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VOLUME XXVI!.]
MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, JULY 8. LS5G.
(.NUMBER G.
$2 75
4 50
3 00
4 00
3 00
1 50
5 00
CONFECTIONARY
ESTA BL5SIIJIENT 1
T HE undersigned respectfully announces to the
citizens of Milledgeville and its vicinity, that
be has opened a
Confectionary Establishment
in this city, second door from Treanor’s corner, in j
which he will keep constantly on band
©JliTUiO 3
of the best quality, NUTS. Jr RESTS, and i
every thing that is usually kept in that line. Also, J
Pickled Oysters, Lobsters,
DRIED BEEF, CR ACKERS, PRESERVES j
of various kinds. TEAS, Ac. &c. A\ICKEE
BASKETS and
CHIIDRIN’S CARRIAGES,
besides many other things too numerous to men
tion. He has also set up a
Svwi. - w it - %
of the latest and most Improved construction, and
now furnishes his customers with confessedly the
best Soda Water that has ever been prepared in
Milledge ville. The ladies will find this healthful
beverage very cool and refreshing during this hot
weatln r, and the undersigned is determined to
keep his establishment in such a manner as to de
serve their patronage.
Mv lee Cream Saloon will be open to morrow.
J WM. B. FERRELL.
Milledgeville, July 1st. 185th 5 tf
Uoctrrr.
Oglethorpe University
COMMENCEMENT WEE K
Baccalaureate SERMON', Sabbath Morning, July
Missionary Sermon, Sabbath Night, July ‘.Nth.
Sufiiomorf. Pri/.eDeclamation, Monday night.
Junior Exhibition, Tuesday Morning.
Annum. Meeting of Board of Trustees,
Tuesday night.
Commf.nuemunt and Anniversary Oration,
before the Literary Societies, by Hon. II. V.
Johnson, Wednesday Morning.
C. W. LANE,
Secretary of Board of 1 rustecs.
^,L-»JL
A Snerial Train of Cars will carry visitors from
Milledgeville
ercises.
to and from each of the.
5 3t C.
ibove ex-
W. L.
HOLLOWAY’S PILLS!
WHY ARE WE SICK?
t has horn the lot ol ilif* human rnr« to hr weighed
down by dib^ase and suffering. Holloway’s Pills
art* tally aGnpo»i to the relief of lli*» Weak. thr
Nekvous, tin* Delicate, sod »Infirm of all elim***,
ng»s. texes, and ( on»inuiions pr..0*aw»r Holloway per-
boi ally su peril i lend * ill** nviiufaeiure ol’In* medicines
in the l nited Maieo, an:! offers ibem to n free and en
lightened people, ns I lie the beat remedy lb© world ever
saw lor the removal ol disease.
T/IE^E PILLS PURIFY THE BLOOD.
Thfie famotw Pills are expressly combined to o]*er»
ateon ihr stomach, the liver, the kidneys, the lung* the
skir., and the bowel*, correcting any derangement in
th^ir (unctions, purifying the Mood, the very fountain ol
life, and thus curing disease in all its forma.
DYSPEPSIA AND LIFER COMPLAIXTS.
Nearly half the human race have taken thete Pn.i.s
It b»* been proved in ail p*irl*ol ill*' world, that noth ng
ha* been found equal to them in rases of disorders of * lie
Jixer dyepepeia. nod triurnnrlt complaint* generally *l hcy
noon give a healthy lone to these organs. hoWover much
deranged, and when ail other means have fail'd
GESERAL DEBILITY, ILL HEALTH.
Many of the moat despotic Governments have opened
thri; Civiotn Hou*estoihe introduction of these Pills,
that the' may become I be medicine of the masses Learn
ed College* admit that this m dicinr is I be beet remedy
over known for persons « frf*licate health, or where ihe
»y«l"tn has been impaired, a?? us invigorating properties
never tail to effird rein f.
FEMALE COMPLAIXTS.
No Female, young *>r *»l«l. should be without ibis cele
brated medieine. ]i corrects and regulates the moirlhlv
courses at all periods aciiog ui many caae« like a charm
It i* also the beat and *nfost medicine that can he given
to children ol nil n :e*. and for any complaint; conse-
quenllv no familv -!* >uld lie witlmii* it
Hollo tray's Pills ore tic brst remedy known
in the world for the following diseases:
AsihruH. Ifohility. I.rver complaints,
H"W*d complaints. Fever and Ague, Lmvne>s of spirits,
Coughs, Femnlerorrplrtints. Pile*.
Odds, Headache, Slone and Gravel
Ch**! disease*, indigestion, fcfrnnidary ayrop-
CoA-tivuieu, Ii floei za, «oms.
