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THE CENTRAL GEORGIAN
B. CBAFTOSr,
WUHTY PEWTER.
THE CENTRAL GEORGIAN.
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[PROM GALVESTON NEWS, JAN. 30.
life Fr «« Negroee, for
lie » for attemgt^ab^ucil^u of
• . P Q Tuesday last, wer^ sold at auction iu
ns city, by the sheriff 9 f the county, the
rour free negroes Who. had been tried; con
demned, and Sentenced by o^r court iu the
this mo - ottl * Antony Rays sold
tov $3-o, Levin South for $370, William
Bi'own, for $510, and Isaac Thompson for
'JgSoj. Col. Quarles, of Mobile, was the
purchaser of the first three named, and Mi.
John Fordney, of this city, was the purcha
ser of the last named.
^he above free negroes, constituting the
crew of the brig Billow of Boston, lying in
this port were severalty indicted by the
rand Jury of this county for concealing
a runaway negro, slave named Frank, the
property ot Geo. H. Deieadernier with in
tent ta prevent the return of said runaway
slave to his o.wiier. The same four negroes
were also indicted for receiving stolen goods
taken by said slave Frank, from the store
•of Messrs, Sternes <fr Xj nch. The trial was
on the oth and 6th inst., able counsel was
assigned them ; they were tried on the first
indictment, and the Jury brought in a ver
dict of guilty against them all.
r ihe facts elicited on the trials were the
following.
M hile the slave Frank was standing on
the wharf, the free negroes accused, induc
ed him to go after whiskey for them; they
enticed him on board to eat with them, and
to remain several times over night with
them, they told him they could take him
to Boston, where they had an abolition
friend who would protect him and pass him
on to Canada, where he would he free and
sale ; they told him he must pay his pass
age to them, and also he must have gen
teel clothes on his arrival in Boston 1 other
wise he would be taken up as a runaway
slave; they assured him there was no dan
ger, as they had already taken some slaves
from Louisana to Boston, where they had
feeea protected and made free by their ab
olition friend; they persuaded him it would
be right for him to steal such clothes and
things as he might need, as he had never
been paid for his labor. Acting on their
advice, the slave wentto the store of Messrs
Sternes & Lynch, and, secreting himself
■behind some bales of merchandise, re
mained there all night, when he took a
quantity of goods and let hixnself out by
the back door—the goods were carried on
board the Billow, where they were hid by
the free negroes, and the slave himself was
also concealed by them in the run of the
vessel, and there remained for several days,
the vessel being unable to put to sea in con
sequence of bad weather. After the vessel
left the port, and while lying near the point
of the island, the apprehensions of the free
negroes were excited by seeing the ap
proach of the pilot boat, whereupon the
• slave was taken from his place of conceal
ment, put on board a yawl, made to lie
* close on the bottom to avoid being seen**
and the attempt was made to land him ;
they were overhauled by the pilot boat,
taken on board and the plot discovered; on
search being made, the stolen goods were
found on the Billow, in possesion of the
four negroes.
Many of the above facts rest on the testi
mony of the slave Frank, iu regard to whom
a nolle prosequi was entered, to enable him
to be a witness :—His testimony was sus
tained by so many circumstances and so
much colateral evidence that not a shadow
of doubt has existed in regard to the guilt
of the accused. Their crime was marked
with a singular degree of forethought and
preparation—a deliberateness of purpose
running through several days of continuous
acts; their crime was complete, for the ves
sel had left the port and was lying off the
point of the Island—there can be no mis
take the accused were taken in the manner
described.
After a deliberate and impartial trial, in
which the accused were defended by able
and experienced counsel, a verdict of guilty
was found against them all.'
They were called up for sentence on Fri
day morning, the 9th inst, which was pro
nounced by Judge Buckley in conformity
with the law of the land. It was that a
fine equal in amount to the value of the
slave Frank be imposed on the accused sev
erally, and on their failure to pay the same
within five days, that they be sold at the
Court House after ten days notice, to the
highest bidder, as slaves for life. As the
.convicted parties declared their inability to
pay the fine, the second part of the sen
tence, adjuding them to be sold as slaves
for life, was carried into execution on Tues
day last.
