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I A CO.LLKOK DRPARTMFNT, which embraces
a four year- course of htndv, including all the branches
oli uuMtne<*a wry to make Young Lidtea thorough
am! a'M-omplUbed scholars.
il AN AriAIiHMIC DEPARTMENT, in which pu
liiUar.- proper! > ,r. pared for College, and a good basis
laid for thorough scbolaisbip.
11l A mush; DEPAKI MEANT, with tried teachers,
, .- ruction on the Piano Porte -
ta> Hftrj Hi rm in in, Vi-lin, Flute, 4c Advanced
.. i k ght o < iip>se MnsU, II desired hot
KWHBR i* an admirable composer
IV ANOKNAMKNTAbDKPARTMKNT, iu which
pupil* are tsu .I t Painting in Oil and Water Color*. Ore
. I- ting Oriental Painting, Penciling, lfoaochro
M a> c I r:•* i Wax Km land Flowers, Crape Work,
Kmbroid*’>. ;• iper Flower-, Rosin Fruit, Ire.
V A 00M1..S TIC JDK PA It TM Est TANARUS, m which pupils
are laugh’ thecleineotary and Practical Principles o> Do
mestt Affairs Two hours ou every Tuesday. Thurs
day and f-aturday will be devoted to this Department.
The time thu- employed will not in the least interfere
with the i.itornry Department.
‘This the oalv College in Georgia giving attention to
thin o. -te —ntial part of Female K duration.
The Hosid of Instruction are thorough scholars and
experienced teachers, three of whom graduat and with
honor at Mercer University.
A BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION
. Mii . tei • < t the Gospel ol
111t ,,j,., ite meal. <, are educ ated WITHOUT CHARGE
Pi R TUITION moreover, worthy indigent orphans
ami daughters of needy Ministers will he boarded from
•j.. to 50 per cent less than the usual rates.
Pupils ar< • •ig t Iconomy. Bztravaganc e U
. Jj wed Jewelry is not warn, A pupil’s dreaaing
for yt ,ar, need not coat more than from $lO to SSO.
|((MUD OF TItUMTKEM.
, : : I, a OOD, D i> , Griffin Prea’t
Ke\ MYLVANI S I. AN DRUM, Macon.
Kev. ELIJAH .1 PAN.NAD, Louisville.
Kev. WM. C. WILKKB. Forsyth
1..;i CINCINNATI'S PHEPaaL.S, Forsyth
Ilou JOHN T CROWDER. Monroe county.
C„l JAS 8 PINCKAKD. Forsyth.
EOHN TAYLOR, H*<r, (Joleparchee
Ot LAIN 1 PONDER, E*<| , Forsyth.
IOFWPII J. CARSON, Ksi| , Ma on county.
OANIKL SANFORD, Fs|., Forsyth,Secretary.
JOHN T. .STEPHENS, Forsyth
GKO. A OABANISS, Ksq., Treasurer.
FAIThTY.
H v WM. C. W! I K KS, A M , ITeaidetit
>rof R T ASIl! KY, A M.
j, r GKO T WILBURN, A M.
m WM FIBIIUR, A M
M ‘ MASSY A WILKES.
\1 r c XATHASBIRY
Mrs Ik\ARY A LAND
MUf.JI 1.1 U STANFORD.
MissKOXIE A. CHAPPELL.
Mi ; OAHKIh’ K. LAND
I ni’ .. 1 fioiu Si s toS >0 per year ; Music, *. r >o; Hoard
ft I Oner month ear I t.lveof lights aud washing.
I 1,. ;*i,rmg Term \ begin on the 17th JANUARY.
F-t i •i-ther Intoj mat.' ,n address any member of the
Faculty, or l miter* c yVILKES, iT t.
IUUUA HUT. AKBURY, Sec'y.
I . • - 1 I*" s
IlltOI’SV I lti:i!
mi|K uuder.'Kued proft i .to cun'l> ,, o|'\V “t evory
I , |*re>n.ly#ve mile*
utti of I’nion I’oint, or addre ed l.y letur to I'ntoo
I*, int, rtreene county, O* Tbe medicine ea.'i be vent
vb> 1 1* bv iHi r ..01, wi'h direction, for (jivint’ it; or 1
wi 1 attend bennoally, if requested, and paid tor iry
lionh'e I will buv lien oe* afflicted with Drop.jr, or
cure them, as tbe owner may prelor. Kent t tne leu
Dollar, a„d I will send medicine enough for one month.
MILES G*. BROOME.
Tbi into, .Tidy that niv father bad a negro loan at
flirted with Dionsy m I Sid; be had been treated by
rr.i i,by a ai, >.bout auv cure, when be applied
M Q. Broome for bis remedy, which cured him. He
. iOvum, and iu good b.&iih.
H Champion,
Greeuesboro*, Ga , Jan ‘Jlct, lSid.
This is * certify that 1 had a negro woman badly at
i,l ath l)i'i. y for a considerable time, title was
i hisiciane; they failed to sake i
euro 1 liM.-il “f G J. itroouie. and put her under bis
treat’ll, u o lin !. ihan a year she was thoroughly
cured O! UnutsV- JAMES I)AVAST
Pentleld lla * mhbwtf
SOUTHERN WINE!
I’KKMII M CATAWBA!
’I'll!’ ii> it offer.-s irT sale a limited iari iiy of
I \nl\'\ U>. SOI’TH HH: 1 CATAWBA WINKB, of
mix IU 4 •, :.i • V Vintage oi “
sSd.ilUpi of -a*, and V”
Uoreu • i vintage of 57 ) Put up in box** ot oaedoxeu
••ch. :l ■ HWv -l.ipvoti |>er Ell>r.wor Freight train,
to any part. . i <• .vnntry. Adnre-e. 5
ianSR-wim (Vawfortl.illt- 1 . G.
LOOK HERE.
Far nut’s, Planters ami Keepers of
HORSES.
Kep your Horses in Good Condition..’
IIIIMISIIS
MIIIS VEGETABLE EH POWDER.
r I^ it *>\'r *orl.tsuy ▼irlueaof the celebrated OKR-
I M VNIU*KXK PI >WD BR. are at tested by thousands
who
a,, * hirfhiv rev ouimond‘d tor the cure aud
and Herb- t o which that anlmal-the
ureven .ou o ‘ j Hamper. Hide bound, Drowsi
''rH\ ‘ , * ~- ito Inward Sprains. Yellow Water,
~.,..,.r, is..r work,lnflanmiationof th.
Kyjf Deb, Waiting M K.. sh a o It carric. off all
\ J .,r eV t‘i\ts he r *** fr.iin becoming stiff or
, V-.- Mo’ ■ und cools. lb* blood, aud improves
. ‘ , i'h* consuntly increasing 4#*
*■ ‘■ t K ’ ,V• vVV. ’.V •1 • MKOICIKK” IS ou*
1 f t‘i > e unm ta” -v- ■ pnof’ of f'a worth. In eases of
sssKK’siasrfrsiassjg
Planters should not be without this valuai'le Powder.
For sale, wholesale and r* tail, by „„ t7TT <S TT
FISH EH A HEnTCTSH,
Columbia, v.
* oJ PLUMB & LEITNER,
\\ . . f aad K o tail Dru&g ists, Augusta Oa
i y .
BANKS! BANKS! LANDS! LANDS!!
AI.AKG K quantity of the best Planting aud V’arm
ing LANDS in sv'uthern Georgia, sad elsewhere, in
Tracts of u.V to :2.000 acres to suit purchasers. .Also,
ten to*fifteen ieaguna of select Tejtas Lands, with clear
titles, is now offer ng at very low rates at the the Georgia
lauofue A:U-t S.v .un.h, Ab.n. jnd .U
Cbar><t. a ttd Hamburg ,up*nde<i Bauk wil, be ta
keu in payme -t a- nar vane wlllb * uken **’
vc and the hi.-heat cash prices allowwi.
l, ... of finning retf.ement,. or making
aaf. inye-traents. n ill find it to their interevt to call at
our-MSce. Wa.reuKange,
Laud Agent and Real Estate Broker
odi dlwAwtf
t'IKK VRO I>l who likes good Horses, Cattle
r. or *. M,-. r take the AM KMC An
STOt K JOl* NAL pnbliahctd monthly at 140 Fulton
M tet-N ■ Y.vk. at Si “.r year. Specimen copies
gratis —>eud .-uid-et one. febt-wtl
t.. ai* > * *
Lll-ULI .aslw
FOR SALE.
w m a 4CRF.S Pina LAND. lying each side of the
4 t)lr iiev■:s;* Haiiroad. wo miles above Benelia;
150 acres which are ia Oaitivalion. the remainder well
limbered. here >on the nlace a gvx><a Dwelling and
outbuildings and a splendid WU of water. 1 have also
Oauie, Horsew Mule Hof* ind Plantation Tools, which
1 will sell with the piace. Atdress
H A MERRY.
ai\> w tt Rerzeiia. Columbia county. Qi
TOR SALT*.
I*lU ACMK** of LAND On the iAcd is a fine
Houe K-.v Leu. s*moce House, and other
J situ Ht-d yarcs from Btaxey s Depot, on
the Iwotffin Railroad, Og.-.horpeconaty—a. good leca
. te marcLan:L.iag. 1’ gi'-'vn imn.edlately.
En°n r vr , Ui *P*nn* C A SPERRY.
flantatioh foe sale.
ratHR - iber is offering for sale his PLANT A
I Tins I -tk-y county. Oa.. contam ng about 7;W
* , h ~ ..I t;. acres ..tired, good Dwelling. Om
Scr *■’ river abca
* ° r ’ * “ JAMES QEIH&.
NOTsQE.
A, r ,r. beretv sot ewarued not to trade for
VpKOMlaSofc V SOTS- Jeremiat Perry
A. L Jamea M Ku n ,or bearer, the
man, made paya , 0 wm e unit intte year
NOTE the property of
the ditwenties. t-ARAH WILKINS !
APPLING C OCNTY LANDS
DOR SALK, four lots -
Itri
C|nmidc & Sentinel
From the Sew Or If am Crruynt, of March 9lh |
The i'arnivnl at New Orleans.
I Hard!-Gnu was bleeeed with bright, beautiful ‘
weather, and a* a conaequeLc-e the city was alive
witL Mardi Gras marking and mummery. The ex*
. tent and variety of the street masquerading in the ‘
afternoon exceeding anything of the kind we have j
I seen for some years
I All the “vagroin’ boys were putin all Bort of !
( heap harlequin and clown disguises, with bags of
floor, whitening each other and the negroes, and ;
I leaving their floury tracks on the banquettes in ail
parts of the city The grown op jolly t>oys gallop- I
ed on horseback up the town and down, dressed
and painted ax Bedouin Arabs. Indians, Turks,
Chinese, Venetian cavaliers, atd African negroes.
Groups of ludicrous masker* of all conceivable
descriptions went flying around in cabs, buggies,
furniture wagues and carriages.
Untold thousands of people lined the principal
street* waiting tor and laughing at the flying fool*
eriers. From the lower part of the Tbiidjdi-tric.t to
far up in tr.e Fourth, a distance of five good miles,
the BUet* were picturesque with people in Mardi
Graa disguise; from little children knee high to the
largest sized adults. It is fair to estimate that not
leas than twenty thousand people ‘the great mass,
of course being children, negroes and miscellaneous
grown people,) took part in yesterday’s street
masquerade.
In G&iht&nia (the sailor region below Jackson
square.) all the females were out in men s disguise,
and most of the men were out in women’s disguise.
In the Faubourgh Treme, the spectacles were such
as to exceed our powers of description. To sum up,
New Orleans in the afternoon was a Pandemonium
of fantastic revelry, at which residents looked and
laughed asef yore and which strangers regarded
w.th the must perfect wonder and astonishment.
Hundreds of laughable collisions took pl&ce be
tween different parried of maskers, and between
ina-kersai-d the admiring crowds Our face ac .es
now as we write, from the constant grin it bed to •
keep up aunng the spectacles of the afternoon
The funniest thing we s>w wax at the corner of
Royal and Orleans street. A troupe of ga loping
Arabs came in colli-hn with a furniture wagon,
loaded with Venetian corsairs and apleuctid (Ureas*
sian slaves, supposed to have been rescued from
the blM>dy Turks, who were horsing around through
other parts of the city. How the tight starte J, we
could not discover, but it was a short fight,'and
beautiful wuile it lasted. The Arabs dismounted
from their horses, and clambered into the furniture
car. There was a cracking of whip handles over
skulls, a tearing off masks, a jerking around by
hair, a spilling of Circassian slaves into the street,
a general rough-anrl tumble all round, a frantic
interference by the police, end a final separation of
the combatant#—Laving an excited crowd of spec
tators admiring the insane furniture wagon driver,
who remained there for half an hour, swearing and
brandishing L a whip handle, in an agony of desire
for satisfaction from any one or all of the Arabs,
who, to hiH great grief, did not return.
The morality of the general turnout was unques
tionably bad But the staid and sober portion *>f
the community turned out to see and laugh at the
ludicrous spectacles; doubtless accepting the mer
riment of the mummers as a polite apology for their
existence in the city, and not begrudging them
their own fashion of enjoyment for one day in the
year.
