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the viper in your path, do you turn with a shud der and fly from it I Or do you not, in your hearts, try to tind excuses, and sometimes call Up that most untrue and ruinous of old adages, * reformed rake makes the best husband.”— Then, how is this evil to he remedied 7 Young ladies, it rests with you—and until you can gain moral courage enough to bravo the ridicule of the world, and treat ilie seducer, at least, as you would the seduced, frown upon his advances, and consider them insults, look upon his very presence as contamination, his acquaintance a degradation—then, and not tiil then, will society he purified —then, and not tiil then, will the evil be abolished. Let the rake know that he has no refuge with us-—that scorn and contempt will be his only welcome, and then we may hope for better tilings— Western Continent. ’ A BELGIAN JOt ItN U-IST’S VIEW i$ OF Till: WAIL We find in the New York Herald the follow, ing article on the Mexican war ami its conse quences, translated from the Belgium Debut .So cial Organe dc la Democrasic; “No matter how the Mexicans may act now, or how much they may boast and display, they are ruined! That nation is already exhausted by the exactions of a military government, and abused by a gang of rapacious and ignorant clcr. g.vmen. The United States have now in their hands the fate..l’ Mexico ; and the friends of civil iiation whole world, ought to desire that the United States will never surrender that fate into the hands of an impious association of inhnks and soldiers. “ Upon this subject, the government of Mr. Polk has not yet taken any resolution; but we see, with a great deal of pleasure, that the news- I {tapers in favor of his administration propose dif ferent plans of direct and indirect occupation of I Mexico, till that important country is made capa- j hie of appreciating liberty. These papers are ‘ of opinion that the expenses of that occupation will be covered by the customs received by the United States from the Mexican ports. None of these papers have even mentioned the idea of having any diplomatic difficulty with other conn- ! trins. They think (and with reason) that the j European cabinets have at present, and will have for the future, more and more domestic embar rassments, which willjbc quite sufficient for them to manage without interfering with the business ! ■of the new world. “One of the firstAnd greatest services which the occupation of MAico by the United States will render to humanity will be the piercing of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, of which Mr. Polk’s government is seriously thinking, intending to begin it this very year. This glorious enterprise, which the friends of Mr. Polk affirm will he lin ished in time to be ascribed as one ol the groat, est remembrances of this magistrate’s administra. tion, will render still more ridiculous, if possible, our monarchical governments of Europe, when they will be compared with the great republican government of the United States. “In tact, for many centuries, Europeans have boon talking about piercing the Isthmus of Suez, which is under their hands ; and all the govern ments united together, or separately, have not yet produced a settled plan for that enterprise, j ■lnin a few years, the French government has projected a canal across the Isthmus of Panama, and have taken possession ol the principal part of the Island of Tahiti, as a depot for obtaining I supplies between Panama and China; but the ] Isthmus of Tehuantepec will be nuibed by Mr. Polk before Louis Philippe and have ! finished reading the reports and survey* of the ’ cxplorators that they have sent to Panama ; and ! then the Sandwich Islands, where the Americans ! have already a port, will serve them as a depot in navigating to China by the occidental road. “ How excellent has been the operation made by Louis Philippe and his minister! They have conquered, with a great deal of difficulty, a king, j doni of some miles, and they possess now a hotel I which will never accommodate a single traveler. “ By expressing their gratitude to the people i of the United States, who take care thus to hind , all the nations ol the world to themselves, the learned men of all countries will confidently hope that that people may never be prevented from accomplishing their great mission.” Sufferings ok California Emigrants.