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Th* Jewish People.
The Jews are no longer a nation, but they
have not lost their nationality. They still pre
serve the distinctive characteristics of their race,
and in whatever country, or in whatever station,
exhibit the same deep, earnest love for their o a
home. While all tnat remain of other nations
area few lettered pages, or a few mouldered
•atones; while their greatness and their £ lor >
have been swallowed up, so that wolves howl
where monarchs feasted, and wild flocks P as "
tured where towered palaces arose,— the Jew
preserves his old identity, and lives in the pres
ent a thing of the past. Encounter one o
Jewish people in one of the crowded thorough
fares of London, meet him in a Parisian square,
on the Venetian Rialto, or in one ot thequar ers
of the Eternal City ; or on the sun-burnt coast
of Africa, or amid the toil and traffic ot ;
Yotk ; or in the busier scenes of Australian gold
regions; and his peculiar countenance, his sharp
piercing glance, tell unmistakably his origin, am
you know him for a Jew as well as though you
saw him mourning over the relics 01 his peop e s
bygone glory, as well although you saw bun
weep over the ruins ot Zion.
In whatever light we view the Jewish peo
ple we cannot fail to be penetrated with feel
ings of intense interest on their iiehalt. 1 hey
have ever stood forth conspicuously in the very
centre of the world—a pharos, the light ot which
was reflected on the gloom ot surrounding poly
theism, superstition, and idolatry tV hile the
Assyrians, the Babylonians, the Persians, the
Romans, the Carthaginians, the Egyptians, the
Groths, have each in turn played their i-art in the
world's drama, and disappeared from the theatre
of the world, the Jews stdl remain a people
dwelling alone among the nations, tor eighteen
hundred years they have been in a state ot op
pression and exile, the objects, in many instances,
of execration and scorn.
A wondrous history is that of the Jews. Far
away in the past you recognize the father ot
the nation in old Abraham. I'he nomale con
dition ofthe people at that period is briefly told.
It is more the history ot a tamily than the histo
ry of a nation Those men who are busy in
rearing huge Egyptian structures, and are .hem
selves cast down and held in brutal slavery, are
the Jewish people. The wondrous doings ol
that wondrous time, the marching host that
quitted a land of bondage to found a nation on
another shore, are iecorded with an eloquence
almost as wondrous a» the theme.—wandering
alter wandering, journey after journey, battle
after battle, victory alter victory, till the land of
Palestine became their home. Th-land was a
holy land, the governrn»>TF a theoeraiw- But
id,.. « eary oi -i..s government, and sought
a King like the other nations. King means cun
ning—cunning man. Their roll of kings be
tray* no great sagacity,—
“ dome good, some bad.
Os bad the larger saro.l."
Every false step brought fresh disasters in its
tram; the people became weak before their ene
mies, and in the Babylonian captivity they hung
their haips upon the willows, for how ceuld
they sing the Lord’s song in a strange land?
A strange and melancholy record is the story
of their captivity. Agra id thrilling romance of
reality, in which we recognise an intense theism.
Bibvion with its lofty walls and hundred gates,
its broad streets, its public squares, its noble pal
aces, its hanging gardens—all uniting to consti
tute a wonder of the whole world —to the Jews
was but a prison-house. Surrounded by con
stant and unbounded magnificence, by the glo
ries of art and ail that was calculated to impress
them with the power and the riches of their
conquerors—they sighed for the hills, and dales,
and plains of their own well-loved Palestine ; for
its vine-clad hills, its stately palms, its dear old
memories. What was dearer to them than their
own homes, their own happiness, their own
lives, had been despoiled by their enemies. The
House of God was laid low. The treasures of
that house, the holy vessels, had been carried
aW ay and they wept when they remembered
Zion. Truly they had suffered before, and suf
fered bitterly, but the old Egyptian bondage was
in the infancy ot their nation. Since that peri
od they had been led out in triumph, bad con
quered every’oe. had established themselves in
the promised land, and in Solomon it seemed as
though their glory had culminated, and their star
wa« now in the decline. The prophet of Heze
kiah's time, Isaiah, had told of a coming deliv
erer. in the person of Cvrus, and Jewish hopes
were raised when the Persian army beleaguered
the city, and the tremendous words of warning
spoke of coming desolation to the impious Bels
hazzer. The last days of Babylon were at hand.
The coming act of impiety had been perpetra
ted. The banquet at which the great men of
the time had assembled, had witnessed the holy
ve««els ofthe Temple polluted by the revel, had
witnessed, too, the fingers of a hand write on
the wall the sentence of condemnation, a sen
tence which none but a Jewish seer could make
plain. And then the end came on.
We read of the wanderer's return; of the ru
ined temple re-erected ; the story of the Macca
bees, or Antiochus Epiphanes; of the marvels
which stirred the hearts of the people when
Christianity appeared among them : ofthe revolt
against the Romans; the fierce siege;the strug
gle without and the struggle within; the final
over’hrow of Jerusalem, and the destruction of
the temple; and then azain comes the dark,
melancholy cloud, and Zion’s song is hushed,
except that here and there a pla ntive strain
arises from some Jewish home—homes of the
wanderers scattered far and wide.
A story of glory and shame, of joy and sorrow,
of sunshine as well as darkness, is that of an
cient Judaism, but all glory and joy and sun
shine are taken away from their modern hieto
ry. There is still at Rome a triumphal arch,
erected when the captive Jews were brought
thither by Titus.—anarch, on which is sculp
tured the Roman soldiers, carrying the golden
candlesticks, table of shew-bread. and other ves
sels ot the Tabernacle. The Jews were the
builders of the Colosseum, and the first victims
slain within its walls. Held in detestation of all
nations, persecuted on groundless charges, vic
tims of popular fury, as well as of legal injus
tice, hanged, burned, tortured to death, —the his
tory ol the Jews is a martyrology, and their
preservation a miracle.
In England, but a few centuries ago, the most
extraordinary notions were entertained respect
ing the piaetices of the Jews. Old Chaucer ap
pears to have believed that the Jews were ca
pable of any cruelty, and we must remember
tnat be only represented in this matter, the po
pular opinion ; in bis time it was thought a
good Christian thing to spit on a Jewish gaber
dine. In the “ Canterbury Tales” he makes
the prioress relate that in an Asiatic city, where
there was a ‘■Jewerie,’’ a place where Jews
dwei", that a child having to pau this place on
his way to school, gave high offence by singing
“ 0 Altai Mater red*mptoris
for which they fell upon him and put him to
dertb, but the words ofthe song were still con
tinued from the pit where his mangled body was
hid lent search was made, the murder was dis
covered, and then—
•• With torment and with shameful death, each one
The provost these Jews did serve,
Woich of the murder wist.
Therefore wiih wild horse* he did them draw,
Anl after that he bang’d them by the law.”
At the close of the poem Chaueer refers to
another ease; exclaiming—
•‘ Ob, young Hew of Linooln I slain also
By cursed Jews, as it is noptable.
Tor it was but a little while a;o.”
These accusations were not uncommon : the
people entertain- d a horrible belief that the
men of the gaberdine were willing to commit i
any amount of treason against common humani- I
ty; that they were in the haoitof stealing away I
and murdering Christian children, in order to
use their blood as leaven in preparing some of
the substances to be eaten in the course of their
rites. Marlow, the old dramatist, has given us
a fearful autobiographical sketch in the character
of Barabbas, the Jew. when he makes him say—
“ A" for myself. I walk abroad a-nigbt*.
And kill sick people groaning under walls;
Sometime* I go about and poison wells;
And now and then, to enerish Christian thieves,
I am content to lose somo of my orowns,
That I may, walking in my gallery
Bee’m go pinion d along by my door.
Being young. I studied physi". and began
First to practise upon the Italian,
There I enrich’d the priests with burials,
And always kept the sexton’s arms in use.
With digging graves, and ringing dead men’s knells i
And after that I was an enginer.
And in the wars ’twixt France and Germany,
Under pretence of serving Charles V.,
Blew friend and enemy with my stratagems,
Then after that I was an usurer,
And w th extorting, cozening, forfeiting,
Ar d tricks belonging unto brokery,
I filled the gaol with bankrupts in ayear,
And with young orphans planted hospitals,
And erery moon made some or other mad—
And one would sometime* hang himself for grief,
Pinning upon hi* breast along great enroll,
How I with interest had tormented him/’
These were ’he sentiments and these the do
ings which men in Marlow’s day ascribed to
Jews. Shakspeare in his Shylock panders to
this prejudice; the story ol the pound of flesh
was the sort of thing that men believed respect
ing Jewish dealers. The character of bis Jew
arouse in* our minds an instinctive aversion, al
though we may have some pity for the man :
but Shak’peare’s Jew was spotless innocence
compared with Marlow’s.
When the flower of European chivalry left
their own land* and started forth to do battle
with the Turk, the Crusaders’ swords’ grew red
with Jewish blood. The knights commenced
their labors for the Cross by massaCreing the
Jew* in every city through which they passed.
Conversion or death were the alternative pro
posed. Cologne, Worm", Treves, saw the fear
ful work begun. A band of Jewish women at
Treves went to the banks of the blue Moselle,
and having loaded their clothes with stones,
threw themselves into the river and perished
While the crusading mania lasted, many similar
acene* occurred.
