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Mortal ’ beware of this world's gaudy show !
Tho glit'ring tinsel of b< ouTy's bright [!i,v. '
These farinatioiw lute thee away,
And cuuse lliee from keaveu to go fur astray.
Beware! O beware ' <f fame's dazzling glare !
N<> comfort « r good is exer found 11 1 er• •.
’Tu the beacon of sin, to tempt thy soul
Vfn-'re the billows of wrath forever roll.
Beware, the influence of .Mammon sf. 11 srvav !
(■littering gold cannot light up the way
Which shrouded in darkness,shadowcd in »loom,
Leads through the lone valley, on to the tomb.
Beware! lit~sc pleasures will soon all th cay
With the;?, a little while only they’ll stay ;
Seek then, those pleasures that never will die
And which, in reserve,are laid up on high.
Beware all those things that lead thee from home,
The joys of tills earth they want thee to roam
forgetful of Go.J, unmindful of heaven.
And scorn tho free grace the Gospel hath given
Mortal! beware, of the world! turn away
Destruction’s before lliee, turn while you may,
Th : arm of vcngonce uplifted may swear
Eternal ruin, if you persevere.
PHILANTfIROPOS.
Miuledueville, L’cc. 6, 1849.
I herewith send you a copy of the cor
respondence between the Governors of
Georgia and Florida, in relation to the
Found ary Lino between said States.—
Also, the Report of the Trustees, Superin
tendent and Resident Physician of the
Lunatic Asylum of the State of Georgia,
for the years 1818 and 1849. Also, the
Semi-Annual Repor! of the Board of Com
missioners for the Georgia Asylum for the
Deaf and Dumb, The Committee re
commend that in order to manifest the im
provement of the scholars of this Institu
tion, a class he invited to attend the pres
ent session of the General Assembly, and
its expenses be defrayed by legislative ap
propriation. It also recommends the ap
propriation of §4OOO, and the unexpended
balance of former appropriations, in order
to complete the buildings of the Institu
tion.
The following bills among others, have
passed the House :
To allow the South Western Railroad
Company to build their Road through the
Public Reserve near the cily of Macon,
and to build adep it, &c. upon the Reserve.
To incorporate the GritHn and West
Point Railroad Company.
To authorize the construction of a Plank
ttni'l from Washington, Wilkes county,
to Elberton, Elbert county.
To repeal the 4'.h, sth and 6th sections
of the act authorizing the further progress
of the work on the Western and Atlantic
Railroad, &c., approved Dec. 22, 1843.
To authorize the construction of a
Branch Railroad ftom some point on the
South Western Railroad near MossvCreek
to Perry, Houston county.
Mr. Jones’ bill to regulate the price of
freights and fare on the Railroads in this
State, has been, on motion of Mr. Nisbet,
laid upon the table, for the balance of the
session, by a vote ofG9 to G.
To incorporate the Griffin ami West
Point Plank Railroad Company.
The bill to sell the Macon Briilge and
amend the City Charter, was lost on the
4th and reconsidered on the sth.
To authorize the Methodist Episcopal
Church South at Savannah to hold proper
ty to the amount of $25,000.
To define the rights of complainants in
Equity, its certain cases.
To incorporate the Second Baptist
Church in Savannah.
The bill to appropriate SIO,OOO for the
im; rovement of the navigation of the Coo
sa River, was lost in the House.
The Woman’s Bill was lost in the Sen
ate on the 4th, by a vote of 17 to 19—but
> was reconsidered on the sth and made the
order of the day for the 6:h, when it may
pass that branch.
A Dead Shot. —A physician, who re
sides in the southern portion of New York
city, upon visiting a patient who resided
a< the extreme north, was asked by the
sick man ‘ if he did not find it very incon
venient to come such a distance V
‘Not at a'l, sir,’ replied the son of Es
culapius: ‘for, having another patient in
the next street, 1 can kill two birds with
one stone.’
‘Can you, sir?’ replied the invalid:
‘ then you are too good a shot for me,’ —
and immediately dismissed him.
