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COLUMBUS:
Saturday Morning, Auguat 0, 1056.
largest city circulation.
We learn that Judgo Ulyses Lewie, apromi
nent citizen of Russell co., Ala., died at his
residence yesterday. The funeral will take
place at half past eight o’clock, athis late resi
dence, and his burial in this city at ten.
Sons of Temperance.
We again remind the “Sons” of their meet
ing to be held this evening. It is desired to
have a full attendance.
Mechanics* Union.
This Association held their regular meeting
on Thursday night last, and was well attend
ed.
The following persons were elected by bal
lot: Messrs. Louis Harmond, Aug. A. Dill,
Burwell Murphy, Thomas Stewart, F. M.
Gray, M. F. McEvoy and Wiley Williams.
A good deal of business was transacted, but
uothing of suflicient general interest to require
reporting.
Prof. Darby had not been heard from, the
President stated, but a letter was daily expect
ed, and so soon as received, a time for his lec
ture will be fixed.
Prof. Darby is a very able and practical
man. We have heard one of his lectures—on
the Resources of Georgia—and judging there
from, can promise our citizens an intellectual
repast of no common order.
Alabama Elections.
In Mobile county, for Tax Collector, Henry
Turner, K. N., beat John B. Tisdale, Demo
crat, 889 votes.
In Lowndes county, the Democrats elected
the Sheriff, and the K. Ns. the Tax Collector.
In Tallapoosa county, the Democrats elected
the Sheriff, by a diminished majority.
In Chambers county, the K. Ns. re-elected
Muse Clerk Circuit Court, by 65 majority.
In Barbour county, Col. J. C. McNab, Dem
ocrat, is re-elected Circuit Clerk, by a large
majority, and Wm. McCormick, (claimed by
the Eufaula Native, to be a Fillmoro Whig,)
is elected Tax Collector.
In Talladega county, H. P. Oden, Demo
crat, is elected Sheriff by 82 votes; Driver,
Democrat, is elected Tax Collector, as also the
entire Democratic ticket for County Commis
sioners.
In Madison county, Robert S. Spragins, is
re-elected Circuit Clerk, and James H. Poor
Tax Collector. Both democrats.
The Mobile Tribune learns by a private let
ter received thero that an affray occurred a
few days since in Washington county between
Dr.’ W. A. Williams, formerly of Mobile, and
a man by the name of Sullivan, in which the
latter was killed and the former badly wound
ed in the leg.
• Messrs. Bocock and Lane as friends of Mr.
Brooks, have published a card in reply to Bur
lingame’s manifesto. The mails being still
behind, we have not yet received the document
in question. A correspondent of the South
Side Democrat says Mr. Burlingame’s return
to Washington is “anxiously” looked for—an
intimation that he is possibly “ screwing him
self up” to the fighting pitch.
Satisfying.
Among the curiosities of duelling, a very
noticeable one is the satisfying effect of an ex
change of shots. We do not understand it
It is a mystery and a marvel. It may be,
should we ever have tho ill luck to partake of
coffee and gunpowder, that it will be no longer
a mystery.
Hon. Wm. L. Yancey, of Alabama, one of
the Democratic Electors for the State at large,
is announced in yesterday’s Times, to address
the people of Columbus, on political topics,
Tuesday evening next, at Temperance Hall.—
Mr. Yancy is a fine stump speaker and will
doubtless make the occasion one of much in
terest to all who like superior oratory.
Suicides.
The mania for suicide in the United States
recently, has reached a fearful height, and if
it increases at tho samo rate for a few years,
will make America, the equal of France. An
exchange has the following hit at the frivolous
reasons which have induoed many suicides
lately:
A young goutleman out west committed sui
cide in a novel manner last week. He ate a
pint of dried apples, and then drank water un
til he bursted. The rash act was caused by
his father forbidding him to grease his mous
tache with tho butter knife.
The Woolly Horse.
Everybody has heard of the woolly horse, on
which Col. Fremont is running for the Presi
dency; but it isn’t everybody that knows ex
actly what kind of animal it is. We therefore
reproduce from tut old New York paper the
following advertisement, announcing tho horse
for exhibition ; and may add that the descrip
tion is a faithful daguerreotype of the party
who are supporting the great Pathfinder, and
Mariposa millionare:
COI,. FREMONT’S NONDESCRIPT, OK WOOLLY
HOUSE 1
Will be exhibited for n few days, at the cor
ner of Broadwa; and Reade street, previous
to his departure for London.
