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Volume XIV.
THE TIMES^&JENTINEL^
TENNENT LOMAX & ROSWELL ELLIS~
EDITORS AND PROPRIETORS.
THE TIU-WEEKLV TIMES & SENTINEL
|, rnhlifheiJ EVERY IVKD.YF.SDAY and FRIDAY MORJC
/.VO and SATURDAY F.VF.JYI.YQ.
THE WEEKLY TIMES <fc SENTINEL
is published every TUF.SDA Y MOTUfIXO.
Office on Randolph Street, opposite the Post Office.
terms:
TR'-WEEKLY, Five Dollars per nnmim, In advance.
WEEKLY, Two Dollar* per annum,ln advance,
nr a dvertlsements conspicuously inserted at Ore Dollar
* -vjiiaro, for the first inset lion, and wty cents for every sub
i/uent insertion.
iberal deduction will be made for yearly advertisements.
Hales of Land and Negroes, by Admlnistralars, Executors, o
L jirdians, are required by law to be held on the first Tuesday
t a the month, between the hours of ten In the forenoon and
aioe In the afternoon,at the Court House in thecounty In which
the property is situate. Notices of these sales must lie given in
a public gazette forty day* previous to the day of sale.
Wotlces for the sale of Personal Property must be given at
least ton day previous to the day of sale.
Notice to Debtors and Creditors of an Estate must be publish
ed forty days.
Notice that application will be made to the Court of Ordinary
for leave to sell Land or Negroes, must be published weekly for
tten month.r.%
Citations for Letters of Administration must be published
thirty day*—tor Dismission from Administration, monthly six
month. —for Disinissirn from Guardianship forty dnyt.
Rules for Foreclosure of Mortgage inusi be published monthly
for four months— for establishing lost papers, furthefull spare
nfthrrr moalhe— for compelling titles from Executors or Admln-
Mrators. where a bond has been given by the deceased, the full
epnr.r nf three month*.
Publications will always be continued according to these, the
legal requirements,unless otherwise ordered.
’ BUSINESS CARDS.
Attcruev at Law,
Columbus, Gf.o.
KT” Office on Randolph street, three doors from Mygat’s
corner. Columbus, Dec 15—w&twtf
H. J. MOSES, JOHN PEABODY, (
MOSES & PEABODY,’
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA.
WILL practice in Muscogee connty, Ga., and Russell
county. Ala., and in the Supreme Court of the State of
Georgia. Columbus, June 29-wtwtf
ELMORE, YANCEY AND NUCKOLLS.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Will practice in partnership in the Courts of Law and
Equity, in Macon county, Alabama.
JNO. A. ELMORE, )
WM. L. YANCEY, \ JMont S omer y
THOS. J. NUCKOLLS, Tuskegee.
T. J. NUCKOLLS, will practice in the other counties
of the circuit. Dec 13—ly
A. BACKEfe,
IMPORTER AND DEALER IN
BRANDIES, GIN, WINE,
SCOTCH ALE & LONDON PORTER,
SEGARS and all kinds of GROCERIES, 7
No. 10 WHITAKER ST. SAVANNAH, GA.
Brandies and Gins, under Custoni-llouso Lock, in bond
and entitled in debenture.
Savannah, Oct. 18,1853,-wtwly
T. J. COLQUIT,
Attorney at Law,
SALEM RUSSEL-CO., ALA.
WILL attend promptly to all business entrusted to his care
in tlie Chattahoochee Circuit Georgia and the 9th Circuit Ala.
Jan. 10, 1854—wly—2.
ARTHUR HOOD,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Cuthbert, Randolph co., Ga.
WILL practice in Randolph, Lee, Early, Baker and
the adjacent counties.
Refers to lion. Jas. Johnson, Richard Patten, Columbus,
Hon. Win C. Korkins, Cuthbert, Ga. Jan 3,’54-wly
NICOLAS CACHET,
A TTORNEY AT LAW,
Tuskeoee, Alabama.
OFFICE OVER PORTER’S BRICK STOKE.
WlLLattend thecourUof the Ninth Circuit, and Montgomery,
Elite, and Harbour in the Eighth Circuit,
march 29—wly
GEO. COOK ALFORD,
Attorney and Counsellor at Law.
WILL practice in the counties of the Ninth Judicial Cir
cuit —and tho Supreme Court of the State.
Crawford, Russel co., Ala., Aug. 2, 1853—wly*
HAMILTON, WORTHY & CUNNINGH AM
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
TROY, PIKE COUNTY, ALA.
They will attend the several courts of the counties of
Butler and Covington in the 7th,and all the counties o/ the
h Judicial circuit. Dec 13—wly
S. S. STAFFORD,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Blakely, Surly Co-, Va.
apSwa
ARTHUR P. WRIGHT,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
thom; sville, tno mas county, Georgia.
“IYTILL devote himself to to practice of his profession
VV iii the counties of Thomas, Decatur and Lowndes,
ol Georgia.
And will also attend to any collections intrusted to his
care in the counties oi Leon, Jefferson, Madison and Ham
ilton, of Florida.
Jan. 31, 1854. wtf
D. B. THOMPSON & CO..
(AT THE SIGN OF THE HEART,)
Below Hill, Dawson Sc Cos.
TIN, Copper, Sheet Iron,Steam Boat work, all manner
of Gutters, Piping, Conductors and Roofing done to
order, substantially and warranted.
Nov. 48—ts
W. G. ANDREWS & CO.,
DEALERS IN
STAPLE DRY GOODS,
GROCERIES, WINES, LIQUORS, &C., &C.
(Four Doors below Hill & Dawson’s old Corner)
BROAD STREET, ICOLUMBUS, GA.
Columbus, Oct 15, 1853.—tw&wtf
J. & L. ALLEN,
AND
Fire Engine Builders,
JAMES STREET, NEWARK, N. J.
IT Machinery, I:re Engines, Hose Carriages, Hook and
Ladder 1 rucks, mu! Hose of every description made to order.
N. B. They solicit orders from the South and pledge them
•elves to give entire satistaciion in prices and quality of their
work.
