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Newspaper Page TextVOL. XIV. m GEORGIA JEFFERSONIAN IS PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING BY WILLIAM CLINE, At Two Dollars and Fifty Cents per rn nuns, or Two Dollars paid in advance. ■V ilVlilt nsEVII-'NTS ar: ii.juried iit O.Vfc t OT.T.IK i>r !-<|iiiiro, lr lit*’ liivi insertion, anil FIFTY CBNI’S por sqnarv, (nr cui-h insertion M'lTfiitlfr. \ re i>- .nuMe duf'iivuou “i!i In- iroe to Ihosn v< lio !iilvi*rli?P l>\ tin- \ re . \! adviMtisoHifiits not otlmwtsr ordered, “ill o eoniinn*<! lil! t,n k! jCF'S.i LBS OF LAS I)N i>\ Amnnnstin'or*. !. , ’xi OuUi!S nr Ginodiinn* sue inquired In la" 1 to lip iiolil on the first Tn.'.tiiv in the month, hrlween he horns o’ ten in the forenoon and three in tin afternoon, at the Court-House, in the county in ” titeii the land is situated. Notice of these sale, tnusi tie eiven in a public gazette FORTY DA IS ore-nous to the day <>l sale. S/ILLS OF NRGROFS must tie maiteat pub lic Miction on the lirst Tuesday of the month, bc • ween the usual hours of sale, at the place ot pub ic; sales in the county “ here the letti rs Tesla iif ntar_;, ol Administr lion or Guardianship may hav iioen e-antc'l; first living FORTY DJIYS nritic • iheveo* in one of the public gazettes of this siat”, ami at the c nirt house whe e such sal car sc te Re m id. Notice fi.r the ade oi’ Personal Property most to- given in like manner FORTY DAYS previous to the hay of sale. Notice to Debtors and Creditors of an estate must tv published FORTY DAYS. Notice that application “ ill lie made to flie Court 0 ilin.irv fur LEAVE TO SELL land must be pub lish. and for TWO MONTHS, Notice tor LEAVE To SF.I L NECROES must be pub tailed TIVO MONTHS before any order ab solute shall he made thereon bv the Court. CITATIONS for Lett‘*rs of Administration, inii-l b” published thirty days; for Dismission from A (Ministration, monthly six months; for Di-nnHsi’.n from Guardianship, forty day . ft des forth ■ Foreclosure of Mortgage must he •> bli-died MONTHLY FOR FOUR MONTHS, estall- I-nog los pi t~ for the lull spnee of thresh Months; for compelling titles from Executorsor administrator#, wheie a bond hasb'een given by the det eased, the lull space >f three months Election of Supreme Court Judges. The Columbus Times, in a recent article suggested Messrs Welborn and Benning, of Columbus, as suitable persons to suc ceed Judges Nesbit and Starnes on the bench of the Supreme Court. The Au gusta Constitutionalist, copies the article of the Times , aud accompanies it with the following judicious remarks: “Did any general desire prevail among Ike people ot Georgia, the true source ofj power, and the constituency whose wishes j and interests are alone to be considered, j that an. change should be made in the incumbency of the Supreme Court Bench, doubtless the fitness of Messrs Wellborn and Benning for that high position, would claim a lair and impartial consideration from the Legislature. They are certainly among the prominent lawyers of the State towatds whom public attention would be directed; but with equal certainty we may add, they do not tower so pre-eminently in the profession as to mark them out as emphatically the men for the Supreme Court Bench. Most unquestionably they do not loom up to a magnitude of intellectual power and attainments sufficient to overshadow cither Judge Nesbit or Judge Starnes, whose claims for c. ntinuance in their pre sent posi ions will come before the Legis lature Indeed, we have no reason to consider Judge Nesbit inferior in fitness for his present position to either Judge Wellborn or Mr. Benning; while Judge Starnes we consider, intellectually and in attainments, superior to them both. We have a personal regard and friendship lor both Judge Welborn aud Mr Benning, and (eel sensibly the invidiousness i.f the tat-k of making comparisons of tins char acter among friends. But as the friendly and perhaps indiscreet zeal of the editor of the Times ij- Sentinel has thrust these Columbus gen leuieu thus conspicuously before the pubic, aud thereby challenged comparisons, we do not hesitate to speak thus freely on the subject In regard to Judge .Nesbit we have not much to add in addition to what we said on this topic in 1847. In a letter from Millcdgeville, dated November Ist, 1847, we thus expressed our sentiments: “So far I have heard of no opponent to Judge Nesbit for his seat on the Supreme bench. This I am pleased at, for I would dislike to see a squabble to re-place him by another of his owu party—aud so far as my voice could go, had Ia word to say on the subject, 1 should be in favor of his remaining iu preference to any other, whig or Democrat, fur one term longer. The present bench has had a most laborious aud responsible duty to perform under ma ny unfavorable circumstances, in putting this tribunal into full and successful ope ration. They have discharged their duty to far, well and ably, and 1 am warmly au advocate of the Legislature showing those who have done the profession and till? fctate such good service, that their exer tions have been duly appreciated. At the same time, I am not in favor of a life tenure lor the beuch of the Supreme Court aud do uot think six years too short a term.” Since then tne six years have rolled by, aud should he desire a re-election, his claims will be again before the Legisla