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VOLUME 10.
the GEORGIA CITIZEN
MDUSTIEO EVERY FRIDAY MORNING BY
l F. W. ANDREWS.
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J / *• i s'l vUeH a* to time, wiii be published until
r-vf\, X lecordiajfiy. A Hlieni ifiaeonat allowed
1 Vt.. ~lverti** by the year.
SUf* . ,/ir.ietiU made with County OffleerNDrupgid*,
n.-tonU, tbßl other*, woo may wt*h to mute
&linmVawt Duxlrwwe I'arrl* wIB be inserted un
r i the UoWta* via: , *
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’ _ -Tit of thl< el.ua will be admitted, unless jrnid
J ‘ tliaa twrtae nn.-.ths. Ad
v ‘ ‘IT.i iit,t ten line* wUi be f>irt prm rat*. A
- net paid lor In advene* will be charged at the
r ‘l j “iury VoUce* otorer ten fine*. will be charged at the
ujnnreawiits of caadMafr* for cfilce to be paid for a
. l la* 1 *cre. by Cxecutora, Ad-nir.irtra
‘ 1 . i.v taw to beadreitueAla a
’ . 2 tie flirty day* pr-vi.uw to the day of sale. Thews
?■ , .',,l,lthe drst Tuesday in the month, between
i -’*, 1 j iuhe furennon and three in the afternoon,
Wriai .n th* county iu wiiieh the property is ritu
„f ivraonal Prepertv most be advertised in like
\ , lit blurs and Creditors or an Estate mart be
K .iV't ‘-'ill ntlmi wilt be made to the Ordinary for
***” x ,, \ >egroes, must be published weekly for
I for Le.teia of Adrr.'rttoTaMoa, thirty days; for
, ‘T, ‘u Administration. utoathkr, sis months; for
,iv.’.p, weekiv. butv days,
i,,. ,f..r Furr cl oa lint of MorliaarH, mniithly ftm
K . r. -! iVisOtiig I- st papers for the full space oflhre
’ . tailin ‘ titles from executors or sdministra
r\- i is* l h.-u'baa* c'.ven by the deceased, the full
sftkrM month*.
EARTH’S AKGBLS.
f feme not spirit* from th* realm* of ciory.
yjti.lt earth asin the davs of old—
rj, tir * of -acred wr t or ancient story ?
K Hca* st mure distant ? or has earth crown cold ?
C 4 ,i-.e I ruf.l, when sunset clouds rec -ding
Sttf ! :'b rich bari.ers of a host gone by.
• oil uie < rai of some white pinion rpe.ding
‘lot* Uk c mine* of the giowirgsky,
j-j,* —r-<-i Tt.’ i'igbt star*hi distant cbtltnesi
lm caio.y bomiac. bet coed late and long.
Bet ntire’ipulre ’.was un in solemn stillness,
|stf no echo of the seraph's song,
tßs'h!eia' sir ru their last at them given
;w older iirs Before The tHie grew dim !
f-jtl. t iv-t • r -serce known !■ Peter's prison ?
ur ehtrv ri iiliog martyrs raised tht ir hj mn j
M rettevall within tte veil departed?
no wieg sbe-c the empyrean now ;
ill fi.it v i tear from human eye* has started,
Sk ingel's torch hs calmed a mortal brow,
> urth h - tiigels, thsruih their forma are moulded
m tsi.li elay *- ftu.hioa all below ;
Ti-Irt tiur;* are wanting, and fright; inl'ns fj.d and,
Trt>.< v them by the luve-l'ght on their brow.
Il i*en amc-U by the sick one’s pillow.
T rs vuthc rnt tone and the groat dim* tread,
Tu tv . i'in hearts were droupitg ike the wtib.w,
lit) itucii ‘tetween the living and the dead,”
luif .!.y right By earthly dimness MadUred
bfoics in* toTerln* cbemt>iiu in atr.
Tt - ‘-.ire sn argcls in tte gloomy prison,
Uer Ad tails—by theinae widows hearth ;
it- *>'. they pass, (1, the fallen have uprireu
TVrftdrjsssed—the mourner’s hopelrad birth.
Iwm one whose eloquence commanding
l**dtke rich i*choesot the human breast;
Tir nJI-timenituf wealth and eaee wTthetanding
is* 111 pc might reach the suffering and oppreet.
i t by his side there n ovr and a form of Reant v,
‘t'(r:;v*eet fi *wcr* along the path of life.
In -in r up with meek and love lent duty;
1 nhC her angel— but he tailed her Wit*.
*®>r *1 int va ; ks the earth unheeded,
TIiA h* n its veiled -ladnee* Is laid down,
bwuaar .1 ft with p.nioit unimpeded,
id War its glory ,lke n starry cr-iw n.
Blistellani}.
Slavery in the New England
Factories—The Shoe Factory,
“•■'UblisheJ at Chester, is attracting
; nin the North as well as here.—
■’ i'ilowing letter from Lynn, Mass.,
il, shows what a workman there
‘ nk* of black and white slavery. We
•* a it for the in formation of our readers,
lift*?*:—
> ve in the city of Lynn, in the State
lusachusetts. I am one of the 3,000
•'lie slaves that work here under the
shoe manuf;icturer for a
n g 1 say slaves, because we are
‘ we work like slaves, and we are
like slaves, and I believe worse ;
’ * J slave is sure of a living at the
**■. (hut we are noi,) and good treat
”;f he behaves himself; but we don’t
‘■ h.re. The s-hoa immifac*.urers
abont slavery at the South. 1
v: ‘‘i like to know what they call it
man has to work eighteen
,r utoftwenty-four for a living, (ne
• s L not work more than half that
I Mil then not get half a one at that.
