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VOL. XV.
THE GEORGIA JOTERSOMIN.
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BY WILLIAM CXiINE,
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’ lor he I'oreelosiircoi Mortgage must he
,• : >'r I MOVTIII.T FOR FOUR MONTHS,tor pil'i
;• ‘• g i.r ttie full space of three
>: ‘st is; for compelling ti!l-s from Kseentors,
i.ii!'lr:'’or=r, wlicie a howl tins been givuAq a
be t-veAJ -d, lor the space ot three months.
C;riO TOLO'JY in atisrica.
Conclusive proof ilial “ all the Fools in ihe
World are not Dead.”
TVe copy from an extensive collection in
vie New York Tribune, the following exs
?r; ets from late ghost-seeing papers They
furnish a species of amusing reading which
onr readers have not often had an oppor
tunity f enjoying:
(CorresroudcDce if Ih2 Cleaveland Plaindtalcr.)
Ghosts fiudinj a Pocket B;x>k.
WiLi.ccannr, April 19, 1854.—A few
days since B. Wooisey, Esq of this place,
a very distinguished Methodist, whom ma
ny of our readers know by the name of
Father Wooisey, lost h ; s pocket book, con
taining nearly SIOO in bank notes. Af
=rer long and anxious searching, ’ for days,
i:o trace could be found of it. Now Uncle
Ben is a God-fearing man, and, withal,
was afraid to tempt God by consulting fa
miliar spirits. Yet the bare possib lity of
finding his money induced him to consult
them [Tempt or not tempt, it appears
Uncle Ben was willing to try it.] The
spirit said he accidentally dropped his
-pocket book in his own yard, that an indi
vidual (describing him,) picked it'up, and
fearing to pass the money, gave it to an
other indhilual, an Irishman, who ex
changed it in Cleaveland for gold; that
the Irishman kept half, and the man who
picked it up half On this information
the Irishman was charged with it, and all
the circamstaucee, place where found and
kiud of money exchanged for, and what
exchanged for, made known, just as the
spirit detailed it; whereupon the Irishman
and his friend owned up ar.d refunded ihe
tnor.ey, grciuy to Hie joy of Father IVcol
sey, who thiuks there must be something
in it
(Fr< .m the Spirit tin 1 Trlrgrnph.)
Spirits get Hold of Follows.
At a eircle in New York, I experien
ced an attempt on the part of a spirit to
t ake |osession of me. Richard Bradford,
a medium, was being controlled by a spirit
apparently attempting, unsuccessfully, to
~peak through him. He was raised out of
his chair and his body made to sway to
and fro, and to gesticulate as if making vi
olent efforts to speak. While he remained
in this condition, I inquired of the spirits
if I should lay my hands ou his head,
thinking that it. might possibly modify the
conditions sufficiently to enable him to
enable him to speak. Through the raps
the question was answered in the affirnva
ive I then went up and laid ray hands
• his head, when there immediately
r up my arms a singular sensation which
passed like lightning to my head. It felt
us if ,t was suddenly increased to twice its
... ual size. My face turned very red, and
* began !o stagger, when 1 took my seat,
’ bad I not done I fully believe I
- <i iu h ive fallen. As soon as I let go
’ * -• medium the influence left me, but
v- i h ‘ttdaebc that lasted until the next
•Jrv
On inquiring of the spirits, it was said
at the spirit possessing Mr. Bradford,
on laying my hand upon his head, tried
: l l: t posission of me , and as soon as
• spirit had left him, another well known
• - hicfnntly took possession ol him. and
; lieu brut to perform a number of antics
round the room, to the no small amusc
nK-at of all present. T. ToWNsrxn.
Ghost as Boats and Kittens,
he Spiritual Era, of July 6, contains
i >;*ori! article detailing some curious
.. i iif.-scauoiis which the editor has wit
. ‘scd. For instance, a table is spread
i *. the usual manner for a meal, by a young
irl who is a highly developed medium.—
oon apparently a living thing about the
size of a kitten, is seen tc be moving about
. .dor the table-cloth, and after a while
as the spectators grow familiar with the
ulicnomeuon, a small delicate haud, seem
ing to belong to a child about four years
bid, is observed to protrude suddenly from
bcueatk the cloth, and is as suddenly with
drawn. After this operation has been
repeated several times, the manifestation
changes, and a good sized foot, witli per
haps a boot upon it, is suddenly thrust out
from beneath the cloth, and is withdrawn
under it again. At other times the fami
ly are in the habit of placing a Bible un
der the table, as they are seated around
it, when the spirits will opcu it at the pas
sage which tlisy desire them to read.
From the Sp>i ritual Tlc£papM.
A Ghost tick’es the b>ttooi of a Man'*
Foot.
