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About The Georgia Jeffersonian. (Griffin, Ga.) 18??-18?? | View Entire Issue (Sept. 14, 1854)
VOL. XV. hie mmn mersonian. 19 PUBLISHED EVERT THURSDAY MORNING BY WILLIAM CLINE, A* Two Dollars and Fifty Cents per an mac, or Two Dollars paid in auvsucc. A.) at DOLLAR per sqm’.re, (or the first insertion, and FIFTY CEJJTS per square, for each insertion t hereafter. A reasonable deduction will he made to those who advertise by the year. All advertisements not otherwise ordered, will, t* continued till tiirlnd. jriy sALES OF LANDS by Aciministrators, KxeeMors or Guardians arc required bj law to be held on the first Tuesday in the month, between Mia hours o! ten in the forenoon and three in thr nffernoon, at the Court-House, in the county in widen tiie land is situated. Notiee of these sale, vnust be given in a public gazette FORTY DAYS pno’ious to the day of sale. S'ILES OF NEGROES must be made at pub lie auction on the first Tuesday of the month, hi ‘ween the usual hours of sale, at the place ol pub he sales in the county where the letters Testa entary, of Administration or Guardianship ma have been granted; first giving FORTY VA\ notice thereof in one of the public gazettes of tli S’ a* , and at the court house whe e such salcarsi co he hc'.d. Notice tor the sale of Personal Property musl b* given in like manner FORTY DAYS previous } tno day of sale. Nonce to Debtors and Creditors of an estate must he published FORTY DAYS. Notice that application will he inadeto the Court Ordinary for leave to sell land must be pub isli-d for TWO MONTHS , Notice for leave to sell negroes must be pu’d'Gficil TWO MONTHS before any order ab to'utc shall lie made thereon by the Court. CITATIONS for Letters of Administration mint be published thirty days; for Dismission from Administration, monthly six months; lb Dismission from Guardianship, forty days. Hides lor lie Foreclosure of Mortgage must he published monthly for four months, lor pub haling lost papers, lor Hie full space of three mont is; for compelling titles t'roni Executors, a Jininisli itors, whew a bond lias been given by She deceased, (or the space of three Months. From the Washington Globe ot August 4th. For tlie Georgia Jeffersonian. Major Ci.ine— Dear Sir : Who can tell the reminiscent thoughts that pass in the deep recesses of the memory of one who has been faithful to his country in all her vicissitudes, especially when engaged in a righteous war, combatting for her inde pendence against a proud, powerful and ruthless foe ? He often sits amidst anew generation, conscious that they know little of him, his life and services; and there* fore do not and cannot appreciate them. Yet the veteran rejoices in a secret plea sure, that they experience and possess a freedom and happiness, a success and pros perity purchased at the expense of blood and life poured out in the field of battle! The sentiments contained in the following excerpt, are realized in their truth to a letter, by many a one now bowed by age. Many of the bold and daring feats in “times that try men’s souls,” escape the historian's pen, and are only known to the relatives and acquaintances of those who were the acting heroes of many thrilling adventures and daring deeds. As they tad by the ruthless hand of death, the corroding tooth of time robs their history of its richest features, and but a faint tri bute is paid to their merit by after gener ations; and such is the destiny of ma ny a benefactor of his race, in his day and generation. Is this a law stampt on the life of man ? The animated countenance, tiic* strong emotion, the trembling voice, the bending frame, the tottering step, the bald and whitened head, the furrowed cheek, the heaving bosom, the silent tear of an old soldier impart an interest to his story, that no pen can portray, no elo quence imitate ! nis adventures, his toils, Ins sufferings, his miraculous escapes, his struggles for victory, are all imprinted on his mind, and are ever fresh in his remem brance. His patriotic feelings expire on ly with his life—his soul is enraptured with the same enthusiasm that impels the brave to break the chains of slavery.— His memory is on the wing, runs back with the lightning’s quickness, and grasps the scenes of other days, as if they had occurred but yesterday. His relation of ‘ battles fought and victories won,” is en livened by the fascinating charms of a pure original, producing an impression upon his listeners more chaste and enchanting than can be imparted by the ablest pen, or most finished eulogist There is a fondness characteristic of most old men who have undergone the hardships and perils of war in the service of their country, to shoulder their crutch and fight their battles over again, and show how they were lost and won; to preserve a live ly remembrance of them, and by the fire side, or under the shadcpf the old oak, to rehearse them to attentive listeners, espe cially to youth, who long to follow some war-like and famous hero to the tented field ! And why ? for there is no scene so terrible as a field of battle, except the anger of the Almighty, and it is an awful expression of Divine wrath ! The reverent and pious soldier so views and depicts it, unless in defence of right and resistance of wrong. A nation should be sure her cause is just. After a war is closed, all, following the example of the “Father of his Country,” should return