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On the receipt of some Flowers , in December.
The Sjiring-lime of verdure and beauty lias fled
On lire wings of the wind to the realms of the
past;
The buds of the Summer are wither’d and dead,
And the trees arc disrobed by the pitiless
blast;
The shouts of the reapers in harvesting hours
Have died in the distance, and are buried in
gloom :
V l l winter has left me four beautiful flowers
Afresh in their fragrance, in their beauty and
bloom.
Hail ! gentle fnementocs ! yc bring to my mind
A bevy of pleasures 1 must never forget:
The moments agonc when the wildwoods were
twined
With lilies and daisies in the marigolds met ;
When wand’ring in silence the forest along,
I gazed on the mantle of the beautiful (lueeu,
Or heard tho sweet notes of the musical throng
That in melody sung o'er the wide-spreading
green.
Yes, childhood, returning, salutes mo once more
As I traze on your petals, sweet, beautiful
flowers 1
I revel again in tiie moments of yore
With the friends of my youth, in luxuriant
bowers.
But lessons of wisdom arc graven on you,
For the young and the old, for the fair and the
gray
The scenes of my childhood, so pleasant and
true,
Like your friends and your kindred, have
faded away !
Then, Ada, beware of the treacherous glow
Os follies presuming, and nllurcmentsof earth,
True pleasure and peace they ran never bestow, i
For they fade in the blossom, and die at the
birth; —
Our years are escaping on Time's fleeting wingi
As the dew on the grass, or the watery spray ;
On the breath of the mum, our life's golden
Spring,
Like these beautiful flowers, must vauisli
away !
Then, Ada, prepare for the cold, wintry blast,
When the Spring, the Summer, and Au
tumn have fled ;
When earth and its joys, and its sorrows are past,
And your body must visit the realms of the
dead.
Seek now to obtain the Omnipotent's hand
Asa guide and a guard to that glorious day ,
Till crowned in tho triumph, you enter that land
Where the Spring and the flowers ne'er van
ish away
W. IV 11
M aeon, Dec. SIO, 1611*.
Mh.LEDGF.VII.I.E, Dec. IT, IS4‘J.
Report ol tlie Committee ou tire State of
tile Republic.
The Joint Committee on the State of the
Republic, to which was referred those
portions of the Governor’s Message
arid the several Hills and Resolutions
relating to the subject of slavery, intro
duced into cither Branch of the Legis
lature, beg leave to
REPORT:
That they have given iho most deliber
ate and solemn attention to the various
suggestions embraced in propositions sub
mitted to them, referring to the subject of
slavery, and have with mindsfully impress
ed w ith the great significance that must be
given to any action whatever on this mat
ter at the present hour, arrived at the con
clusion that we should, as far as the State
of Georgia is concerned, recommend such
action as shall compose the public mind,
suppress any further agitation of a contro
versy in which for more than twenty years
the South has been constantly worsted, or
propose 6ome efficient and practical meas
ures that shall prove the sincerity of our
complaints, and at the same time redress
our wrongs. It is vain to deny that we
the injured party, have for a series of years
by a vacillating and temporizing policy on
ly assured the courage of our assailants,
and invited by an excessive sensibility on
the subject of the ultimate consequences of
decisive action, further and still more ini
quitous experiments upon our forbearance
and patience. The best defence of liher
«y is the first blow stricken in its defence
and for the first right violated. With all
the accumulated injury of fifteen years that
we have had to endure from the anti
slavery States, and that we so sensibly feel
to-day, we yet do not feel more keenly,
nor do we express more forcibly our sense
of this outrage than did tire Legislature
of Georgia twenty-two years ago, upon
the bare proposition of the friends of co
lonization to vote an appropriation for the
removal of free negroes to Liberia. Yet
the Joint Committee on the State of the
Republic, in the year 1827, declared in re
ference to this subject so harmless in the
comparison with the audacity of recent
legislation, “that they could not help re
probating the cold blooded selfishness or
unthinking zeal which actuates many of
our follow-citizens in the other States to
an interference with the local concerns
and domestic relations; totally unwarran
ted either by humanity or constitutional
lightv. Such interference is becoming
every day more determined and more
alarming.—lt commenced with a few un
thinking zealots, who formed themselves
into abolition societies; was seized upon
by more cunning and designing men for
political purposes, and is supported by
more than one of the States, as is evident
from the amendments to the Constitution
proposed by legislative bodies, and so fre
quently and indeed insultingly picscr.ted
for our approbation. The result of such
interference if perseveted in, is awful and
inevitable. The people of Georgia know
