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JOURNAL & MESSENGER.
J 411 £8 T NISBET AND BIMRI MO*E,
EDITOEH.
SONNET. ,
.5 u th* St itue of Columbus, (K'H'aMngtoo, B
by “jtKM.i,” #F tFt BOSTON POST.
O stalwart stranger, wife the tierec moustae**.
Who standest up so manly, straight •aud-ta*'.
Poising witbiu your hand that little bail,
As if to make "“teu-strike ‘ —kn the rash
1 fear you’re aiming with a fell inttwt _
Or if You’re not —prav do-oot go it blinf^
Ton’ll hit that statuJ there,* ifyotrafon t mutd,
And do a damage that you niayiwat . . ,
v i)h, strike that squaw, that wretched squaw, instead,
’ Who in eonvusioos at yocrelbow juaft
You'll end at once he’ tortures and her day* ;
O, stranger, quicklv thump her on the head*
So shall you, harmless from the nations law,
Relieve your arm,.the prblic, and the squaw
* Greenough’s Washington.
I dons f Ihe Dtiy*
lu a charming tnansien in St. James’s Place, secfcsded
■somewhat from the rear and tumult of the gTjat city,
•stKl lives the referable poet of the ‘'Pleasures of Me
mory,” whose great age (ninety Tears .having rolled
•■over his bald ripe- forehead) disqualifies him from taking
-his long-aoeusrorr.ed walks abcut the metropolis Mr.
•'Rogers sat in Westminster Hall when lhitke-anl .She
i ruiitn were pouring out their invectives against ‘V -arreti
• Hastings, and ail London was ringing with the ayplause
which eloquent Brinsley tdicited on that oeaaimt- He
•is therefore part aud parcel of by-gone days, ami very
good authority on what happened during the ia*£ sixty
jaars. .
In a large fine house in Tavistock Fiace, Timstock
■Square, sits Charles Dickens, bnsv as a.bee or#-’“Bleak
House’ and “Household Wcrds. On an afterrram the
loiterer in that vicinity may catch a glimpse Tkw thin
hair, now sprinkled with grey, c> it is tossed iy the
summer wind which visits his desk as he site writing
■in his am pit? library-room. It is uot an unfrequrot oc
currence to meet him in a rail-car, rushing out of Lon
• don for a few days’ respite a,t“Brigblon or Batii
Thackeray has ere this got home again, and.say fine
day between 12 and 2 o’clock he mev be found at the
Garrick Club in King street. Covent Garden, .wring
over a Freneh newspaper or chatting with Albert-"Suiith
■ over a mutton-chop and sherry additions. lt‘is net an
unusual thing to tvdd-Lin; at one end ot jxwr (Jharles
: Kembles ear-trumpet, or vis-a-vis with Buckstone, the
i ootcediac, dfeoussiug old aotors and defouct ltnin
‘-Lane.
Barry Cornwall lives iu Harley street, Cavendish
Square, where he is spending the happy evening of l* l -* |
t;& hv all Ait t know
one of the most glorious song-writers-hi the English
tongue.
Walter Savage is itt home in TUth, having
been expelled from Italy on account of- tits’ “ dangerous
liberty doctrines.’’ At rare intervals he gbevtip to Lon
• ‘don, and then bis hosts of frieuds flock xcobuti him. and
mstk< his tine old face radiant with smiles at tot ‘{Refuse ‘
1 hospitiuity poured around him.
in tkc village of Twickenham, in a modest brick
house by the roadside, muses Allred Tennyson, the poet
laureate of Engiauc. His own publisher only meets
him once- or twice a year, as he eschews London and
loves privacy. As you walk by the side of the Thames
• on a Sunday evening,.at .'the *.et hours, sometimes
the white, iiat-of. Alfred, the -hitsd cf “.Locksley Hall,”
i is visible.
Tbe* Brow niurstrre Tin•j s.vsih” ws/.&itting f w.v. clime
• totlime; but Lenten ts'cAten ia -titeiravay, and they
’ may bo met not unfrequeiitiy a‘ the National Gullerv,
Trafalgar square, or at the opera. Both are so delight- j
ful to encounter; but this pleasure, like all exquisite eiv
joyments, is rare.
If one should try very hard to get a gfiiqtro 4i tfo
illustrious Thomas Cat lyle, the great “Arrtor ResarSws”
• of modern Europe, he would lie J.it a difficult matter.—
Thomas likes to be a lie& U;t .it- -don’t want uov-boJ
in his own cage besHevJtiumelf. He lives, in Lheiaau,
and often cotues to town j-but to jSmLhim often is r:<
common, even to his best friends.
Macaulay is a club man, aud when beds not rairg
his idols, (the books-of the British Museum, t he wav
1 be met with in the brilliant lulls of the “Atliitiwuni*’
or the “Reform.” • ‘On a !azr r hazy London dr. v I
he might with a certainty be cv.anted wa-vvex *eahe in !
-a sang aloovt>of sfce British.”
•Dear, kind, genial,- old Leigh Hunt, toddling.-t fee
-.pavement in the Strand towards his sun’s new sjxpv r
office, is & common occurrence. He lives a few nfr.-s ;
front the dust of the Fleet street, but he seems to: slave 1
its dingy wails, and grows warm and eloquent over its
rush and whirl. Is tie the Skimpole of “Bleak Iloc**?” ■
The knowing ones of Londou sav he is.
On the left, ss you go up Piccadilly Wnrartfe the i
parks, stands.* neat book-shon, with “CliapmaatfcJliJr !
over the door. The tall gentleman -with the use,aud i
the waistcoat, aud the elegant “nrvaf, is Hn Edvard j
Lytion, or Bulwer, as you may happen to calf hint. He
r-ijJeihnr Mr. -Chapman, who ha.-, bis ear close. tv the 1
l Baronet’s bosom, that the engraving just brought , for
his inspection is not quite ngnt in thealirechluiutf the i
< whiskers and the siiirt-collar. Spibv oi his datidv a>-
t pect and his a&rctcd drawl, no better k< art er. geotijqzan
wields the tiueni quill than the author of “11 y
Whenever he runs down from his excellent. teiraat at
- Knebworth to loMulon, he does so many acts us kind
ness for brother authors, that “BtiVwers guitteaa” .
. are as sure as morning suns or evening stars Puitaa
Jkiily Tranacript.
.The Fins Arts.
The following is an extract of a letter frwtn ‘RoGie;
“Mr. Crawford is progressing with his itnontiauwt hi
Washington, which will iie-ou? .if the largest works iu
sculpture, of monumental destination, ever yet exaavfrxl
—the equestrian statue of its great subject being placed
at the summit, and those of six others, selected .(kxn
among the most distinguished of his compatriots uni
aaaeetstes in the same cause, on pedestal,- around,of
th#height of twelve feet, and in the costume of their
* own iinr- (certainly most opposite to the clasic*L Os
those six two are finished—Henry and Jcllersoc—Sig
ures designed witi. a power of expression and-ratenso
individuality of dust ter truly wonderful T w-e reliels
. arc to occupy the fronts of the polygonal basement un
der the tioree of Washington, the su! jeeis being Abun
dance and Liberty, with Eternity fa figure veiled from
. bead to foot i standingßcUrecn; Liberty with her sym
bolic cap and sword, trampling upon a prostrate tyrair
in chains, the epigraph above, “Sic semper tyrannis.”
• Six colossal eagles are lo Ftanr .on pedestals round the
ateps, forming a basis to Jbetntn- structure. Tlie idea
of the whole is original and striking in the highest de
gree. It has been incorrectly stafr-fi that the Pope has
presented Crawford with the mat hie requisite for ac
- complishing this gigantic work, the component parts of
Which are yet only to be seen in ciav or piaster. It is
not to executed in marble, but the vTuole to be cast in
‘ Jironze, at Munich.”
Iteciianted (Mountain.
•They have strange things in Texas, astvel. as wicked
doings The following accounts of a great natural cu
irio&tv in that country, is from the Texas Telegraph
“Ttis singular mountain, or hill, is situated on the
bes-i waters of the Sallee—a small tributary of the
Colorado,about 80 miles from Bastropi.in a northwester
ly direction It is about three hundred feet hkrh. and
appears to be an enormous oval rock, partly in bedded
in the earth. When the sun afcinea, the ligfit.is reflect
ed from its pHshed surface as from n immerse mii
ror, aud the whole mountain glows with sueb-a-dazzling
radiance, that She beholder who view* ifieven from
distance of four or five miies, is unable to gaze-apon it
without experiencing a painful sensation, wiailar to
that which is fell when looking upon the rising sun.—
The ascent Ot lire bell is so very gradual that persons
can easily walk-up lo the top ; but the rock- isso smooth
and slinjiery that those who make (be attempt are
compelled to wear iktoccasins or stockings instead of
•hoea. This act, together with the name of *-he place,
Holy Mountain, remind the visitant very forcibly of the
command made to Meses at Mount Horeb, ‘lftit ofl‘ thy
ahoes from off thy feet.” The Camanches ipegarel this
hill with religious veneration, ur,d Indian pilgrims fre
quently assemble from the remotest -borders of the
tribe, to perform theirtPeyniin rite upon its summit.
