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LEGAL NOTICES.
Muscogee Sheriff Sales.
WILL be sold on the first Tuesday in June next, at the
market house, in the city of Columbus, between the usual
hours of sale, the following property to-wit:
City lot number forty two, except one hundred and ten feet by
one hundred and thirty feet in the southwest corner. Also, Jot
number forty-tour except fift)-seven feet fronting on Broad street
and running back one hundred feet. Also the north corner of
lot number forty-five, fronting on Broad street, beginning at the
northeast corner of said lot, running thence twenty-nine feet on
Broad street, thence back toward 11. S. Smith’s Warehouse eighty
feet, thence due north twenty-nine feet, 1 hence due east to the
beginning corner upon which lots and parts of lots is situated
the .Mansion House now occupied by Captain Jacob Barrow as a
Hotel. Also the following negroes : Harry a boy about twelve
years old, Courtney a girl about ten and Lister a woman about
forty years old; ail levied on as the property of Jacob Barrow
to satisfy two fi fas, one from the Superior court of -Muscogee co.
in favor of John (J. Winter, vs. Jacob Barrow ; the other from
the Inferior court of Jfuacogee county in favor of Sterling T.
Austin against Jacob Barrow, principal, ThomaslF. Wooldridge,
security.
Also, the life estate of Richard Fox in and to the following ne
groes, viz: Cuffee a man about fifty-five years old, and Clarisa
a woman about fifty years old ; also the absolute title in and to
Caroline a woman about twenty five years old and Lodieka a girl
about twelve years old, levied on as the property of Richard Fox
to satisfy sundry fi fas from the Superior court of Muscogee coun
ty in favor of John Banks against said Fox, and other fi fas in my
hands against said Fox.
Also, a small Jot of dry goods, consisting of calicoes, domestics,
fee., levied on as the property of William AlcAndrew to satisfy
ati fa from Aluscogec Inferior court in favor of Joseph Wyle
against William Me Andrew, principal, and John 11. Wells, se
curity.
May 5, 1853. A.S. RUTIIERFORI), Sheriff.
Randolph Sheriff Sales,
WILL be sold on the first Tuesday in June next, before
the court house door in the town of Cutbbert, Randolph
county, within the usual hours of sale, the following property,
Lot of land number one hundred and forty in the sixth district.
Rod one hundred and seventy five acres of lot of land number two
hundred and thirty seven in the tenth district, it being the east
part of said lot, all of said county ; levied on as the property of
Arthur M inning to satisfy one fi fa issued from the Inferior court
of Stewart county, in lavorof Hnellingfc Lerry, vs Arthur Man
ning. Pointed out by John A. Tucker.
Also, the undivided half of lotof land number twenty nine in
the seventh district of said county ; levied on as the property of
Archibald Lewis to satisfy one fl la issued out of a justice court
of Early county in favor of Uabrlel Jones, vs Archibald Lewis.
Levy made and returned to me by a constable
Also, the north halfoflotof land number two hundred Sc six. Sc
south half of lot number two hundred and five in the sixth dis
trict or said county ; levied on as the property of E. Ward to sat
isfy one tax fi fa issued from said county for the year 1851 ; lev
made and returned to tne by a constable.
May s—tds RICHARD DAVIS, Dep. Sheriff.
POSTPONED.
Lot of l and number forty nine and north half of lot land num
ber forty eight in the eleventh district, and number thirty five
and the north haifof lot of land number thirty three in the tenth
district, all of Randolph county ; levied on iis the property of
William Matlock to satisfy sundry fl fas from the Superior court
of said county in favor of Alexander Pace and others, vs William
Matlock and John T. McLendon, one in favor of Delaware Mor
ris, vs William Afatlock.
RICHARD DAVIS,D. Sheriff.
_ A/uv o—tds . WASHING TOM JOYCE, sheriff.
Early Sheriff Sales.
WILL be sold on the first Tuesday in June next, between the
Lawful hjtirs of sale, before the court house door In Blake
ley, Early county, Ga. the following property, to-wit:
Lot ofland number two hundred and eighty-two in the fourth
district of Early county, containing two hundred and fifty acres,
more or less, levied on as the property of William Beeteto satis
fy afi la issued trom the Inferior court of Elbert county in favor
of Baker, Johnson &. Cos., vs. said Beele.
May s—wtds JOHN WEST, Sheriff.
ORDINARY COURT—JAN. TERM, 1853.
G\ EORGIA, Randolph county.—lt appearing to the Court by
I the petition of Benjamin Dawson, that John C. Mainor of
said county, deceased, did, in his lite time, execute to said Ben
jamin Dawson, his bond, conditioned to execute titles in t'eo sim
ple to said Benjamin Dawson, to west half of lot ofland number
one hundred and forty six, in the tenth district of said county, and
it further appearing that said John G. Mainor departed this life
without executing titles to said lot of land, or in any way pro
viding for the same; and it appearing that said Benjamin Daw
son has paid the lull amount of the purchase price of said halt’
lot; and said Benjamin Dawson having petitioned this Court to
direct David T. Langley, Administrator upon the estate of John
G. Mainor, deceased, to execute to him titles to said land in con
formity with said bond :
It is, therefore, hereby ordered, That notice be given at three
or more public places in said county and in Columbus Times and
Sentinel of such application, that all persons concerned may file
objections in Clerk’s office, if any they have, why said David
T. Langley, Administrator as aforesaid, should not execute titles
to said half lot of laud in conformity with said bond.
A true extract from the minutes of said court, Feb. 2Sth, 1853.
March B—low3m ° P BEALL,Ordinary.
Seaborn Jones, )
vs. I Bill for Dis-
Georok Field, Tiik Soututcrn Like Insu- [ covery, Relief,
range and Trust Company, The Phtonix f See., in Muscogee
Bank, William Douuuerty, Lforge Har- | Superior Court.
graves, John Banks and Philip T. Schley, j
It appearing to the Court that the defendants, George Field
and the Southern Life Insurance and Trust Company, are not
within the jurisdiction of this Court —Field being a citizen
and resident of New York, and the Southern Life Insurance and
Trust Company being a body corporate established by the Terri
tory of Florida.
It is, on motion of complainant, ordered that the said Field and
the said Southern Life In. and Trust Cos. plead, answer or demur
to said Bill, not demurring alone, on or before the first day of the
next Term: And it is further ordered that the above order be
published by the Clerk of this Court, once a month for four
months, before the next Term of this Court, in one of the public
Gazettes of the city of Columbus, Georgia.
A true extract from the minutes of Muscogee Superior Court
at November Term, 1852, this 10th dav of January, 1853.
JOHN U. STURGIS, Clerk,
Jan. H, 1853 1 m4m
GIB ORGIA, ) Cqurt of Ordinary.
