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VOLUME XXV.]
M IL L E D G E VIL L E, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, MAY 29, 1855.
[NUMBER 52.
i s c r II a n f o u s.
U. INDIAN SPRING’S.
jjijl McIntosh House.
fP ns Establishment is now open for the reeep-
1 thin of Visitors to this delightiul watering
place. The subscriber, who has now been at this
I for the last ten years, can only assure persons
visiting this establishment, as heretofore, he will
snare no pains or expense to give entire satisfac
tion.
Mil. E- ISAACS will have charge of the Culina
ry I) ji.irtnient. In fact all in charge of this estab
lishment, as well as servants, shall be of the best
order.
There will be splendid Coaches and Hacks at In
dian Springs platform, tbree miles above Forsvtli,
to transport passengers from that to Indian Springs.
B. W. COLLIER.
Mnv 1-55. 49—‘dm.
Sheet Iron Work & Tin Shop.
rpilK Sl'BSCRIHERS having purchased of the
I late firm of BatcheUer ,V Taft, their entire Stock
an ) Tools, connected with their Tin Shop, would
respectfully sav to the public generally, that they
have opened their Shop, next door East of Masonic
H.a I. in the Basement recently used as a Barber’s
Simp, where they’ are prepared to promptly till
orders for Making or Repairing of Tin or Sheet-
Iron Work of all kinds, Roofing, Ac.
Stoves, and Stove furniture repaired.
Bathing Tubs of any pattern made to order.
SAFES! SAFES!! SAFES!!!
We have a number of good Safes on band, and
will Manufacture to order, any' size or patent that
may he desired.
Lir Give us a call, and we will try to please you.
STALEY & WHITE.
Milledgeville, April 9, 1855. 45tim
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LAND FOR SALE!
HE tindersiglied offers for sale his
rotation, in the county of Butts,
two miles east of the Indian
's. containing
Seven Hundred Acres,
m«re or less; one-half of which is cleared and in an
excellent condition for cultivation. The other
halt in the woods. The same is well improved,
wall a good Dwelling, Negro Houses, Gin House
and Screw, and every necessary building required
«n a plantation of that size, also a Grist Mill and
water privileges.
He also offers for sale his lots at the Indian
Springs, known as the Torrer Place, upon which
there are good improvements, such as would suit
tie convenience of those wh# desire a summer res
idence. The lots contain about five acres. The
same will be offered at private sale until the tirst
Tuesday in July, after which time, if it is not
privately sold, it will be put tip at public outcry,
in the town of Jackson, in said county, on the
tirst Tuesday in August next.
THOMAS J. C ARSON,
Indian Springs, Ga.
May 11th. 1855. (ll It) 50 7t
Southern .MvVUav^ .\evu\em\j V
LOTTERY. Igj
( By authority of the State of Alabama.) UTr
Coxih cted on the Havana Plan, !L
brand SCHEME FOR JUNE,
"'HEN $30,009 WILE BE DISTRIBUTED,
(la's 1‘ io lit* Drawn on Hie 2d of Jl'XE.
( Only Ten Thousand Xumhers.)
r And remember every Prize is Drawn at each
Drawing, and paid when due without discount:
1 Prize of $15,000
1 do 5,000
1 do 4,000
1 do 3,000
i do 2,000
1 do .1,500
5 do $1,000 each., *5,000
bOI Prizes amounting to $00,000
• ick-ts $10, Halves $5, Quarters $2 50..JF1
try prize drawn at oafh drawing.
Hills on all solvent banks taken at par.
. sCAU Communications strictly confidential.
SAMUEL SWAN, Ag’t and Manager,
Sign of the Bronze Lions.
Montgomery, Alabama, 1855.
Kv
umber
pre-
SPECIAL NOTICE.
fpHE subscriber (Rems it his duty, as a numb
-I- of claims have been, and continue to be p
Rented lo him, to take this method to notify.
1 • the creditors of Mary P. McNeil, late of Pald-
";n county, deceased, that be will not pay anv
''•■mn- against her contracted previous to the death
J'l her husband, John T. McNeil, unless compelled
l*. v Lw to <io so, and to advise those holdirg such
e urns, that Danl. G. Gunn at Buckhead, Morgan
county, and I. S. Fannin of Madison, Morgan coun-
!. v -m i Executors on the estate of John T. McNeil,
cite of Baldwin county, and to whose estate I am
legally advised, is the proper source to look, for
payment 0 f the debts of the said Mary P. McNeil.
J. JACKSON, Adm'r.
on the trust estate, &c.
Albany, Ga., May 14, 1855. 51 tit
A.'
Notice t,, Debtors and Creditors.
EE persons indebted to the estate of Alexan-
- ‘" r Passmore, late of Wilkinson county dee’d.,
■ye hereby notified to make payment to me, and
yose having demads against said estate, to pre-
M nt the same duly authenticated, within the time
Prescribed bv law.
May 12th 1855.
WILEY HOLLAND, Adm’r.
