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the property is situated.
d r of these stales must be given in a public
gazettc 40 days previous to tlm day of sale.
Notices for the salo of personal property must be
given in like manner i ' days previous to sale day.
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pelling titles from Executors or Administrators,
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VOLUME XXVII.]
Ill OH
MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1856.
[NUMBER 14.
Splendid Chance to Make Money!
IKE AMERICUS VARIETY WORKS
PGR SjA-IjE.
T HE undersigned are appointed a committee
to dispose ot the SHOP and MACHINERY,
belonging to the Ami-nnis VARIETY WORKS,
lhe SHOP and MACHINERY, are new, and in
tine order; well fitted for making SASH. BLINDS,
DOORS. FI RNITITtE, Ac., in short, to do any
kind ot work done in wood. There is also an ex
cellent (>RIST MILL, running by the same En
gine that propels the other Machinery in the Shop;
consisting of Plaining, Surfacing, Mortising, and
'1 urning Machines, as well as various others with
Saws, Ac The Works will he for Sale, at pri
vate sale until tire first Tuesday in November
next, when if not disposed of, they will be expos
ed to public Sale in the city of Americus. The
attention ot Capitalists and Mechanics, is invi.
ted to (his property, as it is situated in a most fa
vorable locality, and already commands a large
and increasing business.
Term-, one-third Cash; April 1st, 1857, one-
third; January 1st, 1858, one-third.
ROBERT J HODGES,
WILLIAM L. JOHNSON,
HORACE THOMPSON.
August 12,185(5. 11 tds.
J. B. MURPHY,
Surgeon Dentisi
c
Would respectfully inform his friends and patrons
that he continues to practice in Baldwin and Put
nam, and that he has not authorised any one to at
tend to his unfinished business, but will attend to
all his engagements in due time. 1 am now in
serting Teeth upon Gutta I’ereha Plates, especially
for temporary sets, and when the gums are so ten
der and irritable that gold platea-cannot be worn
Persons often object to having their teeth ex
trncted on account of the time required for the ab
sorption of the gums. This may be avoided by
the use of Gutta Percha Plates The teeth way
be extracted and a handsome life like set be put in
the same week, and at a small expense, and can
be worn with comfort. I have inserted a number
of sets that are now in use and doing well
I am now putting up a style of work superior to
that of Dr. Alien’s Patent, so admitted by his
agent, having purchased the right to use Dr. Al
len’s in 1853, and tested it to my satisfaction. I
have discontinued its use, and now use single gum
teeth, which for beauty and strength cannot be
excelled.
Persons living at a distance who may need my
services can receive them by addressing me at
at this place.
Milledgeville, Ga., July 4th, 1656 6 6m
A RILE RAIk.GiAO
let is reason together.
HOLLOWAY’S PILLS!
WHY ARE WE SICK?
It has hern lhe !ut of ilit- human rncp to hr* weighed
d*mn by *li-**a«? and suffering. Holloway’s Pills
cn »{>f*rially adapted to the r< lief of the Weak, the
Neavoirs, ih<* Delicate, end the Infirm, ofall climes,
Lpi 6. fizzes, and ctinaiimtioris. Professor Holloway por-
*>" idly EU{»erimends ih~ manufacture of his medicines
in Um I'flirt'd $ta<e*, and offers them to a free and en
lightened people, as lhe the best remedy the world ever
haw for the removal of dint-at-e.
THE 1 E PILLS PURIFY THE BLOOD.
Th* -t* f’umMis Pills are expressly combined toefet*
nt* on the stomach, the liver, the kidneys, the* lung:- the
skin, arid the bowels, correcting any derangeroe. . In
th ir functions, purifying the Mood, the very fountain ol
l ie, ami thus curing disease in nil its forms.
DYSPFPSIA AND LIVER COMPLAINTS.
Nearly half the hummi raee have taken these Pills.
It 1 as be* n proved in nil pari*oi the world, that noihir g
lias lieen found equal to lb* in in cases of disorders of the
li\er. dyspepsia, arid stomach complaints generally.! hey
soon g:\e a healthy tone Jo these organs, howover much
derang'd, and when all other means have failed.
GENERAL DEBILITY, ILL HEALTH.
Manr of the most despotic Government 4 * have opened
th ir Custom House* to the introduction of these Pills,
that th* . may hi corupthe medicine of the masses Learn
cd (’idlecra admit that this medicine is the best remedy
e\tr known for persons of delicate health, or where the
system liH’* l»een impaired, as its invigorating properties
never fail to afford relief.
FEMALE COMPLAINTS.
No I’^hnie, >oung «>r old. should he without this cele-
bra.i ti medicine. It corrects and regulates the monthl\
c» o-si s a*, all periods acting in many eases like u charm
It is also the b*»st and safest medicine that can he given
to children of nil ages, arid for any complaint; conse
quently no family should be without it.
Holloway'8 Pills arc the host remedy known
in the worldfor the following diseases:
Asthma, Debility. Liver complaints.
Bowel complaints, Fever and Ague, Lowness of spirits,
Coughs, Female complaints. Piles.
Collin, Headache, £tone and Gravel
Chest diseases, Indigestion, Secondary symp-
(’•ostiveness. Influenza, touts.
Dyspepsia. Inflammation, Venereal affection
Diarrhoea, Dropsy, Inward weakness Worms of nil kind
Sold at Hie Manufactories of Professor Holllway
80, Maid n l^ane. New York, and 244 Aft rand, London,
and hy all respiei table Druggists and Dealers of Medi
cine* throughout lhe United States, and ^iie civilized
world, in Boxes.at 25cts. 6'2f ets. and SI each.
{tCr* There is considf raljle saving by inking the Inrirer
siz**. %N. B.—Directions tor the guidance of patients
in every disorder .' re affixed to each Box. !3eow1y
riillE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS of the
1 Atlantic and Gulf Railroad, having: adjourned!
to meet on the 20th instant, and it having been ;
represented to me that the interest of that enter-1
prise requires farther time for the obtaiiiuient of i
subscriptions to the stock and acquiscing in the j
justness of the suggestion, tlit; meeting of tiie i
Board on the 26th instant is hereby postponed j
until the 22d day of October next, at Miiiedge- j
ville.
E. A. NISBET, Chairman, j
Macon, Aug. 20, 1856. 2in.
GREAT SUCCESS!