SANDERS VILLE, GEORGIA*
tuesbay Bauch b, isb.
Time to Pay.
“ According to previous notice,” our pat
rons who are indebted to 'this office for sub.
scription, advertising and job work, will be
called upon for payment of their dues., Mr.
J OHNSftN has pur books, and will receipt for
all amounts paid. This is a good timfifor
all Executors and administrators., to pay
their bills and take vouchers, qs tfyey have
to be filed in office thirty d,qys before they
can be received- who wish *o pay
for their papers for tff£ pzemt year at ad
vance prices, cap, do, so*
S^PE^TOR Court,—The regular spring
term of our Superior Court, was opened
yesterday, by Judge Starnes, whom we are
pleased to see in good health and cheerful
spirits. The session, we suppose, will con
tinue until some time next week.
We notice our new Attorney General
J. T. Shewmake, Esq., in his seat. Mr.
S. is an intelligent gentleman and a good
lawyer, and will sustain himself well as
State’s Attorney.
05" We are requested to say that Dr.
J. R, Smith will deliver a Temperance Lec
ture at Bay Spring Church, on Sunday
next; that on the 4th Sabbath m April
Col. Hook, will also address the people at
same place on the same subject, and that
they will both, by appointment, deliver
Temperances addresses at the Ohoopie
church, on the first Sabbath in May next.
Lottery.—In another column will be
seen the advertisement for the drawing of
the Washington county Academy Lottery,
to take place in Columbus, on Friday and
Saturday next.
Philq.—Our readers in this county are
refered to the communication of Philo in
reference to our’Sehools, &c. We will say
to the writer that itlias frequently been a
pleasure to us to speak of the Schools of
this place, and we are happy to say that we
have never had to draw on our imagina
tion for any thing that we have ever said
of them, while in their infancy they de
served this at our hands, but now, they arc,
like the old lady’s butter, old e-
nough to speak for themselves, and ou r ad
vertising columns are always open to the
advancement of any laudable interest.
Shooting Case.—We learn that a fra
cas occurred at Hebron, in this county, on
Saturday evening, between Col. W. W.
Buck, and John Smith, alias Constantine
Caravello, in which Col. Buck was shot in
the neck with a small pocket pistol. We
are glad to learn that the wound is not con
sidered dangerous. Caravello sloped as
soon as he committed the act, and has not
been heard of since.
The Uniqn Convention.—The 2?d day
of next month has been designated by the
Central Committee o,f the Union party of
this State, as the day for the assembling of
the Union Convention, to advise upon the
propriety of sending delegates to. the Balti
more Convention. Some of the counties
have held meetings, appointed delegates
and expressed their disapprobation of the
project; others have given the question the
go-by, and relied upon the wisdom of the
Convention ; while none, we believe, have
openly espoused the movement.
We think there is but little doubt but
that the Convention will disown the pur
pose of the legislative caucus, with or with
out the intervening causes that might have
been anticipated, and join with Alabama
Unionists in holding a Convention at Wash
ington City. What effeot this Convention
will have on the Baltimore and Philadel
phia nominations, remains to be seen. If
Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi, are alone
in the matter, its influence will scarcely be
felt. In this day parties are respectable
and influential for their size, ability to
help, and not a willingness in morals
control the actions of party conventions.
Gov. Cobb and Mr Chastain have both
been making speeohes lately, and we imag
ine from the tone of them, that they are de
cidedly Baltimorean in their preferences.—
Gov. Cobb, in his Tammany "Hall speech,
demanded of the party the reassertion of
the platforms of ’44 and ’48, from which
we should take it, that the non intervention
policy unexplained further than it was then,
will suit him ; and Gen. Cass, who stands
in loco parentis to the whole conoern, will
be in a fit place for the present campaign;
and weshall not be surprised if this isthe re
sult of the labors of the Baltimore Conven
tion. It 4 will give the Compromise a wide
berth, and the Southern Rights interpreta
tion of the Virginia and Kentucky resolu
tions and Jaokson democracy, will be el
bowed out of the Hall.
