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BY JAMES GARDNER, JR.
01 BICE UN McISCTOSH-STREET
T«IHD OuOB rsox THI NCRTH«WHT CORNER OF BROAD
BTMKIT.
Sates of LAND by Executors, Adruiniutratorn or Guar
dian*. are •equirod, by tew, to be held on the tirst
Tuostiaaffa lh« month, between the hours of ten in
the foreboon had three a* the afternoon, at the Court
Hou*e ( . wWch the property is situate. Notice of
th«se raletTriust be given in a public SIXTY
DAYS neuaions to the day of »i’h
Salo** of must be at JfaMic Aucth.n, on the
first Tuesday of the mouth, betwv .1 Jhe osua! hours
ot* ®le. at the place of publ ; • county
v>here the Letters Testamentary* nr Adm nixtration.
or Guardianship, mar have been granted, first giving
SIXTY DAY’S notice thereof, iu one of the pubitc
Guettos of this Stole, »«i **» do » l of tho Court
House where such k.’.»s ar* ' ■’** h'l *■ ... .
Notire for »»,* *»le ■ . :' : ■■.;'• Property must be siren.
•’ 1 l*ia manner HTV ’** \A ' previous to dav ut salt- (
Retire to the Debtor, red Cre.rore of u Krt»te. must,
b* published fur FORTY DAYS.
Notiee that application will be u'sdo to the l o ” r s |
Ordinary tor leave t > *all LAND, must be published
for TWO MONTHS *». . . .
Notice .ter leave to sell NEGROES, must be published
TWO MONTHS, before any order absolute can be
given bv the Court.
' TERMS OF ADVERTISING *
One square. 12 lines, 7» canu the find insertion. and 50
ceut» afterward*.
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS. |
Sheriff’s Levies. 30 day*. $l5O per levy ; Wday*. $•» ;
Exeontor’s, Administrate*'* and Guardian • bale*, Real ,
Eatate. (per square Inline*.? J" I
Do. do. Personal EstateL- j
-Citation letters of Ad:nin?.<r.iXwn-• •J®
Do. db. Dismteslvu - *
Notice to Debtor* and Creditnrs-• t
Two Month*’Notices ** ’
Rule* Nixi. (monthly) $1 per re, each insertion. J
Obituary Nate<SM over six llaee. will be charged i
at the aun>* rst'"’)- aJverliseinei'U
LEGAL NO HCire
S”TO Native of iU» «1» of band M> I Sources by Ad-
miaMSvsters. Exoo.ilers ar ttnaTOi.**. tau-t be publish
ed FORTY’ DAYS previous to sue day of sale
g.T»N«Sie» to Debtor. anl CroAttor. of »n ostuto
must bo publish-.! FORTY DAYS.
s Nolle* that application will bo made to tho
- Court of Ordinalr for leave to *'ll Lend or Negroes,
in net be published TWO MONTHS, weekly
"-• « gjo» Notice of epalieation for Letter, of AdminUtre
i»a miirt bo on',’Wied THIRTY DAYS! *>>4 !-*»-
Ur. of Disrate- on of Fxreuters w Administrator*, SIX
MONTHS—DtsulAdoe «f ui>»r4rens. FORTY DAYS
"•p-Solos of pei- -at property nt a perishable na
ture. br the Aet of I?S2. to Mwcator* and Admiui-krs-
Uro. at the d;«Toi ; on of Oto Ordinary, upon not I ess
than TKN DAY'S r.'lice SGtes by readier Adiuinn'ra-
a- I* hail,as: - oc«
BP’3x‘--.’ - :'i-r i3tu the Wash-
iwgtan ■wriMsD’iSont ft the Chatleston Mereuni
•ruich w put-TiS ’■vift' fie found like all
the» rates from that Sagacious and caustic
writer, pithy ind forcible upon all the points it
• 'jiuthai It wwi already in type, and we had
jfeintended makiag some comments upon the se
if- verity of its strictures upon Gen. Cass speech
and hi- positions- when the latter ot the 21st,
came to hand. This, it will be ««n. tnukes the
J>ona,al>lf, and in handsome terms. It
supersedes what we would have said on the sub
.* c ‘-
Moro Fine Cotton.
We understand a lot of seven bales tine Upland
Cotton, from the plantation oi A. J. Lank, Han
ecc< county, was sold yesterday by Messrs.
Robertson Ac Crocker, for twelve undone halt
cent*. This Cotton was ginned with one ot
Oglesby’s Improved Cotton Gins.
Health of Charleston.
The Board of Health of Charleston repori
thirty-four deaths in that city during the week
ending -2d instant —18 whites and 2C blacks—
■ seven of the blacks by Cholera.
Bishop Ives.
The recent defection of Bishop Ives, from the ,
Protestant Episcopal Church, and his union with
the Roman Catholics, have excited much spec
ulation and elicited many comments, among
which, the following, being from papers ol his
own State, will be read with inteiest:
rt., [Frans tkt Wttmilt&Jn Cimntrcial \
u We have several times alluded to the course
S 4>f Bishop Ives,and believe we may now state
that be has become a membjr of the Roman
Catholic Church.
We would correct an error that exists among
the presses of our cou’.try. which have noticed
this matter, in regard to the influence Mr. Ive’s
. conduct will have upon the Protestant Episcopal
Church. We assure the public that so far as
the intelligent body of Christians who compose
the Diocese of North Carolina is concerned. .Mr.
Ive’s becoming a Roman Catholic will have
no more eflect on them, than would the news
that the Pope’s cat had kittened.
“It is the belief of many that Mr. Ives has
uwseveral years past, been periodical affected
with mental aberration. We hope 11; is true,
for reasons'ehicli it is not our duty.at present
to nafc-kn<?-Z. V
’‘One of £%» Clergv” of North Cawl •.. . <•. > > . ■;. “
to tba New York Times says, in reference to Mr.
Iv.-Sdpcetacy:
U I have rod reason to Know tue operations
and im-,, bions of the clergy of tins Diocese,
i speak with entire confidence, as far as one can
, be confident in such a case, that a truer
body of men to a true faith, exist no where —
that th sere is not the shadow of probability that
a single one can be found v.ho is i'.xeiy tj apos
tatize i nay, I go farther. I say whatever the
Bishop s influence may once have been, it is so
entirely gone, at least, for such a p jrpore, that I
do not Know, I do not believe there is a s:i..;le
man. woman or child, now living in and be
■fongicg to the Diocese that is at all likely to
follow his example—what those who are travel-
‘ ling with him may do. I can npt, say.’
•» P. 0., Axlastx, Gx.fW 24'h, 1853.
Janus Gardner. Jr., Esq.—
Sir - My attention has jtut been called to a
y communication in your daily paper of the 21st
inst., from this place, complaining of the irregu
;■ larity vs its coming to Land, and y our charita
tabie construction of the information, that the
lanlt nuutbe in the Atlanta Post Office.
I assure you, sir, that the fault is nat i'.i the
jftlanl'i nfice, and though yotr paper arrives ir
regularly, it never fails to fall into the hands of
your aubscribers here, as soon as we receive it
I admit the irregularity, as it is a sheet anx
iously sought after, and its failure to arrive is
esteemed a serious matter.
It was misdirected to Atheila a few days ego,
and this morning it Ims failed to eotrie —from
what cause I know not.
Very respectfully yours,
G. G. Smith, P. M.
•f By request we publish the above letter from
' the Post Master at Atlanta. If the fault is not
fe at hla office, we are at a loss to conjecture where
1* 4 it caa be. One of our packages may have been
rrrieslir«cted to Athens, in the hurry ol getting
off the mail, bufwe cannot imagine what de
layed the bundle ol the 24th, for it was put on
board the ears with the other packages for <lll
- We hope our subscribers will,
pf Wreafter, get their papers regiuarly. To our
knowledge, our papers have been regularly sent
the Georgia we know not of a Lril-
S are within ttx'put three months.
“/< Xlie<«msr og th* B*r IstAsds. —The
correspondent of the/Charleston
Courier says:
It seems now to he admitted that the “ Bay
’of Islands” is not among the “dependencies”
g, • npor the Belize, and is not, therefore, included in
.*■ the exception to the application of the Ciayton-
Bulwer treaty. The colonization of the Bay of
Islands, by tin* British, is therefore claimed to be
a distinct violation of that treaty. It appears
that the islands are inhabited only by a few ne
groes, whose principal chief is a runaway from
the United States, and that the British commo
dore of Belize has accepted homage from
them, granted them a stipend, and induced them
to raise the British flag. There is nothing in the
Trocedute, so far, to alarm the United States.
t is difficult to imagine wny the British Gov
ernment, after voluntarily giving up the protec
torate of the port of San Juan, which in the key
to the Nicaragua transit, should, in violating of
the treaty, undertake to colonize the compara
tively unimportant island of Roatan, to which
she made no prior ciairn, and the sovereignty of
which belongs to the State 1 of Honduras. The
probability is that the British Government will
disclaim the act of her functionary at the Be
lize.
The Macon Telegraph.
This sterling Democratic sheet has’changed
hands, Mr. Ross, the surviving partner of Ray
& Roos, having disposed of the paper to Messrs.
H-SK. Green, J. M. Green and P. Tracy, who
will conduct it in future. We wish them every
success.
The Macon Messenger, a Whig Journal, thus
compliments the new proprietors .