to the peaceful pursuits of civil life. War is an unnatural state, and one of violence. The Divine precept is, “thou shalt till the earth in the sweat of thy brow.” Standing armies are unnecessary in a patriotic republic. If invaded, armies of aimed men, would spring up like the Cadmcia segex from Dragon’s teeth, and repel the insolent foe. Every Spartan, every Lacedemonian was a soldier. The contrast. Is it not wretched that a sol dier-patriot as above described, should be, as many have been, suffered to live and die in poverty aud rags, in want and desti tution, in a poor house, or be cast out like a dead lion, to become a clod of the val ley ? Oh, my country, my beloved coun try 1 As long as patriotism inspires thee, and gratitude animates the life current of thy heart, and the name of Washington echoes over land and sea, aud from earth to heaven, and his monuments tower to the skies, let not this reproach come upon thee —let not thy escutcheon be so defaced 1 F. D. C. Pat and Cuff. — And Cuff, will yo be afiher tipping us a little bit of a song this cold mo r nin? exclaimed a son of the Emerald isle to aco laborer in the divi sion and subdivision of wood. “Golly, tnassa, I can’t sing!” Can’t sing? An’ what’s yer leg struck in the middle of yer fut for like a bird’s, if ye can’t s ng? For (lie Georgia Jeffersonian. Progress! Reform! Radical Native American is nil- By ‘-Dem isthenese” —(lmproved American Or tho jjrnpliy. Mr Editor: —While the noble work of civil and moral reformation is going on under the commendably silent influences and piously patriotic impulses of the Know Nothings, why should not the “war be carried into Africa,” and a thorough and consistent revolution take place? Is it the political world, the religious common wealth and the social community alone that are corrupted by foreign influences and their fabrics endangered by foreign innovators? Is it only by the increase of Irish population, the building of Catholic churches, the subversion of whig princi pies and the spread of Democracy, that we are threatened with civil ruin, social death and moral degradation? Yerily, Mr. Editor, our eyes are closed as with a pitch plaster and our cars hearken not un to the words of wisdom when we pro nounce these things as the only “signs of the times.” I admit that these things are dangerous. I know that expatriated Irish, English refugees, Sco'ch McGre gors, exiled French, Hungarian patriots, Swiss republicans and outlawed Poles have no right to claim equal privileges with us whose forefathers (albeit descended from their own ancestry) “fit, bled and died” to win American soil and consecrate A mcrican liberty. I acknowledge that one plotting mis chievous Catholic Priest (and they are all so except those with whom 1 amacquaiut ed,’ is a source of more injury to our social and moral fabric than the examples of ten such “gentlemen of the cloth” as he who left Mobile lately, taking with him the stolen honor and blighted reputations of maidens whom he had betrayed, and leaving in the spiritual fold he has desert ed scarcely an untarnished fleece. What are the brokenhearted mothers, dishonored fathers and ruined daughters brought to shame and degradation by this amiable shepherd compared with the shameful outrages committed by the Ca tholic priesthood in Mobile, Charleston, Savannah and Griffin! I admit that this same diabolical priesthood has in times past persecuted, tortured and tormented hundreds, nay thousands of unfortunate Protestants, while the bloody cruelties in flicted by the latter upon the Catholics were only righteous retaliations sanction ed by the Mosaic code—“an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.” I admit that the Catholic priesthood are perpetually inciting their laity to auger against the Protestants, while the latter 1 are forced in legitimate self-defence to a buso and vilify the former through the press and from the pulpit, and to fulmi nate their anathema maranatka with all the awful severity of outraged theology upon the heads of those modern Babylo nians who dare to differ from them in their self-sanctified orthodoxy. If Protestants possess the Christian right of proscribing their own fellows for a difference of reli gious opinion, surely, surely the glorious privilege is theirs of excluding idolatrous Catholics from all earthly fellowship and respect, and of excommunicating them from both “the church militant and the church triumphant.” That they do exer cise that right is admitted by a distin guished divine, Dr. Clapp, who eloquently says iuthe introduction of his “Sermon on Hell,”—“I am well aware that,, by the public proclamation of my present senti ments, I shall be exposed to the severest auathemas of the church, so called; that naked, and almost alone, I shall encounter the bristling spears and bayonets of that large army which, though it repudiates the use of the wheel, the rack and the gibbet, employs, for the purpose of pre venting free enquiry, the more cruel en gines of scorn, contempt, obloquy and mis- j representation. The very worst form of; persecution prevails in this land of boast ed freedom. There is much less of reli gious freedom in the United States than in Europe. Here, if a clergyman feels bound in conscience, to interpret the scrip tures differently from the majority of the sect to which lie belongs, he cannot follow his private judgment without putting to hazard his good name, his standing