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COLXJMBXJS:
Saturday Morning, August s* 1856.
LARGEST CITY CIRCULATION.
* New Boat.
The Florence, anew boat to run between this
port and Apalachicola, built by Mr. Ilill, made
her trial trip on Thursday last; and though
she had some difficulties to contend with, her
performances exceeded her promises. Her
machinery was furnished by Messrs. Levy &
Drake, of this city ; her accommodations are,
about 25 passengers and 800 bales of cotton.
Several prominent citizens were aboard on
her trial trip, together with all concerned in
her make and equipment. Good luck attend
her, and plenty of work to do.
Brooks and Burlingame.
The cards of Messrs. Campbell and Burlin
game occupy about three columns of the Na
tional Intelligencer. We give below the con
clusion of Mr. Burlingame’s remarks, which
indeed is the only portion of special interest.
We have to say, however, that Mr. Burlin
game’s parallel, in which he intimates that it
would have been as dangerous for him to come
south of Mason and Dixon, as it would for Mr
Brooks to go north of it, is not in our opinion
a just one. The imputations upon Mr. Brooks’
courage, insinuated rather than declared, can
do that gentleman no harm. Mr. Burlingame
says:
Os the conduct of Mr. Brooks in this affair
I can scarcely trust myself to write. I owe it
to truth to say that from what I had heard and
seen of him prior to his assault on Mr. Sum
ner I had formed a high opinion of him, and
that act, which I have properly characterized,
I did think must have been abhorrent to his
better nature. In remembrunce of my opin
ions of him, and feeling that through his mis
conduct I could still detect traces of a gallant
ry which some day might cause him to con
demn as heartily as others do his assault on
Mr. Sumner, I had a larger charity for him
than had most of my friends. Indeed, 1 have
been blamed for intimating the opinion that,
in spite of that act, he was yet a brave man.—
Even as late as in my conversation with Gen.
Lane, when he stated that Mr. Brooks desired
a speedy meeting, I felt a glow of admiration
for him us a gallant l'oeman. But I was wrong.
The expressions of kindness for him, in which,
following a proclivity of my heart, I had in
dulged, were entirely misplaced. Out of “re
gard for his feelings,” inasmuch as he was so
tender of mine, I will abstain from any further
expression of my opinion, but leave men of
honor to determine his position in view of his
own conduct. In response to his numerous
insinuations, let him take my scorn.
Why did he linger in the District where he
was exposed to arrest ? The imputation that
my friends arrested him is unworthy even of
him. Ido not kuow the man who did it. The
dearest friends I had could get no clue from
me of the affair. I thought Mr. Brooks was
in earnest, and prepared mysolf to meet him
sternly and without fail. If he was afraid to
go to Canada, the nearest neutral ground, why
did he not name some other place ? IVas 1 not,
equally with himself, oxposed to the hazard of
a foreign jurisdiction ? He could have reached
thp place of meeting in a few hours, keeping
most of the way in the States of Pennsylvania
and Maryland. But this, he deemed “an ene
my s country.” Where is the friend’s country
lor mo ? Is it here where my comrados are
smitten down without warning ; here, where,
tO'inake the defence of free speech effectual, I,
agaiust my early teachings and the deep root
ed sentiments of my people, have been driven,
that I might securo a little fair play and an
approach to an equal chance, to consent to go
to the field even with Mr. Brooks.
I think Mr Brooks should not have based
as many anticipations of danger to himself on
the possibility of my falling. I have not heard
that any body who had fair play ever fell be
fore that arm whose single blow in the House
its owner thought would have brought on a
revolution. It would have been a happy cir
cumstance for me had I shown half as much
regard for my reputation as our “gallant”
friend did for his life; then my name would
not have been linked with one whose adroit
ness in gettiug out of difficulty is only equall
ed by his shrewdness in securing from an un
suspecting man what he tried to construe into
an endorsement of his courage. I can endorse
it no longer, and now give him full notice.
It is kind oi Mr. Brooks to hand me over to
the reprobation of men, and then to proposo
to admit me to the position of a gentleman,
provided I will challenge him. He seems to
have forgotten how in his “card” ho had just
stated that it was said of mo that I “would
not send but that I would accept a challenge.
