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Itie iDcclili! limes S. Sentinel.
By R. ELLIS & CO.
Volume XVIII.
anir SentmtL
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LOMAX A ELLIS.
Columbus, Apr il 15 1854
B. Y. MARTIN. J. J. MARTIN.
MARTIN & MARTIN^
Attorneys at Law,
eOX.trMBTTS, GA.
Office on Broad Street—OverGunby & Daniel.
Columbus, Jau. 9, 1857. w&tvvly.
M. B. WELLBORN JERE.N. WILLIAMS.
WELLBORN 8c WILLIAMS,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Clayton, Alabama.
WILL give prompt attention to the collection of all claima
entrusted totheircare in Barbour county. Oct 4 wtwbm
MARION BETHUNE,
A TTO RNE Y AT L A W,
TALBOTTON, Talbot County, Ga.
October 24th. 1856. wtwtf.
W. a. JOHNSON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
C U S S E T A,
Chattahoochee County, Ga.
Gives tits entire attentlonto the practice in Chattahoochee
adioining counties. ap26—wtwlj*
BAUGH & SLADE,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA.
WILL practlcelaw in Muscogeeand theadjolnlnpcountles
of Georgia and Alabama,
rsr Office over Bank of Coiambus, Broad Street.
ROBERT BAUnn. SLADE.
Columbus* Ga. March 27 1857. wtwtf
MOBLEY & FAELEY,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
HAMILTON, {GEORGIA.
Hamilton, Geo. Feb. 4. 1858. wtwy
SAMUEL H. HAWKINS,
ATT T O RN E Y AT LAW,
AMERICUS, GA.
WILL practice in the counties of Sumter, Webster,
Terrell, Lee, Baker, Worth, Randolph and Cal
houn.
Reference —Ingram, Crawford & Russell, Columbus.
Col. Honry G. Lamar, Macon Ga.
Mr. W. L. Johnson, Americus.
May 12,1357
Howard & WEEiasr
ATTORN EYSAT LAW,
CRAWFORD, ALA.
Robert, n. no ward. Walter h- wkems.
Crawford, Ala., June B— wtwtf.
GRICE & WALLACE,
BUTLER, GEORGIA.
WlLLsivepromptattentiou all business entrustediito
them.
W L GRICE. VVM.S. WALLACE.
December I —wtf
W. A. BYRD,
attorney at law,
CUTHHERT— Randolph County, Ga.
WILL practic': ‘ll the Pataulaand Southwestern Circuits
Ail business entrusted to his care will received promp
ttention. mayl9—wly.
\VM. M. CHAMBERS. WM. M . ROBBINS. J. A. ROBBINS.
Chambers, Robbins & Robbins,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
EXJFAULA, ALABAMA.
WILL practice in the counties of Barbour, Pike, Henry
Coffee, Pike, Dale and Russell. feb I—wly
WILLIAM GORDON,
A T T ORNEY AT LA W
NEWTON, ALA.
ywrILL attend promptly to all business confided to his
VV care j n t he counties of Dale, Henry, Coffee and Pike.
February 27,1858 —w6m.
OTDM.&S W. ©Dll,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
PRESTON, Webster Coanty,Ga.
WILL practice in'the counties of Clay,Chattahoochee,
Webster, Early, Randolph, Stewart aud Sumter.
Particular attention given to collecting and remitting.
January 27,1857 —wtf.
ELAM & OLIVER,
attorneys at law,
BUENA VISTA,
MARION COUNTY,GA.
WILL practice inthecountles of Marion, Macon, Stewart
Taylor, Chattahoochee, Kinchafoonee, and any of the
dtoiningcountieswhontheirsemcee may borequired.
WH. D- tu. THADKUS OUVXR.
November 10. wtf
T J. GU NN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
HAMILTON, GA.
WILL attend promptly to all busineesa entrusted to him
January 26, 1858 —wly.
’ REDDING & SMITH,
Attorneys at Law,
PRESTOS, WEBSTER COUNTY, GA.
£3^*Will practice in PataulaCircuit and adjoining counties.
L. R, REDDING. A. J. SMITH.
Pres.or, February I, 1858—w6m,
S.S. STAFFORD,
ATTORNEY AT LAV,
BLAKELY, EARLY COUNTY, GA.
ap2 wtf.
RAIFORD & BURTS,
ATTORNEYS AT X-ATITs
CUSSETA;
Cfcattahooche County, Ga.
Will practice in Chattahoochee and adjoining counties
and give prompt attention to the collecting of all caim9
entrusted to their care. april3—wly.
E. G. RAIFORD. DUNCAN H. BURTS.
R. A. TURNIPSEED,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CV T HBER TANARUS,
Randolph [County, Ga.
HAVING removed from Cusseta, to Cuthbert Ran
dolph county, will give prompt attention to all busi
ness entrusted to his care. ap27—wtf.
PARKER & PARKER,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
COLQUITT.
Miller County, Georgia.
WILL give their entire attention to the practice in South
western Georgia; will also give prompt attention’ to the
collection of all claims entrusted to their care in the ‘ollowing
counties: Daker,Calhoun, Clay, .Decatur, Dougherty, Early,
Lee,Miller, Mitchell. Randolph, Terrell and Worth.
February 1, 1858 wtf.
J. FOGLE & SON,
DENTISTS,
Office on Randolph Street, near Broad, Columbus,Ca
Columbus, May tJ, 1867. wtwtf
WM. F. LEE, D. D. S.
fIgyPmPENTAL SURGEON.
OFFICE corner of Broad and Randolph Streets,
Columbus, Georgia,
December 17,1856 —w&lwtf
Bacon! Bacon!
WE Lave now onhand ard will be constantly receiving.
Prime Tennessee Bacon—Hams, Sides :‘and Shoulders,
which we will sell at the lowest Commission House prices.
Mar2o—w&twtf E. BARNARD te CO.
TO THOSE INDEBTED.
