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VOL. XIV.
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From the Knickerbocker Magazine.
STRAY LEAVES*
From the Port-Folio of a Georgia Lawyer
(in Washington City.)
I remember very well once coming
from one of the halls of Congress after
having listened attentively to” a dehate
which commenced on the “Annexation
of Cuba,” and ended on “Progress.”
The last speaker, a Senator from Ken
tucky, had entered into a discursive lec
ture on the various kinds of progress go
ing on upon the face of the earth, a”nd
some ot his statements had made a lasting
impression upon me. Mis oft-repeated
query, “11 hat is progress?” haunted my
ears, and followed me to my hotel; and
as F entered my chamber in the evening
twilight, I flung myself in an arm chair
before the bright fire, and repeated aloud :
“W hat is progress ?”
And then I went ofl” into a deep reve
rie. All my early life flashed hack up
on my mental vision; the beautiful scenes
of my young childhood; the tender cares
of my gentle mother-one “whose womb
never bare me, and whose breasts never
gave me suck,” and yet whose fostering
love rescued me from an untimely graved
and strewed the sweetest blossoms of
affection and happiness across my path;
of my noble-hearted father, with his
plowing genius and unconquerable humor;
of my dear brother, whose death flung
such a pall upon my life; of the little
rose-buds that sprung up beside tne, and
” h:ch the angel Deal!) broke from the
parent stern ere they had unfolded, leav
ing that stem a withered and a drooping
plant. “A nd are all these passed away?”
I said, “and is this progress?” These
gray hairs gathering upon my brow; this
sadness settling upon my heart; this
weaiiness intruding itself upon my limbs;
is this progress ? If it be, I want none
of it. 1 would rather be the dull weed
that rots on Lethe s shore. Oh for m v
happy boyhood again ! Oh for a draught
of the fountain of eternal youth !
“ Vou may have it if you will!” an
swered a soft sweet voice beside tne.
1 looked up in amazement, for I had
scarcely known that i had spoken aloud.
1 felt ashamed of my absence of mind,
for I ought to have remembered that
there was no privacy in Washington life,
and no security from impertinent, intru
sions except by bolted doors,
“Pardon me,” continued my visitor,
“but 1 have unintentionally overheard
your soliloquy; and I repeat, you may
have it if you will. It is at my command,
but listen to me first, and then decide;
lor know, that the draught once quailed,
its effect cannot be recalled, and the
youth you long after will be yours forev
er. j ime itself will grow old: genera
tion after generation wilt spring up around
you, mature, wither and pass away; but
the bloom of eternal youth will be upon
oti, and though you long for the rest ol
n„ iHenlly as the lover for ihe af
ttclion of ins .distress, it will not, cannot
come to you. Wiii you have it upon
the.->e terms ?”
He stood quietly before me awaiting
my answer, tie was a young man, ap
parently nut over twenty-five years old,
with a fine manly countenance, in the
bloom ot health and vigor, but with a
shade of sorrow upon his brow.
u And who are you,” asked I, ‘ : that
offers so generously, so rich a boon?
You had better retain it,” I added, in
credulously, ‘‘that you may preserve
your own youth and manliness.”
“Alas!” he said, “I need it not for
any such purpose. I have already tasted
iU waters, and 1 can never put aside its
ell jets until the end of all things is at
hand. More than two centuries have
already passed over my head, and 1 long
i <r tny rest of the grave; but ah! its
*>"atiuws come not to me. As wave alter
wave ot human ocean have rolled up
will) its beauty and its majesty, with its
tide of human sympathy and mortal affec
tion, 1 have sought to linger upon its
summit, but it has glided from beneath
me and passed away, leaving me to re
peal the same effort with each succeed
jng wave, and with the same vain result
1 have no one that 1 care for; even when
my heart clings to some fljeling object,
it is lorn quickly from its hold, leaving
that heart to weep tears of blood; the
sweet consciousness of having someone
These “Leaves” resemble Ju.|e Charlton’s
writings so much that we are inclined u believe
they arc Irom Ins pen. —[Em. Rkpcb.
®I)C #eorgfft Htfttv&onian.
who will mourn my fate when I die, is
not for tne. ] have no hope, and even
the excitement of fear is denied to me.
Oh cursed hour when 1 quaffed the wa
ters of that life-giving fountain ! when I
put an end to all human sympathy, and
left myself an isolated wretch, with this
mockery of perpetual bloom upon my
cheek, and this reality of perpetual sor
row upon my heart !”
“But who are you, and how did you
obtain it ? and how is it that while you
huve been unable to give it to those you
loved, you now offer it to a mere strati
ger ?”
“Listen to me, and I will tell you. 1
was born . But there, is the sound
of your supper-gong; I will tell youl.eie
after.”