References —Mayor and Aldermen, and FireJEngine Company
No. 1, Columbus. Ga. Dec 27— w&tw3m *
BOSTON & yTILALONGA
COTTON FACTORS
AND
General Commission Merchants,
No. 196 Bay Street Savannah, Ga.
JOHN BOSTON, JOHN L. VILLALONGA.
references :
John H. Howard, B. T. Chapman,
A. W. Chapman, liuse, Patten & Cos.
October 11—w&twtf
G-S. HARRISON,
AUCTION, COMMISSION,
RECEIVING. &NJ FORWARDING
M ttrehant.
NOS. 59 and 61 BROAD STREET,
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA.
a.k. ayep., auctioneer and salesman.
t.T; Liberal advances made on Negroes and Merchandise.
Columbus, Aug. 20, 1653—w&twly
f: . L ° c * fffi> W.M. H. LONG, JOHN H. DAVtS. ~
kOCHITT, iOHB s et”’
COMMISSION MERCHANTS
AND
SHIPPING AGENTS
VTI , .. J , SAVANNAH, GEORGIA.
WILL attend to the selling of all kindsof Produce. Strict
attention given to receiving and forwarding goods, and
selttig orders from the country. Those of our friends who
■tutire to lavor us with consignments,can make the neces
sary arrangements through our friends Ruse, Patten & Cos.
July 9—w&twly
FOR SALE AND TO RENT.
For Sale.
- TWO plea gently situated houses and lots in this city,
belonging to the estate of Charlotte •dialling?, deceased.
Igi Apply to
LULL J. U. MANN, Executor.
Augusta, Ga.
or to M. V. MARCUS,
Feb 4—a-&twlm* Columbus, Ga.
Valuable Plantation tor Sale,
In Baker County, Georgia.
Til E subscriber desirous of removing from (be State
of Georgia, offers lor sale bis plantation lying on the
waters of the Coolawahee Creek, five miles west of Al
-.l bany, adjoining lands of Paul Tarver, Dr. Nickols and
others,containing three thousand one hundred and twenty-fire
acres, more or less. There are shout 800 acres of open cultivat
ed land. The land is so situated that it can be easily divided.
And if two purchasers appear the subscriber will divide so as to
suit both. Anyone desirous of purchasing would do well to
address MOORE Ac EDWARDS, or myself at this place; my
agent living on the place will show the lands to any person call
ing for that purpose. JOHN J. RAYVLB,
September 3—t3t&wtf Macon, Georgia.
FOR SALE OR RENT.
MMY Plantation, three miles below Columbus, between
five and six hundred acres, cleared.
JNO. A. JONES.
Oct. 1. w&twtf
One Hundred Town Lots for £alc.
WE have surveyed and laid off in LOTS, a portion of our pro
perty in Tnllasset- Town. Tallapoosa county, at the fails of
Tallapoosa river, most convenient to the Wa'erPower, nndoffer
for sale at public auction, at Taltnssee, cn the 2d Tuesday in
March next, and at private pale till then, one hundred of the
most eligible Lots lor business purposes—one-fifth of the nett
proceeds of the sale to be given as a School Fund for theestab
tishment oftcliools in the place.
Terms will be made easy to purchasers. For further particu
lars, apply to BARNETT, GILMER & CO.
November 9—w&twtds
House and lot for Sale.
MI offer for sale one ofthe most desirable 1 ications in or
about Collin bus, my present residence, just east of the
corporate limits, and commanding a fine view of the
city and the cars passing along the Railroad, a short
distance from Hie depot and within ten minutes walk of the city
and convenient in every way to business.
The lot contains several acres, the buildings all new. In my
absence purchasers are referred to Gen Charles J. VVilliamsor
R. Watson Denton.
Dec 9—wtf ROBERT IE HOWARD.
ODD FELLOWS’ HALL
. , IN pursuance of an order of Afuscogee LodgeVo.fi,
V I. 0.0. F., we will sell at the Market House in thecity
|jS| I of Columbus, on the first Tuesday in April next, Odd
=•- Fellows’ Hall, together with the ground attached, upon
the following terms, viz : one-fourth cash ; one-fourth on the
first of January 1855, and one-lourih January 1, 1856, and the
balance on Ist January, 1857, with interest on the two last pay
ments from the day of purchase. The purchaser will be requir
ed to give satisfactory security, or a mortgage on the property to
secure the payments.
L. M. DURR, )
S. F. GRIMES, > Com.
J. J. McKENDREE, )
Columbus, Feb 3—wlds
HOTEL FOR SALE.
a—j THE subscriber offers for sale his commodious and
well finished Hotel, situated on the east side ofthe
iisia public square, in the town of ltuena Vista, Gas, and
JEjLJ. known us the“GLOBE HOTEL.” itisiurnished with
all necessary conveniences, and has pertaining to it, a good
kitchon, smoke house, stable, lot, &., all in good repair. The
house is conveniently situated, and is favored with a liberal
share of boarding and transient custom, llucna Vista, though
new, is a large and beautiful town. Its schools, and varied
rnerchalile and mechanic interests, insure its permanency and
and rapid growth. No one need fear depreciation in propeity
for many pears.
Persons wishing to purchase such property, would do well to
call aad.exarnine. Reasonable time will be allowed for payment.
For terms apply to the undersigned. Z. WILLIAMS.
orto WILLIAMS & OLIVER,
March s—9wtf Buena Vista, Marion co., Ga.
For Sale.
MY plantation lying on the Chattahoochee river in
wfSjS, Russel county, Ala.,twenty miles below Columbus, Ga.,
containing about two thousand five hundred acres in a
..A.— body. Also, two detachpd places, containing about
eight hundred acres, which will be sold with the main body or
separate.
The plantation is well settled and healthy, and as productive
and lertile as any on the river, and free from freshets.
Persons w ishing to examine the plantation will apply to Mes
srs. T. B. & C. Crowell, or G. W. Keith, (the overseer) at Os
wichee, Ala., or Jos B. Hill,in Columbus, Ga., who will furnish
all necessary information in my absence.
JOHN CANTF.Y,
August 2 —wtf Camden, S. C.
PLANTATION FOR SALE OR RENT.