Spiritual Roupings Scientifically Ex
plained.—A correspondent of the Cincin,
natti Commericial, furnishes the following
lucid and scientific explanation of the hither
to mysterious subject of spiritual Rappings.
If any of our readers have been at all puz-
led about the matter, they oan now read
and understand the nature and cause of this
wonderful medium of intercourse :
“The only true and legitimate manner of
accounting for the taps, is the physiologioal
defects of the membraneous system. The
obtuseness of the abdominal indicator causes
the cartilaginous compressor to coagulate
into the diaphragm, and depresses the duo
denum into the fiandango. Now if the
taps were caused by the vogation of the
electricity from the extremities, the tympa
num would also dissolve into spiritual sinc-
tum, and the olfactory ossificator would fer
ment and become indentical with pigmen-
tura. Now this is not the case ; in order
to produce the taps, the spiritual rotundum
must be elevated down to the spiritual spero.
But, as I said before, the inferior ligaments
must not substend over the digitorum suf
ficiently to disorganize the stericletum.”
Yankee Statute of Ethan Allen.—A
y@uo^ artist by the name of Kinney, has
just completed a “historic statue of of Ethan
Alien,” which is now on exhibition at Bur
lington, Vermont. It is highly spoken of.
The artist says, egotistically enough, in the
Sentinel: “This is the first statue ever
sculptured OJ Vermont and I believe the
largest oueevpr sculptured in America; and
I am certaiu there ha* never been a work
of art of equal magnitude produced in this
or any other country, under more unfavor
able circumstances; but I bad r» solved to do
justice to the memory of the first hero of
the American Revolution, to the full extent
.of noy abilities, which determination can be
better expressed in the spirit of the words
of the groat father of the Green Mountain
State, addressed to Congress, demanding its
admission into the Union with the other
states. He said—-I am so much determin
ed upou the Independence of Vermont, that
rather than foil, I will retire with my little
baud of hardy Green Mountain boys to the
desolate cos tiers of Ike mountains, and wage
war against h ivtxti nature at large.' 1
Cold Weather.—We had several, days
the past week that would compare favorably
with much of our winter. On Friday and Sat
urday mornings there was ice to be seen,
and on Sunday morning a considerable
frost. Corn which was up, was damaged
somewhat. The fruit, so far as we have
observed, has not been killed.
Illness of Mr. Toombs.—The Constitu
tionalist & Republic of the 17 th inst., says
“We regret to learn that Mr. Toorab’s ill
ness was so serious on the 6th inst., that it
was thought necessary to telegraph for his
family physician in this State, Dr. Andrews^
and also for his brother. At the last ac
counts he was considered slightly better.
£3T Since the above was put type, we
are pleased to learn, through the Savannah
Republican, that Mr. Toombs’ health was
decidedly better on the 14th inst.
Daring Robery in Atlanta—The At
lanta Republican of Thursday says:
“On Tuesday night last, the store of our
Townsman, Mr. U. L. Wright, was entered,
his safe forced, and twenty thousand dollars
stolen. So far as we have been able to learn,
Mr. Wright has no knowledge of any cir
cumstance fixing suspicion on any one as
the perpetrator of this outrage. Let the
public be on the alert. It is of great impor
tance, not only to Mr. Wright, but to the
community generally that the villain be de
tected.
Death qf Thomas Moore.—The Asia
which arrived at New York on the 12th,
brought intelligence of the death of the
distir guished and elegant poet, Thos. Moore.
He died at Slope rton Cottage on the 26th
ult. tn the 72d year of his age. For some
time previous to his death, he had been in
a state bordering on mental imbecility.
E3T Some of the Passengers who recent
ly left New York for California, have re
turned to that city, after proceeding as far
as Panama, on account of their inability to
obtain passage from that place. They re
port that there are at least five thousand
persons on the Isthmus, awaiting an oppor
tunity to embark for California.
Mr,
Patton, of Hartford has b<*en
lecturing in New York on the “Natural His
tory of the Loafer.” He has struck a
large class who have been hitherto much in
want of some information relative to their
origin and ultimate destination.
