Georgia Historic Newspapers

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Weekly Cjeorjjia (foiistitettaiafet an& ikynblie.
BY JAMES GARDNER, JR.
(Cunstitutiiiniiliiit & lUpuhlir.
OFFICE ON McINTOSH-STKFF.T
THIRD DOOR FROM TUB NORTR-WBSC OORXBB OF BROAD
BTREKT.
goes of kAND by Executory Administrators or Gna
diaus. are required, by law, to bo held on the fir«*
Tuesday in the month, between the hours of ten in
the forenoon and three in the afternoon, at the Court
House in which the property is situate. x °tice or
these sales must be given in a public Gaxette, blXi x
DAYS previous to the daj of sale.
gales of NEGROES must bo at Public Auction, on the
first Tuesday of the month, between the usual hours
of sale, at the place of public sales in the county
where the Letters Testamentary, or Administration,
or Guardianship, may have been granted. fir>t
SIXTY DAY S notice thereof, in one of the public
Gasettes of this State, and at the door of the Court
House where such tales are to be held.
Notice for the sales of Personal Property must be given,
in like manner. FORTY D AYS previous to day of sale.
Notice to the Debtors and Creditors of an Estate, must
be published for FORTY DAYS. 4 r
Notice that application will ba made to the Court of
Ordinary for leave to sell LAND, must be published
for TWO MONTHS.
Notice for leave to sell NEGROES, must be published
TWO MONTHS, before any order absolute can be
given by the Court.
•TERMS OF ADVERTISING.
One square. I*2 lines. 75 cents the fir»t insertion, and 50
cents afterwards.
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS.
Sheriff's Levies. 30 days. s*2 50 per levy : 60 days, f 5.
Executor's. Administrator’s and Guardian s Sales. Real
Estate, (persquare 12lines,) $4 "5
Do. do. Personal Estate. 3 25
i Citation for Letters of Administration 2 T 5
Do. do. Dismission *4 50
Notice to Debtors and Creditors 25
Two Months' Notices 4 00
Rules NUT, (monthly) $1 per square, each insertion
!“?• Obituary Notices over six lines, will be charged
at the same rates as advertisements.
LEGAL NOTICES
OT7* Notice of the sale of l.an-1 an 1 Negroes bv Ad
ministrators. Executors or Guardians, must be publish
ed FORTY DAYS previous to the day of sale
Notice to Debtors and Creditors of an estate
must bo published FORTY DAYS
t 'J* Notice that application will be made to the
Court ► of Ordjnarr for leave to sell Land er Negroes, ,
m uaAJbo published TWO MONTHS, weekly
tor Letters of AdnvnUtra
t- aa, : fmWf ¥ DAYS; and
** "-7* Sales of personal property of a perishable na- j
tnre, bv the Act of 1852. by Executors and Administra- j
tors, at the discretion of the Ordinary, upon not less :
than TEN DAY S notice. Sales by regular Administra
tors. as under the old law. FORTY DAYS.
ALL REMITTANCES PER MAIL, arm at our
JU»K.
Ocrlcslcn
PRY GOODS,
IN CHARLESTON, so ca.
BROWNING k LEMAN.
No. 209 and 211 King,CornerofMarket-st.
XT Till oiler to FAMILIES and PLANTERS
\\ visiting Charleston this Spring, the choicest
Stock of FANCY and STAPLE DRY GOODS,
that has ever been offered for inspection in this
citv.
They invite an examination, and assure their
friends, and purchasers generally, that their prices
trill r&mputre favorably with tiny market in the
U States. Terms eash or city acceptances.
BROWNING A LEMAN.
Successors to C. A E L. Kerr’so.n A Co.
may 1 dAeo
LUMBER FOR SALE.
VT7HITE pine. Oak, Ash. Hickory. Poj I ar,
» t Mahogany, Cherry. Juniper, Black Walnut,
and every variety of Northern Lumber.
—also —
GRIND STONE and ICE, for snlo in lota and
quantities to suit purchasers. Address:
JOHN B. MARTIN. Agent,
Charleston Neck Ice House, S. C.
©•t 24 dtAc ly _
~ FOR CASH?
Vs. G. BANCROFT A- CO., 253 KING !»TR EET
CHARLESTON. S. C.
YT/’e HAYE in comformity with the spirit of the
» V times, adopted in our business the system
oflow tariff and cash prices, and offer to the city
and country retail and wholesale trade, every va
net vof roods in our lino. PRINTS, MUSLINS,
SILKS. BOMBAZINS, SHAWLS, LINENS,
CLOAKS. CASSIMERS. DRESS GOODS of ail I
kinds—GLOVES, HOSIERY, Ac. Ac.
WeshaUbe constantly receiving the latest and
most fashionable styles of goods, and it is our de
termination that our stock in point of style and
assortment shall be unsurpassed : and in cheapness
of prices unequalled by any in the city of Charles
ton. We have made this change in our system of 1
business from our preference to the small but more
certain return of the nimble sixpence rather than
that of the slow shilling, and in the belief that the
public cannot fail to perceive the advantages it of
fers to purchasers, our business will bo conducted
so as to ensure their entire confidence and wo ap
peal directly to their judgment Through our con
nection in the various markets of Europe and of
this country, we possess the ability and the will of
offer extraordinary inducements to the consumer,
the planter and the merchant.
feb 1 4inosdAc
ilny IJnrh JUiirrtisfinrnts.
VARIETV STOYE WIREHOI NE.
BARTLETT BENT, JR.
Alanufaetnrer ami Dealer in the must approved
Stoves, Ranges,
Farmers’ Boiler.. Ship Cabooses, Gas Ovens.
Charcoal & Hard Coal Furnaces, Oven Fronts, &c.
Iron Castings generally.
238 Water Street, New York.
apt 29 C :l 'U *
ZINC PAINTS.
THE NEW JERSEY ZINC COMPANY
_____ Are now Manufacturing
c these Paints, of superior
*\ quality. Their advan
/, tage over other Pair.ts
z TOS. 'Z- ’ are:
fl] Ist, They are not Poi-
Z IvO.l. O j souous.— Sleeping apart
-4 ■ 'O j ments. recently painted,
\'JL OR A?/ may be occupied with
'/y, -<S-impunity, and painters
using these paints are not
subject to the distressing
maladies ar.smg from the use of Lead.
2d, Their Beauty and Durability—Zine, on
inside work, becomes much harder than any other
Paint, and is not easily soiled : is whiter than pure
white Lead, and as it retains its whiteness and
brilliancy unaffected by bilge water, coal or sul
phurous gases ; it is unrivalled as a Paint for ships
and steamboats For outside use. exposed to
weather or water, Zine Paints will retain their
color and preserving qualities long after other
Paints are destroyed.
3d. The White Zinc Paints will cover (equal
weights' about two-thirds more surface than pure
lead—this, in connexion with their greater dura
bility. makes, in the long run, the cost of painting
with Zinc less than half the cost with Lead.
Brown and Brown Stone Color Zinc Paints,
which are sold at low prices, are well adapted to
painting roofs, out buildings, and all metallic sur
faces, particularly Iron, which they effectually pro
tect from rusting, exposed either to heat or
weather.
These Paints are prepared ie the same manner,
and may be used in all respects like White Lead.
They are for sale by many of the principal dealers
in the cities and large towns of the Union, and by
the Company s Agents. MANNING ASQUIEK,
45 Dey street. New York.
N. B.—All Paints manufactured by this Compa
ny are warranted pure.
apr 24 d-tclrn
BLANKETS AND CARPETS
OF EVERY DESCRIPTION,
FOR SALE BY
GREENWAY, BROTHER A CO.,
19 Barclay street, and 24 Park Place, New Fork.
opr 19 3m
Jtyilabrlpljia
WOOD’S
STEAM ORNAMENTAL IRON WORKS,
jfe PHILADELPHIA.
i - *-? and Wrought Iron RAILINGS, Window
GUARDS, CHAIRS, SETTEES, and every
article in the above lino always on hand attholow
estpriees.
Theundorsigned haying the agency of the above
establishment, and a book of the different design*,
will be pleased to show them to all in wnnt, and re
ceiveorders. GLENDINNING A CO.
mar 3ft ly
17 BROWN’S ESSEN! EOF JAMAICA GIN-
1 • GER.—This ESSENCE is a preparation of
unusual excellence In ordinary diarrhrea, inci
pient cholera, in short, in all cases of prostration
of the digestive functions, so common, it is of ines
timable value. During the prevalence of epidemic
cholera and summer complaints of children, it is
peculiarly efficacious; no faintly, individual or tra
veller should be without it. as it enables the system
to resist the influence of incipient disease, which
lurk in a changing climate.
Ca>;tios. —Bo sure to get the genuine Essence,
which is prepared only by F. Brown, at his Drug
and Chemical Store, N. E. Corner ot Fifth and
Chesnut streets, Philadelphia, and for sale by all
the respectable Apothecaries in the United States,
and in Augusta by
D. B. PLUMB A CO .
HAVILAND, RISLEY A CO.,
fob 10 dicly PHILIP A. MOISE.
