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penal ptgtitfs.
.-fjirjj Hiumt:: — Wimt !a Iv yr gentle-
Min under the curse of a di,afreet
t t>y using the ■'R'lra of a Thniis
« a. jeiuribce would noi uuty render
the breath sweet but leave the teeth as white as
alabaster ? Many persons do not know their
breath is bad, and the subject is so delicate their
friends will never mention it. Poor a single drop
of "Haim” on your tootii-hrush and wash the teeth
night and morning. A fifty cent bottle will last a
year.
A beautiful complexion may easily be acquired
by using the “Halm of a Thousand Flowers.’’ It
will remove tan, pimples and freckles frorS the
skin, leaving it of a soft roseate hue. Wet a tow-
el, pour on two or three drops, and w ash the face
night and morning.
Shaving made easy—W6t your shaving brush in
either warm or cold water, pour on two or three
drops of “Balm of a Thousand Flowers,” nib the
beard well, and it will make a beautiful soft lather,
much facilitating the operation of shaving. Price
only fifty cents. Sold by all Druggists. Beware
of counterfeits. None genuine trnWs signed by
W. P. FETRIDGE & CO..
16 f>m Franklin Square, N. Y.
Or. T. II. Cavanaugh.—'We would call atten
tion to the card of this gentleman in another col
umn, as one which merits the attention of the af
flicted. The Dr. is an old and thoroughly educa
ted physician, and has devoted hit: life to the spe
cial diseases he now advertise# to treat. lie
brings letters of high recommendation from the
citizens of Jacksonville, his late home.—Chicago
Journal, Hay Ujth, J a 55.
. For sale in this city by E. J. White &. Bro.,
F. ft Grieve anil James Herty. 39 4t
11 hk Cream of Beauty.—This Cream is
something that is really a very desirable article—
its soothing properties will make it eagerly sought
after—for removing Freckles, Sunburn, Pimples,
Rash, Chilblains. Chapped Hands, Prickly Heat,
or Eruptions generally, it lias no snpt rior. A few
Bottles of this beautiful article, are for sale at the
Drug Store of E. J. WHITE BKO., Milledge-
▼ille, Ga.
R. R. R.—Tubercles.—Ox the brink of
the Grave.—Sarah Hammond, 193 32d Street,
New York:—
“1 was tak' U with a bad cough, then followed
pain in the chest, hoarseness, sore throat, dryness
in the throat, aud pains all down my right side,
and across my shoulders; by and by I began to
hack up little clots of white thick stuff, and when
I would lie down rnv cough would trouble me-
I kept taking physic of one kind or another; it
only served to make me weak, and increase my
cough. Six months after I first began to sweat
bad at night. I spit blood; this frightened me;
the doctors all told me I had the consumption and
must die; but Dr. Green, the great Nitrate of Sil
ver doctor, put a probary down my tliroat, said
there were turbercles on the upper lobe of my
right lung, also that several tubercles were begin
ning to form on my lungs. The more nitrate of
silver he squirted down my throat the more I
would cough. I tried the method a long time, un
til l found myself growing weaker and wehker.
and my friend said I was on the briuk of the
grave. A young girl who lives in this house,
works in your factory, told me what wonderful
cures you were mak’ng, and brought me up a bot
tle of your Ready Relief and Resolvent. I rubbed
my throat and chest with the Ready Relief, and
took the Resolvent in doses of a dessert spoon.
Soon I gained strenglh, my cough left me in a few
days entirely, and the pains in my chest and
shoulders ceased the first night; no more blood
was mixed with my spittle, nwr were there any
more thick matter expectorated. When you sa:v
me you toid me I had no consumption, but that
my difficulties were all owing to the cold and
coughs. Your words were proved true. 1 am
now well, and weigh heavier than I ever did. I
am a trne believer in the R R R.
Yours truly, SARAH HAMMOND.
Bad Cough. Hacking Dry Cough, stitching or
wrenching pains in the side, sudden pain around
the ln art, shortness of breath, hard breathing,
sha^p pains when taking a long breath, and all
Other painful symptoms, are quickly removed by
a dose or two of the Renovating Resolvent.
Sold by druggist^ and merchants everywhere.
E. J. W111Tt., Ag’r, Alilledgeville. Ga. 4(1 21
Dr. M’Lane’s Liver Tills.—When the pro
M. Lost rlirud. j TiiruU of Testimony in Report of Corruption
Fven wUIe lie was courting. I kept mr Committee,
hold on him. Against opposition on the Washington, Feb 21.—Tl.e testimony is very
part of bis bride* e: ud her family, he sttpu* ! v- ions. and fieur- precluding anything like
iared bravely that I should be his lust £„?'*****' W f ev ’ V"* the
J , .. , *1 .. iiitwi ii.iporuint Witney aucimonrd at the com-
1 ; 1:1 i; "C'x'iing • i iiC jcautitu. in uc iu: of uie proceedings by the commit to**
woman grudged me my one small corner was James K. Sweeney, an ex-messenger of
in his heart, even at that time: but he was f* 12 House of Representatives, who, in reply
true to me—he persisted—and I was
the
first to shake Lands with him when he was
a married man. I had no suspicion that I
to a question by Mr. Orr, said he knew of
a case in which a member of Congress agreed to
get a bill or project through the Aouso for a cer
tain amount of money—a book relating to pension
was to lose him from that moment 1 onlv an< * bounty land laws, by Ctept. Triplett, ot Wash-
discover,! tile trull, when I pay
further stated the same member had said to him
to him that he received “seven square miles of
land and some little stock” in return for his vote
marked to him that $50 or so might become neces
sary to make a!! right in connection with a favora
ble report on a private bill of which the committee
had charge.
Capt. Triplett was questioned as to hie having
the Clerk of the
my first visit to the hride and bridegroom
at tbeir abode in the country. I found
a beautiful house, exquisitely kept from
I c j i , * , i and influence lu toe passage ot the Iowa lhuq bill.
t ip to bottom, 1 found a hearty welcome! He also stated that Hon. V. W. Welch had re-
t found ngood dinner and an airy bedroom;
1 found a pattern husband and a pattern
wife: the only thing 1 did not find was my
old friend; Something stood up in clothes,
shook hands with me, pressed wine on me, given to Sweeney an order
called me bv my Christian name, and House for $!4 5uO. in the event of the passage of
inquired what I was doing in my profession. * solution fi.r the purchase ot his book, which
T ' . . , .i-iii . . amount it appears was to he used by hwee-
it wa-certainly something that had a trick j n ,.y Tarplett mentioned the name of Hon.
of looking very much like my former com-1 W. A. Gilbert, with whom he had a con-
rade and brother; something that nobody in vewatioa about the book, and said that Swee-
iii c , • j e.uey'came to him generally upon the stib-
my situation could have complained of j je £ H e knew all about the matter from the first
with the smallest reason; something with —though Sweeney was a friend of this party, and
all the brightnefS of the old metal about it,, that if he paid him (Sweeney ) it would be satis-
but without the sterling old ring; something factory to the party. The witness further stated
. t , i . . 3*1 _ i | that Mr. Welch conversed with him about the
in short, which made me take my chamber bi , ok< . th „ fenor of which „-a* based upon the
candle-stick early on the first night ot nty ; idea of receiving 1 a part” of the contract: and lie
An Envoy from the Dotted States to Persia.
Th President of the United .'■tates iu a special
message to Congress, has a.-ked for an appropria
tion of if 17,taut to send to the Persian Empire an.
Envoy Extraordinary from this government. Such
a proposition at the present time, will .irons t
curiosity of the p. op’e to know the reason for
sending such an ambassador, and ivhat there is
about that distant Asiatic Court to require us to be
in diplomatic communication with her. This
oriental country forms a connecting link between
Easter, and Western Arsia, and geographically ai d
historically occupies a prominent place on the map,
as the .site or nearly so of the great monareheies of
Assyria and Babylon. After the triumph of Cyrus
over the latter Kingdom, by the union of Syria
part of India, Asia, Minor, and Egypt, the Persian
Empire rose up to a position of great eminence,
and to a power almost in those ages unequaled.
