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Newspaper Page TextVOL. XIV. THE GEORGIA JEFFERSONIAN is resusnnn evert tiutusday morning BY WILLIAM CLINE, At Two Dollars and Fifty Cents per an num, or Two Dollars paid in advance. ADVERTISEMENTS nu* irwr'cc! at O.V£ f , Q4.T.IR nor pqunro, for the fi'M insertion, ant FIFTY CE~\TS per square, for each insertion Iherpaltrr. A reasonable (W.ucnon will he made to those Who advertise liv tiie year. All advertisements not otherwise ordered, will he continued till forliid. OF I.AXDS by Administrators, I - . X'-cutors or Guardians are required li> law to he held on llie first Tuesday in the month, between the lion ?o’ fen in the forenoon and three in the afternoon, at the Court-House, in the county in ‘vliich the ‘and is situated. Notice of these sale, must he siven m a pul.l e curette FORTY DJIYS “io'is ‘o the day if-n!e. OF .YhGROFS must hebnacr of puli auction oti the first Tuesday id the month, be tween the usual hours of sale, at the place ot pnb sales in flic county where the Irlhrs Testa iientai-v, ni Ad'ninistr.dion or Guardianship may have been “ranted] first “'vinr FORTY DAYS notice thereof in one of the public “uiettes of tliis State, and at the e.itfrt liouse who e such sales arc to k e held. Notice for the sale of Personal Property must he siven in like manner FORTY ’ LKIYS previous to Ihe dnv of salf. Notice to IVhtors and Creditors of an estate must he published FORTY DAYS. No!ice that application will he made to the Court of Ordinary f>r t.r.AVF. to ei.i. land must he pttlt i-’ict for Tiro mojytiis . Not tee tor t.F.Avr. to sr.it. kecrocs must he published TIVO .VO.YTfIS before any order ab solute shall h” made thereon by the Court, CIT.FTW.YS for Letters of Administration, mu-! tie published TtttRTT pay*; lor Dismission ir > n Aetninisfrafion. monthly six moithi; for ! t>suiission from Guardianship. Forty oat , H ides lor the Foreclosure of .’Vlorl"M"e must he •vr.dished monthly rea focr months, for eatab i.-lung Inst pipers, tor the full space of three . months; for compelling titles from Executors or Adm-iiistrafors, a lonri has licen eiven by !i diseased, the full space of THREE months. WH H I Ll HJ-. i-LH,■- - ... ... ,||, | — <mjL From the Times Sc S.-ntinel. A POLITICAL JUDICIARY. A abort editorial which we published some time since against the policy of ma king pnt lv nominations for the responsible office of Judge, has, we nre informed, created some dissatisfaction among a por tion of our party friends, and lias caused us to lose one or two highly esteemed subscribers. He have deemed it prudent to remain silent heretofore on the sub ject, and give the public mind time to cool before we entered upon our defence. Hoping Hint the time has now’ arrived, we earnestly appeal to every fight mind ed mart, to read and carefully meditate upon this short article before he finally makes up his opinion upon this subject. We will be allowed to preface what we hate to say vviiii a few opinions upon the position and duty of an Editor in respect to his party and his country. His first allegiance is due to his country; lie cannot therefore do any thing which would injutiousiy affect the people, nor suffer it to be done by others, if it is in his power to prevent it, without commit ting treason against bis native land; and ihis treason is aggravated by the elevated position he occupies. No matter how mean and low an Editor may be, be has an influence of no ordinary character 1 housands on thousands, weekly read what be writes, and in spite of them selves, imbibe his sentiments and opin ions. He enters the house of his pa trons with a smile and receives the wel come of a friend. Their wives and child ren are introduced to his acquaintance, and he is permitted to hold familiar in tercourse with them. lie ought there fore to be an honest ar.d true man. If he be such, he will approve what he thinks right, and condemn what he thinks wrong. ‘I here is no alternative, and what is wrong in itself is not made right because it is endorsed by bis party. In respect to the judiciary, it has long been our solemn conviction that the pros perity, happiness and freedom of the peo ple were in their keeping. We have seen the baleful influence of a corrupt Judiciary upon the morals of a commu nity; under it, crime went unpunishe I, Ide became insecure, the good and iudus-j uious citizen trembled under the anger ot the dissolute and vagabond, until, outra ged by the grossest perversion of justice, the community arose in their might, and asserted tire supremacy of law. God for bid that our eyes should ever look upon the like again! \\ hen the angry pas sions of men once break loose from the restraints of law, there is no limit to their violence, but the freaks of their leaders; and life, prosperity, and all else that men hold dear are held at the sufferance of a mob! A corrupt Legislator is an intolerable curse, but be is but one among many, mid bis evil machinations may be coun teracted by the purity amJ patriotism of bis associates. JJut a Judge reigns su preme i;i a Courthouse; from bis deci sions lbt:e is in many cases no appeal; and the hopeless victims of his tyranny, injustice, and corruption, are robbed or mu^tiere*# 1 at his pleasure. Where so Aiych tW at Flake, it is a crime to consult