OP The full that is most likely to injure
a person’s brain is,—to fall in love with a
I'reUy girl.
| C7* A fellow in Arkansas is so short
that ho his been often mistaken for pie
crust!
A Novel Cask.— ln Fairfield district, S. C.,
recently, a man named Tidwell, and an accom
plice of the name of Lawhorn, were tried and
convicted of abducting and marrying a young
girl of 13 years of age. The defendant (Tid
well) is a'shoemaker, and had been employed
as such in the family of the prosecutor, and it
was supposed by many who heard the evidence,
that some provocation or offence given by .Mr.
Crankfield, the prosecutor and father of the
young girl, to one or both of the defendants, was
the motive of the abduction.
The married miss is to remain in charge of
her lather, until the age of 16, as it appears there
is n statute in forco in Carolina against young
girls taking upon themselves the duties attendant
on the marriage state, until they arrive at that
age. South Carolina is a singular State in more
respects than one. The magistrates there do
Hot allow the people to vote directly for Presi
dent. And the above instance shows that the
laws (b< not permit th" girls to marry w hen ihf y
think they arc old enough ' M hat a Mate
MACON, G A .
SATURDAY MORNING, DEC. 8, 1849.
From Washington.— We learn by Tele*
: graph tiial no Speaker had been elected up to
| the adjournment yesterday afternoon. At the
* last ballot Mr. Winthrop, (W.) received 100
l votes—Howell Cobb, (D.) 63—and blank 56
The Democrats were to assemble last evening
for the purpose of making anew nomination in
the place of Mr. Cobb, whom they could not
elect. The difficulty appears to rest upon the
slavery question. The Free Soil Democrats op
pose Mr. Cobb—and the Free Soil Whigs oppose
Mr. Winthrop—consequently neither will be
elected.—The Free Soilers have nominated
David Wilinot, and adhere to him. I*, is thought
that a compromise will he made by which a
Northern Democrat will be elected.
This difficulty in electing the Speaker, isonly
a beginning of the troubles that await the en
suing Congress on the slavery question.
3 / George W. Hardwick, Associate Ed.
i or of the Columbus Enquirer, died on the 26th
ult. in the 31st year of his age.
HU* Godoy’s Lady's Book for January is one
of the best specimens of Literature and Art that
we have ever seen. This is the specimen num.
her for 1850, and from past experience we are
inclined to believe that Godey will increase the
value of his Ma gazine with each succeeding
issue.
Killed. — On Thursday night last, between 11
and 12o’clock, Patkick Barrett attempted a
forcible entry into the house of Talbot Combsi
in this cily, when the latter fired the contents
of a musket in the left breast of the former,
which caused his death in a few hours. An In
quest was held over the body yesterday and a
verdict rendered in accordance with the above.
Combs surrendered himself and will ho exam
ined this afternoon, before Justices Brown arid
Gua.nms.
HU* The attention of our readers is directed to
the Prospectus of Holden’s Dollar Magazine, on
our Fourth Page. It speaks for itself.
Savannah —Tho entire Democratic Ticket
for Mayor and Aldermen of Savannah, was
elected on Monday last. The Whigs had no
ticket.
At a meeting of the City Council on Thurs
day last, a junction of the Railroads at Macon
was respectfully and earnestly asked of the Le
gislature, and in the event of a failure to form a
connection here, they ask the right to be granted
totho Central Railroad Company to cross the
River and join the South Western Railroad, so
as in no wise to impede the full and free naviga
tion thereof, at a point below any possible cor
porate rights or privileges of the .authorities o*
Macon. The Mayor was appointed to pro
ceed to Milledgeville to place their proceedings
before both branches of the Legislature and to
use all honorable means to carry out the wishes
of the people of Savannah in this regard.
The Cherokee. —This steamer has been re
cently purchased by Messrs. Howland &, As.
piswall, to run from New York direct to Cha.
grci. She brought $200,000 cash, and will be
delivered on her return to New York to-day,
and will sail thence for Chagres on Thursday
nrxt. Thus have both of the steamers recently
plying between Savannah and New York been
purchased for the California trade We learn
that two new steamships will be built forthwith
and placed on the line between Savannah and
New York, in time for the sprnig and summer
iiavul. Wc wish the enterprising proprietors
abundant success.