?Jansion House, Yovkeps, July 10th,
JS5i Poring a recent sitting of a pri
THE6EORGIA JEFFERSONIAN.
vate circle in your city, (New York) con
sisting of four persons besides myself, the
following demonstration occurred : In
about live minutes after the circle was
formed, I began to feel distinct touches
from some objects resembling a human
hand; these touches were first felt on the
knee, then on the arm, aud at last on the
forehead. ***** After I had
felt a hand laid on my forehead, five or
six times, I suddenly readied forth to see
if I could clutch it. I caught hold of an
object resembling the wrist of a person.
As soon as I had fairly clasped it, 1 was
drawn from roy chair across the room, for
eight or ten feet. Meanwhile I was hold
ing on with all my strength, and the ob
ject which I held on to was making much
effort, apparently, by wringing or twisting
the arm and hand to release itself from
my persist'd* grasp. *****
When it touched my forehead, I could
distinctly feel the fingers, and even the
very nails upon them The hand felt to
be smoother and far less moist than the
human hand; in fact, no Parian marble
could be polished to such perfect smooth
ness. I tdso held a closed fan up as high
as I could reach, and it was taken from me,
though no person was within seve
ral feet of me at the time, and I was fan
ned for nearly a minute, and so were the
others in the circle, each one in turn. My
shoe was taken off my foot and thrown
across the room, and the bottom of my foot
was tickled excessively. My port-monie
was taken from my pocket, the bank notes
removed from it, and laid around on the
heads of the members of the circle. They
were soon replaced from whence they were
taken, and the port monie returned to ine.
Indeed, it was slipped back into the pock
et of ray pants, opposite to the one out of
which it was first removed, it beiug the ,
furthest off from those who were stting
with me in the circle
Ghosts tAkins out in Meeting-Said to
Ie the Devil.
Toronto, March 31, 1554. Jllessrs.
Partridge Sc Bnttan : \\q have several
writing mediums in Toronto-one gentle
man who is partially impressed, one lady
who is a speaking medium, but not fully
developed. There have been some strange
demonstrations. One took place on the
cve of the 16th of March. Several per
sons were sitting around a table, when the
table commenced moving. It was told us
that if we would wait 22 minutes, wo
should have a very different demonstra
tion from any that we had ever witnessed.
At the expiration of the time mentioned,
I observed that the spirits had disappiut
ed us, and that the spirit who had prom t
ised to do something different from other
demonstrations was not here Instantly
there came a voice distinct and clear in
answer to me, “yes I am.” This voice
was so distinct and clear, and uttered in
such a peculiar tone, that it removed my
last doubt in reference to its spirituality.
After this there commenced a course of ;
demonstrations that was truly wonderful. |
One of the ladies were raised up out of
her chair; the chair moved back to the
wall of the room ***** The
greatest trouble here is the fear of public
opinion. The next great obstacle that
we have to conteud with, is the opposition
raised by the ministers of the Gospel, al
leging that it is the devil. Some of the j
first men in this city arc believers, but are!
afraid to come out.
F;om the Spiritual Telegraph.
Ghosts pinch a Man’s Bar.
In the latter part of January some phy
sical tnanile>t itions commenced at the
house of a neighbor whoso family are all
mediums to some extent Tne youngest
member of the family, a boy, ten or twelve
years old, is possessed of very remarka
ble powers in this respect. They had
been accustomed to hear from time to
time, in presence of this lad, electrical
vibrations, which all at once assumed a
new and peculiar character. These
sounds commenced one morning at about
6 o’clock, and were so loud, sonorous and !
deep as to be heard all over the house.— j
An inmate of the house, a gentleman of j
undoubted varacity, wishing to investi- 1
gate tbe origin of these sounds, arose at j
early dawn, and placing himself in bed
with the Iwo mediums, (who were bro
thers —the younger being the lad referred
to,) vrh‘ U the taps were heard even loud
er than nefore. A pile of furniture (com
posed of bedsteads, chairs, &c.,) occupy
ing one corner of the room, near the bed,
commenced to be violently disarranged
and thrown about. The bed clothes
were in part d-awn from the bed; the
medium’s hair was pulled, also that of the
gentleman, several small locks being
found scattered over the bed; two hands
were distinctly felt, very dissimilar in
size and feeling, on their foreheads, hands,
and aims. In shoit they were rather
rougldy bandied, Mr. having his ear
pinched in a manner that left the mark
throughout tbe day. A small, white,
and dimpled hand, evidently of female
origin, was seen simultaneously by both
gent'eu.en, placed before their faces, with
the fingers spread somewhat apart,
through which the gray morning light
from the window was distinctly seeu.—
It was recognized by oue of the gentle
men as identical with the hand of a young
lady A>f his acquaintance who died about
six months go.