Tub First Steamboat.—The first steamboat that
ever run on the western -waters, was built under the su
perintendence of Mr. John Robson, 80 years-old on the
Bth inst., nnd now living with his-sen Wuliam, two
miles back of Newport, Kv. llis head is whitened by
age, but his memory is good, ad he recollects-well about
his youthful exercises.
11l irfia amlJnrol l>y FllltOß. LiviuffStol) A Cos., til
New York. ITie boat was launched at Pittsburgh, Pa ,
on the 17th day of March, 1811, and was called the
Ritw Orb an a. She was painted with a bluHh colored
paint. She passed New Madrid, Missouri, at the time
of the earthquake in December, 1811.
Mr. Scowls, now living in Covington, a wealthy man,
was cabin boy on her. Andrew Jack was pilot, and a
Mr /laker was engineer. She carried Gen. Coffee and
DoniGarl from Natchez, with their troops, down to New
Orleans, 1814, at the time Gen. Jackson was defending
that city against the British.
All these old times are well recollected by <*ur good
old friend diobson, whose company is more interesting
and instructive, relating to the events that ooewtred in
his younger days than any history of the present day.
Mr. Robio is now hearty, hale and well, and attends to
considerable business on the farm. —Newport ( Ky.) Nt*r*.
Stbam Maikx of Great Britaix.—ln the United
States there is almost lamentable general ignorance of
the steam power cf Englaud. This, we judge, from
the statistical facts reflecting her steam navy and mer
cantile steam marine.. Her steam navy is really tcrritic,
being no less than 14Z rowels, besides three new 80
gun propellers One halt es these only are in commis
sion ; but then she has 76 attain vessels ready for war
,t any moment the average, lot nage of which is 800
tons • some .of them are very an.all, and some very
Urge, but the smallest is ht.tc cross the Atlantic.
The commercial steam marine of Britain numbers
i, 184 steamships and steamboats. Thecity.rf London
alone has 333 steam vessels, with a tonnage of
, tout. The city of Glasgow has 88 steamships, all titted
tor sea, with a tonnage of 64,000 tons, fn Liverpool
there are 99 steam vessels, with A a average dwanage of
21,059 tons. Thus in three porta there is a teuuugc of
stenin vessels amounting to 157,059 tons. If e allow
an average tonnage of 200 tons to all the mercantile
marine there, it will amount to 286,400 tons. The
. Guard Company of Glasgow has seven Atlaatic meani
. ships, with a tonnage of 13,100 tons, sad this force is
,to -L- increased about 6,000 tons. There aw* at least
100 steiun.-hips of 1,000 tons bust hens each of which,
upon an exigency, could be drafted into toe British
navy, and in a few dry* aruted and eauipped, not for
defence, but fc>r offensive operations.— MoMe BeyisUt.
• A learned Doctor of Divinity- was accused of
. ramtjliug in bis discourses, by one of his’ boa re rs to
, Which he replied; -_. .
• ‘lfjou ramble to the devil, 1 muit ramble after you.’
, toABt os &L.WEBY.—Wehaveibund among our pa
p. the following and judicious remarks on
Si erv, iu this wntutrv, iu the hand-writ ingot the gift
ed snd” lamented Legare, and lay them bofoee tutr rea
dt i exactly as they are iu the original : —GharLtton
ti ri*t.
Slavery in the United State*.
his is a practical question, and needs to be treated
bv statesmen and not by sophisters and fanatics.
is not res intrgra, and it is not necessary to discuss
l ib justice or injustice, the fitnwis or unfitness ot the in
jst ition in the abstruet. _ .
he true question is, what is to be the of this
qi rter of the world: wbat race is to inhabit and pos
se t it? Shall it be given up (as to a great part ot its
si lace ito barbarism—its inevitable fate under the do
m .ion of the black race—or slmll it continue to be pos
se *ed bv the most improving, enterprising, active and
ei rgetic breed of men that have over founded empires
at peopled waste places —by that English race, Wnnse
c< quests more extensive, whoso poWet more gigantic
a whose government more perfect than that ot liOine,
and gnate it as the fitting instrument, in the hands of
P (vidence, for the great work of building up ft world
hat Engli>b race, of which the original btock has
ii le itself the wonder of mankind—a people entirely
pi uliar in combining whatever is most mizzling in opu-
L ce and power, with well regulated liberty, and mild
at 1 equal administration of law—the most magnificent
n nifestation of the might and the grandeur of civilized
li .that the world, in any age of it, has ever beheld.—
L. ik at Uayti and contrast ii with New Holland !
Joes any man, who looks into the political character
ai 1 1 effects of the cotton i.iuut, doubt for a moment,
tl 11 Slavery in the South lias been and is a great insti u
n nt of civilization? Would the miracles, which the
ei ton trade has wrought and is working for the ame
li ation of the condition of mankind in Europe, have
e’ ?r existed, had the negro of the South been emanci
p ed in the revolution ? Would this country have been
v at it is ?
she truth is that civilization is more advanced by
j vsical causes, than by moral ones. I mean suppos
; ‘in both cu*es social order to be well established and
i : administered. The steam engine is doing more for
i’ than the p*!pit itseli. So of cotton. It is raising the
► ndard of comfort without which men ure doomed for
v <?r to be but half savage.
The Roman conquests were attended with dreadful
ls—millions of lives, it is said, were sucrified by (\t>
- -t in his Gallic ware, and so of all the rest, l)ocs any
i • now doubt that, on the whole, the Sir old of Rome
sa moans of improvement to the whole race? thut
. ecialty the spreading of Christianity was hastened
1 facilitated bv it t Would any philanthropist, who
• I not assume that name to make it odious, wish the
tory of the Roman blotted out ?
So of Greek art. Without doubt i< bitd never existed
never at least in such an extrnordiuuiy jvdfeotion,
. ihoni the Institution of Slavery. Suppose it were as
, ‘tair.ed that, by establishing an English colony at the
>t where’Garthag? once stood, at the end of some cen
i - ies, our race and iindtutram would spread over the
i lole ot the‘Con tinew?, iii'.hcrto hold to be doomed to
• ‘rlasung sdcncwwt'fi desolation ; though tlie groai re
lt spoken of co-Jii -,u'\ be accomplished by extermi
ing, a tle'-pe*’ riien oT this continent have been, or
, lucing tO'bCfrVi’.ge, under the white man. the negro,
io is m'-’ the slave of his brother negro and brother
• .age -would it be considered inconsistent with liu
, luity to have, yea, and to cooperate in producing, a
.’ -mge so full of spendid inipiovement, so favorable to
i e dignity of human nature, and even to the beauty
, and glory of G*d's creation ?
. Look at the state of South America aud compare it
.{•*h the northern part of the continent.
I Therefore L have always thought that the slave trade,
human, infernal as it was, had not been without its
J m pen Nations —< certainly not enough to justify any one
Ital ing part in continuing it, for so much evident and
jW known evil ought not to be done that good might
lime of it) —but that, considered as a great evil, it
• as much more so to this continent than to Africa.
In short. Slavery is un evil, except under peculiar cir-
Jimstances— generally speaking, certainly—and everv
• ing shows it /ure; but not such an evil as calls for
’ (dent and still less destructive measures to arrest it.
| From the Xnv Orleans Crescent.
Tho Country Newspaper.
j The editor of a city journal ia necessarily compelled
|> look over papers from other cities before any others.
{ e has to cater in a daily issue to the tastes, fancy, or
liriosiiy (call it what you please) of those to whom city
this chiefly familiar, in all its roar, bustle and in oil i
lied variety of iucidi-nts; to whom fearful murders,
j ainense robberies, large speculations, lively spectacles,
i id things of a similar character are alone interesting.
he city paper is the repertory of a thousand aud one
: ems, not the least interesting of which are to be found
| i the local column or columns.
We must confess that we not unfreqnently turn from
| to pick up some country paper, and teel refreshed in
iI le perusal. The ordinary city reader might not ap
i ireciate it, but we do. It ha.; not, it is true, a large as
) I irtenent of original items; in fact, such an item is a
I* ire and highly-prized thing. A murder, robbery, as-
I mlt, or thunder-storm, a dwelling burnt, a pig-stve or
J icep-fold or stable entered and feloniously despoiled,
iiay-rick, cotton-gin, or sugar-mill burnt, a tavern
(all, ii cross-roads gathering, a barbecue, an election of
‘card of ,>o!ice, magistrate, Ac., are all curiously won
jerfiil incidents, to set forth which properlr, immense
| . eadings of big caps, little caps, heavy italic, Ac., are
! sed as freely as the limited supply in the cases will ad
1 j lit of. “We have often seen iu the country papers cap
ons which occupied more space than the article they
j j magnificently ushered in to the notice of the reader.