The keel is laid, and the frame got out, fur
the first ship to replace the Tennessee, and
all despatch possible w ill be used for her com
pletion in May next- Contracts ore already in
progress for the second one to replace the Che
rokee.
California Mails. —Notice has been given
by the Postmaster General, that the mails for
California and Oregon will be dispatched from
New York on tlie 13th of December, from
Charleston, (S. C.,) and Savannah, (Ga.,) on the
16th ; from New' Orleans on or about the loth.
From Havana, at which point the steam-packet
from New York and that from New Orleans will
connect, the mail will depart on the 19th of
December, direct for Chagres, reaching Panama
overland in due time for the Pacific steam-packet
to leave the port San Francisco on the Ist day
nf January next.
Fatal Rencontre. —The I.aurcnsville (S.C)
Herald says a most unfortunate rencontre re
cently occurred in the lower part of Laurens
District, between two brothers named Samuel
and Pinckney Workman, which resulted in the
death ofthe former—and the latter has been
bailed in a bond of $2,000. The following are
said to be the facts of the case, as elicited on the
application for bail. Some difficulty had arisen
between the parties, concerning the measure
ment of wheat, w hen Samuel presented a load
ed and cocked gun at the breast of Pinckney
who was standing near his brother, with a com
mon pocket knife open in his hand, with which
he was trimming a stick to serve as a tally fo r
the wheat,and when Samuel presented thegun
he struck him two blows on the neck with th e
knife, one of which, severing the carotid artery
caused his death in a short time.
Canada. —We find the following item in the
news by the Caledonia. It is important, if true :
It is said that Government has intimated to
the Governor of Canada that no coercive meas
ures will he adopted to prevent an annexation
to the UniJod States, if the popular will be de.
cidedly expressed in favor of that measure.
Results of Gambling. —There is now living
iu New York City, in extreme want, a inan, who
at one time had one hundred and eighty thou
sand dollars, amassed by a few weeks success
ful gambling. For some years ire lived in the
utmost luxury, having over four hundred suits
of clothes, but the smiles of fbrtune deserted
him, and at last ho has been reduced to beggary.
\ In thread-bare coat, and without either energy
or character, lie is daily seen in Broadway
An Elopement in Contemplation. —The
Rochester (N. Y.) American is responsible for
the following :
Courting Scene — Miss Canada. —Please, sir.
will you marry tne ?
Uncle Sum —l cannot disguise my affection for
so amiable and beautiful a young lady ; but your
papa must tie consulted, and 1 must procure his
consent.
Miss C —O, nevermind. I'll ask him my
self, and if he refuses we’ll get up an elopement.
Now, is it not shameful, that in this land of
! religion and morals, folks should permit such a
| match as the one above named ? Borue years
I ago “Uncle San” took unto himself several
I voung ladies in confederate union, viz: Miss
| issippi, Miss-ouri, Miss Louisiana, Miss Flori
j da, Miss Texas, and divers others—and now
j lie has a “sneakin’ notion” of Miss Canada ! I;
is horrible to think of the example that such a
course is setting for “foreign powers,” and indi
vidual “sovereigns” at borne. At least, sueh '
is the opinion of an old maid of our acquaint
ance, who declares iier intention to indict “Un
cle Sam” for polygamy, if he dares to say ano i
tlier word about it—especially as be won’t pro- \
vide for the families under Lis charge at prerent
—Miss California’s for instance !
Wonderful. —A very remarkable rock, it is
stated by the Detroit Free Press, lias been dis- |
covered in the middle of Lake Superior. It
rises only about four feet above the surface and
extends down to an interminable depth. The
discoverers relate that the rock appears to be a
place of general resort for the salmon trout of
those lakes, as they found them in almost incal
culable numbers, having, during their short stay,
caught several barrels with no other instrument
than a rod of iron, on one end of which they
turned a hook.
