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COLUMBUS:
Monday Morning) Auguat 4, 1856.
LARGEST CITY CIRCULATION.
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English and American Filibustering.
Why it in we know not—but so it is—that
the London Times takes a peculiar delight in
using the American Eagle as a murk for its
target practice. Upon America—her books,
her manners, her policy, her people, her insti
tutions —upon everything American, it is con
stantly hurling those shafts which have been
likened to the thunderbolts of Jove, but after
all are but sheet-iron thunders like those
used in theatric Above all the
Times loves to borate us for our penchant for
now territory ; and the American peoplo have
been more than once denounced in its col
umns, as a nation of pirates and filibusters.
Very cheerfully might we invite a comparison
of our record on this score with that of Eng
land. Ever since the British Lion was a cub,
and could scarcely crawl—from that time till
now, when from gout he can scarcely walk,
he has been grabbing, grabbing, grabbing.
Never since the Roman eagles were carried in
triumph over barbaric lands—never since Al
exander heaved his sigh for one more world to
conquer, has there been so systematic, so ra
pacious and successful a filibuster as old Moth
er England. Whence did she obtain that
world-wide domain, locate in either continent,
and of which it is her boast, that the sun nev
er goes down upon it? How is it that in every
quarter of the globe the red cross of St.
George has been planted ? But this aside—let
by-gones be by-gones. How is it that NOW,
with its indignant protest against American
filibustering still damp upon the paper, the
London Times can plan and advocate a delib
erate scheme for the seizure of Turkey?
We publish, in another column, some ex
tracts from a late article in the Times, as
plainly indicative as words can make it, that
England is now meditating designs upon Tur
koy, kindred, nay, identical, with those which
she fought Russia for meditating. Turkey is
to have an English, instead of a Russian, pro
tectorate—aud upon what plea ? No more nor
less than this: “ tho Sultan is weak, and we
can whip him. He can do no good for his
people, and we must do it for him. Moreover
Turkey is a magnificent country; we wish to
occupy, develope, Christianize and Anglicise
it.” Such is tho sum and substance of the
limes article. We would hail with pleasure
the consummation of this scheme. We see in
it a prospect of redemption for that unhappy
people, the Ottoman race; and we see in it
mutual benefit for all civilized nations. But
we cannot restrain our contempt for this mod
ern instance of Satan rebuking sin ; nor do
otherwise than despise such sneaking hypocri
sy, such arrogance and Phariseeism. Philoso
phers have taught that right is right, and
wrong, wrong, eternally and invariably. But
according to the Times what is right for Great
Britain, is a heinous sin for America !
The United States Government have never
advocated territorial acquisition—the Times
calls it a “protectorate”—upon any such
grounds, as Turkey is claimed by Great Bri
tain. We obtained our Mexican Territory as
atonement and indemnity; wo acquired tho
Louisiana and Florida kingdoms, by purchase,
though we might have plead absolute necessi
ty—the one commanding the mouth of the
Mississippi, tho other tho Gulf of Mexico.
Whatever claim we have upon Cuba, is not
based upon tho weakness of Spain, or the rich
lands of the island, but upon the score of stern
necessity, and the longings of a down-troddon
people to come tous. We acknowledged Walk
er’s government because it was a government.
’ et Nicaragua and Cuba cannot bo mentioned
in hearing of the Times, without it’s working
itself into impotent rage, and spirting its ma
lignant venom upon the American people.
We have not made these remarks in demon
stration simply of Great Britain's cupidity,
hypocrisy, aud unfairness. We would draw
some profitable conclusion, and it is this :—that
the American Nation should pay not the slight
est heed to British wishes, threats, censures,
or protests, upon a subject where she is ten
times deeper in the mud than we are in the
mire. In helping ourselves we should never
think of England; if we can justify the act to
our own conscience, no regard for England
should restrain us from taking tho “ last pea
in the dish” if wo fancy it. Let England man
age the affairs of her own continent. We will
attend to matters this side the Atlantic, in
such manner, and at such times, as we think
best and most desirable.
