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COLTJMBXJS:
Thursday Morning* Auguet l*i 1850.
largest city circulation.
Prof. Darby’s Lecture.
We cull the attention of the Mechanics, and
the citizens generally of Columbus, to the
lecture to-night by Prof. Darby at Temperance
Hall.
Every mechanic in the city should be pres
sent.
See advertisement in another column.
Yellow Fever Charleston.
Two deaths from yellow fever occurred in
the Mariue Hospital at Charleston, and one in
the City, for the forty-eight hours ending 10
o’clock on Monday night.
Attracted by the crowd yesterday, we step
ped in at Messrs. Happoldt & Murray's, where
wo found the object of attraction to be a Hea
ver that had been shot and killed in the Chat*
tahoochee, a short distance above the City
Mills, by Mr. Daily. Tts weight we understand
is 55 pounds.
Two others, wo learn, had been killed at the
same placo a few days previous.
Hon. W. L. Yancey.
This gentlemen addressed a large and atten
tive audience at Temperance Hall on Tuesday
night. The address was able, calm and argu
mentative.
Among many other topics noticed, was the
charge against him of inconsistency in oppos
ing Mr. Duchanan in 1848, apd supporting
him in 185 b. At that time he said Mr. Bu
chanan had not defined himself as to the pow
er of tho people in the territories, to admit or
exclude slavery. But that subsequently Mr.
Buchanan had set himself right, and read from
a letter of Mr. B. to Mr. Sanford of Alabama,
dated August 21st, 1848, to prove his consis
tency now in giving him his support.
The following is the extract read from Mr.
B’s letter :
“In my letter to Berks county of the 25th
August, 1847, I had dd, ‘under the Missouri
Compromise, slavery was forever prohibited
North of tho parallel of 30° 30, and South of
this parallel the question was left to be decided
by the people.’ What people? Undoubtedly
the people of the Territory, assembled in con
vention to form a State Constitution, and ask
admission into the Union ; and not the first ad
ventures, or ‘first comers,’ who might happen
to arrive in tho Territory, assembled in public
meeting.
“ The Joint Resolution for annexing Texas
to the United States, approved March Ist,
1845, answers the question in the following
words: ‘And such States as may bo formed
out of that portion of said Territory lying
South of thirty-six degrees thirty minutes,
North latitude, commonly known as the Mis
souri Compromise, ahull be admitted into the
Union, with or without slavery, as the people
of each State asking .dmission may desire.’
Such was the descriptian of the people to
whom I referred in my Berks county letter.”
Another matter which was news to us—that
the resolutions and platform adopted by the
American Convention at Macon, on the Bth of
July, (at which the Philadelphia platform was
repudiated, and.Mr. Fillmore nominated), and
sent to Mr. F. for acceptance and endorse
ment, had not yet been heard from, though
Mr- Fillmore hnd promptly responded to a
nomination in New York by the American
party of that State, made several weeks after
the adjournment of the Macon Convention.
Occupying the position of a neutral, perhaps
somo will think wo aro rather leaving the track
to give publicity to these revelations. We
give them for what they are worth. If what
is stated about Mr. Fillmore be untrue, let it
bo contradioted and wo will publish the cor
rection.
Rock Island Paper Minus, )
Columbus, Qa. Aug. 12th, 1856. j
T. De Wolf, Esq., Publisher “Daily Sun.”
Dear Sir: —We frequently receive letters
from our patrons, asking why we do not furn
ish them with as good paper as wo furnish
you. Now sir, you get no better paper than
other people. It is all made in the same man
ner, and there is no discrimination in your fa
vor. The entire difference consists in the
Printer. For the benefit of the “craft,” you
will confer a favor upon us, and benefit your
brother chips, by telling us all how you manage
it. Can you? Will you be so generous?
Respectfully,
Mott & Winter, Proprietors.
We hardly know how to answer the above
querry. We dip out; paper in clear water,
from 15 to 20 hours previous to putting it to
print. The paper is printed upon a Iloe Cyl
inder, folded as fast as it falls from tho ma
chine, aud immediately mailed.
Wo are not disposed to believe you have favor
ed the Sun, ou tho contrary, at times, we have
been disposed to think the reverse the case.
