From tlic New Orleans Picayune.
A Gem of Soullicrn Verse.
We are indebted to Mr. Walter Morton*
of this city, for the following beautiful
tribute to a Southern home, which he
tells us has never before been published :
TO THE “ VIOLET HOME.”
The resident <■ of the Mi; m-s Morton, Coluinbu- •
j: V CAROLINE LEE IIF.NTZ.
Sweet, violet home, the fragrant air
That round thee breathes, proclaims
The flowers that own thy guardian care.
And the white cott*igc names.
Kiel) is the violet’s breath of balm,
And fair its purple bloom;
But there’s another, dearer charm,
In this sweet ‘-Violet Home.”
1 love thy graceful winding chain
Os mingling flowers and shell s,
But more 1 love tlie gentle twain
That in thy bosom dwells.
Dear sisters! in thy hearts there lives
A sweeter, fairer bloom,
Than decks the violet’s velvet leaves,
Or gives its deep perfume.
What though the willow’s* bough no more
Weeps o’er the violet’s bed,
May this loved blossom ne’er deplore
Its lowly honors shed.
Ne er may the blighting wind and storm ‘
The violet home impair,
, But may the richest sunbeams warm
Anti beam in blessings there.
* A beautiful weeping willow waved in front
of the cottage, but was destroyed by a gale.
A BUMKEB NIGHT.
The summer night, her classic snood
All flecked with ebon curls,
And golden stars—a lire-fly brood—
Her chalice filled with pearls,
Came up the East all silently,
Anti shut tin* glowing gate,
When sat the sun so goldenly
Arrayed in robes of state!
(Slit- huflg her sable curtains down,
All crossed vvitb silver bars,
She drew them softly through the town,
And hushed its daily jays.
1 saw the summer lightning fling
His colors through the West;
I heard the dreamy beetle sing
His evening song of rest.
I saw the chariot wheels of Mars
Gleam through the distant 1 >1 no.
Ami /hen a flash qf silvery cars,
• Like the wiiite gleam of dew,
Came gliding o’er the airy track
< if moonlight, pale as dreams;
I heard an echo heating back
Like the quick pulse of streams.
I saw the waning harvest moon,
Bale like a fading crown,
Dropping its jewels far too soon,
All through the quiet town.
Soft, dreamy clouds, like crystal cups,
Sailed through the ambient air,
Flinging the odorous etlier drops
All o'er the night's dark hair.
THE TWO^CBADLES.
“ Won’t you make my doll a cradle’/”
Said a little girl of six ;
“My cousin Tommy made me one,
But that is out of fix,
And 1 want to have a nice one.
Made of little willow sticks.”
No mechanic's heart e’er fluttered
With a more exultant throb,
Than mine did at this order;
And time can never rob
My heart of its strange ecstacy,
On taking homo the job.
That “cousin Tom ” —I know not why—
L never could abide;
J felt a strange uneasiness
To see him by her side;
And to win her undivided smiles
Unremittingly I tried. ■
Since then a dozen flowery Springs,
In Time’s unceasing roll,
Have laid their hand on Mary’s brow—■
Their impress on her soul;
And I’ve another cradle made, •
But ’tis not for her doll.
J cannot toll you how it was—
I’m sure I never thought,
When but a boy of ten years old
That first rude job I wrought,
That wo should need another one,
But so it has turned out.
Os the two cradles I and she
Have oftentimes conversed,
And she declares the last one made
Is clumsiest and worst,
But l believe she likes it better
Than she did the first.
The Secret History of the Peace.
M. Gaillardet, the Paris correspondent
of the N. Y. “ Courricr des Elats Unis,”
and one of the best informed of the wri
ters for the American press, ascribes the
recent peace, among other things, to a se
rious misunderstanding between Napo
leon and Victor Emanuel. The latter felt
offended because his personal gallantry
and that of his army at the battle of Pa
lestro were not noticed in Napoloon’s Or
der of Ihe Day. His anger was so great,
that at the battle of Magenta, ho delayed
to occupy the position assigned to him,
and left the Imperial Guard to sustain,
for two hours, unprotected, the shock of
tho Austrian army. He nearly lost the
battle by his delay, and the Emperor dil
not hesitato to charge him with it, as he
believed it was done on purpose.
The King of Piedmont became so dis
trustful, that when Napoleon announced
tho hour for entering Milan in triumph,
ho was at the place two hours ahead of
time, fearing that the French Emperor
would make the entry alone. These de
tails came from Victor Emanuel himself,
who told them in conversation with one
of the Directors of the Lombardy Rail
road. .
M. Gaillardet writes also that though
the Milaneso hailed the advent of the
French with enthusiasm, the reception
became colder as they penetrated Lom
bardy. Whcu the Austrians approached
Brescia, after tho battle of Solferino, the
inhabitants replaced the Austrian flags,
which they had kept in reserve. In the
country the peasantry showed no good
will to the French soldiers.
In spite of the talk about the enthusi
asm of the Italian patriots, there were
very few enlistments—except five or six
thousand patriots, mostly exiles, under
Garibaldi. The population did not rise
and take arms, as tho proclamation of
Napoleon invited them to do. On the
other hand tho Lombard troops in the
Austrian army were faithful to their col
ors ; and it was the regiments almost ex
clusively Italian that fought most despe
rately against the French at Marignan.
It was only when vanquished and about
to be crushed they cried Evviva L'ltalia,
in order to get quarter.
While the peasantry cursed the libera
ting army, the shopkeepers and trades of
Piedmont made spoil of its necessities,
charging shameless prices for everything.
Count Cavour was counteracting the
policy of Napoleon, inviting insurrection
everywhere, while the French Emperor
was avowedly repressing it.
Peace was made from a sentiment of
distrust toward the King and Ministry of
Piedmont, and of disgust at the conduct
of the people, who so little appreciated
the sacrifices and devotion of their allies.
The Rev. Dr. McNeill, the editor of tho
North Carolina Presbyterian, has recent
ly been traveling at the North. In one
of his letters we find the following :
“A Start in Business.”—As we stood
one evening on the steps of a Philadelphia
hotel, a ragged little urchin, barefooted,
but with a bright face, accosted us in the
most earnest, undeniable terms, “Mister,
give me a start in business.” It was a
novel request, and wu* presented in such
a droll manner and expectant tone that
we ventured to inquire in what way we
could accommodate him. He evidently
did not intend to pass for a common beg
gar, and was anxious to show that he dis
.dained to be ranked as a street mendi
cant.
“In what business do you wish us to
give you a start ?”
“Oh,” said he, “it is tho newspaper
business that I wish to entirr. Tlease set
me up in the newspaper business!”
Here was a character indeed, and when
we told him that we were trying to “get
a start” in the same business, it increased
his importunity, and we imagined that we
detected in his countenance a look of pity
and sympathy for us.
llis tale was soon told. Ilis method of
getting a “start” was very simple and
easy. “Just give me a quarter of a dol
lar, and I will run down to the Evening
Journal’s office and buy a dozen papers
at two cents apiece, I will sell them for
three cents, come back in the morning,
and return your quarter, and have a
“levy” besides—won’t you give mo a
start in the newspaper business!”