Dyspepsia, Inflammation, V- tie real affection
DmtrhcBa. Dropsy, Inward weakness Worms of all kind
ftCT S.dd at ili? Mnnnfarfories of Professor Holllw.vy
80, Maid n Lane. New Vork and 244 Strand, London,
and hy all respectable !)nig**«*ts and D- tslereof Medi
cines throng|k%t:i the United States, an*! the civiltced
world, in Boxes at 2T> cts f#2i ct* and $1 each
$Cr There is considerable saving by taking ihe larger
si7*' *,N. B.— Direction* for the guidance of ratientr
in every disorder re affixed o each Box. 13eowly
DR. R. C. CYPHERS,
' )T ' SUaGSOK DSSTTIS'SF,
H AVING permanently located in EATONTON,
offers bis professional services to the citizens
of Putnam and tbe adjoining counties. He is pre
pared to execut< any work in the iinc of his Pro
fession, in a re at, durable and satisfactory manner.
He is a graduate of the Baltimore College of
Dental Surgery, and lias bad several years practi
cal experience.
There have been many late and important im
provements made in the Science of Dentistry
among the most important may be mentioned Al
len's crmUtmcus Gum. He is prepared to put up
fall -setts of teeth in this style, having purchased
the right of Mr. Allen.
CT* Dr. C. will spend the first week in each
month,in Milledgeville. ,
Prompt attention given to business.
April Hi, 1856. s™
The
expelling
the
§1 CONFECTIONARY
,f.V« FRUIT STORE.
THE Subscriber wonld respectfully inform tbc
citizens of Milledgeville and vicinity, that be lias
on hand, and is coustantlv receiving fresh sup
plies of CONFECTIONARY, FRUITS, Ac..
Oranges. Lemons, Pine Apples Bananas, Ac.
Raisins, Figs. Dates. Prunes. A c.
Preserves, Jellies, Pickles, Catsup and Sardines,
Soda Biscuit and Butter Crackers.
NETS, of all kinds, for sale in any quantity.
Fine Havana Cigars, Tobacco mid Snuff.
Dried Beef and Beef Tongues, liolongna Sausages.
All of which will be sold very low for Cash.
JOHN CONN.
Milledgeville, April 28, l-r.6. 4‘.) 6m
MODE PRIZES THAN BLANKS!
5031 PRIZES ! 00,000 DOLLARS!
Only 10,000 Number Lottery in E.r is fence
therefore the best for In rest merit.
HAVANA KM LOTTERY!
Jasper County Academy Lottery I
f By Authority of the Stoic of Georgia. 1
flats O, will be Drawn July i§lb, l>5ti,
At Concert. Hall. MACON. GA., under the
sworn superintendence of Col. Geo. M. Logan
and .Tas. A. Nisbet. Esq.
This I-offery is drav n on tbe Plan of tbe Royal
Lottery of Havana of single numbers; this lias
only 10,000 Numbers and the Havana Lottery A>,-
OOO Number*—the Havana 24!) Prizes—this 5031
Prizes. Look to your interest! Now is tbe time.
Capital, $7,500!
1 Trize of..
$7,500 is
7., 500
1
. 3,000 is
...3,000
I
. 2.000 is
...2,000
5
500 are....
. ...2,500
20
10 are
2,000
■50!)
8 are
... 40,000
■5/131 Prizes tin
minting to
.«fo ,'.0!J.
T TCKL rs $lo Halves $5, Quarters $2 5t ;
PRIZES PAYABLE WITHOUT DEDUCTION.
E?^P rsons sending money bv mail need not
fear its being lost. Or ! rs punctually attended to.
Communications confidential. Bank Notes of
sound Banks takeu at par. Drawings sept to all
ordering Tickets.
IITl'Iiose v.lulling particular win'.mrs should
order immediately.
Tbe 5,000 Prizes of *8 are det*-nmned by the
drawing of the Capital of #7,.>001); it the number
that draws the Capital is an even number, those
Tickets ending with 0, 2. 4, 0, 8, are entitled to
if an odd number and one even numlier, arc
sure to draw a Prize
Address JAMES F. WINTER, Manager,
>1 aeon. 1856 Tfacon, Ga.
I>H. J\MI N As butts
TENDERS HIS
PROFESSIONAL services
TO THE CITIZENS OF
Baldwin avd jokes.
bin Office at Thomas B. Horne's.
Dr. McLANS’S
CELEBRATED
VERMIFUGE
LIVER PIMiS.
Two of I fir best Prrjinrntiong of t ho Age*
They arc not recom
mended as Universal
Cure-alls, but simply for
what their name pur
ports.
Vermifuge, for
W orms from
human system, has
also been administered
with the most satisfactory
results to various animals
subject to Worms.
The Liver Pills, for
the cure of Liver Com
plaint, all Bilious De
rangements, Sick Head
ache, &c.
Purchasers will please
be particular to ask for
Dr. C. McLane’s Cele
brated Vermifuge and
Liver Pills, prepared by
(yiejmemj eW>.
sole proprietors, Pitts
burgh, Pa., and take no
other, as there are various
other preparations now
before the public, pur
porting to be Vermifuge
and Liver Pills. All
others, in comparison
with Dr, McLane’s, are
worthless.
The genuine McLane’s
Vermifuge and Liver
Pills can now be had at
all respectable Drug
Stores.
FLI3MING BHO’S,
60 Wood St., Pittsburgh, Ta.
Sole Proprietor*.
