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LARGEST CITY CIRCULATION.
“ Honor to whom Honor is Due.”
In our report yesterday, we ascribed to Dr.
Flewellen, on the strength of his remarks on
Tuesday evening, the honor of being the pio
neer in getting up the Columbus Relief Asso
ciation. We have since been informed that
the honor is to be divided among several gen
tletncn belonging to the Medical stall, the
Clergy of the city, end some private persons.
Now our inference from Dr. Flewellen’s lan
guage was just, and ho was understood gener
ally, we believe, as we understood him. The
error was a trivial one, for though Dr. F. may
not have participated immediately in getting
up the present society, he certainly was an
early mover in the cause of relief. He has
often brought the sufferings of the poor to the
notice of the city authorities, and has obtained
appropriations at their hands for the benefit j
of the poor. It was to these efforts doubtless,
that ho alluded, in ascribing to himself credit.
As we desire, however, to rob no man of his
rightful honors, wo cheerfully make the cor
rection, and only withhold names by request.
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Prof. Darby’s Lecture.
The promised lecture of l’rof. Darby before
the Mechanics’ Union ofthiHcity will be given
at Temperance Hall, this evening, commenc
ing at 80’clock. Subject— “The lnducements
of young men to study the Natural laws tiint.
govern the Material World.” Citizens gener
ally and the Ladies in especial arc invited to
attend. Lecture free.
We bespeak for the Lecturer, who is one of
the ablest men of science in the South, a large
audience ; and feel warranted in promising all
who attend, an entertaining and useful lecture.
City Criminal Court.
This Court adjourned on Tuesday to its
next regular term in November, with many
cases docketed, among which are several pros
ecutions for gambling. Since our last report
the following cases have been disposed of, viz:
Tho State, vs. William Smith, for assault
and battery. James Hamilton, Sol. Gen. for
the State assisted by Wiley Williams , Dixon
and Plane for Deft.—Mistrial.
The State, vs. Joseph C. Heps, for Retailing
without license. Verdict guilty ; fined by the
Court. The Sol. Gen. for the State, B. A.
Thornton for Deft.
Tho Storm at New Orleans.
By yesterday’s mall wc received the anx
iously expected intelligence from Cnlliou
Island. No lives were lost, a small spot
on tho island being not overflown, and upon
which the inhabitants gathered and were thus
fortunately saved. Immense damage has been
dono at various points to property in the shape
of crops, house, shipping, stock, &c.
Oft’ for Kansas.
Mr. Henry Clayton passed through this city
yesterday on his way to Kansas, having with
him a company of thirty seven men, four of
whom had families. Mr. Wm. S. Reynolds, a
printer of this city, was one of the four men
tioned. We wish them God speed, on their
journey, and good luck at the end of it.
The Arabia sailed from Halifax for Liver
pool, Saturday last, but many of the passen
gers wisoly refused to go in her as she was
leaking badly when she started. The passen
gers who remained were entertained by Mr.
Cunard, at his residence, on Saturday ove
uing-
It will be seen by reference to our telo
gruphic column that the Abolitionists are ugaiu
the assailants of the pro-slavery men in Kan
sas. We trust the noble State of Missouri
will see that Southern men have fair play, and
doubt not that sbo will do so. It seems clear
th t nothing short of a fight will satisfy the
fanatics of Kansas, and we hope they will bo
accommodated to their heart’s content, bavin”
no feais for tho result.
Atlanta Elopement.
The Savannah Republican of the 20th, says:
A young lady of 17 or 18 years of age, recent
ly eloped from Atlanta, with a married man,
tho father of four children, who left his wife
and took with him his offspring. The wife
came to Savaunah in search of her children,
and yesterday found three of thorn, girls, at
tho institution of the Sisters of Mercy, where
they had been placed to board by their father.
The other child, a boy, is no doubt with him,
but no clue has as yet been had of his where
abouts. We prefer to suppress the names of
the parties until further information reaches
us. Efforts are making to return tho boy to
its mother, which wo hope may prove success
ful.
Fremont’s Backbone.
A pious seditionist, conuectcd with the Bos
ton Christian Freeman, has had an interview
with the woolly horse candidate for the Presi
dency. Tho individual thus alludes to Fre
mont’s dress aud his backbone:
When l found the Colonel, I thanked my
stars that 1 had studied my own comfort in my
costume, llis own dress consisted of a pair
of thin pants without suspenders, no vest, and
common loose, brown linen sack. And so he
received his guests.
