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UPSON PILOT.
0. A. MILLER, - - - - - Editor.
THOMASTON, k A.:
SATURDAY, AUGUST 6, 1859.
THIRD DISTRICT.
Folt CONGRESS, ‘
THOS. HARDEMAN, Jr.,
OF MACON.
For the Legislature-—1 rsoh Coiuitv.
SENATE-EDWARD A. PLEWELLEN.
HOUSE—WM. G. HORSLEY.
Opposiiiois Meeting*.
The State Mass Meeting of the Opposi
tion Party of Georgia, will assemble in the
city of Atlanta on Wednesday, the 10th
•day of August next. At which time a
■candidate for Governor will he nominated.
Let every county send a large delegation.
Our Comity Candidates.
The County Convention which assem
bled here on last Tuesday, nominated by
ballot Dr. Edward A. Flewellen as the
Opposition candidate for the,Senate, and
Col. Win. G. Horsley for tin* House. The
Convention was numerously attended—its
proceedings, as far as we know, justly and
harmoniously conducted, its selection wise
and popular, and we believe and trust that
the people will respond to its action at the
polls by an overwhelming majority.
From some cause the official proceedings
of the Convention have not come to hand.
Letter from the Hon. B. H* Hill.
The late letter of the Hon. Benj. H.
Hill (which will be found on our first page)
will attract genetjpl attention. Its strength
and clearness is characteristic of every pro
duction which has heretofore sprang from
the fine mind and noble heart of that dis
tinguished patriot and gentleman.
M agtlalenn.
Read the communication signed Magda
lena. The subject of the communication
being local, of course, we cannot form any
opinion as to the merits of the matters
discussed. We will open our columns to
both sides of the question, provided the
disputants are short and con fine their ar
guments to the merits of the points debated.
Oak Grove Academy.
We attended the public examination of
Oak Grove Academy (J. L. Barker, Prin
cipal,) on last Wednesday. To say that
we were pleased would give but a feeble
expression to our feelings and convictions.
We were cienglltPtt at. the modest and cheer
ful deportment ol the scholars, and aston
ished at their promptness and proficiency.
We only regret that we have neither time
or space* this week, to say more than that
such teachers as Mr. Barker are founding
monuments more lasting and of more worth
than marble or brass in the minds and
hearts of each pupil entrusted to their
guardianship. Such men are the Corin
thian pillars that support our national and
State edifices. Good schoolmasters are
the cheapest and best defence of nations.
A Treat.
On Tuesday last, we had the pleasure
with our respected candidate for Congress
and other gentlemen, to partake of a water
melon weighing 3G pounds, grown on the
plantation, in this county, of our towns
man Col. Peter W. Alexander. This melon,
the Colonel informs us. is known as the
ice cream species, and was produced from
seed sent last year by the Hon. R. P. Trippe
from the Patent Office at Washington.
For sweetness, coolness and delicacy of
flavor the ice cream melon cannot be ex
celled.
Col. Alexander also informs us that lie
had cotton bolls of the Palestine variety
opened on the 20 th of July.
Ho! tor Atlanta!
W e are authorized to say that all, who
wish to attend the Opposition Mass Meet
ing at Atlanta on Wednesdav next, will
be transfered over the Thomas ton & Barnes
ville Rail Road for half price.
The Washington City Star estimates
the population ot that city at from 75.000
to 80.000
Thomas Hardeman, Jr.,
I The candidate of the Opposition party
for Congress in this District, addressed a ;
very large, intelligent, attentive and ap- ,
preciative assemblage of bis fellow-citizens
; in the Court House here, on Tuesday last.
Circumstances beyond our control prevents
us at this time from speaking of Mr. Har
! deman’s speech as its merits and ability
deserve ; we will only say that Mr. Harde
’ man is a fluent and agreeable speaker—
j that lie dissected and exposed the corrup
tions of modern Democracy with a master
hand, and exhibited the “double shuffles
of its leaders on the agitation of slavery
’ and the results of that agitation to the
South, to the ridicule, the scorn and pity
of His hearers.
We have heard both Mr. Hardeman and
Mr. Speer once, and aside from party pre
judice or personal predilections we have no
hesitancy in saying that Mr. Hardeman is
fully equal to his respectable competitor in
information and natural eloquence, and
vastly his superior in all that appertains to
the truth, justice and candor, of the ques
tions at issue. Even Hector’s right arm
; could not defend such a Troy as Buchanan
Democracy, with its accumulated corrup
tions and wrongs. Mr. Speer must sink
under the load he carries. We will roll
up for Hardeman three or four hundred
majoiity in old Upson, if we “ set down at
< once to our knitting .”
