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COIiUMBTCTS;
Monday Morning, Augunl ,*si 1850.
1. A U<; KsT CITY tIRCULATION.
There is to be a Grand Tournament and
Fancy Ball at Catoosa Spriugs on the 4th
proximo—day and evening. Crisp’s theatri
cal wardrobe has been engaged for the occa
sion.
We do not know that our city has any claims
npon the Montgomery press generally, to cor
rect the erroneous reports in regard to the
health of Columbus, which originated in the
Alabama Journal; but that paper surely we
have claims on. Strange to say, though the
Journal has been duly notified of the error, by
all the Columbus papers, and has had two op
portunities for correction, it has thus far made
no amende whatever. We willingly attribute
the omission for the present, to inadvertence,
and trust the Journal will put it out of our
power to assign it to some less creditable mo
tive hereafter.
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Prof. Darby’s Lecture
The Lecture by Prof. Darby, at Temperance
Hall Tuesday evening, was well attended, and
gave general satisfaction as a sound, practical
address, whose recommendations, if carried
out, could not fail to be of great benefit to the
working classes, and as a consequence to the
world. We attempt no report of it, ns it be
longed to that class of lectures which do not
admit of successful synopsis. The lecturer
took oceasiou to comment freely upon the pres
ent system of education, which supplies the
student with so much that is comparatively
useless at the sacrifice of more important prac
tical knowledge. He said that though Gram
mar, History and Geography were important,
they could not rate with Natural History,
Chemistry, and Mathematics, and drew an
amusing picture of the man who would be
thought a fool if lie could not tell the wherea
bouts of Cape Horn, yet was not laughed at for
ignorance of how a candle burns and gives light;
who could trace the windings of the Ganges,
but knew nothing of the courses of his own
blood, &c. He also ridiculed the common idea
that the smart boy of a family should be made
into a lawyer or a doctor, wbilo the dull one
was put to the plough or work bench. Os all
men, he said, farmers and mechanics needed
mind and cultivation. They were the high
priests of nature, in daily communion with
her, and if ignorant of her laws and her won
derful processes, their v efulness would be es
sentially impaired. The lecturo contained
many interesting scientific facts, sketches and
anecdotes of great men, who rose from obscu
rity, and who were held up as exemplars for
the rising gene: rtion, and also many good sug
gestions and valuable admonitions. Among
othor statements made, was one to the effect
that only five wealthy men had obtained Amer
ican patents ; ono ot these was for an improv
ed pipe by which smoking was made easy—the
other four for improvements in easy chairs!
Prior to the looturo proper, Wiley Williams,
Esq., made a few remarks explanatory of the
aims and ends of the Mechanics’ Union, which
were well recoived. Piesident Brown also an
nounced, during the evening, that the Union
had it in contemplation to furnish a scries of
lecturos on chemistry with interesting experi
ments. We are truly glad to hear this, and
congratulate the Union and our citizens ou the
prospect before them.
Extra Session of Congress.
A telegraphic dispatch to the Augusta pa
pers announces tlint Congress re-assembled on
Thursday, when the army bill was passed by
eight majority in the House, “with the same
restrictions that were passed last Monday.”
The following is the provisions from which the
House refused to rccedo :
“ Provided, nevertheless, That no part of the
military force of the United States herein pio
vided for shall be employed in aid of the en
forcement of the enactments of the alleged
Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Kan
sas, recently assembled at Shawnee Mission,
until Congress shall have enacted either that
it was or was not a valid Legislative Assembly,
chosen in conformity with the organic law by
the people of tho said Territory. And provid
ed, That until Congress shall have passed on
the validity of the said Legislative Assembly
of Kansas, it shall be duty of the President to
use the military force in said Territory to pre
serve the peace, suppress insurrection, repel
invasion, and protect persons and property
therein, and upon the national highway in the
State of Missouri, from unlawful seizures and
searches. And be it further provided, That the
President is required to disarm the present or
ganized militia of tho Territory of Kansas, and
recall all the United States arms therein dis
tributed, and to prevent armed men from going
into the Territory to disturb the public peace,
or aid in the enforcement or resistance of real
or pretended laws.
The Storm at Calliou Island.