‘- >nf N! I'mg to be free. I want to
If to \ irgsnia, where I hope to be
I ; here a shoemaker can earn his
2 without working day and night.
I r - Editor, if there is a chutes for
com* there to work, I am ready
I lv e Lynn and come to Richmond, or
1 User place where 1 can work.
I ‘ 401 a good shoemaker, and can
kind of ladies’ boots, and have
experience in manufacturing
- work. If you will inform me
-•“t I Mn get work in making ladies’
, (,r f'Uttinz out, you will oblige me
•’ Please let me know as
** joo <an. [* Signed]
A Northers Whits Slave.”
‘ 4 ‘hall certainly make an effort to
ace for the oppressed white man,
’ •’’than hear from us very aoon.
Richmond Dixwitch.
I, 11 nine years’ old girl the other
‘ a discussion am mg a
* t 1 ladies about cooking steak—
■ ‘-Ivetating broiling beef and others
’ “ ton—inquired, Aunt Kit, how
I 1 co °k sweepstakes f
I > man, visitiiig a prison
i| inquired of some of the prison-
I , r ** Us of being in such a place.—
Ibu 8 answer was “that she stole
I * “‘ill, and w ent back after the pond
*** arrested.”
I flower, the butterflly,
I . ‘ truu) ,i crawling caterpillar’s
I • 4< ;the sculptor’s thought once
I v in a rough block of marble; 1
I a whhapcn exterior there
IV. ? stre *ffls of music, wonderful in
I \ | l ‘" r ° e i thoughts of beauty which
In,; 1 ’ n the age*, eternal in their
I H,“ I,noroi comment was made by a
gu. , ‘ a where Feniagle dined
I *v. r n **is lecture on artificial raera
| a * * fcw minutes after the professor
■ the waiter entered, with
I ' d ‘ eyes, exclaiming,
1 f.tji.it , dec ' ar e, the memory-man has
I e ° umbrella r 1
“I Thonglit 1 Wouldn't.”
Two young journamen mechanics
were working at their benches, on
°lposite sides of fi cabinet maker’s
shop. They were botli alxmt twen
ty--*Ttrytnr* of age; botli were mar-.
ed-; both healthy and intelligent.
One ot them stopped his work, turn
ed round towards the other, and lean
ing against his bench, thus address
ed him:
“Dick, I always thought you were
quick tempered; you used to bo,when
you were a boy. Now I think I
am not quick tempered, but if the
boss had talked to me as he did to
you, yesterday, I believe I shonld
have knocked him <lown, let the
consequences be what they might.’
•Well, Tom, I am quick tempered,’
replied the person accosted as Dick,
‘and as to knocking old Seoldein
* down, I had my thoughts about that
matter, too.’
‘To !e Stir A, I reckoned yon were
right mad enough, when I saw your
face as white as a sheet,” said Tom,
‘but I should like to know what your
thoughts were on this solemn occa
sion,’ as they say.’
I>i< k laid down his chisel, and
turning around, folded his arms, and
replied:
‘I thought I would, and then 1
thought 1 wouldn’t. When old Scol
dem first found fault with me, and
began to scold me, and finally got
angry and abused me merely because
I would not answer him in the same
style, I thought—no, it was not
thinking, for it was onlynn impulse
it occurred ome that if I should on
ly just smash his hat down over his
bloated face, and then give him one
good blow under the left eye, which
should tumble him among the shav
ings rather promiscuously, it would
be serving him just right, for I was
terrible angry. But then I thought
—and it was thinking, for it came
after the impulse, and restrained it
—then I thought that he was a great
deal older man than I was, and had
a wife, and sous and daughters grown
up and married, who would be very
much shocked and pained to hear
that he had been treated in this way;
and I thoughts too. that 1 .was in bis
employ, and could quit him at any
moment if his service was .ntolera
ble, and that it would be disgraceful
to jne to have it reported that I had
had a fight with my boss ; and I
thought how had Lucy would feel if
I was arrested for a breach of tho
peace, or even made myself liable to
be, and so ‘I thought I wouldn't.’
‘Ah, Dick,’ said Tom, ‘those were
not exactly- your feelings, I reckon,
when you took hold of your hammer
and then pushed it away from y*ou.
I believe 1 was as white as yon, just
at that moment, for I expected y'ou
would drop him, sure.’ ,
‘You are mistaken, Tom,’ replied
Dick. ‘J did not take hold of the
hammer from any- impulse or design
to use it, but ‘I thought I wouldn’t
have it where I could seize it and
strike him without stirring out of my
tracks ; and so I pushed it over the
end of the bench, and it fell among
tho shavings; and it took men
long time to find it when I wanted
it again.’