Baltimore
GWYN & REID,
(t.ATB GWTS, KETH k TAYt-OK,)
IMPOBTZBS AND JOBBEBB OF
DRY GOODS.
No. 7 Hanover etrert, Baltimore, Md.
aug 20 ly
BALTIMORE SILK HOUSE.
YEAKI.E. < 088 t/ CO.,
255 BA CT IMO HE STREET,
BALTIMORE.
SILK GOODS, adapted to the wants of the Sou
thern States. A stock competing with any
found in the Northern cities, to which the atten
tion of Southern Merchants is raspeetfully invited,
on terms liberal as elsewhere.
Baltimore, August 1, 1852. dfAcly aug 1
SAFETY FUSE.
JUST RECEIVED, from the Manufactory of
Messrs. Toy. Bickford A Co., Simsbury, Conn.,
a supply of their celebrated patent improved Safe
ty Fuse, suitable for dry blasting or blasting under
water. Apply to
ROBERTSON 4 CROCKER.
nor 24 tActf
A GEORG I A REM EDY - PRYOR’S PILE
OINTMENT, which cures the Piles, forfale
by [apr 29] PHILIP A. MOISE, Druggist.
political lloticfs.
' PUBLIC MEETING IN JACKSON COt'NTY.
i Cf*‘ > Tjir^* r he friendi and supporters of the Id-
I ministration, as indicated in the Inau-
I gural Address of President Pierce, in Jackson ooun
! tv. are requested to meet in Jefferson, on the Ist
Tuesday in May next, for the purpose of organizing
for the approaching campaign, to appoint Delegates
t« a Convention to nominate a Governor, and to
make arrangements preparatory to nominating
e&ndidates for the Legislature, Ac., Ao.
a] ril 13 Hak'.!<'\\-
L'/* ? Lolitii nl Mi riiug in < ohitnbin —All
afr-K those who arc favorable to the Ad
ministration of Gen. Pierce, without regard to
old issues, are requested to meet in Appling on
; sale day, (Ist Tuesday in June.) for tho purpose of
j appointing delegates to the Gubernatorial Con.
: vention. Come one, come all! Come Whig and
: Democrat! a V r - 7
Democratic .Meeting in W niton.—
The Democratic party of Wai ton coun
ty, are requested to meet at the Court House, in
Monroe, on tho first Tuesday in May next, for
tho purpose of appointing delegates to the Demo
cratic Convention, to bo held in Milledgeville on
tho 2d Wednesday in Juno next. apr 2d
Special Holier!/.
► r*- —Snowiirn & shear will remove Tliiu
Day to the .Sron* of Doer. Hknri
' F. Camvpell. whore they will be pleased to see
their friends after Monday next. Imdc apr -
Z. D. Gilman, Chemist and Drug
gist, Pennsylvania Avenue, City of
* Washington, Inventor and sole Proprietor of Gil
! man’s Instantaneous Liquid Hair Dye, the
i only instantaneous Hair Dye. which is permanent.
Gilman's Liquid Hair Dye is tho only article
now used in this city. Gentlemen who wear whis
! kors or moustaches of a gray or reddish hue wish
ing to attend a ball or party, can appear in a suit
of black, by devoting one additional minute at
their toilet, in using tho very celebrated article
which heads this notice— Philadelphia Ledger.
a l , r 10 d£c3m
MP* —We have commenced ro-
ceiving and Summer Clothing
of all tho newest styles and Vest frabrics, which we
offer to the public at New York prices. Our stock
will bo replenished every week during the season,
with the latest and best styles from foreign mar
kets. [mar 16] Wm. 0. Price A Co.
All persona indebted to the lato firm
of Adams. Hopkins & Co. are request
ed to make payment.
Claims not paid, or arranged for payment at an
early day, will, without discrimination, bo placedin
suit.
The death of Mr. Adams renders this course im
perative, and we trust indebted will prompt
ly settle the demands against them.
Lamberth Hopkins.
feb 6 c’oni Frakcis T. Wu.t.is.
ZwT'"** * s a lacl and well
known that tho Arabians attained a
height in the knowledge of medicine which caused 1
the whole world to wonder and admire. AVith
them the science of chemistry ha I its birth, and
it is. therefore, not at all strange that a people so
emi: ently successful in the healing art, and so per
severing and daring in character, should, by actual
an 1 untiring experiment, discover remedies far
surpassing in efficienc s'al! others, fur the cure of
those diseases incident to them from their mode of
life. The greater part of their time being spent
in hazardous and bloody warfare with the different
tribes, they were subject to the most violent at
tacks of rheumatism, paralysis, neuralgic pains, and
various inflammatory diseases, as also the most
horrid wounds, sprains, bruises, tumors, swellings,
diseases of the joints, etc., otc. All these di.-cases
they were so surpr singly efficient in curing, that i
the uninitiated looked with wonder and attributed I
their skill to the power of magic. 11. G. Far- ■
rell's Arabian Liniment is a composition Ox I
balsams and oils 4 from rare plants peculiar to this ;
country, and it was*by the use of the prticles com- I
posing this great remedy that not only their physi- |
cians, but even the wild Arabs of the desert were
enabled to perform such miraculous cures. The !
Arab steed is world-renowned for his beautiful ’
symmetry of form, his unsupassed speed and agili- ;
ty, and the incredible fatigue he is capable of en
during. Why is it ? Because from tho time of his
birth his limbs are carefully watched, and upon
the first app stance of disease the magic lotion is
applied, and such things asconfirmed sweeny, pell
evil, fistula, ringbone, scratches, spavin, lameness,
etc , etc., etc., are unknown. The same result will
follow in all cases where 11. G. Farrell’s Genuine
Arabian Liniment is used in time. Therefore de
lay not in procuring & supply of it for every dollar .
spent in it will save you twenty, and a gieat deal •
of suffering, if not your life.
Look out for Counterfeits. — Tho public aro cau- 1
tioned against another counterfeit, which has late- .
ly made it-» appearance, called W. B. Farrell’s Ara- i
biaa Liniment, the most dangerous of all the conn- !
forfeits, because his having tho name of Parrel', ’■
many will buy it in good faith, without the knov - ’
ledge that a counterfeit exists, and they will, per- {
haps, only discover their error when the spurious
mixture has wrought its evil effects.
The genuine article is manufactured only by 11.
G. Farrell, sole inventor .and proprietor, and whole
sale druggist, No. 17 Main street, Peoria, Illinois,
to whom all applications for Agencies must be ad
dressed. Be sure you got it with the letters 11. G.
before Farrell’x. thus—il. w. PARRl£LL’ii—and
his signature on the wrapper, and all others are
counterfeits. Sold by
HAVILAND, RISLEY & CO.,
Augusta, Ga., j
and by regularly authorized agents throughout tho
United States. *
07F* Price 25 and 50 cents, and $1 per bottlo.
Agents Wanted in every town, village and
hamlet in the United States, in which one is not
already established. Address 11. G. Farrell as
above, accompanied with good reference as to
character, responsibility, Ac. dAc4 apr 1—
Dental Notice.—W F. HoLLEYMAN
has dissolved his connection with Dr
Thomas J. Jones, D. D. S., in the practice of Den
tistry; and returns his thanks to the public general
ly, for the liberal patronage conferred on him, and
will continue to practice in the offic© formerly
occupied by Holloyman A Jones, on Broad street,
over Wm. Haines Drugstore, Augusta, Ga.
mar 17 tclm
LADIES’ MANTILLAS.
S.VOWDES & SHEAR
HAVE received a supply of Ladies’ "White nnd
Black LACE; Colored and Black Silk Man
tillas: Black Lace SHAWLS;
White and Black Lace SCARFS, of beautiful
styles ;
Also, White, Pearl, Pink, Blue and Tea Green
SILKS of beautiful shades of color, for Ladies'
Mantillas, with Silk Fringes, and other trimmings
to match ; to all of which they respectfully invite
the attention of the Ladies. dfAc apr 21
FRENCH ■’CASHMERETTES?
SNOWDEN & SHEAR
HAVE received from New York a supply of
Superior Black French CASHMERETTES,
a beautiful article for Gentlemen’s Summer wear;
Also, DRAP D ETE. of the best quality.
Superior White and Brown India Grass LIN
ENS, for Gentlemen’s Summer Coats, and a full
supply of articles suitable for Gentlemen's and
Youth's SUMMER AVE AR, to which they re
spectfully invite the attention of tho public.
apr 21 di Ac
BEAUTIFUL -
FROM NEW YORK.
GRAY BROTHERS have received two dozen
of Rich and Beautiful Application MAN
TILLAS, now style, only four days from Now
York—to which they respectfully invite attention
of the public. dfAc apr 21
FOR SALE.
GOOD WORK HORSES and *l4 number
one MULES. Also. 5 WAGONS and 12
DRAYS, with harness—three Y'OKE OF OXEN.