party RpcHienc/. We cannot ask cur selv.es .whether a candiud'* for this high office be whig or democrat. io he honest: fs be capable: yea; then a good citizen is bound by the most sacred obligations to vote for him- Js he dishonest? is h in capable? a patriotic man cannot vote lor him even if his refusal is at the sacrifice of his Jjfe. There are duties higher than the obligation* to party; thejfl are interests more sacred than par ty tryamphs; and w hen party calls upon a citizen t> betray them, it forfeits its claims to respect, and prostitutes its powers to corruption. Upon this general survey we might rest our defence; and would do so in per fect confidence that our motives and con duct would be appreciated and approved by an honest people; hut that we desired jto call attention to an article upon this important subject which we find la that Democratic Journal, ih* South ern Standard, published in Columbus, ,iiss. ja ii, our position is fully sustaiu jedjand thn deploiable evils which will inevitably tl.nv from an attempt to drag our Judicial system into the political a rena, are exhumed with a force, and po wer, and truthfulness, which cannot fail to carry conviction to every saudid Uind. n nr-r-imw i ■ - ■wM—r-r—” “ 1 r^-H■imummi.hii ■ From lhe Southern (Ctilum'nts, Miss.) Standard. I A POLITICAL JUDICIARY. The question of making our Judicial 1 system of electicntof Judges and District ! Attorneys a political . issue, has been! boldly announced in this State. It has ! been recommended to the democratic party of Mississippi, in - the year ss*[ Lord 1553, that the “true submit Ih? question as to who shanoe the candidate, to the arbitrament of a fair ly constituted of the party” —that is, who shall bo candidates for Judges, District Attorneys, &c. We shall meet this question at the threshold, and while we have a voice |p raise against it, and a hand capable of writing a line in opposition to it, both shall he exercised to crush now, and we hope forever, eve ry attempt 1o bring the Judicial Bench and the Bar into the arena of politics It becomes every man who desires an in dependent Judiciary—one of talent and learning, one above the caprice of the times, the whim <>f a party majority, and above and beyond all, free from the lep rosy and corruptions of party and the in fluence of the party demagogue —and yet, more independent of Ihe malign slang, the wit and the passion of a mere party press —we say, that it becomes those who desire an elevated Judiciary, to crush while they may,-the attempt to drag our Judicial system into the political arena. No one dare go beyond us in relying up on the wisdom and patriotism of the peo ple. W e believe they intend to do right, and the history of Republics prove that when left to themselves and their own good sense, that they iiave with a saga city ns clear as it was methodical, em-[ ployed the very means designed by a higher than earthly wisdom apparently, to work out a result best adapted to their necessities, his only when the voice of the consummate political hack is heard in their counsels, ,hat they are liable to seise upon the plausible, and usually dangerous systems, and are, by them, be trayed into errors, which for years after they are only enabled to rid themselves of, by patient labor And suffering. This question of Political Judicial elections, has some points to commend it to party approbation, hut none to those who look beyosd il3 immediate influence upon par ty. VI are told our opponents concen trate upon the man who represent their opinions, and, under the specious cry of no-Partyism, draw offfrom the Democracy votes enough to defeat the Democrat anil elect the Whig. If this proves anything, it shows that even now, our judicial elec tions are too much the subjects of bar gain, and that instead of drawing them still further into the vortex ot party, sound sense and an enlightened patriot ism would endeavor to separate the Ju dicial from the Political election by a distance stiil wider. The legislature lias on several occasions attempted this, but the party press, fearing that one of its le vers was to bestiicken away, wa9 either sullen or silent, and hence the people were uninformed of the-real issue. But now we have the question sprung in direct form, and we are deliberately recommended to nominate by conven tions, our candidates for Judges, District Attorneys, &c. This, and we call upon the people to note it, is to be a party move. The Judge is to be selected by the Convention because he is a party man! He is dependent upon party for an'election, and must, of course, admin ister the law according to the par'y usage. Alone responsible to his party for his conduct, he is wholly beyond obligation to the minority, and as a partisan, he must mete to the opponents of his party no more justice than the interests of the majority would seem to warrant. Jf told that this was pushing the system to ‘extremes, we answer truly that it is; hut we ask, when was the time in the histo ry of men that they have, as a people, voluntarily .abnegated a power they pos sessed, or where they have yielded pro- I fitable power without an equivalent? If told that the extreme is not what is desired, we answer, well, it may not be, hut then, these are the recorded results, whenever and wherever the Judiciary has been dragged into the arena ot Poli tics. England, on three occasions, has been cursed with a political Judiciary; Poor Ireland, the land of patriotism and eloquence, is now wading through the coercive rule of a Political Judiciary.