with the church, and even his Christian charac ter; and without being driven like chaff before the storm of popular prejudice and persecuting clamor.” Who, after this declaration, will deny us “the right, immu nity and privilege” of lambasting the “beast with seven heads and ten horns,” as I heard a latter-day St John denomi nate the Catholic church? A Sabbath or two ago, I heard a “minister of the Gos pel” in this place, assert positively and literally that religion gave its possessor “omnipotence:” —but I must confess that the thought just then suggested itself to me that it was a pity religion did not give some of its possessors a modicum of omni science too. Are not the Catholics in Griffin perpetually lomenting some moral disturbance in the community? And why should not our “omnipotent” Christian teachers “pile the agony” upon them with out stint in return? Theology these days must be as progress ive as every thing else; and the various precepts contained iti Christ’s Sermon on the Mount are too old fogyish for Young American orthodoxy Let us leave that declaration—“ Blessed are ye when men shall persecute, revile, &c.” to that old fogy, the “most ancient and venerable church in the world,” while we jump into the car of progress, and, impelled by the power of reform, roll triumphantly into a Protestant American heaven, from which, of course, Catholics and foreigners are to be excluded. And I am constrained to yield that Ridley and Latimer suffered a terrible martyrdom at the hands of these same fiends incarnate, while John Calvin only burnt and imprisoned a few ignorant stub born conservatives who refused to sanction and preach the sweet and merciful doc trine of infant damnation. While we be wail the unhappy fate of Weimar’s suffer ing sons, let us drop no pitying tear for the martyred Huss, the murdered Alph and the illfated Zuinz burned, drowned, hanged and quartered—offered up as Pro testant sacrifices by Protestant priests up ou Protestant altars. While we turn away with holy horror GRIFFIN, (GA.) THURSDAY MORNING, SETPEMBEII 14. 1854. rom the rack and dungeons of the Inqui sition, let us smile with orthodox compla cency upon unhappy Scrvetus as the red tongues of the martyr’s fire lick up his life-blood and the hot chains which bind him to the stake sink hissing into his ten der flesh. And while we piously sigh for the victims of the Vatican, let us dismiss from our memories the name and fate ofi Grotius. They deserved their fates; let] us forget their sufferings And most of all from the Sainted Cal- j vin’s latter day adorers do these meddle- 1 some intiigueing despots, the Catholics,! deserve especial enmity. For when, in the incipiency of our go vernment, with a praiseworthy zeal for the cause of the elect they sought to erect an established church as a pious bond be tween God and the State, these infamous ly crafty priests interfered and defeated the scheme, left the Government without a God, the State without a church and the elect without the reins of politico mitred authority. No wonder their hatred is so deadly, and their enmity so open aud their hostility to this day so irreconcilable. Let us join them in their crusade; for who knows what a day may bring forth! The Know Nothings intend to exclude every Catholic from office We will then have a purely protestant Congress, &c and who knows but what the next call will be for a White House Synod, a Wash ington Association or a Congressional Camp-meeting! What glorious times will then dawn upon us! What a grand Pan demonium will “the Asylum for the op* pressed of all nations” become! The stakes, halters, chains, &e. &c. of our pious progenitors, the Puritan Fathers, will be forgotten amid the tumultuous glories of that approaching era. The signs of the times are ominous. “Can ye not discern them ?” Tell it not in Gath 1 There is a Catholic on the Supreme Bench; there are several Catholics in Congress; we have a French Ambassador to the Spanish Court; Irish and Scotchmen fill important and responsible government offices; there are several French and German newspa pers published in the United States; for eigners fill various professional chairs in our Colleges; Sound the tocsin, “Strike the hew*ra! blow tie tomjon! Lot the loud slcwdicdie ria^l” The press is vomiting fire and smoke (prin cipally smoke;l the pulpitis belching forth its thunders, i. e. making a great noise; the artillery of the forum is opening (firing blank cartridges); volumes are flooding the country (chiefly bound in yellow and entitled “The Monk,” “the Jesuits re venge,” “the victim of the Inquisition,” &c. &c.) All these things betoken some great event. But there is another matter to which I desire to direct special atten tion. While foreign influences and Cath olic plottings are undermining the govern ment and secretly destroying our moral in stitutions—our language, yes our lan guage, the American language is becoming perverted, corrupted by foreign provincial isms whose innovations upon our vernacu lar are truly alarming. Asa lover of let ters, as an American born, American edu cated citizen, I feel an honest indignation at the villainous prostitution of our lan guage by foreigners who laud upon our shores: and I predict^prophesy and prog nosticate that unless strenuous measures are soon adopted to rid our vernacular of these provincial encumbrances, we may expect to see the noblest tongue that ev er adorned a people converted into a hor rible jargon, such as Elihu Barritt himself would shrink from, and whose articulation would horrify even a Kamschatkan. All depends upon the Know Nothings.