H AVING met with extremely good success the
past week, I have, by the request ol many
of my fri-nds, consented to stay one more week.
And this is the only opportunity /perhaps, that you
may have for some time to pet a pood Amisko-
TYPE. And now I would advise all of you w ho
have not pot them to call soon, as this is positively
my last week. These pictures w ill neve: lade, they
will stand for apes—they will lie pood pictures
when we are dead and pone. Call soon.
Instruction given in the art.
G. D. WEAKLEY.
Milledpeville, Aug. 11,1856. 11 tf
Bentons Thirty Years’ View!,
COMTZiEEE Z37 2VOLS.
f I THE WORK, or either volume of it, will he
JL sent to any part of the State by mail, postage
paid, and securely done up, on receipt of the price
of subscription. $2 50 vol.
JNO. JI. COOPER & CO.,
Geu’l. Ag’t. for Georgia,
Savannah, Ga.
HP The above work can bo found at the Rook j
Store of E. J. WHITE & RRO. !
June 13, 1856. 3
FOR
Philadelphia, X, York, &e,
Charleston and Savannah
ST E A 51M11P L4S ES.
Cabin Passage 820—-Steerage 88.
rnilE well known first class steam ships, KEY-
JL STONE STATE, (Japt. S. Hurdle, STATE
OF GEORGIA, l apt. J. J. Garvin, will hereaf
ter form a Weekly Line to Philadelphia, sailing
Leery Saturday, alternately, from Savannah and
Charleston, as follows:
The Keystone State will sail from Savannah the
following Saturdays: July 19th, August 2nd and
16th, September 6th and 2(>tli, leaving Philadel
phia the alternate Saturdays.
The State of Georgia will sail from Charleston
the following Saturdays: July 12th and 26th, Au
gust 9th, 23rd and 30th, September 13th and 27th.
leaving Philadelphia the alternate Saturdays.
In strength, speed and accommodations, these
ships are fully equal to any running on the coast.
Inland navigation, 100 miles on Delaware River
and Ray, two nights at sea.
For Niagara Fails, the Lakes and Canada.
Sharifst and Cheapest tConic.
These lines both connect at Philadelphia with
the Great Northwestern Railroad Route through
to Niaraga Falls or Buffalo, in 1(5 hours from Phil
adelphia. Through Tickets, with the privilege of
stopping at Philadelphia and intermediate points,
for sale by the agents in Savannah and Charleston.
I W Fare to Niagara or Buffalo, $28 ; to Elmi
ra, -$26; to Canandiagua, .$27.
Agents at Philadelphia, Heron &. Martin.
Agent at Savannah, O A. Greiner.
Agents at Charleston, T. S. & T. G. Bt’DD.
6 3m
F.THERIDGE 8c SON,
Factors, Commission and Forwarding
*27
SAYANNASI. CA.
7. D. ETHERIDGE. IV. D. ETHERIDGE, Jr
July 15th, 1856. 8 tf
ttk CONFECTIONARY
Wv/ .ijvn fruit stoicr
THE Subscriber would respectfully inform the
citizens of Milledgeville and vicinity, that he has
on hand, and is constantly receiving fresh sup
plies of CONFECTIONARY, FRUITS, Ac..
Oranges, Lemons, 1‘inc Apples Bananas, Ac.
Raisins. Figs, Dates, Primes, Ac.
Preserves, Jellies. Pickles, Catsup and Sardines,
Soda Biscuit and Butter Crackers.
NUTS, ofall kinds, for sale in any quantity.
Fine Havana Cigars, Tobacco and Snuff.
Drl d Beef and Beef Tongues, Bolongna Sausages.
All of which will be sold very low for Cash.
JOHN CONN.
Milledgeville, April 28, 1856. 49 Cm
TO RENT OR SELL.
THE Boarding Honse nt Oglethorpe
University, now occupied by H. Gary.
To a family wishing to educate child-
,ren, and one qualified to conduct such
an establishment, the situation is a very desirable
"lie, and every facility w ill be afforded to such an
applicant. For a permanent arrangement, great
ii 'uceiuents will be offered, both as to aceommo-
dcions and terms, to a suitable tenant.
Application should be made soon, as the next
f ■ • g" Term begins the 1st of October, when
will he as many hoarders as can be accom-
R. H. RAMSAY
Midway, July 18th, J656. 8 tf.
Dr. McLANE’S
CELEBRATED
VERMIFUGE
IJTER PILLS.
T. C. NISBET,
FOUNDER & MACHINIST,
COTTON AVENUE, MACtEV, CA.,
(Successor to Nisbot A Levy.)
FTTHE undersigned continues to furnish, at the
1. old stand, Steam Engines and Boilers, upright
and circular Saw Mills, Bark and Sugar Mills, Gin
and Mill Gear, Water Wheels, Plates and Balls,
and Castings and Machinery in general. Particu
lar attention is called to a Wrought Iron Cotton
Screw, for pressing Cotton, w hich is believed to
be a cheaper and better article than any in use;
also to the Sugar Mills with Wrought Spindles,
the only kind w hich can be insured against break
ing. The price of ordinary Castings will be 4
per lb. wlici; paid on the delivery of lhe Castings
at the Shop. T. C. NISBET.
July 19, 1856. 8 24t
CAPITAL PRIZE 50,000 !
ALABAMA LOTTERY-
Southern AliUtanj Academy j.
L O T T R RY. £
^37 (Avthorised by the State of Alabama.) (/ft
CLASS G—NEW SERIES, il
To be drawn in the City of Montgomery, Alaba
ma, in public, on FRIDAY’, September 12th.
185(5, on the
IA7AM 3P3LAW2
^politics
SAMUEL
SWAN, Manage
R.
PRIZES AMOl
NTING TO $200,000!
AVil
be distributed according to the following
MAGNIFICENT SCHEME!!
39,709
Sockets Only!
1 Prize of
..$5 ,900 is
$50,000
1
. 25,000 is
25,000
1
“
.. 15,000 is
15,000
1
“
.. 10,009 is
10,000
1
‘‘
.. 6,000 is
6,000
1
“
5,000 is
5,000
1
“
.. 3,000 is
3,000
3 Prizes
.. 1,000 is
3.000
10
44
.. 500 are
5,000
80
44
40(1 are
32,000
I '
44
200 are
20,000
APPROXIMATIt >N PRIZES.