From this lofty magnificence Alexander, of Mace-
don, humbled her into a province of his own king
dom and from that time to the present day she has
been in a state of continual warfare with Tartars,
Turks, and oilier bordering nations.
The proposition of President Pierce to Congress
may derive some significance from the fact, that
Per-ia is now engaged in a war with England, and
that the last foreign news brought intelligence
of the fall of Bushire, a port of some con
sequence ou the Persian gulf, and the great em
porium of its foreign trade.
1 A treaty recently negotiated between the govern-
ment of the United States and Persia, affords to
I Americans the privilege of building factories in
j that country, and permitting American vessels cer-
i tain rights in our commercial relations hitherto tGr-
From the Wasniugton Star of February 20.
Tiif Sew Cabinet.
The Union sa> s oi’ th« cast of the Cabinet which
is now so tiuivf rsally reg. rded here as one that Mr.
Buchanan has determined on :
“For the last twenty-four hours public opinion
iu Washington seems to have settled upon the fol
lowing cast ot Air. Buchanan s Cabinet :
Lewis Cass, Secretary of State.
Howell Cobb, Secretary of the Treasury.
John B Floyd, Secretary ot War.
A V. Brown, Secretary of the Navy.
Jaeob Thompson, Secretary of the Interior.
«I, Glancy Jones, Postmaster General.
Isaac Toucey, At ornev General.
‘•\Ve know of no information of an authentic
character which justifies the confidence with which
the foregoing is received as the cabinet, or as so
near the cabinet that only a single change is sug
gested. It may be nnre conjecture; but what
ever may have created the general impression, it is
certain, so far as our observation k;,s extended,
the cast of the cabinet above meets with decided
approval. If this, or a cabinet composed of such
names, is formal, our anticipations as to the wise
discrimination for which we have given Mr Buch
anan lull credit will be entirely realized. We ex
press uo opinion as to the correctness oi the list of
names, for we ha\e no grounds tor any opinion;
but we venture to say, that if tlie list is the true
cabinet, the public mind will be entirely satisfied
that Mr. Buchanan’s Administration will start
o: der must favorable auspices.”
We have to say that’, from ail the signs in the
political horizon, we draw the conclusion that
bidden. But so expensive and embassy as that I gentlemen named above are to term -Ir.
proposed by the President, should only be justified j Buchonan s Administration. r oremost among
by an intercourse, w hich would be more valuable,
| arrival, and say good night, while the
j beautiful woman and pattern wife was
j present with her eye on me. Can I ever
I forget the language of that eye on that
occasion?—the volume it spoke in one
j glance of cruel triumph! “No more sacred
secrets between you two,” it said brightly.
“When you trust him now, you trust me.
You may sacrafice yourself for your love
recollected that, on one occasion, the member
asked him, in the event of their having to distribute
more money than they had contemplated, whether
he(Triplett) would not do what was right, or some
thing to that effect.
Mr. Welch subsequently defended himself from
the charge, stating that he reported the private
bill referred to entirely upon its merits, utterly de
nying the statements of Sweeney. As to Triplett's
testimony, he said lie understood him or any other
person, that himself or any other member ofCon-
than any that has hitherto been carried on between
the two countries.
[Daily Intelligencer.
of liirn over and over again still, but he I g r, '- ss would receive any pecuniary benefit from the
,iii ,• c ... i passage of the book resolution. Iso language
shall make no sacrafices now for you .until, | Ised p )y hioi Ca pL Triplett could have justified
he has first found out how they affect my suc han implication.
convenience and my pleasure. Your place! Mr. Gilbert also made a statement under oath
in his heart now, is where I choose it to denying Utterly the truth of Sweeny’s testimony,
i T | . j ,, . j , i T Hu never stipulated for any quantity ot land or
lie. I have stormed the citadel, and 1 an y pecuniary consideration for his vote on any biil.
will bring children by and by to keep the J He would prove that he was not in the habit of
ramparts; and you, the faithful old soldier
of former years—you have got your
discharge, and may sit and sun yourself as
well as you can at the outer gates. You
have been his truest friend, but he has
another now, and need trouble you no
longer, except iu the capacity of witness
of his happiness. This you will observe,
is the order of nature, and the recognized j where the road would pass
fitness of tilings; and he hopes you Will see I en* ianc >ng the value of the and very much if that
, i i * i i , ' mi I’Jl could have a favorable vote. Mr. Valk m-
tf and so do 1 And ne trusts you will f orme d him that he would vote or for against the
sleep well under his (and my) new roof! bill, as he thought just.
—and so do 1. And he wishes you a good j Mr. Edwards under oath explained the matter
night —aud so do I [“—Household •i ;l . vi,l P>
talking freely with Sweeney, aud had cautioned
others not to do so.
Hon Robert T. Paine testified as to the inferences
which he drew from a conversation with the Hon.
F. S. Edwards, who, he said, named the considera
tion of $1,500 for his vote on the Minnesota Laud
Bill.
The Hon. Air. Valk testified that Air. Edwards
had spoken to him on the subject—saying that lie
or his brother owned considerable land near
and that it would be
Welsh Settlement in Tennessee.—The Knoxville
Register says that a large number of Welsh em
igrants are settling in Campbell, Scott, Morgan
and other mountain counties in East Tennessee,
upon large bodies of lands lately purchased by a
company of Ohio abolitionists, the chief mover of
whom is ex-Governor Bebh. Tlu-v were induced
to believe the lands exceedingly fertile; but instead
of this they find they have purchased at enormous
prices a range of mountain lands, totally unfit for
cultivation and barely worth tlie registry fe«-s.
Worse then all this, in many instances, the lands
they have bought cannot be found, and more frequ
ently it turns out that the same lands are comprised
in several different surveys.
.4 Cool Villain.—The Boston Traveller states
that during a visit of the Committee of the Leg
islature on Prisons to the State Prison. < n Wednes
day, Cater, the murderer of the late warden, was
taken out of his cell into the passage way, for the
purpose of giving the committees better opportuni
ty of judging of his mental and physical condition.
Cater was handcuffed at the time, and while in the
presence of the committee, lie took a piece of a
spoon handle from under his sleeve, and with it
managed to unlock his handcuffs and free his
hands, nearly as quickly as it cotrid iiave been
dune by another person with the proper key. The
eoministtee manifested their astonishment at the
art, and Cater observing it, coolly remarked,
with an oath, “You don’t suppose I’m fool
enough to sleep with them things on me, do you?”
Words
From the Empire State.
A Funeral Seme
The solemn tolling of the hell summoned
us to the House of God, to attend the fu
neral of a young man, striken down by the
hand of violence. After the fatal stab which
drew the life-blood from liis very heart,
he only survived a few moments; and was
thus hurried, unwarned and unprepared
into the presence of his Maker. When
the writer entered the sanctuary, the ven
erable minister was just announcing his
| text. The coffin was resting on a table
{in front of the pulpit. Near by sat the
! relatives of the deceased-—a brother; two
j sisters, and the widowed mother -—No mor
tal may attempt to describe their ap.pear-
I ance or their feelings, especially <hose of
j tlie mother! The venerable minister pro-
did not. In his conversation with Mr.
Paine, offer, or intend to be understood as offering
any sum of money either for himself or any other
person or persons, for bis vote in favor of any hill
whatever. No person ever solicited him to offer
or procure any consideration dependent upon the
passage of this or any other bill before Congress.
James S. Pike (one of tbe writers for tlie New
York Tribune.) testified that about the time of the
passage of the Wisconsin bill, Hon. O. B. Alatte-
se n made to him a remark which led to the impres
sion that it was an offer, which, if accepted, would
have led to a transaction. He thought he meant
something.