Hunch Cucumbers.
We have been presented by 11. B. Ma
bry, Esq., of this county, with a cluster of
I cucumbers —two fully grown and three
’ small ones on one stem. The seed, Mr.
Mabry tells us, were procured from Texas
last spring.
Upson Cotton.
We are indebted to Win. Stewart, Esq.,
of this county, for a full open boll of cot
ton taken from a stalk on the 30th ult.
This specimen looks beautiful.
Le Bon Ton
For August is received. If you wish
the latest and best fashionable monthly
( journal extant, enclose $5 to S. T. Taylor,
4u7 Broadway, N. Y., and you will be
i gratified. The Bon Ton is the only relia
ble fashionable journal, and its information
is months in advance of all other similar
publications.
Opposition Meeting.— The Delegates
~f lt Opposition party tor the county of
Monroe, held a convention in the Court
! House in Forsyth, August 2d, and nomi
! nated Hon. R. P. Trippe, for the Senate of
the State of Georgia ; and W. N. Clarke
and Thos. Settle, for Representatives. Col.
Trippe and Thos. Settle being present ac
cepted the nomination. — Forsyth Educa
’ tional Journal , August 4.
Clopton Elected!
Wo confess to great disappointment and
mortification at the result of the election
in the 3rd Congressional District of Ala
bama. It proves that all
powerful to beat down every independent
and manly stand for the rights and honor
of the South. So long as this feeling pie
vails, it will be useless to talk about unit
ing the South in defence of her honor or
J,, f4 1 !1. —lll ..1 .. t. oVu ou rcß<lorcl,
as hv the English compromise, to promote
the ends of party.
The following are the reported majori
ties of the district. Some. ’t>f these may
be incorrect, but errors sufficient to change
the result can hardly he expected. The
vote of Macon and Tallapoosa counties is
really surprising and needs explanation :
Clopton's Mai's. Judge's Mai's.
Russell, 37
Macon, 24
j Chambers, 75
Montgomery, 102
Autauga, 2
I Tallapoosa, 270
408 102
I Another report gives Judge 1G majority
in Macon, with Honey cut and Aberfoil to
hear from, which are expected to increase
it slightly.— Columbus Enquirer.
Columbus Sun.
This excellent daily, we are pleased to
! see is much enlarged and improved. In
the issue, July 30, the editors say :
“ This is the fourth aniversary, or the
I first day of the fifth year of the existence
of the Daily Sun. It is useless now to
allude to its progress ; its many readers
and friends have doubtless witnessed its
growth and prosperity with pleasure. We
to-day present the first number of the fifth
volume, in an enlarged form. This ena
bles us to give more reading matter, and
affords additional accommodations to ad
vertisers. The liberal patronage bestowed
on the enterprise encourages us to renewed
; energy, and we commence the work of the
new year with the determination to meet
fully the wants of the community.”
Y e learn from the Columbus Enquirer
; that I>r James J. Irby, of Hamilton, in
this State, was killed on Tuesday last, by
a stroke ol lightning as he was getting out,
of bis buggy to enter his office.
THE UPSON PILOT, SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUST (J, 1859.
For the Up.-h Pilot.
TO MISS E •
OK PASSING IIER ONE EVENING. %
I caught the eye of Eleanore,
One evening wandering along, .
When tearful clouds were hovering <*r' r
And lurid lightning flashed — |
And fiercer did the thunder roll,
Beneath the cerulean sky ;
When softly to me a whisper told,
I was struck bv her beauteous eve.
*
Oh ! sweetly I was wont to stay
To linger round that lovely form;
For lightning there would never play, j
Nor even dare to do her harm.
Her waivy hair did softly stream —
Upon the winds as they passed by,
I thought she was the prettiest being
That ever walked beneath the sky.
And when I passed, ‘‘those eyes of fire - ’
Did beam so brightly on me, Oh!
They kindled in me more desire
To live and die for Eleanore.
ERA&IUS. ;
Talbot county, July 26th 1859.
“University of the Soul^J*
Under the active exertions of the Right Raerends.
the Bishops (Polk and Elliot) of Louisiana and teorgia, >
the sum of $340,000 has already been subscried fori
the benefit of this stoat enterprise. The “ Udversity 1
of the South ” is designed to be one of the firsjliterary
institutions of the world, and the whole South] should
take an interest in its success. —Holly Spring^Herald.