— Horrible Story. — The St. Louis Republican in noticing the arrival in California, of the emi grants from Missouri, under Col. Russell says : About the 24th ot February, five women and two men arrived at Cnpt. Johnson’s, the first house of the California settlement, entirely nak ed, and their feet lrost bitten. They stated that their company had arrived at Truckey’s Lake on the east side of the mountains, and found the snow so deep that they could not travel. Fear ing starvation, sixteen of the strongest, (eleven males and five females,) agreed to start for the settlement on foot. After wandering about a j number of days, bewildered, their provisions gave out. Long hunger made it necessary to cast lots to see who should bo sacrificed, to make food for the rest, but at this time the weak er began to die, which rendered the taking of life unnecessary. As they died the company went into camp and made of the dead bo. ! dies of theircompanions. Nine of the men died and seven were eaten. One of the men was carried to Johnsou’s on the back of an Indian. From this statement, it would seem that the wo. men endured hardships better than the men, as none of them died. The company left behind numbered 60 souls, ten of them men, the rest women and children. They were in camp j about 100 miles from Johnson’s. Revolting as it may seem, it is stated that one of the women j was obliged to eat part of the dead body of her i father and brother, and another saw her hus- I band’s heart cooked! Melancholy End.— Young Semtnes, who some years since shot Professor Davis at the lrginia University, brought his life to an end y his own hand, the morning of the 9th inst. at the house of his brother in Washington, Geor gia. He shot himself with a pistol, the hall cn tering t e left eye and penetrating the brain, and lingered in a state of total insensibility from about 7 o’clock, A. M., (when the family was exited to h.. room by the report of a pistol) an. and hall past I, P. M., of the same day. W hen hi. room was entered, he was found in a chair, jdoced at a table. A pistol was lying across nis Jap, and on the table was an open razor, On the table was aUo found a note, stating, in the form of a certificate, dated July 9th, 1947,’ that his death was occasioned by himself, and wa* brought about either by pistol or razor. Chari. News. Cmocp. —Half a tea.spoonful of Snluratu* in a table.spoonful of Molasses is said to lie a good cure for this dangerous disease—this proportion ,r \ patient five years of age and half the iiuan. ti‘Y for an infant, “ 1 The Women of California.--- I’hc Journal of Commerce is publishing some interesting let ters Irom California respecting the people and their habits. As this country is ours, it is well i to know something of our new fellow-citizens , there. : The writer states that there is no such thing ! in all California as a hired female servant. The ; Indian girls are sometimes brought wild from | the mountains in their iniancy and pressed into i service, hut at the age of twelve or fourteen j the y are sure to run away, i A California woman, though she may be na ked and hungry, will not enter into regular ser ! vice. She thinks it a degradation, and often times will rather sacrifice her virtue than enter into any kind of servitude. Neither are there any tradeswomen in Cali ■ forma* of any class whatever. Most es them are pie tty good seamstresses, hut charge most] unreasonable prices for their labor. They will not mpke a shirt of the coarsest kind under one j dollar]; and then they must he found in needles | and thread. For washing they charge a shill ing for each piece, and some of them make con i side ruble this occupation ; but they | are very The washerwomen must ’ have as many and as rich dresses as the persons i she washes for, or she would feel debased in j her own eyes. i Ecouomy, huwevor, in any class, is the last tiling thought of. j The females, as well as the males, are a very j healthy and robust people, and mostly live to a ] 1 great ago. Their fecundity is extraordinary.— j Those instances are very rare, where a female j does not have a birth within each two years af ter her marriage, and many of them have a birth j every year. The writer, (who is at Monterey,) says : “There are now no loss than three women in this town who have had a birth each year since their marriage; and they have all been married twenty years or more each. I have no doubt, on the whole, that all the women who have been married within the last twenty years in California would average each the birth of a child every fifteen months. “The same cannot he said with regard to the idleness of the females, as may with much truth be said of, the men. The women are al ways occupied in some useful employment, cith er in their huuscs or out of them, and do a great deal more service in their families than the men ; and there are many women in all parts of this country, who actually maintain their husbands and their children by their own per sonal labor ; the husband acting as a mere cy pher in the family, when he does not by all dis honorable means in his power, try to deprive his wife of her hard earned dollar, to carry it to the gambling table or the tavern. This