I here was the sound of the gong, sure
enough, but where was the man? 1
looked about in vain for him, hut either
he had vanished quickly, or he was hut
the creature of my dreams. Quien sabe?
It he were born of that deep reverie, his
paternity must lie traced either to that
Kentucky Senator, or to the soft and
wooing influences of that luxui ions chair,
and that cheerful fire. Again I say Qttien
sabe ? But tie was gone, and he came
no more, although half-doubtingiy, half
laugliingly. I waited for him in the dim
twilight. And again a deep reverie came
upon me, but this time it was the sober,
second thought: of practical reason.
“And Ibis is ‘progress,’ ” I said; “to
walk humbly and cheerfully in the path
of God’s providence; to scatter the bless
ings which Me puts within our hands to
the poor and wounded Me has placed
around us; to drop the tear upon the
blossom Me plucks from our bosom—the
tear of sorrow for our deep affliction
the tear of hope and joy for the blessed
assurance that it is transplanted to a
lovelier bovver, where it will continue to
unfold in an eternal sunshine; to scan the
map of life which Me has spiead before
us, and to leach to our fellow mortals
the many brilliant lessons we may* learn,
if we will; to continue to develope our
faculties and our usefulness, with our
eyes continually 7 fixed upon a brighter
land; and then, when time steals from u>
our energies and our wisdom, to let oui
soul’s progress still lie upward, until
death releases it from its fleshly taberna
cle, leaving it to soar to that realm where
only the fountain of perpetual youth bub
bles up, arid where the ‘spiritual body’
shall continue to ‘progress’ through the
endless cycles of eternity, gathering new
strength and new beauty on its onward
march.
Perhaps there is no part of the earth
where more ludicrous scenes take place
than in Washington. 1 lie gathering to
gether of people from al! parts of the
world, the varied interest, and the num
berless claimants, all help to (mm gro
tesque incidents, which, if they could be
skillfully combined by a master-hand,
would create a soul under the ribs of
death. Haying neither the time nor the
ability, I will only mention one. There
is iu the Senate a gentleman of distin
guished talent, of fine personal appear
ance and of inimitable wit. Onone win
dy morning he was wending his way
through a by-street when a gust blew off
his hat. It had scarcely touched the
ground before a huge New Foundlanu
dog pounced upon it, and ran away b ar
ing it as a trophy. Jbe Senator, unwil-
Itng to part so summarily with his new
beaver, pursued the felon, and the scene
became highly exciting to the people of
the metropolis, who, delighted with any J
incident that could give amusement, were
thrown into perfect ecstacies of i<.y at
seemg the race between the dog and the
Senator, the one plunging al his utmost
speed with the hat between his teeth,
and the other, his long hair stream in- i„
1 te wind, and his stentorian voice makin
thea.r discordant with a multitude Jf
fierce entreaties and impressive threats,
pursuing with frantic, strides the caitiff
quadruped. Finding that his biped an
tagonist was gaining upon him, the thief
fled into an open door, and in too went
Ins parsuer. The dog dashed up a fli-ht
of stairs, and up dashed the Senator”—
i he dog fleJ into a chamber, and there,
100, ran the avenger; and there they both
encountered a beautiful girl who was
just toftitig herself at her morning toilette,
and who was scarcely in a condition to
teceive so unexpected a visit.
“What do you want, you wretch?”
said the lady, with flashing eye and in
dignant scowi, to the Senator.
Aly hat !” answered the somewhat
affiighted, but still determined intruder;
“my hat, which your rascally do<>- has
stolen from me !”
“J believe that dog is Satan ! ’ mutter
ed the lady; and then fiercely added to
the dog: “give him his hat, Sir!” which
the quadruped instantly obeyed. “And
~pw, be off with you, you pack of fiends!”
[to the d->g and to the Senator;) and
rushing at tn*>.n they both lied down stairs
in congenial terror, forgetting in their
present panic their fortnei difference.—
Ihe crowd in the street received them
with three hearty cheers, and the honored
representative of a noble State went
home with his rescued chapeau in his
hand, (to guard against a repetition of the
direful occurrence,) hut with a more
humble and subdued spirit than had ever
before throbbed within his bosom.
1 have learned a lesson,” he said
when lie had reached home*and wiped
his brow: “two, | may say. One is to
hold on my hat of a windy day, the oi her,
and more important, is never, under any
circumstances, to rush into a room: where
a lady is dressing; for of all the fierce
volcanoes that nature ever produced the
most terrific is an angry woman ! NVhv,
(added he with an impressive gesture,
and a slightly subdued expletive,) there
was lightning enough in that girl’s eyes
to have tarnished the material for a do
zen tropical storms, and enough left over
tor a brilliant aurora-borealis !”