Nature seems to have exhausted all her in
genuity in the production of this Astonishing
Animal. He is extremely complex, made up
of the
Elephant . Deer, Horse, Buffalo, Camel and
Sheep!
Is of the full size of the Horse,
HAS THE lIAUNCHKB OF A DKKK, THE TAIL Or
AN ELEPHANT,
A fine curled wool of camel’s hair color, and
easily bounds twelve or fifteen feet high ! Na
turalists and trappers assured
COL. FREMONT
that it was never known previous to his dis
covery. It is undoubtedly “ Nature’s Last,”
and the richest specimen ever received from
California.
To be seen every day this week.
Admittance 25 cents; children half price.
Men in whom the imagination predominates
are apt to convert facts into fictions, and live j
in a world of their own creation.
An Economical Government.
One of the most attractive planks, and one
of the oldest in the Democratic platform, was
an “economical” government. The party
have always avowed uncompromising hostility
to internal improvements by the general gov
ernment. Mr. Clay’s opinions on this subject
had more to do with his defeat in the l’resi- 1
dential race than any thing else ; and the De
mocracy used him roughly because of those [
opinions. Nevertheless if we but look at the |
proceedings of Congress we find a Democratic
Senate appropriating millions for the improve- |
ment cf harbors, rivers and roads ; this too,
over the head of the President who has endea
vored by veto to arrest the silvery tide. We
are glad to notice the Charleston Mercury
condemning these appropriations and severely
lashing itj party for their inconsistency and
gross departure from their professed creed.
Col. Benton too has been growling after his
characteristic fashion, about the enormous ex
penditures of the general government in 1855,
—575,000,000, which he estimates to be equal
to a tux of S2O per head, on every voter, na
tive and naturalized in the United States. The
cry is still for more. Members of Congress
are wanting “more:” Mr. Tyson, of Phila
delphia, has reported a bill in Congress to
allow Custom House Inspectors four instead
of three dollars per day, commencing from the
first of July 1866. Upon this last bill the Bal
timore Clipper has some very just comments.
It says that the Inspectors, if reduced in num
ber one half, could do all the work required ;
that not half of them work an hour daily,
which we believe to ba scrupulously true ;
that the Printers of the United States would
act as Inspectors, and be glad of the chance
for sls per week ; and do it better than it is
now done ; and lastly, that the money paid to
Custom House loungers would be better spent
on hard working, over worked post office
clerks; all of which we endorse.
A Mayor Stalled!
Yesterday morning, we noticed the worthy
Chief of our City, sitting behind a gray horse,
that had made up his mind not to go. A va
riety of arguments were used with him; his
check-rein was lowered, his collar loosened, the
harness altered here and there by a friend,
George Gullen, of universal fame, who also
put in an occasional emphatic slap upon the
back; but all to no purpose for a long time
The Mayor meanwhile, was as cool as the Arc
tic ice house. Not a word came from his lips
—not a frown upon his brow —not a lash from
his whip. At last and at last, the gray chang
ed his mind, and the last we saw of him, he
was going down street at a nimble hand gal
lop. Now for the nioral—the man who can
sit patiently behind a horse in the “stulks,”
evinces admirable qualities for the administra
tion of government.
A dispatch to the Times and Sentinel dated
Augusta, Aug. 7th, states that Kentucky had
gone for the Democrats by thousands. Six,
out of the eight Judges elected, are Buchanan
men.
From Texas.
Mr. William Hill, a resident of Wilcox co.,
Ala., arrived in our city on last Wednesday
week, and immediately took his bed, stating
that he had had diarrhoea for three or four
days before. Medical aid was called in, but
Mr. Hill expired on Friday evening. Every
attention was rendered the deceased by the
gentlemanly proprietor of the Fannin House,
Mr. Dyer.
In his pockets were found a draft on New
Orleans for $1,400, and aletter of introduction
to Messrs. Briggs & Yard, of Galveston. He
has a family in Wilcox, and, we believe, some
relations in Texas.
