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VOL. XIV.
THE GEORGIA JEFFERSONIAN
IS PUBLISHED EVERT THCKSDaT MORNING
BY WILLAM CLINE,
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he diseased the lull -pace of.THREF. MONTHS.
Communication.
SPIRITUAL MANIFESTATIONS.
Mr. Editor: —l have read, with much
interest, a letter published in your paper
of ITth February, from ,1. B. Jeter, D. D.,
of Richmond, Va., to Rev. J. IT. Camp
bell, of Griffin, Ga., on the subject of spir
itual communications. I am pleased with
the spirit of honesty and candor which, in
the main, seems to pervade his communi
cation, but I conscientiously differ with him
as to some conclusions at which he has
arrived.
lie certainly makes one important ad
mission in iris letter, and that is, that de
parted Spirits do now communicate with
mortals: for, he says, speaking of the de
velopments in St. Louis : “At first, I
thought the whole a sheer imposture, but I
was convinced, in spite of my prejudices, of
tiie reality of the phenomena.” And again,
speaking of some of the effects of the phe
nomena, he says: “And that all these ef
fects are produced, not by design or art,
on the port of the mediums, but by some
invisible and unknown agency, I must be
lieve, or renounce all human testimony,
and, in regard to some of the effects, the
testimony of my own senses.” He then
s-iys, that “the most rigid and prejudiced
investigators have been compelled to ad
mit the reality of t’.c phenomena, and, so
far as I know, no man in that city, who
has given any attention to the matter and j
whose judgment is worth a rush, doubts I
their reality.”
Now what I ask, could the Dr. say more
than the above to establish the fact which
nearly all the clergy, and most of the laity
and men of the world deny, that Spirits
do communicate? And, if Spirits do in
fact, communicate, who can with propriety
•ay, reasoning from analogy or Scripture,
that they are ail evil? A ndTtere is a point
in Bro. Jeter’s letter, which, it strikes .me,
is very vulnerable. He says, “The sim
ple fact that so many of these singular
communications are false and contradicto
ry, will lead any considerate man to reject
them all.” Here I would join issue with
him. It seen*? to me that it is improper
to come to this conclusion from such
premises. That because a large majority
of the communicating Spirits are evil,
that therefore they all are, and none of
them descrying of our attention. This does
not, prove that all the Spirits that commu
nicate arc evil or Pantheistic spirits; nor
dots it furnish a proper ground to reject
them all as evil. As well might you say
that, because a majority of the members
of any particular church, body or corpora
tion are dishonest and corrupt, that there
fore, none of them are men of integrity
and virtue, and that the whole should
be rejected as unworthy our association,
confidence or regard. Adopting that mode
of reasoning, honest inquirers after truth,
jo Elijah’s time, would not have received
the teachings of that inspired man of God,
hot would hove said that, because four
. ]r :d and fifty prophets are false, lying
pvophoi therefore tic; doctrines of Elijah,
; only remaining prophet, should be re
jactcd'a3 evil. — I Kings, if * ?2v. The
; ::'uae might also be sud of those in the
Prophet-Miegh's day.—2 (“iron. IBe. 37v.
No, we are not to form our judgment
upon such an unsubstantial basis of reason
ing as this, bu from JJie signs, that attend
them, the effects they produce and their
agreement with the word of God. And I
now a is ther* any tirug ihaf forbids
t . 13 ii ; a of R u hned H;communica
ting w.di mortals? Do: - Bible or rea
son forbid it? If it does, i should like to
know it. When, f ask; del evil Spirits
communicate to earth’s inhabitant*, while
no Augei messc;i'.‘ n were sent forth?—
And where can we tin 1 a iy authority, in
Scripture, to warrant the conclusion that
such is the fact in this our day? No! no!
Go o i Bro. Jeter and convince the skeptic
world tliat Spirits do now commune and
converse with mortals, and urge them to
p thorough investigation, arid soon, we
think, they will be able to assure you that
while one under demoniac influence, or by
an evil spirit, may be driven “among the
tombs,” like one of old, another will, like
old Cornelius, be visited and directed by
a Heavenly messenger and pointed to the
way of salvation. While one may be led
a way by seducing spirits teaching doctrine
of devils, others will most certainly be in
structed in the way of holiness, if not ta
ken from prison and loci to the house of
prayer by the Guardian Angel. Again,
we would warn’ all who may read this
communication to wake up nod “fry the
Spirits and see if they be of God.” But
i be assured that while one man in high sta-
I tion has had the candor to acknowledge
j his prejudices against truth, you will find
hundreds who, through fear of (that mon
i stcr) public opiniou, or through self-eonfi
| deuce and bigotry, will not dare to inves
tigate and acknowledge the truth. It is
too low for them: they are learned men,
and therefore cannot become teachable
lilt little children. They are ready to say,
like one of old, ‘how can these things be?’
and will not believe, fearing that their
party or denomination will be broken down.
