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COUACIL PROCEEDINGS.
CALLED MEETING.
Griffin, Oct. 24, 1854.
Present Aid. Johnson, Mayor pro tem.
Aids. Josscy, Brown, Bellamy, Strickland,
and Woodruff. Absent Aids. Cloud and
Hancock
The certificate of the Managers of the
election, held on Saturday, 22d instant,
for Mayor, to fill the vacancy oc casioncd
by the resignation of Col YVYR. Phillips,
was received and ordered to be placed
upon the minutes.
C. w. C. Vi right, Mayor elect, being
present, the oath of office was administer
ed to him by Judge Jason Burr, after
which he took his seat.
The Finance Committee reported in fa
vor of the following accounts, which were
oidercd to be paid:
G. W. Prince, hire of hand 2
months, $36 00
Win. Cline, 6 months advertising, 14 50
\V. F. Waters, wheel barrow, &c. 675
\V. C. Buffington, cleaning wells,
&c. 5 00
V. Fish, 3 months and 1 day hire
of boy on streets, 54 60
J. L. Alexander, feed of mules, 4S 50;
Wesley Leak, coffin, &c. for Eliza
Green, (pauper) 11 00
On motion of Aid. Josscy, ordered that
the Officers be paid their 2nd quarter’s sa
larv
The Treasurer and Marshal made their
reports as follows, which were received
and adopted:
Griffin, Oct. 12, 1854
To the .Mayor and Council of the City of Griffin:
Gentlemen : Below you will find a state
incut of the funds received and paid out
by me since my report of Aug. 12th up to
Ist Oet. 1854, end of second quarter:
To amount on hand Aug. 12,
date of last report, S49S 59
To “ received since that time, 50 00
SS4S 59
CR.
By amount disbursed by order of
Council, street worfc'ftppropri
ation to Savannah, &c. to L>t
Oct. 1554, ‘ 493 72
Leaving a balance of $54 S7
The “following is the sum total of re
ceipts and expenditures of the 2d quarter,
eudiug Oct. Ist, 1854:
To amount on hand commence
ment 2nd quarter, $927 34
To “ received during quarter, lIS 75
$1046 09
CR.
By amount paid out per order of
Council for street work, appro
priationHo
Leaving on-hand as before, £ $54 87
Respectfully, &c.
J. 11. Logan, City Treasurer.
Griffin, Oct. 14, 1854.
To the Mayor and Council
Below please find statement of funds
collected by me since last report to Coun
cil: * „
To amount received from taxes
since Aug. 12, 1554, * $66 50
To amount from Crisp’s Theatre, 15 00
SSI 50
CR.
By Treasurer’s receipts, $65 00
By Marshal’s commis
sion on Crisp’s show r , 7 50—572 50
Leaving on hand, $9 00
W. C. Buffington, Marshal.
. On motion. Council adjourned.
C. W. C. WRIGHT, Mayor.
A true extract from the minutes, this
25th day of Out. 1854
J. H. Lcgan, Clerk.
REGULAR MEETING.
Griffin, Oct. 28, 1854
Present C. W. C. Wright, Mayor, Aids.
Cloud, Hancock, Brown, Strickland, Bel
lamy, Johnson and Woodruff. Absent
Aid. Woodruff.
The minutes of the last regular and call
od meetings were read and confirmed.
The following communication from the
Mayor of Savannah, was read, received,
and ordered to lie placed on the minutes:
May r's Office, City of Savannah, ) ,
October 25, 1854. j
lion. C. 11. JOHNSON,
Mayor pro lem. of Griffin, Ga . 1
Dear Sir: The enclosed preamble and
resolutions were adopted by ihe Mayor ;
and Aldermen of this city in Council as 1
Fumbled, at their meeting of 18th Oct
1854.
I have to request that you will do me
the honor to Iy them before the City
Council of Griffin, Ga. They contain an
inadequate but heartfelt expression of the
thankfulness of this corporation for the
generous benevolence of the City of Grif
fin to the sick and afflicted inhabitants of
this city during the late epidemic.
Very Respectfully,
Your ob’t serv’t,
John E. Ward, Mayor of Savannah.
In Council.
Savannah, 19th Oct. 1854.
I'lvseut John 15. Ward, Mayor, Aldermen Van
H -th, Screven, Walker and Lewis.
Resolutions read and unanimously
adopted: IJy Aid. Screven, seconded by
A! l. Walker.
Whereas by the dispensations of Pro
vidence, this city has been afflicted by an
epidemic of the most fatal character, and
its inhabitants during its prevalence have
been the recipients of the munificence and
benevolence of various Public Uodics,
Charitable Institutions, and Individuals.
lie it therefore resolved, Tiiat tho thanks
of this body are due, and are hereby ten
dered to the Corporate Authorities of our
sister cities for the sympathy they have
manifested in the afflictions of this city,
and for their generous contributions in aid
of its suffering and destitqte inhabitants.