A big; pumpkin, a mammoth watermelon, an over
rown ]]eaeh or jKitato, a good day’s picking of cotton,
n unu-iual number of bolls on a stalk, atall sugar-cane,
, re also matters in which the genuine countrv editor
! | ugely delights, and ou which lie extensively dilates.
; And ihe Varieties of style in which his paper appears;
■ j ne w eek, on a whole sheet, the next ou a single sheet;
| ne w eek, on brownish yellow paper, the next on the
! J ,et of w hite paper, aud always with big and little type (
I j a ihe most familiar and social neighborhood.
j We speak, of course, ot the genuine country paper,
tot ot its fashionable cousin, which, issued in the neigh
borhood of some large tow n or city, or on the borders
ji>f some railroad or navigable stream, dresses itself up
, .:ielv and puts ou pretentious airs. We sneak of tlie
, (Wintry paper which has none of these advantages of
, i cation, ot the paper published in some little inland
llage, nt which county court or police board day is a (
~ irring event, the arrival of the stage an exciting inci-
J. *nt, the little tavern general headquarters of gossip, Ac.
I And your countrv editor is, withal, a right clever,
si iciable fellow. He keeps nothing buck from his reader;
his on intimate and friendly terms with thorn. If bis
devil runs away, be announces the fact—-and blows the
devil up. If his solitary jour printer takes a lively
holiday, he announces tlris fact, claims their compas-
I sion, and apologises for “ this- week's slender amount of
; matter.” If he presents only half a sheet, he patheti
! caily explains, that he sent arf order by “ the wagon,'’
long time ago,” but that, somehow or other, the
j papei has failed to arrive, but will certainly arrive next
• week, ile sets ’ms own type, handles his roller, works
I the press, writes his editorials, keeps his book, (he
{never ha> looks,) and answers questions generally, be
fsides so-netimes splitting liis own wood, nursing the
I baby, a? ,and carrying water. All these faets he duly lays
i bdore jis readers in every week’s regular iasvie. Regu
larly, too, he has pathetic dims for heartlessly delin
quent. patrons, and offers to take pay m all kinds or
artic .es wood, potatoes, corn, Ac. He has bis elo
!,,ue- it thanks, too, for presents of large pumpkins ears
of ( orn, peaches, hams, hominy, and an occasional bot
| rle >( something anti-temperance. He is the embodi
:nc at of all news, and with the clergyman doctor
| ta; ern-keeper, magistrates, one of the five great men of
1 .Ik , village. His advertisements are set up lme hand
ibi Is and their queer mixture of every conceivable
l mmodity draws from him glowing putts.
He is, withal, a right good fellow, and whenever his
i ace illuminates our sanctum we always gladly lay
! lownour pen, sure of n, pleasant half our of hrely,
1 .viable chit. He is not l.ke a city editor, fagged out
I u. a dailv treadmill of journalism ; and not unfrequently
i his editorials have a gonial freshness, a sparkling vi
vacity, a clearness of common sense, an originality of
thought, and ;i quickness of conception, which the
weaned and worn city editor might well envy. 1 hough
| an oracle in his neighborhood, he is not pronu or surly,
but patient, good-humored, chatty, fresh us the pure
air he inhales far from the dusty, smoky city, He
talks what he thinks, and in his own way. lie hns Ins
holidays, too, and from them he goes back to bis work,
and sends forth many a royal idea in tlie ltidittereut
garb his paper is compelled to wear.
Tar. Editor. —They have a steamboat in the Wes
tern waters by the name of “The Editor.” That is the
best name ever vet given to any steamboat, and more
especially to a Mississippi steamboat. We are surpri
sed it has never been thought of before. The Editor is
a working engine, whose tires are kept going day and
oight. Now Tie sails against the tide, and now with it,
going along at a dashing rate, until suddenly he comes
up all standing against some hidden snag, which near
ly shivers his timber to pieces. Whenever be moves,
ie puts the waters in agitation for e time, and leaves a
wake of troubled waves behind him which lasts about
five minutes. He serves everybody but himself, carries
freight and passengers in any quantity, and goes puff—
puff-ing, down the stream of life. Often hit powers are
avertasked, and the boiler bursts, but fortunately it kills
io one but himself, and who care* for an Editor?
Au excellent name for u steamboat! We wish suc
< ess to “ The Editor.” May she have many a rapid and
I leasant run on the broad bosom of the Father of Wn
t ws, and when her voyages are ended, be permitted, in
s nne placid and quiet harbor, to rest from her labors.—
h who ton l Mini.
Gen. Jackson’s Epitaph ox his Wins. —A lady in
th- i West, savs the Richmond Fjeaminer, has been kind
•l ough to seud us a copy of Andrew Jackson’s epitaph
on his wife. It is known to have been his own compo*
ait son, yet, although it has been read by hundreds on
hei: tomb, it has never appeared in print before. This
sir gular inscription reads thus :
■ ‘Here lies the remaius of Mrs. Rachel Jackson, wife
of President Jackson, who died on the 22d of December,
18t 6, aged 61. Her face was fair, her person pleasing,
her teuijier amiable, aud her haart kind, rihe de
lighted iu relieving the want* of her fellow-creatures,
aud cultivated ttiai divine pleasure, by the inosi liberal
and. unpretending method*. To the poor she was a
bemefactress; to the rich she w&* an example; to the
wnrtched a comforter; to the jiroapev-ous an ornament t
her pity went hand in hand with her benevolence; aud
she thanked her Creator for being permitted to do good.
A being so gentle, aud yet ao virtuous, slander might
>yound but oouid not dishonor. Even dealt l , when he
tore her from the arms of ber husband, coaki but trans
plant her to the bosom of her God.”
A Queen's Pubsext to a Queen. — A steam packet
recently arrived at Southampton, bringing a hyena and
a wildcat as a present to Queen Vactorta from theQueeu
of Portugal ’
How vo Lay ore a K<jra fie Acre.— Maasure 209
leet on each side, aud you will have tJie fjuautjty with
in aa inch.
MACON, GEORGIA:
WKBNtaSDAY, JI’NK 1, 15 :^
The Whigs of Bibb county and all others,
who are opposed to the principles of tlie Southern
Rights Party, are requested to meet at the Couilbouse
in this city, at ttfdon, frti the first Tuesday in June next,
to appoint delegate* to attend a Gubernatorial Ceqivao,
tiou to be held At Millodgeville on the fourth WfJnfß-.
day in June, And to transact other bhvnessp
Another Attercip* fry a lue.
It would seem there arc inccndKrica still
ftfrmfig us. GnC ot the Factory buildings of this city,
tt’rd by the operatives, wtoj on fire about one
o’clock, on Monday n last, but was discovered in
time to extinguish it before much injury bad been sus
tained, The fire, as usual, was place under the building
pou the sill.
MclSvoy’s Panorama of Ireland,
This exhibition of ihe cities aud scenery, of “the first
flower of the earth, and first gem of the seq,’ wil lbe
opened to visitors in this city, this evening at Concert
Hall, where all can be gratified who desire to look upon
the distinctive features of Ireland. Besides a multi
tude of panoramic views, exhibiting locations full o’-
historical interest, and of pleasant associations doubtless
to many of our Irish population ; variety will be given
to the entertainment bv vocal and instrument music i
and by truthful delineations of Irish life, manners and
character.
The Madison Springs*
By reference to an advertisement in our columns, it
will be seen that this fashionable summer resort wil 1
be opened On tlie 10th iiut. It has been so long and so
favorably known to those who visit Watering Places,
that it is hardly necessary to recommend it to them. —
We can only say that to those in search of pleasure, of
relaxation, of quiet, or of health, tlie Madison Springs
offer as many attractions as any other in the Southern
States, and that Mr. Watkins, the proprietor, has made
very ample and complete arrangements for the accomo
dation and entertainment of those who may visit him
during the present summer.
Mr. K. Tyner, of this city, has been engaged as Su
perintendent of an culinary department. Tyner not only
has the intimate knowledge of the mysteries of the mi-
Jne, hat has a liquorish tongue, and afinely appreciative
and cuhivated tooth of his own. What better gua.
rantee than this, do the guests of Col. Watkins want,
Miat they shall litre sumptuously eveuy day.
Mont vale Springs.