50 Ct.
Notice to Debtors and Creditors.
A EL persons indebted to the estate of James
McCrackin, late of Campbell county, deeeas-
' ■ are hereby notified to come forward and make
immediate payment, and all persons having de-
•■i.iuds against said estate are requested to present
em properly authenticated according to law.
EZEKIEL L. JACKSON, Adm’r
-'lay 7, 1855. [j lie] 506t
ABODES’
( frtain cure lor Chills and Fever,
J, 8T Received, and for Sale bvE.J. WHITE.
ONLY WAITING FOR AY OFFER.
BY MARTHA HAINES BUTT.
“What a nonsencical, shallow-pated con
cern that James Atkinson is. I declare iff
were Lucy Lowers, he should not walk in
the street with me. How fantastically lie
lilts his hat; he just does it to show his kids,
which by the way, look like stuffed rags.
He cannot meet any one when he is with
Lucy Bowers, without saying, “Ah, Miss
Lucy, what a distingue air Mr. So-and-so
has; and what a degree of hauteur Miss L.
possesses.” \ ou see he only does this to
make Lucy believe that he knows how to
speak French, and I’ll wager he does not
know the meaning of the words he uses—I
believe his whole thought is upon dress, and
I know lie practices his gestures a whole
day before the glass. There they come
now. Only see his manoeuvres! If 1
were Lucy, I would push him off the side
walk. I see him casting his glances up
this way—he only wants to see if any one
is looking at him; if lie only knew what a
perfect eye-sore he is to me, he would cer
tainly not pass here so often. I do declare
I would not have him if lie were the last
man in the world—no, not if I felt assured
1 would die an old maid. It is no manner
of use for a young lady to sacrifice herself
for the sake of getting married; as for my
part, 1 go in for handsome, sensible gentle
men.”
“AYby, Gertrude! You astonish me.—
Why do you speak thus of Mr. Atkinson?
1 am sure he is not shallow.pated, as you
said just now, for lie graduated with the
highest honors; I do not think it very like
ly that lie wfiuld have attained the Valedic
tory it lie were a numskull. I would be
willing to stake any thing that there is not
a young lady in the city [myself not excep
ted.) who would refuse tlie offer of such a
gentleman as Mr. Atkinson.
“Oh! that isjust the way with you, Kate;
if a boy has been to college, it matters not
if lie stay but a single day, you think he
must of necessity be a Plato or Soc
rates.”
“No Gertrude you are mistaken. I
know too much about Mr. Atkinson to
sanction the eulogiums which you passed
upon him just now.”
Gertrude and Kate Manning were, sisters?
there was all the differencem the world be
tween them. Gertrude was certainly one
ot the most envious persons in the world; if
any of her associates (even her most inti
mate friends,) should eclipse her in any
way, she would directly say something
against them. Envy was her most pre
dominant aim—it seemed to take possess
ion of her completely. She had very fre
quently heard of the attention of Mr. At
kinson to Lucy Bowers, and always felt a
jealousy arising whenever she saw them.
Atkinson was a man of tine talents and
witliall very accomplished; his manners
were exceedingly refined and winning.—
Gertrude saw all this, and being among
that number of young ladies who ha ve no
admirers, never liked to see any one have
them.
Kate was quite the contrary; she always
treated every one kindly, and was not at
all disposed to be jealous. Every one
could but love her, for she was so gentle and
good. Why, often she would speak to her
sister about tlie manner in which she ex
pressed herself with regard to people, and
assured her that it would never gain her
any friends. But Gertrude never listened
to a word she had to say on any occasion,
but would endeavor to bring in something
to justify her remarks. Kate felt that all
her advice was useless, that a deaf ear was
turned to all she said.
******
“There has been quite a change in the
state of affairs,” said Mr. Manning, as he
sat at tea.
“What do you mean, Papa?” said Ger
trude.
“What do I mean? YY’hy, I meant that
Miss Lucy Bowers is to be married next
week.”
“I thought so,” replied Gertrude, “I
knew that she and that dummy, James
Atkinson, would make it up. Well, all I
have to say, is she will get a man without
any brains.”
“You are mistaken, Gerty; she is not
going to marry Mr. Atkinson.”
“Well, 1 thought after all. that Lucy
would see the folly of marrying that j
boooy.”
“That booby, indeed! James Atkinson
is no booby, let me tell you: lie is a very ac
complished and sensible gentleman. Have
you ever been in bis company?”
“Never,”
“Well, some evening I will invite him
U P-”
At this remark, Gerty’s eyes brightned
up a little, for she had never a beau in her j
life, it is not very probable she would ever)
meet with the luck to have an admirer, [for
no one could admire her,] but she might
manage to induce someone to think that lie,
loved her.”
“Papa, dotelline who the gentleman is,
to whom Lucy is to beinarried.”
“Mr. Frank Jennings.,,
“Frank Jennings! he is a charming
young gentleman, 1 admire her taste very
much; a great goose she would be to marry
that James Atkinson. I am thinking lie
will have to wait some time before he is
married, for no one would have him any
how.”
