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&&&V ii« ' • - V ' { * -• Wsm BY S. B. CRATTOI. SANDERSVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, MARCH 23, 1852. YOL. VI—-HO. 9 THE CENTRAL GEORGIAN IS PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY MORNING, TERMS : If paid stricLly in advance, per year, $1 50 If not paid at the time of subscribing, $2 00 These terms will be strictly adhered <jq without respect to persons, and all SUBSCRIPTIONS WILL BE REQUIRED TO BE SET TLED UP EVERY YEAR. Advertisements not exceeding twel re lines, will be inserted at one dollar for the first in sertion. and fifty cents for each continuance. Advertisements not having the number of in sertions specified, will be published until for bid. Sales of Land and Negroes by Executors, Administrators and Guardians, are required by law to be advertised in a public gazette forty days previous to the day ot sale. The sale of Personal Property must be ad vertised in like manner at least ten days. Notice to Debtors and Creditors of an es tate must be published forty days. Notice that application will be made to the Court of ordinary for leave to sell Land and Negroes, must be published weekly for two months. Citations for letters of administration, must be published thirty days—tor dismission from administration, monthly for she months— for dis mission from Guardianship, forty days. Rules for foreclosure of Mortgage must be published monthly for four months—for estab lishing lost papers, for the full space of three months—for compelling titles from Executors or Administrators, where a bond has been giv en by the deceased, the full space of 3 months. Publications will always be continued ac cording to these, the legal requirements, unless otherwise ordered. All letters on business must be vost-paid POETRY. BUSINESS DIRECTORY. ' 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.”