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VOL. XV.
THE GEORGIA .IPFERSOM.
IS PCfBLISHF.D EVRRT THURSDAY MORNING
BY WILLIAM CLINE,
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All advertisements dot otherwise ordered, will
be continued till forbid.
fQh jALES OF LANDS by Administrators,
Kxeo.itors or Guardians are required bylaw to be
held on the first Tuesday in the month, between
the hours o! ten in the (orenoon nnd three in the
afternoon, at the Court-House, in llie county in
which the land is situate?). Notice of these sale,
must be given in a public gazette FORTY DA FS
previous to the day of sale.
SiLES OF NEGROES must bo made at pub
lie auction on the first Tuesday of the month, be
iwccn the usual hours of sale, at l lie place ol pub
lie sales in the county where the letters Tesla
lienlary, of Administration or Guardianship mn
have been granted; first giving FORTY DAY
notice tLeivofin one oftlic public gaieties ol th
B’a*.. and a! the court house whe c such ealearsi
to be Reid.
Not.ce fortlie sale of Personal Property must
b*= given in like manner FORTY DAYS previous
•vine day of salt;.
Notice to Debtors and Creditors of an estate
ilnst be published FORTY DAYS.
Notice that application will he made to the Court
Ordinary for leave to selt land must be pub
is hed for TWO MO JOT FIS,
Notice for leave to sell negroes must ho
iuhHshed TWO MONTHS before any order ab
tohile shall be made llicreon by the Court.
CITATIONS for Letters of Administration
must be published thirty days; for Dismission
from Administration, monthly six months; so
Dismission from Guardianship, forty days.
(lulcs fonhe Foreclosure of Mortgage must be
published monthly for four months, lor pub
listing tost papers, for the full space ot three
months; for compelling titles itoin Executors,
administrators, wheic a bond has been given by
the deceased, for the space of three months.
For the Georgia Jeffersonian,
Mn. Editor: P’s migh'y sqld im that the Di
vine Sperit cums upon me ; but seen’ ;in yore .ast
isbue a warnin’ “-‘to the Intemperate,” I rizolve f to
invoak theGoddis ot Rime, and ansur nit. Picas
ixkuse spellin’ and punkehuash in, asl haint time
to tend tosieh smut matters.
To the Bard of Jeriko,
BY Y. DEMI JOHN.
Why suffer that‘‘lone hand” of yourn,
To pluck a felher fiurn the Muse’s wing,
Alroddy so drcdiiilly torn,
By varius poets in Gritting ?
I’ve hoered of menny a no count dog,
Losin oil his bar with the “mange,”
But for a feller to have it what drinks liiagreg,
lssumthin’ very turns and strange
Is it so verry “sootliing to see,”
One es that “glorious little ban,”
On a dev.l of a thunderin’ big spree,
With a black bottle in his ban ?
•■young man, in yore early‘years remove”
From the public “the heavy burdening load”
Os yore rimes, or else “the approving love”
In sum other way will he showd.
You make me think, ns you. do sing,
Os a scrhdi oul Bellin’ on a hearse,
And I smell a •‘devil’sburning wing,”
In evorv raggid stumblin’ verse.
You’d better burn that old quill pen,
-Fur ait the coinin times,
And cease to Pore yore filler men,
VVithsich fool slipshod rimes.
Harper's magazine for Septem
ber
Our readers need not be alarmed, we
are not going to puff this work, nor Put- :
natn’s, nor the Knickerboker. They have
all occasionally excellent articles in them,
but none of them are worthy of Southern
patronage, owing to their anti-Southern
proclivities. One of the most entertain
ing series in Harper’s, is Abbott’s biogra.
phy of the elder Napoleon, and from the •
number mentioned is extracted his return
from Elba and rencounter with Gen. Mar
chand at Grenoble. They are described
in the following vivid language: .
They were now approaching*Grcnob!c.
The commandant of the garrison there,
. Gen. Ware hand, marched with a force of
six thousand men to oppose the emperor.
He posted his troops in a defile flanked
by the mountains and lake. It was in
the rooming of the Tth cf March. The
crisis which was to decide all had arrived.
Napoleon was equal to the emergency.—
Requesting his column to halt, he rode,
at a gentle pace, and almost alone, to
ward the hostile arm}’. ‘1 he peasants,
who had assembled in vast numbers to wit
ness this marvelous scene, greeted him
with shouts of “vive /’ Eu.pereur .”
Napoleon, without any hesitancy, rode
calmly along, upon a gentle trot, until he
arrived within a hundred paces of the glit
tering bayonets which formed an impassa
ble wall before him. He then dismount
ed; handed the reins to one of the Poles
who accompanied him, crossed his arms
upon his breast, and advanced, unprotect
ed and alone, until he arrived within ten
paces of the troops. There he stood, the
mark for every gnn. He was dressed in
that ample costume which every French
man recognized, with the cocked hat, the
grey overcoat, and the high military boots.