“Grace Greenwood is going abroad
in June. It is whispered that she goes with
Charlotte Cushman, and is about to become
her pupil for the stage. Also that she will
wear the .buskin first in England, in some
provincial theatre, and then, if thoroughly
successful, engage herself in the metropolis
es^" Theodore Parker is'lecturingin Bos
ton, on the”true and false ideas of a gentle
men. • Is he not the Rev. Gentlemen who
counseled & riot in the Crafts case in that
city! That is a bad subject for him to
handle if he does it justice.
Challenge from Willis.—N. P. Willis
who sailed for Bermuda some time since,
sent a challenge to John Van Buren, to meet
him at that place with Pistols for two
John refused to go. He is sensible.
Democratic Convention.—The Dem
ocratic State Convention meets at Milledge
ville, on the 3lst inst.
ers throughout, all enjoying the confidence
of our people and with ample accommoda
tions for board, why should not our schools
be greatly increased in the number of pu
pils ! I hope if, in endavoring to give an
answer to this question you find the editor
of the Georgian to be somewhat at fault in
not calling public attention to this matter
as much as he ought, that you will take it
upon your perrioual individuality, to score
your editorial personification. You may
hear from me farther on this sabject anon.
Yours, <fec., PHILO.
Washington county, March 19, 1852.
Clerk’s Office, Supreme Court of Ga. )
Milledgeville, 10th March, 1852. j
Gentlemen ;—For the information of the
Supreme Court Bar of Georgia, will you be
so kind as to publish the 2d and 7th sec
tions of an Act of the last session of the
Legislature. Approved 22d January, 1852.
ROBERT E. MARTIN, Clerk.
jpy The order of the “Iron Crown” has
been conftred on Chevalier Hulsemann, by
the Emperor of Austria.
fW Ten thousand dollars have been
found in the dead letter office at Washing
ton. the present quarter. It ought to be
divided among the dead heads.
/ST The New York Medical Colleges
have turned out one hundred and seventy
seven Doctors. Medical Colleges n<
suffer from short crops.
jar Considerable damage was sustained
by a train on the Muscogee Railroad, some
time since, by a large piece of timber being
placed on the track. The Engineer had his
arm broken, and was badly scalded. Two
negroes weie aiso injured. Three men,
citizens of Marion county, have been arrest
ed and charged with the offence. The
proof was sufficient to commit them for
trial.
Georgia Bonds.—The New York Jour
nal of Commerce says: “The Legislature of
Georgia, at its last session, appropriated
$725,000 to the re-construction and equip
mentof the State Railway, extending from
Atlanta, the terminous of tue Charleston
and Savannah roads, to Chattanooga, in
Tennessee. Of this amount, Gov. Cobb
sold $200,000 in bonds, payable in Geor
gia, redeemable in ten years, ai the option
of the State, before he left home, at a pre
mium of two per cent. He is now at the
Irving House, in this city, and was on the
point yesterday of concluding a negotiation
for the remaining $525,000, for which
bonds, drawing six per cent, interest, having
twenty years to run, are to be made paya
ble i n New York. The whole debt of Geor
gia, including this loan, is only $3,100,000
Death of Col. Swain.—The Albany
Patriot notices the death of Col. Stephen
Swain, formerly of Emanuel, but more re
cently of Decatur county. He had attained
his eightieth year, twenty-six of which he
was a member of our State Legislature.—
He was widely kuown, and an eccentric man,
about whom many queer anecdotes has been
told.
Snow Storm.—The Savannah Republi
can of Saturday says : “Our city was visit
ed yesterday morning by a regular snow
storm, the third this season. Fortunately
the snow melted as fast as it fell, in conse
quence of the previous rain, or vegetation
would have suffered great injury.”
Franklin College.—We have received
a catalogue of the officers and students of
this Institution, for 1851-52, and are pleas
ed to learn from it that it is still in a flour
ishing and prosperous condition. There are
175 students in the several classes ; 151 in
actual attendance. The ei^enses of the
year, exclusive of tuition, Js.put down at
159 to 185 dollars.