Farming in California. -Three years
ngo it was thought by most people that
California would produce nothing but
gold. Now it is known that it is the most
productive country in the world, or can be
made so. The trouble now is that we
produce too much; things are too plenty,
and, as a natural consequence, too cheap.
Potatoes have rotted in the lield because
they would not pay for being carried to
market. Barley was offered yesterday for
sale at a ceut per pound, and no oue stood
ready to buy. There ia now one or two
vessels loading with flour for Australia.
Think of all this, when only two or three
years ago many of these articles were
worth from twenty to fifty cents per pound.
Here is a cliango uot beneficial in all cases
to the producer, but showing clearly that
with proper exertion, California can sus
tain a dense population, and that time
and labor only are required to give us all
the advantages which older sections of the
country passeas —California Chtonicle.
GRIFFIN, (GA.) THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 12, 1854.
A Touching Relic of Pompeii.
In digging out the ruins of Pompeii,
every turn of spade brings up some
relio of ancient life, some witness of
imperial luxury. For far the greater part,
the relics have a merely curious interest;
they belong to archaeology, and find ap
propriate resting places in historical muse
ums.
• But there are some exceptions. Hero,
i for instance, the excavator drops, an un
i invited guest, upon a banquet; there he
, unexpectedly obtrudes himself iuto a tomb,
i In one place he finds a miser cowering on
■ his heap; another shows him bones of
dancing girls and broken instruments of
. music lying on the marble floor. In the
midst of the painted chambers, baths,
; halls, columns, fountains; among the splen
i did evidences of material wealth, lie some
times stumbles on a simple incident, a
touching human story, such as strikes the
imagination and suggests the mournful in
terest of the great disaster, as the sadden
sight of a wounded soldier conjures up
the horrors of the field of battle.
Such, to our mind, is the latest discov
ery of the excavators in this melancholy
field. It is a group of skeletons in the
act of flight, accompanied by a dog
There are three human beings, one of them
a young girl with gold rings and jewels
still on her fingers. The fugitives had a
bag of gold and silver with them, snatch
ed up, no doubt iu haste and darkness.—
But the fiery flood was on their track, and
vain their wealth, their flight—the age of
one, the youth of the other. The burning
lava rolled above them and beyond, and
the faithful dog turned back to share the
fortunes of his mistress, dying at her feet.
Seen by the light of such an incident,
how vividly that night of horrors Icorns
.upon the sense ! Docs not the imagina
tion picture the little group iu their own
house, by the side of their evening foun
tain, languidly chatting over the day’s
events and of the unusual heat ? Does it
not hear with them the troubled swell of
the waters in the bay ? See as they do,
how the night comes down iu sudden
strangeness, how the sky opens over head,
and flames break out, while scoriae, sand
and molten rocks come pouring down ?
What movements, what emotions, what
surprise ! The scene grows darker every
instant; the hollow monotony of the bay
is lifted into yells and shrieks; the air
grows thick aud hot with flames, and at
the mountain’s foot is heard the roll of
the liquid lava. Jewels, household gods,
gold and silver coins, are snatched up on
the instant. No time to say farewell;
darkness in front and lire behind, they
rush into the streets—streets choked with
falling houses and flying citizens. How
find the way through passages which have
no longer outlets ? Confusion, danger,
darkness, uproar, everywhere; the shouts
of parted friends, the agony of mea struck
down by faking columns; fear, madness
and despair unchained; here, penury
clutches gold it cannot keep; there gluttony
feeding on its final meal, and phreqpy
striking iti the dark to forestall death. —
Through all, fancy hears the young girl’s
screams; the fire is on her jewelled hand.
No time for thought, no pause; the flood
rolls on, and wisdom, beauty, age and
youth, with all the stories of their love,
their hopes, their rank, wealth and great
ness, all the once affluent l.fe, arc gone
forever.
When unearthed after many years, the
nameless group has no other importance
to mankind than as it may “serve to point
a moral or adorn a tale. ”
From the Preabytc-iart.
Politics or tlic Gospel.