4
prizes of $490
ati’x ta $50,000 prizes $1,600
4
3<)0
25,000 “
1,290
4
“ 250
“ 15,000 “
1,000
4
“ 175
“ 10,000 “
700
4
“ 150
“ 6,000 “
600
4
“ 125
“ 4.000 “
500
4
“ 100
“ 5,000 “
400
4
“ 89
“ 1,000 “
320
4
“ 79
“ 1,000 “
280
4
“ 50
“ 1,000 “
200
40
“ 49
“ 500 •*
1,600
32)
“ 3i)
“ 400 “
9,600
4’0
“ 29
“ 200 “
8,000
1,000
prizes amounting to {
200,000
nr\v
idle tickets $10, Halves $5, Quarters $2 50.
PLAN OF
THE LOTTERY.
Two of the best Pr
rations of the Age.
They are not recom
mended as Universal
Cure-alls, but simply for
what their name pur
ports.
mg
Vermifuge, for
Worms from
system, has
PLATATIONS FOR
SALE!
1 WILL sell the following Plantations:—
l«t. 2200 acres in Lee county, 121(0 cleared, and
ndid improvements, at !$9 cash, or .$10
;; 'two payments, or.$li per acre, in three pay
ments.
490 acres in L'*e county, 150 cleared, at $5
'bars per acre cash, or $(> in two payments.
1265 acres, 12 miles from Albany, in Dongh-
'"'y. 36 • cleared, good Houses, for Ten Thousand
Debars, half cash and half on time with interest,
? ■' 1 place.
4. 500 acres in Dougherty, 75 cleared, at $7
lars per acre.
•' 1250 acres. 140 cleared, at $6, half cash,
so l 12 months on the balance.
6 acres in the woods, at $4 per acre,
in Baker.
7. Itto acres in Baker, small improvement, at
®4 per R'-re, in two payments.
■ “87 acres splendid land, 150 cleared, at seven
1 bars per acre, cash, or 8 in two payments. I
plenty of lands in Early and Decatur in the
"’•Is. I will sell low for cash. Corn and fodder
" be had on all the improved places,
all and see ami you .shall have a fair chance.
HAMLIN J COOK.
Albanv, Ga.
August 25, 1856. 13 14t.
WARRANTS!
| 'LL Pay the highest market value for Land
a w arrants.
wW'y to A. W. CALLAWAY.
Milledgeville, June 11th, 1855. 2 tf
The
expcll
the human
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, &x.
Purchasers will please
be particular to ask for
Dr. C. McLane’s Cele
brated Vermifuge and
Liver Pills, prepared by
UlYYOYVtt (SW-AiC
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.
FLEMING BRO’S,
GO Wood St., Pittsburgh, Pa.
Sole I*ropricit®rs.
Snieil St Mead, No. Ill Charles st. New Orleans
General Wholesale Agents fur the Southern
States, to whom ail Orders must bo addressed.
Of Sold by E. J. White; Jas. Hetty; Win. L
White A: Co, Milledgeville; Geo. Payne, E. L.
Stroheker, Macon; I Newell, Gordon; Beall &
Chambers. Iwnton; W. H. Burnett, Sparta; Z.
Gray, Sandersville; Long & Durham, Jefferson
ville; N. S. Pruden, Eatouton; Hurd &. Hun-
gerford, Monticello; and by one agent id every
town in the State. [march 25, '56, ly
Pdiliou aud Order of James Fills.
GEORGIA, BALDWIN COUNTY.
To the Honorable Court of Ordinary :
The Petition of James Pitts respectfully shew-
eth that heretofore, to-wit: on the ( th day of De
cember, 1853, Thomas U. Husou of the county of
Cobb, then in life, but now deceased, made and
executed to vour Petitioner his bond, (a copy oi
which is hereto annexed) binding himself, his
heirs, A c., in the sum of two hundred dollars, con
ditioned to be void, if the said Thomas Ii. Huson
should make or cause to be made to your petition
er titles in fee simple to lot of land No. four hun
dred and four, (4< 4) in the 16th Diet, of the 2nd
section of said county of Cobb, containing 46
acres, more or less. And your petitioner avers,
that heretofore, to-wit: on the K'tli day of Nov
1854, said Thomas Ii. Huson departed this life
without executing or causing to he made titles to
your petitioner for said lot of land. And your pe
titioner avers that he has fully paid to the repre
sentative of the estate of Thornes li. Huson, dee d.,
the entire purchase money for said lot, which was
due and payable the 25th December last.
Wherefore, your petitioner prays that the ad
ministrator of the said estate of Thomas R. Huson,
dcc’d. be ordered and directed hv this Court to
make titles to your petitioner, in conformity with
said bond of said Thomas Ii. Huson, dee’d. For
which your petitioner will ever prav, Ac.
A. N. SIMPSON,
Att'y for Petitioner.
GEORGIA, Baldwin County.
Ordinary's OJjice, July Term, 1856.
It appearing to the Court by the above petition
and Copy Bond, thereto attached, that the said
petitioner is entitled to the relief for which he
prays. It is therefore ordered that notice of such
application and bond attached thereto, be publish
ed according to law, and that if no obligation be
filed within the time prescribed ! y Statute, the
prayer of the petitioner will be g> anted, and an
order allowed him, directing the sa J administra
tor to make title as prayed for.
JOHN HAMMOND, Ordinary.
[Copy Bond.]
STATE OF GEORGIA, Cobb County.
Know all men by these presents, that I, T. R.
Huson, of the county aforesaid, am held and firm
ly bound unto James Pitts, of the same place, his
heirs, executors, and administrators, in the just
and full sum of two hundred dollars, for the true
payment of which I bind myself, my heirs, execu
tors and administrators, jointly and severally,
firmly by these presents, sealed with our seals,
and dated thisOth December, 1853.
The condition of this obligation is such that
Whereas said James Pitts has this day made and
delivered to me said T. R. Huson Ins certam im>-
niissroy note, fur the sum of one hundred dollars
to become due on the25th day of December, J854.
Now should the said James Pitts well and truly
pay the said promissory note, then I the said T. R.
Huson bind myself to make or cause to be made
to said James Pitts good and sufficient titles, in
fee simple to and for said lot of land number four
hundred and four, in the 16th District 2d section
of Cobb County, containing forty acres, more or
less, with all the rights members and appurten
ances to said lot in any way appertaining and
belonging, which, if the said T. R. Huson should
do, then this bond to be null aud void, else
to remaiu in full force and virtue.
