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THE TXPSOIST I^IJ.OT.
and. a miller, . .. - ~ ‘ Edu>r.
Thoniiistoii, r l'liiirsilay, Man li 10, ISM.
- IMncy Wood Folk.”
A few days before our issue of the 17th
Os February, we received a communication
signed “ Piney Wood Folk,” unaccompa
nied by any responsible name. W e know
no rule better established fol* the protec
tion of Editors and the public, against the
nuisance of anonymous scribblers, than
that such communications should be con
signed to the stove, and more especially, if
they relate to persons and subjects of a con
troversial character. We stated that we
made this rule apply to the communication
signed “Pittcy Wood Folk” and had com
mitted it to that limbo of forgetfulness—
the stove. We learned for the first time,
a few days ago, that there is a region of
country known as the Piney Woods, and
that the author of the communication (or
someone else) is endeavoring to create the
impression that the disposition we made of
his anonymous writing was intended as a
reflection on the section of country called
“Piney Woods.” Now, be it known to all
persons concerned, that we never measure
the respectability of character, either by
wealth, position or locality. In our private
and professional relations we endeavor to
extract the intrinsic excellencies .and de
fects of our fellow-men, and appreciate the
©nc, and avoid the other, without the least
concern about their birth, education,
wealth, power, titles, creed, locality, or any
other of the accidents of life. We apply
the one and the same rule to “Piney Wood,”
Hickory, Oak, and other timber, and if it
is dropped secretly at our door and proves
rotten, we prefer it should smoke in our
ofticc-stove. rather than offend the nostrils
of our intelligent and virtuous readers.
We shall be glad to hear from “Piney
Wood Folk” on any subject, when lie is
willing to stand on the same platform of
equality with others, or satisfy us that he
is entitled to exclusive privileges. We
think, however, it is presumptive proof that
he who is so little informed as not to know
that all Editors reject anonymous com
munications, is hardly qualified to bright
en up the world even with a torch pluck
ed from the heart of the Piney Woods.
Hon. IS. I*. Trippe,
lias returned from Washington, and is
now in attendance at Monroe Court. So
says the Macon Telegraph.
The Nominees of the Savannah
Republican and Atlanta Amer
ican.
These two papers are cackling like a pul
let over her first egg at their own nomina
tion of James 11. Hammond for President
and Rufus Choate for Vice-President. —
Which of the two is entitled to the honor
of first speaking out in church may here*
after become a matter of as much specula
tion as the identity of that pugnacious in
dividual who whilom struck Billy, vulgar
ly called William Patterson. We have
great respect for both the gentlemen named,
but in point of talent, services to the whole
country, and fidelity to Whig and Ameri
ican principles, can they compare with
either Bell, Crittenden or Badger P We
object, too, altogether to that policy of
warming into life new made converts and
turning adrift those who have borne the
heat and burden of the day. This expedi
ency, for truth and right, may answer for
awhile, but it is an insult to the virtue and
intelligence of the people, and ingratitude
for services rendered, and will finally break
down any new organization, as it has broke
down botli the Whig and Democratic par
ties.
Opposition t'onvolition in Kentucky.
The Opposition to the present profligate
administration, hold a State Convention
on the 22nd of February, and nominated
a candidate for Governor, Lieutenant Gov
ernor and other State officers. Almost
every county in the State was represented
and the greatest harmony prevailed. Hun.
Joshua F. Bell is the nominee for Gover
nor and Alfred H. Allen, for Lieutenant
Governor.
Gubernatorial Convention.
After divers criminations and recrimi
nations as to whether there should be any
Democratic Convention to nominate a can
didate for Governor, and if so, where and
when, the proper authorities have decided
that the Democracy will hold a Convention,
and that Milledgeville is to be the place
and the 3d Wednesday in June next the
time for holding the same: We were sure
from the first, that they would hold a Con
vention—the lenders are afraid to risk any
snau before the people on own merits.