The lamentable details of one horrid murder
are scarcely recited before the public are
shocked with the recurrence of another still
more harrowing. On last Wednesday, a Mr.
Perry, as we are informed, rode up to where
Mr. Moore was putting up his fence and shot
him down as if lie had been a dog. Mr. Moore
was a wealthy and highly esteemed citizen of
Colorado county. We did not learn whether
Perry was arrestod, but presume he was not.
—Houston (Texas) Telegraph.
A Bloody Tragedy.
A most unfortunate affair took place on
Wednesday last, near this place, which result
ed in the death of a man named David Cole,
who was killed by his brother, Isaac Cole. It
seems that ill feeling had subsisted for a long
time between them, growing out of some dis
pute in regard to the settlement of their Fa
ther’s Estate. The deceased, as we learn, was
a man of intemporate habits. His brother had
said to someone, that David had better be at
homo attending to his business, instead of go
ing to town, to get drunk. This reachod the
cars of the deceased, who made his wife write
—he being an illiterate man himself—to Isaac,
telling him if he came by his house again, he
would kill him. It appears that Isaac had
necessarily to goby there, in order to get to a
field of his, and in doing so, was attacked by
David, who was armed with a piatol. After
being stricken several times, Isaac, who was
carrying a gun, shot him twice, killing him in
stantly. These are the circumstances ns they
have reached us.— Tuscaloosa Observer Ith.
Immense Map.
The New York Tribune states that there has
been on exhibition in the Merchant’s Ex
change of that city, a map, on the scale of six
inches to a degree, which embraces tho whole
of North America from the south side of Hud
son’s Bay to the mouth of the Rio Grande. It |
measures about thirty by seventeen feet. The
outlines of the coast are from the Coast Survey !
charts. The Rocky Mountains and all western
portions contain much information not shown
on any of the smaller maps. It is designed
particularly to illustrate the railroads, for the
benefit of foreigner capitalists whose ignorance j
of the country operates much to embarrass i
their investing in American railway securities. |
It has been made wi.h the pen alone, and will ‘
remain for permanent exhibition probably in
London.
Feathering his own Heat.
Lnne, the Kausas patriot, is feathering his :
nest finely from the contributions of the aid 1
men in this State. He refuses to pay his men, I
intending, no doubt, to keep the means for his
own use when he gets into the Territory. He
has lately had a difficulty among some of his
men, who gave him a severe flogging. A few
such whippings might do him some good, if he
is not too far gone for any influence to reach ;
him. Our men here should call a meeting im
mediately and send on a fresh supply of means ‘
to this self sacrificing patriot and philanthro- 1
pist! Shall we have a call l—Bloomington j
Flag.
From the Portsmouth (Va.) Transcript.
National Expenditure—A Gloomy and
Warning Picture.
A Washington correspondent of the Alexan
dria Sentinel, [democratic] thus speaks of the
Treasury fleecing which a very democratic
Senate has inaugurated during the present
session:
“ That your readers may understand some
thing of the enormous expenditures proposed
under the plan of internal improvement intro
duced into the Senate during the present ses
sion, and reported on favorably, in every case j
by the Committee on Commerce, I will state
that fifty six bills, of a purely local character,
have been introduced, involving an appropria
tion of two millions six hundred and seventy
eight thousand eighty five dollars and sixty
five cents!! Six bills of a general character,
calling for an appropriation of $360,000, have
also been introduced, making a total of 62
bills, and appropriating $3,038,085 05 !!!
The floodgates of the Treasury have been rais
ed and in defiance of the warning and opposi
tion of the Senators and Representatives from
Virginia and others, a system has been inau
gurated that will deplete the Treasury of its
last dollar.”
This action of the Senate, with its a demo
cratic majority, stands out in strange con
trast with the opposition which, until now,
the same party, as a unit have displayed
against any system of internal improvement
by tho Federal government, if we except the
convenient doctrine which admitted that works
of national importance might receive such aid.
But, with the other corruptions which have
crept into the party, we have now a practical
repudiation of this fundamental idea in the
democratic creed, and renounced by the chief
men of the party as unequivocally as the old
Whig party have surrendered their opinion as
to the necessity or expediency of a national
bank. But there is this difference: the expe
riments of the latter were harmless, while no
one can possibly foresee the results which the
former may produce. Already the expendi
tures of government have reached a startling
amount—
-572,684,400 a year!