and strongly feel the advantages of the
Federal Union; as members of that Uni
on, they are proud of its greatness; as
children born under that Union, they will
ever defend it from foes internal as well as
external; but they cannot and will not
even for the preservation of the Union, per
mit their rights to be assailed; they will
not permit their property to be rendered
worthless; they will not permit their
wives and children to be driven as wander
ers into strange lands ; they will not per
mit their country to be made w'aste and
desolate by those who come among us un
de! the cloak of a time serving and hypo
critical benevolence. How then is the
evil to be remedied ! Only by a firm and
determined union of the people and the
States of the South declaring through
their legislative bodies in a voice which
must be heard, that they are ready and
willing to make any sacrifice rather than
submitlonger to such ruinous interference,
and warning their enemies that they are
unwittingly preparing a mine which once
exploded, will lay our much beloved coun
try in one common ruin.” Such language
as this the patriotic guardians of our State
thought thocrisisof IS'27 justified.—Who
now with the lights of 1849 before him,
and the enormities of northern aggression
since the days of this remonstrance but
feels that cither the grievances of twenty
years ago were vastly exaggerated, or we
have suffered that quick resentment and
sensibility to wrong to fall into decay, and
our minds to become patient and calm un
der inflictions which would have been in
tolerable to tho high spirits of that day.
13ut it may be urged in defence of the long
suffering of the South, that her attachment
to this union lias been akin to a sacred de
votedness. That from no huckstering
spirit of profit or of lucre loving have w e
clung to it with such tenacity, that aquar-
ter of a century of outrage upon our rights
and of paltering with our capability of
endurance has barely been enough to in
duce us to count the value of i\ With
the whole South this Union lias been re
garded as dear to us from a higher, a no
bler appreciation than because it ‘‘pro
moted the general welfare.” It lias been
dear to us because purchased with the
blood of our fathers, because transmitted
to us with their benedictions, and because
we bad hoped under its sway to see hu
man liberty and human progress advance
to that point that should give the name of
American freedom as a guarantee for any
future experiments in self-government.
Though often charged with a reckless
and restless spirit, which was not submis
sive to constitutional restraints, the South
boldly meets ibis charge by asking, when
did we over cause collision between mem
bers ot this Union by any aggressive leg
islation—by a distrustful, a self-seeking,
or a domineering policy ? When did the
South, by stretching the powers of the
CJovernment, excite alarm or jealousy?
When did she insult the self-respect of any
, I •>
member ol this Confederacy by contemp
tuous comparisons, or by a pragmatical
and patronising interference with the in
ternal policy and interests of any State ?
Or when did her pulpit lend itself to
fan the flame of civil discord; or when in
our borders was the temple of the living
God, made the theatre of display for the
rancorous hate of brother against his
brother? Let those reproaches fall where
they are deserved, the South has no dread
of them. From the earliest date of the
slavery controversy, the South has evinced
a yielding and conciliatory spirit. For it
will be hard, indeed, for any one to show
the slightest mutuality in the concession
made on the part of the South, of all re
presentation of two-fifths of her slave
population. Can any fair reason he urged
why the South should not have entered
into this Confederacy claiming a full re
presentation for this species of property.
If taxation implies a correlative right of
representation, then was the Southern
slaveholder unjustly treated, when it was
demanded of him that before he could en
ter this Union as a citizen, he must first
surrender the right of having two-fifths of
his salves represented, when that two
fifths weie as certainly taxed on all articles
of their consumption as were their mas
ters. But yet the South yielding ibis point.
She consented also to abolish the foreign
slave trade, by which she might have
cheaply supplied herself with slave labor,
and when the northernmost slave States
thought fit to abolish the institution in their
borders, she interposed no obstacles or
vexatious hindrances, though it might have
been clearly foreseen that this result would
have been fruitful of trouble to those
States that would find their necessities or
their convenience demanding a continua
tion of the system. In every interference
with the question of domestic slavery by
the North, she has failed and failed sig
nally to justify her course by any reasons
of a purely political characterer, and much
less by such political reasons as are to he
found in or tolerated by our Constitution.