Terms cash. W. IL OAKMAN A CO.
aprls dAc2w
WATCH THE SCOUNDREL ! _
A .MAN by the name of ALFRED OWENS se
duced a young lady, an orphan girl, by tho
name of Kenada, in Lawrence District, S. C., who
was living comfortably with her brother-in law,
by the name of Garrett, who, having no children
of his own, contcmp’ated bestowing a handsome
property on the unhappy victim of this unhallow
ed. villainous debauchery. He promised her mar
riage. and the wedding dinner was actually pre
pared. He finally rannway, leaving the unfortu
nate victim of rnis-plaeed affections tho mother of
twin children, to drag out a miserable existence.
He camo to Franklin county, Ga , where he took
up lodging withan aunt of his own narn*, an aged
widow lady, in easy circumstances, who had pre
viously boarded him gratis some two or three
years, to go to School, Ac. The old lady had but
one child, a daughter, a lady of feoble health, the
only solace of her mother’s declining years. This
consummate villain managed to gain her affec
tions, and by promising marriage, as in tho former
case, succeeded in seducing her. And, after lying
and swindling the neighborhood to an unprece
dented extent, and borrowing all the money ho
could, he runaway from Bushvillo District, Frank
lin Co , Ga. on the 20th February. 1853. Ho es
caped under pretence of going after License to
marry this last'victim of his hellish passion, leav
ing no effects to pay his debts. Ho passed through
Athens, Ga .on hi-flight, where he was owing a
note to the firm of Pitner A England, nnd told them
that his brother would bo down in a few days nnd
pay it off; but it so happened that his brother
sloped by some other route, leaving Athens rather
in nis rear. AVe suppose ho is gone to sornq other
connexions in A Inbama. to erect a carriage shop.
And. as we do believe the said Alfred Owens de
cidedly as great a scoundrel, (according to his
abilities.) as anv we have over had knowledge of,
tho celebrated John A. Morrell not excepted, we
take this method of guarding tho people against
his innovations ; and, i' order that he maybe the
more easily nnd certainly detected, wo will partic
ularly describe him : Bo is about 28 years old, 5
feet. 6 or 8 inches in height, dark complexion,
black hair, a heavy beard, square built, bow-leg
ged, of low Dutch appearance, a dull, pensive
countenance, very surly and sour looking, has
think lip*, yellowish gray eye*, i» exceedingly «o
eluded and *e!Bth in hi* habit*, niggardly, proud,
has but little to nay and neve gpoaks well of any
body hut th-vulgar—he professes to boa great
Blacksmith. Carriage Trimmer and Painter. Wo
understand that helms a sort of recommendation
which ho has either forged or otherwise unfairly
obtained, which ho will no doubt exhibit ; but if
the people, wherever ho may locate, desire any
further particulars, if they will address either of
the undersigned, »t Bushvilie, Franklin county.
Ga.. we will aendthem tho particulars, under seal
of thocounty. Wc hope that nil editors of papers
and periodicals, from their respect for female char
actor, moral virtue, and honesty, will give the
above at least one, or as many more insertions as
they think tho case demands
JOSHUA OAVEN, P. M.,
AVILLTAM OAVEN, J. P,
ELIJAH OWEN, Jr.,
ALANSON FORBES,
WILLIAM BREWER,
ttpr 29 MICA JAH ESTES.
AUGUSTA, GA.
z SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL 30.
Honor* to the Memory of tho Vice-Pre*ident.
We find the following in the last Southern
j Recorder:
j Kxkcutivk Dkpaktmknt, Ga., (
s Mii.i.kdokvii.lk, April 26, 1853. J
5 The melancholy intelligence of the death of
' the Hon. William R King, late Vice President
of the United States, has been received at this
Department. As a testimonial of respect to the
' memory of a worthy man and distinguished
( statesman who had just been called bv the voice
of his fellow-citizens to the second highest office
f of the Republic.
It is ordered, That guns be tired on Capitol
1 Square on to-morrow, (Wednesday) from sun
rise to sunset, at regular intervals of half an
hour.
2nd. That the various offices of the Execu
, tive Department be closed on that day.
i- 3rd. That the entrances to the Capitol be
hung in mourning for thirty days.
i 4th. That the different Executive Officers
wear crape on the left arm for thirty days; and
■ that it be recommended to all the Officers of the
State, both civil and military, to wear the like
badge for the same period.
Howell Cobb.
‘ By the Governor:
Arthur Hood, Sec’y, Ex. Dep’t.
>
Loss of Steamer Independence.
The long suspense in regard to the steamer
f Independence, which our California accounts
, some time since informed us was missing, with
some five hundred persons on board, has at length
' terminated in the news of a terrible calamity
which has befallen her, involving the entire de
struction by fire of the vessel, and the sacrifice
' of some 150 to 200 human lives.
A telegraphic dispatch in another column,from
New Orleans, received last evening, gives us
such of the dreadful particulars’ak have vet come
to hand, and by which it appears the steamer
was burnton the 16th of February, after being
run ashore off Margaretta Island, the pessengers
to a large extent falling victims to both the
flames and the water. A most important fea
ture of the account is that which leads to the
impression that the steamer had been culpably
crowded with an undue number of passengers
even for a good and safe vessel of her dimen
sions. We do not learn, as yet, that any Bal
timoreans or Marylanders were lost or were on
board the Independence, though there may
have been some.
There were many from the Northern section
1 of the country, who had been taken down to the
Isthmus by the Northern Light, which left New
York on the 20th of January with some two
hundred in the cabin and two hundred and sev
enty-three in the steerage; and the Daniel Web
i ster sailed from New Orleans two days subse
quent, with 150 in the steerage, and 234 in the
cabin—total of both steamers 857, who were to
connect at San Juan with the steamer Indepen
dence.
It is not certain, however, that they all had
through tickets for the Independence; and if they
I had it would, it is stated, have been impossible
i for her to accommodate them all. It is proba
j ble that the number of the steerage passengers
| in the two steamers was exaggerated,
i The last time the Independence is reported to
have been seen, previous to the disaster, was off
I Cape St. Incas, on the 13th of February—three
days prior to her terrible destruction. She was
at Acapulco too, it appears, three days before
that date, as would seem by the Republican
published at St. Louis, where the first intelli
gence of the Independence missing excited great
anxiety.— Baltimore Sun.
Protestants in Franck.—The N. Y. Even-
I ing Post says that the number of Protestant
Chistians attending their own places of worship
iin France is 3,000,000. This differs widgly
Ifrom a lengthy review of the French census of
1851, which appears in the Paris correspondence
of the New York Courier and Enquirer. This
■ latter writer gives the number at 1,500,000, and
quotes as his authority the “Revue des Deux
Mondes.” These Protestants consist of Luth
erans, Calvanists, Methodists, Friends or Qua
kers, and Darbists. The principal sects are the
two first named, and these are deemed by the
government of Fiance of sufficient imfrortance
to be allowed a share in the annual appoc/iriation
for the support of religion. They receive in the
; total $238,528. The Calvinists have 511 min
j isters resident in 62 of the 86 departments, ser-
I ving 600 churches or places of worship; but of
this latter number, 121 are in the single depart
ment of Gard, in the south of France, and 68 in
the adjoining department of Drome and Ar
deche. The Lutherans number about one-third
of the Protestants of France, and are located
chiefly on the German and Swiss frontier, in the
departments of Bas Rhin, Haut Rhin, and Doubs.
They have 245 pastors, of whom 8 reside in the
department of the Seine, and all the rest in the
easternmost departments. This sect has 30,000
members in the city of Strasbourg, and 15,000 in
Paris. In the department ot Gard are found,
besides the Calvinists, congregations of Metho
dists, Friends and Darbists.
The Baltimore Sun says:—“ Judge Le Grand
we learn, has declined to accept the office of So
licitor of the Treasury, tendered by President
Pierce. This determination of Judge Le Grand
will not only be hailed with satisfaction by the
entire bar of Maryland, by whom he is held in
the highest estimation for his eminent abilities
as a judicial officer, but by the people of the
State generally, who warmly esteem him for
his many excellent qualities as a citizen. His
acceptance of the highly honorable post tender
ed him by the President would have been, it is
universally admitted, a loss to the judiciary of
Maryland.”_ _
Mrs. Howard of Louis Napoleon Notori
j rty.—The following extract of a letter from a
| Baltimore correspondent of the New Orleans
■ Crescent, gives some interesting particulars of
| this celebrated woman :
; The late marriage of the Emperor of France,
I and the putting away of Mrs. Howard, as she is
i ca led, his former mistress, has a peculiar inter
est here. This Mrs. Howard is the daughter of a
distinguished family in this city,but has long been
considered by them dead. When young,she was
distinguished for her beauty and wit, as well as
her extraordinary amorous propensities. She
went to England, and was introduced into the
highest society there by the daughter of a Mary
land family, who is now one of the brightest or
naments of the British nobility. There she was
married to a titled gentleman, and after commit
ting a number of indiscretions and giving her
’ friends an infinite degree of trouble and anxiety,
finally irretrievably disgraced herself by eloping
with a gay young officer. After being in suc
. ; cession the mistress of several noblemen, she
f attached herself to Louis Napoleon, with whom
• I she has remained a number ot years. A real
: ; affection is said to have existed between them,
' several children having been the fruit of their
connection. Her banishment to England and
1 her rumored abstraction ot important secret
; papers from the Emperor’s apartment, is the
, last phase in her eventful life. After her fall, find
ing her reclamation impossible,her friends here
■ announced her dead, and even went through
; the ceremony of interring her supposed remains
in Green Mount Cemetery, and to them she is,
1 to all intents, morally, il not physically, dead.
