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COLUMRUH:
Saturday Morning, July 12,18511.
IiAHUGMT CITY CIRCULATION.
Tribute of Respect.
At a meeting of the Columbus liar yester
day, Col. Seaborn Jones in the Chair, and Mr.
W. N. Hutchins Secretary, a suitable tribute of
respect, was paid to the memory of the late
Col. A. McDougald. The proceedings of the
meeting were furnished us, but at too late an
hour for insertion.
The Funeral services took place yesterday
at the late residence of the deceased; und his
inortul remains were attended to their lust
resting-place in the family burying ground, by
a large concourse of our citizens.
We learn that a man, supposed to bo Thad
dcus Rees, from the fact of his answering the
description given of Rees in the hand bills is
sued by our Mayor, was arrested in Macon, j
at 1 o’clock yesterday morning. He is held in
custody, and was to have been examined yes
terday, when his identity or non-identity with
Rees could be easily established.
Return of the Guards — Columbus
Triumphant I
The Columbus Guards, Capt. P. .). Hcmmes,
arrived yesterday about noon, on their return
from LaUrange, where they have spent nearly
a week in one continuous round of enjoyment.
They were hot, dusty, and wo expect tired, on
reaching homo ; but as they marched through
our streets, they carried a higher head, and
walked with a prouder than their accustomed
step. They were returning Hushed with vic
tory—laden with well enrned spoils, and bear
ing before them the trophies of their triumph.
They had maintained their reputation as a
corps, and addod to it now laurels ; while the
military prestige of our city, which hail for
awhile been entrusted to them, was gallantly
sustained and increased.
The Guards bring back with them—
-Ist. A Silver pitcher, won for the company
by Private Ilentou, and offered by the ladies
of the Hentz and Judson Societies, for the best
singlo slid, and contended for by the Guards
and the Montgomery Blues.
2d. A silver goblet presented by the citizens
of LaG range.
3rd. A magnificent cake, presented by the
Hentz Society, to which the Guards belong as
Honorary Members.
The Guards all speak in the warmest terms
of thoirtrip, and return homo highly delighted
with the tiptop treatment they have received.
“ All Around my Hat-”
We notice since the advent 01 the “ heated
term,” anew feature in Columbus hats.—
Many of our citizens who are necessarily much
exposed to the sun, have perforated tlioir hats
with a series of holes each about the size of a
dime, and not far from the crown. Tho effect
is to give the hat a very queer appearance ;
but the benefit secured, in promoting free
ventilation aud koeping the head cool, is said
to more than compensate for what may be lost
in appearance. As the holes run all round the
hat, the slightest breeze from every quarter
lias free ingress to the head ot the woarer—•
Wo have always believed that hats should be
ventilated; the fashion is a good one, and will
no doubt become general; but till we get used
to it, it seeins very odd to look through a gen
tleman’s hat at the landscape on the other sido
of him.
Governor Wise Insulted.—An Ex-Editor
Chastised.
A letter from Richmond to the Petcrsburgh
Fxpress says:
Tbero is considerable “ town talk ” about a
visit which an ex-edi >r this morning paid to
the State Library, wnero he made a remark
offensive to the Governor, who was present,
though the vh tor was not aware of it; and as
the story goes the Governor dealt him some se
qere blows, damaging his countenance very se
riously.
From a dispatch to another paper, we learu
that the Ex-Editor was Mr. Hugh R. Pleasants,
formerly of the Richmond Penny Post: that
he was not “ at himself” ; that he insulted the
Governor in the Executive Chamber, and when
ordered to leave, struck at the Governor.—
Whereupon the latter struck Mr. Pleasanst in
the < ye, and finally kicked him out of the room.
The Amerieus News commenting ou the pro
pos extension of tho South Western Road in
the direction of Cuthbert and Kufaula, says :
It is intended to purchase the road from
A'nericus down to Sumter City, aud make con
nection there, if the purchase can be made on
advantageous terms. We would prefer that
the connection were made at this place, and
think it would be more satisfactory to the peo
ple of Cuthbert and Kufaula, anil algo to the
citizens of Webster, who would be benefit ted
by the upper route.
