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COLUMBUS: Monday Morning) Auguat 4, 1856. LARGEST CITY CIRCULATION. —■ ‘f— ——* —— 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.