Homicide.
We are pained to be called upon to announce
a death by violence in our district, which oc
curred in the upper portion of it on last Fri
day. A quarrel arose between Mr. James
Brown and— McFarlan, brothers-in-law, a
tight ensued, in which, as we uro informed,
Brown was rather badly beaten. After tho
had ended, B. seized his gun and shot
McFarlan, killing him almost instantly.—
Brown is now in jail. An inquest has been
held. We have net learned what verdict was
reurtued.— J?urlingt<V'i Flag.
The Congressional Elections.
Colvnbia, July 81.— Col. Brooks received
7,900 votes and SOOO were contributed to
wards tho payment of his fine and expenses in
the Sumner affair. The vote for Col. Keitt
was also large. The Governor sent the certi
cates of their re-election to Washington in ad
vance.
From Washington.
July 29.— The young man Jarboe, tried to
day in the Criminal Court for the murder of
Nalley, by shooting him for the seduction of
his sister, has been acquitted. The jury were
only out fiften minutes, and on the announce- !
ment of the verdict, the crowd expressed their
joy by excessive applause, and eagerly press- >
ed forward to congratulate the avenger of his I
sister’s wrongs. The result has produced
general rejoicing.
Homicide.
John Kittle killed a man named Gleason in
this county last Thursday. Me was brought \
up before a Magistrate’s Court and discharg
ed ; it appearing in the evidence that Kittle
was attempting to arrest some of the Gleason
family, and they were resisting the execution
of the law- —Athtm (Oa.) Banner.
From the London Times.
Turkey.
It is said that the Sultan has almost reached the
limit at uihteh he can be no longer held responsible
for his actions. The life which this unhappy
sovereign has led from boyhood has made him at
33 years of age, not only prematurely old in
body, but almost prostrate in intellect. All ener
gy of mind is gone; how long understanding will
remain is a question no one con answer. He is
entirely ruled by a race which it would be an
insult even to Naples and Madrid to cell a ca
marilla. His wives, his eunuchs, his pipe
bearers, his daughters, do with him whatever
they please. He has his fits of rage, his hours
of despondency. He changes his mind as of
ten as those who surround him, urge him to
change it. Such is the sovereign who at this
time of danger and transition governs the
Turkish Empire, just saved from the grasp of
a hostile potentate, and still occupied by the
arms of two powerful allies. Now, an embe
cile monarch is no prodigy. In most Western
States, even where what are called liberal prin
ciples have made little way, such a sovereign
would find settled laws and customs by which
the machine of the State might work without
his personal superintendance. But in Turkey
the sovereign must not only superintend, but
initiate. Ho is fho real ruler of the country
which his ancestors won by the sword; he
must decide for himself, and to practice on
bis weakness is the natural course of minis
ters or dependents who wish to keep their po
sition. It is said that the present ministry
has not scrupled to resort to such expedients.
Fuad l’asha, its animating spirit, Las little to
hope from the favor of the Sultan or the good
will of the people, either Turks or Christians.
Hut he trusts to retain power by the assistance of
the French, whom he fancies, rightly or wrongly,
to be well disposed to him. The influence of tiie
French will, of course, be in the ascendant as
they occupy the country with a large army.
Fuad is, therefore, said to be desirous to pro
long the occupation for an indefinite time.
Ho has nothing to hope from the Sultan’s par
tiality, for Abdul Medjid lately sent his own
daughter to ltedschid l’asha, requesting him
to tako office, and on a recent occasion be
haved in public with marked coldness to his
present ministers. He therefore endeavors, it
is asserted, to work on the Sultan’s fears.
