured place us the probable source of the stoppage
and not a moment was lost in cutting the cable at
that point, with the intention of making a perfect
splice.
To the consternation of a’), the electrical tests ap
plied shewed the inult to be overboard, and in all
probability some 50 miles from the ship. Not. a se
cond was to bo lost, for it was evident that the cut
portion must be paid overboard in a few minutes,
and iu the meantime the tedious and difficult ope
ration of making a splice had to be performed.
Th ship was immediately stopped, and no more
cable paid out than was absolutely necessai yto
prevent it breaking. As the stern ship was lifted
by the waves a scene of the nr. et intense excite
ment followed. I’ seemed impossible even by using
the greatest possible speed, and paying out the
least possible amount ot cable, that the junction
could be finished before the part waa taken out of
tbe hands of tiie workmen.
The main hold presented an extraordinary scene,
nearly all the officers otthe ship and those connect
ed with the expedition stood in groups about the
coil, watching with interne anxiety the cable, as it
slowly unwound itseit nearer and nearer the joint,
while the workmen, directed by Mr. Canning under
whose superintendence the cable was originally
manufactured, yoked at the splice as only men
could work who mil that the liic and death of the
expedition depended upon their rapidity.
Bur all their speed was to no purposes, as the ca
ble was unwinding within m hundred fathoms, and
as a las and desperate resource, the cable was
stopped altogether, and for a few minutes the ship
hung on by -ho end. Fortunately however it was
only for a few miuuti-e. as the strain v. s continual
ly rising above two tons, and it would not hold on
much longer, when the splice was finished the sig
nal was made to loose the stopper, and it passed
overboard safely’ enough.
When the excitement consequent upo? having so
narrowly saved the cable had passed away wo
awoke to the consciousness that the case waa still j
as hopeless as ever, for the electrical continuity w;is
| still entirely wanting. Preparations were conse
quently made to pay out as little ropes as possible,
and to hold on for six hours, in the hopes that the
; fault, whatever it might be, might mend itself be- \
! tore cutting the cable and turning to the reudez- j
! vous to make another splice. The magnetic nee- !
i dies on the receiving instruments were watched I
; closely for the returning signals; when in a few j
| minutes the last hope was extinguished by their j
| suddenly indicating dead earth, which tended to j
! show that the*eable had broken from the Niagara, i
j or that the insultatiou had been comp etely de- j
! stioyed.
| In three minutes however, every one was agree
: ably surprised by the intelligence that the stoppage
I had disappeared, and that the signals had again ap
, peared at their regular intervals from tin* Niagara.
; It is needless to say what, a load of anxiety this news
j removed from the mind;- of every one, but i hegoner
I al confidence in the ultimate success, of the opera
lions was much shaken by the occurrence, for all
felt that every minute a similar accident might oc
cur. For some time the paying out continued as
usual, but towards the morning another damaged
place was discovered in the cable ; there was for
tunately, however, time to repair it in the hold
without in any way interfering with the operations
beyond for a time slight !y reducing the speed ol
the ship.
| During the morning of Friday, t e 30th, every -
j thing went well; the ship had been kept at the
I speed of about five knots, the cable going t ut about
! six. the average angle with tbe horizon at which it
left the ship being about 15 deg., while the indica
ted strain upon the dynamometer seldom showed
more than I,6ootbs. to I,7ootbs. Observations made
at noon showed that we had made good 90 miles
from the starting p int since tiie previous day, with
an expenditure, including the loss iu lowering the
splice and during the subsequent stoppages, of 135
miles of cable. During the latter portion of the day
the barometer fell considerably, and towards the
evening it blew almost a gale of wind from the
eastward dead ahead of our course.
As the breeze freshened the speed of the engines
was gradually increased, but tiie wind more than
increased in proportion, so that before the .-un went
down the Agamemu- n wa? going fuil steam against
the wind, only making a speed of about four knots
an hour. Duriug the evening topmasts were lower
ed, and spars, yards, sails, and, indeed, everything
aloft that ccu’d offer resistance to the wind, was sen:
down on deck ; but still the ship made but litiie
way, chiefly inconsequence of a heavy sea, though
the enormous quantity of fuel consumed showed us
that if tbe wind lasted we shouid be reduced tu
burning the masts, spars, and even the decks, to
bring the ship into Valentia. It seemed to be our
particular ill-fortune to meet with head winds which
ever w*ay the ship's head was turned. On our
journey out we had been delayed and obliged to
consume an undue proportion of coal for want of
on easterly wind, and now all our fuel was wanted
because of one. However, during the next day tbe
wind gradually went rtmnd to the southwest, which,
though it raised a very heavy aea, allowed us to
husband our small remaining store of fuel.
Now. indeed, were the energy and activity of all
engaged in the operation tasked to the utmost.—
Mr. Hoar and Mr. Moore, the two engineers w-ho
Lad the charge of the relieving wheels of the dyna
mometer, had to keep watch and watch alternately
every foui hours, and while on duty durst not let
their attention be removed from their occupation
ror one moment, for on their releasing the Breaks
every time the stern of the ship feii into tbe trough
of the sea entirely depended the safety of the cable,
and the result shows how ably they dischargee
their duty. Throughout the night there were few
who had the least expectation cr the Cable holding:
on till morning, and meny remained awake listen
ing for the sound which ad most dreaded to hear,
viz : the gun which should announce the failure ol
all our hopes. But still tne cable, which in compa
rison with the ship from which it was paid out, and
the gigantic waves among which it was delivered,
‘was but a mere tbread. continued to hold on, only
leaving a silvery phosphorous line upon the stupen
dous seas, as they roiled on towards the ship.
With Sunday mo.Tiing came no improvement in
the weather ; still the sky remained black and
stormy to windward, and the constant violent squalls
ot wind and rain which prevai ed daring the whole
cay, served to keep up. if not to augment, the
height of the waves. But the cable had gone
through so much during the night that our conti
dence in its continuing to hoid was much restored.
At noon observations showed us to be in hit. s.l 3 26
N. and lon. 23 J 16 W., Laving made good 130 miles
from noon of the previous day, and about 350 miles
from our starting point in m;d ocean.
At noon on Monday, August the 2d, observations
showed us to be in Jat 52'~'35 r .N. lon. l'J° 48 W ,
having mad*- good 127£ miles since noon of the pre
vious day, aad completed more than the half way to
our ultimate destination.
