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ton in his flight through the universe; stand
with Uriel in the sun, and from his lofty
watch-tower look over creation; pursue the
track of the Arch-Fiend as the air sinks op
pressed with its ponderous burden, and the
stars pale their light beneath the shadows of
his dusky hue; and you have an inpression
ot sublimity that poetry only in its highest
mood* is capable of creating. Fresh from
this wonderful excursion of genius, visit an
astronomical observatory and look through
a first class telescope. If your mind is thor-.
oughly informed with astronomical knowl
edge, if yop have profound sensibilities, a
quick instinct for grandeur, a sensitive and
glowing imaginat’on, how your soul is mov
ed, as literature never moxed it, at this vast
spectacle of silent and Overwhelming majes
ty. Such a detph of quietude ; such a fath
omless hush, as if the departed Sabbaths of
earth had gathered here their peacefulness,—
such subdued and mystic glory as if escaped
from the vailed splendors of the God-head.
Who ever felt elsewhere so close an environ
ment of the Infinite ? We are done.
True it is we might mave drawn vivid,
real pictures of vie*', dissipation and extrav
agance, all of which prevail to an alarming
extent in this our day. By this we should
not have accomplished our object, for vice,
dissipation and extravagance are follies com
mon to all ages. Besides, we are not of the
opinion that all “ wounds must be probed be
fore they can heal.” And if we have suc
ceeded in calling any mind away from the
trilling things of the present age, to consider
life as “rear’ “earnest” our recompense is
amble.
Tlie H ay it i done.
A correspondent of the New York
Post gives the following formuhe for ob
taining the advice of the President, on
objects of high concern. The idea is
doubtless borrowed from the condescen
ding attitude assumed by the President
in respect to the Tammany squabbles.
It is rather cruel, good to be
lost
I.
“Sublime Sir: —The boys who run
with “156,” of w hich company 1 am a
member, are proposing next Monday to
ballot for a foreman. The candidates for
the post are Tall Sykesey, One-Eyed
Bill and the Baxter Buffer. As i have
■<> desire to lose the valuable berth 1
now occupy under the Collector of the
port of New York, and at the same time
desire to exercise the unspeakable privi
lege of the elective franchise on the oc
casion referred to, 1 must respectfully
beg your Excellency to communicate, at
your Excellency’s earliest convenience,
any predilections your Excellency may
entertain tor any of the candidates above
named. An early answer, either by let
ter or telegraphic rumor, to the New
York press, will greatly oblige
Your Excellency’s
obedient servant,
John Stokes.
11.
Immaculate Sir : —1 blush to say, that
lam about to choose a wife. 1 have
two lovely females in view. The eyes
of one are black the eyes of the other
are beautifully gray. As 1 should not
like to jeopardize my situation as guager
in the New York Custom-house by run
ning counter to your Excellency’s ideas
of womanly beauty, I beg leave to solicit
from your Excellency an expression of
your Excellency’s views on this interes
ting subject.
My individual approval of black, as a
color, might involve the party here in
trouhlo about tWo great African
question: while my choice of gray eyes
might subject us to some complication
with the late hero of Nicaragua. 1 there
fore await, with natural, and 1 hope ex
cusable, impatience, your Excellency’s
decision.
With great respect
And profound admiration.
T. Jefferson Smith.
HI.
Mighty Sir: The choir of the Metho
dist church in Broadway, of which choir
I am a member, are about to eiect a lea
der. As my position in the Post Office
renders my action on this momentous
occasion of the greatest importance to
myself, the party, and the world, I take
the liberty to consult your Excellency
in the matter. The candidates are Mr.
Jones and Mr. Thompson. Mr. Jones
has a good voice, but he is in favor of
internal improvements, and his grand
father was a member of the Hartford
Convention. Mr. Thompson’s organ is
not first-rate, but he is very ambitious
as a vocalist, and was in favor of Le
eompton.
1 beg leave to throw upon the Execu
tive the responsibility of a choice be
tween these gentlemen.
Your Excellency’s obedient servant,
Peter Fog.
IV.
Magnificent Sir: My wife and I pro
pose to have a roast g*>ose for dinner
next Sunday. She insists that it should
be stuffed with sage and onions—l pre
fer that it should be stuffed w ith onions
alone. As I am one of the few but unter
rified Democrats in my ward, t l am desir
ous that this difference in legard to an
important internal domestic institution
should be settled in strict accordance
with the views of the administration, and
I therefore beg an early expression of
your Excellency’s views upon this new
“goose question.”
I remain, sir, with profound respect.
A. Jackson Dusenberv.
Wliat .lewpsapera Dues for
Nothing.
The following article should be read
and pondered well by every man who
takes a newspaper without paying tor it:
“The result of my observation enables
me to state, as a fact, that the publishers
of the new papers are more poorly re
warded than any class of man in the U.
States, who invest an equal amount of
labor, capital and thought. They are ex
pected to do more service for less pay,
to stand more sponging and “dead head
ing, to puff and defend more people
without fee or hope for reward, than any
other class.
1 hey credit wider and longer; get of
tener cheated; sutler more pecuuiary
loss ; are oftener the vV;tims of misplac
ed confidence, than any other calling in
the community. People pey a printer’s
bill more reluctantly than any other. It
goes harder with them to expend a dollar
on a valuable newspaper, than ten on a
needless gewgaw; yet everybody a-ails
himself of the use of the editor’s pen atd
the printer’s'ink.
How many professional and political
reputations and fortunes have been made
and sustained by the friendly, though
unrequited pen of the editor? How
many embryo towns and cities have been
brought into notice and pulled into pros
perity by the press ? How many rail
roads, now in successful operation, would
have foundered, but for the assistance of
the “lever that moves the world ?” In
what branch of industry or activi
ty not )een promoted, stimulated
and defended by the press?
And who has tendered it more than a
miserable pittance for its mighty servi
ces ? The bazaars of fashion and the
haunts of appetite and dissipation are
thronged with an eager crowd, bearing
gold in their palms, and the commodities
there needed are sold at enormous pro
fits, though intrinsically worthless, and
paid for with scrupulous punctuality ;
while the counting room of the newpaper
is the seat of jewing, cheapening trade,
orders and pennies. It is made a point
of honor to liquidate a grog bill, but not
of dishonor to repudiate a printer’s bill.
We copy the above from an exchange,
and may have published it before. It
will bear repeating, however.