Why, l tell you, he is a perfect man, just as
God mado him, without foreign airs or fixings
of any sort or kind, lie is a Republican to
the backbone ; and you may rest assured that
he has a “ backbone,” too. None of your stiff
ones that can't bend till it Weeks, nor none
of your India rubber ones, that bend to every
thing—but it is one of your finely tempered
steel fixtures, and bends to lose its noble up.
viglituess, r
Row at Heidelberg.
It seems that the fighting epidemic has ex
tended to the grave students of the divinity
school at Heidelberg University. A student of
dmrity, says a foreign journal, fancying him
self insulted by his professor, demanded, but
was refused, satisfaction, and set to work and
thrashed the pedagogue. The Senate conse
quently condemned him to expulsion during
two years. Thereupon, as customary, all the
urchenhatteu acid a solemn comitat, and some !
■ -00 escorted the offended offender to the rail-
F way station at Landeuburg. Here a row took
’ * hlch ended in a general onslaught be
tween the people and students, who were not
armed, aud who at length withdrew without se
rious damage, to Heidelberg.
Hereditary Influence.
The last Westminster Review contains a
very interesting and able article upon heredi
tary influence, animal, vegetable and human
—a subject of the utmost importance to man
kind, for it is to hereditary influence that char
acter and constitution are due for tbeir basis ;
and it is by hereditary influence that man has
emerged from barbarism and advnuces to a
higher civilization. Tho mental and moral
habitudes, trainings, triumphs and acquisitions
of tho parents, are transmitted to their proge
ny ; so, on and on, from one generation to an
other, each making new acquisitions and in
creasing the common stock, thus forming what
is called Progress.
Os course no synopsis of the article to which
wo allude, can be so entertaining as the origi
nal ; but wc have thought that a summary of
its chief points might be of interest, based as
they are upon a large amount of data, from
which the conclusions readied, are irresistible.
Premising that identically the samo laws ap
pear to reign in the vegetable as animal world;
1 and in the brute kingdom as in that of man,
the four following chief points are obtained—
-Ist. Heritage is constant, that is unceasing;
and is also invariable. The child is bound to
follow its parentage. It is a law of organized
beings that the organization of parents, men
tal and physical, should be transmitted to the
offspring.
2nd. Tlie offspring directly represents both
parents, and indirectly represents its ances
tors.
3rd. The offspring never represents both
parents in absolute equality, though it does
represent them in every organ. Sometimes
one parent predominates in one system, as the
father in the nervous, the mother in the mus
cular ; sometimes in all, in which latter case,
the child wholly resembles the predominating
parent.
4th. The causes of the above predominance
are numerous. Some are due to “potency”
of race, or individual superiority in vigor,
health, age, &c.; the otlie other causes, in the
present state of knowledge of hereditary influ
ence, are hidden from us, thus leavinga broad
margin in which to place cases seemingly in
consistent with these four points.
Many interesting minor conclusions : re ar
rived at, some of which we will notice.
A child may resemble neither parent. The
reason is, neither predominates; but the idio
syncracics of each so commingle and blend, as
to form anew compound ; as, to use a famil
iar illustration, blue aud green make yellow,
totally unlike either primitive element, but in
which, unquestionably, botli elements are rep
resented.
In regard to hereditary insanity, scrofula,
consumption, and other transmissible evils,
the conclusions are :—That insanity—which
term, for sake of brevity, we use generally to
express all hereditary maladies—may for a
long while disappear, owing to predominance
of a healthy parent which keeps it in abey
ance ; it may even be eventually extinguished
by the same cause. Jf the son of an insane
parent, should marry a wife of sound and vig
orous constitution, descendant of a race free
from such taint, and if the said son should be
of feeble constitution, inferior to that of his
wife, the next generation would not probably
show any signs of insanity. But reverse the
conditions—let the son in this case have the
predominant vigor of race—in a word “poten
cy” and insane children would be the infalli
ble result. Again, returning to the first hy
pothesis, if a descendant of the feeble inheri
tor of insanity aud tho robust wife, should
marry into a less potent rn.ee than his own,
insanity reappears. One word in regard to
this matter is sufficient; future events are
settled, as a general rule, by might. Neither
sex can claim this might, whether might phys
ical or intellectual or moral. Hence the idea
that all men of genius must of necessity have
had mothers of genius, is erroneous. Neither
sex can claim superiority.