ture. llis labors dur.ng that period have not been less arduous than those of his as sociates on the bench, and we believe not less satisfactory to the profession, aud to the public. The Court has become strength ened in the popular esteem, aud its utility, in accomplishing the great objects for which • supreme judicature in a State is needed, have been from year to year more clearly demonstrated. Important questions have been finally settled aud become au estab lished law, on which, previously, conflict ing decisions and practices p; evaded iu different circuits, which were constantly liable to icversal with every uew change of circuit Judges. There is now a much near er approach than formerly to what the teuure is by which property is held, aud the principles on which contracts are en forced aud righ s vindicated. If uniformity of decision and fixedness of law aud legal construction be desirable, the ends cannot be best promoted by fre quent changes in the supreme Judiciary When the Judges are learned, upright, impartial, possessing the attributes speci fied iu the editorial of the Times 6f Senti nel, the public interests are not promoted, to say the least, by removing toera to try the experiment of fiudiug pthers who may not do as well. W hare no evidence whatever that ®lje ©rergitt Icffcrsenian. the people desire any such experiments made at this time. We do not believe any such desire exists. A few aspirants for the Judicial ermine, and their personal friends, like the editor of the ‘I imes fit Sentinel, may have a personal wish to grat ify by such a movement, and we doubt uot Messrs. Wellborn and Benning have, and ‘ deservedly too, as many’ personal friends interested in their promotion as any two other gentlemen to whom seats on the Su preme bench is desirable. But all these do not constitute public opinion, nor do these embody the voice of the State. One word as to the qualifications of Judge Starnes. Since comparisons are forced upon us, we do not hesitate to pro nounce him the ablest man of his age in the State as a lawyer, and in all the attributes, intellectual and moral, needful for the high station he now adorns—he has no su perior on that bench or on any other in our State Intellectually, Judge Starnes is highly gifted. A mind of more search ing analytical power, of more comprehen sive grasp, of more discriminating acumen, of more logical force, is not often found, and has seldom, if ever, been ealled to pre side in our courts. He is not a mere case lawyer. He understands Law as a sci cnee and tests questions upon elementary principles. He is a student and a man of letters. He was early destined by unpro pitious fortune to carve his pathway in this world by dint of his own energies and indomitable will, without the aid of fami ly influence or the prestige of distinguish ed names, whose friendship could smooth the way and make honors and success the reward less of merit than of favoritism.— He early learned to trim the midnight lamp, and to garner up iu the immortal treasury of the mind, those riches which diminish not with the using, but are a blessing to the public, while they enrich aud ennoble the possessor. From tins Constiuitioiia’Dt &. Republic. Senatorial Question. As the term of the Hon. \V. C Dawson iti the United States Senate will expire in Match, 1854, the duty will devolve upon the Legislature about to assemble, to elect his successor—Thai successor will of course be a democrat—a supporter of the administration of Geu. Pietce. Mr. Daw son has been a consistent whig, opposed to che election of Gen. Bierce, and advoca ted the election of Gen Scots, as such, and during the present year has done all that he could to cany Georgia in oppo sition to the democratic party, and to the administration. He has fought the bat tle and losl it. Georgia has pronounced against him and in favor of sustaining Gen. Pierce. She has voted that she retains her confidence in the President of her choice, and hi his fidelity to the pledge of his past life—in his honest and fearless administration of the government in conformity to the v, ell established creed of the democratic party. Mr. Dawson therefore, as an opponent of the adminis tration, having toiled industriously- this summer to obtain from the people ol Geoig a a verdict of condemnation against Gen Pierce, and having failed, cannot ex pect a democratic Legislature to continue him in his seal in the Senate, there to continue his warfare. The rebuker is himself rebuked, and must submit to the verdict of the people. He will retire, however, with the respect of his oppo nents, for Mr. Dawson has used no de ception as to his position. He has in both the last canvasses taken the ground openly, boldly, manfully. The demo c ats know w here to locate him, for he has met them in fair field without a mask. He was elected as a whig, has continued in office as a whig, and will go out as a whig. With Mr. Toombs the case is different. Had Mr. Berrien or Mr. Jenkins been elected in 1851, there coaid have been no ground for complaint among demociats had the Senator elect taken the field in opposition to the democratic nominee for President in 1852 and for Governor of Georgia in 1853. They were undisguis ed whigs—always have been, and no sus picion of iheir being at all democratized had occurred to the mind of the Legis lature or to the people. Not so with Mr. Toombs. We are not cognizant of the secret pledges, if any there w ere, on his pa-tl to the demcorats of the Legislature that elected him, that he would support the nominee of the Baltimore democratic convention, provi ded (he convention adopted resolutions ot acquifsceuce in the compromise, and that he would be found in the United States Serial supporting the democratic admin istration should that nominee be ihe sue cetsful candidate for the Presidency.