— To them is entrusted the honor and pu rity of onr language. May they keep it pure and unsullied If we wish to use a foreign word let us first Americanize it lam glad, Mr. Ed itor, to see your neighbor as thoroughly consistent on this point as he is. He has fully Americanized several words, among which I noticed in a late issue the old Greek name Demosthenes—the patronym ic, improved and Americanized, which, with a classical taste and ingenious talent of adaptation eminently qualifying him for a higher station than the obscure one he now occupies, he has applied to me, and which I modestly accept with the ortho graphical improvement. Would that ev ery other able, efficient and gifted Know Nothing in the chair editorial would a dopt the same consistent plan of patriotic orthography, and stamp the signet of a pure nationality upon our literature! I am sorry lo see that you, Mr. Editor, v/ill perversely insist upon “spelling after” the uuamerican unnational lexicons of the present day. Yon are a veteran of the press; you have printed and disseminated papers enough to build for you a trium phal arch as high as the more substantial wooden one which the republican patriot ism of your neighbor deserves, and which when it is completed ought, in common j ustice to his service and merits, to be as lofty a structure as the one generously de voted by King Ahasuerus to Haman his zealous and deserving courtier. And yet in defiance of your experience; in the face of all the astounding facts I have brought to bear, knowing that even the purity of our national tongue is at stake, you insist upon following in the wake of those old fo gies Webster and Walker, aud denouncing the only body of men whose exertions if .successful will stem the turbid tide of fo reign influence which is rolling over our land. No wonder that even every cockle burr in somdt/hollow is crying out against you! Narrow Escape —A fishing party from Washington had a narrow escape in the Potomac on Sunday morning last. The party consisted of seven in number, and the boat in which the were sailing was drifting down the river with the tide, when, about 4 o’clock in the morning, off Jones’ Point, the mail steamer comiug up from Aquia Creek, run into the boat and stove her side in. The occupants of the boat, who were all lying asleep (with the excep tion of one) were thrown- violently into the river. Fortunately they could all swim. The steamer was stopped, the life preservers thrown overboard, and all the party so unceremoniously ousted from their quarters were rescued, minus their hats, coats, &e., and even these latter floated, and were afterwards picked up. Front ! he Washington Union. Pure Federal Priitcijdcs. .; Prior to the American Revolution, the i narrow-minded and jealous disposition of the British King was displayed in his ef forts to prevent the liberal and freedom loving of other nations becoming citizens in the colonies. Hence the complaint in l tiie Declaration of Independence against I the Crown for obstructing naturalization, I and refusing to pass laws to encourage mi i gration hither. I*llo martyrs in the cause Jof political freedom in all parts of the j world was invited by this Declaration to join those struggling for liberty, and to share in the fru its of American Indepen dence, from which nolitieal intolerance and bigotry were to be* expelled. When suc cess had crowned the toils and hardships of the patriot, and our present constitu tion was being formed, the fathers of the Republic inserted a provision clothing Congress with the power to “establish a uni form rule of naturalization.” Congress has exercised this power, and prescribed a rule requiring a residence of five years, and satisfactory proof of good conduct and attachment to the principles of the constitution during that period. Hence, if any improperly become citizens under the law, the fault is with the courts who administer it, and not with the law itself. During the reign of John Adams the fed eralists became alarmed because those who sought liberty here could not be induced to hate France, and idolize Mr. Adams or his party. Hence the celebrated Alien law, by which Mr. Adams was clothed with power to issue his proclamation and drive out and expel from the United States all such foreigners as he chose. To re press all clamor against his administration, and particularly against this act, the sedi tion law was passed, authorizing the in dictment and punishment of those who sought to ridicule him or Congress, or bring either into contempt or disrepute.