$6,307,200 a month!!!
$1,452,920 a week!!! !
$207,660 a day ! ! ! ! !
$8,600 an hour !!!!!!
$144 a minute !!!!!!!
and this previous to the schemes which are
now matured for the depletion of the Treasury,
and which, once fully recognized, cannot fail
of bankrupting the nation. The blindness of
party will not, we believe, induce the people,
in whose hands is the sovereign power to ap
ply the corrective, to close their eyes to the
peril in which this action of the Senate places
the finances of the country. We are glad to
see that the Virginia Senators opposed this in
fringement of a sound and safe principle, and
we cannot think otherwise than that the coun
try at large will condemn the Senate’s action.
If, instead of senseless and exciting politi
cal discussions, we had working in Congress,
it would be better for the peace and interest
of the country. We need retrenchment in eve
ry department of tho government as well as
reform, we care not by which political organ
ization it is effected, and we trust that it will
soon be commenced. In place of scheming
partizans and sectionalists, we want in the
halls of legislation men who are loyal to the
Union and the constitution, and who, looking
beyond mere party or local approbation, will
deal exterminating blows at the corruptions
and abuses which are now so conspicuous in
the government. Until the people abandon the
bad policy of sending huckstering politicians
to the Senate and House of Representatives—
men who are as unprincipled as they are in
competent—we must expect to see all profita
ble legislation neglected, corruption increased
and the Union even less stable thanitis at this
moment, when faction is everywhere display
ing its hideous head and bringing the national
character into disrepute among the nations of
Christendom.
Bnrning of the St. John.
We aro pleased to hear that an investigation
is on foot that is likely to result in the discov
ery of the incendiaries who fired the steamer
St. Johns, at Jacksonville, some ten days ago,
and probably the perpetrators of a similar out
rage on the Seminole at the same place.
A rumor of the destruction of the St. Johns
by fire, having been in circulation in this city
some days previous to the receipt of any au
thentic intelligence of the disaster—indeed,
before it could possibly have reached here—
Sergeant Wilson, of the Mounted Police,
took the matter in hand, and traced it
up to Nat, a colored man employed on board
the St. Johns, but who runaway a day or two
before her last departure from Savannah.
Nat was arrested and carried to jail, and be
ing about to unuergo a threshing, he confessed
that he was present on board the St. Johns at
Jacksonville, when a conversation occurred
between three negres employed on the boat,
in which they stated that they had burned the
Seminole and were going to fire the St. Johns.
It was understood that she was to have been
burned on her previous trip, and as it had not
been done, Nat concluded that they would
carry out their purpose on the return of the
vessel to Jacksonville, and for that reason, he
says, he derserted. He also told Sergeant
Wilson, that if he would go to Jacksonville
and search an out-house in the vicinity be
longing to one of its citizens, (naming him,) he
would find some of the property belonging to
the Seminole.
Under the direction of Messrs. Cloghorn &
Cunningham, Agents of the Florida line of
steamers, Mr. Wilson proceeded to Jackson
ville last week, taking the boy Nat with him.
Upon arriving he took out a warrant, and in
company with several police officers of the
town, searched the said premises, but found
nothing to confirm the statements of the ne
gro. He also nrrested the three negroes above
alluded to, and turned them over to the author
ties. The examination had been progressing
for a day and a half when the Welaka, on
which Mr. Wilson came passenger yesterday,
left Jacksonville, and it was thought from the
testimony that two of the negroes would be
convicted. There was much excitement in tho
town.— Sav. Rep.
Hung.
The boy Bob, says the Clayton (Ala.) Ban.
J ner of the 7th, sentenced to be huug at our
I last Circuit Court on the sixth, and had anew
trial granted by the Supreme Court of Alabama,
was executed in the presence of a very large
j concourse of people without the limits of Clay-
I ton on yesterday. It was rumored in town
| thttt a petition had been gotten up, and Bomo
six or seven hundred citizens of the county
were determined to hang him on the day lie
was sentenced to be hung; the Sheriff made
arrangements to prevent their design, but the
hosts came, and broke open the Jail and took
Bob out and hung him. The citizens of the
town expostulated, but it did no good ; they
were determined to execute him.