Ityuscojrec county, ) April term, 1853.
RULE .V/ SI.
W HEREAS, Win.N. Nelson, administrator de bonis non on
the estate of John Liggin, deceased, having applied for
letters of dismission from said administration: It is ordered that
all persons concerned shew cause, if any they have, why said
administrator should not be dismissed at the Court of Ordinary to
bo held iu and lor said county on Ibo first Monday in November
next.
A true transcript from theinitiatesof said court, April 4, 1833.
Col ambus, April I*2—wfim J.NO. JOHNSON, Ordinary.
GEORGIA, > Court ok Ordinary,
Talbot county, J February Tenn, 1853.
RULE SI SI.
WHEREAS, William F. Robertson applies by petition ior
letters of dismission as the administrator of Burney Wilson,
late of Talbot couuty, deceased.
Be It ordered, That all persons concerned, be and appear at
the September term of this court next ensuing, then anil there
to shew cause, if any they have, why said letters should not be
granted.
A true extract from the minutes of said court, 24th Feb., 1853.
March l—fiw6m MARIO!*} BETHHNE, Ordinary.
GEORGIA, ) Court or Ordinary,
Muscogee county, \ April Term, 1853.
RULE NI Sf.
WHEREAS, Win. N. Nelson, administrator on the estate of
Augustus Peabody, deceased, having applied for letters of
dismission from said administration : It is ordered that all per
sons concerned, shew cause, if any ihey have, why said admin
istrator should not be dismissed at the Court of Ordinary to be
held in and for said county on the first Monday in November
next.
A true transcript from the minutes of said court, April 4, 1853.
April 12—wCm JNO. JOHNSON, Ordinary.
GEORGIA, 1 Court of ordinary ok said coun-
Raudolph county, j ty, April Term, 1853.
TAMES VV. COLLINS, administrator of N. Collins, late of said
couuty, deceased, petitions this court to grant him letters of
dismission from his said administration, and it appearing that
said estate has been fully administered : Ordered that all persons
(He their objections, if any they have, on or before the November
Term of this court next ensuing, otherwise said administrator
will be then and there dismissed.
April 12—w6m O. P. BEALL Ordinary.
GEORGIA, ) COURT OF ORDINARY,
Stewart county. j| April Term, 1853.
UPON the petition of William H. House, Executor of the last
Will and Testament of Thomas House, deceased, lor letters
of dismission from his said executorship:
Jt is on motion, ordered by the court that all persons concern
ed, shew cause,on qjr before the next term of said court, why
safdjlettera should not then be granted.
A true extract from the minutes of said court, April 12,1833.
April 19—wfim _____ J. L. WIMBERLY, Ordinary.
GEORGIA, | Court ok ordinary, of said coux-
Kandolpli county, j ty, April Term, 1853.
JOHN T. McLENDON, Guardian of Simeon P. Turner, peti
tions this court for letters of dismission from his said guar
dianship: Ordered that all persons having objections file them on
or before the July Term of this court next ensuing, otnerwise said
iptUirs will be thet) and there granted.
April 12—w3m Q. p. BEALL, Ordinary.
rteorgia, Randolph county,-. /Phcreas, Margaret
vJ E. Sliappard and Samuel C. Scott apply to me for letters of
administration ou the estate of William B. Shappard, late of said
county, deceased ;
These are, therefore, to cite and admonish all and singular the
kindred and creditors of said doceaaed, to be and appeal’ at my of
fice, within the time prescribed by law, and shew cause, if any
they have, why said letters should not be granted.
Given under my hand at office this 18th day of April, 1853.
April 2fi w6t O, P. BEALL. Ordinary.
Georgia, Early couuty.—Whereas, James B. Brown
makes application to me for letters of Administration upon
the estate of Joseph C. Gray, late of said county, deceased:
I hese are to notify all persons concerned, to shew cause, if anv
they have, why said letters should not be granted said applicant.
Given under my hand at office, this march 21st, 1853
March 22-13w7t B.S. STAFFORD, Ordinary.
(GEORGIA, Randolph county-—Court of Or-
X din ary,—Whereas, by the petition of William Hayes, ad
ministrator on the estate of Enoch Rigsby, deceased, and the
estate of Kinchen Faircloth, deceased, it appearing to this court
that he has fully admiuistered both of said estates, and moves the
court to grant hi in letters of dismission: All persons concerned in
either of said estates, are hereby notified to make known their
objections, if any they have, on or before the October term of
thiscourt next ensuing, otherwise said administrator will then
ami there be dismissed. Given under my hand at office the 29th
inarch 1853. o. P. BEALL, Ordinary.
April s—wfim
Randolph county.—Wheteas, Samuel A.
\ X Grier, administrator de bonis non on the estate of John 11.
Weaver, late of said county, deceased, has petitioned lor letters
of dismission from said administration.
These are, therefore, to -ite, admonish and require all persons
concerned to file their objections, if any they have, on or before
the September term of the Court of Ordinary of said county, to
be hoiden on tlie first Monday of September next, otherwise said
administrator will be then and there dismissed.
Given under my hand at office this 22d day of February, 1833
March I—9w6n O. P. BEALL, Ordinary.
eorgia, Early county.—Whereas, Joseph Grimsley,
VX administrator witli the Will annexed, upon the estate of
Sarah Grimsley, late of said county deceased, makes application
to me for letters of dismission from the further administration of
said estate. All person* concerned are hereby notified to be and
appear at my office, within the time prescribed by law, and
shew cause, if any they have, why said letters should not be
granted said applicant.
Given under my hand at office, this February the 24th, 1853.
March I—9w6m 8. S. STAFFORD. Ordinary.
Georgia, Randolph county—W hereas, Jas. Ruth
erford, Guardian of Benjamin and Absalom Sulley, applies
to inc for dismission from his said Guardianship. Aft persons
interested are. therefore, hereby required to file their objections,
if any they have, on or before the May term of this court next
ensuing, otherwise said applicant will be then and Inert* dismis
sed. Given under my bund at office the 17th March, 1853.
Marchßß—wfim O. P. BEALL, Ordinary.
f 1 eorgia, Randolph county.-*Whereas, Mary Ann
VJT Butler and Thomas Coram apply to me for letters of admin
istration on the estate of Hnrinan Butler, late of said county, de
ceased :
These are, therefore, to cite and admonish all and singular the
creditors and kindred of said deceased to appear at my office
within the time prescribed by law, and shew cause, if any thev
have, why said letters should not bo granted.
Given under my hand at office the 18th day of April. 1853.
April 9ft—Wit O. P. HKAI.L. Ordinary.
Georgia, Randolph county —Whereas, Allan L.
Jenks applies to me for letters of Guardianship for the per
son and property of Frances Rigs >y, orphan of Enoch Rigsby,
late of said county, deceased.
