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f. fl. SAFFOLD, Jr.
Attorney and Counselor at Law,
SANDERSVILLE, GA.
Will practice in the counties of Wash
ington, Montgomery, Tatnall Emanuel and
Jefferson of the Middle Circuit, also the
counties of Telfair and Irwin of the South
ern Circuit. Office in Sandersville.
February 22, 18G2 4—tf
BEVERLY I). EVANS,
AVTOREsrxnr at law,
SANDERSVILLE, GEORGIA
WILL practice in the counties of Wash
ington Burke, Jefferson, Scriven, Emanuel
Laurens, Wilkinson and Hancock.
(Office in Court House on Lower Floor.)
Feb. 1, 1853. 1—ly
James s. hook,
Attorney at Laiv,
SANDERSVILLE, GEORGIA
WILL PRACTICE IN THE COUNTIES OF
. .) Washington, Burke, Scriven
Middle-circuit. ^ j e ff erson and Emanuel.
Southern Circuit. | - - - - Laurens.
Ocmulgee Circuit | - - - - Wilkinson.
[Office next door to Warthen's store.]
office. jan. 1, 1852. 51—ly
P® IIT.IE If
COME TO ME I1V DREAMS.
BI PRENTICE. ^
Come in beautiful dreams, love,
Oh! come to me oft,
When the light wings of sleep
On my bosom lie soft;
Oh! come when the sea,
In the moon’s gentle light,
Beats low on the ear
Like the pulse of light!
When the sky and the wave
Wear their loveliest blue,
When the dew’s on the flower
And the star on the dew.
Come in beautiful dreams, love,
Oh! come, and we’ll stray,
Where the whole year is crowned
With the blossoms of May,
Where each sound is as sweet
As the coo of the dove,
And the gales are as soft
As the breathings of love;
Where the beams kiss the waves,
And the waves kiss the beach,
And our warm lips may catch
The sweet lessons they teach..
Come in beautiful dreams, love,
Oh! come, and we'll fly
Like two winged spirits
Of love through the sky:
With hand clasped in hand,
On our dream-wings we’ll go,
Where starlight and moonligut
Are ble ‘ding their glow;
And on bright clouds we’ll linger
Till love’s angels envy
The heaven of ours.
[From the Augusta Constitutionalist ]
The Next Governor.
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Attorney at Law,
SANDERSVILLE, GEORGIA,
feb. 17, 1853. 4—ly
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ATTORNEY AT LAW,
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feb. 22, 1853. 4^1y
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Attorney at Law.
SANDERSVILLE, GEORGIA,
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SCARBOROUGH, GEORGIA.
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W 1 ’!- Z. BRANTLEY.
An article in the last Federal Union, re
commending Col. Henry G. Lamar to the
Democrats of Georgia, as their next can
didate for Governor, prompts us to say
a few words on the general subject.
We have from time to time, in the last few
weeks, received communications, some of
them written for publication, in reference to
the next Gubernatorial election. We have,
however, declined opening our columns for
the discussion of the question, thinking it
premature, and desirous of allowing as
much time to elapse as possible, in order
that past acerbities and unfriendly senti
ments among Democrats, divided on the
Compromise question, might die away and
be obliterated forever. Time is the great
physician in all strifes like this, when no
practical questions place men in antagonism,
and when a thousand practical questions
and the political sympathies and convictions
of a lifetime, counsel them to harmonious
action.
In these results we are not disappointed
so far as we have been enabled to ascertain
the drift of sentiment among the Democrats.
We are already apprized of many cases
where Democrats who were estranged from
each other, no longer back than last sum
mer, in reference to the electoral ticket dif
ficulty, are now coming together cordially,
as Democrats, in support of the general
principles of the party, and of Gen. Pierce’s
administration.
Differences of opinion as to the right of
State secession, are not incompatible with
co-operation and union on well recognized
and admitted principles of Democratic pol
icy. Our country has prospered under it.
Under it, and by reason of it, in great part,
have been achieved our greatness and pow
er as a nation. Yet, in that vast aggregate
of Democrats, which has made up Demo
cratic sentiment, and established Democrat
ic legislation over the country, there are
all shades of speculative opinion as to the
nature of our complex system of Govern
ment. Such is the constitution of the hu
man mind, that in politics, as in religioiu
absolute concordance in large masses, uni
ted for common objects, cannot be expect
ed. No two leaves in the forest are pre
cisely alike. So in the world of intellect;
no two minds receive impressions and pre
sent phases identically similar. It is a wise
law of our nature. It is a leading cause of
all progress and improvement.
