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hy g* Miller, Terms $2 00 A Year, in Advance* the UPSON PILOT, Thomaston, Georgia. Gr. A. M ILL EPbiV Editor and Proprietor. PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY MORNING. Terms of Subscription. In advance, for 1 year, * $2 00 If payment be delayed 6 months, ... 250 If delayed until the end of the year - - 300 CluT) Liates. Jingle copy, £2 00 Five copies, 8 00 Ten copies, 15 00 Clubs exceeding ten, in the same proportion $1,50 each. Payment always in advance. o (Office over A. Worrill 4” Co.'s Grocery Store.) Rates of Advertising. Advertisements will be charged at the rate of one dollar |>er square of ten lines or less, and fifty cents for (•ach subsequent insertion. Professional Cards, not exceeding ten lines, will be inserted 12 months for sl2. Liberal contracts made with Merchants and others wishing to advertise by the year. Far Announcement of Candidates $3, invariably in advance. Marriages and Deaths inserted free, when accompa nied bv a responsible name. 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Sales of Lands and Negroes, by administrators, Ex- utirs and Guardians, are required by law to l>e held iu the lirst Tuesday in t lie month, between the hours often j ;l tin* forenoon and three in the afternoon, at the t mrt ILmse in the county in which the property is sit u -l. Notices of these sales must be given in a pub rj/etto forty days previous to the day of sale. Notice for the sale of personal property must be , .<\i at least ten days previous to the day of sale. Notice to Debtors and Creditors of an Estate must I published forty days. S dice that application will be made to the Court of I itniiuary for leave t<> sell Land or Negroes, must be ] niilMie l weekly for two months. I riudons for Letter, of Administration must be pnb- I lu ll'd thirty days—for Dismission from Administration. I wiithly six months —for Dismission from Guardian -1 Rn!s for Foreclosure of Mortgage must be published 1 m-erthlv for four months —for establishing lost papers 1 brthe full space of three month* —for compelling li If* from Executors or Administrators, where a bond Ike been given by the deceased, the full space of three flqnth*. I’tthlications will always be continued according to *jie t!i* requirements, unless otherwise ordered. I it the following R ATES t Citation on Letters of Administration, $- •• Dissnissory from Administration, 600 “ “ Guardianship, 350 Lav to sell Land or Negroes, 5 00 Biles of personal property. 10 days, 1 sq. 150 Biles of land or negroes by Executois, E'trays, two weeks, * 4 50 Sheriffs Sales, 60 df rtf/ 5 00 “ 30 - . . - 250 ITT* Mnnev sent bv mail is at the risk of tlie Editor, Provided, if the remittance miscarry, a receipt be ex hibited fro ni t ), e p, )S t Master. aProfcstfional (f <utb. A CARD. • TANARUS) R . B. W . S UATIK.S, I AFKKKS Ins serfices (o the citizens of Thomaston 1 ‘ imi “urrtrttuding community. I He will be found at his Office over C. M. Mitchell’s ; I Hniess stole, during the day and niglit, unless j ‘’"lessioHally engageit. ! February 4, 1860 —ly. I-- ; P. IV. Alexander, I I TT 0 R X E Y A T LA W,\ Thomaston, Georgia. I nor 25,1859—1 y CL A. MILLEU, ATTOK NE Y A T LA W , Thomaston, Georgia. - Vabui, C * t - G0,,,, ’ Warren & Gfiode, 4TTO II S E YS A T LA W Perry, Houston Cos., Ga. sot 18, 1858—ts THOMAS BEALL, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Thomaston, G drgia. Mil IS6o—ly E. A. &i J. W. Spivey, AT T 0 II KEYS A TLA W , THOMASTON, GEORGIA. Au ?- 27, 1859. n4l tt. William G. Horsley, ATTORNEY at la w , Thomaston, Georgia. 1 A ILL practice in Upson, Talbot, Taylor, C raw fold, Monroe. Pike and Merriwether Counties. Vil 7. 1859—1 y. NY. C. Moore, Resident Dentist, THOMASTON, GA. I (j pp ICE over DR. THOMPSONS’ store, |1 1 am prepared to attend to all 1 Dental Operations. My work v *J-U_l_U_r I I GRANITE"haII, OPPOSITE THE LANIER HOUSE, 1 Ji acon, Georgia. B.F.DENSE, , (Late of the Floyd House,) FOrBIETO, LETTER FROM HON. JOSH. HILL, j U. S House of Representatives, } Washington, Jan. 14th, 1861. ) Editor of the Chronicle & Sentinel: Dear Sir, — I cannot thank you too warmly for your prompt and generous de fence of me, against the malignant assaults of certain ultra partisan prints of our State. I hope for the honor of human nature, that none of my assailants read the reported proceedings of Congress, as published in the Globe. It may be that they derived their information by Tele graph, that modern mercury, whose polit ical messages contain about the same rela tive proportion of truth to falsehood, as did Fulstuffs “tavern reckoning” of bread to sack, “hut one-half pennyworth of bread, to an intolerable deal of sack.” Monday, the 31st of December, was a tumultuous day in the House. Members from the South and members from the North, appeared defiant of each other, and alike desirous to exhibit a dogged deter mination to yield nothing to the spirit of I conciliation and compromise. Mr. Pryor offered the following resolu , tion : “ Ile^olved , That any attempt to pre serve the Union between the States of this Confederacy, by force, would he impracti cable and destructive of Republican liber ty,” and demanded the previous question on its adoption. Mr. Stanton, of Ohio, moved to lay the resolution on the table, and called for the yeas and nays. I preferred an adjournment lest the I other course might increase irritation. I moved an adjournment, saying “my object is to put a stop to all this resolution-mak ing business in the House, as it is fraught with nothing hut mischief. Every resolu tion on the great subject, in my judgment, is unprofitable.” Mr. Hindman said, “We are ready to meet this question.” Mr. Crawford asked for a vote on the resolution now ; and desired the with drawal of my motion. 1 replied, “No, sir ; I shall insist on my motion ; and I will endeavor to prevent all other resolutions of a like character coming in, either from one side or the other.” My object was well understood in the House—it was to keep out all exciting topics. It is true, that I did go to Mr. Pryor, and tell him, that apart from my objections to considering any such mere abstract questions, I thought the resolu tion imperfectly drawn, even to express ...1 A 1 1 1 —• *1 I*o 1‘ * T ut U t u/1 that I was not opposed to the use of force by the national government, tor the pre servation of the Union between the Slates, when used against mobs standing in oppo sition to the execution of the Fugitive Slave Law, or lawless and murderous hands of robbers, such as John Brown led into Virginia. I insisted that such use of force, was not incompatible with the rights of the States. Mr. Pryor agreed with me, and desired a member from New York, standing by. or myself, if opportunity oc curred, to offer the necessary amendment, qualifying the resolution. The House re fused to adjourn. The Globe then quotes me as follows : “Mr. Hill said, that having learned that the resolution would he mod ified, if not laid on the table, lie would for the present, vote in the negative, out of respect to the mover.” “Air. 11. subsequently said, that inas much ns consent cannot he obtained to modify the resolution, he would vote for laying it on the table, as he would, in fu ture, upon all resolutions on the same sub- j feet coming from individuals. By this Ii meant that I desired to leave all questions | hearing on the peculiar state ot the coun try to The Committee of thirty-three, ex clusively. j . By reference U) the reported proceedings j of the House, it will appear that 1 have j adhered to my pacific purpose ot excluding, as far as in fri* power lay, all unnecessary and exciting resolutions, and aiiesting sec- . tional debate. lam satisfied with my ae- j tiofi. I ofily regret that 1 have not al- ( ways been successful. i have tried to pursue that course that I bbheved would best promote an adjust mi nt of the unhappy strife now raging he- j tween a divided people. 1 have not played false to the convictions ot my deliberate j judgment. While 1 hope for the approval of the people I repre sent, I must be my own judge as to the best mode of serving them It is far easier to yield to a clamor than to follow the dictates of reason ana conscience. I know of no reward compar able to self approval. # I If even now it he a crime to labor earn estly to preserve the Constitutional Union j of the States, let me, by my own confess ion, he adjudged guilty. But I am tar from seeking its perpetuation by the sub- j juration of seceding States. Mv devotion to Georgia makes me un willing to see her take to precipitate flight from The Union, before all honorable efforts to restore and preserve it, have been tne and failed, the is a great State, and may , well afford to rest in security upon Her ability to protect herself whenever the ex igency arrives. . . . n 1 trust that an appreciative public reward you liberally for your constant de votion to their best interests. As for the carpings ot petty. crogues, I regard them no more than tl velpini of so many curs. Incomprehen sible as it is to them, I want DOt '", nS the hands of people or rulers—and tha places me on an eminence beyond the reach of their detraction. THE UNION OF THE STATES: - DISTINCT. LIKE THE BILLOWS; ONE, LIKE THE SEA.” THOMASTON, GEORGIA. SATURDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY l Nil. A generous adversary will give me the benefit of this explanation. I shall see who is capable of such magnanimity. Very respectfully, Y T our friend, Joshua Hill. HON JERE. CLEMENS. In the Alabama Convention, on the 11th ult., the Ordinance of Secession being up for adoption—when the name ot Hon. Jere. Clemens was called, he arose and said : Mv President : Each member of this Convention, however unpretending may have been the obscurity of his past life, this day writes a name in history which will endure long after we ourselves have passed from the stage of action. In honor or reproach, in glory or in shame, them it is stamped, and stamped forever. Under such circumstances, I feel that a word of explanation as to my course will not he out of place. 