The absolute necessity of an occupation on
account of the recent accessions to tho Chris
tians is urgod. The disturbances that have
taken place are magnified. Some are invent
ed which have never happened, and it is even
suggested that, if any take place hereafter,
they may be attributed to the connivance, if
not to the direct suggestion, of the Sultan’s
present advisers.
*****
It is certain that the great part which
France has taken in the late war and the
shortcomings of our own military chiefs have
given for the present a subordinate place to Eng
land in the minds of the Orientals. The opin
ion of such men may uot be worth much, but
still they cannot be ignored, and they produce
for a time certain effects. But these will be
of short duration. Turkey is just the country
in which England is likely to display her peculiar
faculties. A large, rich, neglected territory,
with the finest geographical position in the world,
commanding the Mediteranean, the ports of
Southern Russia, and the Indian Ocean, full
of mineral wealth, intersected by great navi
gable rivers, and inhabited by many millions
of Christians capable and desirous for material
progress, is just the country for English enter
prise and capital. Let our foreign critics wait a
few years and see what nation is taking the lead
in Turkey; who will fill the ports of Constan
tinople and Smyrna with shipping, open up
tho routes which conduct to the extreme East,
join the Danube and the Bosphorus, the Med
iterranean and the Euphrates, with railways;
send the telegraph through wilds for ages un
trodden by civilized man on to tho frontiers of
India, place their steamers on the rivers of
Mesopotamia, and bring strange races and for
gotton regions once more within the limits of
civilization. There is certainly in store for the
East a long British occupation, but not of regi
ments and line-of-batlle-slups. But before those
times come what changes may tnko j.Uoo
among tho vulo iu stamboul! Few can be
lieve that, even politically, the status quo can
be restored. If we have fought and suffered
so long merely to prop up such a government
as we have described, it may well be said that
all is vanity.
One of Nature’s Noblemen.
There returned with the Guards to England
last month a terrier bitch who had greatly
distinguished herself at tho battles of Alma;
Balaklava and Inkermann, and at the final
seige of Sebastopol. In each of these en
gagements, strange to say, the gallant creature
lost a leg, and the Great Redan, when she was
about to retire, discovering that all was lost,
a cannon-ball swept away her tail. The sol
diers, in their leisure hours, had previously
manufactured for her three wooden legs, and
now a fourth leg and a wooden tail were made.
In this crippled state, with the medals of honor
suspended to her neck, tho brave animal was
presented to Queen Victoria, who, is said, in
tends to bestow on her the same recompense
as will be awarded to tho thousands of private
soldiers who risked their lives in defence of
their country’s honor.
Tho report of the Commissioners appointed
by the Walker-Rivas Government of Nicaragua
to examine and report as to the indebtedness
of tho Accessory Transit Company to that Re
public lias been published. The property of
the company seized is valued at $161,129 05,
and tho Commissioners report that the compa
ny owes the Government of Nicaragua $412,-
589 96, leaviug the company still indebted to
the Government in the sum of $251,460 91.
Deafness.
The origin of deafness is one of the most
simple and curious processes in the human
system. For instance, when a child has re
covered from an attack of scarlet fever, scar
latina, measles, or sometimes a common cold,
signs of deafness appear which no after-treat
ment is always able to remove. Tho mucous
membrane of the drum of tho ear becomes
thickened and more or less inflamed during
the disease, and wheu this is the case, the re
sult is, that mucus is secreted in greater quan
tity than usual, aud cannot be got rid off.
This goes on, until pressing on the tympanum
or drum, the latter begins to ulcerate, its sub
stance is injured, it cracks, and the mischief
is done.
The Bonapartes.
It is said the Emperor is determined to legi
timatize the marriage of Jerome with Miss
Patterson in 1802—and that consequently the
issue of that marriage will take rank ns Prin
ces Imperial. In proof of this statement is
mentioned the visit of the King of TVurten
burgh to Paris, last month, he having been the
brother of Prince Jerome’s second Wife.
Freedom of the Pulpit.