John G. Saxe’s Three Travellers.—Saxe, in
a letter to the Boston Poet, draws these portraits of
three familiar travellers:
“Ist, the man who travels with his wite; lid, the
man who travels with his wife’s sister ; 3d, the man
wbo travels with another man’s wife. The first
rase is extremely common, and not particularly in
teresting. T. e man is ta< iturn, aud sleeps appa
rently as much as he can ; the woman has a slightly
subdued expression of and looks a good deal
at the scenery along the road, of which she says,
tor the mo.-: part—nothing. When she does speak
aa sometimes happens at the sight of something
very remarkable, she say. I *, “See—John!’ —that is
all. The man looks carefully after the baggage,
and assure- his spouse, in reply to a question, that,
ii’s “all right.” Tbo woman takej care of the small
“traps,” and seem comfortable and contented. A1
together, they behave quite rationally, and, in apite
of their seeming unsociability, are ready very tond
of each other, and will make a pleasant trip of it
not only to the end of their railroad tour, but to the
terminus of their matrimonial journey.
The man who travels with his wife’s sister carries
himself, perhaps, in the main like the man who tra
vels with his wife. But he is much more talkative,
and takes more pains to be agreeable. He feels
that more is expected of him, and as it goes in com
mercial affairs, the supply is equal to the demand.
A pleasant thing is a w ile’s sister, unless, indeed,
she is quite the reverse—aud that is not the sort of
woman lam talking of. She takes the wife’s place
in the house sometimes, aud may chance make an
excellent step mother. Why not?—for is she not
already the aunt of her nieces and nephews? This
sort ot marriage, however, is, I believe, anti Le
vitical; and some of the theologians don’t approve
of it—which is a pity.
The man who travels with another man’s wile is
of a much more marked behavior. How attentive
he is to all the real and possible wants of the lady.
tie respects her whims even, which, you may
be sure, her husband does not, at home or abroad.
I low carefully he hands hei in and out! How se
dulously he piles her ear with discourse ! And yet
tin imagines people take him lor the lady’s spume.
No, my dear sir, the brakeinan in the corner knows
better than that. Husbands may be uxorious, but
kindness such as yours is more like that of cavalier
servient# —which after all, I dare say you are not.
It’s tiresome though, alter a while, unless the la iy
is remarkably attractive, and pays her own fare,
(which she sometimes forgets,) aud, on a journey
ot a thousand miles, your own wife is much the
more agreeable companion.
Thpatrical Exhibition Extraordinary.—
The performances at the fSt. Louie Theatre on
Saturday evening were productive of an immenai:y
of tun, probably never befo e equaled in ttiat old
aud favorite histrionic temple. Mr. F. Clark, a
furniture dealer on Market street, a very clever
yomiK gentleman, aud not delicient in tragic talent,
was announced to make his tirsl appearance upon
any stage, iu the rather heavy character of “Rich
ard lll.”or,ae the occupants of the parquette per
stated in styling him, “Richard a hundred and ele
ven,"'all for (lie benefit ot Mr. Welch Edwards, of
the regular threatrical corps. The novelty of the
allair brought out a tremendous house, not equalled
since the exodus of the opera troupe For awhile
the amateur floated along swimmingly down the
current of Ins role as the crooked back tyrant, until
he came to a point where the nee ssities of the
piece required that he should run his sword through
King Henry. Unfortunately his Bword stuck to its
scabbard, anil, in the excitement consequent upon
hie finally getting it extricated, he very nearly ran
King Henry through. His wardrobe only, how
ever, was damaged ! Assured that he was not in
jured, King Henry fell, and, instead of decently
dying, as King Henry should, he turned his back
upon the audience aud—laughed !
All parts of the house wer- quickly alive to
Richard s extraordinary vagaries. Torpedoes were
thrown upon the stage ; he was called out at the
close of au act, and was universally hissed oflf
again. Lovers of the legitimate, in the parquette,
kept tlie run of his part, and what was worse, kept
in advance ; when they supposed he was “stuck,”
innumerable voices would give him the “cue.’”
to be followed by a laugh, iu which everybody
joined.
Still, the Dlay progresped until the “ghost scene”
was reached, where Richard is supposed to be ta
king a fitful aud feverish sleep, and is disturbed by
the appearance of the ghost of his numerous vic
tims. At this moment, Richard, instead of being
iu bed, as the commander of an army should be,
was promenading the stage—grand, gloomy and
savage. The curtain was drawn for the appear
ance of tlie ghost, when someone cried, “Why don’t
you go to bed, Richard ? There’s the ghost!’’ That
was sufficient. The audience laughed until they
cried, aud the curtain was rung down ; after which,
the beneficiary, Mr. Edwards, appeared aud an
nounced that the balance es Richard would be
omitted, and the afterpiece entered upon.— St.
l,ou a Kt'pub/ican, Feb. ’JS.
French Fox Huntihg.—A party of Parisian
sporting gentlemen were sitting late around the
dinner-table, at the chateau de G . As they
leisurely smoked their cigars and talked over the
fatigues and dangers of the day, the butler entered
with great pomp, followed by two footmen bearing
a huge dish, upon which was a pastry castle of size
unprecedented.
• Now, Messieurs,” said their host, “one more
glass tVr a stirrup-cup. and then to saddle.’’
He lifted his champagne to his lips, but there was
a geuerai murmur of surprint*. To saddle, near
midnight ! Was their ampbytrion losing his wits ?
••We start presently after the fox,” he repeated ;
“all ie ready . your horses are saddled, and the
srivrns bold them, wsitii* tor you in the court be-
Tbeir kMoni.-hment redoubled; but at that mo
ment. !be biftitsuien outaid* sounded their horns for
the chase The servants opened the windows, and
with the point of a lona’ knife, the host lifted the
pas'ry turret of the carlo. Out jumped a fox!
He reran* from one of the windows, aud off. across
the spacious park he took his course—leaving a
luminous track behind him like a long tailed comet 1
A bundle of matted threads, tied to him behind, was
impregnated with phosphorus!
The fcorus sounded. The guests full of wme and
excitement, mounted and took the track. A bright
light tteeing before and twenty horsemen behind—
it was , xeiting 1 At the end of twenty minutes, the
fox of the pot pie was overtaken, breathless and
frightened out of his wits, and. with tail still lumi
nous. he was borne back to be “drank to. with all
;he honors,’ by the renewed thirst of the company.
Liokizitm DisTisuoishid Strangers.—lt is
mortifying that the propensity should be so strong
among our countrymen to follow up and lionixe
foreign personages of distinction, that those per
sonages shou'd have to cry for mercy as soon a,
they approach our shores, and beg, in p.amUve
*eru> to be let off as lightly as possible. Ameri
cans who never gave their friends reason to blush
for their wisdom in council, their courage in battle,
or their energy in peace ; whose general average
of intelligence’ n higher than that ot any other peo
ple under Heaven . wuo have every reason m their
past, their preeeut and then 1 future, in their ooun
try and in themselves, for prid6 and self-respect, are
nevertheless aiJlioted with such exuberaut sensibni
ty, are so excessively amiable, affectionate and
demonstrative, that they run after every celebrity
like a crowd of village school boys after a strange
visitor, and so persist in leaping and fondl-.pg, am.
hand-staking, and rubbing their noses against the
hem of the garment. that they have to be Sifted up
carefully by the uape of hthe neck, and dropped in
some sale place where they can cause no farther an
noyanoe. Os ivursethis characteristic applies to
the citixens of the large Northern towns, rather than
to the people of the rural districts anywhere. We
feel some degree of satisfaction that when the great
satirist, Thackeray, was on his travels South, he
f iund the race of nobles growing “small by degree,
and beautifully less.” and only here and there a
donkey who offered mmselt to be rode and was
proud of the distinction.—£*. />u;..
Three Mrs Saved from GoisgOyek Niagara.
-Three residents of Cmppswa. C. W were eroe
ing Niagara river in a sau boat .as; Sutmrday put
above the rapids, when a high W:Qdc*iiui the boat
to caosize A Niagara boatman, named buruvst ,
i,nmirii e\ went to the rescue of the men. wuo
w.4-e slowly drifting toward the tapids. lie con
trived to gist two of the men into his boat, toe
third was tow-rd t.-nind. and made for rae store,
which be touched at a point outte low down,
escaping the swift currem noxt the American-.lk ra
The boat in which the men had user, went over
the Faiis.
An Astwce Timepiece.— A lithe daughter of
Edward Hardy, of this village, has a small goiu
whatch bearing upon its inside case the date ‘lku
luiacsect owner nolds it by bequest from her grand
mother, and, though but seven years of age. intends
to bequetne it to her grand daugater as soon as time
and events shall introduce her to the second genera
tion of her posterity. The watch is the most antique
of the ‘'bull's-eye'’ styie, and. though it “runs with
the alacrity of early FOUtb, carries with it the ap
l>ear*ncee ofeitreui# okifcffe. Medina Trtb.
Armies is Kcuoi e—There is a standing a-med
I force office millions of men in Europe, occupying a
territory litlie larger in extaal tpau that of the United
States. Should the Amer can Union be divided, in
course of time, there will be an equal mass of brutal
soldiery scattered among the various independent
governments es this country, aud making our unlor
tunateposterity.sigh, fromthebotUiSttoftheirhearls, i
‘ for the good old times ”
j Arldrew# of Orinin Selilers on the Houma**
Grant, in Die Pnri**het* of A*ren*ion and
Iberville, in the NtmeefLoaidaaß.
To Ike ha nor able the Smat* and Haute, of Reprc
** ntalires of the United States of America, in
The under?igr ed, having been delegated by cer
tain settler? on the so called Grant, in the
.Va’e of Loui-iana, to present to your honorable
bodies their memorial, a.reauy before you, setting
J fjrth a weighty grievance, of which they have been
made the victims by legislation on your part, beg
! leave to make the following reprecentati as :
j In order that you may I ally ectimate tire enormity
I of the wron<s?h&t ha? been ir ti cted upon the com
munity we re pres nt, fact# oniy are necessary to be
presented.
j It is well known to many of you, that there is an
j extensive tract of land ii: Ls'Uisiana, designated as
the Houmas Grant, the tide to which has been in
dispute more than half a century.
On this disputed tract, Kre settled some five hun
dred farmers, the heads U families, who have been
in pf Me-v-ion. in some instance?, as long as .forty
yean. These settlers went upon the land? in good
Faith, knowing the so caJed. “grant’’ to be fraudu
ienf. and void, and have remained in possession,
reiying upon the iegal ant* equita jle action of Ccn
greas. and the judicial tribunals, in declaring the
grant a nullity, and in confirming them in their pos
efeusion, as settlers upon land which ha* been
: ighttully a part of the public domain of the United
States.
The representatives of the pretended grantets
Lave persisted iy sought, for more than fifty years,
to obtain from the Government a title to the lands,
and, until recently, have utterly failed to accom
plish their feeds - A patent wa?, however, issued to
the grantees on he U2i August, 1814.
lu IBlri, Congress passed an act authorizing a
suit to be brought to test the validity of the patent
mo irrUed The clear intent and meaning of this
act, was to re tore the lands to the maos of the pub
lic domain, should tne court# decide \he patent to
be invalid. Weataii pieaently eee how Congrees
has been deprived o* its equitable and patriotic
design, b/ the subsequent feuneptuious introduction
iu‘o the body ot an act ostensibly designed for
another purpose, or a c ause or section entirely
foreign .row the objects c.:d iutent of such act.
In pursuance o the act ot 1840, euit was brought
in the circuit court, sitting at New Orleans, where
by the \uiidity of the patent in question was put at
sue.
in lttdb, at the November term of said court, Mr.
Justice Campbell, presiding, it was decided that the
patent issued to O&niel Clerk, or his legal repre
tentatives, for the lanes in this grant, “was if sued’’
without authority of law, and therefore inoperative
and void ! It was ordered that the patent be de
livered up to the clerk of the court, within thirty
days after notice ot the decree, to be cancelled.
It will thus be perceived that the court, acting
by authority of Congress, pronounced the grant to
be a fraud and a nullity.
If the representatives cf the grantee had found
themselves aggrieved by tLis decision, they bad
rigut to seek a remedy, by appeal to the Supreme
Court, but no appeal was taken. Th * matter wa: ;
therefore res judicata , and the llouma, claim stood
beiore th© Country, under the sanction of Congress,
and by the judgment ot the court, branded as a
fraud. The land embraced by it thus became va
cant public land, subject as other public land to be
surveyed and sold to settlers or others. It will not
be denied that the settlers upon the land needed the
aid of Congress, or the Executive, to invest them
with perfect titles ; nor will it be questioned, on the
other hand, that, for Congress to legislate five hun
dred heads of families out of their homes on the
lands, for the purpose of giving this vast extent of
country to two or three other individuals, would be
a most flagrant act of injustice.
Such, however, has been the result of the aid of
fi*d June, 1&>8, as wo shall presently aoe.