Alas 1 alas ! when and liow shall we be
led to see eye to eye and speak the same
thing? Will it not take Angels accompa
nied with the Spirit of God, to convince
the world of truth and bring the different
Christian denominations together? For,
while party and rivalry are apparently
gaining strength every day, when will
these things end?
I will now take up another point, which
seems to me to be an inconsistency, or to
be more charitable, I may say oversight,
in Dr. Jeter’s letter. After assuring us of
the truth that Spirits do communicate, and
says that candor requires him to confess its
spiritual origin to be most plausible, he
turns round, in the close, and calls it a de
lusion. How strange this is. In the first
place, an incontrovertible fact, which can
dor requires him to acknowledge, and then
a/lelusior. —Wishes to know how the delu
sion comes on in Griffin, or does he allude
to what he considers the delusive and dan
gerous tendency of the doctrine of decep
tive spirits? If he mean the belief that
Spiri ts communicate, we answer that we
regard it progressing. Many, as believers,
from the churches of the different denom
inations, meet together from week to
week, for the purpose of endeavoring to
elevate the standard of piety—to promote
personal holiness and purify themselves in
anticipation of soon enjoying the reap
pearing of their Lord and Savior. They
too are now led to search narrowly their
own hearts and the teachings of the Ho
ly Scriptures, in order to discover and
root out their idols and besetting sins
and to exercise an enlarged degree of
charity for suffering humanity. These are
some of the effects ofVhat many would
consider the delusion in Griffin. And we
would to God that this kind of delusion,
under the influence of the Spirits, would
j spread throughout the world, until the
Lord shall tiring again Zion.
There is another point in Dr. Jeter’s
letter which I must notice. He says, “In
the city of New A ork the police, in conse
quence of their manifest tendency to pro
duce insanity, have been directed to break
np all Spiritual circles.” We dispute that
fact, though we will readily admit that
Bro. J. was misinformed on that subject.
What ! a city police or any civil officer
break up a peaceable meeting held for the
purpose of investigating a phenomena, or
I may say a meeting to enquire into the
soul’s immortality and destiny? As well
might the authorities of Richmond attempt
to put a stop to Dr. Jeter’s preaching in
the town and break up all prayer meetings;
as well might an officer attempt to break
up an association or camp-meeting, because
some become deranged on religious sub
jects. No !no ! this can’t be done while
our liberties are preserved, and we ought
to be thankful for it. If, as facts say, six
men should become lunatics and destroy
their lives in the city of New York, in the
space of two weeks, by communing with
ardent spirits, without any effort to stop
the delusion by authority, they will hardly
take notice of one who, by being out of
balance, put an end to liis life, not know
ingly, but alledged, by spiritual influences.
I have seen the circumstance to which Dr.
Jeter refers, contradicted in a letter from
a respectable friend in the city of New
York.
There is another item in the D’s. letter
that I think objectionable. It is this :
“But admitting that the communications
proceed from good and wise spirits, (which
admission can hardly be made, except for
argument, but by a iuind fit for bedlam;)
then we inquire, are these mediums a safe
channel of communication? It may be so,
but certainly the man who can believe it,
without investigation and without proof,
has a marvelous credulity. The method of
communing is altogether too obscure, too
uncertain and too deceptions to command
my faith.” If he mean that there is no
method by which Spirits now commune
with mortals that is clear and reliable, it is
disputed. For if it is not reliable, how
am I to receive a large part of Divine Re
velation? for there are portions of it that
were communicated by Angels, under the
direction of the Lord, to the Prophets.—
Large portions of Zechariah, Ezekiel and
some of Isaiah were communicated by
the Spirits to the Prophets, by an Angel
affirming himsfelf to be one of the Proph
ets, (as also was’ a portion of the book of
Revelation ) We believe there are those
whose interior sight is now opened as
was the case in the days of the Prophets
and Apostles, so that they can see and
converse with the Spirits face to face,
which Spirits say that they come undei
the direction of the Lord supreme, as they
did of old, for a wise and gracious pur
pose, for the benefit of erring man and
for the accomplishment of the purposes
of (he Almighty. And why should they
not communicate with as much certainty
and clearness now as they did anciently?
There are other points that I would
like to notice, but time and space at pre
sent forbid; perhaps at some future time
I may write more on this subject. And
now in conclusion: We will say that we
believe that most of tbe communications
now being made are from evil spirits, who
are teaching doctrines of devils; and may
it not be true that the manifestations by
which Dr. Jeter became convinced of the
truth of spirit communications, were of
evil origin? But while the evil spirits
are doing their work, the Redeemed are
drawing near us, here and there, do prove
by words and doctrine that thtjy aye” 1
rooted and grounded iu Christ, and fid
monish all to prepare to meet him in his
coming Kingdom. A BELIEVER.