We have had some experience in the
matters spoken of—particularly in buil
ding up the interests of politicians. The
press has made all our little “big men,”
and most of them have been made of ve
ry scanty materials . We have already
lived to witness the base ingratitude of
those we have assisted t< elevate. Lit
tle, narrow and contracted minds are al
ways intensely selfish and capable of the
basest ingratitude.
Among the many other reforms we
have determined to begin with the new
year is a settled purpose t<> expose the
baseness of the creatures alluded to when
ever the proper time arrives, and a fixed
determination to oppose all such cattle
hereafter, whatever effect it may have
upon our party, “Small potatoes” may
take warning, and “govern themselves
accordingly.” —Athens Watchman.
Tlie Proposition to Purchase
Cuba.
The following message has been transmit
ted to the Senate by the President of the
United States, iu reply to a resolution of in
quiry, adopted by that body, a few days ago,
from which it appears that no correspond
ence has taken place between this govern
ment and that of Spain, relative to the pur
chase of the Island of Cuba, which has not
already been communicated to Congress:
To the Senate of the United States : I
transmit herewith a report from the Seore
tary of the State in answer to the resolu
tion of the Senate of the ISth inst., request
ing the President, if not incompatible with
the public interest “to commuuicate to the
Senate any and all correspondence between
the government of the United States and
the government of her Catholic Majesty re
lating to any proposition lor the purchase of
the Island of Cuba, which correspondence
has not been furnished to either House of
Congress.” From this, it appears that no
such correspondence has taken place which
has not already been communicated to Con
gress. In my late annual message I stated
in reference to the purchase of Cuba, that
the publicity which has been given to our
former negotiations on this subject, and the
large appropriations which may be required
to affect the purpose, render it expedient,
before making another attempt to renew the
negotiation, that I should lay the whole
subject before Congress. I still entertain
the same opinion, deeming it highly impor
tant, if not indispensable to the success of
any negotiation which I might institute for
the purpose, that the measure should receive
the previous sanction of Congress.— Aug.
Const. JAMES BUCHANAN.
Washington, Jan. 21, 1859.
AHo4el Speech iu Hie Missouri
Legislature.
Among the proceedings of the Missou
ri Legislature, now in session, we find the
following report of a speech delivered by
Mr. Pitt a few days ago. The St. Louis
Democrat thinks that Mr. Pitt resem
bles Lord Chatham, at ieast in the par
ticular of having “two legs and a head
with a nose on it:”
Mr. Pitt offered the following:
Resolved , That the Speaker be autho
rised to cause to be printed and posted
one hundred bills, announcing the Nth of
January, 1859.
Mr. Abney —l move to lay that reso
lution on the table.
Mr. Pitt—Air. Speaker, this House
passed resolutions, sir, to celebrate, in
au appropriate manner, the Sth of Janu
ary. This is a resolution simply asking
that notice be given to the public of that
day. We have declared an intention,
and now, when we come to publish it,
some gentleman is suddenly seized with
the “retrenchment gripes,” and squirms
around like a long red worm on a pin
hook. [ Laughter.] Gentlemen keep
continually talking about economy. 1,
myself, do not believe in tying the pub
lic purse with cob-web strings, but
when retrenchment comes in contact with
patriotism it assumes the form of “small
ness.” Such economy is like that of old
Skinflint, who had a pair of boots made
for his little boy, without soles, that
they might last the longer. [Laughter.]
1 reverence “the day we celebrate.” It
is fraught with reminiscences the most
stirring; it brings to mind one of the
grandest events ever recorded in letters
of living fire upon the walls of the tern
pie of fame by the strong right arm of
the god of war! On such occasions we
should rise above party lines and politi
cal distinctions. I never fought under
the banner of old Hickory, “by the eter
nal” 1 wish I had. [Laughter and ap
plause.] If the old war horse was here
now he would not know his own chil
dren from the side of Joseph’s coat of
many colors, —Whigs, Know Nothings,
Democrats, hard, soft-boiled, scrambled,
and fried ; Lincolnites, Douglasites and
blatherskites!’ I belong to no party; I
am free, un! ridled, unsettled, in the po
litical pasture. Like a bob-tailed hull
in fly time, 1 charge around in the high
grass and fight my own flies. [Great
Laughter.] Gentlemen, let us show our
liberality on patriotic occasions. Why,
some men have no more patriotism than
you could stuff in the eye of a knitting
needle. Let us not squeeze five cents till
the eagle on it squeals like a locomotive
or an old maid. Let us print the bills
and inform the country that we are as
full of patriotism as are Illinois swamps
of tadpoles. [Laughter.] I don’t be
lieve in doing things by halves. Permit
me, Mr. Speaker, to make a poetical quo
tation from one of our noblest authors:
“I lovp to art 1 1 lie grass anifinir the red May roses
I love to See an old gray horse, for when he goes, he gone*.”
[Convulsive Loughter.]
After the above speech, the House re
fused to lay the resolution on the table.
The Camel. —Maj. Wayne has written an
interesting account of that “ ship of the des
ert,” the camel, to the Washington National
Intelligencer, and thus he sums up the gen
eral advantages that may be derived from
the use of camels, as the result of ten years’
experience and observation:
They will flourish as well in the United
Sutes as either horses or mules.
Ttey may be introduced at Mobile or Pen
sacola at rates not greater; certainly not
much greater, than present prices for good
mules.
They are not as expensive to feed as
horses or mules.
They require no stables or grooming;
They are as tough and hardy as either
horse or mule.
They save a heavy outlay of wagons, carts,
harness and shoes, and & constant tax for
their repairs.
Their physical energy is not largely drawn
upon for the draught of a wagon or cart,
and, therefore, is proportionately given more
usefully to the transportation ot goods.
They will do more work at the same cost
and keeping than either horse or mule.
For the Georgia Citizen.
Review of Mr. Usurper's Pam
phlet on the Afriean Slave
Trade.
NO. V.
Dr. Andrews, —Many of the poor and
industrious men of the South, whose homes
in the country happen to be surrounded by
lands well stocked wjth negroes, are. from
reasons of respect for their wives and chil
dren, compelled by circumstances beyond
their control, to sell these homes and emi
grate. What circumstance is it in the South
that is thus making the poor farmer act
against his desire? I answer, —the high
price of negroes. No man, however hum
ble, (if honest and industrious,) is willing
to live and raise his children amid and
among the plantations and negroes of the
slave-owner without having any of his own.
