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Bill for the Admission of Kansas.
The bill for the admission of Kansas as
a Stat e of the Union, which after having
received several amendments, passed the
Senate on Thursday last, is in the follow
ing form.
A Bill for the admission of the State of
Kansas into the Union.
T\ hereas the People of the territory of
Kansas did, by a Convention of Dele
gates called and assembled at Lecomp-
ton on the 4th of September, 1S57, for
tliat purpose, form for themselves a con
stitution and state government, which
said constitution is republican, and said
Convention having asked the admission
of said Territory into the Union as a
State on equal footing with the origi
nal States—
Be it enacted by 'the Senate and Home
xf Representatives of the United States of
America in. Congi css assembled. That the
State of Kansas shall be and is hereby de
clared to be one of the United States of
America, and admitted into the Union on
*n equal footing with the original States
in all respects v, hatcvcl. And the said
State shall-consist of all the territory in
cluded within the following boundaries, to
wit: Begining at a poirft on the western
boundary of the State of Missouri where
the thirty-seventh parallel of latitude
crosses the same,’ thence west on said par
allel to the eastern boundary of New Mex*
tee; thence north on said boundary to lat
itude thirty eight: thence following said
boundary westward to the eastern bounda
ry of the Territory of Utah, on the summit
cf the Rocky mountains; thence northward
on said summit to the fortieth parallel of
latitude, -thence east oi> said parallel to the
western boundary of the State of Missouri
tbenoe south with the western boundary
of-said state to the place of begining: Pro
vided That nothing herein contained re
specting the boundary of said State shall
be construed to impair the rights of per
son or property now pertaining to the In-
■diaiis in said Territory, so long as such
rights shall remain unextinguished by
treaty between the United States and
such Indians, or to include any territory
which, by treaty with such Indian tribe,
i6 not. without the-consent of said tribe,
to he included within the territorial limits
or jurisdiction of any-State or Territory;
but all such territory shall be excepted
ont of the boundaries, and constitute no
part of the State of Kansas, until said tribe
shall signify their assent to the President
of the United States to be included within
said State, or to affect the, authority of the
Government of the United Stales to make
any regulation respecting such Indians,
their lands, property, or other rights, by
treaty, law, or otherwise, which ii would
have been competent to make if this act
had never passed.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted.. That
the State of Kansas is -admtted into the
Union -.pon the express condition that
said state shall never interfere with the
primary disposal of the -public lands, or
with any regulations which Uongress may
find necessary for securing the title in
said lands to the bona tide purchaser and
grantees thereof, or impose, or levy any
tax. assessment, or imposition of any de
scription whatever, upon them or other
property of the United States within the
limits of said State; and that nothing in
this act shall he construed to abridge or
infringe any right of the people, a3 assert
ed in the constitution of Kansas at all
times to alter, reform, or abolish their
form of government in such manner as
they may think proper—Congress hereby
disclaiming any authority to intervene or
declare tiie construction of the constitu
tion of any State, except to see that it be
republican inform and not in conflict with
the Constitution of the United States; and
nothing in this act shall be construed as
an assent by Congress to all or to any of
the propositions or claims contained in
the ordinance annexed to the said consti
tution of the people of Kansas, nor to de
prive the said State of Kansas of the same
grants if hereafter made, whi-ch were con
tained in the act of Congress entitled “An
act to authorize the people of the Terri
tory of Minnesota to form a constitution
and State government preparatory to ad
mission into the Union on an equal footing
with the original States,” approved Feb
ruary twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and
fifty-seven.
Sec. 3. And be it. further enacted. That
until the next general census shall be ta
ken, and an apportionment of representa
tives made, the State of Kansas shall be
■entitled to one representative in the House
of Representatives of the United States.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacsed. That
from and after the admission of the State
of Kansas, as hereinafter provided, all the
laws of the United States which are not
locally inapplicable shall have the same
force and effect within that State as in
*>tber States of the Uuiou; and the said
State is hereby constituted a judicial dis
trict of the United States, within which a
district court, with the Jike powers and
jurisdiction as the district court of the
United States for the district , of Iowa,
shall be established; the judge, attorney
«nd marshal of the United States for the
said district of Kansas shall reside within
the same, and shali be entitled to the
same compen-ation as the judge, attorney,
-and marshal of the district of Jowa.
Murder of a young lady by her Lnrer.—
'On Saturday night last, llob’t. Shmidt, of
Theresa in Dodge county, shot down in
the street of that 'place, 'Harriet Seiuler,
a young lady about twenty years of age.
