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April 18
VOL. I.
Woman.
BY william legett.
No star in yonder sky that shine’
Can like woman’s eye impart;
The earth holds not in all its mines
A gem so rich as woman’s heart;
Her voice is like the music sweet
Pou ed out trom air}'harp alone—
Like that when storms more loudly beat,
It yields a clearer, richer tone.
A woman’s love’s a holy light,
That brighter, brighter bums for aye;
Years cannot dim its radiance bright,
Nor even falsehood quench its ray:
But like the star of Bethlehem,
Os old to Israel’s shepherd given,
It marshals with its steady flame
The erring soul of man to Heaven.
[NEW YORK CORRESPONDENCE.]
Nf.w York, Sept. 2, 1850.
Arrival of Jenny Lind—Her Personal Ap
pearance—Enthusiasm of the Crowd —
I, Splendid Serenade—Convention of Instruc
tors of the Deaf and Dumb — Weaker
Fruit, <Spc.
My letters, Mr. Editor, have lately been
very full of gossip about Jenny Lind ; when
nothing else is talked about, or thought about,
or written about, you may imagine that
it is difficult to escape catching the epidemic.
And now the grand consummation has taken
place—Jenny has actually arrived, and vou
will pardon me if I devote a great part of
my sheet to an account of the great event.
‘J he Atlantic sailed from Liverpool on
Wednesday, the 21st ult., and M’lle Lind,
by embarking an hour earlier than the time
announced, managed to escape the vast
crowd who had gathered to witness her de
parture. The number assembled on the sur
rounding wharves was estimated at from 50,- \
000 to 00,000. Captain West, in order that ;
their enthusiasm might not be disappointed, i
brought his boat quite near the shore, and the
favorite appeared on the paddle-box amid
deafening cheers. Salutes were fired from
the batteries, the piers and the other vessels
which happened to he in port at the time.
The weather for the first three days out |
was boisterous and unpleasant, but fortunate
ly Miss Lind, and her cousin and companion,
Miss Ahmansen, were entirely exempt from
sea-sickness. On the fifth day the songstress
proposed a concert for the benefit of the sail
ors and firemen on board, and succeeded in
raising for them about S3OO, which sum, with
characteristic generosity, she considerably
augmented. She conversed familiarly with all
the passengers, and was foremost in the vari
ous pastimes to which resort was had to vary
the monotony of the trip.
The Atlantic arrived at Quarantine (some
j five miles below the city) about 1 o’clock on
! Saturday last, and was there boarded by Dr.
Doane, the health-officer, Mr. Collins, one of j
the owners of the line, and P. T. Barnum,
the immortal mermaid-inventing, orangou- j
tang-exhibiting, world-humbugging Barnum,
to whose enterprise this visit of Jenny Lind
is owing. Jenny received them with great
cordiality. She was richly but simply attired
in a dress of silver grey silk, with a visile
of black cashmere, and a light blue silk hat.
At her feet lay the parting present of Queen
Victoria, a beautiful King Charles spaniel,
whose ears were nearly as long as his body.
She is thus described by one who was pres
ent on that occasion Jenny is about twen
ty-nine years of age, and rather more robust
in her face and person than her portraits
would indicate. Her forehead is finely form
ed, shaded by waves of pale brown hair;
her eyes are light-blue, and joyous, with an
expression of habitual good humor, which
would win her the heart of a crowd by a ,
single glance; her nose and mouth, though |
moulded on the large Swedish type, convey
an expression of benevolence which is tho
roughly in keeping with the many stories we
have heard of her charitable doings.”
After a few moments’ delay, the noble
vessel was once more on its way, and though
the wind blew almost a gale, Jenny retained
her position on the wheel-house, drinking in
the beauties of our magnificent bay, which
she pronounced the finest she had ever seen.
In the mean time the rumor had spread
through the city that the Atlantic was in
sight, and that Jenny Lind was really here.