They see, they know, they feel they can
never be slave-owners, unless the price is
reduced. The poor of the South see and
feel the inequality which the high price of
negroes has and is bringing about. I sub
mit this thought and question for Mr. Har
jier’s study. Would not Slavery be more
secure and firmly fixed in the hearts and
minds of all classes in the South if the price
of negroes were such that the poor, the mid
dle, and rich classes could all buy if they
wished. This would obliterate all exclusive
ness in Slavery. It would prevent and de
stroy the prejudice now existing and in
creasing, both in intensity and extent, be
tween tjie slave-owner and the non-slave
owner. lam writing plain facts. My ob
ject is to expose a state of things, (however
unpalatable,) that must, sooner or later,
bring about the abolition of Slavery in the
South. Let us, like men, look the danger
full in*the face, and then, if possible, devise
the means that shall prevent the fatality. I
appeal to every observing man for the truth
or falsity of what I write. Each day’s ex
perience of every man in Georgia and the
South proves the verity of my assertions.—
The only way to prevent the abolition of
Slavery in the Soutli is to re-open the Ex
ternal Trade of Slavery. Go to Africa, buy
the negroes, and put them on your planta
tions. Pay but little regard to Mr. Har
per’s assertion that it is jnfamous. Remem
ber that your ancestors, who engaged in the
External Trade of Slavery, and those who
defended the African Slave Trade as not in
famous, were at least as pure and intelligent
as Mr. Harper and those who call it infa
mous ; for such patriots as Baldwin and
Troup, Rutledge and Lowndes, Holland,
Barbour and Randolph, denied that it was
infamous to buy a negro in Africa and bring
him to the United States and sell him again.
No more so than to buy one in Virginia and
sell him in Georgia. If there is turpitude,
it must attach to the buying in Virginia as
well as to buying in Africa and selling in
Georgia. I have digressed.
llow will the re-opening the African
Slave Trade prevent the abolition of Slavery
in the South? First, it will put it in the
jlower of the poor as well as the rich to buy
negroes, because they will and can be sold at
UK) to 200 dollars. That being the case, all
classes can buy; and all classes become in
terested, in fact and principle, in Slavery.
Now, it is mostly the rich who are in fact
interested in Slavery. Why ? Because they
only are able to pay the high prices that ne
groes now bring.
Mr. Harper asserts that “the moral senti
ment of the civilized world is against the
African Slave Trade.” This is only anoth
er of Air. Harper’s mistakes. I am not
bound to give Mr. Harper observation, ntid
teach him the fact of a revolution of opinion
among the people of the South and the
world, on the morality of the African Slave
Trade. He will find men, honorable and
intelligent men, who have changed their
opinions on that subject. They now believe
there is no more immorality in buying a ne
gro on the coast of Africa and selling him
in any of the Southern States, than buying
him in Virginia and selling him in Alabama
or Georgia. Ilail Mr. Harper read the opin
ion of the press of England and France
touching the African Slave Trade, I do not
think lie could have been persuaded to have
penned the above expression. Two of the
most powerful and civilized States of Eu
rope are not only in favor of the African
Slave Trade, hut are, to-day, under the ap
prentice system, practically engaged in buy
ing negroes in Africa and sending them to
their colonies to work. The press, both of
England and France, urge the policy of
withdrawing their squadrons from the coast
of Africa. They give as reasons, the neces
sity of negro labor for their colonial posses
sions, and the enormous expense of lxth
money and men kept on the coast of Africa,
that a human briny may not hr transported
from a savage to a civilized. State !
GEORGIA.
(To bo continued.)
COMMUNICATED.
(Viilniuial Anniversary.
The St. Andrews Society of Macon, Cele
brated the first Centennial Anniversary of the
birth day of Robert Burns in the Ilall selec
ted for the occasion, on the evening of Tues
day last, with appropriate honors; when the
sons of auld Scotia there met, enjoyed—to
gether with the more substantial comforts
of life —a least of reason and a flow of soul
that will cot be soon forgotten by the par
ticipants. Impressed as they were by the
spontaneous homage that civilization was
that day paying to the genius of their coun
tryman, they considered the occasion an ex
traordinary one, and wanted to swell the
general acclaim that resounded throughout
the world in his praise.
When the “wee sma hours ag.int the twal”
had come and gone, the company dispersed,
feeling that the privilege of having been
born in Scotland was indeed an honor.
*
A Good Name. —Sometime in 1838,
or ’39, a gentleman in Tennessee became
involved and wanted money; lie had
property and he owed debts. Ilis pro
perty was not available just then, and off
he posted to Boston, backed by the names
of some of the best men in Tennessee.—
Money was tight, and Boston bankers
looked closely at the names. “Very
good,’ 4 said they, “but, but—do you
know General Jackson?” ‘“Certainly.”
“Could you get his endorsement ?” “Yes,
but he is not worth one-tenth as much
as either of those men whose names I of
fer you.” “No matter; General Jack
son has always protected himself and his
paper, and we’ll let you have the money
upon the strength of his name.” In a
few days the papers with his signature
arrived. The moment these Boston gen
tlemen bankers saw the tall A, and long
J, of Andrew Jackson, our Tennessean
says he could have raised a hundred
thousand dollars upon the signature with
out th“ slightest trouble. So much for
an established character for honesty.—
However men may have differed with
Andrew Jackson, politically, no man
could deny him the merit of being an
honest man.
GEORGIA CITIZEN.
U F. w. ANDREWS, Editor.
MACON, JAN. 28,1859.
Macon Cotton Market. —No change
in quo ns since our last.
Pllb. Doc. —We are indebted to the Hon.
A. Iverson of the Senate, rnd the Hon. R. P.
Trippe, of the House, for various public Docu
ments. The Speech of the Senator is worthy
of the man, and had we space for it, would
gladly publish it entire. As it is, we shall
have to be content with a few extracts to show
its truly Southern tone and patriotism.
TENTH VOLUME
OF THE
GEORGIA CITIZEN.
In announcing our intention of prosecut
ing the publication of this Journal, for an
other year, after the close of the present
volume, on the 26th day of March next, we
have no special promises to make, inasmuch
as no material change in the conduct of our
Journal is anticipated. We shall, however,
make some improvements in the mechanical
appearance of the Citizen, as anew Press
and other materials have been ordered in
season for the Ist No. of the 10th volume,
and we intend to use a better article of Pa
per than we have been compelled to use, for
the few weeks past.