These are, therefore, to cite and admonish all concerned, to
shew cause, if any they have, why said letters should not be
grunted, otherwise they will be granted at the next April term of
thiscourt. Given under my hand at office March Ist, 1853.
March—lo O. P. BEALL, Ordinary.
Georgia, Randolph conn ty.—Whereas, John Gil-
UT bert. Guardian of Hendley E. Hill, minor ami orphan oi
William E. Hill, deceased, applies to me for dismission from
said Guardianship. All persons interested are therefore hereby
required to tile their objections, if any they have, on or before the
May Term of this Court next ensuing, otherwise said applicant
will be then and there dismissed.
Given under my hand at office, the 17th March, 1853.
March 22—wCm O. P. BEALL
Georgia, Early county— Whereas, the estate of Jack
son W. Bartlett, late of said county, deceased, is univpre
sented at law:
These are to notify all persons concerned in said estate, to shew
cause, if any they have, why Thomas B. Andrews, the clerk of
the Superior Court of said county, should not be appointed ad
ministrator tie bonis non upon the estate of said deceased. 1
Given under my hand at office this inarch 21, 1853,
March 29—13w7t 8. g. STAFFORD,Ordinary.
ri eorgia, Early county—Whereas, James,E. Brown
I and Ann J. Weeks apply tome for letters of administra
tion upon the estate of Jane Stevens, lute of said county, deceased:
These are to notify ami summons all persons concerned, to be
and appear at my office within the time prescribed by law, and
shew cause if any they have, why said letters should not be
granted to one or the‘other, or both of said applicants, at the
June term next of the Court of Ordinary for said county.
Given under my hand at office this ifth day of April, 1853.
April 20—wGt 8. STAFFORD, Ordinary.
(Georgia, Early county.—Whereas, Elizabeth Bart-
T lett applies to me for letters of administration upon the
estate of Nathaniel Bartlett, deceased:
These are to notify all persons concerned, to shew cause, if any \
they have, why said letters should not be granted said applicant, i
at the March term, next, of the Court of Ordinary for said county.
Given under my hand at office liiis April 17th. 1853.
April 26—w(K rt, S. STAFFORD, Ordinary.
/X corgi a, Early couuty.--Whereas, it appears that
VJ the estate of .Major Henderson, late of said county, is unrep
resented at law :
This is to notify all and singular the kindred and creditors oi
said deceased, to file their objections, if any they have (within the
time prescribed by law,) or Thomas B. Andrews, the clerk oftlie
Superior Court of said county, will be appointed ml ministrator
de bonis non cum testamento annexo. upon the estate of said
deceased. Given under my band at office, this April 22. 1853.
A/ay 3—w7t __ 8 8 STAFFORD,Ordinary.
C~l eorgta, Stewart county.--Whereas, Ascii*. Rood
X applies for letters of administration on the estate of Blanche
G. Gibson, late of said county, deceased :
These are, therefore, to cite and admonish all concerned to
shew cause on or before the next June term of the Court of Or
dinary of said count), why said letters should not then be granted.
Given under my hand in office, this 27th April, 1853.
April 29—wfit J. L. WIMBERLY, Ordinary.
( teorgitt, Talbot couuty.—Office of Ordinary, 29th
T March, 1853.—Whereas, J. J. Jamison, Guardian of Nathan
iel Womrnock’s orphans, petitions for letters of Dismission from
said guardianship:
Be it ordered, That all persons concerned, be and appear at
the June Term of the Court of Ordiuaiy of said county, next en
suing, then and there to shew cause, it any they have, why said
letters should not be granted.
A true extract from the minutes of said court, April 15th. 1853
April 26—w6m MARION BETIrt.’NE, Ordinary.
Georgia, Talbot county.—Whereas, Ezekiel B.
VJ Smith applies to me for letters of Administration on the
estate of John W. G. Smith, lateol Talbot county, deceased:
These are, therefore, to cite and admonish all and singular the
kindred and creditors f said deceased, to be and appear at my
office, within the time proscribed by law, then and there to shew
cause, if any they have, why said letters should not be granted.
Given under my hand in office this 15th March, 1853^
March 29—13w7t MARION BETH UN E, ordinary.
A<l mi it Ist rat on* Sale.—Vgreeable to an order of the
Court of Ordinary of Early county, will be sold before the
court house door in the town of Blakely, on the Hr t Tuesday in
June next, all the real estate of F. Griffith, deceased, situated in
the said town of Blakely.
April 18—wtds * FRANCIS GRIFFITH, Adm’r.
Notice to Debtors and Creditors—All persons in
debted to the estate of Robert Thompson, deceased, of Ear
ly couuty, will come forward and make payment. And those
having claims against said deceased, are hereby notified to pre
sent them to John Thompson, or this notice will be plead in bar,
by JOHN THOMPSON,
May 3—fitw Adm'r. with will annexed.
r |Hvo months after date I shall apply to the
X Court of Ordinary of Early county for leave to sell the negroes
belonging to the estate of John Jones, deceased, late of said coun
ty, for the purpose of making a distribution among the heirs of
said estate. THOS. ANDREW*?, Adnir.
march 29—w2m
TVW O mouths after date application will he !
made to the Court of Ordinary of Early county, for leave to
sella part of the land and negroes belonging to the cstale of Rob
ert 1 hompson, deceased, for the benefit of the creditors and heirs
oftlie estate of said deceased. JOHN THOMPSON,
-Ifay 3—w2m Adm’r. with will annexed.
f Pwo months after date I will apply to the
X Ordinary of A/uscogee county, for leave to sell a negro child
(Rosa) the property of Henry M. Jornigan, (Idiot.)
April 19—w2in A. B. RAGAN, Guardian.
rpwo months after date application will he
X made to the honorable ‘ ourt of (rdinary of Early county,
for leave to sell the lands belonging to Epsy Dyson, late of said
county, deceased. ABNER DYSON, Adm’r.
March 15 —w2m
r PWOmonths after date, 1 shall apply to the
X Court of Ordinary of Randolph county for leave to sell the
negroes belonging to Timothy Pitman, deceased, laic* ofsaidcouu
y. April 12—w2m A. A. PITMAN, Adm’r.
‘T''WO months after date, application will be
X made to the Court of Ordinary of Harris county, for leave to
sell the real and personal estate of William C. Dozier, deceased.
May 3—w2m LT, DO/ 4 IER t Adm’r.
CA ua.rdift.il *s sale,—On the first Tuesday in June next, will
X be sold in Cutlibert, Randolph county, a negro man named
Peter, about fifty years of age. Sold a# the property of the
minors of Sol. Graves, deceased, by order of the court oi Ordina
ry of said county. B. GRAVES, Guardian.
April 12-wtds
auet i o m
AND
COMMISSION BUSINESS.
