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EDITED ill) PUBLISHED WEEKLY, BY
WJI . B . II A R B IS O \ .
CITY P R I.VTF. R .
[CORHESPONDESCE OF THE SOUTHER* MUSEUM.]
Milledgeville, Nov. 17. 1849.
The bill to repeal all laws respecting
the importation of slaves into this State has
passed the House by yeas 93, nays 29.
The following elections took place on
the yesterday and to-day :
Secretary of State— G. W. Harrison.
State 'Treasurer —W. B. Tinsley. (W.)
Surveyor General —James R. Butts.
Comperoller General —E. S. Chandler.
Solicitor Coweta Circuit —M.M.Tidwell.
Solititor Southern Circuit —T.G.Sturges.
Director State Bank —John Boston.
State Printer —S. J. Ray.
The follow ing offices it is said, combined
to secure the Public Printing, viz : The
Macon Telegraph, Griffin Jeffersonian,
Rome Southerner, Cassville Standard and
Athens Banner, of the Democratic press—
and of the Whig press the Macon Journal
& Messenger, Athens Whig and Wash
ington Gazette, —presenting almost as
great a variety of “sorts” as a box of “pi,"
as a printer might say.
November 19.
The following bills have been intro
duced in the House :
By Mr. McDougald, To expel all free
persons from this State—To change the
Constitution so as to give to each County
aSenator ; and to give the election ofState
Officers to the people. The singular
combinations which have been made re
cently have caused many persons here to
consider the propriety of changing the sys
tem of electing these and some other offi
cers, by giving their appointment to the
Govesnor and people—a subject which
merits the serious consideration of the law’
makers.
By Mr. Jones, of Paulding, To repeal
all acts incorporating the city of Macon,
arid to sell the Macon Bridge at auction.
By Mr. Pringle, To incorporate a com
pany to construct a branch Railroad from
Mossy Creek on the South Western Rail
Road to the Town of Perry iu Houston
county.
By Mr. Lawton, To authorize the Gov
ernor to call, at his discretion, a Conven
tion on the subject of Southern rights, and
to appropriate SOO,OOO to defray the ex
penses of the same, if necessary.
The Resolution from the Senate author
izing the Governor to appoint an Agent
to urge before Congress, the payment of
our military claims, was concurred in by
the House.
The Supreme Court adjourned to-day,
having disposed of all the cases, twenty
five in number. Its next session will be
in Savanuah on the second Monday in
January next.
November 20.
The Governor has issued a proclama
tion, setting apart Thursday, 29th inst. as
a day of Thanksgiving, in accordance with
the request in a Resolution adopted by
both Houses.
The following bills have passed the
Senate, viz :
To ameud the several acts in relation
to the Georgia Railroad Company, to au
thorize an increase of its capital from four
to five millions of dollars, and a subscrip
tion of $250,000 to the Nashville and
Chattanooga Railroad.
To designate the holidays to be observ
ed in the acceptance and payment of bills
of exchange and promissory notes, and to
allow these days, called days of grace, for
the payment of all sight drafts, or bills of
exchange draw n payable at sight.
To ascertain what support is necessary
and allow the same for twelve months for
the widow and orphans of persons on
whose estates no administration has been
granted.
Mr. Bailey introduced a bill to require
the payment of interest on open accounts.
Mr. Jenkins: To protect the rights of
married women.
Bp Mr. Woods : To exempt all tax
payers of this State from a poll tax.
The House has been engaged in discus
sing the bill to give the election of Judges
of the Supetior Cuuits to the people,
which may pass.
November 21.
Mr. Penland introduced a bill to amend
the laws of this State in relation to the stay
of executions.
Mr. Harris, of Clark : To alter and a
mend an act incorporating the ‘‘Southern
Mutual Insurance Company-’
Novelrer 22.
Both Houses are now fairly at work—
The bill introduced in the Senate by Mr.
Chisholm of Cass and Paulding, to appro
priate thirty acres of land on the Reserve
near Macon for the purpose of forming a
common Railroad Depot, will probably be
taken up on Saturday, 24th inst. and may
pass.