The commanding officer ordered the sol
diers to lire. ‘1 Ircy seemed to obey. Ev
ery musket was brought to the shoulder,
and aimed at his breast. Had there been
ouc single man among the battalions will
ing to shoot the emperor, he would have
received from the Bourbous boundless re
ward# 1 . The report of a single musket
would tlieu have settled tiie destinies of
France.
Napoleon, without the change of a
muscle of bis features, or the tremor of a
serve, continued to advauce upon tho mus
kets leveled at liis heart. Then stopping,
and uncovering his breast, he said, in
those resounding tones, which, having
been once heard, never could be forgot
ten:
“Soldiers! if there is one among you
who would kill his Emperor, let him do it.
Here I am.”
For a moment there was silence as of
the. grave. Then the point of one musket
fell, and another, and another. Tears be
gan to gush into the eyes of those hardy
veterans. One voice, tremulous with e--
motion, shouted, “Vive VE//ipereur! n It
was the signal for a universal burst, re
echoed by soldiers and by peasantry in a
continuous cataract of sound. The troops
from Grenoble, the grenadiers of the
guard, and the peasants, all rushed in a
tumult of joy upon tho Emperor, who o
pened his arms to receive them. In the
confusion, the Bourbon commander put
THE GEORGIA JEFFERSONIAN.
spurs to his horse and disappeared. When
the transport was somewhat moderated,
the Emperor, taking gently by the whis
kers a veteran, whose appearance attract
ed his attention, said to him playfully:
“How could you have the heart to aim
your musket at the little Corporal!”
The old man’s eyes immediately filled
’ with tears. Ringing his ramrod in the
barrel of his muskot to show it was un
loaded, he said, “Judge whether I could
have done thee much harm. All the rest
are .the same.”
Napoleon then gathered the whole as
sembly of soldiers and peasants in a cir
cle around him, and thus addressed them:
“I have come with but a handful! of
brave men, because I rely upon the people
and upon you. The throne of the Bour
bons is illegitimate. It has not been rais
ed by the voice of the nation. It is con
trary to the national will, because it is in
direct opposition to the interests of the
country, and only exists for the benefit of
a small number of noble families. Ask of
your fathers, interrogate these brave pea
sants, and you will leant from their lips
the actual state of things. They are
threatened with the renewal of the old
tithe system, of privileges, of feudal rights,
and oi‘ all those abuses from which your
victories had delivered them.”
Napoleon now resumed his march, ac
companied by a vast crowd of inhabitants,
increasing every moment, and thronging
the roads. The battalions from Grenoble
acted as the advauce guard to the grena- ■
diers from Elba. As he approached the
city he was met by a messenger, who
said:
“Sire! yon will have no occasion for
arms. Your riding-whip will be sufficient
to scatter all resistance. The hearts of
the soldiers are everywhere your own.”
As Napoleon approached the city, one
of the most important fortified places in
France, the enthusiasm of the populace ex
ceeded all bounds. The tricolored cock
ade was upon all hats. The tricolored
banner waved from the windows, and
floated from the battlements and upon the
spires of the city. Shouts of “ Vive VEm
pereur” filled the streets. The soldiers
shared the enthusiasm, fraternized with
the people, and promised them that they
would not fire upon their brothers in arms.
It was impossible for the Bourbon officers
and magistrates to stem this torrent. In
despair they fled, having locked the gates
and concealed the keys.
At midnight, from the ramparts of Gre
noble, were seen the torches of the multi
tude, suriouuding the Emperor, and ad
vancing toward the city. Shouts of “ Vive
I'Emperaor ” rose from the approaching
throng, and were echoed back from the
walls of the fortress. Tho inhabitants, in
their ardor, wrenched the gates from their
hinges, and Napoleon entered the streets
in the midst of illuminations and exulta
tions sueh as earth has rarely witnessed.
A countless crowd, almost delirious with
joy, bore him to his quarters in an inn.—
Throughout the night continuous acclama
tions resounded beneath his windows. The
people and the soldiers, almost delirious
with joy, fraternized together till morning,
in banquets and embraces. “All is now
settled, said Napoleon, and we are at Pa
ris.” Shortly after Napoleon’s arrival at
the inn, an increased tumult called him
upon the balcony. The inhabitants of
Grenoble had come to offer him the gates
of the city, since they could not present
him with the keys.