If I cannot hereafter praiso the gentleman’s
courage I can commend his prudenco. This is
revealed to us in the fact that without seeking
another place of meeting ho rushes into print
in such a way as to make me forget my tri
umph in the sliame I fell at the conduct of my
antagonist. As if suspecting that I might
change the place, he closes the door against it
by stating that he “should have no further de
mands upon me.”
I now dismiss, as far as I can, the ex-mem
ber from South Carolina from my mind. Self
respect requires mo to say that I can never
again recognize—save to do him a kindness, if
it should be in my power—Preston S. Brooks.
I hand him over to that public, North and
South, which is over scornful of those who
boast much and perform little.
And now I humbly submit myself to the
people whose convictions I fear I have wound
ed. I pray them to remember that forgiveness
is a higher quality than justice. I cast myself
on their generous hearts, which are always
tender and always loving. Let them not for
get, when passing on my conduct, the sneers l
have seen and the taunts I have heard ; how
the old State wo all love has been insulted and
her cherished Senator stricken down, and how
he yet lingers in almost hopeless illness
As these of my own State remember these
these things they will not entirely blame me
because, in a moment of indignation 1 was
willing to put my life at hazard, and what is
dearer than life, reputatiou, for the insulted
honor of those who have always been kind to
me. lam no duellist. I seek no man.s life.
I have but acted in the spirit of the speech, i
made when I said that if pushed too long and
too far there were men in the Old Bay State
who would defend her honor and the freedom of
speech on whatever field they might be assail
ed. My course becamo to me a defeuce of
liberty against slavery, a struggle for freedom
of Bpeech against freedom of the bludgeon,
and the only way almost which seemed left us
hero by which we can defeini ourselves.
A. BURLINGAME.”
We see it stated that in transplanting trees,
the side towards the North should be turned
( to the North when the tree is again set in the
ground. By this means many trees are saved
which would otherwise die.
From the Bouton Dally Advertiser.
How Banks may be Managed and Annual
Reports be Prepared.
In the course of a judgment in the case re
lating to some of John Sadlier’s frauds in Ire
land recently, the Master of the Rolls intro
duced the following extraordinary letter, ad
dressed to James Sadlier by John Sadlier. It
bears date “London, December 3, 1855,” a
few weeks previous to the final smash of the
Tippcrnry Bank:
TIPPERARY JOINT STOCK COMPANY.
My Dear James: The accounts should be
made out treating the paid up capital as £IOO,-
000 on the 31st of December, 1854 ; therefore
the requisite number of shares to make this
account square should be entered as vested in
A. Ferrall, Esq., and he should be debited
accordingly in an account in respect of the
shares.
The “reserved fuud” should be treated as
£14,072 os. 3d. on tho 31st of December,
1854.
It will not bo requisite to print and circulate
among the Irish slaveholders a balance sheet;
but, us all the English slaveholders are in the
habit of getting from every bank in which they
hold shares a printed balance sheet each half
year, we must give them a printed balance
sheet at least once a year, and for the year
ending the 31st of December, 1855.
By this means the present English share
holders will double their present holdings in
the Tipperary bank, and 1 dare say the bal
ance of the £IOO,OOO stock will be quickly
taken up.
Now, I know many of the English joint stock
banks, in order to give a good appearance to
their balance, have constantly trebled the
amount of their balances, etc., by making a
series of entries, whereby they appeared to
have assets and liabilities to four times the
amount they really possessed or had. This
has been always kept very quiet, and what at
first was a kind of fiction, became gradually to
be bona fide.
I enclose you the figures I gave Law (i. e.
Farmer John Law) and some few others, and
the balance sheet for the year ending the 31st
December, 1855, should be framed so as to tal
ly with this balance sheet for the year ending
December 31, 1854.
An increase of about £30,000 in the item of
customers’ balances, &c., should be made to
appear. The item “trade fixtures” should be
increased or decreased as you consider best.
The way to show the customers’ balances up
to say £759,223 lGs. 2d., or thereabouts, would
boos course by crediting certain accounts, de
posit or current accounts, or both, and debit
ing certain other accounts for sums which in
the whole would represent the same.