Peopling the Pacific. —Nearly fif
teen hundred men, women and children,
leit New York on Saturday for Califor
nia. Twice a month a like number leave
our shores for those of the Pacific.
GRIFFIN, (GA.) THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH *24, 1853.
fttisfcllancoits.
From tin; Cohun'i< B m- i,
; The New Orleans, Opelousas and Great
Western Railroad. m
We have received a copy of the Re
’ port of the President and Directors of
this Company to the Stockholders at the
first Annual meeting,24th January, 1853.
From it we learn that,
“In June last, Mr. James G. Gibbes,
of South Carolina, a gentleman well ac
credited for his high professional attain
ments and practical knowledge, was e
lected Chief Engineer. Upon his arri
val here in the latter part of July, a corps
was organized, and the surveys prepara
tory to location immediately begun. Up
to this moment, four hundred miles of a
line of levels have been run, and in a
few days the entire line of route to two,
points on the Sabine Boundary, between
this State and the State of Texas, a dis
tance of 350 miles, will have been ac
complished.”
The extent of this groat enterprise as
proposed to he carried out, can he under
stood from the foregoing and following
paragraphs:
“The line of road after reaching the
parallel of 32 deg. either on this or the
opposite .side of the Sabine River, as may
be hereafter determined upon, running
westwardly upon that parallel, is repre
sented as passing through the most fertile
and magnificent portion of the State of
Texas, adapted for the production of
cotton and grain, and offering no obsta
cles in i.'p general surface to the con
struction of a road. It is but partially
populated, and'requires only the facili
ties of Railway access and communica
tion, to render it both wealthy and popu
lous. A liberal policy on the part of
that State, which we confidently antici
pate to tiiis or like enterprises, will make
her, as she is justly entitled to be, the
Empire State of the South. The dis
tance from New Orleans to Logansport,
on the Sabine, is 340 miles. The dis
tance across the State of Texas to the
Rio Grande, allowing for probable de
fects, is estimated at 704 miles, and
from the Rio Grande to San Diego, 566
miles—making the whole distance from
New Orleans to the Pacific Ocean 1610
miles. The latter portion of the route,
from reliable sources of information, may
be regarded as presenting no great phys
ical difficulties whatever, even less, it is
said, than are to be met with upon most
of the Railroads already constructed in
the United States.”
The corporation was chartered with a
capital of $3,000,000, as the probable
cost of the Road to the Texan boundary,
to be increased as contingencies might
demand. The road is ptogressing favor
ably, and it is expected to have 82 miles
iu working order during next winter.—
Appended to the Report is a sketch of
the route of the road through Louisiana,
by H. Erskine Barnes, Assistant Engi
neer, and another of the proposed route
to San Diego Pacific by the Chief
Engineer.
The meeting was a veiy harmonious
one, and we obseive a resolution was
passed, unanimously, tendering the thanks
of the Stockholders, “to the President,
Directors, and Ufficers of the Company,
for the efficient and satisfactory manner
in which they have performed the duties
of their respective stations, and for the
exceedingly interesting and very able re
ports submitted to the meeting by the
Board and Chief Engineer.”
The enterprise seems to he considered
settled, as. appears from the Daily Or
leanian:
“ The Opelousas Railroad. —Yesterday,
we published the lucid and very satisfac
tory report of the courteous Judge Over
'.ou, President of the Opelousas railroad
company. To-day, w* give that of Mr.
Gibbes, the engineer; they will arrest the
attention of the reader, while the pleasing
facts which they embody, cannot fail to
gratify aII who feel an interest in a rail
road from which our city expects to be
so mainly benefitted. A railroad, which
is likely, we may well pronounce, of be
ing the nucleus of one of the most impor
tant undertakings ever witnessed in the
republic the great Pacific railroad. As
surely as the road will be completed to
Opelousas, as surely will it pass through
the heart of fertile Texas on to El Passo,
and then be continued, until a chain of
communication is formed and a line com
pleted, which will render New Orleans,
one of the first, if not the first and great
est cities of the republic.-
There is nothing visionary in this: the
country demands such a road, and necessi
ty, an economic and a true policy, will
cause it to be assuredly carried out. —
Besides, no route that could possibly be
chosen, is as advantageous or as facile, as
cheap and direct, as a continuous route
from the southern emporium to the shores
of the Pacific, through our Slate. But
independent of so desirable a consumma
tion, the construction of a road, even
through our own State, the interior of
which is a very terra incognita to us,
would tend vastly to our city’s increase
and our people’s comfort. That such a
road will be completed within a year, we
have the guarantee of gentlemen who are
immensely identified with it—who have
subscribed largely to it, and who will
permit no obstacle to interfere with its
accomplishment, liberally aided as they
are by a discerning public. From the
principal depot, at’ Algiers, the road is
uow being made, and is progressing rap
idly upwards and onwards. On other
sections of the road, workmen are busily
employed, so tha{ the Opelousas road
may uow be said to be a fixed fact.*’
Immense Shipment of Gold from Austra
lia.— Boston, March 9. The barque
Lady Suffolk reports that the ship Rox
hurg Castle., from Melbourne, Australia,
<iqr London, put into Cape Town on tbe
6th of*. lanuary. She has on freight 8
tons of gold—valued at over five millions
of dollars, being the largest lot ever ship
ped from Australia.