The question whether onr Congrega
tional brethren are to be instructed by
their pastors in politics, or in the gospel,
is one which we should judge will soon
have to be considered. A loyal sou of
New England, a gentleman and a Chris
tian of the highest standing, whose home
is now in a different section of the coun
try, but who has recently been on a visit
to his native region, said in onr hearing,
within a few days ago, that “he did not
know but that it would be well to send
some gospel preachers to New England,”
that he “had heard Nebraska preached
much more than the gospel ” Testimony
to the same effect, has come from other
sources. An intelligent New England
correspondent, in a late letter to a widely
circulated journal, intimates that unless
there should soon be an end to political
preaching, many of the Congregational
Churches must be divided, as the conserv
ative portions of the congregations arc
determined they will not endure the prev
alent desecration of the pulpit. He also
says, that if the present state of things
continues, many will be driven into the
Episcopal Church, as the most conserva
tive body among them. A friend of ours
was recently present in a Congregational
Church, when the pastor read from the
pulpit a call for a church meeting togeth
er with two sets of resolutions, the one
from a portion of the people protesting
agaiust his new fanglcd progress preach
ing, and the others sustaining him in his
course. It was obvious that a breach had
been made, and that there was ample ma
terials for a warfare. Our brethren will
probably discover, when it is too late, that
it might have been better for them to fol
low the example of Christ and the apos
tles liy preaching the gospel, and letting
polities alone.
The great change impending in the
East —A correspondent of the N. York
Courier & Enquirer, writing from Ilong
Kong on the subject of the war iu China,
remarks:
“Whatever be the issue, civilization and
commerce can scarcely but profit by thfe
result. That it will be momentous, if the
present dynasty falls, we entertain uo
doubt. VVithiu a short space we may
bear of the breaking up of an Empire,
the greatest perhaps, of any that has ex
isted since the fall of Rome, though the
voice of its wars and aggressions is less
familiar to our ears. A vast territory,
hitherto almost inaccessible, will be laid
opeu to modern enterprise and innovation.
Anew spirit, perhaps of freedom, will be
breathed into tho East, and a people num
bering a third of the whole human race,
will, after countless ages of separation, be
at least restored to tho family of men.”
A Love of a Shawl.
We were in the Crystal Palace last
| week; and as we past one of the glassed
; cases in the south-west corner of the lower
i, floor, we were attracted by the earnest ex
’ clamatiou of a lady, (apparently an Eng-
I lish one,) saying to her companion:
I “What a love of a shawl 1”
To her it was so, no doubt; yet we
might have looked at it, or rather towards
it, a dozeu times without noticing its beau
ty.
The lady’s companion was a fine look
ing, dark-skinned gentleman, with a very
black mustache and black hair, covered
with a red cap.
He was a Turkish merchant from Con
stantinople. Our curiosity was awake
now. We had heard of the shawls of
Thibet, made by years of patient hand
labor, in the families of Princes or the no
bility, and that their value was often
counted, like goid or diamonds, by weight
and fineuesj, to the amount of thousands
of dollars, but we had never seen one of
the articles.
“How much,” said the lady, “is it
worth ?”
The Turk gave an uneasy shrug of the
shoulders, and a very dissatisfied curl of
the lip, before he answered.
“I am told madam, that a thing in this
country, has no regular commercial value
—that it is worth what it wifi fetch. I
cannot tell what this is worth. I know
its cost.”
“How much ?”
“Two thousand seven hundred dollars.”
It certainly was a love of a shawl. We
put on our spectacles, but the view thro’
the glass case was unsatisfactory. Fortu
nately just then our friend Brcvoort, Cus
tom House Officer at the Palace, came np
where we were standing, wrapt in—not the
shawl—but—astonishment at what we
saw and heard- The lady aud tho Turk
walked away to look at the four other
shawls of the same character, but not
quite so costly. We addressed the offi
cer :
“Mr. Brevoort, is this shawl in bond?”
“It is.”
“IVhat is it iuvoiced at for duty ?”
“Let me sec —this is the fine one
- Would you like to look at it
closer? It is perfect gem.”
lie unlocked the case, and we actually
haudled a shawl more valuable than some
good farms; more costly than some pretty
good country stores well filled with “dry
goods and groceries.”
‘! his shawl is of the finest fabric and
needle-work, known as “India Cashmere,”
and was made in Thibet by the patient in
dustry of one of the most celebrated ar
tists of India, Hadji Mohammed Hassan,
for a prince of the royal blood. Shawls
of this class are never made in manufacto
ries, but in private families, generally in
the house of the nobility, for their own
use, and are only procurable by special
favor, as some favorite piece of needle
work, made under similar circumstances,
would be in this country.
Mr. Brevoort assured us that nothing
has ever been seen in this country before,
that was even an approach to this in tex
ture and general excellence of perfect
workmanship. A part of the work in the
corners tells its history in Turkish charac
ters—that is, the name of the prince for
whom it was designed, and when and
where made. Its size is over one and a
half by three yards within the border.—
Its value, as the owner said, is what it
will fetch. We hope, instead of sending
it back to Constantinople, as he intends,
after the dose of the exhibition, that he
will prove that value by offering it to the
ladies of New York at auction. We
think we can assure him a thousand dollars
“on speculation” for the first bid. Cer
tainly in a city where opera tickets sell for
two hundred and fifty dollars apiece, such
a shawl as this will find a purchaser at
half price.
