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About The Georgia Jeffersonian. (Griffin, Ga.) 18??-18?? | View Entire Issue (Oct. 5, 1854)
VOL. XV. THE GEORGIA JEFFERSONIAN. IS PURLI9HED EVERT THURSDAY MORNING BY WILLIAM CLINE, At Two Dollars and Fifty Cents per ani nnm, or Two Dollars paid in advance, j A o vbutI'SEOTSTs’ are msorled at ONI S DOLLAR per square, for the first insertion, and FIFTY CEBITS per square, for each insertion thereafter. A reasonable deduction will oe made to those who advertise by the year. All advertisements not otherwise ordered, will bn continued till forbid. fUjt tALES OF LANDS by Administrators, Kxerotors or Guardians are required b) law to be held ori the first Tuesday in tne month, between the hours ot ten in the forenoon and three in the nftrrnoon, at the Court-House, in the county in which the land is situated. Notice of these sale, must be given in a public palette FORTY DAYS previous to the dav oTsale. •SdZ.ES OF NEG ROES must be made at pub lie auc!ion on Ihe first Tuesday of the month, he twerp the usual hours of sale, at tlir place ol | l lie sales in the county where the letters Test nontary, of Administration or Guardianship ma have been granted; first giving FORTY DAY notice M.creofin one of the public gazelles of il> State, an.l al the court house where such salcnrsi Id be held. Notice for the sale of Personal Property must br given in like manner FORTY DAYS previous * ) irie day of sale. Notice to Debtors and Creditors of an estate mist be published FORTY DAYS. Notice that application will be madeto the Court Ordinary for leave to deli, land must be pub islu-d for TWO MONTHS, Notice for leave to sell negroes must he anblished TWO MONTHS before any order ab rohite shall he made thereon by the Court. CITATIONS for Letters of Administration hurst be published thirty dais; for Dismission from Administration, monthly six months; lio Dismission Iron! Guardianship, forty days. t'nles fertile foreclosure of Mortgage must be published monthly for four months,lor pub listing lost papers, lor Ihe full space of three months; for compelling titles front Executors, a Jministrntors, wlicie a bond lias been givu.fq : the deceased, for the space of three months. A Free Negro Community. Richard Randolph, eldest brother of John Randolph, of Roanoake. died in the year 1796, at ‘‘Bizzarre,” the name of the large esiate bequeathed him by bis father, John Randolph, sr., and lying on the head waters of the Appomattox river, near the town of Farmville, Va. He is represented to have been a man of talents scarcely inferior to those of his celebrated brother, and of extraordinary goodness of character. Entertaining the opinion, then general in the South, and especially in Virginia, that slavery was a curse alike to master and to servant, Mr R libera ted his slaves hy will, and made ample I revision for their maintenance. Owing to pecuniary embarrasinenfs, the provi sions of the will were not carried into ex ecution, until fifteen years afterwards, and not until many ot ltie slaves had been sold to liquidate the heavy mortgr.ges ! which rested upon the estate. About 1811 John Randolph, who had assumed the management of his brothar’s affairs, removed to the county of Charlotte, and the negroes, variously estimated at from one hundred to one hundred and thirty in number, entered upon the enjoyment of their freedom j A portion of the Bizzarre estate, con sisting of three hundred and sis y, (some say five hundred) acres, partially cleared, well timbered, and well watered, was divided into sectious of fifty and twenty five acres, each; and upon these sections the various families, according to thenuni ber and age of the individuals composing them, were settled; those having aged and infirm parents to support, received more, and those not having these incum brances, less land. All were provided with means to build themselves houses, and with agricultural implements to till the soil. Fairly settled in the land of promise, the Canaan to w'hich they had looked so longingly for fifteen years, they gave it the name of “Israel Hill” —an appellation which explains the sanguine anticipations and religious tone which guided them to its choice. No doubt they looked forward to the time when Israel Hill should he a thriving and pop ulous village; “a city set upon an hill;” fchining gloriously to the eyes of their brethren in bondage, as did the Delecta b!e mountains to Bunyan’s Pilgrim. Here, then, they were left to work out their destiny, and here, indeed, if at all, it was expected that thj African would thrive and prosper, anl fulfill the expectations which prompted his noble master to set him free The conditions a V the experiment were pre-eminently favorable for the manumitted—and the elements of success surrounding them numerous —ar.d such as can never again be brought to bear upon them in any fu ture experiment. They were the choice servants of one of the most aristocratic, humane, and cultivated families in the Stat 6, reseived from sale because of the excellency of their dispositions, their fidelity and their industry. They had enjoyed the advantage of association with intelligent whites; they were taught the principles of the Christian religion. They were traiued to habits of labor, and were settled upon fertile land in a temperate climate. Fuel and water were abundant. ‘1 hey