We hope the little fellow has got a’start,
and made a “levy.” It were idle to spec
ulate concerning his future, but Frank
lin s prospect was one day as dark as his,
and the wheel of fortune makes some cu
rious turns.
The steamship Potomac, from New
1 ork, arrived at Savannah on Thursday,
Ilth inst.
Napoleon on 15e Peace of Vlllafranca
The Paris Moniteur, of the —Ofli ult.,
contains tho following:
Yesterday evening the Emperor receiv
ed the great bodies of the State; the Pres
ident of which, M I'rotnpling, and Count
Demorney and M. Borucher, addressed
congratulatory speeches to his Majesty.
The Emperor ilianked them for their de
votion, and then explained the reasons for
his conduct during the great events. lie
said :
Arrived beneath the walls.of Verona,
the struggle was inpvitably about to
change in its nature, as well in a military
as a political aspect. Obliged to attack
the enemy in front, who, entrenched be
hind great fortresses, and protected in
his flank by the neutrality of the sur
rounding territory, and about to begin a
long and barren war, I found myself in
the face of Europe in arms, ready to dis
pute successes or aggravate our revenge.
Nevertheless, the difficulty of the enter
prise would not have shaken my resolu
tion if the means had not been out of pro
portion to the results expected. It was
necessary to crush boldly the obstacles
opposed, and then to accept a conflict on
the Rhine as well as on the Adige. It
was necessary to fortify ourselves openly
with the concurrence of revolution. It
was necessary to go on shedding precious
blood, and at last risk that which a sov
ereign should only stake for the independ
ence of his country.
If'l have stopped, it was neither through
weariness or exhaustion, nor tbtpugh
abandoning the noble cause which I de
sired to serve ; but the interests of France.
I felt great reluctance to put reins upon
the ardor of our soldiers, to retrench from
my programme the territory from the
Mincio to the Adriatic, and to see vanish
from honest hearts noble delusions and
patriotic hopes in order to serve the inde
pendence of Italy. I made war against
the mind of Europe, and as soon as the
destiny of iny country might be endan
gered I made peace. Our efforts and our
sacrifices—have they been merely losses ?
No; we hav#n right to be proud of this
campaign. We have vanquished an army
numerous, brave, and well organized.
Piedmont has ever been delivered from
invasion; her frontiers have been extend
ed to the Mincio; the idea of an Italian
nationality has been admitted by those
who combatted it; all the sovereigns of
the Peninsula comprehend the wants of
salutary reforms. Thus, after giving a
new proof of the military power of
France, the peace concluded will be pro
lific of happy results. The future will
every day reveal additional cause for the
happiness of Italy, the influencetof France
and the tranquility of Europe.
Rcmaikakle Criminal Trial.
A remarkable criminal case was before
the Court of Albemarle county, Va., last
Tuesday, being uu indictment against a
little negro girl, eight years old, for at
tempting, by the most ferocious means,
to murder her mistress. The Charlottes
ville Republican says:
The inhumanity and brutality of the
offence for which tho accused was tried,
and her extreme youth, make this one of
the most remarkable cases to be found in
the annals of criminal jurisprudence.
The charge against her was that, in April
last, she attempted to kill her mistress
(who was confined to her bed from pro
tracted sickness, and was very feeble, and
entirely helpless,) by choking her, drag
ging her out of the bed, and brutally
beating her with the tongs, and burning
her with coals aud hot embers. The
probability is that she would have suc
ceeded in killing Mrs. TANARUS., very soon, had
she not been prevented by the arrival of
the family physician, who found her up
on the floor in a state of*insensibility.
The prisoner, at the time of the com
mission of the deed, was about eight
years and nine months old. The cause
consequently involved the consideration
of the interesting question in regard to
the age at which legal responsibility for
crime commences, or, in other words, at
what age a person is, as the law-writers
.say, doli copax. This question, so far as
we are advised, has not been settled by
the judicial decisions of this country,
tho tendency of the decisions in England
being to make it depend rather on the
intelligence, and the capacity to distin
guish right and wrong, than on the age
of the party accused. Blackstone men
tions two cases as having occurred in
England, in one of which the accused was
nine, and in the other eight years of age,
and in which they were severally con
demned to capital punishment.
Our Court, in view of the irresistible
evidence in the cause, and the enormity
and brutality of the act, felt bound to
convict Judy of the attempt to kill, and
to sentence her to be hung; but, in con
sideration of her tender years, they
recommended her to the clemency of the
Executive.
An English Scandal.
Disgraceful as were the revelations
made in the Sickles’ case of a certain
kind of life in this country, they have
been thrown into the shade by a disgust
ing story just brought before the London
public. Hardly a year ago, Mr. William
Ilervey, a grandson of the late and
nephew of the present Marquis of Bristol,
having for some time resided in this coun
try as an attache of the English Legation
at Washington, went home to Great Bri
tain and married there a person by the
name of Fleming, notorious as a woman
of abandoned character.
A sister of Miss Fleming, ot like repu
tation with herself, had previously mar
ried the Earl of Stamford and Warring
ton, the most dissolute of sporting peers ;
and Miss Fleming had sustained unques
tionable relations with the young Lord
Ribblesdale, a step-son of Lord John
Russell, and a lion, last year, of the
Newport and Saratoga season. Lord Rib
blesdale, 011 breaking off his connections
with this person, had settled upon her an
annuity of £4OO per annum, and this por
tion she brought to Mr. William Ilervey.
But with her dower, whether of dis
honor or of shame, Mrs. Hervey seems
to have been far from satisfied. Her in
timacy with Lord Ribblesdale was re
newed after the return of the nobleman
from America, and has now been made
the ground of an action of divorce by Mr.
Hervey, in which heavy damages have
been awarded against Lord Ribblesdale.
The story is not a pleasant one to think
upon, nor is it by any means characteris
tic of English social life ; but it proves at
least that in some respects that life can
take upon itself hues as revolting as any
which our English cousins were so swift
to find in the case of the “Washington
Tragedy.”—A’. Y. 2\mes.
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New Dodge.
The last dodge adopted by thieves to
replenish their purses, is worthy the
attention of all storekeepers. Two thieves
(a man aud a woman) are passing along
the street, apparently in earnest conver
sation. Suddenly, having arrived in
front of a store door, the man slaps the
woman in the face. She rushes into the
store and begs that “the cowardly vil
lain” may be arrested. The clerks arc
indignant aud run out to catch him. As
soon as they are over the threshold, she
turns her attention to the money drawer,
rifles it and disappears as soon as pos
sible.
Greenwood Cemetery, near New Y'ork
city, was founded in June, 1840, and
from that month up to the 23d ult., G 0,040
bodies took up their residence in the silent
city. Greenwood will, in the end, out
strip New York, and, ere many years,
will count its dead by millions.
♦
Tlie Roll of Honor.
The following are the names and ages
of the Revolutionary soldiers, supposed
to be alive, who are pensioned on the rolls
of the State of Virginia : Wm. Cunning
ham. 95 years ; George Estes, 901; Dan
iel Hicks, Sr., over 97 ; Wm. Oney, 98;
Peter Rife, 97 ; Wm. Stewart, 97; Mat
thew Seay, 96; Henry Willoughby, 109,
Richard Dogwood, a wealthy old bach
elor, who resided near Charlotte, N. C.,
was found dead near his residence on Sun
day last, where he had been murdered.