The Providence Conference of the Methodist
' Episcopal Church has just closed its session.
' Among the reports made was one by the Book
i Agents. From this document it appears that the
‘ Christian Advocate publishes 32,000 copies
weekly; Sunday School Advocate,7B,ooo f Mis
' sionary Advocate, 40,000; Quarterly Review,
2,300; National Magazine, 17,000. It is remark
ed that the latter must have 20,000 subscribers
to make it self-supporting. From the annual
; report of the faculty of the Biblical Institue we
learn that thirteen students graduated last year .
’ the present junior class numbers 24. Sixteen of
; the students united with different conferences
last year as preachers of the Gospel.
, Tubular Iron Masts.—The great success
< which has attended the construction of tubular
’ bridges, lias induced some of the British ship
' builders to takeup again the question of iron
k masts. It is stated that tubular masts may be
madeof iron, stronger and lighter than those of
r wood, and with the additional advantage that
1 they might slide down one into the other tele
f scope fashion, while they would require neither
■ shrouds or stays, leaving room for bracing round
, the yards to the outermost.
; Death I'rom Rope J umi-inu.—A girl, about
B fourteen years of age, who was at Sunday
School in New York last Sunday, in good
health, undertook the next day to jump the rope
200 times without stopping. She did so, but
the unnatural exertion threw her into an illness,
which proved mortal on Tuesday.
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY I, 1853'.
[From the Savannah Neivs, 2(ilh ins/.]
Frcsoutatlon of Color* to tho Steamship August*.
Yesterday noon a considerable number of gen
tlemen assembled on the deck of the noble
steamship Augusta to witness the formal pre
sentation ol the suit ot color* voted to her by
the City Council of Augusta in acknowledgment
ot the compliement paid our sister city in the
christening of one of the finest vessels afloat-
Augusta was represented by her Mayor Dr.
Wm. E. Dearing, Sam’l. M. Thompson, and
John Foster, Esqrs., members of the City
Council. There were present our own Mayor,
Dr. Wayne, with several members of the City
Council of Savannah. In presenting the colors
to the officers of the ship, Dr. Dearing said :
Officers of the Steamship Augusta :
The City Council of Augusta, entertaining a
high appreciation of the compliment paid their
city in having so noble a structure as this to bear
her name, have deputed me as her representa
tive to present to you this Suit ot Colors, as a
token ot that appreciation, and of the value she
sets on the honor conferred upon her.
Being fully conscious of my inability to do
justice, either to giver or receiver, I have ac
cepted this mission only from a sincere desire
to do all in my power to promote and culti
vate the social and commercial intercourse be
tween the two cities, to see this monument to
Savannah Enterprise, and to make the personal
acquaintance of those who have so honored
our city. In undertaking this pleasing duty, I
have only to regret my inability to do justice
to the occasion, and that the gift is not
more worthy your acceptance. Take them;
may they long wave over your ship, and
may every breeze that unfurls them, waft you
on to your port and to success. May the Au
gusta 1 now stand on, be as prosperous as the
Augusta I represent. May each successive
voyage be but a triumph over the preceding
one. May your cabin be always full, your
freight list equal to the capacity of your noble
ve***l ; and fat met assure you that-sou wilLq
always carry with*you, oti each and every
voyage, the kindest wishes of the people of
Augusta. Take them—would they were more
worthy of your acceptance.
The address of Mayor Dearing, which was
delivered in a graceful and pleasant manner,
was cordially received by the company present,
and was replied to by R. R. Cuyler, Esq., Presi
dent of the Central Railroad, on behalf of the
New York and Savannah Steam Navigation
Company, as follows:
Mr. Mayor and Gentlemen
of the City Council of Augusta:
The pleasant duty is devolved on me to ren
der, in behalf of the New-York and Savannah
Steam Navigation Company, and the command
er of this ship, a hearty acknowledgment of the
handsome present which you have just made.
Although these colors are not destined to wave
in battle, and we are not called on therefore to
give you assurance of our determination and
courage to defend them, yet we can and do
promise you hat whilst they float over the
peaceful pursuits of commerce and of social in
tercourse, they shall never be tarnished by any
want of good seamanship, fidelity or urbanity.
I tender to you the sincere thanks of the Direct
ors of the Conpany and the Captain of the
ship, not only for the present made, but for the
kind and acceptable remarks which you have
been pleased to make.
It may not be amiss on this occasion briefly
to advert to the relative position, in days past,
and now, of the Cities of Augusta and Savannah.
Forty years ago this City enjoyed, almost exclu
sively, the trade and business of the interior of
Georgia. By the application of steam to the |
navigation of this fine river, that trade and busi
ness were, for the greater part, transferred to
Augusta, the head of navigation. Your rapid
prosperity and our comparative decadence were
the natural consequence. Our people could not
feel jealous or envious of } ou, but it was natural
for them, in the circumstances which surround
ed them, to make vigorous efforts for the return
to them of days of prosperity, even if their suc
cess should take somewhat from your City.
Hence the Central Railroad leading to Macon.
So soon, howevei.as that work was accomplish
ed, Savannah turned to Augusta, seeking a close
connection, commercially and socially, with her
people. In 1835 your City was swift to see the
advantages of her locality, and your sagacity as
a community has been evinced by the great
work which you have accomplished. We saw
you being wooed and won bj- Charleston, and as
you were “bone of our bone,” we felt anxious to
bind you to Savannah—jealous, it may be, of our
sister Atlantic City, but yet, I trust, not to be
condemned on that account.
My fellow citizens, here present, will bear
me witness that our efforts, and our airns, have
been for that irtimate connection with Augus
ta. which should mark the two principal cities :
of the State—one at the head, the other at the j
seaward outlet of navigation—as twin Sisters
of Commerce. At this day, circumstances are j
greatly changed. You have your Railroad
crossing of the State, and your connection,
through the mountain chains, with the West,
reaping therefrom, most justly, rich reward for
your enterprise and keen foresight. We too,
have connections of like character. No longer
is there, or can there be any, the least diversi
ty ot interest between us—no circumstance or
state of things is likely to create the slightest
jostle. I congratulate you, sir, and the people
of Savannah herq. assembled, on this auspi
cious condition of affairs. Your position is
eminent and commanding; you are at the
point where the great vehicles of intelligence—
the mails and newspapers from the igreat city
of the north—are first to enter our domain.
We are to receive that intelligence through you.
We are not far from the realization of our
bright hopes ot communion and fellowship
with you. We anxiously desire to do for you
all that business which requires rapid and
safe communication with the sea, inward and
outward, and we shall leave nothing undone
to bind ourselves more closely to you.
Accept, then Sir and Gentlemen, the assur
ance that we reciprocate the kindly feelings
which it has been our pleasure to hear ex
pressed by you. With the Iron link, soon to
be completed, we feel that youn prosperity
will be our prosperity, and that tne remotest
parts of Georgia will be bound in patriotic as
well as profitable bonds with this sea-port.
After Mr. Cuy'ler had concluded, the colors
were adjusted to the halyards and run up with
a salute from the gun of the ship. The compa
ny were then invited to the saloon by the agents
and officers of the Augusta to partake of refresh
ments.
The incident was an exceedingly pleasant
one, in which all present cordially participated.
It was the beginning, or rather the revival, of
an era ot social and business intercourse with
our Augusta neighbors, which we trust will re
sult in the greatest mutual advantage.
The colors are worthy of the City of Augusta,
and the noble ship that bears he- name. May
they long continue to float at her mast-head, the
emblem alike of national power, commercial
prosperity, and mutual good will.
Hon. Langdon Curves.—The Columbia
Carolinian says: “ We are gratified to learn that
this distinguished citizen will shortly take up his
abode among ns—he having authorized a friend
to purchase a residence in this vicinity. The
purchase has been made.”
Feeding Bees.—A writer in the Ohio Culti
vator, after descanting on lhe unprofitableness of
feeding bees on buckwheat blossoms, states his
experience in feeding them with sugar—his plan
being to put a pound of brown
tin dish, wet it with water, and lay a number of
small strips of wood across for the bees to rest
on while at work. In every experiment one
pound of six-cent sugar produced two pounds of
honey. Another experimenter, per contra,
says:
“ Whatever bees collect and deposit in their
comb, undergoes no change in consequence of
any thing they do to it. If thev are led with
molasses they deposit molasses, if with sugar di
luted with water, it is sugar, and nothing but su
gar when stowed away in the cells. Os this
any one can satisfy himself, by trying the ex
periment with these, or other sweets, as I have
repeatedly done. The honey collected horn
flowers is the same in the hive as it was m the
flower, without any modification in flavor,color,
or consistency, and the patent preparations for
feeding bees with a substance they are expected
to change into honey, are imposition, cant, and
humbug.”