— France has drawn from that fountain its bitter waters on thirteen different occa- sions, and up to ibis hour, its Judiciary system is a mockery and a curse. Rome, once the metropolis us the world, paid tribute in blood through several centu lirs for her Political Judiciary. Almost every State of which we have historical recoid furnish damning proofs against a Political Judiciary. It is natural for men to incline towards those with whom they agree either in politics or religion in almost every con troversy. It is still more natural for men to incline towards those to whom they are indebted for position and honor able power; and it must be a master mind, encircled with a moral power far beyond ihtt with which most men are endowed, capable of rising above both the natural inclinations of triendship and the prejudices pf Party. We know how stubooru these prejudices are: how im placable these hatreds become. Ihe constant irritation but adds to them, aud the abrasion of lime removes hut tulle, if any, of the cankering rusts which grov,’ but to extend deeper their poison, tshad we then, looking at this question, not as one narrowed down with the horizon il- iumined by mere party lights, but as one affecting tne masses, as operating upon humanity, not for the hour, but as reach ing into a distant future, he denounced when we say that no human restraints, howsoever ingenious they may be, can prevent a Political Judiciary from work ing wrong and oppression, when based’ upon party success? The ancient maxims of justice and law; the precedents which time and. the wisdom of the civilized world have stamped as genuine; and even the statutes of the hour, would all be warped to meet the demands of a par tisan controversy. Instead of entering (thi *Us of Equity, the litigants toulu / * v GRIFFIN, (GA.) THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 5, 1853 be dragged before a political forum, and I instead of decisions of law, we should Shave profound analyses upon political ju risprudence, and learned opinions* upon [ the rights of majorities synlbesised. This ! is inevitable. We shall be told that no Judge could seat against the tide of indig jHpSfflP"suoh conduct would conjure up.— Were lies the fatal error. No Judge would step from the law precedents into the charmed circle of political precedents. He hut inclines at first in that direction. Every man of reading and reflection knows the rest. The path to a political despotism is stepped by inches, and yet ’here is time enough in four generations, to reach a maximum of evil sufficient, which if opened at once, to arouse a spi rit of rebellion. It is the single drop of water that destroys the stone; so is it, by steps cautiously made, that the rights of minorities as well as the freedom of majori ties, are sapped. But the political Judge seeks the applause of party more than serenity of an approving conscience. His judicial existence hangs upon the caprice of party, and he hugs the syrer. that showers honors upon his head. Party is the Deity he worships, and no incense is so sweet to his nostrils as the ground swell of the multitude. What if his decisions are not accord ing to precedents? If statutes have been warped, and Equity, been smoothed, the Judge is hut a man, and he is the organ not of Justice, hut of Party. His errots, if errors there be, together with all his usurpations, belong to party, and party is responsible for them He has read the annals of men to but little pur pose, who has failed to learn that un bridled power is fatal to its possessors, and that least of all is it tolerable where the responsibility, the whole check upon its excess, is destroyed, by the number among whom it is divided. The Judge is hut flie exponent of party,and his sins, if he sins in the direction of party inter ests, are the common property ot par ty and are divided among the many.— Every little whelp of party feels both honored and dignified by being permitted to become tiie defender of the dirty acts of party. Associated numbers may do with im punity that which would sink the indi vidual in the depths so deep that the hand of resurrection would never reach him. Whatever is done in the name of and for party, and is adopted by party, I is a simple division among numbers, ol the labor of the individual; and if the la- TsTtt is hut the propagation of evil, the in dividual is but the recipient of partisan gratitude and adulation just in proportion as he may have been abused and traduced by the opposition. Is this Natural His tory, or the ravings of a disorded fancy? There is no great national railway to freedom any more than there is to Para dise. It is by patient exertions and pro gressive additions to their influence, that freedom is acquired by a people. Nation al freedom is not the growth of a day; its growth is slow as wealth from individual toil, and its preservation is dependent on the establishment of sound habits, moder ation and a pacific life. National free dom is but the expansion of individual happiness, under authority recognizing