During the aiternoou an American three-masted
schooner, which afterwards proved to be the Chief
tain. was seen standing from the eastward towards
us. No notice was taken of her at first, but when
she was within about half a mile of the Agamem
non she altered her course and bore right down
across our b *ws. A collision, which might prove
fatal to the cable, now seemed inevitable, or could
o ly be avoided by the equally hazardous expedient
of altering the Agamemnon's course. The Valorous
steamed ahead, and fired a gun to heave to, which,
as she did not seem to take much notice ot, was
quickly followed by another irom the bows of the
A. and a second and third from the Valorous ; but
still th* vessel held on her course, and as the only
resource left to avoid a collision, the course of the
Agamemnon was altered just in time to pass within
a tew yards of her. It was evident that our pro
ceedings were asourse of the greatest possible as-
to them, for ail her crew crowded upon
ner deck and rigging- At length they evidently
discovered who we were and what we were doing,
for the crew mounted the rigging, and dipping the
enugn several limes, they gave us three hearty
cheers. Though the Agamemnon was obliged to
acknowledge these congratulations in due form, the
feeling of annoyance with which we regarded the
vessel which, either by the stupidity or careless
c- is of those on board was sc near adding a fatal
and unexpected mishap to the long chapter of acci
dents which had already been encountered, may
easily be imagined.
let weather during Monday night moderated a
little, but still there was a heavy sea ou, which en
dangered {he wire every second minute. About 3
o’clock on Tuesday morning ail ou board were
startled from their beds by the loud booming of a
gun. Every one, witnout waiting for the perform
ance of the .'nest particular toilet. ru. ; bed on deck to
ascertain the cause of the disturbance. Contrary
to all expectation the cable was sate, but just in the
grey light could be seen the Valorous rouuded too
iu ihe most warlike attitude, firing gun after gun in
quick succession towards a large American bark,
which, quite unconscious of our proceeding, was
standing right across our stern. Such loud and re
peated remonstrances from a large steam frigate
were not to be despised, and evidently without
knowing the why or wherefore,she quickly threw
her sails aback and rema ned hove to. Whether
those on board her considered that we were engaged
in some filibustering expedition, or regarded our
proceedings as another British outrage upon the
Ainericaoflag.it is impossib’e to say, but certain
i'. is that, apparently in great trepidation, she re
iv. lined hove to until we had lost sight of her in the
distance.
Tin* Cruise ot the Dolphin.
The Charleston Courier publishes the following
extract of a letter from an officer of the U. S. brig
of-war Dolphin giviuga detailed report of the cap
ture of the slave brig Echo :
II S. Brig Dolphin. (
Key West, August 25, 1858. \
The following is a chapter from my journal:
August 21—At 5.40 A. M., all the vessels in the
I:arbor of Sagua la Grande had their colors at half
mast—one brig had her flag half mast and union
down. We sent the Surgeon to see what was t;e
matter. It appeared that the Captaiu of the Me
teor had suddenly died ot yellow fever. We cross
ed the bar at 6 A M. At 7A. M , saw a strange
sail ahead, crowding sail. At 220 P. M., the strange
sail ahead suddenly changed her course and rapidly
took in her steering sails. Her singular conduct and
rapid movement caused us to suspect that all was
not right, so we followed after her. At 120 fired a
gun ; che paid no attention nor did she show a flag.
We hoisted Euglish colors. At 4.40 fired another
blank cartridge at her—no response. At swe gain
c i upon her—no flag up, but a crowd of men ou her
deck. At 520 fired a shot uuder her stern; she ran
up American colors ; we then hauled down the En
glish colors, and ran up our proper national en
sign. At 5.40 gave her a shot so close that she
came to the wind and hove te—throwing all her
flags overboard.
The Captain sent an armed boat to take posses
sion. We found her a brig Jof 320 tons, filled with
Africans. The appearance was most revolting;
never can I forget it. There was 328 negros crowd
ed together between decks, so thick that it was im
possible to see anything but, their"wooley heads,
and they smelt abominably. Tiie poor ‘wretches
looked half starved, and some of them were mere
skeletons. The prisoners were removed to the
Dolphin, and a crew of our men, with Lieuts. Brad
ford. Carpenter and myself, took charge of her du
riug the night.
August 22.—4 A. M., hove to alongside of the
Dolphin to take in water and provisions ; the men
worked cheerfully, and the task was soon accom
pl shed. The prisoners, all except the Captain and
two men. were then sent, on board the prize, with a
guard of 6 marines and 17 armed men. Lieuts.
Bradford and Carpenter remaine on board, and
were ordered to take her into Charleston Ire
turned on board the Dolphin, and she immediately
filled away and stood for Key West, ’hen 40 miles
distant (> P. M., made Sand Key Light on the
ioe bow, and a pilot boat in sight standing for us.
We soon after took the pilot on board, and from
him we learned that there was much sickness in
Key West, At 7P. M , came to a little outside of
the fort with our port anchor veered to 30 fathoms
chain ;as soon as the sails were furled sent a boat
on shore toget letters. She returned at 7£ P. M.,
aid brought us orders to return to Boston. We
immediately prepared for sea, expecting to join the
expedition to Paraguay.
Only think, the slavers were within three hours
of their destination, with vision of doubloons piled
up for their cargo, when ihe Dolphin pounced upon
them When they saw that there was no hope,
they took to champ gne, and had a jolly, miserable
kind of a time of it.
Agricultural Riots in Ireland— I The “Rebellion
of the Reaper*.”
The foreign advices published a few days ago
briefly mentioned that serious riots have occuired
in Kilkenny against the agricultural machines, and
that the military had to be called out before peace
could be restored. The emeutc is described by a
local paper as a “rebellion of the reapers,” com
posed of agricultural laborers ot the district, aided
by a contingent of Connaughtmen and large bodies
of peasantry from Tipperary and the King’s and
Queen’s counties, who, it appears, had entered into
an organized combination for the destruction of
reaping machines ana tbe prevention of the prac
tice of mowing corn with the sythe. The Kilkenny
Journal contains the subjoined condensed report of
the proceedings:
We regret to announce that the peace of the city
las not only been seriously endangered for some
days pant, but that nets of violence have been per
petrated in several parts of tbe*county, by a large
body of laborers from this and the surrounding
counties, who have been thrown out of employment
by the introduction of machinery lor agricultural
purposes. On last Sunday upwards of 4,000 per
ons assembled in our streets, most of them armed
with reaping-hooks, yelling in a most frightful
manner, to the great dismay of the citizens, who
were hourly expecting nothing le?s than the sack of
the city.
Fortunately, the rioters were allowed to have
their own way as iong as there was no overt act of
violence in the streets, and we think the mayor
and the authorities acted with great prudence on
tbe occasion, as a single arrest might have led to
most lamentable consequences. The mob, we be
lieve, consisted principally of disbanded militia men
from Tipperary, Queen’s county, and King’s coun
ty, with an auxiliary force from this neighborhood,
and it would seem as il there was a certain amount
of preconcert and organization iu the movement.
Ou Sunday tiie city may be said to have been ab
solutely m their pos essiou, but no violence took
place beyond the shouting and yelling we have al
ready mentioned. On Monday morning at day
break, the streets rang with the rioters, who held a
sort of council of war, in which it was decided that
.•ill the machinery in the county should be forthwith
destroyed, as the only chance of employment for the
laborer. After parading tbe streets for sometime,
they proceeded at j x o’clock to Old town, about two
i miles from the city, to the residence of a farmer
named Walsh, and commenced breaking his reaping
machine, which they soon smashed into fragments.
Walsh offered no resistance, as he considered it
useless, but looked on quietly, aud the mob pro
; coeded on their work of destruction without offer
i ing him any personal violence.
