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Newspaper Page TextVOL. XIV. THE GEORGIA JEFFERSONIAN IS PUBLISHED EVERY TmIItSDAT MORNING BY WILLAM CLINE, At Two Dollars and Fifty Ccais per an - sum, or Two Dollars paid in advitnco. A OVERT! SUM ENTS njV insi-rled nt O.Vfi DOLLAR prr =<;v.ire, for the (insl inst rtion, and FIFTY CE.\TS [>er square, for each insertion thereafter. A reasonahlo deduction will tie made to those who advertise by the. year. All advertisements not o’! erwiso < red, I te continued till forbid. ?r ZT 1 SALES OF LANDS by Administrators, Executors or Guardians are required bj law to be held on the first Tuesday in t tie month, between thn hours o'ten in the forenoon and three ill the afternoon, at the Court-House, in the county in which the land is situated. Notice of these sale, tou-'l be iri'-en in a public gazette FORTY DAYS pr'ious !o (lie dav of sale. iLHS OF .YOG ROES must be made al pub lic auction on the first Tuesda v of (lie monih, bc tw'.'en the usual hours of sale, at ihe place of pub lic silos i.i the county where llie letters Tesla nentnry, of AdinioistiMlion or Guardianship may ipvo been granted; (irs.t giving FORTY DAYS notice* (hereof in one of the public gazettes of this Mat-*, and at thee- ml house who e such sales arc (••* *xi tietd. .Notice f.r the sale of Personal Property must I**- given in like manner FORTY DAYS previous t-i 1 he and a v of sale. Not'.-c to Debtors and Creditors of an estate must be pit dished FORTY DAYS. N'o’iee that application will be made to the Court fj) buarv f.r leave to sell land must be pub lish.-d for Tiro MONTHS, -N-it ire for leave to sell negroes most be published ITU G MONTHS before any order ab solute shall lie made thereon by the t.'-e C¥t.ll IO.VS (or Letters of n, must in published thirty r\t for Dismission from Aeuiinistration. monthn sis moeths; for I'is-eiss” rt frinn <jtini\i<-,;'iip, ?> oat ffn! s for ihe Foreclosure of Mortgage pu libs'led monthly FOR POOR MONTHS, for lishing lost papers, tor fin- full spree of three month- ; for compelling titles from Kxeeufors or Administrators, where a bond has been given by he • -eased, the full space of three months. From Ihe Musical Review St Advocate. Autobiography cf a Village Chorister. BY 2F.DEKIAH PHONOS. I’ve been trying {o unravel the precise train of events that first invested me with the dignity of village chorister.— * can recall no ambitious aspirings nor earnest longings in my early yoars, for its exalted functions; indeed I cannot even tel! when the sceptre became fully mine. I remember little of learning to sing; with Dogberry, 1 suspect it cama by nature. In my earliest childhood, I was said to have an “ear”—(many chil dren are apt to lie possessed of two such appendages) —for music, and was indul ged with permission io attend the usual winter’s singing school. There I became a so> t of favorite with the perigr inating teacher, who taught in our village seve ral successive seasons; and as I became more intimate with the hieroglyphic crotchets and quavers, occasionally a solo or leading passage was assigned to me. Beyond this ! neither sought, nor j vas anxious to rise. The fates ruled it , (uiierv-isr, and my manifest destiny must he fulfilled. One evening, now years ago, at some j meeting ro our church, or session room, it happened that Deacon Nasal, our long time oracle in psalmody, was absent, so also, Dr. Twangly, his usu 1 sccundns. *Sso, as the silence was unduly prolonged, having arranged for the instant co-opera tion of sister Sue’s clear, sweet voice, 1 made hold, or rather we made hold, to lead the hymns. Alas, for that entering wedge to a ca reer ot many pains and penalties. After this a like necessity occasionally would arise, ond i would lie looked into raising the tune And then, too, Dr. Twangly left our parts, and quite unconsciously 1 became Deacon Nasal’s alternate. Things wore on so for a while, hut grow ing infiiuiities kepi the deacon more often at homo; an 1 beside* certain of our young lady singers began to protest that they couldn’t endure deacon Nasal’s drawling, r. sis other woo'd dose their hooks when the* deacon begun to rub his spectacles •and bring out his tuning fork—which ia.;t, by the way, the nri'icious did not scruple to say was entirely superfluous, as he could not pitch by it. But suffice it, that from alternate, the mantle became wholly mine; deacon Nasal was she!fed and I became acknowledged as de* facto tl de jure, “our chorister.” Thencefor ward often full heavily have the duties at that office fai’en upon me. In season, and out of season; with choir or without eh tir; aMe I or a! me; v >ice clear as ihe bulbul’s, or harsh as the jackdaw’s; in the sanctuary or conference room; in the social meeting or the great congregation, has it been mine to sing for, to sing to, losing with, and eater for the mus'cal ex igencies of the community. Os low es teem, and thankless, perchance, the sta tion; and yet how imperious does the i icumbent feei llie must that hinds him to i.i-; -Sisyphean iequipments. For him n i rum, no sleet, may he ton severe; his place N expected to be filled. The Sab bath services, th weekly lecture, the evt-ni eg prayer meetings, and the fur era I occasion, all claim his unrequited ser vices. R equited! One were mad to name the though'; it must be purely a l ah <r of love Bsyotid I’.ii'i, how exichiog in require o.:- 0., how s!lid to mu:k oTences in the polyarchy which you serve. ’iis a tri bunal of self-ex oiled despots, arbitrary end exacting, in a'riving to please it, seldom ‘nave you the poor reward of pleasing yourself. Eicharbit r iipy & ;, ics he knows how your d'T’ies ought to ha performed. My especial advisers and critics are the two antiqae Misses Pipe winds. Tradition has it, that a quarter of a century ago, those Miss P.’s flourish ed as first treble singers; at all events, from a period beyond which runneth not * t tie memory of man, they ha vs regarded then!