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TIIOMASTON, GEORGIA:
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Saturday Morning, March 24, l^-
Extmr! Irons Senator Iverson’s Speech
at Grill'in.
“The loss of Kansas to the South was tle legitimate
and inevitable fruit of the ‘squatter sovereignty’ ele
ments of the Kansas-Nebraska bill, ot construed and
enforced by its Northern authors and friends.”
tS - The Ivlitor is absent this week, at
Talbot Superior Court,
University of the South—Plan of the Schools.
The Savannah Republican says :
‘*Wc are indebted to the courtesy of a
friend, for a copy of the report of the com
mittee of Trustees appointed to prepare a
draft of a Constitution and Code of Stat
utes for the University of the South. It
is worthy of the intelligent gentlemen to
whom the difficult task was intrusted.
The Committee state, iu their report,
that they were put in communication with
our various foreign embassies by the Pres
ident of the United States, and through
them obtained the most authentic informa
tion respecting the practical working of the
most eminent institutions of learning iu
Europe. Some members of the Commit
tee also visited the most distinguished
4mcrienn .col lews and institutions tor tbo
purpose ot personal inspection, i lie re
sult of the whole investigation, and of a
comparison of the documentary and other
means of information, was the adoption of
tbe eclectic plan of organization. The mem
bers of the Committee that make these re
commendations and sign the Report are :
Bishops Polk of Louisiana ; Elliott, of
Georgia ; Rutledge, of Florida, and Lay,
of Arkansas ; Rev. Dr. Pise, of Tennessee,
and Messrs. Fairbanks, ot Florida ; Coup
er of Georgia, and Fogg, of Tennessee.
It is proposed that the University shall
consist of thirty separate schools. The
following list of these departments will be
interesting :
• 1 4 School of Greek Language and Lit
erature.
, 2. School of Latin Language and Liter
ature.
3. School of Mathematics.
4. School of Physics.
5. School of Metaphysics.
6. School of History and Archaeology.
7. School of Natural Sciences, with
Cabinets and Garden of Plants attached.
~8. School of Geology, Mineralogy and
Paleontology.
1). School of Civil Engineering, Con
struction, Architecture and Drawing.
• . JO. School of Theoretical aud Experi
lijental Chemistry.
11. School of Chemistry, applied to Ag
riculture and the Arts.
12. School of the Theory and Practice
of Agriculture, with Farm attached.
13. School of Moral Science and the
Evidences of the Christian religion.
14. School of English Language aud
Literature.
15. School of French Language and
Literature.
16. School of German Language and
Literature.
17. School of Spanish Language and
Literature.
.•18. School of Italian Language and
Literature.
k; l9. School of the Philosophy of Lan
guage.
20. School of Rhetoric, Criticism, Elo
cution and Composition.
-.21. School of American History and
Antiquities.
.22. School of Ethnology and Universal
Geography.
• 23. School of Astronomy (with Observ
atory) and Physical Geography.
24. School of Political Science, Political
Economy, Statistics, Law of Nations, Spir
it of Laws, General Principles of Govern
ment and Constitution of the United
States.
25. School of Commerce aud Trade, in
cluding the History and Laws ot Banking,
Exchange, Insurance, Brokerage aud Bouk
k vping.
26. School of Theology.
27. School of Law.
28. School of Medicine.
29. School of Mines and Mining.
30. School of Fine Arts.
“The degree of A. B. may be conferred
upon such students as shali have gradua
ted in the Ist, 2d, 3d, 4th, 13th and 14th
of the above schools ; and the degrees of
A.-M. upon such as graduate in those just
specified, together with the sth, 10th,
15th, 20th, 24th, ami either the 16th,
17th, or 18th, as may be chosen by the
student.”
Fire rx Mouile. —A disastrous fire oc
curred in Mobile on the 13th inst, destroy
ing a large number of buildings, including
the theatre and 2,300 bales of cotton. Loss
estimated, $300,000.
FsTThe Virginia Legislature has be- J
fore it a pi ©position to require all North- [
ern men, settling in Virginia, to take an
oath of allegiance to the State.
