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resolved to allow as little time as possible to
elapse before I took my jewel out of Mr.
Walter’s reach. All went on smoothly, and
Mary promised me one Sunday evening to
talk the matter over with her mother, and
fix the day for our wedding the next time I
came.
“I was to have gone down on the Sun
day, but from some cause I now forget, I had
the Saturdiy at my disposal and resolved to
spend it with Mary. All that day I felt an
unusual oppression on my mind of some
thing that I could not shake off. As I near
ed the cottage my presentiment of dread in
creased. The door was open ; as I crossed
the vestibule I trembled so that I could hard
ly open the parlor door; but I did open it,
and there on the sofa again sat my Mary, not
this time with one of Walter's arms round
her, but both , and hers hung around his neck
with such an embrace as had never been be
stowed upon me. I resolved it should be no
optical illusion this time, so I walker! quiet
ly up, ard laid my hand upon his arm. At
my touch they started, colored violently and
separated. 4 Mr. Harbury,’ said I, ‘you are
“ ‘ Thank you,’ said he.
“'I shall not interfere, and have nothing
further to say.’
“ Then turning to Mary, T said, 4 Miss Col
lins, where is your mother ? ’ As she did
not move or attempt to call her, I rang the
bell, and desired the servant girl to request
her mistress to come. Mrs. Collins entered.
44 4 Madam.’ said I, ‘You and your daugh
ter have played a double game with me. It
goes no further. I renounce all my preten
sions to her in favor of this gentleman—her
more favored lover. I will send you all the
letters written by your daughter to me, and
I request that those she has of mine may be
returned. Ladies, I wish you, and you. Mr.
Harbury, a very good evening.’ I turned
aud left Rose Cottage for ever.
“For years after that evening a terrible
load lay at my heart —a load of love despis
ed, hopes blighted and energies wasted —
that seemed sometimes greater than I could
bear. Wherever I went thoughts of Mary
followed; she seemed ever present, so beau
ful, so treacherous —her very faithlessness
helped to render her more dear. I pitied her
so much—so young, so false ; with her won
drous beauty a thousand dangers threatened
her.
“It was five years after I had lost my
Mary—five prosperous years for me —that
one night a woman was brought into the
hospital of which I was chief physician.—
Hers was a very bad case of consumption,
prostration and weakness, arising from des
titution and starvation. The poor creature
was so emaciated and sunken, that the mo
ment I saw her I knew there was no hopes
of recovery, and directed all the attention of
the nurse to the tiny shivering infant in her
arms. The poor mother lay all night quite
unconscious of what was passing around.—
In the morning when I came to her bed in
the course of my rounds, there struck me as
being something in her face very familiar.—
I must have seen it long, long, ago, when
and where I could not recollect
44 As I took her hand she opened her eyes
and looked long and fixedly upon me; then
she exclaimed with fearful emphasis. ‘ Charles
Boulding, go away, go away ! Are you come
to haunt me? You torture me! Oh, go
away?*
“ But I could not go.
44 4 Mary is it ? Can it possibly be Mary
Collins?’
441 No,’ she shrieked, 4 1 am Mr. Harbury’s
wife; how dare you come to my bed side?
Away, away!’
“She would not be soothed, and talked
wildly and loudly until they brought her
ehild. Then, when she looked into its little
helpless face, and watched its feeble efforts
to come to her, she softened, and with all
the mother in her eyes, held out her arms
and pressed it to her heart. Perhaps the
fluttering, irregular pulsations of that heart
warned her how soon its beating would
cease for ever, for she turned to me, and with
a look so full of humility, of grief and love,
said, 4 Ah, Charles forgive me; I wronged
you cruelly, but I have been cruelly punish
ed. I married him, and my life has been
—O what a life! But it is over—l am dy
ing now —he knows not —cares not —deser-
ted—we might both die for him. But my
child, my little girl; you will not let her
starve ? Promise me, Charles.’
44 1 promised—l swore I would be a fath
er to the helpless infant lying by her side.
4 ‘ She seemed easy and happy after that,
and lay so still and passive, that when she
sank away from the calm earthly sleep into
the sleep of death, the change was so peace
ful, so gentle, that we who stood watching
round her bed perceived it not.
“I took the little girl home, and tried to
do my best to supply her dear lost mother’s
place. Tell me, Louisa, have I done so?’
44 O, uncle! ” cried Louisa, starting up and
throwing her arms round the doctor's neck,
“ I never knew—l never dreamed you were
not really my uncle. You have, indeed,
been father, mother, uncle—all to me.”
“And you, my darling—Mary’s child—
have come with your winning, childish love,
and saved me from despair, or living—worst
of all bves—a life of selfishness. Yes, Lou
isa, if your mother’s coquetry lacerated and
blighted my heart, it was you, her daughter,
who, by your love and obedience, restored
and healed it”
A Primer’s Christmas.
The Editor of the Sandy Hill Herald says
that on Christmas Eve an expressman de
livered to him an exceedingly mysterious
box. After paying the charges, 38 cents—
being ju9t the amount of money he had by
him—he proceeded with nervous hands to
examine its contents. He says: “ The cov
er is removed, when our eyes were glad
dened with the sight of a fine, fat turkey.—
The next thing brought to light was a bot
tle of champagne, and the next, and last, a
huge demijohn, marked ‘ O Tar.’ What in
the world is O Tar ? It must mean Old Tar;
but what in the world induced any one to
send us either old or new tarl We haven’t
got any wagon; and, as for getting up a
bonfire for the benefit of the ‘ Republicans,’
we are not in the humor. have it! We
will sell it to the livery-man. Called on him,
and he said he did not use tar, but grease on
his wagons. Brought it back to the office
in not very good humor, still wondering
why it was sent to us. Resolved finally to
draw the cork. Did so. It wasn't tar.—
Smelt of it Knew by the smell it wasn’t
tar. Tasted of it, and became fully satisfied
that it wasn’t tar. Tasted again—knew it
Wasn’t tar. Tasted again, and then drew
up a resolution, declaring in the most em
phahc terms, that it wasn’t tar. Tasted
?in, and then entered the resolution
•mong the regular proceedings, to make it
sure, that it wasn’t tar. Tasted again, and
felt very happy. Tasted again, and soon
b came very rich, and resolved to give our
C.ttage to a poor widow and purchase the
lagaat wwsion over (he wy~> d**t
our office to Jake, and buy out the New
York Ledger. Gave the “ devil” a S2O gold
piece for Christmas, and promised him a
round SIOO for New Year’s. Bought a
$5,300 pair of nags and a sleigh cush
ioned with scarlet velvet and decorated with
gold and pearls. Ordered from the South a
darkey driver and postman, whose faces
shone like a glass bottle under a direct sun
ray. Went over to the Union, and told
Fred to send every poor family in town a
barrel of Julian Mills’ flour, and nameless
other articles to render them comfortable.—
Bought all the wood in market, and ordered
it to be sent immediately to the aforesaid
poor families. Gave each of the clergymen
in town $1,000; adopted fourteen orphan
girls and fifteen orphan boys; run around
and paid all debts, (what printer on earth
ever done that ?) kissed (before we thought)
a pretty girl who called to wish us a merry
Christmas, (somebody looked unpleasant when
this happened ;) settled the matter by order
ing a SI,OOO shaw 5 , and a set of furs costing
an equal amount; put on our slippers, (im
agining that we heard music;) did hear mu
sic, for somebody came near being kicked
out of bed. Alas! we had only been dream
ing!”