“ Messrs. J. M. & H. K. Green and P. Tracy
have become the Editors and Proprietors of the
Georgia Tdrgraph. They are all well known
in our community as gentlemen of character, of
talent, and of well-defined political principles,
and under their joint control, the Telegraph will
doubtless increase in interest and in efficiency,
as a newspaper and party orgag. Wishing
them success intheirflew avocation, We wel
come them to the editorial fraternity, and trust
our intercourse may be pleasant and profitable.
We give below the happy salutatory in which
they briefly define their position and the views
upon which they design to act in the conduct of
their journal.
Mr. Ross, the surviving partner of the firm of
Ray & Ross, withdraws from the paper, and our
beet wulies follow him in his retirement"
! American Railroad Iron.—The New York
j Banker'sCirculnr learns from a well authentica
| ted statement that American Railroad Iron
- manufactured from American pig, is in quality
' superior, by almost 3 fol, to the imported ar
ticle. The following is the test furnished by
I the engineers of the Reading Railroad—a route
i belter calculated than any other in the United
States, to try the qualities of iron rails :
Annual wear of English ir0n...4 1-10 percent.
! Annual wear of American iron, t 4-10 “
On lines principally lor the conveyance of
passengers, the wear is not so great, consequent
i ly the difference in favor of American iron is
less; but the nvergage disparity is about 2to
I in the wear, being the diti'erefTJe in cost lot
repairs. The Lowmoor iron, which atands
highest in the estimation of our railroad mana
i gers, is far inferior iu tenacity to ordinary Aine
' rican iron in use.
I Dr. Rank’s Nkw Expedition.—The Balti
j more Sun understands that Dr. E. K. Kane, o
(the navy, is rapidly preparing for his daring en
terprise of undertaking to find an open Polar sea.
Theex|iedition will comprise but about thirty
■ men, but it is to be of the most complete ebar-
I after in all its scientific and other details, and
■every man who belongs to it will be selected
for some particular qualication and some special
*’ I service in view fol him. Notwithstanding the
o ■ desparate chai acter of the enteipaise, we learn
o that volunteers for the service are constantly of
’• feting—only to be refused, for if we are not mis
i- informed, the little band of adventurers is now
X complete. The principal credit of this underta
king belongs to Henry Grinnell, of New-York,
and George Peabody, of London, who furnish the
•* ' means, but it should not ln> forgotten that John
• Pi Kennedy, the See■■■’ the» M ’'avy,has e”t*
* j suredtbe completeness of the expedition liv iua„
• i *iriH<H»tirwt I
the government. •
The Florida Ir.2i.ms. i
’ The Mobile Herald of the 19th inst..says:— I
We-had the pleasure this morning of an inter- :
view with Mr. S. Bridges, just arrived from ■
Tampa Bay. He is in charge of a delegation of I
Seminole Indians from the West, who recently j
: visited Tampa for the purpose ot inducing the ,
t 1 remainder of their people to emigrate to the te-
i gion allotted to them West of the Mississippi.— I
I But in consequence of the conduct of Billy Bow- I
i legs since his return from Washington, nothing
could be effected and the delegation accordingly
withdrew, and are now on their way home.—
The party left to-day, at 1 o’clock, in the mail
beat for New Orleans.
“There was no news of importance at Tampa
Bay, and nothing further had transpired in re
gard to Bowlegs, or his future purpose. Mr.
! Bridges did not see him, but understood he had I
I pledged himself not to take up arms again : nor ■
1 would he and his people remove West unless
force be employed, ft was also understood that .
i Bowlegs and a part of his followers had retired . i
• into their fastnesses in the everglades. Before !
I going he stated that the United States officer in ,
I command there, had advised him not to emigrate, ! <
I assuring him that in case of good behavior on \ i
i his part they would protect him. There is, i
- however, placed but little reliance upon what . 1
■ Billy says. | 1
: “ Mr. Bridges informs us that the Seminoles I <
are well satisfied with their new homes, that ; 1
, they are industrious and in a highly prosperous , I
1 condition. The delegates on landing in Fiori- I 1
da, coaid not help contras’ing their present pos- I i
sessions in the teeming and fertile West with the i i
i sandy and sterile appearance of their old hunting I <
■ grounds in the South, and seemed for the first ,
‘ time to appreciate fully the poverty of the soil '
lof the latter. No consideration would induce '
i them to go back to their ancient habitation." '
The State Road.
The Chattanooga Gazelle, of the 35th inst.,
after noticing the resignation of Mr. Wadley,
Superintendent of the State Road, says he will
be succeeded by Mr. Young, of Atlanta, a gen
tleman of some experience in the responsible j '
duty that he will undertake.
The Southern Presbyterian.—We learn, ■ (
(says the Federal Union,) that the publication ,
oftlbls I’aper uas baeu transferred to CharleeLfei.
We are gratified co hear thuii the piuspeet of a ; ,
i steady and increased support is fairer than ever. . ,
Its temporary suspension will not impair its en- , ■
or damage its prospects. Mr. Baird, its i
editor is now in Charleston miking airange
ments for the future.
i The seat of Mr. Benjamin, U. S. Senator from I
Louisiana, elected by the Whigs in place of I
, DoWng, may be contested. The new coustitu
j tion of that State requires all officers to be elect
led under it. The present Legislature, being
, j largely Democratic, may elect two of their own
, stripe to the United States Senate, and that body
I wfll have the question to decide between the
I present incumbents and the new ones, if elect
, ed. Mr. Benjamin was born on the island of St.
, 1 Thomas, and is.charged with not having been I
naturalized. This raises a very curious question, j
The South West Georgian, published at Ogle
thorpe, Ga , has been merged into the Southern ’
Democrat, published at the same place. The
Georgian was a victim to the credit system, the ■
; editor having been starved out in the laudable I
work of furnishing newspapers to non-paying- I
subscribers.
The extensive clock factory in Bristol, Con
necticut, belonging to Mr. Brown, was totally I
’ cotisumed by fire on Thursday night, together
with all the valuable machinery and materials.
The loss is estimated at $40,000, upon which I
■ tuare is an insurance of $30,000. It is not known :
: how the fire originated.
Important Decision.
I We hope our readers will excuse our delay in |
1 i publishing the following important information.
I . From the date of the first announcement of the |
5 decision we have not lost sight of the interest- I
1 ing subject, but fearing to be premature we have i
> ; waited for its confirmation. We now have the ,
- ’ most reliable foreign and domestic authority for i
s making the publication below. The decision i
• i h*s been made by persons of well known posi
’> ? tion in “what is called society, "■ and may be re
r ; lied on as authentic by the uninitiated. We ex
t I tract from the Homs Journal, edited by Nathaniel
P. Willis, whose claim to position will not be
Jenied.
Mr. Willis ssys:—“The disputed question— ;
l May a gentleman wear a fiock coat at an even- i
I ing party J seems to have been decided in the '
i affirmative; and, accordingly, young gentlemen '
■ take particular pleasure in wearing that long oh- ,
I noxious garment, wit;, the additional innovation '
;of black neckerchiefs. White waistcoats are ;
generally discarded, and white kids yield prece
, dence to gloves of color.”
There are other questions of grave importance
'to society at present under dismission. We pro
! rnise our readers to keep them in view, and as
' soon as they are authoritatively determined, to I
publish them for the benefit of all civilized com- i
munities and the rest of mankind.
: - '
TURfci'rt Iksukrzctiox.—Accounts from Con
. : stantinople. of the 16th, state that the B«ltan
had ordered Imai’ Pacha to advance with 14,000
| men against the Montenegrins. Unfortunately
[ ' for the Porte, seven districts had declared against
its authority, and, to add to the difficulty, Omer
> I Pacha, the Turkish Commander-in-Chief in the
f | disturbed district, had resigned. The Eastern
j ' Aranout districts have sided with the Govern
. inent, and request arms to equip 1,000 men.
The Alexandria, Va., Gazette learns that a
j variety of what are called “spiritual manilesta
z tions,” took place at the house of the Postmas
ter General in Washington, the other evening,
, iu the presence of Hon. John Bell, Gov. Davis,
f j Professor Henry and other gentlemen. Tables
; moved without apparent agency, danced to the
, tune “ Yankee Doodle,” and otherwise gave evi
dence: of being possessed by some extraordinary
f inUpince. The Gazette does not understand
s thatany professed ghost seer or medium was
j. present
I Massachusuits Statistics.— During the
( year 1852, the number of births in the State ot
' Massachusetts was 28,861, of marriages 11,966,
' and of deaths 18,931. During the last three
years, the annual average of births, marriages,
j and deaths to the population was one birth to
s thirty-six persons, one marriage in 102 persons,
I and one death in 58, During the same period,
the proportion of males has been 106 malesand
r 106 females. Consumption carried off more
than ten persons every day.
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY MORN 12, 1853.
Kcausr’s Patent Double Pointed Plough.
We would call the attention of planters to
this new Plough which is becoming very popu
lar. As the name indicates, it is a double point
ed plough, the shear being curved and made of
wrought iron,—the edges’ tipped with steel.—
By unscrewing a belt in the centre, the plough
shear can be reversed, and when the point is
worn, any blacksmith can easily put it in good
working order. Mr. Reaney is a Georgian, and
resides in Columbia co., where, we are pleased to
learn, lie is kept busily employed iu filling orders.