There could he no other complaint rea
sonably urged by the North against the ex
istence or the extension of the slave pro
perly of the South, hut that the federal
representation claimed for it was unequal,
and therefore unjust towards the North.
Rut as we have seen the only inequality
in this thing is against the South, and not
in her favor; it then resolves itself into
this, that tills government, so restricted in
the exercise of all power, is to be allowed
to turn propagandist and devote its best
energies to the driving through, against
all resistance of plighted faith, of constitu
tional law; against all claims of right, jus
tice or fraternity, a moral reform, that has
first and last for its object, a forcible eject
metit from our midst of what is denounced
as a gross immorality, and a determination
to give practical effect to tlie idea that
this Government, as a Government, enter
tains of the sin of slavery.
It is the first and last nstunce furnished
by our history, in which this government
has thought it rightful or expedient to sub
sidise religious agencies by the strong arm
of political power. It would require but
one short step further in thi3 attempt to
regulate a matter of conscience, to sec
our duty clearly dictating a union of
Church and State. We feel it to be un
necessary to trace this controversy step
by step to its present critical, if not peril
ous stage.
If we should do so with the minutest
fidelity, its history would at every turn on
ly shew, how reluctant the South has been
to bring the grave matters in issue to that
extremity which would leave the true
friends of harmony and Union nothing to
hope. It has been our fault that we have
in every instance invited imposition hy
indicating a yelding disposition, which on
ly required to be hard pressed, to grant
the most extravagant requisitions. iSo it
was in the controversy with the anti-sla
very titates which gave birth to thq Mis
souri Compromise. In this mis-nametl
surrender of Southern rights, who can
shew a particle of consideration passing
to the South'? Where, in this one sided
compromise, is there to be found the least
reciprocity ? Yet we gave in to this un
reasonable and unjust requirement, and
avowed a love for this Union which would
not suffer us to part with it, though the
North was seeking to make us pay in val
uable and unrighteousconcessionsforevery
day of its existence. This compromise, by
which we bought our peace for more than
a quarter of a century, we observed with
punctilious honor, and when in the course
of events it came to the turn of this por
tion of Union to bebenefuted by the opera
tion of that law, we find the Northern
States unblushingly repudiating their own
contract, and when called upon to
reaffirm their own long expressed
ratification of this compromise, they
refused to do so; and as evincive
of their deliberate purpose to evade
their plighted faith, they sought to organ
ize a territory embraced in the spirit of
this compromise (by which every thing
had been for years securedto them,) upon
the anti-slavery basis, in the unmitigated
and obnoxious shape of the Wilmot Pro
viso. The North now disavows the Mis
souri Compromise, because of the inevita
ble implication involved it: that law, that
if north of 36 30 slavery is prohibited, south
of that line it may exist. Passing over
the insincerity now so traisparent, with
which the anti-slavery Stales opposed the
21st Rule of the House of Representatives,
their specious attacks against that whole
some and conservative check upon fanatic
ism, under the guise of a zeal for the right
of petition, we come to the more recent
legislation of Congress on the subject of
slavery. And nowean any Southern man,
at all conversant with the history of the
abolition movement from its inception,
longer doubt that the fiist aim of that agita
tion was a total and final emancipuli. nos
ourslave property. Why should we doubt
it?—Because of the bad faith involved?
Was ever treachery and selfishness so
blended before in the public conduct of
any civilized States as is shown in the
course the North has pursued in regard to
this compromise we have just spoken of?
Because of the daring violation of private
rights or Constitutional provisions and
guarantees? Can the perfidy of man go
farther tlianseveral of the Northern States
have gone in their practical nullification
of the laws securing to the South the privi
lege of reclaiming her refugee slaves ; or
can any vandalism improve upon the sav
age proposition of the last Congress to
permit the slaves of the District of Colum
bia to vote themselves the equals of their
masters. This brings our enemies in one
step of the goal they have kept their eyes
Steadily fixed upon for twenty years, and
lias brought us, too, in one step of the last
dishonor that can be reserved for us.
'1 hey have hut to lay their hands on slavery
in the States, and we make one more sub
missive and feeble remonstrance, and the
great work is finished.