in a great measure is the reason, and has been for years, that many women have sacrificed the connubial bond, which is very rarely the cage where the husband behaves to the wife as all husbands ought to behave.” From 1 lie Augusta Chronicle .V Sentinel. AN ECCENTRIC CASE —roR consultation. Raysville, Ga. July 7, 18-17. Messrs. Editors : At the request of several gentlemen, Lsend you an account of axstrangc and pcculiany ecciwtric physical pheqLmenon, which has occurred in this vicinity in Lincoln county. The primeval disease is one of no sur prise ; wo often meet with it in its most Pro tean forms, but its sequence in this case is a matter of wonder and astonishment to all who have witnessed it, defying every effort at a cor rect diagnosis. The patient is a delicate female, 40 years of age. She is laboring under some disease of the spinal system, attended with an evident spasm of the diaphragm, which affects no other part of the system, her pulse is not at all excited, her mind is not perturbed or foreboding, her stom ach and appendages not diseased, her head free from pain or fullness, her digestion is not im paired. Sho walks about the house, is calm, quiet, and composed, her throat is not alfected in the least, no disease of the glottis, larynx or trachea exists, consequently she has no cough, as her lungs are not affected; but connected with all this apparent freedom from disease, for nine succossivo weeks without recess, save three days, she has been laboring under a loud cackling sonorous sensation , or sounds resem bling the noise made by the male chicken ! The 1 sound is easily distinguished half a mile ; per sons approaching can hear it distinctly that dis tance ; it produces no pain or other unpleasant symptom ; the paroxysm or cackling sounds ap. proximate so close as to prevent her from talk ing or chewing in continuation. She is notwithstanding quite lively, but from the fatigue incident to it, she perspires freely, and recently has been rather constantly confin ed to her bed. At night the “ sounds ” decline some, not sufficient, however, for her to rest in perfect quietude. She then feels some muscu lar debility. With the morning she resumes her usual occupation of “cackling,” and as the day advances she grows more violent with her “ musical tones.” These sounds are produced at inspiration ; as before observed, ehe has no spasm about the throat, and her mind, die. for bid the idea of its being hysteria. The patient ] has been seen and examined, and a concurrence 1 of opinion exptessed by Prs. Collins, Crawford ‘ and Ilanson, of Columbia county ; Drs. Bentley, Dill, Jennings. McLean, Morgany and myself,; of Lincoln, and several others I am informed | have visited the case. The patient has excited the wonder of every one here, and all flock to see her. No physician who has ever seen her, can di vine the causu of the “ sound.” The old ladies o! the vicinity suppose her • witched ’ or • trick ed,’ ami I assure you silver bullets are flying in all directions about now. The case is one of peculiar interest in Neurology, and worthy the attention of the ablest men in medicine ; it would probably stagger the credulity of Marshal Hall, and put at icst his powers of diagnosis. We ask the united opinion of medical men throughout the land, in reference to this strange and singular sound. After a careful search through an extensive library of old and new works, we can find no parallel for it , this opin ion coincides with those who have seen it. We can suspend the “sounds,” hut as yet we have not been able to control them .All who have seen it imagine at the outset, thafthe sound can bo easily suspended ; a single p-ial, however, will he sufficient to convince the most skeptical. Ihe treatment now adopted prot\. isos to ho successful; should it, duo notice shaft be given. In the meantime, we would be glad I [DIMg'MYo to have the opinions of medical gentlemen in extenso upon the case, which will doubtless sub serve the interest of humanity. H. RAMSAY. Burning the Court House in Dooly.— The Albany Courier of the 24th inst. says.— The Superior Court of Dooly county, held its adjourned session last week. The Grand Jury after four days incessant labor in the examina tion of 67 witnesses, returned a True Bill a gainst three of the citizens of that county for ihe burning of the Court House. They have giv en security for their appearance at next regular term of the Court. The individuals indicted are Edward O. Shefleld nnd Young P. Outlaw—She rift - and Deputy. They are bailed in the sum of 53,000 each. Also Henry I’attee is indicted and bail ed in the sum of $2,000. — Jour. <Sp Mess. Paris Morals. —The Paris correspondent of the Boston Atlas gives some insight of the up per morals of the social machinery of the gay metropolis. He states that before