THE undesigned would respectfully inform his friends :;td
the public generally, that he has opened a store on Broad
street, nearly opposite’.Mr. Ja.mks Kivlin’s Suits Souci, for tlie
purpose of carrying on the above business, and would be happy
tor them to give him a call. He proposes doing the Ji UVTiuJf
.IJ*TJ) COMMISSION B USINE SS in the usual way, and will
also attend to the selling and hiring of Negroes for those who
may entrust him with their patronage. JOHN QUIN.
N. B— Consignments of Merchandize carefully attended to.
October 22, 1852 w&twly.
LUMPKIN FURNITURE
WARE ROOM AND MANUFACTORY.
j THE subscriber has now on hand and for sule
at his Ware Room in Lumpkin, a large and well
selected lot of Furniture, of various styles and
prices, and is constantly Manufacturing and re * i *
ceiving among others, the following articles of the latest styles:
Chairs, Sofas, Bureaus, Safes, Bedsteads, Sideboards,
DiuingtTables, Wardrobes, Work-Tables, Wash
stands, Rocking-chairs, Looking Glass and
Picture Frames,
and in fact all articles belonging to hislincofbusincsscan be had
at the shortest notice and lowest terms.
Also, Window Glass, French and American manufacture; Fire
board Prints and Bonier, Window Shades, See., Sec. Glass cut
to any shape or size. All work warranted.
Pianos and Melodeons furnished to order.
All orders thankfully received and promptly attended to.
Feb, 15—7wly W, it. CROSSMAN.
‘'HOME INDUSTRY”
JOEL T. SCOTT,
IGAR MANUFACTURER,
G* FEIV DOORS NORTH OF HALL Sc MOSES.)
Broad Street, Columbus, Georgia,
ALWAYS on hand, at Wholesale and Retail, all desirable
varieties of
HAVANA AND AMERICAN CIGARS,
which will be sold on low terms.
A liberal discount will be made to those who buy to sell again.
A generous share of the patronage of the public Is respectfully
solicited. All Cigars warranted to be such as represented,
Columbus, < October 2—4 ow ly
“the UNION OF THE STATES AND THE SOVEREKiNTY OF THE STATES.”
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 17,1853.
jJoelnj.
The following melodious and touching poem is fiom the
pen of the late lamented Willis Gaylord Clark, and was
written by him for an early number of The Knickerbocker
Magazine:
A Song of May.
The Spring’s scented buds all around me are swelling—
There are songs in the stream, there is health in the gale;
A sense of delight in each bosom is dwelling,
As float the pure day-beams o’er mountain and vale;
The desolate reign of Old Winter is broken—
The verdure is fresh upon every tree ;
Os Nature’s revival the charm, and a token
Oflove, oh thou Spirit of Beauty ! to thee;
The sun looketh forth from the halls of the morning,
And flushes the clouds that begirt his career;
He welcomes the gladness and glory, returning
To rest on the promise and hope of the year ;
He fills with rich light all the balm-breathing flowers—
lie mounts to the zenith, and laughs on the wave ;
He wakes into music the green forest-bowers,
And gilds the gay plains which the broad rivers lave.
The young bird is out on his delicate pinion—
lie timidly sails in the infinite sky ;
A greeting to May, and her fairy dominion,
lie pours on the west-wind’s fragrant sigh ;
Around, above, there arc peace and pleasure—
The woodlands are singing—the heaven is bright ;
The fields are unfolding their emerald treasure,
And man’s genial spirit is soaring in light.
Alas, for my weary and care-haunted bosom !
The spells of the spring-time arouse it no more ;
The song in the wild-wood—the sheen of the blossom—
The fresh-welling fountain—their magic is o’er !
When I list to the streams—when 1 look on the flowers,
‘1 hey tell of the Past, with so mournful a tone,
That I call up the throngs of my long-vanished hours,
And sigli that their transports are over and gone.
From the wide-spreading earth —from the limitless heaven,
There have vanished an eloquent glory ami gleam ;
To my veil’d mind no more, is the influence given,
Which coloreth life with the hues of a dream ;
The bloom-purpled landscape its loveliness keeocth —
1 deem that a light, as of old, gilds the wave;
But the eye ol my spirit in heaviness sleepeth,
Or sees but my youth, and the visions it gave.
Yet it is not that age on my years hath descended—
'Tis not thut its snow-wreaths encircle my brow ;
But the newness and sweetness of Being are ended—
-1 feel not their love kindling witchery now !
The shadows of Death o’er my patli have been sweeping—
There are those who have loved me, debarred from
the day ;
The green turf is bright, where in peace they are sleeping,
j And on wings of remembrance my soul is away,
i It is shut to the glow of this present existence—
It hears, from the Past, a funeral strain ;
And it eagerly turns to the high-seeming distance,
Where the lost blooms of earth will be garnered again ;
Where no mildew the soft, damask-rose cheek shall nour
ish ;
Where Grief bears no longer the poisonous sting ;
Where pitiless Death no dark scepter can flourish,
Or stain with his blight the luxuriant spring.
It is thus that the hopes which to others are given
Fall cold on my heart in this rich month of May ;
I hear the clear anthems that ring through the heaven ;
I drink the bland airs that enliven the day ;
And if gentle Nature, her festival keeping,
Delights not my bosom, ah ! do not condemn ;
O’er the lost and the lovely my spirit is weeping,
For my heart’s fondest raptures are buried with them !
Three Words.
There are three lessons I would write—
Three words—as with a burning pen,
In tracings of eternal light,
Upon the hearts of men.
Hare Hope ! The clouds environ now,
And gladness hides her face with scorn,
Put thou the shadows from thy brow
No night but hath its morn.
Hare Faith ! Where’er thy bark is driven —
The calm’s disport—the teinpest’s niitth —
Know this—God rules the hosts ol heaven,
Th’ inhabitants of earth.
Have Love ! Not love for one,
But man,as man, thy brother call, —
And scatter, like the circling sun,
Thy chariticl on all.
Thus grave these lessons on thy soul—
Hope, Faith, and Love—and thou shall find
Strength, when life’s surges wildest roll, —
Light, when thou else wort blind!
The Boy and the B: ick.
A boy hearing his father sav, “twas a poor rule
that would not work both ways ”Jf father applies
this rule about his work, 1 will test it in my play.”
So setting up a row of bricks, three or four
inches a part,lu?tipped over the first, which, strik
ing the second, caused it to fall on the third, which
overturned the fourth, and so on through the
whole course, until all the bricks lay prostrate.
“Well,” said the boy, “each brick has knocked
down his neighbor, which stood next to him; I
only tipped one. Now I will raise one, and see
if he will raise his neighbor. I will see if raising
one will raise all the rest.*’ He looked in vain
to see them rise.