Resolved, That the thanks of this body
arc due, and are hereby tendered to all
lieucvolent and other Associations, and to
Individuals who have iu any manner con*
tributed to the relief of the afflicted in
this city.
Resolved, That our thanks are due, and
are hereby tendered to the resident physi
ejans of this city, for their noble conducl
during the epidemic, and to those tran
sient physicians, who with professional
gallantry and disinterestedness, came to
the relief of the sick, when our devoted
physiciaus were falling in our midst, vic
tims to the faithful discharge of their du
ties.
Resolved , That our thanks are due, and
arc hereby teudered to our devoted cler -*
gymen, who have without exception, per
sued their holy calling, dispensing clar
ity, ministering to the sick and comfort
ing the afflicted
Resolved , That the thanks of this body
are due, and arc hereby tendered to the
Young Men’s Benevolent Association of
this city for their active benevolence, and
distinguished services to the afflicted, and
for the benefits they have thereby, and in
other respects, concerted upon this com
munity.
The Finance Committee reported in fa
vor of the following accounts, which were
Undered to be paid:
F. M. Ison, 2 months hire of ne
gro on streets, S6O 00
S. C. Pritchard, fixing well, &c. 150
C. E. Duke, blocks, benches, &c
on Market house. 7 75
On motion of Aid- Bellamy, it was re
solved, That (he Slst section of the City
Ordinances be altered and amended so as
to allow the City Sexton four dollars for
each interment made by him.
On motion of Aid. Jossey, resolved,
that the Council proceed at once to shrub
or clean out Hill Street to the southern
limits of the city, in conformity with the
petition of many citizens, previously pre
sented to this body—carried.
On motion, the cutting,out of said street
was referred to the street committee, with
the understanding that it shall not cost
more than forty dollars.
On motion of Aid. Strickland, resolved,
That a committee of two be appointed to
revise the market regulations, and report
at the next meeting of Council —Commit-
tee, Strickland and Josscy.
On motion, Council adjourned.
C. W.C. WRIGHT, Mayor
A true extract from the minutes, this
31st day of Oct. 1854.
J. H. Logan, Clerk.
From St. Domingo
The following letter appears m the cor
respondence of the Baltimore American.
We do uot exactly comprehend its import,
for wh.le, at the beginning, the writer
says, “the Dominican Congress lias ad
journed and the member for that district
has returned home with the intelligence
that his colleagues were frightened out of
the treaty,” and consequently that it was
uot concluded, towards the close of the
letter he says, “the Dominican Republic is
willing to annex out and out,” and throws
censure upon the American Commissioner,
because he hesitates, and permits Con
gress to adjourn [the Dominican Con
gress] before he signs the treaty.”
Pan Cur.isTO val (Dominican Republic,))
September I7ih, 1354. )
The Dominican Congress has adjourned,
and the member for this district has re
turned home with the intelligence that his
colleagues were frightened out of the trea
ty almost concluded with the United
States. He says the British Consul, Sir
Robert Thornburg, told the members not
to treat with the United States, or Eng
land and France would set the IJaylien ne
groes upon them—or rather he said the
negro army was forty • thousand strong,
and would hot leave a drop of white blood
upon the Island, if European influence did
not hold them back. Senor also
said the Dominicans had agreed that our
people should be free to hold lands and
mines without losing in any degree their
nationality, and also the Congress had, at
the instance of the American Commis
sioner Gen. Cazneau, placed the mining
laws in a shape to give American work
men and cnpitalists the pick and rule of
the mineral wealth of the Island. All
Hayti is a pile of rich mines. Salt, sul
phur, iron, copper or gold, is found in al
most every hill. What more than such
concessions as these could Gen. Cazneau
ask or expect. He lives entirely among
the Dominicans, and his house is always
so full of officers that ho seems almost a
member of the government himself. He
knows the situation of the country, and he
ought to be content with having negotia
ted and made popular a treaty which gives
to our citizens all the benefits of anew
California without any trouble or expense
to our government
There are some famous caverns near
this place, and also a mountain of copper,
which all strangers come to see, for it is
only twenty miles from St. Domingo City.
The British Consul’s right hand man is
here now, only to look at the caves, as lie
says, but he is very busy telling the old
women who live by picking up gold du3t
after the rains, that the Americans are
coming to make slaves of them, and that
the colored people had better be under
Hayti than the cruel Yankees.
