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see I didn't love anybody but the doc
tor, and I’ve never married.
“ Sally died four years ago, and the
Dr. courted me again last week, and we
talked it all over. He didn’t live very
happy with Sally ; she was powerful ,
high tempered, and didn't make him a
very good companion. Do you think it
would be silly for me to marry him
nnwf And she lok**d ai;xi*u-ly in
my tare, awaiting my reply.
>• I- .t IK Snap y.Mi are -peaking of ?”
said 1. rather taken by surprise to find
this hii of romance in the sick room.
u Yes, ’ replied she, blushing exten
sively.
“ Oh, marry him by all means ! Bet
ter late than never, Miss Nancy. ’’ At
whit h piece of advice she looked grati
fied—it being exactly in accordance with j
her own views and int-ntions.
After the tale was concluded, and I j
had made some comments upon it, I j
found the time hanging rather heavily
on my hands, I hunted up an old Black
wood’s Magazine, read a tale in that,
and wished it was day.
At midnight Miss Nancy waked Rose,
a negro girl, and told her to make some
coffee and boil some eggs, for our bene
fit. Our supper being ready, we seated
ourselves at a small table to partake of
it. Miss Nancy liked her eggs “hard
done.” When she broke the shells, I
hinted at indigestion; but she said she
“didn’t believe in eating victuals half
cooked,’’ and she devoured the blue
looking eggs with much apparent gusto.
The meal being over, Rose put away
the things, swept the hearth, and, rolling
her head and shoulders in her blanket,
with her feet out —after the manner of
her race —she laid down on the floor,
and, with the usual facility of her kind,
went to sleep in about a minute Miss
Nancy gave the sick child a powder;
rocked him, and nodded; I gszed in the
fire, and thought of—no matter what.
About one o’clock Miss Nancy be
came restless. She moved uneasily in
her chair, and grunted.
“ What’s the matter, Miss Nancy 1
Are you sick ?”
“ Yes, I’ve got the colic; wish I hadn’t
eat them fetched eggs!”
“Take something/’ I benevolently
suggested.
“Oh dear! what can I take ?”
There was a bottle of rhubarb hitters
on the mantel-piece. I recollected hear
ing Mrs. Thompson say it was good for
colic. I proposed a dose to the afflicted
Miss Briggs, though I wouldn’t have
taken a spoonful of the nauseous stuff
for any ordinary consideration.
“Oh dear!” she groaned ;“ I believe
I will.” And suiting the action to the
word, she took the bottle,- placed it to
her mouth, and drank—made a very wry
face, and expectorated freely, saying her
mouth was as slimy as though she had
been eating lizzards ! The dose did not
have the desired effect. She groaned
pitifully, and clenched her hands convul
sively.
“Take so.ne more,” said I.
“I'm afraid it will make me drunk,”
she leplied. “I'm not used to liquor;
hut I’d rather be drunk than in so much
pain—oh dear! oh Lordy!” and the
second time she drank deeply. In a few
minutes she seemed to feel better. She
grew very lively indeed, and talked so
fast I could hardly understand her. Af
ter a while she rose from her seat, took
the candle and held it to the fire.
“You will burn your fingers, Miss
Nancy,” said I, as she held her band in
clone proximity to the blaze.
“ 1 have burned my figgles—no, I don't
mean figgles, but figgers,” she replied,
talking as if she had something in her
mouth. Poor Miss Nancy! she was
past -aying fingers, and approaching that
delectable state which “ fa-t” young men
denominate as being “gloriously tight.”
I laughed. “ W T hy, you laugh, Jennie,”
she said.
“Miss Nancy,” returned I, “you had
better go to bed.”
“ 1 b’i’eve 1 will go t’ bed for’m sick,”
she replied, joining the words together
without regard to punctuation ; and with
uncertain steps she placed the candle ou
the table, and retired to a bed in the
corner of the room, and in a few minutes
her—snoring, 1 was ab<: ut to say, but
ladies never snore—so her breathing an
nounced her oblivious alike to the disap
pointments of the past and rosy hopes of
the future.
1 sat by the child the remainder of the
night, who, notwithstanding his “ coma
tose state,” rested quite well, and who,
contrary to Dr. Snap’s prediction, did
have “vitality enough to resuscitate,”
or, to use Miss Nancy’s plain vernaeu
lor, “ it got well, and was as peart as a
young toad.”
At daylight the spinster arose, bright
as a lark. She excused leaving me to
take care of the child by myself—ac
knowledged herself to have been “ gen
teelly tight ” the night before, laughing
heartily when I told her how she had
talked and acted.
The next month she was led by her
quandam lover, Dr. Snap, to the lly me
nial altar, where they were closely bound
together by Cupid’s silken cords. “ Ob,
wedded love, how beautiful!”—but 1
will not rhapsodize. Suffice it to say,
she makes an excellent wife to the Dr.,
and a kind step-mother to the junior
Snaps.
She is still in great demand in sick
ness, and never refu>e.j to do all she can
for her neighbors, in sickness or health.
She raises quantities of chickens and
eggs—eating the latter rarely, and then
rather soft.
‘i he Jat time 1 saw her, she declared
to that nothing but a c-a-e of life and
death would ev*r ind'ce her to swallow
an i her dose of rhuba-b bitters.
VSTords of sympathy muU love are like the
manaa that descended from Heaven to fted tne
Imui.-htd wanderers in the deserts. liupi ed
by them, the leet are uuwearid by plot and g
thr >i gh arid sand, the heart sinks not at and
- inttiM-or, aud the arai isnurved lor a c nte t
with a seifttd boat of t n .at its. lie who bos ne .-
cr heard their soothing sounds or fe't their Lin 1-
!y influence, may well be lea; to reason ind to
inaaJy lWu*hi.
A Southern tof6***book at it!
As an independent journalist, devoted
to the interests, rights and happiness of
the South, we watch with a jealous eye,
all steps made, either by Northern or
Southern politicians, to reduce her to in
feriority. In our earnestness in defend
ing her honor, an unpleasant duty com
pels us, sometimes, to sacrifice personal
feelings to what we conceive to be the
central good. W e are a Democrat —a
Southern Democrat —-and we will not tie
to party or to men, let them present
whatever face they may, unless they em
body the true democratic Southern prin
ciples as enunciated by the Southern
Rights party. Asa journalist, therefore,
ignoring every thing that opposes this
party, to be a trustworthy and faithful
chronicler of men and measures, we will
not spare the lash, though it lacerates
party and friends. W e will not be awed
to silence, or be bound down by party
shackles, and quietly see wrongs and
outrages inflicted, with fratricidal hands,
npon the section we love.