The act referred to, and which we now complain
of, is entitled, “An act to provide for the location of
certain confirmed Private Land Claims in the State
of Missouri, and for other purposes ’
The intention of this act, on its title icqports,
would eein to nave been to locate certain confirm
• and Claims in Missouri
The second section of the act. provides., however,
that certain claims in the eastern district ot the
Territory of Orleans (now Louisiana) shall be con
firmed—and this includes the famous Houmas
Claim, on which are settled five hundred honest
farmers, heads of families.
It is a welt known fact that John Slidell, Sen *tor
in Congress from Louisiana, o wns twenty heo thou
sand acres within this claim, and that one or two
other individuals claim the remainder of*thin large
Gram.
There is a little history about John Slidell’s
owuersh pof this twenty-two thousand acres , which
may be given lor the better elucidation of the mo
tives which may have led to the surreptitious in
troduction into the body of the act of this ‘Jnd sec
tion, enriching John Slidell at the price ot the utter
ruin of five hundred settleiß.
Mr. Slidell purchased his interest of twenty-two
thousand acres many years ago, from Kightor and
Williams. Discovering afterwards that the Grant
was invalid, he refuses to pay the remainder of bis
purchase money to the vendors, and was sued,
which suit ho roasted with a pertinacity not easily
forgotten in the parish of Ascension. The court
held, however, t hat he could not recover, iuasmuch
as the maxim caveat empfor was applicable to the
case, and he, as purchaser, must take the conse
quences of ms ill advised adventure.
lu this aui’ Mr- Slidell admits, on his part, that
he had no right to the lands in the Houmas Grant.
Instead of abandoning, how ever, a title lie con
sidered worthless, we find him holding on to the
claim.
In 1&\8, “A bill to provide for the location of
certain Private Land Claims in the State of Missou
ri” &c.,is reported in the Senate by Mr. Benjamin,
chairman of the committee on Private Laud Claims,
with theobiioxiou.’ Jnd section, interlarded by Mr.
Benjamin, which confirms the Houmas Claim, and
secures to Ml. Slidell twenty-two thousand acres of
the public domain, worth mere than a million of
dollars. Thus is Mr. Slidell's title allirmed to a bo
dy of land embraced by a olaim which he in person
had denounced as a fraud when he was sued by
Uightor.
It is evident that tlie 2d section referred to is fo
reign to the intent cf toe act, for the title of the act
shows that it was intended to provide for the “lo
cation” ot conjirmed claims, and not for the “con
firmation” of located claims, as lias been effected
by rhe interlarded 2d section.
It might bo urged by the defenders of the bill
that there a is provision in the 2d section which
saves to all adverse claimants auy rights which
they may have bv virtue of settlement and itn
proveraents mf.de on the lands. This ia a blind,
lor it is well understood th it as the lands are mostly
uusurveyed, no rights under the pre-emption laws
could attach by virtue of such settlements, and the
settleis could therefore have no legal status by
which they could commence proceedings in the
courts to test tho rights which it is pretended
are secured by the second section of the act. —
Thus like an anathema comes down on the
heads of five buudrod families the effects aud
consequences of this Sli. cl .use under the
Missouri act, many ot whom -settled those
woods torty years back, and after enduring the
toils and depiivations incident to the life of the
backwoodsman, during that length of time, have at
length surrounded themselves with the comforts at
tached to farms, and begin to taste the fruits of their
labors, rejoicing in their improvements of inestima
ble value’ to themselves and their posterity, should
be driveu forth by subterfuge of this kind, calls
loudly for redress.
The original bill was introduced by Senator
Gevev, whose character for high honor and rectitude
gave members confidence m the measure, and
averted any suspicion of the ruiu that was to fall,
inconsequence of the second section, upon the five
hundred settlers on the Houmas claim.
The bill was a surprise, and a large majority of
both Houses were unquestionably ignorant oi the
obnoxious provision of which we complain. Our
immediate representative was altogether taken una
wares by the terrible blow aimed at the fortunes
aud property of such a large cumber of his consti
tuents. and took action to obviate its effects as soon
as it was discovered.
In view of the facts stated, and considering that
the interests of the memorialists have been aban
doned by our Senatorial representatives, who have
made use of their positions of honor and trust to
huckster for the benefit of one of their number, at
the expense of five bundled families, we now ap
peal to the general Congress for relief. We ask
you to put the seal of your condemnation upon this
attempt of our honorable Senator to'acquire laud
by donation from the United States, valued at over
a million, by depriving five hundred families, not
only of the portion claimed by himself, but of a vast
tract of country covered by the other claims under
the original grantee, which is valued at far more
than live millions of dollars.
Deserted as we have been, for purposes of per
sonal aggrandizement, by those to whom we have
delegated the trust of taking care of our interests,
we now appeal, on the part of the memorialists, to
the representatives of our common country; and
ask that au act be passed that will arrest the issu
ing of the patent on the Houmas claim, and that
will blot out from the statute book that claim of the
injurious enactment which oniy became a law be
cause it was overlooked.
We have the honor to be, very respectfully, your
obedient servants,
Romania Tillotson.
Frederick Weber Hart,
Delegates of the settlers on the Houmas Claim.
Extract from ihc Minute, of tilt- ltom-<i es Pub
lic Schools of the Illy of New Vork.
Clerk s Office, Dec. 30,1858.
At a meeting of the Board of Education of Pub
lic Schools of the City of New York, on the 15th
day of December, 1858, a work entitled “Barrinp
ton s Element* of Maiurai Snerice,” by Mrs. hran
cis B. Fogg, of Nashville, Tennessee, was officially
presented to the notice of the Board as a Ciaes
Book for the City Schoo s. upon which it was refer
red to a Committee on Text Books for examination.
At the last meeting of the Board on the ti9th day
of December, 1858. the following Keport was pre
sented, signed by the Committee, consisting of the
following gentlemen: William Jay Haskett, E. C.
Benedict, William Bloomfield.
To the Honorable Board of Education of the City
of Sew York:
The Committee to whom was leferred the appli
cation of Charles Burdett. for the introdution, as a
Cls.se Book, into the Public Schools of this City, the
woik on “ Physical Geography and Natural
Sc.euce.” by Mis. Francis B. Fogg, of Nashville.
Tennessee, beg to report:
That the subject is one of the greatest Importance
in this age, and especially in our country, already
extending across s'.i degrees of Latitude, and tVI of
Longitude, frem Ocean to Ocean, and embracing
a mara'ime Commerce far exceeding that of all an
tiquity in value and directivity :—that having been
in possession of the book sometime previous to the
application of Mr. Burdett. the Committee have
come to the conclusion that it is one of the most use
ful and valuable of Text Books, lucidiv and concise
ly written, and containing a very large amount of
information, which could not be acquired elsewhere,
in any manner practicable for schools. Your Com
mittee would add, that as appears by certificates
submitted to them, the book has already been in
troduced into many of the public and private schools
of the South and West, and use been everywhere
received with the most marked commendation by
the ■- ost eminent -cholars of the country.
Your Committee offer for adoption the tollowiug
resolution: _ . , _
Resolved, That the work on Physical Geography,
by Mrs F B Fogg, bein’ red upen the List ot
Class Books for the Pub.ic Schools of this City.
On the reading of this report the following reso
lution was unanimously passed by the whole Board,
in the iiall of the Board of Education, at the corner
of Grand and Eim streets. New York.
Resolved, That the work on Physical Geography,
by Mr-. Francis. B. Fogg, be entered on the List of
Class Bovri for the Public Schools of this city.
Mtron Fisch.
Deputy Clerk of the Board of Education.
A Case of Catalefst— Mrs. Brady, whose sud
aen death at the rails we chronicled a few days
since, has not yet been buried. A day was three
for the funeral, but the singular appearance oithe
body has induced the relatives to delay the inter
ment. The body though supposed to have been
dead for several days, exi ibits no signs of decay,
and does not omit the offensive smell usual w’lh
dead bodies. There is a little color in the cheeks,
and smalt drops of perspiration have been noticed
anon the forehead These facts have induced the
friends to delay the funeral— Norwich Bulletin,
17 It.
•‘Takikg it East."—The Duouke L-wa) Herald
says that a gentleman, from the interior of that
Sta-e passed, a few days ago, C wagons for Pike's
Peti’ Stuck last in the mud The accompanying
emigrants had quietly encamped, to wait for drier
I weather
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 30, 1855).
Correspondence of the Sashrilte Union 4* American.
Gold .Mine* ai Pike*- Peak and on Platre
River.
Kicapoo, K. TANARUS., March 4 1859.
For some days I have br-en observing the move
ments in the directions ot Pike’s Peak, but am sti’l
uuabie to write anything that is reliable a? to the
value of the tninf .-. A son-ic-iaw ol the gentleman
with w hom l am boarding, wen s ou* in October
!a<t; he writes favorably, and has sent for his fami
ly. There are quite a number ot citizens here who
tre preparing to start the let of April. Some of
Them have friend- in the mines, ana I regard their
testimony cs reliable, they state that there are sev
eral thousand in the raining region, nine-tentLs of
whom are continually prospecting, fiom which one
would infer that none have yet fouud gcod digging**,
though it is currently reported here that the Doni
phan company is working shot gold.
The region embraced by the mines, covers au
area of about lour tfcousaud square miles ; com
mencing iu Nebraska, aoove parallel forty, and
East of longitude 105 West, run* South eighty’miies,
West fifty miies and North to the parallel of the
first point. The main prospecting has been done
in the northeast corner, along the South Platte.
You will see from this de.eolation that it embra
ces the head waters of the South Piatte, the Arkau
sas and tne Rio Grand rivers, and is on the parallel
of Sacramento, Cal. i recon there is no doubt
but that gold haa Leeu obtained on all these waters.
You are aware that the largest gold ia always found
on the highest points in a gold region, and that in
descending from one fall of the water to another it is
gradually ground by the action of the water aud
eand until reduced to dust at some distance from
the hill. The main mining, as beiore stated, ha3
be*-udone in the du.-t gold, a distance from the
hills ; these washings have paid five dollars a day,
mo.e or less. This is considered a good indication
of the gold in higher waters; but it would certainly
be imprudent for any one to make sacrifices of time
or money without further evidence of the value of
toe gold region, and from the number of persons
there that evidence will soon be obtained. Au
air line from Kansas City. Missouri, to the cen
tre of the gold fields wcuid measure about 550
miles. I apprehend that the moßt direct wagon
road which can be traveled, would measure 700 miles.
The quickest way ot getting to the mine is to take
stage at Kansas, Lieavenworth, or St. Joseph, there
being daily lines from each of these points. Tuey of
fer to take passengers through in 15 days wilh lOlba.
extra weight for sixty dollars—incidenial expenses
thereby would make ninety dollars from any one of
these points.
St. Joseph is now the most available point from
the Ea*t, the fare from the St. Louis being $ll.OO,
time, 3b hours ; from St. Louis to Kansas and Leav
enworth, sl2 00, time, three to four days. The
next way is packing through on horsc3 or mules
in tliis way the trip can be made in from twenty to
twenty-five days. Horses are high cn the border,
ana two are necessary to each man. Th* slowest
but suns way is with cx teams and ouifit They
will make the route in lroin four to *ix w'eeks. Such
trains will cost from two to four hundred dollars,
exclusive of outfif. There will ba any quantity c!
beef at the mines, aud Irom the preparations now
making ou the borders for supplying, it wouldßeern
that provisions of all kinds will be abundant. Per
haps I should state in conclusion, that trains are
con inually leaving Kansas, Leavenworth and St
Joseph ; they are traveling in every manner, from
the wagon to the hand-cart. Day before yeeterdiry
a train of several hand carts passed this place.—
There were seven men to each cart, seven hundred
pounds ot treight.
Lohh ol the Neosho .Mail.
Capture and Escape * r John Hall, the Mail
Carrier.— Ou Friday last John Hall made affida
vit before E. VV.Shands, Erq., of the particulars
attending the lots of the Neosho mail last Decern
ber. llall states That he left Neosho, Mo., lor
Alburquerque, N. M., on the sth November last,
having in cnarge the mail, consisting of about four
or live pounds rs letters and He started
with the intention of overtaking Lieut. Stein and
Lieut. Beale, with their escort, who were some
eight or ten dayß iu advance of him. When aboui
twenty four lioura behind Lieut. Stein’s party, as
he judged from their camp tires. Hall was attacked
by a baud of Commaucho Indians, about Tony in
number, who succeeded in taking him prieone,r not
however, without resistance on his part. Hall was
severely wounded by arrows in the leg aud eiila,
nd his mule was shot dead. The mail was de
stroyed. For four or five weeks Hall was com
pletely prostrated by his wounds, and was compil
ed, on his recovery, to follow his captors trom place
to place on the prairies. About the middle of
February, having recovered from his wounds, he
succeeded in making his escape ou one ot the her es
belonging to the Indians. For four days and nights
he traveled incessantly, without rest or food, but
succeeded in gaining the settlements, a though so
debilitated he could hardly sit upon his horse.
He reached St. Louis on Friday, and left for his
home in Clay County ou tke| same day. His rela
tives and friends despaired of ever seeing him
again, and his escape from captivity and death was
almost miraculous. None but a hardy voyageur
like Hall could have endured the hardships and
sufferings to which he was exposed.—<S7. Louis
Republican.