were surrounded by kindly disposed neighbors, who gave them employment at harvest, and at many other times du ring the year; who ministered to their wants in sickness, and who gave them advice in business matters. And more than all, they were not brought into com petition with white labor —the bane ot the African who settles in the free States. — Under these propitious circumstances it was reasonable to expect that the little colony would have gone on to prosper— that this miniature Liberia would have become rich, populous, fertile —the pa rent of other colonies to the free States — that the system of parcel culture would have made every inch of the soil'produc tive—that Isuol llill would have become a handsome village, surrounded with or chards and gatde> s, and sheltered by luxuriant shade trees. The philanthro pist who shared the opinions and the hopes of Richard Randolph, would have expected to hear in this village, the sound of the hammer, the saw, the plane, the churchgoing bell—the evideuces of thrift, of industry, and of good morals. But now that forty years have passed away, what are the facts of the case?—How has the experiment succeeded? ‘I he traveller on the Soulhside Rail road passes through the centre ot Israel lid 1 , without being aware of its presence. THEGEORGIA JEFFERSONIAN. The few miserable huts which constitute the village, are not attractive enough to retain his attention for more than a mo ment, and lie passes on ignorant of the lesson which a mistaken philanthropy ! might have taught him. The visitor to the neighborhood, who has the curiosity or interest to inqtlire into the results of this unhappy experiment, will be sadden ed by its details. He will find that a healthy, happy, moral community of slaves have, from the day of their libera tion, degenerated until they have become a diseased, depraved, miserable people— a curse to themselves, and a pest to their neighbors. The men are drunkards, the women prostitutes, the children scrofu lous and syphilitic. Almost all steal.— There are honorable exceptions to this i rule, hut they consist mainly of the origi nal settlers—men and women who had reached years of discretion before they were liberated, and whose habits were formed while they were slaves The men are utterly cortup*. So far from increasing in point of number, they have decreased; and il is the opinion of all who have locked into the matter, that disease will eventually exterminate them. In 1850, it is said they numbered about as many as were originally liberated—say 130, and now, in 1854, they’ are generally supposed to number 100, or less: some have placed them as low as S5. In con sequence of their vicious hahits, many of the women are barren; the children, as before stated, poisoned from their birth. Ilencp, it may be readily’ believed, that the average yearly mortality among them, is equal to that of Farmville—a place more than ten limes as populous—and some years it is much greater. With the indolence and improvidence characteristic of their race, they have wantonly destroy ed their woodlands; have exhausted their soil by unsystematic and improper culture; have suffeied their houses and enclosures to decay; have contented themselves with the production of the bare necessaries of existence; and have as yet given r.o evi dence that the germs of progress or im provement, ever existed in their unhappy natures. The money derived from lire sale of their crops is invested in whiskey; and the ill gottun gains of booty purloined from the neighboring gentry, is expended in the same way. They grow nothing except Indian Corn and Tobacco with a few potatoes and peas; these scanty crops maintain a doubtful contest witu the crab grass, carrot weed, briers, and other ill favored products ot an impoverished soil. These spring luxuriantly around their cabin doots. Wheat they’ never grow.— The idea of planting an orchard, a vege table or flower garden, seems never to have entered their heads. Nothing like system, order, prudence, economy or forecast is perceptible among them. Ii would he silly to talk of refinement in connection with such a people- Idle, dishonest, drunken, profligate, it is not to be wondered that this community should be the theatre of scenes of destitution, disorder, immorality, and crime sufficient to cause the bones of the good Randolph to turn in Ids grave, and such as to call for the frequent interposition of the neigh boring planters, and not unfrequently that of the county authorities. Thus we hear in one case of two sisters, one of whom makes a midnight foray into the corn patch of the other, and pulls the entire crop up by the roots. In another, we are told of au old woman starving to death; and in another, of a sickly, poor creature placed under the charge of a drunken wo man who goes to town to buy whiskey, leaving her charge to die of sheer neglect. Reports of broils and battles are common; scarcely a day passes without some of the adjacent farmers being called in to intefere in behalf of some of the oppress ed inhabitants of this wretched communi ty. But yesterday, two of the Israelilish women came to the house where the writer of this article is sojourning, to lodge a complaint against a fugitive slave who was harbored in the Hill, and who had suddenly rushed upon them, threat ening to cut off their htads with a scythe blade which he held