A short time since, the Diplomatic
Bill, appropriating a large sum of money',
passed the House of Representatives, to
support and educate the returned Afri
cans of the slaver Echo. Look at it,
Southerners, and say, was there ever a
greater wrong added to insult offered
your section? Your money stolen from
you, to educate a set of savages in a dis
tant, foreign laud ! Was it ever intend
ed that the United States government
should become a missionary society, to
tax its citizens, and educate the negroes
of Africa, who are elevated by white
men higher than their race, and a little
—a very little—lower than the angels ?
This whole Echo affair, from beginning
to end, has been an outrage upon the
feelings of Southerners, and a blow at
their slavery system. We find the Pres
ident, with his Cabinet of Southern men,
bargaining with an abolition society,
euphoniously styled “ the African Colon
ization Society,” to support them one
year in Africa, and pledging the faith of
the government in the sum of $30,000,
for the philanthropic job! This, within
itself, a monstrous outrage, was passed
over with almost entire sileuce, by
Southern statesmen (!) and the press ;
and a few Southern demagogues, em
boldened by this, who esteem self more
than the honor of their section, are found
bowing and fawning to the evil genius of
northern fanaticism ; pandering un
worthy sons of a generous mother —to
the vile crew, whose hopes of etemal
bliss are predicated upon the overthrow
of Slavery! Our immediate represen
tative in Congress voted for this bill,
and we are rejoiced to say that he stands
solitary and alone in his glory ! He was
the only Democrat —the only member
from the Empire State of the South, that
dared outrage the feelings of his State.
We detest and loathe the measure, and
we are constrained to say that the honor
interest and sentiment of the people of
the fifth congressional district has been
most wantonly and cruelly sacrificed.
Nothing can palliate this vote of Judge
Wright, and we trust that the people of
this district will consign him to the po
litical grave he has made with his own
hands, so effectually and so deep that he
may never have a resurrection. VS e had
hoped better things of Judge Wright.
Asa man, we respect him; but In the
disguise of a demagogue and politician,
he deserves the censure of every South
erner. With his squatter sovereignty
notions and this vote —“the unkindest
cut of all”—he has forfeited all claims
to our mercy. We have been told that
he has avowed openly that slavery should
never, by his consent, extend beyond its
present limits; and this policy may have
shaped his vote, which harmonizes so
beautifully with the squatter sovereignty
sentiments of his “liege lord,” Stephen
Arnold Douglas. We do not now hesi
tate to say, that we are prepared to hear,
without a shadow of incredulity, that he
has voted for almost any abolition meas
ure introduced in the halls of Congress.
Cartersville Express.
Wee Hawk axd Wise.— -A correspondent
of the New York Times, writing lately from
Lyn> hburg, Ya., narrates the following poli
tical anecdote, among others, that illustrates
the humor of the great campaign in 1855,
when Wise was a candidate for Governor.
It is not really humorous, but it presents
strongly a piiculiarity of that eccentric politi
cian :
Ou the occasion of his visit to the town of
Liberty, thirty miles west of this during the
celebrated campaign of 1855, to address the
people, he was introduced to a Mr. Fogy,
whose residence was at the foot of the Peaks
of Otter. After the introduction, Mr. Fogy
addressed Mr. Wise as follows:
Mr. F —“l am glad to see you, Mr. Wise.’’
Mr. W. —“l am happy to see you, Mr.
Fogy.”
Mr. F. —“l am sorry I can’t vote for you,
Mr. Wise.”
Mr. IF—“I am sorry for that too; but
this is a free country, and a man can vote
as he pleases.”
Mr. F. —‘ My employment in early life, and
indeed unt 1 recently, was a thimble-rigger.
I have always attended horse races with my
thimbles and ball, crying out, *’tis here and
’tain’t there, and ’tain t here and ’tis there.’
For many years a celebrated little horse
named Waxy was winner of the stakes on
every course that I was accustomed to at
tend. Bets were made ten to one, upon him
against the whole track, and he never failed
to win. While engaged one day at a race,
in my usual occupation, I noticed the ugliest,
raw-boniest, scrawniest, most ragged hipped
looking Least you ever did see, led into the
track.and his name was Wee Hawk. I was
soon told that he was entered against Waxy
and ten to one was readily offered against
him. I looked at Wee Hawk. He seemed
wretched, but he had fire in his eye. I
then looked at my pile, and I said isl bet on
Waxy and win, I won’t win much, but if I
bet on Wee Hawk and win, I will increase
my pi!e|ten foli. I looked again at Wee
Hawk, and seeing the fire in his eye, I con
cluded I’d bet I did so and won. I never
did see, Mr. Wise, a man so like a horse as
you are like Wee Hawk, and though 1 can t
vete for you, I’ll bet my pile on you.”
Mr. Wise laughed heartily, aud the re
eult soon proved that the fire was there.
— ♦-
Poverty asd RiciieS.—lt is truly said
that, no man can tell whether he is rich
by turning to his ledger. It is the heart
that makes a man neb. He is rich or poor,
according to what he has. A man to-day,
for insiance, may have but ten, five or two
and a halt dollars in his pocket; but to-mor
row he may have fifty thousand dollars, or
its half or quarter. How is this great
change to be wrought? the reader may ask.
Under ordinary circumstances, we would
answer by demanding with the question a
fee; but we will answer it without price on
this occasion, Send ten, five, or two and a
half dollars to Woo©, Epdt & Cos., Wilming
ton, Delaware, or Augusta, Qa., and insure
your chances of drawing the great prige or
Us proportion. You cannot, indeed, to-day,
tell wha b** r you are rich or poor, by iurn
ing to yo\u ledger, but by a fortunate turn
in the wheel of fortune, under the manage
ment of Wood, Eoy * Cos., you may turn
up 10-mwow ft fifty thousand 4yJl*r prix*.
Discovery of .Hysterious Subter
ranean Vaults.
The following letter, which has been for
warded us, if reliable, presents some interest
ingfacts thatare well worthy of investigation.
The parties mentioned herein are said to be
well known in Jackson County:
Jackson, 0., Feb. 12, 1859.