There is much diversity of opinion among
our business men, as to tho influence which
will be exerted on the business interests of
Columbus, by the extension to Kufaula.—
Some are of opine m that it is absurd to think
of Eufaula as a > ompetitor with Columbus;
others that she will compete with our city suc
cessfully enough ! take a good deal of busi
ness from her. For ourselves we incline to
both opinions. We shall doubtless lose some
trade, but we do not apprehend any serious
damage so long as our market maintains its
reputation for high prices paid for cotton.—
This we must endeavor to maintain by every
means in our power.
Hon. J. Glancy Jones.
This gentleman, who was to have delivered
an address .at the LaGrauge Female College
Commencement, this week, and who it was
hoped would address the Democracy of Colum
bus, Montgomery and Tuskegee, during hia
visit South, has been unable to leave Washing
ton. We learn that he could not succeed in
“pairing off” with any brother member; and
the business before the House was of such
importance, he felt it his duty to remain at his
post. W hilo much disappointment is felt by
those who where anxious to hear him, all must
admit his excuse to be amply satisfactory, and
his course in the matter highly commtuendable.
The people of the United States burst more
steamboats and chew more tobacco than any
other five nations on the globe.
Mechanico’ Meeting;.
Our City Mechanics aro reminded that the
election of permanent ofiicers for tho “Me
chanics, Union,” takes place this evening at
Temperance Hall. It is hoped there will be a
large turn-out of all interested.
About Hoops.
Till recently we have been badly posted on
the Hoop sensation. We have thought of
Hoops as of some object mythically existing,
and not accurately known —like the Sea Ser
pent, or the Mermaids. But a curious friend
has enlightened us. We now know the entire
auatomy of a hooped skirt, from the great cir
cle at its base, to the tiny circlet at the waist
—every button and string and crease and fold,
is known to us, thanks to the investigations of
our friend; and by serious meditation, we
have been enabled to grasp the whole hoop se
ries at one view. Our friend had a hooped
skirt left with him to envelope. He, like our
selves, was ignorant; and having plenty of
time, and being thirsty for knowledge, he made
a thorough examination of the wonder, and
then tried it on ! There were five hoops in
this specimen, gradually rising, one above the
other, and diminishing in size as they rose.
They wore of whale bone, and do not form a per
fect circle, the two ends of the hoop being stitch
ed firmly to the skirt, and terminating within
from six to eighteen inches of each other. There
was a long row of buttons descending from
tho waist, and our friend, thinking that they
were put there to use, proceeded to invest him
self (oli! profanation of a sacred shrine!) with
the skirt, and duly closed up the row of but
ton boles. He managed to navigate pretty
well, having a plenty of sea-room ; but when
he came to sit down it was no go. He couldn’t
effect it. At length, however, a happy thought
struck him. 110 reloased the long row of but
tons from their fastenings, (with the assistance
of a friend,) and by vigorous jerkings of the
skirt in front, managed at last to take a chair.
Here his experiments ended ; but he is much
puzzled to know what earthly use there is for
tho long row of buttons.
Our friend is something of a savant as well as
philosopher; and being struck with the fact
that there were just five hoops, no more, no
less, he immediately named each one, taking
the names from an old book on latitudes, lon
gitudes, and other geographical lines and
boundaries. The bottom hoop being the larg
est of the five, he named it the Equator: the
rest after the Tropics of Cancer and Capri
corn, tho Arctic and Antarctic circles.
Baptism of the French Prince Imperial.
Tho Empress Eugenie’s Baby, has at length
been baptised, with great pomp and ceremony,
and at enormous expense. The spectacle is
said to have been tho most brilliant ever seen,
even in that land of pageantry and display.
When tlie Pope’s legato took up the Baby, and
was about to sprinkle him, the little fellow did
as we have known many a baby do—commen
ced to cry. At this the Emperor laughed, so
tho Reporters tell us; the Empress bowed her
head over the little one anil smiled, and the
audience were much touched.
Many a poor peasant of France is to help
foot the bills, incident to this gilded piece of
humbug. Thank God that we live in a land
whore there are no royal babies to be b. ptised
—where baptism is furnished to rich and poor,
without money and without price : and where
the poor are not ground down, nor the rich
burdened to maintain in voluptuous ease, a
few dozen royalties, no more royal, nor any
better than other people, in the siirht of the
only King—Ho v> ho rules the worlds.
