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CITY 1' R I.V T R .
[for the southern museumJ
Voting Willard tile Won Id-He.
Tounj; Willard is a bonny lad,
In brood) lotb and in satin ulad :
No man a neater boot e'er hail,
Or finer dick and collar ;
And when be walks be struts right on,
As if a Lord, a Duke, or Don,
Though not a man beneath the sun
More seldom sees a dollar.
His face is hairy as a goat's,
Though on its looks he often (fonts,
And swears the maker of his coats
Thinks him a second Byron ;
And if the tailor should hy chance
E’er happen to enlarge his pants,
lie frets and foams, and raves and rants
To make him sew the pair on.
Ilis st raps are fixed so tight around
Ilisfccf, that should they lose their ground,
I would not vouch where he’d he found,
For a bootless task ’twould be ;
II is head so light would soar away,
Regardless what the whiskers say,
Or whether he would plead or pray,
Onward, upward, they would flee.
I've often heard young Willard say,
That when he walks the streets the day,
Above his head on either way
Ladies to their w indows hie ;
As if a sight of nature rare
Within the streets, had called them there :
While I •e, with proud and manly air,
Doth unheeding pass them.
lie vows that half the men in town
Are jealous of his great renown,
Whilst all the girls the country round
Are fighting 'niongst each other,
Each disputing for her merit
Willard’s title to inherit ;
While one says if she don’t bear it
She ne’er will have another.
O what a pity ’t is to be
So blind as not our faults to see :
For lam certain that if he
Once could look through others’ eyes :
He would be templed to deride,
And view with scorn bis foolish pride,
Which long hath won him far and wide
The sad name of Fashion's Prize !
W. I*. 11.
Prom the Augusta Republic.
Imprisonment tor f>ol»t.
Against this relic of barbarism, that 1)0$*
so long covered our land with shame, vvv
are proud to know that the press, without
a single exception, has raised its voice. It
is one of the statutes that the people ex
pect the next Legislature to repeal. It
mocks, with bitter derision, all our lofty
pretensions to equality, and all our boasted
perfection of freedom. It sits like a jug
gling devil over the peace of society, and
bolds in perpetual terror half the virtues
that bless mankind. It has been abolish
ed in twenty-four out of the thirty Stales
that compose the Union, and we blush lo
own that the star of our own beloved
Georgia is still under its mephitic eclipse.
But may we not hope that when our next
Legislature shall have closed the labors of
its session, that nue honest man in Geor
gia shall be as free as another ?—that if
wealth must make a difference among men,
that difference shall cease before it reaches
our birth-right ?—that if energy is driven
to the wall, it shall not therefore he trod
den down, but that it shall have a blade to
battle with as long as it has courage and
strength to strike 1 —and that degradation
shall no longer, in this free land, he the
consequence of -unavoidable misfortune ?
The piide of every nation is a sentinel
upon its watcli-towcr. Men without per
sonal pride care hut little about national
glory, and therefore whenever you humble
the citizen you wrong his country. It is
time, we think, that the poor laborer be
permitted to earn this daily bread in peace.