For example, six or seven deposit receipts
may be issued to me for such and such sums,
amounting in the whole to £400,000 or £500,-
000, and then four or five accounts might be
opened, such as:
1. Tho Southeastern Swiss Railway Company...£l63,ooo
2. The I'russiun Coal Company 157,000
3. The Rome anJ Frascati Railway Company.... 3o!('00
4. The Grand Junction Railway Company 48 000
5. Tho East Kent Railway Company 157^000
£561,000
and each of the foregoing accounts might be
debitted with advances made to me as repre
senting each of said companies to the extent of
the sums I set opposite each of the five ac
counts, and which sums would amount in all
to £561,000.
Then the deposit receipts for £21,500 grant
ed to Backhouse might be added, and I should
be debited with said sum in an account called
John Sadlier, trustee in the Backhouse mort
gage.
All the foregoing accounts would be looked
on as so many trust accounts obtained by ar
ranging to advance as much as was received ;
and, us the bank could not be called on to pay
any of the deposit receipts so long as one pen
ny was due on any of tbo accounts, the safety
of the bank was perfect, and the question of
interest both ways could be so adjusted as to
work out enough profit to enable the bank to
pay the 6 per cent, interest and three per cent
bonus on the £IOO,OOO, and carry to the re
serve fund a good sum, say £5,000.
I hope you will seo this matter in the light
I do. Perhaps I have not oufflciently explain
ed the case, but I am sure I am right, and that
the whole thing can be so managed as to defy
any criticism, if such should be started, but of
course we should not court any. When Igo
over I can explain all. The books should bo
kept open for the requisite entries.
There is nothing to prevent the Tipperary
Bank from doing what has been done in the
Bank, and the Bank, and the
Bank, and that is all I advise—namely, to open
two accounts for A. B j to credit one account
as having received from A. B. £IOO,OOO on
deposit; to debit the other account £IOO,OOO,
as having lent A. B. so much on the security
of his deposit receipt, and his personal securi
ty, of course. In every case the Tipperary
Bank should receive tho deposit receipts and
retain same as security.
F. Law will send, or Mr. Kelly, the account
of the money got on placing of shares, and not
previously accounted for.
Yours, affectionately,
JOHN SADLIER.
I enclose the prospectus. I did not see tho
paper containing reference to O’Shea.
A Fast Woman.
Belle Britan the Newport correspondent of
the New York Mirror, reports the following
definition of a fast woman. Says she :
“ I overheard a funny conversation last eve
ning, between a gentleman and a lady who
were promenading behind me, from which I
learned the definition of a “fast woman.”
Tho couple were discussing the attractions of
a young lady, who receives a good deal of at
tention hero from tho beaux--(such as we
have)—when the gentleman remarked that he
had not yet been able to discover the charms
of the fair one in question. “O,” said the
lady, “she is fast, and that’s what makes all
the gentlemen like her.” “But what does that
mean?” inquired the gentleman, a little rogu
ishly, “Why,” said the lady, “a fast woman
is one that you can say anything to.” 1
thought I should have droppod.
Remarkable Snake.
A correspondent of the Baltimore Sun,
wiiting from Tully, Lewis county, Missouri,
says:
I saw yesterday one of the greatest natural
curiosities now extant—a snake with two
heads, one at each extremity. The body was
about two feet long and two inches in diame
ter in the centre. The snake was well form
ed, large iu tho centre, and gradually ta
pers to each end, with two perfect heads in
every respect. But the most novel thing to
witness was its actions towards the gentleman
that caught it, running one way with as much
ease apparently as the other, with both
tongues out, each raging apparently with
anger. 1 have no doubt many of your readers
will lock upon this as false, (a snake story,)
but it is a fact, and can be vouched for by
many of our most respectable citizens.
Gov. Gardner’s letter of acceptance is so
conciliatory, it is said the whole Fremont vote
will be cast for him.
Encouraging Symptom.
Under this caption, the N. Y. Post, (Black
Republican) has the following:
George B. Butler has parted with his interest
in the Journal of Commerce —a quarter', we
believe—for $55,000, and is no longer connec
ted with that journal. One of the motivos which
is said to have infiuenced Mr. Butler in tak
ing this step is the present unsettled state of
affairs, which indisposes him to leave any
pecuniary interests in jeopardy. He freely ex
presses his conviction that tho election of Col.