During the late storm at Calliou Island tiv e
dwellings with their outhouses were swept
away. After the storm had subsided, a bath
ing party found a large number of barrels con
taining winos and brandies to the value of about
$9,000. They are supposed to be part of the
cargo of tho wrecked ship Mauilla, from Bor
deaux.
Much heroism was manifested during the
storm both by ladies and gentlemen. A letter
says:
The landholders now here have decided to ,
remain, knowing that it is tho safest island in
our . tate, and that there is no great danger
here. We are all of opinion that the houses
would not have been destroyed but by the bad j
locations, which exposed their base to the
waves, and by the severity of the winds : and,
as you are aware, most of the persons here
have built their houses in a cheap and slender
manner. As for myself. lam convinced that I
as a seashore resort, and for safety and pleas
ure there is no island like this.
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The store of Scranton, Johnston & Cos., Sa
vannah, was robbed last week of bacon, sugar,
flour, and other articles by three negroes, two
■of whom have been arrested. They were in
r the habit of selling stolen goods to a white
man in the upper part of the city.
Be have not yet received the official election
returns from North Carolina. At last ac
counts the Democratic majority for Governor
wr.j over 13,000.
The Atlanta Elopement.
The Atlanta Examiner alluding to the above
occurrence says there must be some mistake
about it :
It is an undeniable fact, that the married
men of our city are a most exemplary set of
fellows, and that our married ludies would as
soon think of going to Kansas with one of
Beecher’s Sharpe’s Rifles, to war against slave
ry, as to pursue a runaway husband, with any i
other intent than to recover her children.—
Give us the “particulars,” friend “News,” by
all means. We think still that the guilty man,
and frail girl only seventeen years old, were
“from Atlanta” only as others are who pass
through our city on their way every day to
parts unknown.
The Savannah Republican contains the fol
lowing card:—
Savannah, Aug. 22. —Editor Republican —
Sir:—ln the publication of the elopement of a
geutleman from Atlanta, with a young lady,
age 17 or 18, I have to inform you that the po
lice are not responsible for the error of the re
port, as they gave it as they received it from
the wife—so they reported as the lady (the
wife) informed myself and another officer that
: such was the case. If any wrong has been
done to tiie gentleman, it was done by the re
; port given by his wife to myself and others.
I am, respectfully, &c.,
E. HUMPHREYS, Member Police.
City Savannah.
Yellow Fever in Charleston.
Office of Board of Health. 1
Thursday Night, 10 o’clock. /
The Board report one death from yellow fe
ver for the past twenty-four hours.
.J, L. DAWSON, M. I).,
City Register.
In our last paper was a dispatch from the
Augusta Constitutionalist, in relation to a fire
on board the Steamer Asia, which resulted in
damages of §50,000. That paper says next
day, that it mistranslated the dispatch ; there
was no fire such as it described.
Wife-Whipping.
A man in this city, whoso name we withold
for the present, having whipped and other
wise maltreated his wife, was taken from his
lodgings on Friday night last, by an impromp-
I tu Vigilance Committee, and the rod of cor
rection applied to him. We have no sympathy
for a man who whips his wife; it is agrave of
fence, and deserves severe punishment. We
do not in the main, approve of Vigilance Com
mittees, but as this one did no more to the
culprit than ho had to his wife—thewife whom
he had pledged himself to love, honor and
protect—we leave it to others to condemn the
summary proceedings which avenged her.
Shooting Affray.
We are informed that Mr. Thomas Reese, of
this city, and Eugene Smith, his brother-in
law, had a difficulty last week, report says
about a bowl of peaches, during which the
former shot the latter in the arm. Wound
not dangerous. AVe are also informed that
Mr. It. had a hearing before magistrates, and
was admitted to bail, to answer hereafter.
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[by request.)
Officers and Committees of the Fillmore
Party of Muscogee.
YOUNG MEN’S NATIONAL FILLMORE CLUB.
President— John Peabody, Esq.
Vice Presidents—Hugh B. Dawson, Esq.,
“ Thomas Sloan, Esq.,
“ “ W. D. Banks,
“ “ W. J. Chaffin,
“ “ AV. G. Clemons.
Secretaries—G. E. Gnger and J. W. Barden.
Executive Committee.