Society in Washington.
The Washington correspondent of the New
York Daily News gives the following deplor
able picture of social affairs at the federal
capitol:
“ Many think that Sickles’ position is, af
ter all, much better than that of Mr. Butter
worth, inasmuch as the latter is considered
accessory after the fact, and without the jus
tification which the former unquestionably
supposed he had. I fear the incideuts pre
ceding this truly melancholy tragedy are but
an illustration of the demoralized condition
of fashionable society here. It is not an un
common thing Jor men and women holding
the very highest positions to be the subject
of scandal as well founded as that of Mrs.
Sickles and Key. Among the names thus
used are those of foieign ministers of the
highest class, the wives of Senators and Rep
resentatives, and others equally distinguish
ed of both sexes. It may be well said, that
if the elite of the Federal Capital are thus
shameless in their licentiousness, and so re
gardless ot the common decencies of even
outward morality, it is well for the country
that the basis of society is less cultivated and
more humble.”
Tli‘ Slave Trade*.
Tiie United States and England.—Dur
ing the recent discussion in Parliament in
relation to the right of search and the slave
trade, the Earl ot Malmesbury stated that
while he has received from our government
“ the strongest assurance that it will use its
best efforts to put down the slave trade with
American ships,” he has also received an
“ unofficial suggestion ” as to the proper
means,to be employed for that purpose.—
This suggestion he thus describes:
“It is that the treaty into which we have
entered with the United States, and which
binds us, with a v.ew to the suppression of
the slave trade, to have eighty guns on the
west coast of Africa, should be so modified
that, instead of our being obliged to have
eighty guns in that quarter, and America
being enabled to fulfil her part of the stipu
lation by maintaining there two cld sailing
frigates of forty guns, which are perfectly
useless in the suppression of the slave trade,
she should keep up a certain number of
steam vessels—ten steam gun-boats, mount
ing ten guns apiece—which would constitute
a much more effectual force than two sailing
frigates, which have hitherto been employed.
The government of the United States has,
moreover, intimated that inasmuch as the
slave trade on the coast of Cuba continues
on the increase, it is its intention to send a
Urge number of vessels to that coast for the
purpose of suppressing the traffic. Such has
been the spontaneous result upon the part of
the American government of the action of
Her Majesty’s ministers towards it upon this
subject.”
John 8011.
The special telegraphic correspondent of
the Cincinnati Go&etle pays the following
graceful tribute to the high public and pri
vate character, and patriotism and states
manship of Mr. Bell:
“ John Bell’s retirement from the Senate
is generally and sincerely regretted in all
political circles, where his high public and
private character was much appreciated.—
His loss, at this time, to the public councils
is serious, when so few statesmen of his
patriotism and capacity are left. As he is
only sixty-two years old, his return to pub
lic life in some high capacity is generally
anticipated.”
flit him again.
The New York Daily News thus hits oft
“Doesticks,” the correspondent of the New
York Tribune ; who wrote a long lying let
ter about a sale of some negroes at Savannah-
The News has no mercy on “Damphool.”
Putting his foot in .—“Doesticks,” says the
Philadelphia Argus has examined into the
wonders of Niagara—has experimented on
the intoxicating qualities of beer—has tried
the virtues of toriune telling and free-love
—and,tired of all these pleasures, he has at
tended a slave sale in Charleston to report
the particulars to the New York Tribune.—
If‘‘Doesticks” suffers himself to get mixed
up in the “nigger business” many persons
will be convinced that he and “Damphool”
are one and the same individual.
A Bold and Successful Operation. —On
Saturday, about 3J o’clock, a lad presented
a check to the Importers’ and Traders’ Bank,
drawn by a well-known firm, for $237.
The teller paid him in gold, which he put
p his pocket, and left the Bank. He had
scarcely crossed the street before he was
stopped by a man and accused of having
presented a forged check. The man damand
ed the return of the money, which the
lad, in the confusion of the moment, gave up,
supposing him to be an officer of the Bank-
The lad was then permitted to go. He im
mediately went and informed his employer,
and they at once called at the Bank to in
vestigate the matter, when they were in
formed that the lad had not been stopped
by any of the officers or employers of the
Bank, nor did any one connected with the
Bank know anything about the matter, ex
cept having received the check from the lad
and paid him the gold therefor. The man
who stopped the lad and got his money was.
of course, no where to be found.— N. Y.
Tribune.
Discracefcl —The last Quincy (Fla.) Re
publican says: “The worthy guardian, as
well as the community, was much alarmed
last Sunday evening, at the disappearance
of a little, weak-minded girl, about thirteen
our fourteen years of age, named Julia Fil
yaw. It was feared. she had strayed off,
and was lost, as she suddenly disappeared
from her sister, when taking a walk. It
has been since ascertained that she was
taken away by one George Wilder, and car
ried to Georgia where, it is reported, they
were married on Monday last. Her ex
treme youth, together with her weak mind,
is such as to make the act amount to almost
brutality, on the part of Wilder. Her for
tune, which is S2S,(XK), doubtless was the
cause of this disgraceful outrage. Much in
dignation exists in the community, against
Wilder. The whole affair is shameful.”
‘•I say, Tom, how is your wife“ She uint
no better, I vhank you, doctor.’’
LATER EROS EUROPE.
Cotton Advanced 1-16 /— Market Improved / /
New York, March 23.
The Steamship Nova Scotian arrived at
Portland to-day with Liverpool advices to
the 9th insL
The sales of the three days prior to her
departure were 30,009 bales.
The market had improved l-16d aod was
still advancing. The greatest improvement
occured on Midling qualities.
Breadstufks were declining.
Consols had advanced and were quoted
at 96*.