We will hero remark, however, that we have
been a paper consumroer for twenty-three
years, Bix of which we havo used the paper of
your mills, and are satisfied that for sound
ness of body, and freedom from lint in print
ing, it has no superior; and our experience
has proved it superior in this respect to any
it ha 9 been our good fortune to test.
Crops in Montgomery County.
Tho Montgomery (Ala.) Mail, of the 12th
instant, says the corn and cotton crops in this
region is unquestionably bad as a general
thing. Occasionally a good crop of both may
be found; but for a good crop matiy bad ones
can be seen. The new cotton which has al
ready found its way to market, is no evidence
that the crop is either an early one or a large
one. Because it is a known fact, that this
new cotton has been gathered from stalks
which have quit growing or bearing, in conse
quence of dry weather, rust, or somo other
disast .’. The late dry weather has done im
mense damuge. And even if rain should now
come, the planters think it will perhaps do ful
ly as much harm as good. Beyond doubt, the
present crop of cotton must fall far short of
the last.
New Cottc- in Hamburg.
A bale of now cotton, the first of the season,
was received on the 11th instant, in Hamburg,
8. C., from Mr. Charles |Hammond’s ‘Snow
Hill’ plantation, and sold to James C. Lark at
fifteen cents.
Fancy Ball.
Tickets have been issued lor a Fanny Ball,
on a magnificent scale, to come oil at the Cha
lybeato Springs, Merrywether county, Ga., on
the evening of the 21st instant.
It is unnecessary to say more to orir young
friends of Columbus.
We published, a few days ago, on the au
thority of tho Alabama Journal, that Mr. Car
penter, one of the F’illmore Electors, had
abandoned the cause of Fillmore. \\ e find the
contradiction in tho letter of Mr. Carpenter,
declining the position ol Elector, from which
we mako a short extract:
I find it will be impossible for me to servo
as Elector for this (4th) district in the ap
proaching campaign, aud 1 thereby tender you
my resignation. lam influenced to this course
by considerations of a personal and private
character alone, and not by any dissatisfaction
towards the party, its principles, or its candi
dates ; 1 feel a lively interest in each and all of
them, and shall cheerfully do all in my power to
promote their success, and regret very much
that circumstances prevent me making tho ef
fort coutempiiited by the Convention in con
ferring upon mo the appointment.
Correspondence of the SavaunaU Iff'.vs.
Washington, Aug. 6. —ln a former letter I
informed you that the Government at Washing
ton expected information from Englaud, that
the Central American difficulty would be amica
bly arranged. By tho late arrival, this is cor
roborated. Great Britain yields on all the
points at issue. The Island of ltuatau and ad
jacent Islands which England had constituted
a colony in the most formal manner, are to be
ceded to Honduras to whom they rightfully
belonged, and the Mosquito Territory is to be
rendered to Nicaragua, who has claimed it all
along, and whose title to tho same has been so
pertinaciously raised by Great Britain against
the arguments of the United States. This is
a great triumph for our country, and for the
Administration. But how lias it been brought
about? Let honor be given to whom it is due.
England has never before been brought to such
a position as regards their country, has never
in our history, yielded in the same manner
and in the same spirit to tho United States.—
The language of her ablest statesmen is chang
ed. Ilow is this? Under the Administration
of President Pierce, this wily and great power
hns been made to understand and feel the
might and spirit of this great Republic. The
giving of Mr. Crampton his passports at the
same time the Government recognized the Ni
caragua Minister showed clearly enough, that
notwithstanding tho threatening language of
the British Ministry and the blustering of the
British press, the people of this country were
resolved to maintain their rights and fulfil
their destiny. This has brought Great Britain
to her unexampled position. Let honor, as I
have said, be given to whom it is due. In
public history this triumph belongs to the Ad
ministration. However, there is a private
history with which the people of the United
States, and your readers of the South espe
cially, ought to be acquainted. The President
of the United States being satisfied of tlie im
proper conduct of the British Minister had
been disposed all along to tender him his pass
ports, and had been disposed to favor the
movement of Americans in Central America,
but from an honest desire to preserve peace,
aud to fulfil our treaty obligations, and from
the conservative pressure of the Secretary of
State, was unwilling to act decisively. He
would have deferred the matter, but certain
of the Southern delegations, and foremost
among them the S. Carolina delegation, before
they went to the Convention at Cincinnati, in
sisted ou decided action from the President.
