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i v cities or Guardians, arc required by law to he
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t „ hours of !> in the forenoon and 3 in the after-
, mm, at the Court House in the County ia which
the property is situated.
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. pn in like manner Vi days previous to sale day.
f Notices to the debtors ami creditors of an estate
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Nice that application will he made to the Court
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(nations fur letters of Administration, Guardian-
Ac., must be published 3 1 days—for dismis-
f : n iVoni Administration, monthly sir months—for
dismission from Guardianship, 4') days.
Jfui.m for foreclosure of Mortgage must be pnb-
; .jied monthly fur four months—for establishing lost
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VOLUME XXVI.]
MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAT, JULY 17, 1855.
[NUMBER 7.
RSMOVAIi!
Sheet Iron Work & Tin Shop.
<TMIE SUBSCRIBERS having purchased of the
JL late firmof BntcheUt r Sf Taft, their entire Stock
and Tools, connected with their Tin Shop, would
respectfully say to the public generally, that they
have moved their Shop into the TTJSXiZiGW
KOUaE, (Batchdler's Old Stand,) w here they
are prepared to promptly fill orders for Making or
Repairing of Tin or Sheet-Iron Work of all kinds,
Rooting, Ac.
Stoves, and Stove furniture repaired.
Bathing Tubs of any pattern made to order.
SAFES! SAFES!! SAFES!!1
We have a number of good Safes on hand, and
will Manufaetere to order, any size or patent that
may he desired.
ES^Give us a call, and we will trv to please vou.
ZLACrS ! HAGS ! ! HAGS !! !
We will pay Three Cents per pound for Rags in
TRADE, ' STALEY A WHITE.
Milledgevjlle, April t), 1S55. 45 6m
3 00
4 00
3 00
1 50
5 00
1 50
5 00
i tiers on business must lie Tost Paid to entitle
ii m attention.
BIS I % ESS « V it B>S
W. A. I. AN E,
AT TO It eYE Y AT LAW
Clintou, Georgia.
June Pith. It
•2 Iv
WILLIAM 1. W1LCIIEK.
A TTOR NE Y A T LA W,
Wakrrnton, Geo.,
Wii.i. practice iji the Northern Circuit of Georgia,
arid in the Comities of Burke, Columbia, Jeiler-
n .v 1 Washington, of the Middle. Circuit
June 25, PC,A 4 ly
Practice of Medicine and Surgery.
DR. CHARLES H. HALL,
Proff-r, liis services to the citizens of Millcdge-
ville and vicinity.
Office on Hancock Street, first door East of the
Masonic Hall, where he can be found at till times,
unless professionally employed.
April 3 ili. 1855. 48—tf.
Valuable Property For Sale.
rpIIE Subscriber being desirous of retiring from
1 bui-iness, otfers for Sale his Tan Yard, Shoe
Shop and Hands, Tavern and Livery Stable, in the
town of Forsyth, Monroe County. Any or all of
this property is offered on accommodating tei ms—
payments to suit the purchaser—and is a good in
vestment for any lousiness man. I am determined
to sell the first good opportunity, and a good bar
gain can be had on early application, or it may be
too late, as 1 shall make other arrangements if I
don’t sell.
JOHN H. THOMAS.
July 3, 1855. 5—ni4m.
DR. S. D. BRANTLEY & CO.
Wholesale and Uttntl Di stg^ists
Comer Broughton and Whitaker streets,
SAVANNAH, GA.
r OI Lit respertfnlly rail (he attenlion ofthecit-
* V izetis of Savannah, Physicians and. Planters, lo J
(heir eno nsive and carefully selected Sloik of French
Drugs, Chemicals and Medicines.
physicians
snpp ied with the purest French, English , and American ]
Che,-meats. Surgical. Dissecting, and An pointing Instru-
menls. Lancets, Forceps, Cupping instruments, Medical
Bags, Ac.
PLANTERS
\\ ith Paints, Oil, Dye Sluffs, Garden Seed. Medicine
Chcsis. dec.
Country Merchants and Planters supplied with gen
uine Drugs at as low rales as can he had in any cily
fiuni Ii.
Every aritcle sold, warranted pure, fre-h and genuine.
• S. I*. BRANTLEY,
TIKIS. S. POWELL
Angnst 8. 1854. Ill lv
\Ui t r it.
1 no.', s'. WAYNE. R. ALEX. WAYNE.
TIIOS. S. WAYNE & SON,
General (ommhsioii X Forwarding
111! s A M vs.
SAVANNAH, GA.
~W All business intrusted to their care will
n' t with prompt attention. 38 ly
A. S. IZAE-TRADtrE,
Factor and General Commission Merchant,
>o. !», Bay Mlnvt, Mavunuali, (on.
REFERENCES.
Geo. W. Anderson, Ex-President Planters
Bank, Savannah; C. F. Mills, Esq., President-
Marine Bank, I (’. Plant. Agent of Marine Bank
at Macun; C. II. Wright, Esq., Milledgeville; W.
Honi.fs, Agent of Planters Bank at Sandersville;
R. H. D. Sorrell, Agent of Planters Bank at
Americus.