The “Independent South,” Per
sons and Property—Again.
The editor of the Independent South
imagines we have misunderstood his posi
tion in relation to the duplex element of
slaves as recognized bv our State and Fed
eral Constitutions, and the laws made in
pursuance thereof. We think the editor
has misunderstood his own position, and
consequently has done “ injustice ’ to his
own advocacy of a subject he seems* to have
greatly at heart. He thinks the Constitu
tion of the United States would have been
more explicit if his words—“ Congress
shall have power to prohibit the importa
tion of slaves after the year 1808” —had
been used rather than the words used :
“ Tlip migration or importation of such persons as
any of the States now existing shall tliink proper to
admit shall not he prohibited ly the Congress, piiorto
the year 1808,” &c.
We now intend to show that the editor
of the Independent South is much more
subject to censure in the use of language
as applicable to the subject-matter and
vested rights under consideration, than the
wise framers of the Constitution. We
have pointed out time and again the du
plex character of slaves, in order to show
that the framers of the Constitution in
tended “persons,” whether annexed to
“free” or any other restrictive word or
words, should be construed agreeably to
the subject-matter and vested rights to be
affected. The editor lias avoided this ar
gument by attempting to classify the word
“persons,” but never, as far as we could
learn, (until his last article) would lie ac
knowledge that the word “persons” was
applicable to slaves both as persons and as
property. This confusiofi of his language,
and consequent confusion of his argument,
was calculated to render him obnoxious to
the charge lie has justly urged against the
abolitionists of rendering the word “per
sons” in the Constitution, to mean either
property (slaves) or “persons” (as contra
distinguished legally from property) just*as
sectional or party ambition might deter
mine. We hold that the true interests of
the South are alone to be promoted, not
by following an admitted bad example of
construction, but to rest our case upon a
foundation based on true constitutional
and legal interpretations; for if we con
strue “ persons” (the word slave or slaves
not being in the Constitution) to mean
African slaves in one clause, and t lie Abo
litionists construe ttic same word to mean
wholly free Europeans, tlwn it follows that
if wo re-open the slave in
sist on the repeal of the fugitive slave law
and the representation of “three-fifths of
all other persons” (slaves), now guaran
teed to us by the Constitution.
The editor says, however, “the gist of
this dispute may be thus resolved: Did
the framers of the Constitution intend to
give Congress the power to prohibit the
slave trade ?” they did, accord
ing to all legal rea.| /Jug, contemporaneous
construction, Southey advocacy and long
acquiescence. The editor of the Indepen
dent South ignores contemporaneous histo
ry in the following words :
“ No matter what were the debates on the Constitu
tion ; no matter what construction this or that delegate
saw proper to place upon its language; it (the Consti
-1 tution) alone was submitted to the States for ratifica
tion, and from what appeared clearly upon the face of
the instrument were they to judge whether they would
| accept it or not.”
This exclusion, it will be seen, hides
much light under a bushel, and if admit
ted for argument, will confine us to legal
reasoning ; as cotemporaneous Southern ad
vocacy and long 5 acquiescence must bo ac
knowledged as adverse to the re-opening of
the trade.
The editor quotes—
“ The. powers not delegated to the United States by
the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are
reserved to the States respectively, or to the people,'’
and then comments —
” Now, the jtower to prohibit the importation of Af
rican stares was no where specified in the instrument
submitted to the people for ratification, and therefore
they had a right to believe that no attempt would ever
I he made by Congress to exercise a power which was
j not delegated to it and which would he in violation of
| the reserved rights of the people and States.”