’ At !i o’clock they reached Pigeon Park (near
! Danesfort,) the residence of Mr. Howeon, a Scotch
| man, and prepared io attack his machine also. Mr.
| llowson and his family, on the other hand, prepared
I to defend it; but at the very outset his gun was
! knocked out of his hand by a blow of a large stone
| with which he was struck on the arm. One of his
sons eeized tie guu and ran off with it, but while in
the act of doing so he was closely pursued, when he
turned round and fired, but without effect, upon
lis pursuers. lie was instantly seized and the gun
taken Irom him and broken ; but he suffered no
personal violence at the hands of the rioters. We
regret to say that bis father was not. so fortunate,
!>r,’while slrivingto defend the machine, he was
knocked down and received several injuries iu the
head and jaw, but though severely hurt, we are hap
py to say his life is not in danger. While Mr. How
son was lying on the ground, hie daughter, with the
courage of a heroine, seized a pitchfork and held it
above him, threatening instant death to whomso
ever should touch a hair of his head ; but she also,
after some vain resistance, was speediiy disarmed,
and received some slight injuries in tbe struggle.
The machine was then broken to nieces, and,
more disgraceful still, Mr. Howson’s gold watch
was carried off by the rioters. The work of des
truction was not proceeded with further ou that
cay ; and though several rumors were afloat in the
city yes ter cay as to the other intended attacks on
machinery, nothing has occurred to justify those ru
mors.
Yesterday morning the crowds again assembled
in the streets, and paraded up and down in thou
sands, as on the previous day, cheering and shout
ing and yelling, till about nine o clock, when the
city assumed its usual orderly appearance. None
of the rioters have been apprehended, or even
identified, aud the only steps that have been taken
to prevent the recurrence of these lawless proceed
ings is an order from the authorities for two troops
of dragoons, which were telegraphed for to the Cur
ragh Camp yesterday, and which were expected to
arrive ia town last night.. A meeting of magistrates
was also held in Stoneyford yesterday, in the neigh
borhood of these outrages, tu consider and devise
the means to be adopted for the protection of
life and property in the county.
Has a Schoolmaster the Right to Punish a
Child?-— ln the Court of Quarter Sessions in
Philadelphia, on Thursday, a case of some in
terest, not only to parents and guardians, but to
the teachers in public school, was on trial. From
a report of the case in the Ledger we quote as
follows:
The case was one in which a teacher had sued a
lady for assault and battery, which, it vaa alleged.
wa* 1 committed in tbe school house, Germantown
road and Pbenix street. The defendant was charg
ed with having entered the room and seizing the
teacher by the hair of the Lead, dragged her to the
floor and otherwise maltreating her. The treat
meat created quite an excitement among the scho’-
ars, many of whom ran out of the rcom terror
stricken. The defence vas tuat tne teacher had
severely punisned a child of the defendant. This
child is about nine years of age, and has lost the
use of her right side ; and, it waa alleged, that for
talking in school, she was struck on the hand with
a piece of rattan, which drew blood. This cc.i&iDg
to the knowledge of the mother, oe immediately
ailc-d ui. the sunool aud committed the assault,
though, in answer to a question from the judge,
she staled tha* she did not go for that purpose,
but was exasperated by the teacher telling her
that she had whipped her daughter, Jand would do
so again.
All the evidence in relation to the treatment of
the child was ruled out, as no justification for the
assault, and the defendant then plead guilty
Judge Ludlow, in passing the sentence of tbs court,
said.
1 ‘I his cade comes before the court under peculiar
circumstances, as it is intimately connected with
the good discipline of our public schools. The rule
ia no doubt correct, as the law is, that when a pa
rent places a child within the walls of a school, it
ia to be under the care and control of the teacher
This must be the case in any aDd every school.
When the child is thus placed the first thing to be
inculcated into its mind it obedience to the rules
and regulation:! of the school, and if it disobej s
them, it must receive the pun shment due to the of
fence. If it should once become understood that a
mother can go into a scbool-room and interfere with
the teachers, imperiling the lives of the scholars by
creating a panic, there would be an end to all order
among the pupils If there be any wrong done by
the teacher, tns parent bas a remedy ; first by an
application to the directors of the school, and second
by a resort t > the law.
“ The evidence in this case is that the punishment
was not unnecessarily severe, but under no circum
stances could the assault on the teacher be justi
fied. I have, therefore, nothing to do but main
tain the authority of the teachers of the schools in
the exercise of their duties ; I regret exceedingly to
be compelled to do so in this case, on account of the
mother, who appears to have been very much ex
cited at tha time of the assault. The sentence of
the court is. that the defendant pay a fine of one
cent, an<\ undergo an imprisonment is. the county
prison for the term of twenty tour hours.'’
Effects of Not Taking the Papers.—The
Hockviile, Ct., Republican tells of a man, living
near Stafford, who had actually never heard of the
Atlantic Telegraph. Hearing the be Is all ringing
in Stafford, he saddled up and rode to town post
haste to see what was the matter , and when inform
ed that the cable was laid he wanted to know what
cable, and said he never heard of the thing, and
couldn't understand it.
Lawyer vs. Lawyer.
The Belton Independent (Texas) gives the fol
lowing racy letter from a lawyer of its town who
has been favored with an offer of a cheap recom
mendation to patronage; which he has, neverthe
less felt constrained to decline. The letter is as fol
lows :
Georgetown, June 8, 1858.
John Livingston , Esq.—My Dear John ;—Yours
came safely to hand. With a trembling hand and
a beating heart, I seized the letter, thinking, from
its size, that I had been singled out by the majority
of the New York merchants as the most proper per
sou to “put through” ou the “lightning line,” not
only the Georgetown merchants, but those iu all
the surrounding counties, and visions of a “pile”
realized by 10 per cent, floated through my mind,
tinged with all the gorgeous hues of six rainbows;
but, alas ! “sic transit gloria mundi.” Upon open
ing it the visionjtled, and I found nothing but your
most flattering attempt to do me out of ten dol
lars. You tell me “that my name has been inserted
for my county in your Catalogue of Lawyers in
Texas and elsewhere.”
By whose authority, John, was this done ? Our
acquaintance, I don’t think, would justify this lib
erty ou your part, and did I not believe that it w’hs
done piueiy with the \Jesire alone of advancing my
interest, 1 should feel disposed to resent the liberty.
I feel flattered, John, at this mark of your esteem
aud confidence, aud would have felt more so had
you uot sent the very same letter to all my acquain
tance among the bar. I don’! understand this, my
dear fellow. Now, suppose, John, that I should
send you the $lO, and the balance of the profession
here should do the same; think of the delicate situa
tion in which you would be placed. Six or seven ol
us, all paying to be inserted in your Catalogue of
Lawyers, as the most reliable Lawyer in William
son county , Texas. How could you choose be
tween us 1 You have made the same promise to
all of us ; and the place ia too small to afford hut
ene “reliable lawyer.” It won't do, John. The
thing can't be explained in any other way, but that
you are trying to “Jeremy Diddle” us out of ten
dollars each. It is a poor compliment td our sense
to think you can “do it to us ” in this style. Why,
the little boys here all see through this. ‘t.is as plain
as the old “grandmother s trick,” John.