At the coronation of Richard 1., of England,
orders bad been given that none of the Jewish
race should approach his palace. Ignorant ot the
order, some of the leading men went to the spot
■with presents for the king. A riot ensued. A
rumor spread that the king had sanctioned a mas
sacre of the Jew* throughout his dominions
The imaginary o der was put into operation.
From city to city the blood-news went; the
most deplorable scene of all took place at York
There the Jews shut themselves up in a tower,
and were beteiged by the populace. Finding no
mean* of escape, they resolved to fall by their
own hands. Each head of a family took a razor,
with wh.ch he slew first his wife and children,
then hi* domestics, and finally himself. Either
in this Isarlul manner, or by the hands of the
populace, ev»*ry, Jew irj York perished. Still la
ter, teven hundred were# slain in London be
*au*v a Jew had demanded exorbitant interest.
In 1'274. every Jew who lent money on usury
was compelled to wear a plate upon his breast
signifying that he was a usurer, or to quit the
realm; in 1277, two hundred and sixty-seven
Jews were hanged and quartered on a charge ol
clipping the coin; ’he same year, upon a pretence
that a Christian child had been crucified at Nor
wich. fifty Jews were hanged, and every syna
gogue destroyed: in 1287. all the Jews in Eng
land were apprehended in one day. their goods
goods and chatties confiscated to the king, and
they, to the number of 16,660, banished the
realm. They rema: ted banished 374 yea *.
England is in this matter, a fair sample of other
countties. In 1394 they were driven out of
France; in 149'2 were banished from Spain;
aganist them the Inqnsition was first establish
ed. Recent time* have seen the grossest cruel
ties enacted against them in the face of all rea
son and justice. The old prejudice still to some
extent influences the public mind; though no fire
or sword are employed, they are still under the
ban ofthe law, until comparatively lately were
tendered incapable of the privileges of citizen
s'-ip. and even now are denied some of its ad
van ages. .
A bye-word among the nations, the Jewish
people have been preserved amid all the agita
tion and tumult ot the world. There is some
thing very striking and impressive in the idea.
The legend ot the wandering Jew seems but a
type of the nation :
" And eighteen centuries now have sped
On the dark wrecks of Rome and Greece.
They have soon th ashes scattered
Os thousand shifting dynasties;
Been good, unfruitful good, and ill
Prolific, while the tempest roll’d;
Icon two new worlds the oirolo fill.
Which one world occupied of old.
Ever, ever
Earth revolves—they rest them never.**
Jews have been compelled to turn their at
tention to the accumulation of money. In
every age 'hey have been celebrated tor their
wealth. Rich as a Jew, has become a proverb.
Their supposed wealth has brought noon them
cruelty and persecution. Their real wealth is a
known fact. But modern Jews can do some
thing more than make money. The melting
music o the “Midsummer Night’s Dream;”
the melancholy strain of “Elijah ;” the solemn
music of “Paul,” owe their origin to Felix Men
delssohn—a Jew. Who has not been enchanted
with the beautiful fictions of lyric poetry, and
charmed with the graceful melodies of Heine 1
The pictures of Bendemann, the Jew, are de
scribed by connoiseurs as worthy of all praise.
Liberty lias found a free spoken apostle in the
Jew. Boerne. Rossini was a Jew ; Memerbeer
a Jew. There is an earnestness, a spirit ot po
etry and melodv in the outcast people that will
*,!.» am! tb’ l
The world owes much to the Jews. They
were the librarians of its revelation ; in their
laws we recognise the grand outline of moral
obligation ; in their poetry we find he highest
excellence : and in their ethical aphorisms, a
body of the soundest practical wisdom. There
are deeper obligations which we owe to the
Jews. Christianity was originally founded, pro
fessed, and by them. There are
glories yet instore for that people. Their his
tory is yet to be eventful. There is a bright
light resting on the future—a haven across the
melancholy seas—a haven they must reachat
last. All history is something more than a rec
ord of facts The facts of histoiy are connect
ed ; and to trace and expound the principles of
this connexion, to exhibit the history as one or
ganic whole, is the highest office of the histo
rian. Nowhere is this connexion better seen
than in the anna ! s of Judaism.
According to the most recent and exact sta
tistics, the Jews number at this moment very
nearly the same as when they left Egypt under
Moses—somewhere about three millions and a
half. They have used every dialect, have wan
dered on the banks of the Nile, by the waters
of Babylon, the Jordan, the Tiber, the Thames
the Mississippi; they have mingled, but never
united with other nations ; arms, climate, ge
nius and pol tics cannot explain it. We turn to
our records to find out the cause—their history
is prospective as well as retrospective, and leads
us forward to a time when their wanderings shall
be over, and they shall recognize in Him. whom
they now reject, the brightness and glory of
their race.
There is evident purpose in the preservation
of the Jews. We disregard the idle curl of the
wave, but when every wave is moving in the
same direction, when the tide is clearly seen
at work—we find a law of nature, we seek a
cause and find it in the skies. So is it with all
his'ory—but more especially in Jewish records,
old and new—there is design-in them all—every
circumstance is connected—it is no chapter of
accidents, but the development of a great and
glorious plan.
[From the Journal of Commerce, 10ZA inst.J
Mississippi Repudiation.
Some new phenomena have recently occurred
in the history ot Mississippi repudiation, which
it may be well to record. Let us premise, for
the information of persons not lamiliar with the
facts, that in 1830 and 1833, the State of Mis
sissippi issued bonds to the amount of $2,000,000,
and loaned them to the Planters’ Bank of that
State, then recently established. Os this amount,
$1,500,000 were issued with coupons attacl ed,
and 5500.Q00 without. Not long after, say in
1835 or 1836. she issued her bonds to the amount
of $5,000,000 more, tor the establishment ofthe
Mississippi Union Bank. The bonds for the
Planters’ Bank sold at a considerable premium,
out of which a sinking fund was established,
which was eventually Io redeem them. These
Planters’ Bank bonds were never in torm repu
diated, but the interest on them ceased to be
paid in 1838. and not a farthing has since been
received from them by the unfortunate holders,
most of whom reside in England.
I The bonds for the Union #ank were thrown
upon the market at two latffa date to bring the
highest prices. Money was not so plenty, and
a portion of them at least, if not the whole,
were sold for a trifle under par. The Act of
the Legislature authorizing their issue, contained
a proviso that they should not be sold under par :
and as a pretext was now wanted to cover the
odium of repudiation, it was found in the neg
lect of this proviso; although at the date of the
repudiation, most or all ot the bonds had pass
ed into the hands of third parties, who knew
nothing of the restriction, and had no agency in
disregarding it. At bes ,it was little more than
a technicality, on which no stress was laid when
the issue of the bonds was authorised ; and the
Goveror’s recommendation to repudiate on that
ground, or on any ground, was at first resisted
by the Legislature, who on the other hand pass
ed a resolution declaring that Mississippi would
“preserve her faith inviolate,” and that any in
sinuation to the contrary would be “a calumny
upon her justice, honor and dignity.” She how
ever made no attempt to pay either principal or
interest, and in 1842 the infamy ot a formal re
pudiation was consummated.
We uoa go back to the Planters’ Bank bonds.
In 1848. there remained of the sinking fund set
apart for their redemption, $94,000. The Leg
islature of that year passed an Act requiring this
1 money to be applied to the payment of the first
;of the overdue coupons of these bonds. As
: SSOO 000 of the bonds had no coupons, they
i were excluded by the wording of the law, from
the benefl’s of the appropriation ; although no
. such discrimination was probably intended. As
j yet, however, nothing has been gained or lost by
I either class of bondholders, in consequence of
the discrimination.—the State Auditor having
evaded the law which required the payment to
to be made. Under these circumstances, Mr.
Weis*, an agent of rhe English bondholders, be-
I ing then in Mississippi, obtained a Mandamus
against the Auditor, commanding him to pay
over the money, according to law. The latter
! thereupon appealed to the “ High Court of Er
} rors,” the highest Tribunal in the State, which,
towards the close of last year, confirmed the
Mandamus of the lower Court. The sinking
fund was by this time reduced to $45,000. —the
Legislature of that year having appropriated it to
defray the ordinary expenses of government;
and we infer from a recent article in the Natchez
Courier, that this $45,000 has since been expen
ded in the same way; the Auditor probably re
garding the authority of the Legislature as supe
rior to that of the Court of Errors. However
this may be. it is plain that there is a collision
between the Courts and the Legislature, and that
the latter body has trampled under foot the au
thority of the former.
Nor is this the only point of collision between
the government of Mississippi and her Courts.
For her Court of Chancery has recently decided
that she is legally and constitutionally bound
for the redemption and payment of the Union Bank
bonds. This case will go up to the highest
Court, which, there is reason to believe, will
sustain the Chancellor’s decision. The New
Orleans Bulletin, anticipating this result, says :
*• This will place the people of Mississippi in a
very awkward predicament— they voting that
they will riot pay certain obligations, and the
high tribunals, of their own creation, specially
authorized to pronounce upon such subjects, de
claring that they are legally and constitutional
ly bound for their reilemp*ion and payment.”
