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Newspaper Page Text1 FUBLISHA-D EVKHV TUESDAY MORNING, THOMAS RAGLAND dr CO., PROPRIETORS. ASSISTED IN THE EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT s. W. FLOURNOY. TERMS Two Dollars and Fifty Cents per an num, payable! uedricj/i/y in advance, or three dol lars if not paid tn advance. No Paper wilI be discontinued while any arrearage is due, tinleae at the option of the publishers ; and three Dol lam will, in all cast*, be exacted where payment is not made before thee ipiration of the subscription year ADVERTISEMENTS Conspicuouslyineerted at one doi.las peronehundred words, for the first insertion, and fifty cents for every subsequent continuance. A square in the En quirer is the spare of eleven lines in small type,con taining, as it does, one hundred words. Lk ertisements published at the usual rates, d with strict attention to the requisitions of the law. J. S. WOODBRIGE, PRACTICAL ARTIST AND DAGUERREOTYPIST. COLt Mill's, GEORGIA. Room* over.Foster dr Purple** Jewelry Store, Broad Street. [Columbus, Jan. 11,-2 ly Marion Bethune, ATTORNEY AT LAW TALBOTTON, GA. January 11, le.33 DRUGS & MEDICINES. __oTHE Subscribers beg leave re-iw-ctfnlly, sf A STllICT CO.NSTIUCiX(l> OK THE CONSTITUTION——AN HONEST A.NO ECONOMICAL ADMINISTRATION OK T1IE COVE1INMENT. VOLT ME XXVI. COI.i MHUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY MORNING, EEHRUARY 15, 1853. NUMBER 7. eli.eiislii: MALE A FEMALE ACADEMY. (IS milts on tin road from L\mm!>u* to Talbotton.) I illt Mil) IIAll,lit) \|> t o.) T he Mo, THE ANNUAL C..nv.*n Stoi'klioldern. and the rle. Direi lor. of tins Coin|iany i C. T. Cushman, D, D. S. 5H tacrltan roust. 1 the reception of Pu- lie now inform. In WALTON II. HARRIS, .Feb 1,1833. i nd Sentinel copy. D i: N T 1ST, No. (»!) Ilrouil Street.) irued from New York, wnere lie crii •d. iiy various |)«*nt;i! Lalmritori*—h Vrslir the >' •*l|«ririnv hi ti TAKEN UP! w i the Teeth, with Li I ill de liKir I. r It .nr,!. Brill., and the\ j ledee 11 ii llie .cl I w bo w i»li l nil board, if necessary. Student Hoard and Tuition 'hr $72 ; n $7fand $ w (> ; in the Higher It.; tic year! This is cerlainly an nuke all v\elci . The Prill, will bear in m W. .1 M. IIRYDE, : Dr. John II. Carrigcr, Late of Tit/cwell, TenneH*ee. A.” Notice. l*li>res\ioiiitl Somers , ti h i:. Time rolls away, and bears along A mingled mass of right and wrong ; The (lowers of love that bloomed beside The margin of In oiinni'-r tide ; 'i In* |s(ihoii weed* of passion, torn From dripping hank*,and headlong borne From the Rahim. Green’s Lectures and Exposition of Gambling at Annapolis. Annapolw, Fob. 2, 1853.—It may be interesting io yuiir readers to have a sketch of one of Green** lectures before the members of the Legislature the public officers of the State, &c., in lilts cily, Mr. Green commenced by exhibitim* ul.m.t differ i commenced by exhibiting about twenty t pack- of card* in common use, including Noiseless and rapid a rfio S tile ideniiig stream ; Win t hou Thr.» iTIIE Subscribers beg leave * the attention of Physicians and Planter., to their LARGE SUPPLY OF SELECT MEDICINES, all .f which are Fresh and of Purrs* Quality.— 8ui b a* were best, have been purchased on the lowest term*, and we will furnish them at reasonable and sat isfactory price*. ftTT Country Physicians will have their orders filled with the II KST M ERIC 1 N MS promptly, which will he put up neatly, and securely parked. Such Chemicals will l»e manufactured to orde as the exigency of any case may require. GESNER& PE \BODY, Druggists and Chemists. March 9 10 If *rj DRUGS, MEDICINES, Hi FAINTS, OILS, DYE STUFFS, Sc.,Ac JJ nr. n. is Mice, H AVING just received a fre.h supply ol the above article*—earelnlly erlerted in person—offers m. durements to all w ishing to purchase, to call and exam ine In* Mock, or to send forward their orders, when they ran I** supplied with Fresh and Genuine ariiclet, many the above articles are Sehieffeliun Extra Powders and Water Extracts, which are very different from the common article* usually kept by Druggists. New Music Store, (A few doors below Hall AiMores^) llKOAl) ST It FUT, COLUMBUS. rrHIE lint! *nwgned Ipxve assoriated themselves ^i- P gether, underNhe name and style of JLB'JrAlS 4* for the sale of Musical Merchandise, and/lake this method to inform their friends and the nuhlh generally, that they will keepVgnslantlv on liand£fr*nrml assort ment of GoihIm in the above line, *m ini \which may lie found— > PIANO FOItTKN. £3fZbL m M FfTTH var *° u " fr° n » *be t maker.