Nothing but the infirmities of human
temper and the pride of opinion exists now,
to keep Democrats apart in Georgia, who
have been divided: and these causes are
gradually declining. It is now getting to
be time—perhaps, we should say the time
has now arrived, when the Democrats of
Georgia, must lake steps to consolidate
their strength, and make their party here
worthy of its principles and past history,
and worthy sympathies and alliance of the
Democratic parties as they exist in ous sis
ter States ot the Union. A State Conven
tion of delegates will be a fitting commence
ment of the work ; on which occasion the
nomination for Governor can be made, and
the measures initiated for his cordial sup
port and triumphant election.
Of the suggestion of the name of Col.
Henry G. Lamar, we have, at present, noth
ing to say, hut that he is an intelligent and
an able gentleman, a zealous Democrat, and
one who, Jf nominated, will receive from us
a very cordial and earnest support. We
take occasion also, nov% to state, that the
name of Gen. Hugh A. Harralson, has been
urged iu one of the communications receiv
ed by us in terms of warm admiration.—
This gentleman also, whose talents and
high character we fully appreciate, would in
the like event, receive our very cheerful sup
port.
In another the name of Judge Henry R.
Jackson is suggested, and the considerations
urged in behalf of this suggestion, struck us
with great force, and coincided with views
previously entertained, and fully expressed
by us in letters and conversation. We be
lieve the nomination of this patriotic young
Democrat who now wears the judicial er
mine as gracefnlly as he did the soldier’s
sword when our country called for volunteers
for service against Mexico, would be a well
bestowed tribute to merit, and at the same
time a pledge of mutual amity and confi
dence and restored good feeling between
Union and Southern Rights Democrats.—
The patriotic course pursued by Judge Jack-
son and Judge Johnson last summer, which
did much towards bringing the two wino-s
of the party together, first suggested to us
the name of' the former, in connection with
this nomination. We have named Judge
Johnson in this connection, as an act of
strict historical justice, and to say that to
him equally with Judge Jackson, is praise
to be accorded in this matter. We have
not mentioned his name to biing it into
view for the nomination, not that we consid
er him in any respect less entitled to it, but
because we desire, in placing the name of a
Union Democrat first before our readers, to
afford an earnest of the feelings with which
we have advocated the re-union of the De
mocracy and the spirit in which we think
every Southern Rights Democrats should
meet the Union Democrats in Convention.
We should not omit the names of the
Hon. Robert M. Charlton, and of the Hon.
Thos. M. Foreman, in connection with the
patriotic efforts made last summer to bring
together the dissevered wings of our party
Judge Lumpkin, Col.R. W. Flournoy, Judge
Warner, Col. Chastain and the Hon. Chas
Murphy, will be kindly remembered in this
matter. We could extend this list much
further, but the names of those most con
spicuous in the good work will readily oc
cur to the mind of the reader. Both those
that tendered and those that accepted the
Olive Branch under which Southern Rights
and Union Democrats marched together to
victory, last November, should be retnem
bered with equal kindness by every well
wisher of the party.
We would be unfeignedly gratified to
add to this list the name of his Excellency
Governor Cobb: but we regret to say we
have not the evidence that he gave his in
fluence and good wishes to the Democratic
ticket which cast the vote of Georgia for
Gen. Pierce. His sympathies, if not his
secret exertions, were strongly suspected to
be in favor of the Tugalo ticket. The ef
forts and the votes of most of his personal
and political friends whom it was generally
presumed he could influence, were openly
given to that ticket.
We should be very happy to be mistaken
in these impressions, as to the course of
Gov. Cobb in this matter. If we have
judged him wrongly, or misconstrued his
course and his motives, we shail be most
happy to make the amende, for we utterly
disclaim personal hostility or unkind feeling
towards that gentleman. It gave us no
pleasure to see him in past days pursue a
course by which he jeoparded that influence
and popularity that his taleuts legitimately
entitled him to, and which he once unques
tionably and deservedly possessed in the
Democratic party of Georgia.
H
IL3L A
A SHARP JUSTICE.