-, dees as oracles, aud 1 usually find ;hem maintaining a vigilant stand at the a , g of gallery stairs, at l! e doss of pub lic services, eigor to regal3 in3 with their edifying comm unis and ami tide criticism. Had the patient patriarch in his suffer i .gs bgen a chorister,-must fitly had lie exclaimed to die Miss Pipawirids and their compeers, “dfiserabiu comforters are ye all.” How warily, too, 0 chorister, must you move ii that ffiqmftheul of your ,!utv, the selection of tunes! Most per ,, ms the tusk ! Qii this side Saylla, on that Charybdis. ‘Armada’ mustn’t he chosen, for Mrs. S. can’t hear that tune Don’t sing ‘Elvira,’ Air. Highlow can’t reach the high nc#es of the tenor. ‘Bal fura’ must be avoided : it is so monoto nous. ‘lonia’ has been sung to death. ‘Lucca,’ nobody in the congregation knows. ‘Nivora’ is too chromatic.— ‘Dulcet,’ Miss Smith won’t sing. And what magic wand shall harmonize such elements ? Our model chorister must never be unmeet for his task, never he overcome by unfitness, by sickness or disease, as i other men are. Not long since a cold of uncommon severity was upon me: my throat irritable and sore, and speaking even painful. In this state, the evening : of our weekly lecture, always pretty well attended, came round. Taught by experience, I determined to stay at home; hut as the hour drew near, the force of habir, and I Would hope, too, an humble desire for good, overruled mv prudence, and taking a quantum of Mrs Jarvis’s candy in my pocket, with an extra muf fler about my neck, I wended my way ta the church, and took rather a retired seat. The first him read, I sat quiescent'. The unusual pause caused the turning as on pivots, of over two hundred heads, and brought four hundred eyes, (of course the Miss Pipewinds’ of the number) to bear at different angles of incidence upon ray figure. Being still statuesque , three hymn hooks were like pistols presented to my breast, for l had taken special pte caulion to leave mine at home. ’ Mv counter movement was three fearfully Sepulchral coughs agitating ihe farthest corner of my diaphragm. A repetition of the number of the hymn, with the read ing of the first line, now came like anew battle cry. The platoon of the books in front was reinforced by two more exten ded from the rear. I saluted these with a hoarse salvo of ‘ E/ioC half smothered in my handkerchief. Bless the dear people’s hearts, they thought it the preparatory hem to commence. But manfully I held my ground, when again was heard the hymn’s first line; and by a flash on the lenses of a pair of gold spectacles, l felt that two eves more were added to the four hundred of which I was already the focus; and through sharply scanning mufflers and besieging hooks, our good Dr. Divoto’s mild voice inquired ‘if Mr. Phonos were present?’ I capitulated in desperation; I seized a book, gave one broadside of expectora tion, and pitched’ into ‘Bothel.’ Abac! in my rashness, 1 had struck a fearfully high key, and there were five verses given out. There was no retreat; I dar ed not attempt to “flat down;” two hun dred strained lungs would have kept on their way; so I was fain to bi le the is sue. One consoling effect had that high ketyj it did the b'.’rincs.-t ft?r tfrft-t f’ ?n£ r ” lean, white haired young Cantus, who is bound to sing falsetto, especially in duels; aud a false set to he invariably makes of it. It was beyond Ins iutensest squeal, and ‘he gin out —he did.’ Since then, have I resigne! myself to my fate, and in spite of bronchia or glot tis, 1 shrink not from my lot. H->p!y like the dying swan, my latest breath shall float upward, a gush of melody. Terrible War among tlis Women.--La dies, to the Rescue! The war of the roses seems about to bp revived, in an improved shape, on this continent, and already the.horizon seems dark with the mighty events with which it is surcharged. The tug of war which is said to come when Greek meets Greek, is a pretty wrestling match when contrast ed with the onslaught of lil-tle women What may we not, therefore, expect when Mrs. S wisshshn puts.on her casque and lakes her pen in hand to annihilate Mrs. Tyler! A!I the world lias read the spirited re tort which the last mentioned lady made to the impertinent missive sent to the women of America by a coterie of pet ticoated aristocrats from Stafford House. Bit no ono was prepared for the terrible battery which Ms, Swiss he! n opened upon the devoted little cha npion of her country women. Mrs. Tyler is known to he the wife of an ex-Prcsidenl of the Uni ted State-.;-but her exasperated antag onist, though somewhat of a c lebrity in her own neighborhood, may not he so universally