the ship bearing Capt. Gliding (the King’s aid-de-camp, detected in cheating at cards.) left the channel, Gen. D surprised the Duke do Nemours in such an equivocal situation, that his paternal feelings could not brook restraint, and be inflic ted several blows, with a cane, upon the future Regent. Tho writer proceeds :—“This account of the aiiair is well known to be true, but I content myself with giving tho initial of the insulted father, a brave old soldier, who visited the Uni ted States shortly after the revolution. The daughter is a majestic looking woman, some thirty years of age. The Duke has left for the South of France, accompanied only by an aid de-camp, the King having refused to receive any explanation from him. Few who have not resided in Paris long enough to look into the ac tual state of society, can have an idea of ihe de plorable state of morals. It is a vortex of pro fligacy, into which the young men, with very few exceptions, are drawn at au early period of life. Asa matter of course, they ere long ex perience the vanity of licentious pleasures, and, wholly disbelieving the beauty of virtue, natur ally change from the debauchee to the calculat ing cynic. Looking in vain into their own dim and clouded hearts for their reflexion of life, from the evil view there presented to their gaze, and live without faith in God and man.” The same writer says:—“Mr. Sheridan, a British attache, much petted at court, died last week, a victim to his dissipated habits ; he al ways ascribed his love of intoxicating drinks to the mint juleps pressed upon him in the United States. His sister, the Hon. Mrs. Norton, watched by his death-bed, in company with Mine. Doche, an actress whose attachment for him was unbounded. The New York Journal of Commerce says ■ that one-fifth of the entire population of N. York ‘ is composed of paupers ! It says: In the calculation, we include only the inn door and out door poor of the city, alms house, j and the beneficiaries of the Society for Melior ating the Condition of the Poor. There arc! besides a largo number in charitable ifo 1, stltutlons. We do not speak of the children j schooled at the public expense, but only of those who are furnished gratuitously with food, clothes, j and fuel. Every five families support a sixth, ! at least a large portion of the winter. The of. feet of these abundant supplies will provide for their wants in tho winter, excites the improvi dent to spend the summer in idle wastefulness. Sucli facts must command the most profound attention of our citizens. The proportion, which is now a fifth, and will soon be a fourth. Who shall say that i( the same system is pursued, it will never be a half ? There is on Blackwall’s Island a hospital, kept at great expense, in fine order, devoted en tirely to the diseases of lewdness, and used al- i most wholly for the benefit of infamous houses. This establishment panders and encourages tho lowest depths ol degradation; and to break it up, would be a more serious blow at the houses which create its business, than any efforts of the Police. Tomato Omelet. —A correspondent of the Madison Miscellany furnishes the following re cipe for making Tomato Omelet, which ho re commends as very fine : “ Take one or two dozen tomatoes, accord ing to the s'ze of the family, scald them so that they can he peeled easily—place them in a ; stew pan over a gentle fire—season with pep. per, sugar, salt, and a tabic.spoonful or two of butter. Let them remain till they are ircll done.: this will take at least an hour and a half.— When done, take three or four ears of corn, having first been woll boiled, and scrape orgrate them into the pan, stirring at the same time.— In a minute or two the eggs will be done, and the dish ready to be. served up. “ I have sometimes added about half au on ion, cut very fine—it adds to the flavor.” American Battles. —The following are the comparative losses of the Rattles of the Revolu tion, arranged according to priority : Brit. loss. Aui. loss. Lexington. April 19, 1775, 273 84 Bunker Hill, June 17, “ 1054 453 Flatbusb, Aug. 12, 1776, 400 200 White Plains, Aug. 26, “ 400 400 Trenton, Dec. 25, “ 1000 9 Princeton, Jan’y. 5, 1777, 400 100 Hubbardstown, Aug. 7, “ 180 800 Bennington, Aug. 15, “ 800 100 i Brandywine, Sept. 11, “ 500 1200 Stillwater, Sept. 17, “ 600 350 Germantown, Oct’r. 4, “ 600 1200 Saratoga, Octr. 17, “ 5753 sur. Red Hook, Oct. 22, “ 500 32 Monmouth, June 25, 1778, 400 130 Rhode Island, Aug. 27, “ 260 211 Briar Creek, Mar. 30, 1779, 13 400 Stony Point, July 15, “ 600 100 Camden, Aug. 16, 1780, 377 610 King’s Mountain, Oct’r. 1, “ 960 96 Cowpen’s, Jan'y. 17,1781, 800 72 Guilford C. H. Mar. 15, “ 523 400 Hobkirk’s Hill, April 25, “ 400 400 Eutaw Springs, Sept. “ 1000 550 Yorktown, Oct’r. 19, “ 7072 sur. - Total, 24,853 9,697 •Tu* World jivst uk Peopled.’