This town has had a taste of the Hay
dens, and are in no liurry to have them
for masters again. They saw the white
women collected and tied together, and
driven off in a long file by a lieido of ne
groes, and no ®ne ever knew their exact
fate. The bravest of them provoked their
savage masters to kill them at once, but
some others were known to drag out their
miserable lives under the whip, like ill
treated slaves, on the country patches of
the negroes. No negro was responsible,
by negro law, for the murder or mal
trcatineut of even a mulatto, much less of
a white person. The cruelties which the
mixed bloods suffered in attempting to
hide and protect some white families of
) San Christoval and Santo Domingo are
still recounted with horror by all colors,
and both whites and blacks arc afraid to
have them come back again.
The British Consul’s plan to hoist the
Hayden flag will not work if the Ameri
can Cabinet does its duty, and recognizes
the Dominican Republic. But what will
it say to the fair-seeming professions of
friendship England is making? Or will it
shut its eyes and refuse to see this impu
dent effrot to negroizc eastern Hayti? It
has redeemed itself from its African mas
ters by its own efforts, and the United
States ought either to take it by the hand
in good faith, or come out honestly anil
say it is willing to let the negroes take and
keep and barbarize the whole West In
dies.
It is said althrough the Island that
Gen. Cazheau demanded the cession of
the Bay and Peninsula of Samana, but
Benor , of the Dominican Senate,
tells me that this is untrue; and the re
port originated in the circumstance of the
frigate Columbia going round there as
soon as it had landed Gen. Cazneau, the
American Commissioner, without commu
nicating this intention to the authorities,
Couriers were despatched by the local offi
cers with reports that the Columbia -peo
ple were examining the coal and other
.nines, aud said they should plant the A
uiericau flag before they luf t.
The whole country was once offered to
the United States, through the same Gen.
Cazneau, when he was travelling on the
island, and he refused to be the beaver of
the proposition, and discouraged the Do
minicans from making the offer, saying the
United States would rather see them in
dependent and prosperous members of the
great family of American nations. This
idea has got into their heads, aud all tbe
leading Dominicans arc full of the Ameri
can system and Pierce’s inaugural, and
now this gentleman does not seem to stand
up to his own programme.
The Dominican Republic is willing to
annex out and out, or it is willing, upon
being recognized, to give to our citizens
all the benefits of an additional State to
the Union, without any cost or responsi
bility whatever, and yet lie hesieates and
permits Congress to adjourn before he
signs the treaty, although it is one be has
shaped out himself, and is better than any
other I have ever seen for American in
terests.
Land that is worsli S4O or SSO an acre
in Cuba for coffee and shugar, can be had
here for $3, and that in healthy and con
venient situations; and mining lands cqnal
to the best in the world, can be had to
work oil shares on the easiest and most
liberal terms. Our Government and our
Commissioner should not hesitate or refuse
these things to our people.
The Dominican Republic—Suc
cess of Gen. Cazneaw—Slavery
Extension.
St. Domingo City, Sept. 24, 1534.
It is well understood here, not only in
official circles but among tbe public in
general, that Gen. Cazneau, the United
States Commissioner, accredited to this
part of the Island of Hayti, or to. speak
more explicitly, to the Dominican Re
public, has succeeded in securing for the
United States the right of establishing
military and naval depots upon the north
ern coast of the Island.
Such depots are considered essentially
necessary for insuring the requisition of
Cuba aud Porto Rico by force of arms.—
Thi3 being once effected, there is no
doubt that the Dominican territory will
also be colonized and annexed to the
Union as a slave State. The plan I un
derstand to be that Cubi shall be divided
into two States, which with St. Domingo
and Porto R ; co, will form four additional
slave holding States, adding thereby four
more stars to the spangled banner.
I a.n able to state, also, that Gen. Caz
neau owes his success to the shrewd and
insinuating talents of his diplomatic lady,
who accompanies him, hut especially to
lavish bribery among the sable officials
of this African Republic.
Tli? Saadwicli Islands.
The following is she latest newspaper
account, received by way of California, of
the progress of negotiations for the annex
ation of the Sandwich Islands to the Uni
te I States:
“From the Sandwich Islands we have
received full confirmation of the facts,
some time since published, concerning the
AnnexationTrealy. Overtures were origi
nally made to the United States Govern
ment to accept the cession of the islands.
This was thrown out as a feeler. It was
received favorably, and a special messen
ger from Washington lift San Francisco
some months ago on the Flying Dart to
bear the response to Mr. Gregg, our
Commissioner. It was submitted to the
Council, in which body it was approved
by all the members except Prince Alex
ander, the heir apparent, and Paki, a
high chief. The majority, however, de
cided in fayor of annexation , and the trea
ty to that effect was brought over to San
Francisco in the Restless in time to be
dispatched to Washington on the steamer
of August Ist.