I*real*nee of I>linl and Common Sense.
If a man faint away, says liall’s Journal of
Health, instead of yelling out like a savage, or run
ning to him to lift him up, la}’ him at lull leugtb,
on Lia back, on the floor, loosen the clothing, push
the crow*l away, so as to allow the air to reach him
and let him alone. Dashing water over a person
in a simple fainting fit, is a barbarity. The philoso
phy of a fainting litis, that the heart fails to send
the propel supply ol* blood to the brain ;if the per
son i* erect, that blood has to be thrown up hill;
but if lying down, it has to be projected horizontal
ly, which requires less power as is apparent.
If a per* jn swallow poison deliberately or by
chance, instead of breaking out into multitudinous
and incoherent exclamations, dispatch someone for
the doctor; meanwhile, run to the kitchen, get half
a glass of water in anything that ia handy, put into
it a teaspoonl'al of salt, aud as much ground mu#
tard, stir it iu an instant, catch a firm hold of the
person’s nose, the mouth will soon fly opon—then
down with the mixture, and in a second or two up
will come the po : son. This will answer better in a
large number of cases than any other. If, by this
time, the physician has not arrived, make the pa
tient swallow, the white of an egg, followed by a cup
of strong coffee (because tbs se nullify a larger num
ber of poisons than any other accessible articles,)
as antidotes for any poison that remains in the
stomach.
If a limb or other part of the body is severely cut,
and the blood comes out by spirts or jerks, be in a
hurry or the man will be dead in five minutes ;
there is no time to talk or send for a physician
say nothing, out with your handkerchief, throw it
around the limb, tie the two ends together, put a
stick through them, twist it around, tighter and
tighter, until the blood ceases to flow. But to stop
it does no good. Why? Because only a eevered
artery throws blood out in jets and the arteries get
their blood from the heart; hence, to stop the flow,
the remedy must be applied between the heart and
the wounded spot —in other words, above the
wound. If a vein had been severed, the blood
would have flowed iu a regular stream, aud, on the
other hand, the tie should be applied below the
wound, or on the other side of the wound from the
heart; because the blood in the veins flows towards
the heart, and there is need of so great a hurry.
British Manufactures. — From an official re
port of the Factory Inspectors of England, from
1835 to 1857—since which period there has been an
augmentation in all branches of manufactures—it
appears that on the lllth ot March, 1835, the num
ber of mills, and the number of persons employed
therein, were, in those counties, as follows:
Factories. Persons emp'd.
Cotton 775 132,828
Woolen aud Worsted 220 8,738
Flax 60 3,546
Silk 23 5,145
Total 1078 152,627
Iu the return made to the House ot Commons ia
February, 1857, the account stands thus :
Factories. Persons emp'd.
Cotton 1535 271.423
Woolen and Worsted.... 181 18,909
Flax 49 6,738
Silk 46 10,583
Total 1811 309,633
Sir John Kincaid gives the following tabular
statement respecting the changes which have taken
place in the chief branches of Scotch manufactures
in the course of twenty years, between 1835 and
1857 :
Cotton in all
its branches. No. of hands.
1835 159 32.580
1857 52 34,698
Woolen.
1835 90 3,505
1857 196 9,280
Flax.
1835 170 13 409
1857 168 31,722
[Rick. Disp.
Cashmere Goats for Texas. —This afternoon
Mr. Aaron Ross. of Georgia, will leave here on the
steamboat K. W. Powell for Bed River, on his way
to Cherokee county, Texas, there to deliver to Col.
Yokum, a well known citizen of that section of
country, three goats of the Cashmere shawl species
purchased by Col. Yokum of Mr. Richard Peters,
of Atlanta, Ga. One of these goats is a buck of
pure blood : the other two are ewes of three fourths
to seven-eighth pure blood.
The Cashmere goat was introduced into this
country in 1849, by Dr. J. B. Davis, of South Caro
lina, who obtained them at much expense and trou
ble while he was employed by the Sultan, in Tur
key, in Asia. They are not the Thibet shawl goat
or the Angora goat, and naturalists in this country
have agreed to call them tho Cashmere goat. From
the pure, white color, and silky fineness and great
length of their fleece—its value, $8 a pound, the au
imal yielding 4 to 5 pounds—their adaptability to
our climate, without deteriorating—their crossing
readily with the common goat and retaining still
their peculiar and valuable characteristics—their
needing littie care; their vigorous frame and frugal
habits; the delicacy and nutriciouaness of their
flesh. their capability of defence against dogs or
other animals—they must prove the moat valuable
variety of the goat’ that can be introduced into the
country.
Mr. Peters, proprietor of the Devon farm in
Georgia, has been eminently successful in crossing
the pure blood Cashmere bucks with the common
goat, aud the fleece of even the fourth crosses is
wonderfully fine, soft, light, long and white. e
can well understand that the famous Cashmere
shawl, made of precisely this wood, should be of
such beautifnl texture and durable qualities.
Several animals of this valuable breed are al
ready in Texas, and with the admirable capabilities
of that State for raising sheep and goats of the
finer qualities, every addition of this kind to its
stoc k resources, is worthy of notice. —Sew Orleans
Picayune, I'Jlh.
More Aboet the Frauds —ln proposing, in the
Senate, a short time before the adiournment. amend
ments to the Post Office appropriation bill, Mr.
Wilson said he knew a case where Rice, editor of
the “Pennsylvanian,'’ had contracted for printing
blanks for fl'tOlO, which cost him just fo.UOO. and
the profits were divided, fifty per cent, to the Wash
ington “Union.” five per cent to Mr Appleton,
and three per cent, to a paper published for the in
terest of & member of Congress
Mr. Mason said: If that was a fact, it was due to
the Senate and country to lay the information be
fore them. . . ~
Mr Wilson reiterated the statement, and said
that Rice himself had said so, and moreover the
arrangement was with the cognizance of Mr. Bu
chanan. .
Mr Cameron eaid the matter was notorious, that
everybody, except perhaps Masun. knew it Rice,
until lately, was a creature of the President, but
recently they quarreled, and Rice went blabbing
ail about it . ‘
The Washington “States’’ gayr* thin affair ” l3 f°
be investigated, and the facta laid before the world.
When this is done, it will be found that what the
Opposition Senator stated ia not far from correct.
Sale of Manufacturing Property. —The
Georgia cotton mill, located in Smithfield, and late
the property of Zachariah Allen. Esq., was sold at
auction Thursday, by Mr. Dike, rorf4o.ooo, subject
to incumbrancer to the amount of $11.),000. The
estate comprised two stone mills, each about 250
feet in length, three stories high, containing 16,500
spindles, with all the necessary machinery and pre
paration of a first claer establishment Twenty
dwelling houses were embraced in the schedule of
property. The whole estate cost more than s3oo } -
000 a very few years ago.—/b ovuLeiux Journal.
The Fowt Otlice Department.
The Washington papers publish a letter from
Post Master General Holt, in reply to a mail con
tractor, wbo asks him if any provision is contem
plated for extinguishing tho liabilities ot the De
partment which have already matured and are now
payable. After intimating that, had the next Con
gress been already elected, the President w uld
have called an extra session, the Postmaster Gen
eral ea\ s :
Upon a careful examination and investigation,
it has beeu ascertained that the deficiency will
amount to about the sum of $4.385 081 95. It
ought, however, to be observed that, after the 30th
June next, the turn of $700,000 granted to the de
Dartment by the act* of March 3d, 1849, and March
3d, 1851, for the transportation and delivery of free
mail matter for Congress and tne executive depart
meiits, may be applied in part to the extinguish
ment of this deficiency. Thisi wiM : leave the balance
to be provided for $3,685,281 95. Os this sum ot
$4,385,281 95, the deficiency which existed in the
quarter ending on the 31st December amounted
to $749,841 68
That tor quar:er ending 31s March to.. 1.964,155 26
Thai for quarter ending 30th Jute to.. 1,671,285 01
$4,386,281 95
The $749,841.68 —being the unpaid balance of the
quarter’ - liabiiitiiß c osing 3L* December, and pay
able 28th February—can and will be paid by the
department within sixty days from this date ; the
payment of the principal part of it will be made
within thirty days. The effect of this will be to di
vide the entire deficit of $4,385,261.95 between the
quarters endiDg 31st March and 30th June, and
payable 3Jst May and 31et August, so that the sus
pension of payment ou uo part of this indebtedness
wnl exceed beyond a lew days, 4* months before
the regular meeting of near!} one half
of it the suspension will be but a few days more
than three months.
It is a grievous misfortune to the contractors that
the department has beeu left without the means of
discharging this debt at its maturity. Under exist
ing circumstances, however, it would be impossible
to convene Congress in time to meet these respon
sibilities without virtually excluding from that body
tlie representatives of several ot the sovereign
States of this confederated government. This would
be a just cause of serious complaint.
The choice of the President has beeu undoubted
ly a choice between two great evils; but in hisjudg
ment, the leaser evil would be to wait until Hie
first Monday ot December, w hen Congress will be
full.
The debts due, and to become due, to the con
tractors are of a sacred character. The contracts
out of which these debts arise, have beeu entered
in o under the expiess authority of existing laws of
Congress. To appropriate money fjr thtir pay
ment is as obiiga ory aud binding upon Congress as
it l* to prov 31 j for tlie principal anu interest ot the
national debt. There never will be—there never
can be—a repudiation of this debt by the repre
sentatives ot the American people. After the
amount due to each contractor shall have been as
ceriainecl-and finally settled according to law, this
amount becomes a specific debt of record ngaiust
:he United States. Its payment is inevitable, aud
if the contractor desires to borrow money upon it
the lender could have no better security. Besides,
as Congress are in default for not having made an
appropriation to meet this debt, it would be no
more than strict justice lor them to provide for the
payment of interest on these accounts irom the
time of their final adjustment by the accounting
officers of the department, and when a warrant
would have issued for their payment had an appro
priation been made. This interest—excluding from
view that on the $749,841, now in the course of
payment, and applying ou the Ist July, to the ex
tinguishment oi the principal, the $700,000 for free
matter, which will be then available—should Con
gress think proper to allow it, would amount to lei*
than sloo,ooo—a sum not to be compared with the
great difficulties and embarrassments of a public
and privale character which would result from
holding a special session of Congress, to say noth
ing of the expense that would necessarily be incur
red, even though the members should receive no
addicional pay.
A system of retrenchment, so far as it may be
practicable under existing laws, iB now an impera
tive duty in the administration of the department.
By the act approved June i4, 1858, Congress es
tablished six hundred and ninety five new post
routes, the service of which—including the St.
Paul's aud Puget bound route,established in March
1855, but not yet put into operation—it has beeu
estimated would require an annual appropriation
from the treasury of $604,088, over and above the
receipts accruing therefrom. Not a dollar, however,
has been appropriated for this purpose,.and, as a
necessary result, the contracts for these routes,
though they have beeu advertised and proposals
received, cannot be closed until the necessary funds
.shall have been provided by law.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
J. Holt.
Riot near Baltimore. —The Baltimore Patriot
of Friday, says that the day before, being St.
Patrick's Day, the hands employed ou the new’
water works, three miles from the city, suspended
their labors to engage iu the festive scenes that are
generally observed by the sons of Erin on that
day. At aw early hour they commenced imbibing
the ardent very freely, and so continued through
out the entire day, until their brains became mad
dened with the alcoholic draughts, and several ex
hibited a strong desire to engage in a general fight,
which was promptly checked by the more discreet
portion of their number. Towards three o’clock,
however, a party of Corkonians came down from
the upper works and began to threaten their oppo
nents, the Fardownere, when a general riot took
piace iii which were engaged about five hundred
persons.
Pisto's, guns, axes, picks, clubs and shovels were
freely used ; and during the melee one man was
shot through the kidueys, another through the
head, aud several others received balls in various
parts of their bodies ; the wounds of many will very
probably prove fatal. Au aged man who had taken
a very active part iu the tight, had the entire scalp
knocked from his head while others received severe
cuts and bruises. The battle continued till near
night, and began, to increase when information
was brought to this city, asking for assistance at Hie
hands of the authorities, as the probabilities were
that a number would be killed.
Officers were immediately dispatched to the bat
tle ground, but on their arrival learned that an offi
cer of the county had heard of the affair and suc
ceeded in making several arresls, which hadfthe ef
fect, of preventing any further riotous proceedings.
It is estimated that at least one hundred persons
were wounded, some of whom it is said must die, as
their injuries are of a fatal character.
Extra Judicial Proceedings in Alabama.—
A strange organization was inaugurated by a large
public meeting, at Cedar Grove church, Bibb
county, Ala., the 28th ult’. Our cotemporaries call
it a “ Vigilance Committee,” aud all good and
honest men of that and adjoining counties who are
in favor of peace, quiet and good order, are invited
to become members of it. And for thie purpose a
book has been opened in which citizens are to en
rol their names, and those thus enrolled are to con
stitute what is called a general committee. The
chairman of this committee is clothed with power
to call a meeting of the game “at any time and
place he may see proper.” Moreover, “if as many
as twenty shall assemble in obedience to such call,
they shall form a quorum for action,” and iu the
absence of the regular chairman, may appoint a
temporary one for the transaction of business. The
nature of the business ia clearly set forth in the fol
lowing resolution:
Resolved , That whenever this committee, so as
sembled by the call of the chairman, or at any of
their regular meetings, shall by a resolution passed
denounce any man as a bad man and unworthy to
reside among hontst men, and then it is ptoper for
such man to be expelled from the neighborhood;
and that any person or persons who may, by mild
means if possible, to stern means if necessary,
compel such man to move, shall be entitled to the
thanks of the community at large.