J. J. Slade, Chairman.
AVm. L. Salisbury, Wm. Cooper,
Jas. L. Garrard, A. Ingmire,
Janies Roe, Jas. M. Hughes,
E. A. Jackson, J. C. Battle,
S. J. Howard, L. B. Duck,
J. M. McCoy, AVm. Laws,
Wm. Daniel, J. A. McNeil,
11. P. Robinson, Geo. Spellman,
J. J. Jones, W. H. Griswold,
A. K. Ayer, A. G. Foster.
Corresponding Committee.
J. A. Girdner, Jno. C. Calhoun,
John AV. Howard.
Co-ODERATING COMMITTEES OF THE PARTY AT
Large.
Executive Committee.
John Hazel ton, A. S. Rutherford, Esq.
Col. S. A. AA’ales, Samuel Johnson,
N. L. Howard, Esq., John Duck,
Wm. Mahaffey, Benj. AVillis,
T. A. Brannon, E. C. Beers,
James Moaler, J. M. Parker,
F. M. Brooks, Jas. Massey,
Enoch Willett, Wm. McNeil,
J. E. Webster, Enoch Dudley,
Jno. T. AAnlker, F. L. Anderson,
Geo. AV. Martin, Augustus Dill,
Benj. Clarke, A. J. Odom,
A. M. Kimbrough, Judge Wimberly,
A. J. Floyd, John Roquemore,
F. M. Diggers, J. A. L. Lee,
T. D. AVest, F. B. Adams.
J. AV. Thveldkild,
Committee of Finance.
Col. John AVoolfolk, Thomas Kagland,
Henry T. Hall, Jere. Terry,
M. J. McKiimie, It. L. Mott".
Corresponding Committee.
R. G. Caruthers, Esq. Judge Wm. Dougherty,
Col. T. B. Howard, Judge G. E. Thomas,
Col. Hines llolt, Jos. Johnson, Esq.
Death of the Editor of the Courier.
We have to record this morning the death of
Alexander Carroll, Esq., one of the editors of
the Charleston Courier. He died at about nine
o'clock on last evening, after a sickness dating
back to but Saturday last. Mr. Carroll was
born iu Cheltenham, county of Gloucester,
England, in 1818, and received his primary ed
ucation in Somersetshire, where lie entered
Queen’s College. Oxford, iu 1837. lie came
to this country in August, 1849, and in the
spring following, became connected with the
Charleston Courier, where lie hassinco remain
ed. In his intercourse with hi contemporaries
ami associates, he was uniformly courteous,
gentlemanly, and kind, and secured and retain
ed the respect and esteem of all who knew him.
lie hud had muck experience iu newspaper
life, and he brought to the Courier the talent and
information which has done much to secure to
that journal the reputation by which it is
known in the community. His death will he
mourned as a sad loss by those who were
among his friends.— Charleston Standard.
A witness in court being interrogated as to
hit knowledge of the defendant in the ease,
said he knew him intimately well, “He had
supped with him, sailed with him, and horse
whipped him.”
TELEGRAPHIC ITEMS.
Further by the Asia.
A dispute between the Allies and Russia
continues, and the English fleet has been or
dered to the Black Sea to superintend the exe
cution of the 20th article of the Treaty of
Peace.
The Liverpool Times says that Robert Lowe
is charged with the settlement of the Central
American question.
Later from Kansas.
St. Louis, Aug. 19.—Later accounts from
Kansas say a party of Southerners which leit
here two weeks ago tor Kansas, was attacked
between Kansas City and Lecompton by free
soilers. A desperate conflict took place. Many
were killed on both sides. Tho Southerners
retreated.
Know Nothing Nomination.
Boston, Aug. 20. —Tho Fillmore State Com
mittee of Massachusetts, has nominated Amos
A. Lawrence for Governor.
Congressional—Extra Session.
Washington, Aug. 21. —A quorum was
found in each House of Congress to-day, in ac
cordance with the call by proclamation of the
President, and the special message of Presi
dent Pierce was read in explanation of the
call. It relates entirely to the army appropri
tions and sets forth the evils which would re
sult at this juncture, from a disbanding of the
army, when our Indian fronties need constant
and vigorous protection over a line of more
than four thousand miles of exposure and a
large area of sparse population. Tho Senate
immediately suspended its rules, which re
quires six days before taking up any bills re
ported in a previous session.