— Th. tsuch pledges, eith r io express terms or by the strongest implication were made, is generally believed, and was the current belief entertained at Milicdgeville at and before his election. It is a subject entitled to the fullest investigation, and it is to be hoped will come up for investi gation and discussion before the Legisla te just elected. It is au undeniable fact that Mr. Toombs, by his conversation, led the Democrats at Milledgevilte to believe that he was becoming democratized—that he was in a transition state from the whig to iho democratic party. He open ly proclaimed that the whig party at the North were not to be trusted on the slavery question, which was the paru muunl question of the day to the South teat me Northern democracy offered the only hope of a sound national organ ization—that they had proved tiue to the Constitution and to the South when the Northern whigs had flinched, or proved treacherous to noth; that while there vveie patriotic whigs at the North who could be trusted, they were unfortunately pow erless to do good, and that the great mass of their party were unchangeably wedded to sentiments aud policy hostile to the South—that the path of patriotism and ot duty led him iu the direction of the dein uciatic parly, and from the indications then existing pointed to that party as the one with whicu he expected to he found acting in the futuie. it was also openly declared that Air. Buchanan was his first choice, above all otheis, whigs or demo crats, for the Presidency. These were currently understood to GRIFFIN, (GA.) THURSDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 3, 1853. be Mr. Toombs’ sentiments before the election. It is unquestionable that upon the faith of ihem he received democratic votes in the Legislative caucus that nom inated hint in the Legislature. This was the avowed ground of their support of him by the Union democrats. It is equal ly ondeuiabls that the sentiments above attributed to Mr. Toombs before his elec tion w’tre expressed by him after his election. A night or two after the event he rmide a speech in the Representative Hall, and there declared these sentiments to a crowded auditory of members of the Legislature and others who came togeth er in the full expectation of this confes sion of faith. Nor were they disappointed; and it is a significant fact that the loudest and most heartfelt plaudits came on that occasion from the Union democrats They in the honesty of their credulous hearty believed that they were listening to the exhorting of a converted whig—a democratized whig, ami they rejoiced in the woi k they had done, t clothing him in senatorial robes. Tlje vision of the future disclosed this Saul among the pro phets—this neophyte of democracy glow ing in the zeal of anew found faith championizing a democratic administra tion and defending the measures of the national democracy. But they were doomed to an utter, to tal disappointment; and soon, very soon, though perhaps too late for a remedy, came their bitter regrets for a too hasty credulity, and a misplaced confidence. The winter passed, and the summer came on. The national democracy as sembled, and adopted resolutions on the compromise which were all Mr. Toombs bad asked, or which as a Constitutional Union man he could require. It nominated a candidate who, hv Mr. ‘Toombs own confession, was as sound and reliable on the slavery question as any man north of Mason and Dixon’s line. But where was Mr. Toombs, with bis democratic confessions yet warm upon his lips, in thecontest that ensued? With the Union democracy of Georgia? With Mr. Buch anan and his northern friends? With those sound patriotic national democra s of the north who had always stood firm by his side in Congress while the northern whigs were voting with those men whose fi naiicisn. had elicited his famous fire ea - er llamilcar speech? No, he was not there. He was work’ ing hard to draw away from Gen. P.eice all the votes he possibly could to concen trate them upon an electoral ticket for Daniel Webster, whose boast it was that he had ever been a consistent Fiee Soiler , and stood solemnly pledged to raise his voice and to strike his blows against the extension of the Slave Holding Stales, whenevei and where ever au opportunity offered. Mr. Toombs may or may not have been sincere in bis democratic professions in 1851. On this point we otter no con jecture. But certain it is that, if sincere, he very sooo backslided and resumed bis position ot antagonism to the National democracy. Again, in 1853 we find him traversing the Slate ot Georgia from oue extremity io the other, denouncing the President and his administration on the most frivol ous and untenable pretexts, charging him with collusion with Freesoilers to revive and restore the Freesoil party, with a betrayal of the Rights of the South, and with placing the country in great and iminent danger by reviving sectional par ties and excitements. But it was ihe Hon. Mr. Toombs himself, and not the President, whom the people of Georgia have, by recent vote, convicted ol play ing the demagogue and the agitator, aud of endeavoring to revive sectional par ties, and perpetuate sectional animosities on questions settled aud disposed of by the compromise.’ The queslioa now comes- up, what should the Legislature do? Shall it quiet ly remain, and allow Mr. Toombs to go to Washington, take his seat in the Sena • on the opposition side, and there launch forth, unrebuked by Georgia, his slander ous denunciations of the President? Shall he continue unchided to hold a seat obtained in pari fiom deceived democrats, by false promises, and delu sive inueudoes, and cozeuing. r.ods and winks? Sel f-respect, anu a proper vindication of the declared sentiments of democratic Georgia, alike dictate that the Legislature should pass a resolution requesting Mr. Toombs to resign his seat in the Senate, : and thus enable it to place a man in his | stead who will Represent and not misrepre septitneips of the people of seor gia. It u 111 have a good moral effect to place the sentiments of the people of Georgia thus in direct contiast with those of the Senator de facto y but not de jure, who will then stand in the Senate as the organ only of a defeated and powerless ininoiily at home. That Mr. Toombs will yield to the re quest—a request which under all the circumstances would most emphatically embody the w ishes of the people and be substantially iheir mandate, we candidly admit is more than can be expected from one so notoriously seifwilled and defiant of popular opinion as Mr. Toombs. If he should do so, it will be the first piece of humble deference to the people on re coid of his political life. But resolutions will have answered a salutary purpose even though disregarded by the honora ble Senator. ‘They will render the fire of his denunciations innocous, or blunt the edge of his They will either render him silent in Senate, when the whigs are warring upon the Executive, or tney will deprive bis tongue of its ven t om and its sting. Ohio Cheese . —lt is well known that the part of Ohio called the Western Re serve manufactures a great part of the cheese sold throughout the United States. The Independent, a newspaper published in Sumner county, in an article headed “where dues ail the cheese go?” states that a single firm in Hudson, in that county, had then io store five hundrtd tons of cheese. ‘They are constantly foi warding large amounts to the distant markets, while the doily purchases rune® from 600 to SI,OOO. From tire Columbus K i Interesting Letter fro::: Texas. As some of onr readers, (especially far mers) may be afflicted with the “Texas fe ver,” we copy below a descriptive letter from a gentleman now in that country, but formerly well known in mary parts of Georgia, as a loan of as a close observer cf matters and things in general. lie is not at all given to the freak of exaggeration in order to make out “tall stories,” and whatever he says can be relied upon as approximating near er the truth than statements of most oi the new-country letter writers. We copy from the Auburn (Ala.) Gazette, of the loth:— Smith County, Sept. 14, 1853. Mr. Editor, —Sir: Believing that you and your numerous readers take a great deal of interest in hearing from different portions of our happy country and espe cially from the Southern States, and more particularly from our portion, (Texas) this happy and most interesting country to all classes under the sun, 1 do, most cheerfully, now make the communication. I have had it in contemplation for weeks past, to give you a synopsis of the various topics, particularly in Rush, Cherokee and Smith counties; but have been hindered by various causes unnecessary to none, uutii the present moment. One I will mention; for weeks past we have been engaged iu an extensive revival of religion almost un paralleled, with Baptist, Cumberland Presbyterians and Methodists; all of which have been abundantly blessed of the good Lord; and when it will stop, God only knows. ‘The general inquiry is for the truth, and the work is not coufirj. and to the above named counties, rat generally thro’- out eastern Texas. I have noticed thro’- out my life, that during extreme times of death and affliction, the people are dispo sed to humble themselves and tc call upon the name of the Lord. But here it is cn tirely different; instead of being either of the above, it is to the reverse; a land of plenty and of good health, let God be praised for his mercies. ‘1 he great object I have in view, is to address myself to young men and middle aged of Alabama and Georgia, so 83 to induce-them to seek a home in one of the most desirable por tions of God’s earth. As to the aged, those who have good farms, and are satis fied to remain in Alabama or Georgia, I would advise them to remain where they are, unless they have a desire to have their children located around them. Under such circumstances as these, I would say come by all means, bring your children and locate them in this interesting country. There is no State iu this Union that can hold out such inducements to the planter as Texas. None can excel ours in refer ence to good lauds, durability of soil, pro ductiveness aud cheapness. Here you can get laud at fifty cents per acre aud three years payment, that will on an ava rage make from 25 to 30 bushels of corn, and from 12 io 1500 fcs. of ttun pet acre. Though these cheap are not to be found in Rush, Cherokee, or Smith, but out west of us where the State bolds her large domain. Iu our portion of the country where we have good society and good water, lands cau be purchased—un improved—at from one to ten dollars per acrej-lands too, that would lay Alabama or Georgia in the shade. As an evidence of this fact, corn is now worth from 20 to 25 cents per bushel, and at our next gath ering time, it will be worth nothing unless much emigration arrives to consume it.