Wo also purpose to give more reading
matter to our country subscribers, even if to
do so, wc shall have to issue a Tri-Weekly
or Daily paper, for the use of City and Ad
vertising customers.
If a sufficient patronage can be obtained,
we propose to issue a TRI-WEEKLY
sheet, from April Ist to October 1, and a
DAI LY from October 1 to April Ist, and
we think this is perhaps as much as the
commercial interests of our growing city
will, for the present, justify. For the Tri-
Weckly, six months, and the Daily, six
months, we will charge Five Dollars per
annum, invariably in advance. For the
Weekly Citizen, the price will be $2 per
annum—also on
THE CASH PRINCIPLE.
Our experience, for fourteen years past,
convinces us that there is no other system
that will answer in the publication of news
papers, than the Cash System. As an illus
tration of the evils of the contrary mode,
which has been extensively pursued, we will
simply remark, that one paper in Nashville,
Tenn., has recorded on the books of the
office a debt of over SOO,OOO, accumulated
since the 15th of May, 1853, of which $40,-
000 is on subscription account! This is at
the rate of SB,OOO per annum on subscrip
tions alone. This is by no means an ex
treme case, but one common and general.—
The remedy for this great evil is in the Cash
System, and “to this complexion it must
come at last,” to save the press from general
Bankruptcy. We therefore intend to adopt
THREE RULES for our future govern
ment, which shall be as unalterable as the
laws of the Medes and Persians.
Ist. We shall, on the lA of April next,
strike from our books every name not in ad
vance for subscription, excepting only those
of business men of the city who have an ad
vertising account with us.
2d. From the same date we shall enter no
new name on our Book, unless the money
acompanies the order. This rule we have
adopted, for a year past, and find it to work
well.
3d. On the cadi subscription giving out,
the paper will be discontinued, until it is re
newed by a remittance.
BiriV We now give two months notice to
our subscribers of our intention, in the hope
that all will see the justice and propriety of
the course proposed, and will not take it as
a personal insult or slight if we should erase
some good names from our book, in order
impartially to carry out the plan submitted.
To our friends, we say, in truth, that we
would rather commence our next volume
with 500 subscribers on the Cash principle,
than to have 1500 on the credit system. Our
toil, expense and trouble will be less, and
our profit greater, while all loss will be
avoided.
Advertising Hates.
fit'if’ Yearly Contracts made with busi
ness men on liberal terms. Those advertis
ing per contract, must confine themselves,
strictly, to the sjmrr for which they pay, or
be chargeable with all extra room they oc
cupy, at proportional rates.
tkiT’ Transient Advertisements inserted
’ in the Weekly Citizen, at the following
1 rates:
For ten lines. Agate type, Ist insertion, SI,OO
“ “ “ “ “ 2d “ 50
“ “ “ “ “ 1 month, $2,50
“ “ “ “ “ 2 months, $4,50
“ “ “ “ “ 3 months, $6,00
“ “ “ “ “ G months, SIO,OO
fes-A” Professional Cards not exceed
ing 5 lines, per annum, in advance, $5,00
lir.d"’ Twenty per cent, discount will be
allowed on all transient advertisements paid
for in advance.
Advertisements, not limited, will be
inserted till forbidden, and charged accord-
Ite s'T’ All Advertisements charged accord
ing to the space occupied, and the display
desired—ten agate lines being the measure
of a square.
IfeAC’ Double column advertisements can
not appear without special agreement as to
terms.
Having thus defined our position, we
make bold to ask for a subscription on the
Cash system, which will enable us to sus
tain ourselves on a basis of permanent pros
perity. Address
L. F. W. ANDREWS,
Macon, Ga.
Police to Advertisers.—Our ad
vertising friends will please hand in their
favors on Wednesday of each week, to en
sure proper attention in the succeeding pub
lication. Only in extreme cases can we ad
mit them, if handed in after that day.
Post Office Change.-- -We are re- I
quested to state that the name of Holly
Grove P. 0., Sumter Cos., Ga., has been 1
changed to Friendship, Sumter Cos.
Prof. Ainsworth's Address.—
The excellent Address of Prof. Ayisworth,
commencing on the first page of to-day’s
paper, will repay a careful perusal. It is
seldom we meet with so sensible and pro
gressive a production, in this intolerant and
bigoted age.
llar|H‘r for February.— Wo are
indebted to Mr. Roardman, for a copy of
Harper’s Monthly, for February. Single
copies, at 25 cts., can be bought of Mr. B.
Ladies’ Jlainial of Fauey Work.
A profusely illustrated work, of this title,
has reached us from the publishers, Messrs.
Dick & Fitzgerald, of New York, through
Messrs. Richards, of Macon. It is an ad
mirable work for those ladies who desire to
learn how to do every kind of needle-work
for themselves. This work combines novel
ty with usefulness, and may be called a com
plete Lexicon of the art of Fancy Needle
work. Mrs. Pullan is the authoress. Price
$L25.. •
Sad, lccident.— On Wednesday night
last, at 1 lalston’s Hall, at the close of one of
the acts of the beautiful performances of
the Marsih Children, the drapery of little
Mary M arsh’s dress caught lire, and be
fore she could be rescued, she was dread
fully burnt. Another of the young ladies,
in attempting to assist her companion, was
also injured, though slightly. We are grat
ified to hear that Miss Mary’s condition is
such, this morning, (Thursday,) as to give
hopes of her speedy recovery from the alarm
ing accident, which, but for the prompt as
sistance at hand, might have resulted in a
general conflagration of the building and
great loss of life.
We think this a fit time to suggest to the
worthy proprietor of the Hall, the expedi
ency of providing some other means of es
cape from the building, than now exists, in
cases of sudden panic from fire or other
cause. A few ladder steps, placed in an ac
cessible position, to reach from the door on
3d St., and from the windows to the ground,
would serve the purpose.
A Slaver in a Yankee Port.—
From a slip of the New London Chronicle,
of the 21st inst., we learn that the Bark
Laurens has been seized in that port, by the
United States authority, as a suspected
Slaver. Her equipment and stores were of
such a character as to excite suspicion that
she was not what she professed to be—a
whaler. Thirty barrels of rice were found
on board! Thus does abolition Yankcedom
practise diametrically opposite to her preach
ing. Only repeal the Anti-Slave trade laws,
and in six months’ time these same aboli
tionists would rake Africa to glut the Slave
markets of the South!