Too long already has the ravenous jaws of
a gloomy prison gaped upon the work
bench and the anvil. It is trifling with the
most sacred rights of the humbler classes
to say that our piesent honest debtors’ act
is sufficient to vindicate the dignity and
guaranty the freedom men were horn to
enjoy. Suppose, by accident, by mistake,
by thoughtless negligence, or by a stupid
ignorance of the requisitions of the law, a
debtor’s attorney fails to serve bis credi
tors with a copy of the schedule of his ef
fects in time, is the prison not his inevita
ble doom 1 if the law is administered, he
yond the possibility of a doubt, such must
be his fate. If there are any who think
tliis law, as it stands, equal to the probable
emergencies of the practice, we trust that
they are few in number, and in influence,
powerless. But wo do not stop here, as
may have been already inferred. We
say strike imprisonment for debt from our
Statute Book. It has no redeeming vir
tues, and its evils are many. We will
not undertake to enumerate them all here,
and examine at length their malign pro
clivities. But one we will mention; were
there no more, we honestly think it would
alone he sufficient to warrant that statute’s
repeal. It is simply this: The effect—
coercing a man to make a surrender of all
his property, be it much or little, (save
what is exempt from execution ) to disclose
all his private affairs, and then come up in
open court and swear himself out of the
clutches of an officer—has upon society,
ana still more upon the unfortunate indi
vidual who has it to do ; it is hound, in nine
cases out of ten, to do ten-fold more harm
than good. The Statute of the State
makes special mention of the articles an
tl.n'vo.it debtor may have exempt from
levy. He cannot take the value of the
same, in any thing that may be endeared
to him or his family, hy any of those name
less ties that bind the human heart to those
favori'e objects. And we have known
men that would perish in prison before
they would surrender property, around
l which the affections of their warm hearts
! were woven, worthless though it might he,
| to a stranger; and the imprisonment of
such a man, under such a state of facts,
would he a cruel and inhuman wrong—a
blasting slur upon the society in which it
might happen, and u withering commen
tary tijion the wisdom and foresight of
the law-givers of the laud. And yet it
might happen to morrow in the refined ami
hospitable c’ty of Augusta. Man was made
lo hold his head erect, and he is prone to
smother hisgriefs, conceal his misfortunes,
andstillstruggle on for the goal of prosper
ity, and if, in the event ofalittleset-back.he
is to he dragged to prison, or his misfor
tunes blazed upon the records of a court,
where it must appear until doom’s day,
that an oath was all that saved him from
the dungeon, his proud spirit droops, his
proverbial energy relaxes, and his noble
heart sinks within him. lie soon becomes
a drone in the hive, w hen far otherwise
had it been, if his sacred person and more
sacred honor, had not been insulted with
abrupt molestation and undeserved re
proach.
Among the purest and best men that
ever lived, may be found many who were
cast out upon the strand of penury, who
met with disappointments and' reverses,
as men do now every day, and it does not
follow that because men fail in their pecu
niary engagements that they are therefoie
corrupt—that because they come to want
that they alone are to blame, or are culpa
ble at all. Take away from this bright
world the light that poverty has bequeath
ed, and now sheds upon it, and a daikness
deep and awful would impall it. Hush
the music that the humble in life have left
us, and now make for us, and you'll have a
silence reigning in the heart and the
mind’s world that will make men fear to
live.
To he plain —merit must he fostered,
industry encouraged, integrity trusted,
charity cultivated, and all distinctions that
are odious trampled in the dust, if you
would have a people prosperous and hap
py. Nothing commends a country more
to the world’s admiration and applause
than the elevation of her people—than
laws that hold out the light of hope over
the wanderer's path to the brink of the
grave. We trust, for the honor of the
State we love, for the sake of a people so
worthy of happiness—in reproach of the
hast, in compliment to the future, and as a
itjuty to the present —that the Legislature
that meets at Milledgcville this coming
winter will etitit'e itself to the gratitude
of its constituency and the respect of all
good men, hy wiping from our Statute
Book imprisonment for debt, and thereby
remove the train of evils incidental to its
existence from the shoulders of our peo
ple. Even from those “ who feel by tea
son and give by rule,” we have a right to
the support of a hill to repeal this obnox
ious statute, because the best interests of
the country —the greatest good of the
greatest number—demand it.
Individuality. —There is babling mote
than enough ; but among it all, one finds
huh: true speech « »r true silence. The
dullest Mind has some beauty peculiarly
ils own ; but it echoes, and does not speak
itself. It strives to write as schools have
taught, as custom dictates, or as sects pres
cribe ; and so it stammers, and makes no
utterance. Nature made us individuals,
as she did the flowers and the pebbles, but
we are afraid to be peculiar, and so our
society resembles a bag of marbles or a
string of mould candles. Why should we
all dress after the same fashion J The
frost never paints my windows twice alike.