Terrible Accident, j
We learn from the Savannah Republi
can, that the Steamboat Manning, which
runs on the Attamaha from Hawkinsville
around to Savannah, exploded her boilers
on the night of the 12th inst., killing Jcf- j
fersou Taylor, Jo*. B. Williams, John.
Harrell, aud Jacob Parker, (whites) and \
eight or nine negro hands. Capt. Taylor
am? some other passengers were badly,
though not fatally, injured. None of the
bodies of the dead had been discovered at
last accounts, though a portion of their
clothing had been found in the trees. The
accident occurred in Coffee county. There
was no insurance upon the boat, which is
only two years old, and wasvaluedat sls
- She belonged to Messrs. Brigham,
Baldwin & Cos. of Savannah, whose loss
will be heavy, as both the boat and cargo
have been lost.
National Democratic Convention.
As it seems contemplated that the place
of holding t lie convention shall be chang
ed, we would recommend Augusta to the
! attention ot the proper Democratic Au
thorities. In spite of the insinuation of
the Constitutionalist that there is “but one
hotel and that is the Planters” we have
several just as good, and should the regu- j
lar hotel facilities be insufficient, there is
Captain Sprawls , who can accommodate
some thousands.— Augusta Dispatch.
You are right Brother “Quill.” We’ve
“hcarn”. of that man “Sprawls” before. —
He has plenty of room, but no cover. He
accommodates the drinking folks, and has
nothing to eat. This is ail right. The j
times will be too hot for cover ; and as for
eating that’s all stuff, while there is plen
ty of whiskey—Old corn is preferable.—
The meaner the better. Just announce
the arrival of a large supply and you’ve
got the tiling dead. Pilot.
State Convention.
At a consultation of the State Execu
tive Committee of the Opposition party of
Georgia, held this day (all the members
being present or consenting thereto, except
Col. Milledge, of the Eighth District) it was
unanimously resolved to issue the follow
ing call :
©
The citizens of Georgia who are opposed
both to the mad schemes of the anti-slave
ry party of the north and to the abuses
and extravagance of the Democratic party
—to all interference by one section with
the domestic institutionsofanother, wheth
er in the States, or in the Territories which
are the common property of all the States
—who believe the constitutional right of
the South to a free enjoyment of the lat
ter, with her property of every description,
both just and indefeasible—who eschew all
sectional political parties as inimical to the
public tranquility—who reverence the con
stitution aud advocate respect and obedi
ence to all laws passed in pursuance there
of, and to the decisions of the constituted
judicial tribunals of the land, are request
i ed to meet in their respective counties, as
early as practicable, and appoint delegates
to a State Convention, to be held in the
city of Milledgeville, on Wednesday, the
2d day ot May next, for the purpose of ta
king such action as may be deemed expe
dient, in reference to the approaching pres
idential election.
Tiie Committee.
*4* Editors, throughout the State, will
confer a favor by giving the above a few
insertions.
Macon & Augusta Railroad. —The
City Council of Macon have adopted a res
olution for submitting to the popular vote
of the city the question of a subscription
of fifty thousand dollars to the above road.
The amount is so far below what was ex
pected, we presume the friends of the en
terprise will regard the resolution, as evi
dence of Macon’s intention to give the pro- j
ject the “cold shoulder.”
Immigrants.— According to a commu
nication from the Department of State,
laid before the United States Senate bn
the 2Sth ultimo, the whole number of pas
sengers that embarked from foreign coun
tries for the L’nitcd States during the year
1859, was 155,509, of which 207 died on
the passage. The males numbered 96,078,
females 58,743; eox not stated 481. The
number of males that died on the passage
was 124; number of females 83. The num
ber that arrived in the city of New York
was 113,270; New Orleans, 11,232; Bal
timore, 3,762; Boston, 12,379.
The Shoemakers’ Strike.— lt is esti- j
mated that 15,(XX1 shoemakers are engaged
*•O O j
in the strike iu Massachusets and New
Hampshire, and it is supposed that work
will probably not be resumed until next
fall, as there are large stocks of shoes on
hand, and a diminished demand for them.
If this supposition should prove correct,
the strike will cost a loss of over $2,000,-
000 in wages, besides the loss of the man
ufacturers’ profits and the interest upon
their investments.
