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them to the snow. Cowardly slinks top\' ram l schorching dns ^
nrnrrb !” \ olid WaS SOOU OWf OOU
-wagh 1
“See to them, doctor/’ I slioy^
to the German who, I tj; fight;
might be best spared fr£f ic ‘ doctor,
and the next mom^ cX j canS) was
assisted by s ferrified girls towards
hurryin^^ rewe had'left the Cim-
the so'' v
—° ' knew that to hide-
would b*
the rocks,
tiraed by the
his siiaggv
‘•Many of us
under the circumstances^
worse than -useless. The fierce
but sagacious brutes would have
discovered us one by one, and de,
stroyed us in detail. “They must
be met and fought!” that was the
word ; and we resolved to carry it
into execution.
There weie about a dozen ol
us who “stood up to it”—all the
the Delawares and Shawneis, wit 1
Garey and the mountain men.
We kept firing at the bears as
thev ran along the ledges in thei>-
‘zig'zag descent, but our rifies were
out of order, our fingers were numb
ed with cold, and our nerves weak
ened with hunger. Our bullets
drew blood from the hideous brutes,
yet not a shot proved deadly. It
only stung them into fiercer rage.
It was a fearful moment when the
last shot was fired, and still not an
enemy the less. Wy flung an ay
the o-uns, and, clutching the hatch
ets and hunting knives, silentlv
awaited our grizzly foes.
We had taken our stand close to
the rock. It was our design to have
the first blow, as the animals, for
the most part, came stern foremost
down the ciirf. In this we were
disappointed. On reaching a ledge
some ten feet from the* platform,
the foremost bear halted, and see
ing onr position, hesitated to de*
scend. The next moment, his com
panions, maddened with wounds,
came tumbling down upon the
same ledge, and with fierce growls,
the five huge bodies were precipi
tated Into our midst.
Then came the desperate struggle,
which I cannot describe the shouts
of the hunters, the wilder yells of
our Indian allies, the hoarse wor
rying of the bears, the ringing toma
hawks from skulls like flint, the
deep dull “thud” of the stabbing-
knife, and now and then a groan,
as the crescent claw tore up the
clinging muscle. 0 God ! it was a
fearful scene !
Over the platform bears and men
went rolling and struggling in the
wild battle of life and death—
through the trees, and into the deep
drift, staining the snow with their
mingled blood! llcrc, two or
three men were engaged with a
single foe—there, some brave hun-
terstood battling alone. Several
were sprawling upon the ground.
Every moment the bears were .les
sening the number of their assail
ants • i
I had been struck down at the
commencement of the struggle.
On regaining my feet, I saw the
animal that had felled me hugging
the prostrate body of a man !
It was Gode. I leaned over- the
bear, clutching its shaggy skin.
I did this to steady myself. I was
weak and dizzy—so were we fill.
I struck with all my force, stabbing
the animal on the ribs.
Letting go the Frenchman, the
bear turned suddenly, and reared
upon me. I endeavored to avoid
the encounter, and ran backward,
fending him of with my knife.
All at once I came against a
snow-drift, and fell over on my
back. Next moment the heavy
body was precipitated upon, me,
the sharp clays pierced deep into
my shoulder. I inhaled the mon
ster’s foetid breath ; and striking
wildly with my right arm, still
- free, we rolled over and over in
the snow.
I \vas blinded by the dry drift.
Ifeltmysel growing weaker and
weaker ; it was the loss of blood.
I shouted—a despairing shout—
but it could not have been heared
at ten paces’distance. Then there
Then there was a strange hissing
S -ot'bis pursuer. Tbe
nw 3t5^®‘»» ;itoee
“routed" in atw>nUn,g, ^
XaL S uv-'the' bluff. The grange
man
1U „„ looked around Vorthe ftftb--
“ XltJei over
which they entered. Here
paused to hold a concil o wax.
VVhat tactics to follow she was in
doubt, but determined to storm the
citadel, she knocked and hastily
brushing by the little child and. m
a second burst upon the' astonished
husband the embodiment, of injur
ed innocence. Her feelings were
she perseveres and persists in re
maining until she - has obtained a
favorable answer to her demands.