No one has more enemies iu this world
lhau an upright, proud and sensible man,
disposed to take persons and things for
what they really are and not for what
they pretend to b.
[From the New York Fx;>res".j |
Uncle Tom in the Free State*
We would respectfully invoke the at
tention of our Nofthofii Abolitionists, and
particularly the disciples of Uhcletoins
cabinism, who profess a never-dying sympa
thy for the black man, (if he be a slave)
to the fact that the “free white” State of j
Illinois has just passed a law, to parallel
which, in absolute cruelty to the African,
the Southern statute book; raav be search
ed in vain. What does this bill enact? —
Let us see. w
First. It prohibits the bringing any ne
gro or mulatto into this State—no matter
whether they be bond or free —on pain of
heavy fine or imprisonment,: besides pay
ing costs of prosecution. .The apparent
effect of such a provision is, practically, to
cut off all communication! whatever be
tween the negro and Illinois white man.
The black race is altogether proscribed.
Second. If a negro -or mulatto is brought
into the State through the instrumentality
of a person or persons not residing within
its boundaries, due provision is made for
bringing them to punishment by process of
requisition upon the Governor of the State
of which the offending party may be a re- i
sident.
Third. It is adjudged a hi&h misdemea
nor, for a negro or mulatto,, bond or free,
to come into the State and remain ten
days, with an intention to reside 1 there.—
The punishment prescribed is a fine of fifty
dollars; and if the money is not paid,-that
is, if the negro has no moiiey—the Sheriff
of the county is to advertise him to be sold
at public auction. On the day of sale he
shall be transfered to any person who, for
the shortest term of service, will pay the ~
aforesaid fine and costs “and (we quote
verbatim here) said purchaser shall have
the right to compel said, u.'gro or mulatto
to work for and serve out *ai4 time.” If
there is any acceptable dfffci’enee here be
tween the “ peculiar institution” South
and the Illinois imitation of it North, it is
certainly on the side of the former. In
the South the African is only a slave; in Il
linois he is made both a slave and vagabond.
Fourth. If a negro or mulatto don’t
leave the State within ten days of the ex
piration of his time of seryice, he shall be
liable for a second prosecution, involving
a penalty doubly severe, to be exacted by
means of a re-sale at public auction.
Fifth. Oue half of the fine goes to the
party or witness making complaint. The
other half goes to what is called a Charily
Fund—a fund for the relief of the (it is
presumed white) poor of-tee county.
Sixth. If any Justice of the Peace re
fuse to issue the necessary process for ar
rest and sale, as already described, special
provision is made for his punishment and
the execution of the law by other officers.
Seventh. Every person who shall have
one-fourth negro blood shall be deemed a
mulatto.
There’s a law for you! The vote on it
stood—Senate: Yeas 13, Nays o—House:
Yeas 41, Nays 26. Only one affirmative
vote in each house from Northern lUlnoikl.
It went into effect on tbe 12th of last
ult-. and is now, therefore if? full operation.
The first that strikes one, on pursuing
this enactment, is the unanimity with
which it seems to have passed; and the
next is very likely to resolve itself into the
query, what is or where was the necessity
for putting such an enactment on the sta
tute book.
Illinois, it should be understood, then,
has for a long while back been overrun by
a class of so called free negroes, the most
of them fugitives from the adjoining slave
States, of Kentucky, Tennessee, and Mis
souri, of the most worthless description.—
The poor houses of the State, we are - told,
have been filled with them; for it seems
they have neither the physical ability nor
the disposition to earn a living for them
selves. The alms-houses, consequently,
have been their only refuge, and the peo
ple have been so heavily taxed for their
support, that at length, it seems, they came
to the conclusion to endure it no longer.
Poor white men, among others, said they
found it a hard matter to got a living- for
themselves and families, and did not want
to be compelled to support * runaway ne
groes. Hence the bill in question. It re
lates only, to negroes coming into the State
it will be seen, and not to those already
domiciled omits soil. TJsjg fact ought to j
be borne in mind, for it disrobes, the en
actment of that appearance of inhumanity
which, on a first view, it would seem to
have. Indiana, it ought to bo turned, hav
ing been a severe sufferer from like incur
sions, had already a law operating very
nearly with like severity. The Illinois
law is, on its face, unconstitutional; but
the fact that it is a law, for the time being,
indicates a state of the public mind there
to which we have thought it proper to iu
vite attention.