13ut the story lacks the mingled tone
ot lun and ot terror which the hero gives
it, and which is so provocative of mirth,
that one ot the must distinguished and
lamented statesmen of the land, whenever
he heard it, or it casj>e hack to his reco
GRIFFIN, (GA.) THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 24, 1853.
lection, would give way to uncontrollable
laughter, even when the heavy hand of
disease had grasped his form —a grasp
that was never relaxed until the victim
slept in death !
Washington City , Dec. 28, 1532
fFiO'n tlic Baltimore Sun. J
Lecture of Dr. Kane on the Arc ic Regions
and his New Expedition.
The great Lecture Hall of the Mary
land Institute was densely crowded on
Thursday evening liy an intelligent audi
ence of ladies and gentlemen, attracted
by the announcement oT a lecture by the
intrepid and scientific adventurer, Dr. E.
K. Kane, on “ The Physical Aspects of the
Arctic Regions, in connection with, the search
after Sir John Franklin, and the.. Discovery
of an Open Volar Sex.” The attendance,
at the lowest estimate, was fully three
thousand persons, and notwithstanding the
learnecf speaker lays no claim to the title
of but merely yields to the calls
upon him as a matter of necessity, in order
to express publicly his sympathy for the
lost navigators, and to explain the grounds
for his belief In their possible existence,
and of the existence of an open sea at the
North Pole, the closest attention and in
tercut was,.inanifested throughout the de
livery of his argumentative discourse, which
reflects high credit upon lxku as a geo
grapher and man of letters.
Doctor Kane opened liis lecture with a
brief sketch of the progress of geographi
cal science. He remarked that there were,
at this day, great areas awaiting the ex
ploration of civilized men. He instanced
the region of the Arctic search.
After calling the attention of the audi
ence to the discovered features of this re
gion and to the deductions from the grand
generalizations of physical geography as
to its area and configuration, he dwelt
more at length upon the arguments in fa
vor of the existence of a Polynya or icelcss
sea, shut in by an annulus of circum-polar
ice. He presented a lucid analysis of the
laws of current-action as obtained from the
results of the Coast Survey and the Ger
man Hydrographcrs. These arguments
were illustrated by diagrams suspended a
bove the platform, and led to most inter
esting and satisfactory inferences as to the
mildness of the weather and the fluidity of
the region about the pole. In this con
nection the lecturer refered to the migra
tion of animal life to the North —a migra-
tion observed at the utmost limits of north
ern travel attained by man. The flight of
birds, of the ducks, auks and petrels—the
i novement northward of the mammalia of
1 he sea, the tnsky walrus, the polar bear,
ind the reindeer travelling in herds, “a
f irest of moving antlers.” He alluded to
I lieutenant Maury, as an early and elo
q tent advocate of the existence of the
P olynya, a gentleman who possessed that
rt re union of powers of generalization with
tfc 3 technical labors of official routine.
Dr. Kane said that, more than a year
ago, he came before the Institute as a
siti ter on behalf of the crews of Sir John
Fr mklin. That since then practical sym
pathy and liberality had not been idle, and
tlia t lie now appeared before them on
tho eve of a second departure for the Arc
tic i ?a. That engrossed as lie was with
the i cares of organizing this second expe
ditio i, nothing coaid have induced him to
acctq t tiie invitation of the Maryland In
stitute, but i': : s anxiety to state before his
fellow -members of that body, how much
was due to their ; ‘ssociation, and more es
pecially f to two of r.hs members.
The nice relatione he said, which should
subsist between an ok ccr of the Navy and
his chieif, forbade hi n tv"'allude to one of
those ge. ntlemcn in t rthcr terms than those
of siinpl 3 personal e ;ratitu ‘le—of the other
he could speak with more freedom. Mr.
George Peabody bad contributed ten thou
sand doll irs in ait 1 of the expedition—a ■
gentleman whose ? unostentatious liberality
was too well knov m to require a notice at
his hands. Dr. F here read a portion
ot a letter from y .r. Peabody, in which he,
with characterif tic modesty, expressed
himself as “prom lto follow in the footsteps
of Henry Grinne 11.” (This was received
by the large an? lienee with deafening ap
plause )
The point of t leparturc of the new expe
dition in search of Sir John Franklin would
be Smith’s Soua l, a point recommended
by many advatr I ‘ages which the lecturer
enumerated, an l was two hundred and
twenty miles fa? ther north than the start
ing point of Sir Edward Belcher.
The party wt mid consist of some thirty
men, a couple c 1 f launches, sledges, dogs
and gutta-pnrcl ia boats. The provisions
would be comp< >sed mainly of pemmican,
a concentrated ii miinal food, the preparation
of which the le* t ?turcr described, packed in
cases impregua hie to the assaults of the
polar bear.