After several weeks the father
and mother are not only constrain
ed to give their consent, but also
to persuade their son to look upon
her more favoi ably. At the-same
time, the young man,
At the- same
seeimr the
wounded men were
the ground, but the Dear,''*’ "®
where to be seen.
He had * doubt-
L“^pS*rougb tte snow.
, and v
I have said be
It was still wondering ,
the hero ofthe flrebraud^andw^^
2 aS. looking man He
was so, and like no one of onr
party that I confd Jinn ■ ^
T 0 ", 11 ’ TedearlSlike polish-
fefel - puzzled beyond
about to express
tbe scene belore her caused her to
reflect. A poor woman on a sick,
bad; a babe not old enough for
christening, a child in a crib, two
little'girls in a bed met her eye.—-
She read the story at a glance, and
returned home under the escort ot
her lord and his friencl, who assur
ed her that she had discovered the
o-reat' secret of Masonry. She nev
er -arrived at a false conclusion
fiom appearances again
themselves when 1 maiden so determined in her affec-
Garey,
was
Xrdb'e^Uodu^'theV^
form by a blow from one ofjh
bears, suddenly sprau 0
fefefe Three chyars for
the doctor! . t now re-
'To mv astonishment, l
^hndprMneedsucba—,
fed by means of Wowed ha,r.
“By the livin’ thunder! yer saved
us all and the hunter seized the
German in his wild embrace.
Wounded men were allaround,
and commenced
But where was the fifth ot tne
bears ? Tour only, had cseapea uy
tb oyfder he goes!” cried a voice,
rising above
as a little spray
brongb.be
dr Scveral commenced loading then
rifles, intending to follow, a^d, J
possible, secure him.
irme 1 himself with a fresh pi
uT before those arrangements
our ucjuio strange erv
"' cre /Zfepot that caused
came fiom tlic spot,
our blood to run cold again.
Indians leaped to thei - £ e dto
seizing their tomahawks rushed to
the <ntp. They know the m eamn
ofthat cry—it was the death-yell
of their tribe! . . „
They entered the road that, k
had trampled down in the mornm ,
followed by those who had loaded
their guns. Wa watched them
from the platform with anxious ex
pectation, but before they reached
the spot, we could see that tie
“stoor” was slowly settling down
It was plain that the struggle had
ended. . , , ,
AYe stood- waiting m breathles
silence, and watching the floating
spray that noted their progress
through the drift. At length they
had aeaclied the scene of the strug
gle There was an ominous still-,
ness, that lasted for a moment, and
then the Indian’s fate was announ
ced in the sad, wild note thtcama
v/ailing up the valley. It was the
dirge of a Shawano wornor !
They had found their brave
comrade dead, with his scalping
krtife burned in the heart ot ms
terrible antagonist! ,T * .
It wai a costly supper, that bear
"meat, but, perhaps, the sacrifice ha
saved many lives. AYe would the
the “cimmaron” for to morrow ,
next day, the man-rpot; and the
next—what next? Perhaps—the
man! .. .
Fortunately we were not driven
to this extremity. The “frost had
amiin set, and the surface of trie
snow, previously moistened by the
sun and rain, soon became caked
into ice strong enough to bear us,
and on its firm crust, escaped out ot
the perilous pass, and gained the
former region of the plains in sate
Sagacity of the Arctic Bear.
On one occasion, a bear was seen
to swim cautiously to a rough piece
of ice, on which two female wal
ruses were lying asleep with then-
cubs. The wily animal crept up
some hummocks behind the party
ond with the help of his lore feet
loosened a large block of ice ; this,
with the help of his uose and paws,
he rolled and carried till immedi
ately over the heads of the sleepers,
when lie let it fall on one of the
old animals, which was instantly
The other walrus, with
its cubs, rolled into the water,, but
the vounger one ol the stricken fe
males remained .in its dam ; upon
these helpless creatures the bear
leaped down, and thus completed
the destruction of the two animals
which it would not have ventured
to attack openly.