equality of rights. When then party poli tics with its poisonous breath steps in, un der the plea of enlarging the sphere of government, or of wresting any of its de partments from their legitimate channel, in order to throw them upon the mercy of a majority, wise men will commence pre paring for anarchy, and patriotic and bold ones for rebellion. The power thus lodg ed in the hands of partisans; the ambition which it awakens, together with the pros pect it opens to the vision of a thought ful head, a bold mind and ready hand, are of all things the most fatal to sober and patient habits, the true pareut of nation al tranquility. All men of enlarged minds and clear perceptions of the history of mankind, who look deeply and understandingly in to our Judicial system, perceive its utility as it now exists, over that of any other that ever existed of which we have any record. It is within the State a popular system—that is the Judges are selected by the people, and here we have a most admirable check upon the innovating spirit directed against the rights of the masses by Federal authority. Within our limits we have a Federal* Judge who is the agent of national power, and above him are men selected for their profound learning and talents, to watch over the rights of the States, to enforce national laws, and protect the citizens in his privi leges while sojourning under the jurisdic tion of the State or Territorial authority. Theso are wise checks—balances as it were which when litigants deem them selves wronged by the tribunals, the Judges of which are selected by the masses, they may appeal from the decision thus render ed, to the tribunal not dependent upon popular favor and popular applause. Such can never be the case under a party Jtidietary. The diffusion of supreme power among a multitude of hands, aug ments in a proportionate degree the selfish ness which is made to bear upon the ad ministration of justice when sought by non-influential, or they who represented the minority. When a multitude, as more spectators of the administration of Jus tice, they are disinclined to see wrong inflicted or error go unredressed, because others profit thereby, and they, with their friends, suffer. But place the spectators as the administrators of law or power, and you may rely upon their support, for they arc now the party who profit, while the other suffers. This is what will result from a political Judicary, and it is from a partisan administration of the laws of the land that every true lover of rational freo dom should fly; every lover of our Re publican institution should pretest against; every honest Democrat should denounco. Let the Judicary alone. If the people are trust-worthy they will right theerfors and correct the usurpations jof the JHadgciu If the Whigs do make Judicial elections an issue, it may be in this instance good for the public interest®and it may be that the tranquility of the State is preser ved by this means. It needs some checks to repress the leveling spirit that is abroad, and it may be that Whig Judges aro rais cd up among us by the great Designer of events, for the purpose of strangling law less party projects, as well as to curb the more ardent ambition of an overwhelming majority. Thus, by means at once fatal to that cankering lust o” poWHdr, our af , fairs are tempered, for wise end3 we be lieve, through the evils f men’s passions. Aud in view of this, relying “pf. i the sound sense of the masses, —tin* people— and we embrace all men—we do lww. to see the noisy and thoughtless men of both the great parties silenced, and their wild, Jacobinical projects scorned. We wish never to see a Fouquier-Tinville upon our Judicial bench, and vet under the di rection of party, what warrant of exemp tion have we against such mi event. Draw the Judiciary into the political arena, and you have taken the first step in the direc tion of more evils than our poor pen can describe. You will have put the court within the circle stepped by personal in terest of every kind and character.— Causes involving life aud property, in which wealth and collateral issues are ap pended, will as naturally, in time, assume the hues of a party, as that the heat and light of the. sun causes violets to open in their season. We may fid told that hu manity would shrink from scenes like these—that this age is too enlightened, and that the power of the press would be turned against them. That has yet to be tried. While we believe that a majority of mankind desire nothing so much as good government, we may put a reasonable doubt whether a controlling majority of either party, look so much to an honest and impartial administration of affairs, as to party success. The diversity of opinion, the lack of sagacity in some to compre hend, the want of correct information in others, and a deficient intellect in a few, together with the prejudices and errors of all, rise up in support of this doubt. A round one or the other party, this diver sified mass hangs, and in all human pro bability, their weight turns the scale in political contests. It is the conservative mass we desire to hold with; that class who feel the want of good government, who are interested in the peaceful pursuits of the times, and who while they may be partisans,” are neither favorable to that