One curious feature in hereditary insanity
deservcsjnotiee. It is transmissible, it is capa
ble of being bold in abeyance, aiul it frequent
ly re-appears in the identical shape which it
first assumed. One illustration of the many
cited, must suffice us. During the horrors of
the French Revolution, a gentleman of Paris,
under long mental agitation, shut himself up in
a room and there remained for ten whole years.
At length his mind was restored, ho returned
to the world, married, prospered, and was hap
py. But, aud hero is tho point, a daughter,
the fruit of that marriage, when she reached
the age of her father at the time of his fright,
was affected in identically the same way, aud
retired from life to the four walls of a seclud
ed room. Again, it is to borne in mind, that
where an inheritant of insanity contracts alli
ance, it does not follow that all the progeny in
herit the maladny. Only those do so in whom
such inheritant predominates.
The next topic taken up, is longevity, which j
is asserted to depend inoro upon inheritance I
than habit, which we have always believed, j
Cases arc cited, and doubtless similar ones j
occur to every reader, where men, though in- j
dulging in every excess, have lived beyond tlie
allotted term ; others, though exercising every
restraint and precaution, have been cut off in i
the bloom of youth. The writer asserts that
longevity is an inheritance, (of course barring
acoident, a difficult task in this railroading age,)
aud that men may really be said to havo a
“talent” for longevity—an inherited talent,
like talent for music, or poetry, or painting.
This doctrino we greatly incline to, aud the
data sustain us in it.
Many other interesting features in the arti
cle refered to, we are compelled to omit, but
may at some future time call up. Ono valua- I
ble deduction, the reviewer fails to draw, how
ever, which we shall draw for him. It is, that
the laws cf heritage should, when properly
understood, abate much of “man’s inhumani
ty to man; “ should soften harsh judgments
I of cur fellow-men and their ways ; teach us
charity for their imperfections aud moderation
in extolling their virtues. Much that is good
and evil in man has descended to him and
though it be his duty to cultivate the one and
striv e against the other, his native propensi
ties, are, like blue eyes, or red hair, or his
complexion, things that exist without his own
will, and of which, if a virtue, lie must be
cautious bow he boasts; it a vice, must be to
a certain degree excusable for. “Ihe Leop
ard cannot change his spots, nor the Ethiopian
his skin.” A6 ineradicable are the propensi
ties of the human heart. Mnn may modify
but cannot erase—ho may alter and amend,
but cannot repeal; and must forever be sway- |
ed by the impulses transmitted to him.
A word or two must be added in explana
tion. When we speak of son, or daughter, or
husband or wife, it is for convenience’s sake
merely. The laws of hereditary influence
favor neither sex. Also we should state that
the whole argument is based upon general
rules, and that under the head of exceptions, or
what the reviewer has chosen to dignify as the
“law of variation,” there are cases cited, few
in number, hut puzzling in the extreme; and
which, in the present s*ate of our knowledge,
must go into the margin, above alluded to, of
“ unascertained.”
Macon and Brunswick Railroad.
The people of Macon and the contiguous
country are beginning to agitate the subject of
a direct railway communication with the grow
ing city of Brunswick. Tho feasibility and im
portance of the undertaking has been freely
discussed, and discussion has already led to in
vestigation. Preparations are now being made
for surveying the route, and from the known
energetic character of the gentlemen who are
interested in the work, we feel assured that
they will not cease their effort until the road
is commenced and finished.
The projectors of this road are actuated by
no spirit of rivalry or feeling of Hostility to Sa
vannah and her interests. They take the en
larged and sensible views, that such a road is
needed; that it will develope the resources of
the section of country through which it will
pass: that it will be of immense benefit to Ma
con and to Brunswick, and indeed to the whole
State ; that it will meet the wants of trade aud
travel, by adding another link to our chain of
railway communications; that it will accom
plish all this, and at the same time prove a ve
ry profitable investment of capital. Hence
they are determined to build it, and sooner or
later it is destined to be built, in spite of eve
ry obstacle that may be thrown in its way.—
Macon Telegraph.