Visit of the Prince, of Wales.—On
the authority of the Quebec Gazette it is
stated that a suite of some twenty persons
will accompany the Prince of Wales to
Canada, among whom will be the Duke of
Cambridge, the Duke of Newcastle, and
Major General Bruce.
Seaator Iverson, of
track of tome gentleman of the lobby who
reported his vote ftr have been sold on one
or more measures of the last Congress.
For the Upso Pilot-
Tl*e Railroad.
Mr. Editor :
Believing yorr feet a deep interest in the
prosperity of oirr Town, and of coursedn
our Rail Road, I beg a small space in the
columns of your valuable paper to make .a
few remaks in relation to our Rail Road, -
and if they can be carried out without de
lay think that the Road can be saved to
its present stockholders. To do this it
will be necessary to have concert of action
on the part of all concerned, and a deter
mination to do their duty so far as they
may be able. It is well known that the
Road is indebted to some considerable
amount, and that it must and ought to be
paid, and the sooner the better.
Now in the first place I would propose
that every stockholder should abate his
stock one half; this would leave the capi
tal stock of the company at about (SSO,
000) fifty thousand dollars. From the
past year’s business of tbe Road, and the
certain prospects of increased business for
the future, the earnings of the Road would
more than pay 7 per cent interest on this
stock, and the capital stock might be in
creased to ($70,000) seventy thousand dol
lars with a certainty to the stockholders of
a dividend of 7 per cent.
Now I propose in as much as the Direc
tors in their individual capacity have as
sumed an indebtedness for the Company
and the cost of the Road being too great
to iuduce new issue of stock upon its pres
| ent cost, that the abatement suggested
above by each be made, and
that ($20,000) twenty thousand dollars
: new stock be offered, and the right secur-
I CU LU IIJU VIVI BWMWIWUCID HI IUIU. UIW OUlllv.,
provided they will do so in time, if not,
then sell to any one else—this will make
the Capital Stock of the Company (S7O,
j 000) seventy thousand dollars and will
raise ($20,000) twenty thousand dollars
to pay on the indebtedness assumed by the
Directors, leaving a balance to he provided
for of about ($15,000) fifteen thousand.
It is confidently believed the Road can
pay annually 7 per cent on a Capital Stock
of ($70,000) seventy thousand dollars and
reserve a sufficient amount to pay annu
ally ($1,500 or 2,000) fifteen hundred or
two thousand dollars on the remaining
unpaid ($15,000) fifteen thousand dollars.
The Stock of the Company being ($70,-
000) seventy thousand dollars, aud the
Road paying an interest of 7 per cent “on
the same, would increase the value of the
Stock to par and greatly enchance the in
terest of the Stockholders from what it is
now.
That such a desirable object should be
consummated and the Road saved, it is
proposed that the Directors postpone the
sale of the Road to the first Tuesday in
Ma\, and call a meeting of the Stockhol
ders for trie first Tuesday in April, and
| consult with them and see if the proposed
arrangement cannot be carried out.
I For the information and satisfaction of
; all concerned it is desirable that the Presi
i dent and Secretary make a full showing
| of the expenditures in the construction and
building of the Road and its equipments
Ac. at the meeting proposed in April. Let
1 every man lay aside his prejudices and
personal feelings and come up like men
and thething can be fully accomplished.
CITIZEN.
Washington City Correspondence of the
Upson Pilot.
Washington City, D. C., )
March 17th, 1860. j
Everything assures us of an early Spring.
The trees are putting forth their buds and
the little birds are wont to sing. The ver
nal groves will soon echo with their plain
tive strains, while the forest will put on
its velvet green. Sweet Spring, we will
welcome thee with thy odors and flowers.
About the national capital, many things
are transpiring to furnish topics fur con
versation aud various speculations. The
genius of the press and the usual acumen
of the politicians are ever active alike to
subjects ot interest and importance.—
Whether there is any proof for the asser
tion or not, it is rumored that the late in
forma'ion received by the President from
the Governor of Texas, evince very clearly
the future policy of that sagacious States
man. From the frequent attacks made by
the Mexicans on the frontier of the State,
it appears, that it will follow as an inevit
able consequence, that some means must
soon be employed to resist all incursions
aud depredations of the lawless banditti.