system which levels up, nor opposed to the policy which secures tranquility while it commands re spect. It is the conservative man who would select a man of talents as a Judge, over a mutton-headed ass, even though he were capable of braying Democracy as lustily as Balaam’s beast. There are such in cither party, and upon them we rely for countenance, while we war against the spirit—not of innovation nor experiment, but demagogucism. From Roadi’* Mmllilv Mag.iz’ne. MU. AND MRS. SKINFLINT, OR, ONE WEEK “T MARRIED Hire. NO. 3. TUESDAY XIUIIT. Mrs. Skinflint has bought a hotltry Ticket —it turns out a blank. “Well, Mrs. Skinflint, you have made a. pretty fool of yourself now, hav’nt you! I wonder you dare to show your face to me, your husband. Bat that is the way with women. They commit all sorts of acts, and then brazen it ouc. They are as full of impudence as an egg is of meat. I’ve heard of your doings, ma’am, and I think you ought to be ashamed of yourself, if there is any shame in you. You may try as hard as you can, but I’ll let you know that it is utterly impossible to cheat me when lam all the time watching yon. I was’nt born yesterday, and I thank mercy 1 I’ve got some sense left yet. I’m not quite so green a3 to suppose that any wo man can manage matters without being continually watched. Give ’em an inch and they’ll take an ell the next minute.- They’re always scheming out some way to injure their husbands, and all the time thinking that everything is going on right. Who puts the bread you eat into your mouth, Mrs. Skinflint? Stop sniffling there and tell me that. You need’ut pre sume on my good nature always. I’ve been to you the best of husbands; forever trying to do something that would please you; but O Lord! it-seems there is no sat isfying a woman, and especially such a woman as you are. They expect us men to break our necks for ’em, aud then they don’t think we’ve done half enough. But don’t imagine that I’m such a ninny as that, ma’am! I wouhl’t break ray neck to please the best woman living on top ot the earth. No! that I would’nt, nor I would’nt break my leg cither. I don’t be lieve I’ve had a minute’s peace since I first saw you. Let me do all I can, you think I’ve done nothing. Is this treating pie as a woman ought to treat her husband, es pecially such a model of a husband as I am!’’ “A model indeed!” satirically remarked the lady. “Oh, very well. Permit me to 1 tell you that if you had married some men, your situation would have been different from what it is now. They would have shown you the road to travel, and you would have been obliged to travel ir. whether you liked it or not. What say?” “I would’nt live long with such a boast!” “That’s all in ray eyo, Mrs. Skinflint. — Husbands are not picked up every day.— You ought to think yourself very lucky to have one at all. I can’t think myself lucky in being the possessor of such a wife as you arc,, though. I assure you that I have over and again regretted that you were ever born, Mrs. Skinflint. Nothing will do but men must run off and poke their necks into a halter as soon as a lit tle furze makes its appearance on their chins. They calf it the marriage tie, but my name’s not Skinflint if it is’at a halter. It all does mighty well to talk about; set tling down in life, a pleasant companion, and all such twaddle as that, but just wait a month or two, and then the poor devil finds himself in almost as bad a fix as if he was standing on the gallows with the knot tied, On nb, mafam, this taking a wifi? is not the thing it is cracked up to be —not by any manner of menus. “So you could’nt rest until you had sent off aud bought a ticket in the Lotte ry. Who in the name of common sense do you think is going to furnish you with the means of extravagance. I’nv sure I never dreamed that you wore so foolish. I hope you will let me come into the marble palace you are going to build with all the money your ticket lias drawn! 1 ou’ll let me drink out of the gold cups, aud walk in ray stocking feet on the Brus sels carpets! But speaking seriously, Mrs. Skinflint, where* will you got money to buy another? I’ll be blest if it comes out of my pocket. You would ruin a nation if you could be permitted to have your own way about everything. But you can’t ma’am. I’ll have my way sometimes; I intend to have matters go on as I want them to go. You may whistle for more money. See if it will come. I rather think not—l do, Mrs. Skinflint. “I’m not preaching a sermon. I think yon ought to pay a little more attention to those you hear preached, ma’am. Do you believe you will ever get to heaven by spending all you can rake and scrape together lor blank tickets in a swindlin'l - What do you say?” “I only bought one.” * * “Well, what if you did’ut onlylmy'one? It will not be long before you will want to buy another, I’ll be bound. When ifeople get to buying tickets there is no stop until all their money is gone. It is no use to tell me that you would like to go lo sleep, for I shall not hoist up afttil strli my say, ma’am—that I shan’t. If people will go and do wrong, they must expect to be’ told of it. If you were to live as long as Methuselah lived, you would never catch me laying out money for anything in the shape of a lottery ticket. I could put it to a better use. Eli?” “Jack Smith