The parties were engaged to be married
ebout one year ago, and Schmidt had
come over from St. Paul, whe had resided
about a year, to fulfill the engagement,
but the parents of the young lady had
objected to the marriage, in consequence
of which it was arranged between the lovers
■that Schmidt should first shoot the young
lady and then shoot himself. lie executed
’bis design, so far as the young lady was
concerned, but failed to shoot himself on
account of tbe-lftss of the cap on his gun.
After failing in this he ran and thiew him
self into the river with the intention to
drown himself, but was rescued by persons
■who saw him. He is now arrested and
■awaits a trial. The charge {which was of
fine shot,) entered the left breast of the
young lady and inflicted a Irorrible wound,
-of which she expired on Sunday morning,
about two o’clock. She had her senses up
<to the last, and charged her parents with
being responsible for the awful deed, and
-acquitted her lover of all blame. The
parties, as their names indicate, were
Germans.—Milwaukee News, o/T6th ult.
John Van Buren—The Stray Douglas.
—John Van Buren recently said, in a con
vivial speech:
“Well, gentlemen, there is one family
"has got back 6afe into the democratic par
ty to stay for life. It is the Van Buren
family; and if Senator Douglas only knew
the long, dreary road he lias to travel, the
deep, roaring streame he has got to swim
bis horses over, the dark. 6tormy nights
where the wind will blow down Ins
tents; and he will be forced to lay on the
ground with the rain pouring on him in tor
rents. the high, steep, and rugged moun
tains he lias got to climb, the interminable
deserts, where there is no wood uor water
be has get to cross, in the road be lias ta
ken away irorn his ‘father’s house,’ he
would, in ay opinion, take the straighest
chute back into the democratic camp.”
The roar that followed John’s descrip
tion of the dangers and difficulties of the
■route he himself had travelled since 1848,
may be imagined, but not described.
Searching for the Bailed Treasures of the Sea.
An interesting report had been made to
the Boston Submarine Company in relation
to the expedition sent to the Carribbean
sea, under the command of Oapt. Couth-
ony, to search for the sunken treasures of
the Spanish frigate San Pedro:
The several divers connected with Capt.
Ooutliony’s force spent in the aggregate
about 8.4 hours under water daily, during
the time they had been at work upon the
wreck. After removing a vast amount of
dock material, the divers penetrated into
the deck room, where they found gun car
riages, deck furniture, &c., piled up in one
large mass, making any attempt to work
useless without first removing it. At this
place four magnificent brass cannons were
taken out, and eleven strange boxes sup
posed to be cast steel: they were of the
size of a candle-box, but were thought by
some to be platina. Silver dollars were al
so found at the depth of sixty feet in the
water, covered with mud, but they were
mostly separate; several gold watches were
here taken out, and many other valuable,
articles, and the divers came to the, conclu
sion that when the explosion of the vessel
took place, these articles were driven from
the forw ard part of the ship, where the
bulk of the treasure undoubtedly remain
ed.
Taking this as a reasonable view of the
case, they proceeded to their work with
renewed vigor and after great difficulty
succeeded in clearing away the large
amount of rubbish, and obtained an en
trance to tlic bold of tbe forward part of
the ship on the 12th of December last.—
About 8700 in specie and another brass
six pounder were got at this place in a short
time, also watches and many curious relics.
The money found here was Cemented to
gether in rolls of 81*5, 820 and $100 each,
and very plainly showed that they must
be very near the vast amount of money
contained in this ship. According to the
otlicial documents, when the -San I’edro
went down she contained one million of
Spanish dollars, and a million and a half in
igold, a large portion of which should be
! there still. The work was now fairly com-
I menced, and the directors felt greatly en-
j couraged, and saw no reason why the
(Stockholders should not be so. The last
I advices, which were up to January i, re-
J presented that they had been unexpected
ly stopped in their labors by timber, &c„
jin the hold, but hoped in a short time to
remove it.
Tlie Parrhascrs of flount Vernon.
The following bill am muling the act incorpo
rating the Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association of
the Union, has unanimously passed both iinoses
of the General Assembly of Virginia:
lie it enacted Sfe., That tiie act entitled an act to
incorporate the Mount Vernon Ladies* Association
of the Union, and to authorise the purchase of a
part of Mount Vernon, passed March 17th, 1856,
be amended and re-enacted, seas te road ss fol
lows:
The Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association of the
Union, as heretofore organised, shall die, and they
ar>- hereby, constituted a ho ly politic and corpo
rate, under the name and style of “The Mount
Vernon Ladies’ Association of the Ui.ion,” and by
this name shall be subject to ail the rights, powers,
privileges, and immunities prescribed by existing
laws, insofar as tbe sarm are applicable to like
corporations, and not inconsistent with this act.