The President was disposed, hut cautious, and
perhaps somewhat timid, but the democratic
party was decisive. The President, under its
influence, has settled the difficulty and elevat
ed our country in its position among the pow
ers of the world. These facts are duo to the
truth of history, and it is in the vocation of
the independent press to perpetuate them.
The democratic party lias conquered England
in the position she assumed, and has made
peace more certain in the future. The Preet
dent hns dnno woii, we ins party has done
better. England, however, being defeated on
the ground she had takeu, consoles herself in
the fact that the Clayton Bulwer treaty is a
sufficient check upon us. The Times says
that by that treaty wo are effectually barred
from annexation or the exercise of sovereignty
over any party of Central America. Such has
been American diplomacy and want of states
manlike foresight.
The Season.—The Crops.
The Knoxville (Tenn.) Whig, of Saturday,
says:
The patched fields, drooping corn and shade
trees, of the grater portion of East Tennessee,
during a drouth of two months, are mournful
sights to look upon. The crops of Wheat were
line and abuudant, and the crops of Oats
were fair; but tho failuro in the corn crops has
run up. Wheat to one dollor, and there is
now no probability of its selling for less, if
even so low as that. We heva now some in
dication of rain, yet if aboundant showers do
not come, corn, in most parts of Upper East
Tennessee, is beyond all hope of recovery.—
The Wheat and Oats, therefore, will be retain
ed for home consumption.
The Cotton Crop in Dallas.
The cotton crop is suffering immensely from
the drought. The squares and small forms
are dropping oil’, and in many places half
grown boles are dropping off. Should the
drought continue, there is no calculating the
injury that will result to the cotton crop, and
even now without a lute Fall, so far as we can
learn, there will not be more than two thirds
of a crop made in Alabama. We do not re
collect of ever hearing of so poor a prospect
for crops in the State, ns will bo this year.—
Selma Sentinel.
Elisha Hughes, in a letter from Santa Clara,
California, to the Scientific American, gives
the following account of some old ruins re
cently discovered.
“I recently had an opportunity of examin
ing some anciout ruins, lately discovered about
six miles east of Santa Cruz. They were
nearly burried up in a sand hill. I found
twenty-three chimneys with their tops peering
above ground. These chimneys are round,
and vary in diameter from four to twelve
inches. They aro made of sandstone; and
were filled up with loose red sand. The stones
of which they are built are cut circular, ce
mented together. I stnmped on the hill, and
it emitted a hollow sound, indicating vaulted
chnmbers below. A tunnel is now being run
in under the hill; at first it was attempted to ]
sink a deep shaft, but the sand came in too j
fast upon the miners. Who built these struc- |
tures no one can imagine. They appear to be
thousands of years old. A large yellow pine
was grown on the top of the hill. The num
ber of years required for sand to cover up
these houses nnd form the hill, before tho seed
of this large tree germinated, could not be
less than two thousand.”
TELEGRAPHIC ITEMS.
Additional by the Anglo-Saxon.
Quebec, AuSust ‘J.— The accounts from
Spain arc meagre and unreliable in consquence
of the telegraphs and roads being in the hands
of the Government; the intelligence being that
the royal troops had bombarded Saragossa on |
the 24th ult., whereupon the insurgents de
manded aud had obtained au armistice for five
days. It, is reported that O’Donnell and the
Queen had disagreed. Narvaez may succeed
to the Ministry.
The Parliamentary Committee have reported
on tho Sound Dues, but no mode of settlement
was adopted previous to the adjournment of
Parliament, it is said that the government
has taken no steps to replace the dismissed
Consuls in tho United Slates
Privateering.
New York, August 11.— Mr. Marcy’s dis
patch in reply to the French Government on
the subject of tho Four Powers in regard to
Privateering, has been published. It is very
forcible, and states that the President declines
to accede to either of the four declarations,
without an amendment to the first, exempting
the Private property of belligerents from seiz
ure, unless it be contraband, and PTpreshe2 ihe :
opinion that France would be unwise to recede j
to the propositions without such an amend
ment.
The Kansas Prisoners.
Washington, August 11. — It is untrue that
Judge McLean has issued a habeas corpus writ
in the case of the Kansas prisoners.
Factory Explosion.
New York, August 10.—Wilder’s Safe fac
tary at Brooklyn was destroyed by tire yester
day, in consequence of the explosion of a boil
er. Fifteen men were injured, some fatally.