Chinese Savings. — Some of the ordin
ary expressions of the Chinese are sarcas
tic enough. A blustering, harmless fellow
they call *’a rut falling into a scale and
weighing itself.” Overdoing a thing they
call “a hunchback making a bow.” A
spendthrift they compare to ‘‘a rocket
which goes off at once.” Those who ex
pend their charily ou remote objects, but
neglect their family, are said “to hang
their lantern on a pole, which is seen afar,
but gives no light below.”
10“ The first vice is running in debt,
and the second is lying, which rides upon
debt’s back.
Cotton in Egypt. —Wilmer & Smith’s
Times of 20ih Sept, says : The introduc
tion of cotton, now one of the great sta
pies of the country, and in quality rank
ing neatly at the head in the Manchester
market, is wholly attributable to Mehemet
Ali; as also the extended cultivation of
flax. The production of the former arti
cle is close on 200,000 hales a year, which,
taken at §9 per cantar (the present price,)
will produce some whet e about *£700,000.
Flax is falling off in quantity, because its
quality has not been found to suit the Eu
ropean market; its staple, owing to the
rapid growth of vegetation, being course
and brittle. Cotton is not a favorite pro
duction among the fellahs ; it requires too
much labor and attention, and its gather
ing is troublesome.
One house in Connecticut makes
8230,000 worth of pegged shoes every
year; another $500,000 worth; and in
Massachusetts, the aggregate value of this
kind of manufacture was stated to be $lB -
000,000.
Bad principles, like thistle seed,
have wings.
Cicorgiu ami her Improvements.
The following notice of Georgia, and
i her progress in improvement, from an in
; telligent and observant planter of South
! Carolina, who has 6pent some time during
the summer in the upper part of the State,
is very flattering, and, coming from a
source so competent to judge, is a compli
ment worthy to he treasured hy every
. Georgian :
Every body who has travelled over
Georgia this year, seems to be struck by
the energy, enterprise and gn-ahend-itive
ness of her people. Bright, flourishing
towns and villages are springing tip like
magic along the lines of Railroad ; the
woodman’s axe and the plowman’s whistle
may he heard where, but a few years
since, the whoop of the savage, or crack
of the huntsman’s rifle only greeted the
ear. It is astonishing to witness the pro
gress being made in all the arts and ap
pliances of civilization. Cotton manu
factories are springing up not only on eve
ry water-fall, hut all-powerful steam is
often employed to set the spinning jenny
in motion, in the very heart of civilization.
Flouring .Mills, which can convert the far
mer’s grain into the luxuries of life—pa
per mills which furnish the materials for
the press gang, to operate upon the polit
ical, agricultural, artislical, scientific or
literary destinies of a people—iron found
ties which can supply the world with that
great staple indispensable to the machinist,
the agriculturist, the culinary or literary
departments.
Gold, too, is found in ahundtnee in up
per Georgia—gold, the great leveller of
distinctions, the root of all evil, the repre
sentative of all value, “ the heal and front
ot our offence” in half the errors of our
life, is hero scattered in profuaon. Min
eral Springs to which the invalid may re
pair tor health—mountain scemry beauti
ful and gorgeous enough to clia-m the e\e
°1 the most enthusiastic worshipper of
nature’s beauties and nature’s wonders,
and breezes pure and bracing eaoimh to
infuse new life into enfeebled frames. All
these things have inspired us with new
hopes of the sunny South, and renewed
love for its charms. The Mountain scene
ry of Georgia is truly beautiful—often
sublimely beautiful. We have seen noth
ing in all our travels over this Vestern
continent to surpass Toccoa, the beautiful
1 ullulah, the terrible—no mountain
view more enchanting than Yonah or Tray
—no valley more l ively than Nacv>ochee,
nestled in the bosom of its beautiful moun
tains and iriiga’ed hy the bright watered
Chattahoochee.