All honor to the Mississippi Courts. They
have done what they could to vindicate outiaged
justice, and blot out the infamy which must ever
attend and follow the repudiation of just debts.
That those under consideration are just debts,
nobody doubts but the debtors. The country
and the civilized world have pronounced U|>onthe
case a unanimous verdict. Mississippi stands
before mankind a fraudulent debtor; able, but re
fusing to pay. Being an independent State, she
has the power either to pay or not to pay ; but
this tact makes her refusal still more discredita
ble to her, if possible, than it otherwise would
be.
In thinking and speaking on this subject, we
must be careful to discriminate between the nu
merical majority which has hitherto refused to
make any effort to pay the bonds In question,
and that large and respectable minority who for
years have been struggling to redeem the credit
ofthe State by doing justice to her creditors.
We said years ago, and we say now, that Mis
sissippi will yet regard it a* a privilege, to pay
her repudiated bond*, and all her bonds Recent
demonstrations encourage us to hope that her
regeneration is near. Not only the decisions of
her Court* and the increasing zeal of the party
in favor of bond-paving, encourage us, but also
the fruits ot her dishonesty, which she is begin
ning to reap. These are bitter, like the apples
of Sodom ; and will become more so the longer
they are kept. Read the following article :
[ From the Natchez (Miss.) Courier of Jan. 26 ]
The Financial Condition ofthe State.—
The State of Mississippi is, we regret to learn,
at present in a very awkwaid position. Its
treasury is empty ; a portion of its people appear
willing to give up all idea of preserving its cred
it ; and a part ol its press seem anxious to avoid
the question of how that credit can be restored,
lest any agitation of the public mind may inter
rupt the quiet serenity that now promises i to
mere spoilsmen so long a grasp of public honors
and of office*. The sinking fund, «o improperly
appropriated by the State last year to pay its
ordinary expenses, has at length been exhausted;
and the State Treasury has at last to guard only
“ a beggarly array of empty boxes.” This sink
ing fund was composed of a portion of the mon
ies paid in by bondholders as a premium, at the
time the latter bought the bonds to which the
State had pledged her faith. So fair then stood
the credit of Mississippi, that about $200,000
were paid in cash into her treasury, over and
above the face of the bonds. It was directed to
be reserved as a sinking fund for their redemp
tion.
Three or four years since, Mississippi had a
large surplus in her treasury : considerably over
half a million, if we recollect aright. The Le
gislature, though always acknowledging the
liability of the State—constitutional, legal and
moral—to pay the Planters’ Bank Bonds, de
clined to pay the interest thereon; as if to afford
encouragement to the spirit of repudiation, and
to take away the continually reclining incen
tive to honesty, that a surplus in the treasury
always presented, the Legislature ordered $300.-
000 of the surplus to be delivered back to the
counties ot the State, and the taxes ofthe people
to be liminished one-half. If the Legislature had
desired to force the State into a repudiation of
her bonds to drain her treasury and impoverish
her cotfers. so that she could not pay her debts
without onerous taxation, that body would have
adopted no other means than it did.
Even in this distribution ol the surplus, there
was a method in the Legislative madness that
almost provokes a smile. The counties had been
taxed according to the real and personal proper
ty contained therein ; the taxes were re-distribu
ted back according to the population I From
Adams county, the State had gathered some
815.000 a year; to her, it gave back $3,500.
From Ti.hemingo and Tippah, it had gathered
about $8,500, and it gave back $31,000 I These
are strange facts, but they are facts, neverthe
less. The State drew money from one set ol
counties, and gave it away to another set; as if
to give the last named set an excuse for voting
not to pay the State obligations, on the ground
of unwillingness to be taxed, (an excuse the}’
readijy availed themselves ot!) at the very pe
riod when they were receiving back in one year
more taxes than they had paid in dining three
years, and when the counties, which were thus
bearing the heaviest burthens of taxation, for the
benefit ot their more populous sister counties,
were still by large majorities in favor of further
taxation to redeem the credit of the State I We
doubt whether any other State can exhibit such
a singular phase of public sentiment, or point to
such an unjustand culpable course ot legislation.
The surplus was distributed back in this un
righteous ratio; the taxes were reduced in this
imnrovident manner; and then the Legislature
Uirecreti a vote ol lue people to be taken, as to
whether they were willing to submit to taxa
tion to pay bonds, which the Legislature itself,
while it did not dare to repudiate, had not the
firmness to propose liquidating I Where can be
found the parallel to such conduct ? Nor was
I this all. At the very period when this encour
agement was given to the people to repudiate
the State Bonds, by the fact of an empty treasu
ry, ofa diminished revenue, and the bug-bear of
heavy taxation in the future, the Legislature
seized upon the very money paid in uy the bond
holders. as a premium upon the bonds over anp
above their par value, and authorized the treasu
rer todisburse it for the daily expenses of the
State. If the bonds were to remain unpaid, it
was the height of dishonesty to spend the very
money ofthe bond-holder, at the time the State
was refusing to pay the bonds for which that
: money was paid in. But the sinking fund was
I seized upon—and it has now been spent. Not a
dollar remains in the Treasury. The amount
| which the High Court so lately decided, should
be paid out of that fund towards the interest on
I those bonds, has not been paid. The warrants
i of the State are for the first time for six or se
ven years, below par. Ninety per cent, or there
abouts, is the offer made for them in the money
1 market; and there can be no amendment of her
financial condition until after April or May.
■ Then the taxes will be coming in, and back war
rants will be paid.
But before the close of 1853, the demands up
on the State Treasury will have again exhausted
. it, and the Legislature must then be called upon
I to invent some new panacea, wherewith to cure
' the evils that reckless, unwise and dishonorable
legislation has induced.
| Perhaps the contemplation of these melan
choly facts may induce our fellow-citizens to re
' fleet, whether thay have not paid dearly for the
I whistle.
[Correspondence of the Macon Messenger.]
Trial of the Robbers of John Jackson.
Forsyth. March 14th, 1853.
I Messrs. Editors .-—The Superior Court of Mon
roe county has been in session for two weeks
past, and as it has been occupied almost the
whole of the time in the trial of some of the
men who were concerned in the robbery of John
I Jackson, near the line of Pike, last October, it
mav not be uninteresting to your readers to have
, the’details of the robbery, as developed by the
testimony placed before them.
It appears that about five weeks before the
robbeiy, two men who then passed by the names
i of Cooper and Williams, but who now answer
to the names of Simpson and Copenhaver,
stayed all night at Mr. Jackson’s, and on pay
: ing for their fare the next morning, handed him
a S2O bill to be changed. In changing it. Mrs.
Jackson got some money out ot a trunk in the
! closet, and thus they ascertained where the mon
:ey was kept. About midnight, on the 12th of
1 October last year, the door of his dwelling was
suddenly burst open, and several men entered
the room occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Jackson.—
One, recogni-ed by them on the trial as Copen
haver, a stout athletic man, went to their bed,
and caught the old man by the throat
I hand, and in a threatening \
i ly toucl/'iis heart vrilL a a premature grave
upon Mrs. Jackson’s screaming,"He oTUeIBMAN
I to hush, and drawing a pistol, told her he could
I make her hush. Another, since recognised as
Dr. Roberts, held a lighted candle in his band,
! while the others opened the closet door, and
: took out the trunk—they immediately left the
I bouse. They were pursued early next morning,
and about a quarter of a mile from the house,
j the trunk was found broken open, and rifled of
: its contents, amounting, according to Mr. Jack
son’s testimony, to about $6,500, all silver, ex
: cept about SIOO in gold. Their trail was fol
lowed into Meriwether county, where they
I separated, three going a road in the direction ot
Tennessee, and two towards Newnan, Coweta
county. These two were arrested late in the
evening in Newnan, and one called himself
! John B Simpson, and the other at first refused
to give his name, but afterwards acknowledged
j himself to be Dr. Roberts. In their saddle
bags were found about $946 in silver—a large
amount of bills, most of which were counter
j feit; two forcepts, for unlocking doors on the
I outside, when the key is within—a bunch of
skeleton or false keys for unlocking trunks, bu
reaus, desks &c., a brace, such as is used by
carpenters for boring, two pistols and a slung
shot, or a stout piece of leather, loaded at one
end with lead. They were brought to Monroe,
and one of them, Simpson, under promise of be
ing released, made a disclosure, by which the
other three were pursued to Tennessee, and two
j of them, Copenhaver and Clark, were arrested
and brought back. Clark, when arrested, made
a full confession of the robbery, without any
promise of being released, and upon the back,
conducted the persons in charge of him to the
place in Meriwether county, where more of the
money was secreted ; it was concealed in three
separate parcels, and amounted to $1,217 in sil
ver.