Fremont to the Presidency would very ma
terially diminish the value of all kinds of
property in this quarter, and in parting with
his interest in The Journal, he has exhibited
the caution of a good seanmn, by taking in
Bail before a storm. We have heard of sev
eral bets being made that Fremont would be
elected, but this is the largest financial opera
tion, based upon his chances of success, which
has yet come to ourknowledge.
An editotial prepared for to-day, is necesa
rily omitted from want of room for the article
upon which its comments.
Our items, of all sorts, are so scaece to-day,
we have thrown them all together. The tele
graph was in working order, but there was
little news to be sent over it.
The New Governor of Kansas.
An exchange give the following sketch of
Gov. Shannon’s successor in Kansas:
Col. Geary is a little less than forty years of
age, and has held high civil and military posi
tions. He was born inPennsylvania, gradua
ted at Jefferson College in that State; was for
many years a civil engineer; was elected to be
Colonel of the Second Pennsylvania regiment
in the Mexican war; where lie distinguished
himself by great bravery and military skill;
was appointed by President Polk in the year
1848. to proceed to California as Post Master
of San Francisco with the extraordinary com
mission to arrange the postal matters of that
State ; was subsequently appointed by General
Riley to be Judge or Alcade in and for the dis
trict of San Francisco, with power to organize
and establish a police force for that city, and
was elected first Maj'or of the city of San
Francisco under a city charter, and was ap
pointed by the State Legislature as a member
of the Board of Commissioners for the funded
debt. He is represented as admirably fitted
for the wise discharge of the duties of the of
fice to which the President has appointed him.
Lola Montezis still kicking up a muss gen
erally in Australia. Her agent, on excusing
her for not playing one evening, she being in
disposed, was successful in satsfying all but
one fellow, who had come fifty miles to see
Lola, and asked Lola’s agent what he expected
to do about it. “I shall be happy to see you
at the bar,” was the reply, when about one
hundred and fifty followed out and drank at
Lola’s expense.
The Albany and Porpoise.
Tbo public will be grattified to learn that
amongst the bills from the Senate passed by
the House on Friday, was one to provide pen
sions for the widows and orphans of the offi
cers and crews of the lost sloop-of-war Al
bany and the brig Porpoise, the first to run
form the 18th of April, and the latter from the
29th of June 1855.
Gold Discovery
Immense placers of gold liave t latelyj been
discovered in the South, in the State of Guer
rero, which hoid out the most flattering hopes.
Some persons have recently arrived in this
city who have been making extensive explora
tions in the country adjacent to Riodel Ora,
which have verified the assertions heretofore
made on the subject. Everywhere gold dust,
and also veins of that metal, are said to
be abundant and of a superior quality even
to those of California, so that with justic the
stream on whose margins the metal is found is
rightly called Gold River. But these placers
have been long known to exist, for even in
1852, in a report of all that country, made by
Col. Kamsey to a company in New York es
pecial attention was called to these gold mines
existing on this tributrry of the Meschal.—
Mexican Extraordinary.
Another Scion of ihe Bourbon Stock.
Ferdinand of Naples, is outraging personal
and political liberty in his dominions, and in
every way enacting the tyrant, laughing to
scorn the while Fi ance and England, who have
been, at a great sacrifice of dignity, begging
he may have the goodness not to render their
interference with his government absolutely
imperative. Now, King Ferdinand of Naples
knows, that bo his tyrrany never so grinding,
ever so notorious, those Powers will not inter
fere with him positively, lest that interference
give to the revolutionary wheel in Italy the
first movement, which only it requires to be
come, if not irresistible, universal. He will
not, therefore, deny himself a singlo act of
cruelty or depositism.
The N. Y. Courier talks of digging up,
hanging, quartering, and burning the bones
of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison.
This resurrection movement is rather a dan
gerous one for Gen. Webb to recommend.
Suppose, for instance, Nicholas Biddle’s bones
should come back and ask Webb for the $52,-
000 which opened his eyes to the necessity of
re-chartering the U. S. bank! What would
old “mahogany stock ” say to such an appari
tion?
Atlantic anil Gulf Railroad.