Cannot, or could you uot, devise some slicker
method of putting us through ? something that wo
could not see through ? You say that the ten dol
ars will be my “just ptrpotion of the expense oi
publishing and circulating said catalogue.” You
are mistaken, John—the rascally publishers have
fooled you—you have the names of about eight or
ten thousand “reliable lawyers” in the United
States, and at ten dollars ahead, Johu.it would
look to a blind man as if there was money enough
to publish the Lives ot Gen. Washington, Tom
Thumb, Fred Douglass, the Angel Gabriel, and
yourself, John, all bound in calf, and have enough
left beside to “licker all round.’ ’ You see we have
studied arithmetic here, John, and have cut our
eye-teeth beside. We don’t blame you, John, for
trying to take us in, for although you know us well
enough to vouch for us to any man who has impor
tant business to attend to, and will, for ten dollars,
recommend us as the “ most and only reliable law
yers in Georgetown,” yet, John, you don’tj know us,
(this ia private, however,) or you never would have
attempted to Simon Suggs us in this way. Ibe
lieve I am capable, and hope lam houest; but,
John, you do not know the fact to be so, and there
fore, according to Polly, when you say so, you lie,
John.
You say in your postscript that if you can’t do
me for ten dollars I may “go in lemons” to the
amount of five. Thank you—small favors thankful
ly received—larger ones in proportion. I believe I
will pass the first round and see how the game
goes.
In conclusion, John allow me to request you to
take my name out of your book, John. I had as
lief be published almost in a horse-thief list as to
appear in your book, for we all understand it here
and when a man’s name is seen there, we know he
lias bought the privilege, aud as we we know the
price we think but little of a ten dollar reputation,
and less of a man who prises it enough to buy it.—
I consider myself injured, John, by the first inser
tion and if it is continued, shall be compelled to re
sort to legal process to have it stopped—consider
myself slandered, aud think less of every man whose
name appears in your catalogue if done with his
authority. 1 would, before I close, advise you al
ways to send a postage stamp to pay postage with,
did I not know it was not a “part of your system”
to do so. No news. Town as dull at present as
your attempt to swindle me.
In conclusion allow me to subscribe myself, my
dear John, Your victim, m a horn,
A. H. Chalmers.
From the London Times, July 29.
Relatione* Between Lawyers and Client*.
Four years ago, that is to say, in the month of
.July, 1854 there was living at Swinfen-hall, in the
couuty of Stafford, an aged gentleman of fair estate,
named Samuel Swinfen. He was the son and heir
of John Swinfen, who had been twice married,Jand
who by his second wife left a numerous family—the
half brothers and sisters of the aforesaid Samuel.
Samuel himself had also been married, aud of his
marriage there had been issue a son named Henry
John. Henry John next took a wife, but made his
selection from the humbler ranks of society—a pro
ceeding which, combined with his own irregularities,
had the effect of estranging him from the affections
of his father. The match, however, it is alleged,
proved actually beneficial in the character of the
son, and in the end, it appears, that Henry John,
and Patience, his wife, were received at Swinfen
hall, and there took up their abode. This was in
18-18, after the death oi Mrs. Samuel Swinfen.
It further appears that between this period and
July, 1854, the testamentary arrangements made by
Samuel Swinfen were such that Henry John would
have succeeded to the inheritance ot the property,
hut, as iL happened, the sou died before the father.
On the 15th June, 1854, Henry John Swinfen sud
denly departed this life, leaving Patience Swinfen,
his widow, surviving. On the 7th of July foilowiug
Samuel Swinfen, being then fourscore years of age,
made a fresh will, by which he devised the Swinfen
estate to Patience Swinfen, and this is the instru
ment which has been the source and subject of so
much litigation. The question originally raised was
as to the competency ot the old man, under the cir
cumßtances described, to make this disposition of
his property, and as to the validity of the document
thus conveying the estate to his daughter-in-law.—
Had the case stopped at this point it would proba
bly not have called tor the notice we now bestow
upon it.
The will of Samuel Swinfen was disputed by Fre
derick Hay Swinfen, who, as the representative of
the second family of John Swinfen, was Samuel’s
heir-at-law, and the issue thus raised came on for
trial in due course at the Lent Assizes of 185(1. The
estates devised by the will to Patience Swinfen and
claimed by Frederick were worth £1,700 a year, a
prize well calculated to provoke stout lighting. Ac
cordiugly, counsel of the highest stand ng were re
tained on both sides, the lady being represented by
no less an advocate than Sir F. Thesiger, now Lord
High Chancellor of England, and the gentleman by
Sir A. Cockburn, now Lord Chief Justice of the
Common Pleas. Now comes the critical and ex
traordinary point in the proceedings. The case
had been conducted through the tiret day of the
trial, when, at the beginning of the next, Sir F. j
Thesiger, on Mrs. Swinfen’s behalf, came to an *
arrangement with Sir A. Cockburn, acting for
Frederick Swinfen, that he (Frederick) ffiould take
the estate as heir-at-law in pursuance of his claim,
but that out of that estate Mrs. Swinfen should en
joy ai. annuity of £7OO, making, with her jointure of
£3OO, a total income of £I,OOO a year. This ag
reement, however, thus arranged between the
counsel in the cause, Mrs. Swinfen refused to ratify,
asserting that, it was made without her authority,
against her desire, and contrary to interests, and
repudiating the act to which her advocate had com
mitted her. Here, therefore, was a point raised ot
no common interest; being nothing less, indeed,
than the extent of right or power acquired by coun
sel entrusted wit h the general management of a
cause.
Gallant Conduct. —On Sunday night last afire
broke out in a building at the corner of Maine and
Fourth streets, Cincinnati, in the fourth story of
which lived Mr. Richard Duncan, periodical dealer.
When the engines and hook and ladder carriages
arrived, Mrs. Duncan was seen at the window, im
ploring aid, and apparently about to leap to the
f round. Those assembled shouted to her to keep
ack and to shut the window, which she did. Jn a
fw minutes, indeed, a ladder was run up, and
policeman George Carr, a noble fellow and brave
officer, ventured up the ladder and into the room,
at the risk of bis lile. Water was freely played on,
and he soon appeared bearing Mrs. Duncan. As
she was safely brought down, the pent up feelings:
of the crowd burst into loud cheers and clapping of
hands George ventured in again and brought out
a child which was passed down. A third time he
entered and brought out the remaining child. Each
time he appeared with his precious human freight,
the crowd gave him hearty cheers. Mrs. Dunear,
and the children were all nearly suffocated. Carr
himself was seriously affected, and had to be con
veyed to a drug store, where everything possible
was done for his relief.
Blockade of Laguayra and Porto Cabello.