known. We m\y therefore inform the world that Jane Grey Swiss helm, as she signs her pronuncinmento, is the principal editor of the Pittsburg Saturday Visiter, of which her husband is the sub-editor; and that she stands in the vanguard of the nol le army of martyrs on whose banner is inscribed “Women’s rights and panta! ions.” Six months ago she announced that site had resigned the chair editorial, and taken to the nursing chair; but we suppose tha’, tired of such unworthey occupation, she.has again en tered the arena. To sun up their rela tive posili ms, Mrs. Swisshetm,may be re garded as the champion and represen tative of tha strong minded woman of Am erica, as Mrs Tyler is of those ladies who don’t Double themselves about the wo men’s magnet charla. This being Ihe condition of the combatants the challenge has been sounded by the Vmezmian party, and vve only waft now to sec whether the other side will show fi r ht. The ck tel c,on;>ut.s of a five column communica tion, published in Mis. Svvissholm’.s pl -and directed to the Duchess of Suth erland, as the judge of the tourney. This pronunciamento abounds in phrases and polysyllables calculated to annihilate poor Mrs. Tyler, who,r it denounces as the ‘little lady woujd-be-repiesentaliveof the-womon-of-America,’ who snarls with “ Bi ince-Charles-spaniel pugnacity.” Her letter is utterly repudiated, as tha “small reply ol a little Lady”—“one of those whose souls are mode on too small a pat tern.” Even her luckless spouse comes in for a. share of tho abuse, and- is descri tied as “a man whom a most afflictive dis pensation of Brovideuce once placed in our Presidential chair.” Now is the time for action. Jaclaosl alen! Wat is declared, and tha women ot America must enroll themselves under the banners of either of the great leaders It is not a mere Marc Antony and Deta- GRIFFIN, (GA.) THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH it), 1853. > vius contest for the mastery of the world. To the rescue, ladies! Remember, Ame rica expects every woman to do her du ty ! — N. Y. Herald, 22d inst. From the Nev Yerk Horne ‘ ’oz dfe. Memoranda on a Tour f >i. Health. BY N. P. WILMS. Caution to invalids—Climate of Savannah —First view of Savannah by moon-light —Curious effect of a city wholly bu ried in trees—Remarkable stillness of Savannah —Contrast between this city's habits and those of Havana—No poor people's resi dences—Effect, cf beauties of nature on character, etc. etc. I must record, for invalids, that it was cool at Savannah—cool enough for an in valid’s great coat—on the evening of May the second; I had hoped better for it. An old gentleman, to whom I sat next at the tea-table, said it was too cool for his daughter to leave her room. He was on his way with her to some more thermal re sort in Florida, of which I have forgotten the name. A pale lady in a blanket shawl sat opposite me. A summary and healing association comes up usually with the men tion of Savannah, the name being descrip tive of a pereaial feature of southern scene ry, and doubtless the general average of its temperature deserves it. Its caprices should be guarded against, however. It has long been the first refuge of the alarm ed and consumptive, and its history, truly written, would probably be that, of a “Bridge of Sighs,” by which many had re turned to health, and as many had passed on to remediless confirmation of disease. The bed-room candle, offered me by pru dence after tea, was outvoted by a brilliant moon light oat of doors —(a “tie-vote,” of course, on the republican principle, but the individual moon, to my thinking, being a majority over the individual candle) —and I started to get a first view of Savannah while she was probably looking her best. It was indeed a glorious night. And a more singular scene than that city first seen by moonlight, is not likely to fall of ten in the traveller’s way. It is laid out curiously, as the Guide Book tells—its plan a chequer-board, and every other equare a park—but the streets, besides, being lined with trees, and avannes being planted through the centre of the principal ones, the leaves form “a complete ceiling overhead, and no two stars are visible at a time, I should say, from any side-walk or throughfare in the entire municipality. I have sometimes felt, in the woods, a desire to climb up some tall tree and see out—and the same feeling comes over one, after a while, in walking along miles of a closely chequered carpet of light and shade, with a roof as closely-chequered and inter minable above. It occurred to me wheth er we might not leave out the sky a little tpo Kigali- occasionally, ill our improrc riionfg and beautifying^. Whether these overshadowing trees act on the city like the outspread hand with which a mother says “hush” to her children* is open to supposition; but, that some pe culiarly quietizing influence is exercised on the habits and characters of the inhabi tants, must be the stranger’s invariable im pression—though lie might balance be tween this explanation of it, and the town’s growing considerate, even in the shutting of doors, from its long use as a Mecca of invalids. So still a place, it seemed tome, I had never been in before. Constantino ple, with no wheels in its streets, and Ve nice, with its silent-gliding gondolas, are noisy to Savannah. It is true that the deep sand of every throughfare makes carts and carriages unheard, and the profusion of leaves may so thicken the air as to dea den the common reverberations—but there is a stillness more deep and universal than can thus obviously be accounted for.