Instruction from Lord John Russell, has
been recently conveyed to the English Min
ister at Mexico, in order to effect a nego
tiation of peace between the contending
parties of Miramon and Juare. What
the results will be, we are not as yet in
formed. It is also stated that the Indians
have united with the Mexicans to make a
successful attack on Vera Cruz.
It is now said under existing affairs in
that country, Geu. H. is looking forward
to the time when he thinks he will be jus
tifiable in declaring war to receive indem
pi tie® ftytfoe* marry outrage* tfct hare
eofffrmtted on American citizens and prop- i
erty. The North rather hints that the
South would like to acquire some territory
m that direction- which may open a wide
field tor the extension of slavery.
The Black Republicans are proving them
selves to be the most scheming party after
all. By the Executive Committee of Wash- J
ington, there has been recently a private j
circular issued appealing to all the good
and earnest participants in the cause of
libertv. to rally under the Republican ban
ner and fend a helping hand in the coming
Presidential election. Quite three hun
dred thousand copies of the late speech of
Seward has already gone forth to rouse the
North to a sense of their duty. The Roch
ester speech of 1858 has found anew cir
culation, and that everlasting Helper Book
is going to he the great Campaign docu
ment for all intriguing Republicans, black
and white. Thousands of dollars are cal
led for to aid in the irrepressible conflict
of 1860.
The news comes fresh from the South,
that the Hotels of Charleston are goiug to
make fortunes at the sitting of the Nation
al Democratic Convention. Surely, Charles
ton would not be so avaricious as all that.
It will prevent the object that is intended
;to be accomplished, by such exorbitant
prices as are seen stated in the newspapers.
In consequence of this, the Committee are
now considering the practicability of se
lecting some other place more favorable in
the opinions of the party, where they can
practice economy as well as sit in Conven
tion. It is hoped that the cupidity of the
Southern Hofei proprietors, will not carry
them beyond all bounds of reason and com
mon sense. If some other arrangements
are not made soon, the Committee will cer
tainly be sensible of their duty in choosing
immediately some other place more appro
nriatc Bhit.oprrf.nt an
North Carolina Union Convention.
—Among the speakers at the late North
Carolina Convention, held at Raleigh, no
i one was listened to with greater satisfac
; tion than the Hon. Geo. E. Badger :
Mr. Badger said that he was no speech
maker—that he was an old man now, and
that he had arrived at that time of life
i when speaking was irksome ; but he bad a
i few remarks to submit on a few points in
; the resolutions which had just been read,
j The resolutions had not exaggerated the
! condition of the country, especially in re
! gard to the misconduct of Democratic pol
! iticians and office-holders in our State and
I country. The differences between the
; North and South had been caused by the
| course of that party on many questions.—
( The Democratic party is continually cal 1-
; ing attention to impending difficulties, and
t have proposed terms for a remedy which
no man of honor can submit to. We
must endorse their platform or he denounc
ed because we do not! They design to
consolidate their party by fixing stigmas
upon those whom they know to be as de
voted to the Union as themselves.
01 ‘serration has shown that our . condi
tion cannot be ameliorated under Demo
cratic rule. We must unite to drive from
power those who have done us much harm,
and we have yet to see that they have done
us any good. Let our great Union party
bring back the union and the prosperity we
once enjoyed. 1 have always been a whig,
a Clay v big, and my conscience lias never
smote me for acting under its flag. We
have no one at the helm of the ship of
State now that we can trust ; therefore let
;us bury differences and unite to save the
country ; let us he careless of what, may be
said by others and press forward united to
victory ! And old men must soon puss off
the stage of action, I call upon our young
men to come forward and occupy it. Why
should doubts of success thwart us ? Our
j cause is right and we will succeed for the
| reason that right always receives assistance
from above. If our party fails, and if we
fall in the common ruin, let us have the
i satisfaction of knowing that we fall advo
cating a good cause.
But Democracy and Abolitionism will
yet fall. [Applause.] We should all un
derstand what the ad valorem resolution
means. It means that all shall bear equal
! taxation in proportion to their wealth. It
is certainly just, who will deny it ? lam
: sorry to see opposition to it. There is noth
ing in it but what is just and fair. I
would have opposed it before the compro
mise of the amended Constitution of 1835
had been violated by the Democratic par
ty, in passing the bill for free suffrage in.