— Our crops of cotton are superior to last year. Three fourths of my neighbors will make a bag weighing 500 lbs. per acre And they are also trying to engage to sell their meat at next killing time, for two dollars and a half neat, per hundred, but no purchasers. If this docs not beat Tennessee and Kentucky, I will give up my judgment. Well, some of your read ers may say we are living in a very incon venient country, so far as markets are concerned. I admit all of that; but it is destined to remain so but a little while; we have a Railroad project in view'; the charter has already been granted from El Passo, to Vicksburg, and a large sub scription has been made towards it, and the Road will be completed to Tyler, the capito! of our county, in less than three years; and 1 do think this Road will be one of the best investments that men of capital can invest their money in, in the United States, for it certainly w 11 be the great national route to the Pacific Ocean. Aud now let me urge upon my friends, if ever you intend to move to Texas, this fall will be the time for you to come; if you caunot dispose of your worn out lauds in Alabama and Georgia, le>ve them be hind, for now is the time to get a home in Texas while lands arc cheap, “Well,” says oue, “I am no cotton producer:” we can meet your objections there; if you have a family you must do something tor the support of that family Goupiuto some of our northern counties aud raise wheat and other small grain—you cau raise an abundance of that, say from 30 to 40 bushels of wheat per acre, in a high, healthy country. “Well, how shall I get it off to market?” Never mind, tiie Rail road will soon be at your door. “Well,” says another, “I am uo planter I want to raise stock.” My friend you cau do it as suc cessfully here as in any portion of the globe. At this time it is oue of the most lucrative business that men can engage in. With a few hundred dollars to start with, using- industry and economy a comforta ble living can be made without much trou ble. You must go to the the muskete grass, then you cau raise a beef weighing 1,000 lbs., with no more trouble or expense than a hen aud chick kens; all the trouble is to keep him gentle. You need not have any fears iu rolerence to exhausting the range. The town of San Antonia has been settled for more than two hundred years, aud yet the mus kete grass seems to be as luxuriant as it ever was, up to the streets, wlhero there have been thousands of stock raised. Hor ses and mules cau also be made ja matter of much profit, by raising them; not oue bushel of corn need you give them thro’ the winter. If you are a planter, conic to Texas—the blacksmith, the carpenter, the screw builder, aud in fact, all mechan ics can do better here. But if a lawyer, or a doctor, I cairaot say whether it would be best or not for you to come; but one thing is certain, you caunot injure your self seriously by coming. For years past, Texas has been low and degrading; but now-she will rank with •my of her sister fctit.es in point of moral ity, intelligence, virtue and industry. No doubt but that many of ypetr citizens have thought that Texas was filled up with “renegades and cut-throats;” but my dear sir, they are mistaken; I have been here nearly two years, and traveled pretty ex tensively, and I have not found them yet. Time has been when they were here, but the Providence of God has overtaken them and cut them off in some way or other.— During my travels in this State, now more than 18 months, I have seen but two drunken men, not the first fight, nor heard the first quarrel. At a dinner given the fourth of July, in Rush county, there were about two thousand souls present—-about five hundred ladies; but oue oath was heard during the day and that was from a little boy; not a drunken man could be seen; every thing was peace and quietness. O, sir, if you could have been here on lust fourth of July, and witnessed the cel ebration ou that clay in Starrville, by the little boys and girls of the school; their neat dresses all decorated with fine rib bons, aud bearing the stars and stripes, and one with the lone star (representing wlnit Texas has been, but not what she is now j and all seated down to one of the best dinners that could be prepared, with good, cold water to drink, you would have thought this was something rather suneri or to my owu native State. lam now nearly fifty years of age, and I have never seen better order in society in my life than I have found in Texas. “Well,” says one, “ I would go to Texas but I am afraid of sickness.” If you remain where you are, you certainly will be sick, and I am sure you will die. V\ ere I to hunt a healthy location and have a desire to live a long time, I would hunt in Texas and should