The s tratagems practised, in tak-
in°- large seals aie much less to be
admired. These creatures are re
markably timid, and for that reason
always lie to bask or sleep on the
verv edge cf the pieces ot floating
ice, so that on the slightest alarm
they cau, by one roll, tumble them
selves into* their favorite element;
They are exceedingly restless, con
stantly moving their heads from
-side to side, aiid sleeping by werv
short naps. As-with all wild crea
tures, they turn their attention to
the direction ot the wind, as if ex
pecting danger from that quarter.—
The bear, on seeing his intended
pre.v, gets quietly into' the water,
and-swims till he is leeward of him,
from whence, by frequent short
dives, he silently makes his op
tion for him, begins to regard her as
the one who is destined to be the
mistress of his desires Finally he
prays his father .And mother to per
mit him to espouse her. Thus she
accomplishes her purpose, and the
entire fanily, through tear of incur
ring the wrath of God by expelling
her 5 from their house, are constrain
ed to give their consent to the
union.
LEAP Year.—“Dear reader, do
von wish to know how ‘Leap Year
first came about?” “^o .
“ ‘Mose,” said
speak to you.”
“ ‘Sing it out,” sez J. „
“ ‘I imint but few words to say,
sez he, “but if that ’ere confounded
nio-crer comes to.fhe table while 1
am stoppin’ here I’ll clear out’
“Jake ate his supper that night,
the kitchen, but from that day to.
this I never heard my brother-m-
law open his head about abolition
ism. AY hen fhe fugitive slave bill
CENTRA! GEORGIAN.
D^RSW*IMjE,E, M.
was passed, I though lied .let out
some, but hedid’nt, fonlie knowd
that 'Jake '‘teas still working on the
farm.—Boston Olive Branch. .
but vou must,—and this is the: way
of it.
proaches, and so arranges his dis
tance that lie conies up to the spot
where the seal is lying.- If the.
poor animal attempts to escape by
rolling into the water, he falls into
the bear’s clutches ; if, on the con
trary, he lies still, his destroyer
makes a powerful spring, kills him
on the ice, and devours him a£ his
leisure.— Voyage to the Arctic Sea.
“AYell,
he way
When Julius Caesar, that old
Roman filibuster, of whom you
may have heard, undertook tore-
form the computation of tune, e
ordained that the year should con
sist of 365 days,.except every fourth
vear, which should consist of dbb
days—-the additional dav to be reck
oned bv twice counting the 24th of
February, which was the sixth ca-
lendof March. • Hence the name,
from the Latin words, K twice,
and ■sextillis, sixth. -The calends
(whence our word calendar) or first
dav of the month, were reckoned
backward to the ides, thus: the find
dav of March was the first ealend ,
tie °8th of February was the sec
ond ~c:t!end of March ; February
27th the third, and so on. ; .
, The Julian Year, which by this
rule was reckoned at 365 days, and
6 hours, was found not to be accu
rate, but to exceed the length of the
solar year by 11 minutes, which er
ror would in 131 years amount to
an entire dav. It was, therefore
corrected by Pope Gregory, m ISoA
who retrenched eleven days from
the Julian computation—benights
excess or gain over solar time. Gut
of this corre tion lias grown the dis
tinction between old style and new
style The Georgian or new sty le
was introduced into Germany in
1770 and bv act of Parliament into
England 1752-jdst one hundred
years ago—the 2d day of Sept. ( -
S Vof that vear being reckoned as
the 14th (N. S.) under the Georgian
system. Although the name Bis
sextile is retained with its obsolete
import, we intercalate the 20th ot
February every fourth year for-
Loap Year? and for still greater ac
curacy, make only one Leap Year,
out of every four .even centennary
years, .that i#—the years IlOO and
1800 were not Leap years; nor will
A. D. 1900 be rockoned fe one,
but the year 2,000 will be Bissex
tile. "And that’s^the way Lgap
Year came to be an “institution. —-
Star. . .*
THURSDAY, IAN. 24, 1856.