T. K. HUSON. [L. s.]
Tested and approved by
N. B. GREER, J. P.
July 22, 1856. 8 3m
The Numbers from 1 to 34,000, corresponding
with those Numbers on the Tickets printed on sep
arate slips of paper, are encircled with small tin
tubes, and placed in one wheel.
The first 200 Prizes, similarly printed and en
circled, are placedi in another wheel
The wheels are then revolved, and a number is
drawn from the wheel of Numbers, and at the same
time a Prize is drawn from the other wheel. The
number and Prize drawn out are opened and ex
hibited to the audience, and registered by the
Commissioner, the Prize being placed against the
number drawn. . his operation is repeated until
all the Prizes are drawn out.
Approximation Prizes.—The two preceding
and the tw o succeeding Numbers to those drawing
the first 240 Prizes will he entitled to the Approx
imation Prizes, according to the Scheme.
FirThe Managers, determined that their Lot
tevies shall excel all others, offer to tire public the
above Scheme, which, tor the brilliancy of its Cap-
s, and the chances of obtaining Prizes, has
never been equaled.
IT?' Remember that every Prize is drawn, and
payable in full without deduction.
Us^All Prizes of$1,090 and underpaid imme
diately after the drawing—other Prizes at the usu
al time of thirty days.
Or All Communications strictly confidential.
The drawn numbers will be forwarded topurcha-
sers immediately after the drawing.
Orders for Tickets should be sent in early.
Prize Tickets cached or renewed in other Tick
ets at either office.
Orders for Tickets can be addressed either to
S. SWAN A Co., Atlanta, Ga.
or S. SWAN, Montgomery, Ala.
Jas. Hr.RTY, Ag’t., Milledgeville, Ga.
ADMIMS T R A T O II ’ S S A LES.
Admimxtrutor's Sale,
P URSUANT to an order of the Court of Ordin
ary of Twiggs county, will be sold before the
Court House door in Marion on the first 'Tuesday
in SEPTEMBER in st, the following real estate,
to-writ : H acres of land belonging to the estate of
Hillier Hasty, deceased, knman as the Dower In
terest, in Lot 39 in 25th district of said county,
and adjoining lands of James M. Ware and others.
Sold for division filial of said estate. Terms on
the day of sr e.
HILLIARD S. NEWBY, Adm’r.,
July 7th, 1858. [L. s.] 7 tds. dc bonis non.
w
Pusljtoned Adimnistrator's Sale.
ILL be sold on the first Tuesday in Septem
ber next, before the Court House door, in the
town of Waresboro, Ware County, between the
usual hours of sail the following property to-wit:
One lot of land N’o. -1 6, in the 8th District of
said count}’, containing 49 i acres, more or less.
Also, 245 acres of lot No. 4o7, in lhe 8th Dist.
of sail county. .Sold under an order of the Hon
orable Court of Ordinary of Bulloch County as the
property of John Wilkison late ot Bulloch county
deceased.
STEPHEN CARTER, A.lrn’r
July 7th, 1856 . 7 tds
W!
Administrator’s Sale.
ILL be sold by virtue of an order from the
Ordinary Court of Jasper county, at Monti
cello on the fiist Tuesday in October next, all the
real estate and negroes belonging to tlie esta;e of
James Jve, late of said couniy deceased.
HARMAN W. PYE, Adm’r.
August 4th, 1856. (P. P. L.) 11 tds.
I iiited (Staten tlariibal'n Stale.
"YS7TLL be sold on the first Tuesday in Septem-
T T her next, before the Court House door, in the
city of Milledgeville, between the lawful hours of
sale the following property to-wit:
Lot of Land No. 390, in the 13th District ol
originally Irwin, now Colquitt county.
Also, the west half of Lot No 2. in square C.,
in the town of Thomasviile, Thomas County, to
gether with the improvements thereon, mid known
as Ivey’s Livery stable lot, now in possession
of James A. McLendon. Also, the Brick Store
House and lot, containing 32 feet trout, and run
ning back 79 feet, adjoining the Hotel Lot, occu
pied by Lewis Davis, in the town of Thomasviile
and now occupied by Dickson Carroll. Also Lots
numbers one and two in square B.; iu the town ot
Thomasviile (except so much as is occupied by
the above mentioned Brick Store Lot) containing
nearly two acres, on which the Hetci now occu
pied by Lewis Davis stands; Levied on as the
property of William A. Ivey, to satisfy a ti fa from
the Sixth Circuit Court of the United States for
the Southern District of Georgia, in favor of Wood-
gate and Rooms vs: William A. Ivey and John J.
Ivey. Property pointed out by John J. Ivey.
THOMAS L. ROSS.U.S Dt p. Marshal.
July 23d, 1856. 9 tds.
Postponed Administrator's Sale.
"XXTILL be sold on the first Tuesday in OCTO-
li BER next, before the Court House door iu
Butler, Taylor County, between the usual hours of
sale Lot of Land No. 2 )1, in the 12th District of
originally Muscogee, now Taylor county; Sold as
the property of Nathan N. Lester, late of Pulaski
couniy deceased, under an order of the Ordinary of
said county of Pulaski, for the benefit of the heirs of
said estate. Terms cash.
C. M. BOZEMAN, Adm’r dc bonis non.
August7th, 1856. il tds.
W
Executor's Sale.
ILL be sold before the Court House in the
county of Cherokee, on the first Tuesday in
OCTOBER next, by virtue of the will of the late
Joseph West, deceased, of Baldwin county, all
that tract or parcel of Land being and lying in the.
Ifct 1 liNitnct n-nril «K1 ejection OneUrkoC couuty
known and distinguished in the Plat as Lot No
494. Sold as part of the property of the estate of
Joseph West, deceased, for the benefit of the heirs
and creditors.
WINNEFRED WEST, Exr’x.
W. B. WEST, .
JOHN S. STEPHENS. ) c ’ x rs ’
July 26, 1856. 9 tds
' Guardian's Sale.
Wf ILL lie sold before the Court House door in
TT the town of Hawkinsville. between the usual
hours of sale, on the first Tuesday in October
next one Land Warrant for forty acres, number
fifty five tliouiand nine hundred and one, issued
to Win. J. Chi-rry, minor child of James J. < herry
deceased; Sold as (he Hrojierty 6t Win. J. Cherry,
for the benefit of said minor.