Canada.— The Journal of Commerce
thinks the day is not far distant when
England will dissolve her connexion w ith
her American possessions: “The bonds
between Canada and the mother country,
we are told, are becoming every year
quietly and graceful'y more loosened
Her desires to be left to iier own resour
ces are acquiesced in and eagerly second
ed by the British Parliament. The
Montreal Herald, commenting last week
upon the transfer to Europe of the great
er part of the British troops in Canada,
makes the following lemarks, which may
be received as an index of the feelings of
liberal minded Canadians: Sooner or
later tlieir removal must have come about
as the natural result of the gradual sepa
ration taking place between the mother
country and the colony, and of the deter
mination of the former, since she has no
more advantage or control in Canada, to
be at no more expense on her account.—
The colonies must cast .about for anew
phase of existence; they must make their
own laws; have no courts of appeal out
of their own limits; pay their own troops,
if they want any; choose their own Gov
ernors, aud in short, be what our Scotch
acquaintances say of their houses, “self
containing.” It is well these changes
should not come upon us too suddenly;
but come they must, and we ought to
look forward to them earnestly, though
boldly, aud prepare for them beforehand.”
Doestick’s account of the fight be
tween Mose and Joe.— Much pleased
with a bit of fun originating in a jealous
fireman, and- terminatiig in a free fight
Fireman M ose saw Rose, his sweetheart,
with Joe, the hackman; got jealous, pitch
ed into him—fun —thought of Tom Hood,
and went off at half-cock—thus:
Enter Joe with Rose—sees Mose—
Mose beaus Rose—Rose knows those
beaux foes—Joe’s bellicose—so’s Mose
Mose blows Joe’s nose—Joe’s blows pose
Mose—Rose Oh’s—Mose hoes Joe’s rows
—Joe’s blows chose Mosc’s nose—Mose
shows Joe’s nose blows—Joe’s nose grows
rose—Vlose Joe’s nose shows those
blows—Joe goes—Mose crows.
Novel Way of Getting a Living.—
We see it stated, that an old man, living
in Baris, near the Palais Royale, follows
the novel occupation of throwing himself
beneath the wheels of omnibuses, carri
ages, and sometimes a dray or a cart, in
order to get hurt and be paid for it by the
sympathetic passers by, or prosecuting
for his injuries, it is not stated which, lie
has, it is said,received more than two thou
sand pounds, within the past five years
under this process. We think we should
prefer to employ journeymen for this kind
of work.
Till JIMM,
GRIFFIN. NDVEM3BR 2, 1854.
The Cotton Crop.
A good many figures have been called
into requisition, and it begins to be strong
ly suspected by the knowing ones that this
year’s crop will be short, not reaching
more than about 2,800,000 bales. The
market has consequently gone up. Eight
and a half is now freely given in [Griffin,
and perhaps by the time this reaches most
of our country readers, a first rate article
may bring nine cents,’ particularly if the
next accounts from abroad should bo fa
vorable.
Tabh aux. Vivauj
Yes, a living picture; very pretty. The
Young Ladies of the Synodical College
want a fence around tliir Alma Mater,
whether to keep themselves in or the Pro
fessors out we have not inquired. They
want the College enclosed, which is quite
laudable in itself; and to raise funds for
that purpose, they got up some interest
ing scenes last Thursday night at the
College, and called them by the above
name. Interesting, as far as ihey were
coucerned; but we hope they did not call
those bearded aud mustached bipeds which
they exhibited in male attire, pictures—
living pictures! Leave them all out next
time girls, they spoil the pictures. Unless
you like them. You done exceedingly
well, and looked exceedingly pretty, but
them others put us to thinking of the lat
ter clause of the 6th verse of the first
chapter of the book of Job. The Young
Ladies, we say, acquitted themselves ex
ceedingly well, and the Young Gentlemen
too, for that matter, but they had no bu
siness there, only to help the darkies move
the chairs and tables.
Tbe Soia’ee.
Professor Briggs aud Pupils gave tlieir
first Musical Soiree for the season, at the
Griffin Collegiate Seminary, on Friday
evening last. There was a crowded at
tendance, though the evening was lower
ing. The professor and’ his pupils dis
coursed some very excellent music, though
we believc[there was not the same pains
taken to perform every piece well. These
Musical Soirees are delightful little gath
erings, and add much to the social enjoy
ment of this place The citizens are
much indebted to Air. Briggs and his pu
pils for the entertainment, and in the
name of the audience, cap in hand, we
make our “saiani” for the treat.
Another large Potato.
We havo been presented with another
large Sweet Potato, from the garden of
Capt. Doc. Wc believe it is of the sdc
cies called “negro foot.” but it is as long
as two negro feet wearing fourteens. It
is as thick as a full sized Spanish potato,
and more than two feet long.