Now that Railroads traverse the entire
State, there can be no excuse for our citi
zens spending their dollars at the North,
amongst those who war against our insti
tutions and insult our people. We have
been pleased to see the effort making to
supply every thing the country demands.
It was truly gratifying for us to stumble
one day upon a dairy in the valley of Na
coochee, built hy the wayside, and super
intended hy a very intelligent and polite
young man, who seemed throughly ac
quainted with his business and anxious to
give us every attention and information in
his power.
Th s estubli shment is some 70 feet long,
two sto:ies high,and a basement, lutlie
basement, the boilers, presses, coolers and
vessels are kept. The upper stories con
tain drying rooms, in which tables ate ar
ranged upon which the cheese ate placed.
Avery simple and ingenious- machinery
is propelled hy water power, hy means of
which fans play to and fro over the cheese
incessantly, night and day, so that a fly cart
never light upon them fora moment, the
whole establishment is cheaply and admi
rably constructed, and reflects much credit
upon the enterprise and skill of Messrs.
Williams and Hubbard. Maj, Williams
we were informed, was entitled to the
credit of setting on foot the dairy poiject
in the valley, and we hope it may prove
really successful, as it deserves to he.
There is no reason in the world why Geor
gia, instead of being an importer of
cheese, should not he an exporter. We
hope to see the example followed by South
and North Carolina, and to hear of cheese
being shipped to all parts of the world,
from the sunny South. If the farmers of
the mountains who possess such facilities
for raising stock, would only improve their
breeds of domestic animals, the people of
the seaboard would not he tinder the ne
cessity of sending North for Goshen but
ter, \ ankee cheese and pickled beef.
There can be no excuse for a people keep
ing poor stock, where a great quantity of
grass can he grown fur winter hay, and
where inexhaustible quantities of wild pea
vines and mountain grasses flourish from
April to November.
It is high time farmers should look to
this mattei ; it is one of vast, importance.
How maxy Miles a Printer’s Hand
1 ravels. —Although a printer maybe set
ting all day, yet in his own way he is a
great traveller, or at least his band is, as
we shall prove. A good printer will set
8000 ems a day, or about 24,000 letters.
The distance travelled over hy his hand
will average about one foot per letter, go
ing to the boxe3 in which they are con
tained, and ot course returning, making
two feet every letter he sets. This would
make a distance each day of 45.000 feet,
or a little more than 0 miles; and in the
course of a year, leaving out the Sundays,
that member travels about 3000 miles !
In the course of twenty five years, an
ordinary life time in the pursuit of an avo
cation ; the printer’s hand will have trav
«:lled a distance equal to three trips at ound
the globe!
MACON, G A .
SATURDAY MORNING, NOV 3, 1849.
TfiE Eulogy. —ln consequence of the indis
position of tiie family of t ho Hon. A. 11. Chap
pell, who was appointed to deliver in this city
yesterday, a Eulogy on the life and character of
ox-President J. K. Folk, the exorcises designed
for that occasion, were postponed.
Judge Sharkey’s Address. —This patriotic
speech we. find in the Mississippi papers. It is
spokon very highly of wherever it lias been re
ceived. The sentiments contained in this truly
Southern address arc ably defended, and tha nr
I guments in favor of a hold, decided position in
regard to Northern encroachments, strong and
impressive. The subject has, however, been
so often treated in and out of Congress, that we
presume it unnecessary to publish the article en
tire. The minds of the Southern people are, or
should be, made up on this question, let us,
.therefore, prepare to act, and show our enemies
that we are united in the front of opposition,
and then we shall look for an amicable adjust
inentof domestic difficulties.