The railroads which penetrate from ©nr State rnto,
Tennessee. Lave made the beautiful country of tV
e asteru portion of that State, easily accessible, and
have directed public attention to it, on account of its
fertility, the beauty of its scenery, and the large num
ber of pleasant summer resorts it furnishes from the
dust and din of oar cities, and the heat of our ai dcnl
smis. Among all the summer retreats of East Teuoes
see, which may be cheaply, easily, and sjieedily readied
by the people of middle, and lower Georgia, the Mont
vale Springs arc the most attractive; presenting fine
mountain scenery and air, fine water, and line accoiu
mod atiotis, us inducements to visitors. They are situa
ted ft few miles south of Knoxville, near the pleasant
village of Maryville, and the cars of (lie East Tennessee
Railroad run within a few miles of them. Our friend
Brownlow, of the Knoxville UVwy, thus speaks of them:
We call the attention ofour readers generally, but es
pecially those in the South, to ihe advertisement of Mr.
Bell, of our City, who takes charge of the Mont vale
Springs in a few days. Mr. Bell is well and favorbly
known in this City, aud to the traveling public, as an
experienced and accommodating Hotel keeper. Our
friends iu Georgia, will recollect that on more occasions
than one, we brought the superior quality of this Wa
tering Place before them, in public addresses. Our
word for it, they will be delighted with a visit to these
Springs. They will live like Princes, at a first class
Hotel, and lie benetitted in health, to ten times the ex
tent of their expenses. They will breathe a pure at
mosphere —drink invigoratingjMineral wuter —und feast
their eyes upon scenery at once picturesque, varied, and
romantic.
These Springs have attained great celebrity, on all
these accounts, but on none more than their restoration
of health, and invigorating the debilitated. One gallon
of the water contains, as per Analysis by Professor
Mitcl.-il, „f Lust Tennessee University. Grains.
Mulphuric Acid ,14,12
Lime, 37,23
Mag nesia 4,08
Soda, 8,00
Iron, Peroxide, 1,88
Chlorine, 1,10
We need make no comments upon this Analysis, or
upon the medicinal properties ol this water. Sulphuric
Acid, which is most abundant in its composition, is a
valuable tonic and astringent. Iron, as it exists in
chalybeate water, is a powerful tonic. The Mjigncsia
and Soda, give the water those acliva propertio . which
have been tound so botwiictui in many cases. But in
this estimate ot the curative powers ot the Mont vale
Springs, we are noi actuated by a desire to yyjt this fa
vorite East Tennessee Watering Place. ’ e are only
setting forth fucts, which have been confirmed again
and again, by patients, who have tested the etlioacy of
these extraordinary combinations.
Third Congressional District.
This district, as reorganized by the last Legislature, is
composed of the following counties:
HARRIS, TALBOT,
BUTTS, MONROE,
CRAWFORD, UPSON,
PIKE, 8188,
HOUSTON, SPALDING.
At a meeting of the Whigs and Union men, of Spald
ing county, held at Griffin, on the 24th nit., we notice
that Forsyth, Monroe county, was suggested ns the
place, and the eighth day of July next, as a suitable day
for the meeting of a Convention, to nominate a t andi
date for Congress, from the Third District, and we trust
that the primary meetings in the other counties, mav
•dopt the suggestion of the Union men of Spalding.—
The time has arrived, to take the first steps toward a
complete, and thorough organization of the District, for
the approaching canvass. Let our friends then be up
and doing ; and with a clear and decided majority in
the District, let us enter the canvass with a determi
nation to elect our candidate.
Chinese in New York.
T he good people of our great commercial Emporium
are fond of novelties, and as they pay handsomely for
them, the rest of the world seems disposed to gratify
this fondness. Refugees from the political and religious
despotism of Europe, revolutionary agitators, tnusicaj
and dancing celebrities, and monstrosities of the amnia
and human kind, have all been subsidized to minister
to this want of its restless population, for novelty and
change, and excitement; and still it is not surfeited, or
even supplied, and never will he. Just now the public
interest of that great Babel of sights and sounds seems
1 1 he divided between the Crystal Palace, Franconi’s
Hippodrome, Father Gavazzi, the Sardinian Frign'e*
San Giovaui, with its cargo of Lombardine exiles, and
a company of fifty Chinese. This troupe of celestials*
who with their loose coarse cotton gowns, cropped scalps,
woodea shoes, and long queues, form one of the most
curious sjiectacles in the varied tableaux, of Broadway,
pel form nightly at niblo’s, and from the criticisms of the
press, we imagine there is nothing attractive in their
entertainments, but their novelty'. The New York
Mirror, thus speaks of their first exhibition:
‘•To pronouce the performance a humbug would bo
hardly just, as there is no doubt that the Company gave
us a genuine exhibition of Chinese rites and ceremonies,
w ith a most gorgeous array of oriental costume. But it
was, nevertheless, a most monotonous, tedious, melan
choly performance The Chinese Orchestra was more
like a concert of country school-girls singing through a
comb, than anything else; while the solos, duos, trios
and eh ruses, reminded us of nothing so forcibly as a
midnight serenade from a concatenation of cats.
As the early part of our Chinese education was badlv
neglected; und the small quantity of “broken China’’
we have been üble to pick up did not help us much on
this occrsion, the pertomiance was “all Greek” to us;
and we must confess, that for a people who have been
trying to do something in the theatrical way from 4000
to" 40,000 years, tbeir “enterta’ nient” lust night was
exceedingly stupid. It was an exhibition that we would
not miss of seeing once; but nothing could induce us to
sit it out twice.
The wardrobe of the company is indescribably rich ;
the summersets are remarkably well turned ; and the
women ratherish pretty.
A company of titty Choctaws, from Alabama, will
visit the Crystal Pallace, and will be soon e:i route for
New York. These primitive sons of trie forest, with the
sons of Confucius, nod the Aztee children, should be
placed together in an ethnological “cage,” or depart,
tnent of the Palace, where outside barbarians, could in
spect them at their leisure.
Eunour ox Mr. Webster. —According to previous
arrangement, trie Hon. A. 11. Stephens delivered an
Eulogy upon the life, character, aud public services ol
Mr. Web •jter, in this city to-day, at 11 o’clock, A. M.
The new State Depot was titled up for the occasion,
as being the largest room in this city, hut did not prove
equal to the audience. It wus most densely crowded,
and qnmy were unable to get in at all; a circumstance
highly creditable to the speaker, as well as to the
metqciry of the illustrious subject of the oration.
Os the character of the address, it will not lie ex
pecti.4 of us to sav much at this late hour before going
to press. It w ill be sufficient, to say, that, it was credi
table <c the occasion, and an honor to the sneaker.
[ Atianhi Uepulliron.
j t-sf Wu tuke the following just, but rather intern
I porato paragraph, iu relation to the action of the Arne”
ricuH, and Foreign anti-Slavery Society, at its late meet,
ling t.i New York, from the Federal Union of the
ii ‘ih iust.
Ytumson- against tAb GoVf.rnmcnt. —The American
and Foreign AutrSla-.ery Association which met in
New York last week, among others, passed this Reso
lution <
ftcSolred, That we trample, as we have heretofore
done, upon the execrable Fugitive Slave act, which is
alike w icked and unconstitutional, that we refuse all
obedience to its requirements, and will do all we con
sistently can to protect and defend our fellow-men when
arrested on the charge of stealing themselves, and leave
to public scorn and contempt, northern minions who
for the sake of political advancement or a paltry bribe,
seek to deprive men of their inalienable rights.
We ask, is this not overt treason against the laws of
the land? If there is tiower in the Government, these
“execrable” villians who pussed,this Resolution should
be made to feel it. Hus it. come to this, lliat a set of
fanatics shall meet together, and resolve they will not
abide by the laws of the country, nay, that they “tram
ple” upon them, and vet go unwhipped of justice! A
hempen cord for the rascals necks, is a doom far less
♦hau aw aits them before another aud a higher tribunal.
This is hearty and furious. But does not our con
temporary know that the National Administration,
which it so zealously supports to-day, fosters the anti
slavery sentiment of the North, by endorsing and ap
pointing to office men who sympathize, and who hate
acted with “the rascals” it so roundly denounces, and
i hat it has hailed such appointments, and will hail
them again with its regular flourish oUiyuto f instead
of the threat of a “hempen cord.” Or does not our
contemporary remember, that a “ set of fanatics ” me 1
together in this city, once upon a time, who applauded
when R. Barnwell Rhett declared that the Union was a
failure, aud disunion a duty ? and does it not know what
would have been the fate of these “fanatics.” if the
doctrine of constructive treason, which it would apply
to the Abolitionists of the North, had been acted upon
by the General Government, against the Southern
Rights men of 1850. Ought not our contemporary to
be thankful that it escaped “ unwhipt of justice,” and
ought it not to be humbly grateful to the Whig Party (
which stayed ii upou tlie verge of “treason,” instead of
abusing und dllifying it, as a party of anti-American
policy and sympathies? In 1850 it was very decidedly
Amerioen, and has since convinced, even the Federal
Union, that patriotism was policy.
The Crystal Palace.