P . c- PENDLETON, EDITOR,
A Pretty Woman.
The subjoined waif we have dis
covered in an exchange.
“A pretty woman is one ot the
institutions” of the country—an
an cel in dry goods and glory, bhe
makes sunshine, blue sky, Fourth
of Julv and happiness wherever
she g« es. Her path is one of deli
cious roses, perfume and beauty.
She is a sweet poem, written m rare
curls and choice calico, and good
principles. Men stand up before
her as so many admiration points,
to melt into cream and then batter.
Her words float round the ear like
music, birds of Paradise, or the
chime of Sabbath bells. Without
her society would lose its truest at
traction, the church its firmest re
liance, and young men the very best
of comforts and company. Her in
fluence and generosity restrain the
vicious, strengthen the weak, raise
the lowly, flannel-shirt the heathen,
and strengthen the faint-hearted.
Wherever you find the virtuous
woman, you also find pleasant fiie-
side, bouquetg, clean clothes, order,
<rood living, gentle hearts, music,
ficrhfc and-inodel “institutions” gen
erally.. She is the flower ot hu :
manitv, a very Venus in dimity,
and her inspiration is the breath ot
Heaven.”
iggTThe Inferior Court of Wash
ington county sits on Monday next
If C the weather continues as cold as
at this present writing their HonqrS
will be apt to recollect the recom
mendation of the Grand Jury at the
last term of the Superior Court.
IENTRAL GEORGIAS.
WEDNESDAY, JAN. 23,1856,
E. M. PENDLETON, EDITOR.
IJCgrOur Milledgeville exchan
ges readied us too late this week
tor us to be able to giv<? our rea
ders late accounts of the doings of
the Legislature.
Death of Dr. W«. P. Haynes.
AVe are called upon to record the
death of one of our oldest physi
cians, and most esteemed citizens.
He died about 7 o’clock, P. M., on
Saturday last. He leaves a wife,
two daughters and two sons with
a large circle of relations and friends
tdi mourn their loss. He was hur
ried on Monday last by the Mason
ic fraternity, of which he had leng
been a distinguished and prominent
member. The resolutions of that
body may be seen in another col
umn.’ The funeral discourse
pronounced by the Rev. Josiah
Lewis, on Saturday last, to a very I -^ atura ] science, and other evidn-
Drs- Church and LcContg,
The controversy between these
gentlemen, has assumed a very bit-
ter cast, and frem its connection
with the State University, hasexci.
ted considerable public interest.^
The name of the venerable
dent is perhaps the very first that
we ever heard mentioned incoj,
nection with a school or academy
Long before lie attained his prc .
sent high position, when quite n
young man, we knew him in t] lc
days of our childhood, and learned
to venerate him, as children Keie
taught in those days to- love ad
respect their teachers. lime fni?
not effaced those "'early impressing
from our memory. nchare*,.*
him in later years, and found
the same urbane, dignified old mar,
of which his carl\ r manhood gar;
promise.
On the other hand, the Kev
York Professor has won, golden
opinions from the learned and goo-J,
as a man of science ; and bis name
will no doubt be emblazoned om
bright page in the history of It
native State, for his valuable co:
tributions to the department
Bleeding Devils to Death.
The Lockport (N. Y.YJournnl re
lates that a. respectable farmer in
that vicinitv recent! v became so in
sane on the subject of spiritualism
that bis friends were about to send
him as a hopeless maniac to the lu
natic asylum. One of his delusions
was that he was possessed of “many
devils.” A physician assured him
that the only way to get rid of them
was to bleed them to death—a pro
cess which the patient stoutly resis
ted, but the doctor succeeded, and
as the blood oozed out, the demen
ted farmer gradually became con
vinced by the doctor’s logic that
the devils were thoroughly bled to
death and it is said that he is in a
fair way of recovery.
flashed across my eyes ; a burning
object passed over my face, schorch
ing the skin ; There was a smell of
singeng hair; I could hear voices,
mixed with the roars of adversary,
and all at once the claws were
drawn out of my flesh, the weight
was lifted from my breast, and I
was alone!