Fehniar. - 2 1 ', 1855 38—(bn.
join f miiyi:,
A T T O R X E Y A T L A TF,
TJ A It I ON, GA.
IV ill attend promptly to all business intrusted to
■ > fare. 32 ly
TPOS, T. L03G,
A T T O R X E Y A T L A IF,
Bl£( 1%'SWirK, GA.
YF ILL practice in the Courts of Glynn. Wayne,
'* J’amdcu, McIntosh, Liberty and Chatham,
* Eastern Circuit; Charlton,Lowndes, Clinch,
Appling, of the Southern; also, Duval
Flo; iila.
>l ly
< HAS. i: NISBET,
AT TO It X E Y A T L A
Cuthbcrl. tin,
April 3d, 1854.
IF,
HLAKV IIEADKICK,
A T r O li X E Y A T L A
JACKSON, BUTTS Co., GA.
< 53 IS. G CAMPBELL,
-1 T T O R X E Y AT LA TF,
MILLEDGEVILLE, GA.
", '-> ILI. attend promptly to all business entrust-
* ‘ ed to his care. Particular attention paid
to coiiectin!r. V
Mhleii;.,.vilio, Feb. 22, 1853. 38 tf
J K. CAMP,
A T T O R X E V AT L A TF,
CAMPBEL1.TON, GA.
LAND WARRANTS!
T V’. ILL pay the highest market value for Land
l Warrants.
Apply to A. W. CALLAWAY.
Milledgeville, June 11th, 1855- 2 tf
HOW AIM) ASSOCIATION,
PHILADELPHIA.
Important Announcement.
T O all persons atHicted with Sexual disease, such
as Seminal Weakness. Impotence, Gonorrhoea,
Gleet, Syphilis, Ac., Are.
The How ard Asscxtatiaon of Philadelphia, in
view of the awful destruction of human life and
health, caused hv Sexual diseases, and the decep
tions which are practised upon the unfortunate vic
tims of such diseases by Quacks, have directed
their consulting Surgeon, as a Charitable Act
worthy of their name, to give Medical Advice
Gratis, to all persons thus afflicted. (Male or
Female,) who apply by letter, (post-paid,) with a
description of their condition, (age, occupation,
habits of life, A c,) and in cases of extreme poverty
and suffering, to furnish Medicine free of Charge.
The Howard Association is a Benevolent Insti
tution. established by special endowment, for the
relief of the sick and distressed, afflicted with “Vir
ulent and Epidemic diseases,” and its funds can
he used for no other purpose. It has now a sur
plus of means, which the Directors have voted to
advertise the above notice. It is needless to add
that the Association commands the highest Medi
cal skill of the age.
Address, (post-paid,) Dr. Geo. R. Calhoun,
Consulting Surgeon, Howard Association, Phila
delphia, Pa.
By order of the Directors.
EZRA I) HEARTWELL, President.
GEO. FAIRCHILD, Sec’v. [may 8.1855, ly.
GEORGIA FEMALE COLLEGE, 1855.
mills Institution is organized under four regular
X departments of Instruction, viz: the Collegi
ate, the Academic, the department of Languages,
and the Ornamental Department.
In the Collegiate department, is taught every
thing that is necessary for the full development of
the mental powers, the Common Studies being
kept in constant review.
In the Academic department, is taught whatever
may be necessary for preparing the pupil to enter
advantageously upon her College career.
In the department of Languages, Latin, Greek
an 1 French are taught. French by a Native
French Lady.
The Ornamental department comprises the two
Schools of Music and Design. In the former, in
struction is given upon all the usual instruments,
while in the latter, every variety of Drawing,
Painting, Ate., is taught.
The location (Madison, Morgan County,)
stands unrivalled for its social and religious priv
ileges, and for the salubrity of its climate.
The Tuning Ladies board in Private Families,
where they receive all those offices of maternal
care and kindness which are necessary for their
health and comfort.
The next term commences on Monday the 8th of
January.
Catalogues may be obtained by applying to
either of the officers.
R. D. MALLARY, Scc’y of Faculty.
Madison, Nov. 14th, 1854. 25 tf
Saddle, llnrnre a nd l.eallacr Store,
,4t his old stand, war the Post Office.
THE subscriber has just received from New
York, a cilice selection of
l.adiei 1 unit Genlleiiteia' Naddtea,
Saddlery. Bridles, Carpet Bags, Saddle Bags, 117lips
Spurs, Harness and Sole Leather, Kid und Culf
Shins, I.nee Leather, Sec. See.
[y Baddies and Harness manufactured and re
paired on short notice.
Also Boots and Shoes, manufactured and
repaired to order, with neatness and dispatch.
SAMUEL B. BROWN.
Nov. 14,1854. 21 tf
LAND WARRANTS WANTED!
I " ILL give the highest market price for Land
A W arrants, L A. CHOICE.
REDDING HOUSE,
1855.
4 tf
M A CO X, GEORGIA.
REDDING, B. F. DENSE,
Proprietor. Superintend< nt.
H. P
Macon, August 21, 1854
12 lv
RAGS-S ! RAGS ! !
I will pay TWO CENTS a Pound for Rags in
trade. * D. b. stetson. I
June 26, 1855. 4—(it.