Pure Patriotism ami Christianity
Here is a gentleman after our own heart
lie has said in a few sentences what we
have boon trying to say for the last six
weeks. Every man who makes pretension
to common sense ought to read his re
marks carefully, and those touched with
the folly of Know Nothingism at least
twice over. Head them, and determine
with yourself if they are not just such feel
ings and opinions as every patriot and
Christian in the United States should pos
sess:
From the Richmond E-iqnirer.
The Religious Pre.ii aad the Know Noth
• ings.
We notice that several of the leading
religious Protestant journals arc “defining
their positions” in relation to the new po
litical element, styled “Know Nothing
ism.” We have already stated that the
“Churchman,” published in New York,
had declared its open opposition to all
such combinations, and now wc find a
communication in the New York “Chris
tian Inquirer,” styled “a letter to the
Know Nothings,” taking similar ground,
from which we make the following ex
tracts:
“The idea of ignoring a man’s individu
ality'’ and of giving him a badge in society
according to the accident of his birth, was
one of the main results, as it is one of the
chief props, of arrogance in man and of
despotism in governments.
“A man is born a Christian, and he has
all the characteristics of the Jew. A
man is born a Jew, and he has all the im
pulses of the Christian. A man is born
a Roman Catholic, who detests the Pope
and Jesuitism. A man is born a Protes
tant, and his sensuous nature leads him
to the most sensuous religion. A man is
born in Europe with all the instincts of a <
republican. A man is born in America
with proclivities to exclusiveness and aris
tocracies.
“Don’t you see your short-sightedness?
You cannot judge men by what they pro-
Jess to be, or by what, from the inference
of their birth, you suppose them to be.—
You must judge them by what they arc.
If you wage war against all who are cor
rupt, whether born here or abroad, wheth
,er Catholic or Protestant, you will suc
ceed, because there is justice and common
senso in your war. From the moment
you descend from that comprehensive plat
form and singje out one or tho other acci
dents of birth, as your special enemy, you
will not only fail in your endeavor to re
form, but you will destroy the republic
which you wish to save, by destroying the
principles of religious liberty and political
equality upon which it is fuunded.
“You argue, further, they cannot bear
allegiance to two powers—the Pope of
Rome and the Constitution of the United
GRIFFIN, (GA.) THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 81. 1854.
States. The animal principle of Gavazzi
has materialized your understanding. Your
senses are fascinated by the gesticulations
of the Italian, and your reason does not
pay homage to the genius of the Ameri
can. Your reason does not pay homage
to the innumerable agencies of enlighten
ment which the pulpit, the school-house,
the press, the forum, the whole atmos
phere of American life, provide for defeat
ing the most tortuous machinations of the
Jesuit, as well as the most God-defying
ravages of the Infidel. Like all that is
divine, those influences are silent, and
you do not see how they work. But, like
all that is ungodly, resentment and intol
erance are boisterous and noisy, and
thus have for champions all those whose
mind’s eyes are shut, who are blind, and
who do not hear unless they hear a
noise.
“The talk about the oath of allegiance
to the Pope is sheer nonsense. If the old
man himself had the slightest notion of the
validity <of that oath, the first thing he
would have done when he fled in 1549
would have been to call to his assistance
all his subjects, or if they had cared a
straw about him, they would have rushed
en masse to Rome to his rescue. You li
bel your American intellectuality by re
peating the trash of Italian quack-elo
quence.
“Os course, popular passion is blind al
ways. Mobs follow those who are most
successful. Crowds of needy politicians
who now declaim against yon will soon
crouch at your feet. But there is a God
in Heaven; and as sure as He, in His
goodness, never deviates from His divine
principles, and sends every day his sun
to illuminate this wicked world, lest
darkness might make wickedness more
wicked, just as sure will those who have.
Christ in their heart and Washington in
their mind never deviate from their divine
ly inspired principles; and long hence,
when you and your efferts are forgotten,
history will speak with emotion of the na
tional men who, by waging war against
all corrupting influences, and by shunning
invidious distinctions created by accidents
af birth, brought the country back to the
practical Christianity of our Saviour, and
to the dignified and iaodest virtues of the
republican Washington.”
New Democratic Soft Con
vention.
The “Softs” had a general Convention
of Delegates atSyracu.se on the Tth inst.
to nominate a Governor and Lieutenant
Governor. The present incumbent, Gov.
Seymour, was nominated for re-election.
The following resolutions were offered
by Mr. Wright, as the majority report of
the Committee oil Resolutions, and unan
imously adopted :
Resolved, That the Democrats of New
York repeat here the expression of their
unchanged devotion to the principles of
the National Democracy, as laid down at
the Baltimore Convention of 1852, and
as approved by the united Democracy of
the State in its Conventions since; that
we recognize in that platform the only sure
foundation of a national party, and the
only bulwark against the inciting and dan
gerous agitation of sectionalism on the
one side, and the insidious encroachments
of the federal powers upon the rights of
the States on the other, and as the best
guarantee that a political organization can
give of its fidelity to the Union and the
‘Constitution.