in his uplifted hand. Such is a faintly drawn picture of Is rael Hili in 1854, after more than forty years of freedom; am! such are some of the disastrous consequences of au impoli tic and Unwise philanthropy. Had these people remained slaves, who can doubt but that their destiny in this life, and perhaps in the life to come, would have been far different, far happier? The humiliating results of the well intended benevolence of Richard Randolph, are fraught with no salutary lesson for the negrophilist; but they may serve to con firm the intelligent slaveholder; to warn the iuexperienced advocates of emanci pation; and to rebuke the many who shake with laughter at the idea of a Re public in France, yet believe in the ca pacity of the negro for the enjoyment of Republican freedom. Religious Intolerance-. The Pennsylvanian truly says, in a land of liberty and intelligence, as we justly boast our own to be, fanaticism, intoler ance, and tyranny can never long enchain popular sentiment in their thraldom. The wisdom of the founders of this govern ment in resolving to forever separate Church and State, has been illustrated by every new cycle in our National history —and however much bigots may prate or rave of imaginary danger, wc"trust nud believe that such a Union will never be consummated here, either practically, by the action of the people at the polls, or by positive legal enactment. The attempt of Know Nothingism to establish religions tests for all official stations is at deadly variance with the fundamental principles of republican freedom. We believe that there are men connected with all of the prominent sects whom it would be un safe to trust with important political trusts, and we just as fully believe that there ate men connected with each- and all of the promineut Christian sects who are good patriots and possess every desirable quali fication for the faithful discharge of the duties of any political station to- which they would aspire. Every man can readily perceive how wrong, and how unjustifiable it would be to introduce tests in our Churches. GRIFFIN, (GA.) THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 5, 1854. The Democrat, and the Native, and the Abolitionist, harmoniously mingle under the spiritual guidance of the minister in whose religious teaching they have confi dence, without ever stopping to inquire what his political views may be. Who thitiks of making ‘political opinions a test for any station connected with the govern ment of a Church, from the post of minis ter down to sexton? No one. And what bitter feelings, what mischievous strifes, what calamitous feuds and divi sions would necessarily result from any attempt to introduce such tests into our Churches. Those who really have the cause of religion at heart, would indig nantly oppose such a movement. And it is jnst as wrong, just as unwise, just as illibe ral to introduce religious tests into the po litical arena, as it would be to introduce political tests into religious affairs. The pretence of the Know Nothings that the liberties of the nation would be endangered by entrusting any member of a political sect, no matter how high may be their characters, how eminent their public services, how exalted their abilities, how well tried their patriotism, how sound their political doctrines, in any public sta tion, is a doctrine at once foolish, tyranni cal, unconstitutional, and calculated to lead to results of the most alarming char acter. To lay it down as an axiom that a Catholic is, on sccount of his adoption of that creed, necessarily unfitted to dis charge political duties faithfully and hon estly, is as monstrous, absurd, and ungen erous a course of proceeding as could pos sibly be adopted. Did the Catholicism of Gen. LaFayette prevent his acting with a fidelity to the cause of American Inde pendence which placed him almost second to Washington in the affections of the peo ple of this country ? Does not his history of itself at once uproot from its founda tion, and utterly demolish and destroy the ignorant and arrogant assumption of Know Nothingism that no Catholic and no for eigner can safely be entrusted with a pub lic station in this country ? Or are we mistaken in this matter, and were the ho nors, the homage and the grateful admi ration which the American heart poured out in gushing streams of thankfulness and gtatitude upon this foreigner and Catho lic, when he re-visited us in 1824, totally undeserved ? Did the Catholicism of that signer of the Declaration of Indepen dence, who was the last survivor of the im mortal band of fifty six, CLarles Carroll, of Carrollton, prevent his doing his duty in the Continental Congress with a braver heart, a more nuquailing spirit, a more earnest and unfaltering devotion to the welfare of the country than any narrow minded, narrow-hearted, contemptible Know Kothing ranter would have dared to have shown ? Has the Catholicism of Hon. Roger B. Taney, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United. States, who, as Secretary of the Treasury, was Gen. Jackson’s good right arm of strength in his righteous stand against the illiquid tons United States Bank, ever interfered in any way with the proper discharge of his official duties? * FOREIGN ITEMS The Crimea Expedition. The heavy artillery, the siege equipa ges, gild the entire material of the army, were