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FUNERALS.
BY MINNESINGER.
As dying is a part of wliat is daily seen
floating upon the current of human life, of
course funerals are as common things as
marriages, births, cotton crops, and Presi
dential elections. I notice that they are not
often matters of conversation; but I suppose
it is not because there is any tiling wrong in
dying and being buried, or in conversing or
writing about such things. 1 have attended
many funerals during my short life, and
though it may appear strange to some, yet
out of hundreds of corpses, I have not looked
upon the faces of half a dozen. I have al
ways had an uncontrollable aversion to look
ing upon the countenance of a corpse.
I have noticed another thing. Although
the friends and attendants at funerals seem
to think the death of their neighbor an una
voidable providence “in the course of human
events,” to be silently submitted to; and
though they very sagely, solemnly, and sanc
timoniously impress such views upon the be
jeaved relatives; yet the latter seem fortified
by no such philosophy. Their sighs, and
tears, and shrieks of despair, make the im
pression upon me, that they had never antic
ipated such a calamity.
And I have observed, too, that when any
of these philosophic attendants were after
wards bereaved, they lost all their philoso
phy, and seemed as much overwhelmed with
unexpected grief, as though no one had ever
been bereaved before. And those who had
been first bereaved, seemed to have forgotten
their former grief, and they, in turn, had be
come philosophic and unfeeling. And then
it seemed to me that there was no one man
upon earth, who could fully sympathize with
an}* other man. And while I was lamenting
over this, it occurred to me that that “man,
Christ Jesus,” whose life is partially record
ed in a book called the “New Testament,”
was the only man of whom I had ever read or
heard, that did fully sympathize with the sor
rows of men. The narrative says “Jesus
wept” over the grave of Lazarus. And then
while I was regretting that he had left the
world, so that we could not go to him, I re
membered that it was said of him that he
“could be touched with the feeling of our infir
mities” now, as before, and that though we
could not see him, yet be was “able to suc
cor those that are tempted.” And then I
was very glad, that no man was left in this
lone world without any friend, and I remem
bered something that is said in that book
about “loving him w hom we have not seen.”
I have remarked, also, that taking the dif
ferences in temperament, the manifestations
of grief, among sensible and honest people,
are very nearly the same, in all ranks and
conditions of society—whether in the back
woods, interior, or “in the city full.” Moth
ers are always passionate in lamentations, for
their poor little dead infants; daughters and
sons are always frantic with despair, at the
sight of a dying mother, who has just become
speechless, and is sighing out the last remains
of life, with her eyes fixed upon them with a
strange look of recognition, and a desire to
say something more. Husbands and wives
always find the long cooled down affection
of early married life, suddenly revived at the
sight of a dying companion ; and children are
always stung with remorse for every remem
bered pain they have wilfully caused the pa
rent who is pronouncing a dying blessing up
on their heads. I have noticed that men and
women, dying, have always been penitent
that they have not been more kindly ten
der to their friends, and more friendly and
benevolent to all men while living. And the
living, in looking up®n the dying, always feel
remorse, when they remember any unkind
ness they have indulged, or any friendship
they have neglected, toward the dying one.
All enmities and animosities between men
die, when one of the parties is seen failing in
death. This has led me to think that all
men ought to love and do good to one an
other, w hile living. It is sweet, it seems, to
.think of, when one is dying.
1 have observed again that many people
have a certain standard of grief, and that if
vou are bereaved and do not weep, or do
not weep with a certain loudness, sundry
strange suspicions are mysteriously w hisper
ed about to your prejudice, as, —“He did not
love bis wife,” or “She did not care much
for her husband,” or “He won’t remain single
long,” or “He gets property by his father’s
death,” or “Ah! he did not feel much for the
loss of his poor old mother.” This has led
me to think that some people are great fools,
or great brutes, I do not know’ which; per
haps a little of both.
And then I have found a certain class fre
quenting all the funerals I have ever attend
ed, except, perhaps, those of negroes, or very
poor people. People of a certain redness of
nose and eyes, produced by constant appli
cation of the handkerchief, with lips distor
ted—the under one protruded outward, and
the upper one drawn down—and a certain
sniffle, or stifled sob, always at their com
mand, as if they were hired to mourn, and
* were trying to establish a good reputation in
their business. They always walk alongside
of some bereaved one, and at every* outburst of
real grief, they have a way of covering their
faces, and shaking their bodies, like persons
deeply agitated with an agony of grief. They
are always the most officious and ill-timed,
in offering unappreciated consolation; they
are always looking up and about, to be ob
served ; and they always fill up the carriages,
to the exclusion of persons who are wanted
to go, and who ought to go.
On a certain time, one of these persons
b prejudiced me forever against the whole
I class. Ido not say that he fitted the descrip-
I tion last given—that is applicable principal
|ly to females. But he belonged to that class
lof persons who have no idea of the fitness of
■things—no apprehension of the delicacy of
Bpief. A gentleman had heard that his rnoth
whom he tenderly loved, was dangerous- :
ly ill. lie left home that night, and travelled j
night and day. He left the cars at the depot!
nearest his father’s residence, about a mile
and a half distant, and fearing to speak to
any one w’ho knew him, lest he should hear
of his mother’s death, he was rapidly pro
ceeding homeward on foot, when, recollecting
something he had forgotten, he turned back
for a moment to the depot. There he was
recognized by this man, who immediately, in i
a full voice, in the midst of a company of
strange gentlemen, remarked, “I suppose
you have heard that your mother was dead!”
This led me to think that, however the virtue
and simplicity of the poor and ignorant may
be lauded by romantic pseudo-philosophers,
who have more sickly sentimentalism than
healthy sense, yet a man is hardly fit for so
ciety who has never been humanized, by
some cultivation of the decencies and propri
eties of life.