ARTHUR NEWMAN, Gdn.
S IXTY lays afterdate application will be made
to the Honorable Court of Ordinary at Irwin-
vlllc, Irwin County for leave to sell all the lands
and negroes belonging to the estate of Win. Fletch
er, late of Irwin county on the first Monday in
September nexn
JAMES PAULK, Adm’r.
MARY FLETCHER, Adm’rx.
July 12tb, 1856. 8 2m.
NOTICE.
A LL persons indebted to the estate of Joe Holt
.(a free man of color) late of Baldwin county
deceased, are requested to make payment, aud
creditors of said estate will please present their de
mands to the undersigned.
JOSEPH SIMPSON. Adm’r.
August 7th, 1856. Jl r,t.
mwo months after date, application will be
X made to the Court of Ordinary of Pulaski
county, for leave to sell the real estate belonging
to the estate of R. N. Tavlor deceased.
P. F. D. SCARBOROUGH, Adm’r
August 5th, 1856. (r. c. c.) Il 2m.
From the Boston Courier, of Thursday.
lion. Rufus Choate on the Presidential Question.
The whigs of Maine held a grand mass meeting
in the town of Waterville, yesterday. Hon. Ru
fus Choate was invited to be present, but being
unable to attend, he sent a letter, iu which he de
fined his own position on the I’residential qustion;
and avowed his intention to vote for Mr. Buchan
an. We give it below:
Boston, Saturday, Aug. 9, 1856.
Gentlemen: Upon my return last evening, after
a short absence from the city, I found your letter
of the 3 th ult. inviting me to take part in the pro
ceedings of the whigs of Maine, assembled in mass
meeting.
I appreciate most highly the honor and kind
ness of this invitation, and should have had true
pleasure in accepting it. The whigs of Maine
composed at all times so important a division of
the great national party; which under that name,
with or without official power, as a responsible ad
ministration or as only an organized opinion, has
dune so much for our country—our whole country
—and your responsibilities at this moment arc so
vast and peculiar, that I acknowledge an anxiety
to sin—not wait to hear—with what noble bear
ing you meet the demands of the time. Tf the tri
ed legions, to whom it is committed to guard the
frontier of the Union, falter now, who, anywhere,
can be trusted?
My engagements, however, and the necessity or
expediency of abstaining from all speech requir
ing much effort, will prevent my being with you.
And yet, invited to share in your counsels, and
grateful for such distinction, I cannot wholly (de
cline my own opinions on one of the duties of the
whigs in what you well describe as “the present
crisis in the political affairs of the country.” I
cannot now, and need not, pause to elaborate or
defend them. What 1 think, and what 1 have de
cided to do, permit mein the briefest and plainest
expression, to teil you.
J"tle first duty, tfu n, of wliigs, not merely as pa
triots and citizens—loving, with a large and equal
love our whole native land—but as whigs, and
because we are whigs,is to unite with some organ
ization of our countrymen, to defeat and dissolve
the new geographical party, calling itself Repub
lican. This is our first duty. It would more ex
actly express my .opinion to say, that at this mo
ment. it is our duty. Certainly, at least, it com
prehends or suspends all others; and iu my judg
ment, the question for each and every one of us is,
not whether this candidate or that candidate would
be our first choice; not whether there is some good
talk iu the worst platform, and some bad talk in
the best platform;'not whether this man’s ambi
tion, or that man’s servility, or boldness or fanati
cism. or voilence is responsible for putting the
wild waters in this uproar;—hut just this: by what
vote can 1 do most to prevent the madness of the
times from working its maddest act,'—the very ec-
stacy of its madness,—the permanent formation
and the actual present triumph of a party which
knows one-half of America only to hate and dread
it; from whose unconsecrated and revolutionary
banner fifteen stars are erased or have fallen, in
whose national anthem the old and endeared airs
of the Eutaw Springs, and the King’s Mountain,
and Yor town, and those, later, of New Orleans
aud Buena Vista, and Chapu tepee, breathe no
more. To this duty, to this question, all others
seem to me to stand for the present postponed and
secondary.
Any why? Because, according to our creed, it
is only the united America which can peacefully,
gradually, safely, improve, lift up and bless with
all social and personal and civil blessings, all the
races and ah the conditions which compose our
vast and various family,—it is such an America,
only, whose arm can guard our flag, develop our
resources, extend our trade;—and fill the measure
of our glory; and because, according to our convic
tions, tbejjtriumph of such a party puts tiiat Union
in danger. This is my reason. And for you. and
for me, and for all of us, iu whose regards the Un
ion possesses such a value, and to whose fears it
seems menaced by such a danger, it is reason
enough. Believing the noble ship of state to be
within a half cable's length of the lee shore of rock,
in a gale of wind, our first business is to put her
about, aud crowd her off into the deep, open sea.
That done, we can regulate the stowage of her
lower tier of powder, ami select her cruising
ground, and bring her officers to court marshal at
our leisure.
If there are any in Maine—and among the whigs
of Maine I hope there is not one—but if there are
any, in whose hearts strong passions, vaulting am
bition, jealousy of men or sections, unreasoning
and impatient philanthropy, or whatever else have
turned to hate or coldness, the fraternal blood and
quenched the spirit of national life at its source;
with whom the union of Slave States aud Free
States under the actual Constitution is a curse, a
hindrance, al reproach; with these, of course our
view of our duty and the reason of it, are a stumb
ling block and foolishness. To such you can have
nothing to say, and from such you can have noth
ing to hope. But if there are t hose again who love
the Union as we love it, and prize it as we prize
it: who regard it as we do, not merely as a vast
instrumentality for the protection o. ourcommerce
aud navigation; and for achieving power, eminence
and name among the sovereigns of the earth—but
as a means of improving the material lot, and
elevating the moral and mental nature, and insur
ing the personal happiness of the millions of many
distant generations; if there arc those who think
thus justly of it—and yet hug the fatal delusion
that because it is good, it is necessarily immortal;
that it will thrive without care; tiiat anything cre
ated by man’s will is above or stronger than His
will; that because the reason and virtue of our
age of reason and virtue could btilhl it, the pas
sions and stimulations of a day of phrenzy cannot
pull it down; if such there are among you, to them
address yourselves, with all the earnestness and
all the eloquence of men who feel that some great
er inteiest is at stake, and some mightier cause in
hearing, than ever yet tongue has pleaded or
trumpet, proclaimed. If such minds ana hearts are
reached, all is safe. But how specious and how
manifold are the sophisms by which they are court
ed?