M SIXTEEN miles East of Columbus, one hour’s ride by
Railroad, 1)4 miles from the depot, containing 620
acres, about 400 cleared, 300 acres bottom land, the
balance pine land, lying well. Gin bouse with a press
attached, seven or eight negro cabins, overseers bouse and other
necessary buildings. The situation of this place near the Rail
road gives the advantages of a near market without its annoy
ances. Possession given Ist January or sooner, and terms made
easy. August 30—wtf A. G. REDD.
FOR SALE.
THE plantation in Russel comity, Ala., eight miles and
a hall from Columbus, Ga., formerly owned by Augus
tus Brown, containing seven hundred and forty acres, 200
of which is in a high state of cultivation and under good
fences. There is on the premises a good framed dwelling
with four good rooms, pantry, &c., good out houses of eve
ry description, gin house and screw ; also, an excellent
spring af water convenient for use, and as healthy a place
as can be found in Eastern Alabama. There is on ihe
place good Peach and Apple orchards. Any person wish
ing to purchase sucha place can get a bargain. Foriurther
particulars apply to JAMES ROUSSEAU.
C o lumtms, Nov 29— wtf
Sixty Negroes for Sale.
THF, subscribers having made Columbus a permanent poin
for selling negroes, offer for sale on accommodating termt
Sixty likely Georgia Negroes,
consisting of
MEN, WOMEN, BOYS, AND GIRLS.
Shall also be constantly receiving negroes during tbe season
from aeents engaged in buying in the upper part of this State.
Call and see us at the corner of Front and Broad streets, at Law
rence’s old stand. Good reference given.
Columbus, No. B—wtw4m VV. M. & A. B. McAFEE.
REMOVAL.
J. H. ME RR Y
Has removed from his old stand to
No. 102, next door to J. & J. Kyle.
lie has on hand a fine assortment of
READY MADE CLOTHING,
consisting of every article generally kept in a Clothing Store
Columbus, Nov 23—w&tw3ms
NEW BOOT
AND
SHOE MAKERS SHOP.
F. WILDING & BROTHER,
WOULD inform the citizens of Columbus and vicinity, that
they have taken the stand on Randolph street, opposile
the Enquirer office, where they will be happy to accommodate
all who may favor them with a call.
Columbus, Feb 14—v.-4l*
iQ i wriiiiisr
MRS. DESSAU
ATJ'OULD respectfully inform the Ladies of Columbus
! y V and vicinity, that she has just returned from the
North, and is now opening at her residence, (No. 110
llrontl Street,) a most splendid and fashionable stock of
FALL AND WINTER MILLINERY,
ALSO
An assortment of FALL AND WINTER DRESS
GOODS
FOR LADIES’ WEAK —SUCH AS
SUES, TALMAS, MANTILLAS, CLOAKS,; RIBBONS,
EMBROIDERIES,
and all kinds of Goods generally kept in a Millinery store.
In tho DRESS MAKING line,she is in the possession
ofthe latest European styles and patterns; and her stock
ot Trimmings for Dresses cannot be surpassed for beauty
and quality, as special attention was given to this branch of
her stock.
A call from her friends and customers is respectfully
solicited. Columbus, Oct 12—w&twtf
Bounty Land and Pension Agency.
CHARLES C. TUCKER,
WASHINGTON, D C.
A TTORNEY (or Claimants and Agent for obtaining
ii Revolutionary, Nava), Invalid and Half-pay Pensions,
Bounty Land, arrears of pay, extra pay, &c., for Military
and Naval services.
Bounty Land obtained for the widows and heirs of vol
unteers ot the Texas Revolution of 1830 ; and extra pay
obtained for services in the U. S. Navy on the coasts of
California and Mexico, from 1846 to 1852. Address
CHARLES TUCKER,
Nov. 29—w3m Washington, D. C.
DAVID ROSS,
GENERAL BOOKBINDER,
AND
BLANK BOOK MANUFACTURER,
No. 72 Broad Street.
Columbus, Ga., June 21—wtf
Notice,
ALL those indebted to the subscriber will please call and
settle before next return day to our spring term Superior
aourt. A. P. ROOD.
-Florence, Ga., February 14—w4t
4 4 TII E UNION OF THE STATES AND THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE STATES.”
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 28,1854.
HOTELS.
BROAD STREET HOUSE
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA.
THE undersigned has taken charge of this establishment. The
house has been thoroughly renovated aid furnished anew.
The traveling public will find his rooms airy, neat and clean,and
his table bountifully supplied with every delicacy the market
affords.
Omni burses will always b in readiness to carry passengers to
and from the Hotel to the Depot ar.d Steam Boats.
L. T. WOODRUFF, Proprietor.
Columbus, Oct. 11—w&twtf
GLOBE HOTEL,
BUENA VISTa, MAKIOJi CO.,GA
MTII Esub3Criber re-pectfuilv announces tools friends
ard the public generally, that he hastaken charge
o. this wri! known
ESTABLISHMENT.
Thehouseis co.ngiodious and well finished; and no pains wiil
be spared to render thosecoml'ortabie, who may favor him with
their patronage.
Dec3—tf E. TITCOMB
PLANTERS HOTEL,
E yP •B. pf||p| HALL,
HAMILTON, HARRIS COUNTY, GA.
THE subscriber has purchased the above establishment,
and is now’ fitting it up in the finest style for the ac
commodation of
Boarders and Travelers.
His table will at all times be supplied with the bestthe
country affords ; his servants will ever be in readiness to
give their attention to those who may favor him with a call
He hopes, by courtesy and a strict attention to the com
fort of liis customers, to merit a liberal share of public pat
ronage.
PLEASANT B. HALL.
Hamilton, Ga., Jan. 31—w6t
1853! 1853!! 1853!!!
COOPER’S - WELL.
/Jfefityljk THE undersigned has taken the entire manage
M * iisi*!* ment a:,( * con,rolol
jjfyjlg COOPER’S WELL,
and is now prepared to accommodate the public.
Anew dining room lias been erected, the Sleeping Rooms
plastered and fitted with furniture and betiding, ard a complete
renovation effected. Am pie accommodations will be provided
or
FIVE HUNDRED GUESTS;
and no more will be received than can be comfortably accom
modated.