“Here father,” said he “is a poor rule ; ‘twill
not work both ways. They knocked each other
down, but will not raise each other up.”
“.M v son,"said his father,“bricks and mankind
are alike, made of clay, active in knocking each
other down, but not disposed to help each other
up,”
“It is too often the case that when men fall,
they’ love company; but when they rise they love
to stand alone, like yonder brick, and see others
! prostrate and below them.’*
Equivocate , —The French excel all nations
in studied equivoque, but give us a Yankee for
the unintentional kind. A Western New York
fanner writes as follows to a distinguished
scientific agriculturist, to whom he felt under
obligations for introducing a variety of swine:
“Respected Sir 1 went yesterday to the
fair at M ; I found several pigs of your
species; there was a great variety of beasts
and l was astonished at not seeing you there!”
Remarkable Fact.—We learn from the
New York Day Book , that a lady of the first
standing in Brooklyn, recently gave birth to
a pair of fine fat wooly headed twins, and that
this curious result is supposed to be caused en
tirely by a diligent study of that interesting
classic, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,’* operating upon
the imagination. Eheu !
A paper published at Rouse’s Point, New
York, has for a motto, at its editorial head, a
well known couplet, lengthened out in the sec
ond line to suit the measure of its poetic aspira
tions, thus:
“No pent-up Utica contracts cur powers,
The wole unbounded North American continent shall
‘be ours . ;
{Vixudlaimm.
Judge Warner.
We find in the Savannah Courier a sketch
oi the life of Hon. Hiram Warner, of this State,
from which we make the following extracts:
There are some incidents connected with
Judge Warner’s administration of the laws,
which have not generally been known, and a
recital of which we believe will be interesting to
our readers.
Judge Warner presided at the first court, held
at Marietta, Cobb county. The population,
like that of the greater part of newly settled
countries, was composed of many rough and
lawless persons, which rendered decided and
summary action necessary on the part of the
presiding officer, to maintain the authority of
the court, and the supremacy of the law; there
was no jail, and nothing but a small log cabin
erected for the administration of justice, and
just in the rear of which, there was a small
enclosure about twelve raifhigh intended for a
horse lot. During the session of court, a man
somewhat intoxicated, or pretending to be so,
became very boisterous, disturbing the business
of the court. The Judge ordered the sheriff to
take him away, and requesting his friends to
keep him away, but in a few moments he return
ed more vociferous than ever, cursing the court
and its officers, telling the Judge to put him in
jail and bed and. The Judge hesitated for a
moment, and then very deliberately ordered the
sheriff to take the disturber of the public busi
ness and place bis head under the horse Jot
fence, until he became sober. The sheriff
promptly executed the order, and shortly after
wards, when he was wanted in court, he could
not be found, and it was ascertained that, in
obedience to what he considered the order of
the Judge, after putting the man’s neck between
the heavy rails oftlie fence, about two feet from
the ground, his body ou one side, and his head
on the other, lie had taken his seat on the top
rail of the fence above his prisoner, that he
might be securely kept. The prisoner, howev
er, soon reported himself sober, and was releas
ed. The next morning lie met the Judge, and
after thanking him for his imprisonment, said
that he had made a sober man of him during
life. This decided conduct on the part of Judge
Warner prevented any further disturbance of
the court.
Soon after the organization of Murray county,
there were two parties, called the Bishop and
the Anti-Bishop parties, among which there
was great excitement. Owing to some preju
dice that existed, Bishop and his friends were
unwilling that the then presiding Judge of the
Cherokee Circuit should hold the Court for the
trial of the cases in which they were interes
ted, and therefore the Judge of that circuit pro
posed to exchange Courts with Judge Warner,
so that the latter might preside at the trials in
Murray. An eye-witness says: “Judge Warner
arrived at Spring Place, the county site, early in
the morning of the day the Court was to lie held,
and found the little village nearly surrounded
by a company of United States soldiers. The
Judge having ordered breakfast, was shaving,
when a communication in writing; was handed
to him by the late General Steelman. Upon
opening the letter ho found it to bo from Capt.
Buffington, oftlie army, informing him that by
order of Colonel Lindsey, oftlie United Status
army, stationed in Tennessee, lie had repaired
to Spring Place for the purpose of enabling tiie
Judge of the Superior Court to execute the laws
of Georgia, and tendering him his own services
and that of his command. The Judge imme
diately calling for pen, ink and paper, icplied to
Captain Buffington’s communication, assuring
him that however highly he might appreciate
the motives which induced Colonel Lindsey to
order Capt. Buffington and his command to
that place, to enable the Judge of the Superior
Court to execute the laws of Georgia, that lie
was not aware that there existed any necessity
for his services, or that of lus command ; that
Georgia was abundantly able to execute her
own laws, and that so far as that duty devolved
upon him on that occasion he expected to have
no difficulty in doing it without his assistance.
In less than thirty minutes after the receipt of
the communication the soldiers’ tents were
struck, and Capt. Buffington and his command
were on their march to their quarters in Ten
nessee, Several of the Anti-Bishop party im
plored the Judge not to send the soldiers away,
the women cried, and said they would all be
killed, the Court could not be held, &,o.
When the time arrived for opening the Court,
the Sheriff was reluctant to go to the Court
House, saying that he was certain he would
he killed before the trials were over. The
Judge assured him that lie should he protected—-
took him by the arm, walked to the Court House,
opened Court,and, during the term, tried Bishop
and other important criminal causes growing
out of the Murray difficulties, without the least
disturbance. Judge Warner’s conduct on this
occasion was the theme of admiration.
Os Judge Warner’s legal qualifications it is
scarcely necessary to speak, as the evidences of
their high order have been already developed in
the positions to which lie had been so repeated
ly elevated.
The characteristic feature of his mind is its
remarkable logical force. His efforts at the har,
and liis decisions on the bench, alike disclose
this feature. His style is free from ornament,
and with an unusual directness he approaches
and discusses the question, controlling every
case. Not one redundant word, not one of repe
tition, and yet complete. His language, with
perfect accuracy, conveys precisely the idea in
tended.
A capital pun was made by an Irishman in
the course of a discussion touching the superior
natural productions of various countries. “You
may talk,’’ said he, “as you plaze about it; but,
be jabbers, Scotland is the finest connthry in
the wurruld for natural productions.’’ “How
so cries one. “Impossible !” exclaims anoth
er. “Give us your reason,’’ demands a third.
“YVhy, gc-ntleinen,’’ said he, “don't you see
that Scotland has got a whole river of Tay
running through it !’’
Hastings, of the Albany Knickerbocker, must
be a queer fellow. He says in his paper:—
“How any one can look at the human foot,
composed of 144 bones—any quantity of elas
tic cartiilage—a gill and a half of lubricating
oil, and ten thousand other arrangements for
first class kicking, and still believe it’s a duty
to receive an insult without making a man
smell of leather, is one of those eccentricities
connected with the human mind which we nev
er could fathom.’’