The information communicated above,
must be gratifying to every patrij, phi
lanthropist and Christian. How utterly j
worthless, how barren in good friits are
most of the political questions fiat so;
fiercely agitate our land and make usaliens j
in feeling and sentiment, when we should
he brothers, compared to such noblebnter- |
prises. How insignificant the strips of
petty demagogues, the strugglcsof sectional
factions, the defeats and triumphs of mere j
party captains, or even the developuunt of
the material resources of a country tfhen
contrasted (in a government like oim) to
the expanding, strengthening and reining
of the immortal mind, and so fashioning
the imperishable spirit that it may! fully
understand its true relations to God and
the world—to time and eternity.
The site of this proposed University was
fixed by a Board of Trustees assembled at
Montgomery, Ala., November, 1857, at
Sewannee, Tennessee, near the base of the
Cumberland Mountains. When this loca
tion was .first selected, much was written
and spoken concerning the unhealthiness
of the spot ; but time, science and expe
rience has demonstrated that it combines
the finest natural advantages of climate,
.. ..vl *.•• I •
of being reached by railroads built, and in
progress of building, and is in close prox
imity to the boundaries of Alabama, Geor
gia. and the two Carolinas.
We would regard the completion of this
University as the grandest qnd most excel
lent enterprise of the age. TV would afford
to the South unequalled lite|'aTy advan
tages, and bind us together in thought, in
feeling, in manners, language, laws and
religion, closer than by Iritoks of iron or
steel. Railroads and telegraphs arc but
the productions of mind wielding matter
to its will —but not mind itself. They, in
the progress of ages, will be superseded or
perish like many of the arts of Egypt and
Acayrio, , but mind, thought, feeling, are
indestructible, and for good or eviWyib
retain impressions when the sun is blown
out like a candle by the breath of Omnipo
tence. To give this “vital spark of Hea
venly flame” its greatest purity and bril
liance—to afford to this subtle essence its
widest expansion and force —to teach this
thinking, feeling, joyful, suffering and act
ing mystery within us, and the immortal
part of us, its true powers and destiny and
direct it to the real purposes of existence
here and hereafter, surely this is an object
of incalculable value. This, the founders
of this institution of learning expect to do.
and this, we have no doubt, they will ac
complish, with the means, moral and ma
terial, at their command.
The attempt to teach everything-'it- a
very short time, and nothing thoroughly,
is one of the greatest evils of the day.
Every day we meet with graduated dunces
who neither speak, write or read their
mother tongue like Christians. Small
and girls are now considered by partial
teachers and fond fathers and mothers,
proficients in all the sciences, when in
truth, they have not mastered even the
rudiments of reading, spelling,
arithmetic. This false standard ot* educa
tion is calculated to reverse the laws of
revelation and nature, aud make children
wise, when only bliss hut
innocence ; and contemptible,
because associated witdi mental and m
imbecility and degradation.
To plant deeper and broader the founda
tions of Southern education —to elevate and
adorn its superstructure —to cleanse* its
passages and courts from all
delitv and taints of sectionalism aimfar3i
---4 f
cal sectarianism—to teach truths scientific,!
literary and religious, that have withstood J
the test of ages and now remain conseera- j
ted and embalmed in the blood of martyrs j
—to tell not only what to think, but how
to think; and learn not only how to live,
but how to die ; and while the intellect is
strengthened and expanded the heart is
purified and the manners refined—these,
we learn, are some of the objects of the
founders of the “U niversity ot the South. (
We hope the friends of Christianity and
learning will realize their most ardent an
ticipations in the speedy accomplishment
of this grand and noble enterprise. May
its influence permeate into every nook and
corner of our country, giving mental, moral
and Christian life and health to millions
of youth for all generations. If we are to
take an exalted position as individuals or
as a section in the scale of humanity and
nationality, we must begin at home. We
must foster our own institutions of learn
ing, and fan the fires of genius that burn
on our own hearthstones. Let us be true
to ourselves and we must then be true to
God and country.
. For the Upson Pilot.
Tux Returns of l j>*ioii County.
No. of Poll, 924 ; No. of Professions,
29 ; Free Negroes, 2 ; No. acres of Land,
1 229,746 ; No. of Slaves, 4,982 ; Capital in
I Manufactories, $>170,410 ; value ot Land,
j $1,390 415 : Town property, sll4 450 ;
! Slaves, $3,435 347 ; Money and solvent
Debts, $983,301 ; Merchandize, $92,426 ;
I Furniture, $19,491 ; aggregate value ot
1 Taxable Property, $6,502 890; average
value of Slaves, $690.