Senator Toombs and the Navy Yards—
Senator Toombs, of Georgia, in his recent
speech on the revenue questions, said :
Your appropriations for navy yards have
gone to the building of houses for officers
and making of flower pots and all kinds of
things, at a cost of $2,000,000; and it will
be no less as long as you will pay it, but it
will go up to $4 000 000, if you do not stop
it There are $2,000,000 that you have no
need for at al l . You have 8000 sailors to
man your navy. You have not increased
them of late years; and you have now 8000
men in your navy yards to help them—civil
ians. You have carried their number up
from 5000 to 8000. You have eight nav y
yards. England has over 550 ships, and she
has two navy yards. You have eight, con
veniently located all about the country,
and it is cause of reproach to good
democrats, for the enemy say we keep,
people there to cheat them in elections
and as God is my judge lam afraid there
is something in it
Electioneering. —The New Orleans Pi
cayune, in some observations on the science
of electioneering, says that an acknowledged
necessity in this science, is to cultivate the
good wishes of the ladies, in order to enlist
their lords. But the Hon. O. R. Singleton,
of Miss., is entitled to a premium for carry
ing the present mode one step in advance of
all of his competitors. A few days since he
addressed a package of garden seeds to the
wife of one of the bachelor editors of Vicks
burg, to which the old “solitary” returns
the following humorous reply:
“ We have no doubt, should we ever be
so fortunate as to have a 44 Mrs. that
she will be duly grateful to Mr. Singleton. —
We have always heard that Singleton was
some in a canvass, but his playing the atten
tive to our wife, before we have been able
to get within gun shot of that necessary or
nament, is about the “ tallest ” specimen of
electioneering we ever heard of! It beats
the “ flush times ” to death.
P. S.—The seed awaits the order of the
owner.
Injurious Effects of Excessive Kissing.
—We fear that the good ladies of the Park
Street Church in Boston have been doing a
great injury to the churches of the land.—
We see it stated that when their excellent
pastor departed for Europe a few days ago,
they all kissed him, and some of them thus
testified their affection two or three times.
Now we do not wish to speak as though
we desired to restrict in the least the liber
ties of the Ladies, when they are thus dis
posed to treat one of our own sex, nor as if
we were filled with malicious envy cf a gen
tleman whom we esteem so highly as the
Rev. Mr. Stone. But we beg leave to in
quire whether, if this touching mode of bid
ding farewell to the pastor becomes general,
it will not do more to increase the number of
clerical invalids, and to empty our pulpits,
than even the arch-enemy of preachers, the
bronchitis. We confess that we fear such a
result, if our respected friends of the pulpit
share in any degree the weakness to which
we editors plead guilty. A modern writer
has said—
“ When sermons grow dull, and homilies tame,
tip steps Bronchitis and takes all the blame.”
Will we not have to alter last line,
and for 44 Bronchitis ” write “ the ladies.”—
Prov. Jour.
A Lump oe Gold. —A lump of gold weigh
ing forty-five ounces, and worth $775, was
taken out on Sunday, December 15th, from
Mehan & Co.’s claim, in Illinois canon, just
above Picker’s Flat, Sierra County, Califor
nia. We have known amounts of gold not
in quartz lump, but in hard dollars, drawn
out of some of our places nearer home, of a
much larger figure.
A few weeks since, a gentleman in St.
Louis dug up $30,000; another, in Philadel
phia the same sum ; another, in New York,
$20,000; and many others could be men
tioned. The mines from which these large
amounts were taken was the celebrated lot
teries of Wood, Eddy & Cos., Wilmington,
Del., and Augusta, Ga. By sending a $lO,
$5, or $2-1-2, to their address, at either
place, you secure an interest in a claim that
has yielded a better return, the past year, to
speculator’s, than Pike’s Peak, or many oth
er celebrated gold mines.— N. Y. Leader.
—ln Boston, at the Winthrop House, on
the 2d, a Mr. Towne was married to Miss
Helen A. Scripiure. A pious step, this of
Mr. Towne’s; laying the Scripture to heart!
—The Swedes have a peculiar mode of
saying grace. The company stand around
the table, and at some considerable distance
from it the gentlemen, for the most part, if
not always, with their hands clasped, and
held on their breasts. Profound silence en
sues qierhaps for a minute, or it may be two,
when the ladies drop a courtesy, and the
gentlemen make a bow, and then the compa
ny take their seats. After dinner there is
sometimes an addition, one of the party stri
king up a verse of some well-known hymn,
when all join in singing it.
—A lady, at her marriage, requested the
clergyman to give out to be sung by the
choir the hymn commencing:
“ This is the way I long have sought,
And mourned because I found it not.”
—“At Mayer’s boarding house, on the
East side of Second street, between Poplar
and Almond, an unusual merry wedding
came off on Tuesday night and the dance
was prolonged till past one in the morning.
The bride and groom then repaired to their
apartment, but— horrible visa ! —the bed and
beddiog had been sacrilegiously stolen from
the nuptial bedstead! Some vindictive
wretch had gained felonious ingress at the
rear, and effected a robbery uuparalleled in
the history of matrimony. It is conjectured
that so felt vengeance could only have heen
devised and executed by some disappointed
lover of the bride.
“ ‘Lives there a man with soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath said,’
The scamp who stole that bridal bed
Deserves to live and die unwed,
With maidens old to punch his head!”
A Fact. —Some editor, in speaking
of the bad literature of the present day,
says; You may read many of the eas
tern weeklies for a year and scarcely
find a fact which will make you wiser or
better —all fiction, romances, lies, vel
vet, and feathers, little fiends equipped
in smiles and crinoline, big scoundrels
in tqauletts and with a love of a mous
tache, turning the hearts of simpering
maidens, the every day history of life
ingeniously belied and genteely outrag
ged!—and yet it always ends most
beautifully. Hundreds of persons who
think they can’t afford a home paper, in
the course of a year, spend three or four
times the amount in trash.
To do good is of the very nature of God, as
it is the nature pi fire te warm, and of light to
, thine.
GEORGIA CITIZEN.
L. F. W. ANDREWS, Editor.
MACON, MARCH 25,1859.
To Correspondent*.
William Whatley—Jones Cos., your
letter containing “old song,” and money,
received. Thank you.
mistake. Our cotemporary of the
“ Nineteenth Century ” is mistaken in say
ing that the “Citizen” is the “ Organ of the
Spiritual Association of Macon.” The “Cit
izen” is the Editor’s own organ, but if any
one desires to investigate Spiritualism, they
can be aided perhaps in their investigations,
by subscribing for the “Christian Spiritual
ist,” which is devoted to that subject, in all
its bearings.
UPWARD AND ONWARD!
“ Tempora mutantur et nos mutamur illis.”
The Proprietor of the Georgia Citizen be
ing determined to keep pace with the march
of improvement, everywhere indicated, in
and around this central city of Georgia, lias
the honor to announce to the public at large,
as well as to his numerous friends and cus
tomers, the following programme of busi
ness operations for the year commencing
with the Ist of April, 1859.