Laughter. —Taylor, in his description of
Greece, says: “Sardinia is free front all kinds
of poisonous and deadly herbs excepting one
herb, which resembles parsley, and which, they
say, causes those who eat it to die laughing.”
Homer first, and others after him, call laughter,
which conceals some noxious design, Sardoni
can.
The Mistake —We noticed, once, a queer
typographical error, which shows what a change
a type may make. A newspaper, alluding to
the official conduct of a public man,intended to
say, that he had “lived down his enemies.”
The compositor left out the v from “fired,” and
the sentence read, “He lias lied down his ene
mies.”
Pork Packing. —The Chattanooga Gazette
says the Pork Packing Business in that place,
has regularly commenced. We ate not inform
ed how many are slaughtered daily, but from a
lew minutes notice of the operations, we should
suppose that several hundred wore despatched.
Mr. Turner lias bought five orsix thousand Hog s
at $2,50 per hundred pounds, gross, which is a
very fair price, to say the least of it.
The Crops in Florida. — The Tallahessee
Floridian, of the 17th ult., speaks in glowing
terms of the prospects of Florida. It says that
the cotton crop will be fully an average one,
while the tobacco crop will be a mine of wealth
to the planters who raise it. Nor is this all says
the Floridian. As we have already shown in a
former number, the experiments in turpentine,
enough most abundantly to test the matter, sat
isfy the expectations and calculations of the
most sanguine in regard to the profits which
may certainly ho secured from this department
of business. Induced by the prospects thus
held out,citizens of North Carolina are already
on the road to reap this harvest of wealth.
03“ YVe understand that the Legislature of
Tennessee, has decided in favor of the Gover
nor’s issuing the Bonds to the East Tennessee
and Georgia Railroad Company.
More Inventions for Killing. — Monsieur
Vandenberg of Brussels lias invented anew
gun, said to be far better than the famous Prus
sian fircncedlt gun. From six to eight dischar.
ges can bo made in a minute; the carrying dis
tance is from 2000 to 2300 feet; the hall weighs
about one ounce and a quarter, and the powder
is one twelfth the weight of the ball. An ordin
ary gun requires three times more powder, al
though the hall does not weigh half an ounc?
The new gun is loaded from the breech. The
shape of the ball is round, not conical as in the
Prussian gun. It is not consoling to think that
so much ingenuity is spent by men in devising
the best means to kill each other, but if men
will fight lot them be assured that they will lose
their lives. The courageous men of the middle
ages would not have fought one fiftieth part so
much, if they had not been so well protected by
heavy armour that they could hack a long time
at each other without being hurt.
Solar Gas. —The Boston Courier says: Eas t
Boston is soon to be splendidly illuminated with
Solar Gas. The gas is manufactured from fish
oil, which runs by a small stream into the mouth
of an inverted syphon, from which it enters the
boiler, where it is decomposed by the heat, and
the gas passes off into the receiver, which is a
large iron tube upside down, floating in a cistern
of water; the weight of the iron pressing upon
.he gas within, w hich can find no escape, forces
it along the pipe to its destination.
(UP A singular accident occurred a few days
since at New Orleans. A fine little boy, the
only son of Mr. George 11. Dubois, living in
Burgundy street, in carrying an earthen pitcher
from one house to another—the family was re
moving—fell on the pavement, when the fragile
vessel breaking, one fragment 'came across liis
outstretched neck and severed the carotid arte
ry. He bled to death on the spot.
The Typos. —The Printers of Washington
City are about to contribute towards the Nation
al Monument. They are the right sort of men
“to set vp a cobemn!”
Heavy Damages. —At Staunton, Va., in the
case ofH. Eidson, Sr., vs. T. Shumate, for slan
der, the jury recently rendered a verdict of
$1,895.