To the Editor of the Enquirer • —Our vil
lage is full of wonder and excitement Mar
tin Marker, J. W. Hughs and Washington
Long, in digging a grave in the Cemetery
near this village, about ten o’clock this morn,
ing, came to a large Hat stone about four feet
below the surface, which stopped their fur
ther progress until they procured assistance,
and removed the stone from its resting
place of ages, when it was found to have
closed the entrance to a subterranean vault
AH efforts thus far (three P. M.) to enter it
with a light have proved unsuccessful on ac
count of the foul air with which it is filled.
By means of a rake* human bones of gigantic
size have been raised, and a small chain of
silver, with coins attached to each end. The
coins, though much defaced by time, have
the appearance of those in use among the
Romans in their days of Cicero, Africanus,
though there were evident traces of hiero
glyphic devices that cannot be decyphered.
The men at the cemetery have, by means
of burning straw ; made light in the vault,
and though none have the courage to ven
ture further than the entrance, it has been dis
covered that there is, immediately to the
west of the opening, a chamber about ten
feet square, with steps, quite dilapidated,
down its eastern side. Three other cham
bers branch out of ibis; one to the north,
one to the west, and the others to the south.
We are all curious, of course, to know
when and by whom these vaults were made
and filled. Rev. Mr. Hunter and Mr. Arm
stfong and Dr. Knouff, have examined them
as well tts they could wihtout goingdown in
to them, also the bones raked out, and tl e
chain and coins, and all give it as their opin
ion that these vaults were made by the same
people who built the mounds in the south
eastern part of the State.
The questions present themselves to eve
ry one; Who made these vaults and filled
them? Was our country once the home of
giants? George Davenport.
P. S.—Four and a half, P. M. W. Long,
after the straw had burnt in the first vault
for some time, ventured down to make an
examination, but the atmosphere was so im
pure that he could remain there but a few
minutes, though long enough to discover
that the walls of the vaults were substan
tially built of smooth, well-shaped stones,
and that there were large number of bones
in them. Persons will arrive here from
Sidney and Greenville to-morrow, and eve
ry exertion will be made for a thorough ex
amination of this “house of the dead” as soon
as possible.— Cincinnati Enq.] G. D.
From the Richmond Enquirer.
The Power of Cotton.
Cotton is an extraordinary product. It
at present sustains American Commerce,
Shipping and Trade, and regulates the ex
changes. Estimating the last crop only at
2,500,000 bales, and its present average val
ue of SSO per bale, gives a grand total in val
ue of $ 175,000, ‘MX)!
It is the cotton, tobacco, naval stores, <fcc.,
the products of the planting States at the
South, which at present sustains the North
ern cities of the Uniou. * The West has pret
ty much run into bankruptcy, aud its trade
in New York is almost nil. Our merchants,*
iastead of receiving new trade from thence,
cannot collect their past dues. The story is,
that they have fto money, and no property
that they can convert into cash, where no
one has cash to purchase it The Wisconsin
Legislature has been considering the propri -
ety of adopting stop-laws. A good part of
Illinois and lowa are no better off. Many
of their railroad enterprise,? have proved ru
inous failures. And many citizens of the
North-West are seeking a milder climate,
aud a more fruitful soil in Texas.
New York, with all her advantages of
position and wealth, would, without the
South and Southern trade the present win
ter, have been an utterly ruined and bank
rupt city. The same might be said of Phil
adelphia, Boston and other Northern towns.
They have little or nothing of moment to
ship that Europe wants. No Breadstuffs
have been shipped to Great Britain for two
months. Vessels herecan find little or noth
ing to do. But the South has filled North
ern ships with rich cargoes of cotton for Eu
rope. On the 12th of February there were
146 ships and 45 barks loading at New Or
leans, of whifch 91 were for Europe. The
Ocean Monarch, cleared at that port on the
12th of February for Liverpool, with about
7,000 bales of Cotton, of the value of about
$350,000. This large ship is owned in New
York. Her freight on this immense cargo
of cotton was at the rate of about £d. per
lb., (about 1J cents;) which, on a bale of the
average weight of 450 lbs., would amount to
$5.62$ per bale This would give the total
freight on the 7,000 bales of about $39,135 —
to which may be added, as usual, 5 per
cent primage. If we assume the present
crop to reach 3,500,000 bales, which is the
most general estimate, the freight received
by Northern ship-owners on the whole will
be as follows;
On the eliipment of 750 003 bales coastwise, at an average of
X cent *6 lb. or ♦*.'.♦ b *le, would pve ♦1,401,876 00
On tneshipment of 2 550.000 bale, to Europe, at
S 62X V bale, would give the sum of ♦l#,o2>J,-
25 1 ; io which if we add 5 V cent, primage on
this amount, it would give a total of. 16,120,400 00
Total cost of transportation of the crop of IS6B-’59,
coastwise and foreign ♦18,221.776 00
When we consider that much of the cot
ton shipped from Southern ports to Europe
has been at Jd. to |d., instead of fd., and
that the above sum has been paid for the
transportation of cotton, exclusive of rice,
tobacco and naval stores, some idea may be
formed ot the immense support given to the
shipping interest of the North by the plant
ing States of the South. Besides this, after
discharging in Liverpool, she will take dry
goods and other merchandize, for which the
cotton is made as a medium of exchange to
pay for, and which are landed in New York
for distribution to the Southern planters who
grow the cotton. While the ship makes a
return freight, the merchants who distribute
the goods make heavy profits, and the fifty*
four city banks, who loan them the money
to pay the importers, make a profit. The
transportation of goods to the South, also,
Jives a profit to owners of coasting vessels,
t is the cottoa and other products of the
South which have peopled the fi-ee States of
the North and West with the vast number
of emigrants from Europe, and whose labor
has so largely contributed to develope their
resources. Thus cotton ships, after they ar
rive in Liverpool, fill their holds with coal
and salt, and the space between decks with
dry goods, hardware and crockery, which,
however, leaves them a great deal of space
once occupied by cotton bales. This is fit
ted up, temporarily for steerage passengers,
whom they are able to take at very low
rates, varying from twelve to fifteen and
twenty dollars—they being required to do
their own cooking. This low fare they are
enabled to charge on account of having room
to spare, after having discharged their cot
ton bales, and which they could not, with
out their employment in the cotton trade.—
Hence, the heaviest immigration is in the
Spring ad Summer months, when the cot
ton ships are returning to Northern ports.