But then there are instances of right feel
ing and beautiful sentiment, in connection
with such things, in all classes of society.
Not long since I attended the funeral of
an old patriarch of eighty years. A few
friends and neighbors, in addition to the rela
tives, gathered in. The minister read appro
priate scripture, gave out and led in singing
a solemn song, prayed, and then delivered a
brief discourse appropriate to the occasion,
after which they all retired to the grave.
There was the aged wife, who had mar
ried him in her youth, and had lived with him
“from the days of her virginity,” looking as
though she had just reached the utmost boun
dary of human life, and was just entering the
wilderness of the Unknown, looking for
someone to take her by the hand and guide
her. She did not weep ; her grief was dumb
and deep. She tottered up to the very
edge of the grave, and looked steadily in un
til the first spade full of earth was about to
be tumbled upon the coffin below; then she
shrunk back with a sort of shudder to the
distance of eight or ten feet. She was some
what corpulcMit, and her face, until now, was
red ; but it suddenly blanched, and was over
spread w ith a fearful paieness, and her usu
ally dim and quiet eyes were lit up with an
unwonted fire, as she gazed with strange in
tensity at the grave, which was rapidly hiding
from her view, and that forever, the body of
her poor old dead husband.
A daughter, too, of the old man was there
—middle-aged, having children of her own,
grown and married—whose countenance
gave evidence that life, with her, had not
been without thought, and feeling, and suf
fering. I noticed in her, what I had often no
ticed in women: before the grave was half
tilled, she and a female friend had withdrawn
themselves a little distance from the grave,
and with faces close together, and handker
chiefs pressed to one cheek, serving the
double purpose of half concealing their faces
and wiping their tears, were earnestly and
curiously engaged in conversation in refer
ence to the number of years that had elapsed
between the burials of the different departed
members of the family, sleeping there. Wo
man is woman, and man is man. Two men
could no more talk and cry in each other’s
faces, than they could transform themselves
into women.
How beautiful is unaffected human sym
pathy, and how it adorns every thing around
the grave, where real friends assemble, after
the country fashion, to help bury the dead!
There are but few words, and no attempt at
expression. Among the men, the only effort
seems to be to repress feeling. Men are
generally ashamed to manifest much tender
ness. And yet, every look, and word, and ac
tion, is eloquent of sympathy. Men who are
well dressed, whose hands are white and ten
der, and who are easily fatigued—though the
sun he oppressive and servants abundant—will
press in to relieve one another of the spades
and shovels, and have something to do in lav
ing their departed friend in his last resting
place.
I noticed a man becoming very tired and
out of breath, for he had commenced with
the first, and had not been relieved. One of
the bereaved relatives, a young man, noticed
it, and calling in a whisper to one of the fam
ily servants, “Jim, Jim,’’ said he. “Sir?”
said Jim. “Rest your mas’ Bob.” “What
do you say, sir?” asked the servant. “Take
your mas’ Bob’s spade.” The good negro
laid hold of the spade, feeling really happy
of the honor conferred upon him in being al
lowed to “rest mas’ Bob,” and to assist in
burying “old master.”
(fir Messrs. Greenough and Browne expect
to be about three years employed upon the
bronze statue of Washington. The Tran
script thinks that Kossuth will receive fifty
thousand dollars in New England. In speak
ing of Kossuth at home, Mr. Brace says, “To
say that Kossuth is beloved here seems hardl v
necessary after what I have seen. He is
idolized. Every word and trait of his char
acter is remembered with indescribable affec
tion. Even his faults are such as the people
love while they blame.” Proudhon, hav
ing fulfilled his term of three years, has been
released from prison, and is now residing in
Belgium. A correspondent of one of the
daily papers, in reporting the proceedings of
the Rhode Island Legislature, alludes to the
performance of a senator iif the following
graphic manner: “Mr. James, of Rhode Is
land, is reading a speech in the Senate, on
the Deficiency bill. He has got anew suit
of clothes, a white vest, and looks well, and
reads slow and dignified. There was a
rumor at Dublin that Meagher had escaped
from Van Dieman’s Land. Catlin contin
ues his Indian entertainments in London, with
success, illustrating his collection by daily lec
tures. Marshal Gerard, who commanded
a division at Waterloo, died on the 17th of
April, in the eightieth year of his age.
Lamartine has issued the first number of his
“Civilizer.” Epes Sargent, Esq., the
courteous and gifted editor of the Boston
Transcript, has been spending a lew days
in this city.— Home Journal.
(Or “I hate to hear people talk behind
one’s back,” as the pickpocket said when the
constable called “stop thief.’’
OCT Wanted to See. —Some coffee that
is pot Mocha, (mocker.)
Sflutljern SftrtituL
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA;
FRIDAY MORNING,.... JUNE 4, 1852.
The Opelika Kail-Road.
The meeting of the citizens held on Saturday
night last, to consider the propriety of a subscrip
tion of fifty thousand dollars towards this Road by
the City Council, was an animated and protracted,
but very unsatisfactory one. No specific propo
sition was presented by the friends of the project.
Nor did its enemies make a direct issue, but content
ed themselves with a proposition to subscribe under
certain limitations and restrictions which would se
cure its rejection by the Montgomery and West
Point Road. Nor was any vote taken upon any
test question, though, upon a motion to adjourn, the
friends of the subscription had a small majority.
The arguments in favor of the subscription are.
first—That it will complete the connection of Colum
bus with the waters of Mobile Bay, and bring
through our city all travellers from the Gulf to the
Atlantic. Second —That it will increase the value of
the stock of the Muscogee Road.