Resolved, That we consider the intro
duction of the- clause in the Nebraska and
Kansas bill repealing the Missouri compro
mise, as inexpedient and unnecessary, but
vwo are opposed to any agitation having in
view the restoration of that line, or tend
ing to promote any sectional controversy
in relation thereto—and we congratulate
the country that the results to grow out of
that measure are likely to prove beneficial
to the people of the Territories, and that
while we maintain our position, that opin-.
ions in regard to the power of Congress
in this matter are not tests in regard to
Democracy, wc regard the act of renun
ciation by Congress of the power it has
heretofore exercised over the subjects as
the practical surrender of a formidable
function on the part of the Federal Gov
ernment, and a6 the accession of a right
on the part of the incipient sovereignties
that are to constitute the States of the
Union, the exercise of which can, in all
probability, result only auspiciously to the
people of the territoties and the peace of
the Union.
Resolved , That we recall, with pride,
the vote which the united. Democracy ol
the States put forth in the great coutest of
1852, in behalf of Franklin Pierce and
VV. R. King; that the administration
then inaugurated have ‘displayed great
ability and integrity and patriotic solici
tude for the welfare of the people, and the
vetoes upon the unguarded legislation of
Congress, the course of internal admiuis
tratian and management of public finan
ces, and the attitude assumed in support
of the American name abroad, as well as
the important treaties with foreign Gov
ernments, present a series of measures, the
influence of which will be stamped upon
the h'story of the country.
Resolved, That cherishing the Union as
well as the freedom and independence of
the several States constituting that Union
as the fundamental condition of all na
tional existence under the Constitution,
and as the mcaus of protection against
foreign aggression and domestic strife, we
do not hesitate to repeat, that “it must
and shall be preserved.”
Resolved, That the Democratic party,
true to the principles with which they have
ever been identified, declare that they re
gard the doctrine of civil and religious
liberty as vital to a republican system,
and that they hold all citizens to be equal
before the law, without reference to creed,
or the circumstances of birth.
Resolved, That we are in favor of free
trade npon liberal principles of reciproci
ty, with a tariff reduced to the point of
collecting revenue sufficient only for the
necessary wants of a fair and economical
administration of the Government, with
out wasting it in bounties for commercial
projeets and monopolies, or schemes for
river and harbor improvement of doubtful
constitutionality, and mo% doubtful expe-
dicncy. to the eud that our people may be
relieved from the burdensome taxation,
and suffered to enjoy the rewards of hons
est and honorable labor.
Resolved , That while our whig oppo
nents have always proved themselves to
be bad and unsuccessful administrators of
onr financial affairs, adopting a prodigal
and often corrupt system of public expen
ditures leading to dishonor aad discredit,
it behooves us to look well to the preser
vation of our agencies in that department,
and to repudiate and discharge all unfaith
ful stewards in our household, If any such
obtain admittance therein.
Resolved, That we favor the free dispo
sition of the public lands, in limited por
tions, as homesteads, amoug citizens, and
other persons who shall have declared
their intention to become citizens, but sub
ject to the condition to inalienableness and
occupation; that the opinions which pre
vailed in the enactment of the homestead
bills of New Mexico arid and Oregon, are
entertained by us in common with the de
mocratic masses of the Union, and that we
request our State Legislature to instruct
our Senators in Congres to advocate the
passage of such a measure, and wc re
spectfully invite the democracy of other
States to procure similar action by the
State Legislatures.
Resolved, That the administration of
Governor Seymour has been conducted in
strict conformity with the principles of the
party which elevated him to the position
which he has so honorably filled; and that
his great talents, and large knowledge of
public affairs, his integrity, and the firm
ness which lie has developed, at an impor
tant crisis, -command our admiration, and
entitles him to our gratitude.
iflassaeliasatts Anti-Nebraska
State Couvcution.
The Know Nothings at the South deny
that they are acting with the Abolition
ists. They must admit that their society
is of Northern origin, and the people of
Massachusetts know better than they do
what the objects of the originators of the
society really are. In no state have they
spread more rapidly or more universally
than in the State of Massachusetts, and to
that State we are willing to refer to de
fine their position. For this reason wc
copy the following account of a meeting
held at Worcester, Massachusetts, on the
Ith inst- and to the declaration of
Hon. Araasa Walker we commit the posi
tion of the Know Nothings.
Worcester, Sep. 1.-—The Massachu
setts Republican State Convention met in
this place to day, and was very fully at
tended from all sections of the State.
J. J Andrew, of Hingharn, was tempo
rary chairman, and Robert Rantoul, of
Beverly, elected to be permanent presi
dent.