— Under this law, Cooper, (of Pennsylva nia.) and Lyon, (of Kentucky,) were fi ned and imprisoned. The authors of these laws were indignantly expelled from pow er, and Jefferson placed at the head of the Government. So great was the odium occasioned by them, and the unwise acts of Mr. Adams, that the federalists, under their own name, have not since been able to obtain the political power of the coun try. Through coalitions, bank influence, and the combination of the discordant el - emeuts of the day, and the isms of the times, and the denial aud concealment of their real objects, they have triumphed with the aid of all these elements, only thrice in half a century. The federalists of 1198 had the merit of boldness. Since that time their successes have been the fruits of deceptive tlisguises and frauds upon the people. This old federal party still exists, habited in the uniforms worn by the incon gruous and spotted battalions that com pose the enemies of the democracy, and the free principles of the revolution and our constitution. The spirit and feeling of the alien and sedition laws still exist, and find supporters among us, though at- i tempted to be concealed by the black man tle of an ignoble secrecy, and protected by a slavish and scandalous oath, admin istered by the wily few, who rule their subordinates with an iron rod. The lat ter are instruments in the hands of the managers to strike down the liberties of the country. The principles of the Know Nothing combination, so studiously at tempted to be concealed, are precisely those which Mr. Ad ams and a federal Congress boldly enacted in laws. Knowing that these laws cannot be re-enacted—and if they could, they would fall before dis cussion and a sound public opinion—this new secret Order attempt to accomplish the same objects in another manner.— They dare not even assail the naturaliza tion laws, and ask Congress to change them. They shrink from the odium they would merit and incur if they openly sought to hinder naturalization, or to pass i laws to prohibit naturalized citizens from profiting, like other persons, by their tal ents, education, and good conduct, or os tracising their children born among us.— They have neither the frankness nor the maniy courage to demand a change in our fundamental laws ; making religious creeds or forms of worship ail element of qnali- 1 fication for public trusts, or equality of 1 citizenship and the enjoyment of political rights. Neither they, nor their abettors, nor those whose political purposes they subserve, have the temerity to take such grounds. But they seek to accomplish these unholy purposes in a manner un known to oar constitution and laws, and in subversion of the spirit of ouv institu tions, by enforcing the dark counsels of night under the mask of sworn secrecy.— The Declaration of Independence says all men are created equal, and endowed with inalienable rights and privileges, and among them the enjoyment of liberty and the pursuit of happiness. This secret or ganization combats these principles as to all who are not born here, and as to those who do not profess such religious creeds as they approve. They can sustain a Mormon, whose creed and practice is moral pollution, while they strike down a Cath olic, though as pure and above reproach as Charles Carrol, who signed the immor tal Declaration of Independence. Under the sworn creed of this new sect, no life can be so blameless, and no patriotism so distinguished, as to be protected from their secret shafts, if not born of Ameri can parents upon our own soil. Steuben the father of our military tactics, they would refuse a road-master’s warrant; Pulaski and Kosciusko, LaFayette ami his companions, would fall beneath this boasting Juggernaut. The cliivalric valor of Montgomery could not protect him.— DeGrasse and D’Estang would be spurned. If-the troubled politics of Europe should drive into exile another Emmett, he would be denied cresting place, or the liberty of exerting his brilliant talents in positions which New York assigned him as a mark of respect and admiration. The consti tution and laws confer certain privileges aud rights upon such men; but these po litical perfectionists say they shall not eu’ joy them. Their objects are to be accom plished, not by a change of the laws, but in prohibiting freemen from exercising their inalienable rights. They do not seek reform in the public institutions of the country, but aim at the offices which are, instituted to administer them. Their .vhole patriotism is limited to their crav ings for public office. The only change included and sought in their prayers, re lates to their hankering for official stations which their merits have not enabled them to command. By calculating largely up on the ignorance, the prejudices and cre dulity of our native-born citizens, and up on the political dexterity and skill of their whig allies, they count upon continued success By their system and secrecy of oaths, they expect to repress freedom of action and the liberty of speech, and stifle all independence in the worship of God. The list of dupes must be long which will enable them to accomplish these purposes. They can triumph but once. Hatred of sect and birth-place, is a soulless principle, upon which no political structure can be successfully erected. In everything else the old party principles prevail. Whigs elected by the influence of Know Noth ings, are whigs still, and ever will be.— As proof that these dark agencies are whig institutions in disguise, (not approved by all whigs, we arc happy to say,) we need only refer to the fact that wherever they exist, and have exerted their power, it has been to elevate whigs, who seek to introduce and carryout whig measures and enforce whig principles. We have not heard of one democrat who adheres to the faith of his party being an object of favor among them. The very essence of their principles is hostility to the creed of all true democrats. The latter arc for open and free discussion and reflection and for the largest liberty of thought and action. They have spoken on this subject in a manner not to be misunderstood.