FOR INVALIDS
there can be no more advantageous retieat. The water is highly
recommended by the medical faculty, and the wonderfcl cures
effected by its use almost surpasshslief. Ample details of
severalastonishingcures may be obtained on application at the
Well.
The terms will be model ate, and no exertion will be spared to
make guests comfortable.
The Vicksburg and Jackson and Raymond Railroad will con
vey passengers to Raymond, thence three miles to the Well, in
W . H. Smith’s line of
NEW FOUR HORSE STAGES.
The time of trip is less than three hours from Vicksburg.—
Through tickets from Vicksburg to Cooper’s Well, can be obtain
ed at the Railroad depot, Vicksburg; price 82 20.
May 10—wtf JOHN THATCHER.
INSURANCE^
Os Savannah Mutual Insurance Company,
Office at the Ware-House of Ruse, ratten if Cos.
MARINE, River and Fire risks taken on reasonable terms.
Columbus, Feb B—twlyß—twly W. C. IIODGES, Agent.
CALIFORNIA
ij m & i Rj a\ m £ i
BY THE
KENTUCKY MUTUAL
INSURANCE COMPANY.
Apply to
JOHN MUNN, Agent,
Columbus, Ga.
BOSWELL & BILLING,
July 9—w&twly Medical Examiners.
~mm limiiNi&f gmmmy7
Office, No. 10 Wall Street, New York.
CASH CAPITAL, $500,000.
SIMEON L. LOOMIS, President.
CHAS. J. MARTIN, Secretary.
E. S. GREENWOOD, : : : : : Agent.
Columbus, Georgia.
October 1, twfifh
MARINE AND FIRE INSURANCE
BANK OF SAVANNAH.
AGENCY AT COLUMBUS,
WILL receive Deposits—and Checks for sale on New York
Macon and Savannah.
April24—twtf RICHARD PATTEN.
TRAVELING.
FOR PHILADELPHIA.
Philadelphia b; Savannah Steam Navigation Company.
THE new and splendid side-wheel Steamships,
KEY STONE STATE, Capt. Robert Harpie,
STATE OF GEORGIA, Gapt- J -J - Garvin, Ji.
will leave Savannah for Philadelphia every Wednesday. These
Steamships are the most comlortable on the coast, and are un
surpassed for safety and They will leave Savannah as
follows:
Keystone State, Wednesday, 28th Sept.
State of Ge “ sth Oct.
Keystone State, J2th Oct.
State of Georgia, 19ih Oct.
Keystone Slate, “ 26tli Oct.
State of Georgia, “ 2nd Nov.
Keystone State, “ 9th Nov.
State of Georgia, “ 16th Nov.
Keystone State, “ 23rd Nov.
State of Georgia, “ 3<>tb Nov.
Keystone State, “ 7th Dec.
Stale of Georgia, “ 14th Dec.
and so on.
Cabin passage, S2O.
Sterrage “ S.B.
C. A. L. LAMAR,
Agent in Savannah*
HERON & MARTIN,
Sept.2l—tf Agents in Philadelphia
MUSCOGEE RAIL ROAD CO.
CH ANGE OF S CHEDUL E.
On and after the 16th inst. the Passenger Train will leave and
run by the following schedule daily until further notice:
Leave Columbus at 9 A. M.; Arrive at Macon 3 25 P.M.
Leave Macon at 6 30 A. M.; Arrive at Columbus l 5 P. M.
E. A. MUSGROVE’ Superintendent.
Columbus,May 14, 1853.
Muscogee Railroad Company.
GREAT REDUCTION IN FREIGHT ON
ijw •
ON and after the Ist of September, COTTON will be carried
from Columbus to Savannnah, at FIFTY CENTS per hun
dred pounds, including Insurance over Railroad.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
MERCHANDISE arriving from the East and not so
be forwarded by Railroad will be retained in the Depot at Co
lumbus three days, free of charge, and if not then removed will
be sent to one of thecity Warehouses for Storage at the ex
pense of the owner.
E. H. MUSGROVE, Superintendent.
September 7,1853.
lIARXDEN'S EXPRESS.
O y Kit K u.\ KAXDOLP HS f reef.
WE respectftilly beg leave to inform the citizens of Columbus
and its vicinity, that we have concluded our arrangements
with the Central, South-Western and A/uscngee Railroads, and
are now running messengers daiiy irqm Columbus to iiaeon
thence to Savannah.
Also, forwarding goods daily orer the Muscogee and South-
Western Railroad to Fort Valley, Oglethorpe and Macon, thence
to Milledgeville Savannah and ail intermediate places.
Also, to Montgomery, Ala. We would also say, that our Ex
presses by the steamers to New York and Philadelphia enable us
to forward every description of merchandise and valuables.
Notes, Drafts, and Bills collected in every town m the Northern
and Eastern States ; also, to California and Europe.
OFFICES AND AGENTS.
S. H. Hill, Randolph street, Columbus; 8. O. Potts,
Macon; Mr. Kendrick, Fort Valley; G.R.Clayton, Ogletherpe ;
153 Bay street. Savannah; 74 Broadv ly, „Vew York: 43 and
45 South-Third.Philadelphia ; 8 Com street, Boston: Exchange
street. Providence: Montgomery street, Nan Francisco.
tr Articles to be forwarded, called for at any part of the
city free of expense, by leaving orders on the slate at the office.
LIVINGSTON, WINCHESTER & CO.
Columbus, April 13—tw&ir
iTlistcllaitccms.
The American Schcoimsstar.
From the debate which took place in the U.
S. Senate on the 16th inst., between Mr, Clay
ton and Gen. Cass, on the motion to refer to the
Committee on Foreign Relations the Message
of tho President, communicating the correspon
dence between our Government and England
on the subject of the Clayton Treaty, we make
the following extract. Mr. Cass replying to Mr.
Clayton, said:
The honorable Senator commenced this dis
cussion by saying that the latter part of my
speech was contradictory of the former ;
and he relaled an incident, it may be, or per
haps, a parable, of a boy who was whipped by
his master, because, when he stood up he was
too tall, and when lie sat down he was too short i
and the Senator then alluded, I thought, rather
contemptuously than complimentary, to my po
sition as a schoolmaster in his own State at a
former period.