-. Alelodcoiis, from the celebrated Manu- ory ut Prescott A Brothers; (iuilars, Violins, Ac- t conleuns, Fluliua*, Flutes. File*, Banjo* ami Tninhoti- Also, Instruction Books of all kinds; together i fine stock of SHEET MUSIC, r ol every variety. All of the above goods we offer aale on terms that cannot fail to please. tL/- Purchasers are cor lially invited to call and e.x- arpine our stock. Orders solicited, and executed with e* and disiwtrh. J. L. TRIJAX. J. W. PEASE. Dec 30, 1851 52 If attention will lie health of the Pu, families for $0 or lodging. ITCH OF TUITION : For Selling. Reading or Writing—|»er 10 u English Grammar, Geography or Arithmel Natural Philosophy, History, Composition •ii Medical College, Philadelphii irgcry, Obsteterics Ac., to give general satisfaction to r. t weed mid takes a Bowel The isle of life, that seemed to ho A continent infinity, Grows bleaker, narrower day by day, And channelled by a sailer spray. i Ini had with the : WINMON IJILLI.I.NGSI.E. R.-v. J M. Kelly, Like shipwrecked men who closlier fine To the hare summit of the rock, When (he. loud Morin that wrecked then GUANO. \Y. F. LEE, I). I). S. Dental Surgeon, Dr. K. T. Taylor’s near Columbus, on cor more than doubly paid lited by it, | leaving the gomul e greatly bene- j •imdaiice, and ! 'I here from the barren top espy Bowed heads, dead hearts and palsied fee And tin* dull tide that > A CARD. * . r n sjit-ctfully lender* his r the » i lIi—ir t commencement. JAMES B. III’FF. RefKRKM'K :—School Room. Harris county. Noveml>er 23, '.32 17 3m Masonic Female College, LUMPKIN, GEORGIA. TAJIK exercises of this Institution commenced on it FACULTY. OLIVER W. STEVENS, preside Menial and Moral Sciences ; James V Bass, IWsor of Math.* iiiv Gay, Preparatory Department. ’ rrjmratory Pr/wrtnunt—Two (’las ... 13 fit)., r,' Middle I -.tx#2I.. .. & For West India Islands & Chagres, al Kiaminainm—July, llili, I2th and 13 ronim^lri-meni—July I3ih. Summer Vacation—From July 13th July 2‘>t Fall Term emm nc.** July 25ih . STEAMSHIP ery i : BRITISH ROY A I. HA CONWAY, CAPT. SAWYER 850 TONS BURTHEN. THIS Steamship is designed to sail I rom Savannah, Georgia, on tie* 1th j Jn ^ of January, third of February. fall of include .1 ex ^ II he an • Daily, Wll.i.l \ M GE? A Tanner Wanted. \ N experienced workman is warned p. wi Tail-yard,at Fort Browder. Barbourcouui Stray Mules. Ja. or to II. J. Irby, IRBY A WALKER. t Fail. A liberal i Dr, Hervey M. Cleckley, I JIIYSU IAN. polu.-ly ler:.:; !'role"jon-,l servi- I ce* to the i ih/eiih o| ( olmnloi- and xicinitv. lie r.u w. Jones i;ui:r.M.\Ti^M can i;i«; cti:i:d! KATY HAULING, . MINSTRELS. Oil, the I II I d, Katy Darling' r more behold ! , Katy Darling, ii art dea Thai thy wnile I may neve Did they tell tliee I wa, (ala- Or my love for thee had e'er grown cold ! Oli they know not the loving Of the heart of Erin's noil’s ; When a love like to thine, Katy Darling ! I* the goal to the race that he runs, Then hear me, sweet Katy, For the wild fiow’rsgreet in.-, Katy Darling, Ami the love birds are singing oil each tree, \\ ill thou never more hear me K tty Darling ! Behold, love, I'm waning for the. ! Georgia Sarsaparilla, I JilEPAREI) by J. I>,-,ini*, M |) . \.. o I I..r ./!*.!«.« »f t!„ /.in r n'l t I., ,, u ,n M O It I I MO 1C E’S ! RHEUMATIC COMPOUND lion, by D YOI NG . and I trmrgM' gene la unary IN3 fini Self-hcating Smoothing Iron. tytl.»' ..If " I T.-..I I'.r III" ,l....f I \t I ! .V.I, W (,„ BLOOD PURIFIER, lyilll’M l.a-LMin...l Midi |...|.tibnty «!.<■ m kneeling by thy grave Katy Darling ! Tins world is all a blank world to me ! h, couhP't thou hear my wailing, Katy Darling, Or think, love, I am sighing for thee; ii, methinks the stars are weeping. lliose having while backn, and pointed out the nous marks U|Hin the backs of each, by which the professed {rambler could tell them as readily as bv the face. The manufacture of cards, lie observed was exclusively in the bands of gamblers and their agents. Mr. Green next remarked that the public gener ally had no adequate conception of the degree ol skill which was attainable by persons who made gambling their business, and that if be only suc ceed in fully acquainting the public mind upon this subject, be bad no fears that any individual well informed in the matter, would be ao simple mind ed as ever to attempt an encounter with the pro fessed gambler. This great degree of skill on the part of professed gamblers was the result ol e amount of science, strong powers of memo- cqtiired by cultivation, an astonishing sleight