Houses in New York.—The editdr of the
Agricultor having taken some pains to collect
information in relation to the horse trade in
New York city, says that horse* are generally
ten per cent, dearer than they were last spring,
and thirty per cent, dearer than they were three
years ago. The average sales are about 300
per week, and the average price of late has been
S2OO. The average price of all the horses sold
this season is said to be $l7O.
The statement going the rounds that the au
thoress of “ Queechy,” and “The Wide, Wide
World” is dead, and that she was a daughter of
Counselor Warner, of New York, who was con
spicuous in the Drury torpedo affair, is contra
dicted by the New York Tribune. That paper
says:
The popular authoress alluded to is the daugh
ter of Henry W. Warner, Esq., a distinguished
member of the New York bar, and we trust will
long live to grace the social circle which is just
ly proud of her fame,
[communicateo.l
’• Cambridge, (Mass.) April 20, 1853.
Jo the Editor of the Constitutionalist fr Republic:
’’ Dear Sir, —1 hope you will pardon my intru
- ding upon your sanctum with Hie enclosed article
<’ which 1 have taken the trouble to clip from a
1 Boston paper. It gives a somewhat life-like
picture ot the state of affairs here, and I think it
w <>uld do well tor some of the modern pseudo-
• philanthropists to read.
I lam about closing a course of legal study in
the Dane Law School of the University at this
• place, and lam heartily sick of the pharisaical
and fanatical <*t|sbms and practices, which I find
- to prevail amonga major part of the good citi
zens of New England. I say the major part of
them, because it has been my good fortune to
meet wi’h many good citizens during my so
journ here, —honorable men, conservative in
their principles, upright in their dealings, and
all in all, such men as I would rejoice to hail as
fellow countrymen at all times, and in all places.
But there are those, (and they go to constitute
a majority of thftjjitizens of New England,so fai
ns I have seen,) who are the wildest dreamers,
the most inveterate theorisens, and the blindest
worshippers of fanaticism, that I have ever had
the extr- me sorrow and misfortune to meet
with. Their eyes are blear from sheer weeping
over the sufferings of the far off, whilst their
ears are grown deaf to the wailings and pitiful
beseechings of He near. They drive the poor
beggar from their deors, and send him haggard
and wandering through the streets and public
highways—hoin-dejs, shelterless, sympathy less.
They the poor children of Erin,
and thestl« rs n their midst; and every prin
ciple of hur - -.'H) every feeling of benevolence ;
anil all jj*/* 1 sympathies of the human
'befit” t.ie’'aitanr pf |
the god whom tVcy aflore and whom they serve.
They fill the hovels of the poor with filthiness
and rags, aril they disrobe the young maiden
of that only mantle which can conceal her
nakedness—her virtue. They take away from
her her most costly jewel, and when they have
deprived the rosebud of its fragrance and its
bloom, they cast it all withered and blanched
out cold winds,careless and unconcerned
as to its Cite. And yet their mouths, like so
many curs, are ever baying at the institutions
of the South; and the worthless trash which
reflects upon her chivalrous and high-souled
citizens, and which is hawked and peddled
through their streets, they catch hold of with
greediness; and spend therefor the pennies which
sorrowing poverty lias thrown into their lap,
that they may weep over the imagined ills and
sufferings of a down-trodden race. O! miseras
hominum mentes, O ! pectora ctrca!
But I have already trespassed much farther
on your patience than I intended in the outset.
I should not have sent you the enclosed article
—but that it >hows how things exist and how
penury and want prevail ever in the goodly
city of Boston. And. moreover, since Mrs Stowe
has just issued her Key to Uncle Tom, as a kind
of salvo to her conscience for writing the origi
nal work ; and as in that she has gathered to
gether all the facts she was able to collect, de
tracting from the institution of slavery, I think
it but right that a few facts should be stated
reflecting upon the practical working of her
own free institutions in New Englanl. And
here I cannot help remarking, that the course
which this lady is pursuing, only tends to make
her abolition friends the more forgetful of their
own poor and lowly, by directing their minds to
foreign quarters. And the evil which she thus
brings about is incalculable. But I must stop.
If you think that the aiticle I send you will be
of benefit or importance to any person, by insert
ing it in your paper you will greatly oblige one,
whose sympathies are not enlisted in favor of
the blacks only, but also in favor of the whites.
Respectfully yours, H.
The Lordly Tailors and their Starving Dependants.
And the devil clapped bis paw on tho little tailor,
With tho broadcloth under his arm. Old Song.
In our last paper,we briefly adverted to the op
pressed condition of the seamstresses of this city,
i and some of the “ iron rules” which govern
j many oXthe large establishments for the manu
| facture clothing. Documents are beginning
Itp comq furnishing us with the printed fticts.
John Ci.. exact, imiieratirely. of fjhose
in thej/i . >ploy, thirteen hours per day in sum
mer, ai,*”eve>. hours in winter—with the ad
dition, c Saturday evenings of as many hours
as theyrian find employment—and every evening,
of time sdSicient to replace everything which
may be in disorder; and everything for delivery,
is to be entered by the clerks, and packed bv
the packers, before they can retire. The sales
men are never to sit down ; but are always to
be engaged adjusting goods, or stand by the door
in waiting to receive customers. And all those
who do not conform to these regulations are sup
posed to he anxious to leave.
Besides, they have a sort of code, instruct
ing their operatives in money-making, enfor
cing the importance of punctuality, and the ne
cessity of economy, in imitation of a deceased
philosopher, whose name was Franklin, whose
memory and writings and examples are still
cherished in Merchants’ Row. For instance—
if you receive only two cents per day for your
labor, you must expend but one 1 The most
stirring incitements to constant toil,and unflinch
ing perseverance under difficulties, are here
set fcrth : and should any fail in their struggles
to gfet bread enough to live upon, they will
still honored (!) but if they shrink from the
“ taskri they will be despised !
We have given the substance of these docu
ments/and hope those for whose benefit and
instruction they were promulgated may profit
by tk»m—and if they do not get bread enough
to sustain life, and clothing to cover their
nakedness, they must not charge it to any
error in the philosophy of John Gove & Co.,
but sit it down as their misfortune, and want
of knowledge to apply it to their own bene
fit.
But, seriously, is it not enough to provoke a
smile to read their counsels to their poorly paid
workmen ? They recommend economy to peo
ple who are compelled to subsist on 25 cents per
day I—beg them to prolong their life of toil by
abstinence from any recreation except such as
they find in their business—to eke out their
shilling at market in tripe and beef’s shanks—
remembering by such economy they will finally
have a pile !
For men who take such counsel and such pay,
we can scarce entertain the emotion ol pity.
They scarce deserve compassion while they,
have the power so easily to remedy the evil.
Combinations of wealth and numbers, are, we
know, powerful against the poor and needy;
yet they cannot move without their labor;
hence the power is in their own hands, and
they have only to apply the rightful remedy.
How many in this city are constantly seeking
distant objects on which to bestow their benevo
lence and sympathy 1 If food is short in Ireland
or Madeira, how soon they fly to replenish the
storehouses of the starving. And with what
gratification and self-complacency, they drink
in the “ grateful thanks” which are returned in
scented note-paper from these famishing islands
of the ocean ! While they have no ears for the
of the distressed and starving, which as
of their own city, the most faint cry from a dis
tance is readily heard and quickly responded to.
Thousands of poor girls struggle through a
brief, though virtuous life, scantily clad and mis
erably fed. though their toil is severe and inces
sant, receiving only from $1.50 to $2.00 per
week, out of which they have to pay for board
and clothing. Such, perhaps, possess not the
charm of lovliness, or the tempter ■ would have
found them, and they would have eaten the
bread of guilt and shame, dressing in the most
costly and gaudy attire, for a few short years
—when, the pale, sunken cheek, and lustreless
eye, having no longer a charm for the deceiv
er, they are left to eke out a brief existence upon
“ the town.” Very few pretty girls, who are en
gaged in shops, depend on their scanty earnings
with their hands. If not seduced by their em
ployers, they are almost certain to be by some
one else—and it would be safe to assert that three
out of every five shop girls in this city have fallen
—and no better fate could be expected to overtake
them while starvation or prostitution stares them
in the face! They soon find out that they are
handsome, (ifthey are so,) and know how much
more admiration they excite if prettily dressed.
Some tremble when they think of the cost—ask
themselves “ who will know it?”—try their ad
venture very cautiously—make a trip to Brigh
ton or Nahant with a friend,who adores them, (?)
and return with tho value of a silk dress in their
pockets. Their virtues has been left behind 1
The result is as above described. And is there
no remedy for all this evil, vithich so sadly af
flicts, not only tho poor, young female, but so
ciety at large ? We think there is—and that if
one half the money, sympathy nnd attention
which is given to distant charities, and for
“savingsouls” in foreign lands, were devoted
to our immediate neighborhood, there would he
less Buffering, less crime and prostitution, among
the young females of Boston and the other large
towns which surround it. The pious ladies of
Massachusetts look with holy horror upon the
exposed condition of the Topsys of the South—
listen with opon ears and mouth to the tales of
forced and indiscriminate amalgamation, and
would move heaven and earth to prevent it.—
Yet we assure them that it exists to no wider
extent, nor is it a joy more forecd, than the same
kindofvicein their capital city. Indeed, all
'he odds are in favor of the slave—who is fed,
clothed, and cared lor, by force of law. How is
it here ? Who is to feed and clothe the poor,
yet proud girl, who will not condescend to beg ?