— I was there three Sundays (week days behaving themselves like Sundays, that is to say)—and the hush of this first evening, I was inclined to attribute partly to strict observance of the Sabbath, was, I afterwards found, the perpetual habit of the people. In my two hour’s ramble, I passed through whole streets without meet ing a soul. I scarcely saw ten persons al together, irt the two hours. Thinking the homos should be livelier, for the life not stiring abroad, I looked for open windows and lighted rooms—but tiie sign, even of a single lamp in the front apartments of houses, was strangely rare. There was everywhere the shut-up look of families ab sent. For long distances I saw nothing to disturb the idea forcibly suggested by the excessive foliage and the loneliness and silliness—that it was a silent city, desert ed but undecayed, which the growth of a luxuriant wilderness had overtaken and buried. It is curious that it should be but “across a ferry,” as it were, from Havana, the most out-doors-y city in the world, to Sa vannah, the most in-doors-y. It cannot be altogether a matter of principle, though Savannah is said to be the most religious of towns, and Havana (where I heard the military band play polkas as part of the Sabbath service) is perhaps, as pecu liarly irreligious. Nor cm it be altogeth a peculiarity of race—though the Havan c.33 would seem to play the sun-fish as na turally as the Sivannesc play the oyster. There is a fashion—which is part of the character of a town, differing in different places to a degree which Is not easily ex plainable—in the eynNiut of appearing a nro.vd, ("gadding,” as the straitlaced call it.,) which is respectable and proper. The subject might profitably be lectured upon. Inestimable! as the fireside virtues are, do mestic bliss requires a certain amount of airing, in “best regulated families,” and the natural desire “to see and lie seen” has its use in the composition of human so ciety, With.twenty thousand inhabitants, Sa vannah seems to have no poor people. In various rambles, during the few days of my stay there, i could find no quarter of the city where there were any but com fortable dwellings—more than comforta ble, indeed, for the poorest inhabitants lias an avenue of shade trees before his door, and .must see an open square from his window. The luxuries of park culture, which the noblemen of England spend fortunes in maintaining around their dwel ings, are here at the humblest man’s thres hold, irce ol cost. No child can grow up in Savannah without Nature for a nurse —beautiful trees for the infant y-vnking dream to build its nest in—v~**4t gras clover and buttercups’ to m kc the world seem like a play-grout■ . and the commonest highway a path oi ‘flowers.— Does any one think ih.v’ char ■ ’ ‘ l affected by such inilueuc: v-Vv hope and imagin'ition -o- ‘-’ ■. habit of temper, (to say nothing ofhoalth) are not nurtured by such surroundings in childhood? They make impressions too vivid and too universal not to have been intended by an all-wise Providence as a blessing to improve. Schools should be where there are trees, streams, mountains —teachers for the play-hours as well. If I may strengthen my remark by recalling what made an impression on myself, I have forgotten every circumstance of a year or two that I was at school at Concord, Now Hampshire, when a boy, except the natu ral scenery of the place. The faces of my teacher and my playmates have long ago faded from my memory, while I remember the rocks and edies of the Merrimac, the forms of the trees ,011 the meadow opposite the town, and every bend of the river’s current. Whether Gov. Oglethorpe, in laying out the city of Savannah, thought of more than the health and luxury in parks and shade-trees, it is too late, ’per haps, to inquire—but, to his beautifully rural plan, and energy of forecast in the completion of it, the inhabitants are indebted, I believe, for a perpetual teach ing of moral beauty, no less than for a sanitary luxury. Circumstantial 23vid3 noa. Jonathan Bradford -iajy in Q;z fordsh'ire on the London .■• N ‘ Ac ‘furJ He bore a respectable cb,-i ter Mr. Hayes, agentfirian offoilune, being on his Way to Oxford on a visit to a relation, put up at Bradford’s. He there joined com pany with two gentlemen, with whom he supped, and in conversation unguardedly menliouod that he had then about him a considerable-sum of money. In due time they retired to there respective chambers; the gentlemen to a two-bedded room, leaving, as is customary with many, a candle burning in the chimney-corner. Some hours after they were in bed, one of the gentlemen being awake, thought he heard a deep groan in an adjoining chamber; and this being repeated, he softly awoke his friend. They listened together, and the groans increasing, as of one dying and in pain, they both instant ly arose, and proceeded silently to the door of the next chamber, from which the groans had ceased to come. The door being ajar, they saw a light in the room. They entered, but