I band obtained by constant practice, all aided by " > '" A 1 ‘ ■“ general use, by which they as if played with the face up- THE CiAUMlN CLAM Extract from a Spoeah of Mr. Stephen* of Georgia, delivered in llejlmu* of Rtpretentalivet^tnua- ry 13,1853. Jf By llieir sofi And tl.y heart CoiildVt tin. and liimhe voti 1«I l»e. in i see thy !u L Itiiiir, K tty Darling, For the wild (be Or know, lute, I’m kneeling hy i re sleeping, Katy Darling, ‘stling in each tree; it*, Katy Darling, Licentiousness in Now York. e New York papers ’ alt. mpt lo btit r mm on a family in that city puhlinh the following account * iibn T. I’a 1 E. E. Rawron, J M. March, 3d «»f April and lihufMav ChacrfH, touching el Vt-wni. N . , Inagna,(with the Tutk’* l-lnnd mail*, > E. T. Bkai.i., She will be due at Cliagre* on ilm l lili i Simon Holt. IU<M, do. ^■tbe 18th, by bame route, j R L and Jamaica. I of each mouth, and return I to*Savannah. , As llii* service contemplates arrangement* only f( t*d niiinber of passengers, pernon* who de*irc| t |Undolph; A. Grier, “ February 1, I8.73 1 crowded !» : ‘l- w .11 find till ! Il:\ W I*!, to Spend f t India i.lan t*. may find ci. puny’* S|eam>*lii(s<. ad*sirablo < Winter among the I ; ance in the < om- , ts-1 ween Jamaica I addition t** tliose, named • T Trar '•ylvania University, N iMCAI. Dill*ARTMKNT. HE 3.3th Session will o|wn on ih«* 1.3/A ut M St. Kitt*. 8t. Lucia, •St. Thom a. The Vem- rruz, i Savannah to Nassau, do. Inigua.. do. Chagres (Including Steward'* f i proportion t KeViS! ' De’nv to §3 jar We. Jan 18, 18.32, ROBERT PETER, Me. To Teachers. \ GOOD I’HILOSOlMIICAL and . Ap|Hxraiii* inav K* puri hu-eil h**l'.vv by applying «t thi* "IRce (’oliimbus, Jan. 1-t, 1832 .•-half the above 'ADED HOPE, by Mr*. Sig.inn .1* Life Abroad, l»y l( B Sir Walter Scott, by D. Mat-D-nl; TI ar* in :«(hivernm. 'ii Exp* ANDREW LOW X engagjmenu, apply __ Mlfi. 1932 _ Through to San Francisco, VIA PANAMA. New York and Savannah STEAMSHIP Line. O M I* O s E D of the following new side-whei V_Z double engine *t**ai ^WINFIELD SCOTT. 2.100 ton*. F.dwM Dunn, Cm CORTES, l.atlO “ Tho*. B. ( rop|»*r, On the Pacific side. |yt( LE 8AM, 1,500 tone, Ww. C. Berry, On the Atlantic late* le [lie folio bv J Mclnto- ixaunah Trade, by D. If, fim Pari»ian Sight i Italy, by M Burk llm em- fur the Y« and Mean su. Light, a lheir I ; ( ..rilelllm**llt II."I Ii Lillie Silver Sinn.', ng. hy Wm. O. Ib-ur York, from Pu Jannarv 5,1 , •ry I, j J r ' " punctually a* above, the wharf at A*pinwall the Panama Railroad lr Tin; above, wi 11*1 received l»y January 2.3, jiruit* of Smith; M > above upleudid Sieam * expense between ween $8 and $20 walk or ride from Look to your Interest! rpllE subscribers having determined to • l'>»e tin ■ York, within a trade, have large » ventilated in a Inanded by men of long ex- isiirpa**ei|, and steerage !>us- with hair mattress and bedding. exr**ilenred Physician, by raw.i m d that aB T ckets for ly at 2fi. Br .a lw . New 3 ork GROCERIES at Reduced Prices, They would also heg In sav ' •arly payment* would be quin: i 1.1 MHKOIDEKEI) pu.-m l.-atb-r T..d**U SLIP! Va Bn HR-and b(.u*k French Kid do rp H I J« I C. ( HANDLER. DISSOLUTION. lohn*on A Ji*l d I*v inuliia willed hy . T.v! Copartnership. • I I,. S. «foilii*i JOHNSON, lr. JOHNSON, Sr To Rent, [’IRUIIMSTANCES r. uih „| williotlt la Inn. Sli' ci| w bat it lia i liani*. rlli<' while lliere her beauty A |»-rw.n reprt cil ti ii ii-* tin I )y band.-ome, ; a sharp eye, and attrac- •rs. She bad been en- uercliatil up tovy/j. her position to fftipport her mied pi bring lie ichalf i * OriM wurilfil to ii iinjirc- im‘. Tlic cdiior ofj ■ and pubb*ln*i • duntnry I . M. GRAY. m A Great Bargain! FOR SALE, vailliin lei, mmul V gooil room*, with kiu lien, *ervan A-., hi the basement, good oUt-ll'l and *urrriuinlc | by good ■•••iulibm acre* o( laud, a jMirtion of it hi tl * mu Imtlli rural him. , iiml fill tin-, entire tdic I (iromincnl physician . Jan II, JOHN A JONES. I tin* "-"IT $25 Reward. j Tv!, ST, on Sun,lay '2.1 of Jan. IS.33,) between A. I will s«|rtm*.| I jin’** on i he , and Glennvilh*, a small Mo - j rbumahtm. • POltKF.T BOOK, containing a 1 dollar* i For Cash. o those indebted, that cceplahle. BARNARD A- CO. January 4, |8.33 Something Nice to Eat! •tll.g of w Goihen Butter, Cheese, Buckwheat Flour, Mackerel. Salin* in Isxrrel* and kH-; v\h •' - :xl>*: Bank Bill-; al Phc I'ock-t IJo ik wa* at. * and r»lie.