His head was shockingly crushed, the
murderers having used rails and knots of
wood for the purpose.
Our RAII Road.
We.are glad to see that the track-laying
is going on with commendable speed.
The President is devoted heart and soul
to the enterprise, and in fifteeu or sixteen
months at farthest we expect to be con
nected with the city of Montgomery,
which will place us in connection with all
the great northern and western roads.
The mail then can be taken from New
York, via Washington City, Montgomery
and Pensacola, to New Orleans, in four
days, and to Havana in five and a half.
What a revolution in trade and travel
this will make! Instead of eight or ten
persons arriving at a time, two or three
hundred will come in on the cars almost
daily. It will become the great thorough
fare of travel to New Orleans, Texas,
Mexico, Central America aud the West
Indies; and this is but a mere fraction of
the prosperity in store for us. We shall
then be receiving at least 200,000 bales
of cotton per annum, besides coal enough
from the rich coal beds in Alabama, to
supply not only cur own steam marine,
but the steamers of all Europe that sail
upon the Gulf of Mexico. For here coal
can be delivered on our wharves, as soon
as our rail road is completed, at $5 per
ton, when it cannot be delivered from any
northern port at‘less than $lO. So that
when we take into consideration the
quantity of cotton arid coal, added to the
fact that we have the finest and most
abundant supply of timber and bricks of
any other seaport in the world, it is diffi
cult to conjecture the future greatness of
this Queen City of the South at no very
distant day.— Pensacola Observer.
Narrow Escape.
On Friday evening there was a very
heavy rain, accompanied by a very high
wind, upon the line of the Charlotte Rail
Road. We learn that, at the bridge, it
tore up the cover of the bridge and rolled
it back, both the tin ard the plank, on
the track. It offered such an impedi
ment that the train wpuld have been
thrown off by it and-precipitated into the
river. Fortunately, just before the train
from Columbia arrived at that point, three
negro men, walking across the bridge*
noticed the obstruction and stopped the
train. We learn that the conductor, Mr.
Myers, rewarded them on behalf of the
company, and that Col. Gladden, who
was on the train, proposed to the passen
gers that a purse be raised and presented
to them, which was done. The injury
was soon repaired, and both trains passed
on with only a short detention.
We also learn that the chimney of the
engine of the train going up was struck
when it was a few miles above Columbia.
The iron, being a good conducter, the
electricity was diffused without doing any
injury.— Columbia Carolinian, 7th inst.
*
Stock of Pork.
There is probably, now, the largest
stock of pork held in the sea-board mar
kets ever known in any previous season,
and it must certainly seem strange to
those who honestly believed last winter
that there would be a great scarcity of
the article this summer, where these im
mense supplies come from. The exhibits
for the Ist of August, as regards New
York and New Orleans, stand as follows
for a few years back :
New York. New Orleans.
185 G 49,875 11,6G0
1857 34,407 12,700
1858 38,132 17,487
1859 90,500 34,620
As regards the stocks in the Western
markets, we have no reliable data, but
parties interested put it at 30,000 barrels,
which may be considered within the mark.
The stock of Cut Meats, particularly
Sides, is comparatively small in the West,
not as large by one-tenth as they were
this time last year, perhaps ; but, as re
gards this, nothing can be obtained, be
yond a vague estimate, as it is absolutely
impossible to obtain an accurate report
from holders at any time.— Cin. Price
Current.
The London Mechanics’ Magazine states
that there are verj’ extensive works at
Stepney Green, London, in which great
quantities of artificial leather are manu
factured. In appearance, it resembles
common leather ; and it is only by a very
close scrutiny that the distinction be
tween them can be detected. It is manu
factured in webs 50 yards in length and
41- feet i tt breadth, and is now used for
book-binding, and for several other pur
poses for which tanned calf and sheep
skins are employed with us. It is also
used by saddlers for making harness, and
may be made of any thickness desirable,
and is capable of being stretched or ce
mented. India rubber is the principal
substance of its composition, but there
are other ingredients mixed with it,
whereby its leather qualities are secured.
The method of making it is not given,
and it appears that this is kept secret;
but that such a substance is now manu
tured, sold and used, in large quantities,
is a fact of too great an importance to ‘tie
overlooked.
Later from tlie City of Mexico.
Miramon has issued an order to tax all
men, women or children, living in the
Republic, from one dollar up to five hun
dred. He has also proposed to issue
eighty million dollars of paper money;
it is stated that Miramon and Escandon
agreed upon this measure, and that the
latter subscribed for and bought a num
ber of the bonds to be issued.
A conspiracy was discovered on the
11th ult., headed by Raul Lagartna ; the
plan was to assassinate the Governor of
Mexico and Gen. Corona (chief of Mira
mon’s Cabinet) and then to take posses
sion of the chief executive power. The
project was discovered, and the parties
concerned in it arrested.
The London Times says: The Great
Eastern has been getting on wonderfully
during the last few weeks. The three
iron masts rise one hundred and twenty
two feet above the upper deck, and have
a diameter of three feet six inches for a
bight of seventy feet, when they decrease
gradually to two feet six inches at the
cap. The three wooden masts, which are
also in their places, are not built masts,
but are single “sticks.” The fore and
mizzen masts are one hundred and forty
feet high, and they are thirty-four inches
in diameter at the deck; the jigger mast
is one hundred and twenty-two feet in
Light, and of the same diameter. The
trees which formed these masts
Zealand pines.
Asa sample of the coolness of rail
road conductors, the Harrisburg Patriot
aud Union tells the following tough story :
“One of them having been discharged
from his trust, applied to be reinstated.
‘You were dismissed,’ said the Superin
tendent austerely, ‘for letting your train
come twice into collision.’ ‘The very
reason,’ said Qie other, interrupting him,
‘why I ask to be restored.’ ‘How so?’
‘Why, sir, if I had any doubt before as
to whether two trains can pass each other
on the same track, I am now entirely sat
isfied ; I have tried it twice, sir, and it
c-a-n-’t be done, and I am not likely to
try it again.’ He regained his situation.”
Tax Returns of Upson County.
Number of Polls, 924; number of pro
fessions, 29; free negroes, 2; number
acres of land, 229,47 G ; number of slaves,
4.982; capital in manufactories, $170,-
410; value of land, $1,490,415; town
property, $114,450; slaves, 53,435,147 ;
money and solvent debts, $983,301; mer
chandize, $92,420; furniture, $19,491;
aggregate value of taxable property, $6,-
502,590; average value of slaves, $690.
Upson Pilot.
Affray in Bibb County.
We learn from a private letter received
on yesterday, from Centrevilie, stating
that on Monday last, the day of election,
a difficulty occurred at Six Mile, between
John W. Pratt and Wm. Lindsey, which
resulted in the death of the latter.—
Selma Sentinel.
A visit to Lexington during the past
week satisfied the editor of the Louis
ville Courier “ that the fourth annual
fair of the State Agricultural Society
will be the greatest exhibition of the
kind that has ever been held in the Ohio
Yalley, if not upon the American conti
nent.”