bought one, and it drew fifty dollars.” “So he did, but he went the next day and laid out the whole fifty for more tick ets, and every one turned oat blank. If you wait for fifty dollars until you draw it in a lottery, you will wait considerable of a while I calculate, Mrs. Skinflint! And where did you get the money? “I had it a good while.” * “Now do yon suppose that I believe that? Day-beforc-yesterday you’ did’nt have a cent. You wanted money then to buy the baby a cap. The baby must go without caps, while you buy tickets in a ‘lottery with the money, must it? Fine time of day ! Nq, ma’am, I happen to know where you get it. You took it out of my breeches pocket last night when I was fast asleep. If you were not my wife, do you know what I would have done with you? Why, yon should go right away to the State prison. You need’nt laugh, for I tell you I would do it. Take two dollars and a half from a maids pocket when he is fast asleep 1 I’m absolutely horrified. It’s like a shock from the galvanic battery.— But have you any idea of trying that game again? What?” “I will whenever I please.” “Very well; I’ll fix you, ma’am. I’ll hide every cent beyond your reach. You’ll not do that trick again. Because I’m your husband you shall have no right to take money out of my pocket, when T know no more about it than a person a thousand miles off. I don’t cure a copper about man and wife being one, I’ll see how the funds go myself, hereafter. A burnt child dreads the fire, Mrs. Skinflint, You ought to have sense enough to know you can’t fool me. I’ve lived too long in the world. What do you say?” “Yes, you’ve lived too long.” “Do you dare to say that to. your hus band, ma’am! Oh heavens and earth! what is this world coming to!” Skinflint hushed. The Wild JHats of the ‘Fores*. Some two months ago we were at tracted by the following singular details, 1 which we found in our exchanges, copied from the Florence (Alabama) Gazette: For many years past it has been the custom with certain Arkansas editors, when they tun out of the usual supply of ‘‘tremendous excitement,” “horrid mur ders,” “desperate affrays,” &c. &c to jump up the man of the woods’ 1 ’ 1 and chase him round from one editorial tripod to another until he finally becomes lost amid the vast and impenetrable swamps that abound in these wild regions Alany were the strange and marvelous stories told about this modern Nebuchad nezzar, and while reading and publishing them from time to time, we little dream ed that we had a veritable wiLl man in our populous, county of Lauderdale and within five miles of our quiet little vil lage of Florence. Yet such has been t-he fact, and it now comes our turn to tell a wondrous tale, verifying the oft repeated adage “truth is strange, stranger than fic tion-” Something over three t-enrs ago, a young man, apparently about 25 or 30 years of age, stopped at B.iinbridge, a no ted landing situated at the foot of Muscle Shoals in tnis county, tie;gave his name as Goring, from Knox county, East Ten nessee. He came with a crowd of flat boatmen, which annually descend from tho upper waters of the Tennessee, and tarry for a season at the foot of the Shoals. Goring remained long alter his migratory companions had all gone their way. His conduct was observed sometimes to be eccentric, though always quiet, taciturn and approaching to melancholy. Alter a time he took up his abode in oho of those numerous caves, which are found in the high and precipitous bluffs, skirting along the northern shores of the Tennes see River from Shoal Creek to Florence. The one selected by this poor out-cast was siiuatecHi few hundred yards from the ferry and near the public road. He was often seen sitting at the mouth of his lonely cel! or reclining on some project- ing ruck, basking in the genial rays of an autumnal sun. lie shunned all approach, and many were the cold and heartless jeers cast upon him by the passer by.— Soon, however, ho disappeared and all tra ces ot turn were lost. i'wo long years passed away; years long to he remem bered as having witnessed, one at least, of the most dreary protracted and intense ly severe wifKers that everv'frosted the bosom of Qtir One day last De cember tws men were hunting over the broken Kiver bills attached to the plan tation of Mr. John J. Craig, and discov ered Goring sellimj in the hollow of a large Ch'snnt tree. 1 hey knew him and eon -1 versed with him, but he obstinately re>ist ’ ed all persuasions to go home with them, | arid warned them against any attempts to force him in The men went home and reported their strange interview, and in company with several others returner! to the trre, but Goring bad gone; they watched the place for several days, but Ihe never returned. They then procured a pack of hounds, winch find been train ed to bunt fugitives, and scourer! tie hill; the dogs soon struck upon a trail and (lashed off under full cry for more than two miles to the mouth of Mioal Creek, hut owing to the tugged character of the country the hnra(fm<-n could not keep up and the fugitive was lost in the waters of Shoal Creek. All further pursuit was then abandoned, and many believed the whole story fabulous, until last Sunday tveek, when a hoy belonging to Mr. A. p. >ieely reported to his master that he had seen a man upon the