\\ iNGKiEi.n s Address. —We have received
from the publishers, Messrs. Hunt «Sk Campbell,
a copy of the Address delivered before the State
Temperance Convention at Marietta in June
last, hy- A. fe. \Y r ixgfield, Esq. Front a hasty
glance at the contents of this pamphlet, we are
persuaded that it is one of the ablest efforts that
we have ever seen. We sincerely wish that it
may find its wav to every fireside in Georgia,
and he as productive in advancing the interests
of the Temperance cause as it will doubtless he
in creating an enviable literary reputation for
the young and highly talented author.
llolden s Magazine —for November, is as
filled with an interesting variety. The
original publisher, Mr. Charles W. Holden,
having died in California, the work has changed
hands. The present proprietor promises more
improvements in tjie mechanical and literary
department. Price §l.
Gi'itiul Loiisc of Georgia.
Tito Grand Lodge of Ancient Y’ork Masons,
commenced its annual communication in this
city, on Tuesday last. The craft is in a very
prosperous condition, numbering one hundred
and sixteen Lodges, (thirty-four of which Icing
recently chartered,) were each represented.
At 11 o'clock on Thursday a procession of
the Order, numbering one hundred and sixty
members was formed in front of the Lodge in
this city, and proceeded to the Presbyteran
Church where after appropriate singing and
Prayer, the following Officers were publicly
installed fur the ensuing year, viz:
Wm. C. Dawson, M. W. Grand Master.
John Hun ter, It. W. D.G. Master, Dist. No. 1.
R L. Roddev, R. W. I). G. M. “ “ 2.
James F. Cooper,R. W. D. G. M. “ “ 3.
VVm. S. Rockwell, R. W . 1). G. M . “ “ 4.
A. A. Gaulding, S. G. Warden.
Wm. K. Kitchen, J. G. Warden,
Leroy Patm.lo, S. G. Deacon.
L. C. Simpson, J. G. Deacon.
J. E. Wells, G Treasurer.
Simri Rose, G. Secretary.
Rev. J. C. Simmons, G. Chaplain.
W. B. Bowen, G. Marshal.
Jno.Calvin Johnson, a
\\ m. P. Brooks, v Grand Stewards.
C. Campbell )
D. E. Butler, Grand Pursuivant.
T B. Daniel, Grand Tyler.
Alter which the Annuel Address, was deliv
ered before the Order and a large audience of
ladies and gentlemen, by Robert 11. Griffin,
Esq , of Savannah. This address was very
ciiastc and appropriate, abounding in beautiful
allusions lo the noble objects which Masonrp
had in view, in ministering to the distresses and
promoting the happiness and welfare of the hu
man race.
The Grand Lodge of Georgia is now divided
into Four Masonic Districts, from each of which
a Right Worshipful Deputy Grand Master is
elected,who are constituted the Grand Lecturers
of the State, to whom is given in charge the
directing and making uniform the mode of work
it; their respective jurisdictions. The Ist and yd
Congressional Districts constitute the Ist Ma
sonic District, &c.
Thf. State Road. —We learn tfiat the per
foration through the Tunnel took place on Wed
nesday last, when a passage of about six feet
was effected, leaving twelve perpendicular feet
more to be excavated for some distance to com
plete it, which will probably take place by the
first of January next.
Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad.—
The Knoxville Register of the 27th ult. says:
“ Mr. Stevenson, the president of the Nashville
and Chattanooga Rail Road, lias recently re
turned from Liverpool, whither he had gone to
purchase iron for the road, making the trip from
Liverpool to Nashville in tiineteen davs. We
learn from the Nashville Union that Mr. Stev
enson purchased 10,340 tons of iron at a cost of
$39,60 per ton, delivered in New Orleans free
of all charges, duties included. This is a re
markably good contract, inasmuch as the iron is
to be of “ the very first quality.” The purchase
of the iron at so low a price is said to be saving
to the company of $350,000 on tho original etT
timate.”
The Engineers have located the Nashville
and Chattanooga Railroad front tho Cumberland
Mountain to Chattanooga, without determining
however, whether they will cross the river in
Alabama or Tennessee. The Directors will
meet next week when it will probably be deter
mined whether or not the Road will be put under
contract forthwith,from tho point where it cross
es the river to Chatanooga.