Mr. Clayton. Not at all. No man has a
greater veneration for the character schoolmas
ter that I have.
Mr. Cass. Nor I. I think if there is one oc
cupation in our whole country which demands,
and should receive, the kind consideration of its
citizens, it is that of the teacher to whom is
committed the task of forming the mind and
character, the intellect and heart of the Ameri
cun youth, to fit and prepare them for the private
and public duties before them and especially
and above all, to fit them to become the deposit
ories of the precious institutions which have
come down to us from the wisdom and exertions
of our fathers, and which they ought to be able
to transmit as unimpaired to their posterity as
they received them.
There can be no more honorable employment
in the just acceptation of the term; and I will
tell the Senator that I was a schoolmaster and
lam proud of it. I glory in it. I glory in being
the citizen of the a country where the avenues
of distinction are equally open to all, the high
est and lowest, without any difference ; where
the poor schoolmasters may look toward, and
by proper cowduct and the favor of his fellow
citizens, may be advanced to the highest posi
tion in the country. Why, it is a most glorious
illustration of our institutions. It is a flag wa
ving in the heavens and thrown out to the na
tions of the earth, inviting them to do as we are
doing.
Yes, Mr. President, I was a poor schoolmm
ter. I began life under disadvantageous circuat
stances ; and now my heart is filled with grat
itude to my country, that from that situation I
have been advanced with no merit of my own,
but by the favor of my fellow citizens, from
post to post, until I find myself here in this
great depository of the American people—in
my opinion the highest deliberatiue body in the
world—and made the associate ofthe most em
inent men of our country who enjoy the confi
dence of their fellow-citizens, and who have
been sent here to represent the sovereign States
of the Union.
Laughing. —Commend us to a good hearty
laughter—one that explodes the vowel without
let or hindrance—that rings the changes on the
a, e, i, o, u, and y, and wakes the echoes if there
be any asleep.
This may not be exactly according to D’Orsay;
it may be decidedly vulgar ; if so it'll not be the
very first time that diamonds have been found in
the dust.
We just heard one of those good, wholesome
laughs, and a hod carrier was the author of it.
Ten to one, he is an honest, generous fellow,
who carries besides his hod, sucha thing as a
heart about him, week days and Sundays. It
was no hollow, ghostly laugh, but a round, full
human explosion, with a body and soul to it ; that
one cannot help liking whether he will or not
A man may smile and smile, and be a vilian ;
not so with your hearty laughter. But a simper
that diffuses a sickly moonlight over the face,
and a chuckle that lodges in the throat, and red
dens the face, and shuts the eyes, are our abom
ination. We can abide a regular Leather Stock
ing laugh, still, deep, hearty and noiseless, that
shakes the frame like an ague, and is only indul
ged in upon special occasions. It is like a din
ner for one—not social to be sure, but then com
fortable and endurable. It is contagious withal,
and altogether a luxury of a laugh, if one knows
g’w to enjoy it.
But the most musical of all things, is the free
ringing laughter of childhood. No frost in it, no
guile in it, it should be classed with the song of
birds and the murmur of brooks. It “speaks
the vacant mind’’ —not the thoughtless, but the
care free mind, before the heavy strings of this
harp of life, ate wound over and over, for the
graver, sadder notes of the time.
♦
Scandalous Intelligence from Spain.
The intelligence that continues to reach us
from Madrid sho%vs that matters are becoming
more critical there each day; indeed, a revolu
tion of some kind seems all but inevitable.—
The conduct of persons in high stations prom
ises to be as scandalous as ever, and the remon
strances of the few, the very few who have the
courage, or the vii tae, to point out the danger
which menaces the Throne are disregarded or
contemned. An illustrious lady, whose suppli
cations to her exalted relative were very recent
ly treated with the same contempt as the rest,
has given up the effort. Even the recent death
of the Royal infant, so far from exciting sym
pathy in the public mind, has been the occasion
of showing the feeling of the public, and pla
cards posted up by night in various quarters of
Madrid rudely, hut it is to be feared too truly
express their profound disgust. The wretched
Ministers tremble at the idea of losing their pla
ces, and instead of arresting the danger which
menaces the Crown, glory in the degrading and
mercenary protection ofthe favorite, whose will
they dare not resist. The man who owes all he
has to the press, and who, but for it, would
be the same penniless adventurer he was
when he first lounged among the hungry idlers
of the Puerta del Sol, is the first to crush it.—
Generals, to some of whom Queen Isabella is
indebted for the crown she wears, are banished
to distant garrisons for no crime but that of
having keenly felt the degradation to which Roy
alty is reduced in Spain, and endeavored to save
it from the consequences of its own vices. If a
collision take place few will pity those who pro
voked it. It appears that General Prim has
been ordered not to return to Spain, notwith
standing the zealous manner in which he has
performed his temporary mission in Turkey.
Love and Sea Bathing.— Somebody once said
—it makes no odds who, for it is a pretty simile
and appears quite true—that young ladies take
love as they take sea bathing ; some timidly put
in one foot, then with a shiver and a look of ap
prehension, put in a second, and then as they do
no more than make a trembling courtesy in the
water, the element comes, scarcely leaching the
region of the heart, and then with a squeal, they
run to dry land as quick as possible, and shiv
ering, cry “How cold it Is !” Others, again,
shutting their seraphic eyes to the dangers of the
deep, souse in, head ears, and rising with a Na
iad’s glow upon their faces, declare the sea “de
licious ?”
Partner Wanted.— So say the advertisements
everyday. Everybody wants a partner, though
everybody doesn’t advertise for one. Sleeping,
silent or active -all sorts are in request.
One man wants a partner •with §IO,OOO ; an
other, a partner with a capital of bright eyes,
fair form, and a clear thousand a year of undi
vided affection ; a third, with a good honest heart;
isn’t particular about the way it’s put up, provi
ded he can have the undisputed title thereto.—
And so it goes ; everybody, the world over, is
looking for a partner —waiting for a partner
sighing for a partner. Some are ashamed to
conless it; others speak right out, and all, as
they look, disclose some little pet weakness of
their own. One man has penchant, fora partic
ular fashion of nose ; he doesn’t care what the
owner knows, if she only own a Roman nose.