A dense crowd of those whom Sunday turns
out in search of amusement, immediately
began to congregate around the Atlantic’s
pier, at the foot of the canal, which grew till
at last it numbered no less than 40,000 peo
ple. These were kept on the upper part of
the dock by a temporary gate which had
been erected. Just inside the gate several
triumphal arches of evergreens and flowers
had been put up, with the inscription, “Wel
come to Jenny Lind!” As soon as Miss Lind
was conducted to the gang-way, a great
rush commenced. In company with her
cousin, and Messrs. Benedict and Belleti,
her professional assistants, she took her seat
in Mr. Barnum’s carriage, which was in wait
ing inside the gate. At once there was a
universal push forward to obtain a sight of
the distinguished lady ; the gates groaned,
the bolts had to be drawn to prevent their
being forcibly overthrown. No sooner had
one door been opened than the living mass |
was precipitated forward. The foremost j
ranks were forced with no little violence up
on the ground, while those behind them were
piled up upon them until a serious loss of life ;
was apprehended; at the same time the cry
was raised that several had been pushed over- I
board. The police at length succeeded in
driving back the crowd, and rescuing the
sufferers, who escaped with life, it is true, but
some of them not without very serious in
jury.
The carriage could hardly be started in
consequence of the enthusiasm of the mul
titude, who even clung to the wheels ; at last
it succeeded in getting clear, and drove ra
pidly to the Irving House, where an immense
Swedish flag was hoisted on her arrival. The
proprietors are said to pav Mr. Barnum SIOO
a week for the privilege of having her stay at
their house, and the guests that will be at
tracted to it thereby; there are no less than
five hundred and thirty now staying there.—
The crowd were with difficulty kept from en
tering the house, and immense numbers re
! mained outside till sunset.
About 11 o’clock another crowd began to
, assemble, for it was generally known that
the Musical Fund Society intended giving
Jenny a magnificent serenade at midnight.—
@l)e SoHtl)crn Sentinel
At the appointed time a band of two hundred
made their appearance, and played several
national airs beneath her windows, with
which she expressed herself delighted.
Jenny will accept the invitation of one of
i our wealthy merchants, Gardiner G. How
land, and spend a few days at his country
seat on the Hudson; after which she will
probably pass a day or two at Mr. Barnum’s ;
oriental villa, near Bridgeport, Ct. She says j
that her voice has even been improved bv her
voyage, and expresses her readiness to give
a concert in ten days, if Mr. Barnum can
find a suitable place. Her Concert Hall will
not be finished until about three weeks.
You must excuse me if I .have devoted too
much of my epistle this week to the “Swedish
Nightingale.” You can form no conception,
how great the excitement is with regard to
her, and how general. Every one seems to
be infected with the mania. All are deter
mined to hear her, at any price, and as the
seats are to he put up at auction, those who
desire good ones will have to pay pretty dear
for the whistle.
One ot the best features of the present age
seems to us to be the efforts which are every
where being made for suffering humanity.—
The sailor, the laboring classes generally,
the needy, the sick, have all become objects
ol a philanthropy to which former ages have
been strangers ; nor in enumerating these hu
mane efforts must we forget what has been
done for the blind and deaf and dumb. The
instructors of the deaf and dumb have had a
very interesting convention in this city, which
terminated on ti e 30th ult., after a session of
three days. The leading feature of their
proceedings was the adoption of measures
for the establishment of a periodical to be
devoted to the cause of deaf-mute instruction;
it is to be issued at Hartford, under the edi
torial conduct of Dr. Rae. Measures were
also taken to memorialize Congress in rela
tion to an appropriation of a portion of the
| public lands for this cause. Though the dis
; Acuities which surround the instructors of
these mutes seem almost insuperable, their
persevering labor has accomplished much,
and the annual examination of the pupils at
the anniversary in May, proves how effective
and profitable their efforts are.
Well, the summer is past and autumn has
| come ; it has set in with one of the most
drenching rains that we have lately had, inun
dating our houses and making young rivers
of our streets. Fruit is remarkably fine.—
Peaches have been brought in in unprece
dented quantities, and have been selling at
from two to four shillings a bushel, and verv
good at that. Yours, P. Q.
[YANKEE CORRESPONDENCE.]
Boston, Sept. 1, 1850.
EXECUTION OF PROF. WEBSTER.
The execution of Prof. Webster took place
last Friday, 39th hist., putting an end to all
the surmises, doubts, and even wagers, re
specting his fate, which occurred for the last
nine months. One class of the population
always doubted that they would hang a gen
tleman ; and even after the condemned had
been launched into eternity, the people out
side the jail, in the streets, spread a report i
that he had been reprieved. But all uncer
tainty on the matter is now at an end.