2. It shall be lawful for said Mount Vernon La
dies’ Association of the Union to purchase, hold
and improve two hundred acres of Mount Vernon,
including the late mans* , as well rs the tomb of
George Washington, together with the garden,
grounds and wharf and landing now constructed
on the Potomac river; and to tiris end they may
receive from the owner and proprietor of the said
land a deed in fee simple, and shall have and exer
cise full power over the use and management of
the same, as they may by bye laws, ami rules de
clare; provided however, that the said Mount
Vernon Ladies’ Association of the Union shall not
have power to alien the said land, or any part
thereof; or to create a charge thereon, or to lease
tbe same, without the consent of the Geneial As
sembly of Virginia, first had and obtained.
3. The capita! steel; of the said Mount Vernon
Ladies’Association of the Union shall not. includ
ing the two hundred acres of lend aforesaid, ex
ceed the sum of five hundred thousand dollars.
The said Association in contracting with tlie pro
prietor of Mount Vernon for the purchase of'the
same, may covenant with him, so as tore-serve to
him the light to inter ihe remains of such persons
whose remain are in the vault at Mount Vernon,
as are. not now interred, and to place the said vault
in such a secure and permanent condition as he
shall see lit, and to enclose the same so as not to
include more than a .half acre of laud; and the
said vault, the remains in and around it, and the
enclosure, shall never be removed nor disturbed:
nor shall any other person hereafter ever be inter
red or entombed within tbe said vault or enclo
sure.
4. The said property herein authorised to be pur
chased by the said Mount Vernoii Ladies' Associa
tion of the Union, shall be forever held by it, sa
cred to the Father ef his Country.; and, if from
any cause the said Association shall cease to exist,
the property owned by the said Association shall
revert to the Commonwealth of Virginia, sacred
to the purposes for which it was originally pur
chased.
5. This act shall be in force from its passage.
The Hat that makes the Gentleman.
Of all articles of dresR, rays the Boston Courier,
none has so much influence upon the opinion of
the public as the hat, A “shocking had hat’’ is the
expression of the extreme of disapprobation of the
man who nears it. We do no: think an opinion
of character founded upon a fact of this kind, is
absolutely to be relied upon. We cau conceive of
a man’s wearing a shocking had hat and being
a good citizen, and exemplary father of a family au
honest man, and even a Christian. But we admit
ihe promt facie evidence is against it. Look at the
criminals in the dock: they are without a singl
convict is to give him a new hat. A hat excites ii:
the first place, ttie emotion—it may be a deceptivt
one—of respectability. The man who puts it on
feels like a gentlemen; it may be a mistaken feel
ing. He walks the street with the oensciouness
of seeming virtuous if not of "being so. All great
philosophers know shat nothing has a more power
ful tendency to make a man good, than to con
sider and treat him as such: and universally, the
man who wears a good bat is held to be a good
man. until the opposite is proved. A constable
would never arr-st a well halted num on mere
suspicion. He would require the oath of at least
two respectable witnesses. The case against him
must be flagrant, or heavy damages would be tbe
consequence of so ra-li au act.
On the other baud, the wearer of a bad hat; one
knocked in at the side, jumped down at the top;
filled with dust, because it is innocent of the brush;
worn in the rim down to tho smooth; such a person
isa just object of public suspicion. He cannot,
help looking liko a miserable rogue; a mere varlet
He sneaks along near the .protecting .fronts of
street shops; hc.-ehrinksfroni notice; he-cau-hardly
stand up lake a man. in the presenceof men. Jf he
has a case in court, it is sure to go against him,
however clearly the law tony be iu his favor, if
be carries about r subscription paper, in behalf of
the must deserving chanty, the greatest philan
thropists snub and refuse him. Who would ven
ture into the jire.sence of his mistress, iu such a hat,
and not expect an instan' dismissal I Who would
dare to put the question lo the idol of his idolatry,
iu such a hat.' What woman of proper sensibility
would nut reject, without a moments hesitation,
the suitor at her feet, whose hat was open to any
one of the above criticisms? Mr. Peter Magnus
was quite right to bo anxious about the hat, of
which he said that money would nut buy such
another, when on his way to make proposals to the
middle aged lady. A great moral truth is illus
trated iu tfce story of this gentleman's wooing and
its result, so well told, in Pitktvick It becomes
thou, a high social and moral duty not only to
give heed to our ways but to our hats
From tbe South.