—The wife of Mr. William Tinker, a fisherman in New York, presented him, on Thursday, with three little female Tinkers. Mr. Dunn of Detroit, re cently presented her loved and loving lord with three little Dunn*. Mrs. K. F. Cannon, of New Salem, on Tuesday night, presented her. husband with four small Cannons. General Taylor’s Personal Appear ance. —One of the returned volunteers who fought under General Taylor at Buena Vista, j has furnished one of our exchanges with the following graphic and minute sketch of the gen ral making-up of the old hero. It is so well done that a portrait might be painted from reading it. i “ The hero of Buena Vista, around whose | military brow so many chaplets of fame have been thrown, in his personal appearance has many of those striking stamps of nature, which mark the gentleman and the officer. Os an average medium height—being about five feet and nine inches ; he inclines to a heaviness of frame and general well-developed muscular outline with some tendency to corpulency; of square build, now inclines to stoop ; and from the great equestrian exercise the nature of his life has led him necessarily to undergo, his in ferior extremites are somewhat bowed. His j expansive chest shows him capable of undergo ■ ing that vast fatigue through which he has pas j sed amid the hammocks and savananhs of Flor ida, and the still more recent fields of Mex ico. His face is expressive of great determin ation ; yet softened by the kindlier feelings of the soul, as to render the perfect stranger pre 'possessed in his behalf. Ilis head is large, i well developed in the anterior regions, and fAovered with a moderate quantity ot hair, now j tinged by the coloring pencil of time, which he wears parted on one side, and brushed down ! His eyebrows are heavy, and extend over the j optic orbit, the eye gray, full offirc, andexpres j sive when his mental powers are called into ; play, yet reposing as if in pleasant quiet when in ordinary. II is nose is straight, neither parta i king of the true Grecian or Roman order; his lips thin, the upper firm and the lower slightly projecting. The outline of his face is oval, the skin wrinkled and deeply embrowned by the many tropical suns to which he has been ex posed. His manners are frank and social ; and nobody ever left his company, without feeling he had been mingled with a gentleman of the true olden times. Ife at times appears in deep med-.j nation, and is then not always accessible. In his military discipline he is firm, and expects all orders emanating from his office to he rig idly enforced and observed, —treats his men not as helots or slaves, hut exercising only that command which is necessary for the good of tlic# whole. To the younger offiicers under is peculiarly lenient—often treating faults more with a father’s forgiveness than with the judgement of a ruler. InJlls general toilet he does not imitate the Btafn Brummels and band box dandies of the fashionable epoch, but dresses his persqpinn unison with his age and has no great pterlilection for the uni form. In this, however, he is no ways peculiar, for a majority of our regular military men seldom appear in their externals on duty and the sta tions to which Gen’l Taylor has been assigned ; having been in the warm and sunny South, ren | dered the heavy blue cloth undress coat, dis agreeable to the physical feeling. I have : generally seen him in a pair of grey trousers, a dark vest, and cither a brown or speckled frock coat, reaching lower than would suit ihe ■’ starched and prim bucks ot modern civilization. Jle v rears a long blaclo silk neckerchief, the j not -looking as iKhe had been torturing himself to arrange it before a full length mirror. He sometimes wears a white hat resembling in shape those used by our flatboatincn, and a pair oi common soldier shoes, not much pol ished.’ From the N. O. Delta, August 1. Gen. Scott in tlic C’ity of Mexico. j QCAItREt, BSTWKCN SANTA ANNA Sc CANALIZO. j The National issued the following in an Ex tra last evening. It seems strange that this i news should come hy the steamer Massacliu | setts, which arrived here on Thursday last and ! that up to this time, those in official correspon l donee with Gen. Scott should not be apprised !of it. Extraordinary however as it may appear we have every reason to believe from informa tion confidently communicated to ourselves, that it is substantially true—that the main fact ofGcn. Scott’s entrance into the city of.Mexi co, is a fixed fact. A few days, and the state ment will be either confirmed or authoritatively contradicted, till which time our readers must bide with what patience they best may. 1 There is news in the city from the city of Mexico as late as July 17th. It came through by a Mexican courier who came by the way of