I the Senate ot the State. We were all
bound by that compromise, but when vio
lated on ilu- <ne part ii became invalid on
the other, and lam therefore in favor of
the change in favor of ad valorem. I hope
the protests will be withdrawn. Camden
is all whig except a few heretics unworthy
ot notice. Honest old fashioned whigs
will not oppose ad valorem. Let them
know that I say so. Mr. B. spoke for 35
minutes.
Methodist in Georgia.— There are,
within the bounds of the Georgia
Conference - - - - 78,856
i In that part of Georgia attached to the Fieri
ida Conference 10,000
In that part of Georgia attached to
the Holston (Tenn) Conference, - 584
Local Preachers, - - - - 584
Travelling Preachers, - - - 200
Members in the Reformed and Con
gregational Churches, - - 5,000
Total number of Methodists in .
Georgia. - 95,640
Arrest of a Swindler.
Baltimore, Mil, March 11. —William
S. Bagley was arrested here to-dav, on tel
egraphic information from Savannah, charg
ed with fraudulently obtaining $21,000
from the State Bank of Georgia, at Savan
nah. He lias been committed to jail to
await a requisition from Georgia.
_ jut.. Bill ir I I M IM imr~ ‘ “ ~~~
From, the New York Mentor.
The EtlVet of the Passion® on Tfmial
and Physical Health.
The passions that are implanted in our
natures are a fruitful source of disease,
misery, and ignominy, and when uncon
trolled become the bane and reproach ot
our nature. Blit when kept under a wise
restraint and watchful culture, they are
rendered our richest blessing and fairest or
nament. Fortunately tor our race, the pas
sions are subject to the control oi a ptoper
education. Were it notfor this, man would
be truly the most miserable and unfortu
nate of the entire animal creation.
There- is one great and important truth,
which is, that the soul or mind, in all well
-1 organized persons, maintains a certain em
pire over the body it animates; and this is
of infinite use in preserving life and health.
The ancient sages who wrote upon the
philosophy ot health, dwelt especially on
| the importance of n prudent government
jof the passions and affections. Galen, and
many others, urged forcibly that the mind
j should be early trained in virtuous habits
as the best method of insuring the health
of the body. Avery able writer on Hy
giene says ; ‘‘When we consider the care
.lossness and mismanagement so often cx
i hibited in the early training of the young,
| how* many children are literally educated
under the influence of bad examples, and
: worse precepts, inured to falsehood, bypoc
l ricy and intemperance, in its broadest sense
we are almost led to wonder that human
! nature does not not grow up still more cor
rupt than we find it.”
Mental depressions, such as grief, shame,
despair, fear, and all these, and many oth
ers combined, or operating in a mixed con
dition, proceed both from physical and
moral causes. There are circumstances
where the brightest prospects bestow* no
happiness, where, in the midst of every out
| ward comfort, the heart is still heavy, and
we discontented with ourselves, tired of
I existence, disgusted with all around us,
find no joy in the present nor hope in the
future.
The ancients ascribed these mental de
: pressions to a redundancy of black bile,
and regarded the spleen as a reservoir in
which n wow liciu. Ttie word metauchuß
is derived from two Greek words, meaning
black and bile. The excess of this dark
: bile in the spleen they imagined gave rise
i to the peculiar, sallow* complexion we find
jin melancholic temperaments. Though
j this theory ui black bile in the spleen may
be absurd, yet much ot the reasoning of
| the ancients was well grounded. That the
: condition of the biliary secretion exercises
a material influence on the mind’s tran
-1 quilty, that unhealthy or obstructed bile
| imparts a sallow*, gloomy tint to the com
plexion, will hardly be doubted in our
: time. The common expression, “to look
| with a jaundiced (ye,” means simply to
view things in their son)broils aspect. —
Hence it follows that a deceased or disor
dered liver is among the physical causes of
| a disordered mind.
i Many of us may have read of tho dread
’ ful sufferings of the poet ‘Cowper, at times
amounting to actual despair, growing out
1 of the pbysico-moral malady termed mel
ancholy. Cowper’s physician asserts that
from infancy his patient constantly labor
ed, more or less under an unhealthy con
dition of his digestive organs. He was of
a dyspeptic, habit, and his fits of melan
-1 clioly were always attended with pain and
giddiness in the head. We can thus sym
pathize v.’ith him, where, in one of his let
| ters to lady Haley, he says : “I rise in the
: morning like an infernal frog out of Ache-
Iron. covered with tho ooze and mud of mel
! ancholy.”