On Friday next, the Ist day of April, he
will commence the 10th volume of
THE WEEKLY GEORGIA CITIZEN,
in a much improved style, both of matter
and manner, making it, in all respects, a
first-class Southern Family Journal, devoted
to Miscellany, Education, Science, Art, Pol
itics, General Literature and News. This
edition will not contain more than one page
of Advertisements, and will be designed
chiefly for country circulation. Jfeg* Price,
Two Dollars per Annum, Cash in Advance.
On Monday, April 4, will be issued the
first number of the
SEmi-WEEKLY CITIZEN,
which will be published, on a sheet 24 by 36
inches, and devoted mainly to the interests
of the commercial community of Macon.—
In this edition, our advertising friends can
have the privilege of as much display as
they desire, and can contract, on the most
favorable and liberal terms, by the column,
half column y or less space of our paper. As
this edition is designed for circulation in
Macon and adjacent towns connected by
Daily, Semi-Weekly or Tri-Weekly Mail
Routes, wc hope that all of this class of our
present subscribers will patronize the Semi-
Weekly Citizen, in lieu of the Weekly. It
will be published at Three Dollars per Annum,
Cash in Advance, or Four Dollars, if not so
paid.
Advertisements published in the Semi-
Weekly edition will be inserted at least once
if desired, in the Weekly edition, without
extra charge. The rates of Advertising in
the Semi-Weekly will be only 50 per cent.
advance on the Weekly rates, in Macon.—
For example, a Card which is chargeable at
the rate of $lO per annum in the Weekly
paper, will be charged sls for a year’s in
sertion in the Semi-Weekly, with the privi
lege of insertion occasionally in the ‘Weekly
edition. ,
The Proprietor reserves to himself the
right of changing the Semi-Weekly to a
Daily, on the opening of the next business
season.
To both the above-described editions of
the Citizen, the undersigned respectfully so
licits a liberal patronage, from the public
spirited people of Macon and surrounding
country. Thankful for the many favors re
ceived, during the last fourteen years, he
feels stimulated to renewed exertions to de
serve a continuance of their confidence and
support, in the time to come.
L. F. W. ANDREWS.
Important and Interesting.
Prof. 8. B. Brittan has arrived in the
city, and commenced a Course of Lectures
on various subjects connected with the Spir
itual Philosophy. His Introductory Lec
ture will take place to-night, on the Natu
ral Evidences of Immortal Life, and Indi
vidual Consciousness after the Destruction of
the Body. The following is the programme
of subjects and order of their delivery, sub
ject, however, to any change which circum
stances may make necessary:
Second Lecture : Saturday evening, 26th
inst., at 7J| o’clock.
Subject. The so-called Scientific Theories
and hypotheses, founded on Electricity,
Magnetism, Animal Magnetism, Psycholo
gy, Clairvoyance, Od Force, etc., examined
and refuted.
Third Lecture: Sunday morning, 27th,
at 10J o’clock.
Subject. The Laws and Relations of Mind
and Matter, and the connection between the
Natural and Spiritual Worlds.
Fourth Lecture: Sunday evening, 27th,
at 1 past 7.
Subject. Spiritualism of the Bible.
Fifth Lecture : Monday evening, 28tli.
Subject. Christianity a Living Spiritual
Religion; the Church a body from which
the Soul has departed.
Sixth Lecture: Tuesday evening, 29tli.
Subject. Relations of the Soul to the
Body, comprehending the philosophy of Vi
tal Motion and the influence of Thought and
Feeling on the organic conditions and func
tions.
Seventh Lecture: Wednesday evening,
30th.
Subject. Facts of Spiritualism and Laws
of Mediumship.
Eighth Lecture : Thursday evening,
31st.
Subject. Theological and Popular Objec
tions to the Spiritual Idea of Modern Mys
teries Reviewed and Exploded.
Ninth Lecture ; Sunday morning, Ap’l
3d.
Subject. Philosophy of Worship; or the
Spiritual idea of True Worship.
Tenth Lecture: Sundav evening, April
3d.
Subject. Nature and Sources of Inspira
tion.
Tickets of Admission 25 cents each, ex
cept on Sundays, when a collection will be
taken up to defray expenses of the Hall.
Vital Electricity, &c.— From an
advertisement in our paper, to-day, it will
be seen that Prof. Brittan proposes to give
a course of Private Instruction to the La
dies and Gentlemen of Macon, on the Phi
losophy of Health and Disease, including
Vital Electricity, Electro-Physiology, Ani
mal Magnetism, Psychology, Mental Tele
graphing, &c., provided a sufficient number
of names are enrolled by the middle of next
week to form a respectable class. The La
dies will be instructed separately, and at the
private residence of any lady that may be
selected by themselves. Medical gentlemen
and others interested in the subject of health
and disease, will, we are sure, from the tes
timonials we have seen of the professional
skill of Mr. Brittan, find much valuable in
struction in the course of Lessons taught bv
him. The scientific application of Electrici
ty and Magnetism as remedial agents has
often resulted in great good to many dis
eased persons, who have been pronounced
incurable by other means, and should induce
investigation, at least, by those who desire
to improve upon the old fogy modes of cur
ing “the ills to which flesh is heir.”
Look. Out !—Altered Bank hills are
in circulation—one dollar hills changed to
fives, on the Bank of Savannah and the
Bank of Columbus.
New Advertisements.
Messrs. Bearden & Gaines have open
ed anew style of business, on Triangular
Block, in the old store of W. B. Ferry &
Cos., where they will accommodate them
selves to the understandings of the public.
Next week, Van Amburgh’s great
Broadway Menagerie will be in town, when
a real live elephant an'd lots of other ani
mals from the four quarters of the globe can
be seen. This is said to be a fine exhibition
of wild and tame beasts, birds, &c.
ftajp The Panorama of Kane’s Artie Voy
ages will remain only this week. To-night
and to-morrow afternoon and evening will
be the last chances to see this beautiful
Painting.
Geo. W. Price is again on hand,
with a splendid stock of staple and fancy
Dry Goods. The Ladies all know with what
excellent taste this gentleman always caters
for their gratification.
I J - Johnston & Cos., have added to
their brilliant assortment of Jewelry, a large
stock of silver Forks and Spoons, 925-lOOOths
fine. 1 hat is as good as we ever expect to
need!
E. Winship presents his respects to
the gentlemen and begs leave to show them
his beautiful stock of new Spring Clothing.
ty Nathan Weed takes delight in let
ting his pustomers (and their name is le
gion) know that he is ever anxious to supply
them with all needful goods in his line. He
has kindly presented us with a package of
the celebrated Hungarian Grass seed, which
is an article our planters will do well to ex
periment upoia It is said to be the very
thing for this latitude.