The N. Y. Tribune is out in an article de
fending what it calls the “Freedom of the pul
r't"—that is, to allow the clergy to discard
the Bible and preach about politics and
Sharpe’s rifles. Fortunately many of the Tri
bune s followers are denouncing this new ism.
A Dutchman’s Monkey.
A Dutchman had made a handsome fortune
in Philadelphia by selling milk. He started
for Holland, his home, with two bags of gold
pieces. When on shipboard he counted one bag
of his dear treasure. A mischievous monkey
chanced to watch his operations. As soon as
the counted bag had been replaced and tied
up, Jocko seized it, and soon found bis way to
the mast-head. He opened the bag, and after
eyeing the brilliant gold, proceeded to drop
one piece on the deck and other in the water,
until he had emptied tho bag. When he had
finished, the Dutchman threw up his arms, ex
claiming: “Pie jinkos, he must be dyvcl, for
vat come from water he does gibe to de wa
ter, and vat come from de milk he does gibe
to me.
Another Gunpowder Parson.
A man by the name of Winslow, (some peo
ple do not care what they say, call him the
minister of the Gospel of Christ,) at a recent
meeting in Connecticut, said:
“ In sympathy with the direction of our Sa
vour—‘Feed my lambs’—we suppose to feed
the lambs of Kansas—to feed them with bread
and with powder too, to protect them against
the wolves of Missouri.”
“Gunpowder for lambs,” is rather strong
diet. According to Beecher, Christ, when he
said, ‘go preach the gospel to every creature,’
meant ‘go shoot it at every creature,’ and
now Winslow says “feed my lambs,” means
to give them powder! When shall we have
Beecher’s and Winlow’s commentaries on the
Sacred Scriptures ? Clarke and Henry will
soon be obsolete.
Fine Opportunity for a Lady of Education.
The Cologne Gazetto publishes the follow
ing singular advertisement of old Baron Von
Haliberg, residing at the Castle of Hermanns
drof near Landshut:
“My two lady readers have left me, in or
der to go to town in search of a lover, of
which they have been deprived in my old cas
tle. 1 now desire to find a young lady of good
education aud well acquainted with French
and English. Her only occupation will be to
read to mo in a loud voice, which will enable
her to perfect herself in these languages. The
salary will be four hundred florins a year. If
she aiso speaks Italian, she will receive one
hundred florins more. Besides this, she will
enjoy a good plain table, and three times a
day, strong Mocha Coffee, but without sugar,
for that spoils coffee. Married women or old
maids need not apply. I make no distinction
between Jews andChristians. I must observe,
further, that my servants eat at the same ta
ble with me, since all men have the same
rights.”
A Two-Headed Child.
The birth of a child with lwo heads has cre
ated much gossip during the last few days in
the locality of Temple street, Bristol, and, in
deed, wherever the intelligence of the arrival
of this curious little stranger has reached.
The mother is the wife of Mr. Dock, baker
120, Temple street, and the child, a boy, is
living, and was a fortnight old on the Bth inst.
The ordinary head of the child is of the na
tural size, and has a really beautiful face; the
superfluous head projects from the right side
of it, and is about the size of a man’s fist. The
child has four eyes, four ears, and two mouths,
but there is no chin to the smaller head; the
mouth is deformed, and the eyes have become
useless; they have lost their lustre, and are
falling out of their sockets. There is an in
ternal connection between the two heads, for
when one mouth works, the other works;
when it cries, the sound issues from both;
and when the child is fed, the second mouth
moves as if craving food, and we believe it
may be fed at either. Up to the present time
the child has thriven, and the faculty are di
vided as to its prospect of existence, some
holding that it may live about a fortnight
longer, while others seem to see no reason why
its days may not be prolonged to the natural
term of man’s life. —Bristol Mirror.
Valuable Diamond.