Well, said Tom, ‘I don't believe 1
could have stood what you did, any
how. But yon use that expression
‘I thought I wouldn’t,’ as if it was a
sort of favorite one; have you ad
opted it as a motto for your coat ol
arms, I should like to know V
‘Sorter some, some sorter not, as
they say out West,’ replied Hick,
laughing; ‘but it rs said that all the
hig! Wit inodes of thought have a ste
reotyped expression, and that is the
reason, for instance, why those who
speak the English language are al
ways seeking for that liberty ex
pressed in the great phrases which
are so commonly used in books,
speeches and newspapers. So I eon
fess that I have got one little pet
phrase, which, when I am in action,
reads, ‘l think I won’t’ and when I
am pondering over what I didn’t do,
signifies ‘I thought l wouldn t. And
L think this phrase over a great deal,
and i confess it does me good. I’ll
tell you how I got into it.
‘About a year ago, I went home
one damp, slushy, thawing night,
rather late for supper. Old Scoldem
had been very cross that day, and
very insolent; and that, with the
unpleasant weather, made me feel
cross, too, very. Well, 1 got home.
The tire was almo t out, the room
uncomfortable ; but supper was ready
ami we sat down at table. Lucy did
not seam inclined to talk ; little Jim
niv was fretful; the tea was weak
and cold, and the toast wasn’t made
right I felt ve.y much annoy ed, and
I •thought I would just tell Lacy, in a
confidential sort ot way, that the tea
was only’ slops, and that the toast
wasn't fit to throw to the pigs; *nu
that I would then put ou my hat.
and go off to the Odd Fellows’ lodge
earlier than usual, and serve hei
right. But then I looked across the
table at Lucy, who sat there holding
her baby', eating nothing, and look
ing pale and weary; ami 1 noticed
too, that little Jimmy looked flushed
as he sat there in his arm-chair; and
it occurred to me that it was just
pom hie that my wife might he feel
ing ill, and that little Jimmy wav
affected by the weather, just like old-,
cr folks, and that perhaps, this damp
air affected the draught of the ehim
nev. 1 asked Lucy if she was ill, and
she said that foi six hours she had
had a terrible nervous headache. So.
‘I thought I wouldn't’ say anything
about the tea and toast, but I per
suaded Lucy to lie down on the set
tec with the baby*, while I took Jim-1
my ou my knee, and commenced
MACON, GA., THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 1860.
‘telling him a story,’ while I put on
his night gown, and got him into his
crib, where, ax I was describing to
him the old man’s sheep jumping
over the wall—then another—and
then another—and then another—he
went over the wall with the twen
tieth sheep, and was fast asleep.
‘Then 1 cleared the table, and put
away the things, till morning, raked
out the fire and got it agoing, and
took the baby, which was asleep, and
placed it in the cradle. 1 got gome
cold water and bathed Lucy-’s hands
and face and smoothed down her hair
with my hands, (magnetism, you
think ? Well no matter;) and placed
a wet cloth above her forehead. I
asked if she was better; ’yes,’ she
said, with a sweet smile, and fairly
went to sleep while she said so. So
I got down a book of travels, and
forgot all alxuit myself for a couple
of hours. Then I looked up, and as
I saw little J iramy sleeping so sound
ly and pleasantly in his crib, where
he had kicked himself out to the top
of the bed-clothes; and baby, too,
dozing quietly with her thumb in
her mouth ; and Lucy- reposing to
refreshingly, with a half smile on her
parted lips, the fire now burning
brightly-,and the rain beating against
the windows, I was glad I did not
speak cross to Lucy, and leave her
sick and alone, with a deranged
kitchen, a dull fire,a fretful child,and
a nursing baby-. What a brute I
should have been if I bail done it.’
‘Yes, of course,’ said Tom, rath
er slowly, for he was just then im
pressed with the idea that he, with
all his good temper, had ‘done it,’ at
a time not very remote. But he re
gained his composure by- saying:—
‘Well, go on Dick, this is as interest
ing as a prize tale.’
4 have little more to say,’ contin
ued Dick. ‘I have considered the
matter a great deal, and the more I
consider upon it the more often I
think I won’t. When old Seoldem
is insolent to me; when any- one jos
tles me insultingly ; when a trades
man or a fellow craftman treats me
rudely, my first impulse is to repay
him in kind ; but when I consider
lhilt.it will do mo r\r\ to do SO,
and how much better it will be not
to do it, ‘I think 1 won’t. When lam
annoyed by shortcomings at homo,
and am tempted to find fault, I ask
inyselfif Lucy is not a good tem
pered, industrious woman, a good
mother and loving wife, and if I
don’t really- think she has meant to
do as well as she could under the
circumstances, and then the sharp
expression never forms on my- lips,
because ‘I think I won’t.’ So when
the children are too noisy r , or one of
them is fretful, I think that noise is
oft preferable to constrained silence,
and that it is better to take the little
feverish urchin on ono’s lap, and take
his i little hand in yours, and to
smooth down his hair, and tell him
about Guliver and the Lilliputians,
than to cuff his ears and send him
outraged and crying to bed. lam
glad that I often ‘think 1 won t.’ I
fool that I have triumphed Avhcn 1
can say- ‘I thought 1 wouldn’t.’
‘Dick/ said Tom,‘can you givomo
a scrap of paper V
Ilis friend examined his wallet and
produced a piece.
‘Here/ said ho, ‘is the back of a
lettor dropped to day in the city post
office ; it is addressed tome, and has
a post mark on it, too, but as it is
marked ‘Paid/ I hope that won t
hurt it.’