Them Treats.
We see the Atlanta Intelligencer is al
ready hunaaing over some one’s turtle
soup in that city, and, as the season is
fast approaching for oysters, and fish, and
ham aud eggs, and the like, we awfully
fear our turn will come shortly. We want
to take time by the forelock, and apprize
our kind friends that wc wish to be excu
sed from all restaurat treats, night sup
pers and the like Do not ask us, if you
please. We have a most excellent board
ing house, where we fare sumptuously ev
ery day, (we hope we will not meet the
fate of Dives for it) and do not stand in
the least need of any extra feeding.—
When we go abroad and taste a slice of
ham, or a cup of tea, with a friend, and i
his family, or his guests, or both, as the
case may be, that is altogether a differ
ent matter. We go there to enjoy their
society, and not for what they can give us
to cat and drink If those were the only
inducements to go abroad, we should sel
dom leave our boarding house. So too,
with sending us marriage notices for pub
lication. We are always pleased to pub
lish these little notices for our friends,
when properly written out and sent to us,
but to write that we received a “great big
piece of cake” with it, is what we detest.
We can get that every day in the week if
we desire it, and it is much less a rarity to
us than a good Irish potatoe, or a plain
dish of “middling and turnips.” Don’t
send such things, we do not want them.—
It is no doubt kindly meant, but wc will
always take the will for the deed in such
cases.
The Cotton Market.
Our cotemporaries of the Columbus
Times , in their paper qf 28th ult. take the
quotations of Macon, Montgomery, Co
lumbus and New Orleans cotton markets,
and deduce therefrom that “ Columbus
is the best interior cotton market in the
world.” If tlieir quotations are correct,
and there is no “under current” in the
Columbus transactions, we havo nothing
to gainsay their statement. Wc have re
fer rel to the cotton reports of Charleston
and Savannah of the same date, find “no
transactions” in the latter city, but in the
former good middling, the quality of the
cotton carried to Columbus, is quoted at
9 1-4 to 9 3-8. Now comes the ques
tion, how can the merchants of Columbus
afford to give ten cents for cotton, which
is sold in the Charleston market for from
9 1-4 to 9 3-8? Either they give it for
one or two bales out of a load and cut
down the other bales to make a fair ave
rage of the whole, or another batik is to
be broke, or they have some other way by
which the loss is to he made good. Some
body is to be deceived, if not cheated, that
is certain, or every 1 cotton merchant in
Columbus would soon be broke. It will
not do to say they are purchasing on
speculation, for in that case they could go
to any other of the markets above men
tioned and do a much better business.—
We cannot believe that the price above
stated is given for the article in Colum
bus.
It is rather singular too, that on the
very same day and in the same paper in
which cotton in Columbus is quoted edi
torially at 10 cents, and’nothing else, it is
quoted under the’comiuercial head as fol
lows: “Middling Bto 8 1-2; Good Mid
dling 8 3-4 to 9; Middling Fair 9 1-4 to
9 3-4.” But it is ea-y to quote cotton at
any price.
The Weather, Savannah, &s.
There was a fine and copious rain in
this neighborhood on Sunday and Sunday
night last, which appeared to be general.
On Monday the clouds cleared away, with
a warm atmosphere. On Tuesday it be
came cooler, and there is now prevailing a
pure, clastic air, though not cold enough
to produce frost.
The yellow fever is slowly abating in
the cities. There arc but five cases left in
Savannah, and the interments from this dis
ease have not averaged two per day for the
last week. Tn Charleston jvinll Augusta
the disease is also subsiding. It has been
very destructive to life in Montgomery,
but there too it appears tube giving way.
We trust to have a few sharp frosts short
ly, which will put the foul fiend out of Ihe
way.
Business is rapidly reviving in Savan
nah. We take the following paragraph
from a late Savannah Georgian.
Business Brightening. --The presence
of three steamships in port, two of which
arrived yesterday morning, imparted quite
a business hum to our late lifeless streets
The rattling of drays, the whirl of carts,
and the rapid stepping of large numbers
of men having work to do, and in a hur
ry to do it, presented an appearance of
animation not unlike that of mid winter.
We should indeed remark, that business
has been gradually reviving for several
weeks past, and with the commencement
of November, will probably be nearly as
active as ever, especially if in the mean
time that long expected killing frost comes.
There seems no reason to despair of the
prospects and profits of the season upon
which we are now entering. Indeed from
the delay in its commencement, the season
will probably be otic of unusual activity.
Savannah, Oct. 31. It will he seen
by reference to the reports of the Board
of Health, that there have been no deaths
by Yellow Fever for the past three days.
The Kii'jw Ntrth-iags.