“Ah! Gerty, I would not trust the girls.
I will go so far as to say, that I would not
trust even you.”
“Even me! 1 had as lief he an old
maid as to marry him; indeed, I would
prefer it a thousand times.”
******
“Well, Gertrude, Mr. Atkinson will call
up this evening, and as your sister is out of
town, tlie whole of the entertainment will
fall pretty much upon yourself.”
“Oli, Papa! what did you invite that
boor up here for? I declare I do not wish
to see him.”
“Never mind, you must entertain him
to the best of your ability, as I have invit-
ted him to see you.”
Evening came. Mr. Atkinson called at
the house of Mr. Manning. 11c, was intro
duced to Miss Gertrude, with whom he
was left. Mr. Manning stated that he had
some little business which would detain
him in the library, hut be would join them
in a little while.
Gertrude did her best; all tlie smiles she
could muster up were put on that evening.
She, of course, wished to make a deep im-
1 pression upon the gentleman in question.
* * * * *
i “Well, well, w hat is the world coming to?
j That old maid, Gertrude Manning is going
! to be married to James Atkinson. I do
t wonder what he sees in her to admire. I
I am sure she is not pretty by any means.—
i She is certainly very wise to get .married
now, for I am sure if she misses this
! opportunity she will! never get anoth
er.”
Such is the language of the gossiping
world, when the news of the intended mar
riage was spread. Many knew how bitter
she was against Mr. Atkinson, and wonder-
ed what had changed her notion.
******
„Well, what do you think, Kate,” said
Mr. Manning to his daughter, on her return
home.
“Now hush, Papa,” exclaimed Gertrude,
coloring.
“Really, you surprise me, Papa; I can
not tell. Gertrude has not certainly made
any attempt at a runaxvay match since I’ve
been gone.”
“Oh no; she is to take ‘the leap in the
dark,’ or in the light, just as you pleased
to term it.”
“Indeed! Pray tell me w r ho is to assist
her.”
“None other than James Atkinson.”
“James Atkinson! Impossible!”
“It is true. Nothingis impossible now-
a-days.”
“Well well Gertrude, what arg you
going to marry that shallow-pated, non
sensical numskull for? You certainly
have changed your mind very much.”
“Oh, she was only waiting for an offer,”
Said Mr. Manning.’
“There, did I not tell you that I would
not trust her, Kate? And do you remem
ber the reply she made me?
“Yes, yes, I remember well.”
.And so it xvas, sure enough. Gertrude,
like many other young ladies, was only
waiting for an offer. Very readily did she
accept the proposal of Mr. Atkinson, her
eye-sore, as she was once pleased to call
him, and she no longer thought him a
booby, or a dummy, particularly after she
found out the. number of dimes he iiad in
his possession. Nothing now could ex
cite her ire more than to have Kate call
him (in a jesting way,] a shallow-pated
concern, although Gertrude once thought
that Lucy Bowers had a very preverted
taste to receive the attentions of such a
piece ofhnmanity, and wondered where her
eyes [if she had any at all,] could be to fancy
James Atkinson. All she wanted was a
chance, and she was only waiting for an
offer.
The Use ofLi’aves.
The office and utility of leaves are be
coming better understood by cvltivators
than formerly; yet we find a good many
still adhering to the old belief that the
sun’s rays, directly shining and forming
fruit, are what perfect it, independently of
other influences.
f)n this subject, theory and practice
have invariably been found in perfect ac
cordance with each other. The principles
of physiology teach us that the sap of a
tree, when it passes in at the root, remains
nearly unchanged in its upward progress
through stem and branches, until it reach
es the leaves, and thus becomes suited
to the formation of new wood and new
fruit.
Strip a rapidly growing tree of its leaves
at midsummer, and from that moment the
supply of new wood ceases and it will grow
no more till new leaves are formed; if you
have young fruit, the growth and maturity
of the latter will cease in the same way. A
few years since, a yellow Gage plum tree
lost all its foliage from leaf-blight, when
the plums were not fully grown, and while
yet distitute of flavor. The fruit remained
stationary and unaltered, until within a
few weeks, a second crop of leaves come
out. They then swelled to full size, re
ceived their crimson dots, and as
sumed their honeyed sweetness of fla
vor.
The object of pruning should be there
fore, to allow the leaves to grow to a full
size without being injured from crowd
ing.
YYe find the following corroborative
fact in a late number of the New England
Farmer:
W e once knew an intelligent lady, and
one who understood much about horticul
ture, strip her grape vines of a portion of
their loaves in order to let in the sun and-
ripen the fruit; but to her surprise, where
the leaves remained as Nature had dis
posed them, the grapes were the earliest
and every way the best. This led her to
investigate the matter, when she was de
lighted to learn that the leaves were not
only the protectors, but the caterers of the
fruit, constantly elaborating and supply
ing it with the pabulum it required to
bring it to perfection.
Country Gentleman.