| over o.U slyk *l<) I If.ld 1 rflic.'l P... k-i Honk and 1 VIRGIL H WALKER, M. D $25 REWARD. K l NAWAY Barbour ro •or* bad <' ri.b-dlba y nuncluiitd . . iry il isbuieot rin* I otlle ' J altlmugb In* had not walk I I Inti, during t< They ' S3! i bail i erbefoi Mil,vcril»er’N Plauini: 'ii ., on or abon-it the I2?li orc.l bov railed BH.L.hIs DAVIS, BROOKS, r 14 '« ») tf For Philadephia. THE U. S. Mad *teain»bip STATE ’urrai.t-, Aim .nds, Bnxiinii •ujijily of West Indii arul Awn which I will »ell very low fu EORGlA. leaves Savannah die tollowing Wednesdays for Phila- addpbia: Decemlier 15th and 2'J'li ; February 9th and 23d ; March 9th ami 23d ; April fiih and 20th ;.May 4th and 18th. A new Steam«hip now hndding. in every rwpect equal to the Slate ol Georgia, Will be placed • T. M. HOGAN. $100 REWARD! HAVE ju-'t received from Richmond, Va 0 h llie I. during the month of June"next, making a Weekly Li leaving **acb Port on Wednesday -hip ha* (wen built iviththe -Irictest regard to safety, and comfort, and her acenmnusiations for Pas senger- are unMirpa**fd bythoee of any other Steamship PADEI.FORD, FAY A ( O., Agents in Savannah. HE RON'A MARTIN, Agents in Philadelphii 1852 49 tf Muscogee Railroad Company. ;u yrrangerent. • veraiier, the train* W IN I l schedule* : IT * » T IN SEVEN TI ' ^.S A 'HOX. Leave Columbus at 10 p. m.—Arrive at Butler at l 9 P- Leave Butler 51 p. m.—Arrive ? E F. m ,)( i'i)B \«'('O. • ■' can lie found the finest lot of Tobai this market- I would invite all who use the To be sold, vv hole-ale am jdi commission added. illi tin; girl's bid it l"W limes. In IIO billisclf to filed in forminjri employer bail died who l i wait .* ivmug. sistod upon while be was in the store, she can wo-k. No sooner bad be seen lie pressed himself as struck with her pearance and attractive beauty, 'ti an introduction. This the employer did not led warranted i:i {jivnio. The ‘‘down-town mer chant,’’however, had a good deal of Impudence, and as the yirl was not remarkable for diffidence, thoy evcrinally entered into eoi.versation, during which be so far ingratiated himself into her j»ood nriices as to ucconipatn her home that evening.— Here lie saw the uioiiier, and by tlic most adroit and skill'll uianuu n s, siu ect dtd in completely disarming her of'any suspicion of his dishonorn- hle inteitlioiis. 'I’he next en iiinij lie proposed that the young lady should leave her home, and jr,» and board wilii him at Ins buardiiig-house in Chambers street, as bis sister, under an assumed He stated he would clothe and educate her; and if at the end of the year.it should bo agreeable to all parlies, they should lie married. Not one of the girl’s friends was to know ol this arrangemnet except her mother. He wished, he said, to {into duce her into society far above tiro rank she now occupied, and lie thought it hotter not to acquaint her friends with the proposed step. 'I’he repro sentalion to them was to be merely that the girl ling school, for which stop liable be made. The n il tin* rcniudy, bn is between the t'lialtiibuoi | Rev. II. A. t'other "/ n i '■ ■• nl PDIIIOR TOSUIDLITZ POWDFItS. retail, «r Virginia \ R —Merchants Iia*ing elsewhere. |*c 14, *52 v on Id do well i OFFICK,GIRARD KAILKOA IM't Girard, Am., Jceoiary fitn, 1*53. SUBSCRIBERSi TarrenlV efferv** riilcil by tlic. .Medical Faculty as laxative. For sale si Eagle Factory. rehv i iv^. r;ran .»-uni Snjierotrac- ok *. L i- 11* • -ii called hi tiv ill*- It Gr I «<f I) «'" r And that ra*h inatalmenu in tile r>.untp *>f 3Iu-i- gee, Geor gia, and Russeil. Macon and Barb*air, Alalslma, will Is. ilue and payable al the Treasurer’s Office in Colum bus, Ga., sixty day* fr«>m tin* nolire, Jan II.'52 WALTON B. HARRIS, See’y. marfi fplNE FL r ■ Hen Get (singer, «V iVOlUNfi KY Til ACTS—Preston A good stock of Good!) on hand, are ready j.plv our rii-lmn. i» w ah MIIKBTINGH. SlIlKTIMia.USNAIti: :t(;s, YARN.*), plcm amt twilled col- J. KIIOBKM ItllOWNi:, Ajr’i. Alabama Warehouse ro II N A L K . rned offers fur sale In* interest i being one third undi e tmi located of any i arci a g*«*l business, ink- to call on the subscriber year, and I will iwll for < in exchange. w* .ild do well Ii will rent for 22 to 11500a ub,g<>od noles nr take Negroes F. G. W1LKIN8. S. Downing 11* >n. J. Si,ill., tat- |*re-i A. lb Hand, <\V. Si-w Y ork, where all orders for rumptly attended to. uril—internal remedy, |>repared I'km'B. 8*3 (s*r single bottle ; or three, hollies for #10. U V. ALEXANDER At Co., Proprietors, N. York. .Sold by DANFORTII \ NAGEL, Columbus. wly For the Country. 