Dear Blade.—I have just got hold of an
original anecdote, which I deem too good
to be lost. Here it is:
In one of the remotest recesses of the
“Mountain Districts” of this State, there
resides a community in which there lives
but one solitary Whig. All the rest be
longing to the uuternfied Democracy*, be
lieving still that Gen. Jackson is President
of the United States, and voting for him
once in four years. Well, this Whig has
for the last twenty years, it is said, held the
office of J ustice of the Peace, in this com
munity, by a sort of common consent. But
this year political excitement being quite
stirring, a project was formed of turning
the ’Squire out of office, aud putting iu a
Democrat.
On the day of the election, the people as
sembled and the voting commenced. The
election was held in an old log distillery,
and tne ballot-box a large gourd. The op
posing candidate was the owner of the dis
tillery ; and there was whiskey enough on
the premises for them all to swim in.
The ’Squire was early on the ground to
watch the proceedings. He came on the
ground barefooted, and unincumbered with
any other garments than his shirt and
pants.
After eyeing the proceedings for some
time in silence, he rose up and told the
crowd that he wanted to make tnem a
the short speech. “Agreed,” said they all.—
He accordingly mounted a whiskey barrel
and commenced :
“Fellow citizens I’ve been looking on
here, and I see plainly what’s going on
here. Fellow-citizens ; I’ve been a Justice
of the Peace here for the last twenty years
and a good many of you know that I’ve
saved you from going to the penitentiary,
and now you’re trying to turn me out of
office. I just want to tell you one thing ;
I’ve got the Constitution and Laws of the
State of Tennessee, and just as sure as you
turn me out of office, Til bum era up—If
I don’t d—n me, and you may all go to the
devil together.”
The effect of this speech was tremendous
and he was re elected by an overwhelming
majority.
COOLIBSS.
As General Scott’s army was marching
triumphly into the City of Mexico, a pro
cession of monks emerged from the gate of
a conveDt, situated on an eminence to the
right, and advanced with slow and meas
ured tread, until they met the army at right
angles. The guide or leader of the pro
cession was a venerable priest, whose hair
was,wliitenedjwith the frostof many winters.
He held in both hands a contribution box,
upon which there was a lighted candle, and
when within a few feet feet of the army,
the procession halted. As the army pro
ceeded, many a true believer in St. Patric
dropped some small coin or other into the
old priest’s box. And when it was observ
ed that a soldier was searching in his pock
ets for something to bestow, the old priest
would step forward and hold his box to re
ceive the donation. Ultimately, there came
along a very ta ! l, gaunt, limber-sided, gan
der-looking Yankee, who on seeing the
old priest, thrust his hands into the verv
depths of his breeches pockets, as if in earn
est search for a dime, or something of the
kind. The priest, observing the move
ment ou the part of Jonathan, advanced as
usual, holding for his contribution box.
Jonathan at length drew forth a greasy-
looking rool of paper, and commenced very
deliberately unfolding it. The old priest
now anticipated a liberal donation, and put
on an air of the most exquisite satisfaction.
Jonathan continued to unroll piece after
piece of dirty paper, until at length he
found a piece of dry tw ; sted smoking to
bacco. He next thrust his hands into an
other pocket and drew forth a clay pipe,
which with the utmost deliberation he
proceeded to fill by pinching off small par
ticles of the tobacco. When this was done
having replaced his tobacco in his breech
es pocket, he stooped forward and lighted
his pipe by the old priest’s candle—and
making an awkward inclination of the head,
(intended, perhaps, for a bow) he said,
*•Much ableeyed to ye squire /” and pro
ceeded on.
No use for Trowsers.—On the morning
of the meteoric showers in 1833 old Peyton i ean ® prohibited country labor. x
Roberts, who intended making an early | ( ! an ^ c ministers scrupulously avoid men
start to his work, got up in the midst of the ! t > on ' n g Sunday, and always style it Sal>
THE TERM SABBATH.
Noah’s Messenger, iu reply to a corres
pondent, who thinks the term Sunday, as
applied to the first day of the week, heath-
euish : remarks.