Difficulty.
A difficulty occurred in our town on last Sat
urday evening, between Dr. John L. Porter
and Mr. Richard F. Bostwiek, in which the lat
ter received a slight wound in the fleshy part of
the left thigh. A negro boy, in the employ of
Mr. B. was accidentally shot in the thigh, but
is doing well. Os the origin of the affray we
are not sufficiently posted to speak. The par
ties have been bound over to keep the peace,
in the sum of SI,OOO each.— Lumpkin (Ga.)
Plaindealer.
Ducking
Ther was a deal of dodging and ducking in
the House Hall yesterday ere they arrived at
a final vote upon the amended Senate bill to
pay the members a fair compensation. It was
sturdily opposed by many members on princi
ple. By some of those, we mean, who always
vote on principle. Others however, who were
so anxious for its passage ns to refuse five or
six times to aid in procuring calls for yeas and
nays and who voted for the measure when tel
lers only were ordered, voted plumply against
it when required to go upon the record.—
Wash. Star.
A Persian Princess.
1 went to see the Shah’s half-sister, a beau
tiful girl of fifteen, who lived with her mother
in an obscure part of the ante-room neglected
by the Shah, and consequently by every one
else. She was realy lovely ; fair, with indes
scribable eyes, and a figure only equaled by
some of the chefs d’oeuvro of Italian art. This
is so rare among Persian women, that she was
one of the few persons I saw in the country
with an approach to a good figure. She was
dressed in ttio usual fashion of trousers on
trousers, the last pair being such stiff brocade
that if put standing upright in the middle of
the room there they would remain. Her hair
was curled, not plaited, and she was literally
covered with diamonds. She was quiet in her
manners, aud seemed dejected. She was most
anxious to hear about European customs.
What seemed to surprise her most was that we
took the trouble to undress every night on go
ing to bed; and she asked me was it true we
put on a long white dress to pass the night in?
All Persian women are astonished at this cus
tom, and are quite unable to account for it.—
They never undress at uight ; they untie their
thin mattress from its silken cover, draw it
out from its place against the wall, and roll
themselves tip in the wadded quilt which forms
their blankets. The only time they change
their clothes is when they go to bath. If they
go out to visit, they, of course, put on their
best garments, and take them off at night;
but generally they lie down just as they are,
and even in cold weather they wear their cha
dour, or out of door veil, at night.
Rosistnnce to Improvements.
The following from Archbishop Whatelcy’s
Annotations on Bacon’s Essays, is a rich liter
ary and scientific gem:
“ It was the physicians of the highest stand
ing that most opposed Harvey. It was the
most experienced navigators that opposed Co
lumbus’ views. It was those most conversant
with the management cf the Post Office that
were the last to approve of the plan of the uni
form penny postage. For the great o’ any
one’s experience and skill in his own depart
ment, and the more he is entitled to the de
ference which is proverbially due to each man
in his own province, the more likely, indeed,
ho will be a good judge of improvements in
details, or even to introduce them himself; but
the more unlikely to give a fair hearing to any
proposed radical change. All experienced
stage coachman is likely to be a good judge of
all that relates to turnpike roads and coach
horses : but you should not consult him about
rail roads and steam carriages. Again, every
one knows how slowly and with what difficulty’
farmers are prevailed on to adopt any new
system of husbandry, even when the faults of
an old established usage, and the advantage
of a change can be made evident to the senses.”
The Harem and Veil.
Among the later items of news from Con
stantinople, which appear in the Allgemeine
Zeitung, tlie paper so greatly favored by the 1
“ distinguished regards” of Louis Napoleon,
is one to the effect that the Sultan had deter
mined to pension off all his wives, except one
who is to bear the title of Empress. In connec
tion with this grand moral reform there is
also nnother move on the board of Turkish
social life which canuot fail to have a rather
startling effect, and which is, that Turkish
women are in future to be unveiled in pub
lic.
The correspondent adds, naively enough
that all of the young and pretty Turkish Mis
ses aro delighted at the idea, while the old and
ugl t \ ( 1: ‘s fairly sereech over the proposed in
no Tati vti as sacrilege. ]
TELEGRAPHIC.