Later from Havana.
New Y'ork, August 10. — Advices from Ha
vana state that the fever was generally preva
lent. Many American Captains had died.
Troops for Nicaragua.
New York, August 9.—The Cahawba, for
San Juan, has taken to Nicaragua troops ancl
ammunition.
Election Returns.
Washington, August 11.—A dispatch from
Little llock, Saturday, says that Conway, the
Democratic Governor, has 3500 majority.—
Warner and Greenwood, Democrats, are elect
ed to Congress. A letter at St. Louis on the
9th states that the contest for Governor, is be
tween Ewing and Polk. The chance of Polk is
thought to be the best
New York Markets.
New York, August 11, 1 P. M.--Flour lias
declined, and State is worth $5.90, and Ohio
$6.40 per bbl. Wheat has declined, and
Southern White commands $1.66 per bushel.
Corn is quotted at 61 cents per bushel.
England and France.
In Parliament the question was asked by
Mr. Murrougli, whether the British Govern
ment was prepared to adopt any and wliat
measures for preventing armed interference by
France, in the affairs of Spain ?
Lord Palmerston replied that there was, at
present, nothing in the internal affairs of
Spain that could in any way lead to the inter
ference of the Frence Government. Upon the
general question of interference, he could only
say that the Emperor of France is a man of
great justice, and he would feel that, in any
case, foreign interference in the affairs of
Spain would be unjust. He was also a man
of great sagacity, and events had shown that
the interference of those sovereigns who had
been led to interpose in the affairs of Spain had
been attended with disaster to themselves;
but there was no reason for apprehending that
the Emperor of the French had such intention.
FRANCE.
The intentions of the French Government
with respect to Spain are the subject of much
conversation in Paris. They say that O’Don
nell proves himself master of the situation,
France can have no occasion to interfere. On
the other hand, if the Liberals gain the day,
and even should the present Queen be required
to abdicate in favor of the Princes of the As
turias, with Espartero Regent, neither would
F’ranee interfere. But Finance would, invade
Spain in oitLoi <>r two cases; firstly, should the
Duchess, Montpensier become next heir and
make pretensions to the throne; or, secondly,
should a Republic proclaimed.
—♦
The National Intelligencer presents a tabular
list of seventy-eight internal improvement bills,
all originated in the Senate, and all of which,
with the exception of three, have passed that
body. The most important of these bills have
already become laws by a vote of two-thirds
in each House. The amouut of appropriation
required to meet tho expense of this system of
internal improvement is as follows:
Total amount appropriated in bills orig-
mating in the Senate $3,135,333
To which add amouut appropriated
in House bill for improvement of
Des Moines Rapids, Upper Mis
sissippi, which bill has passed
both Houses.... $200,000
$3,335,833
From which may be deducted the sum
proposed to be appropriated in the
bills laid on the table or rejected by
the Senate $240,000
Total amount appropriated by bills
that passed the Senate S3,(K 0,333
The Intelligencer states that “ most of the
objects for which appropriations have been voted
were included in the general bill which met the
Presidential veto at the last Congress, and the
friends of the respective measures were eonse
quently compelled to present each item in a
scperate bill, to be tested upon its own merits.
The greater portion of the bills were passed
by votes of twe to one, and the principle hmv
therefore be considered as fully tested before
the present Senate, aud affirmed by that body,
that the General Government possesses author
ity to appropriate money from the Treasury to
works deemed national in their character, us
well as under the clauso granting power ‘to
regulate commerce’ as under the war-making
power. If we may judge of the sentiment of
j the House of Representatives on tho subject
! by its action upon the three bills which have
become laws notwithstanding the Presidential
veto, we may consider the policy as settled, so
far as the thirty-fourth Congress is concerned.”
New Cotton in Montgomery, Ala.
The Mail, of the 9th instant, says: “The
first bale of new cotton came in this morning,
from the plantation of Mr. Holmes, of this
county. South. It was sold at action, by
Messrs. Leo & Norton, and bid off’ at 12i
cents, by Mr. Crane, of the firm of Crane, ‘
Wells & Cos., of Savannah, who happened to
be on the ground, and will be forwarded im
mediately.”
Wendell Philips, the abolitionist, on the 4th,
tells us what tbo slave power is. He Said:
“The slave power is the government. The
merchants of Boston are the slave power, who
want the profits of the government; the man- t
ufactures of New England are the slave pow
er, who want the profits of cotton. It is the
wealth of the country.” |
GENERAL ITEMS.