For the Upson Mot.
Mcriwctlier anti Talbot.
Mr. Editor, Dear Sir: —Permit me a
! small space in your paper, to correct some
misrepresentations that have gone out in
regard to some resolutions passed at anew
county meeting, held on the 2nd day ol |
July:
The report has gone out, that we resol- j
ved at that meeting to support no man lor ]
the Legislature, unless lie was in favor ot
; new counties. It is strange that the op- ,
* position would place such a construction
upon that resolution, detrimental to the j
interest, of that portion of Meriwether and
] Talbot, who are seeking nothing but their ■
just rights. \\ e resolved in that meeting,
ito unite and forget past political difter
■ cnees, and vote for a man who would rep
resent us in the formation of anew coun
i ty out of Meriwether and Talbot, and not
a man who is in favor ot new counties.
7?tVc’ttm’ ere W or a renurVmn V'’ tm*
Legislature. We believe that it one hall
| of the members elected to the Legislature,
were put in the Penitentiary to work and
: pay their expense, while there, the State
would be relieved of a heavy tax, and their
wives of a considerable burden.
Now in asking for anew county, it is
not to burden the Legislature with more
members, but the interest ot the people
demand it, and we ought to have it.
1 learn our Greenville friends are much
opposed to us. If they can give any good
reason, why our portion of the State,
should he cut into counties of convenient
; size, while another part should not, I would
| be pleased to hear them.
Northern, North-western and Soutli
i western Georgia, are being cut up into
! small counties of convenient size, to all of
| its citizens ; and why not middle Georgia ?
It is the tax paying portion of the State,
and entitled to all the benefits of Govern
ment that any other portion of the State
can be. Our proposed territory it is true,
will be small, but some larger than your
thumb nail, and will vote from 400 to 600
voters; will pay as much tax as any new
county, made in Georgia for the last ten
I years. If we are able to educate our chil
j dren, build our Court-house, Jail and
Bridges, without calling on the State ffir
! aid, then who should object. The response ;
is, it will increase the number ot Legisia
■ tors and thereby retard legislation, and
; tax the people with both, the increased J
I number of legislators and delay of busi- i
ness. Then we say as we have said to out J
: opponents, come up and lend us join aid
’ m correcting the basis ot representation a>
! practiced by the Legislative authoi it} M j
I Om-gin, and make a proper reduction ol
its members, and there will be no cause
for opposition to new counties.
There are many counties in (.Teorgia
that have not one sixth part of the Repre
j gentative population that Merivether lias,
and yet they are entitled under our pres
; ent basis of Representation to a Senator
and Representative. While Meriwether
and Talbot, with six times as many vo
j ters are only entitled to one Senator and
two Representatives. They have no more
j power in the Senate of Georgia, than one
sixth part of her representative popula
tion has in another part of the State.
MAGDALENA.
July 29th 1859.
♦
Sad and Fatal Accident. — Mr. John
Polhill, a very estimable young gentleman
; of this city, employed in the survey of the
Macon and Brunswick Railroad, was fatally ■
injure ! last week, while in discharge of his
duties, by the falling of a tree which struck
him on the head. He was brought to this
city and died at the residence ot his bro
ther, B. M. Polhill, Esq., a few hours after.
ll n con TAcarctph. July 19
Opposition State Convention—Half Fare.
We arc authorized and requested to give |
notice that all persons attending the Op
position Mass Convention in this city, on
the 10th instant, will be passed over the
Atlanta & West Point and Georgia Rail
roads at half the customary rates, provided
tickets are procured of the Agents before j
entering the cars.
We are also informed that all Masons
wishing to participate in the ceremonies of
Laying the Corner Stone of the New Ma
sonic Temple, in this city, on the 11th in- ‘
stant, will he passed over the Western &
Atlantic Railroad at half-price, provided
certificates of membership are exhibited to
the Agents at the several Depots before I
leaving home, or to the Conductors on the :
trains.
Persons on the line of the Central and
Macon & Western Railroads will be furn
ished, on application to the Agents of those
Roads, with tickets at a great reduction on
the usual fare. —Atlanta American.
Capital Pniiifclanieut.