Equality.—We shall scarcly meet with
a single great ex’ent in the lapse of 700
years whch has not turned to the advantage
of equality. The crusades and the wars
of the English decimated the nobles and
divided their possession; the erection of
communities introduced an element of demo
cratic liberty into the bosom of feudal mon
archy; the. invention of firearms equalized
the peasant and the noble on the field of
battle; printing opened the same resources
to the minds of all classes; the post teas
organized so as to bring tlie same inform
ation to the door of the poor man’s cottage
and to the gate of the palace; and Protest
antism proclaimed that all men arc alike able
to find the road to Heaven. The discov
ery of America offered a thousand new
paths to fortune, and placed riches and
power within the reach of the adventurous
and obscure. The various occurrences of
national existance have everywhere turn
ed to the advantage of democracy; all men
have aided it by their exertions; those who
have intentionally labored in its cause
and those who have served it unwittingly,
those who have fought for it, and those
who have declared themselves its oppo
nents, have all been driven along in tlie
same track, have all labored to one end,
some unwillingly—all have been blind
instruments in the hand of God. It is
not necessary that God himself should
speak in order to disclose to us the unques
tionable signs of His will; we can discern
them in the habitual course of nature and
the invariable tendency of events. I
know, without a special revelation that the
planets move in orbits traced by the Crea
tor’s finder.
Don’t Depend on “Falher.”
Stand up here, young man, and let ns
talk to you—you have trusted alone to the
contents of “father’s purse” or to his fair
fame for your influence, or success in
business. Think you that “father” has
attained to eminence in bis profession, but
by unwearied industry? or that lie has
amassed a fortune honestly, without ener
gy and activity? You should know that
the faculty requisite for the acquiring of |
fame or fortune, is essential to, nay insep-1
arable from the retaining of either of j
these? Suppose “father” has the “rocks”
in abundance, if you never earned any
thing for him, you hax - e no more busi
ness with those “rocks” than a gosling has
with a tortoise! and if he allows you to
meddle xvith them till you have learned
their value by your own industry; he per
petrates untold mischief. And if the old
gentleman is lavish of his cash towards
you, while he allows you to idle away your
time, you’d better leave him; yes, run
away, sooner than be made an imbecile
or something worse through so corrupting
an influence. Sooner or later you must
learn to rely on your own resources, or you
will not be anyboby. If you have never
helped yourself at all, if you have become
idle, if you hax'e eaten father's bread and
butter, and smoken father's cigars, cut a
swell in father's buggy, and tried to put on
father’s influence and reputation, you
might far better have been a poor canal
boy, the son of of a chimney sweep, or a
boot black—and indeed we would not
swap with you the sti’uation of a poor,
half-starved motherless calf! Miserable
objects you are, that depend entirely on
your parents, playing gentlemen, [alias
dandy loafer.] YVhat in the name of
common sense are you thinking of?—
YYake up there! Go to work with either
your hands or your brains, or both, and be
something? Don’t merely have it to
boast of that’ you have grown in “father’s”
house—that you have vega t;i ted as other
greenhorns! but let folks knoxv that you
count one. Come, off with your coat,
clinch the saw, the plow handles, the
scythe, the axe, the pick-axe, the spade
—anything that will enable you to stir
your blood! Fly round and tear your
jacket, rather than be the passive recipi
ent of the old gentleman’s bounty?—
Sooner than play the dandy at <lad's
expense, hire yourself out to some potatoe
patch, let yourself to stop hog holes, or
watch the bars; and when you think
yourself entitled to a resting spell, do it
on your own hook. If you have no other
means of having fun of your own, buy
with your earnings an empty barrel, and
put your head into it and holler, or get
into it and roll down hill; don’t for
pity’s sake, don’t make the old gentle
man furnish everything, and you live at
your ease.
Look about you, you well-dressed,
smooth-faced, donothing drones! Who
ire they that have xvortli and influence
in society? Are they those that have de
pended alone on the old gentleman’s purse?
or are they those that hax r e climbed their
way to their position by their own indus
try and energy? True, the old gentlenan’s
funds, or personal influence may secure
you the forms of respect, but let him lose
his property, or die, and what are you?—
A miserable fledgeling—a bunch of flesh
and bones that needs to be taken care of.
Again we say, wake tip—get up in the
morning—turn round at least twice before
breakfast—help the old man—give him
now and then a generous lift in business—
learn howto take the lead, and not depend
forever on being led; and you have no idea
how the discipline will benefit you. Do this,
and our word for it, you will seem to
breathe anew atmosphere, possess a new
frame, tread a new earth, wake to a new
destiny—and you may then begin to
aspire to manhood. Take off, then, that
ring from your lily finger, break your
cane, shave your upper lip, wipe your nose,
hold up your head, and, by all means,
never again eat the bread of idleness, nor
DEPEND ON FATHER.
The Little Ones.—Two little girls, one
rejoicing in blue ribbons, the other in pink
were bewailing their domestic misfortunes
in maternal language:
Where is your dolly?’ asked pink rib
bons-of her little neighbor.