I Wonders of the Telegraph. —Scarcely a
day passes that we do not hear some new and
i wonderful use to which the telegraph is adap
-1 ted. The following, from the National Intelli
gencer, is the latest:
We were present a few evenings ago at the
I Coast Survey Astronomical Station, on Capitol
I Mill, which was put in telegraphic connexion
| with Cincinnati, for the purpose of determining
| the longitude between the two places. The
| electrical clocks in this city and Cincinnati hav-
I mg been introduced into the completed circuit,
| rcerij Leal at Cincinnati was recorded at almost
the same instant on Saxton’s revolving cylinder
in this city, and every heat of the clock here
was recorded in like manner upon Mitchell’s
j revolving plate at Cincinnati. At the moment
a star passed the meridian at Washington, by
; the touch of a key the record of the passage was
i made upon the disk at Cincinnati, as well as
upon the cylinder at the Washington station,
and the difference of the time of the two clocks
would of course indicate the differenco of longi.
; Hide. The distance between the two cities, it
must be recollected, is upwards of five hundred
miles; this distance was annihilated,and events
happening at the one were instantly recorded
by automatic machinery at the other. The in
terchange of star-signals was soon interrupted,
however, by the intervention of a cloud at Cin
cinnati, and the remainder of the evening was
occupied by the gentlemen present in a philoso
phical discussion on the subject of the velocity
of the transmission of electricity. We were
never more impressed with the power of the tel
egraph to annihilate space, and bring into in
stant mental communication individuals sepera
ted by hundreds of miles,
Large Claim.— The interesting case of Sirs
Myra Gaines, widow of Gen. Gaines, will
conic up for final decision before Judge Mc-
Caleb, of the U. S. District Court at New Or
leans during the present month.
Ssiart. —Some of the New Orleans boys have
recently been rendering night hideous, by sere
nading a citizen who has performed the remark
able feat of marrying three wives in thirteen
months. The Delta remarks that the man who
can do that can stand a great many tin pans and
broken horns.
Accident. —A passenger came on board the
Albatros, at Memphis, says the Cincinnati Com
mercial, and placed a shot gun he had with him
standing against the side of the cabin. Soon
after starting out the gun fell down and discharg
ed itself towards the persons sitting in the main
hall, six of whom were wounded by the shot,
three of whom it was supposed would die from
their wounds.
Fires. —The mansion of Mrs. Anna Jenkins,
Providence, R. 1., was destroyed by fire on
Tuesday week, and, sad to relate, Mrs. Jenkins
and her eldest daughter perished in the flames.
On Sunday, 18th ult , two houses, occupied
by miners, at the mines of Mr. J. G. Lawton,
near New Castle, Schuylkill co., Pa., took fire
and were entirely consumed. The most painful
part of the occurrence is that in one of the hou
ses, occupied by Thomas Barry, his niece, a girl
about 14 years of age, was burned to death.
O’ The number of licenses to sell liquor
in New York, issued from the 9th of May last,
(the day from which they date) up to the loth
ult., was 3779. This give on an average more
than one liquor shop for every one hundred men,
women and children in the city.
O’A telegraphic despatch from St. Louis,
dated 20th» says:—The steamer St Paul, with
a heavy freight, bound to New Orleans, struck
“a sawyer” on Sunday evening, when off Flat
Island. The concussion broke almost every
timber on the larboard side. The wreck of
the boat wns run on the bar, where she sunk
to the main deck. The boat is valued at
$20,000.
[UP The value of the Real Estate in N.York,
as returned by the assessors, is $197,761,919,
and of tiio Personal Estate $58,455,174 48.
HP Mr. Thomas Powell, a gentleman, who
though but a short resident in New Y’ork, has
been making no liitle stir in the literary world,
lias commenced a libel suit against the editor of
the Tribune, for publishing a bitter attack upon
him, over the signatures of Charles Dickens and
Lewis Gaylord Clark. We suppose this is the
gentleman who lately dedicated a volume to Dr.
Terri 11, of Sparta, Georgia.
Served him right. —Joseph Barker, the street
preacher, who has been on trial in Pittsburg, for
“ attracting crowds in the streets of that city, by
using loud, violent and indecent language,” has
ieerusenteneed. M, pay a fine of $250, undergo
an imprisonment during 12 months,and pay the
costs of prosecution.