51 ONEY Ml ST l0ME!
\ 'll Es and Aeeounts will not pay Bank Notes,
*' therefore ali persons owing us and failing to j
ViY, will be sued in the Justice’s and Inferior no jj
Courts without further delav.
CHOICE & MEGBATH.
Iebru«ry 10 th, 1855. 37—tf.
INDIAN SPRING HOTEL.
filin' Proprietor of this HOTEL at
J In
PURE OILS OF
cor,MAC, WINE and RUM,
T^uii directions. For Sale bv
C&BNES <* HASKEL.
18 & 20 PLATT STREET,
20,1*55. 52—3m. New York, j
r n STotice to Landholders.
J ‘1- 1 udersigned will attend to the selline’ or
- ling and giving information of LANDS
. in auy of the Counties of S. W. Georgia ou
wasonable terms. A. P. GREER,
p Albany, Geo.
references—H. Hora. Hon. Lott Warren, R.
v ar k> Albany, Ga., J. C. Stephen, Newton, Ga.
^wember22,'l853.25—tf.
S3H1FF AND TOBACCO.
dian Sfring, has had the same fitted up
and is now open for the reception of company,
from his experience of the past five years in
authorised in saying that
lis in all the comforts that
can be procured as to good living, and bis entire
attention, with ail those around him, shall be giv
en to make all comfortable who may be disposed
to give his House a call, he therefore invites all.
EDW. VARNER, Proprietor.
There will be in constant attendance at Forsyth
Coaches and Teams, of best kind, to convey trav
ellers to the Spring as soon a* they arrive.
June 11,1855. 2 - m
/tkmob
PETER LORILLARD,
!. w< <1,all,am Street, Hew York.
•'H . , -, , r to p ETFR & George Lorii.LARP, offers
f | a1 ' kinds of SNUFF and TOBACCOS in
Cr “‘ u,e - For particulars, a Prick Current,
fV- ir ,°Ttained by addressing as abdve. This
. rr >ent is one of the oldest of the kind in
Lnited States.
Ptl >. 13th, 1855.
37 ly
NCWNAN HOTEL.
J. Dougherty, Proprietor.
THE Proprietor of this old and well
known Establishment, informs his
fronds and the public generally, that he is now, as
heretofore, alwavs ready to accommodate them.
GOOD ROOMS, GOOD FARE, and FINE
STABLES,
Newnan, March 14th. 1854. 3—tf.
SPIRITUAL TELEGRAPH,
The organ of modern Spiritualism, Fourth Voi.
Commencing in May. It contains the fullest re
cord extant of Current Facts and opinions of Spir
itual intercourse. Published Weekly at $2 per an
num: also, all Spiritual Books for sale bv PAR
TRIDGE & BRITTAN, 342 Broadway, N. Y.
P. S.—A Catalogue of Spiritual Books sent on
application. apr. 24, 3iu
BLANKS OF ALL KINDS,
, For Sale at tint Office.
A Beautiful Poem.
The first thing, in the way of business, that our
hands touched on last Monday morning, was the
charming poem on “My Brother.” Hardly hail the
morning risen through its first hour of sunshine,
when, as we were wondering how much of the gen
tle Sabbath wouM attend our toil through the busy
week, this delicate and fragrant breath brought its
sweet refreshing to our hearts.
The fair author is but seventeen years of age.
A highly gifted friend whose eyes are always open
to the tokens of genius, and whose heart is full of
the music of poetry, writes us privately about her.
The facts of the letter are touching; and while
dclieacy«forbids our using several things named in
it, we may yet state, that the circumstances with
which this child of genius has struggled, are such
as to move any heart to deep feeling.—Southern
Times.
MY BROTHER.
Oh, briar-rose, elamber,
And cover the chamber—
The chamber, so dreary and lone—
Where with meekly closed lips,
And eyes in eclipse,
My brother lies under the stone.
Oh, violets, cover,
The narrow roof over.
Oh, cover the window and door!
For never the lights.
Through the long days and nights.
Make shadows across the floor!
The lillies are hlooming, the lillies are white,
Where his play-haunts used to be;
And the sweet cherry blossoms,
Blow over the bosoms,
Of birds, in the old roof tree.
When I hear on the hills the shout of the storm—
In the valley, the roar of the river;
I shiver and shake on the hearth-stone warm,
As 1 think of his cold “forever.”
His white hands are folded, and never again,
With song of the robin or plover.
When the summer has come, with her boos and
her grain,
Will he play in the meadow-clover.
Oh, dear little brother,
My sweet little brother,
In the palace above the sun,
Oh, pray the, good augels.
The glorious evangels.
To take me—when life is done.
EMMA ALICE BROWNE.
WATCH, WATCH, MOTHER
Mother! watch the little feet,
Climbing o'er the garden wall,
Bounding through the busy street,
Ranging cellar, shed and hall.
Never count the moments lost,
Never mind the time it costs,
Little feet will go astray,
Guide them, mother, while you may.
Mother! watch the little hand
Picking berries by the way,
Making houses in the sand.
Tossing up the fragrant hay.
Never dare the question ask,
“Why to me this weary task ?”