. appears by the assessment of property
just made in St. Louis, that taxation is pretty
steep in that city, being two dollars and sixty
cents on one hundred dollars.
TELEGRAPHIC ITEMS.
Editorial Duel. .
Washington, August 6.— A hostile meeting .
took place to-day atßladeusliurgh, near the res
idence of Francis P. Blair, between Mr. 1 ryor, j
of the Richmond Enquirer, and Mr. Ridgway,
of the Whig, in the same city. The distance
was ten paces, weapons, pistols. After an ex- ,
change of shots, the affair was amicably adjust
ed through the intervention of the Hon. 1 res
ton S. Brooks, and of the Hons. H. A. Edmuud
son and John S. Caskie, of Virginia, as mutual
friends.
Miscellaneous.
There has been an accident on the Baltimore
Railroad. Several persons were badly injured.
Several jewelry stores in Providence have
been robbed to the amount of SIO,OOO.
Letters received by the Atlantic, dated W ed
nesday, the day the steamer sailed, report the
market at Liverpool steady with sales for the |
day of 7,000 bales.
The Elections.
Nf.n York, August s.—Partial returns from
the election in Kentucky, report majorities in
favor af the American party.
Later accounts are contradictory. The Dem
ocrats claim the victory.
Benton for Governor of Missouri, was ahead
at last accounts, and is supposed to be elected.
The vote in St. Louis for Benton was 5,139;
for Ewing, 4,053, and for Polk, 2,519. Blair,
Black Republican, is elected to Congress from
St. Louis, beating Kennett by 1000 votes.
Partial returns from lowa state that the Re
publicans are ahead. From Arkansas the re
turns place the Democrats ahead.
Aug. 6.—Duvall, Democrat, elected Judge
in Kentucky by one thousand majority. The
Democrats have majorities in Mason, Newport,
Covington, Nelson, Oldham, Henry, Scott, Ow
en and Benton counties. The Americans have
majorities in Woodford, Glasgow, Shelbyville,
Frankfort, Henderson and Harden counties.—
Lexington elects a Democratic Marshal. The
highest American vote in the city of Lexington
is 2,457. The independent vote, 676.
In lowa the election in Dubuque city and
county has resulted in favor of the Democrats.
Blair’s majority in St. Louis is 800. Ben
ton’s majority in St. Charles county, Missouri,
is 200.
Washington, August 6.—From Davenport,
lowa, we learn that Scott, Muscatine and Ja
cobson counties have given 500 to 650 Repub
lican majority. Desmoines has also give a Re
publican majority. The above are gains; in
deed, the Republicans have carried the State,
as ten counties have given 2000 majority. Da
vis, the Republican candidate for Congress, in
the 2d district, is largely ahead.
Congressional.
Washington, August 6. — From the corres
pondence sent to the Senate yesterday, it ap
pears that Col. Sumner exceeded his instruc
tions in dispersing the legislative assembly of
Kansas, and the President has written him for
explanations. The Senate passed the bills
for the improvement of the harbors of Apalachi
cola and Charleston, Bayou Lafourche, the in
land passages of the St. John’s and St. Mary’s
rivers, Florida; Mobile, Cape Fear and Red
Rivers, Atchafalaya Bay and Red River Fall’s,
and also the bill for the construction of a wag
road to the Pacific. The House passed the
bill granting 1,500,000 acres of land to Missis
sippi for rail road purposes. The House, in
Committee of the Whole, amended the legisla
tive, Executive and Judicial Appropriation Bill,
by providing that no money shall be expended
for the prosecution of the detaining parties for
treason or other political offences in Kansas.
The bill then passed the House as amended, by
30 majority, except Mr. Dunn’s proviso resto
ring the Missouri Compromise. Mr. Keitt was
sworn in to-day.
The Austrian Navy.
Austria is at present making very serious
efforts to increase her navy. The first line of
battle ship (90 guns) which she ever thought
ot professing was put on the stocks at Pola a
few days back, under the name of the Empe
ror, and is to have a screw propeller, with an
800 horse power. Two other ships of the line
of the same dimensions are likewise to be im
mediately commenced, and according to orders
sent from Vienna, are to be urged on as rapid
ly as possible.
Lo! the Poor Niggers.