This looks to us very much like what lo
gicians call a pet it io principii —a begging
l of the question. At the formation of the
Constitution the slave trade, although
abolished in England, was still a subject of
lawful traffic between Africa and the
American Colonies. Slaves were brought
! here, sold here, and had become vested as
■ qualified property. The framers of the
Constitution, however, regarded the traffic
from Africa, as fraught with cruelty and
bloodshed. They wished it stopped, and
at the same time they wished to preserve
1 and perpetuate the vested rights of those
alreadyjslave owners. By way of compro
l mise, and for the advantage of these slave
owners, they placed a restriction oil Con
gress in the words already quoted, not to
abolish the traffic before the year 1808,
and yet the editor of the Independent
South says that the several Acts passed
THE UPSON PI EOT, THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 10, 1859.
since 1808, under this power, are void, be
cause unconstitutional. His argument,
when stripped of its verbiage, amounts to
this, that when a principal (the Constitu
i tion) lias clothed an agent (Congress) with
power to transact certain business until a
i certain time, that the power, even when
revoked by an express enactment at the
time limited, exists forever. We have read
iof strict constructions and latitudinarian
constructions, but for a Southern State
rights construction, this unlimited spread
ing of the powers of Congress is equal to
the late spreading of the powers of the!
President over Nicaragua. The power to
prohibit co-exists with the power to per
mit, and if the power to permit expires
from lapse of time, the prohibition springs
up by force of the legal maxim— the ex
pression of one thing is the exclusion of
another. The Constitution by express
power permitted the slave trade to remain
open until 1808. Then the power expired
by its ow r ii limitation, and it is for those*
who advocate its re-opening since 1808 to
show the express power for such re-open
ing. The power not to prohibit until a
time certain, is an express prohibition of
that power after the expiration ot that time ;
as a thing not concluded must remain ex
cluded.*
But the most effectual way to reach the
intent of the framers of the “Constitution
(even if the words are ambiguous or con
struction doubtful) is to catch the reason
and spirit of the words as used, to be ap
plied to the subject-matter under consider
ation —the mischief and remedy. The mis
chief was not slavery (for that was legal
ized and vested rights had been acquired
under the Constitution,) but the African
slave trade. The remedy was, to permit a
wrong condemned by the whole civilized
world to exist until 1808 and then cease
forever and not be continued after the time
expressly limited. To carry out this reme
dy and redress this mischief- —to place an
| extinguisher upon all dubious meanings of
I mere words, the Constitution of Georgia
lin the year 1798, Article 4th, Sec. 11,
adopted these words —“ There shall be no.
future importation of slaves into this State
from Africa, or any foreign place, after
the first day of October next.” We hope
these words are sufficiently explicit to sat
isfy even the editor of the Independent
! Smith of the folly of agitating the re-open
i ing of the African slave trade. If, however,
lie will not listen to Moses and the Fro
| phets neither would he be convinced
( one rose from thc,ijead. We must leave
him in his delusions, and sad though it be,
perhaps to hardness of heart and reproba
cv of mind on the African nigger ques
tion.. We have no complaints of “ unfair
ness” to make against our brother, and we
are not conscious that we have done him
“ injustice” except so far as space and time
would not allow. We know lie lias made
the most out of a had cause, and if the
strength of his bow bad been equaled by
the vigor of his arm we would long since
have been a “dead bird in the pit,” A
smooth pebble from the brook when aimed
I by the eye-sight of naked truth is, liowev
j er, often an overmatch for error, even
: though armed with the spear, the sword
i and the shield. The humble shepherd
boy lived—the proud champion of the
Philistines bit the dust.
Reduction of tlic Legislature.
Our respected neighbor of the American
Union, we notice lias lately written some
excellent articles on the reduction of the
members of our Legislature. We agree
with our friend in his facts and arguments,
except as to the number in both branches
being reduced to fifty members. We think
this number would be too small. The
proper criterion for the size of a legisla
j tive body should avoid equally the evils of
too great numbers, thereby destroying the
responsibility of individuality on one hand,
| and on the other, the too great smallness
of the numbers thereby inviting to factious
and partizau combinations. If the body is
too large, it is apt to degenerate into a
mob, if too small, it will approximate to
despotism. It should be small enough to
act with dispatch, and large enough to
avoid hasty, harsh and inconsiderate legis
lation ; and above all, to preserve individ
ual responsibility, which is the very life
blood of a representative Republic. Each
reduction in numbers would necessarily be
a reduction of expense, but this would be
a poor consideration if it should by degrees
end in the tyranny of a “Grand Council of
Ten.” Fifty Caligula's might in time be- !
come as destructive to liberty as a thousand j
demagogues with the people on their lips
and murder, rape, robbery, revenge and
rapine in their hearts.