When we have time to spare, we may
take occasion to examine the causesjsvhich
have led to this extraordinary yet perfect
ly natural and might-to-have-bcen-expeet
cd hostility of the Northwestern States to
free negroisra Meanwhile we turn the
Illinois enactment over to the kindest re
gards of the Northern Abolitionists and
their tender-hearted colleagues, the women
of Stafford House, with the suggestion
that their guns ought to be turned away
from the South a little while, in order to
demolish this bold attempt to re-establish
slavery in the North. For Uncle Tom in
Ilfinois, as things now stand, is likely to be
infinitely worse off, among the “suckers”
there, than he would be in. the tobacco,
rice or cottou fields a little further South.
One Hundred Miles per'Hour. --“A
Maine Yankee” announces, through the
National Intelligencer,, the invention of a
form of road and improved locomotive,
which, he says, will safely transport the
mails and passengers, at the rate of one
hundred miles per hour! ‘The writer
further says he has been made acquaint
ed with the detiils of these improvements,
“which are so palpably correct in theory,
and feasible in practice, that every civil
engineer and railtoad- man will, on exam
ination, at once- recognise and admit, as
the .desideratum, even to the extent of
safety and speed above indicated-.** The
next Congress, it is said, is to be invited
to secure its adoption, and give “’to the
world the result of the first experiment.
The construction of a post railroad be
tween Washington and New -York, we
think, will be hastened by this invention-
Th-* Gardiner C'-.se.
; This case came up for trial at Washing
ton o;i Tuesday the Sth inst. Tiie indict
ment charges Dr. Gardne r with having
undo a false affidavit before F. ,S. M vers,
a justice of the pence, in support of his
(Gardiner’*) claim, by which the sum of
$428 750 was awarded him by tiie late
Board of Commissioners for the adjust
ment of claims against Mexico. Mr.
FfjhJall, the District Attorney, and Hen
ry May t Esq. of Baltimore, are the prose
cuting officers And tiie following letter
gives am account of the opening of the
. case:
Wa-iuvot-x, March 11.— Tbe case of
the United S ales versus Ur. o'orgo A.
Gardiner, for -false swearing in order to
obtain an award from the \f< xicau Board
of Commissioners, came tip m the criminal
court to-day. District Attorney Fendall,
and Mr. May, of Baltimore, appeared for
the United States, and J. 11. Bradley,
and J “lines M. Garble, of this city, and B.
F. Perry, of South Carolina, for the de
fendant. There being three distinct cases
docketed, Mr. Fendall proposed to take
up the case of John Charles Gardiner,
fi r st, which was objected to, on the ground
that they were not ready for this case, and
that it was only accessory, to that of G.
A. Gardiner. The court decided that
the case of George A. Gardiner must first
be tried, and tbe jury was qaiynTnelh'd.
At 2 o’clock, Henry !sJay, Eaq, associate
of the District Attorney, opened a very
eloquent and argumentative speech to the
jury, for the prosecution. They declared
that they would prove that Dr. Gardiner’s
title to a mine, and all the evidence ad
duced for the existence of one belonging
to him iu Mexico, were fabricated, to get
the large amount awarded to him; that all
tiie efforts of the government had failed to
find such a mine; that the testimony of
every one in that country where he pre
tended to l ave owned the mine, is that no
such mine was worked there; that, during
the time he alleges that he was engaged
in working his mine, with 500 laborers,
with machine, steam engines, horses, and
meu of science, at an expense of some
$12,000 per month, and receipts of $20,-
000 and probable receipts thereafter of
$50,000 per month, it could be proved by
incontestable witnesses that he was en
gaged iu his profession of dentist travell
ing through the cities of Mexico, and ped
dling small wares upon the Pacific.
A Missi&eippi Editor in Washington.