Passage of the Kansas Bill by the Senate-
Coarse of the “Sooth inter!fans.”
The passage of the Kausas Bill by the Senate
is an unconditional triumph of Southern rights and
interests. In the first place, the m^jonty for the
measure exceeded the calculations ot its advocates.
Then, too, in the tact, that it was supported by
every Senator from the South, with the exception
of Crittenden and Bell—those monumental re
mains of a defunct organization—we have addi
tional cause of congratulation. In the hour of
trial Kenin-dy kept bis engagement despite the
bludgeon of Piug-Uglyism. So impartially did
reason and right plead for the measure, and so ter
rible was the threat with which the South coerced
the fidelity of its debateable representatives, that
Houston even was bound to yield a reluctant as-
seut to the admission of Kansas. The conserva*.
tive seniiment of the Northern Democracy was
gloriously manifest in the votes of Wright, Uwiu,
Bright, Allen, 1 itch, Jotres and Thompson.
The people of the South will not be insensible
to tbe services of these Senators. They maybe
pursued with the malignity of sectional fanaticism,
—they may be exposed rotfie reproaches of a men
dacious press and the ingratitude of an unworthy
constituency,—but the South will honor their in
trepidity, and history will perpetuate the record
of their patriotism.
We attach special importance to the action of
the Senatein the admission of Kausas, because of
its effect on the fate of the measure. The vote
implies no equivocal endorsement. It exhibits the
conclusion to which anxious inquiry and e aborate
argument have conducted a select assembly of the
best and wisest statesmen of tbe country, iu regard
to a measure of the greatest consequence to the
public interests. Such an imposing demonstration
from so august a body, will determine the direc
tion of popular opinion in tbe country.
Another circumstance in connexion with the
passage of the Kansas bill by the Senate, makes
it the occasion ot unreserved e-xultation. In the
last moment of the struggle the measure was dis
embarrassed of those obnoxious provisions by
which its effect was impaired in the judgnent of
the South: and it goes dowu te the House of Rep
resentatives free from the “Pugh amendment”
and an illicit alliance with Minnesota. So, the de
mand of'the South prevaihql. and the Kansas bill
presents tbe principle for which we contend, ex
empt from encumbrance, and unatfected by any
sort of compromise or condition Thus far we
have achieved a complete victory. If tbe House
will but ratify tbe action of the Senate, the tri-
i mph of the South will be diminished by no con
sciousness of extorted concession or purchased ad
vantage.
The abandrnment of the 1’itgii proviso and the
Minnesota alliance was dictated by a regard for
principle. We believe the event will justify it as
r»n expedient of policy.
The only doubt about the admission of Kansas
under tbe Lecomptun Constitution, was occasion
ed by the ambiguous attitude of the Know Noth
ings in the House of Representatives. At the crit
ical moment of the struggle these vigilant cham
pions of t ie South made the sudden discovery that
the l’ugh amendment involved an essential sacri
fice of principle, and that the Minnesota alliance
was repugnant to the sensibilities of sectional
honor. Such an affectation of excessive solicitude
for the interests of the South, paraded so osten
tatiously by a party which habitually betrays an
indifference to tbe issues of sectional controversy,
naturally awakened a suspicion that a declaration
uf romantic patriotism was employed merely as a
mask for treacherous design. The imputation was
repelled with resentment: and, fortunately for the
Know Nothings of the House, they now have an
opportunity of confounding their enemies and vin
dicating their own good faith. The Kansas bill is
stripped of tlie obnoxious provisions. The Min
nesota alliance is abandoned; tbe Pugh amend
ment has been substituted by an express repudia
tion of power in Congress to construe a State Con
stitution or in any way to interfere with its do
mestic affairs. By a stroke of tlie pen tbe Senate
removed every objection which the Know Noth
ings of tbe House alieged against the admission
of Kansas. What will they do now? Will they
accept the measure, thus purified of the dross of
impertinent and obnoxious additions ? Or will
they justify the suspicions of their enemies, and
reveal the motive ot treachery to the South which
an unfriendly criticism imputed to their conduct ?