Leaving the United States iu the brig
furnished by At *. Grinnell, the Advance, at
the ealiest perio lof navigation, they would
enter the icc of Melville Bay, force their
way to the ext ‘erne navigable point, and
there secure th i 3 vessel for the winter.—
They would th< n press forward with sledge
and launch. 1 ‘lie sledge (large drawings
of which were shown to the audience)
would constitut 3 a most important feature
of the lecturer’! plan of search. Each of
these, construct 3il principally of hickory,
and with great \ cave, would carry the blan
kets, furs and a measured allowance of
food for six met i. A light tent of India
rubber-cloth wo aid be added for use when
ever the main dt ‘pendeuce of the nightly
halt, the suow-l ouse of the Esquimaux,
might uot be des ! rablc.
The lecturer pi etured .an Arctic sledg
ing party on the i uarcb. The gnarled and
bristling expanse o 1 ice, st veaked with the
water leads, black stream. \ from which
arises that strange , mist , “the frost smoke.”
Six men harnessed t 5 each si adge, moving
with steady gate—it 1 front, s< ?me twenty
paces, compass in hat lf *> their leader. A
ridge of ice stops tliel l ’ way, r ‘sing some
twenty feet in air, the sledge is unladen,
and piece by piece its fre. tght is car. ‘ied over.
A stream of water cross, e. ? their p *th, the
gutta-percha boats are bro, ight inti * requi
sition, and the water passed • The party
halt for the night—their t lay’s journey,
long in hours, has brought fc, lein some ’ t° n
miles on their way—ten miles in astrai ?ht
line—a good day’s perform mce for an
Arctic sledging party. The snow hou w
is built, or the tent is pitched—upon the
snow is spread a covering, water-proof, on
that a wolfs skin—Pemflfcean soup makes
the chief dish for the supper. Pipes are
lit, each man, covered to the hips by a
blanket bag, draws a second wolfskin over
him, and seeks in sleep the rest which is
ito support him on the morrow.
The greatest sledge journey on record
was that of his friend Mr. Kennedy, late
commander of the “Prince Albert,” who
accomplished nearly l,4oP:nilcs—most of
it in mid-winter, his only food Pemmican
—his only shelter the snow house. Mr.
Kennedy was now a volunteer to serve
upon the expedition.
The line of travel which the lecturer
hoped to pursue, was one due north beyond
the limits of record travel—-a line of trav
el rendered most valuable l|y the light to
be thrown upon many of the undetermined
points of the distribution of heat upon the
surface of our planet—upon the great
questions of the amount and direction of
the earth’s magnetic forces—upon the
great mystery of northern migratory life.
He noticed the interest shown by Profess
or Henry, of the Smithsonian Institution,
by Professor Bachc, of the coast survey,
and by the Secretary of the Navy, him
self a votary ofsciepec in.the organization
of a scientific (Wps in coqjs*ction with the
expedition. V” -
The question, Dr. Kane concluded,
whether the party of Sir John Franklin be
dead or alive, was not to be considered in
connection with the obligations of a se
cond search—the duty of attempting to
solve the mystery of their fate rests with
us.
The gallant speaker was often interrupt
ed by loud* applause as he proceeded, and
the conclusion of his lecture was followed
by long continued marks of approbation.
[From the New York Tribnno.J
Talk with One of the Chinese.
Dr. Gihon, who has in his charge the
Chinese troupe of jugglers, &c. to the
number of fifteen persons, male and female,
called with Assam, (one of the most in
telligent of the Celestials,) —at this office
yesterday, to invite us to a Chinese rehear
sal at the Broadway theatre. Assam
speaks English, having been a Canton tea
dealer, and, in that capacity having had
the advantage of considerable intercourse
with English and American merchants.—
He knows but little, however, of the inte
rior of the country, and was totally igno
rant of the late revolutionary movements
against the reigning imperial dynasty.—
lie is, however, pretty well informed con
cerning the Chinese in California. He es
timates the number now in that country at
no less than fifty thousand. These are al
most entirely men, having left their female
attachments at home, to await their return
to the “Central Flowery Kingdom.” And
a few hundred dollars being a fortune to a
frugal Chinaman at home, h?„i* soon ena
bled, from his good qualities of industry,
temperance, and economy, to return and
establish himself as an aristocrat among
his late fellow-plebeians for the rest of his
life. There are, it is said, however, some
three hundred Celestial women of the
town in San Francisco, of the most aban
doned and shameless dissoluteness; and
these syrens being generally handsome,
and possessed of delicate, yet finely round
ed figures, seldom fail in fathering from
the returning miners a rich harvest e s
gold. Between these frail daughters of
the orient and gambling soloons, many a
poor fellow is wheedled out of the savings
of years of hard labor in the diggings, and,
after a few days or weeks is thrown as a
loafer upon the town, or driven back, pen
niless, to the mountains, if lie docs not
perish on the way. The late hostility a
gainst the Chinese working in the mines
has subsided. It grew out of an arrange
ment between certain English speculators
in Canton, and their gangs of Coolies,
hired at certain rates to work in the dig
gings considerably below the usual rates
of wages for the Caiuortila laisrar. This
caiioC of offence having been removed, the
Chinese are permitted to come and go, or
remain , without let or hindrance; and
they seldom give occasion for trouble, from
their peaceable, tractable, and sober habits.