certainly find it. Texas, with all other Southern States, has its sickly and healthy locations; but I do believe she is freer from the dread miasmxla than any other Southern State, and in reference to ma king a living, it is done easier here than aify other portion I ever put a plow into. If you can plow your corn twice and hoe it once it is enough; you have done well. There is another class of people whom I will endeavor to persuade to emigrate to Texas, aud that is my ministerial brethren of every orthodox order. Texas with her population aud with her one hundred and fifty thousand emigrants yearly, stands in need of ministerial aid In many portions they are destitute of miuisteis as sheep without a shepherd. Come brethren, come and help us. And provided you should come, do not coine for the sole purpose of making money, but come with a good char acter, having the love of souls at heart, and God will bless your efforts. Some of your friends may say, exaggeration, that I have misrepraseated things. I am rath er too old aud too sober a man to do this. Or some may say oh, he has a large quan tity of land for sale in Texas. Sir, I have only enough for myself and children, not oue foot for sale. Yours, most rcspsctfullv, THOS. J. SANFORD. Horrible Plienomena- It is not oenerally known, says the Charleston Courici , that in Barbadoes there is a mysterious vault, iu which no one now dares to deposite the dead. It is in a churchyard, near the sea shore In 1808 a Miss A. M. Chaste was placed in it, and in 1812 Mass D. Chase. In the end of 1812 the vault was opened for ihe tody of Hon. T. Chase; but the three first coffins were found in a confused state, having been apparently tossed from their place. Agaiu was the vault opened, to receive the body of an infant, and the tour coffins, all ot lead, and very heavy, were found much disturbed. In 1816, a Mr. B, ewster’s body was placed in the ! Vault, and again great disorder was appa rent among ihe coffins. In 1819, a Mr. Clarke was placed in the vault, and as before, the coffins were in confusion. Each time ikat the vault was opened, the coffins were replaced rn their proper situations—that is, three on the ground, side by side,- and the others laid on them. The vault was then regularly closed, the door (a massive stone, which required six oi seven men to move,) was cemented by masons, and though the floor was sard,- ltie’B were no marks of footstops or water. Again the vaul 1 was opened in 1819. Lord Comhermere was then pre seni, and the coffins were found thrown confusedly about the vault —some with ! the heads uuwu, and others up. “ What I upjlld have occasioned this phenomenon? in no oilier vault iu the island had this evtr occurred. Was this an earthquake tn.it occasioned it, or the effects of an in undaiiou iu the vault?” These were questions asked by the Barbadoes Joui >*ai at the time, aud no one could afford a suiulion. i he matter gradually died away, until ihe present year when, on the 16ih of February, the vault was again opened, anu ail ihe coffins were again thrown a uoui as contused!) as before. A strict investigation took place, and no cause could be discovered. Was it, atier all, that Hie sudden bursting foilb of noxiou gas from one Ot the Coffins could have piudweed inis phenomena? If so, it is against ail former experience fne vauil iias b* en hermeiicatiy sealed again—when K> be reopened we cannot tell. In England there was a p.ifailei occur di.ee to this, some years ago, at Hautou, m Suffolk. It is stated inal on opening a vault tneie, sav tat leaden coffins, with wooden cases, wmed nad been tilt'd on biers, wete found displaced, u> ihe con oieiliaiion ol toe viliag rs. ihe coffins were again placed as beture, and the vauil was piupi-r.y Closed, when again, auolher ot me family “ying, the)’ were again touml displaced; aud two years af ter mat, liiev wt-re uot o*dy found ail off then biers, but one coffin (so heavy ..3 lo require eight men to tuise it,) was lounJ on the fourth step wuien lead down to the vault; and it see ned perfectly ceit&in that no human band iad done this. Once a knvae, and never an honest man. Macaulay and Opium. The third volume of “Mai’&ulay’ft Histo-y” {ac cording to a recent London letter in (he Tribune) i s tr appear in a few weeks, the celebrated author having at last deli vered his MS. to his publisher. His friends never believed that be would he able to linishit, as the excessive useol'opiuni, to which lie in addicted, has destroyed his health. Jf the above report is true, this brilli ant essayist and historian will scarcely he able to make another sustained effort, and in future, like his great prototypes Coleridge and De Quincy, all that we may expect from him will be rambling and desultory. It is sad to think that another magnificent intellect should have been sacrificed to the specious, but de structive iufiuence of this terrible ding. Among Englishmen, Coleridge was its first great literary victim, and how much the world has lost thereby will never now be known. De Quincy—the most tho roughly logical mind, and the most pro found metaphysical scholar that perhaps England ever possessed—has labored all lus literary life ui der a similar curse.