A minister approaching a mischievousurchin,
about twelve years old, and laying his hand
upon his shoulder, thus addressed him :
“My son, I believe the devil has got hold of
you.”
“1 believe lie lias, too,” was the significant re
ply of the urchin.
Life in the West.
“From time to time we come to fresh clear
ings; all these places are alike: 1 shall de
scribe the one at which we have halted to-night,
for it will serve to remind me of all the others.
“The bell which the pior.eers hang round
the necks of their cattle, in order to find them
again in the woods, announced our approach
to a clearing, when we were yet a long way
off; and we soon afterward heard the stroke of
the hatchet hewing down the trees of the for
est. As we came nearer, traces of destruction
marked the presence of civilized man; the
road was strewn with shattered houghs ; trunks
of trees, half consumed by lire, or cleft by
the wedge, were still standing in the track
we were following. We continued to proceed
till we reached a wood in which all the trees
seemed to have been suddenly struck dead ;
in the height of summer tlieir boughs were as
leafless as in winter ; and upon closer examin
ation, we found that a deep circle had been cut
round the bark, which, by stopping the circula
tion of the sap, soon kills the tree. We were
informed that this is commonly the fitst thing
a pioneer does ; as ho cannot, in the first year,
cut down all the trees which cover his new
parcel of land, he sows Indian corn under their
branches, and puts the trees to death in order to
prevent them from injuring his crop. Beyond
this field, at present imperfectly traced out, we
suddenly came upon the cabin of its owner, sit
uated in the centre of a plot of ground more
carefully cultivated than the rest, but where
man was still waging unequal warfare with the
forest; there were trees cut down, but their
roots were not removed, and the trunks still en
cumbered the ground which they so recently
shaded. Around these dry blocks, wheat, suck
ers of trees, and plants of every kind grow and
intertwine, all the luxuriance of in wild untuto
red nature. Amid this vigorous and various veg
etation stands tho house of the pioneer, or, as
they call it, the log-house. Like the ground
about it, this rustic dwelling bore marks of re
cent and hasty labor; its length seemed not to
exceed thirty feet, its height fifteen ; the walls
as well as the roof were formed of rough trunks
of trees, between which a little moss and clay
had been inserted to keep out the cold and
rain.
“As night was coming on, we determined to
ask tho master of the log-house for a lodging.
At the sound of our footsteps, tho children who
were playing among the branches sprang up
and rail toward the house, as if they were fright
ened at the sight of man ; while two large dogs,
almost wild, with ears erect and outstretched
nose, came growling out of their hut, to cover
the retreat of their young masters. The pion
eer himself made his appearance at the door of
his dwelling ; he looked at us with a rapid and
inquisitive glance, made a sign to the dogs to
go into the house, and set them tho example,
without betraying either curiosity or apprehen
sion at our arrival.
“We entered the log-house: the inside is
quite unlike that of the cottages of the peas
antry of Europe: it contains more that is su
perfluous, less that is necessary. A single win
flow with a muslin blind ; on a hearth of trod
den clay .-in immense fire, which lights the
whole structure ; above the hearth a good ri
fle, a deer’s skin, and plumes of eagle’s feath
ers 1 on the right hand of the chimney a map of
the United States, raised and shaken by the
wind through the crannies in the wall; near
the map, upon a shelf formed of a roughly
hewn plank, a few volumes of hooks—a bible,
the six first books of Milton, and two of Shaks
peare’s pbtys ; along the wall, trunks instead of
closets ; in the centre of the room a rude table
with legs of green wood, and with the hark still
upon them, looking as if (hey grew out of the
ground on which they stood ; but on this table
a teapot of British ware, silver spoons, cracked
teacups, and some newspapers.
“The master of this dwelling has the strong
angular features and lank limbs peculiar to the
native of New England. It is evident that this
man was not born in the solitude in which we
have met with him : his physical constitution
suffices *to show that his earlier years were
spent in the midst of civilized society, and that
he belongs to that restless, calculating and ad
venturous race of men, who do with the utmost
coolness things only to be accounted for by the
ardor of the passions, and who endure the life
of savages for a time, in order to conquer and
civilize the hack-woods.
“When the pioneer perceived that wo were
crossing his threshhold. he came to meet us and
shake hands, as is their custom; but his face
was quite unmoved ; he opened the conversa
tion by asking what was going on in the world ;
and when his curiosity was satisfied, he held
his peace, as if he were tired by the noise and
importunity of mankind. When we questioned
him iu our turn, he gave us all the information
we required ; he then attended sedulously, but
without eagerness, to our personal wants. While
he was engaged in providing thus kindly for us,
how came it that in spite of ourselves we felt
our gratitude die upon our lips ‘( it is, that our
host, while he performs the duties of hospitality,
seems to be obeying an irksome necessity of
his condition: lie treats it as a duty imposed
upon him by his situation, not as a pleasure.
“By the side of the hearth sits a woman with
a baby on her lap; she nods to us, without dis
turbing herself. Like the pioneer, this woman
is in the prime of life ; her appearance would
seem superior to her condition, and her apparel
even betrays a lingering taste for dress ; but her
delicate limbs appear shrunken, her features are
drawn in, her eye is mild and melancholy ; her
whole physiognomy bears marks of a degree of
religious resignation, a deep quiet of all pas
sions, and some sort of natural and tranquil
firmness, r&idy to meet all the ills of life, with
out fearing and without braving them.
“Her children cluster about her, full of
health, turbulence and energy : they are true
children of the wilderness ; their mother watch
es them from time to time with mingled melan
choly and joy : to look at tlieir strength and
her languor, one might imagine that the life she
has given them had exhausted her own, and still
she regrets not what they have cost her.
“The house inhabited bv these emigrants has
no internal partition or loft. In the one cham
ber of which it consists the whole family is
gathered for the night. The dwelling is itself
a little world—an ark of civilization amid an
ocean of foliage ; a hundred steps beyond it
the primeval forest spreads its shades, and soli
tude resumes its sway.”
An Irishman comparing bis watch with the
town clock, burst into a fit of laughter. Being
laughed at he replied, “And how can I help it?
Here is my little watch that was made by Pad
dy O’Flaherty, on Orniand Quay, and which
only cost me five guineas, has beat that big
clock there a full hour and a quarter since yes
terday morning.”
ET Rev J. P. Revel, representative of the
Waldensieu churches of Italy, arrived at New
York last week.
Plutarch Pictures.—No. 70.
Colonel Pietce M. Butler.