Thus, while the South, indirectly, sq large
ly contributes to people the Nor Ip with Eu
ropean emigrants, no sooner do they arrive
here, than the minions and ministers of abo
litionism and Black Republicanism set to
work, by all sorts ol lies, to turn them against
the South; hence we see the Germans, at
several points in the West, have enabled
B'ack Republicans to reach Congress, and
goyern States, (like Wisconsin and lowa,)
wpep £hey could not have done without
the r aid. They also have assisted New
England Ues -ndantg in the lpierior. to gov
ern this Stat j with a rod of iron.
Wher j do the ships chiefly belong which
ftre thus stained by the rich carrying trade
of the South ?We answer—to New Eng
land, and especially to Massachusetts and
Maine —who send few, if any, men to Con
gress that are not Black Republicans, if not
Abolitionists, as well as the rank political
enemies to the South ; and who would if
they could, cut off her rights under the Con
stitution—and by divisions at the South
they may ultimately succeed.
Tlie Cause of Emigration.
A correspondent of the Southern Cit'ten,
writing from Charleston, over the signature
of “Palmetto,” makes the following remarks
in regard to the disposition of our people to
emigrate, and the remedy to prevent the
same. We commend them to the consider
ation of the opponents ot the slave trade:
[Marion, (& C.) Star.
“ We keep duly informed as to the traits
of the wild Africans lately imported per
“ Wanderer.” The savages are represented
to be extremely docile and industrious, per
fectly delighted that they have been so for
tunate as to be brought to this glorious coun
try. No danger, so far, of the barbarians
corrupting our $1,500 hands—the prospect
being, indeed, on the contrary, good for
their conversion to Christianity.
Is it any wonder for our people, having
to provide such expensive instruments of
labor, should be compelled to emigrate to
more productive regions ? Is it in view of
such facts, marvellous that “ the subject of
emigration, especially of late, v should, (as is as
serted) “ much agitate the public mind of this
State ?” Or can we justly be blamed in
that “we are beginning to talk lightly and
flippantly of moving.”
It is a bad sign when emigration “much
agitates the public mind” anywhere. The
evil sign is, in general, (as it was in the pa
triarchal emigrants) “ The land is not able to
bear the people—not, indeed, it may be, be
cause “ their substance is great"—the sub
stance of the modern emigrant consisting
in most cases solely of his bone and sinew.
But why should not the land here in this
State of South Carolina be “ able to bear”
all of us? We have some twelve million
acres of it unimproved, and labor is all these
now unproductive lands need to make them
bear abundantly. Ah! there’s the rub—la
bor ! Why is it that South Carolina, like the
Yankee States, Connecticut and Vermont,
and only of these three States can it be said
supplies to other States more than half as
many of her sons as remain at home ?
In 1850 the number of white and free per
sons of color residing in this State, amounted
to 292,160, while there were no less than
186,479 natives of the State residing out of
it This was nine years ago; but the agita
tion on the subject of emigration having
much “increased of late”—it is not unrea
sonable to assert that we are becoming still
weaker from the depletion.
Here now is the body politic diseased,
and is there no balm in Gilead ? Oh, yes 1
as usual we have plenty of quacks ready to
exercise their empiricism on dilapidated cor
pus. The remedy, as usual with quacks, is
a local application for a constitutional disease.
One says, stop the depletion—that is, don’t
emigrate; another crie3, buy no more ne
groes, they are ruinously high, the expen
ses eat up all the profit of their labor—and
therefore there is no wisdom in investing
money in their purchase.
Now, pray Messrs. Quacks, what are we
to do if we cannot purchase negroes ?—they
are the instruments with which we work—
as much as our plows—suppose we buy no
more plows—how then ?
Verily, the remedy is—and it is a reme
dy secundem artum, a constitutional remedy
more laborers, more negroes—not at $2,000
a head, but at the fair African price $125.
Some few Beach Island monopolists have
had the temerity to assemble and pass re
solutions condemnatory of the slave trade.—
Now, Messrs. Editors, these resolutions are
utterly unworthy of any reliance as an ex
pression of popular opinion, and I hazzard
nothing at all in saying as I do, that the
majority of the people of South Carolina are
in favor of having more Africans. Let the
question be put to the people, and we shall
see if such is not the fact.
What Spurgeon is doing to do.
The “ Freeman,” a Baptist organ, publish
ed in England, speaking of Rev. Mr. Spur
geon’s contemplated visit to this country,
gives us the following rather broad hint of
what we may expect from that gentleman.
The idea seems to be that he is to visit the
United States as a kind of Missionary, not
for the conversion of souls, but for the abo
lition of slavery, and it is thought not im
possible he “is destined to be the Knibb of
America!” We cannot dispute the latter
proposition, having in our ignorance, no idea
who Knibb may be, or what he has done,
but we are inclined to coincide with a Bos
ton contemporary—the Courier—that both
he and Mr. Spurgeon would soon find a good
deal of the nonsense taken out of them, if
they should undertake to interfere with af
fairs in this country in such an offensive, un
gentlemanly and unchristian manner, as the
extract we make portends:
“One of Mr. Spurgeon’s friends, who
knows him best, remarked to us while
speaking of his visit, * And wont he give it
to them on their slavery ?’ At the time,
our first feeling was, ‘ Dare he do it ?’ Se
cond thoughts disposed us to think that he
both dare and would—that he may be raised
up for the work, and that the way is won
dertully prepared for him.”
Proceeding to discuss this point at some
length, the writer waxes warm and ex
claims :
“ Who can tell but that Mr. Spurgeon is
destined to be the Knibb of America? He
possesses many of the moral and physical
qualities of that noble man; those especially
which were his chief weapons in his holy
war against slavery—the courage to say
straight out what he thinks— what the im
pulse of the moment demand, and the elo
quence to raise the enthusiasm of the ma
ny, while the few, also, are compelled to
feel its homely power—the power of truth.
•When he arrives on the slave-darkened soil
of New York (for a black man is property
there as much as in New Orleans,) we can
but believe, that, like Paul at Athens, and
on Mars’ Hill, ‘ his spirit will be stirred
within him.’ Many a gentle hint wilj our
brother receive when he lands at New York.
Should he remonstrate in private, all kinds
of suggestions not to obstruct his usefulness
bv adverting to the dangerous subject will be
given; but we have little doubt that faith
and prayer will have braced bis spirit for
the solemn conflict,”
The Ignoramus who thus talks about “ the
slave-darkened soil of New York,” would
do well to accompany Mr. Spurgeon to the
United States. He may pick up an idea or
two here that never entered his head before.