The Lake Superior Journal notices the find
ing of a diamond that would measure tbvoc
fnnrtbo of an iuoii in length and at least, one
fourth of inch in thickness. It is a regular
formed octagon, and all who have seen it, pro
nounce it a diamond, but at what exact value
is yet uncertain, it being in the rough state.
It cuts glass like a knife, and shows all the
brilliancy of a diamond of the first water,
which, if it should prove to be, will make its
value not less than two thousand dollars. The
diamond was found by tho wife of Mr. Alfred
llauffman, while walking on the shore of tho
Lake. The waves washed it up, and on re
ceding left it exposed to the rays of tho sun,
when its brightness attracted her attention,
and she picked it up.
. Something Wonderful.
The wife of Asbury Rush, residing near
this place, was, on the night of the 18th inst.,
while in bed, bitten by a small rattlesnake.
Mrs. R. had, for some reason, placed the bed
upon the floor. A short time after lying
down, she felt a stinging sensation in the palm
of one hand, and the pain becoming intense,
she got up and obtained a light to search for
the cause. On removing the cover she there
discovered a rattlesnake about 18 inches in
length, with one “ button” but no “rattle.”
Tho snake was evidently of the large species,
but youug.
Various remedies were tried, hut none gave
relief until the yolk of an egg and fine salt,
beat together of sufficient consistency for a
poultice, were bound upon the wound—this
gave immediate relief.— Rome Courier.
Application for Bail.
A motion was made on Thursday the 24th
July, at this place, before his Honor, Judge
Glover, to admit to bail, Messrs. Edmund Mar
tin, A. M. Martin, E. H. Martin and John Mar
tin of St. Peter’s Parish, charged with the
murder of one Jesse W. Peeples at Lawton
ville on the 2d July. The case made out by
the affidavits submitted, certainly did not con
stitute the crime of murder, and the Messrs.
Martins were admitted to bail in the sum of
so,ooo. Mr. R. J. Davant appeared in be
half of the prisoners, and the Slate was re
presented by Mr. Youmans.— Orangeburg
Southron.
Prof. Mell of Penfield, has been elected
President of the Cherokee Baptist Male Col
lege, located at Cassville.
A Funny Message.
Telegraph operators occasionally have some
rather singular messages brought to them for
transmission. The following is a copy of one
handed into the Telegraph Offiice in Utica to
be forwarded:
“To
Third Epistle of John, 13 and 14 verses.
Signed- ”
By referring to the text, it will be seen that
there is quite a respectable letter contained in
the verses designated, and a small amount of
money saved, viz:
“I had many things to write, but 1 will not
with ink and pen write to thee.
“But trust I shall see thee, and we shall speak
face to face. Peace be to thee. Our friends
salute thee. Greet the friends by name.”—3d
John, 13th and 14th.
GENERAL ITEMS.
There has arrived at Memphis. Tennessee,
3,300 bars Railroad iron for the Mississippi
and Tennessee Railroad.
For six mouths ending June 20th, Ameri
can cotton to the amount of 30,410 bales was
imported into Italy.
We learn from the Seventh Aunual An
nouncement, of the Female Medical college of
Pennsylvania that there are now about 36 stu
dents in that Institution.
Mr. Collum, the Clerk of the House of Rep
resentatives of Congress, recently dismissed
one of his clerks for attending a Fremont meet
ing.
There were ojily six deaths in Savannah dur
ing the week ending Wednesday last, and of
these three were infants under two years of
age, and one still-born. The Sexton thinks of
retiring from business.
In the New York Herald of the 29tkult., we
read that Ole Bull has given SSOO towards es
tablishing a new r German Fremont paper iu
Wisconsin, lie is to take the stump for Fre
mont through that State.
The United States Senate lias refused by a
vote of 14 to 28, to order the engrossment of
the bill appropriating $75,000 to testthe prac
ticability and usefulness of Richardson’s At
mospheric Telegraph.