The white rats of San Francisco -are a
Chinese importation,, and they swarm
through the city. No place in the world
is, perhaps, blest with a greater number
and variety of rats. First, there is the
gray wharf rat, originally from Norway,
but now common the world over; then
there arc the black and blue rats peculiar
to California; and last, though not least,
the white Chinese rat. This abundance
and variety of rats, no doubt, contributes
to make San Francisco so very attractive
to the Chinese. But it is due” to them to’
say, that with plenty of fish and rice, or
even of roast beef and plum pudding, they
are generally disposed to leave the mono
poly of sugar cured rats to the Mandarins.
This troupe of Chinese appear to have
discovered very few things in the .United
States superior to what is to be found in
China, excepting the California gold mines,
our steamships and railroads, and labor
saving machinery in general, in which they
arc very deficient. This deficiency, how
ever, reducing all sorts of manufactures to
the tedious processes of labor by hand, is,
however, the secret of the multiplication
of the Chinese nation to throe hundred
millions of people.
As an evidence of what they can do in
the way of architecture, wo are informed
that Parrott’s building in San Francisco,
of one hundred feet front, seventy or eigh
ty feet deep, and four stories high, all of
solid granite, was put up in Canton, block
by block, by Chinese workmen; and the
blocks being all numbered, the building
was then taken down, put aboard ship,
brought across the Pacific, say ten thou
sand miles, and re-erectcd in San Francis
co by the same hands.
Taking our troupe of jugglers as an av
erage sample of the Chinese, they are evi
dently, as compared with any of the Euro
pean stocks, an inferior race of people.—
They are a small boned, feeble bodied race,
the men being slender for their height,
and dark as Choctaw Indians, with awk
ward high cheek bones, angular eyes, ltfrgo
ears, set high upon their heads, and fiat
noses —the whole facial conformation be
ing far inferior in dignity and strength of
character to that of the North American
Indian. The Chinese women, on the oth
er hand, are of a much lighter complexion
—their features arc softer and finer, with
a very striking expression of amiability
and gentleness; while their limbs are deli
cate, and their forms round, graceful and
well developed. The tricks of this troupe
in tho arts of legerdemain, are oriental,
and some of them arc exceedingly well
dotie. After the circuit of the principal
cities of the United States, they propose
to visit Europe. The double-jointed dwarf
is their greatest curiosity, and next to him,
we regard their peculiar articles of dress,
and the richness and high finish of some of
their silken Chinese robes. But the glance
at these people in the lump is certainly cal
culated to dispel the delusive idea of the
elevation of China to onr standard of civili
zation, short of a thousand years to come.
From llie Dalton Times.
“Light from tho Spirit World.”
We have been favored with many mani
festations and much information from
the “ Spiritual World” by reading the
“Light from the Spirit World?,” a papei
which we have received from St. Louis,
Mo. devoted “to the dissemination of
light on spiritual intercourse.” We are in
the same dilemma with the Editor of the
Griffin Jeffersonian. If there is any truth
in these “spiritual manifestations,” they
are too deep, or we are too shallow, to un
derstand them, notwithstanding there
are men of the highest order of talent
who have become convinced that the
“manifestations” made through the “me
diums” actually come from the spirit land.
—Yet, with all this, we are an unbelie
ver, and it will require some very severe
“rappings” to mall us ioto belief God
has given us the Bible, by which we are
to he governed. In it we are told that
this world shall finally be destroyed by
fire. But when? Not even the angels in
Heaven know. Yet the “spirits,” through
there “mediums,” are informing mankind
that the day is near at hanJ, yea “that
the earth is already on fire.” The voice
of I’hos. Jefferson is heard from the spirit
land, and a long communication from his
spirit is published in the “Light of the
World,” declaring in the most emphatic
terms the reality of the “rappings.” It
seems ftom his communication that he
has turned abolitionist, and great is his la
mentation, because he, while on earth,
opposed this doctrine. Humbuggery!