The Sons of Temperance have a card
in our “special notice” column, which we
commend to the attention of all philanthro
pists.
The Ladies who desire to get a “ duck
of a bonnet,” or any other article of person
al adornment will bo apt to find what they
want at Mrs. Damour’s, Mrs. Howland’s,
Mrs. Dessau’s, and Mrs. Audoine’s.
6®* If any body wishes to try his luck in
a Lottery, let him give Shivers’ lucky office
a showing.
Another Homicide. —A correspon
dent of the Savannah Republican reports
the death, at Jacksonville, Fla., on the 19tli
inst., of J. L. Gregg, Esq., Chief Engineer
of the Florida, Atlantic and Guif Railroad
Company, by the hands of Alfred Sears.—
He was deliberately shot.
“Dumb as a Sheep before his
Shearers.”
The Editor of the “Telegraph” is dumb in
reference to the call we made upon him, last
week, as to whether he intended to endorse
the sentiments of a late extract in his paper,
from the New York Herald, and make a
local application of the offensive and libel
lous strictures therein contained. He ig
nores the subject, entirely, in his issue of
this week, and hence we infer that ho has
not the magnanimity to confess his error
and retract the damnable innuendoes which
he has circulated against a respectable class
of his fellow-citizens. We therefore feel
justified in holding up the Editor as an un
principled libeller, for the finger of public
scorn to point at. Let him beware how he
further tramples upon the most sacred feel
ings and rights of those who have never
done him harm, but on the contrary, good.
Even the expansive charity and patience of
the Christian Spiritualists of Macon may
not always be submissive under such unpro
voked and malicious assaults.
Anecdotes of Love. By Lola
Montjcz. —This makes three books by the
eccentric and gifted Countess of Landsfeldt,
which have appeared in the order of the
three degrees of comparison, of good, better,
best. These romantic and surprising anec
dotes really contain all of the most tragic
and comic events connected with the history
of the tender passion among all nations and
in all ages of the world. It is precisely the
kind of book which a man will find it im
possible to relinquish until he has read it
through, from the first to the last chapter.
And besides the exciting love-histories em
braced in this volume, it really contains a
great deal of valuable historic lore, which is
not to be found except by reading through
interminable volumes. The work is hand
somely bound in Cloth. Price One Dollar.
For sale at Richards’.
11l a. Slew. —The Democracy of Ful
ton are split in twain—the regulars being
awtfi-Brown, and the schismatics being for
the Governor. The “Confederacy” thus
hoists the standard of rebellion against the
“ powers that be”:
“The Democracy of Fulton county are
opposed to Joseph £. Brown, believing him
a tyrant of the Tom Thumb edition, of in
ferior capacity, an inflated coxcomb, a vin
dictive ass, a conceited upstart, wholly de
void of sympathy, fellow-feeling, and guilty
of a more corrupt political bargain and sale.”
Mo Extra Session.
Washington, March 21.—The govern
mental dispatch, sent off this morning to
meet the California steamer which leaves
New York to day, states that no extra ses
sion of Congress will be called.
The course which will be pursued by the
administration in relation to postal service
will probably be to pass the accounts and
issue treasury warrants as usual, in the place
of certificates as heretofore announced.
Lost. —Through the speech of Mr. Toombs,
evidently delivered to kill time, and thus
prevent action of the Senate on the report of
the conference committee on the postoffice
appropriation bill until the session closed,
that measure has failed to become a law. It
embraced appropriations to the amount of an
aggregate of $20,000,000; three millions
to cover deficiencies, the balance for the
cost of the service in the fiscal year. The
enactment of the bill in some shape was a
measure of as much vital necessity to the
operations of the Government as that of any
other to be conceived of. Its failure to be
come a law may make an extra session im
peratively necessary. In undertaking thus
to set his own judgment above and beyond
that a majority of the Senate, to the point of
preventing the executive branch of the Gov
ernment from paying out a dollaron account
of postal expenses, and thus destroying its
postal services,Mr. Toombs has assumed a res
ponsibility which seems to us toemprace con
clusive evidence that his impracticability as a
legislator has rendered his official connection
with public affairs most disastrous to the
public interest.
The bill refered to was the only regular
appropriation bill that did not become a law.
If whington
The Homicide of Col. Bond—
The Magistrates’ Court which sat last week,
in Albany, on the case of the State vs. La
den Brown, for killing Col. Bond, after a
patient examination of the testimony, and
argument by able counsel, decided in favor
of the discharge of the prisoner, who, on
being released from custodv, immediately
left Albany and passed through Macon, on
his way Northward. The following is the
testimony of Wm. J. Sellers, the only eye
witness of the tragedy, as given in the Al
bany Patriot, extra, of Saturday last:
“ Witness was in Walker's field and Brown
was in Bell s field ; saw a man coming, who
Brown said was Col. Bond. Bond rode near
and prisoner said “ good morning Colonel.”
Bond said “ good morning ; you are the ras
cal that whipped my negro”—striking Brown
with a stick ; Bond struck the prisoner the
second time with a stick, when prisoner
either jumped or fell from his horse on the
opposite side. Bond jumped from his horse
and ran to prisoner, caught Brown by the
shoulder, jerked him down and struck him
with his stick—Brown endeavoring to rise.
Whilst on one knee and one foot shot Bond.
Brown, when Bond struck him the third
time, called to witness “to come over
there; ” Bond said “ Stay where you are,
this is our own difficulty; we will settle it.”
Bond, after being shot, again struck
Brown with his stick; Brown jerked loose
and ran off; Brown ran some ten steps
down the fence, jumped the fence, ran some
fifteen steps into Walker’s field. Bond fol
lowed to where Brown crossed the fence
and shot at Brown. Bond then turned and
walked nearly to witness, and said, “ I am
a dead man,” and fell—rose and fell again.
By that time Bell's negroes (ploughing near)
came to him; witness then left Bond in care
of Bell’s negroes. Witness had never heard
of any previous difficulty between the par
ties; witness has lived with Walker since
the beginning of last year; witness and
prisoner had been together some five min
utes. Bond was some two hundred yards
distant when seen by witness; witness and
Brown were conversing about Walker’s new
ground, when prisoner said “ it is Col. Bond.”
Witness said, “he is a man that I know
when I see, but have no acquaintance with,
I suppose he has been your master’’—(allud
ing to Brown having overseed for Bond,
and speaking jocularly). Prisoner did not
say anything to induce witness to think that
a difficulty was expected. Bond rode with
in a few yards—three or four cotton rows of
Brown, on Brown’s right; Brown turned
his horse facing Bond; Bond got off be
tween the horses; Bond and Brown both
fell when Bond jerked Brown down; Brown
fell upon his knees and Bond upon his knees,
head to head ; Bond rather over Brown.—
Bond recovered first. Prisoner drew his
pistol from behind him with his left hand.