If it is, you may as weti say that it would
be heathenish to call any other day of the
week by its present name, for they have all
arisen from precisely the same source. Pto
lemy divided the planetary system thus :
1, Saturn ; 2, Jupiter; 3, Mars ; 4 the Sun ;
5, Veuus ; 6, Mercury ; 7, the Moon. Each
of these planets was supposed to preside
successively over each hour of the twenty
four ol each day, as above given—dies Sat-
urni, (Saturday, or day of Saturn,) dies Lu-
me, (Mouday, or day of the Moon,) &c.—
Nearly every nation, among which we mav
mention the Egyptians, Chinese, and In
dians, have all distinguished the dav of the
week by the sun and the planets. Our Sax
on ancestors, from whom we have more di
rectly derived our names, ; Iso designate.!,
the days of the week by the names of theia
gods. Dies Solis, ur the day of the sun
was in Saxon Sunua daeg.
lhe sun was worshipped by some hea
then nations, though this did not strictlv
give rise to the name of the day, as it was
called the same by some nations which did
not consider that luminary a divinity. It is
just as heathenish to say Wednesday,
(which the Saxons called Woden’s daeg,
trom Woden, their god of war,) as Sunday,
from Sunna daeg, the day of thesuu. “Sab
bath” is not strictly applicable to any day
except the Jewish day of rest, the Hebrew
signification of which is, to cease. In fact
we consider it evidently improper to call the
first day ot the week by the name of Sab
bath, there being no warrant fp>- it, either
in profane or sacred history. The day was
never kept as one of rest until the time of
Constantine the Great, who, in the extrava
gant devotion he felt for the religion to
which he had been so suddenly and myste
riously converted ordered, (A. D. 321) thc^t
it should be so kept in all cities and towns;
but he allowed country people to follow
their works. In 538, the Council of Or
Some pe.
OLD KENTUCKY.
A Kentuckian at a battle of New Orleans,
who disdaining the restraint of a soldier’s
life, when his name is upon the muster roll,
preferred ‘going it alone,’ tightiug on his
own hook. Where the battle was raging
fiercest, and the shot was flying thick as
hail, carrying death, wherever they fell
‘Kentuck’ might have been seen stationed
under a small map!e, loading and firing his
rifle, as perfectly unconcerned, as though he
was ‘picking deer.’ Every time he brought
his rifle to his shoulder, a red coat bit- the
dust. At last he happened to attra t.the
attention of ‘Old Hickory,’ who supposed
he had become separated from his corapa-
ny, and rode updo him to bring behind the
redoubts as he was in a position that ex
posed his person to the fire of the enemy.
‘Hallo! my man, what regiment do you
belong to?’ said the General.
‘Regiment h —11.” answered Iventuck,
‘hold on, yonder’s another of ’em,’ and bring
ing his shooting iron to his shoulder, he ran
his eye along the barrel—a flash followed;
another Englishman came tumbling to the
ground.
‘Whose company do you belong to!
again inquired the General.
‘Company the d —r!’ was the reply of
Kentuck, as he busied himself reloading,
‘see that nr’ feller with the gold fixings on
his coat and dress? Jist watch me perfo
rate him!*
The General gazed in the direction indi
cated by bis rifle and observed a British
Colonel ritl.ng up and down the advancing
columns of Lhe foe. Kentuck pulled a trigger,
and the gallant Briton followed his compan
ions that his Kentucky foe had laid low in
death that daj r .
‘Hurrah for old Kentuck,!’ shouted the
free fighter, as his victim came toppling from
his horse, then turning to the General, ho
continued ‘I’m fighting on my own hook,
stranger!, and he leisurely proceeded to
reload.
.. ..... . „ Sab
bath. This however, is mere affectation.
It is in much better taste to style it “Lord’s
Day.”
New Use for Bedbugs.—The New York
Sunday Atlas, announces that a discovery
ot the utmost importa ce to wine drinkers
has beeu made by M. Struggles, a maker of
port aud champagne wiue m New Jersey.
The Lancaster Express, from which we de
rive our facts, states that the rapid consump
tion of cockroaches used to give the nutty
and peculiarly piquant flavor to wine, had
made it difficult to fiuci a sufficient supply.