The recent trial of the negro Alfred, lor
the crime of murder, suggests the subject j
of capital punishment to the writer. YVe
have no common-place platitudes to oiler
on this theme, and only mention it to note
a few peculiarities in the people of the
west, in regard to carrying into effect the
criminal code. One peculiarity, is the
readiness with which they resort to lyneh
law. By the first blast of indignation they
are frequently hurried forward to deprive
a fellow-man of life without a hearing and
without a trial, but let their passions sub
side, and the case must be very aggravated
in which they will sanction capital pun
ishment. Reason would seem to dictate a
different course. llardyT pioneer habits
would be expected to beget inflexible ideas
ot justice, and a sternness in the law un
known in the older States, while at the
same time, the criminal code would be ex
pected to be more strict in order to meet
tlie requirements of a lawless population.
Such should be the case. Hue good result
would follow—desperadoes would then be
certain of stern justice, whereas now they
frequently trust to the positive dislike
which persons manifest for executing the
law, as well as to the laxity of the law it
self. True the penitentiary is pi ten
brought in requisition, but penitentiaries
in the west are somewhat like the jails—
liable to tricks of witchcraft and not un
frequently open to some mysterious ‘•se
same/ 7
Another thought suggeefs itself—were
t liecr i min cl laws more strictlyexecuted, w<
would have legal indictments for carrying
concealed weapons, for where the court voi
! untavily relinquishes the punitive pv. ei
|or carries it out inadequately, every indi
i vidiial feels authorised to b ‘come his own
protector, and, too, frequently, his own
I was first established, and in proportion to
I its inefficiency will be tbelawlessness of in
! dividuals.
AVe hope the day is not far distant when
the majesty of thelaw will be acknowledged,
and juries will regard it irot only a -urious
I responsibility to take tlie life of a fellow
man. but likewise a serious matter to suf
fer the guilty to go “unwliipt of justice/’
and to jeopardise the lives of good and
worthy citizens by fallacious ideas of right
; and erroneous notions of what is charitable
and merciful.
The above remarks are made with no
reference to any special case, but we be
lieve will be found personally applicable. —
I Arkansas Democrat.
Procrastination#
The greatest misfortune from which a
! man can suffer, is to be a procrastinator,
i Not'onlv is procrastination the thief of time,
but it is the ruin of a person's prospects
in life it leads a man into trouble and
confusion, and most ultimately lead to in
digence, if not to utter destitution. There
is Tit least one golden rule to success, and
that such a simple one, that tire veriest
child can fulfill it. This rule is, not
to put off till to-morrow what can be
done to-day. And yet, strange to say,
with the most perfect appreciation of this
golden rule, we, all of us, break it. more or
less, every day. AA T e should bear in mind, i
when inclined through laziness, to draw
draughts on tomorrow which we can read- :
ily pay to-day, that we do not get rid of j
the payment, we only transfer it to anoth
er time, when a thousand circumstances
may arise to prevent us from fulfilling our
contract, In the experience of us all, who j
ever knew a man who procrastinates, suc
ceed? In the very nature of things, it is ;
impossible be should do so ; heis only hea
ping up work which will ultimately break
him down. A man who procrastinates is
haunted constantly by the reflection that
he ought to have performed such and such
a duty ; and so far from tbe period which
elapsed between the time that be ought to
have performed it, and the time he is oh- j
liged to perform it—being agreeably spent,
the procrastinator is absolutely wretched,.
and determines that he will do better in
the future. He keeps Lis word until some !
other duty comes before him for fulfilment, 1
when the same old story is enacted over
again. The fact is, procrastination is a I
disease which it requires tbe most potent
remedies to get rid of ; tbe best yet dis
covered, and which, indeed, have proved a
specific, are stern determination, persever
ence, and a proper exercise of God’s great j
gift to man—reason. — Baltimore Family
Journal.
In Austria no one can receive a license
to marry unless he is able to subscribe his
name with his own hand to the certificates.
Arrival of tlic Overland Hail.
St. Loris, August I.—The overlap I
mail, with San Francisco dates to the 2?j I
of July, has arrived.
She reports the seizure of a large f
tity of coffee which had horn shipped U
the Captain of the runaway bark Messvcv I
Bird, from Tahiti.
Extensive gold diggings have been J
covered on Walker’s river. Consider}; j
excitement prevails in Nevado and hid,,,
rado counties in consequence.
Open hostilities have been coimn y. ‘
between the Creeks and Cherokee ludi/. ‘
in consequence of some of the latter b ind
murdered by the former.