They hear and they read much ridicule of those
who fear that a geographical party does endanger
the Union - But can they forget that our greatest,
wisest, and most hopeful statesmen have always
felt, and have all, in one form or another, left on
record their own fear of such a party? The judg
ments of Washington. Madison, Clay, Webster, on
the dangers of the Union—are they worth nothing
to a conscientious love of it? What they dreaded
as a remote and improbable contingency—that
against which they cautioned, as they thought,
distant generations—that which they were so hap
py as to die without seeiug—is upon us. And yet
some men would have us go on laughing and
singing, like the traveler in the satire, with bis
jiuoLotu ompty, ut a prooont poril, the more appro-
nension of which, as a distant and bare possibility,
could sadden the heart of the Father ofhisCountry,
and dictate the grave aud grand warning of the
Farewell Address.
They hear men say that such a party ought not
to endanger the Union; that, although it happened
to be formed within one geographical section, and
confined exclusively to it; although its end and
aim is to rally that section against lhe other, on a
question of morals, policy and feeling, on which
the two differ eternally and unappeasibTyjaTthough,
from the nature of its origin ami objects no man
in the section outside can possibly join it, or ac
cept the office under it without infamy at home;
although, therefore, it is a stupendous organiza
tion, practically to take power aud honor, and a
full share of the Government, from our whole fam
ily of States, and bestow them, substantially, all
upon the antagonist family; although (lie doctrines
of human rights, which it gathers out of the Declaim
tiou of Independence—that passionate and elo
quent manifesto ota revolutionary war-and adopts
as its fundamental ideas, announce to any South
ern apprehension a crusade of Government against
slavery, far without and beyond Kansas, although
the spirit and tendency of its electioneering ap
peals, as a whole, in prose and verse, the leading
articles of its papers, and the speeches of its ora
tors, are to excite contempt and hate, or fear of
our entire geographical section, and hate or dread
or contempt is the natural impression it leaves on
the Northern mind and heart; yet, that nobody
anywhere ought to be angry; or ought to be fright-
enedithat the majority must govern, and that the
North is a majority; that it is ten to one nothing
will happen; that if worst comes to worst, the
South knows it is wholly to blame, and needs the
Union more than we do, and will be quiet accord
ingly.
But they who hold this language forget that the
question is not what ought to endanger the Union,
but what will do it? Is it man as he ought to be,
or man as he is, that we must live with or live
alone? In appreciating the influences which may
disturb a political system, and especially one like
ours, do you make no allowance for passions, for
pride, for infirmity, for the burning soul of even
imaginary wrong? Do you assume that men, or
all masses iu all actions, uniformly obey reason,
and uniformly wisely see and calmly seek their true
interests? Where on earth is such a fool’s Para-
diseas that to be found? Conceding to the people
of the fifteen States the ordinary and average hu
man nature, its good and its evil, its weakness
and its strength, I, for one, dare not say that the
triumph of such a party ought not to be expect
ed naturally and probably to disunite the States.
Withmv uudoubting convictions, I know that
it would be folly and immorality in men to wish it.
Certainly there are in all sections and in all States
those who love the Union, under the actual Con
stitution, as Washington did. Jay Hamilton, and
Madison did—as Jackson, as Clay, as W ebster
loved it. Such even is the hereditary and the ha
bitual sentiment of the general American heart.
But he has read life and books to little purpose
who has not learned that “bosom friendships”
may be “to resentment soured,” and that no hatred
is so keen, deep, and precious as that,
“And to be wroth with one we love
Will work like madness in the brain.”
Fie has read the book of our history to still less
purpose, who has not learned that the friendships
of these States—sisters, but rivals—sovereigns
each, with a public life and a body of interests,
and sources of honor and shame of its own and
within itseif, distributed into two great opposing
groups, are of all human ties most exposed to
such rupture and such transformation.
I have not time in these hasty lines, aud there
is no need, to speculate on the details of the modes,
in which the triumphs of this party would do its
work of evil. Its mere struggle to obtain the gov
ernment, as that struggle is conducted, is mis
chievous to an extent incalciulable.—That thous-
sands of the good menfwho have joined it deplore
this, is certain, but that does not mend the mat
ter. 1 appeal to the conscience and honor of my
country, that if it were the aim of a gn at, party,
by every species of access to the popular mind—by
eloquence, by argument, by taunt, by sarcasm, by 1 such places, without the‘nteans of regaining their
recrimination, by appeals to pride, shame, and homes, and where few, if ar.y could obtain snbsist-
President’g Message and Letter of the Secretary of
War.
The following is the President’s Message sent to
both Houses on their assembling last Thursday:
Washington, Aug. 21, 1856.
Fellow citizens of the Senate
and House of Representatives:
In consequence of the failure of Congress at its
recent session, to make provision for the support
of the army, it became imperatively incumbent on
me to exercise the po wer which the Constitution
confers on the Executive for extraordinary occa
sions, and promptly to convene the two Houses in
order to afford them an opportunity of reconsider
ing a subject of such vital interest to the peace
and welfare of the Union.
With the exception of a partial authority vested
by law in the Secretary of War, to contract for the
supply of clothing and subsistence, the army is
wholly dependent on the appropriations annually
made by Congress. The omission of Congress to
act, in this respect, before the termination of the
fiscal year, had already caused embarrassments to
the service, which were overcome only in expecta
tion ot appropriations before the close of the pres
ent month. If the requisite funds be not speedily
provided, the Executive will no longer be able to
furnish transportation, equipments, and munitions
which are essential to the etfectiven»ss of a milita
ry force iu the field. With no provision for the
E ay of troops, the contracts of enlistment would
e broken, and the army must in effect be disband
ed, the consequence of which would be so disas
trous as to demand all possible efforts to avert the
calamity.