We learn that a meeting of the Board of
Directors of the Savannah, Albany, and Gulf
Railroad Company, was held yesterday, at
which it was resolved to call a Convention of
the people of Southwestern Georgia, and oth
ers interested in the Main Trunk Railroad, to
meet at Thomasville on the 4th September, for
deliberation and consultation with a view to
the prosecution of tho Atlantic and Gulf or
Jdain Trunk Railroad chartered by the last
Legislature. We are gratified to learn that
such a measure has been determined on, as by
it an opportunity will be afforded for the re
presentation and consideration of interests.
We trust that it may lead to a good under
standing, and that we may yet see secure the
proffered aid of the State in the construction
of a road so much needed by the section
through which it is designed to pass. We un
derstand that an address to the people of South
western Georgia has been prepared by the
Board, which will bo inserted in the course of
a few days.— Sar. Eeus, 31*1 ult.
The Earl of Cork, who died recently, was
once tried at the Old Bailey, in London, for
picking pockets. He was in Covcnt Garden,
where some light fingering gentry were ope
rating, and an alarm having been created, one
of them managed to put a handkerchief which
he had stolen into the nobleman’s pocket, for
having which!in his possession the Earl was
placed on trial. Upou the facts becoming
known, however, he was acquitted.
The Leigh-street Baptist Church, at Rich
mond, have unanimously called to their pul
pit the Rev. Edward G. Baptist, of Alabama.
GENERAL ITEMS.
A Tornado passed over Cincinnati on Wed- |
nesdny which destroyed much property.
A Cavalry Corps has been raised in Union s
District, South Carolina, called the “Brooks |
Chargers”—J. B. Hilliard, Captain.
The Jefferson Block of buildings, Boston,
was burned on Wednesday. Loss b 70,000.
Seven persons were killed by the tailing of
the walls.
The steamer J. Larkin was burned near St.
Louis, on Tuesday—loss, SIOO,OOO. lhe
steamer John Jay was burned on Lake George
a few days since, und a number of passengers
perished.
A Schenectady editor, describing the effects
of a squall upon a canal boat says, “when the
gam was at its highest, the unfortunate craft
keeled to larboard, and the captain and an
other cask of whisky rolled overboard.”
A Washington dispatch says : “In addition
to Mr. Burlingame’s arrest this morning, he
was this evening taken in custody by his wife
who has arrived from Boston, and he is thus
in double bonds to keep the peace.”
A large portion of the most valuable part of
the cargo of the ship George A. Ilopley, re
cently wrecked on the Irish Coast, will be
saved. The vessel will be a total wreck.
Mr. Harris, an engineer, killed at the time
of the recent collision on the North Pennsyl
vania Railroad, was the third son of his fami
ly killed by railroad accidents. It is stated
that there are two brothers of another family
now in the employ of the Reading Railroad
each of whom has lost a leg.
Hannibal Hamlin has accepted the Black
Republican nomination for Governor of Maine.
He proposes to address tho people of every
county of the State before the election, and
to resign his office of Senator in case the De
mocrats carry the State.
The Sandy Ilill Herald states that at the
funeral of an aged and respectable citizen of
Warren county, on Sunday, the 13th instant,
the officiating clergyman, after the close of
his sermon, presented a large package of
Black Republican papers, and laying them
upon the table, requested the audience each
to take a copy as they left the house.
Not long since, a “Friend,” who rejoiced in
the name of Comfort, paid his devoirs to a
young and attractive Quaker widow named
Rachel H. Either her griefs were too new, or
her love too old, or from other causes, his of
fer was declined. Whereupon a Quaker friend
remarked: “That it was the first modern in
stance he had known where Rachel refused to
be Comforted.” The anecdote is remarkable
as being the first Quaker pun on record.
Advices from the coast of Labrador to the
Ist instant, state that Green Island was visited
by a terrible and most disastrous hurricane.
Out of a fleet of thirty vessels, twenty-nine
were totally wrecked—names unknown. Tho
gale extended to Dog Island, where three more
large vesseles were lost, and their crews per
ished. The loss is very heavy, and only partly
insured.
Astronomers expect the appearance, this
year, of the comet of 1856, called Charles V.,
and so named from having, according to some
historians, caused that monarch to abdicate
and retire to the convert of St. Just. It is
thought to be the identical wandering star
which appeared in 1264, in 995, and in 683.