MbcV. attention has been attracted towards the build
ing which is in process of construction in Reservoir
Hqvtirc, New York City, which is designad for tlie ue.
j conimedalion of a World’s Fair. It is very insignift.
cant in size, when compared with the Palace of glass
which occupied Hyde Park, in 1850, and which was
filled with the various products of the industry of the
world, and as the enterprise of its construction is a pri
vate one, unauthorised or aided by the General Govern
ment, the public have not expected that it would rivaj
the English original, which was superintended by a
royal commission, or that the exhibition which it will
contain, would equal in extent or in variety, or in any
thing else, that of the World’s Fair at London. Still
the public have been interested in if, as an American
enterprise, and have watched it with the hope that it
might be credible to the country, as well as beneficial
to those immediately interested in it. But these Lopes
from the present aspect of affairs, will never be real
ized, und ve must expect our lmtiunul vanity to be
mortified, und our national pride humbled ; by an exhi
bition incomplete in all its parts ; and which even us a
private enterprise, will not equal the expectations of our
own citizens or of foreigners. And it will be fortunate
indeed, if in its progress, the city of New York is not
disgraced, by scenes of laivlesness and of in subordina
tion, wliieu will fix the character ot its population, a 8
more restless and reckless than that of any city of the
world aid reveal the utter impotence of its police.—
The good order of the city ol London, was not distur
bed by tie influx of the world of visitors to its World’s
Fair, and the arrangement* about the Crystal Palace
were so complete, that no riot, no tumult, no excite
ment occurred in it, or in its neighborhood. Tlie
strong a~m of authority and ot law was felt everywhere,
conlroliig the great mass of human beings which
crowded into London, and protecting their lives and
propett v whilst it compelled order, and subordination
among tlent. The jioliec of Nes York do not attempt
to control the population of the city, and on more than
one occasion have yielded, helpless and impotent, to
outbreaks of popular passion, or fury or enthusiasm,
which they could not restrain, and it is hardly to be
supposed tint they can do anything at all, when the
city is crowded with the vagabonds, and ruffians, and
desperado**, of the principal cities of the Union, who
will be attracted to it by the security which crime and
lawlessness will enioy. during the exhibition in Reser
voir Square. Every opportunity will be afforded for
the commission of every offence. There are already
erected in the immediate neighborhood of the Crystal
Palace, one hundred and seven drinking shops, be
sides innumerable play houses, show houses, gambling
houses, and houses of prostitution, and surrounded as
it will be with a cordon of such outposts where vice
and crime, will entrench themselves in force, it will be
passing strange, if there is order or security within its
walls. The whole affair has been it would seem wretch
edly mismanaged. In the erection of the building more
time has been already consumed, than was found nec
essary to complete that of the Great Fair of 1 Hso, which
covered an area ten times as large as that which it will
occupy—the time advertised for its openinghas already
passed commissioners from foreign countries, and con
tributions have already arrived—.thousands of individu
als from every portion of the Union, have made their
arrangements to visit New York, to be present at its
opening, and the public are yet in ignorance of the time
when that interesting event will take place. New York
is ordinarily disagreeable enough, during the summer
months, und will be actually intollemble, when it is
crowded to suffocation; with visitors to its Crystal
Palace, and no one will be wise, who exchanges the
quiet aud security of home, for its noise, and dust, and
heat.
A Uetter to be Proud of.
Under this caption, Ihe Notional Intellijencer pub
lishes a letter from an old subscriber, which it intro
duces with the following comments:
“In common, we presume, with most of our brother
journalists, we often have the gratification of receiving
kind and complimentary letters from our subscribers,
especially those of long standing Though valuing
these expressions of approbation and good will, we sel
dom permit ourselves to place any of them iu our
columns. Os the short one below, however, we must
make an exception. The writer of it is a gentleman so
high in character, so respected as a magistrate, so es
teemed as a inan, so venerable in years, that we hope
our readers will pardon the vanity of placing his letter
before them
Virginia, May 18, 1853.
Gentlemen; I beg leave to congrui ulate you that you
and I and the National Intelligencer are all living, and
that l can have the pleasure to remit you mv forty
seuenth annual subscription to the estimable journal.
Although my vision and bearing arc bolh decaying, I
still feel a lively interest in tlie paper, and especially in
the conversative views and principles which it puts
forth and maintains, with equal ability, good taste and
good feeling.
With constant regard and good wishes for yourselves
and families, yours tiuly. _
Liberia.
The New York Times publishes the following note
from a correspondent, respecting Bishop Scott, and his
visit to Africa;
“ Bishop Scott, of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
sailed from Baltimore in the barque Sherley, last De
cember, for Western Africa, on behalf of the Church,
and not on account of his health. He made a visit to
every point on the coast of the Republic of Liberia,
and penetrated somewhat into the interior; presided at
.he Liberian Conference, re-organized the mission
schools, surveyed the general field, and obtained an
amount of interesting und important information jiei
taining to that country. He returned in the same ves
sel, and arrived at Baltimore a few days since, after a
long paaaageof fifty-three days. He paid a visit to this
city yesterday, aud was present for a few hours at the
session of the New York Lust Conference, in the Allen
street Methodist Episcopal Church.
“He brings a most excellent report from Liberia in
every respect. The various churches and schools of
the new Republic are iu a flourishing condition. Tlie
Government is well established and prosperous. Co
lonists generally are well pleased with their new homes,
and the native tribes are seeking friendly relations with
the citizens of Liberia, for the purpose of enjoying the
blessings of civilization and the Christian religion.
“Bishop Scott gives it as his candid judgment,
formed from personal observation of the whole field,
that the Government of Liberia, and the Christian
Church, now planted and flourishing there, constituting
the hope of the redemption of Africa, and the best
home for the free colored people of this country, are the
legitimate fruits of African colonization.
Stamped Letter Envelops.— The General Post-ofliec
Department, it is said, have abandoned their original
in ten lion of issuing the new stamped envelopes as early
as the Ist proximo, though the contractors are under
stood to have a portion of them now ready for delivery.
The Postmaster-General, being indisposed to scatter
them abroad until he can have sufficient on hand to
send them iu every direction, litis deemed it best ta
wait until the Ist of Julv, v, heu au ample supply will
be ready.
COMJffINICATiiD.
Hon. Washington I* < >e *
Messrs. Editors lam one of thousam * 3 upon thou
sands of good Whigs, who still cling to tilt ’ r old faith,
who regard the Southern Whig organizatfe ‘■ which
arrested the great disunion movement ot IS.Xt, . ftS good
enough and pure enough for them, who have no
dence in the honesty of Southern Rights Democracy,
in its position of forced acquiescence in the jtr-naejples
of the Union Party of Georgia, or in the mos who,
known heretofore as Whigs, ands Union Whigs,
hasten to rush into an organisation, to which fbecMoril :
of their whole lives opposes them. And though lain
not disposed to reorganize the Whig party limbi, at
least, 1 can foresee what influences will control the
Whig party of the North, 1 am not disposed is any
contingency, or for any reason, or under acy circum
stances, to act with the Southern Rights Democracy*
and to gratify them, by giving them the cont -<d *f the
offices of the State. 1 prefer rather, together with tint
Union Democracy, who may act with us, to in (tic an
earnest effort to save our noble State from tin; diminu
tion of a party, which its people so recently r*?pud.ated_
You thus have my i>oliticid jwisition, and tl e vt‘ws l.
entertain of the duty of Whigs, and of Ui ion men
But, to come to the immediate object of this communi
cation. A Congressman has to be elected by tke-jßSople*
of the Third Congressional District. That and istrict i*
decidedly Whig, even if we take the Gubernatorial
votes of 1847 and 1849, as evidence of its present poli
tical complexion; and nothing but the most jn-rfect
supineness of the party can give it toacanuidat;<cf the
Secession Democracy. I have waited for some i:pres
sion of the public opinion of the district, in fa* or
some individual as the candidate of the party, one 1 see
ing none, I suggest the gentleman whose name heads
this article, as our banner tnan in the appro* diing
canvass. He does not need any introduction tr > the
people of the district, or any eulogium from rue. His
life has not been passed in a corner. The peop ’ of
Bibb, and of the district, know him —know him thor
oughly ; and, from a long ordeal of the most scan thing
scrutiny into his private and public life, he has come
forth as pure gold. There is no name in Georgia more
suggestive of everything amiable and estiinabi ’e in
character, than that of Washington Poe, and none
which could rally in stronger and firmer array., the
sound, reflecting, and conservative portion of the vc trs
of the district. I am tiled of the dumb orach * of
Democracy, who occupies the seat of a memba r of
Congress from the Third Congressional District, and
disposed to replace him with one who has the ability • to
represent an intelligent constituency. Poe is mv
choice; but I am ready to support the nominee of the
Convention, heartily and cordially, whoever he inav be.