One of thesp is tflat New York has ceased
to bp a profitable field for Exeter H 1 4-bo*
litionism—another is, that if it jj ouly 4bo-r
Ijtionism Mr. Spurge m is going to favor us
with, he had better stay at home; for we
have far smarter abo'itiorists here of our
own than he ever dare 1 to be. He ought
not ‘o bring hi< egj.s to so unprofi abP a
market. It wou’ n’t pay.—W. Y. Express.
ery magnifies daugt jr, ac a fog the :Un.
The Bind that warned lieiuoxar derived itt
hori lying influence from it# wft&t of a body.
GEORGIA CITIZEN,
L. F. W. ANDREWS, Editor.
MACON, MARCH 11,1859.
Macon Cotton Market.
We quote 9to 11J as extremes. The Ara
bia’s accounts were received here yesterday,
which have not changed the quotations.
Sales of the week in Liverpool, 42,000 bales,
opening with a decline of l-16th to l-Btli,
but closed at Jd advance, owing to pacific
assurances.
Christian Spiritualist.— No 11 of
this Bi-monthly, will be ready for delivery
on to-morrow evening. City subscribers
will please send to the Office for their copies.
ggy- The Panorama ok the Bible will
close in this city to-morrow, with an After
noon and Evening Exhibition.
l£*L>The Ravel Pantomimo and Ballet
Troupe will commence in Macon Monday.
Our Next Volume.— The Fifty Num
bers which we promised to publish, to make
up the 9tli volume of the Citizen, are com
plete with the present No., but we have de
termined to issue two more numbers, before
we commence the 10th volume, on the Ist
day of April. We thus give two weeks’ fur
ther notice to all our subscribers, who desire
to continue with us, that we intend to adopt
the CASH system, and rigidly carry out
the rule, in reference to all subscriptions at
a distance from Macon. We shall, there
fore, expect not only “ indemnity for the
past but security for the future,” to enable
us to effectually prosecute our labors, to our
own satisfaction and the benefit of our pat
rons.
Remember that Two Dollars cash will
pay for the next volume of the Citizen.—
Those in arrears will please send in suffi
cient to square up accounts, with two dol
lars additional for the 10th volume. Let us
start fair, friends, and we pledge ourselves
to renewed efforts to make the paper a wel
come visitor into every family into which it
may enter.
In addition to the Political and News de
partments, we design to have a Literary and
Agricultural Bureau, for the entertainment
of such of our subscribers as may desire in
formation, of a useful and improving char
acter, on these subjects. In short, we mean,
not to be laggard in the race of Journalism,
but to keep pace with the foremost, in all
thajt goes to make up a first class Family
Newspaper.
Visit to Atlanta, dec.
The Editor paid a flying visit to Atlanta,
Marietta, &c., this week, and noted some in
cidents that we intended to use in the pre
sent issue of our paper, but time and space
fail us. While in Atlanta, we called on our
friends of the “American” and “Intelli
gencer,” and were happy in finding that
peace again prevailed among the brother
hood of the press, after the late belligerent
manifestations. We expected to find the
atmosphere very sulphureous in its odor and
having a decided taste of “ villainous salt
petre,” but all was as. calm as a May morn
ing, with not a breath of angry wind to dis
turb the serenity of the sccene! May this
favorable condition of things be perpetual.
At Griffin, we called on all our brethren
of the press, but found none at home but
Brother Burr, of the “ Independent South”
and Bro. Buchanan, of the “ Empire State.”
The former seems to be flourishing, as he
deserves to be, for he is one of the most effi
cient and able Editors in the State. In po
litics, the “South” is a little ultra on some
points, but it is as true as steel to the inter
ests of the South, and may be relied on in
any emergency which may happen.
IScw Advertisements, Ac.
HTMrs. Damour invites the Ladies to ex
amine her rich stock of Millinery and Fan
cy Goods.
CSP” Bostick, Kein & Cos. offer a large lot
of Floor-matting, of every variety of width.
fgrStubbs & Hardy have opened a mart
for the purchase and sale of Negroes, near
the Passenger Depot. They are reliable
men.
K"Dr. Wm. F. Holt has returned to the
City, and offers his professional services to
the public. He is a worthy disciple of the
school Allopathic.
{fay* Prof. Comings, of the Reformed Med
ical College, will devote himself to the
practice of his profession. Office at the
Medical College.
jfag*Messrs. Prudden & Cos. call attention
to their new stock of rich and elegant styles
of Spring Dry Goods.
j(fay* Waterman, (formerly Denman &
Waterman,) is still catering to the taste of
the ladies, in every description of “ fashion
able, seasonable and desirable” Dry Goods,
Embroideries, &c., &c.
{fay*Messrs. Hardeman & Griffin give a
hint to some of their dilatory customers,
that had better be attended to in season, if
tht y are wise.
More Improvements. —Mr. James
B. Ayres is preparing to erect two fine
Store Houses on Mulberry Street on the
vacant lot between Dr. Strohecker’s and
John L. Jones’ Esq., which will close up
the gap in that locality.
j(fag*Mpssrfi. Schofield are now putting up
a large brick building on 6th Street, ad
jacent to the Passenger Depot, for their exten
sive Brass and Iron Foundry business.
faTMr. S. P. Dickinson is getting ready
to build anew Brick Ware House and
Stores to occupy the acre lot directly oppo
site Hardeman and Sparks’ Ware House, on
3d street. On each corner of the third
street front, ho will erect a large Store
House for Grocery purposes. The lot on
the rear and sides will be enclosed with a
brick wall, after the usual plan, for the sto
rage of Cotton. The Ware House, we learn,
will be occupied by Messrs. Woolfolk &
Coates, and one of the Grocery Houses,
by Messrs. Fears, Swanson & Cos.
JBgy*Mr. D. B. Woodruff has just erect
tod a Blind and Window Sash Factory, on
2d Stroet,
We hear, also, of other improvements in
contemplation, which serve to show that
Macon is still going ahead, and bids fair to
be the chief city of the Empire State of the
South.
Public Expenditures.