Its return was looked for 1848, but it failed to
appear.
John Arnold, the porter of Jones’ Hotel,
Philadelphia, was arrested last week, charged
with having abstracted $520 in gold from the
. trunk of M. Moses from South Carolina. It
was alleged by Mr. Moses that his trunk was
taken in charge by Arnold on the evening of
his arrival, and not carried to his room until
next morning, and when he (Moses) opened it
the money was gone. Arnotd was held in
SI,OOO bail to answer at Court.
By the last arrival, we have the following
miscellaneous items of foreign news:
On the 15th ult., the Queen reviewed 14,000
Crimean troops at Aldershott Camp.
John Frost, the Chartist exile, has rejoined
his family, residing near Bristol.
Professor Frazer is elected to the Chair of
Logic, in Edinburgh University.
The Paris Moniteur publshes a list of Brit
ish soldiers decorated with the Legion of Hon
or.
The British Government has sent out troops
to the Cape of Good Hope to prevent an ap
prehended rebellion.
The Parliamentary Committee on Decimal
Coinage will not be able to report during the
present session.
Somo disturbance have occurred iu Copen
hagen from the preaching of Mormons. The
military arrested tho offenders.
The Emperor of Austria’ granted an exten
sive amnesty, on the occasion of the birth of
his second doughter.
The Emperor Nicholas is reported to have
left a memoir of his reign, to be published five
years hence.
The trial of William Dove, for poisoning by
means of strychnine, was going on at York,
and elicited attention second only to the Pal
mer trial.
The King of Holland has appointed a Com
missioner to report upon tho means of expand
ing the Dutch Eastern Commerce, the Isthmus
of Suez Canal, &c.
The German Zollverein have effected their
object of a Custom House at Bremen, and will
levy duties and establish bonded warehouses
there. Most of tho goods smuggled into the
Zollverein came through Bremen.
The Prussian Government has sent the dis
banded soldiers of the Greek Legion back to
Greece, but the Greek Government refuses to
receive them, and calls upon tho British for
assistance to refuse them.
The Queen has granted five years exclusive
privilege to Messrs. Lord, Hudson and llen
slmw of Liverpool to sell guano on three is
lands off tho south coast of Arabia recently
ceded by Imaum Muscat.
Tbo Committee of the House of Lords have
recommended that all executions henceforth
should take place within the jail precincts, as
inthe United States, but no interference is con
templated with tho usages of capital punish
ment in British North America or Australia.
The Crimea was entirely evacuated, except
that the allied ships were carrying away hewn
stone aud iron from Sevastopol. Geu. Luders
had given orders to respect the graves of the
Allies. Mnrshal Pallissier had landed at
Constantinople.
The Liverpool papers state that the difficul
ties between Grent Britain and the United
States, are in a fair way of adjustment, aud
that great assistance has been rendered by
William Brown, M. P., iu the discussions be
tween Mr. Dallas and Lord Palmerston, which
is confidently believed will prevent a rupture
between the two countries.
Mechanics’ Union.
Columbus, July 31.
A meeting of this Association was held this
evening in the Grand Jury Room, and was
largely attended.
The list of membership was opened, and
seven additional signatures obtained.
A communication was read from Professor
Darby, of Auburn, Ala., in reply to one from
the President of tho Union, accepting an invi
tation to deliver a preliminary lecture before
the Association, at such time as may be agreed
upon. Messrs. A. D. Brown, R. T. Simons
and M. N. Clark were appointed a committee
to arrange for the lecture, which is to be the
first of a course in contemplation by the Union.
The committee appointed to procuro a room
for regular meetings, asked for further time,
which was granted.
Messrs. M. N. Clark, J. D. Baldwin and
Lewis C. Allen, were appointed a committee
to revise the Constitution and By-Laws, and
report, at next meeting.
Mr. M. N. Clark offered a resolution, pro
viding for a Badge to be worn by members of
the Union on all public occasions. Adopted.
The subject of a Library for the use of mem
bers of the Association was then discussed, but
no final action taken.
At 10 o’clock the Union adjourned to Thurs
day evening next, 8 o’clock, at theGrnndJury
Room.