\\ e should have been pleased if the bill
on this subject introduced by the intelli
gent Senator from this county, in the late
Legislature, could have been enacted into
a law. Col. Fambro, like every conscien
tious man who has looked behind the scenes :
of Legislation, has experienced with morti- 1
fication and disgust the total incapacity of
a large number of Legislators. They are
now selected too often not because they arc
intelligent and honest; but because it is
expedient to accomplish some temporary
or partizan purpose. A sensible man would
refuse to let an apprentice tinker with bis
watch, hut every man possessed of boldness
and impudence is supposed able to adjust
the wheels and springs of that most com
plex of all machines, the noble engine of a
free government. In every other trade and
profession it requires years of study and ex
pcriencc to understand first principles—m
the Science of Government (the noblest
earthly Science) men, ignorant in every
thing else, conquer its theory by distinct
agd its practice without brains. These
modern Alfreds, when elevated to the”re
sponsible duties of Legislators, are forced
to rely on others for assistance, and when
they should he engaged in pushing along
the wheels of State, like the wounded of
an army, they are worse than flic dead, lie
cause they need the time and attention of
the strong and healthy to enable them to
keep step to the music of the march.
Experienced men kuow that the fight
ing men, placed on the important commit-
I tees, are the few—the sutlers, scavengers
and political camp followers are the many.
While the first class plan the order of bat
tle, the second class, for want of something
better to do, skirmish with each other ala
| Bill Pool, and while they should be occu
! pied in mending up the State, they are too
often engaged in warring with old King
Bed Eye or in breaking each other’s heads.
I °
Hence that veritable saying, “ that tvheri
: the brains were out , the man ic n uld die”
| has become entirely fabulous, or inapplica
ble to Legislators, for it is grounded on the
supposition that such men have brains,
which lias been proven false by a dissection
; of the beads of several members of Con
! gr<?ss that have been knocked apart by
; their fellow members.
We need reform in State and Federal
legislation, both in quality and quantity of
numbers. The people will learn sooner or
later, from sad experience, that had legis-
Ittl'iltllj wlioiliuL ijgiwn cl > i/i cm a<t j / fei v
done, whether palmed off or not under a
Lkigh-soimding name, will certainly at some
Time or other prostrate our noble political
edifice, and that life, liberty and property
arc only valuable, when secured and pro
tected by wise laws, wisely, certainly and
humanely administered. The “ higher law,”
j when left to be interpreted and executed
, by the conscience, (which means the indi
vidual and irresponsible interest, prejudice
and passion), of each man, is bad enough ;
and there is only one step, and that a short
one, from laws made by an ignorant legis
lative mob and executed by a people’s
; mob, to the bayonets and grape shot of
| some military Dictator.
i Destructive Conflagration in Mem
phis.—Between one and two o’clock, on
the morning of the 2nd inst., a fire broke
out in the press room of the Eagle & En
quirer office in Memphis, Tenn. ‘ The fire
was still raging when the papers ot the
! city went to press, and the particulars are
therefore incomplete. The Appeal of the
2nd instant says :
“At half-past one o’clock this morning,
a fire commenced in the printing house oc
cupied by the Eagle A Enquirer and Ava
lanche newspapers, which spread to ad
joining buildings and consumed the whole
block, destroying the ware-houses and offi
ces occupied by the following firms, viz :
Saffarrans & Stratton, stove and tin ware
house ; W. N. Hunt, wholesale china es
tablishment ; Eagle A Enquirer and Ava
lanclnf printing offices ; N. Stillman & Cos.,
millinery and fancy goods ; Henrich Bros.,
confectionery ; Gilkey A Warren, jewelers
and gold smiths : Hutton & Clark, job
printing house ; the Evening Ledger, the
Methodist Christian Advocate, and the
Presbyterian Sentinel; Jos. Teuful, wine
and lager beer saloon ; J. W. Watson & |
Cos., gas fitter, plumbers and boll hangers.’’