Bond’s stick was a small hickory stick, some
two feet long, not such a stick as was likely
to produce death. If a man had been killed
with such a stick, witness would have regard
ed it as an accident.
When Bond said, “ You are the rascal
that whipped my negro,” Brown did not de
ny it—he made no reply ; they were some
two or three cotton rows apart, when salu
tations were passed. Bond did not stop;
and as he rode up by the side of Brown,
Bond said, “ You are the rascal that whip
ped my negro,” and then struck him. The
difficulty occurred in Dougherty county in
Mr. Bell’s field, on the 12th inst., about eight
o’clock in the morning.
Witness thinks the stick exhibited is the
stick which Bond had; is not certain.—
When Bond struck the third blow he had hold
of Brown with his left hand ; thinks that in
that position a hard blow could not be struck.
As Brown jumped or fell from his horse, his
hat was about half off.
Tried before Justices G. M. Duncan, M.
Brinson, W. W. Kendrick, and A. J. Ma
carthy.
Warren & Warren—Clark & Lippitt—Ly
on, Irvin & Butler, for the State. Vason &
Davis—Slaughter & Ely, for the defence.
From the Nineteenth Century.
Official Report
Os the Proceedings of the Fort Valley and Bruns
wick Rail Road Meeting, held at Fort Valley,
March 16 th, 1859.
Pursuant to the adjournment of the meeting
held in Perry, February 19th, a large assem
blage of citizens from Houston and adjoining
counties met to-day, in Armory Hall, music
from the Perry Brass Band being the signal for
order, which was called by placing Dr. E. J-
McGehee in the chair, and requesting Dr. W. I
Greene to act as Secretary.
The object of the meeting was gracefully ex
plained by the chairman, in a few pointed re
marks, after which, Reports from Committees
were called.
J. J. Lowry, Esq., reported that the Pulas
ki subscription had reached $88,000: bethought
that Wilcox had subscribed $21,0000r522,000.
Col. Cobb reported that he had corresponded
with a prominent citizen of the city of Colum
bus, and that he in answer to the same, had en
deavored to throw a damper upon the enter
prize. Dr. McGehee stated that he had in hie
possession an answer to Major Howard’s letter,
and on motion it was ordered that said manu
scripts be read.
On motion it was resolved that the commu
nication between Dr. McGehee and Major How
ard, of Columbus, be published in the “Nine
teenth Century, Columbus Sun, Empire State,
Pulaski Times and all the papers friendly to
the enterprize.”
The following Resolutions were then offered
by Col. Cobb :
1. Resolved, That Dempsey Brown, Esq.,
Sam’l Felder, Esq., Rev. Benjamin F. Tharpe,
Col. Wm. J. Anderson, P. F. D. Scarborough,
Esq., J. J. Lowry, Esq., Seaborn M. Manning,
Simon Merrit, Esq., Hon. Norman McDuffie,
James Wilcox, Col. H. Cobb, and Dr. McGehee,
be, and they are hereby appointed a General
Committee, and are authorized to exercise the
following powers:
1. That six of their number shall form a
quorum to do business.
2d. To fill all vacancies which may occur
in their own body, and in either, or all ol the
Committees heretofore organized.
3d. To meet and sit at such times and pla
ces as the interest which they represent may
require.
4th. To make such collections of funds, and
raise subscriptions, as the interests of the pro
posed Road require.
sth. To have surveyed as early as practica
ble the line of the proposed Road, from the
town of Fort Valley to the initial point on the
Atlantic and Gulf Road.
Gth. To call mass meetings of the people, at
such times and places, as they may deem best.
7 th. To cause such publications of proced
ings in the “Nineteenth Century,” the Pulaski
Times, and the Brunswick Herald, and other
newspapers as they may deem useful and
proper.
Bth. To receive the Reports of Committees,
and to publish from time to time, euoh portions
or all of said Reports, as they may deem prop
er.
9 th. And generally, to do and perform all
needful and necessary acts and things connec
ted with the proposed Road, and the object of
their appointment.
2. Resolved, That the respective Committees
hereto'ore appointed, be and they are hereby
requested, to report (from time to time as they
may deem proper, anything connected with their
appointment, whch they may deem useful) to
the General Committee.
3. Resolved , That the individual members of
the Committee appointed to receive subscrip
tions for the erection of the proposed Road, be
and they are hereby earnestly requested to urge
their subscriptions to the utranst of their pow
er and ability, and to report their progress and
svccess to the General Committee, as early as
practicable.
4. Resolved, That a mass meeting of the
people be called in thp town of Hawkinsville.
on the Second Wednesday i Msy next, and
when this meeting adjourns, it adjourn to meet
at that time and place,
On motion of Dr W, A. Mathews*
Resolved, That the thanks of this meeting are
hereby tendered to the Perry Brass Band for
their generous attendance, for the tasteful aud
most agreeable music which they have to-day
afforded this meeting and that a copy of this res
olution be forwarded to them by the secretary.
C> motion:
Resolved, That the proeeeeinga of this meet
the “SwwwA Century,’’
Pulaski Times, and other papers friendly to the
enterprize.
After which the meeting adjourned to meet
nt Hawkinsville on the Second Wednesday in
May next.
E. J. McGEHEE, Chairman.
W. L Green, Secretary.
VARIETIES.
Shooting Akkra r.—On Saturday after
noon last, the quiet of our streets was dis
turbed by the rapid discharges of a pistol.
A difficulty had, from some cause, sprung
up between the Deputy Marshall (Mr. A. D.
McDonald) and Mr. A arborough, in which
McDonald fired at \ arbbrough several times
with a revolver, one of the shots taking ef
fect, and inflicting a painful though not
dangerous flesh wound. The parties were
brought up before hi honor, the Intendant,
on Monday, and fined. —[Athens Watchman.
—The Weldon (N. C.) Patriot, says that
two thousand negroes passed through that
place during the month of January, and not
less than fifty thousand, it is informed, went
into the cotton regions during the last year.
—A young man, Joseph Wright,- died a
shocking death from hydrophobia, in Cincin
nati, a few days ago.
—Maj. Wm. Swan, of Knqjville, Tenn.,
one of the oldest and most respected citizens
of that place, died on the Kith inst.
—lrish potatoes in Savannah, are nomin
ally selling at one dollar per barrel, in sales
of large quantities.
—Hon. Wm. L. Yancey has gone to Flor
ida, his health not being as good as it was a
month since. His friends hope that the
mild climate of the “land of flowers ” will
benefit him.