The other shawls are very beautiful,
though valued at only about half as much
as “the jewel of Persia.” They have
been but a short time in the exhibition,
and perhaps have never been seen by a
dozen ladies of the city who are able to
wear such costly articles
These shawls arc owned by Y. Chira
gy, the Turkish minister to the World’s
Fair. They were found in a state of pro
gress during his travels in Thibet, and en
gaged to be forwarded to him here for the
purpose of exhibition, as soon as com
pleted, and have only lately arrived. Will
ladies who can afford to wear diamonds of
greater value, allow them to be sent back
to adorn some favorite of the harem,
where they will be handed down as, they
might be here, in perfect condition, thro’
several generations ?
No ladie3, don’t all start at once; only
one can have the best. Only one lady in
America will probably ever have a chance
to'wear‘‘such a love of a shawl ” You
can all have a look at it- If it is sold at
auction we will let you know, and you can
have the pleasure of bidding on it and
hearing “who bids for a two thousand sc
ven hundred shawl ? Going ” It will
soon be gone back to its own country, and
the Turks will say, “American ladies are
very pretty, but they don’t wear pretty
shawls ” —New York Leader,
A Constantinople correspondent says
that the Turkish ladies arc progressing
rapidly, and in proof, remarks that the
veils grow thinner every day. They are
also growing more and more sociable, ac
cording to the same authority, especially
with their eyes. One of them, on a recent
occasion, even went father than this • she
presented her handkerchief and a boquet
to a handsome young ensign of a British
regiment,, who happened to be strolling
about that fashionable resort of the Tur
kish ladies—the Sweet Waters of Europe
at a time when it was crowded by hun
dreds of the fair sex The poor eunuchs,
seut out to guard the damsels are kept in
a continual stew of uneasiness. They dare
uot strike or even complain, if at> English
or French officer goes so far as to smile
or kiss his hand at any fair one committed
to their charge. The old Turks dislike
all this exceedingly, and scowl at the fo
reigners as they pass; but the women are
fond of the attentions paid them, and
seem to have lost all terror of sacks ami
deep sea-batkingra the Bosphorus.
The Odd Fellows.
The Grand Lodge of the United States
assembled in Baltimore on the 4lh uit.—
Much preliminary business was transact
ed. The report of the Grand Sire im
parts “the gladsome tidings that the work
goes hravrly on,” in the following words: ■
“Ihe returns from the various jurisdic- 1
tion and bodies under the jurisdiction of
this Grand Lodge show a healthful con
dition of the Order, both in numerical
strength and in financial prosperity. But
most of all do they exhibit the liberal
banded charity with wihch the distressed
ol our fraternity have been aided. Tho
last annual report exhibited a total of 2,-
941 lodges, a membership of 198,020;
and a revenue <d $1,209,228 90—of
which $491,322 12 were expended for
the relief of the sir-k, the burial of the
dead, the aid of the widowed, and the
i education of orphans.
“The report to be presented at this
communication will s v ow about 3,110
lodges, 204,000 members, $1,375,000
revenue, and $530,000 of expenditures
for the benevolent purposes of our organ
ization. Penetrating deep into the reces”
ses of the north ar.d stretching northward
toward the frozen regions of the Arctic
Circle, as if emulous of the philanthropic
efforts which science is making for the
relief of the bold navigator, Sir John
Franklin and his gallant companions,
from their icy prison, charily, too, is seek
ing in those far off lands to relieve and
comfort suffering humanity. Following
the axe of the hardy pioneer, and bearing
the best principles of civilization within
its bosom, charity seeketh too, in the
westward, the opportunities of proclaim
ing good will towards men. Wafted by
the wings of the wind to the isles of the
south, even there charity raiseth her stand
ard, proclaiming’ to the tempest tossed
mariner rest from his labor aud commu
ni’.y w.th his brethren. Representatives,
from Canada, from the prairies of the
west, from the isles of the Pacific, chari
ty reporteth to you of her deeds.”
Tkc Corn Crop.
There has been for some months past
so much speculation and so many differ
ent opinions advanced in regard to the
present crop, that an article on th s sub
ject would appear stale and unseasonable.
However, opinions which have been pass
ed, were based upon supposition only, all
of it mere guess work. The die is now
cast, the crops of corn are made, and
stand in the fluids to tell their own tale.
We are now satisfied and convinced that
the repoits which have been put in cir
culaiior., were tremendously exeggerated.