The Palmetto Regiment formed a portion of the
force that invested Vera Cruz, but it was detached
to the south during the siege, and before it rejoined
lhe main column, the battle of Cerro Gordo had
been fought. The next actions of note were the
conflicts at Contreras, Cherubuseo, and Molino del
Rey, Os these the most important was the bloody
drama of Cherubuseo, and here it was that Col.
Butler fell, and the Palmetto Regiment won imper
ishable renown. But let us briefly describe the
battle. Tho village of Portales was occupied by
the Mexicans, and the causeway in front of the bam
was blocked tip with dense masses of his troops,
the cavalry numbering 3,000, the infantry 4,000. —
To assail ihetn, General Shields ordered 300 men
of his own brigade, 300 New Yorkers and 300 Pal
mettos—including Reno’s howitzer battery of two
pieces, and 1000 men of Pierce’s brigade, to advance,
lie began his march by rnakitg a delcur of a mile ;
ihe ground was difficult ; the 15th infantry, and
four companies of the 12th, led the advance, follow
ed by ihe New Yorkers, the Palmettos and the bat
tery of the 9th infantry. The advance on approach
ing tho barn, received a heavy fire from the enemy,
and were directed to sholter themselves ; the New
Y’orkers coming up, were formed in line and front
ing the esuse-way. The Palmetto regiment was
ordered to lake position on the left of the New
Yorkers, it being Shields’design to cut off the Mexi
cans by extending his line to the left; but the ene
my defeated his object,and ‘lie Now York regiment
became at once engaged in the sanguinary struggle.
The cavalry approached the left of the line, and
poured into it their fatal escopette fire; Colonel
Burnett fell, and the New Yorkers dismayed by the
death of tlieir commander, now broke and fled, tak
ing shelter behind a wall. The Palmetto regiment
completed their formation, and moved forward firing
in order, without support—3oo men opposed to 7000/
But these gallant men moved forward to their pro
bable doom with the steadiness ol veterans, and
with a determination fixed and unalterable, conquer
or die. Shields sent to Scott for reinforcements.—
Without a rally to attack, the battle might be lost.
His own reckless daring in the field had not incited
all of the regiments ; the 9:h infantry protected it
self behind a burn, as the New Yorkers had done
behind a wall, leaving tho Palmetto’s to brave the
battle and the storm. The blood oftlie young gen
eral was roused. He harangued the regiments that
had ahondoned the field, appealing to their Ameri
can courage, and their sense of shame, hut the effect
did not correspond with his hopes. There was no
response ! Mortified and indignant, lie turned to
the Carolina regiment, which he had ordered to
withdraw until reinforced, and “the flag was still
there.”
Colonel Butler took ofl his eap’and Waivingit amid
the storm, exclaimed, “the Palmetto’s are ready !
every South Carolinian here will follow you to the
dealli “Onward !” cried the general, “this gal
lant regiment,” lie said subsequently, “moved for
ward firmly, and rapidly, under a tire of musketry,
as terrible, perhaps, as any which soldiers ever
faced.” This movement turned the tide of foriune
and secured the victory, At one hundred yards the
Palmetto regiment halted, to open fire on the Mexi
cans, who were conceal ruling tlieir Hoops. Now
came the heat of the conflict: our ranks were ra
pidly thinned, but their place was supplied by the
infantry of other regiments, that now, animated by
the gallantry of the Carolinians, came to their sup
port ; and amid the storm, the stir, the bloody
strife, Col. Butler tell fighting bravely at ihe head
of his heroes, being shot through the head from a
cavalry escopette. •‘Revenge the death of your
Colonel !” exclaimed Gen. Shield-, and ordered
ihe famous charge. The regiment obeyed the call
—they rustled forward, the officers bearing tho col
ors of tlieir companies. The regimental staff hearer
was shot down. Lieut. Cnl. Dickinson, seized the
regimental flag, ami whilst waving it, he was shot
down Major Gladden took the flag, and the place
of Dickinson, and waved that glorious banner
throughout the lerribl conflict Y’onng Adams fell
with ihe colors of the Edgefield company, and Mo
range, seizing the banner from the hands of thedying
hero, bore it proudly through the fight,—and thus
was the battle of Chernluisco fought and won ! *
* See the. description of the baltle of Cherubuseo by
General James Hammond.
How it Sounds.
Cist, a somewhat noted man of letters, out West,
repudiates the idea of calling every man Honorable
Mr. This and Honorable Mr. Thai, who happens lo
become a Congress-man, or member of Legislature,
lie also goes against putting Esq. to Iris own or or
dinary budt men’s cognovit. We beg leave to differ
just as much as anybody with Mr. Cist. Let such
men “go in” for these fancy nubs to their names,
just as much as ihey like ; they would be super
fluous to other and greater men. Can you conceive
how queer it would sound to hear a speaker, or see
a writer, refer to his Excellency, Mr. Julius Cm ear!
or, the Honorable Mr. Shakspeare, or the llonora-
Mr. Byron, or Honorable Mr. Ben. Franklin ! No,
let the “penny dips” go in for the “flubdubs,” as
Milton says. Such luminaries as Cmsar, Hanni
bal. Shakspeare, Byron, and Franklin, are tubs able
to stand on their own bottoms, without a hoop on 1
Mr. Cist is more nice than discriminating in matters
pertaining to two-horse heroes.
It Admits of Doubt.
Whether the following observation of Dean Swift,
w hich we find quoted by the Weekly News under
the head of “fluency,” he founded in truth nr fallacy
Wc submit the propose ion to tile decision of our
readers :
“The common fluency of speech in many men,
arid most women, is owing to a scaicity of matter,
and a scarcity of words, for whoever is a master
oi language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will he
apt in speaking to hesitate upon the choice of
both.'’
Man a a Potu —We yesterday peeped through
die irou grating of one ihe cells in which prisoners
are temporarily placed at die Second District Court,
and there saw a man confined hv a straight waist
coat, laboring under the terror of delirium tremens.
We have seldom seen a man of finer and more mus
cular frame, and it was indeed a pitiable sight to
see “his form and stature” so shaken and convulsed
by the horrors which he felt within. What a sad
passion is that which leads man into excesses
which so completely brutalizes and renders him,
“made in the image ol his God,” the “counterfeit
presentment” of a demon ‘ Whilst we were there
lie was removed to the insane department of the
Parish Prison, We could learn nothing of his his
tory, hut we thought of the tender wife who might
lie expecting the return of a truant husband, and
of children teatfully waiting to receive a father’s
kiss, ere sleep steeped them in a sweet oblivion.—
God help ihe wife and babes of one who can forget
their claims in the deep damnation of ihe cup !
Delia.
Ghosts Ghosts he hanged 1” said Tom Hood.
