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SANDERSVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, MARCH 23, 1852.
YOL. VI—-HO. 9
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' R. L. WARTHEN,
Attorney at Law,
SANDERSV1LLE, GEORGIA,
feb. 17, 1852. . 4—ly
MULFORD MARSH,
ittorney and Counsellor at Law,
Office, 175, Bay street, Savannah, Ga.
feb. 10, 1852. 3—ly
J. B. HAYNE,
attorney at law.
f/ALCYONDALE Ga.
Will attend promptly to all business en-
rusted to his care in any ot the Courts of the
liddle or Eastern circuits.
HaTcyondale feb. 2 1852 2—iy
JNO. \V. RITDISILL,
attorney at law,
SANDERSVILLE, Ga.
:1ft rch 10. 1851 8—lv
""" JAMES S. HOOK,
Attorney at Law,
SAjXDERSVILLE, GEORGIA
WILL PRACTICE IN THE COUNTIES OF
. ) Washington, Burke, Striven,
Vuldle-circuit. ^ j e ft\. rs0 ri and Emanuel.
oulhern Circuit, j - - - - Laurens.
c null gee Circuit J ----- Wilkinson.
Office next door to the Central Georgian
fiee. jan. 1, 1852. 51—ly
S." 13. GRAFTON,
Attorney at Law.
SANDERSVILLE, GEORGIA,
Will also attend the Courts of Emanu
urens, and Jefferson, should business be ent
isted to his care, in either of those counties
feb. 11. 4 tf
XiOUD dt CO.
dors and Commission Merchants,
Wo. 118, BAY STREET,
SAVANNAH, GA.
[P. II. Loud.
42—ly
. W. C. Loud.]
ov. 4, 1851.
BEBN & POSTER,
Factors and Commission Merchants.
Savannah, Ga.
P.H. BEHN,] [JOHN FOSTER.
feb. 10,1852. 3—ly
J. T..JOWES.
Manufacturer and importer of
Guns, Pistols, Rifles, Sporting Apparatus, &c.,
No. 8, Monument Square, Savannah, Ga.
feb. 10, 1852. 3—ly*
S.'S. BOTH WE III. &CO.
Wholesale and Retail Store,
No. 173, Bay street, Savannah, Ga.
DEALERS IN
LIQUORS, WINES, GROCERIES. <$-<
S. E. BOTHWELL.] [K. L. GAMBLE.
feb. 10, 1852. 3—ly
SCKAZffSOH. JOHNSON &. CO,
GROCERS.
Savannah, Ga.
. t. Scranton, £ Savannah.
DSEPH JpHNSTON. J
t W. B. SCRANTON,
( No. 19, Old Slip, N. Yor
feb. 10, 1852. 3—ly
[FROM the. CARPET BAG.]
WHY DON’T THE OIRLS PRO
POSE?
Why don’t the girls propose, O say ?
I wish they would begin !
I’ve donned my sunday suit each day
Since the new year came in,
And trained my new moustache with care
And sent them many a rose,
And smiled at every passing fair,—
But still they don’t propose!
I’ve waited patiently and long
These three years past in vain,
But now I fear there’s something wrong,
For leapyear’s come again,
And not a single offer yet
To soothe my many woes,
Oh, dear my heart goes pit-a-pat—
Why don't the girls propose ?
It is not that I never tried
My luck at Cupid’s game,
That I my single lot abide,
But I have missed my aim;
And stiff the arroiv bounded back
To give my heart new throes—
’Tis ever my confounded luck !
•Why don’t the girls propose'?
But I have made a desp’rate vow
To say no lady ‘nay,’
This only hope is left me now
To shed one ling’ring ray;
The girls alike agree to this,
That I’m the best of beaux,
The compliment to me what bliss,
If they would but propose !
I' wish the papers would agree,
Nor let the matter lag,
The Transcript, Mail, and Times and Bee
And then the Carpet-Bag :
No lady’s heart could long remain
As cold as winter snows,
And we poor bachelors should gain,
For then they would propose !