In view therefore of the past history of
this war upon the peace, the rights, and
thesafety of the South—in view of its pres
ent aspects, and in anticipation of its fu
ture progress, we report to the House fol
ks action the following Preamble and
Resolutions, accompanied by a Bill pro
viding for the call of a Convention of the
sovereign people of this State,
\v here as, The people of the non-slave
holding States have commenced and are
persisting in a system of encroachment
upon the Constitution and the rights of a
portion of the people of this Confederacy,
which is alike unjust and dangerous to the
peace and perpetuity of our cherished
Union, Be it
Ist. Resolved, Rtf the Senate and House
of Representatives of the State of Georgia
in General Assembly convened, That the
Government of the United States is one
of limited powers, and cannot rightfully
exercise any authority not conferred by
the Constitution.
2d. Resolved, That the the Constitution
grants no power to Congress to prohibit
the introduction of slavery into any tet ri
tory belonging to the United States.
3d. Resolved, That the several States of
the Union acceded to theConfoderacy upon
terms of perfect equality, and that the
rights, privileges and immunities secured
by the Constitution, belong alike to the
people of each State.
4th. Resolved, That any and all Terri
tory acquired by the United States, wheth
er by discovery, purchase or conquest, be
longs in common to the people of each
State, and thither the people of each State
and every State have a common right to
emigrate with any property they may pos
sess, and that any restriction upon this
right, which will operate in favor of the
people of one section to the exclusion of
those of another, is unjust, oppressive and
unwarranted by the Constitution.
sth. Resolved, That slaves are recog
nised by the Constitution as property, and
that the Wilmot Proviso, whether applied
to any territory at any time herefore ac
quired, or which may bo hereafter acquir
ed, is unconstitutional.
Gth. Resolved, That Congress lias no
power either directly or indirectly to in
terfere with the existence of slavery in
the District of Columbia.
7tli. Resolved, That the refusal on the
part of the nonslaveholding States to deliv
er up fugitive slaves, who have escaped
to said States, upon proper demand being
made therefor, is a plain and palpable
violation of the letter of the Constitution,
and an intolerable outrage upon South
ern rights.
Bth. Resolved, That in the event of
the passage of the Wilmot Proviso by
Congress, the abolition of Slavery in the
District of Columbia, the admission of
California as aState, in its present pretend
ed organization, or the continued refusal
of the non-slaveholding States to deliver
fugitive slaves as provided in the Consti
tution, it will become the immediate and
imperative duly of the people of this State
to meet in Convention to take into con
sideration the mode and measure of re
dress.
9tb. Resolved, That the people of
Georgia entertain an ardent feeling of de
votion of the Union of these States, and
that nothing short of a persistence in the
present system of encroachment upon our
rights by the non-slaveholding States, can
induce us to contemplate the possibility of
a dissolution.
10th. Resolved, That bis Excellency
the Governor be requested to forward co
pies of these resolutions to each of our Sen
ators and Representatives in Congress,
to the Legislatures of the several Slates,
and to the President of the United States.
A BILL
To be entitled an act to authorize atid re
quire the Governor of the State of
Georgia to call a convention of the peo
ple of this State.
Wheueas, For series of years there
has been displayed a manifest disposition
on the part of the non-slaveholding Slates
of the Union, to interfere with the Institu
tion of Slavery at the South, by aggressive
measures of intolerance as to render it no
longer a question of doubt that the Fed
eral Legislature will soon adopt such res
trictive measures against the Institution
of Slavery, as to trammel, fetter, and con
fine it within certain Territorial limits,
never contemplated by the original par
ties to the constitutional compact. And
whereas, Georgia in her sovereign capaci
ty as a State, has delegated no other pow
ers to the Federal Government than those
found in the Constitution of the United
States. Ami believing that her best in
terest and her honor as a sovereign and
independent Government requires that
she should meet all encroachments in a
calm and manly spirit of resistance.