Dear me, didn't 1 tell you?’ answered
blue,‘why she’s got the measles dreadful.
Her face is spotted all over.’
Well, I dont think she’s as sick as my
dolly,’ said pink; ‘only think, I’ve had a
constitution of thirty doctors for her, and
they all didn’t do her any good. I’ve had
to buy her a new gown, she’s so misera
ble.’ (not the first misery a new gown has
brightened up,) ‘she’s got the consump
tion.’
Oh! that’s dreadful bad; does she cough
much?’ asked the other with an air of great
solicitude. *
‘But why ^on’t you take her out? the air
will be good for her lungs.’
‘Old dear,’ exclaimed pinlj ribbons, with
admirably assumed intensity of feeling, ‘my
dolly hasn’t got a bit of lungs, she only
breathes through her nose.’
This was the climax; who could help
laughing.— Olive Branch.
Scene in a Western Bank.—One of our
Western correspondents tells the story of
a man who had a draft on one of the banks
of Illinois, for 33000, for which he deman
ded specie. The hank officers invited
the applicant to come behind the counter,
which invitation was accepted, when the
door of the bank safe was opened, and the
officer addressed the following language
to his visitor: “Say, stranger, look in
that further corner of this safe, and you
will see a small pile of gold, Now, that
pile is the least possible sum that the law
will allow us to keep on hand, a wasting
while we are a hanking institution; and if
you think that I am going to break one of
our State laws, to pay you in specie, you
don’t know who I am. You never wrong
ed me, and I have no ill-will against you,
but take care how you run on our bank,
or I will bring out our revolvers.” The
stranger took bills for his draft.— Trans
cript.
The following dispatch, says the Toledo
Blade, went through by telegraph, a month
or two since:
“Charlie and Julia met at S ’s, yes
terday—quarrelled and parted forever—
met again this morning, and parted to
meet no more—met again this evening and
were married !”
The Boa and the Monkey
In the year 1S23, a English officer, who
was stationed with his regimeut in the
neighborhod of Kulladge, in India—a re
gion in which monkeys abound in number
less quantities, and xvhose yells, shrieks,
.and hootings were indescribably wild—
was a witness of a most extraordinary scene,
which he has thus sketched: “I was one
day, with a native for a companion,
climbing one of the slanting ascents of the
Runmuddle cliff, when I became aware
that an unusual commotion reigned amongst
my friends the monkeys, which had by
this time got so familiarized with my
appearance, that they seldom condescended
to honor me with a snarl, or a hough flung,
toxvads me in sport. Creeping round a
rock, behind which they appeared to con
gregate, and on which grew a large gum-
arabic tree, completely golden with the
abundance of yellow blossoms which
covered it. I at once found myself on the
stage of a strange tragedy in Simian life.
In the voluminious folds of a boa constric
tor was being slowly inxvrapped a beautiful
brown monkey, whose last cries and strug
gles denoted that I came too late, even had
I been prepared to do battle with the rep
tile, in the cause of oppressed innocence.
The monkeys, in evident alarm, ran hither
and thither, mobbing and mewing, and
chattering; but not one advanced near the
spot, Avhere presently their poor compan
ion became almost quite hidden from a iew
in the embrace of its destroyer.
Determined to watch the process of the
affair, 1 quietly sat down until gradually
the monkey had been moulded, as it were,
into a propper condition for deglutition, for
I could hear the bones crack as they broke
beneath the pressure to Avhicli they were
subjected; anil ere long, as the serpent
began to untwist its folds, 1 could admire
at leisure the magnificence of its glittering
scales, that shone like some richly varie
gated metalic substance. I shuddered as
I beheld its grand and awful head—the
prominent orbits of the eyes—and the eyes
themselves large, and liuninious with a
fiery light. The creature was at least
twenty feet in length, and was apparently
famished by long fast. Perfectly heed
less of the noise made by the monkeys, it
unwound its coils till the victim, now an
unrecognisable mass, lay before it lubri
cated and fit to be received into the des
troyer’s stomach. When the reptile had
fairly commenced its repast, and the be
fore flaccid body began to fill and swell, I
retired from the arena of conflict and hall
of banquet, desirous of summoning my
friend to assist me in capturing the sated
giant. I knew that when gorged to reple
tion, there would be no difficulty in making
a prize of the serpent; and lie entered into
my plans most willingly.