Prof. Webster desired that his family should
not be informed of the day of his execution. :
They were to pay their visit on Thursday,
and go away in the expectation of more in
terviews. They came on last Thursday as
usual, and remained nearly five hours with
him, conversing, reading and praying. What
a sad and miserable scene! They went away
in apparent ignorance of the next day’s fatal
character. But lam of opinion that before
they got home they guessed the dreadful se
cret. The crowds that waited for their com
ing out were greater than usual, and the de
meanorof the jail officials is said to have struck
them. Altogether, I cannot think but that ;
they by some means or other, from the pa
pers, (though they are said to have read none j
but those sent from the Professor,) or in some !
other casual way, came to the knowledge of
the day of execution.
For some time before his death he seemed
penitent, and was calm and sometimes cheer
ful. On Thursday night, lie slept consecu
tively, from twelve until four in the morning.
He breakfasted moderately, and from that
time till half past eight, remained in prayer
and devotional exercises with Dr. Putnam,
his spiritual adviser. He walked to the gal
lows erected in the yard, with great firmness
and self-possession, listening to the conversa
tion of Dr. Putnam, and keeping, with an ef
fort, his eyes and attention from wandering
in search of anything that might appal him.
He had requested to be bound with leather
straps, instead of ropes, and his wish was
granted. He said nothing on the platform, j
except in a low voice, to Dr. Putnam. It I
was observable, that the wretched man made |
every effort to sustain the equanimity of a !
gentleman and an educated man. This feel- ;
ing controlled him even in the ghastly pre
sence of death. His compressed mouth, and
eyes always cast down, showed that he still
respected appearances and the public opinion,
which came from one hundred and fifty per
sons then present. When the rope was ad
justed about his neck, whether it was the
tightness hurted him, or the dreadful touch ,
itself had overpowered him, his face became j
flushed, and tears came from his eyes. His j
last words were heard to be—“ Father, into ;
thy hands I commend my spirit /” Thus was j
| consummated as remarkable a case of mur
der as ever occurred in the New England j
; States, considering the rank of the victim, and j
the convict, and the mode of the homicide, i
Professor Webster was a graduate of Har- j
vard University, which has been thus dis-
I graced in one of its professors. But it may
i not be generally known, that it lias been al- j
ready far more disgraced in the circumstances I
attending the death of another of its gradu
ates. Indeed, I should rather have said that
the disgrace belongs to all Puritan New Eng
land. There was a Harvard man, executed
by the instrumentality of the Reverend Cot
ton Mather, in 1692, whose death was par
ticularly opprobrious to the clergy and the
community. This was the Rev. George
Burroughs, who was hanged at Salem,in that
year, for witchcraft! He died as decently
as Socrates; and having prayed before they
choked him, (for witchcraft,) he finished with
the Lord’s Prayer, because it was believed
no witch or wizard could do so. His prayer
was so natural and touching, that the spec
tators began to sob, whereupon the accusers
said the Black Man was in presence, dicta
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 19, 1850.
ting to him. When he was turned off, the
Rev. Cotton Mather rode among the agitated
people to bid them remember that, though
the hanging man did, certainly, speak de
voutly, the devil often assumed the garb of
an angel of light, whereat the people were
somewhat appeased ! When Borroughs was
cut down, he was dragged, like a dog, by
the rope, stripped and Hung into a shallow
grave. This a refreshing remembrance of
Cotton Mather. Thus, we see, that Profes
sor Webster has not alone reflected disgrace j
on Harvard. Mather was a graduate of it. I
’Tis funny to hear us now talk of the cruel j
or barbarous doings of the benighted Papists, !
as contradistinguished from genuine Puritan i
Protestants. Drvden is very near the truth,
when he says—
“ That prieFts of all religions are the same.”
But, to return to Professor Webster. For
some days before his death he wrote letters
to several of his friends, and left books and
other mementos for them. Next to the
Bible, he liked to read Channing’s works.
He also read Bowring’s “ Matins and Ves
pers,” and from Longfellow’s “Collection of
Hymns.” In the last prayer he suggested
that Dr. Putnam should pray that the hearts
of his fellow men may be softened towards
him after he was gone ; and also that God
might console the family of Dr. Parkman. i
In conversation with Dr. Putnam, he said, he
hoped to meet in the other world the spirit
of one ot his dead children, whom he had
loved tenderly.