Fortunately, we have many men who may worth ily
represent us. Trippe and Cubaniss of Monroe, Trout
man of Crrwford, Moore of Spalding, Worrell of 1 al*
bot, Washington, Holt, and Poe, oi Bibb, and War, en
and Scarborough of Houston, are a few of the ma nv
names, from which the Convention may select. Wi ih
out any design to disparage any individual in the <dis
trict, who aspires to a seat in Congress (for I know no
one who does; I have indicated my choice; and, for the
opportunity of doing so, through the. columns of yt -ur
paper, I am much obliged.
A POOR MAN .
I-3F” The list of the foreign appointments of Pr esi
dent Pierce, will be found in another column In tlu -se,
the same policy has been adopted which governed the
home appointments, viz.—to give office to the Free S foil
and Southern Rights factions of the Democracy, to
conciliate them, and to harmonize the party. 1 he
Union Democracy of the South, and the Hunkers of the
North, have been overlooked in the division of the
spoils. They were not, therefore, “ victors ” in the
Presidential canvass, and their principles did not tri
umph in the election of General Pierce. Thus far th ey
have been as completely proscribed as the Whigs, by’
the Administration; and thus far a large majority’ of
the individuals appointed to office, arc opposed to the
prominent and fundamental idea of the inaugural o
President Pierce. If this policy’ of harmonizing tl le
Democracy, at the expense of its best elements, is pc r.
sisted in, the opposition to the Administration will be as
strong as forbearance with it has been general. The .fol
lowing extract, from an article in the New York Hern Uh
foreshadows the probable, or possible construction of
parties in 1856:
“ What, then, will be the line of action adopted by
the Union whigs of the North aud the South—the s li
ver grays, the Castle Garden Union Safety Coinmitti -e,
the Fillmore men, the Webster men, and all the cot n
protnise men who supported Scott because of bis Balti
more platform and not the platform because of Gene ral
Scott's nomination ? They are all adrift as yet, lj ke
tbe fragments of a ship destroyed floating about up on
the waves. Can they set up an independent ticket of
their ownV Against the democratic party, upon a
broad constitutional Union platform, it would be “lov* ‘s
labor lost.” The aggregate strength of tbe Uuion whij js
would be summed up in the scattering votes of the sev
eral States.
“ There may, however, be an opportunity—it is evt >n
now dimly foreshadowed —for a powerful reorganiza
tion of the Union whigs in 1356. Should this aamini s
tion fail to redeem the expectations of the Union dem -
cruts —should the appointments of General Fierce an and
his cabinet, and his foreigu and domestic policy, con i
bine to alienate the Cass brunch, or the hardshells rof
the democratic party, there may arise the occasion to r
a junction of the democratic hardshells with the Unioi i
wings upon an original, emphatic, Union platform ,
adapted upon general principles to the full measure o: f
the progressive spirit of the age. Whether General
Fierce shall or shall not be the regular democratic nom
inee for 1856, it is supposed that the influence of his ail- -
ministration will be sufficient to command the uomina- •
tion of some man as its representative. Possibly, as
such representative, it may happen to be unsatisfactory
to the hardshells; and in such a contingency how easy
the fusion of the Union whigs and Lnion hardshel i
democrats upon some such ticket as this:
INDEPENDENT UNION TICKET.
For President —Edward Everett, of Mass.
Fw Vice President —Howell Cobb, of Ga.
“There was some considerable talk in 1851—’52 con*
cerning a report that Mr. Clay had approved the idea of
the nomination of Gen. Cass,simply as the representative*
of the compromise Union party. Some such combined
Union ticket may yet be available for 1856. Every
thing depends upon the administration of General
Fierce. He may make his re-election as easy as was
that of James Monroe, or as difficult as thecase of Mar
tin Van Buren. He may have but one great party in
the field, and that party his own, or he may break up
all existing party lines, and bring about a scrub-race
for the succession. The game i.-> in his hands.
“Never has a President of the United States held with* •
in his hands so many elements tor the brilliant admin
istration. If there’ are many embarrassing foreign
questions to be settled, public opinion has indicated bis
policy, and Congress stands prepared to back him. His
election, with the same emphasis, has marked out his
domestic course of action. We shall wait, not without
confidence, bat not without anxietv, the progress of
events. There will be comparatively smooth sailing
till the meeting of Congress, but then there may be
some trouble. The Union whigs are watching the Se
ward party, and the democratic hardshells, are watch -
ing the administration, and we shall watch them all.”
The Caloric Ship.
The following letter from Capt. Ericsson appears i'n
the New Y ork Commercial Advertiser of the 21st ins t.
Messrs. Editors: 1 cheerfully comply with your suj
gestion in regard to the caloric ship. I have much plia 1-
sure in assuring you tliat nothing whatever has occu
red in working the machinery indicating the difficulty s
that can prevent ihesucccsslul realization of this irapa -
taut enterprise. The only difficulty we have met wit h
is thatot tbe cylinder bottoms or heaters having prove- l
too elastic and yielding, to remain air-tight, or to ndmi u
of full pressure being carried. On the return ot th- s
sliip from the South two months ago it was deemed ad •
visable to replace these heaters, which are made of boil -
cr plate, by other of cast iron, as that material admit i
of being made of any required thickness. Only on *
foundry having been found willing to undertake th o
casting ot these, requiring from six to eight months to r
their completion, we have been compelled to adopt a
different plan ; one, however, that will insure increas® i
power and speed. As the moditication which this in -
volves calls tor work of great magnitude, our friend *
will have to exercise some little patience. Allow m* ,
in connexion with this remark, to remind you that it is
only thirteen months since keel of the caloric shi >
was laid, and that steamships of her class usually n
- eighteen mouths lot completion. Mr. Collins, i
building his ships, found nearly twice that time n ■-
quisite.
As the modification of a patented machine is n- it
properly a subject for public discussion until complete 1,
you will, 1 am sure, see the propriety of my not fur t
isbing a statement of what is now beiugdone to the in 1-
chinery of the caloric ship. As soon as the work is
completed, the owners of the ship will be most hap] >y
again to invite the intelligent ana liberal press of N< w
Y ork to see the result of the second step iu the develc p
ment of the great motor.
1 am, sir, very respectfully, vour obedient servant.
J. ERICSSONS.
New Y’urk, May 20, 1853.
The Colored Race.— The following estimate oft he
numbers uud localities of the colored population is g v
en in the report of the British and Foreign Anti-Sluv< ry
Society:
United States 3,650,000*
Brazil 4,050,00®
Spanish Colonies 1,470,000
South American Republics 1,130,000
British Colonies 750,000
Hayti 850,000
French Colonies 270,000
Dutch Colonies 50,00x>
Danish Colonies 45,000
Mexico 70,000
Canada 35,000
Total 12,370,000
I3T Judge Starnes, of the Middle Circuit, has ad
dressed to his Excellency, Gov. Cobb, a number of
communications, giving many interesting statistics of
crime iu his judicial district, during several years of
his administration. From one of these communica
tions, which appears in the Fielral Union of the 24th
inst., we make the following extracts, and agree with
. that paper, that similar reports, carefully compiled Lv
ihe Judges of our Superior Courts, would be of great
v alue, by furnishing to the Legislature tbe requisite
iinformation, of which it might predicate its action for
tl ie suppression of crime, and for the improvement of
tl ie character of our population. From tlie reliable in
lurniation which Judge Starnes has shown us, we find
t’lat, iu the Middle Circuit, spirituous liquors and iejno
ntnee are the fruitful sources of crime, as they are,
doubtless, throughout the State, aud the increase- o
intemperance, and of ignorance, the two great pestilen
sores upon the body politic, which need cauterization,
or the knife.
During the years just specified, there have been 319
accusations in the form stated against white citizens in
| this District; being an average of per year,
i . jhe following table will show the centesimal propor
tion of crimes contained in these accusations against
the person, against society and against property; against
siiciety, I include such offences as Bigamy, Bastardy
forgery, Retailing without a beetle, Uttering counter
feit money, Trading with Slaves, &c. ‘ Under the
bead of crimes against Property, I place all Larcenies
• Rubbery, Malicious mischief, Ac.
in every 100 accusations of all kinds there are •
Os crime against tbe person ‘45 28
do do Society 57 y,-;
do do Fropertv 13 73
Tbe following table will show the centesimal propor
tion of the various accusations tiled during these three
years. I put them in this form, thinking that it will be
more convenient and useful, than if I were to give num
ber and detail.