Our obi friend. Mr. D. Walker, of the
Vicksburg Sentinel, is being chaperoned
through .some of the gaieties of the Fed
eial capitol. His primitive ideas of fe
male propriety seem dreadfully shocked
at ihe dressing and dancing ot the lair
daughters, wives and sisters of the Sa
lons of this great and glorious Republic,
the dance he speaks of we think is the
same we saw elaborated last winter at
the soirees at the St Louis and Verandah
■hotels in New ,raft‘JlrlliJ
described by Ben. Jutising, called the
tied IVar dance—and in Tut*', on able cir
cles the Redowa Dear, austere friend
Walker, you should do as Jonathan Sue*
did at the opera, put your red a>ik ban
daiiiia handkerchief before your eyes, and
be sure not to pe#p between the fingers
of your yellow, gloves. We give an ex
tract :
“There was only one -hi g in which
all seemed to agrep—tiral was, to leave
uncovered as much of their bust:, as pos
sible. It appeared to one just from the
land of al igators, musquioes and Mtn
rshtnev witete ladies have kept up iheoid
fashion oi dressing all o- er, that the,
uad pul Ujeii drtsStf* on in a gr.e-.tt itu-rry,
and had oiolrudi-d tbeir bo-ii-v. ru i
eight inches U*o t*i „uugh; at-'l ‘;e:r.e,
4S UU bid lady ‘d go■ -i- : tC
inorKed, “they ca.ne tu-> b, .v , ami
‘didn’t come trigd an o n u-y,” tin- msiii
ners, too, careless, c?* ao.c-. ■ ng.n to j
put sleeves to the hre-,res, an ‘
all had .ic txtren e .isofiffT-pool
things, os appeal mg fb a very targe crowd ‘
of gentlemen with --.eir anus bn re u-p to
their should'--,! ilo.vid in those miili
ner ! i he. gentlemen — kind, modest
creature-, as -bey at*r —blushed a iittls at
lb ■>,, and held •heir sceuted cambrics be
foic.iueir eyes, but tney soon recovered
fro.u tiittiv e.noarrusr .neui, and it all soon
seemed to be uotuiug after they got used
io it.
“Ait igether, from the haste of the la
dies in sboving themseives tniuugh their
dresses, and ttie culpable neglect of the
milliners in not putting in.the sleeves, 1
would say that the bodies of the ladies
were not over halt covered; and what is
singular, and sustains my idea of their
having crept a little 100 far through, iu
their haste to dress and neat the ball last,
is, that tiie skins of all the short ladies,
and a few of tbe tall ones, were from
eight t<> twelve inches long and swept tire
lloor for yards beniud the wearer. There
was another thing which a plain back
woodsman like myself could not exactly
understand. Some of the ladies, while
dancing, would seize hold oi the .skirts of
their dresses and raise them about eigh
teen inches; and stretch them out at
arm’s length, reminding one of a buzzard
iu wet weather,, thus exposing to view a
handsomely ornamented second skirt and
thea swing around at an amazing rale.
“ The oniy other peculiarity of Hie hall
was anew dance, called the “Scottiche
Dance,” which 1 saw for the first time,
i will give, as near as words can, a de
scription of it. The gentleman lakes the
lady’s right band in his left, places his
hand and arm around her. waist, drawing
her close against his breast; sbe places her
left hand anil chiu on his right shoulder,
and leans her cheek gently against his
whiskers, if he lias any; they ttieu pitch
off’ in a leap-frog fashion, slop and keep
time by a sort of jig-ajrg, jig-ajig motion;
then leap-frog again, and so, alternately,
leap-frog aud jig-, jig, j'g-ajig. It is, by
dar, the most ungraceful, unbecoming,
and ridiculous dance t ever saw r or airy
body else.”— Yazoo IVhij.
The Cushing Guard, at Newbury port,
Mass, liftfd a salute of thirty-one gnus on
orv the occasion‘of Gen
eral Cushing taking a* seat- in- the Cabi
'net.
I ‘‘The World Owe* me a Living.
No such thing, Mr. FoUl-up-)'Our-hands;
; the world owes you not a single cent!—
! You have done nothing these twenty years
j hut consume the products earned by the
| sweat of other men’s brows.
“You tmve cut, and drank and nirpi? what then?
] W r*v, * ar,anij <lr.i nh. and slept agair.’’
I And this is the sum total of your life.—
! And the world “owes you a living?” For
what? How comes it indebted to you for
that trilling amount? What hare you
done for it? What family in distress have
you befriended? What products have you
j created? What misery have you allevia
; ted? What acts perfected? The world
j owes you a living! idle man! Never was
| there a more absurd idea! You hare been
! tax—a sponge upon the world ever
; since you came into it. It is your creditor
to a vast amount. Your liabilities are
immense, your assets are nothing, and yet
you say the world is owing you. Go to!
The amount in which yon stand indebted
to the world is greater than you will ever
! have the power to liquidate. You owe
the world the labor of your two strong
arms, and all the skill in the work they
might have gained; you owe the world the
labor of that brain of fours, the sympa
thies of that heart, the energies of that
being; you owe the world the whole moral
and intellectual capabilities of a man!—
Awake, then, fFoin-the dreaming, do-noth
ing state of slothfulness in which you live,
and let us no longer hear that false asser
tion thal the world is owing you, until you
have done something.
Death from the Waut of Sleep.