Col. B. S. Jordan, who is one of our largest and
most intelligent planters, we understand, oidered
two to make a trial with, and so well pleased
was he with their performances, that he has
since ordered fifty more. Mr. 8. A. Vetdery, at
Messrs. W. K. Jackson & Co's. Dry Goods
store, is the Agent in this city.
Hamburg and Edgefield Plank Road.
We are gratified to learn that this road is do
ing a flourishing business. About nineteen miles
on the main road, and five miles on a branch
have been finished and are now in use. The
Company, we learn, on the 24th inst., declared a
dividend of fourteen per eent. The road to
Edgefield C. H., will be completed by the 4th of
July next. Already Hamburg and Augusta are
reaping the benefit ol this enterprise. Cotton
and other produce which formerly found a mar
ket at Columbia, are now brought this way, and
planters will find it to their interest to trade
with us. as they will, by so doing, be able to
realize more tor their produce, and have a larger
and better assortment of merchandise and gro
ceries to select from.
“ Tire Mails.—The Augusta Constitutional
ist, »f Frwk«v publishing a letter from AXJtiuto
of :*. i.<g th
t here is,as we very well
“•o-A, a provoking uncertainty and irregularity
| in present mail arrarigments, and it is but right
| that Post Masters should be publicly noticed
I when the fault can be traced to their offices, but
i in this ease we think our friend of the Constitu-
I tionalist has imputed blame where it does not
properly rest. We have the same difficulty in
I receiving < nr Augusta and other eastern exchan
ges, as the dissatisfied subscriber of the Constitu
tionalist; but when they do not reach us at the
right time, they very often come to hand after
wards by the State Road orthe La Grange Road.
This occurrs frequently two or three times a
week. Papers that should stop here go on to
Montgomery, Ala., and are sent back or are re
turned from the State Road. We think they
And their way into the Montgomery, or State
Road Mai! Bags, at the Augusta Post Office.
These Bags on the arrival of the Geoigia Cars in
this city, are i ntnediately transferred to the
State, or La Grange Cars, without seeing the
Atlanta Post Office at all, and are only over
hauled when they reach their destination, when
the missing packages are returned."
We copy the above from the Atlanta Intelli
gencer, of the 27th inst. It is not our desire to
blame any particular person or office, for the
miscarriage of our paper, but the complaints of
late, have been so numerous, that we have re
solved, if possible, to find out where the fault is.
Papers directed to Atlanta, may be placed in the
wrong bag and find their way up the State Road
or to Montgomery and back, but the Postmaster
in this city, has nothing to do with our daily
edition, for it is generally worked off at about
four o’clock in the afternoon, and placed on board
the Georgia Cars. If they do not reach then
destination, the fault is between the Post Mas
ters on the Georgia Rail Road and the Post Of
fice at Atlanta. So far as regards the Post Mas
ters on the Geoigia Road, as far as our knowl
edge extends, we have found them very careful
in their duties, and hear few complaints from
any of the other offices on their route.
The Charleston Courier says:—By a reference
to our advertising columns it will be seen that
the Graniteville Manufacturing Company, at
Graniteville, in this State, have declared a Semi-
Annual Dividend of three per cent, on their Cap
ital Stock for the last six months. It affords us
much pleasure to learn from this notice that the
Company is again in “thefull tide of successful
experiment," and to learn also, as we do from
those well informed in regard to its future pros
pects, that still larger Dividends may be confi
dently expected in future. The manufacture of
most descriptions of Cotton fabrics in the South,
rtf..oc-v.
CunnwV-faiMo be remunerative in the tong run, i
although it may occasionally be subjected to I
temporary depressions.
The Gin House of Mr. R.II, Wardlaw, of Ab
beville district, and about twenty bales of Cot
ton were consumed by fire on Saturday morn
ing last. It was the work of an incendiary.
ScpREFE Court.—The Supreme Court com
menced its session in Columbus, on Monday the
24th inst. Judges Lumpkin, Warner and Nis
bet, presiding.
There are forty cases on the Docket, and a
large number of Attorneys in attendance. It
will probably require two weeks to dispose of
the Docket. The Times says :—We expect to
report the head notes of the decisions as they arc j
made.
(From the Baltimore Sun.]
Steam Line from the City of Baltimore to the i
South—The City of Augusta, &c.
The annexed communication, from a gentle- ■
man now resident in the in the.-, right 1
spirit. It is practical Mid sensible, unfl shows
that in addition to oi.'r present excellent steam- :
rrs to the city of Charleston, we' may well ■
consider of the propriety of a further exten
sion that way to other ports
Savannah,- (Ga.,) Jrinuary2oth.
Messrs. Editors :— I have recently read the
proceedings of the commercial convention that
assembled in your-city some weeks since.. The ;
object certainly is very-desirable, ‘<ut, to increas • ;
your Southern trade, there must be added to this ;
convention, and that costly entertainment, a ’
practical enterprise on the part of your citizens, ;
viz: a weekly line of side-wheel steamships, ■
connecting your city with Charleston and Sa- i
vannah. With this facility for transportation, i
you will receive a greatly augmented trade from
the States of South Carolina and Georgia. Your
correspondent is induced to pen this communi
cation, after a stay in these States of six weeks,
during which he has seen much of their trade,
and is assured by their most respectable mer
chant* of their desire to increase the trade with
Baltimore, but, for want of a certain and direct
steamship conveyance to their seaports, they
order from New York.
Your correspondent was particularly plea«ed
I with the city of Augusta, and surprised to find j
; that her trade, in some respect^exceeds that of :
' Savannah or Charleston. Your merchants l
i should cultivate a trade with Augusta. They]
' will find the Augusta Hotel, with mine host
| Peckham, and his gentlemanly assistant, Dent,
I every thing to be desired, and after dinner, the
; Baltimore Sun is always there, with the news
I from the “OldFblks at' Home.” M.
Fork Packing BatablHhment.
A correspondent of the''Baltnnore Sun, wri
ting from on board of a steamer onthe Ohio riv-
I er, under date of the 13th inst., thus notices
I new Pork Packing establishment at Wheeling:
I “ One of the most attractive establishments
! iu Wheeling to the visitor is the extensive pork
packing establishment of Messrs. Warren. Dun
lap and Co., situated near the mouth of Wheel
ing Creek, built and constructed on the model
of the most approved establishments of Cincin
nati. The process of killing, scalding, cleaning,
| and hanging up was going on with a rapidity
; that was truly astonishing. The hogs were
driven into the killing pen one at a time, knock
| ed down with a blow from a hammer on the
] head, and by the time they were fairly off their
; feet the knife of the skilful operators hadsever-
I ed their windpipes, and in another instant they
l were in the scalding vat, on a frame work, by
I which they are passed through the boiling wa
iter without handling; even before life wa* ex
tinct, their entrails were removed, and in less
■ than it takes me to describe the process, the
animal cleaned and ready to be cut and quarter
ered was hanging in the cooling room. Steam
is used most successfully in this establishment,
not only as a labor-saving power in hoisting and
in grinding corn for the vast pens of hogs, cov
ering eight acres of ground, attached to the es
tablishment, but in so extracting the fat from
the heads and oliiil of the animal in immense
vats that even the bones and teeth are changed
in the process to a crumbling powder. The
whole hog is some timas thrown into these vats,
and is drawn out below, and by other process
made into lard,oil and stearine. Thus the whole
hog. bristles and all, is renddred of value, and
even the cracklins and sediments of the vats
are, when mixed with corn, again turned into
pork, being used for feeding and fattening the
droves of hogs in the pens.
“ The whole number of hogs killed and pack
ed at this establishment thus far in the season
has been 19,000, and about 4,000 more will be
killed—making 23,000 in all; which, consider
dering the fact that this is the first season any
establishment of the kind has been in operation
in Wheeling, shows a good coinmencetnont.”
[Ct>n>iwndencr of the Ch u lesion Sl,rcui'y-V'
’ Washinciton, Jan. 1!>; 1853,r
The interest increase* as the session progrti
se«, and a general allowing of hands in the Sen
ate is now taken place in relation to our Foreiqi
policy, whe discuMlon of those questions vrai
• resumed yesterday by Gen, Cass, in another o
i his elaborate speeches, written oi)i as usual, li
( this latter speech he takes decidedly a I'illibus
t tering turn, and having demolished George liav
and the steamboat spculntion in tin.; kind o
I stock, (as he supposes.) now seems disponed ti
> commence trading on the relics of their cepit il
The steps forward in this speech are quite a
i marked and ns unexpected, as the steps back
wards in his pro-Filhuore and anli-Law speed
I ol a few weeks since. The fact is, the Genera
I will persist in reminding the public of Duifii
. Quickly, ‘ a man knows not where to havi
him.” Os course any speech carefully prepare!