Mr. Johnson, of Utica, N. Y„ President ofDes
Maines navigation and Railroad Company of the
State of Iowa, in the course of the examination,
alluded to a note received by him from Mr. Matte-
son, and which Henry A. Daniels, of Utica, anoth
er witness, subsequently produced, as follows:
“(Private.) WASHINGTON, July 15, 185ti.
Dear Sir: The Committee in our House have
agreed to report your resolution in Iowa, two hun
dred and seventy-two thousand acres, or as you
wished it; hut there is much trouble in the way.
Some outsiders make mischief. Are you willing
to let your quarter of the factory be cut up and
I ii. r . , , - I used to carrv it through, in addition to what Strv-
jceeded to preach an appropriate and power- ker arranged. I can have some agent promise
fill discourse. And as he made an oc-1 outsiders stock in a new factory. Let me know
easional allusion to the departed and the j without fail by return mail
prietors. Fleming Bros., of Pittsburgh, Pa., of this
invaluable remedy purchased it of the inventor,
there was no medicine which deserved the name,
for the cure of Liver and Billions complaints, not
withstanding the great prevalence of these dis
eases in the United States. In the South and
W est particularly, where the patient is frequently
unable to obtain the services of a regular physi
cian, some remedy was required, at once safe and
effectual, and the operation of which could in no
wise prove prejudicial to the constitution. This
medicine is supplied by Dr. M’Lane’s Liver Pills,
•prepared by Fleming t‘ os. of Pittsburgh, as has
been proved in every instance in which it has had
a trial. Always beneficial, not a solitary instance
has eve: occurred in which its effects have been
injurious. The invention of an educated and dis
tinguished physician, it has nothing in common
with the quack nostrums imposed upon the public
b : shallow pretenders to the medical art. Experi
ence has row proved, beyond a doubt, that Dr.
M’Lane'.s Pill is the best Remedy ever proposed
for tlie Liver Complaint.
For sale by E. J. White, James Herty and F. G.
Grieve, Alilledgi-ville
Purchasers will be careful to ask for Dr.
MI .ani-’s celebrated Liver Pills, manufactured by
Fleming Bros, of Pittsburgh, Pa. There are other
Pills purporting to be Liver Pills, now before the
public. Dr. M’Lane’s genuine Liver Pills, also
his celebrated Vermifuge, can now be had at all
respectable Drug Stores. .Xonc genuine aithout the
signature of FLEMINIl ItltOS. f 47 i
Sarsaparilla has Gong been endorsed by the
Medical faculty as a mild, safe and effectivo aspe-
rient and alterative. To extend its usefulness, all
the scientific appliance# of modern chemistry have
been put in requisition by Messrs. Sands, to obtain
a pure extract of its medciual properties. Com
bining therewith vegetable products, they are en
abled with confidence to offer to the public a sure
and certain remedy for all diseases ari.-ing from
impurity of tiie blood, or deraugenient of the
biliary functions.
Prepared and sold by A. B. ,& D. Sands, 100
Fulton St., New York.
Sold also by E. J. White, Agent, Alilledgeville.
Sold also by druggists generally. 40 It
Neuralgia Cured.—Read what Air. Boyden
says: uo medicine ever iiad certificates from such
respectable sources as Carter's Spanish Alixture.
Mr. F. Bey dot;, one of -the original proprietors of
the Astor House, New York, and for a number of
years of tbe Exchange Hotel, Richmond, Va.,
was cured of a severe attack of Neuralgia, by-
Carter’s Spanish Alixiure. The rapid and perfect
cure effected in his case by this valuable medicine,
arrested his attention and excited his interest; he
recommended it to others afflicted with a variety of
diseases, and in every instance a cure was effect
ed. He has seen it cure Ague and Fever, Rheu
matism, Liver Complaint, Dyspsia, Fevers, Vio
lent Coughs, and eases which were said to be con
firmed Consumption, and nearly every other dis
ease fo; which it is used. He remarks it is diffi
cult to know what disease it will not relieve or
cure, and as a blood purifier and Spring and Fall
medicine, he has never seen its equal. He cheer
fully recommends it on all occasions, and believes
it to be the mo*t valuable remedy extent.
Sold by E. J. White & Bro., Alilledgeville.
Davis’ Pain KillerT -
This will certify that about four years since I
was attacked with hoarseness at tbe lungs, a hard
cough, and iaising blood, with pain in the center
of my left breast; I was almost discouraged, bi t
bearing what wonderful success friend Davis met
with in curing colds, coughs, pain in the sides,
&.C., I was induced to give his Pain Killer a fair
trial. I was then raising blood from two to three
times a day, and had been about six weeks, with
out cessation. I followed the directions, and to
my satisfaction, my cough soon gave wav, the
bleeding ceased, my pain removed, and now I am
enjoying a comfortable degree cv health : no pain
about me. no cough, no bleeding, and have a good
appetite, sleep sound, and find my strength gain
ing and ray flesh also increasing: and now, wheth
er I live long or not, I want everybody to know
T. hat this invaluable medicine, through the bles
sing of God, has done for me. I have used it with
equal success in my family for many other com
plaints for which it is recommended, and would
most cheerfully recommend the above medicine to
those who have colds and coughs, especially those
of long standiug—never be discouraged and say
you cannot be cured, until you have given Davis’
Pain Killer a fair trial, as I have done.
KICHARD S. PECKHAM, Fall River.
Scld by F- G Grieve, E. J. White, and James
Herty, Milledgeville. 40 2t
j manner of his death, the sympathies of
| the audience responded to the groans and
sobs of the relatives. Towards the close
of the discourse,'the preacher said in sub
stance.—-“Only the day before he was
killed, T was conversing with him against
| these haunts (alluding to grog shops) where
! he met his fate. He. replied, he intended
to alter his course.” While he was utter
ing these words, that heart broken mother
rushed forward to the cofiiu, and as if it
j were her child, embraced first the foot then
the bead, crying alternately. -“Oh Har-
jvey! Oh William! (His chris 1 an name
i I learned was William Harvey.) “How
jean I give you up! Lost! Lost!
! LOST!!!” Then turning to the eongre-
jgationand reaching out her hands implor
ingly added: “One of my children is lost!
j Will you not help me to pray for those
j that are left i!” This appeal was answer-
| ed with tears, and sobs, and groans,
j In conclusion, flie man of God, commenc
ed giving out the Hymn
“Hark from the tombs a doleful sound,’
i when tbe excitement still increasing, it was
j proposed by a friend that special prayer
i be offered for the relatives of the deceasec
1 and for all others who might feel the neeri
of it. As the aged minister descended
| from the desk and bowed with that stricken
1 family, strong men trembled, bard hearted
men wept like children, and again sobs
and groans, which could not be restrained,
burst forth from that sympathizing au
dience.
Similar scenes were re-enacted at tlie
sepulchre, while that poor unfortunate man
was being consigned to his untimely grave!
New Fruits' &c,—At a late meeting of
the London Homological Society, Mr.
Rivers exhibited a Raspberry, produced
from a plant which bad been raised by
closing the raspbe.ry and blackberry, or
bramble. The plant lias all tbe habit of
growth of tbe common bramble’ does not
throw up suckers, and produces fruit most
abundantly, but it is tbe size and texture
of the raspberry, and the flavor, though like
the latter, is much more lively and piquant;
ihe fruit is of a dark purple color. It
will be, not only a curiosity, but useful for
tbe dessert at alate period of the season.
—Horticultut ist,
Corn and Wheat in Ohio.—The Auditor
of State reports the grain statistics of Ohio
for 1855 in his annual communication to the.
Legislature. The number of acres sown
with wheat was 1’407’773; bushels gathered
19,569,320; tbe average yield 13,81
bushels. The whole number of acres of
corn planted was 2,005,2S2; bushels gath
ered 87,527.434; the average yield
3J,/1, bushels. Hon. Wm. Gilbert was summoned by Hon. W.