A morbid or irritable condition of the
inner or mucous coat of the stomach will
; oftentimes impart such an influence to the
mind as to deaden all the susceptibilities
of enjoyment, and oppress it with the hea
viness of despondency.
In early life Gowper became tho subject
of religious melancholy, believing sincerely
that lie. had committed the “unpardonable
| sin,” and consequently that eternal pun
ishment was his doom. At one time bis
mental agony was so great that he indulg
ed serious thoughts of committing suicide.
His melancholy, with occasional remissions,
pursued him through the whole of his
wretehard existence. Too close mental ap
plication, and uncontrolled passions, were
not the cause of the derangement of his di
gestive organs, as the latter condition at
tended him in infancy. From the day of
his birth lie exhibited a sickly and over
sensitive constitution of body, and morbid
predispositions. All the disordered men
tal and bodily functions of this great poet
may be attributed to a derangement of the
digestive apparatus, including the liver as
an appendage to that apparatus.
But mental depressions, sorrow, grief,
, despair, and fear, are sometimes the cause
of deranged and disordered stomach and
bowels. The protracted operation of sor
. row is exceedingly liable to induce ilyspep
| sia, and all its consequences. There is
hardiy any part of the body, or any func
tion, in fact, that grief will not injure or
derange; but no nart or function feels its
depressing effects more tlnn the stomach
and other digestive organs. We could re
fer to dozens of.medical authors who tell
us that long continued grief and anxiety of
j mind weaken the tone of the stomach, de
! stroy the appetite and digestion, and occa
sion a great number of morbid symptoms.
Chronic inflamationschirrus, and even can
cer of the stomach, will succeed deep, con
tinued grief.
I Bonaparte died of an extensive ulcera
tion of the stomach, which Ids physicians
! pronounced cancerous. That his malady
originated or was excited by deep sorrow*
and chagrin, arising from his painful re
verse of fortune, and the real or imaginary*
wrongs he received while on the island of
St. Helena, is more than probable. True,
the father of Napoleon fell a victim of can
cer of the stomach, and the son might have
been predisposed to the same disci isc. Ad
mitting this, his complaint was developed
and hastened, if not primarily produced
by the depressing passions which torment
ed the latter period of his existence. No
signs of the disease were ‘disclosed til! a
year subsequent to his arrival on U, t . ( i,.
ry i)ai*I r when he began la
an uneasy sensation in the stomach. 0
The liver, too, is one of the first or r
to participate in tho morbid effects of ,^!‘ s
tal digestioa. Its secretion ?s diminhi
or obstructed,, whence constipation o fp
bowels, sallowness of the skin, and air ° I
of symptoms follow, generalized under \vL
physicians term bilious. Even f ;l } a ] u
ganic changes sometimes occur in the ]] ■ ‘
by the operation of deep and prolon. j
mental sufferings. Obdurate sorrow y]
often produced a. total wreck ot all u? I
powers ami affections of the mind, lenv - I
a hopeless idiocy as its mournful son>v ‘ I
Mental Hygiene is one of the most ( ’.p
ly interesting subjects of study in the v} I
routine of medical science, and it is sti I
that it is not made a particular departing I
of instruction in our medical schools I
colleges. There is not, as we know of * I
single medical institution in America wli I
has a professor on Mental Hygiene.
From V/a liiit^ton.
Washington, March 20. — In the Sen- *
ate, Mr. Wilson, of Massachusetts, intr,„ |
duced a hill for the construction of five
steamers, for the suppression of the skv j
trade on the coast of Africa.
Mr. Gwin, of California, introduced |
hill somewhat similar to the House hill
for one overland mail route to California
Mr. Green, of Missouri, offered a joint
resolution to adjourn over from tho 20th
April to the 20th May, which lies over.
The Florida claims were discussed in the
House.