Upon thapeotrauee of Charles Sumner
into the hall, the convention rose and re
ceived him with great enthusiasm.
Hon. Amasa Walker then addressed
the convention, saying, among other things,
that in the coming contest on the one side
would be slavery, Romanism and rum, and
on the other, freedom, protestautism
and temperance. Tills was received with
great applause. At this point a large
delegation from the cast came in, and the
house became densely crowded.
Mr. Rantoul being absent, Mr. Morse,
of Lowell, one of the vice presidents, took
the chair.
A committee on resolutions having been
appointed, Mr. Sumner, of Boston, came
forward and addressed the convention. —
He said that he had come from the taint
ed breath of slavery to breathe the flue
air of freedom here in Massachusetts.—
He came not to receive their applause, but
to join with them in new vows to do their
duty in the coining contest. He then
proceeded to speak of their duties, and
how they were to bo performed. The two
great outrages of the past, he said, had
been the Nebraska Bill, and the surren
der of Anthony Burns to Virginia slave
hunters.
lie said that if the Nebraska bill had
not been taken out of its place in the cal
ender it would not have been passed. He
then proceeded to comment with great
severity upon the Burns rendition, in which
he said the Mayor of Boston was but a
tool, and the Governor a cypher—that
the glory and pride of Massachusetts fell
down while the slave power flourished o
ver them. He alluded to the South, in
speaking of Cuba, Ilayti, etc. as our south
ern isles to be forcibly purchased or ta
ken.
Rcmarkable Coincidence.
Thpre are hut a few men in Griffin
whom we would venture certainly to pro
nounce Know .Nothings, not perhaps
more than half a dozen; yet of that small
number, the following portrait, drawn for
members in Ohio, fils three of them
as exactly as if they had set for the pic
ture and a first rate artist had done the
painting. It is as like as life. Look at it:
From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
The zeal of the Know Nothings in behalf
of Protestantism a most transparent
humbug.
Ifthere is anything more disgusting than
another in the aims and tendencies of the
Bundiue conspirators, it is the zeal which
they alfect in behalf of the Protestant re
ligion. Os that they assume to be par
excellence champions. Trt*e and undefi
led Christianity they profess to be very
desirous to promote, by making war up
on those whom they conceive to be op
posed to it. Hypocritical and false as
are the pretensions of their organization,
being favorable to ihe cardinal and cher
ished institutions of American liberty,
which it is doing all it can to destroy, it
is surpassed in effrontery by the regard
which it professes for Protestant Chris
tianity.
Look, reader, at the loaders of the con
spirators, and see the shamelessness of
their assertion. When, we ask, have the
men whose names we have published ex
hibited any evidences of evangetical pie
ty? Do they bolong to any Christian
church; or are they among the constant
visitors to the Protestant sanctuary? We
venture to say that many of the promi
nent individuals who figure in the coun
cils as leading conspirators, do uot see the
inside of a Protestant church from one
year’s end to another. Practically, their
lives convict them of having no religion
at aM; and yet they are the ones who are
so loud in their denunciation of the faith
of others. It is not enlightened and pi
ous Protestants who stand forth at the
head ot ibis onslaught upon another re
ligious creed, bbt men whom we have
reason to believe care not a jot or tittle
for the difference between two sects, and
who aie not Christians of any denomina
tion.
Were the know’ nothing leaders really
devoted Protestants, although they would
still be justly chargeable with bigotry and
fanaticism, they would be entitled to a
respect for their sincerity, where they
now only get contempt for their hypocri
sy. Protestantism is opposed to theoret
ical and practical infidelity in even a
greater degree thsn it is to Catholicism,
and it does not look very well to see the
first closs of its opposers assuming to be
its advocates in its battles against the
latter. The adherents of the cieed of
Luther and Calvin may well exclaim,
deliver us from such champions, whose
lives bring reproach upon usl Hereto
fore, in the history of the world, religious
persecutions have been instituted and
encouraged by men attached to particular
sects; but this one presents the singular
anomaly of having its advocates princi
pally among those who care for no reli
gion—w'ho are unbelievers in all creeds.
There can be but little, if any, doubt,
that it there was the same preponderance
ot Catholics in the United States that
there te Proiestants, the leading know
nothing conspirators would be as ready
to light the fires of persecution against the
latter as the\’ now are in respect to the
former. Their only desire is to use the
feelings and predilections of Protestants
against Calhol cs as a means by w hich
thep can obtain the spoils of office. It
remains to be seen it American Protestants
w;ll thus allow their creed to be made the
instrument to subserve the purposes of
demagogues and hypocrites who have no
regard whatever for it. If they do, we
have given them more credit for shrewd
ness and intelligence than they possess.