The objections to the subscription are, first—That
it will interfere with the completion of the Girard
Road. Second—That so large an increase of debt
by the city, will impair her credit, and depreciate
her bonds.
We do not pretend to be well posted in Rail-Road
statistics, and therefore give our opinion on this
subject with much diffidence. On one or two points,
however, we think we have formed correct opinions,
and will submit them to the public for what they
are worth.
The completion of this Road will unquestionably
bring all travel from the Gulf to the Atlantic, through
our city, for many years to come. This, in itself, is
an object of consequence to Columbus, not only as a
city, but as a Stockholder in the Muscogee Rail-
Road. No traveller can pass through Columbus,
without leaving money behind him in the hands of
somebody. The Hotel-keeper, the merchant, the
trader, the waiter and the boot-black are therefore,
all interested in the project to a limited extent; but
unquestionably the Muscogee Road will be the chief
recipient of benefits. It will put the stock of this
road at par —and enable the city to realize 150,000
dollars now invested therein, and apply it in open
ing other channels of communication. The friends
therefore of the Girard and West Point Roads have
nothing to fear from the Opelika Branch Road, un
less it be that the credit of the city will be impaired
by an addition of 50,000 dollars to her existing in
debtedness. We are not now prepared to say wheth
er this result would follow so small an increase of
her indebtedness or not. We incline however to the
opinion that it would not. The resources of the city,
independent of taxation, are immense. Unless eve
ry reasonable calculation is disappointed, she will
realize at least six per cent, upon her stock in the
Muscogee Road, as soon as the cars run from Co
lumbus to Macon, and will be enabled to sell it at
par in time to meet the payment of her outstanding
bonds.
There is, however, one objection to the Opelika
Road, which we feel bound to insist upon. The
stock of the Montgomery and West Point Road is
only worth sixty-five cents on the dollar. It is there
fore unreasonable to expect Columbus to pay the
sum of fifty thousand dollars in hand cash and have
it merged in the stock of the Montgomery and West
Point Road at full prices. If the Stockholders of
the Montgomery and West Point Road will consent
to a fair valuation of their Road, founded upon its
net profits, and will put it in at its real value, we
can see no valid objection to a union of the two
Roads—indeed, it would bo in many respects desira
ble. But if they insist upon full prices for their stock,
we will use every effort in our power to defeat the
subscription of one cent by our City Council.
In conclusion, wo would suggest the propriety of
testing the sense of our community on this import
ant subject, by a vote by ballot.
It is impossible to ascertain with any accuracy
the voice of the community by a vim voce vote in
a public meeting. Hundreds of our most worthy
citizens have no time to waste upon excited harangues,
which generally last until late at night; and the re
sult is that the vote is always taken when a goodly
number are quietly asleep in their beds. Besides,
the whole policy of our Institutions is opposed to
viva vorc votes. There is something uncommonly
unseemly to us in the voting away of the money of
the citizen in a public meeting, hastily called, vio
lently agitated, and unusually prolonged.
Let the Mayor and Council appoint Judges, who
shall open the polis in each ward on a day specified ;
and let the citizens prepare their ballots, and quietly
deposit them in the boxes, without noise or excite
ment ; and then the public voice will be not only
more accurately known, but more properly tested,
than it can possibly be in a public meeting.
Opelika Road—Protracted Meetings.
The meeting on Saturday night was adjourned
over until Monday morning. The thinness of the
meeting on Monday, caused a further adjournment
until Wednesday night. The whole evening, how
ever, was consumed in speaking, and a further ad
journment took place until Saturday night.
One week has developed and given form and or
ganization to the opposition to the Opelika Road, and
it seems to be utterly impossible to make a subscrip
tion to it, without a compromise with the friends of
the Girard Road. The speech of Judge Iverson,
and the Resolutions offered by Mr. Williams, on
Wednesday night, leave no doubt upon this subject.
It is true that Mr. Williams proposed to divide the
city stock in the Muscogee Road equally between the
Opelika, the Girard and the Eufaula Roads, but it is
very evident that the Girard Road is the main spring
of the opposition to the subscription to the Opelika
Road. As the friend of both projects, we depre
cate this clashing of interests ; it can do neither Road
any good, and will inevitably injure both, and retard
their completion. There is no necessity for this col
lision of interests. Let the friends of each project
meet together in a friendly spirit and make a com
promise.
The Girard Road wants the city to subscribe for
fifty thousand dollars additional stock in that magni
ficent enterprise, and will be content with the stock of
the Muscogee Road. Let her have her wish—and
let her then be silent and content.
The friends of the Opelika Road also want the
city to take fifty thousand dollars in that great work.
They prefer the city bonds. Let them have them.
There is no use for further squabble. It will only
produce heart burnings, and opposition to each pro
ject, and delay or defeat both. Neither party can
hope to succeed with the opposition of the other.
The City Council will subscribe to neither while so
much division exists among the people.
There is one view in favor of the Opelika Road,
which has not been sufficiently prominent in the dis
eussions on this subject. If the Opelika Road is not
built,Savannah will push forward the Southwestern
Road. And the moment the cars cross the river be
low Columbus, the prospects of the Girard Road
and our city are sealed.
The “True South.”
This is the title of anew “Southern Rights’’ pa
per started in this city, the first number of which
was issued on Saturday morning hist, by Loudon J.
McCormick, editor and proprietor. It is a large
and handsome sheet, and the number before us is
filled with interesting reading matter. Besides an
unusual amount of editorial —which is spirited and
entertaining, and embraces quite a variety of topics
—the selections are of an excellent character,
evincing judgment and good taste. The paper is
published weekly, at $2 50 per annum, — Mont
gomery Stale Register,
The Late Freshet.