These same little hands may prove
Messengers of light and love.
Mother! watch the little tongue
Prattling eloquent and wild,
What is said, and what is sung,
By the happy joyous child.
Catch the word whilst yet unspoken,
Stop the vow before ’tis broken:
This same tongue may yet proclaim
Blessing in a Saviour’s name.
Mother! watch the little heart
Beating soft and warm for you;
Wholesome lessons now impart;
Keep, O keep that young heart true
Extricating every weed’
Sowing good and precious seed.
Harvest rich you then may sec,
Ripening for eternity.
HI isctllantons.
Leng'hoflluiiiaii Life.
An article in t ho last number of Black
wood's Magazine, on tlie above subject,
bolds out tlie idea that the age of man
should be one hundred years instead of
three score and ten. The author says:
“Wc do not simply die; we usually kill
ourselves. Our habits, our passions, our
anxieties of body and mind; these shorten
our lives, and prevent us from reaching the
natural limit of human existence.” (Hut-
tom’, he asserts, destroys more lives than
intemperate drinking, and yet, “it is the
fashion to restrict the term sobriety to the
moderate use of liquors.” A sober life no
doubt implies moderation in all tilings—in
eating, drinking, and in the enjoyment of
all the pleasures of life. But although w e
have, read and heard much of moderation
in eating and in drinking, the difficulty
has always arisen in our minds respecting
the true standard of moderation. What is
it? who will define it? The standard
suitable for one is not for another. No
man can doubt for a moment the benefits
of moderation—temperance in all tilings.
But no man can or should set up his own
standard for his neighbor. And yet it
may truly be said, that general rules for
temperance may be set down, which, if
followed, Yvould be of immense benefit;
such as “not to eat so much as will unfit
the mind for its usual exertions; or so much
as will make the body heavy and torpid.—
Nor to pass hastily from one extreme of
living to another, but to change slowly
and cautiously, to eat plain and wholesome
food, and to proportion its quantity to the
temperament, the age, and strength of the
eater. Not to allow the appetite for food
or drink to regulate the quantity to be
taken, but experience, void of sensual de
sire.” These rules, if followed, will tend
to promote health, and thus lead to a
greater length of days and years in man’s
existence; still there is a natural period
for man to exist, and neither food, drink, nor
sobriety can place him beyond that. We
find that each species of animal has its
boundary of life, and so has man. He has
liis infancy, youth, middle, age, old age,
and then comes the winding sheet and the
narrow house. But how long does his ex
istence last? how many years encircle his
natural life? These are important ques
tions. We find that thirty years is con
sidered to be a generation; that is the
whole world is re-peopled every thirty
years with a neu r race, and a like number
departs from it in that period. But no
person considers thirty years as the natu
ral term of man’s life—seventy years be
ing generally set down as that limit. A
book, however, recently published in
Paris, by M. Flourens, which has created
no small sensation in that city, places old
age at eighty-five years, and the complete
natural life of man about a century. He
places first manhood betwen forty-five and
fifty-five, and second manhood from that
to seventy, instead of old age at that peri
od. We are inclined to accept his view’
of the question as the most correct one.—
Buffon, the naturalist, entertained such an
opinion. The rule of life laid down by
him is, that animals live from six to seven
times the number, of years required to
complete their growth, such as the horse,
which completes its growth at four years,
lives from twenty to twenty-four years,
and a man who takes eighteen years to
reach his full growth may live more than a
hundred years. There are but few’ men
who live to a hundred years, and just a few
horses that live to twenty-four, but that
affords no reason why many men, and
almost all men of a sound constitution may
not live for a century. The table ofM.
Flourins relating to life is as follows:
Man grows for 20 years, and lives 90 or 100
The camel 8 “ “ 40
The horse 5 “ “ 25
The ox 4 “ “ 15 or 20
The dog 2 “ “ 10 or 12
This is some wdiat different from Buffon,
but he sets it down as a fixed rule that all
the larger animals live about fir e times
longer than the time required for their full
growth. This question is one of deep im
portance to the w'holc human family. It
is one to which the ingenious Frenchman
has brought a gTeat amount of knowledge
in investigation, and he holds up science,
as presenting to all men by a life of sobrie
ty, a very extended fund of existence.—
Scientific American.
Horses nml Mules for the South.
The neglect of grain crops by the cotton
planteres of the South, has been often and
justly animadverted upon. The maxim—
“produce, if possible, all of your home
supplies at home”—cannot be too often
or too deeply impressed upon the ag
ricultural community of the Missisippi Val
iev South.
But there is one corollary from this max
im. which so far, we beleive, has been but
little agitated or discussed. With every
natural facility for growing fine horses and
mules, all the cotton States (excepting a
small portion of Tennessee J are tributary
to Kentucky and the Western States for
their supplies of those useful and indis
pensable anxil iaries of man, whether en
gaged in agriculture or commerce.
There is no reason why Tennessee, Ar
kansas, Missippi, Alabama, Georgia, and
Texas, should not raise all of their own
horses and mules. There is no earthly
reason why these. States should not also
raise all of their own corn, hogs, cows, &c.