~ W. Welch, and said tbit tlie Inttor had never re-
L*SE OF Turpentine IN THE Arts.— marked to him. under nnv circumstances, that, he
The uses of rosin and turpentine seem to tDhbert) should receive any pecuniary_cousidera-
. ... , 1 ... turn or other benefit if theresolutiontorthepur-
liicrease w lth evert development of in\en- chase ot Triplett's book should be adopted,
five talent. In painting, in printing, in Hon. O. B. Matteson, on the 6th of February,
soap making, and especially inliglitins, its sent a communication to the committee, protesting
use seems to be almost universal. It forms a *( ain ? t the a ^. ,io " °‘ t ! ,e committee in his case
. . . . . . , 1 he charges aflecting ins character were prompted
an important element in many chemical by bitter enemies in his district, whose malignity
operations, and it is estimated, in alate had been sharpened by successive defeats. Anonv-
communication to the London Society of j n>°us and unprincipled informers had combined
Arts, that from two to three hundred thou- t0 ^
meamst offender has a show otjustiee in a criminal
Truly, O. B. M.
W. C. Johnson, Esq.
Hon. Keverd.v Johnson detailed a conversation
he had with Mr. Matteson, who, among other
things, saiil that either twenty or thirty members
had associated themselves together, and pledged
each to tlw other not to vote for any law or resolu
tion granting money or lands, unless they were
paidforit. Johnson told him that he could not
believe it. Alatteson remarked, “they are a set of
d—d scoundrels, hut there they were, and nobody
could get anything of the sort through without
them; that W. C. Johnson, President of the Com
pany. must have here $100,01.(! to carry this bill.”
It appears from the testimony of John Stryker
of Rome. N. Y , (of the Navigation and Railroad
company,) that he made a draft of $1,000 in favor
of Horace Greely. It was a retainer for counsel
and advice, L’i procuring the passage of the hill for
the benefit of the company. It was to he used
entirely in his discretion! Air. Greeley, some
weeks ago, informed him that he had received the
money, but bad no personal interest in it.
The Ocean Telegraph a Failure.
The last number of that able and reliable journal,
the Scientific American, contains an interesting
article from the pen of Prof. Alex Hall, giving his
reasons for believing that the present plan of an
ocean telegraph between Europe ami America,
must prove a complete failure. The Editors of the
American endorse tiie correctness of his positions.
Prof. I Mil's arguments are certainly plausible and
worthy of consideration at this time. They are, as
stated by him.
That there has never been transmitted a com
munication thro'a continuous wrire tli9 length of
the cable, 2400 miles, si! far as my information
extends. But even had this experiment been
successfully made on land, the managers of this
enterprise are very much deceived if they assume
a similar result with a submerged wire. Ii can be
easily demonstrated that, a coil of wire, ever so well
insulated, if immersed in water, will not effect an
electro-magnet with the same power as if tested
nit of water. The proximity of so antagonistic an
element, produces a sensible effect upon the
electric current, and would, in the length of cable
proposed, entirely absorb the subtile fluid, especial
ly ail that could be forced though so small a wire
as the one contemplated. But even admitting a
conimnuication po.-sible, it is known to Elec
tricians that in submerged wires a perceptible
period of time elapses in the passage of the cur
rent, and that this period increases with the length
of cable, and that itreqires some seconds of time
before the wire is uncharged after such signal.
In the length of cabielproposed, accoruingto receut
experiment, it would require over six seconds for
aeh signal, making less than half a column in the
New York Herald for 24 hours’ work as its pos
sible capcity—not one twentieth the probable de
mand.
In the next placp, leaving out of the question
these rad.cal insurmountable obstacles in the way
of the present plan of a telegraph, the improbabity,
to use no stronger term, of securing perfect insula
tion with so thin a coating of gutta percha, for, so
many hundred miles of wire, when the slightest
particle of damp—even the prick ofa pin—through
its delicate covering, would destroy the whole
work, is of itself an important item in making tip
the chances of cncess.
Then the almost impossibility of laying down
so long and delicate a cord without an accident,
fruiii ships surging, perhaps against heavy seas,
when the slightest stiain would damge either the
central wire or its covering, and I can see but
little nufrgiu for a successful result—Atlanta Intel
ligencer.
From tlie Alaeon Telegraph.
Ala. Clisby: There is a negro women in Bibb
county,who has one hundred and nineteen descend
ants, and is yet in the possession of ail her faculties,
except sight—she has been blind for six years.
Sixty-seven of her descendants, as well as her
self, are now owned by a gentlemen in this coun
ty. Another heir owns fifty-two in another coun
ty.
The name of the women is Sena. She was one
of three slaves inherited by a lady married iu Lou
isville, Jefferson county, Georgia, in 13.1.
I mention this as a fact in slave statistics—from
w hich the inference my be draw n, that negroes are
not very hardly used in Georgia, or they would not
increase at such a rate.
If you feel a curiosity to see the old lady and
her decendants, I will take pleasure in showing
them to you, as all live within a few hours’ travel
of each other. Respectfully ycu/s,
Bay Gall.
Swift Creek, Bibb county, Ga , Feb. 22, 1357.
Civil Troubles in Kansas—Shenrood Killed —
Washington, Feb. 26.—Accounts per telegraph i , , .
from Kausas, state that a new cause of trouble had stac ? s . to t ien P. r ?£.
these signs wo pi ace the hearty ncquiesence
and approval manifested by the Democrats
of Congress, from all sections of the Union, with
reference to this list. True, here aud there may be
a Senator or Alember, the partisan of Mme distin
guished gentleman not named on it, who regrets
that his friend may not be included. But, as a
whole, we are very sure that it meets tlie views of
nearly every .Democratic member of both Houses.
Thus, it is already rendered certain that the new
Administration is to start out with the confidence
and the warmest sympathy of every Democratic
Senator and Representative; a point never ac
hieved before—one of inestimable importance, as
will be apparent in six months. In the course of
our long experience in such matters we never be
fore witnessed so universal approval of the selec
tion of a Cabinet by an incoming Executive, as
is jnst now being manifested by all those to whose
sympathy and support Mr. Buehanau must look
for the triumph of the policy of his Administration.
Survey of the Okerenokee Swamp.
We had the pleasure of an interview yesterday
with Mr. Burroughs, one of the assistants of R. S.
Hunter, Esq., in his -survey of the Gkefeno'kee
Swamp. The survey and exploration, it w ill be
recollected, were authorized by tlie last Legisla
ture of Georgia, with a view of determining upon
the practicability of the drainage of tlie Swamp.
It will require, perhaps, four weeks longer for the
engineer, Air. Hunter, to complete his labors;
yet euougli lias been done to establish the fact of
the feasibi’ity of the proposed undertaking.
A canal seven miles in length will connect the
St, Mary’s river at a point two miles above Traders
Hill, with the Okefenokee. Along this line there
is a fall of I ti5 feet from the Swamp to the river,
enough for all tlie pntposes of drainage.
Air. Hunter’s party commenced operations near
the Northern end of the Swamp, running thence
Southward along the Eastern border. After having
ms le perhaps half the distance South with his ex
plorations, he moved round to the West side.
From a point called the “Pocket,” he then struck
across the Swamp in a North-Easterly direction.
His route took him by Floyd’s Island. It is erro
neously marked both as to location and size on
Bonner’s Alap. It is placed too far South and East
on the Alap, and instead of being ten miles long
and three wide as there represented, is hut two and
a half miles long and half a mile wide. “Billy’s
Island,” about two and a half miles from the
“Pocket” is four miles long and one mile wide.
It was found to contain an immense number of
deer.
Instead of being impeded by water, one of the
chief difficulties of the party in crossing the swamp,
grew out of the want of that very important ele
ment. They had to sink three wells to obtain a
supply for drinking and-cooking. As they advan
ced tow ards the eastern margin the thickness of
the undergrowth offered almost insuperable ob
it became necessary to
arisen on acount of Gov. Geary’s refusal to appoint
Air. Sherwoood Sheriff. Tlie latter insulted Gov.