[O’As a proof of the religious toleration en
joyed in Turkey, a firman has been issued a*
Constantinople, inviting the communities who
do not profess Muhomcdanism to choose their
own members for the Divan ( Municipal Coun
cil.) Jews and Christians are the participators
in the civil privileges.
[HP The State of Kentucky has appropriated
the sum of $15,000 for the erection of an ap
propriate monument in testimony of the gallant
ry, daring, and valor of her chivalrous sons,
who fell in the wars of her country. It is to be
an obelisk, sixty feet in height, and is to be con
structed of the finest Italian marble.
O’ From an official statement just made by
the City Comptroller, it appears that the taxa
tion of the citizens of New Y'ork during the last
year, was equal to 110 cents, on the $100; this
year it will reach 118 cents!
An Egg Story. —Mr. Glinkinger, of Allen,
town, Pa., has in his possession an egg, layed by
one of his hens, which measures 63 inches in
circumference one way, and 84 the other. The
egg was accidentally broken, and in the middle
was found another egg, with a shell as hard as
its companion
Extraordinary Discovery in California.
The following is an extract from a letter writ
ten to his wife by a New Yorker, now working
in the mines of California. The letter bears
date, August 26;1t, 1849.
There w is a gold mine discovered here (what
is called Murphy's Diggins) one week to-dav, it
is evidently the work of ancient times—2lo feet
deep, situated on Jthc summit of a very high
mountain —lt has made a great excitement here,
as it was several days before preparations could
be made to descend the bottom. There was
found in it the hones of a human being, also an
altar for worship, and some other evidence of
human labor. From present indications it is
doubtful vvhetherit will “pay to be worked,as
it is mostly all rock, and will require a great out
lay for tools and machinery to work it.
This discovery, if properly pursued by com
petent observers, may prove of the highest his
torical importance. It will establish the fact
that the mineral wealth of that region had been
known to proceeding generations, and the relics
which have survived, may enlighten us as to the
nationality of the people who first pierced this
mountain two hundred and ten feet, and wi!|
doubtless suggest an inquiry into the reason for
abandoning the pursuit of gold in a country in
which it seems to abound, and where its dis
coverers had found encouragement to make such
extensive excavations in former times.
Fun in Baltimore — ln August last, Mrs.
Levin, wife of L. C. Levin, Esq , assisted by
her servant,cowhidcd a young tnan named Fite,
for the alleged offence of repeatedly staring
rudely iuto the lady's carriage. For this Mr.
Fite instituted proceedings, and the Court last
week found them guilty, and fined Mrs. Levin
§3O and her servant $lO and the costs of prose
cution.
Fight with tiif. Pawnees.— By an arrival at
St. Louis, from Fort Laramie to the 23d of Octo
ber, vve learn that Lieutenant Ogle, with a com
mand of 20 dragoons, had recently encountered
a company of 100 hostile Pawnee Indians, on
Little Blue River, when an action took place, in
which the Indians were defeated and many of
them killed. Lieut. Ogle and sis dragoons were
wounded—two of them it was feared, mortally.
Important from Canada.— The French pa
pers state that Lord Elgin has written an auto,
graph to the Catholic bishop, promising to give
up the Jesuit estates to that church, providing
they will stifle the annexation movement now
in progress. The tiling seems almost incredi
ble, says the American Courier, but it is, never
theless, believed by well-informed persons.
Electrical Velocity. —A writer in a foreign
journal says: The exact velocity of electricity
along a copper wire is 288,000 miles in a se
cond ; it is calculated, accordingly, that wc
could telegraph to our antipodes in rather !< ss
than the 500th part of one second of time.
Tiie II ouse of Bishops. —The Bishops of
Maryland, North Carolina, New Jersey and
Western New Y’ork, have, it is stated, requested
a special meeting of the House of Bishops—
probably with a view to consider the case of
Bishop Ouderdonk, of New Y’ork.