4 LARGE stork of Men'*, Women's and Chddren’s , \ SHOES, made very substantially, and adapted to h * vv *) i,i* of tie* country. House servant, and Planta- ion Shoes, ju«t roreiveu by Nov " I. C. CHANDLER. No. >j6, Broad 8l neemssitv of her coining to reside with him, as he .staled, was the fact that he had recently had a sister married, which had deprived him of all fe male society. Suriieicnl to say, that hy the most cousiitimic address and the most ingenious Bat tery, he succeeded in his purpose, and the young lady actually went to reside with him in Chambers st reel. Tlic absence of the daughter from her home naturally excited some curiosity among her rela tives, particularly as the accounts given of her by her mother were so extremely vague and unsatis factory. But “ murder will out.” Thanksgiving night, some of the young lady’s cousins were at Niblo's theatre, where, to their surprise, who should they see but the young lady in question, in the company of an unknown gentleman. They resolved lo know where they went, ami followed them to their residence in Chambers street. This discovery immediately raised a tornado among all the reltiius of the liunily, who demanded in (he most positive terms some explanations ol the tran saction. But the cool audacity of the rascal did not forsake him. lie confronted all parties, and, in the most persuative ami positive manner, de clared his upright intentions; still, be would make no distinct promise ol marriage, or break olf the acquaintance, as be was then requested by her friends. It in needless, almost to say that the girl coincided with him. Young, giddy, and thought less, and carried away hy the anticipations ol the life of a lady, with every luxury that she could de sire, it is scarcely to be wondered that she did not see the disgrace of her situation. The mother was blinded hy the boldness ol manner, and the apparent sincerely of Ins profes sions ; and when her friends proposed that the daughter should return borne, nhc felt the proprie ty ol it, although the persuasiveness of the vilJian nearly o< >rcumc her resolutions. It was, how ever, tic illy determined that the girl should return home, and that an examination—which, strange it may the marked card- were read as easily ward-. To convince gentlemen of the utter folly^f at tempting (o play cards with professed gamblers, however amusing might be their private games with each other, ho would show them how com pletely lie coni I control the cards of the entire pack. I In* game of whist was called for; the cards sbutUetl by those around him, when he im- mi'diaUdy dealt himself and his partner all the itn* poriam cards in the pack. He then explained to ilii ni that, knowing every card by the back, he could Jeal the second, third or even the fourth card (rum the top ns well as the first, and this he did again will, a rapidity that baffled the closest scrunmty to iK*tet-i it, and with as*much apparent case a* il he was dealing from the top of the pack. ‘High, low, jack and the game” was next cal'i.l |cr, tin* cards thoroughly shuffled. Heim uv d .itely dealt himself the ace, deuce and ten of cIiiIjn and turned the jack, and gave his opponent ; t o king, queen and tray, beneath a score of watch- j tul eyes around the table, none of which could de-.l led the cheat or account for the result, until ex plained by .Mr. (i. *• hue lire ’ was n-wt called for, the cards sliuf- Ih d, &c. Mr. Li. dealt himself the ace, king, jack ol clubs, jack of spades, and ten of hearts, and turned the queen ol club* f >r trumps; discarding (he ten be insured himself all the tricks. This lie accomplished by making several changes in the relative position of die cards, which is done, and i uuhi only be done, by thorough-bred gamblers. “ was next introduced—the cards shuf fled and cut, a partner selected, to whom Mr. (J. said lie would give a large hand. Ho dealt him "two bullets and a bragger,” ar.d the third die same hand in size—thus showing that the gambler could, in bis knowledge of cards, by n arks, deal just such cards as be chose to deal. “ Hlutl ’ was next called for,and Mr. (i. showed Conclusively that be could deal the cards from the top, bottom, or middle of the pack, wall so much il ‘xterity as defied detection. I be •• 1'aro bank" was next called for. This Mr. (i. .said, might be considered the national game, and was supposed by the public to be the -nosi equal arid fair game played with cards — But tins exposition ol the many modes of cheat ing by marked cards, false shuffling, bending the cauls as they were about being placed in the box, stocking then when gamblers “ snow" the cards, (a peculiar shuffle.)