Accompanied by a stout lascar bearing
a strong cudgel and a sharp knife, for
slaughter and skinning, we lost little time
in reaching the scene, xvliere, however,
fresh marvels were being enacted, proving
that the passion of revenge is not confined
to the human breast. Keeping aloof, we
resolved not to mar by any interference
tlie by no means mystifying operations in
which the monkeys were engaged. Tlie
boa constrictor lay, throughly gorged, and
like a log of wood, beneath the same pro
tecting nfass of cliff where I had left it.—
On the summit of this rock a troop of mon
keys had assembled, and three or four of
the largest and strongest were occupied in
displacing an immense fragment of the
massive stone, already loosened by time
and the elements, from the rest of the
ledge. This mass almost overshadowed
the reptile. By enormous exertions, made
in a silence that was rare with them, they
at last succeeded in pushing it onwards
until it iiung OA-er the boa’s head, when
utYering a fierce yell, in which every sep
arate voice mingled, by a vigorous move
ment they shoved it sheer down. The
heavy mass fell right on the serpent’s
head, crushing Lt as if it were a cocoa nut;
and as the reptile lashed its fearful tail
about in the final struggles for life, we could
not refrain from joining in the singular
chorus of rejoicing with which the monkeys
now celebrated their accomplished ven
geance.
Interesting to Hen Fanciers.—One of
the most serious obstacles in the way of
keeping hens about a house lias been their
hitherto unconquerable predilection for
scratching up gardens. Y\ T e leam’from tlie
Oswego Palladium, that an ingenious Yan
kee has at length discovered a remedy for
this difficulty, and is taking measures to in
troduce it into general use. It consists of
a small instrument somewhat resembling a
very long spur, attached to the hind pi. • t
of a hen’s leg. The instrument is so ar
ranged that when a hen is about to scratch
the earth, the spur catches in the ground
before her foot Iras fairly descended, and
obliges her to bring her foot down quietly
and harmlessly a little in front of the place
which she aimed at. The hen thereupon
tries the other foot, xvitli a hke result.—
She keeps on trying, and before she is
aYvare of it, the machine has walked her
right out of the garden. An agency has
been opened in Chicago for the sale of
these “hen walkers.”
The New Land Warrants.—The Wash
ington Union says—It is now about fifty
days since the passage of the act granting
additional bounty lands to those serving
in the revolution, or their widows, and in
the different wars since 1790. The officers
of the Pension Bureau predicted that prior
to the first of next month 100,000 applica
tions (which was deemed extravagant]
would he presented at that office. To
show that their estimate was not too high,
we will now state that to last evening 101,
800 applications have been filed in the
bureau.
It is prabable that the office will commence
the issue of warrants about the 1st of June
next, as the engraving of the plates is rap
idly progressing. Already has a copy of
the poartrait of the Secretary of the Navy
beeu completed for the 160-acre warrant,
that of the Secretary of tlie Interior for
the^l 20-acre warrant, and that of the Secre
tary of War for the 80-acre warrant. The
portraits of the President and others are
still in the hands of the engravers. The
engravings already executed are greatly
admired by all who have seen them, and
are proud evidences of American skill
and genius in this department of the fine
arts.
“Here’s a doublet,” as t-fte printer said
when his better half presented him with two
little responsibilities.
Sabine on D'lrilin?.
“McDuffie, George, a distinguished
statesman of South Carolina, and Col.
Camming. of Ga. Near N “Sister’s Ferry,”
South Carolina, June 8th, 18227 with pis
tols. An article appeared in a Ga., paper
in favor of the pretensions of Mr. Crawford
and against those of Mr. Calhoun, to the
Presidency of the United States, which
drew a reply from a gentleman of South
Carolina. The Georgia writer rejoined,
assuming that the South Carolina writer
was Mr. McDuffie; while that gentleman
replied, in the belief that his opponent was
Col. Camming. Both were mistaken; but
no explanation was made on either side,
though it is understood that 3Ir. McDuffie
assented and Col. Cumming ohjected to a
proposition to submit the dispute to the
decision of friends.
•Col. Cumming desired to fight in round
jackets; or shirt-sleeves; his opponent sug
gested, for frock or surtout coat.’ The
change was assented to, and the former ap
peared on the ground in frock and panta
loons of cotton and linen, the latter in sim
ilar garments of silk. The preliminaries
arranged, the parties were summoned to
their places, and exchanged shots at a dis
tance of ten paces. Mr. 31eI)uflie’s ball
struck the ground about four paces from
liis own feet, while tlie bullet of his anta
gonist entered his hack obliquely, just be-
low the short ribs, and inflicted a wound
from which he nex'er recovered.
“This duel gave rise to much nexvspaper
wit and gossip. The Chronicle-, published
at Augusta, Ga., gave the public, as it sta
ted, an ‘authentic account of the affair,’ in
which it was said that Col. Cumming’s pis
tol xvas loaded ‘for the side, not for the
back, for the resistence of common drapery,
not of several folds of strong silk,’ &c.—
The general tone of this article was against
3D. 3IcDuffie, and gave the impression
that his conduct was dishonorable not on
ly in the preparation of his dress, but in
retiring from the field after a single shot.
These statements were assumed to he true
by editors in different parts of the country,
and afforded materials for free and severe
comments, But it may xvell be doubted
whether the distinguished statesman of
Carolina is justly liable to censure upon
either accusation. As regards the discoun
tenance of the combat, it is in proof that
ho acted upon the opinion of the surgeons
of both parties; who, as the result of a con
sultation, declared his inability to proceed;
while in the matter of dress, there is no
evidence as I am aware, that his silk frock
had more than a single and a common lin
ing. That the surgeons were right in
their conclusion is manifest; for 3Ir. Mc
Duffie’s xvound, as already remarked, was
the cause of serious physical prostration
his life long.’