Two bills of indictment were preferred against
them and found true—one for Burglary and the
j other for Robbery ; and Dr. Roberts was indicted
singly as a rogue and vagabond, carrying about
■ pick-locks, false keys, &c. He was found guilty
1 of the three offences, and sentenced to nineteen
. years imprisonment in the Penitentiary. Co
pen.iaver was found guilty ol burglary and rob
i bery, and sentenced to the Penitentiary tor four-
I teen years. He was also indicted lor perjury,
I alleged to have been committed during the
Court, and the case was continued until the next
term. Clark plead guilty on one bill; and in
consideration of his full and frank confession up
on his arrest, and also of having been led by the
influence of another man to join in the robbery,
he was sentenced to only four years con
finement in the Penitentiary, and the other bill
was not proseeptied as to him. Price, another of
the offenders, who escaped to Tennessee, upon
his return there, was arrested and confined in
jail for a murder previously committed. He
has been recently rescued from prison by some
of his friends, and is now at large.
But. perhaps the most interesting pait of the
trial was the examination of Simpson, as a wit
ness, on the trial of Roberts, as a rogue and vaga
bond. He was told by the Court, at the com
mencement of his examination, that he was not
bound to answer any question which would cri
minate himself; and he frequently availed him
self of that exemption.
It seem* that Roberts has become displeased
with him on account of his betraying his asso
ciates, and appearing as a witness against them;
and being pretty well posted up with his histo
ry, from his intimacy with him, he was enabled
to suggest many questions which Simpson re
fused to answer; and as his refusal was based on
the ground that he was not bound to criminate
himself, the legitimate inference is, that the
questions propounded to him, and which he de
clined to answer, implied allegations of crime
which are true.
When asked his name, he said he answered
to the name of John B. Simpson. He was ask
ed if his true name is not Jonathan Chalfant,
he refused to answer. Upon being asked where
he was horn, he said in Ohio—that he lived
thereuntil nineteen years of age, and then went
to Kentucky. He admitted that he knew Chal
fant.—that he was born in Ohio and at about the
same time that be was. Upon being shown the
slung-shot, and asked whose propertyit was, he
replied, he supposed he had as much right to it
as Dr. Roberts. He was asked if he had never
knocked any one down with it, and declined
answering. He denied knowing Mr. Rambo, of
Gwinnett county; but upon being asked it he
had not knocked him down with his slung shot,
or some other man, in that county, and robbed
hirn ;he refused to answer. He was asked if he
had not been confined in jail in Chillicothe, Ohio’
for murder, and declined answering ; but, upon
being further interrogated, he admitted that he
knew Henrv Thomas, who had been in jail in
Chilicothe for murder, and was hung lor that
crime—that he was in jail with him, but, refused
to answer, if he was noli there under the name
of Chalfant.
In one of the cheap publications of the day, of
a certain character, entitled “The Life and Ad
ventures of Henry Thomas, the Western Bur
glar and Murder,” it will be seen that Thomas
was confined in jail in Chillicothe, for the rob
bery and murder of a man by the name of Ed
wards, and that an accomplice by the name of
Chalfant wa* imprisoned at the same time with
him.
Simpson was finally asked if he knew*Jjov,
Ousley, of Kentucky, and answered that he did.
He was asked if be had not been paid SSOO to
assassinate him, and refused to answer thd ques
tion, in such a manner as to leave no ddnbt of
his guilt. Various other questions were put to
him. not now recollected, but enough has been
detailed to show that he is covered all oger with
infamy of the deepest and blackest dy* He is
a keen, shrewd, artful scoundrel, and has doubt
less, been engaged in the commission of crime
almost the whole of his life. Ho wan remanded
to jail to be disposed of at some fnturMqjie.
It is fortunate for the country that the band
has been broken up. Too much praise cannot be
awarded to the gentlemen who have been active
in bringing them to justice. Roberts and Co
penhaver will carry their cases to the Supreme
Court, but upon mere technical exceptions
Messrs. Lamar & Lochrane and Hammond were
appointed their counsel by the Court, and dis
charged their duty ably and faithfully. . O. C.
Gibson and H. Green, Esqs.. rendered able and
efficient aid to the Solicitor General in the pro
secution. Monroe.
Horseback Riding.—Aided by a riding dress
and a spirited horse, woman attracts attention,
exerts influence and appears like a goddess.
She then in eflect rises above herself, wears an
air, and exhibits a style that commands ob
servation and secures admiration. No where
does a lady thoroughly equipped show so advan
tageously as on horseback, and nowhere does she
exert a more wholesome influence TaCty fe
male equestrians, to a pleasure
party, are a moral good equal at least to that of a
clergyman. And as an adjuvant to the colpor
teur for the virtue and gallantry of a people,
schools for the practice of females in horseman
ship should be instituted. Woman’s sphere
of action at present is confined within doors, yet
her health, beauty and happiness require a great
variety of scenery, an active life, many amuse
ments, and the pure country air. To her, inac
tion, confinement and sameness are eminently
injurious, and they will soon rob her of each
charm and life. And we may add, the present
poverty of health among American women is a
startling prool of this truth! The government,
and much of the labor at home falls upon her
rightly enough too, and will so continue. But
while she must continue the moving spirit of
domestic life, something must be furbished by
which, in a short time and in a pleaang man
ner, she can obtain all the means egential to
health, pleasure, and happiness. /
In riding horseback, woman can tiki in these
particulars much that she requires: She can
instantly pass, by horse, from her.'kelve feefi’ 1
, kitchen or parlor, from her cares, iadt•and con
finement to the country and i-
•
to many amusements, and w
exercise which has no eqnal for its
sect upon the trunk, neck and bead, and teats
of life, and those parts of the organization which
are most neglected and wickedly mutilateil by
foolish habits and inaction.
This exercise is estimated to her, it meets so
many wants at the same time, and so happily
combines amusements with substantial good.
It arouses the bodily spirits, gives scope and ac
tivity to the mind, and serenity ti. the feelings,
and speedily dispels the gloom of the dyspeptic,
paints the cheek of the consumptive, iweetens
the breath of the cachactic, rounds the figure of
the emaciated, and perpetuates the natural at
tractions of the body and character.
Human Bodies found in Guano.—From the
ship Brandscompt, unloading Peruvian guano at
Leith.there were exhumed the remainsof three
persons.evidently Peruvians, buried in tie guano,
and which had apparently not been disturbed in
the process of loading the ship. The remains
illustrate a curious property in the guano in pre
serving bones, hair and clothes, while complete
ly decomposing flesh. It is not known when
the bodies were originalljNnterred,
were all found as entire as if they hail been pre
served in a museum ; the hair remained upon the
skull, and the clothes were very little decayed.
North British Mail.
Stock of Goods in Macon.—The Macon Tel
egraph says:
“ Although the Cotton business of Macon is
perhaps declining, it is certainly true, that our
trade in other commodities is rapidly increasing.
The Stock of Goods opened in Macon, gross
more extensive and costly every year, and that
which is now being delivered at our Depots is
superior to any before brought to our city. Ma
ny of our houses are already doing a good Jobbing
business, and in a few years we confidently ex
pect a large wholesale trade to be transacted in
Macon.
History Correcting Art.
One-half of the barber-shops and country tav
erns in Europe, Asia. Africa, America and Aus
tralia contain a picture of “ Napoleon crossing
the Alps.” The great soldier is mounted on an
exceedingly large, fat charger, that is standing
upon its hind legs, and pawing the air. Napo
leon keeps his seat in defiance of the laws of
gravitation. He wears a flowing and toluminous
cloak, which sets off his uniform; with his right
hand he is pointing to the summit ofthe moun
tains; he appears to be cheering on the countless
host by which he is preceded, followed and sur
rounded and, in general, is comporting himself
like a popular circus rider. Since M. Thiers
narrated the exact mode in which Napoleon did
cross the Alps, the French artists have been bu
sy in representing it; and we see in our own
shop-windows the true version of the story
recorded in steel-plate engravings.
Perhaps some of our readers may not remem
ber the corrective passage, in Thier’s ‘‘Consu
late and Empire “ The arts,” says M. Thiers
“have represented Napoleon bounding across the
snowy Alps on a fiery charger; but here 4s the
, .truth. luivarni'AkE x, JI ilKyai pf Watwi t Jit ,
| those having demands mffpPSent
a giitJe of the couSlfy ; display inJ’-IJN’JGe most
difficult paths the abstraction of a mind occu
pied elsewhere; discouising with the officeis
whom he met here and there on the road; and
then, at intervals, conversing .with the guide
who accompanied him, making him talk of his
life, his pleasures, and his troubles, like some
traveller who had no better occupation.” The
true picture is infinitely more pleasing and ro
mantic than the fiction ; but it will be long ere
it travels as far.— Home Journal.
Fashionable Life in Cincinnati.
The Cincinnati Atlas tells the following:
A Modern Timon.—A little incident occur
red in one ofthe circles of Upper-tendom of this
city, a few evenings since, which served for the
time to relieve the platitudes of fashionable life,
and which is perhaps as worthy of record as
many events of far higher apparent importance.
A young gentleman, well known in the upper
walks, determined, byway of return for the
many invitations which he had received during
the winter, to give an entertainment, and issued
his invitations accordingly. By means of some
mysterious givings-out, or rather perhaps through
his well known character as a bon vivant, it came
to be understood that the fashionable hotel to
which he had bidden his friends was to be the
scene of one of the most sumptuous and luxurious
of festivals, and, as a matter of course, the high
livers with one accord determined to assemble
and do ample justice to his hospitality.