’ by »ne of Gen. Cass’s great experience am
■ knowledge of political history, could not fail t<
contain something both of interest and instruc
tion, but candor will compel his warmest eulo
gists to admit that this speech contains not,hiui
■ that is new, and little that is striking. Th<
i most racy parts are the diatribes against Erg
land, and that hai become so habitual witl
Gen. Cats as to be regarded as a matter ol
course. Still there is pith and point in what h<
says on that subject. The rest of the speed
i scarcely rises above a dead level, and is only in,
• terrsting as affording some evidences of the pre-
sent position of the speaker. His resolutions
yon will remember, run as follows: <■' ■
Be it raolveil, That the United States do here
by tiaelare that “ the American continents, by
-the free, independent condition which they hayt
assumed and maintain, are henceforth note to be
considered as subjects for luture colonization !•’;
any European Power.” and wfiile “existtira
rights should be respected,” and will be iw the
United States, they owe it to their own satdyj
H'id interests” to announce, as thqjf-I'*” 1 ;
that no future European colony
! ill. with theircensentAe.pjjphb’cho’
as an act originating in motives regardless of
their “interests and their safety;” and which
wilt leave them free to adopt such measures as
an independent nation may justly adopt in de
fence of its rights and its honor.
And be it further reeolued, That while the Uni
ted States disclaim any designs upon the Island
of Cuba, inconsistent with the laws ol nations
and with their duties to Spain, they' consider it
due to the vast importance of the subject to
make known, in this solemn manner, that they
should view all efforts on the part of any other
Power to procure possesesion, whether peaceably
or forcibly, of that Island, which as a naval or
military position must, under circumstances easy
to be foreseen, become dangerous to their
Southern coast, to the Gulf of Mexico, and to
the mouth of the Mississippi, as unfriendly acts
directed against them, to be resisted by' all the
means in their power.
Now these resolutions may mean a great deal,
or they may mean just nothing at all. Gen.
Cass is of the former, your Senator Butler seelns
to be of the latter, opinion and has joined issue
thereon. Gen. Csss spoke for an hour by'
Shrewsbury vlock. The subject ot his story
was the necessity of a formal reiteration of the
Monroe doctrine; Judge Butler’s objection was
addressed to the Cuibono l
Gen. Cass foreshadowed in,his remarks on the
Cuba question the well-known views ol Mr.
Soule on that subject, and which that Senator
will fully unfold when he gets the floor next
week. It is now understood that the Cuban
Junta, which certainly is the best judge as to tne
modus operandi, approve cordially' ot Mr. Soule s
idea, that Spain will not consent to treat for the
sale of Cuba, and that this country ought not to
ask it, but that Cuba should be eneouraged to
make arrangements with Spain for her own in
dependence, and the United States stand sponsors
for the performance of her stipulations. Gen.
Cass only squinted at the idea, and put it as an ;
alternative, but he stood committed to the pur
chase policy, which may be now regarded as an
exploded idea. The possibility ot effecting any
arrangement now is dubious, but bath policy and ■
good faith would seem to require the abandon
ment both of the filibustering and of the purchase
plans of acquisition. With reference to the re- i
assertion of the Monroe doctrine, your Senator
Butler worried Gen. Cass very badly,and brou. ut
him to his feet several times in “ personal ex- j
planations.”
The gravamen of Mr. Butler’s allegations,was,
firstly, that Gen. Cass had shot at nothing, and
hit it 1 and, secondly, that he had given an erro
neous construction to the bionroe Resolutions.
The effect of his assault on his adversary was
very perceptible, and the questions raised, were
of such interest as to authorise very careful in
vestigation. Mr. Hale followed in a long ram
bling speech, made up partly of froth, partly of
tree-soil, and partly of jokes. The latter were
decidedly the best part of the ingredients. H :
went in for the annexation of Canada, which m
contended, was far more valuable to us than
Cuba.
” He thought, if it was desired to test the prrw
ticability tnforcirglbe-Mo:-roe .louirxae. tbg j
opportunely vvu-a ufic. ’■. . | -I ■ i:
colonizing the Bay of Islands, in |
of treaty stipulations. Li tit be tried at once- ■
Why select Spain, our old ally, and who had I
never violated any of her engagements.
Mr. Mason has the floor to-day. He will take
a conservative course, and probably diverge from |
Gen. Cass in some matters. Intact, it is diffi- I
cult to.keep company with him long, owing to
his propen' >ty for tacking in preference to straight ,
sailing. Mr. Mason will marre a strong and I
sensible speech, depend ri it. Fa has too I
much at stake uot to prepare prope-Iy, end has ■
the ability to do justice to the topics of which
he will treat. The ball thus ope: ' will be
kept up briskly. Mr. Hale, in his re .fc. lore
shadowed the Abolition policy. 1.- .taftQnal
Era (whose circulation, by the way, - almost
doubled during the past year, being no- 2-).00<
still more openly gives the progranin.e. It is
indeed progressive, and shows the piton to which
Abolition insolence can rise. The Lrathus puts .
the issue,
The party and progress—the true
Democratic Party—devoted to the establishment
and spread of the Democratic Principle, can as
se iTto no such short-sighted and timid policy. ;
It rejects the alternative submitted to the coun
try—Pro-Slavery Propagandism, or Pro-Slavery
Conservatism. It spurns sectional domination, j
It does not accept the Slave Power as its leader j
or counsellor. It will consent to no bargain or !
arrangement by which slavery will agiee to lie
still,on condition that Liberty will arrest ns
march. It will recognize Freedom as a good to |
be extended, Slavery as an evil to be limited, aud ■
when the interests of American Empire and In- '
stitutions shall require territorial acquisition, it
will ask, What is just ’ not, What is the will of
the Slave Power 7 Its motto will be Democra-
I <-y and Progress, not Slavery and Conservatism? .
I We are for the extension of American Empire ;
I for the sake of extending American dtutions. I
! We want Cuba, Canada, the Sandwich Islands, j
1 and as much more of the American continent as i
; may be had honestly, and by the joint operation ;
■ of natural causes and a wise diplomacy, for tne
1 purpose of establishing under our great Confede
racy Liberty, the Rights of Conscience, Equali
ty, Free Labor, Free Trade, Peace, and Perpe
tual Growth. J , ~
Shall their low and sordid aims turn us aside
from a policy sanctioned by Nationality and Hu
manity, by the best interests of our country, and
the claims of Mankind 1 Shall we, in dread of
Pro-Slavery Propagandism, submit to the leaden
rule of Pro-Slavery Conservatism >
This alternative has been presented to the old
i parties, and we know the result. The Whig
party, distrusting the people, consulting the de
i mands of capital, seeking party unity, followed
i the lead of Pro-Slavery Conservatism, in its op
! position to territorial growth. It was willing to
I forego the acquisition of even free territory, if its
, Southern allies would abstain from the extension
I of slave territory. It chose to set perpetual lim
i its to American Empire and American Institv
-4 tious, rather than enceunter the hazards of a
struggle with the Slave Power. The same al
ternative will tw> presented to the Ailrninivt| jtjfW
of Gen Pierce. Ho must decide betwee.TSi'*"’*
ry Propagandism, and Slavery Conservatism.
There is some truth apd some force in the
views thus presented, as to she choice tendered
the South by the Abolitionists—the South must
either stand to herarms, or surrender, and with
out even the promise of quarter I
Slavery must stand or fall by the firmness of
its supporters;—must either have scope and
play for its expansive energies, or perish in the
midst of the cordon drawn strictly around it.
The exodus of slaves from the border States of
late, under the operation of the fugitive slave
law, has been so great as to impair the value of
that property seriously there, while further
South negioes are commanding a premium.—
They go not singly over the border, but in bat
talions, hundreds per month—and they find aid
and comfort in abundance from the law-abiding
people of the North. The Lemmon cases are
rare, but ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’ is the bible of
many otherwise decent people, and the sympa
thies are all on the wrong side.
Under these circumstances, it the extension of
our area be “manifest destiny,” as even Whig
premiers and Democratic leaders concur in pos
' itively asserting, it is equally manifest what
Southern destiny will be if her people do not
stand up more boldly for their rights, and lor the
l preservation of a balance of power, than they
‘ did in the case of the late partition <d' 1850.
The cue has been taken by Mr. Everett, who
, figured last night at the Colonization Society, as
Mr. Clay did during life, only carrying hi. re
j cently acquired Fillibuster spirit into it, and pal
. ing the ineffectual fires of his co-laborers. Mr.
| Everett delivered a most able and artful address,
. calculated to leinstate him in the opinion of his!