A Mistake Corrected. —An orator
holding forth in favor of “woman—dear,
divine woman,” concluded thus :
“Oh, my hearers, depend upon it, no
thing beats a good wife !”
“I beg your pardon,” replied one of his
auditors, “a bad husband does.”
say, my little son, where docs
that right hand road go 1
“Don’t know, sir ; taint been nowhere
since we lived here.”
(Kr"i wish to introduce a bill for the
destruction worms,” as the wood-peck
e c s aid in a stump speech.
MACON, GA,
SATURDAY MORNING, NOV. 24,1849
Cate Spring. —We invite the attention of the
reader to the advertisement of Mr. J.S.lngrah am
I and a description of this delightful place by Mr.
Ye ado*, of Charleston, and Judge B.F. Porter
We wish Mr. Ingraham every success in his
new field of labor, as we doubt not lie will
richly deserve it.
Rincon Nluntt five luring Company.
Wc are pleased to learn that this Company
have contracted for the machinery to run 5,000
spindles and one hundred and twenty-eight
looms, to he propel led by an engine of one hun
dred horse power. They have also made con
tracts for the erection of the buildings in time for
the reception of the machinery. They will be
located within the city, on the beautiful level
two acre lots, fronting the upper end of First
Street. The principal building will he IGO feet
long and 43 wide, three stories high, with a
picker room 70 feet long and 32 wide, and two
stories high. The Factory’ will go into operation
some time next summer, and we hope the en
terprising proprietors may find it a most safe
and profitable investment.
Godey’s Lady’s Book. —We omitted to notice
the receipt several days since, of this valuable
and justly favorite periodical. The number for
December is without its equal, during the pre
ceding year, and this, we think, is sufficient to
give an idea of its merits. Great inducements
arc offered to those who wish to commence their
subscriptions with the January Number. The
editor promises an improvement in the numbers
for the ensuing over those of the present year.
The Saturday Evening Post, Model A
merican Courier, and Scott’s Weekly Paper.
—We are often pleased whilst reading the large
amount of valuable matter contained in these
papers. They only have to guard their columns
against intermeddling with Southern interests,
to entitle them to support.
Editorial Change. —We find the following
notice in the Savannah Georgian, of the 17th
instant: “Colonel llenry R. Jackson having
been, by’ the Legislature of Georgia, elevated to
the Bench of the Superior Court of the Eastern
District, ho withdraws from all editorial con
nexion with the Savannah Georgian, retaining
only his proprietory interest. Arrangements
will, in due time, he made for the employ ment
of a Political Editor.”
[fT The Albany Patiiot of the 16th instant,
in relation to the Albany and Savannah Rail
road, says :
“ We have never seen a better spirit manifes
ted in the prosecution of any work, than that
which now seems to pervade our whole section
of country in favor of this great enterprise.
Subscriptions are being made by every class of
our citizens. Let every man but do what his
interests require—and from present appearances
we believe this will he done—and tiie work is
secured.”
HP The were only 13 deaths in Charleston
'ast week—and none from stranger’s fever.
Mr. Clay. — It is said to be quite probable that
Mr. Clay may assume the post of Secretary of
State, before long, Mr. Clay ton retiring. The
distinguished ability of Mr. Clay’will doubtless
make the appointment very acceptable to his
friends.
Sad Accident. —Seaborn Jones, of Lowndes
county, Georgia, was killed on the 9th instant,
by the discharge of a gun in the hands of his
son, a boy 9or 10 years old. This is one of the
lamentable results of permitting children to
handle fire-arms.
[ET Hon. Wm. 11. Stiles, former Charge to
Austria,arrived in Savannah on the 20th inst.
Mr. Cameron. — Concurring as we do in the
complimentto this gentleman, in the Savannah
Republican, we copy the following :
“Our long time acquaintance and friend, Mr.