Or izaba and Alverado to Vera Cruz. Gen. Scott j entered Mexico on the 17th of July. He met with no opposition on his way from Puebla, until he arrived at Penon, about eight miles from the city. Here a slight skirmish ensued between his advance and the Mexicans, when the latter fell back. Tho civil authorities then came out to meet Gen. Scott. Stipulations were entered upon by which the persons and i property of the citizens of Mexico, were to be respected; this accomplished, our army marched quietly into the city of the Montezumas. This important news reached hero in the Massachusetts but has been xvitheld for pur poses that we do not understand. The author, ity upon which we publish it seems to us un undoubtod. The courier that brought this news could cotno from the city of Mexico via Orizaba to Vera Cruz in five days, if the weath er is good, seven under any circumstances.— The Massachusetts left Vera Cruz on the 23d. It will be perceived that this allows seven day-s for the news to reach Vera Cruz by the route we have stated. We know upon the highest authority, that there is a letter now in this city, of the 17th July, from the City of Mexico. The gentleman who gave us the information has a letter of the 15th, in which is mentioned the preparations of families about leaving from the approach of the'* Yankees. Santa Anna and Canalizo had quarreled about the defence of the city. Canalizo did not want the city injured, as there was no hojjfo of successful resistance. He preferred to Inoet our troops in the plain and there decido\tho contest. Santa Anna would not agree to this, so no oppositon was made. \ The entrance of Gen. Scott into Mexico is ft rumor—from the letter of the 15th ice knot\ positively of the families in the city to move on I the approach of Gen. Scott, and of the quarrel between Santa Anna and Canalizo, as to the j defence of the city, and we know that there is a j letter in tho city, of the 17th, from Mexico. The courier that brought through the letter ofthe 17th, brought new* of Gen. Scott's enteiv j ingthe city. We have no doubt of the truth of i the report. ‘ | Revival of the Mubbell Clan.— A slip from the Paulding (Mi*6.) Democrat, with the above heading, says a man named Fry, who set tled about a year since in Newton county, had caused several slaves of Mr. Daniel Sandall, for whom he was doing business, to run away—one 1 of the negroes abducting the son of'Mr. Sandall, a youth about 12. One of the negroes, who has since been apprehended, says they were per suaded off under the belief that they would be taken to a free state and set at liberty. Neither the boy nor the slave that abducted him, have been heard of, and fears are entertained that the child has been murdered. Fry professes to be -a member of the church, and two men, Win, and Geo. Mclntosh, are supposed to be his accom plices. It is thought, also, that they have a con siderable ainouut of counterfeit North and South Carolina money. The trio have been lately fig uring about the Lauderdale Springs. Fry is 22 ! years of age, 5 feet 10 or 11 inches high, dark ] complexion, blue eyes, dark hair. ’ Island of Cuba. —The New York Sun con -1 tains some most extraordinary revelations with regard to the Island of Cuba. The following I ° ° statement will excite surprise : “Cuba by geographical position, of necessity , and right belongs to the U. States, it may and j must be ours. -The moment has arrived to I place it in our hands and underbur flag. &Cuba j is hi the market for sale, and we are authorized by parties eminently able to fulfill what they! propose, to say that if the United States will I otfer the Spanish Government one hundred j millions of dollars, Cuba is ours, and that with i one week’s notice the whole amount will he paid \ over by the inhabitants of Cuba, alone.” MUSCOGEE DEMOCRAT BY L. F. W. ANDREWS. ‘As tittle government ns possible ; that little emanating from and controlled by the People ■, and unijorm in its application to all,” < otmiifnis, 1 „r*4 r gust 5, I!T. To Correspondents.—of Dr. Burdell’s j pamphlet on the Teeth, on in our - f rTn e poetical stanzas of 1 F. A. A.’ lias hanßvmer it enough to entitle it to a place. Anonymous Communications sent us through (fee Post Office will receive no attention. Delinquents. —Those of our subscribers (thank heaven, the number is small.) who having been often dunned and never pay, need not be surprised if they arc suddenly cut on’ from our subscription list, and that without remedy, save a prompt discharge of past dues and an advance for the future. Gen. Scott’s Position. —The news by the last night’s mail is interesting, whether true or not. The New Orleans papers are rather doubtful about the truth of the rumor of General Scott entering the city of Mexico on the 17th of j July, though it has some