Erleclic Wfajfsiy.im*.— This excel
lent Monthly for January and February,
1859, are on our table. The illustrations of
these numbers are surpassingly beautiful.—
The two engravings in the January No. of
“Sir Walter Scott and his Literary friends,”
(13 figures,) and of “ Shakspeare and his Co
temporaries,” (15 figures,) are alone worth
the price of subscription.
Subscriptions received at the office of the
Citizen, where specimen copies may be seen.
Svandal upon tli Hini*l<>i*.
The Georgia Citizen copies from the Spir
itual Age a half column of instances in
which Clergymen of various denominations
throughout the country have been charged
with improper conduct. It is worthy of
note that spirit-rapping papers and editors
delight in anything calculated to scandalize
religion and wound the feelings of its pro
fessors.
The same sheet gives currency to what it
is pleased to call a “rumor,” that a Baptist
clergyman lifts been delivering, in the prin
cipal cities of Georgia, a lecture stolen from
Dr. Chapin, a Universalist preacher in New
York! The editor states that the lecture
was delivered in Macon. Our city readers
will perceive that the allusion is to a well
known and popular clergyman of this city.
It will be remembered that the editor who
publishes this rumor is himself a Universal
ist preacher in a very small way, and it is to
be supposed that he is sufficiently familiar
with the preaching of Dr. Chapin to know
whether there be any truth in the “ rumor.”
If so, he might have stated the fact explicit
ly. As he did not endorse the “ rumor,” we
have no doubt that it is false from beginning
to end.— Augusta Dispatch, 2 4th.
The Editor of the “ Dispatch ” is himself
the meanest kind of a slanderer, when he as
serts that “spirit-rapping papers and Edit
ors delight in anything calculated to scan
dalize religion and wound the feelings of its
professors.” It is a misrepresentation so to
charge. The article in question from the
“Spiritual Age” was published merely as
an offset to the vilest slanders against Spir
itualism and Spiritualists, and to show that
the houses in which these religionists of tin*
Pharisaic school live, were of a decidedly
vitreous character, and that they should
therefore cease to throw stones at their
neighbors’ premises. A more ruthless and
malignant opposition than that now being
waged in this city, by professors of religion
against Spiritualists, we have never before
witnessed or heard of. And it was for such
“ professing” religionists the article from
the “Age” was designed. There was no
attack upon any Christian, but upon the
wolves in all denominations who have dis
guised themselves in lambs’-wool clothing!
Does the Editor of the Dispatch take up the
cudgels for the scoundrels so exposed, and
attempt to make out that they, being “reli
gious professors,” ought not, therefore, to be
held up to public scorn? If he does, let
him so inform his readers. We have no
apology to make to ours, for the publication
of facts which go to show’ that men some
times “steal the livery of heaven to serve
the Devil in.”
The Editor of the “Dispatch” also has
given a “ local habitation and a name” to a
report we published, last week, concerning
the gross plagiarism by an itinerant Baptist
Clergyman, in stealing from Dr. Chapin’s
published discourses, and palming the same
off upon the Young Men’s Christian Asso
ciation of Macon, as his own; and under
takes to pronounce the rumor “false from
beginning to end,” bscause we did not “ en
dorse'” it for a fact. We can tell the Dis
patch why we did not endorse the report.
It was not because we doubted our authori
ty, but because we did not, ourselves, hear
the Lecture, and thought that there might
possibly.be some mistake or misconception
about the circumstance. Ilcnce we men
tioned no names. Wo have since been as
sured, however, that the rumor was well
founded, and the “ well-known and popular
clergyman” whose reputation the “Dis
patch” has so foolishly volunteered to de
fend, was actually and positively guilty of
the offence charged! Is this “explicit”
enough, Mr. Dispatch? If not, and “the
well-known and popular clergyman” denies
the “soft impeachment,” we hold ourselves
ready, “ in the very small way ” attributed
to us, to make good every assertion wo have
uttered on this subject.
Horse Itacin;’.
What has got into brother Walker of the
Christian Index? We find the following
paragraph conspicuously placed in his issue
of the 12th inst.:
“SAVANNAH RACES.
Savannah, Jan. 4.— The races commenc
ed here to-day. There were only two en
tries for the iirst rime—Socks and Planet.—
The latter was distanced in the second heat.
In the second race there were but two en
tries —Don Juan and Charlie Ball. The lat
ter won the last two heats.”
Now, we have no disposition to find any
fault with this item of news, but we do think
there is too much good Christian piety in
the readers of the Index to care much how
the race resulted between Socks and Planet,
or if “ the latter was distanced,” or if Char
lie Ball did beat Don Juan; and we must
bo excused for saying that it looks rather
bad for a journal, that has for its object the
dissemination of moral and religious essays,
that chronicles revivals and professes to aid
and encourage all the efforts that are being
made in the cause of Christianity.
The Lawrenceville, Ga., News is respon
sible for the above, and it gives hs the first
intimation that the “Index” has become a
sporting journal. The maxim, “go abroad
to hear tho news at home,” is thus practi
cally verified, because Bro. Walker “cut
our acquaintance” a few weeks since. We,
therefore, make all the amends in our pow
er, for being ignorant of the news transpir
ing under our own nose, by copying tho
foregoing. “ Better late than never,” espe
cially when the matter is of such grave im
portance as that under consideration!
A Strong Argument.
“The St. Louis Democrat states that the
slaves of Missouri are rapidly finding pur
chasers who take them out the State, and
leave in their stead thousands of good dol
lars, enabling their former owners to pay
for the labor of white men in tilling the
ground and raising the rich crops w’hich our
farms are capable of producing under labor
intelligently directed.”
Gn this paragraph, the Lawrenceville
News has the following pertinent comment:
“ Now, what does this paragraph show ?
That an antagonism between white and black
labor has been created in Missouri, and that,
owing to the enormous prices that negroes
are commanding in the more Southern States,
and the cheapness of white labor in the for
mer, the slave owners there are induced to
ship their slaves to the cotton growing States,
and to substitute cheaper (white) labor in
its place.
This rapid drain of slaves from Missouri,
must inevitably result in the abolition of the
institution there, unless something be done
to restore the equilibrium between capital
and labor at the South. No other feasible
plan has, nor can be presented, for accom
plishing such a result, than that which re
commends importation from Africa.”