The latest rumors from Washington are to
the effect that Great Britain will ere long send
out a Minister to supply the place of Mr.
Cramptou. Lord Howden (formerly Ambassa
dor to Madrid) is mentioned.
The fund raised for the benefit of the family
of the late James King, of San Francisco, is
said to amount to $25,000; S3OOO of which has
been subscribed in Sacramento.
Three of the children of Mr. Clark, who re
sides upon the route of the plank road from
Jersey City to Bergen Point, were sun struck
on Sunday, and two of them died.
A meeting to “ sympathize” with Senator
Sumner has been held at Bridgewater, Eng
land. Resolutions were adopted expressing
deep indignation for the assault upon tlie. Sen
ator, and sympathy “with all the noble men
who are combating against slavery in the Uni
ted States.”
A lady in Cincinnati, Ohio, was recently dis
covered pocketing a package of gloves, while
making some purchases, accused of the theft,
and with tears handed out a S2O bill to pay
for the stolen package. The merchant took
out $5 10, and gave her the change. Subse
quently he discovered that the S2O bill was a
counterfeit.
The St. Louis Republican is authorized to
offer the following bet on the next Presiden
tial election : $2,500 worth of property (which
is improved and within the city limits) against
SI,OOO, that Fillmore will not get the follow
ing States : Louisiana, Kentucky and Tennes
see. The bet to be entire, and play or pay.
Nearly two thousand children, pupils in the
public schools of Washington, assembled on
Monday morning in the Capitol Grounds, where
various interesting exercises were engaged in,
interspersed with addresses and music. Presi
dent Pierce was present and distributed the
premiums.
The Dove, during her trip down Kentucky
river last week, when near Marion, Ky., was
invaded by clouds of flies, which literally cov
ered the boat all over. They are the species
known as the lake fly, with their bodies and
wings about an inch in length. They covered
the boiler deck to the depth of a foot or more.
The cabin was filled, and they had to be swept
to the guard and then shoveled overboard.
The New York Herald’s Washington corres
pondent states that the President and Con
gressional party that visited the steam ship
Vanderbilt by invitation on Saturday, were
treated rather cavalierly by Commodore Van
derbilt. Tho anticipated feast was not forth
coming, nor was there a single bottle of cham
pagne cracked to enliven the occasion.
The machinery invented by Mr. Wilson, of
Springfield, Mass., fortunnelling through hard
rocks, consists of a continuously revolving
wheel, provided with circular rolling discs or
cutters, regulated so that their axes stand al
ternately in opposite directions, nearly at an
angle of 45 degrees with the shaft of the cutter
wheel, thus continually cutting away the sub
stance acted upon.
Intense and sudden excitement, often renew
ed, produces a habit of increased action, flow
of blood to the brain, so as to involve inflam
mation of that organ, sometimes temporary
aud sometimes chronic. If this is permitted
to go on for years, a little stronger each time,
there will finally be a settled disordered action
of some portion of that great nervous centre,
and insanity results.
The llev. Mr. Devitt, the pastor of one of
the Catholic churches of Philadelphia, recent
ly got married to a wealthy young lady, a
member of his church. He has been treasur
er of a Catholic temperance society, and bank
er for a great many people, who confided their
all to his safe keeping. He has absquatula
ted, and the consequence is that a most terri
ble rumpus has been kicked up.
W. N. llaldeman, Esq., the editor of the
Louisville Courier, was attacked on Thursday
last, on the street, by a man named Elias R.
Hall. Hall struck him with a large hickory
stick before be was aware that an attack was
meditated. Mr. Haldeman warded off the
blow, and knocked Hall down with his fist.
When he fell on the pavement, a pistol drop
ped from his pocket. Mr. Haldeman wrested
the stick from him, when Hall jumped to his
feet and fled down the street.