Two Priests in Trouble —Suspension from the
Ministry. —Archbishop Hughes, of New York, is out
in a communication, giving a history of certain occur
rences in the Catholic church of St. John the Evan
gelist, in that city, which have Jed to his suspend
ing from the ministry there of two priests, Revde.
Alfred Dayman and Frederick Ferdinand De*
Camps. The two priests, it appears, had published
a previous communication iu the newspapers, stat
irg that an interdict had been put upon them,
simply because one of them had preached a sermon
in which occurred the expression, “Hell was paved
with the skulls of bad priests.”
The substance of the Archbishop’s rejoindtr is
that the parties alluded to have been guilty of irre
gularity, insubordination and schism. He represents
Mr. Dayman, as coming to this country about two
years ago, iu great destitution, experiencing, in a
variety ot ways, the charity and good offices of the
Archbishop. The Archbishop adds that within the
last five weeks it haa come to his knowledge that
Mr. Dayman Was accompanied on the voyage by a
young female, whom he represented to be his niece,
although it has since came out that the lady does
not stand in that relation to him. As for the other
rebellious priest, Mr. Des Lamps, the Archbishop
hints that he ia mentally unsound.
The priests say they are determined to organize
another church, notwithstanding the Archbißhop’a
interdict.
A Frightful Scene.— A frightiul scene might
have been witnessed yesterday morning, on the
roof of a three story house, situated on Water st.,
between Monroe and Quincy. A young man was
standing upon the comb of the roof repairing a
chimney, when, the shingles being wet and slippe
ry, he lost his foot hold and slid slowly down, feet
foremost, to the eaves. The two or three persons
who witnessed the accident turned away sick with
terror. Although the man made every effort to get
a hold which the fear of certain death would na
turally prompt, he moved slowly down, and was
only checked fiom falling to the pavement below
by a water spout, against which bis feet came in
contact. But for this frail obstruction, he must
have been dashed into a ehapelese mass. Without
utter ng a cry for help, the young man kicked off
his shoes and proceeded to ascend, which he suc
ceeded in doing ; and went to work at his chimney
again, apparently taking little account of an acci
dent which had made the eye-witnesses heart sick
and dumb with terror. — Washington Intelligencer.
The Winter —The New York Journal of Com
merce remarks that the past winter, throughout the
length and breadth of the land, was an unusually
mild one. Southern papers conctu - in the statement
that vegetation in that latitude ia at least one
month in advance of ordinary years. Fruit trees
are in blossom, and flowers of various kinds are in
fall bioom. In the North tbe winter has been re
markably open. The great lakes have been closed
by ice but a small part of the time, and navigation
is now about to be resumed, on aU the Northern
waters. The Lake Superior Journal, of the 26th
ult. says:
“We are now within nve days of the first spring
month, and have had scarcely a biush of winter yet.
Meet of the time it has been mild. For two weeks
past there has been a baiminesa and a mellowness
in the atmosphere, which was enough to cause the
moodiest heart to sing for joy. Our Bay has net
been closed more than a week at a time this winter,
and but a few days in ail. It is open now, and the
stern monarch of the year’ seems to be melting
away into spring.”
He occasionally resumes his sceptre, however,
&Ed we shall not be surprised if the premature buds
and blossoms have jet a taste of hie quality.— Rich.
Di*p.
Arkansan Items Thr Wheat Crop —We learn
from the Van Buren Intelligencer, that the Wheat
crop of that county* looks promising, and bids
fair, if the season holds favorable, to produce a
large yield. It further says : “We are truly proud
to say, that our county and city will no longer be
dependent on her sister counties and other places
for breadstuff?, as formerly. There have been sev
eral flouring mill erected in the last few years, and
can manufacture as good flour as any other place
in the world. How beautilul our future prospects/’
The Intelligencer further says : “There ia a pesti
lence ranging among the hogs in this city and vicin
ity, similar to cholera; they are operated upon by
a ioosenees of the bowels, and linger but a ehort
time until they are relieved by death. This pheno
menon has never been known in this community
before, and it cannot be accounted for by any one.
But our opinion is, however, that it is caused from
eating the young vegetation that is now sprining
forth.
Morphy Coming Home.— A gentleman in New
York received a letter from Mr. Morphy by a late
steamer, in which he expresses his intention to re
turn home by about the middle of April.
A Powerful anl Telling Letter.
We ask a perusal of the foUowiug brief letter, by
every voter into whose hands it shall fall. It is
from tbe pen of a member of Mr. Fillmore’s Cabi
net. Mr. Stuart, of Virginia It ws* read before
the late Whig Convention in Richmond :
Staunton, Feb. 9, 1859.
Dear Sir: —l regie! very much that circuin
stances, over which I have no control, will prevent
me from attending the Convention on the 10th inat.
1 was anxious to be present —I dt sired to witness
another old fashioned “union of the Whigs for the
sake of the Union.” Never was there more urgent
reasons lor such a meeting—never was the union
of the States in more imminent peril than at present;
never wa* there greater occasion for the concert
and co-opera: ion of all national and conservative
men to resist the factious spirir and sectional ten
dencies. which are ruuuing riot throughout the coun
try—never was there a time hicb appealed more
persuasively to the honest and patriotic portion of
the community, to stem the tide of wasteful ex
travagance aud political corruption, which pervade
the administration of the Government.
Surely, the people of Virginia must awake from
their lethargy ere long! When they see doctriues
broached by the executive, for the regulation of
our intercourse with foreign nations, which could
be tolerated only in a code of freebooter^; when
they see all fraternal feelings betw’een the North
and South destroyed by the machinations of the
federal government, when they witness the mon
strous demand cf thirty millions of dollars, to be
withdrawn from th3 public treasury, and placed at
the control of the executive; when they see a De
mocratic Seuate abandoning its executive func
tions, and willing, iu advance, to ratify any treaty
the President may negotiate for the acquisition of
Cuba : when they perceive that one liue of conduct
is prescribed for our dealings with strong nations
and another for those that are weak and defence
less : when they discover that the golden rule of
Asking of other countries “nothing but what is right,
aud submitting to nothing that is wrong !” is utterly
ignored ; when they find that, in a time of profound
peace, the expenses of the government are swell
ing from fifty millions of dollars to eighty millions;
when they learn that the surplus of seventeen mil
lions, which was in the treasury when Mr. Buchanan
came into power, has been squandered, and all the
current revenues are gone, and a debt ot seventy
millions has been created in two years , when they
see that American industry Las been prostrated to
foster the labor and reward tbe capital ot foreign
rations ; when they are told ihat we tax the pro
ductions of foreign nations only twenty per cent , on
an average, when they tax our productions, (ex
cept cotton, which they cannot do without,) on
an average, three hundred per cent, and Vir
ginia tobacco about one thousand per cent !
Surely, 1 say, the people, must awake to a just
sense of their wrong*; surely they must iis* iu tlie
mpjrsty of their strength and fcuri •> n power the
party that has so shamefully abutt-U their confi
dence ! Must the earth quake before the people
can be aroused ? I think not. I think when the
Democracy stands coudeinued, as it does, out of
the mouths of its own organs, the people must see
and feel the necessity of a change !
Let, then, the noble Whigs and Americans go on
iu the work which they have so nobly begun ! Let
them put in nomination a strong ticket of good men
and truel Let them speak to the people face to
face! Let them expose the iniquities am mis deeds
of the party iu power!—Let them unveil its treach
ery to the South ! Let them elu-w up the wasteful
extravagance and pn tl:gacy ot the present Admin
istration, and 1 cannot doubt that they will find res
ponsive chords iu the popular heart!
lam with your movement heart and soul! Asa
private in the ranks, I will cheerfully contribute my
mite; and I sincerely regret that I cannot be present
with the glorious Whigs and Americans of Virginia,
to blend my voice with theirs in a loud and earnest
appeal to the people to come to the rescue of the
Constitution and the country ! May God speed the
good work!
Your friend and fellow Whig.
Allex. H. 11. Stuart.
Homicide in Jacksonville Fla.—A correspon
dent of the Savannah Republican , writing from
Jacksonville Fla., March 20th says :
1 regret to have to communicate to you a moat
melancholy occurrence, which trai spired yester
day evening, about 8 o’clock, at the Judson House.
The fatal result is the death of Mr. J L Gregg, the
Chief Engineer ot the Florida, Atlantic &. Gull
Railroad Company. He came to his fate suddenly
by the hands ot Mr. Alfred Sc-ara. The case will
probably come up for immediate examination be
foie our Circuit Cour., which rile next week, and
therefore I refrain from attempting to anticipate
the testimony. The opinions of witnesses present
concur in showing that Mr. Sears parsed once or
t wice near Mr. Gregg, and suddenly turned to
wards him, presented a revolver, and fired three
shots, one ot which was immediately fatal. They
had no encounter or struggle, and Mr. Gregg was
without arms. Mr. Sears was immediately taken
into custody, and is now in prison to await a fur
ther examination. Great sympathy is felt in this
city at the death of Major Gregg, as lie has won
many friendstby his many noble trails of character.
The funeral ceremonies were performed in the Epis
copal Church to-day, and were attended by a large
concourse of citizens of every class and denomina
tion. The remains will be conveyed northward,
by the steamer, St. John’s, to-morrow morning.
KcsHJTH.—Galignani’s Messenger of a hte date
gives the following as an extract of a letter dated
••Genoa, January 27th:”—
“I can positively assure you that Kossuth, wLom
I know personally, arrived here yesterday, wilh
three other Hungarian refugees, from Nice. He
has come under the name of Clarke, with a pass
port from Paris, where he bid stopped for some
time. While at Paris and at Nice, he had, it is
said, interviews with several Hungarians, who are
anxious to take advantge of the Italian complica
tions to excite fresh agitation. Kossuth, it is also
stated, has with him a great number of proclama
tions, intended to induce the desertion of the Hun
garian troops in the Lombardo Venetian kingdom.
He has since left for Turin.”
Kossuth ia a man of speech, and not cf action. He
has no longer any hold upon the public mind of
Hungary. It is to be hoped, however, in the event
of a European war, that this gallant, nation will be
able to assert aud maintain its independence.—
Rich. Disp.
Romance of the Figure 17.—Straws, Jr., the
Paris corrrespondent of the Boston Courier writes:
—“There is yet romance iu the Boia: stabs are still
made in the region of the heart, purses are still
emptied ; but now for the last romance of the figure
17. A young Roman, accompanied by a rosy
Parisienne is observed dai y in the Bois, riding
behind a pair of iron gray horses. Nothing in this,
certainly but the panel of the calash displays an
elaborate coat of arms, with the cipher 17 raised in
gold on a blue ground. A crown ia likewise dis
covered, for M. Carradini (such ia the hero’s name)
is a Roman Count. Anything peculiar in that
tigu e 17, thiuk you ? Listen, Tlie fathe* of the
Count arrived iu Rome at the age of 17, with 17
baiccchi in his pocket. From a parson de case he
rose to the position of porter, and then became a
cicerone. VVilh his earnings, amounting to 1,700
crowns, he opened a small case Selling it at a later
period for 17,000, he built a hotel, which he kept for
17 years. He next became interested iu the grain
tade, made 17 voyages to the East, amassed a
colossal fortune within.a second period of 17 years,
and finally retired to Odessa. Remarking the hap
py influence of the figure 17 upon his detisnies, he
applied it to everything. All hia business transac
tions, all his voyages were commenced on the 17th
of the month ; he owned 17 vessels, bought 17
chateax. Strange to *ay, he died at the age of 77,
leaving 17 millions to hia three children. His eldest
son bought a Roman title for the sole purpose of
displaying a coat of arms which should immorta
lize the famous number. In order to propitiate the
presiding genius of his father, he married a young
girl of 17 on the 17th of December last. He had
long searched the Champ* Eiysees for a site where
his hotel (in contemplation) could have the number
17. Peraerverance has rewarded his efforts—he
has found just such a spot in the Rue des Vignes—
-17 friends dine with him weekly, and he is de
termined that neither his wife nor himself shall out
live the 77 years of his father. This ia an ‘ower true
tale.’ ”
The Mad Poet. —Tbe frequenters of the Astor,
some years since, must have been familiar with
McDonald Clarke, who from his eccentricities, was
generally known as the “mad poet.” The following
anecdote of him is good :
During the last years of his life Clarke was made
free at the Astor House table, and oftentimes this
errant man of genious could be seen accepting its
hospitalities when other doors were closed on his
fallen fortunes. Every one knew Clarke by tight;
and one day, while quietly taking his dinner, two
Southerners, seating tnemselves opposite, commenc
ed a conversation intended for the eats of Ciarke.