And there is another idea connected with
•this subject. A drain of slaves from Mary
land, Kentucky, Virginia and North Caro
lina, similar to that from Missouri is now r
taking place. And the consequence, will,
ere long, be the same—those border slave
States will be gradually abolitionized, by
cheaper white foreign and Northern labor
being introduced therein. Now what is the
remedy for this state of things ? What
means can be used to check the march of ab
olitionism southward ? We answer. Ke
open the Trade from Africa —introduce la
borers in abundance, so that every man who
can raise S2OO can become the owner of at
least one. At this low figure, and it is not
too low, the Missourians, Marylanders and
Virginians could not find such a market for
their slaves, as will justify them sending
them oft’ to the extreme South. They would
therefore be compelled to keep them at home
and thereby remain supporters of the insti
tution. At all events, we have no idea that
we, of the extreme South, should be com
pelled to enrich the slave-breeders of those
States, by paying them such prices, as will
bribe them to become abolitionists !
RE-OPEYIY OF TIIE A Fill-
CAY SLAVE TRADE.
PROGIIF.SS OK PUBLIC OPINION.
The general reader is not perhaps aware
of the progress in public opinion, wh'ch has
marked the few months past, in favor of
abolishing p” unconstitutional restrictions
and laws touching the subject of free trade
in Slaves. We propose, therefore, to make
a few brief extracts from our exchange pa
pers, to show that the question which but a
short time since had no public advocates, is
now eD’isting the attention of many of the
leading journals of the South:
The Lawrenceville, Ga., “News,” in an
able article denying the Constitutionality of
the act of 1818, says :
“We attribute to the advocates of a revi
val of the slave trade, purer and more eleva
ted motives than keeping alive agitation and
creating sectional animosities. The true
policy of the South demands it, and we can
but admire the lofty patriotism and bold in
dependence that induces public journalists
and public men, in these days of party drill
and official aspirations, to openly avow their
true sentiments and honest convictions be
fore the world.
When we consider that the increase of
black labor at the South is so essential to
the preservation of our cotton monopoly in
the markets of the world, and to the devel
opment of Southern resources, we are led to
hope that the day is not far distant when
every restriction will be removed and the
Slave Trade revived,”
The Montgomery, Ala., “Mail,” speaking
of the able speech of Mr. W. L. Spratt, of
South Carolina, on the re-opemng of the Af
rican Slave Trade, remarks as follows:
“In this issue of the Mail, we give one
moiety of the brilliant and effective speech
delivered by L. W. Spratt, Esq., of Charles
ton, while a member of the late Legislature
of South Carolina, on the African Slave
Trade. If no other reason impelled us to
print this effort, for Alabama readers, we
should feel strongly inclined to do so, in a
spirit of fairness to its author, who is a gen
tleman of uncommon talents, severe political
integrity, and a true son of our Southern
soil. As such his argument is entitled to a
hearing; and we venture to remark, that
no gandid opposer of the Slave Trade will
rise from its perusal, without having had
his convictions somewhat unsettled, at least,
by the manly and searching investigation of
the main and its cognate questions, which
Mr. Spratt has furnished.
* * * * * * *
We earestly ask each one of our readers
to give the speech an attentive reading and
thoughtful consideration. Let him ponder
well the arguments establishing the right
fulness and righteousness of slavery and Vie
social results of that system as comjwred with
those of free communities. Let the sword of
that series of truths enter, and for the inevi
table sequence Mr. Spratt and his co-labor
ers can afford to wait a htttle while.”
The Mail further says :
“Mr. Spratt was at first regarded as a
Quixotte, but it is astonishing how rapidly
his cause has gained adherents within a year.
We hope he wifi “go on to conquer.”
John Mitchell, Editor of the “Southern
Citizen,” Washington, D. C., streneously ad
vocates the re-opening of the Slave Trade,
and the abolishing of all restrictive laws.—
Os the morale of the case lie thus speaks:
“So much for the law of the case; now
for the morale of it, and the justice and ex
pediency of it. If carrying slaves across the
sea be now a detestable and felonious crime,
it was always a felonious crime. If to pur
chase of those slaves who are so carried across
the sea, be a receiving of stolen goods, then
it was so from the beginning. Therefore,
the chivalrous colonists who created Carolina
and Virginia, laid the foundations of their
fortunes in felons, and their sons, at this
day, high as they hold their heads, are the
sons ot thieves. That’s plain English.”
The Savannah News has taken a bold
Southern position in its controversy with
the Repubbcan of that city, which latter print
strange to say, is so Northern in its feel
ings and instincts on this subject, as to have
■ its articles quoted and “read with pleasure”
! by the Black Republican Journals of the
North. The “News” closes one of its arti
cles as follows:
“The question for the people of the South
to determine is not only whether it is politic
or expedient to reopen the slave trade, but
whether it is not essential for their interests
for the maintainance of their equality in the
Union, and for the perpertuity of their in
stitutions, that the Southern States should
resume the right to control that “important
interest” which they relinquished at the for
mation of the constitution. If, as we be
lieve, it is essential that the people of the
Southern States should lie reinstated in their
right to control their own domestic institu
tions, and if they frankly, resolutely and uni-
tedly urge the relinquishment of the power
by Congress, which was unwisely conceded
to it,we are unwilling to believe that the same
patriotic motives which reconciled the ques
tion in the convention which framed the
constitution will not dictate a wise concilia
tory and equitable adjustment of it now.”
The Albany Patriot has the following in
reference to the Wanderer and its cargo of
Slaves recently introduced into Georgia:
“The law of Congress declares the impor
tation of slaves from other countries piracy,
and punishes the offence with death. In
our opinion the law is an iniquity and a lie.
It is not a piracy to buy and sell slaves. Ii
is not immoral or wrong in any sense to buy
and sell slaves; nor, is it wrong in itself to
transport them from Africa, Cuba, Brazil, or
any other place, to a more intelligent and
Christian country where their condition and
usefulness is more important.