Up to the last moment, it was believed
by a great many, that Webster would have
taken poison, and died in his cell. But he
respected public opinion too much, and de
sired that the resignation and calmness of his i
end should leave a favorable impression on |
the world—should soften the hearts of his
fellow men towards him. It is stated, that
lie was familiar with all modes of dying—
from study—and that he considered hanging,
one of the easiest, or the easiest. While the
Sheriff was reading the death-warrant on
the scaffold, Dr. Putnam continued his con- ■
versation with the condemned man, to keep j
his attention from wandering. He said— j
“ Do not mind—do not look roundand
Webster answered : “I do not; my thoughts
are elsewhere.”
Dr. Redford Webster, father of the cul
prit, died 17 years ago, aged 72. He was
an-apothecary in this city, and always bore
the reputation of a respectable citizen. His
unhappy son was born in May, 1793, and
was, consequently, over 57 years old when
he perished. Three weeks ago he wrote a
letter to Dr. Francis Parkman, brother of
the murdered man—chiefly to supplicate
forgiveness for his “wicked and fatal ebulli
tion of passion.” This letter has been print
ed from the copy of it which Professor Web
ster kept and handed a few days after to a
friend. He says, in this letter, that “up to
the time of the two or three last interviews
with Dr. Parkman, he never felt anything but
gratitude towards him.” He also assures Dr.
; Parkman, that his (Webster’s) family im
■ plicitly believed him innocent, till his last
confession reached them ; and beseeches him
i to exonerate them from anything connected
with this horrible murder. He says he could
not leave the world in that peace of mind
for which he prays, without thus expressing
his bitter anguish of soul and sincere contri
tion.
The gallows was so placed in the jail yard
that it was visible only from the windows
of some houses. These were crowded with
people at the windows and on the roofs.
Some of the owners of them made money
on the occasion, letting out vistas of the
dreary ceremony at something handsome
per head. The papers generally denounce
such a business, and such a curiosity as this;
but very unphilosophieally. Men and wo
men will and must be curious. And the best
; of the argument is, that while these papers
are condemning the people, who used their
| eves in the matter, they are raking up and
; furnishing for their readers everything con
i nected with the convict’s looks and last mo
ments —everything. I think this is not fair,
on the ground of consistency. I suspect the
newspaper men would be sorry to find that
the government put a stop to the gratification
of public curiosity, and let nobody at all re
port such tilings. The fact is, if the govern
ment of Massachusetts will hang persons,
the public of Massachusetts will, generally
speaking, go to see the tragedy. There is a
i horrible fascination in such things, which
draws everybody’s attention ; and our respec
table public which did not go to the execu
tion, compensated itself by purchasing every
newspaper that said anything about it. For
my part, I should walk ten miles to avoid
such a throttling spectacle; but I eagerly
read every paragraph commenting upon it;
i and have thought and moralized on it so
? much, that I have no disposition to talk to
I you about anything else, this post. The
| body of Professor Webster was taken to the
house of Mrs. Webster on Friday night, (Dr.
Putnam having gone to break the dreadful
fact to them just after the execution,) and
was buried this morning, in his purchased
burial place, at the Mount Auburn Cemetery.
YANKEE DOODLE/
Curious Epitaph.
The following curious inscription appears
| in the Churchyard, Pewsey, Dorsetshire:
HERK LIES THE BODY
OF
Lady O’Looney,
Great Niece of Burke,
Commonly called the Sublime.
She was
Bland, passionate, and deeply religious;
Also, she painted
In water colors,
And sent several pictures
To the exhibition.
She was first cousin
To Lady Jones,
And of such
Is the kingdom of Heaven.
She Knew.— A hard case of a subscriber,
to whom the publishers of the Mirror had sent
the weekly paper on a credit, was at last
dropped from the list—all ordinary meas
ures for collection having failed. Our agent
was encountered the other day by the de
j linquent’s wife, who wrathfully insisted that
j “she knew what was newspaper law—that
she did. Mr. Mills was bound to send the
paper until all arrearages were paid.”
State Pledges.