Scor'd & Mead, No. Ill Charles st. New Orleans
General Wholesale Agents for the Southern
States, to whom all Orders must he addressed.
Sold by E. J. White; Jas. Merry: Wm. L
White & Co,'Milledgeville; Ge<>. Payne, E. L.
Stroheker, Macon; I Newell, Golden; Beall A.
Chambers. Iwnton; W. II. Burnett, Sparta; /.
Gray, Sandersville; Long & Diiriiaei, JeiTerson-
Tille: N. S Pruden, Eatonton; Hurd & Ht'.ii-
gerford, Monticello; and by one agmit in every
town in tbe State. [nrarrti 25, ’56, ly
ill istclhn mis.
A Weary Life it is to have no Work to Da.
Ho! ye who at the anvil toil.
And strike the sounding blow,
Where from tbe burning iron s breast
The sparks Hy to and fro,
While answering to the hammer's ring.
And tire's intenser glow—
O! while we feel ’tis hard to toil
And sweat the long day through,
Remember it is harder still
To have no work to do.
Ho'vewho till the stubborn soil,
Whose hard hands guide the plough,
Who bend beneath the summer sun,
With burning cheek and brow—
Ye deem the curse stiff clings to earth
From olden time till now—
But while ye feel ’tis hard to toil
And labor all day through,
Remember it is harder still
To have no work to do.
Ho! ve who plough the sea's blue fields—
Who ride the restless wave.
Beneath whose gallant vessel’s keel
There lies a yawning grave.
Around whose bark the wintry winds
Like fiends of fury rave—
Ol while ye feel ’tis hard to toil
And labor long hours through,
Remembers it is harder stiff
To have no work to do.
Ho! ye upon whose fevered cheeks
The hectic glow is bright,
Whose mental toil wears out the day
And half the weary night,
Who labor for the souls of men.
Champions of troth and right—
Although ye feel your toil is hard,
Even with this glorious view,
Remember it is harder still
To have no work to do.
Ho! all who labor—all who strive—
Ye wield a lofty power;
Do with your might, do with your strength,
Fill every golden hour;
The glorious privilege to do
Is mau’s most noble dower—
O! to your birthright and yourselves,
To your own souls be true!
A weary, wretched life ;s theirs
Who have no work to do.
From the Daily Constitutionalist
THE BRIDE.
The bridal veil hangs o’er her brow.
Her lips have breathed the marriage vow;
Tbe light of love is beaming in her eye,
And yet methinks I hear a half-drawn sigh.
’Tis not regret—for oh! how well
She loves, no language e’er can tell!
Her’s is a fair and happy lot,
The world seems but one sunny spot;
She feels no doubt that hr will o'er deceive,
He whom she proudly loves and will believe-
Andsoon bis smile those sighs will chase,
That transient sadness leave no trace.
Yet she bad loved before they met,
And learned to weep with vain regret,
O'er broken vows—o’er tlie false cruel heart,
And hopes, which like the summer tiow’rs de
part.
S ae feit in that lone hour of pain.
That she could never love again.
That false one was both young and proud,
He seemed Apollo in the crowd,
A fascination ’round him strangely clang.
And winning words ot love dwelt on his
tongue,
She listened and believed the while,
And only lived beneath his suiiie.
Oh fearful was the maddening woe
Tfiat filled her heart to overflow—
With treachery he broke the golden chain,
The spell was o’er, and she had loved in vain;
Such was her first, her early dream,
It changed—can love survive esteem? .
Another came—she loved once more,
But now ’twas calmer than before,
For she had learned to prize the noble heart,
And scorn the falsehood taught by fashion’s
art.
Yes, she forgot the hollow past
In one more love—the best and last.
They say that woman’s faithful heart
From her first dream can ne’er depart.
But when that heart is n rung with cold neg
lect.
Stern pride will teach affection to forget
She binds it with a mighty chain
Yet trusts once more and loves again!
Lf.il*.
Jlascmc Ode.
See yonder, glorious blaze of light,
Through earth's wide boundries shine—
What being comes to cheer iny sight?
‘Tis Masonry Sublime.
From East to West her light now pours
Their brightest ra\ s around,
’Til through the land front shore to shore.
No darkness can be found.
Behold assembled in her train,
Four maidens on her wait —
Each doth a noble aim maintain,
Our cause to elevate.
First—beauteous Temperance appears,
Where graces all combine;
Her snow w bite flag aloft she rears
Of purity the sign.
Next—Fortitude with dauntless air.
And noble to tbe view.
Her banner bright beyond compare
Emblem of Truth the blue.
Then prudence comes with careful main.
Her ensign raised above
Tlie purple emblem here is seen,
Commingling truth and love.
See Justice next, with eye severe,
The sword and balance true—
•Site bears her banner fluttering near
Celestial Red—loves hue.
Cold haggard want and misery fly,
When Masonry appears;
She comes to still the widow’s sigh,
And dry the orphans tears.
Faith, Hope and Charity convey
Their blessiugs to the vviso—
Faith works: and hope it points
To the grand lodge in the skies.