In every 100 accusations of all kinds there are:
Adultery and Fornication 5 53
Affray 1,57
Altering marks of animals 31
Arson gj
Assault and battery, and assault 51,70
do with intent to murder 2 50
do do do commit rape 31
Attempt to excite insurrection 31
Bastardy* q ,
Bigamy’ 03
Cheating and swindling .. . .'. 63
Cruelty to Slaves -q
I***? ’.’**.:*.::: 63
forcible entry
Gaming 2 10
Having counterfeit bills in possession wiih intent
to pass the same 31
Harboring a slave
Illegally whipping a slare .....*. 1 83
Keeping open a tippling House on Sabbath day. 2 19
do disorderly house 1 25
do lewd ’do 188
Killing cattle ’3l
Larceny* from the house 3 15
Larcery simple 3 33
do from the person ’3l
Malicious mischief 1 57
Manslaughter 63
Mayhem 31
Murder 34;,
Notorious act of public indecency 63
Peijury .’ 94
Rape...... 63
Resisting civil officers 31
Retailing without a license 7,52
Riot 94
Robbery 31
Stabbing 4.40
Trading with and furnishing liquor to slaves... 8,77
Uttering base coin 2,19
do counterfit bills 31
Vagrancy 31
Violating graves 94
100.00
1 find by the U. S. Census returns filed in your Ex
cellency’s Department, and published bv authority of
our General Assembly, that there were at that time in
the nine counties of this District, a white population of
37,278 souls
It is evident therefore, that for the three years spec
ified there has been one accusation against a” white per
son to everv 350,57 of the white population.
Os the whole number of the accusations, —I find that
296 are against males, and 23 against females, or one
accusation against a woman to every 13,87 males.
Nearly all the crimes committed by females are by
abandoned women in the principle town of the District.
But 7 out of 319 are charges against women who live
in the country.
The record of trials affords us tabular results quite as
interesting. For example, we find that in every* 100
cases which have been tried in this District, there are
accused :
Natives of the Southern States 83,33
I do do Northern “ 3,70
do do Foreign countries 12,97
100,00
We also find that in every one hundred cases tried,
there are :
Married Persons • 63,46
Unmarried do 36,54
100,00
In every one hundred persons tried, there are:
Persons who can read and write badly* 78,31
do do do indifferently well. ..32,69
do do do very well 16,31
do are good scholars 1,92
do cannot read or write 30,77
100,00
In every 100 persons tried, there are:
Persons over 15 and under 20 years old 3,85
do 20 do 30’ do 46,15
do 80 do 40 do 28,85
do 40 do 50 do 7,69
do 50 do 60 do 13,49
100,00
In every* 100 cases tried of all kinds, there have been
33,33 cases with which the evidence connected the use
of spirituous liquors as a cause; or just one-third.—
And in every 100 cases of crimes against the pei-son,
there have been 46-16 cases with which the evidence
connected the use of spirituous liquors as a cause. Bv
which it appears that nearly* one-half of the crimes
against the person are more or less attributable to
spiriVuous liquors.
In every 100 cases which have been tried, there bare
been Verdicts of Guilty, in 68,52
Verdicts of Not Guilty*, in 3U4S
100,00
Franck and the Sandwich Islands.—Late advices
i from tbe Sandwich Islauds do not appear to confirm
the speculations that have been indulged bv a portion j
of the press in the Atlantic cities in regard to the rela
tions existing between the Government of France and
that of the sandwich Islands. By way of San Fran
cisco, we have Honolulu dates to April 6th. On that
day the king opened the Legislature with an address,
iu which the following paragraph occurs:
“llis Imperial Majesty, Napoleon 111., Emperor of
France, has replied outlie importaut matters referred
to him, as I slated to the Legislature of 1851, aud dip
lomatic relations are now fully- restored with that great
: and culighteued Empire. Hi’s Imperial Majesty is re
| presented at my* Court by Mons. Perrin, in quality of
j his Majesty’s Consul, Commissioner and Plenipoten
| tiary, who has promised soon to present the reply of
j his Imperial Majesty, and the draught of anew treaty
1* with France. I hope it will be such a treaty as I have
many times asked for—alike honorable and b'eueticial to
France and my kingdom. My Minister of Foreign
, Relations will report to you what efforts I have miuie
[ to obtain that result, the progress of the negotiation
with France, and the state of my relations with foreign
nations generally up to the beginning of this year.”
[From the London Times, May 11.]
I’ase of Col. Fremont in Condon.
Court of Exchequer, (sittings in Banco), May 9-
Gibbs vs. Fremont.—The .Attorney General moved
in this case, pursuant to leave reserved at the trial be
tore Mr. Baron Alderson, to increase the verdict by*
tbe addition of nineteen per cent, interest, to the sum
5 awarded by the jury. The defendant is the celebrated
I Colonel Fremont, and this was an action on certain
bills, amounting to £3,900, drawn in 1*47, on Mr. Bu
chanan, the Secretary of State of the United States, by
thb defendant, for the supply* of troops, then under his
command, in California. When Ihe bills were pre
. seated, they were dishonored, as no specific funds had
been set apart for them by* Congress ; but it was stated
I at the trial that an act hail recently* passed for that pur
-1 pose, to which was attached the condition that Mich
J sums only should be paid as might be recovered bv
1 judgment iu a court of law. Under these circtttn-
I stances, the bills being endorsed to the plaintiff, and the
{defendant being in England, this action was brought.
I At the trial, which was fully reported on a recent occa
sion, the only* contention, was the rate of interest to be
(paid by* the defendant, the plaintiff claiming that of
California in 1847, which the jury found to be 25 per
cent., and the defendant insisting that the rate of Wash
ington ought to prevail, that being tbe place where the
bills were made pay able, mul the rate being six per
cent.
The learned Baron directed the jury to give the Wash
ington rate, reserving leave to the plaintiti’ to move to
I increase the verdict by the difference,
j The Court, being oi’ opinion that the point was one
: well worthy of discussion, at once granted the rule as
1 pray ed tor. Rule nisi granted.
Important Railroad Movement Robert Mills, Esq.
engineer and architect, in a card published in the Union,
intimates that an improved railroad engine has been
perfected by him, that will be capable of t unning a mile
a minute for any distance, and that he has nearly ac
complished an improvement iu the construction of
railroads, by* means of which this rate of speed may be
j made in safety. He anticipates, from his improvements,
the ability to cross the continent, from the Atlantic to
the Facitic, in as many minutes as there are miles of
distance, llis improved road, he states, combines safe
ty of travel with economy of construction.
Telegraph in the House ok Commons.—A Tele
graphic station has been opened adjacent to the lobby
llouse of Commons, communicating with various part's
of the city iu w hich members are liable to be detained
during tne sessions of the Houses -such as the Carlton
aud Reform Club Houses, by which members may be
notified without delay of a division on any question un
der debate.
Public Mcetiug in Wiifc
At a in. etiug cf the Whies virl i ° li *H
dkmsou couuty, who act SB
* I Ii 4lt -* ‘J r x r 1
ciples. Mr. James Ross was culled j 0 <i
John M Wake, requested to act ‘ U ' ; - H
The object of the meeting *.
Mr. X. A. Carswell, who the, W'S
resolutions: “ et - 1 ■ 1 9
’ That a committee < r r
the Chair to propose to this mfuf' 1 ... I
Gubernaton ial Convention, to be I. •i • 1 - ■
and that said committee of five . • “"' I Jn •• J
mg the names of three Delemiteg i,’' Vp,,r 9
District Convention, to be held tin. ‘*1 u,r ’ 9
Mdledgeville, for the purpose of ,’ “ “ fj 9
date for said District. Whcr-un , i
the following committee: N A~i■ ‘*l
” UK J - Chambers, James Jacksin
The committee retired, and after asi V 1
the following report:
Joel Decse, Wm. J. Chambers T J
Gen. J. B. Best wick then moved the / ‘ 1
lution: ‘'.iJß
R‘wloel, That our Delegates f 0 tv, ,
(/invention, without instruct;, n
hJmg entirely to their jud>r Uiellt
as an expression of our choice. „ e r
1* Kemm, of Baldwin, to the r'“ :i
trict, as a suitable Candidate. ‘ u * i ß | '<N,
Mr. X. A. Carswell, then proposed i ,
Jl to’ce i, That the Dclegatd
power to appoint others in then stead iff ‘
should be unable to atted. ’ 1 lßt •
Gen. Bostwick, then moved that the
this meeting be published in the Jourr. 1
Southern Recorder, and Central Georgia!”
actions and proceeding were unanimj’,.; (
The meeting then, on motion, adj- yrD ,' :
_ , JAMES BOSS o
Johx M. Ware, Sec’rv.
W AVe understand that the follow-,-f
pomtments, some of which have been'*,,
ready, have teen made bv the Presider
other objects of pressing attention prevem
ing any further consideration, at present,
ments of the class.— Washington Cn ion, i
OFFICIAL.
Minister plenipotentiary to Great Britai
chanan, of Pennsylvania. Secretary „fu'.": ;
Appleton, of Maine.
.Minister plenipotentiary to Spain,
Louisiana.
Minister plenipotentiary to lb -ia, Thonm
mour, of Connecticut.
Minister plenipotentiary to Mexico, J,, ~. S
of South Carolina. Secretary of legation ; 9
of California.
Minister plenipotentiary to Prussia, P -r ■
of New Jersey.