The National Executive committee wer#
considering the propriety of holding &
meeting to endeavor to quiet ap|inhe
sions as to the incapacity of Charleston to
accommodate visitors to the Convention I
and to confer with the hotel proprietor*d I
that city in relation to their charges.
Indian Massacre in Oregon.
St. Louis, March 20.-Ad vices from Or
egon state that the whites had simultane
ously attacked the Indian villages <>n Kei
river and indiscriminately massacred threo
hundred men, yvomen and children.
Death of Commodore Geisingf.r.-O* I
list of notable deaths is again enlarged, and
11)is time by the death of a naval hern.— [
Commodore David Geisinger, of the Uni- j
ted States navy, died on Monday, ntliis
residence in Philadelphia, aged seventr J
years. Born in the State of Maryland, lie
became a midshipman in 1806, and in tho 1
second war with Gn at Britain, was in tto I
sloop-of-war Wasp, in her bum us cruise l
on the English coast in 1814. When the j
Wasp captured the Biitisli brig Atlanta, I
and sent her to Charleston as a prize, Air.
Geisinger was put in command of her-*
fortunate thing for him, as the Wasp was
never again heard of 11 is commission a*
Captain dates from Muvss. 1838, twenty*
nine years after he entered the service
He was, for many years, stationed at (lie
naval Asylum in Philadelphia, lie wm
sovonHi mnniiir 1 he CuniaihS oil 1 lie referr
ed list. —( Oi llZsil/lli> .ZtDi
Drowned. — The Charlotte (N. C.) Bul
letin states that G. C. Lmdenhall, Esq,of
Jamestown, Guilford county, X. G\, was
accidently drowned in attempting to find
i the Winn ie River, on Friday last. 1(1 insi.,
I about 20 miles below Jamestown. llin
! body, horse and buggy have been red ver*
I ed and the funner was interred at Jaaica*
town on Monday last.
J-jijW On Monday morning last. Jaim* 1 1
English, engineer in the moiling mi!!, 11
Wyandotte, Michigan, was found dead II
with 1 1 is feet on the ladder reaching to the I
shaft, and liis neck pressed down upon the I
shaft. It is supposed that he liad gone up |
to oil the shaft, and that the ends oiVwII
cravat, which were flying loose, caught, &id|j
that he was thus drawn down aml chok'd 11
till life was extinct.
A Toast.—At a celebration at l’ort <Jcr-|
vis, the following sentiment was given by II
Joseph Gibson ;
Intemperance. -Tiffs great Railroad freto |
respectability to Ruin—Mankind the only j
freight —the Devil its Superintendent— j
the Board of Excise its Directors—l*"®* i
sellers its Engineers and Conductors— y
Tippling Shops its cars— Distilleries it*
Locomotives—Prisons and Insane Asylcn* l
its Depots and Station-houses-in-track, I
built on broken hearts and ruined fortune®
With the help of a just God. and the Main*
Law, we’ll annul the Charter —discharge
the Engineers and Conductors— reverse tb i
steam aud save the Freight.
Somebody says that a young
should always ask the four following I
tions before accepting the hand of D J
young man:
Is he honorable ?
Is he kind of heart ?
Can he support me comfortably ? .A
Does he take a paper and pay i Q a
vance ?
When may a man be said to be 1 i terally i
immersed in business ? When lie’Bg l ’ j
a swimming lesson.
There is a man at Totnes who> walks £ I
slow that they say he wears a pair of s P a : I
to keep his shadow from treading oD I
heels.
ill f
“Ma, it you will give me an apple- D v ‘* I
1 be good.” i 1
“No, my child, you must not be go I
for pay—you ought to be good for h ° ’
ing.” ‘
Whetting a R azor. —A young
had just began to shave for beard, I
into a barber’s shop, and after grandl
ger, desired to be shaved. The barbel I
through his usual movements, [ ll j‘ I
young sprig jumped with a ■
claiming, “Maw foine fellow, what s ’ j
chawge ?’ “Oh, no charge, was tb’. u Q ( . I
“No chawge ? how’s that ?” r I
are always thankful when we can iff
calfskin to whet ourrazoi on.”
What is Fashion ? , jn I
Dinners at midnight, and hcadiK 11
the morning.