The late rains have done much damage in all the
surrounding country. The Rail-Road Bridge at j
Bull Creek was moved from its place, so that the j
connection is interrupted between this city and ;
Savannah. Indeed, the mails are di ranged in every j
direction. All this, however, will be repaired in a
few days. The injury to the Planters who cultivate
creek 10-. v lands, is almost irreparable. The water
has covered all lands in these localities, subject to
overflow. The destruction upon the Uchee and
Upatoie creeks is said to be very great. Whole
fields of corn and cotton have been submerged, and
greatly, if not irreparably, ruined. It is unfortu
nately too late to replant with any hope of a full
crop.
Prof. Shaw.
The Lectures of this gentleman continue to inter
est the public. His exhibitions in the Lecture Room
resemble those of Mesmerism, though he professes
to teach a totally different science. We have never
found, even in the books which treat-upon the Phe
nomena of Mesmerism, any satisfactory theory by
which these wonderful developments of humanity
are explicable. We therefore attended the lectures
of Prof. Siiaw with little hope of obtaining any
new light. We take pleasure however in stating
that, in frequent intercourse with him, we have been
favored with a partial insight into his theory, and
though we are not prepared to say that we fully
comprehend his system, much less give it full cre
dence, we confess that it is new, plausible, and in
genious, uttd worthy of the consideration of scientific
men.
The Finality and other 3latters.’
The Finality'. The Finality! If Congressional
speeches and newspaper editorials furnish any clue
to the politics of the day, “the finality'’ is the hinge
upon which the whole machinery of party is to turn
in the coming Presidential election. But what is
the import ot these charmed words—what magic
do they possess—that they should give direction to
party organizations, and control the issues of a con
troversy so momentous as the choice of a President ?
What has “the finality” to do with the question—
whether Winfield Scott, or Millard Fillmore,
Lewis Gass, or Stephen A. Douglas, is to be
President of the Union for the next four years ? We
imagine that an honest answer to this inquiry will
demonstrate at once the heartlessness of both Whigs
and Democrats in the effort which is male to con
stitute tills prinjip'e the foundation of their political
organization. If there were really any difference
between these men on this question of the finality,
then there might be some reason in the clamor
which we hear about it; hut is there the shadow of
a difference ? So far as the question of slavery in
the abstract is concerned, they all agree that it is an
evil. No doubt each one of them is at heart an
abolitionist; not that either one would abolish the
•institution at once, if it wi re practicable—because
they are all men of sense enough to know that such
a measure would involve the whole country in irre
trievable ruin ; but each one of them would, if he
bad the power to do so, establish to-morrow, a sys
tem of gradual emancipation. They are all opposed
to the extension of slavery, but probably neither one
of them would sanction the Wiiinot Provi* >—not be
cause they did not approve its object, but because it
might endanger the Union, and they are all devoted
friends of the Union. Indeed, it would be difficult
to determine which does love the Union best, so
enamored are they all of its excellencies.
Upon the subject of the Fugitive Slave Law, (and
this is what is meant by “the finality,”) they are all
“finality” men. Gen. Cass dodged it, we admit, and
Gen. Scott evades it, we do not deny—hut Gen.
Cass and Gen. Scott have read the past to very
little purpose, if they have not long ago discovered
that dodging and evasion are the surest p.-.ssport to
the Presidency. But they are all sound on that
point. We should not hesitate to wager that every
man of them would, (if it were necessary to his elec
tion,) take a Bible oath to execute the law, in every
| instance, faithfully and to the b-st of his ability.
| There are a few voters at the North, enough per
i haps to control the whole of New England, three
fourths of the Middle, and one half of the Western
States, who are bitterly opposed to this Fugitive Act,
and in deference to their opinions, it is not to be
wondered that a candidate for the Presidency should
play mum, until the el ctioa is over. But once make
him President of this “vast sisterhood of States,”
ruler of the destinies of this “glorious Union,” and
there is no doubt about the nationality, the conser
vatism, of i itlier of these popular favorites. Is proof
required ? Look at Fillmore. Before his election
to the Presidency, he was an avowed abolitionist:
just as much so, at least, as Seward is now. “But
mark the sequel.” No sooner was he lirmly seated
in “the highest office within the gift of the Ameri
can people,” than he was metamorphosed into an
“eminently conservative” politician—a constitution
al Union man of the first water.
The long and the short of the whole matter is,
that either one of these candidates is just as good a
Union man, just as good a finality man, as the other,
and hence all the noise that is made about the pre
eminent soundness of either, is the merest stuff,
gammon, saw-dust for filling the eyes of “the dear
people.”
It is amusing, for instance, to see the holy horror
with which Southern Whigs turn up the whites of
their eyes at the mention of Gen. Scott. What
is the matter with Gen. Scott, pray ? Isn’t he a
good Whig? A better can’t be found in Massachu
setts ; no, nor in Georgia either. True; true; but
Wbiggery -is obsolete. Well, isu’t the General
sound on the Compromise ? lie says he is, aud we
see no reason why he shouldn't be credited as soon
as Mr. Fillmore, lie has asserted aril repeated
his devotion to the Union, and we don’t understand
why, what is thunder for Mr. Webster, shouldn’t
be thunder for Gen. Scott. Oh ! but we are op
posed to military candidates. That’s a clincher!
We give it up without a word. Step one side, Gen
eral, you’ll never do for a Whig candidate.