‘All the better for leaving your
name and the date on it, Hick, said
Tom, who proceeded to the desk,
wrote something very’ carefully on
the paper, folded it, and put it away
in his pocket book.
The two friends grew old together
in their native city. They both be
came prosperous in their calling, and
were noted for their kindness to
their workmen and servants,for their
uuenity to the community at large,
ind for their domestic happiness.—
They were distinguished by civil
honors, and made the depositories of
responsible trusts. They’ remained
fast and intimate friends, and it was
t source of happiness to them that
heir children intermarried. Thom
is died first. In his last will he
made a singular provision.
ijtem. 1 direct that a certain seal
ed package, bearing bis name, shall
ho delivered to my true, and life
long friend Richard Felton. It con
tains a gilt which he made to mo in
early life : it has been to me a great
source of success, and of domestic*
happiness. I return it to him now :
he does not need it, but will be glad
to receive it.’
The mysterious package vyas pro
duced and opened. Lfc-cvrtitained on
lv a crumpled, worn and somewhat
•oiled scrap of paper, apparently
v piece of a post marked letter,
which read as follow's :
July Ist, 1K06.”
RICHARD FELTON,
Cirdeton.
“ I THOtIOIIT i wouldn’t.”
[From the N. Y. Irish paper, News from
Home.
Hypocrites.— ’Tis not that the
hypocrite despises a good character,
that he is not one himself, but be
cause he thinks he can purchase it at
i cheaper rate than the practice of
it, and thus obtain all the applause
)i a good man, merely’ by’ pretend
ing to be so.
“Can you toll me, ’ aked a blooming
lass of a suitor one day, “what ship car
ries more passengers than the Great
Eastern 1” “Well roadame, really 1 don’t
think I can.” Why, it is court-ship”
replied the maiden, with a conscious
blush!
ADVENTURES OF THE HUS
BAND OF A DOZEN WIVES.
The Rockford (111.) News contains
the following sketch of Jerry Travis
who has made himself famous as the
hero of a dozen marriages. We copy
as follows:
Jerry Travis was born in the State
of New York, twenty-three y-ears
since, and lost his mother at an ear
lyr ago. His father bound him out in
a family, and came West when Jerry 7
was fourteen years of age, and locat
ed in Rockford. As Jerry approach
ed manhood, although entirely uned
ucated, unable to read or write, and
of a green and repulsive appearance,
he succeeded in seducing several wo
men, and married three others in the
State of New York. Whoa nineteen
years old, he surprised his father
by’ paying him a visit at Rockford,
claiming to have just arrived from
California, and stating that he was
worth five thousand dollars, which
monoy- would soon come to him. He
persuaded tho old man to allow him
to build throe houses on some of his
property-, and had tho effrontery- to
hire men by the year to do the work.
By r tho time tho foundation was laid
the father discovered that the y r onng
hopeful was a liar and swindler, and
had not a cent in the world. This
view of the case was confirmed by
Jerry’s taking leg bail one fine mor
ning. with fifty- dollars of his father’s
money, and a suit of clothes. Old
Mr. Travis, who found he had to foot
Jcrry-'s bills, shortly after moved to j
Roseoe, where he met his son, who j
threatened to dirk him, but the old ,
gentleman thrashed him handsome
ly-, whereupon Jerry bound him over
to keep thepeaee. During this time
he had several amorous escapades in
Rockford, which were hushed up.
We next hear of him in Manches
ter, Boone county-, where he intro
duced himself to a mother and daugh
ter named Olmsted, as a returned
Californian, and said, that one or two
of the trunks he had with him was
full of chunks of gold. The daugh
ter, Ann, a good looking and very
respectable girl, but who was quite
poor, was dazzled by- tho gold sto
rit'S of Jerry, and Ll?c*itmo 1 will?
after a few days of courtship. He
took her to Beloit, where lie mar
ried her, and left her in a few day’s,
after robbing hqr poor mother of ten
dollars.
It is supposed that he married sev
eral other women about this time,
but we next hear of him stealing a
trunk from P. It. Ticknor, of Rock
ford. For this crime he was sent to
the State’s prison for a y r ear, and
was released last October.
After he left prison, we first hear
of him at La Salle, whero he played
his old role of returned Californian,
with an abundance of tho rhino. On
the strength of theso representations
ho married a Miss Brown, stayed a
short time with her, borrowed ten
dollars, and put out.
Aurora was next tho scene of his
operations. Ho became intimate in
a family by tho name of Sower, and
while in the house playod sick, and
if by accident lot drop a body belt
filled with lead, which he persuaded
the simple people was gold. Miss
Sewer, dazzled by tho (supposed)
gold in the body- belt, lent a willing
ear to tho seductive entreaties of
Jerry-, and ‘while vowing she would
never consent, consented’ without
waiting for the interposition of priest
or magistrate. She afterwards sued
hor lover for breach of promise, sup
posing that lie had money-, but on
Jerry’s offering to marry her in earn
ost, she backed out, as it was discov
ered that he was entirely penniless.
We next hear of him in Belvidere,
where he humbugged a poor servant
girl at the Julean House, named Lu
cy Smith. Lucy had a ‘misfortune’
in the shape of an illegitimate baby,
some time previously, and when
Travis told her of his love and of his
gold, she lent a willing ear to him,
and consented to be married after a
few day's courtship. The old Cali
fornia story’ was again trumped up
in this case, and he promised to take
the girl to Minosota, to some rela
tives she had there. After stopping
a day or two in Beloit, he ran away*
from there, with Lucy’s shawl and a
couple of dollars in money', forget) mg
to return a team belonging to Mr.