Postmaster Gen. Brown.—A Wash- 1
ington despatch of the 2nd inst,, furnishes
the following painful intelligence :
Gov. Brown, Postmaster is ly- I
ing dangerously ill with pneumonia. Dr.
Hall, his family physician, thinks his case
a very critical one. His family are much
alarmed about him. Rev. Mr. Hall, rec
tor of Epiphany Church, has been called
in to administer spiritual comfort. This 1
unexpected news lias caused a deep feelirmi
of sadness.
‘
$33,000 for February.—The Treanir- 1
er ot the State Road has forwarded to Col. i
Trippe, State Treasurer, thirty-three thou- 1
sand dollars, profit of the working of the
State Road for the short month of February.
Federal Union. S th inst.
For the Upson Pilot.
To Leon—Author of “ Beml Low flu*
Kuee.”
0 l it is sweet to bend tbo knee
And worship at the shrine,
Where hallowed greatness sleeps—to l>e
Where Glories lingering shine.
’Tis right! for patriotic hearts
To bow where Patriots sleep—
To feel a country’s writhing smart*—
And on their graves to weep.
’Tis pleasant, txK>, to kneel on ground,
By Angel's visits blest.”
W here Truth, on watch, treads silent round.
Above the warriors breast.
Twere sweet! to mingle tears of thine,
W ith those by orphans shed.
When fate compels them to resign
Their patriot father, dead.
Bnt where, 0, Leon ! 1 would ask,
Is that dear, sacred spot 1
1 ve rend thy piece—how vain tin* task
To solve! bnt found it not.
Could I hut find where lies asleep
Thy hero —free from care—
-1 and bend my knee—-like John and weep - r
But ah 1 1 know not where.
CASTILE.
Covington, (Jeorgia, March 2nd. 1850.
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For the Upson Pilot,
To flic Poor.
Often reflections doth bring to the view,
A magnificent opinion which is held by a few
‘! hat riches on earth, is an honor to life,
And that poverty may struggle intend I> strife.
Such an idea can ncTcr he held bnt by those,
W ho may take it they weir, or may slirm if they clroose;
11 lose who can be influenced by an indolent power.
Overruled by each day, and overthrown by each lionr.
Those, who are one thing to-day and another to-morrow.
Abounding in pleasure then mingling in sorrow *
Who are turned by the power of each hurling brewse.
As it hastens to make its way through the trees.
Let me say to the poor, they should never despair,
To all things they see nor to all things they hear;
But let their criterion forever be one
Ot virtue and goodness which is honor alone.
| lis not riches nor power that makes man so great,
As to cast him aloft to an excelsior rate ;
Hut tis man’s Christian heart and affectionate ways
I hat gives him the honor that, gives him the praise.
, Tow will also remember that this life is short.
A few days of sorrow and then we ll depart
To cur (led from whom we were formerly given,
‘1 o he crowned with honor and praise in heaven.
ALONZO.
Hootensvillc. Georgia.
For the Upson Pilot.
The Mountain Wreath,
Twasoneof these calm moonlight nights,
that gives to every object in the distance
a shadowy and ghostly appearance.
The spreading boughs of each lofty
elm, lay upon the ground in wild
arabesques to which a wandering fancy
Plight give some wind history, and tin*
snowy clouds had taken imaginary shapes
which seemed conversing in various groups
over the slumbering world.