—On the 24th ult., at Kingston, N. C.,
Messrs. J. G. & G. Washington sold by auc
tion 46 negroes for $42,960—an average of
$933 61. The sale was partly for cash and
partly on six month’s time. The negroes
were of all ages, between six months and
46 years. This is one of the best sales yet
reported, and it shows the great demand up
on Virginia and North Carolina for negroes
for the cotton Spates has made their value
there as much—for it is clear that negroes
there are not worth any such prices as field
hands. The Federal prohibitory laws oper
ate as a strong protection to slave-selling
States, but who pays the bounty?—Colum
bus Enquirer.
—The family of Rev. Dr. Lyman Beecher,
residing in different parts of the country,
came together during the early part of this
week, at the house of Rev. Henry Ward
Beecher, in Brooklyn, for a family re-union
and visit to their father, who has now reach
ed the 84th year of his age. All the child
ren were present except James, who is now
in China, engaged as Chaplain to the Sea
men at Hong Kong. Their names, in the
order of their ages, are as follows: Miss
Catherine Beecher, of Hartford; Rev. Wil
liam Henry Beecher, of North Brookfield,
Mass.; Rev, Dr. Edward Beecher, of Gales
burg, 111.; Mrs. Mary F. Perkins, of Hart
ford, Ct; Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, of
Andover, Mass.; Rev. Henry Ward Beech
er, of Brooklyn; Rev. Charles Beecher, of
Georgetown, Mass., Mrs. Isabella Hooker,
of Hartford, Ct.; Rev. Thomas El Beecher,
of Elmira, N. Y. The absent son, Rev.
Janies C. Beecher, is the youngest of the
children. So large a family gathering, oc
curring at a period after the youngest has
reached the prime of life, the original circle
at the same time remaining so unbroken, is
seldom witnessed in any family. The health
of Dr. Beecher is still good.— lndependent.
—Vespasian Ellis died in Washington
City, of dropsy, on the 15th inst. He was
known as a politician; and also as the foun
der of the “ American Organ,” about one of
the first “American” newspapers established
in the country.
—The burning of the residence of Capt.
Henry C. Davis, of Ridgeway, in Fairfield
District, on the Charlotte and South Carolina
Railroad, gave occasion for a proof of fidel
ity and devotion of a servant. The Winns
boro’ Register says : “ Capt. Davis had in
his possession papers, bonds, &c., of much
value, which we are pleased to add were
saved, and through the instrumentality of a
faithful servant. The latter caused himself
to be secured around the body by a rope,
and suffered himself to be let down, during
a temporary suspension of the fire, we pre
sume, through an opening in the roof, which
had fallen in. Reaching the place of deposit,
he broke open the drawer? containing the
papers, and rescuing them from the fury of
the element, returned safely.”
—The Rev. D. G. Lett, pastor of the Af
rican Church in Chicago, was so intimate
with the wife of Dr. Covey, who, as well as
her husband, was a member of his church,
as to excite that husband’s jealousy. Last
Wednesday, finding the two tete-a-tete in his
parlor he ran for a pistol—leveled it at the
pastor’s heart, and, “ with an air worthy of
a policeman,” missed him—missed him at
least twice. The pastor lied, but subsequent
ly all parties were arrested. The lady’s story
is, that the conversation was on spiritual
things. The colored population are excited.
—The pulpit of Christie Chapel, Cincin
nati, was occupied, on Sunday evening, by
Mrs. Mary Jane Phillips. The lady is well
known in the religious literature of the West,
having written a number of Sabbath School
books, and contributed largely to the period
icals of the Methodist Episcopal Church.—
Recently her eyesight has begun to fail her,
and she is now nearly blind. She is noted
for her personal piety, and devotion to the
church, and being no longer able to contri
bute with her pen to that holy cause, she
occupies the pulpit, when permitted.
—The Little Rock (Arkansas) Gazette gives
a synopsis of a bill passed by the Legisla
ture of that State for the expulsion of free
negroes: “They have until January, 1860,
to dispose of their property, and make other
arrangements for leaving. If they do not
go then, it is made the duty of the Sheriff to
seize them and hire them out to the highest
bidder for one year, giving them the net pro
ceeds of their labor to enable them to leave
the State. The bill provides that such free
negroes as desire to remain, may choose
masters —the County Court having them ap-
E) raised, and the master or mistress they
lave chosen paying half their value into the
common school fund of the county.”
—The editor of the Bedford (Va.) Sen
tinel was knocked down with a slungshot
by some miscreant a lew nights ago, and
robbed of $27,00. The account don’t state
how the editor happened (o be in posses
sion of so large amount of money.
—Brigno is so pleased with this country,
that he has no idea of returning to Europe.
He gets with Strakoseh $1,500 a month, a
vast ffeal more than is ever got on the other
side of the ocean. He has in his possession
several hundred love letters sent him by in
fatuated ladies in the various cities he has
visited. At first he used to answer these,
but they came so plentiful that he now con
tents himself with reading them, feebly
laughing and adding them to his collection.
When he shows them to a friend he does it
with quite a Don Juan air, and hums Lepo
rello’s song, “11 Catalogo e qussto.” At
Havana he sang better thai ever here, be
cause the people hissed him a few times, and
he got a little frightened.— N. Y Correspon
dence of Dwight's Journal of Music.
__y er y touching and beautiful were the
words of the old schoolmaster, aa life passed
away. “It is growing dark —the school
may be dismissed.” Down to the very gate3
of an unseen world, he carried his love and
regard for the children whom he had train
ed.
—We have heard many instances of won
derful sagacity in dogs, but that which we
are about to relate, claps the climax. Two
fanjiiies reside jn the same dwelling on Front
street, near Mill. One of them, Christie
Doyle, occupies the first floor, and ta)ces tfie
Enquirer. The other, a German, liyes up
stairs, and is a subscriber to the VoVcsfreuni f
Both papers are thrown into the same hail
every morning by the carriers. The Ger
man has a dog, a species of “setter, that is
known throughout the neighborhood tor his
sagacity. When his master rises m the
nwuing, the fiog marches dewa to the bill
for the paper, and invariably returns wM
German sheet ?He Las never kn , ’
make a mistake between the two tj” - to
been educated in the Teutonic family?
doubtless understands German but W’ ,
which we have related certainly wJ**
though he could read it— Cin. * 3
chanKra and re-produce it f or the
saying that it is seldom that a ° f
of truth is compressed into so\tnaiU?° Ur,t
*d ptaSuTiE*
think lightly of journalism as a nr *
and of journalise as a das? Yet tW
the persons who look to editors so, * 36 are
in their troubles, tritn,
are made and unmade by the pen Xr
many leading men in this country' Z
abroad, have been writers for the press?