In this dilemma the wine maker conceived
the happy idea that bedbugs might be used
as a substitute. He tried the experiment,
aud the result was far more satisfactory than
he had anticipated. It was found that a
to settle, made bim heedless of all terrestrial of bedbugs contented as much of the
things, and his wife b, this time becoming | S i P " ^ pmls OT , more of
alarmed at his strange behavior, sprang out; i:..i ,1*rrbat T S ‘V tolmer lave
of bed, and running to the door, shrieked ! ? ‘ ” arc0 ‘ 1 ' °, r f “f P roducin S ef -
ontauhe top of her lungs- | feet winch rs attnbuted to the latter. Uon-
*• Peyton!I say, Peyton ! what do vou I.‘'“S, T r" 7 d “ “V S ° me ° f lhe
mean by jumpin’ there! Come in and'put i 1 °“ a , b ! e k«P«» Hula-
on your trowsers!’’ P j ‘¥P hla “ I1 ‘ 1 Ne " 1 » rk “ ™pl«
Old Peyton, whose fears hid nearly over-! % S T a “'t of traft,c -, 11 , is
powered him, faintly answered, as he fell heiSgL* S °‘“ “ P leased »“'*
display. Ongoing to the door, he saw
with amazement the sky lighted up with
the falling meteors, and he concluded that
the world was on fir e, and that the day of
judgement had come. He stood for a mo
ment gazing in speechless terror updli the
scene, aud then with a yell of horror, sprang
out of the door into the yard, right in the
midst of falling stars, and here in his effort
to dodge them, he commenced a series of
ground and lofty tumbling, that would have
done honor to a tight rope dancer. His
wife being awakened in the meantime, and
seeing old Peyton jumping and skipping
about the yard, called out to him to know
“what in the name of sense he was doin out
thar dancin’ round without his clothes on.”
But Peyton heard not—the judgment day
and the long black accounts he would have
sprawling on the earth—
“Trowsers, Peggy! what’s the use of
trowsers when the world’s afire.”
No Paupers Here Either.—In the town
of Plymouth, this State, the-e is a hotel
which has long been kept without any
medicine.’ During the up going travel to
the White Mountains, last summer, a South
ron stopped at this hotel—one who was
not going up altogether for a look at Na
ture’s grandest scenes, or a draught of cold
water from the mighty alembics of Argene-
cook. He sent from his rooms for a bottle I
A Sensible Rapper.—The editor of the
Palmer Journal has been mixing with a cir
cle of rappers, and made a dollar and a half
out of the operation, as follows:
“We accepted an invitation to attend a
sitting of a circle of spiritualists, the other
evening, and were not a little surpised when
the following message was spelled out to
one of the company—‘Pay the Printer!’ It
was subsequently explained through a ‘me
dium,’ that the message was from the spirit
of a delinquent subscriber who owed us
of Bardolph’s ‘best wine,’ to which sum- j $1 50. The friends of the departed paid
mens the landlord replied that he kept no j us t,ie money .without hesitation, and the
wine. The answer broutrht the Southern'joy of a relieved‘spirit’ was manifested bv
brought the Southern
gentleman himself down.
“Landlord, haven’t you got any kind of
liquor?”
“I don’t keep liquors at all,” replied the
landlord.
Don’t keep liquors! How in the name
of common sense do you accommodate trav
elers without it ? I want some, and I had
right to expect that you kept it I shall
tell all my friends to stop somewhere else,
where there are better accommodations.”
Congressional Appropriations.—Among
the appropriations for public buildings in
VVashington, made by the appropriation
bills recently enacted by Congress, are $1,-
000,000 (a million) for the extension of the
Capitol; $200,000 towards the erection of
the west wing of the Patent Office; and $36,-
800 for repairing the President’s house and
increasing the President’s library. For re
furnishing President’s house, $25,000 was
appropriated. For bringing water into the
city, $100,000; for repairing the Long
Bridges over the Potomac, $20,000; for the
Little Falls Bridges over the Potomac, $30,-
000; for paving Pennsylvania avenue from
the President’s Square to Rock Creek, $14,-
700; for the equestrian statue of Jackson,
$20,000. A seperate Act appropriates $50,-
000 for an equestrian statue of Washing
ton. °
In addition to these special appropriations
are the regular expenditures for Congress,
Judges of the Supreme Court, Heads of Ex
ecutive Departments, Navy Yard, Arsenal,
Obstrvatory, Coast Survey, Penitentiary,
&c., and the salaries of 735 clerks, 931,600,
amounting in the aggregate to at least three
millions of dollars annually. Add . to this
the moneys expended by 'the many thou
sands of visitors, and we have the explanar
tion of the rapid growth of the Federal city
. Vice President King.—It is not true th ‘ k
the oath ot office was was administered to
the Vice President on the 4th inst. Mr.