CTTE hereby give notice that all claims due us, and not paid
VV or satis actorily arranged, prior to the next rcturnday
of the respective counties in which the parties reside, will be
sued. Noneshall.be slighted.
raar2o—wtwtf. E. BARNARD &. CO.
CO-PARTNERSHIP.
THE undersigned have this day associated themselves
rogother under the name and style of
AYE IV CA, a IV AA- ,
Auction & Commission Merchants,
and respectfully solicits share ofbnsiness—pledging them
selves to a faithful discharge of all business committed to
their care.
Liberal advances made on consignments.
A. K. AYER,
RICHARD M- GRAY.
Columbus, Jan, 1,1857. jan6wtwly
FOIi SALE.
®I am now offering for sale, one oftLemost desirable
residvneesin or near Columbus. It.is situated just
outside of the East Common, near the residence of
.Maj. John 11. Howard. The lot contains six acres.
For further particulars, apply to me at Upatoie,or Charly.J
Williamsat Columbus.
June2o—twtf C. B. HOWARD.
BED-STEADS.
A LARGE lot of very neat low post Bedsteads, as low
as $4,00. For sale by J. H. SIKES,
Columbus, March 4. 36 Broad Street*
THE LIVER
UTOMMNUUmi
PREPARED BY
DR. SA N D F O RD,
COMPOUNDED ENTIRELY .FROM GUMS.
18 one of the best Purgative and Haver Medicine now before
the public, that acts as a Cathartic, easier, milder, and
more effectual than any other medicine known. It is not on
ly a cathartic, but a Liver Remedy, acting first on the Liver
to eject its morbid matter, then on the Stomach and Bowels
t curry ofl the ’matter, thus accomplishing two purposes et
lec'ually, without any of the painful feelings experienced in
the operation of most’Cbathartics. It strengthens the system
at the same time that it purges it; and when taken daily in
moderatedoses, will strengthen and build up with unusual
rapidity.
The'Llver is one of thetr#Yprincipal regnlators of the
human [body; and when ItIJJ-*. performs its functions well,
the powers of the system are (fully developed. The stomach
is almostcniireiydependenton the healthyactlon ofthe
Liver for the proper qieform- 1 i_j lance of its fuuctions.when the
stomach is at faulttheooweltj'7,>are at fault, and the whole
system suffersin consequenct [■*-(; of one organ—the Liver—
having ceased ,to doits duty.(|_J'For,the disease of that or
gan.onelof the SproprietontM'has made it his study, in a
practice of more than twent; j ■! vears, to find some remedy
wherewith to counteractthtl “Ejimauy derangementsto which
it is liable.
To provethat this'remedy bJUjiat last found any persontrou
bled with Liver Com-) [plaint,in any of its forms,
has but to trya|bottle, ancf W [conviction is certain.
These gums remove'al (pV'morbid or bad matter fiom
the system.supplymg in theiij _jlplace a.healthy flow of bile,
i ivignraiing the Stomach )*! (causing food to digest well,
purifying tle blood.) tone andhealth to the
whole machinery, removing] rf-< the cause oi the disease. —
effecting a radical cure. I'J-S
Bilious attacks artl. .[cured, and, what is
better,'prevented, bttpijthe occasional use of the
Liver luvigorator. ’(V. , ~
One dose alter eatingissuf-jM'ficient to relieve the stomach
and prevent‘the food from! -Prising andsouring.
Only one dose taken before ) (retiring, prevents Nlglit
**Only"one dose taken at? trf)night, loosens the bowels
gently, and cures Cos-fLJjtiveness.
One dose taken after each(pys.meal willcure Dyspepsia
dosfijof two tea-f (spoonsful will always relieve
Sick Headache. ) (
One dose taken for te- male obstruction remove the
cause’of the disease, and], .Imakesa perfect cure.
Only onedose immediate]}! ry [ relieves cholic, while
One dose often repeated sure cure for Cholera
fflorbns,andapreventaiiv< ( j lof Cholera.
- only one bottle ist-^’(needed to thio-v out ofthe
system the effects ofcnedi-1. -(cine after a long sickness.
g-g*- One bottle lakinjprj |—! j Jaundice removesail sal
lowness or unnatq3|Mo]J(from the skin.
One dose time before eating fgives vi
gor to the appetiteamnnakeiiv food digest well.
One dose often repeated! .cures Chronic Dior
rlioca, in its worst forms,?! , I while SITM ME R and
Bowel complaints yield) rrs [almost to the first ‘dose.
One or two doses cures at-jpß; tacks caused by W or main
Children; there is no surer.) ho safer, or speedier remedy in
the world, as it [never fails.)
[fi few bottles cures) tj;Dropsy, by exciting the
absorbants. )”[
We take pleasure in recom-l mending this medicine as a
preventive for Feverjandt' v '; Ague, Chill, Fever,
and all Fevers of a BiMuj'.ious Type, It operates
withcerlainty,and thousands! Hj Are willing to testify to its
wonderful virtues. ); •
All who use it are giving their unanimous testimony In Its
water in the mouth with the Invigorator and swallow
both together.
THE LIVER INVIGORATOR,
Is a scientific Medical Discovery, and is daily working cures
almost too great for belief. It cures as if by magic, even the
first dose glviDg benefit, and seldom more than one bottle is
requiredto cure any kind of Liver Complaint, from the worst
jaundiceor dyspepsia to a’ common headache, allot which are
the result oi a diseased liver.
Price Ono Dollar per Bottle.
SANFORD & CO. Proprietors,34s Broadway,New York.
WHOLESALE AGENTS.
Barnes & Park New York; T. W. Doytt A. Sons, Philadel
phia; M. 8. Burr 4-Co. Boston; IH.H. Hay &• Cos. Portland;
JohnD., Park, Cincinnati; Gaylard & Hammond, Cleveland;
Fahnstock & ’Davis Chicago; O.J. Wood & Cos. St. Louis
Geo.H. Keyser,Pittsburg; B.S, Hance, Baltimore. Andre
tailed by all Druggists.