Geary. An indgnation meeting of Geary’s friends
took place. An attempt had been made to interrupt
the meeting and three of Geary’s friends were
wounded. Sherwood was killed in the melee.
There is great excitement occasioned by the mat
ter, aud a geneial fight was antiepated Gov.
Geary’s residence was guarded by troops.
[Georgian K Journal.
Daring Robbery.—A party of robbers, headed bv
one Ishtnael Hoover, a notorious burglcr, who had
just escaped front the eluclies of the law. made an
attack, Wednesday night last, on the resilience of
Air. Krite, a German shopkeeper on the Whitt
cut their way with knifes, and they were so much
delayed as to be in serious danger of starvation—
their supplies having been entirely exhausted.
[Georgian Sf Journal.
Report of the I’ominiitefi on Corruption.
EXTRAORDINARY EFFORT OF BLACK RE-
P BLICANS TO SCREEN TIIE PARTIES
IAIPLICATED. *
The House of Representatives was thrown into
extraordinary excitement yesterday by the an
nouncement of Air. Davis, of Alary land, that the
special committee on Congressional corruption was
ready to make their report. At the very threshold
Bluff road, near Savannah, that is rarely exampled ! of the proceeding, and even before the report was
in boldness and villany Air. K. met them at the
door, whereupon he was throttled by Hoover, while
the remainder of the gang rifled his till of some
forty dollars in money, and then proceeded up
stairs and robbed a poor seine-maker of fifty dol
lars, which constituted the sum total ot Ills fortune.
So says the Republican.
Quassia Tonic.—Water or wine embittered with
Quassia wood forms most excellent drink for our
southern climate. As the advantage of such is
becoming known—tlie use of the Quassia cups or
goblets is rapidly spreading
read. Air. Bennett, of New York, objected to its
reception, and entered upon a labored and excited
course of argument against the proceedings and
action ot the committee. It was surprising that
lie should undertake to induce the House to refuse
the reception of a report before the House had
heard it read ; yet such was his anxiety to screen
his political friends whose conduct is implicated,
that he labored zealously, but very indiscreetly, to
prevent even the reading of the report. He was
sustained in his strangely impolitic opposition to
the reception of the report by Mr. Grow, who ar
raigned the special committee with acrimonious
Every one’knows the old' fashioned practice of J imputations, and manifested a degree of ardor and
steeeping the Quassia wood, for, the purpose of j s lisitiveness which indicated extreme solicitude
obtaining a decoction of this bitter, but wholesome | for the fate of his black-republican frienos impli-
medicator; but now that trouble is all dispensed
with by the novel invention of the Quassia Clip.
The wood itself is turned into a regular drinking
c up, and tbe moment water or wine is turned into \ liberation, it not
it, partakes instantaneously of the qualities of the
wood growing more bitter the longer it stands. The
change seems almost miraculous, and ,the inven
tion will prove of great use to dyspeptic persons.
Also those, who like wine as an appetizer before
dinner, will find their bitters ready made, if they
use these cups to drink it from.
sand dollars worth is consumed annually
in the American India Rubber manufac
tories.
ourt, while the case with regard to the accused
before the Committee is different.
There is very much testimony, but want of time
prevents a further notice of it. T he accused, in
each case, will have the privilege and l ight of de
fending themselves before the House, therefore,
an opinion from tlie above imperfect sketch should
Helmuold’s Uuniversali.y Approved Rem
edy—Compound Extract Buchu cures Diseases of
the Bladder, Kidneys, Gravel, Dropsy, Weakness,
Ac. Read the advertisement in another column,
leaded ‘Heltanbold’s Genuine Preparation.’ 40
Power of Instinct.—The sluggish sea
turtle loves her home. A huge creature ^ uulll
of this kind was caught by English sailor j tormed as to their guilt or annocence.
near the island of Ascension, t\ho burnt a
name anil date into its upper shell. On i A Canard _ The la8t hoax ofthe sea80n in one
fhc way to Kn^lanu it fell,sick, and from w liich some fcrceur has just played off is a Paris
sheer pity it was thrown overboard in the j newspaper. The jouraal gravely publishes a letter
from the south of France, recounting how a young
musician of wonderful power had just arrived from
the United States. Somehow the United States
always figures in tales of the “extraordinary ” The
“instrument” upon which this genius played, ac
cording to the Pays correspondent, was a cage of
.i j ducks of various sizes and descriptions. An
• electric wire was attached to each gosling, and the
music was produced by a battery, operated upon
in such a manner as to make the ducks quack forth
the notes 1 The letter closed with the annouuce-
Forty-two Hungarians and Prussians, who ment <hat, on the previous night the. ducks had
fought with distinguished valor under the British broken out of their cage, attacked their eccentric
flag- during tlu* entire Crimean war, Lave arrived propraetor in his bed, and eaten him up alive,
in New Orleans en route to Walker’s army in Ni- j This ridiculous story is now going- the rounds of
caragua. They are said to be a fine looking body I the . reucb press. It ceratmly beats the railroads
of men, and include many experienced officers. ! * E< ^ revolvers m the Georgia affaire qmte hollow.
English Channel. Two years later the
same turtle was captured once more, now
quite well, near its old home AscensLn.
What strange and inexplicable home
sickness carried the slow, heartless crea
ture 4000 miles backward through
ocean where there is no track and no high
roads?”
An Eloquent Passage.—Thomas F. Meagher,
the Irish dVator, lately delivered an address in New
York, entitled “Contrast betweed Royalty and
Repubicanisin.” After describing the terrible
scenes which Napoleon III. passed on his way to
the throne of France, flie speaker drew a contrast
between the crowning of Napoleon and the inaugu
ration of Air. Bnchauan, in the course of which he
used the following glowing language:
“Enough to say, that having from his earliest
manhood served his country faithfully—having
honestly worked out hisanprentieship to her; now
iu the solid maturity of his years she rewards
him with the largest share in the concern.—
Enough to say, that having with diligence, spot
less rectitude, and the steadiest ability, labored
for years to consolidate her interests, augment her
fortune and domain, extend her salutary influence
and establish her good name; never having, as that
Prince of Darkness ruling France had done, disturb
ed the public pease to aggrandize himself; never
having steamed up the Potomac, with a starved
eagle under his arm, to pounce upon the Treasury;
never having sought to corrupt the army, the clergy
or the magistracy; breaking no law, oath or coven
ant, sturdily devoted to republicanism here, else
where, and everywhere, in London as well as in
Lancaster; without resorting to tlie least intrigue,
treachery, or violence; without a speck of blood
upon his hand or the shadow of a falsehood on his
soul—he is declared the First Citizen of America.
On the fourth day of March he will proceed to
the capital, and there, in presence of the Senate,
theMessengers of the Electoral College, the House
of Representatives, Ambassadors of foreign Couits,
Delegations from every State, officers of the brave
and enlightened Army, to whose custody is com
mitted the ensignia of the Republic, officers of the
Navy, whose wooden walls bear through the storm
the thunderbolt of Freedom—standing on the steps
of the capitol, in presence of this great audience with
head uncovered, ho will cad upon God—as God
will be the Judge—to be the witness of the truth,
with which he consecrates himself to the high
ministry of the Commonwealth. In its modesty,
pure decorum, sublime significance—with liberty
to illuminate the spirits of tiie Revolutonarv fath
ers to sanctify—and Providence to bless it—it was
a scene which would infinitely transcend the bap
tism ofthe child of France, the obsequies of Wel
lington, the installation of the Eagles in the Camp
de Alars, the masquerades of Windsore, where a
duchess studs herself with a million worth of di
amonds, or the corronation of the Muscovite.”