it is impossi ble to paint there’ consternation on per ceiving a person weltering in h s hloo 1 on the beq, and a man stair hm? over him with a dark uaUrn in oive hand and a . knifs in the tribe*.! The ifiau seemed'as j much petrified as themselves, but hi - j terror canted with it nil tho appear | anca* of- guilt, i’lic soorf discovered that the murdered person was the stranger with whom they had that uig’ut supped, and that the man who was standing over him was their host. They seized Bradford directly, and taking away his knife, charged him with being the murderer. He assumed by this time the air of innocence, positively denied tho crime, and asserted that lie came there with the same humane intentions as them selves; for that, hearing a noise, which was succeeded by a groaning, he got out of bed, struck a light, armed himself with a knife for his defence, and had but that moment entered ihe room belore them. These assertions were of 1 ule avail; he was kept in close confinement until the morning, and then taken before a tmiginn ing justice of the peace. Bradford still denied the murder, but with such apparent indication of guilt, that the justice hesi tated not to make use of this extraordinary expression, on writing his mittimus:“Mr. Bradford, either you or uiyseif committed this murder.” This remarkable affair became a topic of conversation to the whole country.— Bradford was condemned by the general voice of every company. In the midst of all this pre-determination, igime on the assizes al Oxford. Bradford was brought to trial; he plead not guilty'. Nothing could be stronger than the evidence of the two gentlemen. They testified to the finding Mr. Hayes murdered in his bed, Bradford at'the side of the bo i] .Vi with a light and a knife, and that knife, and the baud which held it, bloody.- They stated that on their entering the room he betrayed all the signs of a guilty man; and that, butatew minutes preceding they had heard the groans of the deceased. Bradford’s defence on his trial was the same as before; he had heard a noise; h) suspected that some villainy was trans acting; lie struck a light, snatched up the Unite, the only weapon at baud, to defend himself, and entered tho room of the de ceased. He averred that the terrors he betrayed were merely the fetiings natu ral to innocence, as well as guilt, on be holding so horrid a scene. The defence, however, could not but be considered as weak contrasted with the several power ful circumstances against him. Never was circumstanciai evidence so strong, lar as it went. There was little aec If ‘’Offlfficiu trom tho judge, in sum niag up the evidence; no room appeared tor exten uation, and the prisoner was declared guilty by the. jury wilho’ even leaving the box. Bradford was executed shortly after, still declaring that be was not the murderer, nor privy to the mur der of Mr. Hayes; but he died disbe lieved by all. Yet were these assertions not untrue ! The murder was actually committed by the footman of Mr. Hayes; and the assas sin, immediately on stabbing his master, rilled his prickets of his money, gob watch and snuff box, and then escaped hac.k t (> h'- s own room. 1 his could scarcely have been effected, as after cir cumstances showed, more than two sec onds before Bradford entered the unfor tunalo gentleman’schamber. 1 ho world owes this information to remorse ot con science on the part of the footman, (eigh teen months after tho execution of Brad ford,) when he laid on a bed ot sickness It was a deathbed repentance, and by that death the law lost its victim. il were t<> be wished that this account could close here; hut there is more to he told. Bradfojm, though innocent of the murder, and not even privy to it, was nevertheless, a murderer in design. Hft had heard, as ‘ well as the footman, what Mr Havered ‘declared at supper, 1 piying a sum of money about him; and he went to_thi j chamber of tire de ceased with the same di radful intentions as .the set vatu. He was struck with amazement on beholding hi tin self antici pated in his crime. Hcrould not heliev hisserses; and in turning back'the bed clothes to assure himself of the fact, he, in bis agitation, dropped bis knife on the. bleeding body, by which means both his hands and the weapon became bloody. These circumstances Brad lord acknowl edged to the clergyman who attended him after sentence, hut who, it is ex tremely probable, would not believe them at the time. Besides the graver lessens to lie drawn from this extraordinary c,ase, in which we behold the simple intention of crime so signally and wonder fully punished, these events furnish a striki ntt warning against the careless, and it may be, vain display ot money or other property in ft range places. To heedlessness on this score, the ooforiunnle. Mr. Hayes fell a victim. The temptation, we have seen, proved too strong for two persons out of the few who heard his ill-timed disclo sure. [From the Savannah Courier.] Burr the Mysterious. Burr tv as a great j natter of latrhruo.