, down-East brethren, who had been shocked at J
i his filibmterism. Like Mrs. Jellyby, “keeping
his fine eyes fixed on Africa,” with an oblique
squint at John Davis’s seat in the Senate, with
the White House in ’56 in the background.
i Mr. Everett re-echoed the cant of Exeter
Hall, and gave indirect countenance to the noble
ladies of Great Britain. For if Mr. Everett be
i right, and the negro be an inferior race, end in
capable of self-government, then is slavery
i%an evil,
The cun-
Secretary iu
the ear ol 1 he
<3*44. nly in the
de*il-
porcliei, ot
like tho.e oi
deepen'd into
leitmc anil
‘ some tnoie <■ ■ -
11 al ”''
Sumner
■ as a str.nre
exist between
than Everei',
supeilieiiii io:-
lew more
can play prettily
W ?’ reachihg the
tG’-';:"*, originality consu l-
MF, and paraphrasing
by fortune and
of politics.
mem and obtain a->
' e exegg^oW .W-fy They go up
j’ like gay ’ ‘sT’ the prick of a pin
*1 j bringsdovvn j;' silk, so soon as the
i gas whick escaped. '1 he
'1 pacify forbids the idea
thatheT, l ' probability could be, a
!' great, tji', &ce confirms it—for it is ,an
Hlf/dUgl'', hfiv. ■ ! iher «>,earn t nor a i-iioiig
far-, a i Wantoig ill ic, but he I.a- a
very wde-i What Horace Walpole
« r* 1 ' UB)I er h- to
\ -G ’W* «« fer WOK' lauaeiotis
g rtien thr he; Idestined eVer to lead th- ;.:n
--ornamental ».id- j
, :-Y'- pitch is far higher,
■J ' they co-operate, the stroug
i ei i. rule. This jielgment
k' ?re'''>ionate one, fornied I’loin
''[■ -t -i '
paisohv 1 acipi.ui.-
4 ■ -'»«■■
-ty, “E
11 <»'.! nas 01 totfe-pffitoel. iuqiuiy its to the cafi
f I brent this nr tfhiailant of the South, this sketch
, j may not Iw'Mu'.fplace. He has ability, intelli
, 1 gence, ar- catef’., culture—but no originality,
I force oAeonvictiof or of will, to bear him on
' | higher ffighte , t-i'aai those which have given hirn
i the 'reputation Jf being “a promising young
I i man.” He Will Sutinue so. His brass may be
, Corinthian, but iw not of such metal that great
Reformers, or Agiitors, much less great Stutes
, men,are in Je. ii
But let him p-? 4 Mr. Everett claims a long
er nd a more earnest study, lie means more,
and though cor.-tautionally cold in heart and
temper, cpssesses a stubborn- pertinacity that
stands him in stead of the propulsive power ot
enthusiasm. k-y
' Abroad as ivelVas at home the agitation
i iit'iinst us goes on.i The latest move was in Ire
-1 land. Lectures ceMiinly come with goo 1 grace
' from that quait r'i We send them bread—they
Hing ba:-'., a sge. Every generous hearted
Irishman in this caintry will feet the blush of
mingled iudign-..-ion and shame when he reads
. that uni’rateful record.
Pacific railron routes are occupying the at- 1
tentio lof the S-nute. Dr. Gwin made a very 1
j plausible speech m.support of his pet project, the j
details of which you will see. Senator Butler ’
indicated brief:; the constitutional difficulty. 1
. Dr. Gwin felt ti-e.-.s himself, and endeavored to
•01 ale t-ern. 1 n hrs speech he says :
‘ ; li. i:i:, show,, tre general object in view, the
in. ••> suggestc-' fol its accomplishment, and its
i eutiie feasibility. t-.vill now explain the instru
! men ality prppcsei[for its execution.
The nature of our confederated Union is such
1 th., it becomes 1 eixssary in this enterprise for
, us to consider and respect the relative powers ot
‘ the Slates and General Government, and to deal :
with each in prefer regard to the constitutional I
i scruples of many of our distinguished statesmen. 1
Having been educated in the States Rights i
i school of politics, I have ever felt, in the exer-j
I else of the poweis of the General Government, ■
; the importance o: cvefiding the semblance of en- I
craaehment upon the reserved rights of State 1
j sovereignty, for in these is to be found the real i
i strength of our i istitutions.”
His plan, he thinks, avoids this difficulty, i
i The Union thus gingerly approaches this topic: i
| "In this point of view, there may, perhaps, be 1
found good graii id for a distinction between I
that portion of the proposed road which lies ■
■ within the Territories of the Union, and the ;
' other p>ortion which lies within the limits of the I
■ several States. Notwithstanding much ot the j
i current of recent 'egislation on the subject, it is ;
manifest that th- policy of the democratic party 1
has favored the idea of leavqig such works, with- 1
in the limits of --he as much as;
possible to Stat- action and enterprise; and it 1
: may well be tlr . the recognition of this princi- i
pie. as far as piadicable, in the present instance, ;
will .reive to di ' this very important national I
subjre-r ■ : :,rerre the difficulties and embarrass- :
ments by V bieh, in the judgment of manyem- i
inent duiuocr v::t is now urrourded.” , 1
Vsr ■ . oth -Ap'ors ar.: oi. foot—one of which, I
by a N w 1 >t* Company, lias a host of log-rot- 1
I-re init,Tit Herald seems to have been j
- ’ V V , ■
> m-’s d® ’-Hbc’Cii? v>lt‘* V’lark Mills,
a von sc,'. His f? tons is now secure; but let
biiii 'iredi wei! lame, and work as hard
now as when he Bed it yet to taake.
Everybody ss tho Gardin?r Commission will
; repmt that mine to be located only vyhere Slo
cum said—in th? I reasury. It so, it is the most
audacious and adroit fretid in the annals oi ras
ca’iism. Caglioeti might have been pioud of it,
and it will be a ‘ pendre.t to the Diamond
1 Necklace story. ,ardinev paces it out still.
His conduct under that supposition is utterly
unaccountable. 1 iher he must be the most
i slandered, the mor: intrepid,or the most idiotic
of living inenjftbe facts be, as common rumor
slide's jkein, nem'me con'radiantc.
, 1 CorrcsiMo.de'’of the Charleston Mercury.}
WlsHiNuTo:;, Jan. 21, 1553. ;
A carefid pci usilt of Gt u. Cass’s speech since j
its publication in the Globe, convinces me that i
I formed an unduly slighting estimate of its mer- :
its in the first ii ‘>ance. There is much more •
pith and p ■h. "* than there seemed to be on
its <l»liv.'".''. ■ ——’is tn. y be .accounted for possi- .
bb.- ficin Lie hal - SenaffSOave of cutting short
■ their quotatic.;'s .vhen speaking, and only cm- '
. bodying the wAdj oftheir proofs in their pub- 1
1 lished productions! Gen. Cass also labors under
| the disadventn ■ -pf an exceedingly bad delivery,
mumbling over L words in away as unpleas
ant as it is uninfJiigHjle, and the additional bad j
habit oi' reading Jis speeches as a schoolboy does
I his lesson, mr ■ also be taken into account. I
i Therefore, as it .a Lt* just and proper to give I
even the devil, “ much less a distinguish-
i ed statesman utpofiwlian—this amende is made. '
There is somefing'jKGen. Cass's speech after!
all besides old gentleman is more I
than liajf righpa ajgjlAh that he says, which is
admitting aigmt jsj..l. His speech will well
! repay carefur j and examination, and the
I supplemental hasjjtlnce appended in the shape
of personal to Senators Butler and
I Mason. add f the interest. One advantage will
' spring from ®i» discussion. The real chaiacter 1
and scope j the Monroe doctrine, so much .
I talked abouwmd so little will now
be made myu..t md clear to common compre
hension. fJmtcifore, it has been a kind of myth ;
I—a vague t .erc-lity—an imaginary kind of !
i “ Mrs. HanJ’ political “ Mrs.gPamps,” who
' wanted a
Mr. Ma3«f..ot- very decided issue with Gen.
Cass o.i his/‘.erpretation and history of thedoc
j trine, and vwit into an elaborate exposition of
| the circumsLces which accompanied its pro
mulgation all adoption. Gen. Cass responded,
j admitting. *1 Mason’s facts and his promises,
but denyinf his conclusions. He maintained
' that althoui it was originally called forth and
had applicaln to a special case, yet being gen
| eral in its# ns, it was intended, and so under
; stood by FfV jh Powers, to have a general and
I prospectivflap'pfication. In response to Mr.
I Mason, Gil ’: s said substantially “that he
never Levitin yesterday, that it was doubted
! that MrJimroa had protested against the re-col
'V ■vpritoi this continent by any
V doctrine was not
coafii i/T*s‘”T4ntemplated intervention by
i the alFyro*?r', because it was to continue lor
all tim %"iiej*ason given that the peculiar in
' terests LaG continent wore distinct from those
ofEur k wiisjno more true then, than now.
He rea Monroe’s message the emphatic
‘ de.li.ra on that'Europe must know, distinctly,
that n« fa** *** e American continent was
! henceforth to be subject to re-colonization by
•in vin tA ijJuropean nations. Ho agreed with
the HenatoSiom Virginia, in his narrative of the
L events lea Big to the declaration, but did not
‘ consider it ® limited as did the Senator.”
In order 10l ring the matter to a point, Mr.
n; Hi.. Vzi- t Senator from Kentucky, made
11 is intended to bring out an
on from the Committee on
on the subject. Mr. Mason
t Committee.
hat much time had been ce
ssion of the violation of trea
ign relations generally, but
tical proposition before the
gave notice that, in bringing
bly discussed before the Sen
tical shape, he would move
lis resolution and the amend
littee on Foreign Relations,
; instructions:
committets bo instructed to
r concluded at Washington the
i, between her majesty, the
itain, by her Minister Pleni
lenry, L. Bulwer, and the
he United States, by John
•etary of State, and ascertain
nment of Great Britain, since
mid treaty, has violated any
hereof, by the establishment
vernnient, the construction of
intral America or otherwise;
port the facts in connection
if in opinion there has been
r anJFvfoldtions of said treaty, that they make
j furthirTS] ort by resolution, or such measures as
- thity Way d««m necessary to enforce a faithfu
r observance of the stipulations of said treaty, and
preserve the honor and interest of the country.