From California.—The news from California
is interesting. Governor Johnson, in his message
to the Legislature, denounces repudiation and re
commends the payment of the illegally contracted
State debt. The entire State debt amounts to but
a trifle over three millions of dollars. The election
ofAIessrs. Broderick and Gwin to the United States
Senate had elicited severe animadversion from the
neutral press. These gentlemen arrived in New
York in the George Law. on Friday last. On the !hh
ult. California was shaken by a violent earthquake.
The shock was attended, however, with but little
damages. The George Law brought to New York
$1,097,306 in treasure, which is some $700,000 less
then the semi-monthly shipment at a correspond
ing period last year.
Fatal duel.—Alessrs. O. S. Kimbrough and J. P.
Hendricks, both of this city, met in mortal combat,
at Screven’s Ferry, S. C., at 12 M.. on Afonday, 2-id
inst The weapons used were yagers—distance 40
paces. At the second fire Air. Handricks fell mor
tally wounded in the left side, just above the hip,
and died the following night at the residence of Mr.
Solomons in the city of Savannah. The cause of
the quarrel was of a private nature.
Air. Hendricks was a member of the firm of
Aloscs & Co., and was much esteemed by the com
munity.— Times and Sentinel.
atea. These two gentlemen spoke as if they
were fully apprized of the character of the report,
and as if they had prepared themselves with de-
with concert, to shield their
friends against the trial to which the committee
proposed to subject them. Looking upon Alessrs.
Bennett and Grow as the leaders in this proceed
ing, the impression made upon our mind was, that
the republicans in the House had determined to
screen the implicated parties at all hazards aud at
every step of the proceedings. It will be seen
hereafter whether these gentlemen were not the
representatives and exponents of their party in the
House.
When the investigation was instituted, we ap
plauded the membersof all parties for their prompt
ness in determining to relieve the House from the
foul suspicions cast upon the entire body, but it
never occurred to us that so exraordinary an at
tempt would ever be made to suppress .the results
of the investigation so ordered. We did not doubt
that the investigation would remove all suspic
ion from the democrats of the House, and we are
gratified that our anticipations in this respect have
been fully realized. It was to be hoped, and we
did earnestly hope, that the result would prove
that the whole charge of corruption was a
base and baseless calumny on the House, and each
member of it. The Speaker discharged his duty
nobly in the selection of the committee, and the
whole country accorded to the gentlemen selected
the highest qualifications for their duties. They
have labored assiduously, night and day, in execu
tion of their commission, and when they came for
ward to announce the result of their labors they
were met by tlie extraordinary opposition and cen
sure to which we have referred. Without waiting
to hear the report or the proof, but upon tlie mere
knowledge that the conduct of four republicans
was implicated, two of their prominent political
friends undertake to make an issue with the com
mittee, and to cast discredit upon the conclusions.
In this matter the party zeal of those gentlemen
ran far ahead of their discretion. They have in
volved the republican party in an issue which will
Vktt Imv SoChlngUm hM luifuitad*
Know Nothingism, (says the Nashville ( Tenn.)
Union.) in its spa-modie efforts to perpetuate the
lit! power it has,•#Jy sbfae mean , gained here and
there, lias inaugurated au era of ruffian rule. In
New Orleans, for instance, it has developed itself
iu the worst species of ruffianism, taking for its
model, it would seem, a secret clan that preyed
upon the people of British India for a considarable
time prevous to tho year 1310. Oi this clan, a
writer in Blackwood's Magazine says.
“It was then that the startlingfact flashed upon
the Government, that there was a regular class of
its subjects to whom murder was not only a profes
sion, but also a religion: and that a great brother
hood of crime having an oath with all possible
solemnity went about the country murdering in
cold and bloodUzi style, by strangling, in rem >te
places, unwary travellers, whom they coulJ se
duce iBto their toils. All this was done with the
most eonsumate art and profound secreey; the
members assumed disguises, and played parts with
the greatest address; they had also a secret dialect
of their own, aud secret signe, by which they com
municated with each other. Tliese gangs had no
permanent form, the members assembled for a mur
dering expedition and dispersed, vanished as soon
as it was over. They outwardly followed some
peaceful calling. The Zemiudar or head Thug
was paid a tribute, and the police officials were like
wise bribed into silence
“But in the East India Company the Thugs en
countered a redoubtable foe. Captured Thugs
were got to turn approvers. The whole secrets of
the craft were divulged, the laws were relaxed to
meet the difficulties of tbe case; the gangs were
hunted down in all directions: our jails were filled
with Thugs; and a great horrid institution were
broken up in a few years. An occasional
traveller may still at intervals be strangled by the
wayside; but the system is destroyed—tbe pro
fession ruined—the guild scattered, never
again to be associated into a great corporate
body.
The New Orleans Courier, in republishing the
foregoing extract, says:
At this very moment in this very city, one or
more body’s of met: exist precisely similar In ac
tion to these East Indian artests. The}- do not
strangle with a rope—but they knock down with
brass knuckles and siting-shots, cut with knives,
and sometimes shoot with pistols. They are or
ganized in some form or other, and hound to
gether by some secret oath. The commis
sion of a murder raises the Thug who commits
it to certain rank in the Order and entities
him to certain rights and privelages beyond bis
fellows.
This set of men, if men they can be called—now
controls our City Government, and distributes the
offices in the gifts of the city toits principal assas
sins. The policy of this body of men is the policy
of our city authorities. All crimes of any magni
tude are covered up if possible, or slowly and un
willingly punished in the lighest possible manner,
if concealment be out of the question. All per
sons who attempt to bring criminals to justice, are
threatened until they are terrified from their pur
pose, or are themselves murdered or disabled.—
Whenever one of the gang is put on his trial for
one of the dastardly crimes some of them daily
commit, the court is thronged with the vile faces
of his fellow Thugs, who threatened court, jury
and witnesses with being themselves “tliuggcd”
at some future time; if they dared to do their duty
to their country and convict the criminal. We fear
that at the present moment some our judges are
actually afraid to pass sentence in tlie most flagrant
and notorious eases. The head of the City Gov
ernment was oi ignally elected to office contrary to
tiie will of a majority of the voters of the city by
means of tlie terror exercised by the Thugs of New
Orleans in driving them from tiie polls. These
Thugs now hold him in the hollow of their hand,
make iiim whatever they please. He is merely
their clerk for tlie purpose of recording their de
crees. They openly parade the streets and throat
ed the lives of those who dare to raise
their voice against the present reign of terror.
From Correspond*** of Joumai of Commerce j r
Washington. Feb, in, 1357
Public attention has been for ten days p.
D -eially turned to in- statements of the ft. J Ti f ®*
•is Ji-firs'iu Bowen, Auative of Georgia, on . ° n *‘
officer of the war of Texas and Florida, but f* i! 1 *
Inst seven years a bold explorer ami faithful* .
sionary in Yoruba. and the adjoining kir,-!t, m ‘ s '
Central Africa - Mr. Bowen is a Baptist 'taiio 8
and seven years ago was inspired by the o T . n ,‘ Stfr >
pose of establishing a mission among tl?e' ^ *’ nr '
un miivn nations near the Niger. ° if,,
Sierra Leone and Liberia, and inanv other
the African Coast, and finally, from th . i ’ arls of
Lagos, in the Bight of Renin,'he proceed,, Tv °, f
into the kingdom of Yimhira .. *” >r tb
_ as extensive as 3 ,
Carolina, abounding in foils Hn , } raonm J"' ui '
granite, and an agricultural people, who bv n •
industrious labor produce tine crops of Indian ,heir
sufficient cotton for tbeir own clothing , u .j c ? r? -
ever is absolutely necessary for their simple nt d
The Yegioes in Africa,
We are permitted (says the Boston Post' to make
the subjoined extract from a letter written by an
officer of the United States Navy to a friend in
this city. Tlie writer is a son of tlie late dis
tinguished Senator from on board the United
States ship St. Louis, and dated October
15, 1356, at “Little Fish Bay,” west coast of Afri
ca”;
“There is very little variety upon this coast.—
‘Niggersl’ ‘slavesT ‘niggersl’ is tbe cry. This
town is, like most other places upon tiie coast,
made up of a few people, railed white, and a crowd,
a mass of miserable, filthy, worthless, indolent
(niggers) natives. If Charles Sumner, Jack Hale,
or any other sensible man, who wishes or is witling
to be permanently cured of his mock philanthropy
aud sickly sentimentality in regard to tlie univer
sal negro race, he has only to take a six-months
cruise upon the coast of Africa. If that will not
cure him, and convince him that his sympathy
for the three and a half millions of the happiest
negroes upon the face of the earth is misplaced,
of life. Do log thr e years heaeqtfeed the rin®,,
of thg country, and returned to secure ndditi.wS
missionaries, with Severni of whom fo return,-tV\
the Africans, who had iuvi ed luu; to niake tl •
country his home,and were disposed to'lister * £
hisChristian instructions. After nearlv fo,‘ lr T , * '*
his health and that of Mrs. Bowen compelled W.