There is, likewise, no earthly reason why
these States should not pay, particular at
tention to the improvement of the
breeds of all the different kinds of
stock.
It is sometimes said that the. South is
not a good grazing country, and, therefore,
not suitable, for growing fine stock. A
moment’s considetation will show that this
is the purest “fudge.” The lowlands
bordering uponevry perennial stream in
the South—from tlie lordly Tennessee to
the smallest brook “singging its quiet
tune,” are capable of beius made, a dittle
expense, tlie finest pastures in the world.
Look at tlie Tennessee river bottom
how many millions of acres are there, yet
awaiting the occupancy of the graizer, to
whose purposes they arc better suited
than to those of any other class of agricul
turists? So of Obion, Forked Deer,
Hatchie, Wolf, Tallahatchie, the upper
Tombigbee,and all tlie streams, large and
small, of the South, including the mighty
Mississippi, large portions of whose
immense bottom are admirably adapted
to all tlie requirments of the stock grow
er.
When will the South be true to herself?
When will Southern men learn their true
policy? When will they learn that every
thing produced at home; corn and horses,
peas and hogs, pototoes and mules, shucks
and sheep, brogans and beef-—is a saving
of alwavs double, and often quadruple, of
what tlie same article would cost, if they
have it to buy?—Memphis Eagle, and En
quirer.
The “PlaJiic” in Acw York.
Much alarm having been causelessly ex
cited in different quarters, by the rumored
appearance of tlie plague in New York,
we are glad to see that the malady which
gave rise to the report has been carefully
examined and found to be not contagious.
The New York Evening Post gives its
readers a long extract abridged from a
work on the subject by Dr. 1). AY. Wain-
wright, in which the complaint is very
thoroughly handled and its remedies indi
cated. Some forms of the disease arise
from handling animals that have died of
disease, others from aniinalcutc, and a
great porpotion, it is to he feared from the
use of unhealthy animal food. Previous
to the inquiries which the complaint has
called forth, it was suggested to us that the
New York “plague” was, from the descrip
tion given of it, identical with a disease
well known in Manilla, and which is there
said to be caused by eating unwholesome
meat. There is an incurable disease well
known in German hospitals, which is
caused by tainted sausages, and it is well
known that the ass a porci, a poison for
which Milan was celebrated, was prepared
from the axtravasated blood of swine, by a
process too cruel for description. The high
price of provisions in New York during
the past winter has doubtless induced the
numerous dishonest cooks and purveyors
of that city, to supply their customers
with food prepared from more than doubt
ful material, and this has, very possibly
originated some form of disease differing
in particular from any hitherto known. It
is useless to allege that rich as well as poor
have been attacked. The complaint is
quite as likely to be concealed in a pate
flnancierc or a galantine, as in any cheap
dish, perhaps more so, for who can
guarantee the sources of such food. We
do not willingly discuss thisnot very attrac
tive subject but as we know that some
concern has been expressed regarding it,
even in our own city, we are happy to be
able to contradict the statement that it is
of an epidemic character, or that any
serious results need be apprehended by
those whose food is of a plain wholesome
character.—Philadelphia Bulletin.
its way through the mighty billows of the
Atlantic, becomes a task quite sufficient to
stagger any ordinary intellect, and more
than sufficient to exhaust the faith of the
most credulous. If the Leviathan shall be
able to show a full list of passengers for her
first visit to our shores, it will certainly
appear that the people of this day have
more confidence in art and science than
their ancestors, whom Fulton attempted to
“humbug” with his “foolish invention.”—
But science has achieved so much since
the time of Fultou, that any want of faith
in the success of t his great enterprise would
smatter of “old fogyism,” nevertheless, in
view of the fact that the sea has a way of
knocking to pieces sometimes vessels of
all sizes, and leaving no possible way of
escape for humanity, a little hesitation iu
a matter of this kind is pardonable.
The engines of the Leviathan, although
said to be of 2G00 horse power, will in re
ality be capable of being worked up to 10,
000 horsepower. The united strength of
10,000 horses would seem to be power
enough to move a small sized globe; and if
not such au one as ours, at least an aster
oid. It is confidently predicted, that, not
withstanding the great length of this steam
er, she will be enabled to pass through the
water at an average speed, in all weathers,
of fifteen knots an hour, and with a smal
ler power in proportion to tonnage than
ordinary vessels now require to make ten
knots. The contract speed of most ocean
mail-carrying steamers is eight knots. A
ship of this huge capacity can carry 12,000
tons of coal— juite sufficient, it is stated,
for her consumption on the outward and
homeward voyages. She will be launched
unlike any other ship—broadside on tlie
water, by means of hydraulic power, and
early in next spring is expected to make a
trip to the United States and back, in a
fortnight.
From the Albany Atlas.
The Crusade Exiending—Assault oa the
Methodists.