[FROM THE SAVANNAH REPUBLICAN.]
A heart is stiff—a heart, that sigiied,
W r hene’er misfortune’s wail was heard;
An eye is dim:—an eye, wiiose tide,
Gush’d forth at sorrow’s softest word ;
The skilful hand—that healing brought,
Will smooth no more the brow of pain;
The foot—on mercy’s errand fraught,
Will tread no more on Earth again.
And so we pass ! and one by one,
Like wither’d leaves in autumn’s day,
Our goal—un-reach’d—our task undone,
We vanish from this world away :
Some tears around our graves are shed
Some loving hearts are snapp’d in twain,
And then oblivion’s gloom is spread,
Above the dust where we remain.
O wise Physician, heal thyself:
O Lawyer, in thine on cause plead:
O Merchant, change thy earthly pelf,
For riches, that are gain indeed!
So, when thy troubled dream is o’er,
And Death hath op’d his portals wide,
Thy feet may find the golden shore
Where life’s eternal waters glide.
R. M. C.
MISCELLANEO US.
JOHN JMtAXi&SRT.
Draper and Tailor.
Dealer in Ready-Made Clothing and Gentle-
r erpBfurniahing Goods. 155, Bay street,
Savannah, Ga.
feb. 10,1852. 3—ly
X, DASHER'S
Cheap Diy Goods Store,
No. 146, Congress street, Savannah, Ga.
(Late H. Lathrop’s)
A well selected stock of seasonable staple
and Fancy Dry Goods, are kept constantly On
hand,, and wiilbe sold cheap for cash.
IBip Pleasc call and examine,
feb. 10, 1852. 3_ly
[from THE COLUMBUS SENTINEL.]
SKETCHES FROM LIFE.
“May it please the Court, I waive the in-
dictment.”
Have you ever been in Dale—“the State
of Dale?” No? Then there is terra in
cognita in the world, so far as you are con
cerned; and with your permission, 1 will ex
plore some of its hidden scenery in your
company, and introduce you to a few of its
honest citizens.
“The State of Dale” is a large county on
the Southern frontier of Alabama, chiefly
distinguished for its unbroken forest of
grand old pines, under whose evergreen
tops waVes a sea of wiregrass; and hence
this interesting region is familarly known as
the wire-grass country; though the small
politicians in the second Congressional Dis
trict of Alabama have bestowed upon it the
more euphonious appellation (lueus a non
lucendo) of the cow county. Its inhabi
tants are primitive people, and celebrate
the Sabbath, not unfrequently, in the same
manner that other good Christains are
wont of welcome the return of Christmas ;
and powder and shot are known among
them as Sun< ay amusements.”
“The Lion of Dale,” when I was there,
was a limb of the law, familiarly known a-
rnong the people as Jim Crimmons ; but
on the neat signboard which adorned his
office door, he announced to the world that
hereafter he would be known as “J. Alston
Crimmons, Attorney at Law.”
With your leave, kind reader, I will in
troduce him to your more familiar acquain
tance.
The Circuit Court in session at Newton,
the “County Site” of Dale—a small village
and the chief ornament of which is a Court
House two stories high, twenty feet wide,
by thirty feet- long situated in the centre of
the public square, and flanked by a couple
of stores,” in which “old bald face” is sold
at reasonable rates by the half pint.
Among the crowd of lawyers who choke
up the little bar of the Court House, you
observe a young man of five and twenty of
middle statute and stoutly built, He car
ries Clay’s Digest under one arm, and a
volumn of Alabama Reports under the
other. His lips are large and protruding,
and are turned wrong-side-out, like those
of a royal scion of the sable house of Guin
ea, and from a blood red border foT his
mouth which is always half open, so as the
better to display a row of jagged teeth,
through which time, and the toothache
have opened many gaping breaches. His
hair is all disevelled, and he is constantly
adding to its disarray by thrusting his
great blunt fingers through it. He is ev
idently in great anxiety. You will observe
that large drops of sweat will stand on his
brow, and are actually dripping from his
nose and chin.