Now, reader, we will furnish you with a little key
with which this whole mystery may be unlocked,
and the name of that little key is— “ The Finality,”
and the way to use it is this : Before this great
Union caravan came along and demolished the old
parties, the Whigs were in a minority in Georgia,
Alabama and Mississippi, and upon a restoration of
old party lines, the same state of things would be
true to-day. It is apprehended, therefore, by those
who manage the Whig cards in the South, that if
they should enter a regular built out-and-out Whig
of the old stamp, that he might be distanced in the
m xt “fall races” over the political “courses” in these
! three States. If they can manage to run Mr. Fill
’ more, therefore, upon the “finality” platform, they
may win the race, and have a good Whig adminis
tration, to boot. And this we conceive to be a plain
solution of the whole matter. Superadded to this,
that the contest with all hands, is more for place than
for principle, and all the dust which has been kicked
up of late, is laid low, leaving the political atmos
phere as clear as the natural heavens after a May
shower.
The Fillmore Movement in Georgia.—
Meetings have been held iu Bibb, Baldwin and Mon
roe counties, and delegates appointed to a State
Convention, to be held in Milledgeville on Monday,
Tth day of June, to nominate delegates to the Na
tional Whig Convention, in Baltimore, on the 16th of
June.
Resolutions were adopted at each meeting appro
ving, in the most decided terms, of the administra
tion of Mr. Fillmore and in favor of the finality of
the Compromise and its faithful execution.
As meetings have been called in other counties,
there is no doubt now, that the Convention will meet
and that Georgia will be represented in the Nation
al Whig Convention,— Chrov, $• Sentinel-
The Causes of the Prosperity of Boston.
Daniel Webster asserted, in his late speech in
Fanenil Hall, that one quarter of the whole tax laid
by the public authorities of Boston, was expended
in the education of the people—and furthermore,
that the city of Boston pays more than £200,000 a
year for the support of religious instruction and pub
lic worship.
This unparalleled munificence will readily account
for the intellectual superiority of Boston over all
the cities of the world, of the same age and popula
tion. In view of it, we may well blush for the
stingy parsimony of our own State, and the supine
indifference of our own legislators, oil this vital sub
ject. We boast of the sovereignty of the people,
and laugh at the ignorance of European despots.
We forget that every European despot can read, and
write, and cipher. This is more than can be said
of hundreds of thousands of American sovereigns
This is no jest, but sober truth—for the uneduca
ted sovereign, who makes his mark, is legislator,
judge and executive, in America, as emphatically as
is the King, in Prussia. Whatever evils maybe in
flicted upon a Monarchy, by an ignorant King, will
he inflicted upon-a Republic, by an uneducated pop
ulace. There is, therefore, precisely the same ne
cessity for the education of the People, that there is
for the education of the King.
[written for tue sentinel.]
The Histrionics.
| We had the pleasure of attending the last dra
| matic exhibition of this deservedly popular amateur
j company, last week, and the manner in which they
| acquitted themselves on the occasion, reflects much
| credit on the corps. The fashionable audiences that
| have witnessed their performances during the past
winter, have invariably been phased, but their last
exhibition is considered by many, to have been their
best. They opened with The Denouncer, an ex
cellent Melo-Drama, and well adapted to the talent
of the amateurs. The character of the De
nouncer was admirably sustained in every particular,
and though the rending may appear difficult, yet, in
the hands of our friend, “The Golden Farmery’ it
was well cared for. I have si en him in every char
acter that he has attempted, but in none of them
has he been so successful as in the last. Count
Adolphe and Simon were also good personations,
but will not bear comparison with the one above
mentioned. Victorine was quite passable. So also
was the Dutchman, and his friendly advisi-rs. The
other characters in the play, though minor ones,
were well sustained, and space alone prevents their
receiving special notices. After The Denouncer.
we were given a treat, in the shape of a farce—and
such a treat —“often read abut, but seldom en
joyed.” The principal feature was the introduction
of a live baby, which, on waking, (it was asleep at
the time,) was greeted with a shout that yet rings
in my ears. The little actor evidently thought him
self in bad hands, and well might he think so—judg
ing from the manner in which my friend, ‘•Honey
bun,” handled him, with his b-o-r-u-m—b-o rum—
horum. Isis own dear father, “the injured Crank”
himself, was not too particular; but Its kind mother
and old aunt Jewell, knew how to manage him.
This is the best farce the Histrionics have played,
and 1 regret 1 cannot he more minute. It is under
stood that the Corps intend, at llu-ir earli st oppor
tunity, to give another representation of “The Facto-
J ry Girl,” or “All that Glitters is not Gold,” one
of the best comic dramas ever written, and which
has kept possession of the stage, both in Europe and
America, for many years. As played by the His
trionics, it is a special favorite, and we look forward
to the occasion of its second representation on our
home boards with feelings of pi asuro. All plays
| of this character will b ar repetition, and if the same
talent is brought forward as heretofore, we will in
sure the young actors a crowded audience. Otir
amateurs have never produced anything heretofore
| (Larnorah and The Denouncer excepted) which was
as well received as “The Factory Girl.’’ The sum
i mer season is fast approaching, and we would there
! fore suggest to them the propriety of using dispatch,
as many of their friends and patrons will soon leave
for the watering places. SANDY.
[written for the sentinel.]
Book Notices.
Works of Stephen Olin, D. D., LL. D. Two
Volumes. New York : Harpers.
Methodism in the. United States, rs in England,
lias been the foster mother of many men of extra
ordinary talent, and a few of genius. Indeed, in the
special department to which her men have devoted
their time and energy—the pulpit—she stands un
paralleled, not to say unapproached, by sister denom
inations. But the very cause which has made lv. r
voice like a trumpet, has almost paralyzed her pen.