already on board. The commissariat as well as theambuleuce corps, had, to en sure the success of the great enterprise, been adopted. The. fleets and trans ports collected for the expedition, formed an armada of the most imposing charac ter. 100 steamers of all kinds, 300 trans ports, and 36 ships of the line composed the fleet. It has been found that in less than one hour the fleets could put ashore 12,000 men, and that in two hours after the number might be increased to 20,000 men. The landing, supported by the fire of from 24 to 30 guns, can be effected in this time upon any of the points supposed to be chosen for the purpose. The opera tion will, in the first instance, be underta ken under the protection of the guns of the whole fleet, which will scour the entire shore, then the steam gun boats, each arm ed with a 24 pounder, forming powerful floating batteries, will advance towards the shore with troops, and they will pro tect their landing until the land batteries shall have secured positions for their artil lery. The fleet has from 30,000 to 40,0U0 gabions and earth sacks on board, so that for 24 hours after Handing,The army will be stationed behind defences. The troops are victualled for two months. The first division of the fleets will con vey 14,000 men belonging to the French army, and between 400 and 500 horses, with 1 batteries, mounting 36 guns The other will’convey the Ottoman army, of about 10,000 men and 800 horses The British army, a part of which is already on board the steamers which have come direct from England, will also_be thrown upon the coasts of the Crimea to the num ber of 21,000 men and 1,000 horse, with 36 guns. Tims the first expeditionary army will land about 50,000 troops, who, six or eight days afterwards, will be re inforced by an additional force of from 25,000 to 30,000 French troops, and from 4,000 to s,ooojEnglish troops. -The Duke of Cambridge and Prince Na poleon liad proceeded .to join the expedi tion, against.the advice of their physicians, as they were still suffering from fever. The greatest enthusiasm prevails in the army. The marines of the allied fleets, have asked and obtained the honor of forming part of the storming party of Se bastopol. It is stated that the attack on the Crimea, Omar Pacha will make an important demonstration some where on the Danube. The Russians are making preparations to burn the cities of Odessa, Reni, Bra dow, Galatz, and Ismail, should they be forced to abaudon them. They have pre pared combustibles, and have cut off the supply of water, and burnt the frro en gines. Orders have been issued that wherever the enemy appears in superior strength, towns and villages arc to be re duced to ashes. Unceasing preparations are being made in Sebastopol for defence. All criminal prisoners are liberated and enrolled in companies to work the port batteries. A gang of two hundred of the worst convicts are still in irons, to be em ployed in carrying ammunition. The Bashi-BazoukSf including those in the pay of the allies, have been disbanded by a general order from Omar Pasha—the rascals being quite incorrigible. Russia. — Polatid. —Active secret ne gotiations have been going on for some ’ time between Nicholas and the Pope. It now transpires that the Czar holds out a prospect of a chance towards the Roman Catholics in Poland.. * ifd of concessions to the Latins in Jerusalem. He is thus intriguing against the French. Accord ing to the Corriere Italiano, the Czar has the intention to declare his third son, Nicholas, King of Poland, and as lie is a member of the Greek Church, it is con sidered necessary to give the Pope some tranquilising assurance respecting the Po lish Catholics. Asia. —Georgia has been surprised by Sclnimyl, with 20,000 Circassians. The Russians were defeated, and have retired into the fortresses Important hostages were secured at Tiflis. Another dispatch says : “Schamyl had made a descent into Georgia, where lie destroyed 200 villages. Forty Russian ladies were carried off.” Geu. Bcbutoff lias blown up the fortifi cations of Bayazid, abandoning the town, and the troops have fallen back to the po sition which they occupied at Erivan when attacked by Selim Pacha. Russian agents, disguised as Bedouins, have been arrested at Damascus. Austria ami 1 lie Allies. The greatest problem in the political world for the last twelve months has been whether Austria is on the side of the western Powers, or of the Czar, and about it opinion has been much divided. We aie of opinion that-she—her Govern ment at Vienna, rather —intends to be on the strong side, and to declare for which ever is most certain to win. Her interest is with the Allies, for she has no cause to fear ihem, and has much to fear Nicholas, or to fear the Russian policy, which is always, a little more teiritorv. Il is a little curious, that whilst the English statesmen and the English journals are claiming Austria for their own—the Lon don Times does this—and speaking of her as their powerful friend and ally, the Russian Autocrat and the Russian j >ur nals are doing precisely the same tiling for themselves. On the 13th of August, a proclamation was published in the name of the Czar, in which he says: “In order to protect the Danubian Principal ities against an invasion hy the Turks, the ancient ally (Austria) of his Majesty, the Emperor, undertakes the duty of temporarily