It is very clear, notwithstanding the
rapid strides the Know Nothings have
made in this country, that their party is
destined to be short lived. Already there
is a split among them, in both the States
of New York and Pennsylvania. They
split in each state on the Governor’s elec
tion. In the latter, it is said, some thirty
thousand have at once seceded from the
order. In the former it is- most probable
they will fall in the wake of former ex
amples in New York polities, and add two
instead of one to the already numerous
parties of the day, making it their spe
cial business to knock each other’s heads
off. The Logan Gazette (whig,) printed
wc think in Ohio, thus speaks of the fra
ternity:
Backing Out —Not what they suppo
sed it to de Corrupt Concern.—Wo
learn that many persons in this vicinity
have announced ■ their determination to
withdraw from the “Know Nothings.”—
They say the institution is not what they
supposed it to be. One of the most influ
ential of its members has been heard to
say that it is a “corrupt concern.” Multi
tudes who have been seduced into member
ship bv motives of curiosity, by persuasion
of friends, or otherwise without proper
consideration, will soon desert it. For
their own good, for the good o:’ communi
ty, they cannot quit too soon.”
Again the editor says:
“Meetings of the Know Nothings.—
There was a meeting of the Know Noth
ings in this place, every night last week.
They are determined to carry the election
this fall, but they will fail. We have nev
er witnessed, from any cause, such univer
sal and bitter opposition, as the people of
the country, of every party, manifest to
wards this Order. The people of Logan
comity will never consent to have their
elections controlled by men who meet at
midnight, in sentinel guarded rooms, and,
under the sanction of awful and blasphe
mous oaths, conspire to grasp and wield
power more terrible than the autocrat of
Russia.”
Lost Art. —ls we may credit a story
told in the Jesuits’ Letters, the Chinese
have lost a curious secret. They knew
formerly how to paint their porcelain with
fishes and other creatures, in such a man
ner, that these figures never appeared to
the eye till the vases were filled with li
quor. — Exchange.
This art, or at least the productions of
it, have been in existence within the pre
sent century. The figures are brought
out, wo suppose, by the heat of the tea or
coffee. The writer, when a boy, saw a
snuff box of this character. The lid was
opaque when cold, but holding it over a
candle, as it became heated, it developed
a very striking picture.
A Wife killed by her Husband.
We understand that a man by tho
name of Bird Fowler, living about two
miles from this city, shot his own wife on
last Friday night. At the time we are
writing, the unfortunate woman still lives,
but her wound is considered mortal.—
Fowler was arrested, and is now confined
in the county Jail.— Macon Telegraph.
For the Georgia Jeff-’rsoivan. (
Mu. Editor: —Among the original com-j
positions of Mr. Patterson, I find the fol- [
lowing “soliloquy,” which had a peculiar
meaning at the time it was written, and
which some acute persons may even apply
at the present day. For Mr. Patterson
did not write for one day, but “for all
time to come”—and very little of what
he did write will not be applicable now,
and for the future. As Ido not bore you
with vapid original contributions, I trust
that you will the more readily admit into
your columns the genius-tinted effusions of
ray lamented friend.
SoJilatj:;y (not 31 ticlis til’s.)
BY W>l_ PATTERSON.
Thou nrf too like the spirit of the Devi!—down !
T'iy horns so sear my eyeballs, and ihev tail.
Thou other brass hound brow is like the first :
A third is like the former. Mid Poets,
Why do ye show me this ? A fourth ? Start c >ni
tnon sense !
What! will Ihe line strcich out till Ihe crack
Ol doom? A fifth? I’ll see no m >re !
And yet. the sixth appears who hears a peo
Which wdl make many more: and soin : I 3no
That two fold rhymes and treble metre* carrv:
Horrible sight! Aye! now 1 see *1 is true.
For l he ink-spattered printer smiles upon m n ,
And points at them, Git eout
The most remarkable feature in this
wonderful production of unaided genius
consists in the closing apostrophe. Oh !
how applicable to those printers’ bores,
moonstruck visionaries and addle-pated
rhymesters.
My eye has just lit upon another choice
specimen of Mr. Patterson’s poetic genius*
He seldom deigned to employ his pen in
Acrostical Love Ravings; but when he
did, oh ! how incomparable were the
strains swept from the silver strings of his
melodious lyre ! The “music of Nature’
only can compare with them: the soft ca
deuces of the screech owl’s song, gently
borne on the wings of the twilight breeze
from the black gum svyarnp shortly after
“P iseton hi 1 his fi.iry s eeih ruined up,
And hitched them ’nc.it h the We.*!.”
as was beautifully sung by an asylum bard
—the tender symphonies of the s iw-mill’s
stream as it rolls its tiny waves over some
captivated puncheon, or caressingly kisses
the inviting saw-dust bank; the boisterous
merrimeut of the spring branch cascade,
as it leaps laughingly from root to log and
pitches in head long glee into the embra
cing pail; these, and the other multifari
ous melodies of Nature, elsewhere descri
bed, alone his Muse felt in the slightest
possible degree inferior to. But to the
poem.