That is J. Alston Crimmons, Attorney at
Law, a native of Dale, and the first of coun
trymen who has been admitted within the
charmed circles of gentlemen of the green
bag. This is his first appearance in court
in his new character.
The minutes of the eourt have been read,
“capiases” have been ordered against all
criminals who are u non est inventus,” and
the Judge has commenced the peremptory
call of the criminal docket, through which
he rushes with alarming rap dity. and his
hastening with telegraphic despatch to the
case of
The State ^
vs. > Assault with
Augus McGinnis. ) iutent to kill.
Opposite which is written in full, on both
bar and trial dockets, the name of J. Al
ston Crimmons. It is his only case. He
entered it On the docket with his own hand.
He has made speeches on it for six months
past; and every pine tree in the neighbor
ing forest is familliar with grievous wrongs
of his unfortunate client. It was his one
little owe lamb‘and lay in the bosom, and
was unto him as a daughter. *
Terrible is the anxiety of Alston Crim
mons as the Judge approaches his case. At
one moment he turns his perplexed eyes
upon the cold features of the judge', any
seems to listen to the call of th<; docket,
but is evidently unable, in the din of the
court room, to catch any distant sound.
There is but one case on the docket for him
—the State vs. Augus McGinnis. At the
next moment be rushed to the door, and
enquires whether uncle Auguish is in the
court yard. He now returns and doubles
himself up on a bench within the bar, and
with legs lape'd round and round each oth
er and brows ominously contracted, he
turns ovor the leaves of his two volumes in
a vain search for his authorities; and while
in the act of casting an imploring l6ok into
the daik labyrinths of his cherished vol-
umns, the Judge has reached and sounded
his case without his hearing it. Again the
case is sounded in a voice louder and shar
per than before, with the addition of “J.
Alston Crimmons for the defence.” The
crack of doom had struck for our hero—
the tangied skein of legs is unwound in a
twinkling—the “authorities” fall upon the
floor, and J. Alston Crimmons arising to
his feet, trembling with anxeity, and ex
claiming at the top of his voice—
“Ready for the defence: Call Anguish
McGinnis, Toby Thigpen, and Jack High
note, Mr. Sheriff.”
The defendant and witness all answered
to names—not, however, until the crier had
called each one of them three times, though
they were all gazing in at the windows in
the rear of the Judge’s stand.
As the last of,his witnesses answered to
his name, and was ordered into court, the
countenance of J. Alston regained its ifat-
ural expression, and a ray of joy flittered
across his face, in aticipation, no doubt, of
the brilliancy of bis approaching debut, and
signal victory over the State; and he a
gain announced, with greater confidence
than before, that he was “ready for the de
fence.”
During this interesting performance, the
State had maintained a masterly inactivity.
I noticed, however, that he ran through a
large bundle of indictments several times ;
and failing, apparently to find the object of
his seerch, he approached the Clerks desk,
and addressing on inquiry to a little wooly
headed gentleman who occupied it, and
manifested no little surprise at his answer.
J. Alston was too much absorbed in his
own reflections to observe the movements
of his adversary. His Honor, however,
noticed his continued silence and delay, ai d
ordered him to proceed with the trial of the
case.
The counsel for the State was an old
stager, thoroughly versed in all the strata
gems of foreinsic warfare. With the blan
dest smile, and an air of perfect candor, he
thus addressed tile court.
“May it please vour Honor; I am advised
by the opposing counsel that this is a very
unimportant case and that the evidence
will conclusively rebut the idea of malice.
I therefore propose, with'the consent of the
defendant and his learned counsel, to ac
cept nominal damages on a plea of guilty
to the court for a common assault and bat-,
tery.” ....
‘’He is taking water, Uncle Angussh ;
he wants to save the fees; hut we are not
green enough to be caught with that bait:
are we, Uncle Anguish ?’ whispered J. A1
stou coaxingly to bis confiding client.