occupying those Provinces.” This Russia says, whilst the Allies be lieve that the “ancient ally” is taking possession for their own benefit. Important from Mexico. By the arrival of the steamship United States from AspinwaJl, wo have received the following important letter from our Acapulco correspondent, as also the offi cial Bulletin of General Alvarez, to the 6th inst. The following is the letter: Acapulco, Mexico, Sept. 7. Editors Della— Gen. Alvarez, in per son, at the head of 2,500 men, entered the city of Ayutta on the 4th inst—the Government troops having evacuated it on the 3d- Alvarez is pushing forwardjfor Chilpan cingo, where he will arrive in a few days without opposition, all the Government troops having been withdrawn from the’ State ol Guerrero, for the capitol, except a force of 1,500 men left at Ayutta, to retard, if possible, his onward movements, which cannot be the case, inasmuch as Alvarez is in fine health, and leading a j body of men who, to a man, would die for ! their Chieftain. His intentions arc to 1 march into the city of Mexico. By a courier which arrived this evening, official information has been received that Vera Cruz has pronounced From all in dications, it is firmly believed that Santa Anna will very soon abdicate. Yours, xx. From the official bulletin of the 6th inst. we learn that various engagements have taken place between the insurgents and the troops of the Government, at differ-1 ent points at Guerrero, in all of which the former have been victorious. A force of 1,800 Government troops were defeated with great slaughter near Zacapo, about the middle of August, by the insurgents under Don Ephigmeuio Huerta, who, it appears, met the enemy on the open plain, charged and routed at the point ot the lance. The charge is represented to have been so furious and well followed up, that more than half the enemy were left killed or wounded on the field. About the same date, Capt. Don Pas caul Rodriguez, with 150 insurgents un der his command, took the fortified town of Aquililla by storm. In this action the insurgents had Capt. Don Yicente Barron, one sergeant, and seven privates wounded, of whom three have since died. General Alvarez, in a communication, states that he has not yet received official accounts of these victories from the commanding offi cers. Aside from the above, we find nothing in the bulletin worthy of notice, except that there appears to be a determination on the part of the insurgents to force San ta Anna to abdicate, or drive him from his throne. — N. O. licit a. Singular Occurrence. —A singular oc currence, resulting in a melancholy man ner, took place a few days since in the town of Hamburg, in this county. An Irishman was engaged in digging well, and after getting down to the depth of some eighteen feet, found signs of water very perceptible. At last he struck his pick through a thin layer of slate, when all at once, and with a noise like thunder, sufficiently loud to be distinctly heard all over tke neighborhood, a stream mingled with gas and water hurst through the orifice, instantly killed the unfortunate man, and filling the well to the depth of ten or twelve feet with water. Gas still escapes profusely, and the water is in constant and violent motion, resembling a large cauldron of boiling fluid. —Ihtffalo Democracy , Aug. 24 1 h. Excitement In Memphis A public meeting was held, recently, at Memphis, Tennessee, for the purpose of giving expression to the sentiments cf the city in relation to the frequent outrages perpetrated upon the citizens of the South, while travelling through the Northern States, and particularly in reference to that recently perpetrated upon their fellow citizen, Mr. J. J. Robinson, who v.’as bru tally assaulted robbed of his property in the city of Gineinna,ti, by a mob headed by one Mr. Blaririvell, a merchant of Cin cinnati. Among the resolutions adopted are the following: Resolved , That unless the city of Cin cinnati by some public demonstration re pudiate the action of the mob and the law less conduct of Blackwell, that we for our selves, as citizens of Memphis, will exer cise every legitimate means to break up the commercial intercourse between our own city and the city of Cincinnati, and divert Southern travel from said city and State to that direction in which their rights and property will be respected; and be it further Resolved , That we ask and expect the sympathy and co-operation of our sister .slaveholding; States to come to our relief, and aid us in defending ourselves against aggressors from Ohio, by cutting off from the State, and particularly the city of Cin cinnati, all the trade in their power. Resolved , That the Board of Mayor and Aldermen of this city be requested to appoint a special River Police, whose du ty it shall be vigilantly to watch all steam boats coming from Cincinnati, and strictly to enforce our State and municipal laws in regard to free negroes Mr. Carr then offered a motion that a committee of ten be appointed to corre spond with every Southern city in reference to the matter suggested in the report of the committee on Resolutions. Mr. Trezevaut then offered a resolution directing the Mayor of the city of .Mem phis, to forward a copy of these resolutions to the corporate authorities of the city of Cincinnati; both of which resolutions were adopted. The meeting was