1 shall vote for this Ordinance ; hut frankness and fairness requires me to sav that I would not vote for it if its passage depended upon that vote. Jf it was left to me to decide whether this plan of resis tance, or another, should be adopted. I have already indicated strong preference for that other which you have voted down. As matters now stand, my vote will not affect the decision of the question here in one way or the other. I am looking beyond this Hall, and beyond this hour. The act yon are about to commit, is, to my appre hension, treason, and subjects you, if Un successful, to all the pains and penalties pronounced against that highest political crime, or noblest political virtue, accord ing to the motives which govern its com mission. \\ hatever. may be our opinion of the wisdom and justice of the course pursued by the majority, I do not choose that any man shall put himself in danger of a halter in defense of the honor and rights of my native State without sharing that danger with him. I give this vote, therefore, partly as an assurance that I intend, in good faith, to redeem the pledge which I have made a gain and again, through the press, that whenever the summons came to me to de fend the soil of Alabama, whether it was at midnight, or at midday—whether I be lieve her right or wrong, it should he free ly, and promptly answered. Sir, I never had a doubt as to the course it became me to take in such an emergen cy as this. I believe your Ordinance to he wrong—if I could defeat it I would; but I cannot. It will pass and when passed it i/thwiui'a uK’ act ui ulemateol Aiauiiiua. As such I will maintain and defend it against all and every enemy, as long as I have a hand to raise in its defence. As an earnest that I mean what I say, I am about to place myself in a position from which there can he no retreat. I have other reasons, Mr. President, which I do not mention here, because to do so would, in some measure, counteract them. They are known to my friends, and there I shall leave them, until time and the course of events shall render their pub lication proper. For the present, it is euough to say that I am a son of Alabama; her destiny is mine ; her people are mine; her enemies are mine. I see plainly enough that clouds and storms are gathering above us ; hut when the thunder rolls and light ning flashes, 1 trust that I shall neither shrink nor cower —neither murmur nor complain. Acting upon the convictions of a lifetime, calmly and deliberately I walk with you into revolution. Be its perils— he its” privations —be its sufferings what they may, I share them with you, although as a member of this Convention, I opposed vour Ordinance. Side by side with yours, Mr. President, my name shall stand upon the original roll, and side by side with you I brave the consequences. I vote in the affirmative. Little Children’s Dresses.— Naked Arms and Necks. — A distinguished phy sician who died some years since, in Paris, declared ; “1 believe, that during the twen ty-six years I have practiced my profession in this city, twenty thousand children have been carried to the cemetaries, a sacrifice to the absurd custom of exposing their arms naked.” I have often thought, if a mother were anxious to show the soft, white skin of her baby, and Would cut out a round hole in the little thing’s dress just over the heart and then carry it about for observation by the company, it would do very little harm. But to expose the baby’s arms, members so far removed from the heart, and with such feeble circulation at best, is a most pernicious practice. Put the bulb of a thermometer to a ba by’s mouth the mercury rises to 90 deg. Now, carry the.same bulb to its little hand. If the arms he bare ant! the evening cool, the mercury will sink to 40 deg. Ot course all the blood which flows through these arms and hands must sass from -0 to 40 deg. below the temperature of the heait. Need I say that when these cold currents of blood flow hack into the chest, the child’s general vitality must be more or less compromised ? And, need I add, tid we ought not to he surprised at its fre quently recurring affections of the Rings, throat and stomach ! . , 1 have seen more than one child with habitual cough and hoarseness, or choking with mucus, entirely, permanently relieved by simply keeping its arms and hands warm. Every observing and progressive physician has daily opportunities to wit ness the same simple cure. THE DISMEMBERMENT OF THE UNION. The following letter, translated from the “Courier des Etats Unis,” and copied into several Northern journals, is repro duced here for the benefit of our readers ; New York, Jan. 10. IS6L “Mr. Editor : You were perfectly right a month ago, in recommending an appeal to the people in order to terminate this question of the South against the North ; and doubtless the Congress of the United States, after a month of haranging, will recommend this popular vote. It is high time