But for the present, at least, the law is
against the importation, and the Skylocks
will have their pound of flesh if they can get
We believe that free Commerce in slaves
rests upon the same principles of right and
good policy as free commerce in other com
modities. A reasonable import duty should
vs anc * tra de protected. So far as
the policy of the increase of our slave popu
lation is concerned, let every man judge of
lus own interests for himself, and if individu
al interests are legitimately promoted, so are
the interests of the State. Each one knows
jest for himself how much labor he can pro
fitably employ, and if he wants a slave, and
has the means to purchase, it i 9 his right as
well as his interest, and the interest of the
fetftto that he should ho allowed to purchase
where he can buy cheapest”
The Democrat of Tuskeega Ala., has the
following sensible remarks respecting the
Slave Trade:
“The African slave trade is either right or
wrong, expedient or inexpedient; and is at
least, the less of two evils. The sales before
every Court House in the South proclaim
the absolute necessity for more laborers.—
We must either import a fresh supply from
Africa, or break down the barriers, and ad
mit the hungry horde of free laborers from
the North, who are looking with eager eyes
and greedy mouths upon the nch harvests
ol the South. Or rather, we must do the
former ourselves, or the North will do the
latter for us. There is an outside pressure
which we cannot long hope to resist. The
labor of a field hand in the North can be pro
cured for sixty dollars per annum ; that of a
negro iffthe South costs three times as much.
Now if we intend to adhere to the institu
tion of slavery we must make it answer ful
ly all purposes demanded of it as a system
of labor; and if we fail to do this, we must
expect in some way to suffer for our want
of attention to our trud interests. Old fogies
may fancy that things will forever remain
as they now are; but we know this can nev
er be. If | we yield the point that there
can be no more slave States and no more
slaves from Africa, then indeed, the end of
the institution is not far off. We think the
enterprise should not be so readily dismissed
through fear of Northern or any other senti
ment.”
The “ Republican” of Tuskegee, Ala., in
speaking of the present high price of Ne
groes, and the necessity for more slave la
bor, thus remarks:—
“Negro property is getting to be a mo
nopoly. The high price of it makes it so.—
And we are sorry to see that a great many
of our largest holders are opposed to the re
opening of the African slave trade, either
lawfully or otherwise. They are acting
on a mistaken principle. They fear that it
would reduce the value of their negroes, y
We have already expressed the opinion,
that the introduction of a million would have
no material effect But suppose it did, ne
gro property would be so much the safer.—
For there would be a larger mass of our own
citizens interested in its perpetuity, and it
would command still more respect abroad.
All our people are still true to the South,
because they are influenced by principle;
but can we hope that this will always be the
case, when the great majority of the slaves
shall become a perfect monopoly, as it is
now fast doing, in the hands of a few rich
men. comprising not one twentieth of our
population ; and when there will no loDger
be any hope of a laboring man ever possess
ing a slave ?
We have no time or space now to discuss
this subject; but it is one of fearful impor
tance, and there is no use in shutting our
eyes to its magnitude. It will have to be
met before the end of t e century. In our
opinion, the very existence of the South de
pends upon the re-opening of the African
slave trade
The Griffin, Ga.. Independent South , in a
late article in reference to the high price of
negroes, md its effect upon Southern inter
terests, says:
“Without the introduction of more slaves
South, the poorer class of our people can
never hope to possess themselves of that kind
of property, and in proportion to their hope
lessness of its acquisition, will become their
indifference to its welfare. Hence: although
heretofore opposed to re-opening the Alri
can slave trade, as seeing no immediate ne
cessity for it: we are now satisfied in view
of the almost prohibitory prices demanded,
that it should be re-opened, in order that
their price may be diminished and the in
dustrial products of the South increased.—
Further, we notice that the greatest opposi
tion to a re-opening of the African slave
trade, at the South, comes from parties who
are directly interested in keeping up their
present high prices. Opposed, as we are, to
such a selfish, unpatriotic policy, we must
be permitted to publicly dissent from it, and
insist upon the equal rights of all our people
to supply themselves with laborers where
they can be procured cheapest. Something
must be done to bring down the price of
slaves, it we do not wish to create a conflict
of interest at home, and thereby weaken the
bonds which at present attach us as one
people, unanimous, in our devotion to the
institutions of the South.”
So say, aiso, the Mobile, Ala., Mercury,
the Augusta, Ga., ZHspalch, and several oth
er Tournalists, but we have not
room tc Jay, to quote further the growing
evidences ic sentiment in favor of a
larger supply of slave labor, either from
Africa or elsewhere. Let the reader pouder
on these things, and be prepared to array
himself, when the conflict comes, on the side
of reason, justice and the South.
FUNERAL OF WEBB
AsaT’ Friend Andrews, of the “ Georgia
Citizen,” copies a part of our editorial about
the funeral of Webb. If we were not afraid
that he would harness us for a regular war
upon what he calls “orthodoxy,” we would
say a few words to him, in a kind way,
hoping for a careful and honest considera
tion of them, although we might be consid
ered presumptuous in advising one so much
our senior in age and editorial experience.
Bear with us, Bro. Andrews, and don’t get
fretted in what we have to say, but look at
it calmly and unbiased.
You say, “when the preacher attempted
to show the consequences of sin after this
life, we think ho was inconsistent, and trav
elled beyond the record.”
Universalism again. Are you not tired
of that hobby yet? Wrong politically,
wrong religiously, are you never going to
make an earnest effort to get right! “ Or-
thodoxy,” you charge, has a tendency “ rath
-1 er to encourage crime, than to restrain it.”
• Seriously, do you think preaching repent
ance to a murderer, would stimulate anoth
er to murder? Answer us this, upon vour
honor. Do you, most sincerely and une
quivocally, believe that murders would be
less frequent, if no man feared punishment
beyond the grave, for rascality here? Has
the fear of Hell no restraint upon crime ?
Atlanta Intelligencer.
We are infinitely obliged to our friends of
the Intelligencer for the lecture they have
felt it to be their duty to administer to us,
for our want of “ orthodoxy” in the matter
of sending a man to heaven from the gal
lows, by a compulsory process of repentance ,
in view of certain death on a fixed day, and
of a certain hell thereafter, if such repent
ance was lacking. We do not, however,
recognize the force of their reply to our
strictures on the case of Webb. We did not
charge “orthodoxy” in itself so called, with
a “tendency rather to encourage crime,
than to restrain it,” but that the “ortho
dox” practise, in these cases, of making a
sainted hero out of every murderer, on the
gallows, by industrious appeals to the baser
passion of fear of God’s vengeance in an
endless hell, if the criminal does not become
sorry for his sins and profess repentance be
fore he is swung off into eternity, was of
that character. Why? Because it stimu
lated the idea, that murder was about the
only sure way of securing an interest in fu
ture happiness, and so far pretermitted any
necessity for living a righteous life here. —
The eclat, too, given to the exit of murder
rs thus transformed into saints, seems to us
to be injurious and demoralizing to th,.
tator. of an execution, and to excite a !!'?’
lm ambition in many low mini, to a
after the same fashion to glorv in l
of Christian martyrs, instead of dj,
felons! “operate
In answer to the query propounded to >
answered on our honor, we do sincere],.