The Georgia papers are re-publishing the j
Act of their last Legislature, requiring the
call of a Convention of the State in certain
contingencies, one of which is the admission
of California into the Union. This act pass
ed the House of Representatives by yeas 108,
nays 12; and the Senate by yeas 31, nays
8. Few of the statutes of Georgia, or of
any other State, have the authority of so
general a legislative concurrence. The fol
lowing is the law:
An act to authorize and require the Governor
of the Stale of Georgia to call a Conven
tion of the people of this Slate, and to ap
propriate money for the same.
Whereas, the non-slaveholding States
have, for a series of years, perseveringlv in- !
terfered most wrongfully with the institution i
of slavery at the South, by such aggressive !
measures of intolerance as to render it no j
longer a question of doubt that the Federal i
Legislature will soon adopt such restrictive
measures against the institution of slavery as
to trammel, fetter and confine it within cer
tain geographical limits, never contemplated
by the original parties to the constitutional
compact: And whereas Georgia, in her
sovereign capacity as a State, has delegated
no other power to the Federal Government
than those found in the Constitution of the
United States, and believing that her best
interests and honor, as a sovereign and inde
pendent Government, require that she should
meet all encroachments in a calm and manly
spirit of resistance:
Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the Stale of Gear
; gia in General Assembly met, and it is here
| by enacted by the authority of the sum ?, That
| should the Congress of the United States
pass any law prohibiting slavery or involun
tary servitude in any territory of the United
States; or any law prohibiting the slave
trade between the States where slavery may
exist; or admit into the United States, as a
State of this Confederacy, the sparselv peo
j pled Territory of California and New Mexi
i co; or should the Governor of this State re
| ceive, at any time, satisfactory evidence that
any slave or slaves having escaped from this
State to a non-slaveholding State, and that
such slave or slaves is or are refused to be
given up to the proper owner by the authori
ties of-the State in which such fugitive or
fugitives may be found, then, or in either of
the foregoittg events, it shall be, and it is
hereby made the duty of the Governor of
this State, within sixty days thereafter, to issue
his proclamation, ordering an election to be
held in each and every county, to a Conven
tion of the people of this State, to convene
at the seat of Government within twenty
days after said election.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That
the Counties now entitled to two Represen
tatives in the House of Representatives of
the General Assembly of this State, shall
each be entitled and “shall elect four Dele
gates to said Convention, and the Counties
which are entitled to one Representative shall
elect two Delegates to said Convention.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That
said election for Delegates shall be conduct
ed and held in the same manner as elections
tor members of the Legislature are now held
in this State, and that all returns of elections
shall be forwarded to the Governor of this
State, who shall, upon application, furnish
each Delegate elected with a certificate of
election.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That
the sum ot thirty thousand dollars be, and
the same is hereby appropriated out of any
money in the Treasury, for the purpose of
defraying the expenses of said Convention,
and that the members of said Convention
shall, by vote, regulate their per diem pay
and mileage.
Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That
said Convention shall elect all officers neces
j sary to their organization. Approved, Feb.
8, 1850.
On the passage of the foregoing act, the
yeas and nays were recorded.
The next mail will, in all probability, bring
us the Act of Congress which will make it
incumbent on the Governor of Georgia to
call this Supreme Council of the sovereign
people of the State—a duty which he will
not hesitate to perform.
The proceedings of our own Legislature,
also, though not expressly designating the
admission of California, are indicative of a
firm determination to meet future aggressions
from the North with effective resistance.
The following is part of the record:
“In tiie House of Representatives,
Dec. 18, 1849.—The Committee on Federal
Relations, to whom was referred so much of
the Governor’s Message as relates to the
recommendation to the Southern States by a
Convention of the people of Mississippi, to
send delegates to meet at Nashville, to con
sult in common, upon common rights, with a
view to unity of action.
And also so much of the Message as re
lates to the convening the Legislature, upon
the Wilmot Proviso, or any kindred mea
sure becoming a law of Congress, report:
That the people of this State entertain an ar
dent desire, and fixed determination, to resist
the lawless and unjust encroachments of Con
gress on the rights of the South, and have
pledged themselves, through their Legislature,
to co-operate with the other Southern States,
in opoosition to all such measures. They,
. therefore, concur with his Excellency in the
’ belief, that South Carolina hails with delight,
the proffer by the people of Mississippi, of
meeting by delegates in common councils at
Nashville, and will heartily and promptly
send delegates there to represent them. That
they concur also with his Excellency in the
propriety of calling together the Legislature,
should any such contingency occur as is al
luded to by his Excellency, and therefore
recommend the adoption of the following
resolution:
Resolved, That should the Wilmot Proviso,
or any kindred measure, become a law of
Congress, the Governor is hereby earnestly j
requested to call together the Legislature,
should it not be in session at the time of the
passage of sach law.