to return for a brief season to this eountrv h '
has brought to us information of great value 1 '
erihed a country and a people to Americans i
Europeans almost unknown, and his earnest de
is that the government and citizems of this eoun*r-
should open trade with those tribes and nation-
Central Africa, to whom the Niger is the' muttra
and easy channel ot communication with tbe ch i'.
ed world.
Mr. Bowen was the first Am-rio-su, indeed-th-
first civilized man whoever entered tbe g-,v
the great city of Gloria, a city of such extern that
the people asured hint he could not ride arom ,1
it in one day. and to which caravans conn.- to tin, '
from very remote nations, and where be foun.'t
merchants from Arabia, Tripoli, and even f ron j
Constantinople. The inhabitants of Yoruba, an!
adjacent countries, smelt and manufacture iron
spin and weave cotton, make beautiful leather’
work in brass and make very beautiful gfoss f„ r
ornaments, have fine cattle and horses—desire
many things which we have, and are able to >.
for them They can supply us with ivory, pain,
oil, hides, and can open the way to rich mines of
gold. What is required is to send a small steamer
up tiie Niger, with a few presents to the African-
Chiefs, and a commssioner to make treaties of
amity aud commerce at all important places from
its mouth to Timbuetou and Soys. Civilization U
quite as much interested in this exploration hs
commerce. Wide districts on tbe Yoruba cottu-
try as well adaped to colonization, having be eu
depopulated by former .wars. Air. Bowen gi Vt . a
satisfactory reasons why the English have thus
far failed to explore the Niger. He believes that
with a few Liberians and Kroomen, the enters
prize, at small expense, can lie so accomplished ns
to seeure vast benefit to the United States *nj t0
Africa. Alost tulvyour Frexd.
The Chances for Making Money by Buying R n (.
trry Tickets.—A correspondent in the Augusta (Ga.)
Evening Dispatch, gives the following -in relation
to the traffic in lottery tickets:
After I had failed and settled up prettd much
all my old businss, I It,ad vet several little confi
dential debts that I wished very much to pav. I
had $100 in cash, every cent 1 had in the world,
and I determined to buy Lottery Tickets with it,
in the hope of drawing a prize, aud then pay iff a ! l I
owned, and so be free once more. Before purchas
ing tiie. tickets I called on an old friend to viliom
I owed the largest amount, to consult him as the
best mode of investing. I opened to him all my
hopes and intentions. J4e applauded my motives,
but remarked: “The Lottery appears to be a new
thing, to you, but it is an old one to me At
the time when Lotteries were rather new in Georgia,
nine others and myself entered into a partnership
which was to last for ten years. We each contibuted
$3,000, making tin- handsome capital of $30,000,
which was to be used solely iu buying Lottery
tickets.” Now, with all this money, all our smart
ness and great facilities, which you know nothing
of, for buying, bow.do you think we stood at the
cm! of the ten years?”
I remarked that they must have coined money.
“Well,” said he, “of the original $30,000, we
received back $20,000, and lost the interest, then a!
eight per cent, on tlie whole for ten years. The
$30,000, if invested at simple interest for the ten
years, would have returned us $54,050, aud at
compound interest $64,763. Thus, you see, to sum
it up, we lost tho compound interest on $30,000
for ten years.
making $61,753
Of the original stock, 5,000
Alaking a total of losses,
And have returned to us,
then I have only to say he is past hope aud past Making a clear loss of 44,763
curt ‘- ... . i “This, sir,” he continued, “is my first and last ex-
“As I live, I do not believe there is one negro in ■ p,-nence in lotteries, and you may act ou it as von
one thousand upon the coast of Africa, who is as i choose.’’
well off, morally, physicially. or socially, as the
worst abused Slave in the United States. Slavery
here is slavery indeed, and of the most horrible
kind. Cruelty practiced here by black slave own
ers is heartrending to witness. Some cbeifs
(blaeks)own thousands—they sell, torture, or kill
them, at pleasure. Ninety nine of every hundred
negroes, slaves orfree, eveu in towns, would glad
ly exchange their condition with the meanest, most
ill-treated slave in the Union. It is impossible to
picture the miserable condition of tbe native
Well, as I had determined to invest I did so, and
it was the last I saw of my $100. It was my first,
and to this time, my last attempt to make money
by buying lottery tickets.
Augusta, Ga. An Old Merchant
A controversy arose, Some time ago
between the State of Florida and riparian
proprietors on Lake Jackson, iu that
State. The matter in dispute was as
partial culture, with the mass of natives, is an
so perfectly absurd that it does not admit of a
thought. With the combined efforts ofa million
competent, holiest industrious, persevering phi
lanthropists; with millions of money yearly ex
pended to the best possible advantage for a
million of years, would not develop one hundred
native Africans who would be of any account to the
world at large. So much lor •uiggeis.’ IIavin
se- ii our negroes at home iu our Southern States,
aud having seeu them here, I regard the ‘institu
tion’ as it exists there as a benign, nay. heavenly
institution, and our Southern brethern deserve the
thanks of the whole Christian world, for hav
ing ameliorated, in such strikiug contrast with
their brethern here, three and a half millions of ne
groes.
You may imagine that, although never a Demo
crat, I pray for the election of Mr. Buchanan, aud
mainly because upon this negro question the Dem
ocratic party is right.”
From the New York Evening Tost.
The Brooklyn Yavy Yard.
The number of names 011 the roll ot workmen in
all departments is at present about 1269, but of all
this number not far from 12 I. chiefly mason, stone
cutters, bouse carpenters and laborers, are nndei
temporary suspension on account ofthe severe
weather.
All the vessels at the yard are frozen in solid,
but on Friday a gang of men were at work sawing
a passage through the ice. The frigate Wabash
will be taken into the dry dock for repairs as sobu
as the ice will permit.
The work on the steamer Alississippi goes on
slowly. The water-tanks are being got on board.
Her heavy machinery is in place, and all in a for
ward state. There is very little else being done
in the yard.
The Niagara is only waiting for her armament to
be ready for tho sea. Her crew will number about
five hundred and fifty men, all told. Her engines
have been three times throughly tested. '1 he last
trial was in the presence of a number of govern
ment officials, who came on from Washington.—
Everything about the trial gave the utmost satis
faction. The destination of the Niagara is not
known, but it is generally understood that she w ill
first cross the Atlantic. As she will draw about
scatter its forces into fragments. No party organ- , twenty feet of water when ready for sea, she will
ization can stand before the country upou the not be able to go to Washington,
grounds on which Messrs. Bennett and Grow un- The following statistics iu regard to the Niagara
dertake to screen the parties charged by tbe report and her engines have been furnished by tbe Chief-
of the committee. Engineer.