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OUTBREAK IN KANSAS.
Expressly lor the Daiy Kun.
COLUMBIA, Aug. 21.
The troubles between Southerners and the
Abolitionists have again beeu renewed in Kan
sas. The Abolitionists had attacked several
pro-slavery settlements. Several persons had
been killed and the greatest excitement pre
vails on the frontier.
It is believed that the Missourians aud pro
slavery men were organizing for a general and
thorough attack on the Abolitionists.
■’ From New Orleans.
New Orleans, Aug. 19.— The steamer Mex
ico has arrived from Galveston, which port she
’ left on the 15th. Her captain and crew report
having seen near Timbalier island cabin furni
ture and other floating signs and wrecks, which
are supposed to prove beyond doubt the loss of
the Nautilus, Captain Thompson, for whose
safety fears had been entertained.
[The steamship Nautilus, Capt. Thompson,
from Brazos Santiago, touched at Galveston,
and left on Friday, Bth, at 6 I’. M., with the
U. S. mails, thirty passengers, SBO,OOO in spe
cie, and ('0 head of cattle, since which time no
thing has been heard of her.]
Capt. Rogers, ten seamen aud three passen
gers from the ship Manilla, have reached this
city', reporting that six other passengers were
left on a small island. Five of the crew and
five passengers were lost. It is believed that
two-thirds of the cargo will be Saved.
The last advices received here report that
Western Texas is still suffering severely from
drought, and that crops will be tolerable.
The Panama Riots.
Washington, Aug. 15. — The testimony ta
ken by Mr. Corwin regardin the terrible mas
sacre on the Isthmus of Panama, is very full—
covering several hundred pages, and is suffi
ciently clear in proving the atrocity as one of
the most wicked, uncalled for, and brutal ever
perpetrated. It seems, however, that there is
no prospect of any redress being obtained un
less our government demands it in the most
prompt and emphatic manner. Nor is it even
certain then, as the Legislature of Bogota has
already refused to make any appropriations
for the relief of the sufferers or for the prop
erty destroyed. Mr. Corwin will prepare at
once for departure to the post he formerly oc
cupied at Panama, and to which he has recent
ly been re-appointed by the President.
Kansas Disturbances.
St. Loris, August 18.—Westport journals of
the 18th (Wednesday) state that on the night
of Monday, 11th inst., two hundred Free Soil
ers attacked the town of Franklin, then con
taining only twenty Southerners, who fought
for an hour. The affair resulted in the deaths
of six Free Soilers and four of the others, aud
after destroying the Post Office, the assailants
retired, carrying off cannon and other arms
belonging to the town.
Another report states that seventeen Free
Soilers were killed and others wounded.
The U. S. troops occupied the town on tlie
next day.
Julien’s Speech.
A good joke is made of .Julien’s speech at
the private fesitivity that preceded tlie public
opening of tho Surrey Gardens, London.
“He said that he intended to make the shil
ling concerts equal in every respect to the
best Ancient Concerts—a Philharmonic class
of concerts to be had in Europe—and contin
ued : I would say—no —de programme shall
be arl good—de classique—de lin moosike.
No. Always from de time I give farst concerte
in Paris—it vas ven I vas seventeen —I put in
the programme de fine—classique—moosike.
But always, allso, de frivole—de populaire
moosike. Some things I have write good. But
I write for de many—de frivole. De frivole
make dem comb. Ven dey comb I give deni
besser. I offair shinsherbreed, and when dey
come I give dem r-r-rost beef.
Emerson on Carlyle.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, in his new work, en
titled English Traits, thus describes Thomas
Carlyle, whom he visited at a farm in the south
of Scotland:
“ I found the house amid desolate heathery
hills, where the lonely scholar nourished his
mighty heart. Carlyle was a man from his
youth—au author who did not need to hide
from his readers, and existed on that hill farm,
as absolute a man of the world as if holding
on his own terms what was best in London. He
was tall aud gaunt, with a cliff like brow, self
possessed, and bolding his extraordinary pow
ers of conversation in easy command ; cling
ing to his northern accent with evident relish;
full of lively auecdote, and with a streaming
humor which floated everything he looked
upon.
Story of a Highwayman.