But let us uo justice to tho Baby. We honor
him for that “long, loud, sharp cry,” uttered
in Notre Dame itself, in the royal presence,
amid all that useless pomp and show, and in
defiance of royal etiquette. That cry links
him with humanity, and strips from his royal
person tho tinsel that would hide his common
nature. It demonstrated that he too was a
baby, like other babies; uo more royal than
the peasant’s babe, with whom that cry gave
him fellowship and brotherhood. Long livo
the Baby, say we—long enough to throw off
his Imperial Princehood, to shatter the em
pire, and rear upon its ruins a Republic, where
simplicity shall supersede pomp—economy,
profligacy—and liberty, a flowery, but none
the less stringent, despotism !
The Dismissal of Crampton.
The New York Post publishes the following
extract from a private letter dated London
June 17 :
We are all in high spirits to-ilay at the break
down of Lord Paimerston on Crampton’s dis
missal. It was a bail ting for him to do, and
both he and Clarendon were in favor of dis
missing Dallas. They became convinced that
a largo majority of the House of Commons
would opposo the measure, and that public
opinion, including that of the Court, was
strongly against them. There is no doubt that
the Queen, advised by Priuce Albert and the
Duke of Cambridge, refused to sustain the
dismissal.
I was at the House last evening, aud it was
a most interesting scene, The House was
crowed by members and the galleries by
strangers.
Lord John Russel spoke with great serious
ness, aud every body felt that it was a most
important crisis in tho career of the Rnglo-
Saxon race. When Palmerston rose to an
nounce the determination of the Ministry the
silence was profound and the anxiety intense.
At the announcement that they had determin
ed not to suspeod relations with the American
Minister, there were a perfect thrill of emo
tion and satisfaction. So close the cabinet
kept the matter, that when I arrived at Mr.
Dallas to congratulate him, he had not receiv
ed tho slightest intimation as to his fate, and I
had the very great satisfaction of announcing
it to him and his family.
The National Convention of Scgar makers,
which met in New York last week, adjourned
on Thursday, having summarily put down an
attempt to introduce slavery discussion They
resolved to take earnest measures against Sen
ator James’ tariff bill. They also adopted res
olutions tending to equalize the price of segars
and tobacco, and looking to the assembling of
an annual National Convention. They also
propose memorializing Congress for a tariff bill
laying a duty of 30 per cent, on all imported
segars, and admitting the unmanufactured
article free. There were also resolutions off
ered to establish a Trade Union for the protec
tion of journeymen segar makers and the
trade generally.
[From the TimeH & Sentinel.]
Ulennville Male Collegiate Institute.
Messrs Editors; About two years since, a
number of our public spirited citizens deter
mined to established at this place a school for
young men (seeing that the gallantry of our
citizens had done a great deal for the young la
dies) and subscribed some six or seven thousand
dollars to build a suitable house for the pur
pose. Not this only;—they procured from an
older Ktate three of their best teachers, to-wit,
Mr. A. S. Andrews, and Messrs. Wra. M. and
F’. C. Robins, from the Normal College of N.
C., to take charge of the School. These gen
tlemen came out, and have conducted the In
stitution, and have met with a success unprece
dented in Eastern Alabama.
Our village is one which may challenge com
parison with any in the State. Not'that it can
make a greater display ol’ fine houses, regular
streets, &c. ; but can show the best looking
women, the most intelligent and worthy men—
a community, determined to use all their avail
able means and their influence to make it a
community desirable to live in, and a commu
nity which those who wish to raise children
properly, will seek.
The commencement Exercises began on Fri
day, 27th June; the primary classses did as
well as could be expected. On Sunday the
commencement sermon was preached by Rev.
Mr. Barker, of Wetumpka, from Acts 9th and
6th.—“ What will thou have me do.” The ser
mon was characterized by that fervor which is
peculiar to the Methodist denomination —ex-
tempore anil quite eloquent.
On Monday, many classes were examined,
and shewed that they were well acquainted
witli the several branches in which they had
been taught.
On Tuesday, the young men who had been in
the school for some time were examined in the
higher branches, and proved that they were
properly instructed.
Tuesday evening, the exercises were very in
teresting ; selected speeches were delivered by
about 20 pupils, aud a baud of music made the
evening pass pleasantly ; the band giving us a
tune between every three or four speeches.