I rose to my feet, and rubbing
the snow out of my eyes, looked
around, I could see no one. I
was in a deep hollow made by our
struggles, but I was alone!
The snow all around me was
dyed to a crimson ; but what had
become of my terrible antagonist ?
Who had rescued me from his dead
ly embiace?
I staggered forward to the open
ground. Here a new scene met
my gaze—a strange looking man
was running across the" platform
with a huge firebrand, the bole of
«, burning pine tree, which he wav
ed in the air. He was chasing one
of the bears, that, growling with
rage and pain, was making every
effort to reach the cliffs. Two oth
ers were already half-way up, and
evidently clambering with great
-- difficulty, as the blood dripped
-Vgf.k from their wounded flanks.
The bear that was pursued soon
Leap Year-
The recurrence of leap year lias
called out many interesting reminis
cences of the privileges of the ladies.
Among other things of the kind it
is mentioned that—■-
By an ancient act of the good old
Scottish Parliament, passed in the
reign of Margaret, about 1288, it
was “ordonit that during ye reign
of her maist blessit- Majestie, ilka
maiden ladee of baith high and low
estait sholl hae-liberty, to speak ye
man she likes: gif lie refuses to take
her to be his wife, he shall be mu.ct
in the sum of a hundrity pundis or
less, as his estate may be, except
and alvays gif he can make it ap
pear that he is betrothit to anither
woman, then he shall be fiec.
From the Sieur de Beanplan s
“Description of the Ukraine, inclu
ding several Drovinees of the king
dom of Poland,” published atRou-
Test of Abolitionism.
All is not gold that- shines, and
the loudest mouthed philanthropists
and reformers sometimes cave in
when put to ^severe practical test
like the following:
“I had .a brotl>er-in-law, said
Mose Parkins, “who was one of the
ravenest, maddest, reddest-hottest
Abolitionists vou ever see. I liked
the pesky critter well enough, and
should h?.ve been very glad to see
him cum to spend a day, fetchin
my sister to see me and my wire, u
he had’nt ’lowed his tongue to run
on so ’bout niggers and slavery,
and the equality of the races, and
the duty of overthrowing the Con
stitution of the United States, and
a lot of other things, some of which
made me mad, and the best part ol
’em right sick. I puzzled my brains
a good deal to think how A could
make him shet up lus noisy head
’bout abolition. , .
“Wall, one time when brothe-nv
law come over to stay, an id6a
struck me. I hired a nigger to he [>
He was the big-
ShE" Knew AYiiat she y\ as
About.—A Chinese widow being
found fanning the toinb of her de-
ased husband, and being asked
the cause-of so singular 'a mode of
showing her grief, accounted for it
by saying that he had ^ made her
promise not to marry again while
the mortar on his tomb remained
damp, and ns it died but slowly,
she saw no harm in aiding the oper
ation.
large auditory, who, notwithstand
ing 0 the extremely unpleasant char
acter of the weather, came out in
crowds to pay the last sad tribute
of respect to the deceased.
Long the family Physician of
many of the oldest citizens of the
county, he will be greatly missed
and his place will be hard to fill.
He was a kind and charitable man,
and tbe poor, unable to pay for a
Physician’s services, will feel their
loss most sensibly, as though
friend and father were gone. Hon
or for his worth, respect for his
virtues, oblivion tor his errors, and
peace to his memory.
No Speaker Yet.
This’ stereotyped phrase must
still be kept up. The House is still
disorganized. The members occa
sionally indulge in fun and folly,
which sound about as appropriate
as"jokes upon a toombstone. AA e
fear that nothing short of a declara
tion of war, either by this Govern
ment or Great Britain, will l briug
them to their senses. We refer to
our news columns for latest ac
counts.
American Bullets ix Exg-
l VXD—The English papers say
that Mr. J. AV. Cochran, of this
city, has received a large order
from the British Government for
the manufacture of a great num
ber of spiral bullets, which they
intend to present to the Russians
in the Spring.