Sec. Ist. lie it therefore enacted by the
Senate and House of Representatives of the
State of Georgia, in General Assembly met,
That should the Congress of the United
States pass any law prohibiting slavery or
involuntary servitude in any territory of
the United States, or any law abolishing
slavery in the Districtof Columbia, or any
law prohibiting the slave trade between
the Slates where slavery may exist, orad
mit into the United Slates as a State of this
Confederacy, the extensive and unpeopled
Territory of California and New Mexico,
with a constitution prohibiting slavery or
involuntary servitude; —Or should the
Governor of this State receive at any time
satisfactory evidence, that any slave or
slaves having escaped from this Stale to a
non-slaveholding State, and that such slave
or slaves is or are refused to be given up
to the proper owner by the authorities of
the State in which such fugitive or fugitives
may be found,then or in either of the fore
going events, it shall be and it is hereby
made iheduty ofthe Governor ofthis Slate,
within sixty days thereafter, to issue his
proclamation ordering an election to be
held in each and every county, to a Con
vention of the people of this State, to con
vene at the Seat of Government within
twenty days after said election.
Sec. 2d. And be it further enacted, That
the counties now entitled to two Represen
tatives in the House of Representatives of
the General Assembly of this State, shall
each be entitled and shall elect four Dele
gates in said Convention, and the counties
which arc entitled to one Representative,
shall each elect two Delegates to said Con
vention.
Sec. 3d. And be it further enacted, That
before entering on the duties of their office
as delegates, the delegates shall take the
following oath, which shall be administer
ed by some Judicial officer of the State:
I do solemnly swear, in presence of
Almighty God that I will to the best of my
ability demean myself as a delegate of
tha people of this State, and act for the
honor and interest of the people of Georgia.
Sec. 4th. And be it further enacted, That
said election for delegates shall ho conduc
ted and held in the same manner as elec
tions for members of the Legcslaturc
are now held in this S'a'e. And that all
returns of the elections he forwarded to
the Governor of this State, whosball upon
application furnish each deligate elected
with a certificate of election.
Sec. sth. Andie it further enacted, That
said Convention shall elect all officers no
ccssury to their organization.
MACON, G A .
SATURDAY MORNING, DEC. 22, 1849.
Tiie Legislate re. —Both Houses took a re
cess on Thursday last, until the 14 tli of January
next. The very able Report of the Committee
on the State of the Republic, was presented on
Wednesday, and 5,000 copies ordered to he
printed—it will be acted upon in January. The
threatening aspect of public affairs at present, as
well as its own merit induces us to give it to our
readers, to the exclusion ofmore varied hut less
important matter, and commend it to their care
ful consideration. We have so often expressed
our sentiments on tliis question that we consider
it unnecessary to reiterate them. The time is
fast approaching when it will be necessary for
tlie South to act—when it docs come, we dould
not she will present an unbroken phalanx in
opposition to the encroachments of the North
upon her rights. The Report is from the pen of
Col. T. C. Howard, of Crawford, and takes
high and patriotic ground, and will well repay
perusal.
No Speaker Yet.— We learn by Telegraph
that no Speaker of the House of Representatives
had been elected up to 1 o’clock yesterday. A
meeting takes place to-day to receive the report
ofthe conference committee, and try an election
again. The endeavor to elect a Speaker has al
ready cost Uncle Sam upwards of $50,000.
Muscogee Railroad. —The Muscogee Dem
ocrat of the 20th inst. states that Major Howard
the President of this Road, has eflected an ar
rangement by which the. Central and South
Western, will unite with the Muscogee Railroad
at a point in Talbot county, fifty miles east of
Columbus, in the direction of Fort Valley. At
a meeting of the City Council of Columbus on
the 18th inst. Resolutions were introduced to he
acted upon at the next meeting, to allow the city
to withdraw $50,000 of its subscription to the
Muscogee, and invest the same in the Girard
and Mobile Railroad. J. G. Winter has given
notice that he will apply to the Legislature to
authorise the changing of the Muscogee Railroad
into a Plank Road.
Accidents. — On Wednesday last, the passen
ger train on the Central Railroad, ran off the
track near Mr- Oliver’s, in consequence ofthe
improper position of the “switch,” which caus
ed material injury to the engine,and baggage and
passenger cars. There were a largo number of
passengers, all of whom escaped unhurt. They
arrived here at 5 o’clock on Thursday morning
We believe no accident has ever occurred by
the cars running olftbe track on tins road, which
lias cither caused serious bodily injury or the loss
of life, since it went into operation.