“That said committee inquire and report
whether or not the establishment in the Bay of
Honduras by the government of Great Britain,
called the Bay of Islands, is or not a violation of
the provisions of said treaty, or of the doctrines
i of Mr. Monfoe, as proclaimed in his message of
the '2d December, 1823, on the establishment of
colonies on this continent by European powers;
and if it shall appear that the rights of the Uni
ted States have been invaded by either in disre
-1 gard of the provisions of the said treaty, or of the
doctrines proclaimed by Mr. Monroe in bis mes
sage aforesaid, that they report the facts to the
Senate, together with such measures as in their
judgment may be deemed necessary to vindicate
the honor of the country. And that said com
mittee inquire whetherthe seizure by the French
government of the peninsula of Samana, of the
republic of Dominica, is or not a violation of the
same great principle proclaimed as aforesaid in
the message of Mr. Monroe; and it so, what ac
tion is necessary on the part of the Government
to protect itself against such encroachments on
its rights.”
Mr. Dixon said that the distinguished Sena
tors from Michigan, Illinois, and Louisiana had
asserted boldly that this treaty bad been violated
and this doctrine disregarded, and it was but due
to the nation and tho Senate that; the facts
should be made known, and the proper measures
adopted.
The report of the Secretary of the Treasury
is a strong business paper, and proves quite sat
isfactory. It was surreptitiously forwarded to
some of the New York papers, and by them
published in advance of or simultaneous with
its being sent to Congress. It was the boast of
Mr. Bulwer, while Minister here in Washing
ton, that lie could obtain any paper lie wanted
from any Department for fifty dollars. I won
der whether it is true? 1 don’t believe it.—
Correspondence Baftimorc Sun.
We are compelled to fear that Mr. Bulwer
was not for from the froth ; not perhaps in the
: anMn»aL»«stjH,t; s re tret jii _ the suijstaritiai Jaet.
cletk in a
of a newspaper, it is in vain to think of pre
serving secresy in regard to papers or facts.
Your correspondent will sell out the Depart
ment whenever he has the opportunity.
The rule should be uniform, and strictly en
forced, that no information and no documents
should issue from any of the Departments except
through its official head. And yet for several
years past intelligence ol any interest in the
Post Office Department has appeared for the
first time usually iu the Baltimore Sun—an
ticipating the official promulgation of it by one
of its correspondents acting as a clerk in the
Department. Nor has this abuse been confined
to the Post Office or to the correspondent of the
Baltimore Sun. The Norfolk papers have their
correspondent in the Navy Department, who
furnishes them with naval intelligence oi more
or less interest .* and we remember that at one
time a vast amount of matter was furnished by
somebody in the State Department to a corres
pondent ol one of the Northern papers in ad
vance of its publication in the Washington pa
i P ers -
Copies of documents are sometimes given to
i individuals connected with newspapers under
| the injunction that they should not appear till
• a day certain, or the happening of a particular
j event. In this way they are sure to get into
j irresponsible bands and are always’ liable to
publication. A report of the Postmaster Gen
eral once, through some such channel, found its
way into print before it was presented to Con
gress. So it must have been that the citizens of
New Y’orkenjoyed the benefit of .Mr. Corwin’s
report some hours before it was communicated
to either House. Who knows how this hap
pened?
j We may add, byway of postscript, that some
j of the clerks in the Census Bureau for a long
j time communicated habitually to one of the
1 New York papers all items that they could turn
1 an honest penny by, and we never beard that
I any one of them was dimissed or intefered with
j for this clandestine correspondence. The fact
I was probably never brought to the attention of
I the head of the bureau, or the abuse may have
grown up in his absence.
j As long as this kind of correspondence is per- I
j mitted, there will always be reason to fear that 1
I fifty dollars or thereabouts would bring any for
| eign minister any document that he might be
! curious to see.— Washington Republic.
Mail Roubery.—On Thursday night last, the
' letter bag containing the Huntsville mail was
! robbed on boaid the steamer Chattanooga, on
I her passage from Whitesburg to Guntersville.—
; The mail bag and fragments of letters were
■ found next morning iu the wash-room, and oth
ers also secreted among the cotton bales. For
! tunately the perpetiator of the robbery was not
I an adept in crime. A cabin boy upon the Chat
; tanooga, by the name of Stephen Wilson, was
: arrested the next day at Gunterville, (he having
1 left the boat at that p<!ace,) suspicion being ex
| cited by his showing the halves of several bank
1 bills. We understand that he confesses to the
j robbery, and implicates a deck hand employed
'on the boat as the instigator of the robbery. It
is not known whether aLy.vabiable papers were
Di ■ , ■
recovered, we believe -Jo in charge of tho Post
master at this place.J~CAaZtanooga Ada., 25111:
The Ban; Zebra.--Dr. Kinchley returned
from this brig late on Sunday night, and we are
gratified to learn that the disease with which
the emigrants have been so fearfully afflicted
has entirely subsided. The agents, Messrs.
I Kinchley, Lockett & Co. sent a sloop down to
the brig yesterday with such necessary articles
as those on boaid required. The emigrants de
sire to proceed on their voyage, and will be
permitted to do so, as soon as the brig has been
thoroughly cleansed. Capt. Mitchell, the prin
cipal owner of the vessel, is expected to arrive
in the Alabama to-day.— Savannah Ncics, 25th.
CourtOfilendar for 1853—Superior 00-art.
K.Y. 2d Monday, Richmond,
1 2d Monday, Chatham august.
2d Monday, Clark
Chattooga
Sumter
3d Monday, Campbell
Floyd
Meriwether
AVal ton
4th Monday, Carroll
Marion
Monroe
Taliaferro
Baldwin
Jackson
SEPTEMBER.
Ist Monday, Coweta
Paulding
Madison
Laurens
Morgan
2d Monday, Cass
Polk
Crawford
Randolph
Butts
Elbert
G reene
Gwinnett
Harris
3d Monday, Cobb
Twiggs
Newton
Fayetto
Ball
Putnam
Talbot
Columbia
4th Monday, Gordon
Macon
Early
Franklin
AY’ashing'n
AVilkes
GOTOBER.
Ist Monday. Cherokee
Murray
DeKalb
Camden
AVarren
AVilkinson
Pike, Tuesday after the
Ist Monday.
Th’sd’y after,Rabun
2d Monday, Forsyth
AVhitfield
Dooly
Decatur
Ylancock 0
IMontgom’y
T h’sday aftcr,Tattn al 1
I 3d Monday, Lumpkin
Walker
I Baker
Henry
Stewart
J ones
Oglethorpe
Pulaski
Emanuel
4th Monday,Union
Dade
Houston
Hoard
Jasper
Lincoln
Scriven
Telfair
Thursday thereafter, Ir
win.
Thursday before last
Monday, Bulloch
Monday aft er, EHi ngh am
NOVKM BER.
Ist Monday, Gilmer
Leo-
Upson
2d Monday, Bibb
Troup
J olforflon
Al usoogco
3d Monday, Burke
Spalding
Camden
Taylor
Friday after,AVayne
4th Monday, Glynn
Thomas
Th'sdav after,Mclntosh
Monday after, Lowndes
s and Liberty
Th’sd’y after, Bryan
li Monday after Lowndes
Clinch.
», Thursday aftor Clinch,
Ware.
Monday after AV are
Appling.
Richmond
FEBRUARY.
• Ist Monday, Clark
I 2d Monday, Chattooga
Sumter
i 3d Monday, Campbell
Floyd
Meriwether
AV niton
! 4th Monday, Carroll
Monroe
TaliafeiTO
Marion
Baldwin
J acksoD
MARCH.
. Ist Monday, Cowrota
Paulding
Madison
Laurens
Morgan
I 2d Monday. Cass
Polk
Crawford
Randolph
Butts
El bort
Greene
e Gwinnett
Harris
! 3d Monday, Cobb
Twiggs
Nowton j
Fayette
Hall
Putnam I
Talbot
Columbia
3d Thursday,Bulloch
Mond’y after,Effingham
4th M onday, G ordon
Macon
Early
Franklin
W ashing'n
Wilkes
APRIL.
Ist Monday, Cherokeo
Murray
Pike
DeKalb
Camden
Warren
Wilkinson
Th’sd’y after,Rabun
Friday after,Way no, j
2d Monday, Forsyth |
Whitfield I
Dooly
Decatur |
Glynn
Habersham |
Hancock I
Montgonry |
Th sd'y after,Mclntosh
and Tattnall
3d Monday, Lumpkin
AV alkor
Baker
Henry
J ODO?
Liberty
Oglethorpe
Pulaski
Emanuel
Th’sd’y after,Bryan
Ith Monday, Union
Dado
Houston
Heard
Jasper
Lincoln
Scriven
Stewart
Telfair
Th’sd’y after,lrwin
Ist Monday, Gilmer
Leo
U pson
2d Monday, Chatham
Bibb
i Muscogco
i Troup
i 3d Monday, Burke
. Taylor
Spalding
j 4th Monday, Thomas
[• Mond’y after,Lowndes
Monday after Lowndes
’ Clinch.
1 Thursday after Clin di
1 Ware.
‘ Monday after AV uro,
s Appling.
1 .TUNE.
1 Ist Monday, jeflotsuß,
VOL XXXI—-NEW SERIES—VOL-VII.—-NO. 52.
| " Letter from General Fierce.
■ TbePiWm’amnfNew York, contains the
’ I following touching letter, written by General
1 Pierce to a personal friend soon after Ins ri nt
’ ment from the United States Senate,some years
I since, in reply to a letter of condolence on the
death of a beautiful and manly boy, his chensu
edson. A later,and still more melancholy be
reavement, (says the New York Jt-rpress.) gives
it an additional interest, that all will appreciate.