characterized by the utmost harmony—and presented the ap pearance of an assemblage of injured and aggrieved men, deliberating upon the means of, and the spirit to enforce re dress. ® On motion the meeting adjourned, sub ject to the call of the President, with are quest that all papers friendly to Southern interests publish the proceedings and co operate with us in awaking public senti ment. S. P. BANKHEAD, Pres’t. J. T. Strattan, N. B. Sanders, Secretaries. Tlie N. Y. Wiiig Convention. The deed is done The bargain is complete. Th© anti-Seward Whigs are sold. The Saratoga “fusion’’ has tri umphed. By rtferenre io another column, in which is published the final proceedings of the New York Whig Convention, it will he found that Sewardisru has over whelmed New York Wliiggery, hy the nomination of Myron 11. Cla. k for Gov ernor. and Henry J. Raymond for Lieu tenant Governor, both unmistakeahle ab olition, disunion, Seward Wiiigs, and by the passage of resolutions almost identical with those passed at the Saratoga, anti slavery, anti-Nebraska, “fusion” eonveu tion. This result we predicted, when Messrs. Raymond and Greeley flourished as the par nubile frutnun of the Saratoga fanatical demonstration. We then told the National, Clay, Silver Grey Whigs that they were “sold,” and that the ad journment to meet al Aubu.n was an evi dence that the Whig parly was to he completely abolished, “io this com plexion” they have “come at last.” The great question of slavery, upon the proper settlement of which hang the desti nies of our Union, now comes fairly before the country. The whigs and abolitionists have banded together in a state of perfect “fusion,” determined upon sectional agita tion by keeping it in the halls of Congress, while the democracy plant themselves up on the Constitution and “popular sove reignty,” leaving the people ot each iitate and Territory to decide the question for themselves, without an unwarranted inter ference on the part of the General Govern ment. This is the Nebraska issue to be met at the coming election. Can any pa triotic, National, Union man, whether De mocrat or whig, hesitate to join the Na tional Democracy in tiiis their struggle to maintain the Constitution and perpetuate the Union? Previous predilections enter not into the consideration. Bank, tariff, and Temperance notions have nothing to do with the issue now presented. The on ly question is, will you stand by the Cou stitution and the Union, or sacrifice both to please a fanatical “fusion,” the only ob ject of which is to “rule or ruin!” The convention which meets at Auburn in a few days, will perfect the “fusion” by adoping the whig candidates as the whigs adopted their Saratogu resolutions. But, however much the leaders may propose, the people must untimately dispose.—Na tional Democrat. lieu 1 til of N;w Oi leaijs. The New Orleans Courier of the 23d ult. gives the following account of the pre valence of the yellow fever in New Or leans. It will be seen that the Courier laments the recent influx of strangers into that city, whom it supposes in great dan ger of the epidemic. Its caution may not be out of place: “Still docs yellow fever reign in our midst as fatally, as unsparingly, as at any period during the summer. We cannot, unhappily, communicate to our readers the agreeable intelligence that there is the slightest appearance of diminution. In the Charity Hospital, by last report, which we. published iu our editiou of yesterday, it appears that the number of deaths from five o’elock on Saturday evening until the same hour on Thursday evening, amounted to one hundred and ten —making an ave rage of twenty-two deaths for each twenty four-hours, in that establishment alone This shows'that the mortality is far from being on the decrease, and should be suffi cient warning for those who may not be as yet acclimated, to be on their guard.—, We understand, also, that in private prac tice the disease is still as prevalent and malignant as ever. It exists, for the most part, in the third, fourth, and upper tion of the first districts. For this we can assign no other reason than that these are the quarters most thickly populated by the unacclimated citizens. Considering the small number of the latter who have, whether from necessity or of inclination, remained in our city this Summer, we can not refrain from remarking that the bill of mortality is proportionately high. Under this state of things, it is with regret that we learn that the deck of the steamer S. F. J. Trabue, which arrived in our port on Thursday, from St. Louis, was crowd ed with passengers, chiefly composed cf laborers who liave come to this city for the purpose of seeking employment at the commencement of the business season. “Without wishing them any harm, we would have much preferred that they had remained away for some time. Poor peo ple! they have rushed, probably, without knowing it, into the lion’s mouth, or per haps have been lulled into a sense of secu rity by the false representations of persons who, through interested motives, have wilfully deceived them. However the evil is now irremediable, and they have only to do the best they can by indulging as little as possible in excesses of any kind, and avoiding all unnecessary exposure to those atmospheric changes incidental to our climate. Many, particularly the.less en lightened portions of our immigrant popu lation, entertain the opinion that by keep ing “the spirits up,” as they say, there is i o danger of their receiving a visit from Yellow Jack. Accordingly they indulge freely in the use of intoxicating liquors and keep themselves in a constant state of semi inebriation.’ This is the most dangerous error under which they can labor. The most experienced physicians advise the contrary. Sobriety of life and temperate habits are the best preparatives against the disease, and experience has shown that where few men of temperate habits become victims, few, on the contrary, of the in temperate escape.” Gesacral Scott and <?sc English ami French Generals. Speaking of the inactivity of the allies on the Danube, the X. Y Courier says : “The sluggishness of the movements of the allies does not compare favorably with the activity displayed by Gen. Scott on the expedition against the Mexican Capi tol—an expedition which was directed at about as great a distance from home, and in a hotter and sicklier climate. On the Tth of March, Gen. Scott embarked with his troops on board the transporting squadron; on the 27 th of the same month, Vera Cruz with the strong Castle of San Juan d’Ulloa, was ours, besides 5,000 pri soners and 500 pieces of artillery. With in three weeks after, the victory of Cerro Gordo was won; within four days after, Pcrote, the second fortress in Mexico, was taken; and within three weeks Pue bla, the second city of Mexico, lying half way between Yera Cruz, and the capitol, was in our possession. Negotiations wore now opened and peace offered. Active I hostilities were suspended for three months and a half. Again Scott moved on. In | less than two weeks the bloody battles of Contreras and Churubusco was fought, within three days an armistice was con cluded, and within as many more it was broken by the Mexicans, and within a week after Molino del Itey was stormed and carried; within a week after the bat tle of Chepultepec, and the battles of Mex ico were fought, and Gen. Scott made his ’ entrance into the conquered city of the Azotecs; and that expedition which the London Times had previously ridiculed as an enterprise of stark madness, had readi ed its glorious consummation. Such be ing the celerity of our own warlike opera tions, it is natural that the slowness of the movements of the allies in the East, should not excite much admiration this side of the waters. How an Indian cast die. A touching instance of this characteris tic trait occurred at the late engagement between a small war party of the Chippe was, and a greatly superior party of the Sioux, near Cedar Islands Lake. The Chippewas, who were on route for a scalp ing foray upon the Sioux villages on the Minnesota, here fell into an ambuscade, and the first notice of danger that sainted their cars, was a discharge of fire arms from a thicket. Four of their number fell dead in their tracks. Another, nam ed the War Cloud, a leading brave, had a leg broken by a bullet. His comrades were loath to leave him, and while his as sailants were reloading their guns, at tempted to carry him along with them to where they could set the shelter of a thicket, a short distance in the rear. , But lie commanded them to leave him, telling them that lie would show his enemies how a Chippewa could die. At his request, they seated him on a log, with his back leaning against a tree. lie then com menced painting his face and singing his death song. As his enemies approached him, lie only sang a louder and livelier strain, and when sevewd had gathered around him, flourishing their scalping knives, and screeching forth their demoni acal yells of exultation, not a look or a gesture manifested that he was even aware of their presence. At length they seized him and tore the scalp from his head. — Still seated with his back against a large tree, they commenced shooting their ar rows into the trunk around his head, gra zing his eyes, neck, &c. until they literally pinned him fast, without having once touched a vital part. Yet our hero re mained the same imperturbable stoic, con tinuing to chant his defiant strain, and al though one of the number flourished his reeking scalp before his eyes, still not a single expression of his countenance could be observed to change. At last one of the number approached him with a toma hawk, which after a few unheeded flourish es, he buried in the captive’s skull, who sank in death with the song still upon his lips. He had indeed succeeded well in teaching his enemies “how a Chippewa could die.” A few days afterwards they were taught how a Chippawa could lie avenged. St. Paul [Min.) Democrat. What a beautiful reply that was of Mr. Whitfield, and how well suited to the pre sent times, when half the world are read ing the “signs of the times” with fear and trembling, crying “lo here and lo there,” as if the end of the world was so near that we conld see it with the naked eye. Tho crazy Millerites, it appears, actually ap pointed a day recently, a second time, for the winding up of this terrestrial ball, but it rolled o:i a3 usual and would not “fire np” no way they could arrange matters.— We think if some of these geutlemeu, in stead of “asceution,” were fitted with sus pension robes, it might be of service to them and “the rest of mankind.” Then there is ail the Spiritual Knockings aud demonstrations from Mountain Cove, and the Lord only knows what all besides.