Further by tbe Nova Scotian.
Farther Point, Aug. 7. — The sales
j of Cotton in Liverpool, for three days
were, to speculators 3,000 and exp<#ters
3,000 bales. Middling Orleaus quoted at
7 3-10d. and Middling Uplands at 7d.
Manchester advices were reported fav
orable, and the trade active, at slightly
advanced prices.
j The weather for crops was regarded
favorable. Flour was dull, as holders
demanded an advance. Wheat had ad
vanced 2d. Corn was dull aud easier,
i but quotations were unchanged.
It was rumored-that the Emperor Na
poleon would shortly visit London.
The London News intimates the pro
gramme for an Italian Confederation, but
says tbe plan will not be pressed at pres
j ent.
The French uaval and land forces have
begun to leave Italy.
Count Persigny had arrived at Paris,
bringing assurances that England would
give in, her adherence to a Peace Congress
on the condition of a general and immed
iate disarmament.
It is stated that Count Walewski had
submitted a plan for the confederation of
Italy, which consists of eleven States—
the Presidency of which is given nomi
nally to the Pope, but really to the Kings
of Sardinia and Naples alternately. The
streng places to be garrisoned by the
Federal troops are Goita, Mantua, and
Piacenza. The votes in the Federal Diet
will be distributed as follows: Parma, 1;
Modena, 1; the Pope, 2; Tuscany, 2;
Sardinia, 3; Naples, 3.
Parliament was directing its attention
to the state of the national defences. It
was also stated that France was arming a
a fleet with ritie-cannon.
A fire at Liverpool had destroyed the
North Shore Flour and Rice Mills. The
loss was £OO,OOO sterling.
Austria refuses to meet the Sardinian
representatives in conference.
Napoleon was announced to make his
grand entry into Paris on the 4th of
August.
It was reported that the French army
| had been reduced to 300,000 men, by re
newable furloughs.
The nccouuts from the French vine
; yards was unfavorable. The grapes had
been injured by the heat.
The Moniteur de Flotte says that Den-
I mark bad ceded the island of St. Thomas j
to America.
The Bourse closed flat, at 07 to 90.
Garibaldi had a confidential interview
with Gen. Della Mormora, on the 15th of
July. The former stated that he had an
i army of 12,000 men, and that it was in-
I creasing; also, that he was going to the
! Appenines to gather an army of 50,000,
for the purpose of fighting for the inde
| pendence of Central Italy, under the aus
pices of the State of Modena.
The Pope complains that Victor Eraau
! uel has asked foreign assistance to vindi
! cate his (the Pope’s) rights.
The last Moniteur contains an article i
taking exception to the military naval ex
penditures of England, which caused a j
j decline of one-fourth in the funds.
A Curious Resurrection Case.
The Columbus (Ohio) Fact says:
A curious case occurred last week at
Rome, in Franklin county, Ohio. Mrs.
Peters, wife of a German of that name,
after a short illness was supposed to have
died Her husband made immediate ar
rangements for her funeral, having pro
cured a coffin in this city. On placing
; her body in the coffin, a general perspira
tion was observed throughout tlie skfti,
which was reported to the husband, with
the suggestion that the burial be deferred,
in the hope of re-animation. To this the
husband objected, and had her interred
the same day, (Saturday.)
After the burial services were over,
some relatives of the supposed deceased, I
who reside in this-city, arrived at Romo ;
to attend the funeral, which had already
taken place, and, hearing of the circum
stances, caused the body, which had then j
been four hours in the grave, to be disin
terred, when, to their surprise and joy,
they found signs of life still remaining.
Restoratives being administered, Mrs.
Peters gradually recovered, was taken by
her friends to this city, and is now well.
We are informed that she refuses to again
live with her husband. The circum
stances connected with she affair are
strange indeed, and should undergo in
vestigation.
An American Newspaper In Havana.
The Mobile Register says, we have re
ceived the prospectus of the “Cuban
Messenger,” a weekly journal to be pub
lished in the city of Havana in the Eng
lish language, and to be “devoted to lo
cal, American and European News, com
mercial and shipping interests, and gen
eral intelligence.” Its terms are $5 for
one year, $3 for six months, and $2 for
three months.
We have the pleasure of a personal ac
quaintance with one of the proprietors of
this enterprise, Col. J. W. Bryant,, late of
East Florida. lie has been for many
years an eminent lawyer of that region, j
His reputation as a gentleman of decided i
ability and of great energy, affords an ex-
I cellent assurance of the success of the un
dertaking with which he is connected.
An American newspaper in Cuba will be
an interesting and attractive feature in
the public journalism of the day, and the j
publication of the Cuban Messenger at so
important a commercial point as Havana,
and with which Mobile is in close prox
imity and intimate commercial inter
course, will commend it to the patronage
of our citizens.
The first number of tbe new paper will
be issued in October, next.
Ah Anecdote of Mr. CHoate.
Two or three years ago, during a sea
! son of illness, Mr. Choate was visited by
one of his friends, who urged upon him
the importance of paying more attention !
to his health. “ Sir,” said the visitor,
I “you must go away; if you continue
your professional labors thus you will cer
| tainly undermine your constitution.” Mr.
Choate looked up and with that graveirony
and peculiar twinkle of the eye which
i were so marked and indescribable when
he jested, said, “Sir, the constitution
was destroyed long ago; I am now living
under the by-laws.”
Kentucky Elections.
Louisvilee, Aug. 7. —In Kentucky the
Opposition have elected Congressmen in
the third, sixth, seventh and ninth dis
! tricte—in the fourth district the result is
doubtful—the remaining five districts re
turn Democratic Congressmen.
The Legislature, on joint ballot has a
; Democratic majority of about thirty.
Tbe Democratic majority for State offi
cers ranges from seven to ten thousand.
Louisville, Aug. B.—The official re
turns show a tie vote in the Gth district
of Kentucky.
Tennessee Election.
Nashville, Tenn., Aug. B.—Harris,
the Democratic candidate for Governor of
Tennessee, is elected by G.OOO majority.
I The Opposition elect Congressmen in the
! second, third, fourth, fifth and eighth
districts, and probably in the first; the
Democrats elect in the sixth, seventh and .
tenth. The ninth is doubtful. The Leg
islature is Democratic.
Death of Judge Underwood.
Judge Underwood, a well known mem
ber of the bar in Upper Georgia, and fa
ther of J. W. H. Underwood, candidate
for Congress in the Fifth District, died in
Marietta on Friday last. The Judge has
for several years resided in Atlanta. He
was widely known as well for his high
legal attainments as for his facetious
qualities, and up to the time of his death
kept everybody in a good humor with his
sharp sarcasms and quaint conceits.
Few men possessed finer legal talents,
and without the intense application with
which most men purchase success, he oc
cupied a high position at the bar. —Augus
ta Dispatch.
“Charles, love, won’t you take me out
of town this summer?”
“No, my pet, I can’t afford it—times
are dull; but we will have the water cut
off, the gas stopped, sleep up in the little
back attic, and eat stale peas, and not
gver fresh meat, and that will be a good
j imitation of cockney life in tbe country.’