Minister plenipotentiary to Cen’ ! I
Borland, of Arkansas. Seen ‘ary
rick A. Beelen, ofPennsylvi ,ia
Minister plenipotentiary J., - x ..! kV . 1
dale, of Tennessee.
Minister plenipotentiary to .ili, Samuel M -
Oiiio.
Minister plenipotentiary to Pent, John J; , j]
charge d’affaires in Peru, and formerly sew K
gation in Russia and Austria.
Minister resident in Switzerland, Theod r J
long secretary of legation at Berlin.
CHARGES D’AFFAIRES.
For Belgium, J. J. Seibles. of Alabama,
For Netherlands, August Belmont, of y j
For Sardinia, Richard K. Meade, of Virgin;, j
For Bolivia, Charles L. Woodbury, ofMas*
For Austria, Henry R. Jackson, of Georgia •
For Two Sicilies, Robert Dale o#en, of Indy 1
For Denmark, lienry Bedinger, of Virginia
For Buenos Ayres, William H. Bissellfoflllit
For New Granada, James L. Green*, of Vis. •
Commissioner to the Hawaiian islands, bi-
Leake, of Virginia.
CONSULS.
Acapulco, Charles L. Denman, of California.
Alexandria, Edwin de Leon, of South Carolina M
Basle, David L. Lee, of lowa.
Bordeaux, Alfred Gilmore, ot Pennsylvania.
Benuuda, John M. Howdic, of Ohio.
Bremen, William Hildebrand, of Wisconsin. 1
Cork, Dennis Mullin, of New York.
Dublin, M. J. Lynch, of Illinois.
Dundee, Wm. H. DeWolf, of Rhode Island . a
Havana, Alexander M. Clayton, ofMississk: ‘-'1
Ilong Kong, Janies Keenan, of Pennsylvania | * I
Honolulu, Benjamin F. Angell, of New Y 11
Hamburg, S. M. Johnson, ot Michigan.
Lahaina, Geo. W. Chase, of Maine.
Liverpool, Nathai iel Hawthorne, of Massac!,: HI
Melbourne, Jas. M. Tarleton, of Alabama. 1
Panama, Thomas W. Ward, of Texas
Paris, Duncan R. Mcßae, of North Carolina I
Rio de Janeiro, Robert G. Scott, of Virgin:.: I
St. Thomas, Charles J. Helm, of Kentucky I
Talcahuano, Wm. B Plato, of Illinois.
Trieste, Wyndham Robertson, of Louisiana. I
Trinidad de Cuba, John Hubbard, of Maine. 1
Valjiaraiso, Reuben Wood, of Ohio.
Venice, Donald G. Mitchell, of Connection . |
Zurich, George F. Goundi, of Pennsylvania. I
From t/te !■ ndon Timet, May 9.
Mrs. Tncle Tom Stowe at station/ M
Ou Saturday last a number of ladies and p- AH
assembled at Stafford House, for the purpose I
bling those who promoted the “WOman’s wH
Slavery,” and others interested in the subject
come Mrs. 11. B. Stowe to this country, and
pression, personally, to the respect and a
which are felt for that lady. Among those jtrestH
observed the Duke and Duchess of
Duke and Duchess of Argye, the Earl and
Shaftesbury, Lord John Russell, Lord Palmer? fS
Earl of Carlisle, the Right Hon. W. Glad-a: H
Marquis of Lansdowue, the Archbishop of Dublu, H
and Miss Wbately, Lord Ebrington, Lord bhumH
Russell Gurney, Lord Claude Hamilton,
the Dean of St. Paul’s, the Bev. Dr. and Mrs I
ming, the Bishop of Oxford, the Hon. Arthur ancH
Kinnaird, the Dowager Countess of Carlisle, M’flß
Taylor, the Rev. Edmund Holland, Mr. and
W. Alexander, Mr. and Mrs. R. Foster, the Ear.
row by, Mr. and Mrs. T. Herman Fisher, Mr.aiH
Alsop, the Misses Allen, Mr. and Mrs. Coniein-jH
bury, Mr. 11. Harwood, Mr. and Mrs. Spicer, Ji -H
sley, Miss Pringle, Miss Seeley, Miss Webster. Us fl
Miss Gurney, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Triton, tkeliH
lier Bunsen, Mrs. Mary Howitt, Lady Dover, thfel
P. Latrobe, Mr. Ernest Bunsen, Mrs. and M q|H
the Rev. Mr. Beecher, Mr. H. E. Gurney,
Sir Robert 11. Inglis. the Right non. 11. A. I.at H
Mr. and Mrs. Higgins, Colonel MeClean,the 11.
T. B. Macaulay, Mr. George, Lady Louisa. at'H
Finch, Mr. Monckton Milnes, the Hon. V .
David Dundaa, the Hon. C. Howard Capt. •!. j H
Dr. and Mrs Sutherland, Mrs Granger, the ‘H
Rudall, the Rev. R. Burgess, the 11> . T. hir- H
Mrs. Binnev, Sir E. N. Buxton, Mr f’owcUHux B
Rev. Dr. Steane, Mr. Grant, Mr. .1. Condcr. XbH
Mrs. J. Cooke Evans, the Rev. J. Sherman,Mr: IH
Mr. G. Oliphant, Mr. John McGregor, Ac.
Mrs. Stowe was introduced to this distinguaßl
setnbly, by the Duke of Sutherland, and
welcomed in a short and highly eulogistic
the Earl of Shaftesbury. The R Charles •fl
(Mrs. Uncle Tom's brother,) ou he, tall) rer “’ H
knowledgment for the favor show. her. and cot,-9
by reading a long letter of syrop” hy, address fl
sister, by Cassius M. Clay, of ive ueky.
After partaking of refreshment , the ladies - B
present congregated in one of the splenhii ‘-j
apart, and Mrs. Stowe, seated between the i’t ‘1
Sutherland and Argye, entered freinto ceil’
with her numerous visiters. In i ourss ot 1
servations she stated: —“The L i England-'H
at all aware of the real state o: g of the .-B
America on the subject of slave iuusi not : 3
ged of by the answers sent to . m address. ‘• > i
statements in the American new papers. Tbt ‘
England seem not to he at all aware ol ibe and
of sympathy with which ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin ■>'jß
ved in America long before it was known iu - -|H
The press in America had invariably spokai -H
‘Uncle Toni’s Cabin The tirst word 1 1: t_ H
in print against ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin,’ was the a ■
Jltr Times. This was repriuted and re evh.e- ■
tiapei-s, and widely circulated m the form ot s fl
The bitterness aud anger manifested against ts 1
address showed how much its force had enn‘..-"’- l
vocates of slavery. You iu England arebaD
I rant of slavery ; yet that address has shown.’
pathy, and sympathy is very sweet. There i.-’- V
feeling really between the ladies of the two c - ■
but the lathes of America caunot, because of ‘
bands’ personal and political feeling stand t" r: -‘ ‘H
what they leel on that subject. Some fl
‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’ is uow forgotten; hut it’ j
mentioned that sixty thousand copies ot tr.e ‘M
Uncle Toni’s Cabin’ were sold in three o®;’ |
I practical question is, what can be done !ot i' T 'J3
great work? 1 look Cist to God; but tnan ac- jfl
j something. Sympathy must continue to be eY ■
! subjects in Canada must be educate'*- 19
| free-grown cotton must be encouraged; su 1
j ways in which this great work may hi au, f’ ■
| people of England, remembering that, a Ul l . 1
!is iu the hands of Hitu who orderelh all thini s - H
The eotupauy began to disperse soon alter oo- ■
I Mrs. Stowe aud her friends were am ,r Y •’ 9
| leave, aud were accompanied to the ectrauft ■
the Dutchess of Sutherlaud, who there tw)
her guests. t , _ •;( 1
Mrs. Stowe having, iu the “Key to Unc.e
in,” spoken of man .age w ith the sister e! •• 9
wife, in language intemleil to he ironical, ‘ ,u ‘ • 1
be uiisuudei stood us condemnatory o* suth 1
been requested to remove all doubt by -> l,l 1
her opiuicn. The following letter had beta w
reply: . * v
EDiXBttUGn, April j
Dear Sir—The question was diseuswd i
in the Presbyterian Church iu the limed ‘ ‘
the New Sehool body (as it is called getiei
the propriety cf such mart iages. t did
do, coincide'with them in that opinion. v ..(pd I
Very resj eetfuiiy yours, K. • •
A Month of Calauitx —The past has • Y; , t
of calamity. Within three or tour weeK ■ 1
been recorded in the pages of the public • j (*■
truction of the steamship lndej eiidencc “‘ j
the Ocean Wave on the Lakes, and) he . i
California; the awful railroad calamities ••• 1
Norwalk; and now there is added the c)) . j
Williatu and Mary at sea. By these s ,x m
less than live hundred souls have been ) u |
eternity; and in addition to these >*• I
minor aecideuis on railroads and ll M
buildings, Ac., which would matena.ly s'”
Kg^regata.