It will be seen, by reference to the proceedings The Niagara is 343 feet lung, and 55 feet beam,
in another column, that the reports were finally re- , n,. r tonage is about 6000 tons. She has three on-
ceived and ordered to be printed. Four members gines,of72 inch cylinders and three feet stroke. She
are charged with conduced the committee to re- q as w h.at is termed the Griffith propeller, arranged
commend their immediate expulsion—viz : Alessrs j f or hoisting up. It is eighteen feet, four inches in
Gilbert, Matteson and Edwards, of New Y'ork, and diameter, and has thirty-two feet pitch. She has
Mr. Welch, of Connecticut—all being members j four tubular boilers, of the Martin patent, with
African upon his own soil. Civilization, or even j .
■ . f. e - :— idea! follows: btnee the sale ot tlie lands by the
Gubernatoral Nomination.—Hartford, Feb. 18.
The Democrats to-day unamimously renominated
Hon. Samuel Ingram for Governor ofthisjState.
of the republican party. 1 he resolutions proposed
by the committee will be found in the proceedings,
and they show the conduct of each member charg
ed on which tbe recommendation of expulsion is
based. The subject is postponed until Wednes
day next, at which time it will be seen whether
the republican party will add another plank to their
platform by identifying itself with the canse of
the members involved in the grave charges spec
ified in the report and the resolutions.
[ Hash. Union.
Grinding the Cotton Seal.—Mr. Lowbel.s Mill for
Uniting Cotton Seed is now in successful operation,
and though not perfect as yet in all the minutiae,
itis wonderful how thoroughly the kernel ofthe
seed is cleared of lint aud hut, and prepared for
shipment. The seed after this preparation is im
mediate ly put into sacks and forwarded by rail
road to Savannah, where it is shipped to New
York, to be converted into oil" Large tniils for
this huisness have been erected in Brooklyn, in
which a large amount of capital is iuvested, tbe
oil being in great demand.
Until lately, cotton seed oil has been manufac
tured without first hulling the seed, but the quali
ty of the oil is improved by the present method
and the convenience and cheapness of transporting
only the kernel are additional inducements to the
preliminary operation.
Government, bordering on the lake, the
waters have receded, leaving a considerable
margin in some places, between tlie prsent
and original line of tbe water’s edge.
These lands were tbe subject matter in
dispute. The State contended that they
belonged to the United States, and
directed her agent to survey and locate
them for tbe benefit of tbe State, unifer
the act of Congress donating the swantp
lands. Tlie adjacent proprietors protested
against this; and the matter was referred
to the Commissioner of tbe United States
Land office, at Washington. 'The Commis
sioner has decided in favor of the riparian
proprietors. The United States having
parted with tbeir title, to the water’s edge,
lay no claim to the lands in question.
The adjoining owners on ether side, accor
ding to the decision ofthe Commissioner,
are entitled to tbe soil or bed ofthe lake, to
the thread or central line of the stream.
Some, of the proprietors have secured, by
this decision, from five hundred to one
thousand acres of laud, a portion of which
is very valuable. Should the lake go
ilrv, they will gain thousands of acres.
Cotton Growing in Italy and, Malta.—
The production of cotton in Italy and Malta
is larger than is generally thought. It
consists annually of 6,600,000 kilogram
mes in Naples, ofthe value of of 3,160 OOOf.;
of 6,000,000 kilogrammes in Sicily,of
2.000,000f.; and of 5,790,895 kilogram
mes in Malta, of the value of 3,979,710f:
total, 18,390’898 kilogrammes, of the value
of S,679 71 Of. In all Italy and Malta
there are 200 factories for spinning cotton,
with 1000 warehouses and 10,000 workmen,
a large quantity is also spun by hand.
Adding the foreign to the native cotton
the total value of cotton spun is
17,400’000f., audits value .after being spun
rather more than double that amount.
The value of the fabrics made front the
cotton is, including bleaching, dyirg, inter
est on capital, and brofts 46,200,OOOf
Bank of West Tennessee.—The Trenton
(Tenn) Standard says that there is a report
t’ tfifi t nTnf cosi U i7cr ^dav^ under abroad that this hank has broke or suspsn-
cousume about fifty tons of coal per dav, under . ,, £ r ,t
’ ’ ' takers will contain about ded. Jins ts not correct. 1 he Bank ™
i eight thousand f nr hundred tubes, and eighteen
! thousand square feet of heating surface. She w i”
full steam, and her bunkers
1000 tons. He engines and boilers weigh about
240 tons. O11 an ordinary voyage, using both
steam and sails, her supply of coal would last
comfortably for two months. Her speed will pro
bably be not far from twelve nets au hour, but this
is a matter still to be tested. Her armament is to
t consist of twelve pivot guns, oi eleven inch bore,
which with thin corriages will weigh 150 tons. It
is diftieut to estimate the entire weight of her ma
chinery, coal, armament, stores, &c.,but she will
have ample capacity for carrying much more than
would be required for a loug voyage.
| Rkmarkahle Recovery —The Tuscaloosa Ob
server, of the 11th inst.. contains the following.—
i The recovery is a remarkable one, but is by no
I means without a precedent:
j “A negro boy, about twelve years of age, be-
j hinging to Air. Samuel Miller of this county, was
, kicked by a mule a few weeks since, immediately
; over the left eye on the frontal bone, greatly frac
turing it, and forcing a number of peiees of bone
into the brain, from one to two inches in length.
A considerable portion of tlie brain escaped dur-
and arc now the established family medicine 1
classes in tbe United States. Upon the stooaj
and liver, which prepare and temper the blot •
upon the organs which vitalize it in the proc ■ .
respiration, and upon the excretory vessels, _
r — discharge from the system the residtum not
mg the operation ot extracting the spieula of; QU j ret i for the purposes of nutrition, these P 111 . ^
k . ivi M c A ,.a it., m.1 X _. — _ _ A ‘ 1 A l. _. n h I >. ■ 1 * 1 . .. ma — •. VO ITI t . id t 1 I * -« I
West Tennessee redeems its notes i Q
specie whenever p«sented. They tfr 6
received hear as readily as other notes.
Slow Joke.—A countryman passing oyer
a railroad in northern New York, wlat i
is proverbially slow, asked the conduct™
why a cow catcher was attached to t •<.
rear car instead of the usual place; he «
informed by that officer that it "as r-
order to prevent the cows on that rcau
runnig into the train.
Holloway’s Piu s, in spite of the prejud^f’
of medical martinets, have found their win i
the leading hospitals^and
bone, and continued to escape until the parts
Mr. Lowber bought a month or two since about , were clotted by suture. Tlie hoy is now entirely
. .v- . recovered, and attending to his ordinary duties on
the farm.”
one thousand cords of wood in order to secure the
certainty of abundant fuel for his engiue, but finds
now that he has no me for it. The refure hLl
and lint furnishes more ofthe best fuel thau he
can possibly consume—Montgomery Mail 20tA.
Steamboats Lost and Damaged.—There were
some thirty steamboats lost and injured on the Ohio
by the late break-up in the ice, a number which
are only slightly damaged. A rough estimate of
the total value of the above by sinking, partial
damage, <fcc., foots up $170,009.—N. O. Dma.
Lumber Business in Brunswick.—An Eng
lish Company had made a large purchase of-lands
with a view to the cutting and exporting of timber
and lumber from the port ot Brunswick. A new
steam-tug has been purchased and wijl ply eon :
stantly between Brunswick and the Statilla and
Altamaha Rivers for the purpose of towing rafts
from thence to this harbor, and doing such other
buainees as may offer.—Geo. ir Jour.
erate in an almost miraculous manner. r< T ula , j e
invigorating, cleansing, and fortifying the
physique. In bilious disorders, dyspepsia. »
ma", diarrhea, dyseptary, sick headache, conftiFjJ
tion, general debility, and complaints pecu-w
females, their effect is astonishing.
Senatorial Election.—TRENTON, N. J-, b
A the election held to-day according '*> P re ' 1 '
order by the New Jersey Legislature, the te _
John R. Thompson now Senator, and Ch |ur ’
of the Naval Commttee, was elected .for tee
beginning March 4tli »