I- ind who will not go to the almshouse, unless
, compelled to? No one I There are plenty who
will pray for their poor souls, while their bodies
ire famishing.
1 Poor girls, starving amid plenty, find it
lifficult to believe in that religion which starves
the body, while it delights to feed the soul with
the bread of life 1 Thrilling tales are written
1 for the arousing of your sympathies for the
1 poor negro, and hundreds of thousands of dol-
I lars are expended to give them circulation
I'be horrors of black slavery are on every
’ongue ; while the poor, struggling, starving
white woman, under your very noses, is for
gotten. <>h ! such is the present religion of
the meek and lowly Jesus. It flaunts in
silks and satins—rolls in the most splendid
carriages, and its abode is in marble palaces!
(t is redolent of costly perfumes, and is studded
with sparkling gems ! Its voice is heard only
in magnificent halls, or beneath the loftiest
spires, where the senses are wrapt in elysium
by the gorgeous drapery, the m flow light shed
through the many colored glass—the great
organ’s tones —the gay costumes of the wor
shippers 1 Verily, the child of Nazareth, were
he on earth, would be likely to mistake his
disciples, or followers, —he would not know
them unless he were told.
But our article is getting long, and we are
becoming serious. Three cheers for Uncle
Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe, John
Simmons & Co., John Gove & Co., the devil,
and a/Z the oppressors of the poor. Piety, pet
ticoats, pumpkins and poodle dogs, forever!
East Tennessee and Georgia Railroad.
The Board of Directors of the Cqmpany
have just held their regular quarterly meeting.—
One or two movements of a most important
character were adopted with an eye to the fu
ture prosperity of the road and of the country,
to two of which we will briefly advert.
1. By resolutions of the Board, the President
is directed to enter into negotiations at the pro
per t.me lojpurcbase Ibe iron lor the track nor‘l»
of the river. This was an important* - step, and
demanded by the present and prospective condi
tion of the iron market. It is known that al
ready a great advance has taken place in rail
road iron and no prospect of a decline soon,but on
the couutiary the article is still advancing in
price. Again the demand for it in the United
States is so great, that any quantity purchased
now by this Company could not posssibly be de
livered for eight or ten mouths to come. But it
is not intended that the President should at once
proceed to negotiations, but discretionary pow-
i ers are given him upon the subject, so that he
i may take advantage of the market as circum
stances miy present themselves.
While upon this snbject we would urge upon
the Stockholders North of the river, to come for
ward with more promptness and willingness to
assist the Board in their efforts to extend the road
to Knoxville. We know that the Company are
pushing the work forward with as much rapidity
as their means will justify—and it is equally
well known that their efforts are dependent upon
the subscription of stock in Knox and Roane.
And now after all that has been said and done
upon this subject, shall the work flag—shall it be
suspended on account of a failure to pay on the
part ol men so able to pay, and at one time so
willing and determined to pay ? Are the people
of Knox yet anxious to have the road? Let
them show their faith by their works.
2. Another highjy important step taken by
the Board was their subscription of the entire
stock of the Cleveland and Chattanooga Rail
road. This movement is made to secure the
ultimate completion and to control the future
operations of this, a natural branch to our road.
It is a link which will be demanded in future
by the commerce and travel of a large portion of
the Union, and to belong to an independent
Company it would be the key to the system of
roads in Tennessee, and would in all probabili
ty become an intolerable monopoly. We com
mend the action of the Board in making this
subscription. It is well known that large assis
tance can be procured in the construction of it
from other able companies—but it is none the
less important that this Company should so far
secure the read, as to keep the future manage
ment of it under their own control. — Athens Post,
21st instant.
This is certainly an important move, and one
we are much pleased to see. It matters not who
has the control of this road as a monied invest
ment, but for the good of the country, our present
thoughts are much in favor of the decision of the
East Tenne see company. To have an inde
pendent road connecting might be destructive to
the interests of all parties. Here is a point at
which terminate several different railroads.—
The one to Cleveland or Charleston is a most
important link to a general thoroughfare, which
is in a rapid course of completion. It could be,
controlled in an injurious manner, tho’ we think
such would not be practiced. But it will be for
the interest of the East Tennessee company to
make proper connections to secure its share of
patronage, and this will regulate the road as it
ought to b->.— Chattanooga Advertiser.
Memphis & Charleston Railroad.
The Chief Engineer, James F. Cooper, Esq., l
submits some excellent remarks about the inde
pendent terminus of this load at Chattanooga.
Mr. Cooper speaks about the
trouble which will be sure to accrue at the
juncture, concerning the freight and charges.
We have already stated that a corps of Engi
neers have been ordered to run the line North of
the river to this city, from the junction. They
have not reached here yet, but the estimates will
soon be known.
At this juncture, remarks the Chief Engineer,
when your resources aie so heavily taxed for
the consummation of your great project, accord
ing to its original design, perhaps your Board
will not conceive it seasonable to consider a
proposition which will demand a large acces
sion to your capital stock; and yet it is not
deemed inexpedient to bring to your notice the
question of your Eastern terminus, and to glance
at the reasons which seem to favor an Eastward
extension and a termination at Chattanooga.—
The route will penetrate a rich coal region, af
fording constant occupation for your trains in
seasons otherwise dull, resulting probably in
the development of large manufacturing inter
ests along the line, which would, in turn, reach
most favorably upon the Road. You would in
tersect the fertile valley of Battle Creek and Se
quatchee, taking a monopoly of their valuable
trade, the Depot for which would be second to
none on the whole route.
These considerations leave nothing to desire
on the score of local profits, but more compre
hensive benefits would flow from the proposed
extension. Chattanooga is the point at which
transhipments of freight and passengers will be
made from train to train : and it is not politic to
confide to an intervening and perhaps a rival
party the great interests that must arise at the
point of exchange, when the construction of 45
miles of self-sustaining railroad would place you
on the ground where those interests may be di
rectly controlled to your best advantage. A
junction at Crow Creek with the Nashville and
Chattanooga Railroad will require a second
transhipment or an interchange of trains—the
one too expensive an operation to be fre
quently repeated, injurious to packages and in
convenient to travelers—the other a fruitful
source of embarrassment, involving vexatious
questions of car tent, and the equitable adjust
ment of claims for loss, damage and detention,
from which you can only be relieved by trans
acting your business on your own road and in
your own trains.
Tariffs of charges and schedules of time, suit
able to the intervening company, might result
to you in great injury, inconvenience and loss.
It is hoped that the great advantage promised
by this modification of your first plan, will war
rant the Board in taking such initial steps as
will ascertain the cost of the extension, and
the means which can be collected for so de
sirable an object. Resting upon Memphis
the commercial heart of the Mississippi val
ley, it will perfect the symmetry of your en
terprise to embrace Chattanooga, the entre-pot ot -
the South Atlantic ; whence, its mighty traffic,
having climbed from the ocean, is first fairly
launched upon its Western destination.—Chat
tanooga Advertiser.
Memphis & Charleston Road.
We learn from a reliable source that the Road
on the north of the river, from the Bridge up
to this place, will not be ready for the cars be
fore the latter part of this year. Much yet remains
to be done before the work is even in a passable
condition—and.when all is done that can be, this
end of the Road is likely to be the most inferior,
unsafe, and expensive, of any other piece of Road
of the same length in the country. The very
nature of the ground over which the Road is be
ing built, it seems ought to have deterred any
Company from attempting 1 it. It this link to the
Bridge is to be the only Road connecting the
north and the south, through this place with the
Valley of the Mississippi, we are inclined to
think that many will go around rather than risk
travellingover it. But skill, perseverance and a
liberal expenditure of money may ultimately
get the Road in a better condition than the re
presentations to us and our fears permit us to
hope with”any degree of confidence.—Chatta
nooga Gazatte.
A Round Salaray.—The New York Mirror
states that C. K. Garrison, Esq., has been ap
pointed agent of the Nicaragua Transit Com
pany, at a salary of $60,000 a year: in addition
to which four Insurance Companies nave agreed
to pay him SIO,OOO each a year—making $40,-
000. Total amount of salary per annum. One
Hundred Thousand Dollars! This gentleman
takes out letters of credit to draw for one million
a month on account of gold dust, and has one
fourth interest of the profits.
Punch discovers a new “ dodge” in the em
blematic representation of the billing and cooing
of two doves, encircled by a ring. He says:
Or lot the wreath when raised, n cage reveal,
Wherein two doves their little bills entwine ;
(A vile device, whioh always make* mo feel
Marriage would only add your bills to mine.)
VOL. 32 -NEW SERIES -VOL-8. -NO. 13.
| Sian the only Miser.