The evening arrived, and with it came the
party, who were received with that cordial
suavity for which the hero of our story is so
much distinguished, and many thanks were
pourned upon the visitois for their kindness in
coming to enliven the tedium of his bacheloi
lodgings. When they were all assembled, he
informed them, with some appearance of con
cern, that he had not succeeded in procuring the
attendance of a band of music for the dance but
that he had been able to enlist the servifts of a
violin player ; and knowing that it was rather
for the pleasure of seeing him than of enjoying
luxuries of any kind that they had assembled,
he was sure that they would overlook the omis
sion. This was taken in good part and the dance
went on, apparently to the satisfaction of all.
At 12 o’clock the party were conducted to the
supper room, where was seen a table beautifully
spiead with most elegant dishes, all of which
were covered. Immoveable, behind each cbair,
stood a servant, watching the eye of the master
of the feast, and ready to act in concert at his
signal. He arose, thanked his friends again for
their attendance, which he was assured was in
honor to himself and not merely on account of
his entertainment, and hoped they had en
joyed themselves so far, in spite of the de
fects in his arrangements, expressed a wish
that what remained would be equally to their
taste, and ended by declaring his conviction
that their friendship for himself was so gieat
and so sincere that they would not eren
notice any little shortcomings that might occur
in what was to ensue. A signal to the servants
followed—the dishes were
table was found to be bountifnly
crackers and cheese. The
who had been saving their appetites for (he
terrapins, scolloped oystersand other luxuries of
an imaginary bill of fare which they had con
strue! ed in their own minds, may be better
imagined than described. Our hero was per
fectly cool, and proceeded to do the honorsot the
table with his usual grace and elegance, and a
few of the company had the good sense to relish
the joke, to appland the spirit with which it
was undertaken and carried out, and to make a
hearty meal of the somewhat simple provender
with which the table was amply supplied.
Extraordinary Outrage.—A few days ago
as the Rev. C. H. Kelly, ot the M. E. Church’
in Clark county, Mo., was concluding the morn
ing service, a man rushed up into the pulpit with
a pistol in hand, and seized.him,charged him with
stealing a horse, and notwitstauding the re
monstrances of those present, his hands were tied
and his legs chained. In this condition h 0 W as
placed on a horse, and taken to the State of
lowa, where a man named Chas. H. Kel V
had escaped from the penitentiary. The keen
er, however, immediately pro nouned hnn not h
be the man, as he bore no resemblance to him
whatever, when he was instantly discharged
The man who seized him thus summarily nre
tended to be the Marshal of Missouri. *
The Health Insurance Companies are getting
an overhauling in New York. A man, named
Wirt Lombard, president of an alleged bogus
health insurance company at Chicago, 111
arrested on a charge of swindling, connected
with that company. The concern was called
the Combination Company, and among its ref
erenceare printed the names of Franklin Pierce"
Gov. Boutwell, and Gov. Seymour who of
course, knew nothing of this unjustifiable use of
their names. We see by the New York papers
of Thursday, that other parties, connected with
the “ United States Health Insurance Associa
tion,” are under arrest on a charge of having de
frauded a large number of persons out of various
sums of money under pretence ol insuring them
funds in case ol sickness.
Wood costs $65 a *ord in Rome, and S3S j n
Naples.
[From the Knoxville Register.]
Remaikable Facts—East Tennessee and its Re
sources—lnfluence of Railroads in Bringing to
Lignt Hidden Wealth.
The approach of railways from the south and
the northeast to the borders of East Tennessee,
has served to bring more fully to light the bound
less resources of the country ; and is every day,
as these lines draw nearer and nearer to its cen
tre, demonstrating the remarkable fact, that there
is not a section of the American continent, of
the same extent of territory, so inviting to men
of capital,or men without capita], who have
stout sinews and muscles. These elements o*
wealth have never been combined for want of
proper outlets to the markets of the world ; but
the day has already dawned, and is hourly bright
ening, which will disclose wonderful things in
this valley, hitherto so remote from the ocean
marts. It is our purpose to note a few facts from
which persons at a distance may form some idea
of the vastness and value of those resources.
The climate of a country is a feature winch
pre-eminently fixes its destiny. That of East
Tennessee is somewhat diversified, bacause of
its valleys and lofty mountains ; and for salubri
ty, whether upon the mountains or in the val
leys, is unprecedented. No epidemics haveever
prevailed within its borders, and it is at the
same time free from any causes which can or do
produce diseases local in their character.
The water is another consideration with the
emigrant in search of a new home. In East
Tennessee the varieties of water are innumera
ble almo-t. The limestone, ‘ freestone,” chaly
beate, sulphur. &c., &c , gush from every hill
side. Some of these mineral waters have at
tained much celebrity, because of their sanatory
properties.
Thesoilofthe valleys and in many places
upon the mountains, is as fertile as the alluvutn
which lies on the watercourses of the southern
countries, and is capable of affording subsistence
to a population one hundred times greater than
that now inhabiting the country.
The timber, though now regarded in many in
stances of but little value, is every day b«ing
more highly appreciated. The boundless for
est of hemlock, of white and yellow pine, of
cedar and oak, which can now be purchased,
immediately upon some of the principal water
courses, at prices of from ten to twenty cents per
acre for the ground upon which they grow is a
fact which will strike the minds of the farmers
who use the bark of the hemlock, and of build
ers who use the other timbers, in other parts of
the country, with much surprise.
The iron of East Tennessee is sufficient in
•quantities to supply the world for centuries.—
This is of various qualities, some of such exyel-
tha' it is preferred above every other ijron
■* 1 //■■--,has
r a boiler made of this iron been known to ex
plode. Here it mav he manufactured into pigs
at ten dollars per ton. and that too, in estab
lishments where but little capital is employed.
It, is now shipped to markets on the Ohio river
at a cost of fourteen dollars per ton. and yet, it
’ yields a handsome profit to the manufacturer.—
Iran lands may be purchased in eligible locations
for from ten to twenty cents per acre.
Coal is almost as abundant as the iron, and in
many instances is found upon one side of a wa
ter course, which is hut a succession of rapids,
while iron is upon the other. Both the anthra
cite and bituminous are found in abundance ; the
one in that ledge of highlands skirting the south
western borders of East Tennessee, and the oth
er in the northern and northwestern. Coal lands
may be putchased at the same price for which
the iron lands may be bought.
Os marble, an endless variety and inexhausti
ble quantity has been discovered, though but few
and partial searches have been made. From the
jet black, susceptible of the finest polish, there is
every hue and shade variegation to the pure
white. Much of the marble is now being used
for ornamental purposes in private parlors, and
is also being wrought into decorations for the
interior of the costly capital in process of erec
tion at Nifthville. These marble quarries are
cheaper than dirt.
The hydraulic limestone has recently been dis
covered in the greatest abundance, in the imme
diate vicinity of Knoxville, and only awaits to
demonstrate its value, a capital that will prepare
500.000 barrels of the cement for the markets in
which it may be sold, at a lower figure than can
be borne when the article is furnished from any
other point.
Salt is abundant, and capital is now being
employed in sinking wells, and preparing fur
naces. &c.. for it manufacture.
Copper has been discovered, and miners are
now at work digging it out of the bowels ol
the mountains, which were once thought to be
worth not one cent per acre and yet the copper
ore is yeilding silver enough to pay all the ex
penses incident to the preparation of the copper
for market.
Lead is every where, we may say. and will be
continued to be esteemed, as it now is. almost
valueless, being in the way of the plow share,
until some one more discerning and more enter
prising than any one now among us’, shall show
to us that in bars and pigs, it, like our iron, is
worth silver and gold.
Zinc, too, has been discovered.and a step made
towards bringing its value to light; a northern
company in connection with one of our own ci
tizens. having obtained a lease of one mine and
having it in contemplation to manufacture the
metal.
Plumbago is found in heaps as large as a
mountain, but is esteemed as of no value, be
cause no one choosfs to make it valuable.
Besides all these elements of wealth there are
others which might be mentioned. Even the
sand which we have, as the experiment has de
monstrated, makes an article ot gla«s superior to
that manufactured in otner parts of the union;
but we may stop here. So that with our cli
pyi/o-s, soil, marble limestone -rment. iron.
'*’T4, r .-enery, which has caused our section ofthe
union to be styled “ The Switzerland of Ameri
ca.” we may safely assert that a more attractive
field nowhere presents to either the capitalist,
the laborer, or the man of feeble health and shat
tered constitution, who is in search of an invig
orating and health-giving atmosphere, the same
inducements. With our radroads so soon to be
complete all these will come, and the change
which will then be wrought in this inviting land
of ours no man can now conceive.
Prizes to Apprentices—A correspondent
of the Scientific American gives some good sug
gestions, which are equally applicable to other
localities A present ot this kind is a continual
remembrance, let o'hers try it:
“It has often made me sad to see so many
of our apprentice boys idle away their useful
moments while out of shop. If a young man
wishes to be master of his business, he must be
attentive to store his mind with useful informa
tion, derived from reading, good conversation,
and experiment.