Acrostic.
BY WILLIAM PATTERSON*:
Pour forth for mr, Apollo, strai ts that •.we I
In melting numbers from toy polished shell !
To wit, the lavs of L >ve. song- of cm >yrcan lire,
Yet melting down to softness from thy lyre.
To her Pd sing, wh >se bright celestial dun m3
Have lured me often Id her angel arm* ;
Kach kindling glance of whose subduing eyes,
Proud as a conq’ror gazing on his pr z-i,
Oft swelled my heart, as to its depths they stile,
Or thrilled with exiaetcs my raptured sou 1 ,
Reveal to her, in this impassioned song,
My deep devotion and affections stro ig !’
Unless you do, Apollo, just as sure as sin,
Some other bard will slipliis verses in,
Fclips ng me, lor like the girls, you see
She will he sure to think he’s a poet no
matter how trashy his verses may be.
Apart from the intrinsic merits of the
poem, its metrical arrangement, rounded
periods, and soft-melting* cadences, the
sentiment embodied in the Acrostic will
surely meet the sympathetic approval of
all newspaper readers, particularly those
—but mayhap some ill-judging, malicious
minded person, may impugn my motives,
and call this an attempted burlesque upon
your many tale nted contributors, instead
of a design to rescue the name of the gift
ed but unfortunate Patterson from umne
nted oblivion.
I will say no more. The pub'ie and
posterity will do him justice. W. F. W.
Escape of David Wright fi*o;n Mus
cogee Jail.
On the night of the 2fth instant, David
Wright, against whom two indictments for
murder are pending in Muscogee Superior
Court, one of which is of a very aggrava
ted character, made his escape from jail,
accompanied by a negro boy, Andy, the
property of John Miller llecd, of Ala
bama.
Wright was confined in one of the upper
rooms of the jail and was secured by a log
chain to the floor. There were two doors
to the room —the inner one an iron gra
ted door secured by three padlocks—-the
outer one a heavy wooden door with sheet
iron cover, fastened also with padlocks. It
is the custom of the Jailor to leave the
outer door unlocked—-why ? we are una
able to tell, as with this door unlocked
there is easy access to the prisoner from
the passage, in which the negro boy Andy
was turned loose, through the grated work
of the inner door. The south window of
tho passage opens on a low shed, easily
reached from the ground, and is secured
by long bars of iron, which a strong man
can easily wrench from their places by a
heavy lever. It will thus be made appa>
rent how the escape of Wright was effect
ed. lie doubtless procured a file and
skeleton keys through the open grated
door of his dungeon from Andy, who got
them, in all probability, through the south
passage window, from some friend on the
shed. With these instruments lie sawed
his shackles asunder, and unlocked his
prison door. lie was now in the passage
and nothing obstructed his escape but the
long single bars of the south passage win
dow. The heavy outer door of Ills cell
was just the instrument now needed for
this purpose. Being unlocked, he and his
coadjutor lifted it from its hinges, thrust
it through the bars of tho window, forced
them aside, slipped through the opening,
got upon the shed and escaped. It was
the easiest thing done in the world, and if
he had not escaped, lie would have been
the veriest dolt on the face of the earth.
We presume the matter will undergo
judicial investigation, and to tho law we
leave the parties concerned in this escape
of a prisoner whose arrest caused the life
of a sworn officer of the law, and who
would have boon hung instantly by an out-’
raged community, if the strongest assu
rances had not been given that in his case,
at least, the requirements of justice should
be satisfied
The Sheriff has offered a reward of
$390 for the apprehension of Wright.—
Columbus Times.
The Planters of Hamilton and Harris
counties recently held a meeting, at which
they passed resolutions insisting that the
rule recently adopted by the cotton ship
pers of Columbus, requiring planters to
pay 25 cents storage on cotton, be abo
lished by the first day of November,
and incase it is not, they have resolved
to sell their cotton in other markets.
Muscogee River Ents.