And when our faith is lost insight,
And hope frutation yield—
With Charity through realms of light,
We’ll tread the heavenly fields.
The New York Mirror, speaking of the nomina
tion of.lames Buchanan tor the Presidency, says
he “is riding the topmost wave of the Eternal
Democracy, which is ever rising higher and higher,
and, like the tides of
"'3'bo Propontic sea,
Knows no retiring ebb.”
Tbe Mirror is an anti-Democratic paper, and the
above statement may therforo be regarded as a
forced and reluctaut confession that that jour
nal cannot conceal.
Cotton to Brag On.—Mr. A J. Bates, of
tlie Ridge, 1ms sent us some stalks that
will dfi to brag on. They are from 18 to
22 inches in height and abound in squares.
They were selected from the best part of
Mr. Bates’ field. Tlie species is ‘Boyd’s
Prolific,” which now lias the reputation of
being the fullest hearing cotton known.
The objection to it is, that it is difficult to
gather.—Edgefield Ado. 4th.
Useless Knowledge.—Much which passes
in the world for knowledge is hut a slight
and trivial thing; and man’s being so eager
and industriou is the quest of it, is like
sweeping the house, raising the dust, and
making a great ado, only to find pins.
\Dr. South.
lV.iWn uV VVu)U8*.vmV Flowers. |
Tilts beautiful article for the Toilet, is. now for sale, j
at tlie very low price of 50 cents per Bottle,
By E. J. WHITE & BKO. |
A wag told us the other day that one
half the lawyers live without a cause, and
die without effects.
From the Journal of Commerce.
Trip from Smyrna lo Constantinople.
Constantinople, Nov. ID, ISoo.
We left Smyrna on the 14th inst., and
the same evening anchored again near
Vourla, some sixteen or twenty miles from
Smyrna. This is a small Turkish town,
not "far from the ancient Clayomenm ; and
we lay here two days taking in water for
the squadron, from a delicious and ever-
living spring on the Ionian shore. The
North wind still continuing to drive so fu
riously down the Dardanelles as to render
it impossible for a sail vessel to make any
headway against the rapid current of the
straits, our Commodore determined to pro
ceed to Constantinople in the steamer Sa
ranac. Receiving a generous invitation
myself also, front the gentlemanly officers
of the ward room, to share their hospitali
ty, 1 went with other gentlemen on board
the same vessel. Wc weighed anchor on
the afternoon of the 16th inst., and left the
frigate Congress to proceed to Alexandria,
where we hoped to meet her in two or
three weeks. The Gulf of Smyrna was
soon far behind us, and wc were passing
the large Island of Mitylin, the ancient
Lesbos, so distinguished twenty-five cen
turies sinee for its rich wines, its skill in
music, its beautiful women, and its many
vices. In those days, to call a man a Les
bian was synonymous with branding him
with the epithet of debauchee. Here lived
Anon, the melody of whose music drew
the dolphins around the ship in which he
was playing, as he thought, his last sad
notes; and they came not only to listen,
but to hear him in safety to the shore when
thrown hy the sailors into the sea. Here
too was Ter pander horn, who, by the
sweetness of his seven-stringed lyre, ap
peased tlie fury of a mob at Sparta.
Ale a us was here celebrated alike for bis
poetry and cowardice. What an idea was
that of hanging up the armor he had
thrown away on tue field of battle in the
Temple of Minerva, that all might know
and dispisc his want of spirit. A penny
newspaper would now proclaim his dis
grace, but not perhaps so effectually. And
who can forget here the beautiful Sappho.
whom the Greeks loved to call the -‘tenth
Muse,” on account of the elegance and sub
limity of her immortal poetry. Unregula
ted and insane as were her passions, and
unworthy of her sex as she proved herself,
yet her equally debased countrymen erect
ed temples to her honor and adored her as
a god. How melancholy is the fact, that
skill in music and in poetry and the wine
cup have been linked together like three
weired sisters to enchant our world into
all the extravagances of selfish debauche
ry ! Is the time never to come when the
highest gifts of genius and the richest
bounties of Providence shall be associated
with purity and truth and honor and man
liness? But the Lesbians were not all
debased. The learned, eloquent and bril
liant Theophrastus, whom Kings as well
as philosophers delighted to honor, was
born here; and Pittacus, the most disin
terested and just of men, and who was
finally enrolled as one of the “seven wise
men” of Greece, spent his long and useful
lite in Lesbos. Let us look upon these
bright spots, and hope that there were ma
ny more!
The next morning, going on diggk at an
early hour, 1 found our good ship passing
slowly hut surely against the wind through
the channel of Ttnedos, about midway be
tween that Island and the shores of the
“plains of Troy.” We were only a few
miles from either shore, and of course both
were in full view. ’1 hose well known
lines of Virgil, when all were silent and
Father iEneas from his lofty couch began
his story to the Carthagenian Queen, w ere
of course rushing to my lips.
“Estin conspectu Tenedos, nottissima fama
Insula, dives opum, Friatni dtiui regina rnane-
bant,
Nunc tautum sumus. et staffs male fiJa carinis
Hue se provecti deserto in litorc condunt.”