CrFive thousand five hundred bales of cotton
were sold in Cltarles'on o:t Wednesday lust,
nearly all of which was at 11 cents per pound.
HyTlte Atlanta Intelligencer of yesterday
states that 3,218 bules ofeolton were received at
Atlanta during the month of October, 2,834 of
which went down the Georgia Railroad. Bacon
scarce tlifcfo.
Annexation of Canaria.
The adherents to the British policy in Canada
have framed a protest to the memorial for annex
ation to the United States. It reads as follows .
“ We, the undersigned, in habitants of the city
of Montreal, owing arid acknowledging allegi
ance to Her Majesty the Queen, having read a
certain Address to the people of Canada, in
which separation Irnrn British connection and a
union with the United States of America are re
commended as presenting the only practicable
remedy for the evils which affect this Province
do hereby solemnly and deliberately record
our dissent from the precipitate and ill-advised
conclusions which the authors and signers of
that address have arrived at.
\\ e heliev e there is nothing in the present
depressed condition of Canada which may not
he promptly and effei-tua ly remedied by the
adoption of a well considered system of legisla
tion, without having resort to a measure revolt
ing to our feelings, revolutionary in its charac
ter, and tending to the dismemberment of the
British Empire. Those views we arc prepared
to maintain by all constitutional means. Anxi
ously alive to the importance of promoting the
material interests of this our native or adopted
country, and of preserving unanimity and good
will among all classes of our fellow citizens,
we cannot but express an earnest hope that
means may be devised, without delay, to restore
prosperity to this province, cement the ties which
have so long existed with the Mother country,
and allay an agitation which may otherwise’
prove formidable.”
I he movement which occasioned this protest,
grew out of the deslracted condition of Canada,
and the inability of the English Government to
provide for the peace and safety of the country-;
together with the desires of some restless and un
easy republicans to become free from all depend
ence upon monarchical powers. But we doubt
whether the course taken by the friends of an
nexation in Canada will he sustained in this na
tion hy the popular voice. We have now an
immense territory, a great portion of which is
yet without any congressional provision or terri
torial government, about which we arc undeci
ded, and in the settlement of which our guaran
teed rights and sectional honor are involved, and
vve fear that the responsibilities of our present
possessions are too onerous for us to hear. With
out a revival of the same spirit which framed
the Amcrciun Constitution, these contested
points will not be settled peaceably; and, even
admitting that vve are willing to accept the over
tures of Canada, this same question would pre
vent our affording timely aid.
The people of tile South and Southwest could
not fail to see that the Northern portion of this
confederacy will gladly consent to this proposed
annexation, because its inevitable effect would
he to strengthen and confirm their incendiary at
tempts upon the just and lawful intciests of
slaveholders : while the North, possessed of the
numerical power,and claed with success, would
rush blindly upon the consummation of a pur
pose which would sever the social, religious
and political ties of the whole Union, and utter
ly demolish the beautiful structure of American
freedom. In this view of the matter, vve think
it perfectly safe to assert that the proposed an
nexation neve.r will be seriously entertained by
tho wisdom and patriotism of the United States.
We have territory sufficient for the present, and
if vve succeed in an amicable and satisfactory
adjustment of existing internal disputes, vve
shall have grilled honor enough and power
enough for a century. The experience of for
mer Republics forewarns us against a rapid and
imprudent extension of territorial limits, and if
we fail to regard the presages of danger in the
distance, vve shall be overwhelmed in the ruins
of our polical systems, and rivet upon ourselves
a hopeless anarchy.
If Canada wishes to test the value of Repub
licanism, and its application to her own people
let Iter proclaim Iter independence and maintain
it, against all opposition, and when she has
proven that she really seeks to be free, and that
her people are capable of self-government, then
will we extend to Iter the hand of friendship,
and tho bond of union. But otherwise, we can
not see what obligation we are under to Iter peo
ple, that will warrant us ii, hazarding our po
litical existence in a war with a powerful King
dom, and in the agitation of civil contentions
and sectional jealousies.