Preston, of Belidere.
We next heard of him at Council
Hill, in Jo Daviess county, then at
Dubuque, where he flourished as
George Ferguson. Here he became
acquainted with a girl named Emma
Beadle, a domestic living in the fam
ily of a Mr. Smith, some four miles
from Bubuque. She was humbug
ged with the old story'. He knew
her brother .in California. He saw
her for the first time on Saturday—
married her the next day, (Christ
mas) and ran away from her ou Mon
day, with some twenty dollars in
money', all the poor girl had. He
also stole a dress coat and pants be
longing to her employ'er.
Galena was next honored with his
presence, where he operated under
the patrony'mic of Hoyt. 110 hirod
a team for Darlington, which lie
smashed before arriving at thatplaco.
Here ho tried to humbug a woman
who had a husband in California, but
after driving her and her mother to
Shullsburg, she became frightened,
and returned home minus three dol
lars.
We next hear of him at Nora, where
he bought a farm for $9,000, but left
without paying his hotel bill, and
visted West Point, in Stephenson
county'. Here he made the acquain
tance of a Mr. Mathews, of whom he
nquired concerning a certain Jfrs.
■ Anderson, who had a husband in Cal
ifornia. lie pretended ho had a
thousand dollar check for her, and
was anxious to buy- up Anderson’s
debts at 75 cents on the dollar.
He next tried his seductions on
the Yale family-—claimed that he
was a nephew of Mr. Yale, and told a
cock and bull story- respecting his
father, who, he said, owned a line of
steamers, running between New
Orleans and San Francisco. He
even gave their names. He tried j
his matrimonial schemes upon Mrs. j
Vale, a grass widow, whose husband f
a noted scoundrel, had left her, and I
who was living with her father, Mr.
Bnrbridge. The woman at first do- j
marred, ns her husband was still
alive; but ho persuaded her that ho
Avas in prison in lowa, and was le-1
gaily- divorced from her. It so hap
pened that Mrs. Yale’s sister, Miss
Bnrbridge, was about being married
to a young man in the neighborhood,
and it was agreed that the marriages
should take place together in
Wisconsin. A correspondent of the
Galena Advertiser here takes up the
story, and gives tho following par
ticulars :
“He then ongaged a cutter of Mr.
Mathews, tells him that he may bo
gone two or six days; that he [the
livery man] need not be alarmed if
he was not back in six days. But
the evening the livery man “smelt a
mice,” and started after him, taking
a constable along.
They found Mr. J. Travis, alias J.
J. Vale, alias Wilson Waddams at
Waddim’s Grove-here Mr. Waddams
agreed that the horse should be de
livered back to Mr. Matthews vith
in two days. When he (Mr. Y.) had
returned to where his wife was the
evening before, he had missed his
pocket-book, containg one hundred
and sixteen dollars in monoy, em
bracing two SSO slugs and sl6 paper
money, and a note of SIOO against a
man in Warren, to whom he had
loaned that amount, he took a candlo
and searched the gutter, thinking he
had dropped it in there—finally
makes up his mind that he has left
it in a storo in this placo. He came
ilown nuXt morning ami boai*cKo<l
every- where, but no pocket book
could bo found. He offers a reward
of SSO to the finder of tho samo. He
accused tho livery man of having
picked it up off the counter of a store
lie lmd been in the evening previous,
he attempts to get out a warrant for
the livery man ; said he could prove
that he (tho livery man) had offered
a SSO slug to O. 11. Coburn, the hotel
keeper of this placo, to admit him in
to a show holding forth in his hotel
that evening.
After Mr. C. denied any such price
had been offered him, lie said that it
was ay-oung man who was in the
hotel that morning, which proves to
be Win. May-er, a son of tho propri
etor of tho Pennsylvania House at
Frecpoint. Mr. Y. says the young
man told him that tho livery man
had offered Mr. C. the slug to bo ad
mitted into the show, and that ho
could get others to prove it. Ho was
finally prevailed on to take out the
warrant, and left for homo and was
taken sick—said ho had symptoms of
tho Panama fever—he could toll the
next day, for persons having the Pan
ama fever always had fits, and never
lived throughout the third one. He
had one the next day, the day after
that another, and on third day- he
told his wife that ho thought he was
doomed for this world. On the third
day, when he thought he was about
to die, he wished them to telegraph
to Chicago to Geo. Smith, the bank
er, whom he claimed to be his broth
er-in-law, and in case he should die,
he wanted him to settle up his bus
iness The night previous he had
some very bad dreams; he thought
he saw his coffin.
When in Lena, Sheriff Jennison of
Boone county, heard of him and sus
pecting he was the deceiver of Lucy
Smith, went to that place to arrest
him. He found Travis in bed play
ing sick, and the family who were
preparing to go to California, would
not believe he was a rogue, until
Sheriff Jennison described the marks
upon his arm, which were a bowie
knife and a revolver, with J. TANARUS., all
in India ink. The Sheriff took him
to the hotel, and stayed up all night
with him, as he knew that Travis,
was playing possum, and in fact sev
eral times during the night the sick
man raised up in his bod as if to bolt,
but the vigilant eye of the sheriff
was upon him, and lie concluded ho
would not leave. On being taken
to the Boone county jail, he mado up
his mind not to eat, but two day's
starvation brought him to his senses,
and restored him his appotito. On
being brought before Justice Wright
tho follow had the effrontery to pre
tend to quote law authorities, when
it was evident he could not read, and
did not even know the alphabet.