Rights of Gold Diggers. — A letter from
California say s : A person digging forgold dust
has 18 feet allowed on the river, and may run
back as far ns he chooses. No one will infringe
upon him so long as his tools are left on the
spot.
[O’ A mob was recently dispersed iu Pitts,
burgli by a clergyman, who asked the sheriff to
let him pray with them. After the prayer he
pronounced the benediction, and the assemblage
quietly dispersed.
O’ Blackwood’s Magazine has discovered the
reason why the Canadians are discontented:
“They have nothing in their pockets, and what
is worse, they are afraid if they go on much lon
ger as they are now doing, they will soon be
without pockets too.”
Logical. —A paper, in speaking of a temper
ance address, says, “itabounded with oceans of
sentiment, rivers of love, torrents of feeling,
and a perfect deluge of sense.”
Quite Probable. —“ Union is not strength,
as the old toper said when he put water in his
brandy.” Very true. Such a union produces
neither strength of mind, strength of body,
strength of happiness, strength of purse, nor
strength of soul. It does, however, give strength
to disease, strength to want, strength to shame,
and strength to the grave.
Novel Plea. —From the American Courier,
Philadelphia, we learn that in a trial for breach
of promise, which came before the District
Court, the counsel for defendant urged the fact,
that the contract of marriage between the par
ties was void because made on the Sabbath
The Judge charged the Jury on this point, that
the law in regard to Sunday contracts, did not
extend to the contracts of marriage, which, by
many religious sects, were considered as solemn
sacraments, to be only sanctioned by impressive
ceremonies. The contracts made on Sunday,
which are void, are those relating to worldly
business. To hold that marriages solemnized
on that day were void, would be to disturb thou
sands of marriages which have been contracted,
and to render illegitimate a very large number of
citizens. The jury found a verdict for plaintiff
for S3OO.
Pacific Rail Road. — The financial writer
for tiie Boston Post says, that many of the most
influential and respectable men ofthatcity have
signed a petition tof Congress, for the Pacific
Rail-Road charter, on the planofMr. Dcgrand—
s2,ooo,ooo private, and $98,000,000 national,
subscription. Avery modest petition, truly.
Explosion. —The extensive powder mill near
Xenia, Ohio, exploded with a terrific noise on
the 26th ultimo. Two men employed in the es
tablishment were killed. Their bodies were
blown to atoms. This is the fourth time this
null has exploded within the past two years
Alligator’s Nest.— They resemble, * av
Lyell in his Second Visit to America, haycocks
about four feet high, and five in diameter at
their buses, being constructed with grass anj
herbage. First they doposite one layer of egg t
on a floor of mortar, aud having covered this
w ith it second stratum of mud and herbage, eight
inches thick, lay another set of eggs upon that
and so on to the top, there being coirimnnlJ
from one to two hundred eggs in a nest. With
their tails they then bent down round the neat
the dense grass and reeds live feet high, to p rt
vent the approach of unseen enemies. The f e
male watches her eggs until they are all hatched
by the heat of the sun, and then takes her brood
under her care, defending them and ptoviding
for theirsubsistance. Dr. Luzenberger, of N ew
Orleans, told me that he once packed up one of
these nests, with the eggs, in a box for the Mu
seum of St. Petersburg!!, but was recommended
before he closed it to see, that there was no dan
ger of any of the eggs being hatched on the
voyage. On opening one, a young alligator
walked out, and was soon followed by the rest
about a hundred, which he fed in his house’
where they went up and down the stairs, whin'
ing and harking like young pupies. They ate
voraciously, yet their grow th was slow as to con
firm him in the opinion, that individuals which
have attained the largest size, are of very grew,
age, though whether they live for three cento,
ries, as some pretend, must be decided by future
observation.
Alleged Burying Alive.— ln the midst of
exaggeration and invention says the Quarterly
Review, there is one undoubted circumstance
which formerly excited tho worst apprehensions:
the fact that bodies were often found turned in
their coffins and the grave-clothes disarranged.