The two thousand years that have pas
sed since these lines were written, do not
sec-in to have produced any change in the
deserted shore of Tenedos. 1 could see
where the Greeks so artfully concealed
their ships thirty centuries ago, and as 1
looked across the channel to the ’I rojan
shore, I could almost see again those mon
ster serpents gliding upon the rivers to
wards Laocoon, and then, in the very pres
ence of tlie affrighted Trojans, crushed him
and his two boys in their mighty folds.
Well might TEneas say “horrcsco refer-
ens.” for it makes one’s blood run cold to
read it—
“Corripunt, spirisqne ligant ingcnffbns: et jam,
His meniuin amplext, his callo squamacircuin
Terjra dali, sup* rant capite t*t cervicibus altis.
It is not strange that artists have at
tempted to reproduce this scene in marble
and on canvass. And now the plains of
Troy come more distinctly into view, with
the increasing light of the morning. They
extend along the shore twelves miles at
least; and spreading out inland some four
or five miles, and hounded by Mount Ida
on the East. The exact site of ancient
Troy was not known even in the days of
Athens’ greatest glory. But there can he
no doubt that it was not far distant from
the coast opposite Tenedos; and no one
with the facts of the ten years’ seige in his
memory, can pass along these shores with
out seeing the plain crowded again with
the hundred thousand Greeks, and with
the forms of Achilles and Agamemnon and
Ajax and Nestor and other helmeted he
roes, while the walls and towers of Troy,
and the body of the slain Hector and old
Priam and yEneas, all reappear with more
vivid reality than they assumed even in
the days of his boyish imagination. Troy
and Virgil and Homer become parts of the
world’s history, more real than he supposed
them possible to be.
The impressions of the past became still
more vivid when we reached the promon
tory of Sigceum, and saw not far from the
mouth of the Scamander, as we were en
tering tlie Dardanelles, the two large
mounds which have been pointed out for
so many ages as the tombs of Ajax and
Achilles. They are, perhaps, a quarter of
a mile apart, and are not unlike the old
Indian mounds still seen in the more West
ern States of America. Here came Alex
ander the Great on his way to the conquest
of Persia, and offered sacrifices upon the
tomb of Achilles, who had received divine
honors for a thousand years. He visited,
|it the same time, the tomb of Ajax, sym
pathising in the deeds of greatness which
fame attributed to those ancient heroes,
and doubtless departing from these mounds
with more of that mad ambition which
made him the conqueror of the world.
The current from the Dardanelles be
gins here to pour its mighty waters into
the -Egcan, and they sweep onward with
such resistless power that even our steamer
could make hut slow progress against
them. A whole fleet of sail vessels were
lying here at anchor, and we were told that
they are not unfrequently. detained four
and six weeks and even longer. Indeed
there is no possibility of their passing
through the Straits without a change of
wind. The entrance is guarded also by
strong: Turkish forts—the one on the
Asiatic side having the high sounding
name of tlie “Castle of Asia, while the
other is called the “Castle of Europe.” It
is said they arc more formidable in appear
ance than in reality. The red Turkish
flag with the crescent was flying from the
battlements of both as we passed, hut it
inspired none of the dread with u Inch
Christians regarded it some centuries past.
Who, indeed, could help feeling as he saw
it there, that the Russian hear would long
ere this have torn it down from ever} for
tress around those waters it England and
1*'ranee had not brought their fleets and ur
mies here for their defence ? Strange union
is that ot the forces of England and F ranee,
and stranger still the combination of 1 urk-
islt with Christian Powers! but destined,
as I believe, to accomplish the grandest
results for the civilization of the world,
and the spread ot the Gospel of Christ.
And now we are passing up the Dardan
elles—the waters being pressed into a nar
row channel of less than a mile in width,
and the shores on the European side rising
in hold and rocky bluffs, while on the
Asiatic side they spread themselves out
into [leasantand fertile vallies. In vain,
however, do you look for thriving villages
or cultivated farms. Nature seems, in
deed, to have prepared her choicest gifts
for the people of these beautiful shores,
Lut the Turk waits for destiny to gather,
as well as to provide them, and the gifts
become worthless. In tlie afternoon, we
reached another point, defended by two
forts of the same name as those at the en
trance of the straits. Two r l urkisli towns
of considerable size are collected here un
der the protection of the cannon, and from
a beautiful residence near the one on the
Asiatic side, we saw the flag of the Britisli
Consul flying. Ju-t above the fort the
waters spread themselves out into a com
paratively large and quiet bay, and as the
wind had now' risen again, and we were ap
proaching the most formidable point in the
straits, it was thought best to anchor for
the night. We threw out our anchor just
under the lea ot a point of land on w hich
stood the ancient Abydos, and on the op
posite side, a little further up on the Euro
pean side, was Sextos. M e could not hav e
found another spot in the Dardanelles so
rich in historical and classical associations,
and I rejoiced in tlie good fortune which
the wind had brought us. Just round the
Front the Californian Chronicle. „
A Trip lo the Monster Grove.