On Wednesday, eleven of the young gentle
men, of the school, delivered original speeches,
the style and delivery of which, did credit to
themselves and to their accomplished teachers.
In fact, a display was made, which we have
never seen excelled and seldom equalled.
The order of speaking was as follows:
C. G. Stovall, Barbour County—“ Don’t give
up the ship.”
R. R. Coleman—“ Advantages of a cultiva
ted mind.”
T. T. Rivers, Glennville—“ Evils of Idle
ness.”
Wm. L. Graves, Glennville—“Man.”
J. R. Reed, Warrior Stand—“lmportance of
aiming high.”
J. 11. Brown, Glennville —“ Alabama.”
A. S. Grady, Warrior Stand—“ Female In
fluence.”
Jesse Wood, Barbour County—“ Merit Tri
umphs.”
J. B. Borom, Macon County—“ Knowledge
is Power.”
Between each of these speeches, the band in
attendance played an appropriate tune, at the
conclusion.
The Hon. John Gill Shorter, delivered the
literary address.
It may be unbecoming in us to speak of this
beautiful, chaste and practical address. Judge
Shorter is our neighbor and friend, and any
praise by us bestowed, would perhaps be con
sidered out of place. But Barbour county
knows him—Alabama knows him; and therefore
we will speak. As much as wo anticipated—
as high as our expectations were raised, we did
not look for so complete, classical and elegant
an address, as we had the pleasure of hearing.
The learned Judge, the talented and honorable
gentleman, exhibited all those noble traits
which so peculiarly belong to his character.—
Those traits, which from his first settlement on
this side of the Chattahoochee, to the present
time, have raised him from the humblest walks
of professianal labor, to be a bright and shi
ning light in Alabama, not only as a courteous
end impartial Judge, but as a public spirited
citizen, an honest man and a Christian.
On Tuesday night the Ist inst., our young
friend W. W. Screws addressed a large and in
telligent aundier.ee in behalf of the school boys,
soliciting subscriptions to establish a “ Libra
ry,” und his chaste and impressive address was
responded to by subscriptions amounting to
S7OO.
Will evei'y friend of our Institute send us a
book ! Will Alabama, Representatives send
such documents as will be useful. If they will,
around this nucleus will soon be formed a Li
brary which will reflect honor on our commu
nity, and be of immense advantage to those
who will come after us.
In conclusion, let me say to those who have
sons to educate, that we offer them advantages
which cannot be surpassed, in this pari of the
State. Society as good as any. Teachers ca
pable, honorable, talented and moral. Build
ings commodious and well arranged ; and we
expect soon to have an Apparatus as complete
for the demonstration of philosophical, chemi
cal and mathematical science, as any similar
institution in the country.
Yours, H.
♦
Homicide in Louisiana.
Wo find the following account of the murder
of W. 11. Perryman, formerly of this place, in
a letter in the Mobile Register, written from
Clinton, Louisiana:
A man by the nnrne of Peterson being exci
ted by liquor, commenced a quarrel with W.
H. Perryman, a house carpenter by trade, who
is well known in your city, drew a pistol aud
threatened to shoot him. The bystanders,
however, disarmed him. Perryman turning to
his employer (the head carpenter,) asked him
if he had not given the pistol to Peterson as
the weapon belonged to him. Upon his ac
knowledging that ho had furnished the pistol
to Peterson, Perrymau upbraided him, telling
him he was ail —n scoundrel for so doing.
No sooner were these words uttered, than the
other raised the pistol and shot him through
the heart. Perryman immediately fell aud ex
pired within half an hour. The murderer, for
so he is by every person here proclaimed, is
name James Cravy. Having squuniieril his
time and money, lie could not pay his work
men, and so it is said he must have meditated
this quarrel with Perryman, as it is shown that
he loaded a pistol, gave it to Peterson, and got
him intoxicated, but seeing Peterson taken
away, got up tho quarrel and in cold blood de
prived a fellow being of life, lie was immedi
ately taken in custody, and now awaits exam
ination which will take place ou Tuesday next.
The deceased is a Georgian by birth, but was
raised in Montgomery Alabama; he also work-
I ®d> 1 think, in 1854 for Bob Chamberlain. Ho
i was about 25 years of age, 5 feet 10 or 11 incli
jes high. Ilis mother still resides in Montgom
-1 ery. He was decently buried by the mechan
* ios of the place, and “the lynching of Cravy is
; loudly talked of.