—the *• gaff” as played on the linger to push out two, (which cheat, lie said, played a gre.it deal by Baltimore gamblers,) per- ' or cui cards the manner in wh.cti iLsl anuput i.p to lose, all startling mlormaii..u to all present, some of whom candidly confessed that (hey had lost their thous ands at this game, but declared they would never play again, anJ would advocate the passage of a law to punish tlio-.o who had been instrumental in robbing them, and to prohibit the continuance of gambling houses. A great variety of tricks with cards was next .‘tented, showing the extraordinary sleight of hand and powers of memory that could be attained by those who make gambling their study, and cx- u.i - f 0 j|y 0 j- the attempt lo play cards ho can rob their victims at their it. Mr. Green's audience left •ser than they entered. Now, sir, I ihlend. lo say something on this Galphin claim. 1 ?Gentlemen may. if they choose, corn nue to cry out Galphin fiaud, but they shall not do it withonMhe exposure 'which is due to truth, as well as right and justice. Mr. Speaker. I am here to-day to defend that claim a i;ambi anyone who may be bold enough toia all, I boll myself ready at any "mo to say and maintain that there was no fra ml .u the Galphin claim.- I saw this claim alluded to in a paper tin* other day as ‘‘the Galphin swindle.”— Now, Mr. Speaker, I ask this House to bear, not as partisans what I have to assert in vindication of the truth in this matter. 1 feel it tny duty to do it in vindication of people whom I know, ilescendents of Galphin, and men who under him have receiv ed their just rights—rights which were long de layed atthedoorof public justice. Someofthese gentlemen reside in the hdate of Georgia and some reside in South Carolina—as high minded, honor able, and chivalrous men as ever trod the face of the earth ; men who would scorn to take a dollar from the GovermnefH that was not justly due.— Suine of these parties I know—and I will vindi cate them, and I will vindicate the truth of the history, whenever they or their conduct in this matter are assailed or malflpied. Tlmre was, sir, no fraud in the Galphin |claim. In the mainte nance of what I say, 1 shall tf}6ert facts and no thing but facts, which are uu«mtroverted in the past and incontrovertable for all time to come.— And when I am done I rrant to see the man rise up here in the face of these facts and say that there was fraud in the payment of that jti6t debt. These are the facts: In 1773, the Cherokee Indians and the Creek Indians in the State of (ieorgia, were indebted to certain traders tea con- . - siderablc amount of money. They had nothings -- to pay it with. This was while Georgia was a British colony. These Indians agreed to cede • to the crown of Great Britain a certain amount of land—two millions and a half of acres,or there abouts—in consideration of which Great Britain was to take the lands and discharge their debts to these traders. The treaty was made in 1778.—* On the 2d of May, 1775. a certificate was made ■Vi Kji .ti,*;, w.mua i, was lllrtuo ^ out by commissioners appointed according to the treaty, to George Galphin for £9,791, 15s, 5d.— w The war of the Revolution broke out in 1776.— R- Tl.« I-., i ... i i i... r* i» *. • A letter Lifo in Paris, the New-York Expresssaya have been never more gay than at present, and for prosperity, everybody is employed high price. Every working man says that lie has no idle time to think about politics,—that s constantly employed at a high price see more gay and costly turn-outsjhere in one than there ate in the whole slate of New-York Everything wears a tone of imperial elegance am randetir. The City is full of noble and wealthy foreigners, consequently the prices for everything tameable or tinnameable are seriously expensive. ’Iiambers that I could have had for $25 a month n 1848, now cost from $75 to $100; and every thing :n proportion, clothing, equipage, horse and carriage hires, service, eating, .til drinking, have all been raised to the Ijondon standard, so that will go as far in New-York as three dollars will here. Merchants and mechanics say that the government having become stable—they a going to make some money. “We are now. say they, "going to make up for the sacrifices which the Republic cost us. We should like republic, if our persons and property could be safe under it, but that can never be in France, where the property is divided between the different royal Having well weighed the question of fact in political destiny, and considered protection of person and property the most important temporal