we can’t believe it, and it strikes us very
forcibly that these rappings tnav yet turn
out to be a mere ruse, put on foot by these
abolitionists to delude the ignorant and
unsuspecting into the belief that their
damnable “higher-law’’ doctrines are
sanctioned in Heaven. —lt is true that
the manner of making these raps is veiled
in mystery, and this is one great reason
why people believe that “spirits have
something to do with it.” It fails, how
ever, to convince us. —We look upon it as
an invention concocted to carry out some
deep laid scheme. Could some of those
who have been buried a century 7 ago, be
brought to life and carried to the city of
New York, and there shown, without
explanation, the many inventions of man
since their day, what w 7 ould be their con
sternation? What would they think of
our steam vessels, our rail roads, balloons,
or Ericsson’s Caloric Ship? Were they
iu Boston and could see an hundred bells
commence ringing, by tne aid of Electri
city, how would :!:*y account for it. —
Set Ben. Franklin down in the press de
partment of tiie “Daily Sun ” office, and
we’ll wager our “goose quill” he could
not tell where he was! We can point
you back to a time, even in your own
recollection, when the idea of conveying
intelligence from Philadelphia *to New
York was looked upon as a humbug —an
impossibility 7 . And now it can be carried
thousands of miles in a minute. Now
we do nol mean to prove by these inven
tions that the “spiritual telegraph” is
not a humbug, but on the contrary that
the spiritual pari of it is the greatest
humbug that waSmver invented, and that
these laps are made by means of some
invention of which a majority of man
kind as yet are ignorant, and that it has
lor its object the carrying out the doc
trine of Abolitionism, or some other of
the “isms” of those “higher law” fanat
ics, vvho have, in all human efforts, failed
to convince the intelligent of the truth ol
their doctrines.
Abolitionism and UniversaliMn are both
favored by the spirits who have spoken
in the “Light from the Spirit World.”
The spirit of an Editor has also made
some remarks, but so many of them are
in the habit of puffing and lying for pay,
that we consider it unnecessary to notice
them, and consider them an intrusion
upon th<? public, for we have no doubt
he bored them enough before he “shuffled
off his mortal coil.”
We have no doubt that these spirits
will he a great help to Uni versa! ism.—
Hear the spirit of Dr. Emmons, a preach
er of the doctrine of eternal punishment.
In speaking of his sermons he says:
“Would that those sermons were buried
in oblivion ! They are a curse to the
world, a dishonor to him who coul I be
- or utter such sentiments —a libel on
the character of a just and holy God.”
Oh, ye preachers of eternal punishment,
“do not grope in darkness longer.”—
Throw aside your Bible, and quit preach
ing the doctrine of eternal punishment,
for it is false, or at least this spirit says
so. Four fifths of the Christian world
are ignorant, or have misinterpreted the
Holy Bible, or this spirit is no spirit at
all, and knows nothing of the other world.
Now which way will you take it? We
adhere to the latter opinion and believe
it is no spirit at all.
One word mote and we close this spi
litual article. We do not believe in the
first place that a spirit has the power of
conversing with those or. earth, i’ e also
believe that if they had the power to do
so, that power came from God alone,
and that if God gave them power to give
light from the spirit world he would also
have given them the power to have effect
ed their object without the aid of a news
paper, at a subscription pi ice of “one dol
lar and twenty five cents per annum, and
advertisements “inserted at usual price.”
I The Sugar Manufacture.
The following interesting account of
the first attempt to make sugar in Lou
isiana, *s from the Iteport of the United
! States Bofetit Office, for 1847:
I The sugar-oone in Louisiana was in
troduced at an earlv day from the West
Indies, and cultivated lc> a small extent at
I erre atix B.t iff, and in the neighborhood
ot New’ Orleans. Nobody at firsi ima
gined that sugar could he made of it. ‘I he
juice was boiled into syrup which sold at
extravagant prices. In 1799 Mr. Bore,
residing a few milps above New Orleans,
a man reputed.fur his daring and his en
ergy, formed'the desperate resolve of
making sugar. ..He increased his cultiva
tion, put up the .necessary buildings and
machinery, and procured a sugar maker
from the West Indies. The day appoint
ed for the experiment was come, and the
operation was under way. The inhabi
tants ot New Orleans and the coast had
assembled there in great numbers; but
they remained outside of the building, at
a respectable distance from the sugar
maker, whom they looked upon as a sort
of magician. The first strike came, and
he said nothing; this they thought fatal,
but still they remained fixed to the spot.
The second strike was oui; the sugar
maker carefully stirred the first, and then
advancing towards the assembled crowd,
ibid them with all the gravity of his craft,
“Gentlemen, it grains,”—“it grains” was
repeated by all. They all rushed in to
see the wonder; and when convinced of
the fact, scattered in all directions, greet
ing everybody they met, with “itgrains!”