Remarkable Letter from Governor
Wise—llis sentiments on 3icw York
Politics.
Tlie following singular letter from Gov.
Wise, of Virginia, to a friend in Albany,
Las just been made public, and lias crea
ted quite a sensation among the politi
cians now congregated in that city:
Richmond, July 13, 1850.
Dear Sir: 1 thank you for yours of the
Bth inst. 1 have apprehended all along
that the Tammany Regency would carry
a united delegation from New York to
Charleston. For whom? Douglas, I
know, is confident ; but you may rely on
it that Mr. Buchanan is himself a candi
date Tor re-nomination, and all his pat
ronage and power will be used to disap
point Douglas and all other aspirants.
Our only chance is to organise by dis
tricts, and either whip the enemy or send
two delegations.
If that is done or not done, we must
still rely on a united South. A united
South will depend on a united Virginia,
and I pledge you that she at least, shall
be a unit. Virginia a unit, and persist
ent and firm on a sound platform of pro
tection to all pei sons of popular versus
squatter sovereignty, slie must rally to
her support all the South. The South
cannot adopt Mr. Douglas’ platform. It
is a short cut to nil the ends of Black Re
publicanism. He then will kick up his
heels. If he does or don't, he can’t be
nominated, and the mainargument against
his nomination is that he can’t be elected
if nominated. If he runs as an independent j
candidate, and Sewatd runs, and I am
nominated at Charleston, 1 can beat them
both. Or if squatter sovereignty is a j
plank of the p : atform at Charleston, and
Douglas is nominated, the South will run
an independent candidate on protection
principles, and run the election into the
House. Where, then, would Mr. Douglas
1 be? The lowest candidate on the the
list. If I have the popular strength you
suppose, it will itselt fix the nomination.
Get that, and I am confident of success.
Hon. F. Wood is professedly and really,
I believe a friend, and of course I would, \
in good faith, be glal of his influence,
and would do nothing to impair it, and j
could not justly reject his kind aid ; but ■
! you may rely upon it that I am neither j
completely; norat all, in the hands of Mr ;
| Wood, or any ether man who breathes. ;
1 He has always been friendly to me, and
I am to him, but always on fair and inde- j
pendent terms. There is nothing in our
relations which should keep aloof any
friend of either. He knows as well as
one can tell him, that his main influence
is in the city of New York, and I judge
what you saw of his country influence is
correct. But lam counting all the time*
without New York, and don’t fear the
result. lam depending solely upon open
position of principle, independent of all
cliques, and defying all comers. We will
overwhelm opposition in Virginia, and
her vote will be conservative and national.
At all events, I shall always be glad to
hear from you, and am, yours truly,
HENRY A. wiSE.
-o
Fraud on Shakspearc.
All readers of Shakspeare will recollect
the excitement created by the publication
in 1852 of Mr. John Payne Collier’s edi
tion of Shakspeare, corrected from mar
ginal notes, said to have been found in a
copy of the folio edition of 1G32, purchas
ed by him in 1849. This famous volume
was purchased by the late Duke of Devon
shire. Mr. N. E. S. A. Hamilton, of the
Department of MSS. in the British Mus
eum, writes a long letter to the London
Times, saying that the present Duke has
allowed him to examine the book, and he
has made discoveries that go to show that
the pretended old marginal alterations,
notes and stage directions, are of quite
recejjt date. The water mark of the
leaves pasted inside the cover is a crown
surmounting the letters “G. R.” ( Gear
gius Hex) the Dutch lion within a paling,
with the legend “pro pallia,” showing
that the binding of the book was some
time during the reign of one of the
Georges. He says that there is evidence
to show that the corrections, though in
tended to resemble a hand of” the middle
of the 17th century, could not have been
written on the margins o/ the volume un
til after it was bound, and consequently
not, at the earliest, until towards the
middle of the 18th. He then enters into
quite a minute description of the altera
tions, an examination of which has satis
fied him that they are of modern work.
There is an infinite number of faint pen
cil marks and corrections, in obedience to
which the supposed old collector has made
his emendations. These pencil correc
tions, says Mr. Hamilton, have not even
the pretence of antiquity in character or
spelling, but are written in a bold hand
cfthe present century. lie describes a
number of these instances, and comes to
the conclusion that “the emendations, as
they are called, of this folio copy of Shaks
peare have been made in the margins
within the present century. He promises
to lay the result of his examinations more
fully before the public in another form.—
Richmond Dispatch.
The Cotton Tratle—The Quantity
Exported.
In spite of the war and individual los
ses sustained here and there by the more
timid holders, the cotton year of 1858-9
(ending the Ist of September next) will
prove one of the most prosperous and re
markable in the history of the country.
The crop, estimated at 8,700,000 bales,
is the largest ever grown in the United
States, and estimated at the average of
about SSO per bale, it amounts to the
enormous sum of $185,000,000.
The crop, so far, has been distributed
as follows :
Estimated crop, 3,700,000 bales. Quan
tity exported to July 25 :
Bales. Value.
To Great Britain 1,935,000 $96,750,000
To Franco 424,000 21 200,000
To other foreign ports 537,000 26 850,000
Stock on hand 171,000 8,550.000
Taken by America man
ufacturers 594,000 29,700,000
To be reev'd to Ist Sept. 39,000 1,950,000
Total 3,700,000 $155,000,000
Some su'ppose that the present growing
crop of 1859-’GO may reach four millions
bales, or three hundred thousand in ex
cess of the present crop. If so, and the
civilized world should remain at peace
for a year or two to come, it will all be
consumed at a remunerative price. Some
believe, however, that the present sup
ply of labor devoted to the culture of cot
ton will not be able to carry the yield up
to four million bales,’ and few or none
consider that the growth can be pushed
much, if any, above that amount for
some time to come, without some aug
mentation in it beyond the ordinary rate
of increase.— X. Y. Herald.
U. S. Circuit Court.
The United States Circuit Court, Judge
Nicol presiding, met yesterday morning.
The following bills were presented to
the Grand Jury :
United States vs. Patrick llurke—Re
volt. True bill.
United States vs. George I. Pitts—
Holding 3G African negroes contrary to
statute. No bill. •
United States vs. Charles S. Harrison
—Holding African negroes. No bill.
United States vs. James Yernoy—
Holding and abetting in the holding of
African negroes. No bill.
United States vs. William Mahaffey—
Holding and abetting in the holding of
African negroes. No bill.— Savh. Xeus.
—— -
Happy Retort. .
A Methodist Minister at the West, who
lived on a small salary, was troubled to
get his quarterly installment He at last
told the non-paying trustees that he must
have his money, as his family were suffer
ing for the necessaries of life. “Money, - ’
replied the steward, “you preach for
money ? I thought you preached for the
good of souls.” “Souls?” replied the
Minister, “I can’t eat souls; and if I
could, it would take a thousand likeyouis
to make a meal.”
A man named Prigden, says the Wil
mington Herald, was killed at Snow Hill,
Greene county, N. C., on the 28th ult.,
by another named Kennedy. The jury
returned a verdict of “justifiable homi
cide,” and Kennedy was discharged.
They were fighting about a dog, Prigden
provoking the quarrel.
Tlie Strong Men of Cincinnati.