that there should he an end to it all, for our great model republic is about to become the laughing stock of all the sov ereigns of Europe. Nevertheless, I have a hope that the Union will stand, and that it will he stronger than before. The Uni ted States, as they now’ stand, are respec ted by all the nations of the earth ; hut if they were to divide themselves into tw’o or three confederations, then w’ould begin re clamations from all the powers which might think themselves entitled to make them. “As I saw the fall of the French em pire in 1814 and 1815, and that each pow er regained often more than it had lost, I can tell you what would happen here in America, if the United States separateand find themselves reduced to civil war. In the first place, France would retake Lou isiana, according to ancient treaties; Spain would reclaim Florida ; England would appropriate Oregon and several other States ; Mexico, under English prelection, would retake the territory of New Mexico, Texas, and California ; and England might perhaps keep California as an indemnity for the subsidies furnished to the Mexican Government in this war against the former United States. “Now you will ask me how these re sumptions could take place, and by What right; this is very easy to explain. It is Louis Napoleon who would begin by a very simple and logical process ot reason ing J for every one knows that Napoleon 111 aims at consolidating all that Napole on I had in view with regard to foreign policy. Now, Napoleon I, in 1804, ceded Louisiana, to the United States for the sum of five millions of dollars, which the Government of the United States engaged to pay to the American merchants wdiose goods and ships had been seized during the wars of the French republic, from 1792 to 1801. But as the United States have not paid the aforesaid five millions, and as, for more than forty years, we have seen shrrgv French spoliation bill, which lias never been passed ; therefore, as soon as the Union shall Ik> dissolved, those who claim this sum will address themselves to Louis Napoleon, and I have no doubt, con sidering his character, that he will pay their demands and retake Louisiana. En gland, who suspects something, has already ordered ships-of-war to the Gulf of Mexi co. See how Providence, having such an instrument as Louis Napoleon to work with, can bring everybody hack to harmo ny.” L. L., “Who wears the St. Helena Medal ” Northern Citizens at the South.— It is computed that at least one million of the citizens of the South, are natives’ of the Northern States .who have settled in the South, and in many instances inter manietl with Southern families, and are among the most loyal and public . spirited of the population. This is especially true of Georgia, South Carolina, and Louisiana. Charleston has a large proportion of na tives of the Northern States among her population, and the city of Savannah is, in its habits and aspect, more like a sober, business New England town than a South ern city. New Orleans and Augusta have each a large Northern element, and there as elsewhere Northern adopted citizens are among the most valuable and reliable nSefif in the community. As Paul Jones, Lord Sterling, Baron StUben, Montgomery and others were among the most ardent, faith ful and efficient friends of their adopted country in the war of American independ ence, so we ever find the adopted citizens of the South the foremost in loyalty and devotion to the land which they have cho sen as their home. Most of them, like Gen. Greene, a native of It node Island, who so successfully achieved the deliver ance of the South in the Revolution, made that sunny land their abiding place from congeniality of spirit with its generous and chivalric people. The number of citizens of the North of Southern births is also very large. They may he found every where in the most remote portions of New England, and are scattered all over the Northwestern States. There are more na tives of Virginia now resident in New York than of New Yorkers resident in A irginia. In many instances they too have inter man ied into families in the land of their adoption. Thus linked together by the most sacred ties, what new and unspeakable horrors are involved in the idea civil war ! Does it not become all good men, all men who have humanity, all men who are not given over to'hardness of heart and derrfouiacal malice and cruelty, to labor with their whole sorr'ls. and to besiege the throne of Heaven with their supplications, that this hitherto, the happiest oi all nations, may he saved from such an unnatural collision and fearful catastrophe ? — Balt. American. Schiller, the German poet, tells us that within our own bosoms are the stars of our destiny. The Riulit Spirit. The following, from a communication by the Reverend D. IT. Milter, a Connecticut Baptist preacher, to the Christian Secreta ry, breathes an excellent spirit: The time has come for Christians to pray fertile “peace and prosperity” of the land; the time has come for ministers