New York, August I.— The steams]
Northern Light has arrived, with Am;,
wall dates to the *23d July. The revolt I
tion in Peru had been suppressed, aiul an
amnesty granted.
Inclined to be Quarrelsome.
We heard that Prince of sfory-ie'.
Tom Calloway, get off the following amids.!
bursts of laughter, the other night. Squar-j
ing'himself and stretching out his legs, h
began :
“ There was once a little slim built fel
low. rich as a Jew. and independent astli
devil, riding along the highway in the State
of Georgia, when he overtook a man driv.
ing a drove ul hogs by the help ot <ili:H
raw-boned, six fi*et two, specimen of hu
maniiv. Stopping the last named individ
ual In* accosted him :
“ I snv, are those your hogs ?”
“No. sir. Pm to work by the month.”
“What pay might you be getting. ;
friend ?”
“ Ten dollars a month, and whisks
throw* and in. 7 ’ was the reply.
h Well, look here, I’m a weak little in
offensive man, and people are apt to im
pose upon me, d'ye see Now, 111 give
vou twentv-live dollars a month to id l
along with me, and protect me,” was3lr
Gardner’s reply, “But,” he added, as lb
thou gilt struck him, “how might you b
on the tight ?”
“ Never been licked in my life.” rejoined
the six f >otev.
i “Just tbe man I want. It's a bargain?’
quevit and (in drier.
Six-i’ooUT ruminated. “ Twenty-fiv
dollars—double wages, and nothing tod
but ride around and smash a fellows mu:
occasionally when he's missy. Six-1 “!:
accepted.
T lie v rode along till night, when tie
reached a village. Dismounting at tie
door, they went in. Gardner immediiitC
singled out tin* biggest man in the io .
and picked a fusswithhim. Alter conn 1-
erable promiscuous jawing, (Gardner turim:
ito iiis lighting friend and intimated do
| tlu‘ li king of the man had become a pain-
I ful necessity. The six-looter peeled, von
• nr. t*rtr4 - t tvrn rtTTt ill
The next night, at another hotel, tl
same scene was re-enacted, Gardner gr
ting into a io.v with tin* biggest manir
the place, and six-footer do ng the figtit
ing.
At last on the third day ihev emne toi
ferry, kept by a huge double listed mac
woo bad never been licked in his life.H
Whilst crossing the river, Gardner asustj
al began to find fault and “‘blow.’
The ferryman naturally got mad, and
threw things round kind o’ loose, and to!
his opinion of their kind. Gardner the
turned to his “from the’ shudder/’ and
gently broke the iintelligence to him tW
lie was son v, but “ it was absolutely nec
essary to thrash that ferryman.” Six-footd
nodded bis bead, hut said nothing. L”/ jl
plainly to be seen that lie did not rd/
j tbe job, by the way be shrugged his shot
dors, but there wa> no help for it, Sovi/
they reached the shore both stripped an
at it they went. Up and down the hr
1 over the sand info the water they lou/
j scratched, gouged, bit and rolled, till no l
j end of an hour the ferryman caved. G’
: footer was triumphant, but lie had
I work. Going nj > to 31 r. Gardner, his em
ployer, he scratched his head a men. • I
i and broke, forth :
“Look here, Air. Gardner, your sal
sets rnity well —but I’m of—the—
—that, you are inclined to be quarrJ'M
Here I’ve only been with you three da*
and I've licked the three*biggest men ink
country! I think this here firm had!”
ter dissolve, for you sc c, Mr. Gardner,!*
afraid you are inclined to lie quarreboC’
and I reckon I’ll draw. —Bahama Ov.A
Rather Cult ting*
Some few years before Daniel Web/"’
death, the same raft of scurilous edited
who now occasionally disgrace them#;/
by maligning his memory, because
could not bend him to tlieir - |
narrow purposes, were in tlie habit of L i
sonally attacking him in tlieir column?, -j
connection with his private affairs, ant H
pcciully made a point of the alleged k-i
payment of his debts. After a good
of provocation of this kind, Air. AVefetj
yielded, in one instance, to the very nat**
impulse of administering a deserved th/-
mortTfying rebuke to his assailant. f
dressing him a letter, among other tig
Air. Webster remarked as follows: “*/
true that I have not always paid myde
punctually, and that I owe money,
cause of this is, that I have not p rt g
those who owe me for payment. As & -
stance of this, I enclose your father *’
made to me thirty years ago , for ‘
lent him to educate his boys.”
Peace has been concluded between ■’
contending powers of France, Sardinia
Austria.