But our young men, from eighteen to twenty
one years, (I admit there are some noble excep
tions—l speak of the mass), spend their spare
momen s in enjoying themselves—as is called,
among silly people—or in reading trifling books
or nonsensical love stories This age in a mans’
life has a potent influence according to the way
it is improved or misimproved, on his future
welfare, his value to himself, his relatives and
country. A young man who completes his ap
prenticeship carrying with him a character of ex
cellence for industry, honesty and skill, is worth
his weight in gold to himself, friends and coun
try.
I say unto you—young men of our glorious
land, make up your minds, take your stand with
a firm determination to spend your spare mo
ments in useful reading, good conversation, wri
ting. draughting, &<•„ and to work faithfully and
honestly during working hours, so as to become
competent skilful, and intelligent workmen.
Our manufactures are calling loud for master
mechanics, but qualified men are not easily
found. Young mechanics think of this, the in
nocent amusements are yours, they do good, but
do not neglect to improve the moments by wast
ing them in trifling pleasures. I hereby send for
five copiesofthe Scientific American, which I
will present to apprentices in our coach factory,
believing they will be to them of great benefit.”
Singular Marriage of the Emperor’s Phy
sician. —The marriage of the physician of Louis
Napoleon, Dr Conneau. is announced. We learn
from the Courier des Etafs Unis that he has, in
imitation of his royal master, espoused a lady
thirty years younger than himself. Dr. Con
neau, who is said to be a most excellent man,
had been the tutor of this young lady from her
infancy, having bestowed upon ber all the tender
care and solicitude of a father. Some time ago,
finding his charge of an age and in a position to
be married, he offered his services in making for
her an advantageous selection. But I have al
ready made my choice, replied the young lady,
and I am ready to be married at any time. How !
rejoined the astonished doctor, have you indeed
selected your husband ; and who is the happy
man ? It is yourself, responded the damsel; I
love you with all my heart, and I am now ready
to become your wife. Too much surprised at
this declaration to believe his pupil in earnest, the
doctor turned it off as a pleasantry. She insist
ing that she was serious, he at length made a
formal and distinct refusal of the hand she had
offered him. The young lady, however, as it
seems, well consideied the subject, and her pur
pose was not to be changed. She reproached her
tutor with unk ndness, and with a willingness
to make her miserable. The doctor yielded so
far as to take the subject again into con
sideration, and after consulting with his mas
ter and friend the Emperor, at length decided to
accept the lady’s offer and become the happy
husband of his now happy pupil.
Desperate Attempt to Murder.—Sarah
Smith, a colored girl, has been arrested in Ches
ter county. Pa., charged with attempting to mur
der a little daughter of A. W. Pennock, aged 5
years. It appears she took the child to the bßrn,
and notwithstanding its cries and en 1 reaties. put
a rope around its neck, and drew it tight until
she silenced it by strangulation, when, supposing
it dead, she loosened the rope and threw the child
on its face in the garden. Fortunately, it was,
discovered by an Irish servant girl soon after
but it was several hours before it could articulate
a word. The negro girl was arrested, and made
a confession, alleging she intended to murder
the child for slapring her face.
Another disgraceful scene occurred in Wash
ington on Sunday, at Brown’s Hotel. An en
counter took place at the dinner table between
Ben McCulloch, the noted Texas Ranger, and a
Mr. West, a lawyer from New Mexico. The
latter insulted the former and finally threw a
glass of water in his tace ; whereupon McCulloch
knocked West,down with a tumbler, broke a
quantity of plates over his head, and beat hirn
with a chair un'il he was severely, though not
dangerously injured.— Richmond Examiner.
A man called upon an unfortunate tradesman
to pay a demand. “ I can never pay it,” said he,
*• I am not worth a farthing; but I will give you
my note — I am not so poor yet but that 1 can
sign n note/
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Tugaloism.
Dfall the political issues which the popular
excitements of the last three years have thrown
to the surface of the body politic, the most fran
tic, the most fantastic, the most blindly passion
ate. and silly, is that which is well known and
recognized as Tugaloism. The name has fitly
sprung conjointly from the sanguinary freaks of
a crazy woman, who hailed from the banks of
that romantic stream, the Tugalo, and the scarce
ly less crazy visions ofthe excitable editor, who,
under the impulses of an exaggerated self-esteem,
fancied himself a sufficiently important object to
tempt his political opponents to the crime of as
sassination. He deemed himself the marked
yicho, ol political malignly, ».><! with a devo
tion to bis convictions which would have been
sublime had the occasion and the facts been op
portune. wrapped around hisswelling heart the
mantle of patriotism, and declared his willing
ness to offer up his life upon the altar of his
country.
It might well be imagined, that in the brain
of just such h visionary would be engendered
some eccentric scheme of political organization
which would have about it no feature of utility,
of sound sense, or practicability to recommend it
to practical and honest men—an organization
that would appeal only to the sympathies of
the vindictive, the vanity of the egotistical, and
the cupidity of the selfish.
We have now just such an organization un
der just such a leader; or rather, we have before
us just such a scheme for an organization, pro
posed by one who seeks thereby to perpetuate
the bad passions, the revengeful feelings and
seething hatreds of a contest that all good men
should wish allayed forever, and to make them
permanent political elements.
We have before us the broad proposition of the
Southern Banner, to organize out of the Union
democracy of Georgia, a party with the sole
avowed object of uniting with the opponents of
the democratic party, to put down Southern
Rights democrats. Here is the proposition as
we find it, in the Southern Banner of the 16th
inst.:
Re Organization of the Union Party.—lt
is evident from the whole tenor of the Inaugural
Address of Pierce, that he has left all men
who approve of the administrative policy therein
contained, to support his administration in their
own way— the secessionists through their organi
zation, ana the Union mon through theirs. He has
left the kind of organization altogether for the de
cision of the people of the respective States.
The memories of the past, and the forebodings
ofthefutue, warn al! Union men in Georgia, to
cling to the Union Party, and not to become
identified with the Secessionists, who have the un
questionable control of the miss railed democratic
organization. There is nothing new or impractica
ble in the idea of two distifict domestic parties
supporting the same administration of tho general
government.
| It would be suicidal in the Union men of Geor
gia to oppose the administration of Gen. Pierce,
barely because it may be sustained by tho Seces
sionists. Our true policy is to cling to it in despite
of their eff rts to drive us from it, but in a distinct
organization of our own. If we cannot agree in
sustaining the administration of Gen. Pierce, we
may at least agree to keep down the Sece sionists
in the State government, and in the Congressional
representations, tipposition to them will then, be
the bond of union between us. Should this plan
not work well for Gen. Pierce’s administration, it
will he his misfortune, and not our fault. It will
be the result ofthe natural abhorrence of the Un
ion-loving people of Georgia, to committing tho
reins of government to a set of men who have just
to °yt»rthi-ovT th«
We could not, if we desired'to do so, find
words strong enough to stigmatize, as it deserves
the political profligacy that would surrender itself
to such despicable motives, and toil on in its
besotted malignity in hopes of such petty re
venges.
There was a time when much might be par
doned to the provocations, real or fancied, of the
Union Democracy, suffered at the hands of their
brethren of the Southern Rights wing, and to
the mutual recriminations which sprang from
their antagonistic positions. Even Tugaloism,
which arrayed itself last summer against both
wings of the Democracy and intrigued for a
chance to make a new bargain with the whigs
had something of respectability about it; for
some very honest and conscientious men voted
the Tugalo ticket under a morbid sense of what
was due to their own pride and their own con
sistency. But the last vestige ofa patriotic rea
son or of excusable pride, for desiring further
strife with those who stand on the Balti
more Democratic platform and support Gene
ral Pierce’s administration, is now taken
from them. To yield then to the propo
sition to continue their warfare upon the
Secessionists, and combine with the Whigs for
that purpose, would be to acknowledge a sur
render of their judgments as honest men, and
their usefulness as good citizens to the demon
of revenge, or to the still more despicable domi
nation of lust for the offices of the State and the
Congressional representations.
The question of the feasibility of supporting
the administration of Gen. Pierce, under any
such profligate arrangement with tne Whigs
who oppose the administration, is unworthy of
argument. It is too absurd to require elucida
tion. There can be no honesty in proposing
such an absurdity. The proposition but thinly
conceals a desire and a purpose to go over to the
Whigs. That is the destination of the editor of
the Southern Banner. Let him go. We wish
the Whigs joy of their acquisition until they
get tired of it, which we predict will not be
long. How many democrats will be found fol
lowing the Tugalo banner into the camp of the
enemy, we are careless about conjecturing. At
the last count the number of Tulago Demo
crats was not formidable, and the motives
prompting the present movement must reduce
them down to a very inconsiderable squad.—
It will be but a motley group of disappoint
ed office-seekers and bad tempered politicians.
The PEOPLE who are Democrats from principle
and. honest convictions of what is right for
their country, will stand fast where they
are, in the ranks of the Democratic party.
There they can effectually sustain the admin
istration of their choice. There they will stand
opposed alike to the Whig party arrayed against
the administration, and against the Tugalo
guerillas, who professing friendship to the ad
ministration are fighting for plunder or revenge
in alliance with its enemies.