Charles Sumner has been elector, orator,
and Win. 0, Bryant poet of the Phi Beta Kap
pa, of \ ale College.
Tho ship James Nesmith, of Train’s Liver
pool packet line, cleared Monday, lias one hun
dred steerage passengers, chiefly Irish —also
a cargo valued at $55,000.
“ Love your neighbors as you loveyourself,”
said o parson to an honest member of his llock.
“ The Lord help ’em, then, for 1 hate my
self like pizenever since ijined the Know Noth
ings last fall.”
Tlicro has been no rain in l*c Soto county,
Tennessee, for over seven weeks. All vegeta
tion has parched to such a degree that there
is uot only no prospect for crops, but the cat
tle are suffering for food.
Fremont is already making up his Cabinet.
; George Law is to be Secretary of the Navy ;
Seward Secretary of State: Giddings, of Ohio,
Secretary of the Treasury, and Bennett, of the
Herald, minister to the Court of St. James.
The Cincinnati Gazette says it has been re
quested to say that the statement that Judge
MoLeau intends to support Mr. Fillmore, which
has been extensively copied by the newspapers,
I is incorrect.
William Lloyd, Esq., for many years engag
ed in tho Brokerage business, died last (Sun
day evening, at half past 8 o’clock, at his resi
dence in Charleston. Mr. Lloyd was a native
of Charleston, and in his 52d year.
At the Connnencomant of Oglethorpe Uni
versity, the Degree of Divinity was conferred
on the Rev. James C. Patterson, President of
the Faculty of Griffin Synodical Female Col
lege.
Rev. Nat. Macon Crawford has accepted the
Chair of Theology in the Union University,
Tennessee, and will enter upon tho discharge
of his duties so soon as the unexpired term of
his Presidency at the Mercer University shall
have terminated.
Nine slaves detected in making their escape
from Salem and llectortown, in Fauquier co.,
Va., were arrested last week and lodged in
jail at Warrcnton. The people of Loudoun
and Fauquier arc taking steps to preserve their
property from the arts aud designs of persons
supposed to bo concerned in the matter.
Punch Bays: The day after tho apparation
of the Yankee at her Majesty’s levee, in a black
cravat, the English funds actually declined.
A correspondent draws from the fact, tho fol
lowing moral: The “ties of the two nations
must be extremely loose, when “cravats” can
thus affect the “stocks?”
We learn that, in answer to inquiries from
postmasters as to the ultimate disposition to
be made by them of letters held for postage in
their respective offices, they are instructed to
return them quarterly to the Post Office De
partment, in the same manner as, by its regu
lations, they are required to return advertised
letters.
It is now said that Jenny Lind has netted
£BO,OOO during her farewell London and Pro
vincial season, and that the public in conse
quence of the system of buying up tickets by
the music sellers, must have paid at least
-2200.000 for the privilege of hearing the Swe
dish Nightingale.
Wo learn from the Chicago Journal, of a
late date, that ninety five thousand dollars of
the promises to pay of the Cherokee Insurance
Bank of Dalton, were burned at the office of
the owners, in Chicago, a few days since. The
affairs of the “institution” are being wound
up as speedily as possible.
The Creek delegation have signed a treaty
with the United (States by which they receive
one million of dollars for Alobama land claims,
aud two hundred thousand dollars to be ap
plied to agricultural purposes; the balance
to be divided per capita among the tribe.
The Chicago Journal states that new wheat
is already becoming abundant in that market.
The propeller Evergreen took out 16,000 bush
els prime new white winter for Buffalo, on
Saturday, the 2d inst., and parties have char
tered the propeller Wisconsin, for a cargo ol’
now red for Oswego.
The American and People’s Convention of
Connecticut, have united in the selection of
one Fremont electoral ticket Strong resolu
tions, in favor of freedom in the abstract, and
all the particulars of freedom, including that
essentially free gentleman, Fremont, °were
adopted.
_ We regret to learn the sudden death of Mr.
I'. A. Tuttle, at Huntsville, Ala., on Thursday
last. He was formerly a resident of Augusta,
and for many years connected with rail road
affairs in that citj% as a Civil Engineer. His
health has been impaired for many months,
and he died very suddenly in consequence of
hemorrhage from the lungs.