Death of -an Editor.—Col. "VV. S. King
of the Charleston Courier died in that city
on Friday, afternoon.
The Moultrie House and furciture,
on Sullivan’s Island, was sold in Charleston
on the 16th inst. at auction, for $13,7(JO to
W. M. Martin, Esqr. The erection of the
building, two years since, cost $52,000, aud
the furniture about $5,000.
The Old Thirteen.—The Legislature of
Massachusetts has passed a resolution, ord
ering the election of two delegates to a con
vention in Philadelphia on . the 4th of July
next, to consider the proposition of erecting
monuments in Independence Square.
A Fight.—A fight came off U) the House
ofRepreseutatives on the 12th inst, between
Messrs. Brown and Wilcox, of Miss., both
Southern Rights, the
Union
£3T The Board of Alderman of N. York,
have refused to name a street “Kossuth
Place,” at the request of a number of peti-.
tioners. The mania must be declining in
Gotham.
democrats—one a
other
J3T Thomas Ritchie, Esq., is said to be
writing a history of tlie life of Gov. Powuall,
of Massachusetts, who figured in 1660.
* '
Benj. Snider of the firm of Snider,
Lathrop & Nevitt, of Savannah, died at
Havana ou the -3th inst.
[communicated.]
Mr. Editor:—It must be a subject of
gratulation to every citizen of Washington
county, to notice the improvement which
has been recently going on in our little vil
lage, in the way of Schools, and other en
terprises calculated for the better advance
ment and education of the youth of the
couuty. Within the last few years, there
have been erected iu Saudersyille two large
and commodious school-houses—a male
and Female Academy. Excellent teachers
now have charge of each, and both are in
a flourishing condition. This fact has in
vited men of capital and enterprising char
acter, to our midst, who have put up fine
and extensive buildings, and who are will
ing, I am informed, as a matter of accom
modation, to board the children of all those
who, living at a distance from the village,
cannot otherwise have the advantage of the
schools. I am pleased to learn that other
buildings, of commodious dimensions, are
in contemplation, their proprietors having
in view the same generous and praiseworthy
object.
It is to be hoped that the citizen* of the
county will feel sufficient county-prid<, to
sustain an effort so generously made, to aid
in furthering the intellectual, moral and so
cial advancement of the young people of
our commun'ty.
It is needless to say anything of the mer
its of the teachers. Their qualifications are
generally known. The Female Academy
has, in the persons of Mr. Slack, principal,
and Misses Raymond and Edson, assistant
teachers, highly qualified for their various
departments. And the Male Academy has
in the person of Mr, Rudisill, an urbane
gentleman and ripe scholar, whose long ex
perience as a teacher, Tenders him every
way qualified for his station.
Now, sir, with large and comfortable
sehool-rooms, and highly competent teach-
“Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That
the original Bill of Exceptions, after being
filed in the Clerks office of the Superior
Court, shall be copied by the Clerk thereof,
and the copy retained by him and filed in
office, and the original sent up with the pa
pers in the cause.”
“Sec. 7th. And be it further enacted,
That all causes in either the Supreme or the
Superior Courts of this State, may be tried
under the provisions of this act, or of those
of which it is amendatory, until the 1st day
of May next, when this Act shall repeal all
laws and parts of laws of which it is amend
atory.”
By Telegraph,
[for the republican.]
Arrival of tlie Niagara.
Charleston, March 19, 1852.
The Niagara arrived at Halifax to-day,
at 4 o’clock. The Liverpool Cotton market
had advanced 1 8; Sales 79,000 bales. Quo
tations—New Orleans fair, 5 1-8, middling,
5 1-4, Upland fair 5 5-8, middling 5; Spec
ulators took 20,000 bales and Exporters
4,000 bales. Flour—Western canal is quo
ted at 22 shillings, Ohio 43s. Corn—yel
low 29s 6d white 32s.
ADDITIONAL BY THE NIAGARA.
Charleston, March 19.
The Europa arrived out on the 29th ult.,
the Pacific on the 3rd., and the City of
Manchester on the 2nd.