—The schooner Peerless, arrived at this port, brings
the important intelligence that two British steam
frigates and a French war vessel had blockaded the
Venezuelan ports of Laguayra and Port Cabello,
and sejzed a number of vessels in each. This
measure has been threatened for some time, but it
was scaicely believed that it would be leally car
ried out by the allied naval forcee. The difficulty
has originated ostensibly from the following circum
stances : When the recent revolution occurred in
Venezuela by which the family were de
posed, President Monagas placed himself unuer the
protection ox the English and French consuls. The
successful party in Venezuela, disregarding thin
protection, seized Monagas and proceeded to try
him for various high crimes, including malfeascenoe
in office and the corrupt appropriation of thi; -uulic
funds for the purpose of enriching own family
and partisans. The British and Frenqh representa
tives protester against this trial & violation
3f right of asylum, and an insult to their
respective nations, and this protest being disre
garded they have proceeded to enforce it. ft i„
difficult, with our present comprehenp, tr JO * af
fair, to understand upon wh;.; the right of
the allies to protect is founded. He was
elected under the laws of the Republic,
*na 1* rightly amenable o those laws for an ** hu#e
or bio trust. Certain.y neither Engla n d .*or France
would attempt to enforce su'vt. ■ claim against a
nation sufficiently Dower/ui to resent their inter
ference— Bdt. Amir.
JJst'RY Laws of Pennsylvania - The new usury
!**.a of Pennsylvania are found to work admira
bly. The doing away of much of the cumbrous
machinery of middle men, necessary under the oid
in order to avoid the penalty of taking more
then six per cent, interest, is of iUeir most impor
tant. The oid law never operated to prevent ex
cessive rates of interests, but rather to increase
them. It deterred timid men from acting as bank
ers, and by causing them to lock up their capital in
other investments, kept it away from the use and
assistance os business men, and by the very act of
reducing the supply of money, increased the rates
demanded tor lie use. On the other hand, the bold
and unscrupulous were secured almost a monopoly
ol the money market, in which they graduated their
demands only by the necessities of the borrower,
who was, at the same time, subjected to additional
taxation in the shape of brokers’ fees, and denied
the privilege of malting his own bargain for the mo
ney na needed, or explaining the transactions out of
which arose the paper he wished to sell, and stating
the means and prospects of its makers. All this is
now at an end. lender and borrower can meet
lace to face, and arrange their own terms, which are
thus more confidential ihan heretofore and under
which no aiigma of acting in defiance of law can
attach to the lender.
Thk Atlantic Telegraph anoouk Govern
went. —The Philadelphia Ledger in announcing the
rumor, sent on from New York, that Lord ilerby
has signified his willingness to amend the charter of
the Atlantic Telegraph Company, to as to place
.he . t nited States and British government on a
footing of absolute equality, says:
This is humbug. Tbe United States cannot be
pieced on a footing of equa'ity with Ungland so
loDg as the Xewtounland Legislature gives a mono
poly of fifty } earn to tbe Newfoundland Company
over whose lines the government di-patches must
go to reach the cable. Tbe government of Great
Britain has no control over the Newfoundland Com
pany, and they may admit or exclude the United
j States and its citizens just as they choose. The
statement above given is made only to secure the
$70,000 voted by our government, but Gen. Cass is
I not to be humbugged in that way.
VOL. LXXII. —NEW SERIES VOL. XXII. NQ.3(>.
From the School Journal.
The Jinn of Many Trade*.
About fifteen years ago, when game was abun
dant in Delaware, large parties of sportsmen came
down from the North and “waged war” with the
unsuspecting “ feathered tribes. Among thenum
ber ot those who were induced to exchange their
cheerful homes for the more delightful prospect of
roaming over a rocky and uneven country were
three individuals, named, respectively, Doctor
Pearce, Bill Fisher, aud Sam. Willson.
After “coastingabout” for some days, and not
being sufficieu ly rewarded for their trouble, they
were rather disheartened, and which added more to
their dejection, Fisher had a toothache. The doc
tor, out of consideration for Bill’s sufferings, sug
gested that they should go inquest of a tavern.—
t>ome two hours hard riding brought them iu sight
of a singular looking building, in front of which
projected one of those old fashioned well poles. As
they neared the house, a confused hum of voices sa
luted their ears.
“ Thunder,” said the doctor, “this place is not a
tavern; it’s a school house.” “ Suppose we in
quire,” suggested Sam Willson. On entering a
room, near the front door, Wtillsou's idea that the
party had got into a country inn, was confirmed.
On a shelf, behind a small counter, stood fl *me six
tumblers, upon the tops of which were about the
same uu .-.her of lemons, by way of decoration.
Hardly had our thirsty friends got seated, when a
side door opened, and a tall, red-faced, long-nosed
individual, with an immense quill stuck behind his
e:ir stepped into the room. The doctor remarked,
“ we are looking fora tavern, but, from the noise, 1
should think that we have got iuto a school-house.”
“ Sir,” replied he of the quill, with much gravity,
“ you are in a school house ; nevertheless, I can ac
commodate the gentlemen with a ‘ snifter’ all
round. You see, sir, ‘he added, “I attend to my
duties as teacher, while 1 ladle out liquor at the
same time.” “Well, you are a trump,” said the
doctor, in great admiration.
“No, sir,” answered the school-master. “I am a
member of the Legislature !” “Good gracious ! are
you anything else ?” timidly inquired Bam. Willson.
‘’ Yes’ ’ replied Quill, “I can say, and I say it with pride,
that lam the only dentist in the couuty!” “How
lortunate,” exclaimed the Doctor, “here is a friend
of mine who is suffering with the tooth ache—do
you think you caixrelieve him ?” “I should think
eo,” replied the dentist. “When there is any pulling
of teeth, consider me in. So saying, he left the
loom, but returned in a few minutes, bringing with
him a pair of large, unwiedly pincers, euch as are
used by fishermen to akin eels. “Thunder!” al
most yelled the excited Fisher, “you don’t intend
to force those infernal cattish nippers down my
throat ?” The dentist was struck dumb by this
question. Not so the waggish doctor, who imme
diately explained that the instrument in question
was the regular forceps. The member of the Legis
lature now, for the first time, began to feel that his
rkill as a dentist was at stake.
“Perhaps,’’ said lie, “you doubt my ability to pull
teeth; but I will show you that the thing can be
done.” Entering the school room he cast his eyes
over the group ot children there assembled. Sud
denly lie seized a stout country lad, and after a
short struggle, succeeded iu dragging him to the
bar room, and dumping him down into a chair,
“Now, gentlemen,” said Quill, with a spledid flou
rish of his arm, “you will see a great thing done
here.” So saying, lie grasped tfie boy by the neck,
and despite his frantic struggles to get free, drew a
sound tooth from the boy a mouth. Holding the
tooth in tbs nippers the operator exclaimed in a tone
of triumph, “what do you think of that, gentle
men?’ Mr. Fisher, whose toothache quite left
him, remarked, after such an atrocious piece of
business, “we won’t, stay another moment in your
house.” Accordingly, our indignant party of
sportsmen were getting into their wagon, when the
school-master, tavern-keeper, member of the Le
gislature, and dentist, bawled out, “1 forgot to
mention the people of the county have nominated
me for Sheriff.” T. F. G. Miller.