How much will the sympathy of the Tap
pans, the Garrisons, theGreeleys and such like,
be increased and multiplied for their poor,
starved, colored brethren in the benighted South’
when they learn that in the African Methodist
Church on State street, above Hamilton, on
Sanday last a collection was taken up among
the dark congregation, which amounted to
three hundred and thirty-nine dollars. Such
sum, freely contributed by “the poor negroes,”
shows how badly the race is used by the bad
Southerners. —Mobile News, sth.
Water is getting frightfully scarce in New
York. On Saturday the Croton Aqueduct
Board sent in a communication to the Commis
sioners of Health, informing that body that the
Croton Water must not be used to clean the
streets. No water has crossed the Croton dam
for a period of nine days, they say, and what is
more, the water in the darn itself is falling at
tho rate of an inch and a half a day.
At a very learned discussion on stratas the
other day, at the house of the learned profes
sor, a Mr. B ,of this city, asked if there
were any strata of precious gems. “No,
none whatever,” replied Professor Agassiz!
“Ive heard of one,” Mr. B . ‘‘lmpossi
ble!” was the rejoinder. “Oh, yes,” said
B , and it was called a strata-gem! ”
If you don’t wont to be bothered with cus
tomers, don’t advertise. When every one
knows what you have for sale, it is more than
likely that you will have many calls, for arti
cles in your line. But if your keep your mat
ters close, and r.one but your particular
friends and regular customers know the ex
tent and quality of your stock, you will be
sure not to be crowded.
Lord Hardinge, the Commander-in-Chief,
when he went down to Aldershot to attend
the previous review there. *as struck by par
alysis, and now lies in a very precarious state.
His Lordship is old, and this attack was a
pretty distinct intimation that his days of so
journ on this planet are drawing to a close.
He has, therefore, resigned, and the Queen’s
cousin, the Duke of Cambridge, has been ap
pointed to succeed him.
We beg to state that the proverb “Lightly !
come, lightly go,” does not apply to the gout,
nor to one’s mother-in-law, nor to the rheuma- !
tism, nor to freckles, nor to a light sovereign; i
for all these plagues come lightly enough, and I
yet there is the greatest difficulty sometimes in
getting them to go.
Mr. Heald, the young English gentleman of
fortune who married Lora Montes shortly af- j
ter her separation from the King of Bavaria,
died at Folkstone. England, last month, of
consumption. |
general items.
, Rufus P. Rowe, of Amelia county, Va., was
robbed of $740 at the Richmond depot in Pe
tersburg, Wednesday evening.
There is a firm in Cincinnati which employs
a capital of ten thousand dollars in the rath
er singular business of preparing sausage
skins for the European markets.
An Irish paper, describing the result of a
duel says; “The one party was wounded in
the chest, and the other fired in the air.”
[This must have been a triangular duel.]
A sturgeon, measuring five feet two inches
in length, jumped on board the quarantine
boat in the harbor of Boston on Thursday
night.
About sixty-five emigrants from South Car
olina, under command of Major Wilkes, passed
through Augusta on Tuesday afternoon, on
their way to Kansas.
AtEdgartowu, Mass., recently, a man nam
ed Conner was severely cowhided by Captain
Pease, of the U. 8. revenue service, for an al
leged insult to the Captain’s wife.
Newark, N. J., contains now 58 distinct 1
church organizations, or one to every thous- r
and inhabitants, and therefore may justly be
styled the “The City of Churches.”
Men’s happiness spring mainly from mode
rate troubles, which afford the mind a health
ful stimulus, and are followed by a reaction
which produces a cheerful flow of spirits.
The Boston Post has credit for the last li
quid remedy for baldness, as follows : “Use
brandy externally until the hair grows, then
take it internally to clinch the roots.”
Mr. George M. Waldburg, an old and re
spected citizen of Savannah, died a day or
two ago on his plantation on St. Catliarino’s
Island.
Mr. Andrews, near Onarga, in Iroquois
county, Illinois, has an artesian fountain upon
his premises, from which flows so powerful a
stream that mills are about to be erected
upon it.
Sporting gentleman, newly arrived in Tex
as. “Any game hereabouts, sir ? ” Texan.
“Reckon so, and plenty of ’em. There’s
blufl', poker and euchre, and all fours, and
monte, and jest as many more as you like to
play at.”