There are several errors in this para
graph, Avliieh mixes up the matter of three
affairs in one. Mr. Sabine has erred in
adopting any of the statements of rabid
antagonist newspapers at the time, or adop-
ing those only of one side. If the Georgia
press sought to ridicule McDuffie, that of
South Carolina returned the compliment,
in kind, to Cumming. Nobody now, and
lianlly then, ever supposed either of the
combatants to be cowardly, or that Mc
Duffie or Camming proceeded unfairly;
though some of the proceedings were sub
ject to much diplomatic discussion—the re
sult really of an amicable solicitude, on
the part of their respective friends, to mit
igate, as much as possible, the dangers of
the meeting to two such eminent persons.
Cumming is a man—he still lives—of the
highest rank for talent and character in
Georgia. McDuffie’s reputation is too
well known for comment. I note that Mr,
Sabine suggests that they were not the
writers of the articles respectively, laid to
their charge, and Avhich produced the du
els; hut my opinion is that they did ’write
them, or at least took a part in the perfor
mance. They met, jjr.st, at the ‘Sisters’
Ferry,’ midway between Savannah and
Augusta, and McDuffie was shot in the hip.
In the nex affair, they went up to the
North Carolina line, and here a difficulty
arose between the seconds about the plan
of operations, and the matter was adjourn
ed. The third meeting took place at
Camphellton on the Carolina side of the
Savannah river. Two shots were ex
changed. At the second fire, 3IcDuffie re
ceived the bullet of his adversary in the
small of the back, and had his left arm bro
ken the wound was not mortal, but it left
him in a wretched state of infirmity, which
kept him a lingering invalid for the rest of
his days. I believe these are the sub
stantial facts in the case. The angry and
A'indictive passions which misrepresented
it so grossly on both sides are all done away
with and nobody in the South dreams of
such absudities now as Mr. Sabine has un
fortunately put on record. I trust that he
will revise his statement, and expunge the
offensiA’e portions of his narrative in future
editions.
It is with much satisfaction that I am a-
ble to report the perfect and amicable re
conciliation of these two distinguished men
before the death of 3IcDuffie. This hap
pened in Augusta, and was brought about
by the friendly offices of 3Ir. John Bones,
a gentleman who is well known to do the
honors of that hospitable city Avith a grace
and conrtecy, good will, liberality and kind
ness of heart, which have won for him
friendly mention Avherever his name is spo
ken. 31cDuffie happened to be in Augusta
and in a state of exhaustion, for he was ap
proaching his closing period—when Bones
persuaded him to his sofa and left him to a
temporary repose. In a little while after,
Bones encountered Cumming, passing his
house. He told him of 3IcDuffie’s presence
within it, and of his situation, and frankly
said to him, “Go up yourself, and be recon
ciled. I know that you harbor no malice,
and that he lias no single feeling of hostili
ty towards you in his bosom.” The sug
gestion was as frankly adopted and acted
npon. The parties met as if they had nev*-
er been enemies. Cummings sat an hour
with his prostrate rival, left him with the
most amicable interchange of feeling, and
the tear was in his eye as he said to Bones,
on his departure, “YVhat would I not do or
give to relieve him from this cruel suffer
ing!” It was one which his own hand had
inflicted, and he bitterly regretted the shot.
1 do not know that I give you the actual
words which were used in the quoted por
tion of my statement, but the substance as
it reached my ears, is truly stated. Such
a reconciliation is one which every biogra
pher will delight to record. But I have al
ready exceeded my limits, and mist reserve
much more for other pages. Lorris.
f Charleston. Mercury.
The Eclipse.—“In speaking of the eclip
se of the moon, night before last, the
New York JSxpress remarks as fol-
ows:
“The busy, bubbling whirlpool of city
life stood still for a little while in its
eonrse,—as if in respect to the event.—
end men, as if by common consent, paused
in their pilgrimage, to witness the new
demonstration of “the heavens declaring
the glory of God,” and the “firmament
showing his handiwork.” All in all, it
aa as a spectacle worth living a whole life
time to see. and dead indeed must be the
sensibilities of him who could look on with
out sharing the exultant emotion of the
royal psalmist, when he gave utterance to
his noble and ennobling song of praise and
thanksgiving: “The heavens have de
clared His righteousness, and all the peo
ple haA e seen his glory. The Lord is
King; the Earth may he glad thereof; yea,
the multitude of the isles may be glad
thereof; Clouds and darkness are round
about him; righteousness and judgment
are the liabitation of his seat.”