Hollingsworth’s Circular quotes an ad
vance in Cotton of 1-8 to 3-16 ; Middling
Mobile ts quoted at 5 1-8, and Upland at
5 1-16. Trade in the manufacturing dis
tricts is healthy. For Rice there is a good
demand at 17 to 18 shillings 3 pence.
The Anti-Corn-law league has been re
vised. 40,000 pounds were subscri bed iu
Manchester for the agitation of the ques
tion. The new Ministry cautious express
ion of opinion on the subject.
Snow Storm at the North.—A tre.
mendous snow and rain sto^m is raging in
New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore.
The remains ofa human body found
on Turtle Island, by one of the officers of
the U. S. Surveying schooner Gallatin, on
the 5th inst. were identified as those of Mr.
Robert H. Angel, of this place, who left
Savannah on the. 11th of February, 1849,
on board of the steamer Matamora, Capt.
Barden—Mr. Angel being the* Chief Mate
of that boat. The watch found with his
remains proved this to be so beyond a doubt
RaSmn Gap Railroad.
Our readers are aware that the Charles,
tonians have threatened to build a road
through the Rabun Gap, in the North-Eaa-
tern corner of this State, and thus connect
their city by a continuous line of Railway
with the Tennessee improvements. Their
professed object is to avoid the obstruction
of the bridge at Augusta. By holding the
Rabun Gap project tn terrorem over the
people of Auguste, they flatter themselves
that they will be able to frighten them into
a compliance with their wishes to connect
the Hamburg and Georgia Railroads.
Having failed thus far to effect a connec
tion at Augusta, the Charlestonians have
turned their attention to the Rabun Gap
route, as much from a feeling of spite to
wards A ugusta as from a desire to p- ,rfect
their Railway connections with the West.
We observe that a few of the papers in
this State have kindly assumed the task of
warning Augusta against the folly of her
course. They tell her to beware of the ven
geance of Charleston. Now, we under
take to say, that the contemplated Railroad
through the Rabnn Gap will never be built
—and for two reasons. First: No Rail
road, so far as our knowledge extends, was.
ever projected and carried through from a
feeling of vegeance or disappointment. It
was but two yean ago that all Georgia and
•South Carolina, “and the rest of mankind”
assembled at Macon, in this State, to pro
vide for the construction of a road from
that point, via Silver Bluff, to Charleston ;
but as the movement had its origin in a
temporary feeling of vexation and opposi
tioa it turned out as great a failure as a
certain other Convention which met at Ma
con about a year later. It requires some
thing more substantial and current than
local ill feeling to sustain great public en
terprise. Money and labor, and not rage
and prejudice are the means, and the only
means, witli which to coastiuct and equip
Railroads.
Our second reason for believing the road
will not be built is, that it would ruin the
Charleston aud Hamburg road, or eo seri
ously injure it as to. ren er the further
w orking of it a losing business. The bulk
of the stock in that load is,held in Charles
ton, and it is not too much to> say, the
holders of it will to a man oppose the new
project, the moment they understand the
effect it will inevitably have upoan their
present road. Can the Rabun Road be
carii d through without theircp-operation l
and, if it can, is it probable that CharLea-
will be blind enough to alienate from her
the sympathies, ami drive away the busi-
uess of Augusta and the interior counties of
Georgia, which no# carry thither their
producel
When the people of Charleston shall
have waxed so strong and prosperous as to
be able to" dispense with all further connec
tions with this State, and shall have dis
covered a way by w hich revenge and dis
appointment cau be made available substi
tutes for money and labor, in the construc
tion of Railroads, then their Rabun or
North-Western project will be successful.
Until these things occur, we must be ex
cused for believing that the whole move
ment will e-ud iu—smoke.— Sav. Republi
can.