In the House, Mr. Campbell, Chairman of
AVays and Means, reported the previous Army
bill with the Kansas riders, which passed by a
vote of 93 to 85.
The Senate will take up the matter on Fri
day.
Freshet in the Hudson.
Albany, Aug. 21. —There is a destructive
freshet in the Hudson, caused by a rain of
thirty-six hours, which ceased this morning.
Great damages have been sustained, and much
injury caused to bridges, roads, &c., and in
destruction of corps.
The river has risen seven feet since last even
ing, and all parties interested are busy iu re
moving goods from warehouses, &c.
Railroad Accident
New York, Aug. 21.—1 tis reported that a
train on the Erie Railroad fell through the
Chemung bridge last night.
Second Dispatch.
The accident reported above as occurring at
the Chemung bridge, was only a running off
the track. No persons were seriously injured.
Hideous News.
The Calcutta Englishman is determined to
frighten us out of our senses. It says :
“At Sreekond some 4000 or 5000 Santlials
have collected for a re adjustment of their
jummahs, and the amlahs, to the detriment of
of all other business, are busy writing out
new pottahs.”
In utter despair, we ask, what is to be
done? AVliat can we get, what shall we send,
■what can we do ? AVkat’s a jummah, what are
anilahs, what are pottahs ? Would the hanging
of Air. A r ernon Smith be any use as a prelim
inary measure ? Do the people want fire en
gines, or subscriptions, or tracts ? Let us
know what to do—it is a shame to send such
messages without a hint of their meaning.
English Church Law.
A novel case has been decided in England in
favor of a clergyman of the Established Church,
which has excited some comment in the public
journals. In tho Court of Arches : a clergy
man plead guilty of gross acts of intoxication
and the use of profame and indecent language.
It even appeared that on one occasion he took
with him to church, when about to officiate
therein, a bottle of spirits, of which he drank a
considerable portion, so as to render him unfit
to decently perform the service. Y’et, notwith
standing he had already been suspended for a
similar offence, and re-instated iu his curacy,
tha • juvt (Sir J. Dodson) refused to deprive
him of his office. His Honor said:
“ I should be very unwilling to pronounce a
sentence of deprivation upon grounds which
have never been considered sufficient for that
purpose. I think I shall adequately punish
Mr. Pughe by suspending him for a longer pe
riod than any clergyman has ever been sus
pended before for an offence of this kind,
namely for five years, ab officio de bencficio,
at the expiration of which time he must pro
duce a certificate from three beneficed clergy
men in the neighborhood as to his conduct dur
ing that period.
The Conquerors of Beaver Island.
The following manifesto has been issued by
the party who expelled the Mormons from Bea
ver Island, in Michigan;
“The dominion of King Strang is at an end.
The band of marauders once occupying the
Beaver group of islands, under the administra
tion and direction of James J. Strang, their
reputed prophet, have fled at the approach of
the sheriff. Thejland is redeemed; a kingdom
no longer exists upon the borders on one of
our most populous States. And wo rejoico to
know r that tho resources of this upper region
will be properly and speedily developed under
tho operation of our State laws. The institu
tions of our country secure protection to all
hnr citizens, especially to their religious free
dom ; hut when its tenets are criminal and di
rectly antagouistical to our laws, and subver
sive of our constitution, we as citizens would
prove recreant to our duties to permit a longer
contiuuauco of the evil. It should be a mat
ter, therefore, of public rejoicing to all per
sons living contiguous to tho lakes that this
nest of banditti has been exterminated, and we
would take this occasion to caution the citi
zens of Wisconsin against many of them who
liuvo fled within her precincts.
Down With the Union.
A correspondent informs us that tho Democ
racy of Rockford iu this State, ou the Bth inst.
raised the American flag—with thirty-one
stars—ou State street, in that city, on Friday
last, aud that twice during the day it was cut
down by the Fremonters. Such conduct Is in
perfect keeping with the political principles
of the mongrel crew who follow tlu* fortunes
of Alariposa, even to destroy the American
Uniou.— Chicago Times.
The Lumpkin (Ga.) l’laindcaler has the fol
lowing: A cock-fighter was boasting of the
game of a favorite cock, which he proposed to
fight against the world. His challenge was
accepted, and his boasted chicken hacked at
the first spur.
“sMy friend,” said a by stander, “did you
not say that your chicken was game ?”