of the Gos pel to preach the Gospel, and leave politics to the politicians to undo, as far as possible the evil which a departure from ministerial duty has produced ; for td the political par tisan preachers, more than to any other class, is to attributed our present troubles as a country. My love to the country —North, South, East, West, with all the sectional ills to he found leads me to cry. “God bless thee my country J” It is now that the firm believer in the doctrine of the sovereignty of God, in alt the purposes and plans of life, is en abled to trust with comforting assurance that all will, end well ; for He who hath said, “better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof” is “the Lord God om nipotent” who reigneth over all.. Talk not of “two nations” —of “disun ion” —it cannot he ;it must not he. Let the provisions of the “fugitive slave law” be enforced ; let the “personal liberty bills” he repealed ; give, if need he, all protection to the South demanded, for slavery where it exists, but let not a dissolution of the Union take place. Is it possible that the time is coming when two American armies are to meet in deadly conflict ? “when they shall march to battle by the music of their undivided national airs, and with the undivided mem ories of the Revolution still fresh in their minds ?” A war, this, of families ; of child against parent, brother against brother; Christians of the same denomination against each other ; impossible, it is too horrible ; let it he prevented by a union of patriotism —a love of God and man. O that God may direct the thoughts of In's people and lead to earnest pravof for the “peace of the land,” and direct the politi cal leaders of the country to such expedi ents as will perpetuate the Union, and so guide the nens of our editors that they may be dipped in love rather than worm wood and gall For the Union let us con tend with s"ch a spirit j and such a force, that the agitations North and South, ol’ secession and civil war, will yet gladly seek a hiding place in the folds of our nation’s | banner, the flag of a great, a glorious, a i united people. D. Henry Miller. Meriden, Pec. 1860. i. I tO ANA) 48m*— Jii vwiiuijw i l^’o 1 ’ * of the New American Encyclopedia, we read as follows : “Iu 1775, icltcn n‘ar tilth the iiiother country had become inevitable , the occu pation of Ticonderoga was determined on; and the task confined to [Ethan] Allen, who set out at once at the head of his Green Mountain boys, reaching Castleton May 7, 1775. A party was also detached under Capt. Herrick toward Skeneshor ough, and another under Capt. Douglas to Panton in the vicinity of Crown Point. — ; ( On th 6 morning of May 10, Allen, who . had previously been joined by Arnold, sur- | prised Ticonderoga, summoning Capt. De la Plaine, who commanded the post, to surrender in the name of “the Great Jeho- ■. vah and the Continental Congress.” By 1 this coup de main , txvo officers, forty-eight rank and file, one hundred twenty pieces of artillery, and a large quantity of small arms, were captured, and the command of the Green Mountains wrested from the English.” It is cufstomary now a-days to denounce ‘ the action of Southern States in seizing the 1 property of the Federal Government as robbery and piracy. In their opinion wa* 1 with the Federal Government “lias become inevitable,” and in self defense they now are seizing the positions which could he occupied by troops against them. The seizure of the English forts and property was accomplished everywhere in 1775 more than a year before the Declaration of In dependence, and the Southern States are doing the same thing only a t'cw days be fore the Declaration of ludependanee, from what they consider a despotism—as in 1775, three detachments were sent against I British troops, capturing Crown Point, Ticonderoga, and a sloop of war at Skenes borough. So, on yesterday three detach ments were sent from New Orleans to cap ture Fort Jackson, and the Arsenal at Ba ton Rouge. Whilst condemning the lat ter as an act, of piracy, let some of the heaviest phillipics be levelled against Ethan Allen and his confederates in 1775. A distinguished gentleman, ex-Governor of an Atlantic State, was employed few the defence on a trial for murder. The Gov ernor found it necessary, in the course of his speech, to comment with some seventy on the testimony of a witness for the pros ecution. In the nridst of a most search ing and logical sentence, wherein he was convincing the jury that the witness had sworn to more than the truth, he was in terrupted by a juryman—a tall, lank fel low, who rising, addressed the Gov rnor : “See here, Mr. Lawyer, I don’t wantyer to go on that way abusing me; I won’t j stand it ; I’ll break up the court if you do ; I didu’t come to he abused.” “My dear sir,” replied the Governor, in his politest manner, “I w’as alluding to the witness, not to you ; my remarks were not intended to any of the jurors.” “Well, then,” said the juror,” just quit a pinting your finger at me when you