The Democratic party of Georgia should con -
gratulate itself, and no doubt will, on getting rid
of such a majplot as the editor of the Banner, and
all such fishy democrats like him,who could be in
duced by the same crepuscular views of duty, or,
by such reckless indulgence in vindictive passions
at the expense of political integrity, to desert
to the Whig party. They cannot blind the
eyes of the democracy ot this or of other States
to the true nature of the desertion, by calling it
the re-organization of the Union party. There
is no threatened danger to the Union, calling
for such a re-organization. It is but a shabby
effort to raise a cloud of dust under which to
veil the hypocrisy of the pretext.
St. Patrick’* Day.
Notwithstanding the inclemency ofthe weath
er, that spirited Corps, the Irish Volunteers,
took notice of the anniversary of the Patron
Saint of Ireland, by a parade in the afternoon of
Thursday and a handsome collation at night, at
Masonic Hall, to which they sat down with a
number of invited guests. The occasion was
one of much hilarity, wit and good feeling—of
speeches, songs and sentiment—and will long be
pleasantly remembered by all whose good for
tune it was to be present.
Luther G. Fisher, of Baltimore, and Thos. Bait
ley, of Pa., died on board the steamer Oregon, on
her late trip from Panama to San Francisco.
The Next Governor.
An article in the last Federal Union, recom
mending Col. Henry G. Lamar to the Demo
crats of Georgia, as their next candidate for
Governor, prompts us to say a few words on
the general subject.
We have, from time to time, in the last few
weeks, received communications, some of them
written for publication, in reference to the next
Gubernatorial election. We have, however,
declined opening our columns for the dis
cussion of the question, thinking it prema
ture, and desirous of allowing as much time to
elapse as possible, in order that past acerbities
and unfriendly sentiments among Democrats,
divided on the Compromise question, might die
away and be obliterated forever. Time is the
great physician in all strifes like this, when no
practical questions place men in antagonism,
and when a thousand practical questions, and
the political sympathies and convictions of a
lifetime, counsel them to harmonious action.
In these results we are not disappointed, so
far as we have been enabled to ascertain the
drift of sentiment among the Democrats. We
are already apprized of many cases where Dem
ocrats who were estranged from each other, no
longer back than last summer, in reference to the
electoral ticket difficulty .are now coming together
cordially, as Democrats, in support of the gen
eral principles of the party, and of Gen. Pierce’s
administration.
Differences of opinion as to the right of
State secession, are not incompatible with co
operation and union on well recognized and ad
mitted principles of Democratic policy. Our
country has prospered under it. Under it, and by
reason of it, in great part, have been achieved our
greatness and power as a nation. Yet, in that
vast aggregate of Democrats, which has made
up Democratic sentiment, and established Dem
ocratic legislation over the country, there are
all shades of speculative opinion as to the na
ture and structure of our complex system of
Government. Such is the constitution of the
human mind that, in politics, as in religion, ab
solute concordance in large masses, united for
common objects, cannot be expected.' No two
Haves in the forest are precisely alike. So in
the world of intellect; no two minds receive
impressions and present phases ideaiisutßy
lar. It is a wise law of our nature. It is a
leading cause of all progress and improvement.
Nothing but the infirmities of human temper
and the pride of opinion exists now, to keep
Democrats apart in Georgia, who have been di
vided ; and these causes are gradually declining.
It is now getting to be time—perhaps, we
should say the time has now arrived, when
the Democrats of Georgia must take steps to
consolidate their strength, and make their party
here worthy of its principles and past history,
and worthy of the sympathies and alliance of
the Democratic parties as they exist in our sis
ter Sta es of the Union. A State Convention
of delegates will be a fitting commencement of
the work; on which occasion the nomination
for Governor can be made, and the measures in
itiated for his cordial support and triumphant
election.
Os the suggestion of the name of Col. Hen
ry G. Lamar, we have, at present, nothing to
say, but that he is an intelligent and am able
gentleman, a zealous democrat, and one who, if
nominated, will receive from us a very cordial
and earnest support. We take occasion also,
now to state, that the name of Gen. Hugh A.
Haralson, has been urged in one ofthe commu
nications received by us in terms of warm ad
miration. This gentleman also, whose talents
and high character we fully appreciate, would
in the like event, receive our very cheerful sup
port.
In another the narneof Judge Henry R. Jack
son is suggested, and the considerations urged in
behalf of this suggestion, struck us with great
force, and coincided with views previously en
tertained, and fully expressed by us in letters
and conversation. We believe the nomination
of this patriotic young Democrat who now wears
the judicial ermine as gracefully as he did the
soldier’s sword when our country called for vo
lunteers for service against Mexico, would be a
well bestowed tribute to merit, and at the same
time a pledge of mutual amity and confidence
and restored good feeling between Union and
Southern Rights Democrats. The patriotic
course pursued by Judge Jackson and Judge
Johnson last summer, which did much towards
bringing the two wings of the party together,
first suggested to us the name of the former, in
connection with this nomination. We have
named Judge Johnson in this connection, as an
act of strict historical justice, and to say that to
him equally with Judge Jackson, is piaise to be
accorded in this matter. We have not men
tioned his name to bring; it into view for -the
nomination, not that we consider him in any
respect less entitled to it, but because we desire,
in placing the name of a Union Democrat first
before our readers, to affoid an earnest of the
feelings with which we have advocated the re
union of the Democracy and the spirit in which
we think every Southern Rights Democrat should
meet the Union Democrats in Convention.
We should not omit the names of the Hon.
Robert M. Charlton, and of the Hon. Thos.
M. Foreman, in connection with the patriotic
efforts made last summer to bring together the
dissevered wings of our party. Judge Lump
kin, Col. R. W. Flouknoy, Judge Warner,
Col. Chastain and the Hon. Charles Mur
phy, will be kindlyremembered in this matter.
We could extend this list much further, but the
names of those most conspicuous in the good
work will readily occur to the mind of the
reader. Both those that tendered and those that
accepted the Olive branch under which South
ern Rights and Union Democrats marched to.
gether to victory last November, should be re
membered with equal kindness by every well
wisher of the party.
We would be unfeignedly gratified to add to
this list the name of his Excellency Governor
Cobb : but we regret to say we have not the
evidence that he gave his influence and good
wishes to the Democratic ticket which cast the
vote of Georgia for Gen. Pierce. His sympa
thies, if not his secret exertions, were strongly
suspected to be in favor of the Tugalo ticket.—
The efforts and the votes of most of his person
al and political friends whom it was generally
presumed he could influence, were openly given
to that ticket.
We should be very happy to be mistaken in
these impressions, as to the course of Gov. Cobb
in this matter. If we have judged him wrongly,
or misconstrued his course and his motives, we
shall be most happy to make the amende, for we
utterly disclaim personal hostility or unkind
feeling towards that gentleman. It gave us no
pleasure to see him in past days pursue a course
by which he jeoparded that influence and popu
larity that his talents legitimately entitled him
to, and which he once unquestionably and de
servedly possessed in the Democratic party of
Georgia.
Death of a Promising Youth.
The Richmond papers announce the death, in
the 17th year of his age, of P. Vivian Daniel,
brother of the accomplished editor of the Rich
mond Fa'aniinrr. He was a youth ot rare pro
mise—one of whom a brother might well be
proud, and we tender our respectful sympathies
in a loss so peculiarly afflictive. His death is
thus noticed in the Examiner:
“ With no ordinary feelings of grief, we an
nounce the death of P. Vivian Daniel, son of the
late Dr. Daniel, of Stafford, and brother ofthe
Editor ol the Richmond Examiner. He died of
Pneumonia, afer a very brief illness, on Sun
day evening last, at the residence of the Hon. P.
V. Daniel, in this city, in the 17th year of his
age.
Among the numerous deaths which have re
cently occurred in this city, no one has excited
such general sympathy as that we have here an
nounced. The deceased had acquired a reputa
tion for talents and attainments of which even
one of mature age might be proud. As Legisla
tive Reporter for the Examiner, he had impress
ed himself most favorably on the members ofthe
present General and all others who
felt an interest in a correct account of its pro
ceedings. As a man, (for, young as he was, jus
tice requires the application ot that term to
him,) he was respected and loved for his deport
ment and character by a very numerous acquain
tance. Less than a week ago, an intelligent and
discriminating friend expressed the opinion that
no youth in Virginia had such brilliant prospects
before him as young Vivian Daniel—in which
opinion the writer of this notice fully and heartily
concurred. But where now, alas I are the fond
hopes and confident expectations in which we
indulged in behalf of our cherished young friend?
* * * 11 All thy promise fair,
Hath sought tho grave to Bleep forever there.”
B. M. D.
New Post Offices.—The following new
Post Offices have been established in Georgia:
Sandy Point, Crawford county, Jason Castle
berry, P. M.; Mountain Hill, Harris county, John
F. Brown, P. M.; Farmersville, Chattooga coun
ty, Won. A. Mercer, P. M.
Pumpkintown, in Randolph county, has been
discontinued,
Railroad from Dahlonega.
The citizens of Lumpkin, Forsyth and Cobb
counties, are earnestly discussing the project ot
a Railroad to extend from Dahlonega, via Cum
ming, to some point on the Western & Atlantic,
or the Georgia Railroad. An appeal signed by
many respectable citizens, dated Cumming,
Geo., March 9th, has been put forth, from which
we make the following extract:
Three points of connection have been named,
to wit: Stone Mountain, Atlanta, and Ma
rietta. The people of the upper counties
have a preference, but are wedded to no par
ticular route or point of union. Their choice
must and will be controlled by circumstances.