It is not merely that the officers and enlisted
men of the army are to be thus deprived of the pay
and emoluments to which they are entitled by
standing laws; that the construction of arms at tho
public armories, the repair and construction of
ordance at the arsenals, and the manufacture of
military clothing and camp equipage must be dis
continued, and the persons connected with this
branch of the public service thus be deprived sud
denly of the employment essential to their subsist
ence; nor is it merely the waste consequent on the
forced abandonment of the seaboard fortifications,
and of the interior military posts and other estab
lishments, and the enormous expense of recruiting
and reorganizing the army, and again distributing
it over the vast regions it now occupies—these are
the evils which may, it is true, be repaired hereaf
ter by taxes imposed on the country; but other
evils are involved which no expenditures, however
lavish, could remedy, in comparison with which
local aud personal injuries or interests sink into in
significance.
A great part of the army is situated on the re
mote frontier, or in the deserts and mountains of
the interior. To discharge large bodies of men in
natural right—to prepare the nation for a struggle
with Spain or England, or Austria, it could not do
its business more thoroughly. Many persons,
many speakers—many, very many, set a higher
and wiser example, but the work is doing.
If it accomplishes it object, and gives the Gov
ernment to the North, I turn my eyes from the
consequences. To the fifteen States of the South,
that Government will appear an alien Govern
ment. It will appear worse. It will appear a hos
tile Government. It will represent to their eye a
vast region of States, organized upon Anti-Sla
very, flushed byttriumph, cheered onward by the
voice of the pulpit, tribune and press; its mission
to inaugurate Freedom, and put down the oligar
chy; its constitution the glittering and sounding
generalities of natural right which make up the
Declaration of Independence. And then and thus
is the beginning of the end.
If a necessity could be made out for such a par
ty we might submit to it as to other unavoidable
evil and other certain danger. But where do thry
find that? Where do they pretend to find it? Is !
it to keep Slavery out of the Territories? There j
is not one but Kansas in which Slavery is possible.
No man fears, no man hopes for Slavery in Utah,
New Mexico Washington or Minnesota. A nation
al party to give them to Freedom is about as need
ful and almost as feasible as a national party to
keep Maine for Freedom. And Kansas! Let that
abused and profaned soil have calm within its bor
ders; deliver it over to the natural law of peaceful
and spontaneous immigration, take off the ruffian
hands; strike down the rifle and the bowie knife;
guard its strenuous infancy and youth till it comes
of age to choose for itself—and it will choose
Freedom for itself, and it will have forever what it
chooses.
When this policy, so easy, simple and just, is
tried and tails, it will be time enough to resort to
revolution. It is in part because the duty of pro
tection to the local settler was not performed that
the Democratic party has already by the action of
its great representative Convention resolved to
put out of office its own administration. That les
son will not and must not be lost on anybody.
The country demands that Congress, before it ad
journs, give that Territory peace. If it do, time,
will inevitably give it Freedom.
1 have hastily aud imperfectly expressed my
opinion through the unsatisfactory forms of a letter,
as to the immediate duty of the Whigs. We ate to
do what we can to defeat and to disband this geo
graphical party. But by what specific action we
can most efiectually contribute to such a result is
a question of more difficulty. It seems now to be
settled that we present no candidate of our own.—
If we vote at all,then,we vote for the nominees of the
American or the nominees of Democratic Party.—
As between them I shall not venture to counsel
the Whigs of Maine, but I deem it due to frankness
and honor to say, that while I entertain a high ap
preciation of the character and ability of Mr. Fill
more, I do not sympathise in any degree with the
objects and creed of the particular party that nom
inated him, and do not approve of their organiza
tion aud their tactics.
Practically, too, the contest in my judgment, is
between Mr. Buchanan and Col. Fremont. In
those circumstances I vote for Mr. Buchanan. He
has large experience in public affairs; his com
manding capacity is universally acknowledged;
his life is without a stain. I am constrained to add ,
that beseems at this moment, by the occurence of j
circumstances more completely than any other, to
ence by honest industry, would be to subject them
to suffering aud temptation, with disregard of jus
tice and right most derogatory to the Government.
In the Territories of Washington and Oregon,
numerous bands of Indians are iu arms, and are
waging a war of extermination against the white
inhabitants; and, although our troops are actively
carrying on the compaigu, we have no intelligence
yet of a successful result. On (he Western plains,
notwithstanding the imposing display of military
force recently made there, and the chastisement in
flicted on the rebellious tribes, others, far from be
ing dismayed, have manifested hostile intentions,
and been guilty of outrages which, if not designed
to provoke a conflict, serve to show that the appre
hension of it is not sufficient to restrain their vi
cious propensities. A strong force in the State of
Texas has produced the temporary suspension of
hostilities there; but in New Mexico, incessant
activity on the part of the trooDS is required to
keep in check the marauding tribes which infect
that Territory. The hostile Indians have not been
removed from the State of Florida; aud the with
drawal of the troops, leaving the object unaccom
plished, would be most injurious to the inhabitants,
and a breach of the positive engagement of the
General Government.
To refuse supplies to the army, therefore, is to
compel the complete cessation of all its operations,
and its practical disbandonment, and thus to invite
hordes of predatory savages from the Western
plains and the Rocky m< untains to spread devasta
tion along a frontier of more than four thousand
miles in extent, and to deliver up the sparse popu
lation of a vast tract of country to rapine and
murder.
Such, in substance, would be the direct imme
diate effects of the refusal of Congress, for the first
time in the history of the Government, to grant
supplies for the maintenance of the army; the in
fliction of extreme wrong upon all persons connect
ed with the military establishment by service, em
ployment, or contracts; the recall of our forces
from the field; the fearful sacrifice of life and in
calculable destruction of property on the remote
frontiers; the striking of our national flag on the
battlements of the fortresses which defend our
maritime cities against foreign invasion; the viola
tion of the public honor and good faith; and the
discredit of the United States in the eyes of the
civilized world.
I confidently trust that these considerations, and
others appertaining to the domestic peace of the
country, which cannot fail to suggest themselves
to every patriotic mind, will on reflection, be duly
appreciated by both Houses of Congress, and in
duce the enactment of the requisite provisions of
law for the support of the army of the United
States. FRANKLIN PIERCE.
The President also sent in the following letter
from the Secretary of War:
War Department, ?
Washington, Aug. 21, 1856. )
Sir: In answer to yonr inquirv as to the balan
ces remaining in the Treasury from the last appro-
E riation tor the support of the army, I have the
onor to state that the obligations already incur
red by the Government exceed the sum of those
balances by about $460,00(1. It may be proper to
add that a portion of the balances in the Treasu
ry, having been appropriated for specific objects,
are not available for the support of the army.