If the Know Nothings of the House refuse to sup
port the Senate bill for the admission of Kansas,
they w ill at once convict themselves of a political
fraud and demonstrate their coalition with the
Black Republican party. Will they dare venture
upon the hazardous policy? Are they so lost to
shame as to consummate the incestuous connexion
with Abolitionism ? Are they so despeiate as to
offer intolerable affront to the moral sentiment of
the South, by an act of open and defiant apostacy
from its interests ?
These gentlemen may be willing to sell them
selves ; but, if they are not altogether inaccessible
to suggestions ot honor, they will remember their
associates in the country and spare them the last
disgrace of such flagrant treachery. With no great
opinion of the political virtues of Know Nothing-
ism, we are yet unwilling to believe that its repre-
sentatives iu Congress will accept promises of fa
vor from the Black Republican party as an equiv
alent for the sacrifice of their Southern constitu
ency.
No; we choose to give the Sou'll Americans
credit for some nobler instinct of action than a
vindictive hate ot Democracy or a ravenous lust
for the spoils. We choose to indulge the pleasing
anticipation that they will rise above the little
concerns of personal ambition, and if need be,
sacrifice the interests of party (o the necessities of
the country. We accept their professions as the
scruples of a sensitive Southern spirit; and now
that the bill for the admission of Kansas conforms
exactly to their rigid requisitions, we expect them
to support it with the ardor of an unconditional
and cordial approbation
With these impressions we msv hazard a confi
dent assurance of the admission of Kansas under
the Lecompton Constitution. After tlie lapse of
a few days, the bill will be taken up iu the House,
when, supported by tlie Democracy and the South
Americans, it will triumph over the coalition of
traitors and fanatics which opposes its passage.
Portraits of Seward and Douglas.
The Washington Union has lately drawn the
portraits of W. H. Seward and Stephen A. Doug
las. It says :
“Mr. Seward is a well educated, cold, passion
less, pains taking, ambitious man. What he lacks
iu positive intellect, he more than makes up in
prudence, caution, industry and energy, lie is,
too, very much of a consumer of ideas, doing up
his own in a fancy style, and dressing up others
for his ow u special uses. Mr. Seward is literary
and truly a made man, enthusiastic as all such men
are, over his own works, for he knows that w hat
lie has accomplished has been the result of hard,
- patient study aud a careful husbanding of his re-
exception persons distinguished by tlie badness » \, n..i - si, , ,
,,v. , ; , r . * . 6 . r, c sources. Air. Douglas is, light on the other band,
ot their bats Ihe first step towards reforming a . . , ,7” .
"a natural growth, with greater power, no more
heart, and tar less finish. Mr. Douglas is a hold,
dashing (cavalry officer—a pony nag, good for a
From the Yankee Blade.
Wlmt has improved vousn in apppearance?—Wood*
Hair Kesmratire. Wlmt has given you such a youth
ful look? Wood's Hal Restorative. To what agency
am I to attribute your increased beauty, my dear mad
am? Sir, yon are -very-complimentary, but I am in
debted to I’lwfctuior Wood's beautitul hair tonic, tar,
since, I saw you last you have grown twenty years
younger, how is it? A fuct, my dear sir. I am
using Wood's Hair Restorative. Why, my dear friend
yon wore a scratch a year ago, and iww van have a
splendid head of btnok hair, to what inancle are you
indebted? Professor Wood is the miracle mau
his tonic did it. I am told, madam, that Ihe
nervous headache you were once troubled with lias
left yu ’ Yas sir, by the aid of "Wood’s Hair Restora
tive. Such is the language all over the country, and
there is no fiction or imagination about it, reader.—
Wood’s Hair Restorative is an honest and truly medi
cinal, as well as scientific preparation, and will do all
this. Try it and sec if we are not correct.
CautioX.—Beware of worthless imitations as several
are already in the market, called by different names.—
Use none unless tin* words (Professor Wood’s Hair
Restorative, Depot SL Louis, Mo., and New Y'ork,) are
blown on the bottle. Sold by oil Druggists and Patent
Medicine Dealers. Also by all Fancy und Toilet goods
dealers iu tbe United States and Canadas. 45 2t.
Army Promotion.—C'oL Johnson, of the Army in
Utah was confiimed by the Senate, as Brigadier
General, a few days a^o, though much opposition
was made to his nomination in that body, chiefly
on the ground that he was a Colonel of but only
three years standing.— The Atlanta Intelligencer. "
brush, but too unreliable and bawky for the
course. A thorough early training for Mr. Doug
las would have impaired his power of mind. Na
ture educated him just as he is. Mr. Seward with-
■•ut education and special training, would have been
nothing. This is precisely the difference in tins
respect between them. They are both now great
men. Mr. Douglas is great in positive intellect.