A Jealous Wife.
An anecdote is related of a wife
who was very jealous of her hus
band, who was a worthy member
of the masons. One evening a bun
dle came to the house for him, and
labled “Private.” Of course this
was sufficient for female curiosity,
and therefore she indulged in an
inspection—horrors of horrors
blankets, baby’s linen, birds eye,
&e., greeted her astonished eyesight,
and dreams of two families fl ated
through her brain. The husband
soon came in, and after tea, when
his wife discovered in his eye the
treachery of "his conduct, as she
supposed, he took the bundle and
went out—but not alone for the
jealous wife was on his track. I he
faithless husband little imagined
that she, who supposed herself so
foully wronged, was hovering after
him. He stopped at the house of a
friend, who also joined him, carry
ing a similar bundle. The wife
became doubly excited, for the
prospect of having a companion in
misery did not impress ner with
the idea of a division .of her grief,
but only an addition to it. She
followed closely, and soon they
halted befor# a small tenement
pU loir
made proposals of marriage. M.
Beauplan says:—
Here then, contrary to the cus
tom of all other countries, may be
seen young girls making love to
young men, and a superstition, very
prevalent among them and careful
ly-observed, causes them scarcely
ever to miss their Object, and in
deed, renders them more sure of
success than the men would - be,
should the latter attempt the woo
ing. They proceed somewhat atte*r
the following maimer:—
The maiden-goes to the house of
the-father of the young man whom
slie loves, when she thinks the fam
ilyare all together, and says, cfn
entering, yiornu'gabcg, which means,
God bless you Sue pays her com
pliments to him who has made so
great an impression upon her heort,
and tells him she things lie will
know how to govern and love his
wife. “Thy noble qualities, f ” she
continues, “have led me to pray
thee very humbly to accept me. for
thy wife.” She then asks the fath
er and mother to consent to the
marriage,. .If she receives a refusal
or gome, excuse, as that he is too
young and not yet ready to marry,
she answers that she will not depart
until he has espoused her. Thus
rpryutr vmtf
ever see. Blackl he was vizw®-
than a stack of black cats, and jest
as shiney as a new beaver hat. I
spoke to him: “Jake, sez I, when
you hear the breakfast -bell ring,
don’t you say a word, but you come
into the parlor and sit right down
among the folks and cat your break
fast.” The nigger’s eyes stack out
of his head about a feet. You re
jokin,” massa,’ sez he. “Jokin,”
sez I, “I’m sober as a deacon.
“But ’ sez he, “I shan’t have time
to wash myself and cliange my
shirt.” “So much the better,” sez
I. Wall, breakfast come, so did
Jake, and he sat down ’longside my
brother-in-law. He stared, but he.,
did’nt say a word. There vvar’nt
no'mistake about it. Shut your
eyes and you’d know it—for he was
loud, I teil you. There was a fust
rate chance to. talk Abolitionism,
but brother-in-law never opened
his head.
n ‘Jake,” sez I, “you, be on .hand
at dinner time;” and he .was. He
had .been workih* in the medder all
the forenoon—-it was hot as hickory
and hirin’ pitch—and—but I leave
the rest to vout imagination.
w W all » ia afternoon, brother-
in-laW come up to me, madder than
a short-tailed bull in hornet time.
Mr. Greeley ix AYAitnixGTOX.
A Washington letter writer tells
the following in, speaking of the
presence of Phifosoper Greely at
the Federal Capitol:
A trio of Irish 'servants were
busily talking politics in the corner
of the reading room, (Irish servants
The Weather
Still continues unusually cold,
the ground being nearly all the
time frozen. Our types freeze to
gether, the form sticks fast to the
Imposing stone, and the paper for
this issue is a compact congealed
mass—the frost very reluctantly re
laxing its grasp even with the ap
plication of hot water and the use
of large fires. Since the fire in
March last, the scarcity of houses
compels us to use a room inappro
priate for a printing office and are
consequently subject to very great
inconvenience particularly in cold
weather. But when our mail mat
ter is made up and sent off by the
mails our troubles are not oveT.—
boys, an’ there’s
Be jabers,
ould Greely T”
“Where?” exclaimed his com
panions, with as much interest in
their looks as they would natu
rally exhibit on being told that
St. Patrick or Bishop Huges was
before them.