The British Admiralty have declared Dr.
James Rae and his companions entitled to
the reward of £IO,OOO offered to those who
should first ascertain the fate of the expedition
under Sir John Franklin.
TELEGRAPHIC ITEMS.
Trial of Col. Brooks.
Washington, July B.—At the trial of Col. i
Brooks to-day, Messrs. Butler, Benjamin,
Pearce, Foster, Toombs and Keitt were pres- j
ent. Mr. Sumner left the city to avoid being-;
subpoened, and the leading counsel for the |
prosecution [regretted the absence of Mr Sum- ,
uer, as both he and Col. Brooks had desired to
interrogate him in regard to the evidence be- j
fore the committee of the U. S. House of Re
pvesentatives. After the conclusion of the
evidence, Mr. Brooks made a short speech,
lie took the giound that there were some of
fences where law was inadequate to afford a
remedy. Ho said that while he had a heart to
feel or a hand to strike he would redress the
wrongs of liis political mother, from efforts to
cover her with obloquy and dishonor, and
would squander property and endanger life in
her defence. He now bowed to the majesty of
law to receive sentence. Judge Crawford for
bore comments, and fined him S3OO.
Congressional.
Washington, July B.—The Senate Commit
tee have reported back the House Kansas bill,
striking out all after the enacting clause and
inserting tho Senate bill as amended. The
amendments were agreed to and the bill passed.
In the House the Internal Improvement bill,
which passed the Senate yesterday, was, also,
passed over the President’s veto.
July 7.—ln the Senate, Mr. Yulee reported
a joint resolution, which was passed, appro
priating SIO,OOO for the continuance of the
Mail service between Charleston and Havana,
during the months of August aud September,
for which, the present contract does not pro
vide.
The Senate then took up the a bill for the
improvement of the mouth of the Mississippi,
which had been vetoed by President Pierce.
Mr. Slidell made a speech in favor of the bill,
and so did Senator Cass. The question was
then taken shall the bill pass, notwithstanding
the objections of the President, and decided in
the affirmative—yeas 31, nays 12.
The Chair announced that two-thirds of
those present having voted for the bill, it was
passed.
Mr. Mason appealed from the decision of
Chair.
After some debate, the decision was sus
tained by a vote of 34 to 7.
The Senate then passed the St. Mary’s Ri
ver and tho St. Clair Flats improvement Bills,
over the President’s veto—the former by a
vote of 28 against 10, and the latter by a
vote of 28 against 8.
The House Bill for the admission of Kan
sas, was referred to the Committee on Terri
torids, and then the Senate adjourned.
The House ordered to be engrossed for a
third reading, the bill providing for a settle
ment of the claims of officers of the Revolu
tionary Army, and the widows and orphans of
those who died in service. It refusod to sus
pend the rules, in order to set on the Senate’s
resolutions, fixing upon a day for adjournment.
The Senate Kansas Bill was ordered to be
printed, together with the amendments offered
by Messrs. Dunn, Haven and Bennett, of New
York, and then adjourned.
Markets.
New York, July B.—Cotton is firm and 800
bales were sold to-day at from 11J cents for
Middling Orleans, andjllj cents for Middling
Uplands. Flour and Wheat are unchanged.
Corn is unsettled. Spirits of Turpentine is
firm. Rosin is heavy at $1.57 per bbl. Rice
firm. Freights are quiet.
Celebration of the Fourth.
New York, July s. — The Fourth was cele
brated here with the usual demonstrations and
about the average number of accidents occur
red. A young woman, named Hannah Willean,
was shot dead while standing in her yard, by
a young lady named Amelia Steward. Tho
affair was purely accidental.
A young man named Jas. Taylor, was stab
bed to the heart in an affray on Prince street.
The statue of Washington was inaugurated
early in the morning, at Union Square, in the
presence of a vast concourse of citizens. The
ceremonies were very imposing. Dr. Bethune
delivered the inaugural address.
A tremendous shower came up about two
o’clock, lasting an hour. The evening was
clear, and there were grand displays of fire
works in all directions, lasting from sundown
until nearly midnight.