General Pierce writes as a Chnstian should
: write, yet as one who, under tno circumstances
• of the case, must also “feel like a man:
: Concord, New Hampshire, Nov. 3'l.
Mv De tn. Friend: You have been otten m
i my thoughts since J received your affectionate
■ letter of the 10th instant. It was one ol the
! earliest of the kind from iny personal friends;
■ «oothing and grateful to me fat the time And
i it has been pleasant since to think ot you as
1 among those who have truly sympathized with
■ us in this dark hour of overpowering affliction.
; Under bereavement like this, how trifling—
-1 oh, how very trifling—do most of tne cares, ai.d
purposes, and plans ot jthis world appear .We
• can hardly realize how it is that our hearts have
l been so engrossed in little matters of the day.
I We open our eyes, as it were, from a dream,
! upon the realities that are around and before us.
1 We see “passing away” written upon all things
i of this world. We feel that we are mere so
journers, probationers here, and seem to esti
mate, with an approximation to truth, the great
interests of eternity, as compared with those of
time. I do earnestly desire to keep awake to
’ these matters—not to fall into the spell, where,
1 as it were from necessity, we look through a
false medium, which places eternity so far off,
and gives to the things of time such vast mag-
I nitude and disproportionate importance.
J remember well the conversation on our tide
to the G., to which, I suppose, you refer. The
cohvictions of my judgment have long been
strong and decided, but the little influence they
have had upon my life is a sad illustration of the
' great truth, “ With the heart man believeth unto
righteousness. ; i
y.-L -
ing. In the midst of our deep sorrow. I find in
expressible relief in the thought that “it is well
with the child.” He said much, to use his own
expression, of “ the blessed Jesus,” especially on
the Sabbath. And now his indefinite impres
sions and childish fancies are exchanged for lull
knowledge and never-ending fruition. He is, as
we firmly believe,
“ Where no blight fall
On the beautiful-rose of youth.”
He was a bright, affectionate, manly boy—the
pride and joy of his father’s heart—the light and
iif’e of our home. We now feel and must long
continue to led his Joss. We are conscious of
his absence at every turn. We weep, but the
cup of sorrow is not unmingled with rich con
solation.
# * * * * * *
I have many things to say to you when we
meet. Till then, your stricken friend,
Frank Pierce.
| From the Savannah Repuluan, 2-ith inst ]
The Prophecies of Daniel.
We are sure the reader will peruse,with much
: pleasure, the subjoined note from Rishop Elliott
and the accompanying extract from the proceed
ings of the Asiatic Society. The researches of
scientific men heretofore have been confirmatory
of the authenticity of the Bible, and it is suf
ficient to know that, should they be otherwise
according to man’s finite reason, in the future,
that Book contains the strongest internal evi
dence of its truth and Divine origin :
Editors Savannah Republican.—Gentle
men : Seeing in your issue of Saturday morn
ing an extract from the Tribune in relation to
the Prophecies of Daniel, 1 send you from the
London Athenaeum of the date ot December
11th, an extiact from the proceedings of the
Asiatic Society of December 4th, containing
the latest letters from Col.. Rawlinson. Noth
ing is said in these letters respecting the 'Book oT
Daniel, and in so far they furnish merely ne
gative testimony against the paragraph from the
Tribune, but they are valuable because the cyl
’ inders confirm the Scripture Chronology with
: regard to the capture of Samaria to a year, and
the Palestine campaigns of Sennacherib to
within eight yeais. By turning to any Ox
for Bible you will see an account of the capt ure
of Samaria, at the 6th verse of the 17th chap
ter of II Kings, and opposite the date B. C.
721, and by turning to II Kings, XIX, you
will find the Palestine campaigns of Sennach
erib to be credited to the years B. C. 710—;09
that is, twelve years after the capture of Samaria
instead of twenty, as made out by Col. Rawlin
sona very unimportant difference where things
so far are in a measure conjectural. This does,
not look very much like any confutation ot
Scripture by the discoveries of Layard and
Rawlinson. Nay, I have heretofore supposed
that Layard’s discoveires have been the most
remarkable confirmations of Scripture which we
have had since those made by Laborde at Petra.
I have no sort of doubt, that if there is any
truth in the paragraph, Daniel will be found
I quite eqval to meet Col. Rawlinson.
l •‘'’'gaActlrHy. ob : t
} ' * S-'epf.e.s Elliott.
j Axiaiic, Dec; <—■Sir George Staunton in
the chair. The Assistant Secretary read extracts
from letters which he had received from Col.
Rawlinson, communicating some of the results
of his recent investigations. In a letter dated
the 4th of September, the Colonel announced
his discovery, that the series of six kings named
in the inscriptions of Van were contemporane
ous with the kings of the Assyrian line from
Sardanapalus to Sennacherib. The synchron
isms are seen at three periods :—Luti pari is
found contending with Sardanapalus, his son,
Semiduri, is attacked by Deleboras, and the
fifth Van monarch, Argisti, is an antagonist of
Sargon. The Colonel remarks that, in addition
to the historical interest afforded by this deter
mination of the date ol the Van inscriptions,
it gives satisfactory evidence that the Assyrian
royal series is complete in our lists; and it is fur
ther curious to observe, that the earliest inscrip
tions in Armenia and Assyria are by contem
porary kings. In a subsequent letter,dated 25th
of September, Col. Rawlinson gives some ac
count of one of the Khorsabad cylinders; which
he finds to contain a list of the titles and con
quests of Sargon, and a notice of the building of
Khorsabad, very much like what isincribed on
the bulls. He finds, however, some important
variations,—such as, carrying off the tribes of
Tamud, Yanadid, Eslyaman, and Gasipa from
the neighborhood of Samaria ; though be says
that the extremely minute and difficult charac
ter of the writing renders the names, all but
the first, somewhat uncertain.
He also reads upon itan account of the capture
of Tyre, which he has not seen among the oth
er inscriptions of Sargon. These cylinders con
firm the Colonel’s previous opinion, that the
capture of Samaria took place in the first year
I ot Sargon’s reign, B. C. 721, at least twenty
years before the Palestine compaigns of Senna
cherib. He expects more certain results from
the other cylinder, which he is informed is more
perfect, and in a larger character. In the two
letters read, the Colonel complained of attacks
of illness : and in a third letter, dated the 15th
of October, written in a tent at Ctesiphon, he
says, that he is driven out of Bagdad by sickness,
and ordered by his medical attendant to go in
to the country, and leave mental exercise for a
while. He has, however, begun to open some
mounds at Selucia. which look promising. The
Colonel, towards the end of this letter, states
his conviction, that the era of Nabonasar marks
the introduction of Assyrian writing into Baby
lonia, where a kind of hieroglybic only was
previously in use. He thought he had found
evidence that the hieroglyphic writing had been
carried to Assyria eleven or twelve centuries
before the Christian era, improved there, made
partially phonetic, and reimported in its altered
shape at the epoch mentioned. The Colonel
gives one case of the obvious change from the
picture to the letter, and could trace the change
in twenty instances.
Dimensions of Hravkn.—We find tho follow
ing singular calculation in the Charlottesville
Jeffersonian :
A !UsuiuxXiq2UU.'4UA.Yr: Ji .—Revelation, xxi
chap. ISverse — And lie measmeTFHc wtsh
the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length,
and the breadth, and the height of it are equal.”
12,000 furlongs—7.92o,ooo feet, which being
cubed i 5—496,793,088,000,000,000,000 cubical
feet; the half of which we will reserve for the
Throne of God and Court of Heaven, half of the
balance for streets, and the remainder divided
by 4.096, the cubical feet in a room 16 feet
square and 16 teet high, will be= ae 30,321,843,-
750,000,000 Rooms.
We will now suppose the world always did
and always will contain 900,000,000 of inhabi
tants, and a generation will last 33 I
2,700,000,000 every century, and that the world
will stand 100,000 year 5—2,700,000,000,000 per
sons. Then suppose there were 11,230 such
worlds, equal to this number of inhabitants, and
duration of years ; then there would be a room
16 feet long, 16 feet wide and 16 feet high for
• each person. And yet there would be room.
The Monsu Meuchant.—There is a mer
chant, in Baltimore, who, in adopting certain
rules for his future guidance,resolved many yeais
since, that he never would be worth more than
55000. It is said, in accordance with this res
olution,he has given away many thousand of dol
lars, and not less than $24,000 for the promo
tion of the Gospel. His donations are made un
der an assumed name, and very few persons
know who the real giver is.
A gentleman, the other day, visiting a school,
had a book put into his hand for the purpose of
examining a class. “What is the meaning of
the word ‘tnheritanoe” “Patrimony.”—
“ What is patrimony.” “Something left by a
• father.” “ What would you call it if left by a
mother?” “Matrimony.”
s Smai-i. Notes in Alabama.—A law imposing
a penalty of SSO upon any person circulating
‘ bills under $5 of any bank out of the State,
0 went into operation on the 17tb inst .in Ala
bama.
A Millerite Miracle.