“No; that we aint. He’s afeered to hear
you speak, Jim, by jingo,” replied the old
man;
“There’s where theshoe pintches,” chimed
in Toby Thigpen; and the proposition of
the State was scornfully refused.
The solicitor then applied for a continu
ance 4 which the defence resolutely opposed
and the court refused to grant;
This preliminary triumph sent a titter a-
long the bench on which sat the defendant
and the witnesses. They spraddled out
their legs, rubbed their course rough hands
together, winked and bobbed at Jim, and
chewed their “pigtail” with renewed vigor.
-They were happy men that day.
“I tell you what boys, Jim don’t sign his
name J. Alston Crimmons. ’Torney at Law,
for nothin,’ and I’m gwine to git him to
splurge in my ’sault and battery case when
hit comes up,” whispered Jack High note.
The next announcement of the Solicitor
was too much for the gravity of ever old
Uncle Anguish. He laughed “right out
when the counsel for the State announced
that he had lost the indictment and moved
to bind the defendant over to answer to a
new bill.
When the Sheriff had restored order
there was great consternation among the
counsel and friends of the defendant. J.
Alston wanted to speak to the jury that
court. Toby Thigpen wanted to hear him
for he believed with Jack Highnote, that
“if Jim had a chance at the jury, he would
make them howl.” But Jim, poor fellow,
was cornered ; he would have given his
hopes of salvation (which were however,
none of the highest,) for a chance before the
jury of that eourt on that case; but bow to
get it before them—that was the question.
In his extremity, Mr. B., an ardent lover
of fun, reached over and whispered in his
ear, “waive the indictment.” This was
enough; the trout caught the hook.
“May it please the court,” said Jim, com
pletely restored to his self complacency,
waive the indictment.”
In a few moments a jury was chosen, the
Witnesses introduced, the speeches on both
sides delivered, the jury charged, and dis
missed to consider of their verdict.
The case was more aggravated than was
supposed, and a prudent lawyer would have
had some apprehensions of the result. But
J Alston saw only his side; heard only his
witnesses.
‘By golly, Jim, didn’t you pile up the
Ail Expensive Dinner.
The following excellent bit of fun is com-
ut” j muuicated to the prince of. sporting joui-
:ed nals, the New' York Spirit of the Times,
agony ?” said Toby Thigpen.
Well he did,” answered Jack Highnote,
“lie’ll be the best lawyer in Dale county
’fore long.”
“Fore long !” indignantly responded Un
cle Anguish; “he’ll be in Congress next
term in spite of all them lawyers in Upholly
and here’s what’s gwine to vote for him.”
Jim felt, for the first time in his life the
intoxicating influence to popular applause;
and his spirit stirred within him. He bore
on bis brow the impress of a great resolve :
“I too will be great.”
But before he had time to make suitable
returns to the extravgant eulogiums of his
ardent admirers the trampling of feet was
heard at the door of the court room, and
the Sheriff' cried out “Make way for the Ju
ry.”
One by one the panel filed into the ju
ry, box, and hand* d their verdict to the
Clerk.
Judge.—“Gentlemen have you agreed on
your verdict ?”
• Foreman.—“We have, sir.”
Judge.—“Mr. Clerk, read the verdict of
the jury.”
.—“ We the jury, find the defendant guil
ty of an assault with intent to kill.'"
Judge.—Mr. Sheriff, the prisoner is in
your custody.”
“My God, Jim,” groaned Uncle Anguish;
“I’ll be sent to the Penitentiary!”
“Shah ! cried Jim; “the Clerk didn’t read
the verdict right. May it please the court,
may I suspect the verdict of the jury !”
Judge.—‘“Ofcourse sir; Mr. Clerk hand
the verdict to Mr. Simmons.”
With a malicious smile, the remorseless
officer of the law thrust the paper under the
nose of the young lawyer with his finger
pointing to the fatal word “guilty.”