One Week timer from Utah.
The mail from Balt tiake City to the 30th of July
have arrived, with advices from the army to the
23d. The New York Times has the following sum.
mary of the news received :
Preparations for the Territorial election were go
ing forward iu Utah, and the Gentile residents were
to vote on an independent ticket for candidates to
fill the„ offices now held by members of the Mor
mon priesthood. A “fusion” ticket for Territorial
and county officers had been put in nomination iu
Salt Lake City, the more libera! and influential
Mormons being placed on the ticket with Gentile
candidates. Politics were quite lively at the date
of oar last advices. Repudiation of the Mormon
currency—the notes of the “Deseret Currency As
sociation,’—was the last movement of the Mormon
leaders, and the effect of the measure waa great
dissatisfaction among the people, the Gentile store
keepers refusing to receive the notes, which for
merly passed current in payment for trade. The
recent rumor that Brigham Young and a few of his
friends had lied from the territory is corrected
Brigham left the city for a pleasure excursion, but
had returned. From the army at Camp Floyd we
learn that the volunteer battalion had been dismiss
ed, and left on the 19 h ult., lor Fort Leavenworth,
where it is to be disbanded. An army order, is
sued by Gen. Johnston, speaks in complimentary
terms of the officers and men of this battalion.—
Another order disconnects the battalion of mounted
riflemen aud the third infantry irom Gen. Johnston’s
command, and orders those corps to New Mexico.
The army remaining in camo was iu excellent con
dition.
The Great Shooting Match.— Some little ex
citement is being created in our city, relative to the
great shooting match to come off on the 3d of Octo
ber, on the Oakland Race Course, between Capt.
John Travis and James T. Breckenridge, of Ken
tucky. Capt. Travis is to shoot with a pistol at a
distance of one hundred yards, and Breckenridge
with a ritie at two hundred yards. The match is
lor S3OO a side Capt. Travis is too well known as
an accomplished pistol shot for us to speak of in
this community ; but we are inclined to the opinion
that he lias “caught a Tartar” this time, and a “foe
man worthy of iiis steel,” from the fact that it is
generally known that Breckenridge is a “crack
shot,” aud h bull’s eye ringer with a rille. The fol
lowing is a challenge from Mr. Travis to any man
in the United States to shoot with him :
Pistol Shooting— Grand Challenge. —l will
shoot with any man in the United States lor from
one to five tiiousand dollars, with pistols ; distance
lifteen paces; iny competitor to shoot forwards, in
the ordinary way ol firing at a mark, with the aid
of one hand only ; 1 to shoot back a ards, the pistol
upside down, bet ween my legs , twenty shots each,
string measure, from centre to ceutre, at will. The
match, if made, to come off thirty dayH after the
same is closed. As to place, 1 propose to pay my
competitor S3OO if Louisville, Ky , is selected ; or
require S3OO to be paid to me, and any place in the
United States, (except in California,) may be select
ted. Any one desiring to accept the challenge, (tan
address me at the Crystal Palace, Louisville, Ky.,
as to forfeit, manner of putting up the stakes and
all other preliminary arrangements.
I presume that I am sufficiently known ‘lirough
out the United States, to lender any reference as
to my r spimsibility for the above challenge unne
j cessary.— Young's ( Louisville) Spirit, of the Times.
j North Carolina Gold.— The Montgomery
County Gold, so much talked of lately, is no hum
bug. Mr. Christian was in town a, few days ago
with Ins pockets lull. The upeoimens he brought
with him were very rich —worth some $3OllO to
S4OOO. One of tbe nuggets, about twice the si 7\. qi
a man’s fist, weighed 7£ lbs., and contained more
than 6 lbs. of gold—say nearly £3OOO. This and
several other very rich, but. less valuable specimens
were left here for exhibition They took the shins
off our other rocks. These latter, however, are all
right again, for gold rocks do not slay long on ex
hibition ; and our coal rocks, copper rocks, lead
rocks and black band iron rocks, are in the ascen
dant, as they ought, to be. The fact is, we have
veiy little use for these gold mine people. They
think they confer a favor by letting us look at their
dross ; the people who own the useful mines never
fail to send a box full of their specimens for good
and all. In very truth, money must, be the root of
evil; it puts an end to liberality. If the rocks we
had last week had been any other than gold or sil
ver rocks, we should have had them now—unless
we had started them for the Mint. —Fayetteville <JO
server.
To Liverpool in Six Days.— Capt. Nye h>Vvg
advanced the opinion at a public meetmj; recentlv
held in Newaik, that the pasi-figo from New York
to Liverpool by steam would never be made in six
days, and that thy success ot the telegraph would
have thy tendency to cause carelessnees ly a to the
increase of speed :u steamers, a corespondent of
the New York Express (C. R. jVJ’Ua), communicates
to that paper the fact that a *1 earner is already be
ing built at *hiek will disprove the *>r
rectness of N.’s opinion. Mr. Winans, of
that £i'*y, the wealthy locomotive builder, isengag
ed In this enterprise. He has been several years,
perfecting the plans, and U claims that he will ac
comp’i.h the objecj iu question in less than six davg.
The steamer Lto 180 feet long, oarry four en
gine?, isa about 500 tons burthen. She is being
constructed on an entirely original model, for which
h i has taken out a patent.—jVew York Tribum*
FsiOM Washington Territory. —The Governor
of Washington Territory, Hon. Mr. McMullen, has
arrived at Washington city. He represents that
when he left the Territory, a month ag , the In
diana west of the Cascade mountains were disposed
to be friendly, but fears were entertained that they
might be influenced Dy those residing east of the i
mountains, who defeated Col. Steptoe.
A vigorous campaign against them, and a severe
chastisement will, nowever, probably r e the ef
fect of producing a general pege- among the sa
vagee, who must sensibly feel die power of the Go
vernrnent. He says ffi&t bands of Indians fiyw.
the British *ad Russian possessions, who are ex
i/ tu-Aj formidable and shrewd, are in the habit of
! plundering and killing the eettlnr* m the most ex
poaod portions of the Terrify.
Revival f) Business. -It ia very gratifying!*’
observe U a majority of our manufactories and ma
v-htne shops evidence of a renewal ol business The
viiig ot tbe hammer and the busy hum of t ema
cbinery is increasing everywhere around ua. Ther.-
is anew and pleasing music in that machine
ry aD r ., uata\ net than we ever noticed before—it
n-ren us new life and bright hopes tor the future.--
she dark cloud which has hung over us for so long
;t time begins W break away—and how bright i
- first of light which greets us. The
and the mechanic—all must, feel the effect
! ‘jttnts new impulse ffi business. Let every han't
and mind be biyiy, and then take another view of
our smiling homes—they will say in a more elo
quent Unguage than we—“ Good-bye, hard times. ’
Hartford, (Conn.) Times.
A Discriminatin'. Pauper —A friend of our/,
who ha* served as Inspector of our House of Indus
try, told us of an amusing case of epicureanism in
poverty that once came under his notice. “How
do you like it here 7” he asked of one of his male
charges, “Pretty well, sir,” said he, “as regards
the fare,but you might do better about the olothes.’’