Philadelphia, July s. — Tho fourth was
celebrated here with much spirit. The only
public demonstrations were the banquet of the
Keystone club, and the annual meeting of the
Democrats in Independence Square. Quite a
number of fires occurred, but none were very
serious.
Washington, July s — There was no public
celebration of the Fourth here yesterday. The
only noticeable event is the murder of a sea
captain, named Charles A. Bell, a native of
Bremen, at a German merry making last night
in the suburbs of Washington.
Boston, July s. — The heavy rain of yester
day morning and occasional showers during
the day dampened the ardor of “ Young Ame
rica,” and materially interfered with the usual
display of the Fourth. The review of the
military, tho firemen’s processions, the dinner
of the city officials in Fanueil Hall, and the
regatta on Charles River took place according
to programme, but the public generally were
compelled to remain in doors. Several thou
sand people congregated on the Common in the
evening, and witnessed a highly successful bal
loon ascension by a son of the celebrated uero
naut, Mr. Wise, in the balloon America.
Railroad Iron Arrived.
We learntheschooner John Forsyth, Holmes.
Captain, has arrived at Fernandina with 125
tons of iron for the Florida Railroad. Wo al
so learn from good authority, that a thousand
tons will be immediately shipped from the
North, and that a cargo was shipped direct
from England to Fernandina last mouth, which
is expected to arrivo there during the present
month, and that another cargo will be shortly
despatched from the same place. We also learn
that a locomotive to be called the “Pioneer,”
and a number of platform cars, to be used in
transporting tho iron over the road, is obtain
ed, and will soon be forwarded from Philadel
phia. We understand the company are resolv
ed to prosecute the work vigorously through
i to completion.— Jacksonville News.
Killed.
A few minutes before 9 o’clock on Thursday
night as John R. Starck was crossing Texas
street from Mr. Sharp’s corner towards the
“Smile,” someone unknown, shot him twice
wi*h a double barrel gun, killing him insaut
ly. He was penetrated with seven or eight
buckshot. One load passed into the left sould
er, three or four shot passing through him.
A jury of inquest was summoned on the body
by Justice Robeson but no facts were elicited.
—Shreveport Gazette.
Dreadful Railroad Accident.
We learu by telegraph last night that a ter
rible accident occurred on the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad yesterday, but were unable to
get the particulars in consequence of the wires
being occupied in the transmission of news
south of Petersburgh.— Petersburgh Express Bth.
ITEMS.
Impertinent query just about now—., u l
is this hot enough for you ?” ‘ V
The number of interments in Savanual M
the week ending July Bth, was 24 ; f!
—blacks 8. es |b
. A man who always sneering at the Wf:t | j
is generally a coarse profligate or a ‘* a
bigot. L( ' a *
A young American lady being asked i,,|
politician which party she was most in f* 1
of, replied that she preferred a wedding y^T
“ Do make yourselves at home, ladies
Mrs. Smith to her visitors: “I am a ” .'H
myself, and sincerely wish you all were ” °f*
The Bostonians, last Friday, sent six tl A
sand pounds of yellow snuff to Melbourne t
exchange for the yellow gold of Australia “
“ Hob, by sitting oil that side of the I
you are missing all the sights on this
“ Never mind,..Tom, I am sighting “uii ‘.H
misses on t’other side.”
In the Senate, on Wednesday, after tl
Wade, of Ohio, had made a speech on the K
sas bill, his colleague, Mr. Pugh, said “ho'iri
spoken like a blackguard.”
John Adair, Wm. Vaughn, Marion (Jlnl
bers, Y'oung Posey and James Gaddis mi J
ners in Dahlonega jail, made their esc’at.p *l’
the night of the 2d inst. 1 I
If you wish to cure a scolding w if e n I
fail to laugh at her with all your might uni
she ceases—then kiss her. Sure cure 1
quack medicine!
Twenty seven thousand two hundred ndl
eight one persons arrived at the various hotfl
in St. Louis during the period of ten
ending the 10th of May last.
The King of Oude, who has recently bel
dethroned by the East India Company, i s „■
pected to arrive in England by the Alexaudil
mail packet Indus due the beginning of nel
month.
The Washington Union publishes a lettl
from the United States Consul at Paris, call J
the attention of benevolent persons’ in tl
country to the terrible devastation resulti|
from the recent floods, as a proper subject t|
pecuniary liberality.