Another is bewitched for black eyes, caring lit
tle for what is behind or above them. A third
wants a form like an hourglass, and he finds it;
so all three marry respectively, eyes, nose and
hourglass. The eyes grow rheumy and dim,
and peer queerly over a pair of spectacles for
forty five. Just think of that! forty five ! The
nose loses its fair proportions and becomes a
receptacle for Macaboy ; and the hourglass
grows old and crazy. Another man marries a
voice, and has nothing left at last but the echo.
And worse than all, he that marries a plum and
a woman to boot, makes way with the wealth,
and—the woman remains.
Sometimes, but not often—we will give them
credit for that—the women are seeking for
partners , one a pair of whiskers ; another six
feet in his stockings ; a third a house and lot.—
But the whiskers get frosty, the six feet leans
like the tower of Pisa, the house is mortgaged,
the mortgage is forclosed, and nothing remains
but the man himself.
And so it goes, and so they all go. “Partner
wanted.’’ Os course ;if a man has a surplus
of joy he wants to divide it; because in dividing
he doubles it. If a man is burdened with grief
he wants to share it ; because, in sharing he
halves it.
List of the Most Important Acts
PASSED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF 1853—4.
No. 5. To lay out and organise anew county from
the counties of Cherokee and Gilmer.
No. 6’ To lay out and form a -new county out of
the oounties of Walker and Whitfield ; and to add a por
tion of Walker to Whitfield, and to organise said
county.
No. 8. To lay out and organise anew county from
the counties of Franklin and Elbert and to provide for
the organization of the same.
No. 12. For the pardon of Elijah Bird of the county
of DeKalb, now under sentence of death for the crime
of murder.
No. 13. To lay off and organises new county from
the county of Baker, and to attach the same to a judi
cial, congressional and military district.
No. 15. To lay out and organise anew county from
the county of Stewart and to provide for the organiza
tion of the same.
No, 37. To lay out and organize anew county from
the county of DeKalb, and other purposes therein
specfiied.
No. 23. To lay out and organise anew county from
the counties of Dooly and Irwin, and attach the same
to a Judicial and Congressional district, and for other
purposes.
No, 30. To permit Lunatics and Idiots and such per
sons as have them in charge, to pass free on the Wes
tern and Atlantic Railroad, on their way to and from
the Luuatic Asylum.
31. To repeal that part of the 10th section of an act
for the government and management of the Western
and Atlantic Railroad, approved January 15th, 1852,
so far as relates to the election of Superintendent of
said road.
44. To authorize and require the treasurer of the
poor school fund in the county of Musoogee to pay, be
fore any other claims, over to R. 11. Calhoun, Wm. 11.
Grave, John P. Ilodge and Miss Susanna Wallis, and
to each and every other teacher of poor children in
said county, for the years 1851 and 1852, out of the
school fund thereof, the full amount of their accounts
and all arrearages due them for teaching poor children
in said years out of any funds in hand, or out of the first
that may hereafter be received, and for other purposes
therein named.
47. To incorporate a Bank in the city of Savannah to
be called the Mechanics Savings Bank.
49. To legalize and make valid to all intents and pu
poses, an election held in and for the city of Columbus
on Saturday, the 7th day of January instant, for Mayor,
twelve Aldermen, and Marshal, and Deputy Marshal,
a Clerk for the Council, a Treasurer, a Sexton for said’
city, and for other purposes therein named.
50. To lay out and organize anew county from the
counties of Gilmer and Union.
51. For the pardon of James L. I). Register of the
county of Troup, now under sentence of death for the
crime of murder.
52. For the building and construction of a railroad
from the town of Athens to near the town of Clayton
in Rabun county, so as to strike the Blue Ridge Rail
road at such point as the stockholders may determine.
Also, to extend the Thomaston and Barnesville Rail
road to Geneva or some other point on the road of
the Muscogee Railroad Company, and for other pur
poses.
55. To incorporate the Eatonton and Monticello Rail
road Company.
56. To incorporate the Eatonton and Covington
Railroad Company.
57. To authorize the Will’s Valley railroad company,
incorporated by the Legislature of the State of Alabama,
and any Railroad Company incorporated by the Legis
lature of the State of Alabama that may be associated
with the Will’s Valley Railroad Company, to construct
a Railroad through the county of Dade to some point
on the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad in said coun
ty of Dade and State of Georgia. Also, to incorporate
a Railroad or Flank Road company for the purpose of
constructing a road from Augusta to a point on Savan
nah river opposite to the mouth of Stephens’ Creek, or
within ten miless thereof.
58. For the pardon of John D. Malone, otherwise
called John D. Hall, now confined in the Penitentiary
for life for the crime of murder.
61. To regulate the measuring of all timber prepar
ed for the seaports of Georgia, and for the appointing of
measureres and inspectors of the same.
62. To appropriate a sum of money to remove ob
structions from Big and Little Ohoopie rivers, and to
render the same navigable for the transportation of tim
ber, rafts, lumber, wood and produce thereof, and for
other purposes therein mentioned.
76. To make penal the using of any poisonous sub
stances in any of the water courses in the counties of
Thomas and V orth, for the purpose of poisoning and
catching fish.
79. To alter and amend the sth sec. of an act to
regulate the weighing of Cotton and other commodities
in this State.
94. To incorporate the Oregon Steam Boat Company
of Georgia.
100. To change the laws now of foreo in this State
relating to the arrival within the limits of this State of
colored seamen.
106. To alter chango and amend the 46 section of
an act to amend an act entitled an act to revise and
amend the Judiciary system of this State, approved
February 16th, 1799, so far as to dispense with an
order of the Court before bringing suits on Sheriffs
bonds.
112. To alter and amend the third section of the
third article of the Constitution of the State of Georgia
by striking out the following words, to wit : Appointed
by the Legislature—aud inserting in lieu thereof the
words following to wit: Elected by the persons entitled
to vote for members of the Legislature at such times
and in such manner as the Legislature shall or may by
law direct—and to add an additional section to the first
artiele of the Constitution.