J. Cameron, has retired from the important post
ofConductor of the passenger trains on the Cen
tral ltail-Uoad from hence to Macon, and is
about toreti-reto a farm in Seriven County. Mr.
Cameron has filled the post of Conductor on
the Central Road without any intermission for
ten years and three months. During that time
he lias travelled rather more than 500,000 miles
or what is equal to going round the earth twenty
times '. He retires from his post with the happy
reflection that in all that time not a single acci
dent of any moment has happened to any indi
vidual on a train under his charge. Not only
lias there been no loss of life or limb, but no in
jury of the slightest kind has ever been sustained
by passenger, engineer, or any of the hands on a
single train under his charge ! ! Such results
are worthy of being recorded.
May Mr. C. in his retirement ever find as
safe and easy a track as that which lie has fol
lowed so many years, and may he continue to
meet with wayfarers like those on the Central,
who are always ready to H fork up" and go about
their business, after interchanging a friendly
shake of the hand.”
Another variety of Cotton. —Col. Seawell
has sent to the Memphis Engle, a sample of
cotton of which the editor says : “ the staple is
fine, beautiful and large.” Col. S. says : “It is
called the Golden boll, and is represented to be
a native of the interior of Central America.
This specimen is taken from a plant raised in
my garden, of which I have some eight or ten.
The soil was rich, but not adapted to its cul
ture, being too wet. The average height of the
stalks was about four and a half feet,.planted
four feet apart.
“The distinguishing properties which charac
terise this description of cotton, are its prolific
production, the long silky texture of its fibre,
and the astonishingly large size and great num
ber of bolls; several of the plants had from 120
to 130, of which, from CO to 80 were fully ma*
tured, ten of which, being frequently tested by
the scales, weighed four and a half ounces of
seed cotton. Those bolls that did not reach full
maturity in-size, all opened, and are yet opening,
yielding cotton apparently of as good quality,
hut not the same amount of the early bolls.”
O’ The Court House in Quincy, Florida, was
burned on the morning of the 12th instant, and
all the Records and many ether valuable paper 3
were entirely destroyed.
The Seat of tioverniucnt.
The subject of the removal of the State House
from its present location has occupied the at
tention of various sections of Georgia for sever
al years. Indeed, the last Legislature appeared
to be convinced of the propriety of a removal,
but a decision could not he made upon the choice
of a suitable place in which to erect the public
buildings. The contesting parlies for the seat
of government have been as numerous almost,
as the little towns and villages throughout the
State, and some of their pretensions have been
extremely ludicrous. It is hardly to be expect
ed, that where there is such a diversity of opin
ion, and conflict of interest that any definite
action will be taken in the matter.
Macon, from her geographical position, and
natural advantages, has the strongest claim to the
Capitol. She is the largest inland town in the
State, except Augusta—she is situated, almost
to a particle, in the centre of the State—she is
connected by the Central Road with the sea.
board, and by the Macon & Western with the
mountain region, and in a few months, by
means of the South-western Road, the people of
Southern Georgia and part of Florida will have
convenient access to her market—while her
commercial importance and growing prosperity
form an unanswerable argument in her favor.
With the seat of Government in Macon, the
consequent trade would find an outlet to ou r
own seaport, and tend to the establishment of
mutual intercouse and a just fraternity of inter
ests, so indispensable in an enlightened commer
cial community. Thus, whilst the people of
interior Georgia would obey the dictates of a
laudable native pride, they- could, nevertheless,
by’ the necessity of partial dependence, secure a
guarantee against any infringement upon their
rights—whilst all sections and well nigh all in
terests xvould derive incalculable benefit from
such a coalition.
Grilfin, sixty’ miles above our city, asserts that
she is twenty miles nearer the “centre of gravi
ty” than we, and therefore ought to have the
State patronage. We do not consider this a
valid reason for removing the Capita! making
a distance of sixty miles, in order to gain twen
ty, docs not harmonize with the popular notion
of policy. Farther than this fact, we believe,
little can be advanced to support the claim of
Griffin, —and the great preponderance of an ex
tensive trade, and the terminus of three Rail
roads from cardinal points of the compass—East 5
South and West—need not be brought to bear
upon the question to invalidate the argument.