J. Alston seized the bill with both hands
and his eyes seemed ready to devour the
endorsement of the Foreman. Gradually
his museles relaxed; the fatal indictment
fell from his hands, and seizing his hat, the
“Attorney at Law” rushed out of the court
room, and could never be prevailed on to
darken its doors again. The case of the
State vs Augus McGinnis was his first and
last case. He never recovered from the
rebound of that unhappy sentence—
“May it.please the court, I waive the In
dictment."
Though J. Alston Crimmons was thus
unsuccessfullv before the bar of the court,
bv its inimitable Bostou correspondent,
Aeoux. The story loses none of its in
terest for being a matter of fact:
At the last “Hen Convention” in our
city, yoine weeks since, a mutual friend
of ours, residing in-the suburbs of our
metropolis, came to the city in the morn
ing to attend the “hen fair,” where he
purchased a very large and beautiful-pair
of Shanghai fowls to breed from, and as
he was to remain in town until evening,
he sent the birds by a boy, with a note,
to a triend of his. living at the Albion,
requesting that iie would take charge of
the chickens until the afternoon, as he had
some matters of business that would de
tain him; he also told the boy to say he
would dine with him at 4 o’clock.
The boy d elivered the fowls, but forgot
the note, and simply femarkep, “Here’s a
pair of rousing big chickens Mr. M s
sent you, and says he will dine with you
at 4 o’clock.”
The gentleman supposing his friend
(who by the way, knows a hawk from a
handsaw', and a canvass back from a
broiled owl!) had sent something extra,
ordered them to be given to the cook,
with directions that they be killed and
dressed at once, as ho had a friend to dine
with him at 4 P. M. The order was accord
ingly obeyed, and at the appointed time the
dinner was served. After imbibing sundry
“wine bitters,” as a sharpener to their ap
petites, they sat down, and the Shanghai
owner was requested to carve ; and as he
w’as dissecting these enormous “cute mem
bers of the Hen Convention,” he remarked
to his friend—
“YY>u have an extraordinary fine pair of
chickens here.”
“Yes,” answered the other, “they are an
indifferent good sized pair of birds ; they
were sent to me by' a mutual friend of
ours.”
“Indeed, were they ? a develish clever
fellow he must be, Jim
this, and I declare they
delicious flavor I ever tasted, and as juicy',
too, as a canvass back.”
And so he continued praising the rich fla
vor of the chickens, until they had taken
care of a cou->le of bottles of .Scbrieder,
arid while chatting over their bottles of
skerry, and enjoying their regalias, the
owner of the Shanghais said,
“By-the-by, Jim, what do you think of
my hen purchase-ibis morning ?”
“Why, Bill, I think they were most deli
cious, and wish y ; ou w'ould dine with me
every day in the week if you will send me
such chickens.”
“Such chickens !” screeched Bill, as the
thought flashed across his mind that lie
might possibly have been eating his own*
Shanghais. “What the devil do you mean ?”
“Mean,” replied Jim, “why, I mean to
say that you have dined off those chickens
you sent me this morning.
Bill instantly jumped up from the table
and rammed bis bauds up to bis elbows in
bis breeches pockets, and after stridiug
across the room some half dozen times with
out uttering a word, but bis eyes all the
while with “tine frenzy rolling,” stopped
short, and turning to his friend exclaimed,
with no little gesticulation—
“‘Good God ! Jim, 1 paid thirty-five dol
lars for that pair of fowls this morning !
Didn’t that cussed boy' give you a note
this morning when he left the'chickens ?”
“No,” said Jim, “be" gave me no .not< ;
he simply handed me the Shanghais, and
said you would dine with me at four.
Therefore, h had them roasted.”