We speak candidly and deliberately, and
from our own observation. We have re
cently traveled through a good many
counties in Middle Georgia, and at no
place did we find crops of corn so bad,
not by a third, as has been represented.—
In Alabama, Montgomery, Tallapoosa,
Macon and sever,. 1 otaer contiguous coun
ties, we had a good opportunity of inspect
ing the crops, v having traveled through
them on a lazy mule) and we find that
the fields there, too, give the iie to the
reports which have Lteen put in circula
tion. In our own section there will be
corn made sufficient to supply our de
mands. We cannot speak po.-itively for
any other counties than Whitfield and a
portion of Murray, Gordon, Cass and
Walker. It is true ih >t in these counties
the yield will not be as large as last year,
to take it upon an average, but there are
many fanners who will crib as much
corn as they have done for the last five
years. The drouth has not been general,
aud in no place half so bid as represent
ed.
We have just returned from a short
trip through Artnuchee Valley, by the by,
one of the prettiest valleys in North Geor
gia, and we wete perfectly astonished to
see such splendid fields of corn. Not
here and there a good field, but it is a gen
eral thing throughout that large valley.—
I’nere is no speculation in that we have
said, and many will agree with us that,
notwithstanding the doleful tales that
have been circulated about the failute of
the crops in this sectuo, there wi Ibo a
pletily for all, and to spare.
We h ava had flue showers for the past
week. Georgia Dalton ) Times , 28 th.
“Cut Loose again Mister.” —A friend
of ours, who is a most accomplished sales
man, aud who is kept very busy in one of
the up town dry goods house-*, was com
plimented not long since in a manner and
form as follows, to wit:
lie had a countryman in the store, and
was showing him a very handsome piece
of ladies’ dress goods, not with any hope
of selling it; still, there was some slight
chance, and besides it is necessary—so
our friend avers—to keep constantly in
practice. So he dashed ahead in fiae
style, praised the richness of the pattern,
extolled the texture of the fabric, held ii
up to a favorite light, vouched for its
ultra fashionableness, and, in short, let
loose a torrent of eloquence, in which it
was difficult to distinguish which was
most flattered, the taste of the admiring
rustic, or the quality of the magnificent
“mousseline,” Bumpkin’s eye flished
with gratified pride at the complimentaiy
allusion to himself, and unconcealed as
tonishment at the development ot beauty
ui the goods and fluency in the salesman.
Catctiing our friend by the arm, he
exclaimed, “Mop right here one minute!”
and dnshed out of the store with two or
three rapid bounds. Grosdehap stood, a
little bothered, holding the bolt of goods
across both hands, just as though he hud
fruzeu in the attitude in which he had so
thoroughly impressed the rural gentleman.
Meanwhile, this last mentioned individu
al whisked two bouncing girls out ot a
cariy-all which stood in froul of the store,
aud half pushing, half pulliug them,
brought up iu front of bun of the fluent
longue:
“Gait,! stand there—right there, Sally?
—and now, mister, cut loose again! I just
want the gals to hear you! n
It is almost needless to say, in view of
the peculiarity ot the circumstances, that
our friend was utterly overwhelmed with
his emotions, and lor ooce in his life fail
ed iu his utterance —to the great disap
pointment of both fattier and daughters.
Secrets of Happiness. —A susceptibil
ity to delicate attentions, a fine sense of
the manliness and exquisite tenderness of
manner and thought, constitute in the
minds of its possessors the deepest under
current of life; the felt and treasured but
unseen and inexpressible richness of affec
tion. It is rarely found in the characters
of men, but it out-weighs, when it is, all
grosser qualities There are many who
waste and lose affection by careless, and
often unconscious neglect. It is not a
plant to grow nntended; the breath of
indifference, or rude touch, may destroy
forever its delicate textare. There is a
daily attention to the slight courtesies, of
life, which can alone preserve the first,
freshness of passion. The easy surprises
of pleasure, earnest cheerfulness of as-ent
to slight wishes, the habitual respect to
opinions, the polite abstinence from per
sonal topic iu the company of others, un
wavering attention to his or her comfort,
both abroad and at home, and above all,
the careful preservation of those proper
ties of conversation and manner which
are sacred when before the world, are some
of the secrets of that rare happiness which
age and habit alike fail to impair or di’
minish.
Treasure Discovers at Harlem
While some workmen, in the employ of
George Gibson, contractor, were removing
some earth at Harlem, on land belonging
formally to Samuel Benson, deceased,
they came to a box of Spanish dollars,
which contained some two or three thou
sand, which were deposited there under
the following circumstances: Samuel Ben
sou, great grandfather to the late owner
of the estate, unwilliug to carry so much
money with him to the mountains df Fish
kill, whither he was gone during the days
of the Revolution, deposited the same for
safe-keeping, and planted over it a small
fruit tree, as a mark of the place of de
posit, leaviug his entire farm in the ch:.rge
of his slaves, his wife alone being acquaint
ed with the secret. The tree soon dying,
was removed by a faithful old negro ser
vant named Tom, and the ground worked
as usual. When peace was declared, and
Mr. Benson and family returned to their
farm, greatly to his chagrin he found the
tree removed, and the burial placo lost to
his memory.