, BY CHARLES BERTRAND,
s The liirk sings gaily to the morning clouds,
While swiftly soaring in the regions high—
? Th > nightingale in music tolls his love,
s Unto the heavenly watches of tho sky ;
, Th t flowers hide not their beauty from tho sight,
, Nor their pure fragrance to tho world Jerry,
But yield fair homes to many insects bright,
Aad bless with sweets each hour that passes by.
1 Tho sun his warmth and brightness freely sheds
1 On ocean, river, city, hill, and dale ;
And of bis plenty gives the queenly moon,
While she on earth bestows her brilliant Dale;
The st irs smile softly ns with speed descend
Their dancing rays, to gladden care-clad night;
Tho northern lights in Lapland's winter shine,
A daylight making in the sun’s despite.
Th’ electric flash that gleams athwart the sky,
Becomes man’s messenger and bears his will,
Al swift as thought to countries distant far,
And crosses seas bis bidding to fulfil.
The river winding like a silver chain,
Makes fruitful all tho land thro’ which it wends ;
Tho clouds pour down their fertilizing rain,
On which tho fullness of the ear depends.
Tho snow crown’d mountains, nnd the dusky mines,
Unfold their riches at the call of man;
Strong iron, silver, precious gold, rare gems,
And fuel growing since the world began.
The trees that stretch their strong arms to the winds,
Give leafy shelter to tho birds of air;
And bear rich fruits of various shape and kind,
And juices yield most useful and most rare.
Man, only man, his treasures doth conceal,
And hoard them up for solitary joy;
As if kind hoaven ever yet conferred
A blessing that he ought not to employ !
All gifts received should freely be diffused,
Not idly hid to please one mortal will :
For talents, wealth, and knowledge aro abused,
Unless they aid earth’s onward sails to fill!
Mr*. Partington Back Again.
For a long time past we had heard nothing of
theold lady of the Boston Post, until yesterday,
on opening that most estimable journal, we
found her “ foot prints.” We knew them as
jpon as we saw them. But tor the fear of be
ing thought too inquisitive, we should like to
know -where the dear ol 1 lady has been all this
long time. We.hail ber return not less cordial
ly than the Pos' itself, whirii thus introduces
her:
Mrs. Partington Back Again.
She loitered by the door,
But she didn’t speak a word,
And thoughts she’d seldom known before
Her mind s composure stirred.
She gazed far up the stair—
The stair so dark and grim—
And her specs, so long familiar there,
Were dewy, damp and dim.
Anil step bv step she went
Up the dark and sombre stair,
A tinge of coffee “ flngranco” blent
With the wholesome morning air ;
Her stop was dull and slow,
And a tear was on her cheek,
But ’twas from naught of pain or wo—
Nor grief did it bespeak.
She turned to gaze around
Within tho quiet room :
The olden pictures there she found,
And Saunders with his broom—
The cobwebs waved o'er head,
That long before she’d known,
And Carter’s whirling mill, she said,
Had “hominy”* in it* tone.
She hung her ridicule
Beside the ancient chair,
And the rappee box, all crowded full,
She laid before her there;
Thon she sank upon a seat,
With her finger on her chin,
And smiled benignantly and sweet.
As she murmured, “Home agin!”
Boston Post Office, April 9, 1853.
*lt is nothing but justice to suppose that tho old
lady meant harmony.
A Maiden’s Soliloquy.
[A Maiden alone—Milton in her hand. Sho
opens at the passage, *’ Hail wedded love! mys
terious law,” etc. She thus soliloquises:]
It must be so ! Milton, thou reasonest well;
E'se whence this pleasing hope, this vain desire,
This longing after matrimony!
Or whence this secret drend, this inward horror
Os dying unespoused ! Why shrinks the heart
Back on itself, and startles at celibacy ?
’Tis reason, faithful reason, that stirs within us;
’Tis Nature’s self that points out an alliance,
And intimates a husband to the sex.
Marriage! thou pleasing and yet anxious tho’t!
Through what new, various changesmust we pass !
Tho married state in prospect lies before me,
But shadows, clouds and darkness rest upon it.
Here will I hold. If nature prompts the wish,
And that she docs is plain, from all her work,
Our duty, interest, pleasure, bids indulge it,
For tho great end of Nature’s law is bliss.
But yet—in wedlock woman must cbey—
I’m weary of those doubts ; tho priest shall end
1 ’em.
Nor do I rashly venture loss and gain ;
Pleasure and bondage meet my thoughts at once.
I wed—my liberty is gone forever,
But happiness itself from this secured !
Love first shall recompense my loss,
And when my charms shall have faded,
Mino eyes grow dim, and stature bends with years,
Thon, virtuous friendship, shall succeed to love;
i Thus pleased, I’ll scorn infirmity and death,
Renewed successively in another race.
“ A Man of his Word.”
You may sing of tho heroes of yore,
You may speak of the deeds they have done,
Os the foes they have slain by tho score,
Os the glorious battles they’ve won :
You may seek to eternize their fame,
And it may bo with goodly success—
But it is not the warrior’s name
That this heart and this spirit would bless :
Though oft at their mention my soul hath been
stirred,
Yet dearer to mo is the man ot his word.
You may speak of the great ones of earth,
Os prelates, of princes and kings;
I doubt not there's something of worth
In the bosom of all human things ;
But dearer to mo than the whole
Os pageantry, splendor, and pride,
Is the man with a frank, honest soul,
Who never his word hath belied:
Yea, prized above all that this earth can afford,
Though lowly and poor, is the man of his word !
From the “ Carpet Bag” wo gather tho follow
ing scrap on office seekers :
“ Tho office holders are all in a sweat,”
Said an office hoper, with exultation ;
“ True,” said old Roger. “ I never yet
Saw such a General Pierce-piration 1”
A Romance in Real Life.
We find the following paragraph in the Utica
Herald. They have all the elements of ro
mance, but are related as real incidents in the
life of an unhappy man :
Major Hicks, a keener of the toll gate, on the
plank road between Richland station arid Pulas
ki, was found dead in his bed on Thursday
morning last. He probably died of apoplexy.
He was a miserable old bachelor, and for years
rented his house and lived in his barn, in Pulas
ki. He Jived alone, separated from sympathy,
and leaving no place desolate in the social circle.
We knew the old Major well. It was only
weekjbefore last we saw him standing in the door
of his den rs we passed by. He looked the very
embodiment of hard times and desolation. He
was a singular creature. He married when
quite young, and after living with his wife a
short time, left her and suddenly disappeared, no
one knew where. His wife, after living alone a
number of years, supposing him dead, solaced
her grief at his absence in a second marriage.
She had lived with her second husband but a
short time, when suddenly one day Major
“ turned up,” and claimed his spouse. The wife
ylung to her new lord; the interloper was in
despair; the Major was inexorable. After
maintaining an attitude of siege for some time,
he proposed that it the second husband would
fork over $5,000, he would leave them unmolest
ed. This was granted, and the Major vanished
a second time. After squandering this sum—
which it took him but a short time to do—he re
turned and renewed hostilities. He insisted
upon another £5,000 as a condition ot perpetual
non-intervention. This was also finally grant
ed. Having received this, the Major repented
him of his former evil course, joined the temper
ance society, and retired to spend the remaindei
of his days in solitary grandeur. He has man
aged to live on the interest of this last $5,000
for the past fifteen or twenty years. We re
member when the Major looked sleek and trim,
and was regarded as quite an oracle, among
schoolboys and village idlers. But owing to
one or two demonstrations of a rather savage
nature, he had fallen into disgrace, and been
rather shunned, if not feared, for some years.
The Albany Dutchman has the following hit
at American love for change: A writer in Put
nam’s Monthly, in speaking of the Architectur
al peculiarities of the New York Custom-House,
says it is u one of the finest pieces of masonry in
the world, and if let alone, will endure as long
as the Pyramids.” That’s a good one. Ihe idea
that “ the American mind” will let anything
alone for over a lornight is preposterous. A late
English tourist says an American is a 'creature
that wants everything done in twenty minutes.
This is true—but if he had added that he don t
wish anything to last for longer than twenty
minutes after it is finished, he would have made
the portrait much more complete. Last as long
as the Pyramid* I What has got into the man '
In less than twenty-five years we ex ect to see
the New York Custom-House converted into a
young ladv’s boarding-school, or else saw-dust
added to the great circular room, and the whole
structure dev< ted to the wants ot the Metropoli
tan Arena and North American Gymnast c
Troupe.” There are no old buildings in the Uni
ted States, and we doubt that there ever will bo-
Our love of change is not limited,, we regiet TO
say, to half-eagles and doubloons.
The following conundrum is, we believe, now,
and very nearly as good as Burke s thrnous
“ What is majesty stripped of its external .
jest—: What makes reason treason in Ireland?
The absent T. Here is another question, which
perhaps some of our readers may be able to an-
I Bwer: “When a man cannot contain himseli, is
it because he is too large or too small.
Washington's Courtship and Mamage.