Bill iustantly rushed for his horse and
wagon, and has not been seen in the city
but once since, and then he was closely
muffled up, and both ears stuffed with cot
ton, for fear he should hear some one sav
The Benefit of Advertising.—The Bos
ton Times, (a small paper but of wide cir
culation) gives us some interesting facts on
this subeet, which we append. This state
ment was furnished without solicitation by
Mr. S.S. ,Hough ton, dealer in dry goods,
tfcc., Treinout Street. It exhibits the a-
mount of business done, according to his
cash book, at two periods, when he adver
tised in the Times, and when he did not:
No ad vertisemeu t Advertismen t
Dec 17 1851 §61 So
Jan 13
§137 46
18
71 00
14
187 85
19
177 00
15
294 86
20
67 85
16
397 48
22
45 42
17
413 11
23
99 00
19
451 52
24
81 IS
20
442 12
25
53 08
21
467 36
26
58 09
22
379 54
27
66 54
23
399 26
29
14 68
24
429 56
30
79 16
26
325 54
31
84 27
27
371 21
Jan 1 1852
127 01
28
357 80
2
119 70
29
219 66
3
101 50
30
183 10
5
69 71
31
154 50
6
59 94 Feb. 2
283 16
7
70 26
3
312 90
8
43 29
4
224 77
9
40 39
5
193 17
10
101 0.6
6
231 42
12
86 14
7
171 69
Total §1
712 19
§7 000 00
; a pretty present
are of the most
it is said that he has found abundant pat- [ Shanghai!
ronage at the bar of a Doggery, behind ! A few days since, while passing bis resi-
wbich he has since been admitted. j dence, I dropped in upon him for an hour,
CHEWALLA. 'and after a while.ventured to touch upon
January 6,1852. j the different breeds of poultry, but at once
' discovered a wildness about Bill’s
Avg nearly §75 per day r Avgnearly §304,35
Here sciys the Mobile Tribune, is a differ
ence of over §5000. The cost of advertis
ing did not exceed a hundred dollars. The
reader may say that the newspapers have a
great interest in the general belief of the
virtues of advertising, and are not therefore
reliable authority. They have an interest
in it, and perhaps are selfish in recommen
ding it, but that is no reason to dispute its
truth—a^ruth that has been well attested
by those who have made great fortunes
from a knowledge of it. Barnum being
asked recently the source of his unexam
pled success in life replied “Printer’s Ink !”
—meaning advertising. To make it sue-
cessful it was systematically pursued—not
occasionally, but all the time. He was thus
kept sonstantly before the public, which we
may say, with all deference, can be convin
ced of almost anything by reiteration.
Newspapers in the United States.—The
forthcoming census report gives the follow
ing statistics of the periodicals published in
the United States in the year 1850 :—
No. Copies
No Circulation
Dailes, 750 750,000
Tri-Weekls 150 75,000
Semi-Weeklies 125 80,000
Weeklies, 2,000 2,875,000
Semi-Monthlies -50 800,000
Monthlies, 100 900,000
Quarterlies 25 20,000
Printed an’ly
235,000,000
11.700.000
8,320,000
149,500,000
7,200,000*
10.800.000
80,000
2,800 5,000,000 422,600,000
Of these 424 papers were published in
the New England States, 876 in the Mid
dle States, 716 in the Southern, and 783 in
the Western States. Average circulation
in the United States 1,785. There is one
publication for every 7,161 free inhabi
tants in the United States and territories.
. . | - — — r —. o eyes*
A Pathetic Speech.—The speech made therefore discontinued the topic, when he
in the Florida legislature, on the occasion of said imploringly—
a member’s death, has been the rouuds, but, “Old fellow, don’t hit me now I’m down ;
is good enough to print again: | that chicken dinner has never yet digested /.”