— Every one is looking out for something ex traordinary. We believe that about one half of mankind have become subjects for straight jackets. But to Mr. Whitfield. He was diniug with some religious friends one day, when the discourse turned upon the trials and troubles of life (a topic too common among religious people) and the happy enjoyments of a blessed immortali ty. The general voice was, that they were all weary with this world and want ed to go to a better. Mr. Whitfield said nothing. At length he was appealed to, whether he did not desire lo “bo With the Lord?” “No brethren,” said he, “I have no desire about it. If l had a servant in ray field at work, and he was to come to me at midday, and say, the heat is very oppressive and the labor hard, I wish you to let me lay in the shade the balance of the season, I should call that servant very undutiful; and if I were to desire the same thing of my Heavenly Master, 1 should .consider myself equally undutiful. As long as he has work for me to do, I feel honored by his service, and pray him to beget a willingness in me to attend to it faithfully, until it is his Divine will to bill me cease; of which time he alone is Judge ” — Geo. Jeff. Ei.opemf.xt Extraordinary.—A color ed barber who resides some where down town, had been paying his addresses, for some time, to a colored lady, and had con trived to win her affections. She had no father, but her mother was alive, and mar ried to a colored man, (also a barber) who is a person of great intelligence and respectability for his class. “1 he course of true love never did run smooth.” The “old folks” by no means entertained the same high opinion of the swain that was entertained by the lady, and so they put their veto upon the proposed match. The last resource of disappointed love, a Gret na Green marriage, was determined on, and the time fixed for the escapede was Friday night, on the evening train of tho Richmond, Fredericsburg & Potomac Railroad. At the appointed hour the couple, soon as they hoped to be made one, made their appearance. The future bridegroom handed in the future bride, and was in the act of ascending the steps to take his seat by her side, when he felt a strong grasp upon his collar, and in another moment was stretched upon his back at the distance of at least twenty feet from the cars Ilis head struck the ground with the violence of a bomb shell falling on the earth, and had it uot been uncommonly thick, would unquestionably have “caved iu.” It was the step-father who had treated him so unceremoniously. The lovers of romance will be grieved to hear the unromautic termination of tho affair. Instead of assorting his claims through blood and fire, the ardent swain picked himself up, looked wildly around, as though he had been struck down by a Hash of lightning, made an unintelligible exclamation, and proved how uuworthy ho was of the fair, by taking to his heels with tho speed of a greyhound. Her pro per guardian took possession of the lady, and carried her home to her family.— Richmond Post. A Gai.i.ant Combatant —-The Con stantinople correspondent of the London Times, gives the following account of the last struggle of Lieut. Burke, who fell at Giurgcvo : [VIr. Burke’s body was found after the action in which he lost his life, with no less than 38 wounds upon it. The Russians had taken iiis sword belt, but his sword was found hidden in so.nc long grass close to the corpse. The ring linger of both hands were cut off. He was seen by tho sapper who went with him, fighting des perately to the last, though surrounded by a horde of Russians When he first leap ed on shore from tho boat, six soldiers charged. Two he shot with his revolver, one lie cut down with his sword—the rest turned and fled. While he was encoura ging the Turks, who were iu the stream, to row quietly to tho land, and forming them in line as they landed, conspicuous as he was, in full uniform, and by his white cap cover, a number of riflemen advanced from behind a ditch, and took deliberate aim at him. Poor Burke charged them with headlong gallantry. As ho got near lie was struck by a ball, which broke his jaw-bone, but he rushed on, shot three men dead at close quarters with his revol ver, and cleft two meu through the helmet and all into the brain. He was surround ed, and while engaged iu cutting his way with heroic courage through the ranks of the enemy, a sabre cat from bohind, given by a dragoon as he went by, nearly sever ed his head from his body, and he foil dead, covered with bayonet wounds, sabre gashes, and marked with lance thrusts and bullet holes. The sapper who was with him stood by Mr. Burke to the last, but could not save him. Ho is now only recovering from his wounds and the effects of his exertions.” As an affecting evidence of the undying confidence of lovely woman, we copy the following from a Knoxville paper: Married, on the 10th of July, in Knox ville, Tenn. by Zack Boothe, Esq. Mr. Patrick Welch to Miss Sarah E. Davis. Died, in Knoxville, on tiic 24th of Ju ly, Mr. Patrick Welch. Married, on the 12th of August, in Knoxville, Tenn. by W. F. Seay, Esq. Tlios. Collins to Mrs. Sarah E. Welch, relict of the late Patrick’ Welch. Verily this is a progressive age, and this a funny world ! Wonder what grief will drive tLie “dear creature.,” to next? No. 40.