Resolved, That the House do agree to the
Report.
Ordered, That it be sept to the Senate for
concurrence. By order.
T. W. Glover, c.h.r.
In the Senate, Dec. 19,1849.
Resolved, That the Senate do concur in
the Report.
Ordered, That it bo returned to the House
jof Representatives. By order.
W. E. Martin,- c.-s.-
| In name, the admission of California is not
the enactment of the Wilmot Proviso, but, in
effect, the most eminent patriots and states
men of the South have declared that it was
the same thing. The friends of that mea
sure have, indeed, essentially admitted it.
Mr. Clay scouted at the idea of treating Cal- I
ifornia as a State, and said it could not get
the character of a State but by the sanction
of Congress. They have generally conceded
I that the constitution of California was mere
| ly a petition for the action of Congress in a
I specified form, and that it had no more legal
authority than any other petition. Congress,
| then, in giving it this authority, has enacted it j
j and every part thereof. This is the conclu- j
! sion which Judge Berrien distinctly declares
in his letter published yesterday, a letter
! every word of which has been duly weighed.
That eminent lawyer and senator knew well
| the import of what he was saying, and the
mighty consequences that might follow the
I general adoption of his opinion, but he does !
| not hesitate to say, in the plainest language, j
! that the admission of California, with her
i present constitution, would be the enactment
|by Congress of the Wilmot Proviso. Such
is known also to have been Mr. Calhoun’s
j opinion, and we do not see how any enlight
j ened man can hold a different one.
We have but one course, then, consistent
! with honor, and, let us add, with safety. We
i must meet this issue thus forced upon us.
! Such, we believe, will be the almost universal
j feeling of this State. The people are pre
• pared to act. They need not exciting ap
| peals, and will care little for eloquent speeches,
j Practical measures are now the great thing,
| and a perfect organization is the all-important
! preliminary. The people of this District are
! somewhat behind many others in that respect,
! and we suggest that measures of organiza
! tion ought to be no longer delayed. If a
! meeting of the District is thought best, time
’ should be given for the general circulation of
the call, so that all parts may be represented.
| If it is thought better to organize by Parishes,
1 there seems no reason why we should not
! immediately set about it. Let the true men
be numbered and enrolled.— Mercury.
GENERAL FOOTE.
Men, who, for selfish purposes, resolve to
| pursue a certain course, always seek some
justification in the fact that others concur in
I opinion with them. This truth is more appli
i cable to politicians than to any other class of
j persons, and is perhaps more clearly illustra
ted in the recent conduct of Senator Foote
than in the conduct of any other person. In
his support of the late compromise bill, and
his warm admiration for the high-toned feder
al, and justly odious, message of Mr. Fill
| more, he seems never to have examined cith
er of these measures to ascertain how far
they were constitutional and proper, but hav
ing separated himself from the Southern
States Right Senators, and being resolved to
identify himself with the fortunes of Mr. Cass,
he throws himself in direct hostility to his
own State, and the interest of the whole
South, and seeks his justification, (not in the
correctness of the principles upon which he
acts,) but in the declaration that “ninety
nine hundred of the people of Mississippi will
sustain him.” If this be so, Senator Davis is
in rather a bad category, for he has pursued
a course directly the reverse of that taken by
Senator Foote. It will hardly need the de
; velopinents of time to prove which of those
gentlemen,is the true representative of the
State of Mississippi, or how completely Gen.