“Mr. Speaker, Sir:—Our fellow-citizen,! -— ; r - r ~--~
Mr. Silas Higgins, who was lately a mein-| Departure Extraordinary— Overland
ber of this branch of the legislature, and he route to California.—An old iady over six-
died yesterday in the forenoon. He had ty years of age left this county a few days
the brown-creatures, (bronchitis,) and was since, for.Uaiifornia, by the land route. The
an uncommon individual. His character old lady left in good cheer, and all who
was good up to the time of his death, and knew her, entertain no fears of her success,
he never lost his voice. He was 56 years She leaves a mother, residing in this place
old, and was taken sick before he died at his a hundred and odd years old. From the
boarding house, where board can be had at stock it will be seen she i; only in the prime
a dollar and seventy five cents a week, wash- of life. She has resided in the Gold region
ing and lights included. He was an inge- of Georgia ever since- the days of the in-
riious creat'uft, andAn the early part of his trusion, and is a practical miner; with
life had a -fether and mother. His uncle,: shovel and pick she enters th« pit, with the
Timothy Higgins, served under Gen. Wash- 1 energy, skill and perseverance, that will
ington, who was buried soon after his death I compare with any miner now in California,
with military honors, and several guns were ! She has proinised her friends to acquaint
burst in firing salutes. Sir, Mr. Speaker, i them of hen progress from -time to time, as
General Washington would have voted- for ; opportunity may offer,
the tariff of 1846, if he had been alive and j “That Indian that makes an attack upon
had’nt a’ died sometime beforehand. Now, j her, will strike a sawyer.—D<ihl&ndgkfGa.)
Mr. Speaker, such being the. character of j SigndlW tit {(Uir wji-tsd* "4 t
Grin. - Washington* I motion that we were: ——r—7-—-—3—-.. baa
adjourned till to-morrow morning as an em- J * The other day I met one of my friends,
blem of our respect for the memory of S.
Higgins, who is dead, and died of the
browhereatures yesterday in the afternoon.”
The aniount of gold exported from San
Francisco during the year 1851, is §34,492,_
633,02.
an excellent man; he was in deep mourning
—black coat, pants, vest, gloves, cravat, and
a crape around his hat. He was slowly
walking, with his eyes fixed on the ground.
“Ah, my._ friend,” said I “what have you
lost?” “I have lost nothing,” he replied,
“I’m a widower.”
Walking Like a Fly Head-Dowards.—
A Mr. McCormick has been rather aston
ishing some of the Yew Yorkers, during the
past week by walking on a polished marble
slab, head downwards, in one of our amphi
theatres. It is somewhat frightful to see a
fellow mortal perched up in mid-air, with
his head to the ground—but a long way
above it—and his feet to the roof. It is the
first feat of the kind ever performed, so far
as we are aware and McCormic -has been
dubbed with the title of Professor, for his
scientific performance.
The feat is performed upon Svell-knowa
principles of science, by using air pumps,
and working them step by step, to extract all
the air under appendages on his feet, so that
the outwart pressure on one foot will exceed
his whole weight, lfhe is one bundred and
fifty weight, it requires ten square inches of
atmospheric pressure to balance that, .for
the atmospheric pressure is fifteen pounds
on every square inch of the earth’s suifece,
therefore ten by fifteen is equal to one hun
dred and fifty pounds. This pressure must
be on one foot, while the other is being
moved forward. .The courage required to
perform the feat is not small, and the labor
is very severe and tedious. It is needless
to say, that although the polished marble
slab is the greatest wonder to some, he
could not perform the feat on rough, porous
boards.—Scientific American.
Riot at a Lecture in Baltimore.—-Lealiayj
the converted' monk, undertook to lecture
on the evening of the 1st inst., at Baltimore,
on. the treatment of females at confessions
—awful disclosures were promised. Soon
after he corinhenced speaking, he was inter
rupted by -some persons present, who, fin
ally, rfished on the Lecturer with sticks,
dirks and knives. The police, however,
were in attendance in strong force 1 , and ar
rested the Dug leaders, white Leahay made
his escape,'and the audience dispersed.
Writer in the Southern Press says
of Ohio:.,' :>v Y:; '.
“I am Hot surprised at any folly, absurdi
ty, or extravagance committed by this great
lubberly State, which has increased so fast
that it. has outrgrown its discretion. At
this moment it ; breeds'more pigs and pig
headed politicians than any State of the
Union.”