The workmen whofjund this deposit,
the other day, tilled their pockets, and
other portions of their clothing, and left
their employer on the spot, and since then
have not been heard of. They were two
Dutchmen aud three Irishmen. Contrac
tor Gibson had left the spot a few minutes
before the discovery.— N. Y. Daily Times.
The Choctaws xot to be Duped. —The
American Board of Missions held their
meeting at Hartford, Connecticut, a few
days ago. Dr. Dwight, of Portland, from
the Committee on Choctaws, Gherokees
and Dakotas, reported that the Choctaw
Council had forbidden the education of
slaves and slave children, under penalties;
aud had also forbidden abolitionists to re
main in the nation, in any of the missions.
The definition of “abolitionist” in the
Choctaw statute book is, “One who teach
es a negro or slave to read, write or sing,
or who sits at meals with them ’’ Dr. Ba
con, at the meetiug of the Board, said this
definition would drive missionaries out of
the nation. The Choctaws had made a
contract with the missionaries to employ
them as teachers in their public schools.
Resolutions were offered, approving the
conduct of the missionaries in retiring from
the schools.
Chancellor Walworth regretted the in
troduction and discussion of the resolu
tions. It will end, he said, the usefu'noss
of the Board at this meeting. Oue of
these samo resolutions nearly rent the
Board asunder some years ago. As to (
foreign interference in Choctaw legislation,
these Indians are perhaps as competent to
draft laws as others. He moved to lay
the reports and resolutions on the table.
The motion was lost. The Board adopt
ed the Report and Resolutions of the com
mittee, refusing to continue connection
with the Choctaw schools, uuder the pre
sent laws, which forbid instructing slaves
or slave children, aud exclude abolitionists
and those spreading fanatical sentiments
among the Choctaw nation.
Russian Politeness. —A Fact.—
About the close of last July a very loqua
cious and corpulent German lady, resi
dent in S. Petersburg, having quarrelled
with her servants, (Russian,) the latter
gave intimation to the Perfecture of Po
lice that the former had spoken of the
Russian government in terms of reproach
and disrespect. The lady received a
summons to appear before the Perfecture,
to whom she repaired accordingly, vow
ing revenge on the whole tribe of servants.
On her arrival at the office, the Prefecture
most politely received her, aud ushering
her into a small box looking apartment,
commenced reading over sundry charges
against her, which he had scarcely finish
ed when down sunk the corpulent lady
through a trap in the treacherous floor,
above which nothing of her portly figure
was to be seen but her head, arms and
crumpled habiliments —and, shocking to
relate, thirty blows from an unseen hand
were, administrated, where, however, they
were unlikely to cause permanent injury
except to the feelings of the sufferer. On
the completion of the sentence the stout
lady’s fperson reappeared again abov
ground almost as suddenly as it had dis
appeared, and the Prefecture, in the most
courteous aud polite manner, bowed, her
out of the office.— Scottish Press .
Ancient.— Some time since, some grains
of wheat which had been taken from au
old Egyptian Sarcophagus at Cairo, were
given to the Agricultural Society of Coru
peigne, by whom they wore sown with the
most surprising results. The stems which
have risen from this seed are as large as a
reed, the leaves are more than an inch in
breadth, and the ears have each one hun
dred grains of very large size, so that se
veral of the original seeds havo multiplied
2,000 fold. It is thought that the seeds
date as far back as Sesostris. The wheal
seed can lie 3,000 years in the tomb,
aud yet arise to beautiful life—but the
atheist will let men li7o only his three
score and tea.
In this mammon worshipping agw, it
is rare to find a man who places his use
fulness to the public, before his interest.
During a late visit to the City of Spindles
we were presented by a professional
friand, to the celebrated Chemist, Dr. J.
C. Ayer, whose name is now perhaps,
more familiar than any other, at the fced
side of sickness, m this country, Know
ing the unprecedented popularity of his
medicines, and the immense sale of them
we had expected to find him a millionaire!
and rolling m wealth. Bat no, we found
him in his laboratory, busy with his la
borers, among his crucibles, alembics,,
and retorts- giving his best personal care
to the compounds, on the virtures of
which, thousands hang for health. We
learned, that notwithstanding his vast
business and prompt returns in cash, the
Doctor is not rich. The reason assigned
is, that the material is costly, and he per
sists m making his preparations so ex*
pensively, that the nett profit is small,—
American Farmer, Phil.