Atlanta seems by far to be the most formida
ble rival of Macon, not so much from any natu
ral or acquired advantage, as by reason of nu
merical strength in the Legislature. We have
no disposition to quarrel with our neighbors of
this thriving place, hut we cannot see the first
inducement that would prompt an enlarged and
liberal Slate policy to take a step so mischievous
to all of our interests, as a removal to Atlanta
would be. We have no desire to monopolize
the trade or business of any other State, to the
exclusion of its own markets, and therefore wc
should not relish the transformation of Atlanta
into an agency for Charleston merchants, —this,
we are persuaded, would be the result of a re
moval to Atlanta, indeed it must be the inevita
ble consequence of such action.
Dalton, it is said by some, should have the
State House, but vve have been unable to hear
any reason urged, except that it is more out of
the way than any othersite, and therefore should
be placed in contradistinction to the “conven
ient eligible, and advantageous” situations
which abound in every direction.
It is thought by some, however, that the seat
of government would not proven great blessing
to any city, if the Penitentiary follows it. We
incline to the opinion, yet we prefer, if it can
be peaceably effected, the removal to Macon of
the Capitol with or without the Penitentiary-,
if this is not done, however, let it then remain
where it is, on the present site,’ in Milledgeville.
P. S.—Since the above was in type, the May
or has called a meeting of the Citizens, under a
resolution of the City Council, to he held on
Tuesday evening next, to make app'ication to
the Legislature for the removal to this City of
the Seat of Government. Let the people of
Macon show, by their attendance at this meet
ing, that they are in earnest in this matter, and
our representatives will doubtless follow their
instructions to the letter.
Music by Telegraph. —We had the pleasure,
says the New York Journal of Commerce, this
evening of listening to the transmission of mu
sic by telegraph over the wires from Boston to
New York.
“We happened to he in the office, 5 Hanover
Street, in this city. When there was a pause
in the business operations. Mr. W. Potter, a
young hut skilful operator in the Boston office,
asked us what tune wo would have. We re
plied “Yankee Doodle;” and to our surprise
he immediately complied with our request.
The instrument commenced drumtningthe notes
of the tune, as perfectly clear and minute and as
distinctly as a skilful drummer could have done
at the head of a regiment. Many will be aston
ished to hear that “Yankee Doodle” eon travel
by lightning. Wa then called for “Hail Colum
bia,” when the notes of that national air were
distinctly beat off. We then asked for “Auld
Lang Syne,” the notes or sound of which were
also transmitted.
A friend called for “Old Dan Tucker,” when
Mr. Potter also sent that tune, if anything, in a
more perfect manner than the others. So per
fectly and distinctly were the sounds of these
tunes transmitted that good instrumental perfor
mers could have had no difficulty in keeping
time with the instrument at this end of the wires.
This is one of the telegraphic novelties.”
Robbing the Gold Boxes. —The remittances
in gold dust fVoni California, generally come to
New York in small hags, which are enclosed in
wooden boxes, strapped with iron. These box
es, in some instances, in the last steamer, have
been bored, under the iron straps, and the dust
has been thus abstracted Two instances have
occurred within our knowledge, in packages
that came by the Empire City One h x con
taining about .$25,000, was short SIO,OOO. An
other box, belonging to a house in Baltimore
lost SI4OO. The loss, it is believed, was on
the other side, not on this.
Central Rail-Road. —The Savannah Re
publican of the 19th instant,says: “we append
the gross earnings of this road for the past
eleven months, the comparison with the eleven
months of the previous year, shews an increase
of one hundred and twenty-one thousand dol
lars, being over twenty-five per centum of in
crease in the earnings of the road for that pe
riod.”