The Homer Advocate, published in Claiborno
Parish, La., states that Eber 8. Hamilton was
shot dead by Win. F. Allen, on the 12th July,
about two miles from that place. The two
men had been drinking together previously,
when Allen went home and seized his gun say
ing he was determined to kill Hamilton. On
his return he shouted till Hamilton came forth
from his house and then he killed him and
made good his escape.
Kit Carson, says the Missouri Democrat,
who knows Fremont better than any living
man, and who led him through the difficult
passes, by which Fremont acquired his repu
tation, is not for him. He thinks Fremont is
acting too much ou borrowed or stolen noto
riety. Kit is the smarter of the two, and de
serves more at the hands of the country ; and
we have no doubt, if lie bad been lucky enough
to have allied himself with some prominent
family, he would this day have been far ahead
of the woolly-horse candidate.
President Polk, like Washington, Madison
and Jackson, had no children. On a certain
occasion, Mr. Isaac E. Morse, member of Con
gress from Louisiana, called at the White
House, where he was a great favorite. “ Mr.
Morse,” said President Polk, “ I have just re
ceived a letter from the British prince, inform
ing me of the birth of another prince.” “And
may I inquire,” replied Mr. Morse, “ when
your Excellency intends to return the compli
ment?”
For the Daily Sun.
FRIENDSHIP.
Oh Friendship! cordial of the human heart!
So little felt, so fervently express'd”
Tuy blossoms dock our unsuspecting years :
The promise of delicious fruit appears.
We hug the hope of constancy and truth,
Such is the folly of our dreaming youth :
But soon, alas! detect the rash mistake,
That sanguine inexperience loves to tnako;
Aud view with tears the expected harvest lost.
Decayed by time or withered by a frost.
Whoever undertakes a friend’s great part,
Should he renew’d in nature, pure in heart,
Prepared for martyrdom, and strong to prove
A thousand ways, the force of genuine love,
lie may be call'd to give up health and gain.
To exchange content for trouble, ease lor pain,
To echo sigh for sigh, and groan for groan,
And wet his cheek with sorrows not his own.
The heart of man, for sucli a task too frail,
When most relied on is most sure to fail ;
And, summon'd to partake its fellow’s woe,
Starts from its office like a broken bow.
Votaries of business and of pleasure prove
Faithless alike in friendship and in love:
Retired from all the pleasures of the gay.
Aud all the crowds that bustie life away.
To scenes where competition, envy, strife,
Beget no thunder-clouds to trouble life.
Let me the charge of soino good angel find,
One who has known, and lias escaped mankind:
Polite, yet virtuous, who has brought away
The manners, not the morals of the day:
With him, perhaps with her (for 1 have known
No firmer friendship than my sex have shown)
Let me enjoy, in some unthought of spot,
All former friends forgiven and forgot;
Down to the close of life’s fast-fading scene,
Union of hearts without a flaw between.
‘Tis grace, ’tis bounty, and it calls for praise,
if God givo health, that sunshine of our days :
And if he add. a blessing shared by few,
Content of heart, more praises still are due
But if lie grant a friend, that boon possess'd,
Indeed is treasure, and crowns all the rest;
And giving one—whose heart is in the skies.
Born from above and made divinely wise—
lie gives what bankrupt nature never can,
Whose noblest coin is light and brittle man :
(fold, purer far than Oplier ever knew,
A soul, an image of himself, and therefore true.
Virginia Mord.unt
The Agitator.
The dreadful condition of the Northern slave
ry agitators has suggested to the Jersey Tele
graph the following mode of relief:
“Wanted—Some half dozen smooth faced
Amindab Sleeks to station themselves some
where on the Missouri line, to manufacture
‘border ruffian outrages,’ of the steepest kind,
for down east consumption. Full employment
given until November 4, 1855.
“P. S.—Political preachers preferred who
are accustomed to ‘shrieking for freedom’ and
‘bleeding Kansas’ in the sacred desk on the
Sabbath.”
Passing Counterfeit Money.