He is twenty three years of age,
standing about five feet five inches
inheigth ; weighs about one hundred
and twenty five or ono hundred and
thirty pounds; rather slim built;
hair of a very light brown color, in
clining to auburn, worn long and
waving round the neck; eyes of a
very light blue, large, showing a
good deal of the white; face rather
long featured, inclining to sharpness;
cc mplexion and color of countenance,
nose rather long and sharp. He had
a guilty, uncertain anto hang-dog look
about him. He has a peculiar shap
ed head, and is anything but attrac
tive in person.
The above is the fullest and most
accurate account of the fellow that
has yet been published, but there are
several gaps in his history we are
j unable to fill up. It is known that
, ho has had twelve wives, and it is be
| lioved, several others, which have
been hushed by the families of tho
j silly girls. It will be remarked that
in nearly every instance it was poor,
ignorant girls, whom he married
and robbed.
From the New York ConserratiYe.
jrnro. CALDWELL CALUOUIT,
BOBN IN ABBEVILLE DIBTICT, SOUTH
I CAROLINA, A. D. 1782, DIED 1850.
Mr. Calhoun’s father was an Irish
man, and his mother was a native of
V irgtnia. At the age of twenty
three ho graduated at Yale College
with its highest honors, and entered
the Law School at Litchfield. In
; 1807, he was admitted to the bar in
his native State, and at once rose to
: eminence. Tho following year ho
was sent to the Legislature, where
he served two sessions; and in 1811,
was elected to Congress. His first
speech brought him conspicuously
before the nation as a parliamentary
orator, and from that time—a period
of nearly forty years—few public
measures have come before Congress
J without feeling the olectric shock of
his genius. As Chairman of the
I Committee on Foreign Affairs, he
reported, and carried through the
j bill declaring war against Great Bri
j tain. In 1817, at the early- ago of
thirty-fly®, he became the Secretary
ofWarof Monroe’s Administration.
1 He found that department chaos : he
left it in order. He adjusted unsettled
accounts of fifty millions; he reor
ganized the army-; revived the Milita
ry Academy at West Point, whose
palisade cliffs, once blackened by the
footsteps of the American traitor,
i have been for ever redeemed by- the
I heroic tread of a thousand y-oung pa
; triuts. He began a complete sy-stem
of maritime and frontier fortifica
; tion ; originated the Coast Survey,
and laid tho foundations of the Indian
Portrait Gallery at the Capitol,where
I Art has generously- given her pencil
: to Humanity, to transmit to posteri
ty- the fast-fading traces of the Red
Men. In 1825 he was elected Yicc-
Prcsident of the Republic, and re
elected tho succeeding term. Before
it expired, he resigned his office at
tho call of South Carolina, to become
her Senator; and that high place,
he subsequently- filled, with a short
interval, when the exigencies of the
government mado him Secretary of
State. Every- session of Congress
has been signalized by- some speech
of Mr. Calhoun, which was heard
throughout tho world, and his great
speeches are imperishable. We need
not detail his public acts, for they
willbo woven into the history of the
nation by all its historians ; we need
not enumerate his orations, for they
have become a portion of English
literature.
Such are tho well-known facts of
his life. A more grateful but diffi
cult task, will always be a truthful
analysis of his intellectual and polit
ical character. Born during the
Revolutionary- struggle, he was
taught to venerate Liberty, and that
lesson became tho guido of his life.
In youth, he laid himself on the al
tar of tho Republic, and his lifo was
a self-immolation. He never shrank
from sacrificing the most dazzling
opportunities of preferment, to his
judgment and patriotism. Spum
ing the livery of all parties, he never
stooped for their emoluments. From
tho first, his creed was broad and
clear; embracing well-defined prin
ciples on every subject of public in-
terest: and although he allowed the
practical genius of adapting himself
to the age and opinions through
which he moved, accepting what was
attainable, and waiting for thorest,
yet he never gave up his objects, nor
changed theprinciples or purposes of
his life. Like the Damascus blade,
gleaming, bending, cutting through,
he can hardly be traced in the rapid
ity and glistening of his movements.
Vigilant of the integrity of our groat
Commonwealth, ho was always jenl
ous of the corrupting influence of
banks connected with the State.—
lienee his unrelenting effort to di
vorce the Government from all bank
ing institutions. 110 w*ualways the
advocate of the navy, as the protec
tion of our commerce among distant
nations. But his unceasing advoca
cy of the great principles of Freedom
of Commerce throughout the w r orld,
will bo remombered with more grati
tude by posterity, than all his other
achievements. The day is coming,
and he saw it drawing from afar,
when every barrier which the inhu
manity of other agos has interposed
to the friendly intercourse of nations
will give way to the progress of light
and the inauguration of a sentiment
of universal Drotherhood. Mr. Cal
houn paid the penalty always exact
ed from mon whose hearts beat - for
mankind, and whose eagle gaze pier
ces the future. For the most part
he was misrepresented or misunder
stood, by his contemporaries. Ba
con and Galileo confided their fame
to after ages; and it is the inspiring
consolation of such mon while living,
that the future is sure to do them
justice.