A correspondent of the Sacramento
Union gives an account of a trip to the
Monster grove, in Calaveras county. He
says:
The trees are 2,400 feet above the level
of Murphy’s, a distance of fifteen miles,
and 4,500 feet above the level of .San
Francisco. On our way, F.nd till within
600 yards ofthe house, you meet no indica
tion of the vicinity of giants. As you wind
the last corner, two splendcd specimens
burst onvour sight, and you feel paid for
your trouble already. These are infants
though:—you drive to the house, are met
bv Mr. Davis, who soon places you in the
most comfortable quarters, and provides
sumptuously for your inner man You
must have something to satisfy your eye
first, before you can eat,; you step about a
rod from the house, walk up a few steps,
and you are on the platform or trunk of the
monster, you shut your eyes it can t be
possible—but close hy is twenty feet of
the body ofthe tree lying on its side,and tow
ering into the air. lou trot back to din
ner, and swallow steak and trees no mat
ter vvliat. You get excited and reckless:
you must see more of them; and Mr. Davis
takes you hy a path large enough for a
carriage road, from the rear of the house
into the grove—situated in the hills, as if
in the bottom of a saucer. Contemptuous
ly passing trees of three or four feet iu
diameter, you bring up all standing in
presence ofa half a dozen “hoys,” fifteen feet
in diameter, and .unning up so symmetrical
that you cannot believe they are 200 feet
high. The top- are but scantily supplied with
branches and folliage, while the extreme
ends ol the tree appear to have been brok
en off. As it would take so much space to
describe each tree, I will give the size and
height of the largest, and their names:
HEIGHT. CIRC CM.
Feet. Eett
The Big Tree, (felled) — (treaceable 300) 96
Milters’ Cahill 300
Three Graces 290 (united)
Pioneer’s Cabin, (top
80
92
150
99
Old Batcholor
300
CO
Mother ofthe Forest
Father of the Forest,
326
90
(fallen)
450 (treaceable 300) 11*2
Husband and wife
250
(each)
60
Hercules
325
97
Hermit
320
60
Mother and Son 300
Siamese Twins and Guar-
(united)
93
dian
300
80
Old Maid
260
CO
Addie and Mary
UncieJone’s Cabin
3(i0
65
300
75
Pride of the Forest
280
60
Beauty of the Forest
The Two Sentinels
300
60
300
CO
The Old fell
280
60
Empire
260
60
Tlie “Big Tree” was fallen some years
ago, about seven feet from the ground, by
boring with large augers and sawing the
space between. 11 then took a huge wedge
and battering ram to make it fall. Tlie
bark is stripped and taken away for ex
point of land behind which w ® h ’^The^stump lias been smoothed for
straits are compressed into a channel or 1
not more, than a half a mile in width, and
it was at this point Xerxes built liis bridge
of boats foi the passage of his mighty ar
my. Not a living being could now he
seen where those masses ot Asiatics crowd
ed the shores, trampling upon one another.
I walked the deck and gazed upon the
quiet scene during the last hours ot the sit
ting day. There Is hot a vistage of Aby
dos left, but the name. There is a village
called Sestos, on tbe European side, but jt
is, I think, much farther down the straits
than old Sestos. The monument that
Xerxes erected to commemorate his great
acbievments has crumbled entirely to dust,
and on every side there is one wide spread
quiet desolation. And yet to me, in that
memorable afternoon, the shores were all
thick with that tumultuous host, who fol
lowed Xerxes from Persia and joined him
at every point of his progress through Asia
Minor, and finally stood here darkening
the fields with their thousand banners, and
sending up their shouts from their two,
three, five millions ot voices. AY hat a
spectacle they must have presented to one
looking down upon them from those oppo
site heights of Sestos; and with what pride
did Xerxes see the last column ot their
many millions leaving his bridge of boats
and winding their way unresisted up the
steeps of Europe! The great battle ot
the world was soon to be fought at Mara
thon, and the question to be decided
whether Grecian civilization or Asiatic bar
barism should rule tor many centuries.
How complete was the humiliation of this
arrogant barbarian; and may not the Ici
er of his race rejoice as he stands here and
remember the disasters that followed him
in his retreat, and that when he reached
this scene of his proud boasting, a poor
fishing boat was his only refuge!
It was a pleasant relief to turn away
from this romance ot war, and think ot the
romance of love, which*sheds a quiet and
sad beauty over Sestos and Abydos. Hero
and Leauder can, indeed, never be forgot
ten in the Hellespont. Y\ ho does not see
the beautiful girl holding up the burning
torch on the top of the high tower in Ses
tos, while Leauder buffets the waves and
finally sinks into the dark night, carrying
down with him into the aoyss of waters
the joys of a heart that could not beat at
all when Leauder was no more ? The
tower Irom which she cast herself into the
stream has perished, but the memory of
her love is as immortal as the fine aflec-
tions of the human heart are beautiful. It
adds nothing to the interest of this ancient
story to rembember that Lord Bvou swam
across the Straits. Leauder perilled liis
life for love. The torch that sent its
beams through the dark night, was to him
but a feeble symbol of that soul of Hero
which sent him on to peril and to death.