The Proclamation of the President of the
‘United States, sent to Congress on the 3d
inst., gives a deplorable picture of the con
dition of the United States Treasury. On
the 30th of June near eighty millions of-dol
lars of Treasury notes will have become due,
without any means to meet them, the funds
in hand or available not being more than
sufficient to meet the ordinary expenses of
government up to that period. Congress
was therefore peremptorily called on to pro
vide for the public exigency, before adjourn
ing. They have done so, we believe, though
we have not seen the details of the Bill.—
Only think of it reader. The General Gov
ernment is some eighty millions of dollar*
worn tfuui iwtUitfg, under tfu* ewneatie*}
Democratic Administration of Mister Jeans
Buchanan! Truly, the people will inquire
into these things and come to the rescue in
1860. Martin Van Buren’s administration
in 1836, which so outraged the public sense
for its corruption and extravagance, was a
pure and economical government, compar
ed to the present. Let the public plunder
ers, therefore, take warning, their time is
short.
“ Get out of the way, the people’s rising.”
Acknowledgment. —We are in
debted to the Faculty of the Southern Bo
tanico-Medical College of this city, for a
package of rare and excelsior fluids, which
they have been pleased to consign to our
care, as samples, we presume, of the gener
ous hygeine which is taught in the Institu
tion. If these be the medicamentums which
they prescribe for their patients, we should
not be surprised to hear that they are doing
a flourishing business in the way of pre
scription. Surely, the dose administered to
us was “ not bad to take”—and we revived
considerably under its sanative and recu
perative influence.
Latest from Europe.— The Steam
ship Jura that arrived at New York on the
6th, and the Europa that arrived on the 7th,
bringing Liverpool dates to the 18th and
19th ult., report an advance of one-eighth
penny on all grades of Cotton in that mar
ket. Sales of the week, 88,400 bales, of
which speculators took 15,000 and exporters
7,000. Quotations range from 6J to 7J.
Napoleon’s intentions are represented as
being certainly warlike.
Academy for tlie Blind. —The
new building which is now being covered
in, makes a fine appearance from a point of
observation on or near the line of Railroad
passing through the city. When finished,
it will be an ornament to the city and an
honor to the State, whose institution it is.
Star Crazing, &c.— The Telescope
and Microscope man is now stationed at
Boardman’s corner, offering, for a small fee,
to bring the moon and stars right down to
earth—also to magnify infinitesimal atoms of
animal creation into monster mastodons and
mammoth behemoths.
Lecture on Mornionisw.
We are requested to give notice that Miss
Helen Dresser, formerly a resident of
Salt Lake City, will deliver a lecture on
Mormonism, at Ralston’s Hall, in this city,
on to-morrow evening, (Saturday,) at 7}
o’clock. The Mobile Mercury has the fol
lowing notice of the objects of the lady in
lecturing on such a subject, and of the lec
ture itself:
“ Miss Dresser’s parents, some years since,
were inveigled from their homes to Salt
Lake City, whence after long enduring the
tyranny of Brigham Young’s government,
they escaped at the” sacrifice of all their
property. Since that time she has acquir
ed an education, and is now engaged in
laudable efforts for the purpose of recover
ing for her parents the old homestead which,
in an ill-starred hour, they were induced to
abandon. Her lecture was delivered in a
plain, unadorned style, which left no doubt
upon the minds of the audience respecting
its truthfulness. Upon the most prominent
and most revolting features of Mormon life
she touched lightly, and in a manner which
did more credit to her than if she had gone
into fuller details. The assembly testified
their appreciation of, and sympathy for, the
young lady, by a liberal contribution to
wards the object she has in view.”
A Fair Hit. —The Atlanta Intelligencer
having suggested to Senator Iverson that
he retire from the candidacy for re-election,
after his present term expires, (to give place
to Gov. Johnson,) on the ground that he
was elected by a compromise arrangement,
a writer in the Southern Confederacy very
significantly enquires, what will become of
Gov. Brown, on the same principle! The
latter was about the fifth choice of the Con
vention that nominated him, and hence
ought to retire also, if the Intelligencer’s
rule is allowed to work generally! With
the correspondent of the Confederacy, we
believe “ that it is not only the duty of the
party to return J udge Iverson to the Sen
ate, but justice to him as a patriot and states
man as he is, justice to Georgia, and justice
to the whole South demands it. He has tal
ents of superior order, moral courage pos
sessed by few others, and a devotion to the
interest of the South, that should place his
claims beyond cavil.”
Favoritism on the State Road.—
Mr. M. L. Roberts, a late conductor on the
State Road, is out in the Confederacy against
the authorities of the road, for dismissing
him from service, without cause; and while
he has his hand in, he proceeds to expose the
favoritism practised in the payment of full
wages to some employees who lost consider
able time, while a deduction was made in
tho wages of others, for the same cause, al
though much extra service had been per
formed, for w hich nothing was allowed.
Mr. Roberts concludes as follows :
“I have no doubt that I could receive
good pay, and get a good office if I had
relations or property to barter for it; but
as my largest claims are in the oth Congres
sional District, I cannot trade as Governor
Brown—he having sold out that District to
Judge Lumpkin for his influence in the
Gubernatorial election. Lumpkin is to give
his influence for Brown in the Gubernatorial
election, for a aeat in Congress in the year
1860. Will the citizens of the sth suffer
themselves bartered and sold, and only re
ceive such small recompense for it.
If it was necessary, I could mention all
the bargains for the above sale, but I will
give the contract and bargain of sale in my
next communication.”
All must take Position. —Under this cap
tion, the Democratic Platform , published at
Calhoun, Ga., writes a well tempered article,
advocating a repeal of the laws against the
foreign African slave trade —in which the
editor says “ the issue must come,” and “ ad
mits of no neutrality.” After stating that
he is for free trade in this African fabric, the
editor concludes thus:
“ That we of the South need more slaves,
needs no argument. And if it is right to
purchase them in Richmond, it is right to
purchase them in Africa. And that it is a
move to benefit the poor, none but the hope
lessly stupid, who have given the subject
close, unbiased and unprejudiced considera
tion, will doubt. Hence our position.”