The freight train on the Georgia Railroad, was
into the creek near Covington, on the
1 3tli inst., by the falling of the bridge. The loco
motive and tender were nearly over the bridge,
when the accident occured, and almost the en
tire train of cars was destroyed. The conduc
tor, Mr. McCann, was killed, and the engineer,
we understand, was seriously injured.
Fire.— A fire broke out in Savannah on Mon
day last, ill the old wooden buildings on the
Trust Lot at the corner of St. Julien and Bryan
streets, North West ofthe Market, which were
consumed. They were owned by Mr. McCalla,
of Washington City, and insured for $'2,000. —
The occupants saved nearly all their goods, &c.
Election.— Gov. Towns has issued a procla
mation announcing the resignation of the lion.
T. B. King, and ordering an election for a mem
ber to Congress to he held at the various pre
cincts in the First Congressional District of this
State, on the 41li of February next, to fill the va
cancy. Judge William Law is mentioned ns
the Whig, and Col. Josevii W. Jackson the
Democratic candidate.
The MurderCase.— The Coroner’s Jury in
thecaseol Dr. Pa rk man , at Boston, have return
ed a verdict of “guilty” against “ Dr. John W.
Webster, by whom he was killed.” The pri
soner has been committed to jail to await his trial
for the oll'encc at the Court in January next.
The New York Sun ventures the follow
ing in the matter of the supposed murder of Dr.
Parknian by prof. Webster.
Ii Professor Webster took the life ofParkman
and sought to destroy the body, he used the
worst means for the purpose. Instead of burning
the body several days, and only partially con
suming it at that, he might, by an application of
quick lime, have powdered flesh and bones in
forty-eight hours. Such a course would most
naturally have suggested itself to a chemist’s
mind. If he thought to remove the body, or
such portions as were not destroyed, in a box,
why were portions cast into the refuse vault of
his laboratory, liable at any moment to rise in
testimony against him.
Ilow flic ideality of the public, which runs
suspicious into certainties, will be shocked if it
should turn out that Dr. I’arknmn, and Professor
Webster, are mutual victims of a deep laid con
spiracy ; tbe one, that his property might be
secured, and the other to save the conspirator s
from the penalty due their crime. There was
a double interest in finding a body, or parts of a
body some where, on account of administering
to tlio rnillioniar’s estate, and ifsorne other body
Ilian the Doctor's must be used in the tragedy,
the more mutilated, and unidentifiable to all but
the relatives, the better. Dr. Parkman was an
eccentric man—bis relatives unco thought him
insane—is there no private madhouse about Bos
ton, where eccentricity that stands in tho way
of money grabbers, can be quietly and securely
lodged ?
A Model Town.—There is a model town in
Wisconsin, called Cercsco, which has not now,
and never had, a drunkard or a pauper in it. It
has been incorporated five years, and during that
period not one drop of ardent spirits had been
retailed within its borders, nor have any suits of
law occurred between the inhabitants. The}'
all live by labor, and are a happy and contented
people. How few such towns are to be found
in the republic!
li It is said that the Colunbus and Carolina,
propellers, are going to form a line from New
Voik to Savannah
Too Bust to be Married. — A New York
correspondent of the Sun tells the following f uil
ny story :
“On Friday last, a young and pretty Du td,
girl entered the Marine Court, and requested
one of the officials in attendance to inform her
‘lf dat vas vere dey married de people?’ Bei n »
told that it was, she looked smilingly upon the
officer, and holding up her head as if impressed
with the responsibility of her position, address
cd him with “ Vi I you marry me, den ?” “M ar
ry you,” said the officer, “ oh, I can’t do that 1
have a wife already.” “1 don’t vant to be mar
ried to you, but I vant you to marry me,’ icpli c d
she. “Oh I all, that is a different case; butwha
do you want to be married to?’* “To Fritz
but lie was so busy lie couldn’t come, and said
dat I might get it done.” When informed that
this marrying by proxy would not answer, the
poor girl left, and the next day returned with
Fritz, who had managed to quit liis work to get
married, and the happy pair were made one by
liis honor, the Mayor.