objects in lile, we therefore chose the Napoleon family ns best calculated lo |»uard them audio keep the other factions at bay, 'I ho Emperor is driven out every day in his coach and four, the same as any other gentleman, except that he is accotnpanieJ by foot-mon and six out-riders with a loaded pistol in each band, ami the whole cortege moves at a 1 minute per mile trot. I have never before seen so many good horses as I have seen in Paris within tho past two davs. The average price ol a carriage or riding horse is one thousand dollars, and they are being brought in great droves from London weekly. Perhaps Americans are the only citizens that are treated with frank hospitality by the Napoleon family; but of that i will tell you more in my next, as I am to call upon his Excellency Prince Murat to-morrow. He is soon lo receive about three millions of dollar* Irotn the King of Naples. One of his daughters born and roared in the Uuiled .States of course, was lately married to one of the wealthiest noblemen in France, the son of one of the ministers of the late Louis Phillippe. Balls, operas and theatres arc in the full tide of successful experiment; but ol these and the fash* The land was not sold by Great Britain, nor the debt or any part of it paid, and in 1777, Georgia took possession of the lands. 1 She gave them as bounty to the soldiers who wduld go and occupy them. She used them in our national defence in the war of the Revolution, and George Galphin, in that day, did your country and the infant colo ny of Georgia most essentia! service in preventing •he Indians from making inroads upon the de fenceless inhabitants ot that unprotected frontier. I speak from history and the records of the country—Galphin was true to tbeveasuse of his country and her struggle for independence. And I stale here, that the only section 6^ our State which was not at some period of the wat taken by the British, was where settlemen’s were made on those lands, in the county of Wilkes. There the British flag has never waved since the decla ration of independence. Nay, more ; a fort erect- eJ by by these settlers, bearing the name of Wash ington, on the site of the present town of Wash ington— the name continued from that day to this—was the first place, as I believe, on this whole continent, named in honor of the Father of his country. This, I say, I believe. I do not state this as a historic fact; for there may have been someplace so called at an earlier date; I think not, however; and until the contrary be shown, 1 shall claim the honor for my State, and the people of the county of my birth. But to proceed with my narative. The State of Georgia, in 1780, passed an act binding and obligating herself to pay lo any of those Indian claimants who were true to the comtiy, the whole amount awarded to them by the commissioners under the treaty, and for which the lands were bound in equity and good faith, with interest at six per cent. George Galphin was one of them. Bv Iter act she assumed this debt of Galphin for £9,791 15s 5d., with interest at six percent, per annum. Did not 'this solemn act create a just debt ? But Galphin died in 1780, very soon after the act passed. Sir George Walton, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, from the State of Georgia, testi fied himself, in 1800, that be knew George Gal phin, that “ lie enjoyed his friendship in his life time,” that he was a patriot ; ,and had rendered sential services to the couniry. Mr. Walton fur- llier stated that he was on the committee of the Georgia Legislature that framed the law of 1780, providing for the payment of these claims ; that he was chairman of that committee, that he drew the act, and well recollected *• its motives, its sin- eerily, and its intention of justice," and that was an honest debt, due to that “ venerable man.” Did George Walton want to“swindle?' anybody? Did Gorge Walton plot fraud agaiasl your 'rreasury ?—George Walton the man. who risked Ins life for the liberties you enjoy? Was he sneaking about to get his arm into the Treasury? Sir, he was made of sterner stuff, and you may s htnvl against the Galpliitts as long as yon please, but while 1 stand upon the,testimony of,the man who stood by this country in its darkest hour, I shall feel no dishonor in (defending the rights of that man whose friendship he enjoyed whilo liv- mg. I will lull you much in my next. At present the Hals Masques at the Imporial Opera are the rage. They are given every Saturday night af- .... H mmm ter Opera hours, beginning at 10 and closing at 7 , the mother had never thought of o’clock on Sunday morning. The ladies go i full dress, without —should be made into the character and standing ' masque and the gentlemen of the man. Upon inquiry, it was ascertained that ma»ks> the “down-town merchant” was a down-town clerk; that he bad a wife and one or two chi)- A sbarp-'r who had pawned his hat,going out dren living in Washington county, in this State, of church in the middle of a crowd, snatched a and that lie had a mistress in this city, besides.