A. D. BROWN, President.
F. M. Gray, Sec’ry. pro tern.
Congressional.
July 30.—1n the United States Senate to
day nothing of importance transpired.
.The House passed a bill for the settlement
of the claims of revolutionary officers and their
orphans.
The Kansas election case will be discussed
to-morrow.
Stuart Royal Family.
Few writers in our day have a word of de
cent civility for the family of Stuart. It would
be curious to trace its hereditary character
to the chief line ; our present purpose is only to
remark on the greatness attained by some men
who descended maternally from it. We need
scarcely say that the mother of William of
Orange was a Stewart princess. The mother
of Cromwell was beyond all doubt, of one
branch of the family. So was the mother of
the Admirable Crichton ; and of the famous
soldier Alexander Lesley, first Earl of Levem
Chatham was nearly and directly from theroy
al stem, through his grandmother—a descend
ant of the Regent Murray. Fox’s mother,
Lady Lenox, was immediately descended from
Charles 11. Byron had the blood in his veins.
Beet Brandy.
If beets progress in the estimation of man
kind for half a century to come as they have
progressed in past years, they will soon be
one of the most highly prized of vegetables.
It has long been known that they are not only a
welcome addition to the dinner board, but that
they furnish excellent sugar for the tea table.
Recently an enterprising chemist announced to
the word that they might be converted into
capital paper, aud now it has been discovered
that the very best of brandy may be distilled
from the best juice. It is estimated that from
the produce of an acre of ground, planted
with beets, seven hundred gallons of brandy
were manufactured.
The Rochester Union notices a singular es
cape on the Central Railroad, near Lochport.
A small boy, son of Mr. Richardson, was
struck by the locomotive, and thrown a dis
tance of 85 feet by actual measurement. The
fireman said he first saw the child in the air
some fifteen feet from the ground, and suppos
ed it was a dog. Though at first insensible,
the child had nearly recovered.
Aunt Mary whilst going along the street the
other day, saw over the tailor’s door a sign
bearing the inscription, “ Fountain of Fash
ion.” Ah exclaimed she, “that must hejb*
place where squirts come from,” a the^ U 6
time casting a malignant squint at a cour>T WU
young men with incipient whiskers ana“u®.fi f
ing collars. A woman of great perception is
our aunt Mary.
Amusing.
We clip the following choice excerpt from
the card of the Hon. Lewis D. Campbell, in
relation to the Brooks and Burlingame affair:
lrom the spirit of Col. B’s note I was induc
ed to hope that no hostile action would result
from the meeting which he invited. I believed
that the retired place I had designated, being
accessible by one day’s travel, in a cool, health
ful and magnificently picturesque region, re
mote from the excitements of metropolitan
life, would be far more appropriate in the hot
season than any point in the region of the Dis
trict of Columbia; but Mr. Brooks seems to
set out with the assumption that his note was
in spirit, if not in form, a hostile message, or in
other words, a challenge.
Something New.
W. D. Porter, inthe New York Herald, points
out anew way to discover murderers. He
says:
The following method will, in many cases,
detect the perpetrators of a murder: It is well
known that all objects are actually painted or
impressed upon the retina of the eye. Should
a person die by a violent death, the object be
fore the eye at the time remains impressed on
the retina. If the covering of the eye is
scraped down thin, and a powerful magnifying
glass applied, this image will be distinctly seen
This was the first discovery of the daguerro
type. Any scientific physician can do this.
What do we often drop yet never stoop to
pickup? A hint.
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By tlie first of August, we shall issue a campaign
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in the State—tilled with matter of deep interest to all
persons who feel interested in the present campaign.—
It will contain—
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and the Madison Administration ; his Speeches and Let
terson the Slavery Question, showing him to have been
always opposed to the extension of slavery, and in favoi
of the principles of the Wllmot Proviso or Squatter Sov
ereignty ; his Os tend Circular, proving him a Filibuster,
ready to rob Spain of her territory; and his Letter of
Aoceptance. Also, Mr. Fillmore's Letter of Acceptance,
and his late Speeches, together with numerous other
documents of great public interest. ZKJ-Price. Three
Dollars per Hundred, Cash.
Send in your orders, and scatter them broad cast over
the land—let the people have light, and they will vote
right. Address
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