Not many years ago, an Irishman, whose fi
nances did not keep pace with the demands
made on his pockets, and whose scorn of hon
est labor was emh"*ntly unfavorable to their
being legitimately filled, borrowed an old pis
| tol one day when poverty had driven him to
| extremity, and took the highway most conve
-1 nieut where he was like to find a heavy purse.
A jolly old farmer came jogging along, aud
lie put him down instantly us a party who pos-
I sessed those requisites ho so much stood in
, need of himself. Presenting his pistol, he
commanded him to “stand and deliver.”
The poor fellow forked over some 50 dollars,
but finding Pat some what of a greenhorn, beg
ged a five to take him home, a distance of about
half a mile. The request was complied with,
accompanied with the most patronizing air.
Old Acres and Roods was a knowning one.—
Eyeing the pistol, he asked Pat if 110 would
sell it.
“Is it to sell tho pistol ? Bowl, and it’s that
same thing I’ll be after doin’. What ’ud you
beastlier given for it ? ”
“I’ll give you the five dollar bill for it.”
“Done—ouc done’s enough between two
gentlemen. Down with the dust, and here’s
the tool for you.”
The bargain was made by immediate trans
, fer. The moment the farmer got the weapon
! he ordered Pat to shell out, and pointing tho
, pistol, threatened to blow his brains out if 110
j refused.
Pat looked at him a moment with a comical
leer, and buttoning his breeches pockets, sung
out—
“ Blow away, onld boy; devil take the bit
of powder's in it.”
We believe the old man never told the last
part of tho story but once, and that was by the
purest accident.
Accidental Killing.
Tho Tuscaloosa (Ala,) Monitor, states : A
day or two ago, two white females, in the vi
cinity of Mr. Joiuisou s mills, on the plank 1
road, were playing with each other, aud hand
ling a pistol, and we presume without n know
ledge that it was loaded, or had a cap on it,
which exploded, in the hands of Mrs. Gordon, 1
discharging the contents in the side of Miss
Hitt, which resulted in her death this nioru- \
ing. 1
GENERAL ITEMS.
Thirty-one sheep, the property of Chrl e ,
Duncan, of Fauquier county, Va., were kill*.;
last week, by one flash of lightning.
Two deaths have recently occurred at Georgt.
town, S. G-, from a disease closely resembhr,
yellow fever.
A wrought iron camion has been manufa c .
tured in Liverpool, which weighs 22 toDs, au ;
it is said, sends a ball 300 pounds weight a di.
tance of four miles.
The Albany N. Y. State Register has i SSUtij
its last number. The type, material, &<., be.
ing removed to New York ; and it is suppoj C( ;
they will be used to start an afternoon paper
in that city, in tlie interest of George Law, f 0:
Governor.
The one hundred aud thirteenth annual coi.
ference of the Wesleyan Ministers commence
at Bristol, England, on the 80th of
The Rev. Robert Young was chosen president
and the Rev. Dr. Hannah was elected secreta
ry.
The following recipe is said, by tho N. y
Chronicle, to be a sure and easy cure f w
corns:—Tie a piece of raw cotton to the corn,
and wet it several times a day with spirit,
turpentine; this will, in three days, cure the
corn without the least apparent pain.
It is stated that the wife of one of the mo;
distinguished physicians of Paris, wears a rfo,
made of iron that was extracted from the bio,”
taken from her husband during some disen>
with which he was afflicted. This is a net
use for blood.
The astronomer, Professor Ruble, is at this ?
moment in Berlin, for tlie purpose of invitin
the mathematicians and naturalists of Prms
to take part in the proceedings of the Scieu
tific Congress, which is to be held in the ta:
ted States in tlie course of September.
It was among the loveliest customs es ttif J
ancients to bury the young at morning twi- /
light; for as they strove to give the softest i u
terpretation to death, so they imagined that 1
Aurora, who loves the young, had stolen them J
to her embrace.
The Emperor Napoleon is said to be iii ; 1
really critical state of health. His illne;.
consists in a development of the malady of the
spine, with which he has been long afflicted. I
He is able to attend to business, aud is. aoi S
in immediate danger.