With Byron it was a poor ambition to as
sociate his name with Leander’s ; and with
many, doubtless, lie gained the same sort
of glory which is achieved by writing one’s
name in pencil on high and sacred places
—a shrug of the shoulders, it not the pity
and contempt of all passers by.
AVe weighed anchor again the next
morning, and passing rapidly through the
Straits and the Sea of Marmora, and we are
now snugly moored in their most beautiful
waters of the city of the great Sultan. Iu
my next I hope to give you a description
of the city. 1 can see from the deck of
our frigate enough to excite the strongest
desire to go ashore, and look upon the
Greek in his own home. There are rare
spectacles before me, and you can imagine
the nature of my expectations. N.
dancing floor, and would hold four sets of |
dancers. It took five men twenty-five
days to fell it. It measures ninety-six
feet in circumferance, the solid wood beinir
twenty-five feet in diameter. On the body
of the tree a house has been bui,t,
and two ten-pin alleys, eighty-one
feet long, are easily accommodated.
The ‘Miner's Cabin’ is named from a cavity
in the trunk seventeen feet across the en
trance and forty feet high. The “mother
of the forest” his been stripped ofthe bark
for 120 feet, and by wooden pins set in
you can go to where the hark begins.
Though stripped in 1854, the tree has now
a full and new supply of f oliage.
The “Father of the forest” has long
been fia? upon the ground. The roots ex
tend high in the air, and you can see the
enormous surface it covered when stand
ing. It is hollowed by action of fire for
200 feet or more. A spring of water wells
up inside, and for twenty five feet or more
it was three feet deep. In falling the old
gentleman hit one of his sons, ten feet
thick, and knocked him endways. You
walk upon the trunk as though on a one-
story house. The father and mother arc
immediately surrounded by twenty-four
children, all thriving and lusty, the young
est not less than twelve feet in diameter.
“Hercules” is the noblest standing tree
of the grove, carrying his size for 100 feet
or more above tlie butt. Other trees have
their pecularities, hut I have not time to
specify. A few were named by parties
from Sacramento. There are ninety al
together of this species, differing entirely
from those about them, Loth iu color and
feeling of the bark: as also in size. Neith
er on your approach to the grove, or be
yond, outside of the rim ofthe saucer, con
taining them, are any other to be found. 1 or
near 2,000 years these heavy monarchs
have flourished, isolated from their kin
dred and sheltered from sight. The burnt
trunks and broken heads some of them ex
hibit show what elemental conflicts they
have sustained, while the lesser growth of
trees about them indicate some saving
property in their rhick, spongy bark.
The “horseback ride” through the trunk
of one tree, about seventy-five feet, was
exciting. Our two carriage horses were put
through, ourselves upon them one at a
time—one of them measuring sixteen
hands high.
There were two or three infants, say
fifteen feet, high only, growing in the
grove. The seed were very small and flat.
Cones, young and old, containing them,
were abundant.
Like the Cave, no discription is adequate
to give one more than a faint conception ot
the immensity of these trees. 1 hey are
so symmetrical you cannot in looking at
them realize they are so tall, and the often-
er you walk around, measure or sight them,
the larger they seem.
The temperature at theticesat Morning,
noon and night was respectively 31 deg.,
G4de°\, and 32 deg. May 1st there was a
lio-ht fall of snow, and by the 1st of June
iUwill be milder and the better time to
make the tour.
The Philadelphia Mary- Yard.—The work on the
new United States frigate Wabash, at the navy-
yard, is so far advanced that one hundred joiners
and laborers were discharged on Saturday. The
double engine of this beautiful steam frigate is
is now considered complete, nnd tbe two tri
als already made at the wharf have proved it to
be iu perfect order. Tbe propeller and the frame
in which it moves have been taken out, to obviate
a serious difficulty that would probably have crip
pled the vessel soon after getting to sea, as was
the case with the United States steamer Merri-
Col. Fremont's Father and Mother—Yery
fflorantie!
The Boston Telegraph, a Black Re
publican sheet in making out a pedigree
for its candidate for the Presidency, states
that his father, a native of France, having
arrived in this country—and “being a
young man of fine taste and considerable
skill for painting, soon made friends nnd
found employment. At Norfolk, Va , he
found the lady who became his wife, and
who is described as a young Virginia lady
of remarkable beauty.’ And it is added
that they were married contrary to the
wishes of her family.
The Richmond Dispatch gives a much
more romantic account of Col. trenieDt s
fathers marriage—no, not ot his marriage
—for there is no evidence that he ever
was married. But the Dispatch shall give
the history of the affair in its own lan
guage.