1847-8 1848-9
December, 37,421,72 67,861,05
January, 52,291,27 66,629,07
February,
March, 51,434,38 75,969,72
April, 30,254,39 61,318,87
Mav, 33,945,70 32,544,62
June, 26,138,12 20,412,33
July, 25,867,56 22,525,87
August, 31,964,54 28,940,48
September, 41,182,37 4->,406,30
October, 63,516,37 79,755,10
451,802,81 573,054,93
Buried at Sea. —Odd Fellowship on the
Ocean- —The “ Cincinnatti Manufacturing and
Mining Company,” that left this city some
months since, says the Cincinnati Commercial
for California, was raised and cammanded by-
Major G. W. Motz, son-in-law of Mr. Dennison,
of ilie “Dennison House,” in this city. The
Company took passage in ihe barque Callao,
from Panama; on the morning of the 6th July.
Major Motz complained of illness, and died at
6 P. M. of the same day, and at 7 o’clock in the
morning of the following day, his remains were
consigned to the briny deep. Maj. Motz was an
Odd Fellow, a member of Lodge No. 3, of ibis
cily. On board the Callao were ten Odd Fol
lows, and the greatest beauties of the institution
were developed silently and impressively on
those present by the ceremonies of the Order,
at his brothers funeral. A letter before us states
the facts, and many more, but it is enough for
us to slate here, that the “ Order” which carries
the motto of “ Friendship, Love and Truth,’’ is
confined to no land, to no climate, to no partic
ular nation ; but on land, on sea, in the desert,
the intrinsie virtues of this great Brotherhood
are respected, admired and practised. Picture
for one moment, the scene, when, after the sol
emn service of the Order had been performed,
they consigned a “ Brother Odd Fellow” to the
deep bosom of the sea. Can there he any thing
more touching, more lovely It was not neces
sary that the said brothers should be acquaint
ed for years, to have this affection and weeping
for him ! No, the ties of the Brotherhood bound
them together without that, and he carried a
passport that an honest man and true citizen
only can claim. It was enough.
Virginia Gold. —The Richmond Whig pub
lishes the following extract from a letter dated
Nov. 5, from Wm. M. Moseley and Co’s Mine,
Buckingham county, culled BookesGold Mine :
“ We are getting out a lot of the richest spe
cimens of ore I have ever seen come out of this
Mine, and more of them. I would not be sur
prised if we were to get in the course of next
week, with what we have on hand, three or
four thousand dwt. Every blast vve make is
better and better. The rock isso linked togeth
er with gold, that we have to wring it apart. It
is a sight worth looking at. I have never seen
anything to come near it since the Tinder Pock
et, which was found in Louisa county some
years ago, and from which $15,000 was obtained
from a small space in a few days. I think it
fully equal to that.’’
The American Steamship Line. —The New
York correspondent of the Philadelphia Ameri
can says:
“ The first three steamers of Collins’ Liver
pool line have been placed under the charge of
Captains West, late of the Shenandoah, Nye of
the Henry Clay, and Comstock, of the Empire
State, one of the Fall River line. These are all
good appointments, especially that of Captain
J. Comstock. There never was a more skilful
or popular commander on these waters, and his
ship, I predict, everything else being equal, will
be the iavorite ship for passengers. The salary
of these commanders is $5,000 per annum.
A Baleoon Frozen. —The Liverpool Jour
nal says: “ Mr. Gypson and another gentleman
ascended in a balloon yesterday week,fromßed.
ford. When at an elevation of two miles they
got into a cloud of sleet and snow, and the bal
loon was quickly covered with ice. The gas
soon began to expand ; hut in trying the valve,
above and below, it was found to he frozen. In
this emergency they applied a knife, and made
an incision of twenty-four inches in the silk.
The gas issued forth in one continuous stream
through a two foot opening; and, singular to re*
late, the gas that had been passed into the silken
globe an invisible vapor rushed out as white us
the steam from a steam-engine, such was the
effect of the frosty air upon the gas. And thus
the aeronauts were rescued from the jaws of des
truction. They descended safely.