— j The following resolution adopted by the j Baltimore Convention in 1840, has been ! reiterated there some two or three times,; and re-adopted by the democracy in near- j ly every city, county and town in the United States : “Resolved, That the liberal principles embodied by Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence, and sanctioned by the consti tution, which makes ours the land of liberty and the asylum of the oppressed of every nation . have ever been cardinal principles in the democratic faith; and every attempt to abridge the present privilege of becoming citizens and the owners of soil among us, ought to be resisted with the same spirit which swept the alien and sedition laws from our statute books .” Secret political societies, (says the Mo bile Register) are not the natural produc tions of American soil. They are noxious exotics, transplanted from'the hot bouses of European despotism. Our institutions, the genius of our people, the very atmos phere of our climate, are hostile to their growth. There is nothing in the system of our Government which justifies any portion of our citizens in going stealthily to work under the cloak of a secret organ ization to alter our laws, or to affect their administration. Freedom of speech is guaranteed to all by the organic laws of : the country. No governmental censor ship of the press, the pulpit, or the bar, the Senate or the hustings, is authorized ; or asserted, and every man may at his ; pleasure promulgate his sentiments upon j whatever subject, free from all interference t or restraint. The people may meet to-! gether when and where they will, and dis- j cuss all questions of public and local con cern, without the presence of an insolent soldiery or a vexatious police to check their perfect freedom of speech or to watch their actions. What plea then can any Americau citizen possibly offer for attach- j ing himseif to a body of men who are pur suing a course of political conduct which they are unwilling their fellow citizens should see and judge of ? It may do in Europe, rotten with the accumulated cor ruption of a thousand years, but upon our virgin soil, beneath our genial climate, and under our free law.*, we have no need to resort to this desperate expedient of an enslaved people to free their necks from the yoke of a tyrant and a despot. From (lie Washington Globe. THE DROUGHT. Distressing accounts still reach us of the effects of the drought on the crops from all directions. From the centre of the great cotton region of the Southwest we learn that everything in the shape of vegetation, even in the damp, swampy regions of the Mississippi river, is drying up. The cotton, which stands dry wea ther better than almost any other plant, is withering up by the acre, and the dry rust, so fatal at this season of the year, is spreeding rapidly From Tennessee we have information that the drought has been disastrous. — Through middle Tennessee, half a crop of corn is considered a liberal estimate, and, as a necessary consequence, mere will be few hogs fattened for exportation. Large numbers of hogs are expected to die for want of sustenance during the coming winter; and the number of beeves fattened for home consumption will be much diminished. From Kentucky the same intelligence is reoeived, and the influence of the fail ure is already felt in the depreciated val ue of all kinds of stock. In Illinois the prospect is no better.— From present appearances many of the very best growing districts will not pro duce sufficient for the immediate neigh borhood consumption. In Canada the yield of the newly ga thered harvest turns out about half a crop, and the exceeding dryness of the ground precludes operations on the summer fal lows in preparation for seeding. In the interior of New York the drought is said to have been the most severe ever experienced since the settlement of the country. The hay crop is materially injured, and corn, potatoes, oats, aud buckwheat, are nearly ruined. The pastures are dried up so that the fire will run on them, end very many acres have been burned. Very little butter and cheese is expected to be made this fall, aud that of an inferior quality. These sections, taken from one extreme to the other, furnish but the same recital that comes to us from every other; and to add to the general distress, we learn that the rains a few days since did not succeed in saturating the earth, or in extinguish ing the fires That desolate so many broad j acres. In the vicinity of Bangor, Maine, on Monday, the fires remained unchecked. There is scarcely a town within fifty miles that has not suffered. Valuable tracts of timber land are entirely destroyed. In Corinth alone, a small town, the damage exceeds ten thousand dollars. From Tewksbury and Wilmington, in Massa chusetts, information comes that about one thousand acres of woodland are burnt over, and the loss is estimated at §20,000. — Some twelve miles from Boston, near the centre of Lexington, a peat meadow on fire presented a novel and brilliant ap pearance. In New Hampshire and Ver mont, and the more distant British pro vinces, the fires still burn. A letter from Sunderland, Vermont, of the 23d instant, says that it had then rained but once in three months, and that was but a slight shower The letter adds: “The large mountain on the cast of us is on fire. It has been burning about five weeks, and has burned over about four hundred acres of valuable timber land.” Not only