tak 1 that way.” LMitor and l^roprietor. Volume 3 Number 11. Lost Stars. —Those who study the hea vens say that often, a star drops out of the firmament or dies there, and is lost to sight forever after. It may have been the bright star of Wopfc of mlny a mariner on the un certain sea of life. Its calm, gentle radi ance may have shed good cheer and com fort upon many a path, dark with doubt, and sorrow, and dread. Like these drop ping, dying stars our loved ones go away from our sight. The stars of our hopes, our ambitions, our prayers, Whose light shines ever before us, fending on and up, they suddenly fade from the firmament of hearts, and their place is eippty and dark. A mother’s steady, soft and earnest light,- that beamed through all our wants and sorrow’s ; a father’s strong, quick light, that kept our feet from stumbling on the dark and treacherous ways ; a sister’s light, so mild, so pure, so constant and so firm/ shining upon us from loVirig eyes, and per suading us to grace and goodness ; a broth er’s light, bright, and bold, and honest / a lover’s light, forever sleeping in our souls and illunimirmtirig otir gOings jand com* ings ; a friend’s light, true and trusty — gone out —for ever P No ! no ! The light has not gone out. It is shining beyond the stars, where therp is no night and Qd darkness, forever and forever. • m —- - Extraordinary Bequest. —At Yitto ria, in Spain, recently, a edrioris ceremony took place. A wealthy citizen named In* dalecio de Santa Maria, who died lately, left by his will 300,000 reals, (about 75,- 000 francs,) to be distributed in eqrial por* tions among sixty girls of , thfe’ place, aged from twelve to eighteen, distinguished for their good conduct and filial piety ; but as the number of girls who cotfld claim that designation exceeded sixty, the municipal ity. ai the request of the eXeciltors, assem bled all of them in the town hall, and there, assisted by a committee of ladies, drew the. names of sixty by lot. Not few* er than four hundred and twenty girls were present, all neatly dressed in the pictures que costume of the district. Poomhs and Bboft Difficulty.— A Washington despatch of the 12th instant says :—“The report of the altercation be tween General Scott and Senfttot Toombs is wholly untrue. The facts are nsfollows : Gen. Scott, Senators Toombs and Benja min, and others, dined at the house of Mr. Corcoran on Wednesday, and the South ern Senators denounced the Union with passion. Mr. Toombs wished that the Star of the West could he sunk, but no discour tesy was offered to General Scott, and no difti.fjnlttr Sr*rtf hoc ?** Inorized a denial ot the report which has been circulated/’ At the Philadelphia anti-coefeion meet* ing on Wednesday night, a banner was dis played with the following inscription) NO CIVIL WAR. JUSTICE TO THE SOUTH. EQtJAt RIGHTS IN THE TERRITORIES. This covers the whole ground. It is and platform of pfifrciples which all true na* tional men can heartily endorse. There, will be no “union of hearts, and union of hands,” until these principles prevail and are asserted at the North. One of the small Stales of Germany having, on account of the unsettled ap pearance of the European horizon, deter mined to put its army upon a war footing, resolved, as a means, towards that end, to purchase the most improved weapons of war, and accordingly procured an Arm strong gun upon trial. Having got the gun, a great difficulty arose—they had no place to put up the target. Their otori space of Territory was not large enough ; and as none of the neighboring States were willing to allow it to be put up in theirs, 1 the trial had to be foregone. A Scotch parson in the Rump time said in his prayer : “Laid blues the grand council, the par liament, arid grant that they may all hartg together.” “A country fellow said .“Amen” very loudly, adding, “I’m sure It's the prayet of all good people.” “Friends,” said the minister, “I don’t mean as that fellow mearis. My .prayer is that they may all hang together in accord and concord.” , “No matter what cord,” replied the oth-* er, “so that it be but a strong cord.” Incorrect Rumors.— The Montgomery Advertiser, of Tuesday 2*2d, says : “One of the editors of this paper is at home on furlough, and will return in a few days to Pensacola. All rumors in regard to the re-inforeemont of Fort Pickens, or the vol untary surrender ot Lieutenant Slimmer, or the intention of Gen. Cass to make art immediate attack on Fort Pickens, are en tirely formed upon conjecture, and are in correct so far as the writer of this article has had an opportunity of ascertaining.” Women require more sleep than men, and farmers less than those engaged in any other occupation. Editors, reporters, printers, and telegraph operators, need no sleep at all. Lawyers can sleep as much as they choose, and keep out of mischief. The Worst Form of “Hanging.”— An exchange gives the substance of tbe ver dict of a recent coroner's jury on a man who died in a state of inebriation : “Death by hanging—round a rum shop.”