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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. *