— By. this we mean uo reflection upon l:is motives and character. We have known eminently pious and good men, the tenden cy of whose miiids was to attain an end by circuitous, rather'than direct means. The love of mystery is perhaps to some degree inherent in ns all. It was pre-eminently so with Burr, and did more to blast his fair fame than any thing else whatever. It is indeed always dangerous, because leading to groundless conjectures and suspicions. Frank, open, straightforward, are epithets which we apply to honest life. So also in Horace, rede rirere is to live honestly and uprightly. Indeed in almost every lan guage, save the Greek, an honest, praise worthy life, is a simple, straightforward one. It has been said by many authors, in reflecting upon Barr’s career tiukt this love of mystery is evidence of inferior minds— the resort only of mean intellects. * Even if it could be proved that Burr was a man of mean intellect (which would be exceed ingly difficult) the principle would not fol low. The cuuuing Ulysses was certainly not an idiot, nor indeed Plato nor Socrates, who of all men perhaps chose the most circuitous route to circumvent an object. B nieperte loved *nyst****y, Rt> -T-aluy rand, Materaieh, indeed most cf the suc cessful diplomatists of the ago that is past-.- 00 far front’ the opposite . being true) we* think the profoundest and . most- subtle in tellects are fondest of mystery. Tiffs seems to be taken for granted in the world and therein perhaps consists the danger of in dulging in it. Wh on any tiling mysterious is going on 1 the world supposes a, subtle mind, that readies far beyond all others, is at. work. This certainly was true in the case of Burr. When arraigned before the world for the blackest and basest crimes nothing in all tiie severe scrutiny bore so heavily against him us the mysterious cloud in which his movements were ever shrouded. His cor respondents, whether important or most trivial, was in cipher. He used the same needless precaution when writing to an in timate friend, ladies, to his wife and daugh ter. His habits likewise were mysterious. He rested when others worked; he worked when others rested. He was peculiarly fond of walking the streets at an early hour of the morning when all the city was in deep repose. It was by accidentally meeting a servant with a basket of papers, in one of these morning walks, that he came in possessson of the celebrated pamphlet prep ire l by Hamilton, concerning the pub lic conduct and life of John Adams; design ed by private circulation a few days before the election, tb-seeure Air. Pinckney the vote of South Carolina; but by the prema ture publication of which Air. Burr discon certed the whole Federal party. All his movements were mysterious.— Ills journeys were rapid, secret and often times apparently objectless. When sup posed to be in one part of the land he would suddenly make his appearance in another. None had-seen him pass, nor knew how he had made the journey, nor for what object. He was often seen on the great stage route between New York, Albany and Buffalo. A small, slender man, though remarkably erect in carriage, he always contrived to hide himself away in a corner of a stage coach, muffled in an old clpak, his eyes apparently closed in sleep, bat which were nevertheless found awake, if the wheels suddenly sunk into a deep rut, or conversation was going on in which he was any way interested. Though on such occasions, as ever, remarkably ta citurn, ho showed by the quick rolling of his little keen black eye, that Jove might sloop during the Trojan contest, on Ida’s top, but Burr could never be caught in •an unlucky repose. This peculiar tendency of his mind seems to have been observed as early as the ex pedition through the wilderness of Cana da. Arrived at the waters of Ohaudicre, it was necessary to communicate with Montgomery, then a hundred and fifty utiles up the river at Montreal. Burr, though a youth of twenty years, was cho sen for tiffs hazardous enterprise, one of the most romantic in history. It was the dead of winter, tho ground was covered with snow, and the journey lay through an immense tract of tiie enemy’s country.— Burr showed his usual sagacity, knowledge of human nature, and power of moulding circumstances to his will. He knew the French Roman Catholic priesthood were discontented with their condition under the British, lie therefore disguised him self as a Catholic priest. French and La tin he knew from a boy. He soon obtained access to a Reverend Father, to whom lie frankly cont'e.ise l his intended enterprise. Tho gobd father stood amazed at his ex treme youth, and knowing the difficulties )to be encountered in a long journey, at mid wliili/i’, through the m i”! to (L:si!- h-nv vor, to be puW)ff,H Ad ou being provide*! with a guide and cabriolet. The father his benediction, and he set out. la priestls ■disguise he passed from one religions house to another. Arriving at Trois Rivieres, he"found the rumor spread abroad va.:,- l-c-ruing the success of Arnold’s expedition and the dispatch of a messenger up the river. The guide took flight a:..,1 fled. — Burr found refuge in a C'onyent. After n concealment of three days he succeeded in reaching the camp of Montgomery, by whom lie vraa received with honor worthy of his distinguished character and almost incredible enterprise. He was made one of-tito general’s staff, and supported the head of Ids dying and heroic - commander in the battle at Quebec. From fho Savannah itcpubficijn. Important Railroad, Case decided by the Supreme Court of Georgia, at