California Curiosity—Borax Lake. —The
largest borax lake, nearly two miles in ex
tent, is situated about half a mile north of
the north shore of Clear Lake, and about five
miles from its foot, in Congressional town
ship, 18 north, and range 7, west of the
Mount Diablo meridian, and north 18 degrees
west, fifty-two miles distant from Napa City,
California. The water in this lake is so
strongly saturated or impregnated with bo
rax, that it cannot be held in solution, and
is, consequently, deposited in crystalized par
ticles, from very small to half a pound in
weight, in the mud below. From this lake,
one and a quarter miles north, over a high
ridge, is the noted snlphur bank, from twen
ty to thirty acres in extent, and supposed
to be thirty feet thick, sufficiently pure it is
said for the use of the mint at San Francis
co. The sulphur appears to be constantly
rising over the surface. Eighty rods west
from the sulphur, a hot spring arises in the
edge of an arm of Clear Lake; this spring is
strongly impregnated with boracic acid.—
Five or miles west of this, on tbe south
es Clew Mietta ben* Ufa,
Georgia News Items.
J&a?* Joseph W. Thomas, Esq., of Beal
wood, near Columbus, Ga., and formerly
Editor of the Columbus Inquirer, departed
this life on the 6th inst., after a lingering
illness of the Stomach Rnd lutestines. lie
was a gentleman of noble nature and gener
ous impulses.
The Rome Courier thus brings to
gether the present and the past, and not
without a point:
“The Allatoona Culvert fell down not
long ago, and now that the Pettit’s Creek
Bridge lias ‘caved,’ wo presume the public
will be willing to pardon us for those Know
frothing, lies’ we published in regard to these
very things, and various other leakages, on
the State Road, two years since.”
No less than nine Democratic Colo
nels have been named by their friends, as
aspirants for the honor of representing the
3d District of Georgia, in the next Congress;
to wit:—Cols. Lochrane, Bass, Speer, De
Graffenried and Whittle, of Bibb; Cols.
Mobley and King, of Harris; Col. Smith,
of Talbot, and Col. Smith, of Upson! Well,
this would make an interesting scrub race,
but there is one little difficulty in the way,
there is no vacancy in the District! At
least, we have not heard that our gallant
and able Representative, Col. R. P. Trippe,
has signified his intention to vacate!
BST Rev. Thomas Colbert, of “Wakulla,
Fla., formerly of Coweta Cos., Ga., was found
on the 28th ult., near the Albany Road, a
few miles north of Bainbridge, in a state of
insensibility. ’He had been throw from his
,ju ggv upon a pile of logs, fracturing his
left arm, and otherwise bruising him badly,
and it was leared, fatally, as he remained
unconscious till noon of the next dav.
The proprietor of the Augusta Con
stitutionalist proposes to publish anew Lit
erary and Agricultural Journal, to be called
the “Southern Field and Fireside”—W.
W. Mann, Esq., to be the Literary Editor,
and Dr. D. Lee the Agricultural Editor.
Price $2 per annum. This will undoubted
ly be a well conducted sheet, and worthy of
public patronage.
she Hon. Wm. H. Crawford has re
moved from Georgia to Arkansas. He is
one of the most brilliant men of the age, but
happening to be on the unpopular side of
politics, in his District, (the 2d,) he has not
been called to take part in the national
councils, to which he is so eminently fitted
by education and ability.
The lot of 436 negroes sold near Sa
vannah, last week, brought the round sum
of $300,205, being an average of $716 a
head”, one third cash and the balance in two
years, with interest.
JB£g““ The February No. of the “Fly
Leaf,” that gem of a lady’s paper from Col
lege Temple, Newnan, Ga., has just been
received, at this office.
It is rumored that Col. Charles H.
Hopkins, of Darien, will likely be the Amer
ican candidate for Congress in the Ist Dis
trict of Georgia, at the ensuing election in
October. W e know of no gentleman in that
district more worthy of the honor.
Interesting front Washington,
Washington, March 4.—Senate—Came
tod s resolution asking for a committee of
investigation as to malfeasance in contract
for printing Post-office blanks in the Rice
case, was adopted.
An extraordinary Executive session of the
Senate of the 36th Congress convened.—
Doolittle offered a resolution that the Presi
dent open negotiations with Central and
South America relative to free persons of
color.
The President did not sign the St. Clair
flats bill
The President says, if, after consulting the
Postmaster General, who is now ill, he finds
the Post-office Department entirely crippled
by the loss of appropriations, he will convene
Congress probably in June.
The Treasury Department has given or
ders to cut down all expenditures to the
lowest notch. The President vetoed the
resolution to deepen the bar at the mouth of
the Mississippi, but will probably direct the
Secretary to apply unexpended funds to that
purpose.
Robert S. Ould has been confirmed U. S.
Attorney for the District of Columbia, vice
Key.
Owing to certain points of punctilio hav
ing risen between the House and Senate,
regarding the raising of revenue and the in
crease of postage, all bills appropriating mo
ney for the land and ocean mail service the
coming year were lost Every other appro
priation bill was passed.
The bill authorizing the re-issuing of trea
sury notes was passed.
The bill to increase the rates of postage
and to abolish the franking privilege, was
finally lo:jt
Congress adjourned sine die at noon to
day. There is no probability of an extra
session.
A large number of the Republican mem
bers did not vote on the resolution of thanks
to the Speaker, on the ground that he did
not vote on a similar resolution for Speaker
Banks two years ago.
John Marron, Esq., Third Assistant Post
master General, died suddenly, in this city,
this morning.
Washington, March s. — There is now no
doubt that there will be a session of Con
gress called by the President, earlier than
the first Monday in December next; but
whether in advance of or directly after the
autumn elections for Representatives is” not
yet determined. Not only the Post-office
Department, but other branches of the pub
lic service absolutely require legislation be
fore the usual time of the meeting of Con
gress.
Until the thirty-sixth Congress passes the
Post-office appropriation bill, contractors,
route agents, eta, must wait for their pay.
No new routes can be formed, nor expiring
contracts over existing routes be renewed.
The Department is making every effort to
overcome the embarassment A Cabinet
council is called on the subject
Senate —When the door of the Executive
session was opened, Seward submitted a
resolution, asking the Secretary of War for
copies of all contracts for removing obstruc
tions at the mouth of the Mississippi river,
and the amounts expended, and to whom.
Laid over.
A. N. Tevely was confirmed 3d Assistant
Postmaster GeneraL
The Interior Department has certified to
lowa 223,000 acres of Land under the Con
gressional grant for Railroads.
Washington, March 7.—The Hon. Robert
L. McLean, of Maryland, has been confirm
ed by the Senate as Minister to Mexico, and
starts for Yera Cruz on Wednesday. He is
authorized to recognize the Juarez Govern
ment, if that government is able to sustain
itself against the Church party.