The Ribbon system is prevailing cxtensivel
in the north western counties of Ireland. TIM
constabulary are making great exertions |
break up the confederacy. In Donegal, oil
day, twenty one persons were committed f|
trial.
A private telegraphic dispatch, sent to t|
London Times by its Paris correspondent, a|
nounces, under date of Madrid, June 15,'til
the Spanish Government has accepted the m|
diation of France in its differences with Mt|
ico.
At the recent dedication of anew CatholM
church in San Francisco, a novel, but apparel
ly practical, movement was adopted. t|
beautiful young ladies, daughters of FrencM
consuls, officiated as collectors of the cont|
bution.
A mass State Convention of the people |
Vermont, held on the 2d inst., nominated ll|
land Fletcher for Governor, James M. Sla|
for Lieutenant Governor, and Henry M. Bat|
for Treasurer, and endorsed the nomination |
Fremont and Dayton.
A dispatch from New Haven, dated July *
says : At New Canaan yesterday, while soml
persons were preparing to fire a salute a bofl
threw a fire cracker among a pile of cartridge*
exploding the whole, by which twenty bysta|
ders were badly burned. One is dead, anl
five others are not expected to live. 1
At the celebration of the Fourth at Quine*
Mass., the oration was delivered by Hon. Cbaß
Francis Adams, the Declaration of ludepei*
dence read by John Quincy Adams, and thl
services held in the church under which reposß
the remains of Presidents John Adams anfl
John Quincy Adams.
Mr. M. G. Underwood, brother of the Job*
C. Underwood who undertook to represent Vi*
ginia in the Black Republican Convention a
Philadelphia, and made an abolition speec
there, warns his brother not to come to Vii
ginia at present, as the excitement again:
him is so great that he will be mobbed.
Lead pipes are far more durable than iroi
when carefully’ laid under ground—the forme
often lasting fifty or a hundred years, whil
the latter sometimes rust through in live o
six years, or less. Old iron pipes are of littl
value, while old lead pipe will sell for one hal
or two thirds its first cost.
A letter from St. Marys, Ga., to the Savan
nah News says: A sad accident occurred her
a short time since. A negro girl by the nam
of Eliza, belonging to Mrs. Mack, shot a gir
named Eady, the property of Mr. C. Hays-
The former not knowing that the gun w
loaded, pointed it atEady, saying in fun, “H
shoot you,” anil pulled the trigger. The loat
entered the girl’s head causing instant death
Os the rapidity with which some portions o
the machinery employed in the manufacture o
cotton operate, we may form an idea from thi
fact that the very finest thread which is usei
in making lace, is passed through the strong
flame of a lamp, which burns off the fibre:
without burning the thread itself. The veloci
ty with which the thread moves is so great tba
it cannot be perceived there is any motion a
all—the lino of thread, passing off a wbee
through the flame, looking as if it were P cr
l'ectly at rest.
The trade of Algiers with France is _wor:b
every year 120,000,000 francs, hi 18).>, lic
colony shipped to different French ports ■
000,000 hectolitres of grain, and the following
year 2,000,000. The horse breeding estab
lishments in the colony contain 2,207 stalli®’
and 62,000 mares, The stallions are of
finest breeds, amt were imported by the t lll
peror from Central Arabia.
In the Circuit Court hblden at Newport, j 1 I
1., last week, the only case tried betoro t
jury was Francis B. Fairweather vs. Alfred j
Willard, all of Providence. This action
brought by the plaintiff for seducing his dan?*-1
ter under a promise of marriage. It was comj
menced on Tuesday morning, and endc I
Friday evening. After an able charge i “ I
Judge Curtis, the jury retired, and in ft U ] 1
fifteen minutes retured a verdict for the p a I
tiff for $5,000 and costs.
Restorative for the Hair. I
The age in which we live is truly one o r ®|
search and discovery, and to Professor |
the present and succeeding generations ar I
debted for one of the most valuable r em .1
produced for the restoration of the hair. • I
persons while young in years begin o I
their hair, and some turn gray, but by I
of this truly wonderful preparation, i I
dencyto fall off is arrested, or resto ’ J
its original color, and it is rendered sou j
glossy in appearance. Remember, .
a dye. We hear it highly spoken of.—-
(Illinois) Patriot, Nov. 3, 1853.