Macon, February Term, 1353. . Mo con Western R, R. Cos. Phinliff in error,- vs. James M. Davis, Jim'r fyc. This action was commenced by Davis against the Company in the Superior Court, Bibb county, under an Act of the Legis lature passed 1847 and amended in 1850, to recover the value of a negro man and carriage,, which were ran over and destroy ed by an engine on Company’s Road track, in December, 1851. The Company availed itself of the amended act, entered an appeal, and was prepared with evidence to prove • before a-special jury, that She injury com plained of, and sued tor, hudreeubed whol ly from ..the fault, negligence, and bad management of the.plaintiff. Rut under the ruling of the judge below, all testimo ny was rejected, And judgement given a gaiast the Company. Whereupon the Company filed their writ of error. The case was carried up to the Supreme Court upon a transcript of the record from the court below. Upon argument of the case, the Supreme Court reversed the decision of the tribunal below—lst, Upon the ground that the court e-red in overru ling the objections made by counsel for the appellants to the admissibility in evidence of the records of the proceedings before the magistrate and arbitrators. It was! .tin* judgement of the court that said re cord was defective in this—that it did not appear from said record that the jurisdic tion exercised by the magistrate in ap pointing the arbitrators, was exercised by a magistrate of the district next on the ! Hue of the road in the direction in which I the train was running to the place where! file injury was done to the party. And ; further that said record did not show that the agent of the Company had not given the notice under the statute of hrs atten dance. tc> hear the complaint at the Depot of the Road in that district. 2nd, That the Court below erred in not •granting-l,:*e motion of the counsel for the appellants to dismiss the complaint of the respondent; that it erred also in rejecting the testimony of a witness upon the ground on which it was rejected—to wit: “because the award In the case was conclusive upon the appellant as to every thing but the a mount of damage sustained.” It was the opinion of the Court that the award was not conclusive as to any matter of defence which by law the applicant might right fully make to an action for the recovery of damages for an injury to property like that charged in repondeut’s complaint. 3d. It was error to instruct the jury below, that, if they believed that the award was made, they were bound to find the amount of the award for respondent— it being the judgment of the Court that there was no legal evidence to authorize a hading for respondent. Upon these grounds the decision below was reversed. Correspondence r,f tho N. Y. Tri'nine. The Trip of the Eric33oru Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 22. The Caloric Ship Ericsson, arrived at Alexandria yesterday afternoon, from the month of the Potomac, where she had laid at anchor for 27 hours during the fate snow and thick weather. Capt. Lowber weighed anchor at 9 3-2 o’clock, last Wednesday morning, at Sandy Hook, and in pursuance of instruc tions, stood east-ward, in the face of a j strong galo and heavy sea. He kept his course for SO miles, when (he wind shift ed to the north-west. fie then stood in shore again, in tire face of tire gale. During those two gales the ship stood tire test nobly, and, though sire pitched her bowsprit under water with her lee-1 guard immersed, her engines performed ! with the utmost regularity, tne wheels making G 1-2 turns in a minute, with en- 1 tire uniformity. Not the slightest motion i was perceptible in the frame work and ! bracing of the engines. After tire ship; and the engines were thus fully tested, j Capt. Lowber shaped his course for the] Chesepeake, and in going up the bay | against a gaie from tire N. N. id. encoua- j tereJ a heavy snow storm. On approach ing the Potomac the weather became so thick that the pilot declined to go fur ther, and the ship came to anchor at 10 o’clock Saturday morning. The engines bad then been in operation for 73 hours without being stopped for a moment, or requiring the slightest adjust- : merit, only one firem rn being on duty du- : ring the whole trip ‘Tire consumption j us fuel was under five tons in the tweniy foor hours. Capt. Sands, of the U. S. Navy, who was on board to witness the performance, is delighted with the result, and says that he would willingly go to Australia in her. Thus the great principle of the new motor is now a demonstrated reality. An Honest Obituary— -A Western ed itor announcing a death, says: He came to h;s death by too frequently nibbing at the essence oi the still-worm, which soon placed him in a non-travling condition, lie lay out the night previous id his death, near a cotton-gin in this place, and was found too- iato on the fol lowing morning for medical aid to be much importance in staying h:s breath. He has been a regular tippler for the last helf a century. I Hutu Difficulties with the lla- H Authorities.— : The Chrtrlesh 11 Bprr learns from a passenger by the We!, that some excitement existed in Iviina in consequence of ..the authorities ivieg broken open the mails from Ha vana, which were placed on hoard the U. .