“ A'es —he is Burlin-game!” was the rueful
reply.
Resignation of Major Cooper.
AVe are informed that Alaj. Cooper, the
Superintendent of the AV. &. A. Rail Road,
resigned his situation on last Satuday cve
uing. Mr. Spurlock is spoken of as bis pro
bable su;;es*or.— Chattanooga Gazette , Aug 19. ,
Alabama Elopement.
The community of Madison county was sud
denly startled bv the elopement of John E.
Townsend with the step daughter of his over
seer, on Friday night, the 25th ot July, and
the discovery of the extensive frauds he lias
committed—taking with him, it is supposed,
cash funds to the amount of over one hundred
thousand dollars, belonging to the assets of
t e estate of his uncle, Edmund Townsend of
which he was the coadministrator; as also
funds obtained from two commission houses in
Huntsville, in drafts, to the amount of $05,000
or §40,000 besides contracting sundry debts
about Huntsville, leaving his wife and chil
dren, and all his property, growing crop, &c.,
except two negroes. Attachments up to Mon
day, the 28th, to the amount of §120,000 had
been placed in the hands of the sheriff, and
had been levied on his property.
It has been a matter of much speculation as
to the motive which influenced Townsend to
thus abscond. He was not in debt—his pro
perty that he has left is worth, it is said, very
near the amount for which ithas becu attached,
anil he was the heir, inprospectu, of all of Sam
uel Townsend’s property —estimated at $200,-
000—besides other legacies iu prospect. So
that the only advantage he has apparently
gained in his situation by the operation is the
“ gal”—a boon rather costly to him any how,
as it is said he bought §7OO worth of jewelry
to deck her off with, in Huntsville, a day or
two before he started. Apparently to the pub
lic there is no motive for his elopement, nor is
it known which way he has gone. If lie had
intended to pursue planting, the only business
he knows anything about, he would have tak
en his negroes and gone south west. But we
incline to think his object is some secluded
spot, where the chances for discovery will be
very few, and where lie can live on his money
in seclusion.— Athens Herald, Aug. 8.
The Accident to the Steamship Arbia.
Halifax, Aug. IS. —The Arabia struck on
Blond rock, on which there was above sixteen
feet of water. The ship, drawing twenty-one
feet, going at full speed, struck her bow on
the rock, she then rose and slid over the rock,
striking first at the bow, then under the boiler,
then under the mainmast. The survey of the
divers was not made public, but I have learned
that they found the false keel, the main keel,
anct the garboard gone as far aft as the fore
mast, which is as far aft as they surveyed. A
Boston shipbuilder, who examined the Arabia
here, thinks that when she struck first she
stove in the lower part of her stern, her keel
and deadwoods forward, and the fore ends of
her bottom planking, then rising on the rock
she crushed her keel and tore it off smooth to
the floors. Tho divers stuffed large quantities
of oakum into the bow. Outside a bulkhead
of cotton and oakum was built. Inside, the
ship was making eighteen tons of water per
hour when she sailed. About half her Liver
pool passengers stopped here. More would
have left at the last moment, but could not get
out their baggage. It is the general opinion
here that the ship was unseaworthy when she
sailed. Prayers were said in the churches
yesterday for her safe passage to Liverpool.
A Stray Monkey.
Our reporter being on a scout yesterday,
says the Savannah Republican, after local
items, fell upon the trail of something that
promised a reward for his perseverance. Fol
lowing it up from the rear of the City Hotel,
in the direction of Bull street, he discovered
one of the Mounted Police “ in hot pursuit” of
a refugee of some sort, which clambered over
the Custom-house railing enclosure, and into
a very small opening within said enclosure just
large enough to admit of its body. Here the
intrepid guaidian of the peace and dignity of
our city had but little trouble in arresting, for
the first time in his official career, an offen
sive ’Moxk.f.y. This counterfeit of the “human
form divine” had just arrived in the steamer
from Florida.
Extra Session.
The President’s Proclamation, convening
both Houses of Congress on Thursday next,
was issued yesterday at 3P. Al. Many of the
members received the first notice of it while
in the cars or on the steamboat on their way
to the South, North, and Northwest. A por
tion of them returned, aud others continued
ou their journey, and will be absent until Thurs
day. It is presumed that a considerable num
ber, however, will not attend tho extra session,
in consequence of private engagements at
home.— Wash. Organ.