A Pits vchological Fact.— Kaspail, (| )e
French socialist, has pointed out, the Mcdicaj
Journal says, one of the powers of camphor
which, in a psychological point of view, is most
important—that of putting a stop to that fearful
insoiniiolcncc which accompanies the incubation
and first dcvelopcmcut of insanity;
opium, hysocyamus, conlium, stramonium, and
“ all the drowsy syrups of the East” fail to pio.
duce any ellcct, a grain of camphor, formed into
a pill, and followed by a draught of an ounce
and a half of the infusion of hops, mixed with
five drops of sulphuric ether, is liis usual reme
dy for procuring sleep.
ttjp Dr. Kimball, of the Lowell (Mass.) Hog.
pital, lias successfully performed an operation
which it is sum uppears uy luv rucuiuN of surge
ry to have been attempted but four or live times
The operation consisted in tying the internal
iiiac artery.
Another “Idea.” —A New Yorker, says the
Washington Republic, proposes to connect the
President’s house and the Capitol, and the seve
ral Departments, with gutta-percha speakin”
tubes, laid under the ground, and to guarantee
that ordinary conversation can bo carried on be.
tween these remote points with as much facility
as if the different parties were in the same room
(Lr In the State Penitentiary of Tennessee
there arc at present confined 192 persons, 3 on
ly of whom are female. 15 are in for life, and
1G others for li years and over.
U* A bale of Cotton weighing 1010 pound-,
was recently brought to the Griffin market.-
This is decidedly the largest hale on record.
From California. —By the. late arrival at M.
York, we learn that order and tranquility pre
vailed throughout the country.
Thirteen hundred passengers passed through
Chngrcs in two days, and there were one hun
dred more there ready to embark for Cnlifornit
Many were leaving the country in disgust it
the hard labor necessary to success at the dip
gings, but the tide of integration continued ut
checked. The health is generally good.
The Hon. T. 15. King and Col. Fremont wen
the most prominent candidates for U 8. Senate
Cnpt. Herman Thorn,U. S. A., was accide
tally drowned, with two dragoons, while cross
irig the Rio Colorado.
From England.— Thackeray is recoveris;
fioin his illness. His usual Christmas M
will he published at the regular time.
The Board of Poor-law Gtiardiunsat Swims
have introduced the phonetic systemjof rcaiiitf
( that is, by sound, and a totally new systes
of spelling,) into their schools.
Messrs. Hoyle & Sons, of Manchester, in’*
covorted one of their dwellings into decorated
reading rooms for their work-people, at Ik*
printworks, at Mayfield.
The old Lane bridge, near Tebay, supposed
to have been built by the Romans in the !" nci
Aurelius, was washed away by a flood, teccni, 1
and completely disappeared.
New Revolution in Europe. —Private k#
received in London from Geneva, refer D
extensive organization for a new Revoluti*!
uio\ cmeiit, which will he commenced in Ik* l
and Paris on the same day. Such a sclici®"
been for a long time in preparation, butth*<*
spirators are narrowly watched by llieF ,i ®
government, and any fresh attempt to de*
public tranquility would he immediately
down.
OrKNINGTIIEOvSTEIt.—Tho N. u. Bll | i'l«
says; Our readers are all no do ut t;u>Ai'< r "ft
he anecdote in law proceedings (hat the kfl
yers and officials took the oyster nail J» ve '■
clients each shell. We think the follow!®
cent case in one of our courts is about
a one in point as has for some lime come i"V
knowledge. The original amount of
was $33,33; the costs $33,40. Execution®
issued and seizure made of timber, pin*"’' I
&c. to the value of $l3O. They were - I ' M
the sheriff, and produced S2O 50.
costs on tho sale for advertising, sforngfij
were sll7 70, leaving him minus
the original debt and costs, and the
final return is made “no other property ,uU 'M
ter due demand of all the parties.” YVIi (l ’ n l
not go to law ? K
An Ink Bottle Burst its Boiler—
lar accident, says the Boston Allas," 1 '
the office of the Register of Deeds, a si' ol
.iiicc, namely, the explosion of aniuk'
was one of tbe old fashioned black
wood’’ stands, holding nearly a pin l l,l
was probably about half-tilled. Ti |C °'
of tho desk upon which this stood,
another part of the building, was astoua
a report from his room, like that
On going thither lie perceived
smoke, hut a tremendous rivulet °G'
which creates so much good and oG ft
over the desk, and doing immense
some late records, in the iulci'iui,
have to be ro-written. Upon
stand, a vertical lissurc wus fbu n > I
limit top to bottom, being about lour 1 I