One said:
“Well! I have been in New York two months,
and I have seen all I wish to see, with one excep
tion.”
“Ah!” said the other, “what is that I”
“McDonald Clarke, the great poet,” responded
No. 1, wiLh strong emphasis.
Clarke raised his eyes slowly from his plate, and
seeing the attention of the table was on him, stood
up, placing his hand over his heart, and bowing
with great gravity to the Southerner, said:
“I am McDonald Clarke, the greet poet.”
The Southerner started in mock surprise, gazed
at him in silence for a few moments, and then,
amidst an audible titter of the company, drew from
his pocket a quarter dollar, and, laying it before
Clarke, still looked him without a smile. Ciarke
raised the quarter in silence and dignity, bestowed
it in his pocket, drew thence a shilling, which he
deposited before the Southerner with these words :
“Children half price.”
The titter changed to a roar, and the Southerners
were missing instanter.
Death of a Bridegroom. —Ayoungman named
Myron Reed, a resident of Talley, Onondago coun
ty, N. Y., was engaged to a Miss Louisa Brown of
the same town, and the celebration of their nuptials
was to have occurred on Monday, the 14th instant.
On Saturday, while paying a visit to his bethrothed,
Mr. Reed took up a letter and proceeded to peruse
it. Thinking he was occupied a long time in its
perusal, the young lady spoke to him, but he did
not answer ; she went nearer and spoke louder, but
when she came near to him, discovered that he was
a corpse ! Reed was buried on Monday—the very
day fixed f or his marriage. He as arrayed in hie
wedding costume for burial, and his bethrothed fol
io wed him to his tomb in her bridal attire.
A Ghastly Experiment.— Spirits of wine pour
ed on a teaspoolful of common salt in a vial, well
ehaken, and then put either on lamp cotton or tow,
and ignited, will burn with a peculiar clored tiame,
giving out purely yellowrays. This mysterious effect
.changes the appearance of all earthly objects. Coral
lips become a livid hue; rosy cheeks turn ghastly pale;
red cap ribbons became black ; in fact everything
appears different to what it does by the white light
we are familiar with; and of all things the human
face undergoes the greatest change. Very young
children should not be shown this experiment; for
though there will be laughing lips and dazzling
eyes, yet they are of such an unearthly color, that
old friends would appear with new faces, and a child
would scarcely know its own mamma.
A Giant Fa rmer.— Jacob Strawn, of Rockford,
IllinoK has earned for himself the reputation of a
giant farmer of the West. Twenty-seven years
ago, he wentto Illinois a poor man. His operations
at first were small, but continued to increase each
year until he nad reduced over JO,OOO acres of land
to a state of cultivation. He has one farm of 8,800
acres, and another of 10,000. He has usually em
ployed from “00 to 300 men, and a large number of
horses. Every year until quite recent he has stalled
from 5,000 to 6,000 head of cattle, and kept other
live stock in proportionate numbers. In twenty
seven years he has made a fortune of a million of
dollars, and is still hale and vigorous to enjoy it—
He has one cornfield in Morgan county, nearly six
miles long.
Wild Tobaci o.—The Tehama (California) Ga
zette, says:
In less than a half mile from town may be seen
thousands of “wild tobacco” plants, which, in the
season, attain the height of from eighteen-inches to
three and four feet. The stalk seems to be very
vigorous, and the leaves although by no means as
large as. those of the cultivated article, and never
theless, a very respectable dimensions and afford a
passable article for Bmoking purposes. We are told
that the Indians have been in the nabit of gathering
it for years past and using it in this way; a fact
which would go to prove that a subetance which is
indigenous to the soil, might be raised to almost
perfection were the same attention given to it that
is given to the commonest herb or vegetable of the
garden.
From the London Times, March 3.
Tlie Louto* Time** on Pemwlvanlfc Crodit.
The financial cynic in search of an houest com
rnunity must turn to Pennsylvania. Thia has no!
beeu the general impression, but her sen# are Mti*-
tied on the point, and have caused it to be official
ly notified to the world. The Governor, Mr. Wil
liam F. Packer, La* just delivered his annual mess
age. aud has described her not ooly a# &a example
to all nations, but as a light even ‘‘ln the pathway
of her sister States.” After detailing the satisfacto
ry condition of the public treasury, in which, not
withstanding a number of exceptional payments
during the war, there remains a handsome sur
plus, he reverted to the records of the past, dwelt
upon the happiness of a State that possesses “a
fame aud a credit untarnished,” aud urged his fel
low citizens to preserve “that high character for
honesty and integrity by which they have ever
been distinguished.” Pennsylvania has not been
as other States, aud, without arrogance, her course
therefore may be quoted, to use the stern, yet
thankful words of Governor Packer, as an “ad
monition,” and au acknowledgment of “the favors
which Providence has so bountifully bestowed
upon her.”
A Governor aud a people thus happy iu their fi
nancial history will be delighted to see its leading
facts set before mankind, and a half a dozen lines
will suffice for the purpose. In 1842 Pennslyvauia
suspended tne payment of her interest on her public
debt. In 1843 the Legislature passed a law author
izing the treasurer to pay the dividend by an i*sue
of 6 per cent, stock, redeemable in 1846. This divi
dend stock was generally received by the creditors,
but, iu it# turn, was left without dividends. In
1845, however, the State recovered its prosperity,
and a resumption of payment of interest in cash was
decided upon. In all this there was nothing for
great permanent comment, aud, if the case had end.
ed here, the State would fairly have been entitled
to indulge iu as much glorification about high integ
rity aud untarnished fame as any other debtor, who,
after having caused severe suffering and inconveni
ence from not meeting his engagements w’heu they
were due, had ultimately discharged them as soon
as he could make it convenient. But Pennsylvania
was not content to set up a beacou of this moderate
character in the pathway of her sister States.
Her creditors were taught to appreciate what was
done for them by a little arrangement, w’hich
showed that the sovereign people granted it in
grace rather than in justice, and that the right ot
confiscation is oue ot their inherent privileges, al
though it would be exerted only on such a scale as
w ould be sufficient for its assertion as a matter of
precedent and principle. Accordingly, the Legis
lature now passed a law, with the approval of the
Governor, tiiat every holder of interest 6 per cent,
stock, (for which the faith of the State was pledged,
and the great seal of the State was affixed,)
should surrender it, receiving for ithe interest due
upon it up to that time only 4$ per cent., instead ot
6, and a stock bearing 5 per cent, tor the future,
thus depriving the holders of nearly 20 per cent, of
interest and principal legally aud honestly belong
ing to them. This is the full narrative, and if the
sister States regard it wffth the eyes ot Gov. Backer,
we may expect to see them striving, by new speci
mens of financiering, to attain to similar distinction.
At a trial iu London, yesterday, of two timber
brokers, for some adroit operations in warrants,
the Court remarked, with dismay and astonishment,
that one of the witnesses to character, a man of
business, stated that, notwithstanding what had
been proved, his opinion of the prisoners was as
high as ever. _Gov. Packer, far outstrips this gen
tleman. Her transactions have not merely left her
fame untarnished, but have raised her to the top of
the pedestal of American honor.
Wool-Growing at the South —ls the increas
ed attention which this important branch of busi
ness has received iu Texas and some other Southern
States during the past year, augurs anything lor
the future, it is safe to predict that at no distant day
wool growing will rival the cotton iuterest iu those
States where cotton is now the chief staple. Until
very recently, sheep have beeu reared at the South
only for their flesh, —the fleece not entering into
the calculation of their value. Even in New Mexi
co, the most extensive sheep grazing country ou
this continent, the wool is held in little or uo esti
mation; the sheep are never sheared, and what
little w r ool is obtained from them, is gathered from
the bushes through which the vast herds are driven,
lu the first case, the stock raisers of the South could
find U'i market for their wool; in the seeond, the
New Mexicans were ignorant of it# value, though at
times disposing of considerable quantities to itine
rate merchants for trilling sums. Tho Kansas City
Journal furnishes the following interesting informa
tion relative to sheep culture iu New Mexico :
“The sheep having been herded during the winter
among the valleys of the mountains, are early in
the spring, driveu in by the shepherds to the hacien
das of their proprietors, which, for the most part,
are in the immediate valley of the Rio Grande del
Norte. While the sheep are grazing in the moun
tains, aud while baing driven to and from their
winter quarters, they lose quite a large portion of
their fleece among the bushes and prickly shrubs of
the country. In driving a large flock through some
patches of thorns, it is not uncommon for the sheep
to lose from one to two thousand pounds of their
wool. This is left hanging to the bushes and ia
gathered up by the Peons, properly sacked, taken
to the merchants or freighters engaged in the com
merce between New Mexico and this city, sold for
a trifling sum, (for the ignorant and lazy natives,
or ‘greasers,’ have no idea of the value of the wool,)
and by these traders is forwarded to Kansas City.
Last summer trains arrived here bringing as many
as ninety thousand pounds of this wool, gathered iu
this mannei. Shearing sheep is never done, though
some of the more scientific and industrious of the
Peons will take off a fleece with a common
butcher knife—rather a tedious aud savage opera
tion.
“Though large ‘shipments of Mexican wool are
annually made to this city, none has yet been re
ceived coming from the hands of the shearer—it
has all been gathered from the bushes.
“At this season of the year the sheep will yield
a fleece on an average of about two pounds, per
haps more—all of which, by proper management,
can be obtained from the proprietors at a mere
nominal sum—in some instances for nothing, as the
sheep are known to thrive much better after being
fleeced, which is all that their owners care about—
as they raise them for their carcass, and the better
and fatter the mutton, the better satisfied are their
owners, for this is a meat that they are extremely
fond of.
“Indeed we may state that the writer has him
self been told by proprietors of large flocks, that be
would be welcome to the wool for the shearing, as
neither himself or any of his men made use of the
wool or the pelts, except for making saddle blank
ets for pack mules.”
As intimated above, a lucrative field for specula
tion is here offered to any inclined to risk the ven
ture, even with so distant a market as Kansas City
—the chief expense being the cost of transporta
tion. But we are told by the New Orleans Pica
yune, that a favorable market for wool now exists
in *.hat city. The amount received is by no mean*
equal to the demand, and cotton itself does not
fiuda more ready sale in New Orleans than wool.
With this greater advantage of a market near at
hand, and the equal adaptation of the prairies of
Texas and adjacent States for grazing, wool-growing
would be a much more lucrative busmens there than
in New Mexico, especially as the existing demand
ia vastly greater. These facts have already direct
ed the attention of enterprising capitalists thither,
and the production of wool may even now be said
to be one of the great interests of that section, par
ticularly upon tlie northern and northwestern fron
tier of Texas. Large quantities are now being sent
into San Antonia for sale. G. W. Kendall, Esq.,
was one of the first pioneers in Texas wool-grow
ing, and his sheep now number several thousand.
More recently other gentlemen have gone thither,
and among them two of the Messrs. Leland, of the
Metropolitan hotel, New York.— Ball. Amer.
Hydrofhobia— The Philadelphia Inquirer, in
giving the particulars of a frightful case of hpdro
phobia which recently occurred in that city, says
that at a meeting of the American Medical Associa
tion, as held at Detriot in 1856, an able report was
made by a committee on the subject of hydropho
bia. In this report, it was conclusively shown that
the desease was not so common in the summer as
in the colder months, inasmuch as out of eighty two
cases, fifty-three were inoculated between Decem
ber and May,and only fifteen in the months of June
July and August. “In fact,” says tbe report,
“every investigation anywhere made, proves that
a belief in the influence of the dog star, or of cli
mate, or a particular season of the year, as favoring
the production of rabies, is an utter fallacy, a mere
astrological fancy, handed down, it may be, from
remote ages—its very antiquity, perhaps, shielding
it from the probe of investigation, but yet entirely
unsupported by facts. Laws made upon such an
hypothesis are a reproach to the nineteenth centu
ry. They are not onlyabsurb, and their execution ex
pensive and cruel butthey are positively injurious to
the community, inasmuch as during the colder sea
son of the year, when Sirius is not in the ascendent,
the public are off tbeir guard, and being thus lulled
into false security, are consequently the more ex
posed to danger.”
They conclusions were quoted by Prof. H. H.
Smith, in a valedictory address delivered on the
17th of the present mouth, at the University of
Pennsylvania. They are also confirmed by similar
facts assertained in England. The Enquirer learns
that hydrophobia is unknown in Constantinople,
which abounds with dogs, and mentions a report
from Japan that an antidote is used in that country,
and with perfect success, against the effects of all
animal poisons.— Rick. Oisp.