— Campbell was similarly prostrated; and now we learn, with deep regret, that Macaulay is addicted to the same baleful habit. Writing of its effects upon Cole ridge and himself, DeQuincy says:—‘Un der the influence of opium when it reach es its maximum in diseasing the liver and deranging the digestive functions, al ex ertion is revolting in excess; intellectual exertion, above all, is connected habitual ly, when performed under opium influ ence, with a sense of disgust the most profound for the subject—no matter what —which detains the thoughts; all that moving freshness of animal spirits, which, under ordinary circumstances, consumes, as it were, and swallows up the interval between one’s self and one’s distant ob ject, ail that dewy freshness is exhaled and burnt off hv the parching effects of opium on the animal economy. You let! like one of Swift’s ‘ strulbugs ’ prema turely exhausted of life; and molehills are exaggeiated into mountain .-Arthur's Home Gazette. The Dead. —How seldom do we think of the dead? Although we sit around the same hearth where they once sat, and read from the same volume they so loved to pe ruse, yet we do not think of them. Oh/ how the heart throbs with wild and tin controllable emotion, as we stand beside the dying friend we dearly love! We wildly strive, but all in vain, to prolong the precious life; we follow in deepest an guish down the dark flowing river: the spirit of the loved one passes onward a lone—and we are left to Huger on the shore of time. We think, as we behold the inanimate form consigned to the cold grave, and heap the damp earth o\r it, that we will never forget the life scenes of the departed—that their memox*y will al ways remain fresh in our hearts, and al most wonder that the busy multitude can move on so briskly among us. But the sun shines brightly as ever on the new made grave. Mature looks as gay and smiling, and the birds sing as merrily as before. Again we mingle with the busy, jostling throng. Weeks and months roll on—we visit the graves less frequently—-and grad ually cease to think of the lost ones, save when some voice or incident of by-gone days recall them to our memory. The feel ing of bitter anguish aud bereavement are soon worn off by the accumulating cares and pleasures of life. Thus we, in turn, must ere long pass away, and be forgot ten. Such is heman life. Devon Farm. —A travelling correspon dent of the Savannah Georgian, writing from Calhoun, Gordon county, Georgia, under date of August 17, gives the follow ing brief sketch of the line stock farm of R. Peters, of Atlanta: “On yesterday I visited Mr. Peters’ plantation, near this place, and was shown by his worthy courteous and obliging man ager, Mr. Hawks, his truly interesting and valuable possessions here, consisting of a tract of 1600 acres of land, 800 acres un der fence, and much of it in a high state of cultivation; producing last season 25 bushels of wheat to the acre, and other crops in proportion. Much of his lands are sown in grass, such as Herds grass, orchard grass, velvet, timothy, white and red clover, &c. and stocked with the finest herds of Devons, I presume, in the United States, when taking into account numbers, their milking properties, symme try, &c. His stock of hogs, consisting of Sulfolks, Graziers, Berkshire's, &c. of pure blood, are not to be surpassed. And last, though not least, the Shanghais—they must be sceu to be appreciated: I could not count them, nor could old “Aunt Bet ty,” who raised them; but, seriously, she called up hundreds, and most of the young cocks, the past Spring’s chickens, were as large as turkey hens. Mr. Peters is enti tled to the gratitude of the planters of Georgia, for his enterprise in developing the capacity of our noble State for pro ducing animals of the very best class, as well as her capacity to grow the grasses for their support. Tide Water,- The Child we Live For. —lt would be u . ?ise in us to call that man wretched who, whatever he suffers as to pain inflict ed, or pleasure denied, has a child for whom, he, hopes, and on whom he dotes. Poverty may grind him to the dust; obscurity may cast its darkest mantle over him; the song of the gay may be far from his own dwell ing; his face may be unknown to his neigh bors, and his voice may be unheeded by those among whom he dwells—even pain may rack his joints, and sleep may flee from his pillow; yet has he a girx with which he would not part for wealth defying computation, for fame tilling a world’s ear, lor the luxury of the highest health, or for the sweetest sleep that ever sat upon a mor tal’s brow .—Coleridge. How highly prized are the ladies in South Africa, may be inferred from the fact, that when the missionaries first intro duced a plough, and the lazy Caffre lords saw it at work, one of them exclaimed, “see how the thing tears up the ground with its mouth! It is of more worth than five wives!” Woman is the dynometer with which the C-tffre measu: es the value’ of a plough Tlie American Legation in Eng land. No have inforrrmtir n concerning our legation in London from the pen of a dis imgui.'hed American now abroad, who, though not connected with public affairs, knows what is going on around him.