Clare, that we do not believe that the fe ar \
hell, in another world, has ever’ ha 1
restraining effect upon the
crime. Tis the certainty of
rather than the severity that restrain ‘
when we add the consideration
death-bed repentance, according to’ ~'*! &
doxy,” will enable the vilest sinner m °~
cape all punishment for his crimes her, *
hereafter, we may well doubt whether T
fear of hell has any great terror for the , !
ty, or any restraining power.
The “Index” on Spiri| Ualj
The last “ Index” is very compliment*’
in its language, to the Spiritualists of M
con, and especially sweet upon the L l( ;
Medium, who is now engaged in deliverin',
Trance Lectures in this city. The Ed t ’
very politely terms these lectures “Trai ‘
mutterings ”-a “jargon of feminine Ij|
berish” and “expositions of a
preacher,” &c. And the Star Editor .
that in the lady’s manifestations, there
“nothing beyond tho pawer, which t ;’
Scriptures ascribe to Satan’ - ! To all t ) r
we have not time to reply, at length, to^ T
but will beg leave to say to Bro. Walker
that in his best and most wide-awake ] a
neither he nor any Baptist preacher ij
Georgia, could, by any possibility, appro*]
mate within gun-shot distance of the
plane of eloquence, sublimity and profound
intelligence, on which this ’
lady is accustomed to stand. Aifino„
sihle man,” who has heard thes|
has arrived at any other conelusim ftp
matter. * \
To the * Editor we would^— Avon pr,.
fess, Sir, to be a Christian\u)d
you can, of course, perform the
are declared (Mark x% 15,16) to fcdlow the-,,
who believe—such as “casting out devil-;
Ac. Now, Sir, you profess to he willing tn
do all the good you can to sinful humanity
suppos? you try your hand at casting out tie
devil which you say in fences the Spiritual
M|dium. The A, fl on Sun
day evening last ch whole cleri
cal fraternity to dispossess the Medium a:
•release her from the strange power which
holds her in subjection! Will you do it.
Mr. Star Editor ? If you will not, and can
not, let us hear no more of the maudlin
masculine “gibberish” from your hyetn,
pathic Institution—nor any more of your
hypocritical pretensions to be the only t:
•Christians of the age—the only believers in
the Gospel of**Jesus! Give us the “sip,
of your faith —any one of the signs mention
ed will answer, — or forever holt your pe:,i,-
about matters as far above your comprehen
sion a Spiritual glory is above your “divers
washings” and external eeremonials.
Yrs. Ostrander’s Lectures.
These extraordinary Spiritual Manifesta
tions of piower and eloquence, while the me
dium is in a Trance condition, continue to
be interesting, instructive and benificent.—
On Sunday evening last, the subject pre
sented for consideration was, Mark xv., 15.
16, embracing the commission of Christ to
his disciples, and the consequences thereof.
The Lecturer immediately passed into the
trance state, and was influenced to pro
nounce one of the best exhibitions of the
true nature and mission of the Gospel that
we ever heard. For over an hour the theme
was handled with marvellous skill and pow
er, and to the great satisfaction of most of
the audience present.
On Tuesday evening, the subject selected
was the Law of Progress, physical, intellect
ual and spiritual, and as applicable to the
ages past, present and future. This covered
the whole ground of Spiritualism, and wa
treated in a spirit of great candor, fairnes
and Christian feeling. It was indeed a feast
ot good things to the thinking soul, and de
veloped the character and purposes of Deity
in a way to incite the most reverential emo
tions. The great truths of Spirit existence
—of a blessed immortality for man and of
spirit communion between the spheres, were
earnestly and persuasively urged upon the
understandings and hearts of the people,
with a zeal and devotion that must hare
carried conviction to every mind not blind
ed by materialism or degraded by sensuali
ty. What a pity it is, that every man, wo
man and child in the city could not he
brought under the saving influence of such
benign and glorious doctrines !
“ Tliou Fool—A Querry.”
A good brother affirms that he will not
oppose Spiritualism while he is unable to ex
plain certain mysterious phenomena connec
ted with it, and yet he seems ready and
willing to swallow everything that apjiear*
in its defence, with the readv confidence of
the old proverb that, “ He who knows noth
ing, doubts nothing.”
Query—Which is the greatest fool, him
that opposes dark sayings because they are
myat-'rums and unlikely, or him that \. -
them ? Answer ye.— Progressionist.
Our Newnan eotemporary seems to have
lost his reckoning, entirely, in the foregoing
“ manifestation” of his interior life! In the
first place, his orthography is bad. For
Query—a question, he has querry—a groom
or hostler! In the second place ho is imp>-
lite in hinting that his “good brother” i
“ fool.” In the third place, his grammar i
horrible. How, for example, does he parse
the word “ him,” m s it occurs twice in tie
last paragraph ? We pause for a reply. In
the mean time, we beg leave to suggest to
our “good brother,” the Editor of the “Pro
gressionist” that to into consideration the
propriety of immediately changing the
name of his paper, if he means to array him
self against the progress of spiritual truth, a’
seems to be the indication in the above arti
cle, as we understand it.
Important Document.
Washington, Jan. 20.
The President to day communicated 1”
Congress a statement called for at the last
session, of the unsettled accounts, due to the
people and Government of the United States
from all foreign powers. The document i-
large and intensely interesting.
Among the claims is one against England
amounting to 6,500,000 ; one against France
amounting to 15,000,000 francs—nearly all.
however, are pri vate claims, some of which
have been admitted, and others repudiated-
There is scarcely a maritime of importance
against whom there is not some claim.
11. S. Nlar*lial—District of Geor
gia.
Washington, Jan. 26.
It is understood that the U. S. Marshal
for the Districtof Georgia, Mr. Stewart, h B -’
been removed, for want of vigilance in ar
resting the officers and crew of the slaver
Wanderer.
Mr. J. M. Spullock is spoken of as Mr.
Stewart’s successor.
The fol ow g“is certainly a very no’
el grouad for dive roe: A woman made applica
tion to Justice Hanselman, in Cincinnati, on
Wednesday, for divorce, on the ground that
her husband was a confounded tool. The mag
istrate informed he that if that were held to bo
a valid reason in law, half the married wonioa
in the cit woulJ*be legally entitled to
rimonial separation.