As an orator, his chief character
istics were clearness of analysis, sim
plicity, appropriateness and power
of expression, and a subdued and lof
ty earnestness. The completeness
of his portrait, renders it unnecessa
ry to describe his personal appear
ance. in the tribune, his erect,stem
attitude, his iron countenance, com-’
pressed lip, and flashing eye, often
filled his auditors with terror, aad
made his familiar friends almost dreed
to approach. And yot ho was the
gentlest of husbands, the tenderest
of fathers, tho most humane and in
dulgent of masters. Ho was known
to the world only as an orator and
statesman, and yat those who were
admitted familiarly to the scenes of
his domestic life, forgot his pnblie
achievements in the spotless purity
of his private character, tho warm
charities of his homo, and the fascin
ating glow of his classic conversa
tion. Tho honors of the Senate and
the Cabinet, never weaned him from
his early love of books and rural pur
suits. At every cessation of his pub
lic labors, ho fled to his plantation
home, to receive the tender greet
ings of his family and friends, and
the most touching demonstrations of
grateful love from the dependent bo
ings who looked to him for support
and protection. Letters had been
the passion of his y-outh, they- were
the cmbclishmerit of his manhood,
and they were tho consolation of his
age.
Three obstacles s‘ood between this
great man and the Presidency-. The
first, was the earnest and unconquer
able independence of his character,
which left him withont a national
party-. The second was the incor
ruptible integrity of liis heart, which
left him without intrigue or policy*.
The last, was an obstacle still more
formidable in this disturbed and fe
verish age —the philosophical sub
limity of his genius. He was not
made to sway masses but mind. He
could not carry the hearts of the mul
titude by storm, but he electrified
the souls of the few. In dragging
to the dust the pillars of the Roman
Republic, Ca>sar heard tho shout of
the mob at his heels.. Cato walked
solitary through the Forum, and Bru
tus fell on his own sword. But the
fame of Calhoun has interwoven it
self with the history- of the nation,
and is therefore immortal.
Through good and ovil report, for
forty years, South Carolina stood
firmly and confidingly- by her great
Statesman: and such a Common
wealth was worthy of such an advo
cate. The frosts of seventy years
were on his head while he yet stood
in the Senate; bnt they- ha<l notr
chilled the ardor of his patriotism,
and his genius still glowed as bright
ly as ever.
Hints to Planter's Wives.
For Washing fine and elegant col
ORS.The Scientific American advise ladies
to boil some bran iu raia-water and use
the liquor cold. Nothing cm equal it
for ea-ie upon color and for cleaning
cloth.
To preserve eggs fr< sh a year, mix a
handful of unslacked lion with the same
quantity of salt, m three gallons of wat
er. First pack the eggs, with the small
end down, with some shavings to keep
them down, and pour the mixture over
them, Be sure none of them are cracked.
Keeping Milk Sweet.—A corres
pondent of The Homestead found that,
in sending milk to market, though it left
the dairy perfectly sweet, it was often
curdled on delivery to customers. To
remedy this, the cans were covered with
cotton cloth soaked in salt-water. By
this method the curdling of the milk was
entirly prevented.
To preserve butter for winter use, take
two parts of the best fine salt, one part
of finely ground loaf sugar, and one of
saltpetre, beat them welt together. To
each pound of butter, worked perfectly
free from milk, put one ounce of this
composition; work it well into it, and
pack it down in stone pots or wooden
firkins. Nutter packed in this way will
be found to equal the best rose butter,
and will remain sweet for years, if not
exposed to the air.
To keep butter sweet a year, take care
that the butter is made iu the best man
ner, and the buttermilk entirely worked
out of it. Lay it in a white oak firkin.
Make a strong brine of salt and water,
and put it into another and a larger fir
kin, and set the one containg the butter
into the one in which the brine is. Let
the brine come up very near the top of
the butter fiirkin. Lay on the top of
the butter a white bag with fine salt in it
cover it close and then put on the cover
of the outside firkin.
IIoW TO PrKVKXT CsKAM FROM RISINO.
—I never argue about milk with man or
woman, says the lion. A. B. Dickinson,
if they do not know that milk can be kept
with all the cream in it, as it is when
first drawn from the eow ; but I will tell
you how it is done. You all know that
if you can prevent the cream from rising
the milk will be more palatable and
healthy, with the particles of cream mix
ed through it, than skim milk or milk
fresh from the cow, with the fresh taste
and odor. To prepare milk in this way
take it, while warm from the cow, set it
in a cool place, and stir it continually un
til all the animal heat is out and no cream
will rise after that operation. Try It,
and see how much it will be improved
for family use.