Military Skill. —The lamented Col. Dun
can, of the United States Army, had drilled his
men to such perfection in artillery, and to such
celerity of movement, that on one occasion
when his guns were under their sheds, the hor
ses of the light battery in stable, and the harness
hanging up, he accomplished the feat of har
nessing up, moving his guns two hundred yards,
forming in battery, and firing a round, in a space
of a minute and a half from the time the first
command was given.
Another feat in war’s vast art is said to have
been accomplished by the Cadets at West Point,
while reviewing before the Board of Visitors.
One lutlf of the regular number of men tiircw
a Pontoon bridge on the Hudson, capable of
supporting cavalry and artillery, and two hun
dred and fifty feet in length, in thirty-two min
utes.
O’ In Michigan, the amendment to the Con
stitution, providing for the election of Judges,
State officers,and District Attorneys by the peo
ple, has been carried by an almost unanimous
vote.
O’ Tlie entire number of prisoners commit
ted to the Cincinnati County Jail for the past
year, was 1171. Os these, 468 were natives,
502 foreigners, and 101 negroes.
O’ A Boston paper advertises to shave any
thing—even. “ the face of na'ure.”
XT’ Whilst experimenting at the Washington
Navy Yard recently, a thirty-two pounder, after
having been fired several times, hurst, instantly
killing Mr. Vm. McLnnn, a gunner, and a valu"
able officer. Ilis brains were nearly blown out
of his head. Several other officers also narrow
ly escaped being killed.
Free and Slate Labor. —The Albany Cul
tivator contains an animated discussion between
two citizens of the South, as to the comparative
value of slave and free labor. “ A Southerner”
asks whether it would not be more profitable to
employ free labor than slave. “A Virginian”
from Mathews county answers positively :
“ There is no labor ill this country so cheap
as slave labor. There is no labor in this coun
try so well adapted to agriculture, particularly
on large farms, as slave labor.”
In proof of bis opinion, “A Virginian” takes
the situation of “ A Southerner,” who has 800
acres of arable land divided into four shifts, viz :
200 in corn, 200 in small grain,and 400 in grass
es —to cultivate which would require from 15
to 20 field hands. He supposes, that instead of
owning the slaves, which is a decided advan
tage, the individual had to hire them ; and then
enters into the following mathematical, and, to
our conception, conclusive demonstration :
“Say twenty field hands—men, boys, and
women, were to be hired. They could be had
in Virginia at an average of fifty or sixty dollars
per year, depending of course upon the propor
tion of men to women. The men being worth
more.
Twenty hands at SSO would cost, SIOOO
Clothing and taxes, 200
Food, 400
SI6OO
“ There are no physician's hills to be paid by
the hirer, as they are paid by the owner.
“ Let os see how it will be in estimating the
cost of free labor. According to the Patent Of
fice Report, which is held as good authority in
such matters, field laborers are worth in Mas
sachusetts, and several other Northern States,
from $lO to sl2 per month. We will suppose
16 men to perform as much labor as twenty
mixed hands. It will stand thus : 16 hands at
sll per month, beingsl32 per year, $ 'll2 00
Cost of board, say SSO, 800 00
Being cost of free labor, $2912 00
Do. of slave labor, 1000 00
Difference of cost, $1312 00
“ Thus it will be seen, that free labor will cost
four-fifths more than slave labor, where each
kind has to be itired. But where the farmer
owns the slave on his farm, the difference is
much more decidedly in favor of slave labor."
Man Isolated.— We hear of a singular acci
dent on the Rutland road says the Lowell Cour
ier, which is said to have happened on Saturday
last. A train was passing over a portion of the
road, when a rather a suspicious spot was per.
ceived. The engine was detached from the
train and went forward to reconnoitre. The
machine passed along, when the road behind
gave way, and looking ahead, the road in front
of it was found to bo gone also. “ Here is a
pretty go,” said the man, and nothing remained
hut to settle down quietly. The engine man
found himself, with his machine, on an unin
habitable island, like Robinson Crusoe. At the
last accounts an expedition was fitting out from
the main land to rescue him and his machine.