The Rothschild Bridal Dinner. —The Paris
correspondent of the Literary Gazette says:—A
great effect in the beau monde of this place has
been the Rothschild marriage. The maguiticence
was beyond all description, and it wonld appear
that splendors vieing with those recounted in the
Arabian Nights, were lavished upon an entertain
ment to which nobody was admitted. I mean the
dinner given after the nuptial ceremony, and at
which some sixty or seventy Rothschilds alone were
present. As no one but the family was present at
this fancion —as the Spaniards term tbeir bull fights
and other amusements—of course the feminine
public cur.osity baa been immeasurably excited by
ft, and every young male Rothschild has been cross
examined by the fair ladies of Paris ever since, in
order that they may arrive at an approximate
knowledge of the “festive scene.” It seems all the
plate of all the houses of Rothschilds was forthcom
ing for this banquet—at least the London chief sent
his dinner service over to his cousin of Paris, and
the entire changes of the more than three score
guests were made in silver and silver gilt; plates,
dishes, everything was of tbe precious metals, aa at
tbe royal taDles, only at dessert was perceived the
friceless service of old Sevres, belonging to tbe
•aria paler famihas, and whereof each plate rep
reeents somewhere about a king’s ransom.
As to the viands on the table, they came from
every country and every clime ; there were swal
low's nests from China, Bterlets (a fish of excessive
high price in Russia, of the size of salmon, and of
fat, orange colored Hesb,) from Russia, reed oirds
and canvass back ducks from America, bustards
from Spain, pheasants from Bohemia, entreet of
peacocks’ brains, fillets of buffalo hump, and—one
of my lady informants declares —salmis of Brazilian
parrots! Every salt or freeh water has yielded up
its fish; every moor, marsh, and forests, its fowl;
every hot bed, heated by fire or the sun, its fruit;
and every grape that ever hung any where, its
wine. As to the flowers with which tbe table and
dining room were ornamented, it is affirmed that
there were 1,50(1 pounds worth. (I mean £1,500
English') All the windows were covered with
trellis work, over which were framed the choicest
creeping plants of the tropics Bhedding tbeir luscious
perfumes all round. If the repast was worthy of
an Emperor of a century ago, tbe tribe of Kotch
scbild seems to have oeen worthy of it, and to have
done it due honor. In tbe first place, it is affirmed
that the ladies present wore upon their persons be
tween twenty and thirty millions of francs’ worth
of jewels, and in the way of doing honor to the ban
quet, those who partook of it sat at table from 6j to
midnight.
A Juvenile Body Guard.—A Protestant widow
lady in Cincinnati, a Mrs Klein, whose husband, a
Catholic, died recently, took her boy from a
Catholic school and sent him to the common school
of the district. On his return home, a few even
ings since, he was beset by his former Catholic
schoolfellows and beaten violently. Tbe next day,
however, the Protestant boys of the neighborhood,
armed with sticks and stones, formed themselves
into a body guard and saw young Klein safely
home, and Lave continued to do so ever since.
From the children the excitement bas spread to the
parents and more serious results are feared.
Death of Jas. Shannon, LL. D.—We learn
from the North East Reporter, published at Can
ton, Missouri, that the Rev. James Shannon died at
his residence in Canton, on the 25tb ult., of Asthma,
aged 59 years and 9 months.
VOL. LXXIII.—NEW SERIES VOL.XXIII. NO. 13.
The Capture of African* in Telfair— Their
Subsequent DfecliurKe—Full Pnrticnlnra.
The following extract from a 1 ter received ve*
teruay. by the editor, fiom a highly respectable citi
tea of Telfair county, will be found to contain full
particulars of the recent arrest of Africans in Worth
coftnty, and the circumstances under which they
were discharged from custody by the United States
Deputy Marshal: — Saih. Rep , 2Atk.
“John F. Mcßae, of this county. Deputy IT S.
Marshal, having been instructed by the Marshal, lo
capture aDy Africans he might dud passing through
the country, was informed that there wereMjY.'v
six in charge of one or two men, ou their way to the
Alabama line. He summoned a posse of tea m-n,
some of our best citizens, pursued and overtook
the negroes, in Worth county, arrested them as
Deputy U. 8. Marshal under bia instructions, and
brought them to Jacksonville aud put them in jail,
and sent au express to the Marshal at Savannah re-
Dortiug the arrest, aud his action in the matter
The negroes remained here until the answer from
the Marshal came, which stated he had telegraphed
and written to the authorities at Washington, and
had received no auswer respecting tb Africans
then known to be in the country ; that the Govern
ment knew of the Africans being in the State, and
had given him no orders, and that his > dvioe was
to turn them loose and let them proceed ou thfir
way. When this letter came, and ns the arrest had
beeu made by the authority of the United States,
and in good faith, the negroes were released ; the
person iu charge of them paying for the provisions
they consumed, and medical attention to those th t
were sick. Oue or two of those assist ng iu the ar
rest re-took the negroes and demanded payment
for their outlay aud trouble, threatening to carry
the Africans to Gov. Brown if it was nor paid. A
compromise was made to the satisfaction of the
parties, aud Hhelast of the Wanderer's cargo’ were
allowed to depart iu peace. The negroes disliked
very much to leave, as they had been treated ver
kindly by the citizens.”
Extract of a letter to the Editors of the Recorder,
dated,
Jacksonville, March 11th 1859.
“Our village has been the theatre of considerable
excitement and bustle for some days past, respecting
the capture of thirty-six wild Africans, a part of the
cargo of the wanderer. Ou Tuarsday, the 3d inst.,
John F. McKae, Esq , Deputy Marsha! of the State
of Georgia, and a citizen of this (Telfair) county,
having been informed that a large number of Afri
caua, under the charge of a white man, enroute for
Alabama, were passing through the counties of
Coflee aud Irwin, summoned a posse, composed of
some of the most respectable citizens of the county,
pursued aud overtook the negroes in Worth county,
within three miles of Isabella, took possession of
them, and marched them to Jacksonville and put
them in jail and reported to the Federal officers at
Savannah his action in the premises. The white
man in charge of the negroes, denied at first that
they were Africans, and attempted some resistance,
but afterwards admitted that they were a part of
the cargo of the wanderer. The most of these ne
groes are very likely, and are from six to twenty
oue years old, there is only one woman among them
They seem pertectly happy, and are as contented
and free from care as if roaming their native wilds.
They remain in jail only at right; during the day
they are permitted the treedomofthe yard. Some
of them are quite smart, aud all are quick to learn.
At first, they oould not speak a word of English ;
several of them, since they have Deen here, have
mastered many words. “Money” and “whiskey” are
favorite words with them—all love money and all
appear to love whiskey. They seem to have a
knowledge ot the value of coin, but not of our
paper currency. I gave one an Older ior some
thing at a stole, since which time, all scraps of pa
per are iu great demand with them. A newspaper
was torn into small pieces and carefully put away,
they thinking it will answer the same purpose as
money.
Their dancis aud sports are very amusing aud
original. Moßt ot the older ones are quite ingeni
ous, makiug ltn.ves and other things out of iron
hoops aud sardine boxes. They are very fond of
fine dress, and some of the boys of the place have
put gay ribbands through the holes in their ears,
which makes them quite proud. I don’t thiuk they
have an idea of Goa. I have taken some pains to
find out their belief in a Supreme Being, but have
failed. They are irom three different nations or
tribes, there being three different marks or tattoos
amoeg them, indicating, as they say, different na
tions, or, perhaps ft3 more reasonable, di Heron I
casts. They soon learned some profane words, but
being told it was wrong to use them, it is seldom
they will do so, saying “marbe” bad, when asked
to repeat them.
The question arises, wfliat will be done with these
negroes? Will the Governor take possession of
them and sell them under the statute of 1817 ? or,
will the General Government move iu the matter as
it did iu the Echo case ?
I learn that the Governor haa been written to.”
The Wrecked Slaver Tyrant.—Tho Key
West correspondent of the New Orleans Picayune
gives the following rather interesting sketch of the
cruise of the wrecked slaver Tyrant:
The late slaver abandoned at the Marquisa, it has
l*jen ascertained, was named the Tyrant. She wa*
built at Rockland, Me She cleared from New York
in November last for Fernaudo Po, Africa. Sh wa
suspected by the authorities, and a strict watch kepi
upon her movements. She, however, managed to
elude the revenue officers, and slipt out of the bar
bor daring the prevalence of a severe northeast
storm. She maae a rapid mu to the coast, took on
board 230 negroes, and got an offing; but was soon
after chased in shore and driven into a harbor, and
under the guns of a Portuguese fort, came to an
anchor. She escaped during the night, was chased
by a British side wheel steamer, but having a strong
wind and her course taking her parallel to the
trough of the sea, she easily distanced her pursuer,
who unfortunately rolled too much to keep up. By
her log book we learn that she left the coast on the
14th January, and on the 4tii March she boldly en
tered the harbor of Havana, end discharged her car
go safely, having lost one, and had oue birth. After
her negroes had been landed, the captain, perceiving
some suspicious movements on board a Spanish fri
gate, slipped her anchor aud made sail, followed by
a pinnace iu hot pursuit. A tow shots were fired,
but he got clear and crossed the gulf, running his
vessel ashore on the Marquisas. The crew were
arrested, but the commissioner finding no evidence
sufficient to warrant their detention, they were dis
charged. The marshal arrested the supposed cap
tain, and he is now in prison. It is thought that bis
name is Mathias Lind. He says he is a cousin of
Jenny Lind. He is a Swede. The story qf the voy
age is from one of the crew; we do not vouch for
its authenticity.
The Late Indian Battle. —The Fort Smith
Herald of the 12th says :
After ottr paper had been wwked off, we receiv
ed the following news, through the politerteSß of
Lieut. Stockton, of the First Cavalry, stationed
near this place, and, as it is news of importance,
we hasten to lay it beiore our readers immediately :
By news just from Fort Arbuckle, we learu that
Lieut. Hanley, of the First Cavalry, with company
Dos the same regiment, succeeded in overtaking a
party of Camaoche Indians and killed nine, and
was only prevented from taking tbe whole party
by night coming on. No soldiers are reported
killed or wounded. In Lieut. Powell's engage
ment with these Indians a few days previous, re
cent reports state that he killed eight instead of
five, as at first reported. It is believed that a por
tion of the Camanches are now between Forts
Washita and Arbuckle, and a company of the First
Cavalry, under Capt. Carr, has been ordered out
from the former post to co-operate with Major
Emory’s command from Fort Arbuckle.
Scene in a Norwich Church.— An Aquatic
Sexton.— A private letter from a friend in Norwich
contains the following amusing anecdote says the
Evening Post:
I must tell you a good joke, with which all Nor
wich is ringing. Sunday before last the Baptiste
were to have a grand celebration. Quite a num
ber of persons were to be bap jzed,notin the river,
but iD a large pool sunk in the floor of the church,
under the pulpit, which is on wheels, and capable
of being rolled away. It was an extraordinary oc
casion, aud the house was crowded with Episco
palians, Congregationalists and Methodists, as well
as with the Baptists themselves. The opening ser
vices were gone through with, the pulpit was rolled
away, and the ministers, with one of the candidates
approached the pool, and commenced descending
the steps. Suddenly they paused, then held a hur
ried consultation, made a retreat, and it was an
nounced that the ceremony would be postponed till
evening. The rest of the services were gone through
with by an audience more diverted than edified,
for, before the service was ended, the whole congre
gation had learned that the pool was half full of
dirty Boap suds, and various were the BurmiseH as to
how they got there. In the course ofthe day it
leaked out that the sexton had taken a bath there
Saturday night, and forgotten to let off the water.
Florida News.—The Tampa Peninsular, no
ticing the opening of the books of the Ficrida
Peninsular Railroad Company, the Ist instant,
says the subscriptions all along the line far exceed
ed the expectations of the most sanguine friends of
the enterprise. The Bum required to authorize the
organization of the company, $200,000, was sub
scribed at once and the first payment “planked
down.” Additional subscriptions were also daily
reported. No doubt seems now to be entertained
of “the speedy organization of the company and
the energetic prosecution of this great, work.’
All the Florida rivers aud their tributaries, the
Suwanee, Ochlochonee, Apalachicola, Flint and
Chattahoochee, &c., are reported to be higher than
known for many years before.
The Mississippi.—The Memphis Bulletin of
Wednesday says:
We learn of several new breaks in the levee be
low, some of which are doing considerable damage
That at Manly’s, below Napoleon, is reported to be
a very bad one, and has caused immense loss to
Mr. Manly, who was forced yesterday to flee with
his family for safety—and other planters in the im
mediate vicinity. Prentiss, Friar’s Point and Delta
are all under water, and Jlarbett’s and Gray’s land
ing’s nearly so. Small breaks havs occurred at.
Gen. Clark’s and at Mrs. Robb’s, opposite Thomp
son's landing, from which the adjacent country is be
ing very generally flooded.
An Infant Rescued from a Horrible Death.
—About 11 i o’clock on Sunday night the at ention
of Officers Forshay and Senior of the Thirteenth
Ward was attracted by the feeble wail of an infant.
Upon instituting a search they found a new-born
babe in the vault of a water closet, near some ter.e
merit houses io the rear of the Station House. With
the assistance of some of the members of a tiro com
pany they succeeded in recovering the body, but
apparently after life had become extinct. Supposing
that the child was dead, they held it under a hy
drant to cleanse it, when in a short time it manifes
ted eigns of life. It was at once taken to the Sta
tion House, bathed in warm water, wrapped in a hot
blanket and a physician sent tor, who, by the appli
cation of the proper remedies, succeeded in resum
ing it. The officers then sought for the mother, and
presently found a German widow in a room on the
fourth floor of the tenement house No. 174 Delaney
Btreet, who, as soon as she saw them, burst into tears
and declared that she did not kill the child, but that
it accidentally fell into the vault. In this eatement
she ie borne out by the medical gentlemen who at
tended it, who was of opinion that bed it been
thrown in, it must have been suffocated. The
child is a female, and weighed, according to the
police report, fourteen pounds. It is now with its
mother and doing well.— N. Y. Tribune 22d.