We state to you that we are in earnest in what
we have undertaken. We see and feel that
something must be done, and speedily done,
or we must ere long sink down into ■ condi
tion of hopeless mediocrity, if not absolute
insignificance. We intend to prevent this
dire consummation. We are resolved, as one
man, that a Railroad from Dahlonega via
Cumming to some point on the Roads shall
be built. We have the disposition—we have
the nerve—we have a large and available
portion of the material to commence with ,
and, once begun, the work shall not droop
and die away, but be pushed on to a speedy
and successful completion. Ihe people ot
Roswell have, it seems to us, a very deep inter
est at stake in this enterprise ; nor are the
people of Marietta and the inter nediate por
tions of Cobb and Cherokee counties less in
terested in it.
We have appointed, and will hold, a Rail
road meeting at Warsaw, in Forsyth county,
on Tuesday, the I7th of May next, at which
a free dinner will be provided for all. We
cordially invite you, one and all, to attend
this meeting, and give u« the benefit of your
counsels. We want you to Jet us known by
acts what your feeling* on this subject are ;
how you regard it; whether favorably or un
favorably ; and lastly, what aid, and how
much, you are willing to extend to us in the
construction of the work.
The Groat Hall Storm at Girard and Columbus.
The East Alabamian gives the following
graphic description ot the heavy storm of hail
and wind that recently visited that section:
Great Hail Storm at Girard, Alabama.—
Destructionof Life aud Property!— We are com
pelled to chronicle one of the most destructive
hail storms, that has ever pasted over this sec
tion of country. On Thursday evening, the 10th
instant, about 2 o’clock, a heavy, dark and very
low cloud, teemed to overcast the skv. and look
ing portentiofls of foul weather.
phere wee werrn and uncomfortable, but iga
few minutes, the clouds commenced movingrH'"i
the North-west, then changed, the wind blow
ing severely from that direction, accompanied
with hail and rain, severe lightning and thunder.
There appeared a rumbling noise near the
ground, perhaps under it, we are not certain.—
The lightning hopped and dancedjn mock mer
riment, while the thunder shook every house.
We thought it was hailing hard, and looking be
low into the street, saw a man tangled up among
his horses, who were trying to run, and him
self yelling for heip. We started down, intend
ing to aid him, but the hail was hailing, and rat
tled like peas on a cow-hide, so we retreated to
the Exchange. The hail was so thick about
this time, that it was impossible to see hah
across the street, which was about two inches
deep with it. The wagon, so said by a dozen
witnesses, was blown 30 yards, and it was load
ed with lime. About this time, our next door
neighbor, living in the same building with our
office, came running in the Exchange, the smut
tiest white man ever seen, who cried for ‘help 1’
In a moment the crowd followed him through
a front room, where we found his wife and three
children covered with the fallen roof of t,he
room, and the chimney. A moment’s action
cleared them from the wreck, badly, though not
dangerously injured.
Scarce had we issued from the house, before
we were called to the Creek Bridge, which had
blown down into the water, fifty feet below,car
rying with it, a white man and boy, and a negro
man, together with their wagons and mules.
The men were badly hurt, and it is a wonder
that they were not instantly killed—all the
mules were drowned but two, and they were
badly mashed. The hail then ceased to fall, but
the rain continued.
After a survey of everything, we ascertained
that scarcely a house escaped—many having
their roofs blown a hundred yards; nearly all the
trees were torn from their roots, and large limbs
blown a quarter ofa mile; our neat village church
which was on a hill, was blown to the ground,
and scattered in every direction. The cattle and
poultry suffered very much, many of whom were
killed. When dark came, gloom mantled the
visages of all, and many sought shelter ot their
neighbors, who rendered every aid necessary,
under the circumstances, for in fact, no citizen
escaped having their windows broken, chimneys
blown through roofs and ceiling, into parlorsand
bed-rooms, and their light furniture blown into
their yards. The gardens are entirely lost —
every plant was beaten to the ground, and fruit
trees skinned.
We have walked over a portion of Columbus,
and it presents a distressing aspect. On Batt)' e
Row alias Crawford street, the parapet front*, o f
three stores were blown into the street, together
with the goods. On Broad street 10 or stores
met the same fate, and the goods a wo’.seone.—
Chimneys, roofs, signs and awnings, were scat
tered windward, and every merchant’s loss was
more or less Nearly every house sustained a
damage, which it is impossible to arrive at.—
Down on the river, the hurricane made sad havoc
—the Factoi-iea were little damaged—H. S.
Smitn s warehousenamaged about $3,000
Ruse’s warehouse about s3oo—Greenwood’s
about s2oo—Gunby & Daniel’s warehouse a
bad smash, loss about $5,000, together with
damaged goods in stoie—Rankin’s brick storage
house, worth $4,000. is a complete ruin, and con
tained 4 or $5,000 worth of groceries, all dama
ged. The wind was so severe on this line, that
pieces of tin were blown from the Warehouses
over the houses of one square, and lodged on
trees in Broad street, weighing about 300 lbs
A piece of tin from the roof of Gunby & Daniel’s
warehouse, struck one tnd of Mr. J B Hill’s
dwelling, and knocked it off f rotn the ceiling of
the second story to the com. q- 0 describe
everything is beyond our power, , r to make a
correct estimate at this time.
Here, in Columbus, and from every quarter
we hear of deaths and accidents. So many, re
rumors on this point, that we cannot for,., au
idea of the misery caused by the storm. M
understand that Mr. Chapman had a ne’. r j
scared to death, and that Col. B. D. Harris h a( t
one killed by the falling of a gin-house on his
plantation, near Crawford. We have see’.i many
of the injured persons, and have heard c,f others
in Columbus and the adjoining country.
Below this place, some 15 or 20 miles the
damage done to plantations was very great, bet
as we have no mails, we cannot speau definitely.
South-east of Columbus, the damage is great.
Three miles above here there was no hail.
We desire our friends in the different sections,
to post us up. that we may inform others.
We saw the hail a foot deep on level ground
and in drifts four leet deep, did not melt in thir
ty-six hours.
Taking of Truxillo by the British.
We extract from the New Orleans True jDef
ta a patt of the letter of one ol its correspondents
in reference to'the British acts in Central Ameri-
Balize, Honduras, Feb. 21,1853.
Editors True Delta : In my last, I informed
you that the authorities of the State ot Honduras
had taken possession of Limas. I have now to in
form you that H. M. war-steamer devastation
came down here, and after having taken on
Superintendent and his Secretary, she proceeded,
to the town of.Truxillo, where they finally offer
ed to the Government of that town, for the
State of Honduras, as an ultimatum that they
mnst decide in two hours, either to give up. the
territory to the parties from whom they had ta
ken it, or to stand the consequences; which was
supposed by the Honduranoes to be hot shells
and cannon balls. So, they decided to give up
to superior force: at the same time, they solemn
ly protested against the conduct of H. M. Supe
rintendent, the officers of Devastation, and the
government of England, asserting thei> inalien
able rights to the country, and declaring that,
they only gave up to superior force, under com
puls'on; that they only promised not to interfere
with British subjects, because they were no/
able to drive them «way; and finally appeal* j
to Almighty God to witness the outrage. ' an( |
punish the nation which thus, at the mouf o f
her cannon, despoiled them of their territc r y
I will also further inform you, that th' , origin,
al right to cut mahogany in that P a ’.t of the
country was granted by the State o f Honduras
to Archibald Montgomery, and duri n g tip, y me
which he used the privilege, he al* va y S as knowl
edged that right, and paid th»' t s tate forth "
trees; entered and cleared his vessel at Truxillo
and in every way complied *. v ith the laws and'
requirements of the Stat*. o f Honduras In
1846, Mr. Montgomery so’id his entire interest
in Honduras to John Car michael & Co., who es
tablished a house here v.nderthe name and firm
ol Ante, Mather & Co. For a time that house
also complied with the laws of Honduras ■ but
finally, they made a much better bargain with
the “ Kingofthe Mosquetoes.” and hoisted his
flag, refused to pay Honduras for the mahogany
trees ; to enter or clear their vessels at Truxillo
and, in a word, entirely repudiated Honduras’
These are the true facts of the case
As Honduras is a part ot Central America,
you wil easily see that England means to treat
the Bulwer and Clayton Tieaty as so much
useless parchment. Nor is this all; the entire
country will assuredly fall into the hands of
Great Britain, unless the United States interfere,
and demand and insist on a faithful observation
of that treaty.
The Blue Ridge Railroad.
The City Council of Charleston, at n special
meeting last week, passed unanimously the fol
lowing resolution :
conditrons to bo hereafter determined on • and that
tho Mayor i. hereby instructed to make arrange
X^o^XchXV. th ” flrßt
Commenting on this action, the Charleston
Courier says:
it °Y r ™ adorß win recollect that
otTer tn iha M y Mr ' Go “i' d >n. in his able
letter to the Hon. T. L. Hutchinson. Chairman of
On R " ilroada ' published by us yes
ro a«i y ’ a BUm ,han #1.000,000 would great-