“Ah 7 ” “If I should be allowed to state my prefer
ences,” continued the pauper, “I should ay give
me Boston for its table, Portsmouth for its war C
. and Concord for general freedom, extending
to the refinements of social life. I've tried ‘em all’
sir, and if ever you come to it, you will find it just
as I tell you.”
An Incendiary Confessing his Guilt.—While
the trial of Hiram Powers, for setting tire to ti e
Moravian Church in Brimtield. Maws., was in pro
gress, at Worcester, last week, the evidence being
all in and counsel for the government making a
very warm speech on the combination of circum
stances which established the prisoner’s guilt an
Irishman, named Harrington, come into court, whim
pered to the sheriff that tie set the church on ti e
himself, being hired to do it by t ree of his neigh
bors, and Powers was innocent. On this statement
Powers waß at once discharged, and Harrington
and his neighbors held for trial.
The Hag.— This curious little fish, about four or
five incheslu leugth, seems to be the parasite aid
scourge of the shark. It fixes itself on the shark l v
creating a vacuum with its li pa . Once flrmiv
hxed ‘t lacerates the skin and flesh with its lance*
like teeth, and sucks tbe monster’s blood and fat
But, beipg unprovided with defensive armature!
and having no agility to escape its own enemies,
Providence has provided it with the power of
emitting an excrement, which, adhering to tie
shine of its skin, shrouds aud hides it from sight-
Idm substance is so abundant that it surrounds the
animal to the distance of eighteen inches or two
xeet, and is so disgusting to all the inhabitants of the
waters that none will come near it. Thus the hag
is, in one respect, a sort of sea-skunk.
Home Education.
“I do so wish I could send Delia Anna away
from home to school. I want to improve her man
uers, and that, you know, can never be done at
home.’’
“Have you good schools here ?” 1 asked.
“Tolerably good. I suppose she learns as much
from books at home as anywhere, but she uevei
will be a lady or fit for genteel society till she goes
somewhere. But her father won t hear a word
about it, says he can’t afford it, and that it won t
bo any kind of use to her, ami all that. Strange how
little a man kuowsabout buc.li things'.”
Mrs. C. who thus gave expression to her senti
ments, was an old friend of mine, whom I was visi
ting, and this conversation occurred the evening of
my arrival, after her husband and children were
in bed, and we were having a little confidential
chat.
1 had not seen Delia Aim for some five years,
but remembered her well, as a pretty, lively, rath
er self-willed young lady ol* twelve, who was a
great favorite iu the family, and bade fair to grow
up into a handsome, attractive woman , and it was
with no small interest I looked forward to meeting
her. . *
The next, morning we sat down to breakfast at an
early hour, but Miss Delia Ann did not make her
appearance till we were nearly through. I was
surprised to see what a tall young lady she had
shot up into, and how very pretty she had become
Her pure brilliant complexion, her soft blue eyes
Hiid curling brown hair would have made quite a
b rile of her in some circles—but alas ! with t he con
victiou of her extreme prettiuees came another,
equally strong, that her manners really did need
improvement and that a change in many of her
h.ibits would be most desirable. She was dressed
in a flying morning wrapper of gay colored chintz,
with a brilliant red border, so far from clean that
my eye turned away from its greasy spots with dis
gust; her hair had a frizzy, uncombed look ; her
teeth aud nails had been schockingly neglected and
w ere now actually filthy, though several costly
liugs were eucircliug her fingers at that early hour
8 ie sat down to the table without so much as say
iug “Good morning” to her parents or brothers,
a .J looked at every thing before her with a very
cissatistied turn up of her pretty nose, found fault
with the coffee, which she supped w i.li a loud uoiso,
and finally, alter swallowing a few mouthfuls, push
e A away her chair without saying a word, and left
the room, loudly slamming t ins door after her.
“A boarding.school to teach you manners young
lady !” I mentally exclaimed. “What you want is a
good home traiuiug, one which should have you
taught to rise early, wash your face and comb youi
Lair properly, and clean your teeth and nails; to
cispense with red bordeis aud finger-rings, and
dress yourself in a clean calico; to greet your fami
ly with a pleasant smile and a cheerful ‘good morn
ing ;’ to drink your coffee and hold your knife and
fork pr periy, and partake of what was set before
you without any disparaging comments—this would
have done iutiuitely more than any boarding school
ever can, toward making you a lady.”
Alas! what can boarding schools do when build
ing on such a foundation ? What, but add a few
superficial ars and graces, a little .smattering of
French and music, a little more fondness for dress
and outside show, which will make the innate vul
garity all the more conspicious ?
It is sad to see the false ideas of refinement and
gentility which exists in many New England homes.
To make a lady of the daughter ia ofteu the gieat
eud and aim lor which great sacrifices are made,
and yet they so train her as to make her totally un
refined and vulgar in dress, manners and feelings.
To be a lady seems to mean in their vocabulary an
expensively, fashionably dressed female, who looks
with contempt on the useful home occupations and
dawdles round the house with a piece of soiled em
broidery iu her hands; who plays a few tunes on
the piano or guitar, and who has been taught a few
conventional phrase J ,‘and affects a certain style and
air, which imply *a vast superiority over those
arouud her. A lady ! “Good heavens and min s
ters of grace defend us” from all such ! A lady !
Oh, it is downright desecration thus to apply a
word so significant of all that is gentle and kind aud ,
modest—a word, that firstof all, is synonymous with
neatness and amiability and thoufuluess of those
about us.
If mothers, ambitious for their daughters’ succesp.
in life, would only understand that to make thorn
tetiued and lady-like, they must educate them for
it alone, itmtead of relying on the tinsel ornaments
of a bearding school education; that underlying all
external graces of maimer, 1 here must be a foun
dation of modest, refined thoughts, and womanly
feelings to make them such as shall please the
higher classess of society, we might hope for better
things.
We know a young woinanmay be modest, neat,
and refined in feeling, without having the grace of
manner which would charm a stranger, but one
who is much, and truly simple and unaffected, will
never disgust or repel the most lastidious, and when
known will always obtain respect and esteem from
the truly cultivated portion of the community.
There is no farm house iu Massachusetts where
the daughters of a wise, pains taking mother ma y
not grow lady-like aud pleasing to the eye of the
most refined. Who of us have not seen such ? One.
the child of very humble, hard-working parents
rises before me as I write—a fair, sweet vision.—’
With her round, rosy face, her smoothly-brushed
tolas of dark hair, her sunny smile, her gentle tones
of voice, her elastic movements, gracetul, because
uuconcious and perfectly natural, her trim little
figure arrayed in cheap calioo of modest colors,
neatly but Bimply made of spotless purity,—she is
an object on which the eye of the most fastidiom
dwellei on the Fifth avenue could not help looking
with delight, so fresh, so natural, so kind and pure
looking is she. She is as ignorant of all that board
ing schools can teach as Delia Ann, but she can
wash and iron, make bread and butter and cheese,
cook a good farmes’s dinner, and set the daintiest,
of little stitches in all kinds of plaiu sewing, and she
has learned it all of that excellent, kind mother; no
not all, for God’s own blessed spirit has Lreatiied
upon her heart and filled filled it with lo ve to every
created thing, and raised it huaveuwar<l i n blissful
and holy communion with the holy ones who sur
round his throne. J love to thiftk of her, and every
daughter of a New England home may be like her,
an attractive, reliued ehririain lady, it ambitious
mothers will implant what is truly valuable in the
hearts of their daughters, instead of seeking foi
ihein meretricious, useless garces.