Sold Wholesale and Retail by
J. S. PEMBERTON & CO.,
BROOKS & CHAPMAN,
DANFORTH $ NAGEL,
May2A~Ntwly and all Drugggista.
u THE UNION OF THE STATES AND THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE STATES.’
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 13, 1858.
The Agamemnon aud Niagara,
WrTH THE SUB—MARINE TELEGRAPH IN MID OCEAN,
(.A Song of Nations.)
BY WILLI AJt LOSS WALLACE.
Science, Religion and Poetry.are the lovers of the ‘void
J- P. Birch.
O, winds of Ocean! well may ye
Your wings in sweetest music wave:
And thou, O sun ! look smiling down
Upon the banded brave;
The Red Cross floats—but roses now
Arc wreathing round the bloodless fold;
Beside it see the Flag of Stars
In shining myrtles rolled;
And hark! the song of Bethlehem’s glen,
“Peace on earth! Good will to men!’’
No cannon from the port-holes frown;’
No quick, deep, boarding drums are heard;
No wrathful shouts of onset here
Rush through the warrior’s beard;
The brave ones of two mighty lands.
Once met in war, together stride
With words of love and smiles of joy
Above thegladdened tide;
Ring out thy song of Bethlehem’s glen,
“Peace on the Earth ! Good will to Men!”
O, more than mortal forms are here
Upon tiie decks amid the throng,
Who, though unheard by mortal ear,
Join in the heavenly song;
Here walks the seer of Carmel’s crag:
Here glows the bard of Zion’s psalm,
And with them he of Patmos waves
His consecrated palm—
Singing the song of Bethlehem’s glen,
‘ Peace on the Earth! Good will to Men!
Then,heroes ofthe banded ships,
With heaving hearts and eyes a glow,
Down with the instrument of love,
Old Ocean’s heart below;’
By it tlio continents shall wed;
The flag of war and hell be furled;
One universal rainbow arch
And paradise the world—
In chorus with Judea’s glen,
“Peace on the Earth! Good will to men!”
Yes, winds ol Ocean! well may way ye
Your wings in sweetest music wave;
And thou, 0 Sun! look smiling down
Upon the banded brave:
Do ye not see the nations stand
In breathless joy before thedeed!
This is the bridal of the climes
By him ofold decreed,
When rose the song ol Bethlehem’s glen,
“Peace on the Earth! Good will to Men!”
HEATH IN SLEEP.
A PASSAGE IN SHELLEY’S POEM, .“iANTIIE.”
How wondeiful is Death,
Death and his brother Sleep!
Ono pale as yonder waniDg moon,
With lips of lurid blue;
The other rosy as tho morn
When throned on ocean’s wave,
It blushes o’er the world;
Yet both so passing wonderful.
Hath then the gloomy power
Whose reign is in tho tainted sepulchres,
Seized on iier sinless soul!
Must then that peerless form
Which love and admiration cannot view
Without a beating heart,those azure veins
Which steal like streams along a field ol snow,
That lovely outline, which is fair
As breathing marble, perish!
Must putrctaction’s breath
Leave nothing oi this heavenly sight
But loathsomeness and ruin!
Spare nothing but a’gloomy theme,
On which the lightest heart might (moralize!
Or is it only a sweet slumber
Stealing o’er sensation,
Which the breath of roseate morning
Chaseth into darkness!
Will lantlie wake again!
# And give that faithful bosom joy
Whose sleepless spirit waits tt> catch
Light, life and rapture, from her smile!
Although her glowing limbs are motionless,
Aud silent those sweep lips
Once breathing eloquence
That might have soothed a tiger’s rage.
Or thaw’d the cold heart of a conqueror.
Her dewy eyes are closed,
And on her lid, whose texture fine.
Scarce hides tho dark blue orbs beneath,
The baby sleep is pillowed;
Her golden traces shade
The bosom’s slainloss pride,
Curling like tendrils of the parasite
Around a marble column.
Romantic Marriage.
Oh ! give me a cot in the valley I love.
A tent in the green word, a home in the grove;
I care not how humble so ever it be,
If one faithful heart will but share it with me.
On Tuesday evening, one of those picturesque
crafts, “yclept a broad horn,” might have been seen
by the looker-out, gracefully rounding to at our
flatboat landing, and shortly thereafter an individ
ual, “on some great purpose evidently intent,” dis
embarked, and straightway repaired to the office
of Justice Houghton. He informed the worthy
magistrate that he desired his services in a matri
monial ceremony—stating at the same time that
from “boyhood’s sunny hours” he had cherished
loudly a desire to be joined in wedlock’s bonds be
neath the waving branches of some lovely grove.
Our obliging functionary at once assented, and
the lady—the latter being a passenger on the “broad
horn”—together with some citizens, who joined
the group, all mounted on horse back, rode to a
lovely grove, about Springfield, where the ceremo
ny was solemnly performed.
The beautiful bride in her flowing costume, her
jaunty cap and snow-white plume, with her pran
cing steed, would have made a picture for Rosa
Bonheur, while her happy lord seemed translated
to the seventh heaven.
The ceremony over, the bridal party made a
“tour” over the vast extent of our romantic sub
urbs, taking in their way our beautiful cemetery
and Fort Hill; and as the day god sunk to his gor
geous church of purple and gold, they returned to
the city, embarked once more upon the “broad
horn,” and soon were borne away on the bosom ol
the “Great Father of Waters.” — Vicksburg South
ron.
A Young Devil.
The Baltimore Republican gives the following as
a few of t.he exploits of a boy only fifteen years
of age, the son of a very respectable citizen of that
citv :
“Not long ago, a young Newfoundland dog, the
favorite of his father, was securely tied by this
young Nero, who saturated the body with cam
phene or etherial oil, and set fire to the inflamma
ble fluid, which had the effect of roasting poor Tow
ser until life became extinct, after the endurance
of the most intense, agonising suffering which the
human mind can conceive.