How long can one live without sleep:
This question we have never seen an
swered. But an authentic communica
tion has been made to a British society
whose fisdd of on-rations are io Asia,
descriptive of a punishment which i* pe
culiar to the original code of China, it
appears from this communication, that a
Chinese merchant had been convicted of
murdering his wife, and was sentenced
to die hy being totally deprired of the
privilege of going to sleep. This singu
lar and painful mode of quitting an earth
ly existence was carried into execution
at Amoy under the following circumstan
ces:
The condemned was placed in prison
under the ct're of three of the police
guard, who relieved each other every
alternate hour, and who prevented the
prisoner from falling asleep for a single
moment, night or day. He thus lived for
nineteen days, without enjoying any sleep.
At the commencement of the eighth
day his sufferings were so cruel that he
implored the authorities to grant him the
blessed opportunity of being strangulated,
parroted, gullotined,'burned to death,
drowned, quartered, shot, blown up with
gunpowder, or put to death in any con
ceivable way which their humanity or
ferocity could invent. This will give us
some idea of the horror of dying because
you cannot go to sleep.
’ Tie New setma.
The Washington correspondent of tha
New York Express, speaking of the pre
sent Senate, says:
The Senate Chamber, under the new
organization, exhibits the usual disposi
tion to establish strong party lines. The
‘•Miigs are all on the left of the presiding
officer, but the Democratic Senators be
ing the most numerous, lap ovor consid
erably on the Whig side.
.dr. Everett takes the place of his pre
decessor, John Davis, with Senator Bad
ger on his left and Mr. Toombs on his
fight. Mr. John M. Clayton, who has
been so many years in the Senate, re
sumes-his place after an absence of four
years. The Whigs on the whole are bet
ter represented this week than last, though
perhaps, numerically weaker. Maine
goes unrepresented with North Carolina
asid Mississippi, owing to defection in the
Legislatures of these several States.
There is much regret at the loss of
Senator Mile, who was always the pre
lude and ;!ta; piece to the tragedies of the
Senile Chamber. He has made more
‘lien laugh here during ihe six years past
than a!i his associates beside, but whai
tiie Senate has iost in dignity, it has
gained in /good temper. Mr. Atherton,
his successor, is an amiable, but rather
sedate, gentleman.
I ‘lie Whigs, with Everett, CLyiuti,
so nibs, Phelps, and Benjamin, among
tiie old Senators, and the strong men who
hold over, are a fair match for their op
ponents, though much the most numer
ous- the Whigs, too, present physically
some of the finest specimens of men in
the country, such as Morton, of Florida;
t oombs, of Georgia; Clayton, of Dela
ware; Phelps, of Vermont; Badger, of
North Carolina, &c. &.c.
Tlsc Election.
Our readers are Well awaie that it will
not te long before they will be called up
on to elect a Governor, a Representative,
a Judge and county officers. It is there
fore time that the matter should be agita
ted. The voters of this county, of this
Congressional District,and of the State,
should ba well posted as to the ability
and views of those who are likely to be
before the convention, so that they may
he able to choose from among the num
ber, those that are best qualified to fill the
different offices. When you meet in con
vention, meet as Democrats, don’t go
there as Southern Rights or Union men,
but go as men belonging to the same
brotherhood, believing in the souud prin
ciples of the Democratic party, and with
a firm determination to carry thorn out.
Let each county he represented in the
convention. Let your delegates be firm
and true; confide to them the power ot
choosing your candidates, and let the
choice of the convention be the choice ot
the Democratic party. Let no dissen
sions be known among you,only enquire
of the man who’ may be nominated, and
find if he is sound upon the principles < f
the Democratic party; it so, give him
\our vote and your influence. <
We have as yet seen no time proposed
for holding a convention How would
the first Monday in June do? We should
like to hear from others on this subject.
Let this question he settled so that the
different counties may know how to act.
), Puflon Tunes.
NEWS FROM MEXICO.
Santa Ana for President.
I M’e have received Vera Cruz papp>#
to the 26th ultimo, and Mexico papers
to the 20th. In It a Union of the former
place, we find no item of any interest.—*
Prom the capita! we have some news.
It seems to be a settled point that
Santa Ana will be elected President.—
The districts of Queretaro, Michoaeau,
Oajaca, Tarnauiipas, and Vera Cruz had
voted in his favor. San Luis was also
sa dto have voted for him. The Trait
d’ Union thinks that Santa Ana will h
elected unanimously.
Jalapa had joined Vera Cruz, to ask
that Santa Ana be invited, hy a commit
tee, to return as soon as possible into the
Republic. Vera Cruz appointed Casa
nova and Serrano, the committee from
Mexico was to meet it, to go and look
for the General. Santa Aua was expect
ed daily.
The Siglo of the 17th ulh says that
Santa Ana had declared he would join
the liberal party.