We have noticed the movements of the
Know Nothings of New Jersey against
the Methodists, and the public meetings
held in New York to denounce them. It
appears that a Mr. Graves is out in a vol
ume having the same object—called “Tlie
Iron Wheel, or Republicanism Backward,
and Christianity Reversed.” A writer in
the Cortland Democrat quotes some speci
mens of the vindictive Yvork:
‘“Methodism cannot be justily called a
church of Christ.’ Methodism a human
invention—is the grand daughter of Rome
—the grandchild of the man of sin, and
son of perdition; the church cannot fellow
ship it.’ ‘The first chapter ot the Discip
line wholly untrue.’ ,Methodism without
either altar or divinity—its members are
preachers all unconverted,’ ‘Methodism
the Popery of Psotestantism, &c. ‘The
doctrine of the power of tlie keys held by
the Methodist clergy in common with the
Pope.’ ‘Thirty untruths taught in the
baptism of one infant.’
“‘Masonry has equal—yea, far superior
claims than Methodism to assume the title
and demand the regard and consideration
of a church of Christ.’ ‘It is a society set
on foot by a man, not professing the
slightest conformity to the word of God.’
‘What is such a society but a great x-ival
and antagonistic institution to tlie church
set up by tlie God of Heaven?’”
‘“The Methodist system is death to all
the institutions for which Washington
fought and freemen died.’ ‘All tlie Meth
odist preachers in this country were tories;,
and vet he says again ‘Methodism is only
sixty-eight years old.’ The Methodists
‘are the merest puppets ever wired or
worked by stratagem. Oh, my country!
how much is to be feared for thy liberties
from these?’ ‘Tlie Methodism of the Dis
cipline is a naked clerical despotism and in
essence Popery itself, and the worst form
of Popery—Jesuitism,’ ‘A Methodist
society is an inquisition, not a church.’ ‘I
unhesitatingly pronounce it anti-Christ.’
The preachers are ‘tyrants,’ circuit ri
ders,’ ‘scandal mongers,’ ‘hypocrites and
deceivers.’”
But the writer does not stop here. Other
denominations come in for a share of his
proscription. He says “this woman (Po-
pery) is called the mother of harlots and
abominations. Who are the daughters?—
The Lutheran, the Presbyterian and the
Episcopalian churches are all branches of
the (Roman] Catholic,”&c. “Are not
these denominated ‘harlots and abomina
tions’ in the above passage? I so decide.
I could not with the stake before me de
cide otherwise.” “Presbyterians and
Episcopalians compose a part of Baby
lon.” “They hold the distinctive princi
ples of Papacy in common with Papists.”
The spirit of religious intolerance, once
loosed, never sates of its victims. It is
all-devouring and in appeasable.
family in the kingdom ? (Cheers.) This
year the Chancellor of the Exchequer
told you that he must have a sum of c£86,-
000,000, in order to carry on the various
departments of onr government and to de
fray our vast military expenditure. The
United States has at this moment in her
Treasury, enough, I think, to pay off all
her debt. Deduct the whole amount of
the expense of the Government of the
United States, not only of the general
Government, but also of the 30 independ
ent sovereign States, from the £86,000,000
we are spending, and you will find that
about c£?5,000,000 will be left, which, is,
therefore, the sum of taxation that we are
paying this year more than the people of
tlie United States. Some honorable gen
tlemen know what it is to run a horse that
has been weighted. I heard the other
day of a horse that won every race
which he started up to a certain peroid,
when it was for the first time weighted.—
It then lost the race, and it is reported in
the annals of the turf that it never won a
race afterwards. (Hear, hear.) If that
be the case with regard to a horse, it is
much more true with regard to a nation.—
When a nation has gone a step backwards
it is difficult to restore it to its position; if
another nation has passed it in the race, it
is almost impossible for it to regain the
ground it lias lost. (Hear.) I now speak
particularly to honorable members oppo
site, for there are, perhaps, more gentle
men upon that than upon this side of the
House in the happy position of owners of
vast, productive, beautiful, and, I hope,
unencumbered estate in various parts of
the kingdom. (Laughter.) We are now
about 10 days’journey frmn the United
States, and within 10 years we shall prob
ably communicate with that country by
telegraph as quickly as we now do with
the Crimea. I hope it will be for a much
better object. (Hear.) The people of
the United States are our people, and
there are few families in England which
have not friends and relatives connected
with or settled in that country. The in
ducements of men to remain at home and
their attachment to the place of their birth
are necessarily to some extent weakened
by the facility with which they can now
travel’almost round the world in a few
weeks. Do you believe that when the
capital of the greatest banking-house in
Lombard-street can be transferred to the
United States on a small piece of paper in
one post, that the imposition of .£75,000,-
000 of taxation over and above the taxa
tion of an equal population in the United
States, will not have the effect of transfer
ring capital from this country to the Uni
ted States, and if capital, then trade, pop
ulation, and all that forms the bone and
sinew of this great empire ? I ask honor
able members to remember what fell on a
previous evening from the right honorable
gentleman, the President of Works. The
right honorable gentleman talked of the
war, lasting, perhaps six years with our
resources undiminished. Now, nothing is
easier than for a Cornish baronet, possess
ing I am afraid to say how many thousands
a year, a member of a Cabinet, or for all
those who are surrounded with every com
fort, to look with the utmost complacency
upon the calamities which may befall oth
ers not so fortunately situated as them
selves. Six years of this war and our re
sources undiminished! Why, Sir, six
years of this war, at an annual expendi
ture of .£75,000,000, give .£450,000,000
to the side of the United States as against
the condition of the people of this country.