“The young demon being well pleased at the re
sult of this grand experiment in cruelty, next en
deavored also to roast alive his little sister, a bright,
intelligent child, about six years of age. Having
playfully bound her legs and arms with a clothes
line, he placed her upon the cooking stove in the
kitchen, heated to an intense degree, in order to
prepare dinner tor the family. The shrieks and
yells of the agonised little victim were fortunately
heard by the mother, who rushed down and re
moved the poor child before she was fatally injured.
Toleration of the young villain’s crimes had now
ceased to be a virtue, and the father was engaged
in preparations to effect his removal to the House
of Refuge when the hopeful youth suddenly disap
peared at night trom his dwelling, and no tidings
have been heard of him since.”
What Makes a Bushel.—The following table
of the number of pounds of various articles to a
bushel may be of interest to our readers:
Wheat, sixty pounds.
Corn, shelled pounds.
Corn, on the cob, seventy pounds.
Oats, thirty—six pounds.
Rye, fifty-six pounds.
Irish Potatoes, sixty pounds.
Sweet Potatoes, fifty pounds.
Onions, fifty-seven'pemnds.
Bran, twenty pounds.
Clover Seed, sixty pounds.
Buckwheat, fifty-two pounds.
Timothy Seed, forty-five pounds.
Flax Seed, forty-five pounds.
Hemp Seed, forty-five pounds.
Blue Grass Seed, fourteen pounds.
Beans, sixty pounds.
Dried Peaches, thirty-three pounds.
In Columbus.
We had the pleasure of witnessing the extraor
dinary manifestation of the Spirit’s power in the
conversion ot men and women, a few days last
week in Columbus —and extraordinary it was. We
hare never seen nor read ol such a phenomenon
in the moral and spiritual world. In looking over
the iarge and mixed congregation,as with one ac
cord they raised their voice in praise and suppli
cation, one is absolutely won by the moral grand
eur of the scene, untii his own spirit, catching the
inspiration, looses itself in the wrapt revery of an
awful yet glorious speculation. In this revival,
there is a spirit of fraternity and true devotion
which does not often characterize such occasions.
The very atmosphere seems to be filled with a mo
ral odor, and all who come into it, feel the over
whelming force of moral obligation and an irresis
tible call to duty.
The young men and women ofthe city are zea
lous in doing good. They go out among their
friends and compel them to serious thought. You
can hear the song of praise behind the counter,
and the merchant will stop his measuring of goods
to say some good word to his customer. The
doctor trusts more to his prayers for the sick than
in his skill as physician. The lawyer stands with
his brief in hand and exhorts his client to avoid
litigation and submit to a little wrong rather than
provoke to wrath—and thus it is from morning
until night.
Nearly five hundred have joined the several
churches in the city, and we believe that there are
not fifty men in the city, who have escaped this
strong and almost irresistible appeal to duty. We
hope that this moral power will widen and deepen
until it reach all our cities and towns and cover
the country as if with a smile of peace!
In this gracious visitation of mercy we can see
no other influence than the power of God, It finds
no solution in the philoepby of mind or matter,and
really it lies even beyond the probabilities of spec
ulation. In a human sense there is no rationale
of logic or learning or observation belonging to this
most wonderful moral phenomenon. At a distance
and from under its influeuce, skepticism may at
tribute to this purely spiritual manifestation, a hu
man instrumentality outside the organized means
of the Bible and thereby materialize what is alto
gether spiritual and immaterial; but with it, and
under its controlling, constraining influence, no
man or system will pretend to reason —they yield
to the conviction that it is of God and unto God.—
This revival is as an angel of death to infidelity,
ami causes hardened transgression to tremble for
its safety. To express our conviction very briefly
we state, that the quiet, yet radical and all perva
ding spirit of reformation throughout the city fas
tens the tact upon every unprejudiced mind, that it
is ail of God.— Auburn Gazette.
Judge Campbell.
Before the election of Justice Campbell to the
Supreme Bench, no man in all this broad South
was more violent in his advocacy of our rights and
of the necessity of Southern expansion. .He was a
steam-engine on the track of progress. He de
nounced the encroachments of the Federal Govern
ment upon the rights of the sovereign States; lie
proclaimed that his allegiance was due alone to
to the sovereign power of Alabama, who was but
a member of a Confederacy, from which she could |
,secede at any moment. States Rights, Southern
Rights, God and the People, was the cry of plain
Air. Campbell before he put on the ermine of a
Federal Judge. And since that time-—Heaven
help humanity ! —no greater advocate of Federal
npwer and tyranny exists than this whilom friend
o ie ooueu ....a „c Southern expansion. The
black mantle now covers as arra„t a Federalist as
ever entered tho precincts ofthe Capitol.
We observe that some of the citizens of Alobile
tendered Judge Campbell a public dinner the other
f/Pffiy ff Southern
eating and drinking testimonial, we think, is a se
cret worth the attention of the thoughtful men of
our sister city. There was, we imagine, something
more in that affair than admiration for the conduct
ofthe Judge in the recent trial of General Walker
and others, and a desire to poultice the wound in
flicted upon him by the press.—JV. O. Daily
Delta.
The Abolition Infidel Woman’* Rlglita Free,
love Reform Convention.
This body, which was in session in Vermont last
week, is a disgrace to the age in which it met. —
Were such a conclave attempted in any southern
town the very blackguard boys in the streets would
pelt it out with a shoWer of rotten eggs and brick
bats. Some of the resolutions will not bear a re
publication, but we select a few reported by the
Business Committee, which will do as specimens
of the agrarian and blasphemous spirit that ruled
in the convention :
SLAVERY.
That slavery is a wrong which no power in the
universe can make right; therefore, any law con
stitution, court or government, any church, priest
hood, creed or Bible, any Christ or any God that
by silence or otherwise, authorizes man to euslave
man, merits the scorn and contempt of mankind,
BIBLE.