Foote is deluded, if he believes that his course
will be sustained by any respectable number
of individuals in his own State. Already the
public voice has been heard in almost every
country, from Marshall to Hancock, and
from the Mississippi to the Tombigby rivers,
condemnatory of his course. The democrat
ic part} 7 , known to constitute a majority of
more than 10,000 in the State, is opposed to
him almost to a man. Here and there, it is
Vue, a democrat may be found who sustains
him, but they are so few and far between, so
scattering and so uninfluential, that they are
hardly worth counting. In addition to this, ev
ery prominent and influential whig in the State
with thousands of othersof the same party who
are not so prominent, but who are equally pa
triotic and true to the constitution, firmly op-
I pose the course pursued by Gen. Foote, and
| stand up like good and true men for the rights
|of the South. Look at the papers in the
• State, that constitute the best index to the
j public mind, and it will be proved that there
is an overwhelming preponderance in favor
of the course pursued by Col. Davis. Here
and there you find a little Yankee whig pa
per, patronized almost exclusively by a set of
Yankee merchants and Yankee lawyers, who
! cry out “disunion and treason,” and swear
that Gen. Foote is decidedly a great man,
simply because he has taken the Yankee side
! of the question, but the newspapers in char-
S acter and standing in every part of the State
| that wield any influence over the public mind, j
1 are all opposed to him, and we hazard noth
ing in saying that if Gen. Foote had reversed
’ the matter and said that at least ninety-nine
hundredths of the people of Mississippi were
opposed to the course he was pursuing he
i would have come much nearer to the
| mark.
Upon what ground does Gen. Foote predi
| cate the opinion that he will be sustained by
the people of Mississippi? So far as the
i legislature expresses the popular will, he
! knows that he has acted in opposition to it,
he must know that the admission of Califor
nia, with its kindred measures, is opposed to
the interests of the people of this State, and
that the people here, like people everywhere
else, are very apt to be governed by their in
terests. He surely cannot rely upon the in
fluence of party to sustain him, for the dem- ;
j ocracy has cast off its party ties, and per- ;
mitted them to be swallowed up in the great j
and portentous questions of State sovereign
ty, so vitally attacked by the course of Gen.
; Foote and his Northern friends in the Sen
ate. If Gen. Cass were the nominee of the j
j Democratic Convention for the Presidency, i
| every man of sense here knows that no ticket j
could be gotten up in Mississippi to support
, him—no, not even though Gen. Foote were
on it for the Vice Pesidency. The whigs
would not support such a ticket, and hardly
democrats enough could be found in the State
in favor of it to constitute electors. And
this is conceived to be no small merit in. the
democratic party, for it is willing to give up
every man opposed to the interests of the
South, however much he has been regarded
by it heretofore, in order that the great ques
tions so vitally affecting the interests of the
South should be settled in accordance with
its rights.
Does Gen. Foote cast his eyes over his ap
probatory letters as any criterion of public
opinion. Let him not be deceived. He will
find, upon a furfhfir examination, that the
names do not embrace a solitary man of in
fluence, (we speak politfcally, and of course
do not refer to the moral standing of any man,
whoso name may be found on them,) of any
man higher in rank than that of fourth-rate
politician, menjgeneraS} 7 speaking, who could
never acquire any importance in the whig
party to which they belong, until by a union
of the prominent men of that part} 7 with the
democracy,in behalf of the rights of the South,
they have been unexpectedly thrown in the
front rank, and in order to exhibit their de
votion to party, and to maintain their places,
I congregate about the streets, and cry out that
every man is a traitor and disunionist who
dares to claim for she South the rights guar
anteed by the constitution—men who pro
claim in our midst that their allegiance to the
Federal Government is superior to their ob
i ligations to the State in which they live, and
| that they would take up arms and head com
■ panies to coerce a sovereign State into obe
dience to the constitutional mandates of a
! reckless majority ih Congress. These, and
these alone, are the supporters of Gen. Foote,
and thank God they are not enough to make
a corporal’s guard in this State. And even
| these men, wher now praise him, would not
| vote for him for any office under the curt,
; if they could find a whig to fill it—verily, Mr.
1 Soule well remarked, that “the Senator from
! Mississippi had a terrible account to settle
with his constituents.” — Mississippian.
Juvenile Ambition.