The papers throughout the country,
since the debut ot the strong “Doctor
in Boston, have been teeming with records
of tlie herculean” strength of different
persons. If these various stories can be
true, tlffc degeneration of our race is not
going on so rapidly as some of our dis
tinguished sous of Hippocrates would have
us believe.
Some of the strongest men that have
lived during the last twenty-five years re
sided in Cincinnati.
FRANK BUFFALO.
First and foremost comes the giant (in
strength) Frank Buffalo, a colored man,
who lived here about tlie time of old Tip.
and Ty. He was a man of medium
height, with powerful shoulders, and his
arms reached, when standing erect, seve
ral inches below his Vnets. This man
once carried a distnnet of twenty-three
feet, a load of 1,590 poands. At anoth
er time, he carried an anchor weighing
710 pounds, from the water’s edge about
100 feet below the Uncle Sam coffee
house, and laid it iu the doorway of the
old Cincinnati Hotel, now the Spencer
House. At another tinn, two men, of
reputed strength, came from the east with
the expressed intention of having “amid”
with Buffalo. Frank being of a peacea
ble disposition, endeavored to avoid the
difficulty, and actually suffered himself
to be knocked down several times before
be would resent his injuries. They had
had their time, and now came his. De
liberately puiling off his coat, he said,
“go way white man. dis darkey can’t
stan’ dat dar treatment any longer, no
how.” Not heeding his warning they
struck him again, whereupon, Frank
“straightened out” on them with his long
arms, and one stroke apiece was enough.
He stretched them both dead at his feet.
Many times in sport, he would go be
hind a wagon, drawn by one or two
horses, catch hold of the back axle, and
brace himself so as to stop the horses.
Many other as surprising feats are rela
ted of him. He died in 1847.
samson kirby.
Another man, whose name will over be
remembered in the annals of “ the StroDg
Men,” was Samson Kirby, a member of
the old Invincible Fire Cos. No. 5. Kirby,
after performing various feats of almost
unheard-of strength, attempted to, and
actually did, lift both hind wheels of the
famous fire engine Fame, which belonged
to the above company. Some idea may
be formed of the* strength of this lift,
from the fact that the engine weighed
over 4,000 pounds.
Dft. RICHAB%GATEWOOD,
better known as “Jawbone Dick, tlie
Herb Doctor,” was as famous as either of
the foregoing for his muscle.
When the workmen were engaged in
building the old Assembly Hall, on the
southeast corner of Walnut and Pearl
streets, Dick carried, in a hod prepared
for the occasion, 150 brick up four lad
ders without stopping, and laid them
down on the roof. Estimating each .brick
at the weight of four pounds, and the hod
at twenty-five pounds, the total weight of
the load was six hundred and twenty-five
pounds. But Dick, as all other “good
darkies,” could not withstand the hand
of time, as he was found dead about a
year since, in bis cabin on “ Millcreek’s
marshy marge.”
EZRA o’IIARA
who was killed at the Empire House, on
Sixth street, was another specimen of the
“half horse and half man some claim
ing for him greater strength than that
possessed by Frank Buffalo.
Someone or two of his feats are worth
relating :
Many times, for a small wager, he
would carry three bundles of shingles up
one, two, or three ladders, as the case
might be. At another time he and Joseph
Lewis, who still resides here, lifted and
carried a few feet a hogshead of sugar
Another one of his common tricks was to
take a barrel of whisky, raise it above his
lieid, and drink out of the bung hole.
He once did this trick with a man sitting
astride the barrel.
JOHN s. POWERS.
Our old and highly respected flour in
spector, John S. Powers, is another model
of bone and muscle. When the “Cincin
nati Grays” were in the zenith of then
popularity, they had their cannon, weigh
ing 1,000 pounds, down at the liver, fir
ing, as a tribute of respect to the memory
of the hero of Tippecanoe, whose remains
were passing on a steamer bound for
North Bend. While there, one of the
wheels of the gun-carriage sank several
inches in the mud, so that the gun could
not be used. The horses could not pull
it out, but Sam Powers easily lifted the
cannon off the carriage, while the others
were engaged in puiling out the wheels.
Cincinnati Gazette.
American Respect for Age.
At present in the United States the
head of our judiciary department is filled
by Judge Taney, a venerable gentleman,
in the eighty-third year of his age. His
eight associates in the court, with one
single exception, are all three score years
and ten, and some of them considerably
exceed that number.
The* commander-in-chief, under the
President, of our regular army, who, in
case of war, would lead Young America
to battle, is Winfield Scott, who must be
considerably over seventy years old, as
be gained distinguished military laurels
in the war of 1812 with Great Britain.
The director of our foreign affairs, un
der the President, and the head of our
Department of State, is the venerable
Lewis Cass, who has attained the age of
seventy seven. The President, Mr. Buch
anan, is full seventy years old, having
for forty years held a most honorable
place among American statesmen.
The colleagues of Gen. Scott, who fill
the highest military positions under him,
are nearly as old as their distinguished
chief. The old maxim is: “Old men for
counsel and young men for war.” None
can doubt that the United States has
fulfilled the first part of his maxim, if
not the second. Those who consult our
political records will find that nearly all
our Presidents and dignitaries, under
the Constitution, have been men well ad
vanced in years. With the exception of
General Pierce, wo have had no Presi
dent under fifty years of age at the time
of his election. The framers of the Con
stitution disqualified any man from being
President who had not attained the age
of thirty-five. Cincinnati Enquirer.
Comparative Longevity.
In the French Revue Encgclopedtque are
some interesting statements on longevity,
and the proportions of deaths to the pop
ulation, in the different countries of Eu
rope. According to the data here pre
sented, the duration and value of human
life varies much between one European
nation and another. The British islands,
and* especially Scotland, appear to be
favorable to the life of man : in a million
of inhabitants, the annual deaths are
somewhat more than eighteen thousand.
Sweden and Norway are also salubrious
climates; there are only two deaths in
that part of Europe for three in the
southern countries. In Denmark and the
greater part of Germany, the proportion
is about the same. Russia and. Poland,
where the mass of the inhabitants maybe
said to bave scarcely the necessaries of
life, ate astonishingly favorable to the
continuation of existence; the population
lives, on an average, half as long again as
the Italians, and exactly twice as long as
the inhabitants of Vienna. The mean
rate of mortality is in Switzerland, in the
provinces of the Austrian empire and in
Spain, in which countries the annual
deaths are about one in every forty.
France, Holland, Delgium and Prussia do
not vary much from the same proportion.
In other parts of Europe, tll% deaths are
one in thirty, and often more in the coun
tries that border on the Mediterranean.
[Kansas Sews.
Denver City, (Kansas) July 29.
There was great excitement created here
by the discovery of rich gold diggings
near the head waters of the Colorado.
At Leavenworth City a Vigilance Com
mittee has been organized, to break up
the gangs of robbers and horse thieves
in the Territory. Two victims were hung,
and sufficient information extorted from
others to disclose all the ramifications of
the lawless gang, and cause them to dis
band.
The Mysterious Piano.