Ina little village in the State of Hoosierana,
in the year 1844, there was “all sorts” of ex
citement concerning the doctrines and prophe
cies of that arch deceiver, Miller. For months
Midnight Cry, followed by the Morning Howl,
and the Noonday Yell, had circulated through
the village and surrounding counties, to an ex
tent not even equalled by Dr. D.’s celebrated
speech. Men disposed of their property for lit
tle or nothing. The women were pale and
ghastly from watching and praying, and in fact
the whole population, or at least those who be
lieved in the coming ascension, looked as if
they were about half over a second attack of the
chills and fever. There were, however, some,
‘choice spirits’ who, notwithstanding the popu
larity of the delusion, would not enlist under the
banner of the a»censionists, and among them was
a wild harum-scarum blade from ‘Down East,’
known by the name of Cabe Newham. Now
Cube was as hard ‘a case’ as you would meet on
a Fourth of July in Texas, always alive for fun
and sportof any and every description, and a
strong disbeliever in Millerism.
The night of the third of April was the time
agreed upon out West for the grand exhibition
of‘ground and lofty tumbling,’ and about ten
o’clock of the same night, numbers of Millerites
, assembled on the outskirts ol the town, on a lit
tle eminence, upon which the proprietor had al
lowed a few trees to stand, in the crowd, and
the only representative of Lis race present, was
'■ a free negio by the name of Sam, about as ug
, ly, black, woolly, and rough a descendant of
1 Ham as ever baked his shins over a kitchen fire.
Sam’s head was small, body and arms very
long; and his legs bore a remarkable resem
blance to a pairofhames; in fact, put Sam on a
horse, his legs clasped round its neck, his head
towards the tail, and his arms clasped round the
animal’s hums, and at ten paces off, you would
swear he was an old set of patent gearing.
The leader ot the Millerites, owing 1o an ‘an
cient grudge he bore him,’ hated Sam ‘ like
smoke,’ and bad done all in his power to prevent
i his admittance among the ‘elect,’ jbnf all to no,
J'urj n-“; °.-»n would creep in at evary meeting/
and 'fa-night here he was again, dressed in a
/retMn secured to his, body
by a belt, and shouting and praying «.
the best.
Now, on the morning of the third, Cabe had,
with a deal of perseverance, and more trouble,
managed to throw a half inch hemp eord over
the branch of an oak that stretched its Jong arm
directly over the spot where the Millerites would
assemble; one end he had secured to the body
of the tree, and the other to a slump some dis
tance off.
About eight o’clock, when the excitement was
getting about ‘eighty pounds to the inch,’ Cabe,
wrapped in an old sheet, walked into the crowd,
and proceeded to fasten, in as secure a manner
as possible, the end of the rope to the back path
of the belt which confined Sambo's robe, and
having succeeded,‘sloped’ to join some of his
I companions who had the other end. The few
l stars in the skj’ threw a dim light over the
i scene, and in a few moments the voice of Sam
I was heard exclaiming:
‘Gor A’mighty 1 I’s a-goin’ up 1 Wlio-o-o-oh I’
And, sure enough, Sam was seen mounting
into the ‘ethereal blue;’ this was, however,
checked, when he had cleared ‘terra firma’ a
few feet .-«***
“Glory!’ cried one, “Hallelujah!’ aijiSAj
and shrieks and yells made night hideousl*?***-
fainted, others prayed, and not a few dropped
their robes and‘slid.’
Now, whether it was owing to the lightness
of his head, orthe length and weight of his heels,
or both, Sam’s position was not a pleasant one;
the belt to which Cube’s cord was attached, was
bound exactly round his centre of gravity, and
Sam swung like a pair of scales, head up and
heels down, heels up and head down, at the same
time sweeping over the crowd like a pendulum,
which motion was accelerated by his strenuous
clapping of hands, and vigorous kicking.—
At length he became alarmed, he wouldn’t go
up, and he couldn’t come down.
‘ Lora massy,’ cried he, jist take up poor nig
ger to Um bosom, or lef him down again easy,
easy. Les him down again, please um Lor, and
dis nigger, will go straight to um bed I ugh-h-h,”
and Sam’s teeth chattered with affright, and he
kicked again more vigorously than before, bring
ing his head directly downward and his heels
up, when a woman shrieking out,
‘ Oh ! brother Sain, take me with you,” sprung
his head as he swept by her, and caught him by
the wool, bringing him up “ all standing.”
“Gosh 1 sister,’ cried Sam, ‘ lef go um poor
niggers har.”
Cabe gave another pull at the robe, but the
additional weight was too much, the belt gave
way, and down came Sam, his bullet head tak
ing the leader of the saints a * feeler’ just between
the eyes.
‘ Gosh, is I down again ?’ cried the bewilder
ed Sam, gathering himself up. ‘ I is, bless ue
Lor 1 but 1 was nearly dar, I seed de gate t
The leader wiped bis overflowing proboscis,
took Sam by the nape of the neck, led him to
the edge of the crowd, and giving him a kick,.
“ Leave, you cussed baboon 1 you are so ugly 1
know’d they wouldn’t let you in.”
Social Manners in America— Hints for La
nr,a The N. Y. Post has been
permitted to print a fowSxiraets.'iom £u unpub
lished manuscript on social manners in this
country, from which we take the following hints
to ladies and gentlemen :
When you hear a man insisting upon points of
etiquette and fashion; wondering, for instance,
how people can eat with steel forks and survive
it, or what charms existence has for persons who
dine at three without soup and fish, be sure that
that individual is a snob.
It is almost unnecessary to mention that the
table cloth is not the place to put your salt.
Bread is the only comestible which the custom
of well-bred people permits to be laid off trom
your plate.
If you break a vase,or statuette, or any little
etagere knick-knaek in the house of an acquaint
ance, never mind it. Treat it as a matter of no
consequence; even if you know that it wrings
his pocket.
Always precede a lady in going up stairs.
This maxim is a legacy from a maiden aunt.
When you enter a public room the French
practice of raising the hat, as a general ialutation,
is much to be commended.
Never ask your wife to sing for a friend. Ten
to one he detests vocal music, unless ol the high
est order. Show, but do not show off, your
children to strangers. Recollect in the matter
ofchidren how many are bom every hour, each
one almost as remarkable as yours in the eyes of
its papa and mamma.
It is hard to say which has the most clownish
appearance ; to move the lips in silent reading ;
or to wet the finger in turning over the leaves ot
the book.
Do not go to an evening party in black gloves
even if you have lost a relation. If your feel
ings are too deeply lacerated for yellow kills,
stay at home.
Keep your nails cut short. None but barber’s
boys and blacklegs are entitled to the distinction
of a long Chinese talon. W’hen presented, nev
er offer your hand; if offered to you on such an
occasion, touch it slightly. When you meet a
friend in a public place, do not shout his name so
that every by-stander may know who he is.
Never ask a friend the price of a thing he has
bought, nor praise things by their prices.
Cultivate the good will of weak-minded talk
ative people. They will bo as useful as the par
rots of Apsethus. He taught his birds to repeat
“ Apsethus is a god,” and let them fly. Your
un feathered bipeds can be caught by a little
kindness and attention, and taught without
pains, to proclaim in house and highway.
“ Blank is an excellent fellow.” If this is said
often enough, no matter by whom, some one is,
sure to believe it.
Moderation is the best general rule for conduct
in social life. Moderation in manners, modera
tion in language, moderation in dress, moderation
in feeling, moderation in everything but person
al neatness, With these, a kind and yielding
spirit, and a decent share of self-respect, a man
can guide smoothly through the world, if not
pleasantly. One last counsel—a hard one to
follow—learn to grow old gracefully.
Advice to Young Ladies.
BY FANNY FERN.
« Whfia the spirit moves you to amuse yourself
with “shof-ping,” h* mint to uk the sot fc
thousand and one articles you have no intention
of buying. Never mind about the trouble you.
make him; that is part of the trade. Pull the
fingers of the gloves you are examining, quite
out of shape ; enquire for some nondescript color
or some scarce number, and when it is found,
think you won’t take any this morning; then
keep him an hour hunting your sun-shade,
which you at length reeollect you “left at
home,” and depart without having invested a
single cent.
When you enter a crowded lecture room, and
a gentleman rise* politely, (American gentle
men always do,) and offers to give up his seat,
(that he came an hour ago to secure for himself,)
take it as a matter of course; and don’t trouble,
yourself to thank him even with a nod of your
head. As to feeling uneasy about accepting it,
t hat’s ridiculous 1 because if he don’t fancy stand
ing during the service, he’s at liberty to go home ;
it's a free country.
Should you receive an invitation to a concert,
s manage to accept it, conditionally, leaving a
! door of escape, should a more eligible offer pre
sent itself.
When solicited to sing at a party, decline un
til you have drawn around you the proper num
ber of entreating swains ; then yield gracefully,
5 as if it were at a great sacrifice of your timidity.
Flirt with an admirer till the lust end of tho
chapter; and then be “so taken by surprise,”
, when he makes the declaration you are driving
I at. As “practice makes perfect,’’every succes
sive attempt of this kind wilr make you more
■ expert in angling for hearts, besides exerting it
i beneficial effect upon your character.
i As to cultivating your mind, that’s all waste
powder—you have better ammunition to attack
the enemy: and as to cultivating your heart,
there’s no use talking about a thing that’s un
; fashionable. So, al ways bear in mind that all a
pretty woman is sent into the world for is to
display as they come out—waltz, flirt, dance,
a>ing, uud play the old Harry generally.