The same conspirators only two years
ago made an attempt to trade upon Cath
olic prejudices in behalf of General Scott,
but were most signally defeated, as we
believe they will oenovv, when they take
the opposite tack.
We invite attention to the following
communication from a highly intelligent
and influential citizen of this city. It
speaks for itself, and is suggestive ol im
portant considerations. We trust the
ball will be rolled on to the consummation
of this proposed enterprise.— Am. Union.
Railroad to Covington;
Messrs. Editors: —I discover in your
paper of the 2d inst. you publish a letter
in which the subject is mentioned of
building a Railroad from Covington to
this point, and I am pleased to see that
your very able journal endorses the enter
prise as practicable and desirable. Since
the subject has been agitated I have con
versed with many of our best citizens,
and I am sure no enterprise in Georgia
would more thoroughly and unanimously
enlist their co-operation, than the Rail
road to Covington. They are anxious
for it and will contribute to the utmost of
their aoility to its success.
Nor would this road he without great
benefits to ail concerned. The benefits
to Griffin would be of incalculable advan
tage. It would open to our merchants
two direct routes to market, and they
‘would no longer be at the mercy of a
“heartless corporation that . m kes them
hewers of wood and drawers of water,”
a corporation owned by men who have
no other feeling in common with the
people of Georgia than to make all out
of them they’ can. As it is, our people
have no other alternative, they must sub
mit, however exorbitant ihp exactions.
It would bo belter for the farmer, be
cause it would open to him two markets
for his cotton instead of one. It is, I be
lieve, conceded, that Savannah is a poor
cotton marke'. How much better, then,
to have an opportunity to sell it in Au
gusta or Charleston, as well as Savan
nah. If the road was built to Covington.
Ido not doubt but that cotton would be
sold in Griffin for a half cent per pound
more than without it. Will not our peo
ple go into this enterprise then, with
hearts and hands and purses? If there is
not a connection between this point and
Covington on the Georgia road, there
will be one at some other point that will
very materially injure our place. Now
is the time to do something or it will be
too late. “Awake, arise, or be forever
fallen.”
The road it. contemplation would great
ly benefit the flourishing town of Coving
ton, and the whole country through
which it would pass, for miles on each
side.
That railroads are of great advantage
to every country through which they
pass and every town or village at which
they touch is no longer a problematical
question.
Nor would any interest be more pro
moted than that of the Georgia Railroad.
The cotton annually received at this point
amounts, of an ordinary year, to about
thirty thousand bags. This road would
increase it to forty or fifty. The amount
of dry goods, groceiies and hardware
brought here is very great, and a majority
of this would pass over the Georgia Rail
road
Nor need the road to stop here. The
route from this point to Co'umbus, Ga. is
highly practicable, and would pay as well
or better than any road in Georgia.
A Railroad can be built from here to
Covington af a cost of not more than five
hundred and fifty thousand dolhis. 1
understand the Georgia Railroad will
take a large portion of the stock, proba
bly one half. Surely the remainder can
be easily taken by persons in Griffin, Cov
ington and along the line interested in it.
1 know this is an unfavorable time for
building railroads, but certainly a road
that will bring such benefits and cost co
little, as the or?e from here to Covington,
can be built, and that speedily.
I beg that our citizens should speak
out upon this subject. What say you to
a meeting of the citizens of Covington,
Griffin, and those along tho line? I would
suggest to the citizens of Covington to
fix a time when they will meet us here
to talk over this important matter.
JUSTITIA.
The Artie Fleet,
We do not recollect that any tiling has
been heard of Dr Kane, who sailed in the
Advance last year from New York, since he
struck the coast of Greenland, now more
than a year ago. It was his intention to
retain home this fall, and we suppose he
may be looked for before very long.—
The following appear to be the latest
accouuts from Sir Edward Belcher’s ex
pedition and other British cruizers in the
Artie seas:
Tiie Arctic Search.— The Dilligencc
storeship arrived at Woolwich on Sunday
afternoon, from Disco, where she parted
with the Phoenix screw steam sloop, Cap
tain Edward A. Inglefield, and the Tal
bot, tender to the Phoenix, on July ?, the
Dilligencc on her return to England, and
the Phoenix and Talbot proceeding up the
Winncgat between the Disco and the
Main, and on their way to Beechey Island,
with stores for the relief of Sir Edward
Belcher’s expedition. The last winter in
the North had been the most severe expe
rienced for many years past by the inhab
itants of the Danish settlements, and the
reports received at them from every quar
ter alluded to the uncommon severity of
the weather, even for these high latitudes.