probability to rest upon. ■ VVe shall know all about it, in a few days. So J get your candles ready, boys, for another grand illumination 1 The Mails. —We continue to receive com plaints from various quarters, of detention of our packets by the way-side. The Taibotton packet never reaches its destination until Mon day, although it is put into the Post Office here on Thursday evening, in time for the mail going east the same night. Whether it is sent or not, we, of course, do not know, but if it is, it should reach its destination next day, if the Post-Master at Pleasant Hill or Bellvieu does his duty. There are also frequent failures to receive our paper in season on the Eufaula and Lumpkin routes, hut the evil is beyond our reach or remedy. The poor privilege of complaining is all that is al lowed us by the sovereigns of the P. O. Depart ment. Randolph. —Judge Wm. Taylor and Dr. James B. Smith, have been nominated by the Democrats of Randolph county, as candidates for . the House of Representatives of the next Legis ilature. I ALABAMA ELECTION. j The following is the official return of the elec j lion on Monday last in the neighboring county of Russel, from which it will be seen that tlie | democrats have been routed “ horse, foot and muleteers.” The whole regular Whig ticket ! has been elected ! 30 >--£5) S’- 3 s 3 £ <==--3"c * o £ o ~ < 2 = it =3 5 a- s S’ “2 n?|2 g- g. vSsbbTS* S 3- * . o 2 : •• ; a 3 j ; ; ; ; ; g ; O prf.cincts. ; : j- : : : : ; : ~ : ? Crawford 58 86 66 79 fift 55 95 75 52 79 -10 118 Girard, 272 83 281 78 262 274 99 78 268 74 355 369 Salem 177 177 177 182 167 173 186 193 195 151 197 370 Wacoochee, 46 64 48 66 46 52 63 66 50 53 102 114 Opelika.... 24 12 21 16 24 23 14 10 22 14 00 37 Smith’s.... 50 32 68 26 71 56 31 30 65 28 76 101 Sand Fort,. 84 105 84101 88 70 112 96 83 96 166 191 Kilgore’s,.. 25 23 22 25 26 20 27 18 26 00 47 48 Siinme’s... 57 44 63 36 60 53 48 40 62 14 77 103 Dime's.... 27 53 29 50 26 21 61 59 29 46 74 79 Total,.. .818 681855 659 830797 73966585257512347566 ___ r . -m The Crop. —The Houston Telegraph of the 19th ult. gives a flattering account of the cotton crop in Texas. The plantations on the Brazos bottom, are doing finely, and are expected to yield a crop far exceeding that of former years. The Galveston News, of the 14th, reports the same from settlements on the Neches and the Trinity. In Louisiana, the worm is making considerable devastation, in somo districts. In Mississippi, the prospects arc better. In Alabama and Geor gia, coin crops splendid, but cotton rather un nfomising; not more than a two-third crop heed De expected, on an average. Quack Advertisements so crowd the col umns of some of the newspapers, that it is as good as a puke or a dose of Glauber to open them. The cheapness too at which the various nostrums of the day are published, not only serve to enrich the charlatans, but to injure the health ; and destroy the lives of thousands. The evil will, j however, eventually correct itsolf, as the news- j paper patronizing public are beginning to tire of i .paying tor such stereotyped editions of disgusting matter. Suicidal. —We are surprised to notice that the ‘Journal and Messenger’ is rather favorable than otherwise to the contemplated Kail.llond from Wilkes county to the Central Rood. It strikes us thut such a road would divert more trade from Macon than it would bring to li. 1 , ~ THE EXECUTION. , As we predicted, in our last paper, an im mense concourse of people assembled on the I South-East Commons of our city, on Friday the 30th inst. to witness the execution of Jones Butler, convicted of the murder of Mary Ann i Coursey. The final scene at the gallows, was one well calculated to satisfy every right-think ing person, that the whole system of capital in flictions, as at present conducted, and designed , as an example to deter men from crime, is a sol : emn mockery of all reason and of all Christian ’ principle, and a gross libel upon the civilization and refinement of the age. Asa mere spectacle of brutal jurisprudence, its chief tendency is to ; harden the human heart and contribute to the gratification of the more revengeful feelings of ’ our nature. We did not witness the closing j scene, but did walk round, previously, through the dense throng, and closely scanned the multi, tude, with a view to discover the prevailing mo -1 tives which brought the people together. There was a mixture of curiosity, levity, and re. ! venge, strongly depicted in that index to the feel j ings of the human heart—the countenar.ee—of I that vast assemblage. The latter feeling pre ! vailed with a greater proportion of those present, j and it was gratified to such an extent, that even j the heart-rending and most pitiful appeals of the j poor wretch to the officers—‘don’t serve me so,’ —‘don’t hang me,’ —‘God have mercy upon . me ! ’ —together with the horrible writliings of body and contortions of countenance of the j doomed youths could not soften it into compassion for the victim ! There was some exception to this, however, and we are happy to record so creditable an instance of humane emotions. At the moment of knocking the support from under the platform, several persons were observed to shed tears, and one respectable looking elderly lady, unable to control her feelings, cried out in 1 the spirit of wrestling and devout prayer, ‘ Lord, save the poor stranger’s soul Lord Jesus, re i ceive the poor stranger’s spirit!’ or words to | that effect. May we not hope that such a pious aspiration was heard and answered, as that spirit ascended to God who gave it! It is the opinion of the attendants of Butler, ffert he had not realized the certainty of his fate, < uiitiKhe heard the music of the‘City Light Guards\ as they approached the prison. He 1 asked wind it meant, and when told that the ’ military werXporning to escort him to the gal. lows, he immediately gave an unearthly scream, J and fell into a strong paroxysm of excitement, r from which he did not afterwards fully recover, r causing the officers to tie him, as well as farce 1 him into and out of the carriage and up the steps sos the gibbet! Oh! it was hard for the poor . wretch thus to awake from his dream of fancied i respite or reprieve, only (o be made awfully seri -1 sible that his time had indeed come, and that from the ignominious fate of the gallows, there . was no redemption! The realization of this f stem truth unnerved the man, and, as many be i lieve, unsettled his intellect; and in this condi . tion —the halfway house between raving insan ’ ity and drivelling idiotcy—poor Jones Butler was ; strangled and neck-broken into eternity! After , a suitable time, his body was cut down and taken J back to the jail, at the instance of his sister-in i’ law and one or two others, where it remained *. until Saturday, when it was inferred in the city r burial-ground, w ithout any form or ceremony ! , Os the influence of the scene of Friday Fast ■ upon the public mind we sec hopeful indications. . F.ven the advocates of capital punishments, so . called, are constrained to plead for the abolition of the gallows as a public spectacle! They . suggest that the Legislature do enact, that hcrc , after executions shall be in private—at the dead - hour of midnight or at the grey dawn of the morn ■ mg, with none but the officers of the law as wit nesses of the deed 1 Well, this is one step for ward to a rational and Christian view of the sub ject, and is at the same time a demolisher of one of the chiet arguments in favor of banging, lo wit: the example to the public ! That being no longer attained by private executions, we indulge the hope that it will finally come to be acknow ; lodged, that all other benefits supposed to be de rivable from the gallows, are as a drop in the bucket, compared to the great evils which such a revengeful penal code brings with it. It is also anticipated that the day is not far distant when Christian people will be governed by Chris tian principle in the punishment, of evil doers, and not fly for refuge to the exploded system of the ancient Israelites lor authority, under which to hang people by the neck until they are dead! Literally understood, that same system sanc tions the law of retaliation in all its forms.— ‘An eye for an eye ’ —‘ a tooth for a tooth ’ — brand for brand and burning for burning—were the requirements of that penal code. ‘They that take the sword shall perish by the sword,’ is, moreover, as much a Scriptural maxim as ‘ whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed.’ But wc are not Jews, neither are we heathen, that we should adopt the ‘ lex talionis ’ of the one or the savage customs of the other. We profess, at least, to be a Christian people and to be governed by the sublime pre copts of that blessed Redeemer who declared that he ‘came not to destroy men’s lives, but to save Uliem.’ Our penal code ought, therefore, to bo irfcpdelled after the system of this great Reformer of world. Even our severest punishments shoijld have for their principal object the reform at ioh and correction of the offender, instead of his destruction! This is not only reasonable and philanthropic, but has the solemn sanctions of divine teaching, which cannot be set aside by the vai/ philosophy of the schoolmen or the flippant denunciations of those who boast of being desti jhto of‘mawkish sensibilities’ on the subject of hanging. But we shall not extend our remarks at the present, nor enter into the general argument on the propriety of capital punishment. It js suffi. dent, that we have thrown off a few thoughts 1 which may serve to lead others to serious con.