Rlancarte reached RWelia on the 6th
with a division composed of 1500 foot
and 13 pieces of artilery. It was report
ed that several inhabitants had been in
carcerated in Morelia for political causes.
An amount of $9,770 was raised by sub
scription in Morelia to aid the Govern
ment in its financial embarrassment.
Yucatan had joined the Jalisco plan.
Barbacheno was re-elected Governor.
Gear. Wall had been called to Mexico,
where he was expected daily.
Canales is at Mexico, Cardenas is a
prisoner at Vera Cruz, and Avalos ha#
just been driven from Matamorfls.
The house which is intended far Santa
Ana’ii residence is already secured, and
being furnished ready to receive him.—
Puebla ia in a state of exiun*iit, owing
to the opposition shown there against
any thing but the exact application of ihe
Jalisco plan. The convention of the 6th,
and the provisional selection of Lombar-
Jini for the Presidency, did not meet
with the approbation of its inhabitants,
and rumors of discontent and turmoil
were rife.
The Government of the State of Mex
ico is also among those who refuse to en
dorse the present stale of things. The
Governor, Luis Madrid, declared, in a
correspondence addressed on the 10’di
u!t. to the Minister of Foreign Affairs,
that he would not admit the convention
of the 6th. He does not support Santa
Ana. Some opposition also came from
Guanajuato.
I'he civil war is still raging in several
quarters. In Sinaloa, Valdes was prepar
ing to advance to Cuiiacan and drive on*
Vega. By a decree of the 27iii of Janu
ary, he ordered the ports of Albala and
Navachislc to be blockaded.
Matamoros has adhered to the resolu
tion with the other parts of Tarnauiipas.
it is said that Carvaja! has sworn to a
venge the murder of Rufino Rodriguez,
which caused such a sensation in Mata
moVws If was rumored tViai Carvajat
had. routed 100 men under Ciuz and ta
ken two pieces of artilery from them'.
Ignacio Martinez is elected Governor
of Oajaca.
General Uraga addressed a circular on
the 16th u!t. to the States, showing what
he has do:ie to put an end to the civil
war.
The Claim op the Custom House
Officers. —lt is stated that Mr. Guthrie,
the new Secretary of the Treasury, has
issued an order peremptorily revoking the
instructions of .Vlr. Corwin, by which the
half of a targe amount of money collected
since 184'), for violations of ihe revenue
laws, in the shape of pena! duties, was
about to be divided among the
the customs al the several ports of entry.
The amount proposed to be divided is a
bout $200,000, cue half of which it is
said would have gone into the pockets
of the three chief revenue officers at New
Turk, under the administrations oF Mes
srs. Polk, Taylor and Fillmore. Mr.
Maxwell, the present collector, would
have received about $25,000, Mr. Law-<
renee $12,000, and Mr. Hone’s heirs
SIO,OOO or $12,000. Mr. King, also of
New York, would have been entitled to
$25,000, and his predecessor the sum of
$12,000.
Interesting; from Havana, by the Isabel
The numerous friends of the Tice Pre
sideot of the United States will be grati
fied to learn from the subjoined extract
from a letter written by T. JVf. Rodney,
Esj , Vice Consul at Matanzas, w hie by
at our solicitation, has been
handed to us for publication, that his
heahh is improving, aad his prospects of
recovery brightening:
Matanzas, March 6,1653'.
My Dear Sir —W’e changed the resi
dence of our esteemed Vice President ou
Thursday last, from the “Curnbre” to
the sugar estate of Col. John Chart land*,
leaving the Curnbre at half-past twelve
nod (rining at the delightful ‘‘Ariadne”
at about four. The Vice President was
considerably fatigued with the journey,
but slept that night better, he informed
me, than’ since he has been on the Is
land; he seems delighted with the change
and is more hopeful and of better heart
than since he reached Matanzas, and at
present unquestionably better than when
he came here; don’t be surprised if the
Colonel sends him home a tolerably well
man. 1 am, in haste, yours truly,
T. M. Rodney.
Baptist Colleges and Seminaries.—
There aro in the Urated States, it is said,
27 Baptist Colleges and Theological Sem
inaries, the total value of the property of
which is estimated at $2,900,000. During
the last five years, the sums subscribed ou
their behalf amounted to $1,515,000. The
subscriptions to Columbia College, I>. C.
during that period, amount to $40,000;
and the value of its property is set down
at SBO,OOO, and that of Richmond Col--
lege Virginia, at $120,000, of which
SIOO,OOO have been subscribed within five’
years. A subscription of $25,000 for the
endowment of a professorship in the Lcw
isburg University, Pennsylvania, was made
by three gentlemen of Philadelphia, a few
days since, viz: Dr. David Jayne, $13,500,
J. P. Crozier, Esq. $7,500; and William
Buekncll, Esq. $5,000.
No. 12.