The present strength of the army in regiments is
over thirteen thousand officers and men, more than
represent that sentiment of nationality,—tolerant,! twelve thousand ot whom are engaged in active
warm and comprehensive—without which, without
increase of which, America is no longer America; i
and to possess the power, and I trust, the disposi
tion to restore and keep that peace, within our bor-1
ders aud without, for which our hearts all yearn, j
which all our interests demand, through and by.
which alone we may to grow to the true greatness ,
of nations.
Verv respectful}', vour fellow-citizen,
RUFUS CHOATE. j
To E. W. Farley, and other gentlemen of the !
Maine Whig State Central Committee.
field operations, and in protecting the frontiers
against the depredations of hostile Indians. The
small force not thus employed hold the fortifier-
tious which cover the commercial cities and sailert
points most exposed to a sudden descent by a for
eign foe. To disband the troops would subject
our frontier settlements to the attack of a formida
ble savage enemy, and render our fortifications,
which have required years of labor and millions of
expenditures to construct, useless for national de
fence in any sudden emergency.
Very respectfully, your obediet
A Perilous Advcntnre.
The Rochester Union, of the 4th inst’, says:
A thrilling incident occurred at the Lower Falls ;
Supension Bridge yesterday, the particulars of i
which have been related to us by an eye I
witness. As usual on Sunday, a large number of j
persons were congregated at the Bridge—men, !
women and children, some engaged in walking I
across the Bridge, others viewing the structure j
from the banks, &c. On the west bank of the
the river a number of boys were amusing themsel
ves by pulling upon two guys, giving them an os
cillatory motion. The guys were some ninety feet
in length and attached to the bridge directly over
the chasm and several feet from each other. They
were fastened together in an iron staple inserted
in the rock at the very brink of the precipice.—
One of the boys, a lad about twelve or fourteen
years of age, whose name we have not been able
to ascertalu, lu order to show his danng,
seated himself astradle the guys, when suddenly
the staple was wrenched from the rock, and the
guys swung out over the river with the boy seat-
ad in the crotch, holding on with a hand grasped
upon each guy.
The distance from the bridge to the water is two
hundred and forty feet, and the position of the
young man was about midway between. The ac
cident was witnessed by a large numberof persons,
and so thunder-struck were they that many of
them, both upon the bridge and the banks, threw
themselves upon their faces, and it was some time
before any one could regain sufficient presence of
mind to set about rescuing the lad from his per
ilous position. The youngster, however, exhibited
a nerve w orthy an older head, and seemed to
greatly enjoy his swing. After the vibration of
the guys ceased, he commenced giving directions to
those above him as to the best method of affording
him relief. A search of the neighborhood show
ed that no rope suitable to draw him up was to be
had.
The youngster then suggested the plan of mak
ing a rope sufficiently long to let him down, by
peieing. This was done. The rope was letdown
to him. and after he had fastened it to his waist,
those above lowered him to the water’s edge! He
gained the bank, and scampered off for the lower
landing as fast as his legs could carry him, and
our informant says lias not been seen since in the
vicinity of the Suspension Bridge.
Altogether, this is one of the most perilous ad
ventures it has been our lot to relate for some
time, and although the recklessness of the bov in
seating himself as described, richly entitles him to
a wholesome cowhiding yet his conduct and pres
ence of mind, while suspended at such a height
above a rapid current, is certainly worthy of ad
miration.
We trust this adventure will prove a warning to
the many thoughtless persons—men and boys—
who visit the bridge, and who are in the
habit of performing feats of the most reckless char
acter.
Bad words, like bad shill ngs, are often brought
home to the person who has uttered them.
client serv’t,
JEFFERSON DAVIS.
Secretary of War.
To the President.
Interesting Scene in the Canvass>
In Salem, Ala., at a recent political disenssion
between Col. Yancey, for the Democracy, and Col.
Baker, for the Know Nothings, Col. Yancey made a
most impressive and triumphant effect.
At the close of Col. Yancey’s speech, six beauti
ful young ladies stept upon the platform where
Col. Yancey was standing, utterly unconscious
of their design, and gracefully threw over him a
magnificent wreath of flowers and evergreen. The
audience arose with enthusastic cheers. Colonel
Yancey, after a moment’s pause, said in trembling
tones and with moistened eyes :
“Young ladies, I am not able to command lan
guage to express to you how deeply 1 am affected
by this unexpected, though high honor, so grace
fully cuuferrea upon me. But this 1 do feel, that
it was given to me as a representative of great
Constitutional truths, and as such I accepted it,
and return you my sincere though feeble ac
knowledgements.” Col. Yancey here turned and
asked for the Stars and Stripes which had been
planted near the platform. It was handed to him,
and with it, he walked to the edge of the platform.
Lowering it, be took the wreath from his bosom,
and encircled with it the spear head of the flag
staff, saying—“The honors and advantages that
may accrue to me in this canvass do not belong to
me—cannot adorn me as a partisan, but shall be
appropriated as I appropriate this wreath, to the
honor and advantage of a great constitutional par-
ty.” As Col. Yancy closed, and the very welkin
rang with the plaudits of the people, he waved the
enwreathed banner over the young ladies and re
placed it on the stand.
Fall of the “Charter Oak ”—Hanford, Aug. 21.
—The Charter Oak fell this morning at a quarter
to one o’clock, with a tremendous crash, and but
six feet of the stump now remains. This famous
tree was far past its prime when the charter was
concealed in it, on the 9th of May. 1689, and was
probably an old tree when Columbus discovered
the new world. It stood npor. the old Wylis
estate now owned by Hon. J. W. Stuart. Crowds
of citizens are visiting the ruins, and each one bears
away a portion of the venerable tree.
The Connecticut river has risen here 10 feet since
6 o’clock last night, and is still rising rapidly. It
is now raining hard.
The Retinue or an Austrian Prince.—Some
idea of the splendor with which Prince Pan Ester-
hazy, the Russian Envoy Extraordinary, is to ap
pear at Moscow, may be derived from the feet that
each of the six horses reserved exclusively for his
personal use, is valued at from 8000 to 10,000 -flor,
ms, [the florin is worth about forty cents.] The
cloth of. his favorite horse is a tiger’s skin, the
edges of which are ornamented with brilliants, and
on which his family arms are worked in diamonds.
The Diamonds of the Esterhezy tamilyre present a
greater value than all the rest of his property com
bined.