Beautifully situated on the banks ofthe Pau
munkey, is the mansion known as “ the White
House ” It stands on the site of the one in
which Washington was married. From Custis’s
Life of Martha Washington, we extract the ac
count of his courtship and marriage :
It was in 1758 that Washington, attired in a
military undress, and attended by a body ser
vant, tall and his chief, crossed the
ferry called William’s,ovef the Paumunkey, a
branch ofthe York river. On the boat touching
the southern or New Kent side, the soldier’s
progress was arrested by one of those person
ages who give the beau ideal of the Virginia
gentleman of the old regime, the very soul of
kindness and hospitality. It was in vain the
soldier urged his business at Williamsburg, im
portant communications to the Governor, &c.
Mr. Chamberlayne, on whose domain the mili
taire had just landed, would hear of no excuse.
Col. Washington was a name and character so
dear to all Virginians, that his passing by one of
the castles ofVirginia, without calling or parta
king of the hospitalities of the host, was entirely
out of the question. The Colonel, however, did
not surrender at discretion, but stoutly main
tained his ground till Chamberlayne, bringing
up bis reserve, in the intimation that he would
introduce his friend to a young and charming
widow, then beneath his roof, the soldier capitu
lated, on condition that he should dine—only
dine—and then by pressing bis charger and bor
rowing ofthe night, he would reach Williams
burg before his Excellency could shake off his
morning slumbers. Orders were accordingly is
sued to Bishop, the Colonel’s body servant and
faithful follower, who, together with the English
charger, had been bequeathed by the dying
Braddock to Major Washington, on the famed
and fated field of Monongahela. Bishop, bred in
the school of European discipline, raised his
hand to his cap. as much as to say, “ Your orders
shall be obeyed.”
The Colonel now proceeded to the mansion,
and was introduced to various guests, (for when
was a Virginia domicil of the olden time with
out guests) and above all. to the charming
widow. Tradition relates that they were na
turally pleased, on this, their first interview—
nor is it remarkable ; they were of an age when
.itmpre*Bion* ere strongest. The lady was fair
to befipld, o’, fascinating manners, ar*<l splen
didly endo/rz 4. with worldly liene.it*. The
hero was frosh from bis narfy irf..
fame, and with a form on
did seem to set his seal, to give the world as- ’
surance of a man.”
The morning passed pleasantly away, even
ing came, with Bishop, true to his orders and
firm at his post, holding the favorite charger
with one hand, while the other was waiting to
offer the ready stirrup. The sun sunk in the
horizon, and yet the Colonel appeared not.
“ T was strange,’twas passing strange :” surely
he was not wont to be a single moment behind
his appointment—for he was the most punctual
of all men.
Meantime the host enjoyed the scene of the
veteran at the gate, while the Colonel was so
agreeably employed in the parlor; and pro
claiming that no visitor ever left his house at
sunset, his military guest was. without much
difficulty, persuaded to order Bishop to put up
the horses for the night. The sun rose high in
the heavens the ensuing day, when the ena
mored soldier pressed with his spur his charger’s
side, and speeded on his way to the seat of gov
ernment. where, having despatched his public
business, he retraced his steps, and at the White
House, the engagement took place, with pre
paration* for marriage.
And much hath the biographer heard of that
marriage, from the gray-haired domestic who
waited at the board where love made the festal
and Washington the guest. And rare and rich
was the revelry at the palmy period of Vir
ginia’s festal age; for many were gathered to
that marriage, of the good, the great, the gifted,
and they with jovous acclamations, hailed in
d Virginia’s youthful hero a happy and prosper
ous bridegroom.
“ And so you remember when Col. Washing
ton came a courting of vt 11 ” - young mistress?' 1
0 said the biographer to old Cully, in his hundreth
year. " Av, master, that I do.” replied the an
cient family servant, who had lived to see five
geneiations; “ gre t times, sir. great times—
shall never see the like again 1” “ And Wash
ington looked something like a man—a proper
man—hey. Cully ?”
“ Never seed the like, sir—ne'. er the like of
him, though I have seen many in my day—so
tall, so straight! and then he sat on a horse and
rode with such an air I Ah. sir, he was like no
one else. Many of the grandest gentlemen in
in the gold lace were at the wedding ; but none
looked like the man himself.”
Strong, indeed, must have been the impres
sion which the person and manner of Washing
ton made upon the “ rude, untutored mind” of
this poor negro, since the lapse of three-quar
ters of a century had not sufficed to efface it.
The precise date of the marriage the bio
grapher has been unable to discover, having in
vain searched among the records of the vestry
of St. Peter’s church, New Kent, of which the
Rev. Mr. Munson, a Cambridge scholar, was
the rector, and performed the ceremony, it is
believed, about 1759. A shoit time after their
marriage. Colonel and Mrs. Washington re
moved to Mount Vernon, on the Potomac, and
permanently settled there.
“ This union.” says Sparks, “ was in every
respect felicitous. It continued forty years.
To her intimate acquantances and to the na
tion, the character of Mrs. Washington was
ever a theme of praise. Affable and courteous, .
exemplary in her deportment, remarkable for
her deeds of charity and piety, unostentatious,
and without vanity, she adorned by her domes
tic virtues the sphere of private life, and filled
with dignity every station in which she wes
placed.
Previous to his acquaintance with Mrs. Cus
tis, Washington had been pleased with other
ladies. The author above quoted on this point
says, that in 1756' “ while in New York, he was
lodged and kindly entertained at the house of
Beverley Robinson, between whom and him
self an intimate friendship subsisted, which, in
deed, continued without change, till severed
by their opposite fortunes twenty years after
ward in the revolution. It happened that Miss
Mary Phillips, a sister of Mrs. Robinson, and
a young lady of rare accomplishments, was an
inmate of the family. The charms of this lady
made a deep impression upon the heart of the
Virginia Colonel. He went to Boston, return
ed, and was again welcomed to the hospitality
of Mr. Robinson. He lingered there till duty
called him away ; but he was careful to intrust
his secret to a confidential friend, whose letters
kept him informed of every important event.
In a few months intelligence came, that a rival
was in the field, and that the consequences
could not be answered for, if he delayed to re
new his visits to New York. Whether time,
the bustle of a camp, or the scenes of war had
moderated his admiration, or whether he des
paired of success, is not known. He never saw
the lady again till she was married to that same
rival, Captain Morris, his former associate in
i arms, and one of Braddock’s aids-de-camp.
“ He had before felt the influence of the ten-
• der passion. At the age of seventeen, he was
smitten by the graces of a fair one. whom he
called a ' low land beauty,’ and whose praises
he recorded in glowing strains, while wandering
with his surveyor’s compass among the Alle-
' ghany mountains. On that occasion he wrote
a desponding letter to a friend, and indicted
i plaintive verses, but never ventured to reveal
1 his emotions to the lady who was unconscious of
' the cause of his pains.”
I Musician in Luck.
Max Maretzek has returned to New York,
' from a brief visit to Kentucky, and is now
waiting orders from manager Le Grand. He
will, of course, assume the baton at Niblo’s at
an early day, in pursuance of the general ar
rangement with which his popular name was
• associated. His trip to Kentucky, we are
I told, involved an interesting and almost ro
mantic story of strange fortune, growing out
of the French alliance with the revolutionary
■ cause ol the Ur ited States in the war of Inde
pendence The grand uncle of Madame Ber-
I tucca Maretzek was oi eof the companions of
the illustrious Lafayette in this country in 1776,
and served in the patriot ranks as an officer of
sufficient grade io entitle him, after tbe war,
to a large grant of bounty land in the then
districtof Kentuck, forming part, of the mili
tary land ofthe State ofVirginia. The pa-
I tent was duly issued for something like 20 000
■ acres in Bath county, then a portion of the
, county of Fayette. The scrip was carried to
; France, and held in something like the careless
> indifference ot an old lottery ticket. The
owner died many years after, without direct
i heirs. The scrip, in the division his estate,
telitoone of his nephews, M. Bertucca, the
: father of Madame Maretzek. He treated it
much after the manner ot his uncle, until his
daughter came to the United States in 1848,
as prima donna at Astor Place, and subse
quently married Maretzek He then made
her a present of the patent in her own right
and in right of her child or children, Ameri
can born ; and although ths lady insisted that
good must come out of so much land, it was not
until the present season that her husband could
find time or confidence to go in search of it.
By the assistance of his attorney, Hon. James
Harlan, of Frankfort, he traced the land and
ascertained the legal title to be all right.
But the claims of occupancy ior nearly half a
century, under the county privileges which at
tach to the wild lands of non residents, and the
prospectsofa tedious and unpleasant law suit,
induced a compromise with the tenant*, and a
surrender tot hem of their improvements and
seven thousand of the twenty thousand acres,
she rapid progress of railway improvement
will «oon bring the remaining 13,000 within a
tew miles ot the Lexington and Covington Rail
road, and render them at least worth looking
to in the future
Is Falling Overboard Contagio»s or In
fectious ?—Tho marine report of one of tbe
morning papers has this paragraph, which sug
gests a more serious question than whether
saltpetre will explode.
“ Arrived at St. Jago, 21st ult., bark A. B.
Sturges. Avery, from New York, (placed in quar
antine for seven days, in consequence of having
lost a man overboard on the passage.”)