Tbe Miiunnutli Ocean Steamer.
The new steamer Leviathan, which is
now being constructed in London, promi
ses, says the Baltimore “American,” when
finished, to be the wonder of the age. To
grasp the idea of a Y’essel measuring more
than an eighth of a mile in length, with a
capacity of twenty thousand tons, and
room enough besides for four thousand
passengers, with all their luggage, certain
ly requires some mental effort; but to con
ceive. of such a monster grappling with
wind and tide, and triumphantly forcing
John Brisfrt on the Inited States.
The following remarks on the United
States were delivered in the British House
of Commons by tbe Hon. John Bright, on
the 7th ult.:—
There is a country called the United
States of America. Only on Tuesday
night the very remarkable circumstance
occurred—and I think the House will be
of opinion that it is one worth notice—of
two of the distinguished men being present
listening to the debates in this House,
who have occupied the position of Presi
dent of the United States (hear, hear) a
position, I Yenture to say, not lower in
honor and in dignity than that of any
crowned monarch on the surface of the
globe, (hear, hear.) The LTnited States
is precisely the country which is running
with us tbe race of power and of greatness.
Its population will, 1 belieY’e, at the next
census, exceed the population of the Uni
ted Kingdom; in its manufactures and gen
eral industry it is far the most formidable
rival that the great manufacturers of this
country now have to contend with; it has,
1 suppose, ten steamers tor one to this
country; its magnificent steamships have
crossed the Atlantic in a shorter time than
the steamships of this country; the finest
Y’essels which are at this moment perform
ing the voyage between England and the
Australian colonies, have been built in the
United States, therefore in ship-building
industry the United States not only com
pete with but in some respects even excel
this country. Look at our present posi
tion and that of the United States. May
I entreat the attention^ the House, for I
am not declaiming; I am not making a
party attack, I am treating of that which
in my mind, is of vital importance to every
[From the Mobile Register.]
Methodism Krjerts the Bait.
On publishing, yesterday, an extract
from the scathing letter of Judge Long-
street upon Know Nothingism, we took
occasion to say that the appeal made to
the religious feelings of the South by the
Philadelphia Convention, based as it evi
dently was upon the presumed want of in
telligence in our people, would, as all
similar attempts have done, result in dis
astrous and disgraceful failure. That ar
ticle had scarcely been dispatched to the
press, when we laid our hands on the New
(Irleans Christian Advocate, an able and
influential organ of the Methodist Episco
pal Church South, and found there a most
sensible and satisfactory confirmation of
the views wc had just expressed. Below
we give some extracts from the Advocate
in reference to the religious feelings of the
Philadelphia platform, from which it will
be seen that it repudiates them in toto,
and rejects the spurious coin offered by
the pious politicians at Philadelphia.—
The truth is, the large investment in piety
made by tbe Know Nothings, is about
turning out a \’ery bad speculation. So it
will always be, when hypocrites attempt
to ride into power by grovelling appeals
to the passions, instead , of judgments of
the people. We copy from the Advocate:
“Beyond the principle involved, there
aregraY’e considerations of expediency.
A misfortune has befallen the controversy,
as between Catholics and Protestants.
Our opponents have suddenly been put at
immense advantage.
“The sympathies of a powerful party
are unavoidable with them. Public speak
ers and journalists are become their apolo
gists and eulogists. Invidious comparis
ons are drawn between Catholics <ind
Protestants, in disparagement of the lat
ter, and by those who have hitherto
thought and acted otherwise.
“A comparatively feeble sect has been
elevated into undue importance. Accord
ing to the representation of the census, in
1850, the Roman Catholic Church has
1,112 churches, which can accommodate
only 62,000 hearers! Not one eleventh of
the number of churches belonging to the
Methodists, scarcely more than erne eighth
of the number of the Baptists, not one
fourth the number of the Presbyterians.
It has not one. thirty-third of the whole
number reported, -while Methodists have
more than one third, and the Baptists
nearly one fourth.
“And this handful a party aspiring to
nationality proposes to resist!
“If the General of the Jesuits himself
had been in council he could not more ef
fectually have devised to weaken the
Protestant and aggrandize the Catho
lic cause.
“Should this platform succeed to the
government, we snail he put back where
England was before the act of Catholic
emancipation. This is taking steps back
wards—back of ourselves.
“The proceedings of the Convention
lately assembled in Philadelphia, whose
platform is published in another column,
were watched by us with great interest.
Ecclesiastical matters were early introduc
ed. An attempt was made, principally by
Southern men, to throw them out. - But
the ‘Catholic test’ was affirmed, and final
ly reaffirmed. ‘The Roman Catholic
Church’ is named distinctly. ‘Resistance’
to it is propounded among the things
credenda and things agenda. If we read
correctly, every Catholic is proscribed.
He may be an American—native, good
and patriotic; lie may stoutly and prac
tically deny the power of the Pope in civil
matters as an inference from the ecclesias
tical. Yet, for his religion’s sake, he is
barred ‘advancement to all political sta
tions—executive, legislative, judicial or
diplomatic.’ This is a test to which our
religious principles and republican in
stincts, the spirit of oux institutions, and
the liberty of conscience, as interpreted by
the age, are all opposed. No party hold
ing it, however excellent be other princi
ples held in combination, may expect to
pass before tlie conservative people of the
United States, especially of the South.