A private letter from Ohio mentions that m
during Mr. Burlingame’s tour in the West, he
was called upon by a genuine Quaker, who, in %
a quaint way, said: “Thou hast done well in I
viting thy friend to Canada: lam glad thei 1
has courage, it is a good thing for one in thi I
situation,” and without an answer, withdrew
A fine monument is about to be erected to
the great improver of tlie steam engine, James
Watt, in his native town, Greencock, in Scot
land, and a fine large block from Seneca quar
ry on the Potomac, Md., has been received ■
for it from Gilbert Cameron, tbe builder of tlie
Smithsonian Institute, Washington.
Mr. Ferric, of Cincinnati, who recently es
tablished his legitimacy in the courts of Nett
York, and acquired property left by Iris moth
er to the value of $1(10,000, had agreed to 1
pay his attorneys, Messrs. Chase & Ball, oi 1
that city, 20 per cent, in case they gained for
him $20,000.
Without decision of character no man 0 yi
woman is ever worth a button, nor ever can be
Without it a man becomes at once a good-no- *
turecl no-body ; the poverty stricken possessor |i
of but one solitary principle—that of obliging H
everybody under tho sun merely for tlie ask
ing.
‘the Philadelphia Enquirer of the 15th inst.. <
announces the death of Marion Rush, Esq., of
that city, one of the sons of the Hon. Richard (
Rush, and recently a Lieutenant in the United (
States Navy, who was drowned a few week.-
ago in attempting to cross the Red Lake River. *
Minnesota Territory.
llie trial of women engaged in mobbiii.
grog shops in Salem, Ind., took place in the “
Common Pleas Court last week. Most of them f
were fined, while others, not able to pay tlie -
tine, were permitted to depart, with au adrno- fj
nition to go, and never be guilty cf such un
lady -like conduct again.
I he meat market at Ghent is now complete- *
ly free of the intolerable nuisance of flics.—
llie simple remedy consists iu the inner walk
having been painted with laurel oil (Oleum laun
nobilis) tbe smell of which the Hies cannot
support. Even gilt frames can thus be pre
served unsoiled! The smell of the laurel oil
is not unpleasant aud one easily gets accu
tomed to it.
An alarming accident recently occurred al
Goodwood, England. A horse named Chevy
Chase bolted from the track and sprang ups |
steep bank, where he lost his balance and roll -
cd down among the horses, five or six cf who-’ 1
fell over him. The jockeys were mostly =o
verely injured, and the horses attacked each j
other with their teeth and heels. Chevy
had to bo shot.
_ 1 he notorious rifileman, Beecher, has chang- )
ed his paper from a religious to a politicaljour
nal, and says he “counted the cost before he
came out for Fremont.” So did Julias Isca
riot belore he betrayed his Master. There vrus
“counted” out to him just thirty pieces of sib
ver. How much did Beecher count whoa he
bargained to forsake his holy calling aud be
tray his country.
Three parties were arrested 011 Friday charg
ed with assisting in tearing down the barricade
at the Quarantine? Hospital at Staten Island.
among them one-eyed Daley, the former noto
rious emigrant runner. Other than these ar
rests, everything was quiet at Quarantine.—
There lias been no attempt to rebuild the bar
ricade, and no new cases aro reported of yel
low fever in the hospital.
The examination into the boiler explosion in
Wilder’s safe factory in Brooklyn, was resum
ed on the 15th before Coroner Hanford, and
concluded, the jury bringing in a verdict that
the accident was caused by the inferior quality
ot iron used iu the boiler, and censuring the
common practice of placing boilers within
buildings in which a number of persons in'”
employed.
It having beer, staled that cockroaches wore
a great enemy of bedbugs, and wovlld keep
house clear of them, the New York Time’
says: We have already a stack of letters from
hoarding-house keepers denying the fact, but
we don’t pubiMi them, because as they g‘ te
names and numbers wc suspect tli.it they are
only adroit pull's. The use of cockroaches. :1 ’ j
all truly wise people havo known lor year'.
to flavor fine old Burgundy with.
A Washington dispatch of the 17th instant,
says: Never before was there a larger cross :
in the Capitol than last night. The lobby was in j
strong force pressing their respective ucglcet
ed measures. Tlie ante-rooms wei e abundai.t’
ly supplied with refreshments, but there “ i: ’
none of those disgusting exhibitions wbn 1
Lave heretofore been displayed on similar
casions. Several general appropriation 1
are still pending on disagreeing amendment”