in the eastern States are the forests on fire in all directions, for it extends through many j States. The Lake George district of| New York, whose tranquil waters are a I favorite summer resort, has not escaped. • A letter dated on Friday last says thatl the thermometer on the piazza of Sherrill’s ! Hotel, at the Lake, at 4 o’clock, p. m. stood at 90 deg. and adds: “The woods all around are on fire— even within three or four miles of the Lake House. Down the lake a number of houses and barns have been consumed. — I heard to day that they were digging trenches-a round the Mohican House to prevent the advance cf the fire. The air is so filled with smoke at mid-day you ; cannot see the mountains opposite.the Lake House, aud nothing can be seen more than a quarter of a mile distant in any direc- ; tion. At night the illumination is mag nificent.” From New London, Canada West, we learn that the pine woods are on fire, aud I the inhabitants of the district are fleeing * for their lives. The smoke is so dense a iong the track of the Great West.ern rail road and also at Chippewa Creek, that the trains will have to be temporarily discon tinued. Many long weary weeks have succeed ed each other, and the broad expanse of earth has reflected back the intense, dry, ‘exhaustive heat of a piercing sun. Ve getation has withered, the fruits of the soil are shriveled, the very air has been furnace blasts. From the rural districts the reports have been dolorous; from the cities, pent up amongst heated struc tures, has come the wail of despair.— Moistureless vegetation readily ignites, and, in the Stale of Maine, alarming and destructive fires are raging in the woods, and the damage to the woodland and crops will ha very great. In New Hampshire, too, some two or three hun dred acres have been burned. In Maine, in many places the emire fighting tiie fires; and in Garland, it is said that one family, who lived some dis tance from any other house, are entirely surrounded by the flames, having no means of escape. In New York and the eastern States the like destructive element is prevailing, The Springfield Republi can speaks of a fire which commenced on • Mount Tom on Friday, which was spread-/ ing with great rapidity; also, that the lire , which had been burning for some days in ] the woods west ofChester village, was] stili raging with unabated fury. It re lates that one thousand acres of woodland had been burnt in Ravnham; that some valuable woodlands had been burned along the track of the Tauntoh branch railroad, in Norton, and that a large peat meadow, near the centre of Lexington, had been on fire for several days. From Buffalo, New York, we learn that exten sive fires in the woods and the fields were prevailing all over the country. A de structive fire was raging in the woods in the vicinity of Swanton, near Lake Cham plain and the Canada line. It has run along the track of the Vermont Central railroad fur Iwo or three miles, and pas sengers have to be carried in wagons eight or ten miles around the fire. The loss of properly is immense. Another fire is raging in the woods on Catskill mountain, and the Mountain House may have fallen a prey to the flames. The fires in Chaulauque county are still un checked, and from Dunkirk to the State line the respiration of passengers by the railroad is seriously affected. The Mont icello Watchman says the woods are fired in all directions, and thousands of acres of valuable bark and timber land have been burned over and much damage done. A writer in the Albany Argus, who had recently returned from Montreal, says, from Rouse’s Point, north, for twenty miles, there are fires in many places; and from Ciiazy, nine miles west of Rouse’s Point, to Malone, the entire country is threatened by tiie flames. The dense smoke from the burning forests prevented the sailing of the steamer Canada from Whitehall. The atmosphere was so clouded by smoke as to totally eclipse the sun, at times, giving it a lurid appearance when seen. The side of the mountain, in the vicinity of Whitehall, was in a per fect blaze. The lake was literally cov ered with burnt leaves, wafted thither by the wind, and the air was thoroughly! permeated with heat, smoke, and ashes. At the sources of the Hudson the forests were burning for fifteen miles round. — From Ohio, too, we learn that the whole country is filled with fires. Vegetation is so dry that it crackles up like gunpow der, at the slightest approach of fire, and even ihe roots of grass are burned in the earth. Alas, for the day. How expres sively applicable is the lamentation of Joel: “ l'be seed is rotton under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down, for the corn is withered, llow do the beasts groan!