Rodney, the U. S. Vice Consul at Matanzas
visited him on the 3d inst., for that purpose
but Mr. King considered the ceremony an
unnecessary one, fearing, as he said, that
he should never be able to reach Washing
ton to assume the duties of the office—if ho
should, (which we sincerely hope may be
the case,) the oath of office could be admin
istered to him on his arrival at Washington
The friends who accompany the Vice Presi
dent are encouraged to hope that the salu
brity of his present location may yet restore
him to health.
raps, tipping the table, &c.”
That was a sensible “Rapper,” and one
who would obtain many “puffs” from the
editors, would he but rap some of the many
dollars due, into the editor’s pockets. There
is a wide field for him to rap in!—And a
first rate per cent, on the capital invested is
warranted. -
Office seeking is not altogether so matter
of fact a trade, as most persons believe it to
“Tell ’em what you phase,” replied the ! b®* There is sometimes a Romance about
independent landlord, “but don’t forget to
add that there isn't a pauper here, either.—
[Northern Indicator.
Women's Ante Nuptial Debts.—A bill
has been introduced in the New York Leg
islature providing that women who have
contracted debts prior to marriage shall be
liable for their payment, that creditors may
have the same remedies after as before mar
riage, and the husband shall not necessari
ly be a party in any suit for recovery. No
action shall be maintained against a hus
band for the debts of his wife contracted
previous to marriage, nor shall the hus
band’s property be liable for such debts,
except such as he received from his wife by
voluntary cessation, or ante nuptial con
tract.
A Wood Sawyer has petitioned the Ohio
Legislature for idemnity for his saw-horse,
valued at seventy five cents, which was bro
ken by one of the Representatives over the
] head of au assailant.
it, as witness this bit of gossip, for which a
a correspondent of a morning paper is re
sponsible i “In reference to the appointment
of Mr. Vesey to the Consulship of Havre,
worth eight thousand dollars, I have learn
ed this evening that Mrs. Dix, as well as
General Dix, exerted herself for the appoint
ment. It appears that when in Europe
Mr. Vesey paid kind attentions to a daugh
ter of General Dix, who had met with an
accident. Mrs. Dix never forgot it. She
procured him, from President Polk, the
Consulship at"Antwerp, and got it continued
to him under President’s Taylor and Fill
more, and now she has been mainly instru
mental in obtaining for him a better Con
sulship.
Tight Screwing.—“Do you support Gen.
Taylor?” “No.” “Do you support Gen.
Cass.”—“No, sir.” What? do you support
Van Buren:” “No, sir-ee, I support Bet
sey and the children, and it’s mighty tight
screwing to get along at that, wiUi corn on
ly twenty cents a bushel.”
Santa Anna.—It seems decided that this
restless-chieftain will be at the head of the
new Government in Mexico. Many dis
tricts have already voted in favor of him for
President.-
Jalapa had joined Vera Cruz, to ask that
Santa Anna be invited, by a committee, to
return as soon as possible into the Republic.
The committee from Mexico was to meet it,
to go and look for the General. Santa An-,
na was expected daily.
The Sigloof the 17th ult. says that San
ta Anna had declared he would join the lib
eral party.
Some years since a lawyer undertook to
convince Elder W T inans that his manner of
preaching, in threatening his auditor, with
damnation, was injudicious, and exhortations
ofa milder character would be moresucces-
ful. After listening patiently, the minister
replied: ‘Afy friend, you are mistaken—sin
is a tarrapin; you may exhort, admonish,
even kick him, and he will not move, but
merely draw his head within his shell, and
your labor is lost—but plaoe a coal of fire on
his back and he travels-—hell tire is the ar
ticle!’
A Detroit paper is guilty of the follow-
ipg story of an accident which happened to
a near sighted gentleman at a ball in that
city. He waited upon his partner to a seat
after a “love of a polka,” when he espied
the embroidered edge of a supposed hand
kerchief at the feet of his divinity. He has
tily seized it, when the “fy fy, sirP’ of the
lady informed him that he was taking im
proper liberties with the scollops of her ja-
pon.