Whilst the tongue of Methodism has been unrivalled
in eloquence, the pages of her literature are
meagre—well nigh barren. Within the last fifty
years, the names of Shinn, Snec'hen, Strong, Big
elow, Smith, Hull, Russell, Ceokinan, Fisk,
Bascom and Olin, may well challenge comparison
with any contemporary names, in Church or State,
for equal powers of speech. To these might be
added a host of living men. And yet they have left
but little behind them that will justify tln-ir fame to
posterity. This cannot he wondered at. As well
might we expect a Be. thoven to be an Angelo, or
that music should be tried by the same tests as
sculpture, as that great orators should at the same
time be great authors. The Methodist Church is
not yet old enough to have given the world mature
scholarship, profound originality, and books that will
deserve to stand side by side with Hooper’s,
Taylor’s, and Neander’s. Good sense does not
justify us in looking for more than the results of
occasional effort, in which a sound judgment, fervent
piety, and a zeal for the good of men, shall be the
; conspicuous traits. But whenever anything falls in
our way, which bears the impress of a broad, gigan
tic power, our pleasure is the greater, because un
expected.
Such have been our feelings in perusing the
works of Dr. Olin. The first of American preach
ers, he will take a high rank among our religious
writers. Breadth of view, profound insight, subtle
j analysis, a thorough comprehension of the subject
| and its relations, with a treatment at once ample,
j vigorous and unhackneyed, characterize the contents
!of these volumes. The first comprises sermons, but
| few of which were prepared by the author for the
j press ; these only, therefore, have that nice finish
! and perfect form, marking all his completed produc
! tions. Even his outlines, however, are more valua
ble than most men’s sermons ; so pregnant are they
with thought, so full in statement, and so terse, sim
ple and ch ar, in diction. But the second volume is
that which commends itself to general interest. Here
we have seven lectures on the Theory and Practice
of the Scholastic Life. If any of our readers happen
to be students, or desirous to become such, in the
dignity of that noble calling, we cannot do bet
ter for such than say, possess yourself immediately
of these volumes, and make these Lectures your
own. Their study will richly repay one. We do
not recollect anywhere, so large and satisfactory a
view of this subject, and one withal so stimulating.
Then come four of the author's unequalled Bacca
laureate discourses, embracing a discussion of those
topics of greatest interest to young men entering
life. The whole volume constitutes the most lumi
nous and practical exposition of education which has
appeared in this country.
To young Ministers, let us say, if you desire to
acquire a pulpit style almost faultless, to acquaint
yourself with the grandest, yet simplest mode of pre
senting sacred truth, to see how massive intellect
may be permeated and irradiated by the purest
Christian heart, give your days and nights to the
study of Dr. TJlin. Copy no man ! But take as .
much as you can assimilate from all; and no where, j
in late hooks, will you find more wholesome nutri- j
incut than in th.-sc. To Georgians, especially, I
should these volumes be dear. In their midst, did
the heroic and saintly nature of their author take
root, and grow, and strengthen. And even now,
upon the characters of many of their noblest breth
ren, may the influence of this great, good man, be
traced.
Dr. Anthon's Grecian Antiquities. Now York :
Harpers.
Dr. Anthon, at fifty, is hale as if he lnd lived in
the woods, rubicund as a monk, and studious as if
he had never seen the outside of a library. There,
in old Columbia College, within one or two blocks of
the Park and Broadway, along which rolls the
ceaseless tide of human life, he sits in the midst of
his books —insured tor more than thirty thousand
dollars—as cloistered as if he lived in a desert. Of
ten this Magliabcechi of America does not put his
1 foot in the seet ouce a month. Books are his chil
dren, and students his household cares. With an
income of five thousand ]fltr annum from his pub
lishers, and two or three more from his Professor
ship, beside his house, he manages to eat, drink, and
read it all up, by the end of the year. Still steadily
! eoine forth, first in his manuscript, in a copper-plate
hand, easily read as print, without an erasure or in
teriineation, then from the press, that stream of
lo >ks, which has supplied American youth with
text books for schools and colleges, for tho last fif
teen or twenty years.
They are all valuable, if not for their originality,
at least for the thorough scholarship, unlimited re
sources, and unwearied diligence, displayed by their
author.
Those who desire to familiarize themselves with
the personages, scenes, life and events of Greece and
Rome—thanks to the labors of Smith, Brown,
Grote, ThirUvall, Niebuhr and Bunsur—find it easy
to do so, as in the ease of modern Europe. Dr An
j then has collated all that is valuable, and bearing
i upon iiis theme, and arranging it under the heads
i of the heroic age—Sparta, Creta and Athens—fur
nishing the student and general reader, all he will
j care or need to know about those noble old
j Greeks—their dress, in-. als, family relations, slavery,
I worship, war, money, commerce, legislation. <&e. &c.
j Like all the books of the author, it is well gotten
up, neatly printed on good paper, with substantial
binding.
[communicated 1
A Recipe to cure Bowel Disease.
Take a large single handful! of the inside bark of
the Red Oak, ditto of the inside bark of the Black
j Haw root, ditto of the Dewberry Brier root. Boil
| them together in a gallon of water, down to half a
! gallon; then strain ihe water through a coarse mus
! lin cloth ; then put it into the add to it one
i ounce of powdered ginger, one ounce of powdered
i nutmeg, and one ounce of powdered cinnamon bark,
I and boil it down to a quart : then add to it a quart
| of French brandy, and two pounds of Loaf sugar,
i Keep it covered close while boiling, mid let it boll
! about fifteen minutes—then strain it into bottles, and
| set it away in a cool place—and for a dose of it, if
j the ease is a had one, take a largo tablespoonfu! every
; three hours, until the disease is checked —and if it is
i not a bad case, a table spoon full three times a day,
■ morning, noon and night.
j The above is Berry Strange’s infallible remedy
I for diarrhoea, that never fails to effect a permanent
j cure.
i
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
[From the Charleston Courier.]