To the good or bad fortune, as it may
be of this city, (Richmond,) it is connect
ed with the history of Col, Fremont’s par
entage. About the first of the present
century there resided in this city a revolu
tionary veteran, who had served faithfully
in the war ofthe revolution. This veteran
was Col. John Pryor. He lived on the
ground which lies between the canal and
the river, west of the Petersburg railroad
depot, and east of the Armory. He had
there surrounding liis house a garden,
where people were admitted for a small
fee, and where refreshments could be pro
cured. This was called “Pryor’s” gar
den.” The old Colonel was a victim of
rheumatism, and locomotion to him was
difficult. He moved with a shuffling step,
and took a long time to go a verv little
way; indeed, he was a disabled, stiff-limb
ed old soldier, and his physical forces had
from exposure and hardship suffered no
little abatement.
The veteran Col. Pryor took it into his
head that he needed a wile, ar.d that he
would be much better off with one, than
to remain a rheumatic old bachelor, with
no one to love or rather no one to mend
his linen and sew on his buttons. So he
sought the hand in marriage of a young
girl—wl,o she was it is not material to
know; nor does our informant remember
whether she was very beautiful or not.
Suffice it to say, she yielded to the suit of
the veteran soldier, and became Mrs. Pry
or—mistress ofthe garden, <md mistress ot
a long framed building. Its main feature
was a somewhat spacious apartment in the
centre. On either hand were long wrings,
of smaller dimensions, except their length,
than the centre. At the extremities of
these two wings stood offices, apparently
to promote the harmony of the general
design
We are the more particular in describ
ing the building, because, as will be seen,
a lodgment was made in one of these offices
by the enemy of the Colonel’s domestic
happiness.
At this time there lived in Richmond a
French teacher named Fremont, who
taught in the academy of the celebrated
French scholar and gentleman, Girardin.
M. Fremont is described as having been
a small, swarthy individual, with some
French peculiarities, strongly developed.
Some of the oldest inhabitants say that
Colonel Pryor employed M. i’remont to
teach his young wife French. Certain it
is, that he rented of the Colonel one of the
little offices above described, and took his
meals, as a border, at the Colonel’s table.
What progress the lady made in studying
French is not known; but during the inter
views with her teachers, there grew up in
her breast sentiments and feeling incon
sistent with her relations to Co! Pryor.
How long this state of things existed, we
are not informed; but the result was, that
Mrs. Pryor and M. Fremont fled from the
city to Norfolk, and there, for a time, liv
ed together; he it is understood, pursuing
the vocation of upholsterer, which was
supposed to have been his original trade.
They' did not, however, reside long iu
Norfolk, but went to the South—wiiere
the candidate for the Presidency was born
—possibly in Savannah, though some re
ports say Charleston.
We cannot say whether the parties
were ever married. Certain it is that old
Col. Pryor was never divorceu from his
wife, who thus left him more forlorn than
he was when she married him. The ques
tion arises, could there have been a legiti
mate marriage without a divorce?
It is proper to add that Col. Pryor, af
ter some time brooding over the had treat
ment he suffered in the desertion of his
wife, assuaged his grief by marrying an
other y T oung woman, who remained with
him until his death—he dying, it is hanlly
necessary to add, without issue. The
abduction of his first wife by the French
man, who showed not the slighest regard
for his prior claims, was a sore subject to
to the ohl Colonel. These incidents in the
life of the progenitor of the free-soil can
didate for the Presidency, show that he
was at least a dcsciple ot Free-love, if not
of Free-soil.
Buried. Treasures.—“Husebius” writes
to the New York Observer, from Rome, as
follows:
The Tiber is not only rich in historic as
sociations, it is rich in treasure. An Eng
lish company has actually offered to turn
the current of the stream far above the
city around it, provided the Government
would give them what they might discov
er in its present bed. This would be at
tended with great expense, hut it would
pay'. Treasures of art from age to age
have found their way' into the stream,
which would bring in the market a perfect
remuneration. In the museum of St. John
Lateran, a magnificent column of soft stone is
lying, which was taken not long since from
the Tiber, a portion of which has been
polished to display its beauty, and no one
can see it without wishing to have more
of the secrets of this river revealed. Stat-
uarv more perfect and perhape more beau
tiful than any of the ancient works of art
now seen in Rome lies embodied in groups
beneath the stream. Agostino Chigi, the
famous banker at the time of Leo X. once
gave a splendid entertainment to the Pope
and his Cardinals, at which the dishes
were all precious metals. The price paid
for three fish was 250 crowus. It is said
that all the dishes were all thrown into
the Tiber by order of the rich banker, in
order that no less illustrious guest might
ever use them. The sacred vessels
brought from Jerusalam by Titus, among
them the golden candlestick, are reported
to have been lost from the Milvian bridge,
and if so, are still lying there. P lea *
ent government of Rome will suffer noth
ing belonging to ancient art to pass from
her territory, nor is it able to cany on such
an investigation upon its own account.
A Valuable Recruit —We are glad to notice that
the North Georgia Times, published at Dalton
and ornrinallv a Democratic paper, but in the last
canvass an advocate of the Know Nothing cause,
has at length renounced Kuow Nothingisin, and
raised to the mast-head the names of Buchanan
and Breckenridgo. We cordially welcome the
Times back to the Democratic fold, and doubt not
that it will do good service in the com ng contest
I hUdtigeneer