126. To repeal so much of the charter of tho Uni
versity of Georgia as requires an oath or oaths to be
taken by the officers thereof within three months of
their entering upon tho discharge of their duties, and
to alter and fix the time of the meeting of the Scnatui
Academictis.
127. To alter ‘and change so much of the sev
enth section of the act entitled an act to carry into ef
fect the amended Constitution of tftis State in reference
to the Ordinaries of said State, and for other purposes,
so far as relates to the county of Liberty.
136. To amend an act making uniform a standard of
weights and measures in this State, assented to 23d
December, 1539.
137. To lay out and to form anew county out of the
counties of Clinch, Ware, Telfair and Irwin, and to or
ganize the same.
139. To amend an act to prevent controversies con
cerning the boundaries of lands in this State.
140. To incorporate the Brunswick Improvement
company.
142. To amend an act entitled an act to prescribe
and point out the mode of collecting Coroner’s fees
in the several counties of this State, passed Dee. 22d,
1835.
143. To incorporate the City Bank in the city of
Augusta.
145. To open and construct a Railroad commencing
at some point between Marietta and Calhoun, to be de
termined by a majority of the stockholders herein in
corporated, and thence by the most practicable route by
Elijay, in Gilmer county, to the or near the mouth of
Fighting Town creek at the mines in the county of Gil
mer ; also, to incorporate the Thomaston and West
Point and Thomaston and Milledgeville Railroad Com
pany.
154. To amend an act for the better protection and
security of orphans and their estates, approved Febru
ary 18,1799, by extending tho prov isions of the fifth
section thereof to trustees.
155. To authorize the Governor to apply $75,000 to
the redemption of any bonded liabilities of the State, &c.
156. To extend the provisions of the act to abolish the
right of surveyorship in joint tenants in this State.
161. To alter and amend an act to incorporate the
Coosa and Chattooga Railroad Company and also to pro
vide for the settling of controversies as to the right of
way when there are estates in remainder as to said
company, and all other Railroad Companies of this
State.
165. To inerporate the Dalton and Copper Mine
Tuurnpike, Plank and Railroad Company and to al
low the company to build a Turnpike, Plank and
Railroad.
175. To incorporates* company to the Sa
vannah, Griffin and North Alabama Railroad Company
with power to build a Railroad from the oity of Griffin,
by Newnan, in Coweta county and Carrollton, in Car
roll County, to the Alabama State Hue and to any point
in Carroll county.
178. To incorporate a Bank to be called The Ex
change Bank of the City of Savannah.
179. To incorporate tho Merchants and Planters
Bank
188. To alter, change and amend an act entitled an
act to compensate Grand and Petit Jurors of the county
of Muscogee, and to authorize the Justices of the Inferior
Court of said county to levy and co’leet a tax for such
purposes and for other purposes herein named, approv
ed Dec. 21st, 1849, so far as to require the Clerks of
tha Superior and Inferior Courts to pay over to said Ju
rors the full amount of all Jury fees in addition to the
one dollar per day, now allowed by the above recited
act, and for other purposes therein named.
196. To authorize all Physicians within the State of
Georgia having receive a diplima from any medical col
lege within the Lfnited States, to practioe physic in this
State and charge for the same without license.
201. lo lay out and form anew county out of the
counties of Muscogee and Marion, and to organize the
same.
203. To authorize and require the School Commis
sioners of the several counties in this State to pay
Teachers who tought poor children of said counties in
1852, and failed to file their accounts within the time
prescribed by law.
204. Amendatory of an act to repeal an act to extend
the time for fortunate drawers in all the land and gold
lotteries to taka out their grants, assented to in Dec.,
1841, and to limit the time for fortunate drawers in
said lotteries to take out their grants, &e., assented to
Deo. 21st, 1843.
201. To submit the question of the removal of the
Court-house of Macon county to the people thereof,
and the place of its location, and in case they elect to
remove it, to authorize the Justices of the Inferior Court
to sell the Court house and property of the county ap
pertaining thereto, to negotiate for the site that may be
elected, and t to levy an extra tax for the building of a
new Court-house.
213. To amend the Ist see. of the 3d art. of the
Constitution of the State of Georgia.
223. To define the liability of Rent to levy and sale,
and to protect tho rights of owners of land in this
State.
226. To incorporate the Forsyth and Lumpkin Rail
road Company.
229. To amend act to alter and change the the time
of holding the Superior Courts in the county of Marion,
to allow said county two weeks instead of one for the
term of slid Courts, to authorize the Judge of sadi
Courts to draw two panels of Grand and Petit Jurors,
aud to authorize and require the Inferior Court of said
county to draw an additional paniel for the next term of
said Court, approved Dec., 10th, 1851. so far as to au
thorize the presiding Judge to hold the Superior
Courts in said county longer than the lime specified in
said act, at his discretion.
231. To appoint Commissioners to settle the claims
of the creditors of the Bank of Darien upon th* State of
Georgia, and to provide for raising the money which
may be required to pay such claims by a sale of State
Bonds.
235. To protect the owners of lands or tenants
against intruders and to provide a remedy for land
owners in certain eases.
236. To incorporate the Atlanta Medical College and
for other purposes therein mentioned.
237. To “incorporate the Dahlonega Testing and
Minning Company under such process as they may
deem best for Gold, Copper or other Minerals peculiar
to the Gold region of Georgia.
242. To wind up the affairs of the Central Bank of
Georgia, and for other purposes therein mentioned.
245. To incorporate a Bank in the city of Dalton, to
be called The Planters and Mechanics Bauk of Dalton.
249. To incorporate the Milledgeville Hotel Com
pany.
252. To incorporate the Monticello and Griffin Rail-
[TERMS, $2 OO IN ADVANCE.
read Company, and for other purposes tl ,n named.
255. To amend an act for the relief and support of
widows nnd orphans, and of the estates of their de
ceased husbands and parents, assented to December
27th, 1838.
259. To incorporate a bank in the town of Fort
Gaines, to be called the Southwestern Bank of Geor
gia, and to authorize the establishment ot one or more
branches of the same.