“Again, who is not impressed with the
wonderful achievements of human science
and human knowledge, explaining the
mysterious mechanism of the heavens—
explaining it so accurately and minutely
as to foretell the time of some of its most
remarkable operations. There was a
time Avhen the Avorld, knoAA'ing less of itself,
and less of the world in the skies, than it
does now, looked npon the strange phe
nomena with fear and trembling,—and
often as some terrible precursor of Divine
A'engeance. Tacitus tells of an eclipse of
the moon which so terrified the Roman
troops, engaged in a roAolt at that time,
as to move them to lay down their arms,
and, brave men as they were,—to sur
render at discretion. The first lunar
eclipse, Ptolemy tells us, Avas obserA'ed
by the Chaldeans at Babylon, se\’en hun
dred and twenty one years before Christ.
The theory of eclipses was known to the
Chinese, it is supposed, mnre # than a hun
dred years before tlie Christian Era. The
phenomenon, by some of the Eastern na
tions, was litdd to he the effect of magic,
and hence the custom of drumming during
its continuance. The earth, however,
having iioav increased its intelligence in
these matters, to a point which teaches
men to view these “signs and wonders”
Avith an eye of faith, and a truer conception
of cause and effect, than the most learned
of the ancients ever attained to, the ap
prehensions and fears to whch they were
Avont to give birth are replaced now by
awe, admiration and reverence for the
Great First Cause, avIio orders, governs
and directs.
Iron Walls.—The editors of the New
York Journal of Commerce have been
shoAA'n a miniature specimen of an iron
wall, designed as a substitute for brick in
the construction of buildings—the inven
tion of Jason L. Burdick, a practical buil
der, and an inventor of some reputation.
The peiees of iron employed are ingenious
ly shaped, so as to secure lightness Avith
great strength, apparently, and the wall thus
constructed may he easily taken in pieces
and reerected with comparatively little la
bor or expense. The most striking pecu
liarity is, that the plates of iron used
in forming Avails are connected without
holts.
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Money stolen by rats.—Col. Amory, who
keeps an eating house opposite our office
in Congress street, having recently missed,
sums of money from his till, was surprised
yesterday in discovering that some rats had
been using bank bills as a lining for their
nests under the counter. Fragments of
bills sufficient to ascertain that at least fif
teen dollars had been abstracted and con
verted by the rats to their own use, were
found.—Boston Transcript.
Dr. Sweet, the “original bone-setter,”
is reported to have said that the
Maine Law in Connecticut would make his
receipts three hundred dollars less than last
year,, on account of the diminution of ac
cidents caused by rum. A large share
of practice was derived from the effect
of liquor drinking. Accidents were consta-
tly occurring, such as sprained and broken
limbs, bruised heads, swollen faces, and dis
located joints.
■ • —
W. B. Scehers, a young man of good
chararter, had the misfortune last Sum
mer, in Memphis, under the operation of a
city ordinance, to be sentenced to the
chain-gang in atonement for some trivial
offence wherewith he was charged. Whilst
working on the bluff,,a heavy pile of dirt
fell on him and broke his leg. Tliere-upon,
he brought a suit against the city, claiming
$50,000. YVe leam that on the 18th inst.,
the trial, which had occupied the Common
LaAv Court for several days, was brought
to a close, the jury finding a verdic for the
plaintif and awarding him $25000 dam
ages.
An Eastern City.—The editor of a pa
per in 3Ianchester, New Hampshire, says,
Sixteen years ago our city was a sand
bank. Concord square was a swamp for
rabbits. Now, each day, it manufactures
ninety miles of cloth, sheeting, shirtings,
tickings, delanes, etc., 5,000 seamless bags
and six tons of news and book paper, be
sides innumerable articles that we will
not particularize.”
Every school boy knows that a kite
Avould not fly until it has a string tying it
down. It isjust so in life. The man who
is tied down by a half a dozen blooming
responsibilities and their mother will make
a stronger and higher flight than the old
bachelor, who having nothing to keep him
steady, is always floundering in the mud.
If you want to ascend in the world, tie
yourself to somebody.
‘!My son,” said Mr. N., “how could you
marry an Irish girl?” ‘Why father,’ said
the son, ‘I’m not able to keep two women;
if I’d married a Yankee girl, I’d had to
have an Irish girl to take care of her.”
Grand Feast.—“Sam” having determined to
commence the millennium, has ordered a grand
feast for inaugurating that “good time.” He re
quests us to publish the following as an outline of
his bill of fare:
First Course.
Catholic broth. Jesuit soup.
Second Course.
Roasted Catholic. Boiled Priest.
Third Course.
The Pope’s big toe, broiled.
Fourth Course.
Fried Nuns, very nice and tender.
Desert.
Rich Irish Brogue. Sweet German Accent
Tastes are Various.—In Siberia, the
greatest luxuries are raiv cats served up in
bear’s oil; while in Japan stewq^l crocodile
flanked with monkey feet is the height of
epienreanism.
A young man being requested to dance
a Scotch reel, with a couple of sour-looking
old maids, objected on the ground that
pickles did not agree with him.
Printer’s accounts are like faith, ‘the
substance of things hoped for, and the evi-