But what was ascribed, with seeming reason to
the throes of vitality, is now known to be due
to the agency of corruption. A gas is developed
in the decayed body which mimics by its me
chanical force, many of tlie movements of life.
So powerful is this gas in corpses that have lain
lung in the water, that M . Devergie, the physi.
cian to the Morgue at Paris, and the author of a
text-hook on legal medicine says : that unless
secured to the table, they are often heaved up
and thrown to the ground. Frequently, stran
gers seeing the motion of the limbs, run to the
keeper of the Morgue, and announce with horror
that a person is alive. All bodies, sooner or
later, generate gas in the grave ; and it constant
ly twists about the corpse, blows out the skin
till it rends with distention, and sometimes bursts
the coffin itself. When the gass explodes with
a noise, imagination has converted it into an
outcry or groan; the grave has been re-opened;
the position of the body confirmed the suspicion,
and the laceration been taken for evidencetha t
the wretch gnawed his flesh in the frenzy
of despair. So many are the circumstances
which will constantly occur to support a conclu
sion that is more unsubstantial, than the fabric
of a dream.
Austrian Atrocities.— The atrocities of
Austria in relation to the Hungarian leaders, aro
everywhere commented upon in language of
bitter and burning indignation. The name of
llaynau will be odious and execrated for ages to
come. A more relentless monster never dis
graced any civilized age or nation.—The details
of his deeds of blood are calculated to excites
thrill of horror A London correspondent of
the New York Commercial says :—“ The object
<>f the Austrian Ministry seems to be to hang or
shoot every man whose rank, ability or enthu
siasm lor tiie national cause may make biro dan
gerous iu future. Among the last victims, I
noiice the names of Perenyi, a venerable mas
of seventy years of age, Madarasz, iate chief «f
police, Szacsvay, author of the Hungarian Dec
laration of Independence, the gallant prir.ee
Woronewski, Avancoux, one of Dembirf»
most efficient aids-de-camp, and Giron,comma# -
der of the German Legion. These wholesale
massacres are carried out under the snperr/sion
of llaynau, and with the full approbation ofthe
Austrian Ministry. They are demanded by \UM
offended military pride of Austria, beaten inw ft
many encounters by the gallant Magyars,tel
shock the sense of humanity of the people- K
Not a single press, except the official one l B
Vienna, neglects to protest against acts «" ■
stain the name of Austria. It is but fair ß
that the only persons who approve the gore ll ' B
merit in this matter are the high militaryaad B
civil functionaries, whose mortification fordcWß
demands hecatombs of victims.” I
From the Sandwich Islands.— The C' llloll
Traveller learns that despatches of grea tiirp 01 '
tancehave been received in this country,^ onl \
the Sandwich Islands Government, and fotwst'l
deil to Washington, to he laid before the cedi
tary of State. They rela’e to the recent Ff« I
piratical outrage at the Islands.
Jones and the other U. S. officers at Cahf |l,sl l
are understood to have expressed the utmof|i
dignation at the unprovoked violence > ! *l
French Admiral, against the defenceless lk' l j
ians. M. Dillon, the French Consul atH# I
has the credit of getting up this disgraceful # ! 1
He has been busy for some time with j
embroil the Hawaiian government in "I 1 "*
with Fiance, probably to give her a pr c!l, ‘ ■
taking possession of these Islands—
however, by this movement is believed t°
violated her solemn convention with Hr
in which she pledged herself not to
session of the Islands herself, nor to af
other nation to do it, under any pretext
cr. By the protest of the British an<U (
can Consuls, it seems England and
will now have a voice in this business-
In a Fix.— S. R. Thurston, Esq-i "J 1
elected Delegate from Oregon rßcenl
four other candidates, according to ,
Post, lost his trunk in crossing the I st^‘nJ
his clothes, credentials and papers.
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‘Simon Suggs’ promoted. —Johnso ■
cr, the well-known author of 1 ®' n,< ! eCte jl I
and ‘Captain MeSpadden,’ has been « I
licitoi of the Ninth Judicial Di*9'
hnina. :