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BOUUHTON, ftlSBETN, BARNES, J*’ablishers and Proprietors, *. N. Bwl’CHTcn. 1 .ION. II. MNIIET. < Kvditor*. • ruber id TE K !H N. SHE FEDS51AI. UNION, h publisher! Weekly, in the Oarirn Bunk Building, At S?'2 00 per Annum, payable in advance, SI 50 it’ not paid within three months. and 03 if not paid before trie end of the year. RATES OE A»VF.BTINIIMi. Per si/narc of tirelrc hues. One insertion $ 1 00, anu Fifty Cents for each sub sequent rontinuaucc. Those sent without a specification of tiie linm!" of insertions, will be published till foil. :, at charged accordingly. , Business cr Professional Cards, per year, "'i.ere they do not exceed one square - - - 'lb (a) A liberal contract icill hr mad* irilh those who Irish to • Adccrtise by the yeir, occupying c specif ed space. I.EOA 1. ADVERTISEMENTS. Sales of Land and N grocs, by A'lministrators, Executors or Guardians. are required bv law to be held on the First Tuesday in the month, between the hours of M in tbc forenoon and 3 in the after noon,at the Court House in the County in which the property is situated. Notice of these sales must be given in a public gazette 4 l days p-.evious to the day of sale. Notice-, for the sale of personal property must be given in like manner 1 i days previous to sale day. Notice t to the debtors and creditors of an estate must also be published 4l> days. Notice that application will be. made to tlie Court of Ordinary for leave to sell Land or Negroes, must be published for two months. Citations tor letters of Administration, Guardian ship, &c., must he published ■ days—for dismis sion from Administration, monthly sts months tor dismission from Guardianship. 40 days. Kulc3 for foreclosure of Mortgrnjrc must be pub- lished monthly for four months—for establishing lost papers, for tire full timer of thrrr months—for com pelling titles from Executor* or Administrators, where bond lias been given by the deceased, the full space of three months. Publications will always he continued according to tb'-s“. the legal requirements, unless otherwise ordered, at the following RATE S: Citations on letters of Administration, Ac. “ “ dismissory from Admr’on. “ “ “ * Guardianship Leave to sell Land or Negroes Notice to debtors and creditors Sales of persponal property, ten days, 1 sqr. Sale of land or negroes by Executors. &c. Estrays, two weeks 1 : >n Fora man advertising bis wife (in advance) 5 00 Letters on business must be Phst Paid to entitle thi'm to attention. LET (JB BEABOlf TOGETHER. 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