In England, out of 50,000,000 acres culti
vated, 10,000,000 are sown to wheat or other
cereal crops, while in France 50,000,000 are
cultivated for that purpose. The average
growth of wheat per acre in England is thirty
two bushels, and in France only twelve bush
els, while the produce of English land is about
sixteen dollars per acre, and that of France
eight dollars per acre.
A few weeks ago several individuals arrived
at New Bedford, says the Standard, as sailors
on board of one of our whale ships. They be
! longed to some of the islands in the South Pa
j cific, where human ffesh is considered the best
j eating that can bo procured. On being inter-
I rogated as to which they preferred for a din
: nor, an Englishman or a Frenchman, they
I spoke strongly in favor of the former, for the
| reason that,lie was “more juicy.”
We learn from tho Journal of Commerce that
; the total value of Foreign Goods received at
the port of New York during tho last month is
j $25,716,332, being a larger amount than for
j any previous month in the history of that
j port. The total value of Foreign Goods im-
J ported at New I'orksiuce January Ist, is $49,-
761,865, than for the same time last
! year, and $18,976,516 largerthan for the cor-
I responding seven months of 1854.
! The Washington Union states that Senator
Bayard, of Delaware, addressed a large and
enthusiastic meeting at Dover, in his State,
on the 24th ult., and that in the course of his
: speech he announced that his colleague in the
Senate, Hon. John M. Clayton, would, under
no circumstances, support either Fremont or
Fillmore for the Presidency. The Union states
that this announcement was made witli the en
tire approval of Mr. Clayton.
A most daring and perilous feat was per
formed at Niagara Falls on Sunday week. A
man named P. Jackson actually swam across
Niagara river, between the Falls and Suspen
sion Bridge. This, we believe, is the first time I
the feat was over attempted. It was succoss- i
fully performed in presence of a large number
of spectators. Jackson is employed by tlic
New \ ork Central Railroad company, and has j
established his reputation as an adventurer.
He is the mau who walked the bidder bridge j
from the ice, last winter, to Bird Island, above !
the Falls.
Tribute of Respect.
Company Room, Regular Meeting i
Columbus Fire Company No. 1. ’ (
J. D. Johnson moved that a committee
three be appointed to draw up some resolitti |
expressive of the feelings of tho company
lative to our late fellow member, Mr.
Kyle, which was unanimously adopted :
It is with saddened hearts that we were tip
day, called upon to perform the last sad tr'iC
ute of respect, to our late fellow member, jj.
John Kyle, who was suddenly cut downing
prime of life, on tho morning of the -It], j llv ',’ ‘
without a moments warning. Therefore. p /
solved,
That by the death of our late fellow tnr-.
her, Mr. John Kyle, society has lost one t,f C t
best citizens, and that this company lias
a faithful, valuable, and cherished member
Resolved, That the city papers bo request,
to publish these proceedings, and that a cou
thereof be furnished tho family of the dueei-’
cd.
Resolved. That these proceedings be spry
upon the minutes of the company.
J. D. Johnson, t
J. A. Frazier, l Com.
J. It. Merry, J
<*-
Mr. Marcy’s reply to the communication ,
th 2 French Government presenting the pr 0 ’
positions of the treaty of Paris, relative!
Maritime Law, for the consideration ol’ p
United States, will propose that after the m
position, viz: “Privateering is and remit,,
abolished,” the addition of the followingwor.’
“ And that the private property of the su,
jects or citizens of a belligerent on the Li
seas shall be exempted from seizure by pnliji,
armed vessels of the other belligerents* exi,,
it be contraband.” Thus amended, the Cui*
ted States will adopt it with the other p r j, !t .j
pies contained in the ‘‘Declaration.’ p,
President approves the second, third and
fourth propositions, independently of the Am
should the amendment be unacceptable. Tli
letter will he called for by the Chairman of tl.
Committee on Foreign Relations and submitted
to Congress.
In the Tallahassee Floridian, of Satin (k
2d inst., notice is given that application v{
be made to the General Assembly, of Florid-,
at its next session, for a charter for a Railroad
from Monticello, Florida, to the Georgia lit,: l
in the direction of Thomasville, Ga. Tot. I
called the Monticello and Thomasville Railroad I
company.
Commitment of Supposed Incendiaries s.
at Jacksonville, Fla.