Not long since I was invited to pay a
visit to some friends out of town. Iu the
family was three young ladies, besides
j'ouug children Bring musical, we spent
the greater part id the first evening of my
visit in singing and playing, and, at a
proper hour retired fur the. night, as we
supposed. A- ! vis a grea.t favorite with
all the giils, each one anted to sleep
with me, and, t > effect ilifs. it was decid
ed that, instead ot g<dng to my room, I
should remain in t licit- double-bedded
room. Accordingly, instead of going to
sleep, we lay and talked (as girls otten
do) some hours. Millv touched me on the
arm, in the middle of a most interesting
account I was giving hc-r of tlie opera,
and certain regular attendants there, and
said:
“C , do you hear that?”
“Hear what ? Ido not listen to people
when they are r.ot talking to me ;” natu
rally supposing she referred to Margaret
and Fanny, who were in the other bed.
. “There 1 now, girls, don’t you hear it ?
Someone is playing on the piano.”
“Who can it be ?” said Milly. “Why
did you not lock it, Fanny ; it is your
place to do it.”
‘•Well,” said Fauny, “I did, and the
key is in tlie pocket of my dress.”
This, of course, we would not believe.
So, trembling from head to foot, she got
up, dark as it was, found the dress, with
the key in its pocket. All this, while we
heard the piano, sounding in simple scales
from top to bottom, and rice versa, but
producing the most wonderful quality of
tone, resembling those of a musical box
more than anything else.
We had all heard of spirits, and were
quite sure there were some in the house,
for it. was not probable that any of the
children would be up at that hour of tite
night. So it was decided that we should
hold each other by the hand aud go across
the hall to father’s room. All this time
the scales were being played on the piano,
| as if someone had been ordered “to prac
tice for an hour. We succeeded in awak
ening- Mr. \V., and iu a few minutes he
came out with a light in his hand, when
j we formed a procession after him, with
; chattering teeth, but, withal, eager faces,
! for our curiosity was stronger than our
fear. We entered the parlor ; sure enough
the piano is shut and locked, while the
gamut is being played regularly aud dis
| tinctly. The father asks for the key ; all
the girls scream out at once :
“Don’t open it: it must be spirits.”
But Mr. W. docs not believe in piano-
I playing spirits, and opens the instrument;
j we are all huddled together, and he ex
i claims :
i “Gracious me, it’s a mouse!”
How we laughed, and screamed, and
! looked for the little animal, but it was uo
! use, mousy bad practiced bis lesson and
i gone.
It was easy to account for the evenness
of his playing, as he was too small to skip
a note, and therefore touched every one.
: —Musical World.
I ,
Death not Painful.
Ilealljq according to my observation,
j the mere act of dying & seldom, iu any
sense of the word, a very painful process.
It is true that some persons die in a state
of bodily torture, as iu cases of tetanus ;
that the drunkard, dying of delirium tre
mens, is haunted by terrific visions ; and
that the victim of that most horrible of
all diseases, hydrophobia, in addition to
those peculiar bodily sufferings from
which the disease lias derived its name,
may be in a state of terror from the sup
posed presence of frightful objects, which
j are presented to him < as realities, even to
| the last. But those and some other in
stances which “I might adduce are excep
tions to the geueral rule, which is, that
I both mental and bodily suffering termi
| nates long before the seene is finally
| closed. Then as to the actual fear of
. death ; it seems to me that the Author
of our existence, for the most part, gives
it to us when it is intended that we
should live, and takes it away from us
when it is intended that we should die.
Those who have been long tormented by
bodily pain are generally as anxious to
die as they ever were to live. So it often
is with those whose life has been pro
tracted to an extreme old age, beyond
the usual period of mortality, even when
they labor under no actual disease. It is
not very common for any one to die of
j old age:
“ hike ripe fruit to ilrop
Into his mother’s lap.”
But I have known this to happen; aud
a happy conclusion it has seemed to be of
worldly care3 and joys. It was like fall
ing to sleep, never to wake again in this
state of existence. Some die retaining
all their faculties, and quite aware that
their dissolution is at hand. Others offer
| no signs of recognition of external ob
j jects, so it is impossible for us to form
1 any positive opinion whether they do or
(do not retain their sensibility; and oth
; ers, again, as I bave already stated, who
j appear to be insensible and unconscious,
i when carefully watched, are found not to
! be so in reality ; but they die contented
ly. I have myself never known but two
instances in which, in the act of dying,
j there were manifest indications of the
fear of death. The individuals to whom
I allude were unexpectedly destroyed by
hemorrhage, which, from peculiar cir
| cumstances, which I need not now ex
plain, it was impossible to suppress. The
depressing effects which the gradual loss
of blood produced ou their corporeal sys
tem seemed to influence their minds, and
j they died earnestly imploring that relief
which art was unable to afford. Seneca
might have chosen an easier death than
i that from opening his arteries. —Sir
‘• Benj. Brodic.
*-
Summer Sours.
Physiological research has fully estab
lished the fact that acids promote the
separation of the bile from the blood,
i which i3 then passed from the system,
: thus preventing fevers, the prevailing
! disease of. summer. All fevers are “bil
ious,” that is, the bile is iu the blood.
Whatever is antagonistic to fever is
“cooling.” It is a common saying that
fruits are “cooling,” and also berries of
every description ; it is because the acid
ity which they contain aids iu separating
, the bile from tlie blood; that is, aids in
1 purifying the blood. Hence the great
yearning for greens and lettuce, and sal
ads in the early spring, these being eaten
with vinegar; hence also the taste for
something sour, for lemonades, on an at
i tack of fever. But this being the case,
it is easy to see, that we nullify the good
effects of fruit and berries in proportion
as we eat them with sugar, or even sweet
milk, or cream. If we eat them iu their
natural state, fresh, ripe, perfect, it is
almost impossible to eat too many, to eat
i enough to hurt us, especially if we eat t
them alone, not taking any liquid with
them whatever. Hence also is butter-
I milk or even common sour milk promo
tive of health in summer time. Sweet
milk tends to biliousness iu sedentary
: people, sour milk is antagonistic. The
Greeks and Turks are passionately fond
of sour milk. The sheperde use rennet,
and the milkdealers, to make- it sour the
sooner. Buttermilk acts lute watermel
ons on the system.— JJalCs Journal of
Health.
Parental Government.
Said the mother of John and Charles
Wesley, “The first step to form the mind
of a child is to conquer its will. When
once subdued, then many indalgences*can
be safely granted.” Said the guilty Web
ster, when about to die for the fatal blow
he dealt poor Parkman—not in malice,
but in rage—‘‘ln early childhood, mine
was a quick and off-handed temper,
which was never subdued. I was a petted
and indulged child, and all this is the
end of it. liestraints are necessary for
the young.”
From Washington.
Washington, Aug. G.—The Treasury
receipts for the quarter ending June
30th, excluding trust funds, twenty-three
millions one hundred and twenty-five
thousand, exclusive fourteen and a quar
ter million from customs, aud eight and
a quarter million from Treasury notes.
The expenditures for the same period
were twenty-six millions, including ten
million paid in Treasury note?, and a
million and a half interest on the public
debt and treasury notes,
Tlie IfritlsL West India fßlacli) Reg
iments.