An indivdual calling his name James P,
Phillips alias James Coffman, was arrested in
this city on Monday night last for passing a
fifty dollar counterfeit bill on the State Bank
of Georgia. The bill we understand, is well
executed and calculated to deceive even good
judges. He had also, at the time of his arrest,
a fifty dollar hill on the Marine and Fire In
surance Bank, Savnnah, and a hundred dollar
bill on the Bank of Hamburg, S. C., both coun
terfeit, but very well executed. This should be a
warning to the public to be on the lookout for
all such speculating gentleman. We under
stand this fellow hails from Blunt County, Al
aj§ ma. —Rome Advertiser 31sf.
Congressional Duels.
There have been but twenty five Congress
ional challenges to fight duels since the organ
ization of the first Congress, and the greater
number of these originated in quarrels, which,
though political, had no reference to matters
which occurred in Congress. The last duel
is the most remai'kable of all. Brooks fired,
before his time, a red hot card at Burlin
game. Burlingame follows in a double bar
relled shot from himself and Mr. Campbell,
through the columns of the Intelligencer.—
Both parties then agree not to have anything
further to do with each othei’, and this is the
end of the affair.
A Singular Coincidence.
We visited, a few days since, a spot rendered
somewhat memorable as having been the scene
of a duel between two of Kentucky’s chival
rous sons. The position of the duellists, about
eight paces, was marked by two trees, one
of which bears the initials of one of the par
ty’s entire name cut into the bark, the other
bears only the initial of the last name of the
other party. The tree under which the party
stood who was killed is dead, having as we are
credibly informed, gradually decayed from the
time. The other tree is singularly typical of
the condition of the surviving party, who is
now an inmate of a lunatie asylum, standing,
as it does, with the lower branches full of life
and verdure, while its top is dead and leafless .
Strange thoughts crowded our minds as we
stood and gazed upon these unfortunate wit
nesses to an unfortunate deed. —Georgetown l>
C. Journal.
Murder in East Mississippi.
The Marion (Miss.) American learns that a
foul murder was committed in Leake county
in that State on the sth instant. George
Tilly, killed an orphan lad of only ten or elev
en years of age, on very slight provoction
and without warning. Tho villain, who has
fled, is thus described : “ Tilly is about 30
years of age, 0 feet high, red hair, and red
conplexion, with young whiskers when he left,
small black eye, high cheek bones—he has.
double eye teeth or tusks, has rather a surly
look unless spoken to, he then has a pert look
and generally puts on a smile.
Selma Light Guards.
This is name of a Military company,
which has recently been organized in our city
The company met ou Monday night, and elect
ed the following officers: F. M. Holloway, Cap
tain. Dr. J. Kent, Ist Lieutenant, W. M-
Ford, 2d Lieutenant, A. Boble, 3d Lieutenant.
R. Hagood, 4th Lieutenant, W. H. Burr, I st
Sergeant. —Selma Reporter.
CAMPAIGN DOCUMENTS.
By the first of August, we shall issue a eampate ll
document—about the size of tho ordinary weekly pare”
in the State —filled with matter of deep interest to
persons who feel interested in the present campaign.”
It will contain—
Buchanan's 4th of July Oration, denouncing the
and the Madison Administration ; his Speeches and Lei
ters on the Slavery Question, showing him to have been
always opposed to the extension of slavery, and in favo 1
of the principles of the M’ilmot Proviso or Squatter Sov
ereignty ; his Ostcnd Circular, proving him a Filibuster
ready to rob Spain of her territory ; and his Letter of
Aooeptance. Also, Mr. Fillmore's Letter of Aceeptam”
and his late Speeches, together with numerous other
documents of great public interest, -Price, Thr£ £
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
CHRONICLE A SENTINEL,
July 26 2t Augusta, Ga.
SCRUGGS, DRAKE A CO,
Factors and Commission Merchants
CHARLESTON, 8. C.