ARRIVAL OF THE CAMBRIA.
Baltimore, May 2G. —The British Mail steam
ship Cambria has arrived at Halifax from Liverpool,
1 which port.she left on the loth instant,
j The sales of Cotton in the Liverpool market, du
! ring the week, comprised 112,000 bales. The de-
I inand was good and prices were stiller, but the quo
j tations unaltered.
In Paris the felss of the 10th of May passed off
brilliantly. There was no attempt made to pro
claim the Empire.
Colombia, May 2fi.—The supply of Cotton is
short, consequently the sales are moderate and pri
ces firm. 147 bales were sold to-day at from 7 1-2
! to 9 1-4 cents.
[ln consequence of the prevalence of electricity ill
| the atmosphere during yesterday afternoon and eve
j ning, it was impossible for us to obtain the balance
I of the Cambria’s advices and our usual telegraphic
J dispatches.— Eds. Courier.]
Additional per Cambria.
In the Liverpool market, of the 112.000 bales of
Cotton sold during the week ending the 14th iust-,
19,000 were taken for export and 41,000 for specit-
I lation. The arrivals during the same period win
prised 141,000 bales. The demand from the trade
during the week was good and freely met by ex
porters. Fair to Go 1 Fair No v Orleans 6 1-81;
Middling New Orleans 5 1 -44 ; and Middling Up
lands sd. On the day the Cambria sailed—Satur
day, 15th inst.—the Liverpool market closed with
stiller prices prevailing.
Consols closed at 99 7-8.
The British Parliament had rejected the resolu
tion to abolish the eighteen pence duty on each
ne w spa per advertisement.
The U. S. mail steamship Arctic had arrived at
Liverpool.
Congress, May 2fi. —In the Senate the De
ficiency bill was under consideration.
The House of Representatives to.ik up, in Com
mittee of the Whole on the state of the Union,
the Invalid and Navy Pension bills. Debate follow
i ed. involving the w rits of the Compromise mea
sures, and before tho adjournment those two bills
were passed.
Gov. Hunt denies that he pardoned the fu
gitive slave James Snowden in order to aid him in
escaping the pursuit of his master. Ihe facts in the
ease, however, are well calculated to arouse suspi
j cion as to his honesty.
Case of Chaplin.'— Judge Crawford, of the
i criminal court, was engaged in hearing arguments
on behalf of the securities of Chaplin, arrested in ab
ducting slaves from this city, upon a plea as to the
forfeiture of amounto! his bailees. District Attor
ney Feudal 1 and R. S. Coxe. for the Government ;
and llon. Horace Mann and Joseph 11. Bradley, for
the securities. — Republic, 2oth ult.
Mutilated Bank Bills. —A case of some
interest (savs the Mobile Advertiser of tho 25th)
was tried in the Circuit Court a few days since. It
was brought by A. W. Marsh, to recover from the
Bank of Mobile the value of one of its S2O mutila
ted bills, which had come into the possession of Mr.
Marsh in the regular course of his business. The
bill was composed of two parts, pasted together,
which were less in length by seven-eighths than the
original. The name of the Cashier was in full on
one part of the bill, and the name of the President,
with the exception of his initials, on the other part.
It was conceded that the owner received it in one
course of trade, and when exhibited in Court, in
the same condition as when it came into his hands.
The late teller of the Bank testifies, that at the time
the bill was presented to the Bank, several hills of
a like character had also been offered, and that the
Bank, in paying them, had been in tae habit of de
ducting from them in pro|>ortion as their value was
decreased by curtailment. This witness exhibited
six cut notes of the Bank, and explained how tne
seventh was made out ot that number, and that it
was his belief that the bill iu question was cut with
a fraudulent design upon the Bank. The Court, in
accordance with the above testimony, ruled that the
owner was not entitled to anything—in other words,
the bill was valueless. An appeal has been taken to
a higher tribunal.
* The i . . —-
„ , ‘nt irruption of the Jesuits i,
colleges tins uiist • , ... . e
in France, such a9 V>e illustrious proW
hundred are turned a " d . Cousin - Fourteen
scholarships. lh °‘ r F ° fußsorates or
Death or Rnv.\
,1 • JV JAM,S Simons An
derson. —Rev. Ben annn biiV. , ,
~,. . •. , ‘ Anaerson. late
Euitor ot the Christian Telegrap ...
.1 ? .died of dysen
tery on the morning ot Monday. th s , .. ...
, 4th of May,
at a quarter past 9 o clock. J ’
England.—Parliament had
resolution to abolish newspaper advertiseincL
, . stamp
duties. r
Franck.—The fete of the 10th of .
passed oft’ brilliantly, without any attempt by i.
President to proclaim the Empire.
The expenses of the public schools of Phila
delphia, for the present year, are estimated at
$435,958.
The Presidential election next November
will bo governed by the apportionment under the
census of 1840, and not by the new apportionment.
Some Seminole Indiaus, who allege that
they had been expelled from Florida by the Ameri
cans, are oil a visit to the President of the Mexi
can Republic.
Gov. Boutwell has nominated Gen. Calob
Cushing to the vacant Judgeship of the Supreme
Gourt of Massachusetts.
A new edition of “Uncle Tony’s Log cabin”’
is to be published in a style of typography uni for in
with the “Works of Baron Munchausen.”
| A notice in the new number of the Edin
| burgh Resieic informs the public that the MS. papers
| and journals of the late Thomas Moore are in prepy
! amiioti for publication, and that they will be edited
by Lord John RussHk
; The Tariff.—The friends of the tariff nr©
: said to be mustering powerfully in Washington, es-
I p'-cialiy from Pennsylvania, with a view to u spoil ta
| ikous movement in favor of coal and iron.