Speaking of boys, we heard a couple
of pretty good anecdotes recently. Ev
ery body knows how customary it is for
these juvenile specimens of humanity to
“crow like chanticleers” over others on
every possible occasion, and especially if
they are rivals at school or elsewhere, to
brag down each other on the extent of their
father’s possessions ; as, for example, “My
pa’s got a great big house, and yours
h-a-i-n-t!” “My pa’s got anew wood-shed,”
and “My pa’s got a hog-pen,” and so on
from buildings and lairds down to lien-coops
! and martin-boxes. In a certain down east
| village, two young reprobates had been en
gaged one day in a brag game of this sort,
I when one of them having exhausted all his
| father’s pos-essions, real, personal and mixed,
was “stumped” at last—brought to a dead
| stand. Meanwhile his antagonist was chuck
j ling with all the ecstaey of a veteran game
ster who holds the trump card. He had
1 brought up his corps de reserve in the shape
| of a corn bam and an old spavined horse, and
I was charging home upon our urchin with the
fury of a Cossack transfixing a Pole. Our
hero stood silent under his biting taunts—
bis countenance the picture of blank despair.
He tried to recall one, just one, additional
piece of property that his pa owned; but it
was like “calling spirits from the vasty deep”
—it would not come. Suddenly, a bright
thought struck him. “Well,” said he’, hits
features brightning up, and his eyes spark
ling with triumph, “1 don’t care, Jim, there’s
one thing you hain’t got —you hain’t got any
dead grand mother!”
Itrtfvo.
An amusing incident occurred the other
evening at the burning of the theatre, related
as follows, for a fact, by a gentleman of re
spectability, who was an actor in the scene :
Mr. II •■, and a party of his jolly Eng
lish friends, who had been dining out, con
cluded to patronize the opera on that evening,
and Mr. B , whose rotundity was con
siderably better filled with the sparkle than
the rest, had taken a front seat, and was sa
j luting the song and sentiment of the oeca
j sion at every “ wait,” with “ unbounded ap
plause,” by clapping hands, and vociferating
! “ bravo 1” “ bravo!” bravely.
Presently, like an electric shock, came the
cry of “fire!” The audience started sud
denly for the door—though their retreat was
I checked to good order by Mr. Rice, the
| manager, who was on the stage at the time.
! Then all was confusion, and each member
of the company, in endeavoring to save the
property, &c., of the profession, was rush
ing backwards and forward in every direc
i tion across the stage.
: Meanwhile our friends outside had missed
their comrade, and thinking, perhaps, that he
might have been injured, one of them stepped
1 up into the boxes, just as the fire was burst
ing through the end of the building in full
j volumes, and Rice crossing the stage with a
! side scene oil his shoulder. There sat Mr.
B. solitary and alone, in the front seat, in
! perfect ecstacies, at the performances, shout
ing bravo !—bravo! —a most splendid imita
tion of a fire !—bravo ! bravo !! — Chicago
| Journal.
Irish Counting.—“ Teddy, me b’y, did ye
| go to the parthy last night?”
“Och! warn’t I there, darlin’? And warn’t
it a fine time we had, Jemmy ?”
I “How many ov the b’ys did ve ’ave
: thare ?”
“O only foor.”
“An’ who were they ?”
“Thare was mesilf, that’s one; thare was
Barney Flin, that’s two ; the two Croghans,
i an’ that’s thraa; an’—an’—faix, thare was
| foor.”
Teddy commenced his count again.
“The two Croghans, is one ; mesilf, that’s
two ; an’ Barney Flin is thraa —is thraa—
: hut—thare was foor, oony how!”
Not satisfied with three, Teddy scratched
his pate, and very emphatically recommenced
1 his counting.
i “Thare was Barney Flin, that’s one; an’
the two Croghans, that’s tiro ; an’ mesilf,
that’s thraa —an’—an’ — he dad, thare was
foor —but I can’t t'ink o’ the uthy one !”
The “Lead Game” is one of the last things
out in the city of New York, and as it may
not be understood by our readers, we will
briefly describe it. A single thickness of tin
foil is stuck on a fifty cent piece with gum
arabic, and pressed down so smoothly as not
to expose the deception, giving to the coin an
unctious feeling and a leadefi sound- when
thrown on a table or counter. A person un
acquainted with the deception readily bets
that the piece is not genuine. It is needless
to remark, in the phrase of the b’hoys, that
| the dupe is “leaded.”
An anecdote is told of Gov. Jones which
is too good to be lost. Whilst making a
speech some two years since a rowdy fellow
hissed him. Immediately the cry “turn him
out—turn him out,” arose from various parts
of the crowd. Just at the time an ass near
by commenced braying, when the Governor
remarked to the audience, “let him alone,
gentlemen, his father is calling him and he
will soon leave.’’
NO. 38.