— The herds of cattle are perplexed because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.” But the earth shall again rejoice and blossom as the rose. Gentle showers have moistened the face of nature; the air has become revivifying; dried up streams again meander through their course; and the denizens of the forest sing their grati tude in joyous carols. New York was (visited by plenteous thunder showers on ! Friday night, Philadelphia on Saturday, and on Sunday we were blessed with a less violent hut not a less necessary storm, tor which earth rejoices and man is made glad! A Pic-Nlc SurrouiKtcd by lire. Last week, on Fiiday, a gay and thoughts party of males and females, some thirty in number, provided them selves with pails end baskets of all capa cities, cigars, ginger pop, and luncheon, and jumping into a railroad car, rode to a station on the Albany and Boston rail road that was in the immediate vicinity of one of the tallest of the Berkshire range of mountains. This hill was said to be covered with countless bushels of biackbeiries, all “dead ripe,” and all of the high bush variety, which are the largest and the sweetest. They left the station in high spirits, and in a few minutes were buried in a wilderness of that fine and beautiful fruit that they weut out to seek. An hour of persevering picking result ed in filling every vessel they had carried with them; and, as they gathered at the spot appointed for lunching, a secluded nook in a place covered with verdure, watered by a little brook of pure cold water, and surrounded on all sides but one by beetling cliffs, they found them selves fatigued, woefully lacerated bv the “pickers” and thorns, their dresses torn badly, and hands aud faces deeply dyed with blackberry juice, but with keen appetites and pails and baskets all heap ed up and running over with fine ripe fruit. Down they sat and devoured their ! ample lunch, lighted their cigars, drank i their pep, and indulged two or three hours i in songs, tales, dances, and pastimes. It was known to them when they first started for the mountain that a portion of it was on fire, but of the conflagration j they thought nothing, being entirely ab sorbed in their picking and amusements. But the smoke grew dense, the air be came hot and stifling, the winds were up, and the fall of an immense burning cinder into their very midst, roused the thought less party to a realizing idea of what was in progress above and around them, Looking up, judge of their consternation when they saw themselves almost begirt by a tremendous conflagration, which had spread with nearly the speed of the wind that fanned the flames, and urged forward the destruction! Their only way ot escape was through the narrow gorge down which the little brook plunged and the flames were rapidly approaching both sides of even that chance for exit. Not a moment was to be lost! All rushed instinctively for the narrow open ing before them, leaving behind them more than half of the berries they had picked. But they found the little brook could run where they could no3, and that precipices, under trrusti, n? paUi, and the stifling smoke that blew hot in their faces and blinded their eyes, rendered their progress slow. And it was slow. The ladies had to be helped at every step al most. Overhead and nearly all around was a world of fire. Before them was just a narrow way of escape yet, and that might at any moment he crossed,and they completely surrounded by a belt of fire ! Eagerly they pressed forward, the stout est leading the way, and ail encouraging each other aa well as they could. The air grew thicker and darker.— The heat was dreadful. Sparks and cin ders fell like rain around them. Their clothing was repeatedly on fire. The roar and crackle of the flames were almost deafening, and occasionally the fall of a burning tree crashed upon their ears and added to then’ terrors. At last, when soma were growing 100 weak to go further, two had fainted and had to be carried, and their condition was momentarily becoming more and more desperate and hopeless, suddenly the wind chopped around and blew a fie p ce blast up the narrow ravine the party were travelling! All were instant ly invigorated, relieved of the smoke in front, and heartily encouraged. With a shout they pressed forward again, and in about fifteen minutes succeeded in gain ing a point beyond immediate danger, and in an hour more were on their way home in the railway car. Their escape was a narrow one indeed. Not half an hour lad elapsed after their escape ore the trees and brush of the ravine were in a blaze, and their trysting place was lost in a deluge of fire. One of the rescued party told us tho story of his adventure with the rest, and fairly shuddered when he came to what he termed the “tightest spot,” where there was “a smart chance for a barbecue of Beckct folks.” Albany Express , Aug. 31 L From the Cincinnati Enquirer! The Torture at Worli. What does this mean ? —On Monday morning the following advertisement of one of our county commissioners was in serted in all the daily papers of this city : 350 men wanted. —Mechanics and la borers, to work at the new court house.— Preference will be given to American Pro testants., JESSE TIM ANUS. On the bulletin board, in the room of the superintendent of the new county buildings, the following order may now bo seen : Court House Building Office, I Cincinnati, August 22, 1854. > To the sub superintendents of the new Court House: Gentlemen : Yon are hereby notified and directed to employ, when applied to for a situation in your several departments, none but Americans and Protestants, to the exclusion of any and all foreigners and Catholics, that may be engaged at work at said court house. JESSE TIM ANUS, Sup. Hamilton county Court House. It would have been an interesting sight to see this Mr. Timanua applying his pro scriptive test to the relics of the revolu tionary struggle, the foreigners who fought during the seven years war, the Catholics who had shed their blood under the Cath olic LaFayette, or the Catholic Montgom ery, or the foreigners Steuben, Pulaski and DeKalb.— Washington Union No. 37.