Captain Inglefield’s expedition experienced
very boisterous weather duriug the pas
sage of the vessels from England to Disco,
and unfortunately the Talbot sprung aleak,
which damaged about five thousand
pounds weight of biscuit; and, to make up
in some degree for the damaged biscuit,
the Dilligence transferred all she could
spare for the Phoenix. The crews of all
the vessels were all quite well when they
parted, and the use-cf the razor had been
abolished on every parrt of the faces of the
officers and men, and the natural hair al
lowed to grow in the fullest luxuriance.—
No intelligence had been heard of any of
the ships at present in tho Arctic regions,
but some news of them may be . expected
about the end of September next. The
Dilligence had very disagreeable weather
daring her passage home She is expect
ed to be paid off at in the
course of the present week.
The Intercepted Letter.
The following glimpses at a young la
dy’s heart, taken from a letter to a bosom
friend, will amuse, if they do not instruct,
the reader:
1. You still tell me, dear Amy, you’re
anxious to know all about that affair
with my recreant beau. ’Tis quite an
embarrassing matter-, his true; but you
know-, dearest love, I’ve no secrets from
you; and so, without any undue affecta
tion, I’ll tell you a tale you may tell to
the nation.
2. I had met him quite often at party
and ball, had danced with him, talked
with him, walked with him, all —had
heard all those stories, where largely he
1 draws on the w’orks of his countryman,
Baron Munchausen, had looked at his
pictures, had laughed at his “brogue,”
and thought him a charming unprincipled
rogue.
3. Conceive my surprise, when, one
fine Summer morning, without e’er a
word or a whisper of w-arning, the ele
gant Herman (for that is his name, from
some old Dutch Duchy he says that he
came,) in terms which I cannot this mo
ment repeat, his heart and his pallette
laid down at my feet.
4. 01 Amy, I trembled and colored
up so! I dared not say “yes,” and
1 couldn’t say “no.” My breath came
so fast that 1 hardly could speak, all the
blood rushed at once from my heart to
nr.y cheek; while Herman sat by me
quite tranquil and cool, and thought me,
io doubt, a complete little fool.
5. At last I got out, “it was such a
surprise—l knew not what to say;” and he
looked in my eyes with a kind of a look
that I couldn’t resist, and then with such
ardor my fingers he kissed! In short,
my dear Amy, I hardly know how, I
ended with saying, 1 would be his vrow!
6. After that, matters went along
smoothly and trim; he made love to me,
and I listened to him. We often took
rides in the sunshiny weather: and, on
rainy nights, sat on the sofa together. —
He sometimes would talk to me of his
mother, also of the colonel, his wonderful
brother.
7. I loved him, dear Amy, I’ll own to
the truth; my soul was bound up in the
picturesque youth I It was not his beau
ty that won me alone, but a something
he had in each look aud each tone, a
mixture of poetry, romance, aud art, taken
altogether, quite “did” for my heart.
8. I was proud of him, too, only, once
in s while, when he told his adventures,
and people would smile, and tread on
each other’s toes under the table, even my
warm affection was not always able to
keep me from telling him that [ did w ish*
his tales would not smell quite so strong
ly of “fish. ,>
9. But then I*d excuse him one way
and another. I’d say: “All the world lies,
for something or other; politicians for
places, and lawyers for pelf, and mer
chants to get goods oft’ from the shelf;
they’re in for it all, though they “fie!”
and “pooh-pooh!” it—and since he enjoys
it, he may as well do it.”
10. Herman was all devotion, all pas
sion and sighs; he seemed but to live in
the light of my eyes. What words of
endearment would fall from his lips! how
countless the kisses on my firtger ti-psd—
“Love thinks but of love!” was his ar
dent pretence. Alas! I found his reck
oned—dollars and cents!
11. One day he came in from his la
bors at school—l thought he appeared
unaccountably cool. Not one “dearest
cngel,” or any such word, from the
tongue of my altered adorer was heard.
That evening he called upon Annabel
Chase; the next day I learned the whole
state of tie case.
12. He supposed, it appears, dear papa
had the “rocks,” vras rolling in dollars,
and swelling with “stocks,” would “cut
up,” in good style, and in consequence
that his child would come in for a bit of
“the fat.” When he learned bis mistake,
it was odd to discover how the rock
went at once to tbs heart of my lover!
13. He came up to see me, and sa-*-
me alone, and unfolded affairs With a
grace all his own. He would have“pre
ferred” me, he said, for a wife,to anyone
that he had met in his life; but as for
himseil, why he hadn’t a live,and I must
agree that it was ilfaui vivre.
14. Such being the case, hs would bid
me adieu, and hoped the affair would not
render me “blue.” I thanked him, and
told him I always was taught, that the
sea held as good fish as ever were caught,
“and perhaps I may yet do as well, my
dear Herman, as to be linked for my life
to a penniless German.”