“Young America” as. "Old Fogies.”—
X, the Washington correspondent of the
Baltimore Sun, says :
“The eloquent ami brilliant speech of
Mr. Marshall,jof California, iu behalf of his
State, and the favorite of that State, Judge-
Douglass of Uliuois, though electric in its.
effect upon tlie House, has produced a per
fect calm—a universal truce among the pol
iticians of the House. It was believed that
it having been repaired by Mr. Oxlade, of! t .\- * •
thi. Jt . .W, ,im„ i'i ®»'r light from
this city, a short time previously *o |
death of Mr. Angel. Ihe np, ««* r^j, ^ tWMAiwI mensur. s «or<U
SSEft 1° S" 4 *! H h,s with its adversaries, has evinced a streng.h
wrfe and brother to be interred >n.the fam-! c „ nM „, |CB „ n j * r0
tly burnt ground at the Episcopal Church, j destined to outlive the present 1‘rvsiden
nal canvass, ami tM-come the permanent
Thus, after the lapse of more than throe
years, the wounds which time had partially
healed, have burst forth afresh, and grief
has again asserted her sway in the hearts of
his afflicted and bereaved relatives.— Char
leston papers 16 th inst.
Enormous Expense of the Municipal
Government of New York City.—On the
ubject of the expenses of the city of New
York, the Times says:
“It would draw very hard on a man’s rep
utation for good sense to be overheard say
ing that this was one of the best governed
cities in the world. Yet it cost something
more than three million of dollars last year
to govern it. It costs about ten thousand
dollars a day, exclusive of Sundays, toad-
minister such government as it had. It costs
over three times as much to govern this city,
as it did to govern the whole State, inclu
ding the city, and three times as mjch as it
did to govern the six New England States.
It cost the city more to get governed for a
fortnight than it cost any one out of sixteen
States for a year. And it cost New York
city half as much to get itself governed tor
a year as it cost all our thirty-one States for
the same time.”
foundation of a git-.-si national party, full of
vigor, enterpise, and progress, such as will
make a distinct epoch in American history.
Jt will not do therefore for any presidential
aspirant to attack these elements of future
power; and heuce the command has gone
forth “to keep the peace.”
Works of Distinguished Men. — The
works of the late J. Q. Adams, now pub
lishing by his son, will make twenty or
twenty-five volumes. The works of the
late Levi Woodbury will soon be issued, in
four volumes. Mr. Baucroft’a History of
the Revolution, in three volumes, will be
furnished at an early day. Hon. Thos. H.
Benton is engaged in writing the memoirs
of his life and times, in several volumes.
Hon. Edward Everett will shortly publish a
work on international law, and two volum
es of memoirs. John C. Hamilton, Esq.,
has lately completed an edition of nine vol
umes of the works, of Alexander Hamilton,
and two volumes of his fife.
Sheridan scholar, wit, and spendthrift,
being dunned by a tailor to pay at least the
interest on his bill, answered, that it was
not his interest to pay the principal, nor his
principle to pay the interest.
The Public Lands and Colonization.—
Mr. Stanly, Member of Congress from North
Carolina, is preparing a bill, as the public
journals state, to restore to the States the
fourth and last instalment due to them from
the General Government by virtue of the
distribution act of Congress in 1836. The
last instalment, it will be - remembered, was
retained in the Treasury to meet the urgent
and immediate wants of the Government.
Mr. Stanly’s bilf proposes that certificates of
United States five per eent stock to the
amount of this fourt instalment—-some nine
million of dollars.—shall be issned to the
several States, as they shall be respectively
entitled, upon the express condition that
each State shall appropriate the interest
thereof, amounting in the aggregate to over
four hundred and fifty thousand dollars an
nually , to the transportation of free negroes
within the State to Liberia, or to the edu
cation and improvement of the Liberian col
onists. . The principal is never to be touch
ed without further Congressional legislation,
and the certificates are not to be issued to
any State until the legislative authorities
thereof consent to receive the same, upon
the conditions above specified. If there
should be, in any State, no free negroes for
transportation to Liberia, then the interest
money is to be appropriated in establishing
schools and colleges, and in improving the
moral, social and religions condition of the
citizens of the Liberian Republic.*—-Balti
more American.
Beautiful Smile.—As the Ostrich use
both legs and wings when the Arabian
courser bounds iu his rear—as theforked
the Eternal has unbound them, so does a
little nigger run like the very Old
when a big dog is after him. k