Thatnothing is true or right, and nothing is
false or wrong, because it is sanctioned or eoti
demnned by the Bible—therefore our Bible is pow
erless to prove any doctrine to be true or any prac
tice to be right, and it should never be quoted for
that purpose.
That the time and devotion spent on religious
services can confer no benefit on an Infinite and
Independent Power, and can there fore be no vir
tue.
woman’s eights.
Whireas, The assumed superiority of man over
woman has held her in submission, and entailed
slavery and dependence on the sex, and conse
quently misery on the race—therefore,
Resolved, That immediate steps should be taken
to remove that error and ils consequences, and
place woman politically, industrially,educationally
and socially, on a perfect equality with man.
LAND REFORM.
That the earth, like'the air and light, belongs in
common to the children of men on it. Each hu
man being is alike independent, each child, by
virtue of his existence, has an inalienable right to
so much of the earth’s surface as is convenient by
proper culture to his support and perfect develop
ment, and none has a right to any more; therefore
all laws authorizing and sustaining private prop
erty in land for the purpose of speculation, and
which prevent men and women from possessing
any land without paying lor it, are as unjust as
would be any laws compelling them to pay for
air or light, and ought to be at once repealed for
ever Sav. Republican.
A Splendid Weapon.—Several months ago, as
our readers will recollect, we noticed an applica
tion made by Mr. A. Le Mat, of this city, for a pa
tent for an improved revolver of his invention.—
He has secured his patent, and yesterday showed
us one of them. It is beyond all comparison the
finest weapon we ever saw. It is a revolver of
nine chambers, charged with conical expanding
balls, which are fired in the same manner as the
balls of the Coil’s Army Revolver. But in addi
tion to these there is a large center barrel the
charge of which consists of fifteen or twenty buck
shot. This barrel is independent of all the others
and is charged by means of a sliding hammer. The
adjustment for the discharge of the central or grape
shot barrel can be effected by a single motion in
two seconds. In weight this weapon is about
equal to the regular Army revolver, but in efficien
cy it far surpasses it.— N. O. Crescent.
Copartnership.—A colored firm in Newark, N.
J. having suffered some pecuniary embarrassments
recently, gave the following ‘notis’ to the public:
‘De disholution of coparsnips hertofo resisting
twixt me and Jones, in de barber perfesion, am
heretofo resolved. Pussons who ose must pay the
inscriber. Dem dat the.furm ose mus call on
Jones as de iurm is insolved.J JOHNSON.
The New Orleans Duel.
The N.O. Delta, of Wednesday lasl, has the
following in reference to the duel which was con
sidered sufficiently important to be telegraphed all
over the country :
A hostile meeting took place yesterday at the
“Oaks,” near the Half Way House, between Air.
Joseph Hanlon, Reporter of the True Delta, and
Mr. isreal Gibbons, Reporter ofthe Crescent. The
weapons used were duelling pistols, distance
twelve paces. At the first fire Air. Gibbons re
ceived the ball ofhis adversary in the breast, and
was caught by his seconds as he fell. Upon ex
amination it was found that the wound was ex
tremely dangerous, and it was thought advisable
not to move him from the ground. We, however,
learned that he was subsequently removed. Air.
Hanlon escaped uninjured, the ball ofhis adversa
ry cutting his coat.
The diffianlty, we learned, grew out of some
compositions which were read before the Girl’s
High School last week, and which were published
in the True Delta of last Sunday. It appears that
Air. Hanlon obtained them for publication in a
manner which called forth some remarks form Mr.
Gibbons, which the former considered insulting,
and which, alter some correspondence, led to a
challenge from Mr. Hanlon. The parties hither
to have been firm friends. When we last heard
from Air. Gibbons it was feared he could not sur
vive.
Since the above was in type, we have learned
that there is reason to suppose that Air. Gibbons
will recover.
The Living and the Dead Monroe.
It is just twenty-eight years since James Mon
roe left Virginia to reside in New York. If tradi
tion speak truly, he departed under circumstances
not very creditable to the character of the Stale
whose annals he had illustrated by his wisdom and
his virtues. Although he had been engaged in al
most every variety of civil employment, from the
lowest and least profitable to the highest and most
lucrative, in his old age he retired to private life
without the resources even of a comfortable subsis
tence. His poverty was not the result of vice or
indolence, but of the entire devotion ofhis energies
to the service of the country. His virtues were
universally revered, and he was already a chief
among the historic worthies of Virginia. Neverthe
less, ho was reduced to the sad necessity of giving
up his property for the satisfaction of creditors, and
of removing to another State, that he might enjoy
protection under the roof a generous descendant.
In a short lime after his residence in New York, he
died, it is said, of vexation at the delay in allowing
a long-standing claim for a balance on an adjust
ment ofhis accounts with the Government.
Alter twenty-five years of repose in another Stale,
to-day the remains of James Monroe will be de
posited in the soil of his nativity. Virginia, who
silently witnessed the exile of the aged patriot, and
made no effort to lighten his sorrows, now receives
his bones with every demonstration of respect for
his memory. The contrast is striking and instruc
tive, between the pageant of to-day and the spec
tacle ofthe old man wending his solitary way with
tottering step to a distant State, —covered with
glory but clad in poverty, surfeited with applause
but wanting the means of a decent livelihood, re
nowned in history for the exploits of his statesman
ship and his valor, but neglected at home in the
obscurity of helpess old age. Such are the freaks
of fortune—such the capricious gratitude of Repub
lics. The associates of the living Montoe in Vir
ginia administered no relief to his necessities, but
suffered him to subsist in a distant land and upon
the bounty of a generous benefactor. A generation
passes away, and the ashes of the dead patriot are
reclaimed by his native State,with an ostentation ot
homage and munificence of expenditure that would
have gladdened his soul and alleviated the bur
dens ofhis declining years. These posthumous
ers, but they attest our own appreciation Oi mc'ptq
sonal virtues and public services which are im
perishably associated with the name ofJas. Alori
roe.—(The. South').