Alone 1 was wandering through the si
lent woods, trembling like a frightened
fawn on hearing the least noise, and even
the dry leaves when rustled by my foot
steps were conjured up in imagination as
the voice ot some invisible figure, and 1
could distinctly hear the quick throbbing
of my own heart. On, on I walked thro 5
the gloomy forest until I came within
sight of the long sought goal, and yet no
thing was before me but a lofty and appa
rently unapproachable Mountain, covered
with bleeding hearts , witheredJlowers , and
a fallen pillar!
Dn the summit was a pedestal on which
was enthroned a marble statue of Minerva,
and around her brow was entwined an ev
ergreen wreath of laurels and palm, while
at her feet, a white dove was singing a
ceaseless song of joy, happiness and peace.
For one moment I lingered at the foot
of that mountain, and reflected on the ab
surdity vi so frail a being as myself at
tempting to scale its lofty heights, but
that beautiful wreath, the world had said,
would heal an aching brow and render the
soul forever immortal. I thought of gen
tle Perizade in thc‘“Arabian Nights,” and
the huge black mountain before her, where
all who looked back were converted into
stone, and the blood almost curdled in my
veins when I heard those hearts singing
such mournful songs of other days. Tint
the undaunted maiden was successful at
last in reaching the musical tree, and
den fountain, then why should I not Ob
tain that fragrant garland and snow-crest
ed dove far, far above me? My resolu
tion was taken, and onward an unknown
spirit carried me, until the path led us to
a grove, whose leaves were of every color
from a deep crimson to the pale yellow of
Indian Summer.
. 1( 10 we m( -J on< - of the Muses return
ing from the summit, her beautiful face
beaming with a sad smile of welcome, and
carrying in one hand a casket of balms to
sprinkle over the wounded hearts, while in
the other was a vase of crystal water for
retreshmg the withered flowers. At length
we stood before a dark and frightful rav
me, where mocking voices hissed in mv
ears like a shrill wintry wind.
These met bought were unfeeling souls
envious hearts, and tattler’s tongues, which
dwell in that dark chasm, and endeavored
by their mockery to prevent any one from
reaching the bright wreath, and singing
laid, on the summit of the mountain.—
Those sorrowing hearts had turned to flee,
but vere wounded by the wicked spirits
and in witchery held there, while the crush
ed flowers were discouraged souls, whose
happy hopes were blighted ere tliev had
oven reached the abyss.
All ! the immortal wreath can never be
mine, ami my heart will soon lay torn amt
bleeding on this barren rock, but far away
in the distance, I could faintly hear a home?
voice calling me from the scenes of danger
to a beauteous isle fragrant with flowers,
and shaded by the drooping palm.
The'vision vanished and I was only at
Bellwood Farm, safely ensconced in the
old easy chair, while my mischievous sis
ter was merrily laughing at the frightened,
half comical expression on my face, ami
wondering what Kind of a dream had placed
it there ! LEOLA.
Upson county, Georgia.
Fot tho Upson Pilot.
Fashion.
Ancient Mythology cannot boast of it
goddess at whose shrine more followers
have kneeled than the modern one, Fash
ion.
It lias become the all-sorbing theme of
the greater number of females at the pres
ent day. In many easts domestic joy and
comfort are sacrificed to gratify the vanity
of dress. Why does that mo the rin the ab
sence of company stint her family ? In
stcad of the rich and costly viand that her
1 guest is accustomed to sec on her table,
there is an inferior dish set before those
whom she should most love and respect.—
| Her children are said by those who meet
them in society, to be better dressed than
many who are wealthier. Blit look at
them in their every day wear, tattered gar
ments covered in dirt. And why all this?
Simply because she desires, the admira
tion of the fashwnablc irorfd.
Her husband's income is too small to
afford them all the necessaries of life, and
sustain them in the highest circles.
will therefore, dispense with the coin fort*
•f home, for the purpose of making a show
in public; and little does she think of tlie
price paid for it. In after years, she will
reap misery for her folly and misjudgrnent.