“Standin’ yon by the table, talk-
in, wid the tall gintleman.”
Tire Hibernians gazed curiously
and intensely at Horace for an
instant, when the youngest of them,
apparently a late, importation,
with wonder.in his voice observed:
“Sure an’ he’s a white man."
“Av coorse he’s a white man,”
said the first speaker, in a patron
izing tone, as though Horace and
he were the greatest of cronies.
“Well! be me sowl I’ve been
desaved in the ould fellow intirely,”
continued the other. “I thought
he was a nqger."
in good time, and much dissatis
faction is the result We do the
best we can. We hope the “good
time” is coming when Uncle Sam’s
Post Master General will conclude
that there is no use in keeping mail
matter passing up and down the
country just for the sake of the
ride.
ces of a laborious and gifted
Particularly arc we attached toliic,
though not personally acquainted
because be honors the profession
which the writer is a member.-
Qur prejudices then to favoriti
on the one hand, are neutralised\
a strong combination ofsympatli
on the other. AVe are sorry tk
circumstances ever led to i pnbli
exposure of so much, that
have remained hidden, and nn6
closed, we are sorry for the sail
the institution and of all the pp
ties concerned, as no good can ft
sibly accrue to either from Ifeffls-
troyersy.
Brunswick and FloridaMini
We are indebted to David
Lewis, Esq., for the Report of ■-
President and DirectorsofthisBor]
to a meeting held at Brunsw cl
the 3d of May 1855. As the
terprise is exciting considei
public interest just at this time,
condense a few of the most kj
taut items of the Report foi
benefit of onr readers.
It seems that the expenditure]
to that time were $214,500, ■
ing them in possession of a k
charter-—line of Railroad ch
forty feet wide, for ninety
miles—land damages settle:
the same distance, with the
tion of one or two points—fo
miles of road nearly graded
miles of superstructure laid4
one locomotive, and six "I
cars—with surveys ooveng
whole line to Thomasville,o®
dredand fifty-eight miles-’
branch to Albany, sixty
Tbe advantages claimed:
Report for Brunswick, nfe
med up as follows : amk
harbor—easy of access
of water—secure anchors?
bflity for impregnable deffe
1 nbrioua and ^ ’ J
most unequalled, for d> e 3l _
with which stores andife
be obtained. Holding a 1 ,|U
position nearly midway
the Chesapeake and the *
cape of Florida-lying ilf> ,
outlet of the vast commufe
West Indies and Gulf °
with peculiar adaptation^
|2gr*During a great storm on the
Pacific Ocean, a vessel was once
wrecked, and a Quaker tossing to'
and. fro on a plank, exclaimed,
over the crest of a wave, to anoth
er who was drifting by on a barrel,
“Friend, dost .thou call this Pa- ^
cifie?”
|Cgf° We learn that the store of
Moses Joiner in the lower part of
this county, was burned on Satur
day night the 14th inst. It was first
broken in by a negro man, owned
in Savannah, and afterwards set on
fire. These facts ascertained by his
own confession.
The Ware House at 14th Station,
was broken in on the same night,
and a small amount of money taken
out, and some letters in the Post
Office broken open.
jggr’We refer our readers to the
advertisement, to be found in. this
number of the paper, of the British
Periodicals.
wants of the California
those new channels • of 1 J
opening up with Asia, T
of the Pacific, and coasi
America, by its connect-^,
some part on the Gul
by which the trouble, efe
delay of the navigation
cape will be avoided,
Brunswick as a great m 3
prospectively. ^
The Report fdrtb er ,,
Brunswick is fi ve U ° ^
nearer the r-ffetfd
York, end “ tbt I
river than any p°r &
burg, much effeiitik
great west for Europe