Robert Dale Owen Converted. —The Vincennes
(Ind.) Gazette has the following:
Private letters from the Hon. Robert Dale Owen
U. S. Minister at the Court of Naples,has written to
his friends at New Harmony,announcing the grati
fying intelligence that he has become converted to
the Cbiistian religion. Mr. Owen is well known
throughout this State for his scholastic attain
ments, but his influence has ever been weakened
heretofore by his heterodox views of Christianity.
Large Field op Pine Apples.—ln Liberia, a
few miles north from Monrova, towards Cape
Mount, is a tract of land, ten miles in extent en
tirely covered with Pine Apples. The fruit buds
out in April and ripens in August and September.
It is of a delicious flavor. The apples are taken
to Monrovia in considerable quantities, where they
are sold as low as two for a cent. Pine Apples
grow wild in the woods, and thousands of them
are seen in half an hour’s walk.
Deacon Briggs.—Old Deacon Briggs was as re
markable tor his closeness as was Dickins’ man,
Barkis. His name has come to be a proverb in
our region for such an economy as ever makes a
man the subject of ridicule and contempt. One
bitter cold morning a few falls ago, he had the boys
drive together all the pigs that were to be fattened
for the market, into the little yard just at the cor
ner of the house. A pig was caught by one of the
youngsters; the Deacon with a pair of pinchers in
one hand, and a the other,seizing the
unfortunate by the tail, cut it off close up. So on
through the whole herd, leaving not a pig with
even the stnmp of a tail. Cort, who worked for
his grandfather stood by in amazement —hishands
in his pockets, his bodv wrapt into a crescent by
the cold, his teeth jawing against the outrage with
a prodigious clatter. At last he stuttered out:
‘Grandpa! What are you cutlingoff those tails
for?’
Sober and solemn wasdeacon Briggs as he said:
“You never will be a rich man, for you do not
know what it is to be savin. You ought to know,
my child, that it takes a bushel of corn to fatten
an inch of tail!”
A lady tells the following story: I had been out
to Indiana on a visit, and while there found a kit
ten which I brought home for a plaything for my
two children. To prevent any dispute about the
ownership otpuss, I proposed, and it was agreed,
that the head of the kitten should be mine, that the
bodv should be the baby’s, and Eddy, the eldest—
but only three years old—should be the sole pro
prietor of the long and beautiful tail. Eddy rath
er objected at first to this division, as putting
him off with an extremely small share of the ani
mal, but soon became reconciled to the division, and
quite proud of his ownership in the graceful ter
minus of the kitten. One day, soon after, I heard
the poor puss making a dreadful mewing, and i
called out to Eddy: “There, my son, you are hurt
ing my part of the kitten, I heard her cry.” “No,
I didn’t mother; I trod on my part, and your part
hollered /”
Discontinued.—The Portsmouth (Va.) Tran
script states that it has been found impossible to
continue the route from that port to Philadelphia
viaSeatord Delaware, in consequence of the ob
struction formed by the bar of the Nanticoke river.
The line will be discontinued until the bar can be
removed and a suitable boat for the route either
purchased or built to order.
The following bit of quait humor has about
as much sound philosophy in it as could well be
crowded into so small a space:
Bad luck is a man with his hands in his breech
es pockets and a pipe in his mouth, looking on to
see how it will come. Good luck is a man to meet
difficulties, his sleeves roiled up and working to
make it come out right.
Pat, what are you about?—sweeping
out that room V —‘No,’ answered Pat, I am sweep
ing out the dirt, and leaving the room.’
From the Union Springs Gazette.
We had the pleasure, on Monday and Tuesday
last, of paying a flying visit to the city of Column
bus, Ga. Business, not pleasure, called us there,
and during our short stay we were so occupied
with the object of our trip that vve had iittle lime for
anything else. We however met with two or three
o'd friends and formed a few new acquaintances
We did not intend to disturb our editorial breth
ren, even with a call, but as we passed the door
ofthe Enquirer Office, we just dropped in to shake
our old friend Alartin by tfie’ hand, not thinking
he would “tell on us.” What was our surprise,
the next morning, to find our arrival kindly an
nounced in his issue, and furthermore, what less
could we do than “take the rounds.” So we in
troduced ourself to Air. Colquitt of the Times &
Sentinel, and Air. DeWolf, of the Sun, both of
whom received us kindly. After spending a few
minutes with each, we bid them good-bye, with the
hope of a more intimate acquaintance hereafter.—
By-the-bye, we thought our office was “some” for
litter and confusion. But my the “Sun”
and “Gazette” are at quits on that score and the
Enquirer has “nothing to brag on.
Twelve or fifteen years have wrought a great
change in Columbus. It has expanded and im
proved manifold in business capacity and in busi
ness far beyond our expectations and no doubt
when the people from this section become acquaint
ed with the business men of Columbus, they will,
ere long, become as much attached to that place,
as they have heretofore been to Alonlgomery.
We cannot close our remarks without saying
something of our Rail Road and its very gentle
manly Conductor, Robt. Coleman, Esq. Alncli
fault has beend found with this road, but consider
ing the difficulties encountered and the obstacles
to be surmounted, it is doubtful whether many
roads in the South can make a better showing.—
The engine, “Arnold Seales,” is a splendid one, of
sufficient power tor all necessary purposes ofthe
road. The cars are small but comfortable and the
track in very respectable condition making in time,
ordinarily about 18 miles an hour. This Road is
emphatically an “institution” for this portion ofthe
country and Columbus. We are satisfied, how
ever, that very many of the business men of Co
lumbus have not yet found it out. They are not
aware ofthe importance to her market of this por
tion of Alabama.
To the gentlemanly Conductor, we return our
sincere thanks (or his kind attention to us cm our
“outward” and home-bound” trip.