Home neglected in this way,. become*
the seat of confusion, and iscord and rnalcro
! lence, instead of the higher and holier feel
ings of the heart, arc cradled and nurtured
there. Children so taught live regardless
of the true and better objects of life ; care
| ing little for the cultivation of their intel
lectual powers, or the duties they owe to
each other.
It is now very fashionable, to raise tip ,
! children in idleness ; it is unbecoming, arid I
by some considered indecent and even dis- *
graceful, for a young lady to soil her dam- j
ty white hands in t lie discharge of the ra- -
lions duties, belonging to the female de
; partment of housekeeping.
God b’ess the parents, from whose cyvs *
the scales have fallen ; the blessing there
by confercd upon their children will be a
little less than Saul’s. They see plainly *
j the two roads through futurity. < hie is 1
industry, and leads to wealth, honor and ]
i happiness ; the other is idleness, and is 1
, 11 1 lnest 3imet v/->u.to to n (L'nuolv poj.iiln. I
ted city, very appropriately denominated I
destruction. The chief men of this city, J
are professed followers of Bacchus, and all ‘
its inhabitants participate in drink, card j
playing and many other vices, too nunie
-1 rous to enumerate, and too vicious for the |
: eye of the decent. The sagacious parent, |
feels the awful responsibility lesting upon .
: him, as the one to train the hearts of life |
children right and to guide their youthful 1
feet in the path of duty, that they maynot |
in after life deviate too far from the path I
I of rectitude.
Extravagance is the father of many mis* a
erics, a tight is his eldest son, limited crcd- 1
! it, bankrupt and poverty arc some of the 9
; others. The exercise of good taste in dress,
| is no mean accomplishment, and neatnci*
is one ot the first and best acquirements of jj
the character of a lady. All extravagance I
should be avoided, for economy is a price* J
loss jewel. ALMA, J
Trout House.—At the kind invitation j
lof Dr. Boyd, the “host of this excellent ]
House, we, in c >mpany with our very hifb
j lif esteemed and most amiable •friend Mr *
j Win. Sapp of Burk County, partook of j
his sumpruous dining table, on Friday last. |
; and we were actually surprised at finlin: ®
; a public house of such merit, not only ir j
Atlanta, but in Georgia. The tahk
though it presented nothing in addition t ‘■
its every day attractions, yet, it looku 9
like a splendid preparation for some extra H
occaslTall, scolloped pyramids of 9
den Goshen butter, first, met our eye. ah 9
handsome crockery, gh;c£-ware, arid 9
I leaded with almost cverv conceivable lav j
billed the long table from end to end 9
exhibiting in their mechanical arrang.*- 9
ment a skilful and artistic band on tb I
pait <>l tlie good ladv who presided, lik 9
dignified queen, at the far end. AVe -en* If
I tertained hostilely,” fresh shad, turkey. 9
pork, beef, et cet , Ac., and so on, until oat 9
I vest button ‘flew,” when we closed down I
and wound up, after a short attack 9;
the deserts. The cooking informed us I
that an excellent hand presided at th 9
kitchen, and no public-house is provide 9
with better more attentive waiters. I
can assuie our numerous friends in j
gin and other States, and all the travel- I
ling world, that no Hotel in this Stiitc _9
superior, m any particular, to the Ath?’ 1
1 rout House. —Atlanta Crusader.
Congress —Washington, March 4tbu I
Owing to certain points of punctilio hat* 9
ing risen between the House and Senat 9
regarding the raising of revenue and their- 9
ciease ot postage all bills appropriating I
money for the land and ocean mail servitf I
the coming year were lost. Every other 9
appropriation/bill was passed.
Ihe bill to increase the rates of postal I
and abolish the franking privilege wash!
nallv lost. c
(’digress adjourned si, (i die a t lwen