260. To amend a act entitled an act to compel the
several banks of this State to redeem their liabilities in
specie, and to provide a forfeiture of such as may refuse
assented toon the 18th day of December, 1810; and
an act entitled an act for the relief of certain banks
which have suspended specie payments, against which
judicial proceedings have been instituted for the forfeit
ure of their charters,assented toon the 10th Dec., 18-
41 ; also an act further amendatory of said acts,
assented to the 13tli Dec., 1842 ; and also an act amen
datory of the before recited acts, assented to 23d Dec.,
1843.
261. To compel parties plaintiff in Justice’s Courts
to pay the costs before taking out a capias ad satisfacien
dum, and to provide for the return of commissions by
mail.
262. To amend the several laws now in force in re
lation to free persons of oolor, and to exonerate and dis
charge, certain free persons of color from all pains, pen
alties and forfeitures heretofore incurred and to which
they are subject and liable.
263. For the protection in certain cases of planters
and cotton sellers within the State of Georgia.
267. To lay out and form anew county from parts
of the counties of Early and Randolph, and to organ
ize the same, and to attach it to the Second Congres
sional District, and to the Southwestern Judicial Cir
cuit.
268. To amend the 2d section of an act entitled an
act to repeal the 48th section of the 14th division of the
penal code, so far as relates to capital cases, and to add
anew section in lien thereof; assented to Dec. 27th
1843.
271. To amend the several acts of the General As
sembly in regard to the election of Public Printer,
and more particularly to prescribe the duties and liabili
ties, and compensation of said officer andj for other
pu poses.
275. To add an additional section to the 13th divis
ion of the penal code of the State of Georgia, and to
provide for the pnishment of free white persons for aid
ing or assisting negroes or free persons of color, law
fully committed or detained in any jail, to escape there
from.
285. For the government of Solicitors General in
certain cases therein named, and to provide for the
payment of fees of witnesses.
289. To incorporate the Georgia Gold Company, and
the Mining Company of Northern Georgia.
290. To authorize the Justices of the Inferior courts
of the State to bind out any free negro man, mulatto or
free person of color, between the ages of five and twen
ty one years.
298. To authorize tho Governor to issue State Bonds
in lieu of outstanding bonds of the Central Bank, and to
provide for the issue of certain other Bonds.
300. To authorize the Commissioners of the Geor
gia Asylum of Deaf and Dumb to apply and expend an
annual appropriation for certain purposes therein named.
306. To incorporate the Washington and Petersburg
Railroad Company.
309. To refer the question of the removal of the
Seat of Government of the State of Georgia to the le
gal voters of said State.
312. To amend the several acts now in force in rela
tion to the Muscogee Railroad, so far as chango
the time for the election of President and I >-ectors of
said Company, and for other purposes therein named.
314. More effectually to prevent the trading with
slaves and furnishing them with intoxicating liquors and
to prohibit Indians in Talbot county, from selling or fur
nishing liquors to slaves.
315. To incorporate the Wilkes Plank or Railroad
company.
316. To incorporate a Bank in the city of Griffin to
be called the “Interior Bank of the State of Georgia.”
318. To incorporate Bellville Factory.
319. To compel Judicial officers to turn over to their
successors in office all books received from the State.
320. To provide for taking the answers of parties to
suits in this Stato when such parties reside without
the limits of this State, and for other purposes.
321. To secure a preference to persons in posses
sion in applications for Grants, under the laws pertain
ing the Head Rights.
323. To incorporate the Southern Central Agricultu
ral Society of Georgia, and to confer certain powers
and immunities on the same.
328. To amend an act of the 4th Dec., 1799, in re
lation to the manner of arriving at the damages sustain
ed by the laying out of public roads in this State, and
for other purposes, so far as relates to the county of
Floyd.
331. To authorize Guardians of minors to invest
surplus funds belonging to their wards in slave property
under certain conditions.
352. To levy and collect a tax for the political years
1854 and 1855, and thereafter until repealed.
354. To incorporate the stockholders of the Montgo
mery snd W est Point Railroad Company in the State
of Georgia, to give them the right to extend the Opelika
branch of their railroad across the Chattahoochee river
and locate and use a depot on their own land in Geor
gia, and for other purposes.
356. Amendatory of an act to authorize the Gover
nor to appoint fit and proper persons to sell and dispose
of the undrawn lots in the land lotteries heretofore
had in this State, and limit the time for fraction purcha
sers to pay for and take out grants for fractions, and
for other purposes, approved 30th December, 1547.
36 1 . To compensate Josephus Echols and John 11.
Howard for their expenditures, expenses, professional
and other services, concerning the boundary line in dis
pute between this State and the State of Alabama, and
for other purposes therein named.
368. To incorporate the Columbus Gas Light Com
pany, and to alter and change the name of the Ladies’
Education Benevolent Society of the Methodist Episco
pal Church of the city of Columbus, to that of the La
dies’ Educational and Benevolent Society of the city of
Columbus.
378. To appropriate money for effecting necessary
improvements at the State Lunatic Asylum, and for
other purposes connected with important interests of
the Institution.
380. To amend the insolvent laws of this State.
381. To allow widows of such persons as die intes
tate in this State, in taking their proportionate part of
the negro property, to choose and select the same, pro
vided the same can be done without exceeding in
amount their distributive shares.
The Tax Bill.
The following is the Tax Bill passed by the Legislature:
A bill to be entitled an act to levy and collect a tax for
each of the political years 1854 and 1855, and thereafter
until repealed.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represents
/ire* of the estate of Georgia in General Assembly met ,
and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same,
I hat the Ist, 2d, 3rd, 4th, sth, 6th, 7th,Bth, 9th 10th. 11th,
13th, 14th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th. 21s!, nd 22d sec
tions ot act, entitled an act to levy and coil, ot a tax lor
each ol the political years 1852 and 1853, and uiereafter un
til repealed, approved January 9ih, 1852, and the 12th and
15th sections thereol, as hereinafter altered and amended,
be and the same ate hereby continued in full force until re
pealed.
Pec. 2nd, Be it further enacted, that the 12th section
of said recited act, be so altered as to read as follows :
That the reteivers of tax returns throughout the State, shall
administer to each and every person giving in his or her
taxable property, the following oath,to wit:
You do solemnly swear or affirm, (as the case mav be,)
that the account which you now give in is a just and true
account of all the taxable property which you were possess-
Number 9.