Something to Feel Glad About-
Sitting in our sanctum, says the editor of the
Leavenwortli Times, now some years past, on a
cold and blustering autumn day, we were attracted
by the entrance of a bright-eyed, thoughtful little
boy, but thinly clad, who told the old story of “no
father—family sick—out of employment,” &c.—
We were at first disposed to express a mock sym
pathy, and say we could do nothing; but the boy’s
large eyes were so swimming with tears, and he so
trembled from head to foot, while his conduct and
demeanor bore such an impress of truthfulness and
sincerity, that we could not find it in our heart to
speak harshly, and finally dismissed him with quite
a handsome little sum, contributed in the main by
our printers—who, by the way, are proverbial, the
world over, for their generosity. The next even
ing we were somewhat suprised to find the little
fellow once again hanging diffidently about our of
fice door. This time, however, his eyes were bright
with happiness, and a sweet smile played over and
lit up his handsome features. We asked him to
come in, but he merely stepped forward timidly,
so ns to catch our ear, and earnestly though stut
teringly whispered, “Mamma prayed for you last
night,” and then disappeared as noiselessly as he
had come.
Thank God, thought we, for that mother’s pray
er ! And though years have passed since then—
though we have hustled through noisy incidents,
to do—a remembrance oi uia; f.Uji— i
you,” still sounds as grateful and as sweet as when
it first fell from the lips of that innocent boy.
Cotton.
The quantity of raw cotton imported into En
gland from various places is a highly interesting
subject to both the producers and consumers.—
We find the following statement in the London
correspondence of the National Intelligencer :
Imported from —
1843 1857.
The United States, lbs ,574.738,529 654.758,018
Brazil 18,675,123 29,910,832
Egypt and Mediterranean coun
tries 9,674,076 24,880.144
British East indies ... 65,709,729 250,338,114
British West Indies and Gui
ana 1,260,444 1,443,563
Other countries 3,135,224 7,986,160
Totals 673,193,116 969,318,896
The most striking feature of this statement is
the very great increase in the produce of cotton in
the British possessions in the East Indies.
Laughter.—Laughter is not altogether a fool
ish thing. Sometimes ihere is even wisdom in it.
Solomon himself admits there is a time to laugh, as
well as a time to mourn. Man only laughs—man,
the highest organized being; and hence the defini
tion that has been proposed of “man, a laughing
animal.” Certainly, it defines him as well as a
“cooking-animal,” a “toil-making animal,” a “mo
ney-making animal,” a “political-animal,” or such
like. Laughter very often shows the bright side
of a man. It brings out his happier nature, and
showsof what sort of stuff he is really made.—
Somehow we feel as if we never thoroughly know
a man until we hear him laugh. We do not feel at
home with him tiil then. We do not moan a mere
snigger, but a good, round,hearty laugh. The sol
emn, sober visage, like a Sunday’s dress, tells
nothing of the real many. He may be very silly,
or very profound: very cross, or very jolly. Let
us hear him laugh, and we can decipher him at
once, and tell how his heart beats. We are dis
posed to suspect the man who never laughs. At
all events, there is a repulsion about him which he
cannot get over- Lavater says : “Shun that man
who never laughs, who dislikes music, or the glad
face of a child.” This is what everybody feels, and
none more than children, who are quick at reading
characters; and their strong instinct rarely de
ceives them.— Blackwood.
Dickens.—The London Illustrated News has the
following reference to the case of Mr. Chas. Dic
kens ;
A great author has this week thought it neces
sary to appeal in print to his fellow-authors against
certain scandals—stupid, foul, and lying enough—
which nobody of name believed for a single mo
ment. An appeal from such a quarter should not
be made in vain; we therefore, (unnecessarily) ac
knowledge his appeal, and, knowing his noble na
ture—knowing the facts (better still) —appeal to
hint in print to forget the follies of malice and en
vy, aud rely as before on the well-assured affec
tion of his many friends, who know how in
capable his nature is of aught that is mean—of
aught that is contrary to truth and to his wri
tings. And the public (the world) is of our opin
ion.
Bulwer is separated from his wife, Dickens from
his wife, and Charles lleade (of Peg Woffington
and white Lies notoriety) is living with another
man’s wife. From the days of the poet Job, whose
wife was the original Mrs. Caudle, down to So
crates and Nantippe, and so on down to Bvron,
and finally to Dickens, matrimonial unhappiness
has ever attached to literary men.— Exchange pa
per.
“Our FoREtGN RELATtONs.”—From the London
derry (Ireland) Sentinel, May 28th, 1858.
Died—On the 3d instant. Mrs. Hemphill,, of
Straw, near Newtownstewart, in her 84th year.—
She was the eldest daughter of Mr. Win, McFar
land,of Leardan, who married Maria, eldest daugh
ter of the late Mr. Andrew Buchanan, of Tatty
reagh, near Omagh, and ..was first cousin to the
Hod. James Buchanan, now President of America.
PEYTON H. COiaiTITT, >
JAMES W. WARREN. ( E^ors,
Number 27
Crops. — Now that the wheat is mostly harvest
ed, we are glad to learn that the injury from rust is
not so great as was feared. The crop was too for
ward, it was stricken by rust and it is thought two
thirds of a crop will be secured. The oat crop we
are sorry to say is regarded as a total failure. We
hear that several horses have been lost by feeding
on the rusted oats. Some of our old farmers ha e
apprehension of rust in corn. This would be some
thing new under the sun but so is rust in oats.—
1 he corn meantime looks well and promising as
need be. — Marietta Advocate.
Crops. We take the following extract from a
private letter of a friend in Pulaski county :
“The prospect of the crops in this county has
never been in all my knowledge, more flattering
than the present. 1 have heard from all parts of
the county, and all encouraging. I was in company
with a gentleman yesterday, (that is an old citi
zen,) and he says he has never seen a brighter
prospect. Even on the poor pine lands the crops
seem to be astonishingly good. Tho same report
will embrace Houston. Dooly, Laurens, Wilkinson
and i wiggs, and, as lar as my knowledge extends,
the rams seem to hold out good with them all.