Ice in Surgery.
The French doctors have discovered recent
ly, by various experiments instituted by them,
that ice is safer and better to use in surgical
operations than chloroform. By the applica
tion of pounded ice and common salt to the
diseased parts, thus causing numbness and in
sensibility, a surgeon lately succeeded in re
moving a tumor of considerable size, without
any pain, and causing little loss of blood. If
ice can thus be successfully substituted in the
place of chloroform, iu surgical operations, it
will be of great value in saving patients from
the risks involved in the use of chloroform.
A “Duel” in Olden Times.
Iu this connection perhaps the following par
agraph, dished up by the London Weekly
Chronicle from the New York Evening Post of
December 13, 1805, may not be uninteresting:
On Friday last the well known Leib, one of
the representatives of Pennsylvania, and the
leader of the Duane party, and Joseph H.
Nicholson, ono of the representatives of Alary
land, met in the Congress lobby about 1 o’cl’k.
wlioh Leib immediately commenced one of the
best fought battles recorded in the annals of
Congressional pugilism. The fight continued
till the sixty fourth round, when Leib recoived
such blows as deterred him from ngoin facing
his man. He protracted the fight, falling af
ter making a feeble Lit. In the round which
ended the fight, those who backed him advised
him to resign, which he did after a combat of
one hour and seventeen minutes. The comba
tants were both very much beaten.
—
The Macon Telegraph contains an advertise
ment, signed by AVli. Shealy and six others,
offering a reward of §2,000 for the arrest of
Alexander H. Kelvins ton and Eugene Helvin
ston, two young men, 21 and 17 years of age,
who killed Andrew Shealey, ou the public road,
in Alacon county, on the 4th inst. The partic
ulars were published at the time of the occur
rence, and it nppenrs that the two Ilelvinstous
tied immediately after committing the deed.
Singular Coincidence.
The volcanic eruptions in the Alolucca Is
lands occurred on the 2d, Bd, and 17th of
Alarch of the present year. On the Ist of the
same mouth A’osuvius sent out smoke and ash
es, the latter being slightly magnetic. On the
2d, in latitude 37° 30 min. X., longitude 70°
40 min. AV., the ship A\ inconsin encountered a
heavy tempest, in which she was struck by two
meteoric balls of fire, set fire to the ship, hut
the storm of ice, sleet and snow [extinguished
the flames. Ou the Ititli, three shocks of au
earthquake were felt in Chili. Were these
phenomena connected with the terrible erup
tions in the Moluccas ?
GENERAL ITEMS.
In Kentucky the tobacco crop is said t„
almost au entire failure.
The Russian government is about i 0
out next mouth, from Cronstadt, two curve;;’
on a scientific voyage round the world.
The American Association for the advaii,
ment of Education, commenced its seventh s
nual meeting at Detroit ou the 12th inst,
The rumors of the intention of Lord
Russell to withdraw, for some time, frump,
lie life, are confirmed.
The Mormons have a church in full blast
Tom’s River, the county seat of Ocean count
New Jersey.
The State of lowa, claimed as the first ;
tory of the Free Negro and Fremout party,!,
its Constitution excludesthe peculiar favor!,
of that party from the privileges of resident
The gunny bags and cloth are made mini
by hand, or by a simple hand machine. Tt,
were first used to put up saltpetre, salt, j
grain.
It is a singular fact that the change of u,
istry at Madrid and the subsequent insuvr
tionary movement were first made known
Paris by a telegraph communication from L
don.
The Liberia Herald announces the arrh
out of a sugar mill, tho donation of Sehieffel
& Cos., of New York. One planter is spok t
of as showing great ability and industry
cultivating the sugar cane.
AV. Gilmore Simms, author of the series
Revolutionary and Border Romances off
South, has accepted a number of invitatio
from Lyceums at the North to lecture brio
them the coming season.
A marriage occurred on the 2tith of Ju
last in Jefferson co., Florida, of Air. Thom
A. Fondee, of Sumpter co., Ga., to AlissStai
ra AA’oolf. The groom was sick at the time
marriage, and died three days after.
Exceedingly modest young lady—“lsn’t tl
a very pretty baby, Mr. Brown ?”