bluffs near a noteij cave on the plantation of Judge Posey Mr. Neely immediately collected a num ber of gentlemen and proceeded to the spot indicated. The day was one of the most inclement of the season. On neanng ‘.he mouth of the cave they 7 discovered the form of tile per'*’ wretch buried be neath a covering of straw. lie paid :v attention to their summons to course forth, and one of the company (thoughtlessly we hope) tossed in a dog, which making a furious assault, brought thelfapless Re cluse to his feet? He then came out in a state of athfosf perfect nudity, present ing a picture of abject misery and squal lid wretchedness, which utterly beggars all description, and we .shall not attempt it. He appeared perfectly sane, but gave no satisfactory reasons for his sin gular conduct, beyond a general charge that the world had treated him badly and he determined to come out from it. He protested that he had done no man any barm, and begged to be allowed to con tinue his solitary life, hut finally agreed to go home with Mr. Ea.strage, which he did, and when we last heard of him he was suffering from a violent cold, con tracted no doubt, by his sudden change from a worse than savage to civilized 1 i fe. The long and detailed narrative which we have felt bound to give of this singu lar and extraordinary case forbids our in dulgence in any of those moral reflections which it naturally suggests, and to which our feelings naturally incline 11s. Whether this poor creature has been the victim of sin, of sorrow or madness, he has an claim upon our humanity and compassion. We mean to go and see him, and write to his friends (if he has any, in East Tennessee,) and beg them to come and reclaim his wandering life, and as lie has not lived, may he has not lived, may at last lie permitted to‘‘die among his kindred.” The Finale. The following article appeared iu the same paper more recently: Wild Man of the Woods Again. A few weeks since we published full ac count of the capture of a wild man that had been found in a cave near Muscle Shoals, in this county. We gave the name of this unfortunate individual as Goring. Our article was published in nearlv every paper in the Union, and of course, it at tracted the attention of Mr. Goring, the father of the poor outcast, who resides in Knox county, East Tennessee. The old man read the article with pain and morti fication, for he felt sure from the descrip- . 1 tion that it was really his son, who had been absent for nearly seven years* and when last heard from was in the vicinity where he was caught. From the descrip tion, as well as from information received through a letter from our townsman, iVlr. J. J. Craig, the old man was satisfied that it was his son, and although poor, feeble, and bent beneath the weight of sixty years, he sat out for the purpose of find ing and reclaiming, if possible, bis deluded son. He arrived in Florence on Wed nesday morning last, nearly exhausted from fatigue and excitement. We were present when the old man was told of the finding and capture of his son —and the recital caused him to weep like a child. We voluntarily offered him oar aid, and in company with the old gentlemnn Goring, W. H. Hays and A. P. Neely, we set out for Bainbridge at the foot of Mus cle Shoals, where young Goring was stationed. On arriving the old man hast ened to where his son was standing. He offered-him his hand and asked him if he knew him. The son gazed at b’rm and •answered, hs did, and called him father,! while the old man again wept as if his heart would break. They than had a long and private conversation, and after some persuasion the poor unfortunate j man agreed to return home with his! father. We came to town in company with the father and son, and the young man gave a very interesting history of his life and the cause which induced him to withdraw from the world and seek tbs seclusion of the woods. He said toat those he worked for would not pay him, and the world generally had treated him badly, and being naturally melancho ly and retiring, he concluded to shut himself out from the world. He regret ted his conduct and said he would have come in long before he was caught, but was ashamed of the tatteefid #*♦•*■**•*• kc was clad in. He says his mind has never been impaired, but he always shunned so ciety and had an iuvoluntary shrinking at the approach of man, and mis feeling bad grown on him during his wild adventures in the woods. In company with his father he left for home yesterday morn- ing, and we trust hejftUl soon see his aged mother and other relations who are anxi ously looking for his coining. * * The New York Courier & Enquirer, commenting on the Spiritual Rapping Convention recently held at the North, advocating the broadest infidelity, and claiming for the speakers powers belonging only to tho Almighty, were delivered, and hymns of a like char acter sung. The - meeting altogether was characterized by *an absurdity which the well-balanced mind sickens to contem plate, and a blasphemy from which the i Christian shrinks in horror. It is a singular fact, that the last five States which have elected members of the new Cougrese, or from which wc lyive last heard, have elected Democratic delega tions entire. They are California, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Connecticut, and