*. mail steamship Empire City , Capt. VYindie, for Orleans o*l the 19 ! inst. I>v the agents, Messrs. Drake & Cos. Ti if; Empire Cittj was advertised to sail on that morning at seven o’clock, but prior to that hour was hoarded by the Chief of Police, two Commissioners and three Police officers, who proceeded to j open the Havana letters, detaining thereby the sterrner until half-past eight o’clock— one hour and a half. The following morning the II.S. mail steamship Crescent Oily, Capt. Dexter, just as she was a bout proceeding to New York, was simi larly treated, and detained onC hour ami a quarter. it is said that the authorities have a dopted this course in order, if possible, to discover what Creoles in the island are engaged in correspondence with toe Fil ibusters of the United States. On the 21st inst. however, the U. S. Consul at Havana, Judge Sharkey, addressed a com munication to the Captain-General, pro testing, it is said, in energetic terms, a gairrst the right of the Cuban authorities to search any U. S. mail steam ship,. No .resporftß had been rr-cevicd by our Con sul. prior to the departure of the Isabel. !he Isntiel, however, was permitted to l ave Port without undergoing any'ex amination; the communication therefore, of our Consul, seems to have luui a desi rable edect. * *•£’ Water-Cure Baths in Puitzerlanu. -An European correspondent of the Louis ville (Ky.) Times, speaking of the water cure baths of Lenk, gives the following account of them'and the modus operandi of bathing: “ i’he patients, after somewhat inuring themselves to the temperature of the water, some times remain in four hours before breakfast, and as many after dinner. The usual “cure time” is about three weeks. Along the partitions dividing the baths, runs a slight gallery, into which any one is admitted, cither to look at or converse wi>h the bathers below. The strangers w.ll be amazed, on entering, to perceive a group of twelve or fifteen heads emerging from the water, on the surface of which floats wooden tables, holding coffee cups, books,and other aids, to enable the bathers to pass their time pleasantly. The patients— a motley com pany ofall ages, both sexes, and various, rank-; delicate young ladies, burly friars, invalid officers and ancient dames—are ranged around the sides on benches below the water, ail clad in long woolen man tles, with a tippet over their shoulders. St is not a little amusing to see people up to their chins'in water, engaged in chegs, sipping their breakfasts, having tele (t itles, reading newspapers, &c. Thus you see how they bathe ut Lenk. Before I dis miss it, however, I must translate for you, one of the rules of the bath*. Art. 7, No one can enter these baths without being clothed in a full and long shirt, under the of a fine of two francs. What Sand is.— Sand is rock, and o her hard substances, reduced in to pow der of various degrees of coarseness; and there was, therefore, no sand in chaos. While the earth was stili without form and void, the materials of which sand is composed had not assumed their present peculiar character. For sand is a highly manufactured article, and requires time for its production. A bran new planet can no more have sand (unless ready male,) spread over it, than anew park can bn adorned with symmetrical avenues of old stag-headed oak trees. Allowing, then, for the small proportion of sand which the wind's, the rains, and the rivers have ground out for us, what an old established concern the ocean wavemiil must be, to have pounded thus finely for us the immense quantity of sand which we have in the world! Good —The Bayou Sara Ledger tells the following story : A gentleman told us an anecdote the other day, which we think is too good to he lost. He said that a rich oh) fellow who used to live in the neighborhood of Natchez, used to keep a carriage and a pair of horses for his daughters’exclusive benefit, and, as a matter of course, the young ladies used to make good use of them; scarcely a day passing over their heads that did not find them going to or coming from Natchez. The old man in the meantime, you must recollect, was very close in matters of money. The horses began to look thin, so thin that one would have sup posed that their (inly provender was bar ret-hoops, shavings, or something simi lar. One day the old gentleman was standing in front of one of the principal hotels in Natchez, when his carriage rolled past, and his horses were made the subject of conversation. The old gentleman said he could not account for their being so poor, ho was su’ e that ha done all in his power to make them look decent, and had tried almost everything, but the confounded horses would not im prove. “Meester,” said a raw Irishman, giv ing the old gentleman a quizical leer as he continued, “Did ye iver thry corn ?” ‘Susan, stand up and let me see what you have learned. What does c-h-a-i-r spell?’ 1 don’t know, marin.’ ‘Oh, you ignorant critter, what do you like to sit upon?’ ‘Oh, inarm, l don’t like to tell?’ ‘VVhut on earth is the matter with the gal? Tell what is it?’ ‘1 don’t like to tell—but it is John White’s knee, but he never kissed mo but twicer’ Earthquakes and apple sarse?’ exclaim ed tbo school mistress and fainted. A curiosiiy in the shape of natural “gas works,” has been discovered in Holmes county, Ohio. No. 10.