Brown—“ Yes, my dear, boy or girl ?”
Young lady—“ He belongs to the feint
persuasion, sir.”
Count Rossi is spending the summer at 1|
hehnsbab, with his family. His eldest daugl
ter, says the Augsburg Gazette, inherits
talents and charms of her gifted mother. sJ
is Henrietta Sontag at eighteen.
According to a Milan newspaper, the Ki
Father Secchi, director of the observatory
Rome, has succeeded in taking photographs
the moon, and among them, one in which tL
mouth of a volcano of Copernicus is distinct
represented. This must be a novel sight tr
>y
“ In Rome,” said Daniel Webster, “ puWj
virtue fell with private morality. The sane
ty of the nuptial bond is, in my opinion one
the principal, if not the chief cause of the?
perior refinement, freedom and prosper;
enjoyed at the present time by Christian n
tions.
In going on board a Mississippi steambi
the other day, Air. Jones met Mr. Smith
“ Which way are you going, Air. Smith—u;
or down ?”
“ That depends on circumstances. If!
sleep over the boiler, up—if in the cabin,
down.”
The clerk of a retired parish in England
when reading the third chapter of Dank,
wherein thd names of Shadrach, Meshech ar..|
Abednego are thirteen times repeated, nfttf
speaking them once, called them during tit
remainder of the chapter, “the aforesaid
tlemn.”
Col. Fouda, of Calhoun co., Michigan, ha?:
farm of nearly 100 acres. He is now raisin;
fine woolcd sheep, and this year sheared for
hundred, obtaining 1,900 pounds of to:
which lie solu for 42 cents per pound. Tli
are all full blooded French and Spanish Met:
noes. Four of the former sheared ninety lk
To show what hot water is capable ofdck
lor the human family, a late English jouri.
asserts that a bushel of coal properly consume;
will raise 70,000,000 pounds a foot high. Ti
is the actual average effect of a steam engirt
now in operation in Cornwall, England.
It was stated at a meeting of the Bik>
Manufacturers’ association, held in New Vm
on the Oth inst., that bricks are now selling’
§4 a hundred, wh ch is less than the aotm
cost of manufacture, and that 00,000,000 brio's
are now lying idle in the arches of biick ms
ers who deal with New York. The associate:
desires to raise the price from §4 to So.
A windy orator once got up and said : ‘‘Sir.
after much reflection, consideration and ex*
ination, I have calmly aud deliberately, '■
carefully come to the conclusion, that iu citie
where the population is very large, there
a greater number of men, women and childra
than in cities where the population is less.
There is a young daughter of a titled E.
lish aristocrat living in Albany, N. Y. Shi
was brought up in luxury, fell in love wii
and married her father’s groom, was turik
out ot house and home, and obliged to flyffi l
her country to avoid her father’s vengeance
She passed through many trials which rend tk
heart, in her career from wealth to poverty
Sho is now a seamstress.
A letter in the Richmond Dispatch, fi -1 ’
Green co., Abi., says : “ For the past two w*
our county has been visited with a malign.*
epidemic, which the doctors call typhoid tl*
It has proven fatal in a great many cast?-
some thirty or forty have died witli it. It
still raging, though supposed to be on the I
crease.”
Another census of Chicago is being tin
by the authorities of that city, who hope tb
it will show a total population of one huuJrr
thousand souls. They take a census nt 1
once a year in that exuberant city, and son
| times oftener. And these enumeration?
i complish an important local purpose in ti<
i monstrnting the actual importance off
place, and thereby attracting new poptilati
AVe find the following bit of philosophy
i an exchange :
First class in Oriental I‘hilosopliy will sm l,
; up. Tibbies, what is life?
Life consists of money, a 2:40 horse, and
fashionable wife.
Good! Next—what is death?
A paymaster who settles everybody's deb
j and gives them tombstones as receipts inf
of all demands.
AVliat is poverty ?
The reward of merit genius .general'.'‘
ceives from a discriminating public.
What is religion ?
Doing unto others just asyou please, “it
allowing them a return of the compliment
What is fame ?
A six line putt - in a newspaper while
ing, and your fortune to your enemies
dead.
Next and last. Which is the quickest ’
easiest method for you to reach heaven
Ask the Camden and Amboy Railroa 1 1 ’
pany.