Th Farmer’s Wife. —ls there aay
position a mother can covet for her daugh
ter more glorious than to be the wife of
honest, independent, happy farmer, in a
country like this ? To be the wife of
one who is looked up to by the neigh
bors as one whose example may be safe
ly followed—one whose farm is noted far
and near as a model of neatness and p,T
fection of cultivation. To be the mis
tress of a mansion of her own, that may
be the envy of every passer-by, because
it is neat and comfortable—a swee t aad
lovely cottage home. To be the angel
that flits through the gardec, bidding the
flowers bloom, and twining roses ana
honeysuckles around the bedroom or
sweetening their fragrance with her sweet
est smiles; or spreading the snow-cloth
beneath the old oak at the door, to wel
come her husband as be returns from his
toil; or ever tipping the cradle with her
NUMBKE-iiT.
foot as she plies the diwher with her
hand, or busily moves the needle, at the
same time humming a joyous song of
praise that she is the happy and fondly
beloved wife of an American farmer—
one of the true noblemen or tats-country
—one that should by right rank as the
pride .and glory of America;
A lady writer in our exchanges com
municates the following interesting bit of
information, which she obtained M where
she took tea last
‘ c A dish of what I tok for preserves
was passed to me, which, upon tasting,
I was surprised to learn contained no
fruit. The ease with which it is prepar
ed, and the trifling cost of its materials,
are not is chief recommendations, for,
unless my tasting apparatus deceived me
as it is not usually won’t to do, it is
emphatically a tip-*op substitute for ap
ple sauce, apple-butter, tomato preserves
and all that sort of thing. Its prepara
tion is a3 follows:
Moderately bo'l & pint of molasses from
five to twenty-five minutes, according to
its consistency, when add three eggs
thoroughly beaten, hastily stirring them
in, and continue to boil a few minutes
longer when flavor with lemon or nut
meg-
Intei#r):tation of Dreams. —To dream
of a small stone about your neck, it is a sign
of j-. may expect if you get an ex
travagant wife.
To see apples in a dream, betokens a wed
ding because when you find apples, you may
expect to find pears.
To dream that you are lame, is a token
that you will get into a hobble.
When a yonng lady dreams of a coffin it
betokens that she should instantly discon
tinue the use of tight says, and always go
warmly and thickly shod in wet weather.
To dream of fire is a sign tliat—if you are
wise—you will see that the lights in your
house are out before you go to bed.
To dream that your nose is red aft the tip,
is an intimation that you had better leave off
braDdy and water.
To dream of walking barefooted, denotes
a journey that you will make bootless.
To dream of eggs, is a sign that you will
discover a mare's nest
When a fashionable lady dream3 of a filbert
it is a sign that her thoughts are running up
on the colonel.
If you dream of clothes, it is a warning
not to go to law for by the rule of contraries
you will be sure of a non-suit
To dream that you are eating, is certain
to come true at breakfast
To dream es a barber, denotes losses—
hairs may be expected to be ent off.
To dream of having a great number of ser
vants is madness, %
Climate and Products of Arkan
sas.
The general climate of Arkansas may
be described as a mean between the
temperate and warm ; but our State is
so large —250 miles from the northern
to the eastern line, and 300 from East to
West—that we may be said to have
more than one climate. In the moun
tain and ultra-mountain counties of Car
roll, Madison, Benton and others, the
spring is two or three weeks later and
winter sets in two or tLree weeks earlier
than in the counties on the Louisiana and
Texas line. In the counties above named
the climate is not adapted to the raising
of cotton, while the southern and eastern
parts of the State have as fine cotton lands
as are in the world.
Experience has demonstrated that ours
is one the best countries in the world. —
Not only are the flourishing orchards in the
northwest considered equal of the size
to any in the older States, but we have
’ received from Hemstead and other coun
ties specimens of as fine apples as were
ever eaten. Peaches, plums, apricots,
giow freely and finely. Tobacco has
been tried in almost every county north
of us, and iu some south of this point—
Saline, Hot Spring and Prarie. In eve
ry case the crop grew finely, and the
tobacco of an excellent quality. The
vine, it is almost needless to say, is in
degenous to the soil. In time vineyards
will be common, and native wines banish
the bottled cider and compounds of log
wood and other drugs now sold by tho
the names of champagne, port, and sher
ry. The cereals grow abundantly, and
many of our counties are now wheat ex
porting.
North and west Arkansas offer supe
rior inducements to the sheep raiser.—
We are satisfied that the merino sheep
would attain its utmost perfection on the
hills and prairies of our State;. Our win
ters are so short that it would not be
necessary to provide large quantities of
hay and grain for the subsistence of the
sheep during the winter months. Land is
cheap, and the natural pasturage is excel
lent to the very tops of the hills and
mountains. From such exj>eriments as
have been tried, it is demonstrated that
sheep increase here as fast as in any other
country. The wool here is superior to
English wool, because our climate is *
better one. In Spain, where the merino
fleece is of so fine a texture, the climate is
much like ours. English and Scotch
sheep have heavier but coaruer fleece.—
The Bengalese sheep were taken to Aus
tralia some fifty years ago. There are
now ten millions there, and sixteen mil
lions of dollars worth of wool annually
exported. At the foot of our mountains
and hills are prairies and bottom lands.
During the summer the sheep would
seek the cool air of the mountains j in the
winter the shelter of the valleys and
river bottoms. The range is so exten
sive, the natural grass so plentiful, and
the land so cheap, that it seems to us no
country can offer so many and so valua
ble inducements to the sheep raiser.
Little Rock Democrat.
Early Marriages.—' Tacitus says that
early marriages make us immortal. It
is the soul and chief prop of empire. The
man who resolves to live witbwt woman
and the woman who resolves to live with-*
out man, are enemies to the community in
which they dwell, injurious to themselves
destructive to the world, apostates from
nature, rebels against heaveu and earth,
and fail to carry out the design of their
Creator,