Gen. James N. Bethune, Commissioner ‘
of the State of Georgia, offers for sale*
at the hour of 11 o’clock, A. M. on the
first Tuesday in December next, before the
court-house door in the city of Columbus,
anti county of Muscogee, the interest
which the State of Georgia has in the
lands on the Chattahoochee River, aud
on the western bank of said stream abovo
the city oi Columbus, and within the li
mits of the county of Muscogee—com
mencing three hundred yards below tlie
foot of “Lover’s Leap,” and selling the
same in parcels or lots extending along
said river and its banks, as follows) to wit:
I’lie first parcel or section to commence
at the beginning point before named, and
extending up said river to a point three
hundred yards below the paper mill at
Rock Island, supposed to be in distance
about one half of a mile. The second
parcel or section extending from the point
last named to the most southern portion
(as seen at the lowest annual sta;e of the
water) of the Islands upon which rest the
abutments of the bridge called the Fac
tory Bridge, a distance supposed to be less
than one-half of a mile. The third par
cel or section extending from the p tint of
termination last mentioned, to the north
ern line ot the fractional lot upon the east
side of said stream, on which is located
what is called the Columbus Factory, a
distance supposed to be nearly one mile
Each of the succeeding parcels or sections
being so much of the length of said river
and its banks as would be embraced with
in the north and south boundary lines of
any and each fractional lot on the east
side of said stream extending west.
H®"* Terms of sale—one-third cash, one
third in otic year, one-third in two years
from the dates of purchases.
Death of Governor Burt.
A telegraphic despatch, rrcHved by
us yesterday, and dated St. L >ui-*, Octo
ber 25 , states that the Hon. F. Butt, re
cenlly appointed Governor of Nebraska,
had died in the Territory on the 18.li
instant.
We sincerely regret to announce this
news. It is but a few weeks ago that
Governor Butt left his home in Pendleton
to assume the duties of the honorable and
responsible office to which he was ap
pointed by President Pierce, in fine health
and spirits. Mr. B. was one who, in
public life, discharged the various duties
which he assumed with ability and fideli
ty; and as a I hi"d Auditor of the Trea.su-.
ry, which office lie res:gted to accept his
recent appointment, h.id won the com
mendation of all who were familiar with
his business habits an 1 qualifications.—
This announcement w 11 be sad news to
fits relatives and family, and to the many
frien.ls who have known him in his na
tive Slate.— Columbia Carolinian.
St. V VERY AND THE UxiVERSA LISTS
The New York Herald says :
“The Fniversalist Convention, which
has been in session at Philadelphia tho
past two days, adjourned yesterday. A
resolution renewing opposition to what
they are. pleased to term the “sin of
American slavery,” and deploring the re
peal of the Missouri compromise, excited
a lively debate, and was finally adopted,
notwithstanding the strenuous exertions
of the delegate from Baltimore, who based
his opposition on the sensible ground of
the impolicy of interfering with individual
affairs of members of the persuasion in
the South, to the detriment of the spread
of their religious principles.”
We understand tha t the members of the
Universalist Church south of Mason and
Dixon’s line have subsequently cut loose
from thetr northern brethren, and formed
a Church South, following the example of
the Methodists aud Baptists.
A Li ver and Stomach’ Complaint— —
IVondeiful Efficacy of Iloilo way's Pills
Th e son of Mr. Thompson, National
School Master, Stokely, had been in
most precarious way for upwards of three
years, and at'last bee line so consumptive
as to he. apparently in a dying state.
Three fistulous sores formed in his chest,,
so that the stomach usually rejected both
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Chemist, Stokely, bears testimony that
by the use of Holloway’s Pills the voutli
is now nearly cured of all his ailments,
his appetite and digestion being g >od,
besides rapidly regaining strength and
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extraordinary?
Carlyle. Friend Ayer:—ln this age
of quacks, charlatans and mere windy,
gaseous pretenders to heal, who blow at
every street corner, and in the face and
ears of all men, their loud, blaring Jeri
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even cheering to the earnest well wisher
of his race to know there has arrived in
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once more upon something besides mere
Sangrados and Don Mercurial Jalaps,
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Your Cathartic Pills and Cherry Pec
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to millenial Pharmacopoeas, when Sci
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bring out the genuine E.ixir V.tae: for of
a truth there is manifestly enough some
what of that same Lfe Essence in your
subtle vegetable distillations and com
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You realize to us the visions of those
paintulfst, smoke dried Alchymists—
bootless seekers—dreamers among retorts
and crucibles touching the Quintessential
hidden Virtue of- the Universe, which
should antidote distemper, and break for
man the Wheel ofTime
Dyspepsia and Indigestion —These
great scourges of our people cannot be
too well understood, or the means of
averting or curing them too highly ap
preciated. The person who discovers
any means of cure or alleviation, confers
a benefit upon bis fellows, and is deserv
ing of honor. ‘This desirable consumma
tion has been achieved, and not only may
dyspepsia be cured, but it may be pre
vented, by the use of “Hoofland’s Ger
man Bitters,” prepared by Dr. C. M.
Jackson, Philadelphia, which medicine
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mendation by thousands who have tested
its efficacy. It is perfectly innocuous in
its nature, and possesses the valuable pro
perty of improving the health of the ro
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