It has receutly come to light that the
British ‘Government has determined to
raise three more black regiments among
the negroes of Jamaica. These troops are
to be clothed in an uniform similar to
that of the French Zouaves. The West
India regular army will (hen consist of
six regiments. The present three have
been in exigence for upwards of hail'a
century. They are all officered by whites,
and some of the more important of the
non-commissioned officers are likewise of
that hue. At first, the rank and file were
Africans, purchased from the slave ships
and drafted into the army. Os course
the finest men of the cargo were invaria
bly selected. In consequence of the abo
lition of the slave trade, great difficulty
was experienced in obtaining Africans,
and of late years native West Indian
blacks have been enlisted. Towards the
end of 1837, nine hundred men. the very
pick of the rural population, were enlist
ed in Jamaica, by Col. Whitfield, of the
Second W. I. Regiment. The Colonel said
he preferred the Jamaicans to the ne
groes of any other colonies. Those of
Demerara and Barbadoes, lie would hard
ly have on any terms. It • is, perhaps,
through tlie repretentations of the Colo
nel that, the Jamaica negroes have re
ceived the preference in the new enlist
ment scheme.
The W. I. Regiments did good service
at the capture of Martinique and Gauda
loupe, the names of which French colo
nied they bear on their respective regi
mental colors. During the Crimean war
the entit4 2d regiment volunteered to
take part in the struggle, and Col. Wliit-
I field, who was in England, proceeded to
Jamaica to embark his command for the
seat of war, but the conclusion of peace
prevented them from crossing bayonets
with the Russians. The bands of all the
regiments, composed entirely of colored
men, are renowned, aud have been
praised by Europeans and Americans,
that of the od regiment in particular,
rauking as crack band in the British
army. Within a few months, the three
existent regiments have been clothed in
tlie Zouave uniform, and are said to have
quite a picturesque appearance. It
would be a curious, but interesting sight
1 to see them tackling the Turcos.— X. Y.
j Express.
Peat of Strength.
Jackson, Miss., Aug. 4, 1859.
1 was yesterday an eye witness to one
of the greatest feats of strength on rec
ord. According to a statement recently
made by some Professor of Gymnastics
before liis audience, iu his lecture, lie said
! that the Belgian Giant, who was said to
1 be the strongest man in the world, could
only lift, at a fair and square lift with his
i hands, 900 pounds. If this be true, 1
yesterday saw Mr. Giant fairly beaten.
Mr. Charles F. Fefry, a locomotive en
gineer on the engine Hercules, of the N.
0., J. & G. N. It. R., lifted, at a fair and
square lift, 1,000 pounds. Mr. Ferry is
just six feet high, and weighs 202 pounds.
I He stood upon a pair of Fairbank’s plat
-1 form scales, and passed a three quarter
inch rope underneatli them, allowing the
j ends to come far enough through to run a
stick through the loops. He then placed
, 1,200 pounds in weights upon the beam
! and stepped upon the scales, taking hold
. of the centre of the stick, and, with ap
parent ease, raised the beam and held it
in that position for nearly thirty seconds,
j until all of the bystanders were perfectly
j satisfied that it was a fair lift. At the
1 suggestion of some person presept, an
other 200 pound weight was placed upou
the beam, and Mr. Ferry took bold again,
‘and I confidently believe that had not the
rope broken he would have raised the
1,200 pounds. Another rope was pro
cured, but lie refused to lift again for
. nothing. Mr. Ferry says that he can, by
the aid of a strap across his shoulders,
! carry and walk twenty or thirty paces
with 1,200 pounds. If all engineers were
’ possessed of such strength, jack-screws
would be rather in the way in case of an
accident, for half a dozen of such men
would lift an ordinary engine or car and
| place it upon the rail, in case it should
i run off. l ours truly.
Constant Reader.
The First of its Kind In the United
States.
Au iron spire is about to be erected on
a church in Pittsburgh. This will be the
first construction of the kind in the Uni
ted States, and it is fitting that it should
be put iu the “Iron City.” This church
(St. Philoniena’s—Catholic) has now a
brick tower 100 feet high, which is to be
carried up 65 feet higher; and upon it
| will be erected a beautiful cast-iron spire,
! 85 feet high, exclusive of the cross that
will crown the apex. The style is to bo
perforated Gothic, of the middle ages. It
will cost about SIO,OOO. There are now,
it is stated, but two church spires in the
world that are made of Iron, viz: at
Vienna and Frankfort-on-the-Main.
Idolatry.
An exchange says that the Chinese
have a temple in San Francisco which
; cost $20,000, aud have imported an idol
from China at a cost of $30,000. It is
the image of a man who figured in China
three hundred years ago, and was agreat
statesman and warrior, as one said, “like
| your Washington.” The only efforts iu
California to Christianise the Chinese, are
by the Methodists at Sacramento. The
law prohibiting Chinamen from coming to
the State is pronounced unconstitutional,
and their number, now sixty thousand, is
rapidly increasing.
Tlie Weather and tlie Crops.
We have had plenty of rain the last two
or three days, too late for some planta
tions, where drought had already done
its work. These are, however, for the
most part, exceptions to the rule, the
season having been generally favorable,
and the crops promising well.— Eufaula
l Spirit.
Slabbing.
A difficulty took place yesterday even
-1 ing on the corner of Monroe and Court
streets, near Zang & Behler’s beer shop,
which resulted in the dangerous (if not
fatal) wounding of au old man named
Wesley Barry (or Barrett) a resident of
Coosa count}’, by J. D. Morley, a non
resident of this city.— Mont. Advr., ‘Jth.
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Still Another Version;
A communication having appeared in
the Columbus Enquirer of the 30th July,
signed, “A Friend of Gen. Hull s Fami
ly,” in which there are palpable misrep
resentations of tlie facts connected with
the “squabble about the negro girl,” of
• which 1 am owner, I feel it to be my duty
to make the following statement: It is
positively false that Gen. Hull ever pur
chased the giri in question, or ever owned
her by any legal title, and to give the
gentleman and his friends an opportunity
to make something out of very small cap
ital. 1 hereby pledge myself not only to
relinquish my claim to the girl Adeline,
but to transfer the whole of the family to
the ownership of Gen. Hull, provided he
will prove to any respectable citizen of
Russell county, Alabama, or, of Colum
bus, Georgia, by legal evidence, that he
has or ever had a bill of sale or other
title to said girl, or will show any receipt
or voucher from me, for any paj’meut
made by him to me, on account of said
girl. Here then is a chance for “A friend
of Gen. Hull’s Family” or the General
himself to make at least $5,000, without
any capital whatever.
To my friends and the public I will say,
for the last time, that the ingratitude of
Gen. Hull for favors bestowed upon him
for several years past, is as base as im
agination can conceive. He came to Co
lumbus, broken down in name and for
tune, and bos for years been sustained by
my bounty, and now he wishes to rob me
of my property, to which he has not a
shadow of title. This I say, publicly,
and am respousible for tlie allegation. I
. will, for the next month, be found at the
Indian Springs, where the “Friend ot
Gen. Hull’s Familv” or any other person
aggrieved by this exposure of meditated
rascality, can have a satisfactory inter
view, in any way which they may select,
for the adjustment of the difficulty.
• p, McLaren.