—- This gentleman states that Mr. Buchanan is exceedingly pleased with his Secretary of Legation, Mr. Daniel E. Sickles, of New York, and hit Private Secretary, Mr. Welsh. From his letter we antici pate that Mr. Lawrence, the son of the late minister, will continue his connection with the legation, to which the minjster regards him as a great acquisition indeed-;> knowing every body and every round him, and cheerfully according ifjej benefit of his experience in London fhqM American public affairs there, to his fa-| ther’s successor. Mr. Buchanan’s sentation to the Queen took place at Os-J borne, in the Isle of Wight, without pomp or parade, prince Albeit and Lord Cla rendon being alone present. Mr. B. has not yet g Ailed himself at housekeeping, though at last accounts he was busy with airangements to that end. He had re ceived many kind attentions from mem bers of the British ministry, and more es pecially front Lord Palmerston, b. tween Whom and himself an intimacy had sprung up which can hardly fail to greatly fac'd itale I;is official labors.— JVasA. Star. Horace Greeley delivered an address before tlie Indiana State Agricultural So ciety. on the occasion of the late annual Fair at Lafayette. The address was a plea for better farming and better farmers, and concluded with the following beauti ful and touching words:—“As for me, long tossed on the stormiest waves of doubtful conflict and arduous endeavor, I have be gun to feel, since the shades of forty years fell upon me, the weary, tempest-driven voyager’s longing for land, the wanderer’s yearning for the hamlet where, in child hood, he nestled by his mother’s knee, and was soothed to sleep on her breast.— The sober, down-hill of life dispels many illusions, while it developes or strength ens within us the attachment, perhaps not long smothered or overlaid, for “that dear hut, our home.” Aud so I, in the sober afternoon of life, when its sun, if not high, is still warm, have bought a few land in the broad, still country, and, bear ing thither my household treasures, have resolved to steal from the city’s labors and anxieties at least one day in each week, wherein to receive as a farmer the memo ries of my childhood's humble home. And already I realize that the experiment can not cost so much as it is worth. Already I find in that day’s quiet an antidote and a solace for the feverish, festering cares of the weeks which environ it. Already mv brook murmurs a soothing even song to my burning, throbbing brain; and my trees, gently stirred by the fresh breezes, whis per to my spirit something of their own quiet strength and patient trust in God. And thus do I faintly realize, but for t brief and flitting day, the serene joy which shall irradiate the farmer’s vocation, when ! a fuller and truer education shall have re fined and chastened his animal cravings, and when science shall have endowed him with her treasures, redeeming labor from drudgery while quadrupling its efficiency, aud crowning with beauty and plenty our bounteous, beneficent earth.” judiciary Reform. A correspondent of the Augusta Consti lutionalisl, suggests a reform in the judi ciary of our State, reducing the number of the justices of the Inferior Court to one. Attempts have been made in the last several Legislatures to effect this ob ject, which have hitherto been fruitless. The inefficiency of the tribunal as at pre sent organized is admitted on al! hands, and it has indeed been singular that in the face of this admission, the movement has tailed. We suggest a modification ot the movement abolishing the Court al together. Since the establishment of the Court of Ordinary, there lias really been no use for an Inferior Court. Let the next Legislature add to the Ordinary’s duties the office of Commissioner of Roads an i Revenue, and then abolish the Inferi or Court entirely. We shall thus invest one competent and salaried officer with all the Ordinary and county business, and dispense with a common “law tribu nal for which we have no use. To equal ize the duties of the Superior Court, in consideration of the accumulation of busi ness in that Court in consequence of the abolition of the inferior tribunal, let us have a court of Quarter Sessions for the trial of criminal causes. We need a sep arate Court for criminal causes. We need it, if for po other reasons, because under the present arrangement it is al most out of the question to afford speedy trials to the accused. The reduction in the jail fees will almost if not quite pay for a separate tribunal which shoul 1 meet in each county four times during the year* for the trial of all criminal cases. One more suggestion in this connexion. We ought, by ail means, to increase the salires of our judicial officers. The mere honor of presiding upon the bench will not compensate our best lawyers for leaving a lucrative practice for the judge ship. We should put the very best tal ent of the country upon the bench, and we cannot command it without paying for it. We do hope that if all oiher matters of judiciary teform are neglected by our next Legislature, this matter wisl not be overlooked. —Columbus Times. Beautiful Extract .--The Velvet moss grows on a sterile rock, the mis le-toe flourishes on the naked branches, the ivy clings to the mouldering ruins, the pine and cedar remain fresh and fadeless amid the meditations of the receding year; and amid, Heaven be praised, something green, something beautiful to see and grateful to the soul will, in the darkest hour ol fate, still twine its tendrils around the crumbling altars end broken arches of the desolate temples of the human heart. The French order of the Legion of H-mor numbers fifty-two thousand seven hundred members. Ao. 44.