Lthotic Island. Tl\e whole number ol‘ members thus far elected to the 83d Con gress, is 103, of whom 105 are Democrats, 00 Whigs and 3 Abolitionists. Tiie mem bers yet to be elected are 77. If they should be of the same politics as in the last Congress, the whole number of in the house will be 77, Abolitionists 3, Democrats 154. Total 234. Democrats to Whigs 2 to 1 exactly. Theodore Parker is a great man, though he did malign the dead Webster. For that we shall never forgive him, nor ex cuse him: but this isirrelevent. Here is one ol Parker’s beautiful brevities: better to throw a guard about the baby’s cradle than to sing a psalm at a bad man’s death-bed; better to have a care while the bud is bursting to the sun, than when the head has scorched the. heart of the unguar ded bosom.” The grand canopy of Franeoni’s Hippo drome, composed of 90,000 square feet of canvass, has been raised to its place. A tw-moer of workmen are engaged on the decorations and arena. Some of the sa loons intended for refreshment, in the Hippodrome, were rented last week for S4OO, _ Tiiere is one manufactory of cards in Neyv lork city which turns out about twenty one thousand six hundred packs of playing cards a day, or one hundred and fifty gross. The single item of paste used, requires 400 barrels of flour a year. The building is a five story one, and a forty horse power steam engine is used, with twenty or thirty workmen constantly em ployed. Progress of Spiritualism. —Andrew Jackson Davis and others, as we learn from our northern exchanges, are going to have a Convention at Hartford, on the 2d of June, “to investigate the origin and in spiration of the Bible.” As their informa tion will come directly from the other world, 110 doubt they will be able to throw a vast deal of light, or darkness, on this interesting question. Whatever result follows the investigation, the philosophers ought, in order to give weight to their decision, to establish the fact that the “familiar spirits,’ with whom they are in league, are spirits of heaven, not goblins damned. The Bath, (Eng.) Chronicle, has the following account of anew weapon of de fence: A friend of ours whose avocations com pel him to travel much in the dark, aston ished us, a few nights ago, by exhibiting a capital weapon of attack and defence. Taking from his pocket what appeared to be a stout constable’s staff, he struck it smartly against the ground, and in an in stant a blaze of light buret from the end of it, so powerful and brilliant that every thing within a quarter of a mile was ren dered visible, and continued to be so for nearly ten minutes. Had it been used as a lilo preserver, and struck against the head of a man, the light would have been kindled in just the same manner; so that the instrument may be used first to floor an assailant, and afterwards to identify him.” According to Mr. Hopkins, United States Consul at Paraguay, the extent of river navigation from Cape St. Mary, on the Atlantic, to the head waters of the La I lata, and tributaries, is not less than ten thousand miles. This h all in a state of nature, and unobstructed by any impedi ments to steamboats. Upon the*banks of these rivers is a population of 3,000,000. entirely dependent on their commerce for subsistence and prosperity. In Paraguay the population is 1,200,000 souls; the countrv is intersected by rivers navigable from thirty to one hundred and fifty mile*. “ A Writing Medium,” has a long arti cle in the Baltimore Sun, in Mhich he roughly handles Prof. Anderson, for h< , at temps to exposo the arcana ofspiritu- * ism. Among other things, he says !.. has been requested by the spirit of Gf> Washington, to implore the America Nation to expel Prof. Andsrson fr<> , the country because he is a foe to science f We now clearly understand how it is. that a man may “write himself an ass.” Cotton in Western Africa.— Thirty j varieties of cotton have been found grow j ing spontaneously in Africa. A mission i ar y sa > s he has stood erect under thr branches of a cotton tree in a Goulah village, so heavily laden with bolls, thati was propped up with forked sticks, tc •prevent it from breaking down under its own weight. The cotton was equal to that of any country*. I’he natives man ufacture cotton goods extensively. The first edition of the Bible was prin ted in 1440. Ihe written Bible is one ot the rarest things of” the kind known. One of the capital letters was under pro cess of illumination, it is said, for a year. No one but an old cloistered patient could have made it. The Vatician only boasts of one, tnore ancient than the man-- uscript Bible. It is in the capitals of the 6th century; but it does not campare with this as a specimen. New Orleans is said to be the largest coffee market in the United States, if not in the world. Os the hundreds of vessels which have arrived at that port within ihe last twelve years, the New Orleans Commercial Bulletin finds that thirt-y eight of them have brought from-7000 to 16,000 bags, averaging 8255 bags each. Os this number, seventeen, averaging 8216,. were consigned to one ho.use. Tvvp of the cargos, one of 13,000 and the other of 14,000 bags, being brought by the ship Columbia, of Salem. More Troops for hundred additional Spanish troops re ceiiw arrived in Cuba. No. 18.