It cannot budge a step—it cannot stand,
w ith this millstone about its neck.”
From the Empire State.
The Voice of an old Union Whig.
To my Whig frien ds who have stood
and battled with me so long, and have now
left me standing on the Georgia Platform,
and gone to the Philadelphia Platform, or
to wliat is called the “Know Nothing Par
ty,” I cannot go with you, and thus to
tally abandon every principle contained
in that secret pledge of my own State, so
gallantly made by us all, in 1850. I have
tried those principles, and find them good
enough for me. I am upon the Platform
of ’50, and intend to stand upon it, and
not abandon it for your double tongaed
Philadelphia concern. My opinion is, you
had better keep upon the foundation laid
by the sovereign State of Georgia; “other
foundation hath no man (party) laid.” I
w arn you, lest you step upon the quick
sands of federalism, and ere you are aware
be overrun by northern abolitionism. To
my old political friends, again I say, I re
gret to see so many of you leaving me. I
do not assume to dictate to you; but when
I look back to tlie revolutionary rvar, and
contemplate the unparalelled struggle of
onr fathers with Great Britain, for the lib
erty we now enjoy, and consider what
would have been the result, had not the.
French Armies, and gallant men from
other Nations, come over the waters and
espoused our cause at the time they did—
a time when Gen. Washington was retreat
ing from place to place, to save the lives
>f liis worn-down hand full of hare-foot,
half-starved soldiers. I confess I am as
tonished to see men in this day, calling
themselves Whigs, forming secret oath-
bound parties, to keep the children of
those noble masters in onr cause from be
ing citizens amongst us. I beg you to
remember, upon Georgia soil sleeps the
mortal remains of nine hundred gallant
foreigners, who fell side by side with hun
dreds of such men as Jasper and Jones,
fighting for our liberty at the siege of Sav
annah; remember the Baron DeKalb, who
willingly sacrificed his life, to secure the
retreat of our own men, that fled because
of the cowardly conduct of Gates—re
member LaFayette, Pulaski, Steuben,
Koseiusco, and a host of others, all for
eigners. Oh! will you remember York
Town, where the French fleet kept Com
modore Wallace iu check, preventing his
retreat, until the combined American and
French armies, under Washington and La-
Fayette, forced a surrender, which gave a
fatal blow’ to the enemy, and soon procured
the acknowledgment of our independence.
I ask you have you ever heard or read of
these things? If you have, do you not
consider it ungrateful in the extreme, to
form secret oath bouad parties to pro
scribe such men? I have been born and
raised in this free and happy country,
where we have the right of speech, and I
trust have too much republicanism in my
heart to support any that I know to be
wrong.
To the Union men that have not de
serted the Georgia Platform, let us not
abandon our position. We haY’e with us
a host of worthies that have not yet “bow
ed the knee to Baal.” To those who have
deserted true republican principles, and
taken lodging with “Bam,” I would say,
come out from such political errors, and
don’t he afraid to stand upon our Plat
form of ’50. You know the timber of
which it is composed ivas well seasoned,
jointed, and put together by good work
men in the day time. I would like to say
something about the spirit of religion pro
scription found amongst the Know Noth
ings, but it would protract this communi
cation beyond my intention. Allow me
to mention ho\ve\’er. that I reckon the
religious proscriptionists have got a candi
date for Governor that suits their notions
pretty well. He commenced the work
years ago, by refusing to allow a man to
give his evidence, because hewasaUni-
versalist. !‘Would that my friends inves
tigate all these questions.”
GEORGE 8. BARROW.
A Knotty Text.—There was once an
itinerant preacher in West Teneessee,
who, possessing considerable natural elo
quence, had gradually become possessed
with the idea that he was also an
extraordinary Biblical scholar. Under
this delusion he would very frequently,
at the close of his sermon, ask any mem
ber of his congregation, who might have a
“knotty text” to unravel, to speak it, and
he would explain it at once, however much
it might have troubled, “less distinguished
divines.” On this occasion, in a large
audience, he was particularly pressing for
some one to propound a text, but no one
presuming to do so, he was about to sit
down without an opportunity of showing
his learning, when -a chap at the door an
nounced that he had a Bible matter of
‘great consam’ which he desired to be en
lightened upon. The preacher quite ani
matedly professed his willingness and abil
ity, and the congregation was in great ex
citement.
“What I want to know,” said the out
sider is, “whether Job’s turkey was a hen
or a gobbler?”
The “expounder” looked confused, and
the congregation tittered, as the questioner
capped the climax by exclaiming in a loud
voice:
“1 fotched him down on the first ques
tion!”
From that time forward the practice ot
asking for “difficult passages” was discon
tinued.
The Vermont Watchman learns that
a person, concerned with three others
in murdering a man in Woodbery, Vt. r
forty years ago, has recently confessed
(on a death bed] the deed, and detailed
the circumstances, nameing all the parties
except one, who is still living.