And liom the Balize to the Dubuque,
from the Wabash to the Yellow Stone,
the great, the ali-ahsoi hing news of the
colony was, that the juice of the cane
had grained, in lower Louisiana. It did
grain; it has continued to grain; it
grained the last season at the rate of
215,000,000 pounds, and if no unto*
ward action of the Government prevents
it, in ten years it will gr..in to the extent
of more than double the quantity.
Lola Montez and her Maid.
The New Orleans 2 Vue Della , of
Wednesday, says that on the previous
day Lula iVJuntez had a quarrel with her
maid, who demanded payment for her
*vork and dismissal from service, and urged
the demand with so much democratic da
ring, that the Countess grew furious, and
forgetting the aristocratic distinctions of
rank, “pitched into her,“ vulgarly so
speaking, and gave her what a comical
Irishman, said to have been named Paddy,
once gave a drum.
The maid then proceeded to the Re
corder’s office and obtained a warrant for
Lola’s arrest, which two officers of the
city police attempted to execute at her
residence.
The Ztonseuse, however, refused to
submit to the law, and threw herself on
her dignity, and declared that she was a
Countess. The officer declared that
Coun’.esses did not pass cunent in this
country. Then drawing a dagger, the
fair Lola declared that she would defend
her own liberty and honor.
Matters had now arrived at a pretty
pass. The flashing eye of tiie heroine of
Bavaria was as fearful and brilliant as
the bright blade which she held in her
dexter hand, and the two officers quailed
before her.
At length when one of them engaged
the attention of the heroine in front, and
with a bravery which did honor to his
Moslem badge, parried her passes, the
other, by a counter movement, made an
attack from the rear, and seized the
Countess by the arms. Now came the
tug of war. The Countess lost her dirk,
hut her teeth were left, and she used
them on the hands and persons of her
opponents with an energy which proved
their soundness.
While this stdVm was goins on within,! \
the friends of the Countess gathered ,
around her dwelling, and appeared to be
sadly grieved at the turn which things
had taken. Some of them at length got
. “ O j
into the room, and the C.'ountess, by a
move, fur a moment obtained her liberty, ‘
at their request.
She then stepped up to the sideboard, ‘
seized a small vial labeled poison, svval- 1
lowed its contents, and then, with a tri- ‘
umphant voice, exclaimed : “JYour I shall
be free from all further indignity •/” It ’
followed of course, that the Countess
fainted, came to, smoked two segars,
fainted again, and the officers, though
doubting the reality of the poison, were
fain to leave their fair arrestee, under a
promise by her friends, that in due time
she would appear before the Recorder.
The True Delta concludes its state
ment by saying that the matter has been
compromised between the mistress and
her maid, and that the poison has luckily
turned out most harmless.
The Merchant’s Clerk and the
Plowboy. The young man who leaves
the iarm-field for the merchant’s desk,
or the lawyer’s or doctor’s office, think
ing to dignify or ennoble his toil, makes
a sad mistake. He passes, by that step,
from independence to vassalage. lie
barters a natural for an artificial pursuit,
and he must be the slave of the caprice
of customers and the chicane of trade,
either to support himself or to acquire
fortune. The more artificial a man’s
pursuit, the more debasing is it morally
and physically. To test it, contrast the
merchant’s clerk with the ploughboy.—
l'he former may have the most exterior
polish, but the latter, under his rough
outside, possesses the truer stamina.—
He is the freer, franker, happiar, nobler
man. Would that young men might
judge of the dignity of labor by its use
fulness and manliness, rather than by the
sup erficial glosses it wears. Therefore
we never see a man’s nobility in his kid
gloves and toilet adornments, but in that
sinewy arm, whose outlines, btowned by
tbe sun, betoken a hardy, honest toiler,
u nder whose farmer’s ot mechanic’s ves t
a kindliest heart may beat.— Hunt's Mag
azine.
T“The man who has no music in his
soul” was last week seen listing to a saw
fier while at work. The man seetne.l
hlighly deliahted.