“No such things in nature. All laid long ago be
fore the wood pavement. What should they come
fori The colliers may rise for higher wages, and
the Chartists may rise for reform, and Joseph
Storge may rise for his health ; and bread may rise;
and the rising generation may rise ; but that the
dead should rise, only to make one’s hair rise, is
more than I can believe. Suppose yourself a ghost
Well, if you come out of your grave to serve a
friend, how are you to help him 1 And if its's an
enemy, whin’s the use of appearing to him if you
can’t pilch into him !”
A Pigeon roost is mentioned by die Fort Smith,
Ark., Herald as existing in that region. It com
mences about 23 miles from Fort Smith, and ex
tends for upwards of 20 miles on either side ol the
Pole lira to within a few miles of Waldron, in Scott
county. The number of birds is beyond computa
tion.
Memphis Convention., —At a meeting held in
Greensboro,’ on the 3d inst, the following
gentlemen were appointed delegates to the
Convention to be held at Memphis, Tennessee.
Hon W C Dawson, Hon F H Cone, Col R H
Ward, Maj S Anderson, and Judge James M
Davidson.
[TERMS, $2 00 IN ADVANCE.
[ From the Delta. ]
The New Administration —Solon Borland.
Washington, April 25, 1853.
Having some time since notified you of the
character of the change in the diplomatic poli
cy of this government which I believed the pre
sent administration have determined on you
will hardly be surprised at the selection of the
Hon. Solon Borland to supply the vacancy in
the Central American Mission caused by the
declension of the Hon. John Slidell. He,
more than any other democratic public man,
known to me at least, is emphatically the man
for the discharge of the duties about to be re
quired of him. His Senatorial reputation is
not equal to his deserts, as the sharp points of
his character render him very unpopular with
the men of the press here, who make or un
make all the public men of the day. The very
characteristic of his nature which seems most
to prevent them from writing kindly of him, as
a general thing, is, after all a rich and rare vir
tue in any gentleman in his position. That is,
it is notin him to appear all things to all men. He
is really almost the only man in Congress
who would not turn over his hand to earn a
newspaper puff.
This is well nigh a bar against all favorable
“notices” of him, 1 am sorry to have to write
you. As what he does and says in the Senate
is for the most part only to be learned through
the official reports, of course not one person
in one hundred thousand has obtained any thing
like a correct idea of the large amount of Se
natorial labor which he has performed, of the
extent of his legislative acquirements, of the
vast general information which he possesses, or
of the now very remarkable, never-faltering in
tegrity of purpose which has characterized bis
Senatorial career.
On tho whole, the Hon. Solon Borland is the
“singed cat” of the United States Senate, hav
ing had all his good deeds kept from the public
knowledge, as it were, while his bad ones have
been blazoned forth with more industry than
those of any other gentleman who has been in
public life for the last twenty-five years.—
There never was a man more proverbially ready
for any emergency—for smashing a nose up
to making, on the spur of the moment, an ar
gument on the most intricate question, so filled
with knock down facts and figures, as to carry
his point over the heaviest array of newspaper
made reputation, which can he brought to act
in concert in the Senate Chamber. The Gov
ernment of the United States want a represen
tative in Central America who shall be compe
tent to play over the diplomacy of the famous
“man with the white hat,” of tho days of the
annexation of Texas struggle, throwing in, now
and then, a smart sprinkling of the activity and
management of the never-to-be-forgotten Mr.
Chatfield, without any of that gentleman’s per
sonal blackguardism, however, for it is due to
Borland to write, that the councils of the na
tion never embraced a gentleman more strictly
correct in his personal bearing under all cir
cumstances. tie speaks the Spanish like a na
tive, and will prove competent to wrestle, suc
cessfully, with any one Britain may send to that
quarter, as well as with any Central American
Minister.
The New Mexican Diffloulty.
The New York Post gives the following ab
stract of tho publication of Mr. Bartlett, late
Commissioner oftlie United States to mark the
boundary with Mexico. It is in reply to the
statements in the warlike proclamation of Gov.
Lane.
First, he denies that New Mexico ever ex
ercised jurisdiction over the Mecilla valley as
alleged, asserting that, on the contrary, ever
since 1825, Chihuahua has claimed and exer
cised the jurisdiction of the territory. Second
ly, he says that there are only 700, not 2,000
inhabitants in the disputed country, who are
so far from desiring to be annexed to the Uni
ted States, that when it was known the bounda
ry determined by the commissioners included
them in Mexico, they hailed the event with sal
vos ofcaunon and every kind of rejoicing. Third
13', he remarks, that no force has ever been used
by the State of Chihuahua to retain possession
of her territory, although it is true that she has
failed to “protect the inhabitants or the territo
ry in question” “against border Indian depre
dations,’’ in the same manner that Texas
and New Mexico have failed to protect their
people from similar depredations. So with re
gard to the protection of the “inhabitants of
the territory (in dispute) in their rights of per
son and property the Mexican authorities
have doubtless been lax in the administration
of justice in the Mecilla valley, hut our author
ities should say as little as possible about the
protection of the inhabitants along the Rio
Grande in their rights of property ; for a pite
ous tale could he told of outrages committed
by Americans on the Mexican population on
our side of the Rio Grande which compelled
them to abandon their homes in 1850, to seek
an asylum within Mexican territory and found
a colony’ in the Mecilla valley.
Mr. Bartlett adds, that in regard to the state
ment that “a large portion of the inhabitants
now claim the protection of the United States,
and solicit the re annexation of their territory
to New Mexico,” ho can assert, on authority ob
tained by him in New Mexico and Chihuahua,
that the whole population of the Mecilla valley
consists chiefly of people from New Mexico
and Texas, of Spanish descent, who, failing to
receive protection from our authorities after the
late war with Mexico, colonized that place.”
It is somewhat curious that these positions
of the United States Commissioner correspond
almost exactly with the reply to Gov. Lane
made by Gov. Trias of Chihuahua. The fol
lowing abstract of his reply is furnished by the
New Orleans papers:
“Governor Trias’ reply to Gov. Lane takes
the ground that, the northern boundary from
Chihuahua had formerly been much further
north than at present ; that the treaty of Guad
alupe Hidalgo had removed it much further
south ; that, even if the territory claimed was
disputed territory.it had been always in peace
ful possession of Mexico ; that the argument
that the respective Governments are not bound
by the proceedings of the Boundary Commis
sion is fallacious; and that, besides having
been for time immemorial in possession of
Mexico, it is now inhabited by people who em
igrated there from New Mexico because they
wished to continue Mexicans. He says, further,
that even if some of the people did wish to
change the sovereignty of the soil, they had no
right to do it; and that, so far as protection
from the Indians is concerned, the Mexican
Government has done at least as much as the
United States. Gov. Trias concludes by ask
ing Gov. Lane if he has power to declare
war.”
The steamship America, which sailed
from Boston for Liverpool yesterday, took out
over one hundred and twenty thousand dollars
in golden ingots.
Number 20.