A correspondent of the New York Tribune,
writing from Montreal, speaking of the protest,
says :
“ \\ lien I saw it on Saturday afternoon, it had
but twenty-six names to it. These were,doubt
less, the original signers, and there is as little
doubt that there will be a considerable array of
names to ibis as well as the other document,
though I doubt exceedingly if officials and
would-be officials are left out, whether they will
have a third of tite number'of genuine names.
One of the chief of those who were circulating
it, was a Post-office clerk ; another, a gentle
man interested in the buildings,at present occu
pied as a Parliament House, and so on. The
mercantile men who have put their names to it,
are those whose business would be likely to
suffer from Annexation, in consequence of the
high duties on the British goods they sell, or
else persons engaged in some of tho old protec
ted trades, in whom the habit is still strong, and
who still indulge the vain hope of a return to
the old state ot things. Generally it may be
noticed that the men who are established here
ns Colonists, go for Annexation, whatever their
immediate interests may be, while bachelors
and ship-owners, whose property is equally at
home at Liverpool as at Montreal, stick to the
old order of things.”
Perils at Sea.— Cnpt Hosmer, of the bark
Janet, and a boat’s crew, were separated
from the vessel while in pursuit of whales in
the Pacific, and were upset through some mis
management, and after righting the boat, re
mained several days without food or warter, un
til they were reduced to the extremity of casting
lots, in order to flirnislt provision for the crew
and one of the men was actually eaten tip by the
remainder! Soon afterwards a dolphin jumped
into tlie boat, and a number of birds flew so near
as to bn ciuglit by the perishing mariners, while
a welcome rain afforded them water. After
gaining the shore, a thousand miles from where
they were cast off, they were taken on board a
vessel and provided for.
A Hard Lot —A Scotch gentleman rocently
sold <OO shares of the United St ites Bank, at
$2,->0 per share the same having been purchased
at $127 cash in 1836. His loss wa5568,550
sides eight years interest.
Lunatic.— Charles F. Hoffman, the talented
poet, is now in the Baltimore Hospital, a mis
erablc, unfortunate, pitiful, raving, desperate
maniac !
EF Col. Fremont, says the Washington Re.
public, has accepted the appointment of chief of
the Mexican Boundary Survey, in the place of
Col. Weller, removed.
A Rare Occurrence !—Frederick a Bre
mer, the celebrated Swedish novelist, refused to
exhibit herself to the curiosity of the would-be
great people of New York, and when the car-i.
ages of literary dandy ism rolled up to the doer
she sent word that she could not receive coinpa’
ny that day, and upon their returning the next
morning, it was found that she had retired to the
country !
A Small Speech. -Col. Benton’s speech, re
cently made in Fayette, Missouri, occupies
ticcnty-Jiec columns of the Jefferson Enquirer.
Empty wagons make a great deal of noise !
A Dangerous Plavthing.—The Winchester
Republican tells of a little child in that town,
which, having strayed away from its nurse, was*
found m the yard, pleasantly engaged in tickling
with a switch a very savage-looking snake.
10” A German paper mentions the death „f a
police serjeant from lock-jaw, produced from a
bite on the thumb from a drunkard whom he
was taking into custody. The wound healed
apparently, in seven or eight days, and on the"
third day afterwards the convulsions began.
ITT A convention of slave holders in Mary
land is seriously talked of, to consider measures
to prevent the constant absconding of slaves.
Monument™ the Rev. Ignatius A Few
1 lie Journal and Messenger of the 31st ult.
says: “A Monument to the memory uF tliis
distinguished Div ine, and Mason, was erected
on Friday last, the 2Clh insl., at the Village of
Oxford, Newton county, hy the Grand Lodge of
Georgia.