1 he. Jewish Chronicle gives us a bcanti
tul insight into the “voluntary” character
of the Austrian loan, The Vienna cor
respondent of the Ostee-Zeitung contains
the following document >
“Sra : I have noticed with extreme dis
pleasure that the Jews of Pesth, have not
yet given energetic proof of that patriot
ic feeling for which I have given them cre
dit. Whereas in consequence of the most
high appeal of his Imperial Royut Aoo ;-
tolic Majesty, no—l say, not one single
subject—dare now-a-days, evade his du;?
to his sovereign, yon are hereby requested
to summon every Jewish inhabitant of
Pesth before you, when you shall urge up
on him the duty of voluntarily subscribing,
and give me the names of those who
should behave iu a lukewarm manner or
even presume to avoid all participation in
the loan. Expecting to receive this very
day your reply, together with a list of Oil
subscriptions made, as well as of those in
different patriots (schltchUti PalfLteu\
wlio refuse to subscribe, f am, &c.
Baron of Augusz.
‘•lmperial Royal Vice President.
“Buda-Pcsth, July 20, 1854.
“J. A. Boskowitz, Esq Mayor of the
Jewish Community of .Pesth.”
Singular Origin of a Fire.—The
corpse of a German woman, who died on
Wedne-dnj, was laid out upon a bed
yesterday, *t her residence on Water
street. As is the custom, a IMited taper
was placed in the stiffened hind of the
corpse, and it was left for a time without
watchers. Byjsotne unaccountable means
the candle set fire to the bed clothes, anti
the ff urtes had nearly consumed the body
before they were discovered. At last,
those in the house became sensible of the
condition of things, and, rushing in, sei
zed the corpse and dashed it on the floor,
after which they can the burning bed out
of tbe window. The dwelling “was nut
burned, though it came very near bein' -
so. lhosft who saw the charred remains
say that the scerie was shockirg to a de
gree.— Buffalo Express, August 25.
A days ago, says the Nia-ari
Mail, an enormous serpent was discover
ed in the garden of Moffat’s Hotel, Nia
gara. This most truculent looking rep
tile was about twelve feet long, and as
tbior almost as a man’s leg. After sun
dry stratagems he was taken alive by Mr.
Moffat, and 4 safely|bairelied Up. It turn
ed oat to be an anaconda, which had got
away from an exhibition that had been
he.d on the C.iia l.ua abojt a fortnight
previous, since which time his snakeship
had been enjoying himself at iarjje, and
feed. ng luxuriously oh chickens, of which
a considerable number had disappeared
very mysteriously from the’neighbor
hood. ‘ •
A Consistent Pasty.— The Boston
1 lines aptly remarks that the same men,
in the same party, that only two years
ago attempted to rally foreigners to give
the “rich Irish brogue” of their voices
to Gen. Scott, and invoked the “ho
nest German accent” of another clas;
and who invoked the Catholics to vote
against Gen. Pierce, because his State
excluded Catholics from office, and to
vo'e for Scott because his daughter was
in a Nunnery, now lead the proscription
against foreigners.
1 he’wnr in Europe is increasing the
Germanfemigration very largely, the peo
ple of that country choosiug rather to find
peaceful homes in the American wilder
ness, than to run the chance of getting
their brains dashed out for the g!cry of
some imperial master or petty prince uo
better than themselves. For the eight
months commencing with January and
ending with August, the returns shew a
total of arrivals at New York, of Lisi,
54,548; German, 116,400, making with
natives of othert countries, a grand total
of 209,414. Many of these German em
igrants are meri’of capital, who enrich the
State in which they settle with their sa
vings as well as with their labor.
“Punch” on Bonnets. —The last nui*
her of Punch contains a pictorial gues-> at
the distance at which ladies’ bonnets will
be worn from their heads at the next re
move. The tendency has been further and
still further rearward, and the next change
Punch thinks, will carry them off the head
entirely; so he represents the next fashiou
by two ladies in full dress and bare-head
ed, sailing along the streets, with a loot
man walking some ten feet behind, carry
ing their bonnets on a waiter.
Bank op England Notes notes
of ihe Bank of England,’ brfde'f H new pro
cess not long since adopted, ar^signed by
machinery. The engraving of the whole
note is complete. Formerly the bank em
ployed twenty clerks, at a salary each of
J 2500 per annum, Who did nothing efcre
but sign their names to notes. Thrahr
new mode of sigrting, it is supposed, wifi
prevent counlefeiting.
Envy nobody, covet nothing Worldly, go
quietly about your work, and believe that
a man may work at an anvil and be is Re
ligions as if it were his office to staai at
the altar.
No. 41.