Robbing Banks. —About four o’clock yester
day morning says a late New Haven Journal
some persons, having occasion to he near one of
our city hanks, discovered a light within, and
supposing that something was wrong, immedi
ately summoned a crowd of men, fully “armed
to the teeth” with stones, iron hoops, sticks and
the like,and quietly a waited outside to despatch
“the robbers,” when they appeared with their
booty. After a short space of time—during
which the valliants were shivering with cold
and waiting in breathless suspense for the order
“ to charge,” the door of the hank slowly open
ed, and the— teller issued forth with a pan full
of ashes ! He had risen early and repaired to
the bank to make preparations for the business
of tlieduy,and hud thus innocently caused the
great excitement. The credit of the bank,
however, still remains good.
Loss of sciin. Constitution. —On the night
of the 25th ultimo, the sclir. Constitution of
Philadelphia, Cant. Milton, from New York,
hound for Charleston, S. C. with a cargo or
paving stones, grounded upon a sand reef which
makes out from the North point of Hog Island
—an island forming part of the coast of the
Counties of Accomac and Northampton, Eastern
Shore of Virginia—and became a total loss.
O’ The boilers and cylinder of the steamboat
Neptune, sunk in the bend below the mouth of
the Ohio in the year 1829, were raised by the
bell boats Submarine, Nelson, and Eads, who
are now wrecking her. They have not yet got
at her valuable cargo, said to he lead and a large
amount of specie. The wreck lies in 28 feet
water, and is fil ed with sand and drift-wood.
O’Col. Henry May nadier, of Annapolis,
Md. died in thatcity on Sunday last, aged nine,
ty three years He served with eminent dis
tinction under General Washington, and at the
battle ot Brandywine, in the capacity of Sur
geon in the Army, extracted a ball from the leg
of General LaFuyette
O’ Some “ queer fish,” at St. Louis, in allu
sion to the “ hill for the benefit of married wo
men,” when before the Missouri Legislature,
asked if it would not be better for the members
to do something for the benefit of the single la
dies, and not trouble themselves so much about
other men’s wives.
Horrible Case. —On Wednesday evening, a
child of Mr. Frederick Keller, at Philadelphia,
was so severely scalded ns to cause its death
The mother had taken her infant to a manufac
tory, in Eighth street, where her Imshand was
employed,and putting the rhild on the floor, lost
sight of it fora moment. Upon looking for her
charge, to her groat horror, she discovered its
feet sticking out of a kettle of hot water.
O’ The Supreme Court at St. Louis, lias
decided that the Missouri Legislature cannot di
vorce parties upon the petition of one of them.
O’ V cotton factory is about to he established
at Houston, Texas.
American Sailors on Exhibition 1,.
news from Lahine, received at New-Londc-
Ct. makes mention of the arrival at the for®,’
place of the American whaler Minerva Ce
Seabury. Capt. S. reports hearing fro®
Alert, Green, in the first part of the season t,
ing in on the Tartary Coast, sent two boati’
crews in after wood. They not returning a Sej
pected, he sent the third boat, which was a l -,
detained. The ship was thus left with a sing',
boats’crew, and continued standing off an( j
for two weeks or more before he had any j ßtti
jigence of the boats. They finally all returne J
to the ship, and related that, when they landed
the natives made them prisoners, and took th eni '
hack through the country and villages for th e
purpose of exhibition. They were treated i n
the kindest manner during their imprisonment
When their keepers had exhibited them to the r
satisfaction, they restored their boats with every
article belonging t<> them. Not even the small,
est article was missing.
A Harbinger of Freedom. —A London let.
ter says that.a great effort will be made during
the next session of Parliament to get rid alto,
gather of the paper stamp (as applied to news,
papers) and advertisement duties. Each pap,,
now pays an amount of taxation equal to about
40 per cent, on its publishing price. If this
taxation were removed, the papers cou\i\)9
furnished at one half their present cost.