A special communication had been ordered
hy the Grand Master for its erection, at which
there was a large assemblage of the Brotherhood
from almost every portion of the State. Nearly
all the Grand Officers were present. Sixteen
Lodges were fully represented by their officers
and members, and thirty-five others hy more or
loss of their members; ami nearly five hundred
appeared in the procession.
A large procession was formed, of the Grand
Lodge, the several Masonic Lodges and Broth
ers, the Faculty, Alumni and Students of Emo
ry College, Civil Officers, &c., which moved to
the College Chapel, where religious services
were performed by the Rev. Bishop Andrew,
with suitable and excellent music hy the choir.
An eulogy on the Life anil Character of Dr.
Few, was delivered by the Rev. Brother Dr A.
M EAS9, in his usual eloquent and happy style,
and few men could have done the subject more
ample justice.
1 lie procession then repaired to the Monu.
merit, when its erection was completed and a
suitable Address delivered by Past Master, Yei..
vf.rton P. King, of San Merino Lodge. A
brief address was delivered hy the Grand Mas
ter, W. C. Dawson, ami the usual services of
consecration and dedication were performed,
with prayer hy Rev. Br. H. C. Carter, the
Grand Chaplain, and the Rev. Dr. Geo. F.
PIERCF..
Ihe Monument Inn! been in preparation for
some time, the expenses of which were contri
buted, principally, by the Subordinate Lodges
of the State. It is about tvvcntv-two feel higli,
constructed of massive blocks of marble, of neat
appearance, and correct proportions; and will
loi g remain to tel! to future generations of the
virtues and services of the man who hasde
served and received such a tribute from his fcl
low-men to perpetuate bis memory.”
Omnibus Business in New York.— An om- I
mhus driver communicates some interesting I
statistics to ibe Evening Post : YVe have J
licensed omnibusses now running, owned If I
some dozen or more different proprietors. E>d I
omnibus costs, new, $550, making their aggie I
grate cost $200,800. Each omnibus earn?, M I
an eve rage, $lO a day, and S3OOO a year. Tin I
whole earn $3,7G0 per day, and $1,128,000'1
year. Their expenses are always rated
each per day, and $1,500 a year, making thß
aggregate cost of tho whole $564,000 a )*• I
Flic profils, therefore, of each omnibus to it*l
proprietor is $5 a day, and $1,500 a year;
tho nett profits of all ;he omnibusscs in tbecdfß
is $564,000. I
Lard Oil.— ln Cincinnati it is calcufated the*
11,000,000 pounds of lard will be run into laid
oil this year, two-sevenths of which aggrT*
will make stentine, the residue oil, say about®!'
000 barrels of 43 gallons each. There is tils® 1 *
establishment in that city extensively engtig* l "
extracting the grease from the residue oftheM
and will probably this year operete in this «’!
on 30,000 hogs. This concern alone is "’■P 1 ;
ted to turn out this year 3,000,000 lbs. of
3,000,000 lbs. ofstearine have been made is**■
year into candles and soap in these factorial 11 *
they can make 6000 lbs. of candles per are™
day throughout the year. f
Cure for Rheumatism. —Take a "fl
spirits of turpentine, to which add hnlfu
of camphor; lei it stand till the camphor
solved,then rub it on the part affected, andi I *'®
never fail of removing the complaint.
should ho applied after the part is well
with turpentine. Repeat theapplicali« n n!
ing and evening. It is said to bn equal!)' *' E
bio for burns, scalds, bruises and spraiob
failing ofsticeess. We can vouch forit sC ® C ‘B
oy in rheumatic affection. I
Exri, onion — .A sewer in London r* rellt
ploded, blowing up the cast iron plates c °
the main holes, and shocking tho whol® JH
hot hood. The flames came through th c
over tho gutter-holes. Tito explosion "t" Bp
ed by an attempt to draw off'llte pest' 1,1
por of tho sewer, by connecting it wit# * »
ney of a soap factory. |