Death of Postmaster General. (
Washington, March B.—The Hon. Aaron .
Y. Brown, Postmaster General of the Unit- j
ed States, died to-day, of pneumonia. ,
The Senate to-day ratified the Casa-Herraa j
treaty, with M amendment lb*t 1h0.9
have not yet presented their claims
New Granada, may do so before Gr aDad
shall act finally on the subject.
Washington, March 9-The Senate now
m extra session, will adjourn to-nio’rr ‘
Joseph Holt, the present Commissioner
I atents, has been confirmed as p<w m
General, vice A. V, Brown dec’d. *
Hon. A. H. Stephens.
The frational Intelligencer , alluding t ot l
tender of a complimentary dinner to G
gia’s distinguished Representative in a*”
gress, Hoc. A. H. Stephens, says:
“The compliment which it is thu 3pro
edto pay to this eminent civilian, hasT
the manner in which it is conferred, the®
it of doing honor as well to those
whom it proceeds as to him who is
worthy objectof a demonstration whirt,
are confident, is as sincere as it is flatteria,
Mr. Stephens, no less by his habitual dis
nity and courtesy, than by his signal ability
and legislative experience, has conciliated!
a singular degree the confidence and re v :
of all with whom he has been called to !
sociate in the discharge of his public duti!
daring the long period of his service in the
National Legislature, and we are sure %
we do but echo the common sentiment of
his country, when we say that his W j t
drawal from public life, in what seems - ‘
mid career of his usefulness, will be U ni
sally considered a loss that cannot be easii
repaired.”
Latest News Items.
The Wanderer.— This famous craft, that
has excited so much noise in the world a-,
ring the last few months, has been condemn
ed as a slaver, and is advertised by theU S
Marshal to be sold at public outcry, in
city, on Saturday, the 12th inst Fast trav
ellers would do well to attend the sale.
Savannah Republican,
Virginia Politics.— Mr. Letcher, the dem
ocratic nominee for Governor, opens the
canvass at Woodstock on Monday next and
has invited Mr. Goggin, the opposition can
didate, to meet him in discussion. Mr. G
has already taken the stump.
Hon. T. B. King has returned to Bruns
wick, Georgia, and is now addressing public
audiences in that vicinity on the advantages
to be derived from a Southern Pacific M
road.
W. H. Fry, one of the New York Trib
une men, has been attempting to lecture on
“Music,” but his production—which it loti
him two hour3 and a quarter to deliver—
was an olla podrida of pedantry, critidsn:,
philosophy, anecdote, transcendentalism, pol
itics, paradox, humor, rhetorical, sopbomo
ric declamation, and much more besides.
The New Orleans Crescent of the 24th
February, says that there are eighty-fire
thousand bales of cotton in vessels that are
stuck in the mud or delayed in sailing by the
obstructions at the mouth of the river below
New Orleans.
The British Navy.—The London Tima
gives the following statement of the steam
navy of Great Britain: Line-of-battle ship),
51; blockships, 9; frigates, 28; corvettes,
13; smaller corvettes 8, mortar frigates 4;
floating batteries, 8; sloops, 27; gunvessels,
26; gunboats 163; total, 337.
A rolling mill is about to be established
in Elyton, Shelby county, Alabama, which
will furnish iron for the Northeast and South
west railroad.
In ancient days the receipt wa3: “Know
thyself.” In modern times it has been sup
planted by the far more fashionable maxim.
“Know thy neighbor and every thing about
• him.”
A census of Texas, just taken, show!
a population of 458,620. against 212,492 is
the year 1850.
The Methodist Church in Georgia.— The
Minutes o’s the Georgia Conference of tk
Methodist Church give the following state
ment of tie progress of the church: “Thu
net .increase in church members reported,
four thousand five hundred whites and two
thousand blacks ; total six thousand fin
hundred. There was raised for Sunday schooi
about three thousand dollars, for the Tract
Society about three thousand five hundre:
dollars, and for the Missionary Society, it
eluding the anniversary collection, aboct
twenty-three thousand dollars.”
Robert “Walsh, formerly Consul at Paw I
and for many years connected with the pres I
of this country as editor or correspondent I
died at Paris on the 7th of February, in the I
seventy-sixth year of his age.
Senator Seward it is said, had invited • I
large number of Republicans to dine wit I
him in Baltimore-immediately after the ad-1
journment of Congress, and it is understooJ I
to be a Presidential movement.
Tha last mail form Santa Fe, brings aw- I
py of stringent laws, passed by the Legsl*-1
ture of New Mexico, to protect proper"? I
in slaves, and totally prohibiting emanc!?* I
tion in that territory.
A destructive fire occured in Memphu- ■
Tenn., on the first inst, destroying I
half the square on Main Street and seven -1
the printing offices. Loss estimated ats- j I
000.
The Princess, one of the finest steamed --
the Missisippi river, exploded her boi* 1
few days since near Baton Rouge, t J
burned—4oo passengers on board anc - 1
half of them were drowned or missiDg
were mostly residents of Louisian*
sissippi.
Died suddenly on Thursday, March ‘
Newark, New Jersey, at the
his son-in-law, Wm. K. McDonald
Rev. James Carnahan, D.D., for many L*
the honored President of the College -■
Jersey, leaving but two children,
McDonald, of Newark, and Mrs.
of New York, the wife of Rev. ■
Doun, the Pastor of Spring Street Ca~ -
that city.
Death of an Old e
have to ansounce the death of Mr. h
S. Bulloch, an old and respected
died yesterday morning at an ad van I
Mr. B. was at one time Collector of I
of Savannah, but for a number o* I
has lived in retirement—Snw
1 0th.
J3F* One of the last acts ofCon I
to vote to Mr. Chapman, the p,;. I
contestant for the seat in the Hoo# I
egate from Nebraska, the sum o - I
sand dollars os mileage. Who coU gjpl
ford to contest the seat of a Deleg*!* j
resentative to Congress, at r ® t^ an |
is this “retrenchment”? Mr. Chap
Democrat I
J3F* It is a significant fact that I
ors of the leading Agricultural jS ,. I
the south—Dr. B. N. Cloud ° f , e gofidl
gomery Cotton Planter and Soi o I
and Dr. Daniel Lee, of the Sout (eJ of H
tor are both open and earnest 8 I
the re-opeaing of the jfrf* I