Not Successful —On the night of the sth
instant, about fifty negroes, of all ages and sexes
with teams, stampeded from tin Missouri side
of the river near Quincy, Illinois. The slaves
were owned by Miss Miller, Mr. McKim and
Mr. McCutcheon, of Sugar Creek, and Mr. El.
lis,of Monticello, Lewis county. They were
overhauled in the morning, and after a desperate
resistance and the loss of their lender, they
were captured.
Education. —There are in the United States
119 colleges, the oldest of which is Harvard
University, at Cambridge, Mass , established in
1638. The next oldest is Yale College, at New
Haven, established in 1700. The nggregae
number of volumes in the libraries of these
colleges is 643,328. Tlio library of Harvard
University numbers 74,000 volumes.
A Duel. — M. r I biers fought a bloodless duel
in Paris with a member of tlie Assembly, with
whom he had a dispute. After one shot was
fired, the seconds told them rhul their honor was
fully satisfied, and so they' went back to the As.
sembly, and resumed their attention to public
business.
Singular Incident. —The Savannah Rrpub.
lican says : “ Solomon’s Lodge of this city boasts
of being the oldest in the United States, except
one in Boston. This Lodge possesses a Bible
printed in the year 1733, which was presented
in that year by Gen- Oglethorpe. Afeweve
liings since, when the lights were extinguished,
a spark from one of them must have communi
cated fire to the velvet cushion on which the
Bible habitually rests. The cushion was en
tirely consumed, u ith the exception of that part
immediately under the Bible, while the sacred
book itself escaped all injury.”
Communism Defined. —“ The other day,”says
the Constitulionnel, “a workman was declaring
in the midst of a group against Communism.
One of the group says, ‘you talk against Com
munism, and you do not even know what it is.'
The workman said nothing in reply at first; bu{
taking ofl'his blouse he tore it into fragments,
and, after giving a portion to each of the persons
present, he said : ‘Communism, my friends, has
for its object to make of what may be very use
fulMo one person a collection of morsels which
are useful to nobody.”’
A Courageous Woman. —Mrs Caroline Mit
chell, wife of Louis Mitchell, of New York, had
just retired to bed on Saturday night, (13th ult.)
when a big negro entered the room, and striking
a light proceeded to rob the drawers of \arious
or ioles, when Mrs. M. jumped from the bed,
and seizing the follow screamed for help. He
attempted to stab her in the neck, but she held
on, he dragging her down stairs. When she
reached the bottom, however, she fainted, and
the fellow was making off, hut was seized by t
gentleman and committed to prison.
A Fortunate. Escape. — A few nights since,
says an English paper, one of the Cadgwith
fisherman having hauled in a large conger, the
savage fish snapped at his foot, and fortunately
caught off only the shoe, and sprang overboard
with it, leaving the poor fellow to get home
bare-footed, and yet thankful for a foot to go
home with.
English Railroads —lt appears front are*
port of the English Railway Commissioners,
that of passengers who take proper care of them
selves, only one out of 5,752,379 is killed, which
shows that in the cars a man is nearly as safe a»
out of them.
French Spoliations b-eforf. 1800 Anew
effort for justice to the sufferers from these
wrongs, (or, rather from the long continued
wrong of the United States) will be made at
the next session of Congress
When a bulk of 'imo and water are com
bined, the heat is caused by a condensation
equal to the hulk of lime, for the mixture is the
same hulk as at first.
A Time to Begin. —At the Liverpool Police
Court a short time since, an Irish woman, charged
with an assault upon one of her countrywomen,
palliated her conduct by say ing that she “never
interfered until she was murdered with n poker '■
A High Dignitary.—Dr. Semple, president
of the California State Coven ion, is seven f« ct
high.
Slander —Some signature seeker wrote t®
the late Daniel O’Connell, requesting his auto
graph, whirl] the orator is said to have refused
in the following sententious epistle :
“ Dear Sir : —Your request has been received,
and it cannot be complied with.
“Yours, DANIEL O’CONNELL ’’