The Telegraph too Slow.—ln the regular
Thursday atteruoon edition of the Tribune, we
printed news copied from the London papers ol
Wednesday, of peace with China, and also reports
of the sailing of steamers. Very important and
highly interesting news, which was sought after and
read with much earnestness, and with general sat in
faction. There was one exception. An excitable
individual, bearing the boys crying, “ News by the
ocean telegraph, direct from London!” stepped ii*
to the Tribune office aud snatched up a pape, Jlf
great haste, looking fusee whether it is
while to invest two cents in the purchase of paper
Os course it did not lake him long to r ja fi the dee
patch (ocean telegrams are, and we p 0 eve ,
be, more brief than some that go over the land lines,)
and then he threw down the p &pe r with an air of
disgust, exclaiming, as lie Vurned away dissatisfied
“Thunder, what oheat-V The boyH (-aid it was right
from Loudon. It i * day old. I thought it came
from there to day. Oh, pshaw
This reminds us oi an anecdote an old friend of
ours to tell of the first line of magnetic tele
g 4a ph ever operated, that, from Washington io Ba!
timore, aud thp*t only 1G years ago. When it was
first esiabli-iied there was of course a great, deal ot
talk “instantaneous communication between
the two places.” A Yankee, who had some matter
before Congress, upou which the fate of nations, in
his opinion, stood trembling, left Washington one
afternoon in company with our friend, bbuud East
ward by the express train. On the way to Bal .j
more he recollected that he had forgot to tell his
by ageul to be sure to say tweedledee or twvedlo
dam, we forget which, to tbe member fro\ n “ our
district*” and he wan iu a peck of trouble t M t the im
portant omission. He could not go bacly for there
was uome other equally important m to attend
lo somewhere abouL Boston. Oar fr : eugcrested to
liim the une of the telegraph a t Baltimore. “It
would he po-mble tor him run into the office
treosnnt Ins mebßaxe, aud Ko t to the Philadelphia
boat in time.
* !L do I get an answer back, I sup
pose?”
“WeN* /9b i If your friend is not too far off.”
* H ‘W tt. Juri, the thing. Thank you. Thank
v ?*\, h>r the suggestion. Just the thing.”
Ar/aat work he went with his pencil writin over
F.jout a page of letter paper, to transmit “instanta
neously.” He wh3 so excited that he wanted to
leap from the cars and outrun them when they come
lo i he slow speed of horse power traction, and would
have done so, probabiy, if he had known the way
to the telegraph office—a way not as well known in
those days as uow. Our friend agreed to pilot him,
and so he agreed to wail with what patience lie could.
Os course he entered the office in a hurry, thrusting
his manuscript iu the face of the operator, said
“There, I want that sent to Washington, and an
swer, right off. How long will it take ?”
“Lalt an hour, perhaps was the quiet re
You would have had a study of the face
under a feeling ot disappointment, could have
seen hioat that momenr, when he jerked out the
words: “Haifa ! Why, 1 it wouldn't
take half a minute.”
It was the theme of that man's conversation ail
the evening, that ‘the raph was a humbug.—
Halt an hour, to be when a man is in a hurry,
if they can t make work quicker than that, what’s
tiie use?”
Sure, enough, what is the use. News printed in
i°? . 10n Wednesnay, and iu New York on Thurs
day, U already too alow. Can’t we have it a little
quicker? “Halfan hour! Can’t we have it in half
a minute?” Who will totally annihilate space ?
Tribune.
Ocean Teleobafh to “Our Southern Is
lands.”—Wo fraru lrom Dudley R. Cotton, Esq.,
a prominent merchant of Barbadoes, that a move
ment is on foot there for a telegraph communica
tion to the main land. It ia proposed to connect
with “the rest of mankind” at the nearest point on
the Florida coast. The Legislative Assembly of
Barbadoes voted an appropriation of $30,000. Tbe
other islands contributed with equal liberality. The
far seeing sagacity of tbe English government will
undoubtedly soon lac>* together her gulf possessions
with a sun oceanic cable. It is believed, we learn .
that this preject will be inaugurated practically thin
autumn or next spring.— Boston Bee t Aug. 27.
Giddings Left at Home.—Hon. Joshua K
Gidciings, after twenty years’ uninterrupted and
< onaecutive service iu tbe House oi Represent a
lives, has at last been dropped by his republican
constituents. Tne telegraph apprised us a tew days
ago that tbe old veteran is to be lett at home and a
Mr. Hutchings sent to Washington in his stead.
The retirement of Mr. Giddiugs from the political
stage, and the reappearance of Mr. Corwin upou
it, are very significant politica’ events, when taken
together. The power of the old abolition dynasty is
thoroughly broken in Ohio.
Special Session of the Nebraska Legisla
ture.—A Leavenworth despatch dated the 37th
inst .receive per U. S Express to Boonsville. states
that Governor Richardson of Nebraska has called
a special session of the Legislature, to convene on
the 31st of September, for the purpose ofremoddel
mg tne laws of the Territory, many of which he
alleges, conflict with each other, and do not offer
ample security to life and property.
Deportment in a Railroad Car.—Atsl t**ok
place a month ago at Rouen iu France, that afl’ords
a good precedent of judicial action the world over
Iwo tellows, pretending to be gentlemen, were
pleased to talk indecently in a railroad car, even
attor an angry remonstrance of a worthy farmer,
who happene to be with his daughter in au oppo
site seat. He denounced them to the public prose
cutor ; they were tried by the Correctional Court,
sentence passed on each was imprisonment for two
months and a fine of 300 francs.
Depth of the Atlantic.—Lieutenant Berry
man, m 1853, made a sounding iu the Atlantic
ocean 30,600 feet in depth, equal to a little over
miles ; and Captain Denham of the British navy,
has obtained soundings at the vast depth ot 46,-
336 feet, or about 8J English miles.
The Atlantic Cable in France.—A letter from
Paris says the news of the successful laying down
of the Atlantic cable scarcely excited any attention
in France. The news is just seven days old, aud
not a sin le journal has yet contained an editorial
on the eubject. Their notices are confined to the
short dispatches that came to them from Valentia
! in the columns of tbe London journals.
• Sugar in Illinois. —Some of the Illinois farmers
! agree iu saying that the amount, of sugar raided in
that State this year from the Sorghum cane, will ex
j ceed in amount, including of course the molasses
1 made in the same process, that of any other pro
I duct or article of export growu or manufactured in
! the State.