Ihe Rino of Essex.”— Historical
readers (says the Philadelphia Bulletin)
are familiar w'ith the story respecting the
ring which Queen Elizabeth gave to her
favorite Essex, promising that she would
i interpose for him, even in his utmost
need, il he should send back that ring as
a token. The tale goes that when he
!e!l under her displeasure, and was sen
tenciod to the block, he dispatched the
nog to her Majesty by the Countess Not
tingham, hut mat the messenger, instead
of delivering the token, treacherously
withheld it; the consequence of which
was that Essex was executed, and that
Elizabeth, a year after, learning the per
fidy of which he and she had been victims,
pined away and died in less than a month’s
time. This romantic legend has lon
been regarded as a fiction, and given over
to novelists as their proper prey—
Bu. a work lately published in‘•’London
Lives and Lellera of the Derereaux,
Cai sos Essex,” contains documents that
renuer the truth of the tradition probable
W say the least. |„ foe,, , be Lon j o „’
Athenaeum, which is hyjno means a cred
ulous journal, declares its full belief in
the story, and asserts that the identical
ring, a plain gold one, w'ith a ‘portraits of
Elizabeth, is still in existence. Truth
certainly is often stranger than fiction,
and the incident, besides, is eminently
of the Queen. Perhaps
historical writers have heen too skeptical,
for these last hundred years, in reitetino
everything which, like this tale, had an
air of romance.”
Ignorance cf female modes of speech
often leads to great misunders*andW
A lady who says, “! would not make a
tright of myself,” means, generally, that
she neglects nothing, however minute, to
make herself attractive. With another,
“to be decent,” means to have a mass
of beautiful lace, and a little fortune in
diamonds.
Politicians make fools of themselves
pettifoggers make fools of others, and
pretty gnls make fools of both. ‘
Mrs. Partington asks, very indignantly,
if the bills before Congress are not coun -
terfeit, why should there he such difficul
ty in passing them ?
An American now travelling in Eu
rope, says that “Dutch babies are the
most phlegmatic, contented, independent
looking creatures on the face of the globe.
They never cry. In order to test this, t
pinched several of tlmn as I passed
in the crowd. One of them slightly
yawned; the others merely gazed placid
ly me, hut made no sign.”
i he London hints that another
interesting event, in all human probabil
ity, will tike place in April next, in the
royal household.
A hotel b to be built at Cape May
wriich will have thirteen hundred apart
ments, and is designed to accommodate
two thousand five hundred guests. Two
of the parlors will be each two hundred
feet long and eighty in width. The di
nmg room will be four hundred feet Ion”-
y fifty-Iwe wide, and will accommodate,
two thousand persons.
hive years ago, this day,” say’s a”
writer in hrazer’s Magazine, “Louis Na
poieon Bonaparte was three years in ar
rear of rent in the parish of'St. James.
He could not pay his tailor’s or his up
holster’s, or his wine merchant’s bill, or
meet ona half of his engagements in the
city or at the West end.”
Ihe rats are said to be leaving Texa
in disgust. They are reported “o have
taken up their line of march westward,
and to attack indiscriminately everything
of a vegetable nature in their way/ The
ferryman at the Sequin, crossing of the
Guadaloupe river, killed fifteen hundred
of them in one day.
Breaking Ground. —The last Atlanta
Republican say’s —“We would not wish
to be thought officious, but we are a citi
zen ot Georgia, and have a right to speak,
it the people of the sth District w ish to
oe well represented in the next Congress
they ought to send Judge Underwood
and if the people of the State wish ta
have the right person for Governor, the
ought to iuu Judge Trippe.”
A Ship Load of Wives. —An immense
emigrant ship, called the Caroline Chis
holm, Is about to sail from Southampton,
for Australia, with nine hundred young
women, of good character, as emigrants.
Mrs. Chisholm, who hits taken great in
terest in the emigration movement, is to
accompany them. The expectation is,
that all these “gentle creatures” will be
eagerly sought for in marriage by indus
trious and hardy miners, farmers, and
shopkeepers.
Effects of Cold in* High Latitudes.
—lt was necessary to be very carefut
with oat drinking caps. Tin never suit
ed, for it always adhered to tbe lips, and
took a portion of the skin with it. A
dog attempting to lick a little fat from an
iron shovel, stuck fast to it, and dragged
it by means of his- tongue, until by a sud
den effort he got clear, leaving several
inches of the skin and adjacent tissue on
the cold metal. One of the seamen en
deavoring to change the size of the eye
of tbe splice in his tuck-rope, put the
marling-spike, after the true sailor fash
ion, into his mouth; the result was that
he lost a great portion of the skin of his
lip and tongue.— Dr. Sutherland's Journal
of a voyage to Baffin's Bay.
When Tom and Jack first entered the
place where ideas are “taught to shoot;”
the teacher calling them up, according
to custom, said to the former: “Well my
fine lad, what is your name ?”
“Tom,” promptly answered the juve
nile.
“Tom,”said the teacher—“that doesn’t
sound well. Remember always to spealc
the full name. You should have said
Tliom-as. Now my son (turning to the
other boy, whose expectant face sudden
ly lighted up with tbe satisfaction of a
new-comprehended idea,'} now then will
you tell me what your name is?”
■ “Jack-as /” replied the lad very r natu
rally, and in a tone of confident decision.
No. 8.