A Man*Revolving in the Wheel of a Steam
boat. —On Saturday morning, a man, name U P‘
known, was driven from the shore near Albany in
a boat by the severe gale of Saturday, without oars.
He was paddling along with a piece of board wh.cb
he found in the boat, as the steamboat Eagle was
making her downward trip. The pilot, Mr. Ezra
Hunter, did not see the unfortunate man and the
boat drifted directly under one of tbe paddle-wheels
of the Favle which broke it to pieces To save
himselh the man clung to one of the paddle* of the
wl,m4 and was earned up the wheel-house, where
he was badly hurt before his cries were heard. The
boat was immediately stopped and the poor fellow
rescued from his horrible position. He was very
seriously, though it is hoped not fatally injured He
was sent back to Albany for medical aid.— N- Y .
Tribune.
Why will America s emblem outlive those of
England, France, Ireland and Scotland 1 Because
tbe rose must fade— tbe lily droop—the shamrock
die—the thistle wither—but the stars are eternal.
Served on the Half Shell—is the way a New York
paper duscribes a drunken mau carried along
Broadway on a shutter.
A Navy.
A highly interesting paper has beeu furnished the
Naval Committee of the United Staten Senate, and
is published in one of the New York papers, entitled
“Notes and Observations on the Review at Spit -
head, by Commander W. M. Waker, United
Slates Navy.” Comuiauder \\ alker says that the
British fleet, the review of which he witnessed, ex*
tended, in a double line, over a space of twleve
mi es from west to east, aud displayed a wonderr.u*
perfection in the celerity aud precision with wbicb,
in dbfiauce of uinds or curreufo, immense power
be directed upon any position. There were
two hundred aud eevouty five vessels in the beet,
nearly all screw propellers, and niauned with 40,-
000 .nen. Walter gives the tollowing
description of “the floating batteries,” anew and
formidable description of vessels :
The floating batteries are of very uncouth and
unwieldly appearauee, partaking in model about
equally of a canal boat and a galliot. In general
their construction is that of iron -hips The decks
are of 9-inch plank resting upon 10J inch beams
placed 1 foot 0 inches from centre to centre ; the
“top sides” are covered with 6-inch plank, over
which, extenuiug tod feet below the water line, is a
sheathing of wrought iron plates, 14 feet long, 20 in
ches wide, and inches thick, each secured to the
null by so-inch screw bolts. They are brig-rigged,
are fitted with non-condensing engines and screw
propellers, aud can make under steam alone 4$ to
. kuots. They are pierced for 30 guns, and mount
from 14 to Jfl sixty eighth’s.
Dimensions.
Horse Pwr. Lgth. Ex. Bdtk. Dpth. Drht.
Meteor 150 173 43 f 14 7 7 0
Thunderbolt ...200 186 48 6 18 6 7 0
The only vessel of this class which has been tested
in action was under French colors in the attaok
upou Kiuburu. She w as struck iu the hull 58 times,
without receiving any other injury than the inden
tation of the plates to depths varying trom oue
lourth to one and one-fourth inches. Os important
particulars respecting the alleged invulnerability of
these vessels I could get no account, and must ad’
init a want of faith in it.
The mortar boats are cutter rigged vessels of
about 70 tons, very much resembling in general
form and appearance the “Anchor lloy,” which
was formerly aud perhaps still may be attached to
the Norfolk navy yard. Their draught is live feet.
Each mouutfl a 12-inch mortar.
Commander Walker remarks that the most preg
naut thought suggested by this display is the im
mense manufacturing euergy it reveals—a con
structive capacity so great hs to have created, in
the space of a few months, the most formidable
portion of the fleet now under consideration ; and
there is no reason to believe that, had the Govern
ment required it, a force of small steamers five
times as groat could not have been equipped. One
single establishment, that of Penn, at Greenwich,
accepted an order for eighty sixty-horse engines, to
be completed within three months. They uot only
tilled the order in the time agreed upon, but put the
engines in operation on board the vessels for which
they were designed.
What simplified the work and gave increased
efficiency to the fleet was the fact that one type of
engine for each class of steamers having been de
cided upon, the same patterns served for all; aud
by a judicious distribution of s;>are parts on board
of each, no vessel was burdened with a load of ma
chinery ; yet no accident or break down could occur
in a squadron which might not on the spot be re
pa ired — Rich. D isp.
Buenos Ayres and Our Paraguay Expedi
tion.— Our tiies cf papers received from Buenos
Ayresto January 20. contain a remarkable corres
pondence between the Secretary of Slate of that
government and I lie American Consul, Mr. Hud
son.
II appears that the Buenos Ayrean executive had
taken offence at the entrance of the American war
vessels into the Parana, without its consent pre
viously obtained, and had requested our Consul to
signify ho much to Commodore Sbubrick. Mr. Hud
son, however, interposed the fact that the Commo
dore and the Commissioner had stopped at Buenos
Ayres, Jan. 1, to pay their respects to President
Alsina, but his absence had prevented an interview,
and any explanations that might have attended it.
ile also pleaded in mitigation that the vessels were
all bound to Argentine ports, one only excepted,
whose mission to Paraguay was oue of peace, not
of war. This apology the Buenos Ayrean Secreta
ry admitted, cond.tionally, his right to apply for
more and better to the Commodore in person being
reserved.— V. Y. Times.
Curious Development. —A curious chapter in
the secret history of the country is developed in a
letter Horn Commodore Stewart to the President,
delivered to the latter, on Friday According to
this letter, the famous guu boat navy of President
Jefferson, which was so much ridiculed at the time
of it*'; construction, was intended for the seizure of
Cuba, though ostensibly for the protection of the
seacoast. One hundred and eighty of these boats
were sent southward ou this special Cuban service,
but before Mr. Jefferson’s filibustering plans could
be properly perfected, the threatening condition of
our relations with England rendered a postpone
ment of the project necessary, and the opportunity
never afterwards occurred for its revival.
Everett s Opinion ok Louis Napoleon. —“He
has given to France the strongest government —
equivalent, I fear, in that oouutry to the best gov
ernment —which she has had since the downfall of
his uncle. He Ims completed public works, beneath
which the magnificent profusion of Louis the Four
teenth staggered. He lias decorated and improved
Paris beyond all his predecessors ou the throne, and
projected and accomplished the most gigantic un
dertakings through the interior and along the coast
of France. Abroad he lias consolidated the con
quest of Algeria—maintained an undoubted supe
i iority for France over the armies of England as
sociated with her in the Crimea; formed a firm
alliance with Great Britaio, against whom his uncle
waged an internecine war for twenty years ; aud
has restored his country to her former rank in the
politics o! Europe. Jn accomplishing these objects,
the press has been fettered and the tribune si
lenced, and those liberties, which the Anglo-Saxon
mind regards as the final cause of the political
societies of men, have been grievously abridged.
But France has yet to show that she is capable of
enjoyiug them in peace.”
The Western Gold Mines.— A correspondent of
the Cincinnati Times, who has just returned from
Kansas, says the river towns in Kansas and Ne
nraska are now crowded with strangers, of every
nation, tribe aud people, w andering about with a
forlorn look, bearing rifles on their shoulders, and
making inquiries in regard to routes to the mines,
outfits, &lc. All the hotels are crowded to reple
tion, and every western train and steamboat is
filled with people. Trains are now aLarting daily
from every important town on the Missouri river,
in lowa, Nebraska, Kansas, and Missouri. While
travelling five or six miles on the great Military
Road leading from Fort Leavenworth to Fort Lara
mie, on Thursday last, he met four trains en route
for the mines. In two of them the wagons were
drawn by mules and oxen; in the third eight men
wereattac.bed to a hand cart t which contained their
outfits, and were so constructed as to float over the
streams. They designed to draw it the whole dis
tance —700 miles—to Pike’s Peak. The fourth was
composed entirely of pedestrians, with their packs
upon their shoulders. What will not men do for
gold ?
Strange Case of Insanity. —The Brusoell jour
nals record an extraordinary case of insanity. A
journeyman goldbeater on Friday was suddenly
seized with such a violent pain in the head, while at
work, that he was obliged to go home. The next
day he had another attack of the same kiud, and
again went home. He then seated himself before
the stove, which having been overheated, was red
hot, and remained there sitting for some time. All
at once he jumped up. and flinging his arms round
the stove, pressed Ins breast to it as close as he
could. JI is wit* tried to drag him away, but so
tightly did lie, in spite of the dreadful sufferings he
must have endured, cling to the burning iron, that
she was unable to succeed. Her cries attracted
some persons to the room, and the man was at
length forced to let go his hold. He was so fright
fully burned in the breast and Arms that the flesh
fell off in pieces, and he presented a horrible spec
tacle. Medical advice was procured, but he died in
a lew hours, seemingly insensible to pain.
A correspondent of the National Intelligencer,
who is said, by that journal, to have filled, at one
time, “ a high legal post in the service of the gov
ernment,” controverts the position assumed by a
writer in the Washington Uuiod, to the effect that
the Post Office Department “ possesses the legal
rights to apply the income of the Department to
t he payment of its expenses in default of an express
appropriation by Congress.” The opinion is ex
pressed by the Intelligencer that, in a case involv
ing so much as to its legality, it is questionable
whether the inconvenience of calling an extra see
Sion of Congress would riot be preferable to the as
aumption of a responsibility which does not appear
to be justified under the provisions of the act o!
1830. _
The Decimal System. —Another movement is
in progress in Great Britain, to secure the adoption
of the decimal system, bo goods shall be sold and
duties paid by weight of 100 pounds, instead of tbo
hundred weight of 112 pounds. At a recent inter
view with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, it wan
represen'ed by Mr. Miller, of the Bank of England,
that the 112 pounds, instead of 100, causes live mil
lions of useless figures to be written every year, in
nothing but invoices, &c., of bonded tea; and
many of these figures are results of useless calcula
tion. An English writer, basing his calculations
upon these figures, supposes, that taking the whole
business of the country, 50,000,000,000 of useless
figures are publicly written every year in the Um
ted KiDgdoin which could be saved by the decimal
system.
Close Voting.— From the returns of the New
Hampehi.e election, reported in the Concord States
man, we find that in thirty-four instances the Re
publican and Democratic candidates had exactly
the number of votes cast at the election in 1858 by
the same party. In forty instances the party vote
was within one of that cast the previous year. In
twenty nine cas-.H it was within two ; in twenty
two cases within three; in twenty seven cases
within four ; twenty five cases within five ; twenty
six cases within six; fourteen instances within
seven , seventeen cases within eight; and eleven
cages within nine votes of the last election, making
two hundred and forty-fiv instances in all where
there wa* not ten votes difference between the two
years.— Boston Transcript.
The Paraguay Steamers— The $284,000 which
the government pays tor the steamers chartered for
the exped : tion to Paraguay, will be well spent, if it
has no other effect than to show the utter worthless
1,648 and inefficiency of merchant vessels for naval
service. All accounts from such of them as have
been heard from, report them as wallowing like
tubs under their heavy armaments, and. if they ail
reach their destination, which is by no means cer
tain, it is probab e that what is left of them will be
destroyed by the recall of their own broadsides.—
Rich. ‘Di*P
Wonderful Surgical Operation —Decidedly
the most wonderful surgical operation of which we
ever heard performed yesterday by Dr Bartbe
lot upon Henry Allen, who was stabbed in the neck.
The wound bad injured his right carotid artery so
seriously he would cerLainly have died, but Doctor
B. conceived thedarirg experiment of completely
severing the artery and tying the ends, which he
fierformed. This gives the man about one chance
n ten of life.— Louisiana Courier.
The “Cental.” —Tbe boards of trade in Livei
pool have adopted the plan of selling alt kinds oi
grain by the one hundred pounds, and call the
weight of it, a Cental. The tendency towards con
veying all kinds of weights, measures and ooins in
to decimals, is daily increasing as the advantages
snob a change would bring about grow more ob
vious. The change is resisted by the old fogies
who have been used to cwt. qtrs., lbs., ki c., all their
livee, but they must give way before a great while
ANew Ginevra.— A little girl, in Cincinnati,
one day last week, when p aying “hide and seek
with a companion, hid in an old trunk, the lid of
which fastened with a clash. She screamed for
help till exhausted, when au alarm was raised by
her long absence, and a search made. She was
found almost dead from the exhaustion of the air.
The little sufferer would probably have not lived
many minutes longer.
The Perils of Kissing. —At a social party in
Providence, B. 1., a tew night* since, a young man
in attempting to steal a kiss from the strawberry
lins of a young lady, was so indignantly and forci
bly repelled by her that he lost his perpendicularity
and fell to the floor, breaking one of hia wrists.