15. So we parted. I hurried away
from the scene, if not very “blue,” I did
feel lather “green.” I left in the stage
coach the very next day, and shed a few
tears the first part of the way; but five
miles passed over, the roads grew so bad, I
looked out for the jolts and forgot to be sad.
16. When I got in the cars, and was
safe in my seat, what person, of all in the
world, should I meet? Why, whom but
Fred. Forresti! He has, as you know,
been travelling in Europe these three
years or so, and has grown—oh, so hand
some! why, Herman himself, when Fred
was at hand, would le laid on the shelfl
17 No.w I bad intended, when no one
was by, to let down my veil, and indulge
in a cry; but talking a while with that
love of a Fred., put such sentimental
stuff out of my bead. He abade his adieu
at the Utica station, hut oh, we commen
ced a delicious flirtation!
18. lie came out to see me, we rode
and we walked, and various topics over
and over were talked. The end, dearest
Amy, you’ll easily guess, he asked me a
question and 1 answered, “Yes.” Pack
up, just as soon as you can, and come
over to “stand up” witu me on the twen
tieth of October
19. A more thorough contrast there
never was seen than Herman and Fred
erick, in person and mien. Fied’s eyes
are so smiling, so blue and senene, his
mouth is so delicate, rosy and clean.—
Herman’s eye had at times quite a sinis
ter flash—and I often saw crumbs on his
nasty moustache!
20. Then Herman you know, was
unpleasantly small, while Fred, is so
elegant, slender, and tall. He wears
such a diamond, aud sings so divinely,
and plays the guitar and the violin finely!
He has a sweet place on the shores of
bay, and a foor story mansion just out of
Broad wayl
21. I feel quite content, fnd my dear
foreign beau is welcome to- marry for
money or show. Poor fellow! I pi
him, grubbing away at those rusty o ;
landscapes of his, day by day. Here’
my parting advice to that pupil of ar|. —
“Beg, borrow, or steal, sir, a conscience
and heart.”
22. “Wall these small additions to your
stock in trade, rest assured, my de r H --
man, your fortune is made.” Good hv>\
beloved Amy, keep secret till then. Coin*',
along—well, we’ll say by the tenth—i
you can; your image will fill my heart’s
innermost cranny, while life warms the
breast of your own attached Annie.
Judicial Decision on a bad Dinner.—
The late Judge Dooly was remarkable f.r
his wit. “At a place where be attended
court, he was not well pleased with his enter
tainment at the tavern. On the first day of
the court a hog, under the name of pig,
had been coojjgd whole and laid upon the
table. No person attacked it. it was
brought the next day, and the next, and
treated with the same respect; and it was
on the table on the day oil #hicli the
court adjourned. As the boarders finish
ed their dinner, Judg3 Dooly rose from
the table, and in a solemn manner address
ed'the clerk : “Mr. Clerk,” said he, “dis
miss-the hog upon his own recognizance
until the first day of next court. He has
attended so faithfully during the presen t
term, that I don’t thiuk it will be necessa -
ry to take any seenrity.” ‘
Clocks, for China and Japan.—Wo
saw on Saturday the latest piece of Yan
kee clock ingenuity, a clock for the Jajfciu
and Chinese markets, that measures time
as the hours are counted in China and
Japan, the hands making a diurnal revo-.
lotion within twelve Chinese hours. The
characters upon the dial plate are Chinese.
The inside circle has four characters, show
ing sun rise, meridian, sun set and mid
night. The next circle exhibits the odd
and even hours: the even hours are desig
nated by the bold figure, and the odd
hours by smaller ones. The dial there
had the common miuute marks, and at the
extreme outside was the Chinese numerals,
running from one to twelve. —New York
Tribune.
Turn your Fence Posts. —lt is men
tioned as a curious fact, that a farmer in
Connecticut who recently took up a fence
after it had been standing fourteen years,
found all those posts solid which had been
inverted from the way iu which they orig
inally grow, while those which had been set
as they originally grew were rotted off at
the bottom. Heads down, therefore,
seems a spcciGe against decay. —Oswego
Times. >
Horrible Intem.pera.vcß'. —The N. Y.
Courier states that it appeared in evidence
at an inquest upon the body of a female iu
that city, on Thursday, that she had been
constantly drunk for the last ten mon&s !
and that on the day before her death, she
drank sixteen quarts of beer, besides con
siderable brandy and rum l
Wayland’s Moral Science.— At a late
meeting of the trustees of LaPiace Col
legiate Institute, Ala., it was unanimous
ly resolved that Wayland’s Moral Science
“contains abolition doctrines of the deep
est dye/’ and the trustees accordingly
“denounce said book, and forbid its far
ther use in the Institute.”
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