A friend who arrived from Jacksonville, it
the steamer Darlington on Saturday morniuy
furnished us the following information of :L
proceeding had in the case ol’ the negro* 1
having set lire to the steams
St. John, while lying at her wharf in that citj.J
An examination was held in that city on Holi
day and Tuesday, by a Board of Magistrate,
relative to the recent burning of the steamer
St. Johns, which resulted in the commitmct;
of two negroes, Dorsey, the property of Mi
Pappy, of Jacksonville, and Tom, the proper
ty of Mr. Bennett, of St. Augustine. The
evidence introduced for the prosecution nmi
out a strong case of probable guilt against the
prisoners, and disclosed a well arrange;
scheme for the destruction of the boat. The
counsel for the prosecution were Messrs. Coo
per, of Savannah, and Fleming, of Jack . • J
villo ; for the defence, Mr. Livingston, of the
latter place.
As was to have been expected, the people;; |
Jacksonville have been zealous in their effort!
to ferret out the perpetrators of the recrail
acts of incendiarism in their city, and bavin:
obtained a clue to the matter, will not abate
their exertions until they have brought tin
guilty parties to justice.— Sun. News.
Orthoepy.
The Knickerbocker gives a pleasant seen
in the cars of the New York Central Railroad,
lately, between a rather waggish New Yori
Judge and an overfed Joint Bull, who pitch*
into our pronunciation as follows:
“It is most liastonishing, sir, to a Ilinglia
gentleman, to find the pronunciation of tt
Hinglish landwidg so defective in this keutr;
Heven, propaw names, as of our pnr-r-som
pe-laees, and the like, you invariably pri
nounce wrong ; for hexamplc, you mention*
a moment ago, to your friend, speaking of tl
war in the Heast, the Cri-me-ah ; now it is n
tho Cri-me-ah, but the Crim-eah.”
“Ah, well,” said the Judge, “after all, th
name of a place is variously pronounced. H
have just passsed through the lovely viilage
Canandaigua. It is Variously called Canauds
gua, Canandawa, and Canan-da. And so
Onondaga county, upon which we are about:-’
enter. But it is different witli you. It is n
only names of places which you mis-prouounc
In this country wo call a horse a horse, l
you call it ‘ a nors,’ and you think that a ms
who don’t know what a nors is must be
bass! ”
A laugh “like the neighing of all Tuttei
sail’s” at this sally, ran through the cars, M
ouv Hinglishman suddenly “dried up,” an
never opened his lips until the train arrive!
latent night, at Albany.
The Veiled Picture
A story is told of two artist lovers, both -
whom sought the hand of a noted painter
daughter. And the question, which of the t*
should possess himself of the prize so earner
ly coveted by both, having come to the fathn
he promised to give his child to the one ri
could paint the best. So each strove for th
maiden with the highest skill his genius con’
command. One painted a picture of fruit, iw -
displayed it tor tho father’s inspection iu
beautitul grove, where gay birds sang sweet'}l
among the foliage, and all nature rejoiced ;
the luxuriance of bountiful life. Presently ■
birds came down to the canvass of the youny
painter, and attempted to eat the fruit lie L
pictured there, in his surprise and joy attb
young artist’s skill, tho father declared thatr.
one could triumph over that.
Soon, however, the second lover ennic vvif
his picture, and it was veiled.
“Take the veil from the painting,” said
old man.
“1 leave that to yon,” said the artist vrit!
simplicity.
ilio father of the young and lovely Midi 1 - 1
approached the veiled picture and attempt 1
to uncover it. But imagine his ost<.ni.-lm 11 ' 11, j
when as he attempted to take off tho veil h j
found the veil itself to he the picture! ‘
need not say who was tho lucky lover; fi’iyl
the artist who deceived the birds by skill
painting fruit, manifested great powers of art |
he who could so veil his canvass with thep* 6 ’
cil as to deceive a skillful master, was surd 1
the greatest artist.
A medal is being struck to comment or -
the baptism oi the young Napoleon. Itrepi
presents tjie Emperor holding his son alolt
the view of the spectators in Notre Dame.
MULLET FISH.
j \ i:i!LS Mullet Fish, just received urul for tali ‘
GUNBY* 1
SCRUGGS, DRAKE A CO,
Factors and Commission Merclia 111 ’
charlkston, s. c.