1 The corner stone of the first college in Wis
’ cousin was laid at Racine, on the sth ult.
! *lt is said that Professor Agassiz lias sent
for Mr. lij|pu-, a uoteJ, “Medium,” to see what ho
can make out of the spiritual rappings.
The Episcopal Convention, now in session
at Philadelphia, refused to admit delegates from col
ored Churches—the majority against their ad
mission being very small.
— Methodist Gkneraj.- Conference—
Election of Bishops, Editors, etc. — fibston,
Tuesday, May 25, 1852.—-Very soon after the or
ganization this morning, the Conference proceeded to
: ballot for the election, of four Bishops.
1 The four following gentlemen received the requi
site number of votes :
Rev. L. Scott, D. I)., of the Philadelphia Confer
ence, but for the last four years Assistant Book Agent
| at New York ; Rev. M. Simpson, D. D., of Cin
i eiimati, Editor of the Western Christian Advocate
■ Rev. O. C. Baker, of the New Hampshire Confer
! dice , and Rev. IC. R. Ames, of Indiana Conference.
Dr. Thomas E. Bond, predecessor of Rev. two.
Peck, D. I)., in the Editorship of the Christian
| Advocate Journal, was again elected to that of
| fiee. Rev. Dr. McCliiitock was re-elected Editor
j of th.- Quarterly Rivieie , and Rev. D, P. Kidder,
I Sunday Seho >1 Editor.
| Rev. .J. P. Durbin. D. D., was elected Corres-
I ponding Secretary of .Missionary Society.
| S-econd Dispatch —Rev. Wm. Ilusmer was re
| elected Editor of the Northern'Christian Advocate ,
1 and Rev. Win. Nast,. D. 1)., Editor of the Chris
tian Apologist , published at Cincinnati.
The remaining olfieers, including the Book Agents,
will be elected this afternoon.
Highly Interesting’ Correspondence.—
Declaration of the Democratic Candidates for the
: Presidency for the Compromise. —The lion. Robert
i G. Scott, of Va., the Democratic Elector
j for President in that district, a few days ago, address
i ed- a letter to all tile D- nioera l ic candidates spoken
. of for the Presidency, asking their opinion on the
compromise measures, particularly the fugitive slave
; law. Several answers have been returned, the sub
• stance of which is thus furnished in the New York
| Herald :
Gen. Houstomreplied, under date of the 2lrt
j iust , that he voted for all the measures embraced in
’ the Compromise bill, severally, and lie-lms since no
| cause to change his views. lie declares that ho
j would not hesitate to veto- tiny bill impairing the law
for the protection of the constitutional right which
j guarantees to the p- ople of the South the possession
and enjoyment of tlu-ir slave property.
Gen. Cass writes, under the date of the 24th ult.,
declaring his acquiescence in all the Compromise
measures, lie expresses the opinion that it would
he the duty of a President to veto any hill that weak
ened or iinpa red the fulfilment of the constitutional
obligation to deliver up fugitive slaves, as enforced by
j the Fugitive Slave law. He declares the sacrifice*
| of individual opinion, in opposition to any of tho
j Compromise measures, to be a duty every good eitt
; zen o\vi s ids country and the preservation of the
Union.
Judge Douglas also writes under the- same date.
He adverts to his past public career, as showing his
1 opinions as to the compromise measures, and says
| his views have undergone no change. lie does not
hesitate to state expressly, that it is the duty of every
! true American to oppose the repeal or modification
i of the fugitive Slave law, that would impair the ful
j filment of the constitutiunal obligation on that sub
ij. et. Yet he would not yield the patronage of tho
I government to influence the Legislature on that or
- any other subject.
Cos!. W. R. King, of Alabama, writes that he ac
quiesces in the compromise. lie regards the fugitive
slave law, not in the light of ordinary legislation, hut
that it is to carry out a constitutional guarantee, and
| the President ought to negative any act the effect of
i which would he to impair or weaken its efficiency.
Daniel S. Dickinson, of New York, has replied
that he acquiesces in allthe compromise measures; ba*
that he is not a candidate for the Presidency, having
long since expressed a preference for a distinguished
statesman, (Gen. Cass.) lie considered it the duty
of the President to veto any measure which in any
way would impair tho efficiency ot the fugitivo
slave law.
Gen. Rusk has replied, by taking the same deci
ded stand with the foregoing, but disclaims any as
piration for the Presidency. H‘* avows his prefer
| eiice. for General Houston over all others.
Several other replies have been written.
q ld Fogyism.—The National Intelli
\ g encer is so averse to tho Websterian mode of spell
ing. now practiced by the Harpers in all their publi
cations,.that, says the editor, “we have not purcha
sed a book of the issuo of that press which could
be procured from any other source.”
The Kingston (lamaica) Journal says, tber©
will be a great falling off in the sugar crop. On that
side of the island it will be without parallel. At An
tigua, tho drought continued, and distress was be
ginning to be felt. The crops were suffering, and
ffie cattle dying. At St. Kitts the drought was very
severe.
Carpets are now’ manufactured in large quan
tities, both in England and the United tho
figures of which are stamped, not woven. Ihese
are produced by a pressure of 500 tons on each
block or stamp. The carpets are very beautiful,
but do not wear well, and we regrot to say that tho
dealers do not always let their customers know tho
difference, though the price is well kept up.
At the Stark Mills, iu Manchester, N. 11.,
thov manufacture seamless bags. Fifty looms man
ufacturc 2,000 a day.