The value of the ready made garments sold
by wholesale in the city of New York in 1853,
reached nearly $20,000,000, including men’s
and boys’. The amount sold in the same man
ner in 1841, was onby $2,500,000. The aver
age earnings ol‘ females in sewing on this work
is calculated to be about $4.50 per week.
The Journal de St. Quintin publishes a re
cipe for curing cattle of the fermentation pro
duced in their stomachs from eating clover
and other green food. The remedy is a spoon
ful of ammonia, dissolved in a glass of water
and administered to the animal. The cure, it
states, takes place within an hour.
It is said that Gen. James who accompanied
Mr. Burlington to Canada, is the same renown
ed “gentleman,” though familiarly known as
Charley James, whom Lewis C. Levin, though
only half his size, took into a room in the As
tor House, and after threshing and spitting
upon him, literally kicked down stairs without
resistance. Isn’t he a nice person to act in
an affair of honor?
The Criterion, in a review of our “Lives of
American Merchants,” quotes the maxim of
Peter C. Brooks, one of the objects of that
work, viz : “The whole value of wealth con
sists in the personal independence it secures ;”
—a maxim, says the Criterion, that “deserves
to be placed on every book in which merchau
tile transactions are recorded.”
In the towns of Haverhill, Burton, and
Piermont, N. 11., wolves are quite numerous,
and doing extensive damage to flocks of sheep
and young cattle. One farmer in Haverhill
lost over forty sheep in one night, about two
weeks since. The select men of these towns
have now offered a bonnty of SIOO per bead
for wolves and the State bounty is S2O.
An ignorant, but well-meaning man, having
been placed on the commission of the peace
in a rural district in England, declared, on
taking his seat as a magistrate, “that it
would indeed be his most anxjous endeavor to
do justice without fear, favor, or affection.”
“In short,” said he, emphatically, “I will take
care that on this bench I willnever be either
partial or impartial.”
Saratoga is said to be full. It was estima
ted on Monday week that the number of
stranges in the village was 10,000. But the
southern watering places are gaining on their
competitors at the north. Montvale Springs,
near Knoxville, Tenn., at last accounts, had
three hundred visitors, while most of the Vir
ginia Springs were crowded with company.
The Montreal Post says: As sure as the
destiny of Canada points to an issue, so sure,
if Canada remain united, will that issue be
independence. It must be a question of years,
but it is worth waiting for. It may be a
question involving subordinancy to England
for a time, but the direct tendency of that
country’s legislation is to train us for indepen
dent self-government.
Jonathan Dayton, of Grand Blane, Genesee
county, Michigan, has grown this year some
l’ithusian wheat from seed procured by the
patent office from the island of Ivica, in the
Mediterranean sea, east of the coast of Spain.
The berry is large, weighing 70 lbs. to the
bushel. The spikes are large, bearing an
enormous beard. It is free from insects, and
twenty-four ears, exhibited as a sample,
weighed six ounces.
A Ravenous Alligator.
On Wednesday of this week Josiah Ferris
and Rufeniu Fales, young gentlemen of this
place, started to Long Island, situate about
2 miles distant, for the purpose of fishing.—
They were engaged in this sport, when a
large Alligator arose alongside the boat, and
as quick as thought, dashed ahead, wheeled,
turned on his side, t jyid clasped the bow of
the boat between his jaws. The teeth made
considerable indentures in either side. Find
ing but little could be done in way, the mon
ster gave several vigorous shakes, tearing the
bottom out of the boat and sinking it in four
foot water. As tho boat was disappearing 1
Fales, who was poling at the time, struck
their antagonist over the head, and after secur
ing a foot-hold on the bottom,{repeated his
blows with such rapidity us to confuse the
mode of attack; finally, after manoeuvering for
some time, with mouth extended, the Alligator
made a bold charge upon the young men; as
ho advanced, Fales succeeded in jamming the
pole down his tliroat, arid holding him thus
until Ferris, with a small pocket-knife, was
enabled to wound him so severely as to decide
the contest.
After the victory was won, a cursory view
of their position, forced upon them, apprised
them of the exteme danger to which they were
exposed. In close proximity were five of these
hideous animals, staring at them, as though
determined to make them their prey. The cap
tured one measured 15 feet.— Tampa Peninsu
lar.