— man’s hat from under his arm. The poor fellow, During the past week he came again to the house j feeling his hat gone, cried. * I Itey have stolen where the girl reside*, as bold and as impudent a* I my hat!’ The sharper, immediately putting the ever; but this timejust missed, by his alertness, I hat on his bead, and covering it with both his being very unceremoniously pitched into the street, j hands, exclaimed, ‘Have they? I defy them to The girl insists that her honor is untarnished. 1 take mine!' I say there never was a juster claim against the State of Georgia than this. She pledged to him the amount of bis'debt, which was £9,791 15s 5d. in sterling money, and six per cent, interest.— Well, the old man died a month or two after—tho venerable old man, as the patriot Walton called him. I saw some time ago, a toast given.at a din ner, with this idei,—that the history of this Ad ministration would be written in the blood of the Galphins. And who, sir/was Galphin ? He was one of the most distinguished men living on tho frontiers of your country, a man who stood by the patriots who won your liberties and achieved the independence of your country. I state further that his daughter was married to John Milledge, of Georgia, a man whose name the capital of our State still bears in the city of Milledgeville, and we do not ft cl dishonored by this perpetuation of the name of a man who was thus connected and allied with George Galphin ! And whoever wants the history *of this administration,writen in blood, can haue it w riten in the blood of some of the purest and noblest men who periled there a!' for the rights and liberties of their country. Now, sir, this claim was presented lo the Le gislature of the State of Georgia in 1793 by his (ton. TIh? committee to whom it was referred, re ported in favor of it. And it was presented to several Legislatures after that up to 1826 ; but it was not paid, though almost every committee to whom it was referred reported in favor of it, as a just debt against Georgia. Did you ask why h was not paid ? 1 will tell you, in my opinion, simply because they did not have the money.— For the same reason, I.fear that most of our States will fail to pay their debts when the question shall be between refusal and very high taxation. Well, why was it presented here ? I will tell yon. In 1790, the General Government passed what is knowu as the assumption act. That is, the General Government brought into a general account the contributions of each State, either to the general defence, or the particular defence of the common country, during the common struggle of the wrt of our national indepeneeace. At this time Galphin was dead, and Georgia had not paid this £9,791 15s 5d. She had pledged herself to pay for the lands she had Uken poesesaion of and disposed of, but she bad not paid the debt, and did not bring it into account on the settlcmentun- der the assumption *.ct of 1790. The settlement under the assumption act was thought lor a long time in Georgia to bo a final settlement, and that she could not go behind it. Well, in 1832, the State of Virginia came before Congress, and pre sented claims to a large amount under these cir cumstances:—She stated that just before the war closed, she had by the law promised to all officers of a certain grade and class certain an nuities for life, if they would enlist in the service of the United States during the war. These men had never been called into service before the termination of the revolutionary war. But they had enlisted, and claimed their pay according to contract. attract. Virginia resisted, and fiualiv the courts impelled her to pay those claims, and the State then came and asked Congress to reopen the as sumption act of 1790, or pt least to pay these chi ms upon the principles of that act; becausr she said that her liability to officers was of the same nature as the advances for the particular

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Columbus enquirer. (Columbus, Ga.) 1828-1861, February 15, 1853, Image 1