I he health ot the above named counties is good,
with but few exceptions.”—Wire Grass Reporter,
June ‘JOth.
A Remarkable Occurrence. —We find the fol
lowing in an exchange:
A few nights since a United States soldier, bound
with his company for Leavenworth, Kansas, acci
dentally fell off the railroad bridge, at Harper’s
Jerry, into the Potomac river, a distance of thirty
feet. The night being dark, the soldier came out
ot the car and walked off the platform upon what
he supposed to lie the ground, untii he found him
selt in chaos. When lie struck the water his hat
floated down the stream,and when the soldier blew
the water hum Ins mouth, instead of making im
mediately for shore, he swam after his beaver,
caught it, and paddled towards shore without a
scratch. This leaf astonished ali who witnessed
it, and created a tremenduous excitement.
Heavy Dental Operation. —One day last week,
a dentist named Alorse volunteered to extract all
teeth needing extraction from the boys of the Bal
timore House of Refuge. He drew out two hun
dred and fiity. The boys bore the operation as
coolly as they would pick a pocket.
A Just Sentence.— At the recent term of the
Circuit Court cl’ Montgomery county, a man by the
name ot Watson was tired three hundred and fifty
dollars for whipping his wife ; and another man by
the name of My rick was fined five hundred dollars
for not clothing his negroes. In both of these cases
we say the sentence was just. We know nothing
ot the tacts in the case, but from the heavy line
imposed we are inclined to think it was very ag
gravated.
Good Humor.— Keep in Good humor. It is not
many great calamities that embitter existence; it is
the petty vexations, small jealousies, the little dis
nppointorents, the minor miseries, that make the
heart heavy and the temper sour. Don’t let them
Anger is a pure waste of vitality; it is always fool
ish and always disgraceful, except in a few very
rare eases, when it is kindled by seeing wrong
done to another; and even that noble rage seldom
mends the matter. Keep in good humor.
No man does his best except when he is cheer
ful. A light heart makes nimble hands, and keeps
the mind fair and alert. No misfortune is so great
as one that sours the temper. Until cheeifulness
is lost, nothing is lost! Keep in good humor.
The company of a good humored man is a per
petual feast, he is welcomed every where—eyes
glisten at bis approach, and difficulties vanish in
ins presence. Franklin’s indomitable good humor
wisdom with smiles"’ anof “soVfeneH' l
minds into acquiescence. Keep in good humor.
A good conscience, a sound stomach, a clean
skin, are the elements of good humor! Get them
and keep them, and—be sure to keep in a good
humor.
Can’t Please Old Alaids.— The editor of a
country paper, having been taken to task by a
female correspondent for noticing Dr. Hall’s receipt
to prevent ladies from taking cold, viz: “to keep
the mouth shut?”.—hits back as follows:
“Wo never could make ourselves popular with
old maids. Do what we would—sqeeze ’em be
hind the door, which they dearly love—flatter ’em
on the sofa—dance with ’em at parties—take
’em to sleigh rides, and treat ’em to ice cream, oys
lers, kisses—in short attend ever so gallant to all
their wants, save making them a direct offer—and
the moment our back was turned they would turn
to and show their teeth, (false ones of course,)
Well, hope deferred tnaketh the heart sick, and
vve can’t blame ’em.”
Bennett ofthe New York Herald calls his oppo
nents “thin-skinned.” If they had been horse
whipped as often as he, probably their hides would
have become as thick as his.— Prentice.
Money Making.—l think it is a rule that men in
business should not be taught other things. Any
one may be almost sure to make money who has
no other idea in his head. A college education, or
intense study of an abstract truth, will not enable
a man to drive a baigain, to overreach another,or
even to guard himself from being overreached, As
Shakspeare says “to have a good face is the effect
of study,but reading and writing comes by nature”
so it might be argued, that to be a knave is the
gift of fortune, but to play the fool to advantage,
it is necessary to be a learned man.
The best politicians are not those who are deep
ly grounded in mathematical or ethical science.—
Rules stand in the way of expediency. Many a
man has been hindered from pushing his fortune
in the world by an early cultivation of his moral
sense, and has repented it at leisure during the
rest of his life. A shrewd man said of my father,
that he would not send a son of his to school to
him on any account, for that, by teaching him to
speak the truth, he would disqualify him from
getting a living in the world.— Hazlitt.
A Knowing Beggar.—A begger posted himself
at the door of the Chancery Court, and kept say
ing, “A penny, please! Only one penny, sir, before
you go in.” “And “why, my man I” inquired an
old country gentleman. “Because sir, the chances
are you will not have one when you come out,”
was the beggar’s reply.
A teacher had been explaining to his class
the points of the compass, and all were drawn up
in front, toward the north.
‘Now, what’s before you, John ?”
‘The north, Sir.’
‘And what behind you, Tommy?’
‘My, coat-tail,’said he, trying at the same time
to get a glimpse of it.
Good Hits.—ln the trial of Jim Lane at Law
rence, Kansas, for the murder of Jenkins, the At
torneys indulged in a good deal of pungent wit and
sarcasm. One little pass between the counsel was
so pointed and opportune that it is worthy of note:
Col. Young insisted that in law, the man slain is
supposed to be wrongfully slain.
Mr. Coe—That is the law of England, not of
America.
Col. Young—ls there is any book on God’s earth
that contains any other doctrine. I’ll agree to eat it
without greasing! (Laughter.)
Mr. Coe—Then you’ll have more law in your
stomach than you ever had in your head. (Roars
of laughter.)
An Irishman who was very near-sighted,
about to fight a duel, insisted that he should stand
six paces nearer his antagonist than the other did
to him, and that they were both to fire at the same
time.