—Mary E. Austin has been discovert •
the person of a youth who has worked f m
farmer in Stafford, Mass., for two (r f *
months past. She chopped wood as a V
drove team as a boy, but on other oc asX’
m her proper character as a youne w , r 3
“ company” with a man' named uT’
who, it seems, brought her irom Conu r
cut, where she was deceived by bin. ,
abandoned by her parents, consented tor’
guise her sex to follow his fortunes.
-A Western paper, after noticing
ancholy instance of intoxication--* m
trying to cross a street like a bull
says, “We left him ruminating upon *.r
principle of horizontal propulsion with 1 ™
juice ’ as a motor.”
—A correspondent of the Baltimore Chri
tian Advocate relates of a New York m . n
ter, who desired to make a sensation t
preaching on the crucifixion: “He instruct
ed the sexton when he got to that part of
the discourse where he describes the dark
nes3 overspreading the heavens, to draw
down the gas, giving only light enough to
make the darkness visible. The sexton
however, put the gas out altogether, which
so confounded the preacher that he was un
able to proceed. Some of the trustee* of
the Church hurried to the sexton in the lob
by, and inquired what was the matter -
Greatly to his chagrin and mortification, as
well as that of the preacher, he was obliged
to explain.” 6
—There is not half the gallantry there
used to be some fifty years ago. \ ow a
gentleman only lifts his tut to a lady; then
his hat was entirely removed from the head
and the gentleman stood before her entirely
uncovered. Now the gentleman takes a
smack from her ruby lips, and hardly looks
red in the face; then he struggled for the
smack, and never drew a longVeath for a
half an hour afterwards; then he kneeled
gracefully to tie up her shoe-string; now
she puts her foot into his lap, and he ties the
string with a gape, and releases the foot
without any ecstacy, or even a tight squeeze
We are growing barbarous.
—A book-keeper was “engaged,” but
could not get married at the specified time
owing to the want of funds. “The time
was fixed for yesterday,” said a friend. “I
know it,” rejoined he. “Then why were
you not married ?” “Well,” said he, looking
very serious, and approaching him confiden
tially, “the fact is, I have got an extension.”
—ln Marion county, Illinois, a young
lady offered the following toast: “The young
men of America— Their arms our support—
our arms their reward.’’ Good! Were
ready to swap.
—The other day we saw several Irish la
borers trying to decipher a notice beaded
“public sale,” the notice although written
tolerably plain, could not be read by the
Emeralders, and they requested us to read
it for them, which of course we did. At the
conclusion, one of them turned to his com
rades and remarked, in a very impressive
tone: “Well, bejabers, I’ll never buy of a
man who’s so nagardly that he won’t get
his advertisements printed; he chated the
printer and he’d chate me.’’ They all ac
quiesced in his decision.
—Speaking of the weather, the Louisville
“Journal” says: “If flowers are the alpha
bet of the angels, the little cherub3 and ser
aphs will soon be able to study their letters
from anew edition of the floral primer,
for this bland and delicious weather is start
ing every bud and swelling every sprig.”
—The Yankees, I am told take advan
tage of the cannibal propensities in the rats.
A clever Yankee being much troubled with
rats, and being determined to get rid of
them, tried every possible plaD, without suc
cess. At last he got a lot of rats and shut
them in a cage ; they devoured one another
till only a single one was left. He then
turned this one loose, who, excited with the
blood of his fellow-rats, and having become
a genuine cannibal, killed and ate all the
wild rats he could find on the premises.—
Buckland’s Natural History.
—The latest case of Biddy ism is chron
icled by the Greenfield (Mass.) Gazette.—
An Irish girl was despatched to a neigh
bor’s with a note, and directed to give it
personally to the person addressed. On ar
rival, Biddy found that the neighbor- had
gone to Northampton, whither she wended
her way, 12 miles, on foot, and traversed the
streets till she found the individual and de
livered the note. She then started to return,
stopping over night on the way with some
friend?, and reached home next day, when
she told her mistress she must give up her
place, for she could not go any more on such
loDg errands.
—“My son,” said a doting father, who
was about taking his son into business,
“what shall be the style of the new firm ?
“Well, governor,” said the one-and-twenty
youth, looking up to find an answer, “I
don’t know; but suppose we call it John H
Samplin & Father.”
—A correspondent of the National Intel
ligencer, who is said, by that journal, to have
filled, at one time, “ a high legal post in the
service of the government,”’ controverts the
position assumed by a writer in the Wash
ington Union, that the Po3t Office De
partment “ possess the legal rights to apply
the incomes of the Department to the pay
ment of the expenses in default of an ex
press appropriation by Congress.’ The
opinion is expressed by the intelligencer,
that in a case involving so much as to its
legality, it is questionable whether the in
convenience of calling an extra session Oi
Congress would not be preferable to its as
sumption of a responsibility which does not
appear to be justified under the provisions of
the act of 1830.
—Miss A. G. Rice, a respectable young
lady, committed suicide in Cincinnati, on
Tuesday, because her beau deserted her.
—Miss Margaret Marshall, a young la )
resident near Morrisville, Fauquier County,
Va., came to a most terrible death by n re
about a fortnight ago. The present fashion
of hoop dresses was the cause of the e ve
She lingered about forty-eight hours in t e
most intense pain.
—ln Italy, a lover at a ball places two
fingers on his mouth, which signifies to the
lady, “ You are very handsome, and I w -;-
to speak to you.” If she touches her cbee£
with her tan, and lets it gently drop, 1 18 ‘
signifies, “ I consent; ” but if she turns e.
head it is a denial. At a ball in runs, t
take a lady out to dance with her is on j
indifference; to place yoursell near her is#-
terest, but to follow her with your eyes
the dance is lave.
—Lucy Stone says “There is cotton in
the ears of men and hope in the h° s ® m ,
women.” Got that wrong end first, ,J -
—“ Come here, sissy,” said a young gen
tleman to a little girl to whose sister
was paying his addresses j • y? u ®* . n
sweetest tftng on earth.” “He> ? B ‘‘ j.
she replied, “ sister says you are the swee
est.” The gentleman popped the qufcti
the next dy.
—ln Denmark they won’t marry P- j
who come to the Minister without each P
ducing a-certificate of vaccination,
English people were in the habit °fj *
a way'to Denmark for”Thd purpose c£m rjj
ing deceased wives’ sisters. ‘yith
not take their certificates of yaccinat pp V
them. Who woujd have dreamed
Well, the only solution of the Jading
to be vaccinated again—-regular.. ’ thing
one’s heart’s blood for love you see-atn
more often talked about than done. *