Hollas, too, some logic. He is not a scrupulous
logician. He is a stranger to the chemical facul
ty of analysis. He cares .nothing lor premis's.
He is indifferent to the integrity of argument.
He in ambitious like Mr. Seward, and we take it it
is this that has brougnt them together. They are
both travelling to the same destination, they care
not a fig what road they take to get there. In an
other respect the difference between Mr. Sewatd
aud Mr. Douglas is obvious enough ; the former
has less-of impulse, and *of course the greater
power of concealment. Me. Seward is more of a
i-courtier. Mr. Douglas is more frank and appears
best, when must excited. He-is reliable as a par
tisan—in war—in strife, when the battle rages—
and then his intellect, his resources, are most avail
able. In these respects Mr. Sew ard is valueless.
He will manoeuvre for a position, arrange ambus
cades-and strategic movements, issue proclama
tions, excite the passions of the troops, commend
their courage and promise them plunder, but some
body elsemust do the lighting. Mr. Seward is re
markable lor persistence, vigilance, patience, and
for using other people’s ideas aud other people’s
labor. Mr. Douglas is self-reliant, courageous,
firm and wilful. His heart is not as large as his
head. With-so great a disparity in this respect,
it .is hardly possible that he cau ever reu der li'.s
intellect truly available.”
Who killed Cock Ro’bixi?
The Washington Union asks this pregnant
question in reference lo the “little giaut’, of yore.
Our correspondent’s letter -of yesterday gives
Senator TooMBS, of Georgia, the principal credit
of giving him tlie coup de grave in his reply of
Monday night. He attacked Ool’ulas in the
proper spirit to make his speech tell. He charged
i>iin personally with tergiversation and a tiuie-scr-
ving abandonment of principle and consistency for
selfish onds. He stripped him of the cloak of char
acter and patriotic pretences, anti demoralized him
-before the Senate and country. This is what should
have been done by some Southern statesman
when he first took his departure, and defied tbe
party aud tlie Soutb-so insolently. We are glad
it has been done at last. Bolter late than
never. The example will serve for a warning.
Holloway’s Tills, in spite rtf the prejudices of medi
cal martinets: have-found their -way into the leading
hospitals and dispensaries oftEurqpe, and are now tlie
established family medicine of all classes in the United
States. Upon the stomach and liver, which prepare
and temper the blood, upon the organs which vitalize
in tlie process of respiration, and upon the excretory
vessels, which discharge from the system the residium
not required lor the propose of nutrition, these pills
operate in an almost miraculous manner, regulating,
invigorating,eleansisug, und fortifying Hie whole phy
sique. In bilious disorders, dyspepsia, asthma, diur-
rluea, dysentery, sick headache, constipation, general
debility” mid complaints peculiar to females, their effect
is astonishing.
Dreadful Steamboat Disaster.
St. Louis April 2.—The Steamer Sultan, was
brunt this morning, sear Cape Girardeau, when
bound fox’ New Orleans, Fifty lives were lost.
From “The Bench and Bar of Georgia.”
Richard Henry ((tide.
The mission to which Mr. Wilde addressed his
faculties and gave years of toil in Europe was not
iu harmony with his relative duties to mankiud
aud with that position which his eminent talents
and finished cultivation had secured from tbe
vvojld. He was qualified fur extensive practical
usefulness as a jurist, scholar, aud statesman.
That be should retire for a short period from his
own country for relaxation amid tbe cities, estab
lishments, and relics of the Old World was not
surprising or extraordinary. All men of liberal
views would do the same, other considerations
permitting. But to remain seven years, with no
engagements more solid than glancing over anti*
qitated documents from which no principles or
systems could be educed beneficial to mankind,
was a sacrifice of himself much regretted by many
of his partial countrymen. It was, indeed, a
transition from the open air, where mountain and
lake, and forest and liver, and rich harvests and
fragrant veiduc were ever lending variety to the
landscape and a sweet moral tone to the imagina
tion—it was a step from these purifying elements
of nature to the gilded halls of luxury, where ex
clusiveness and mock civilities prevailed, and
where music and laughter and wine and much friv
olous chat constituted the round of enjoyments
with which he was more or less identified. True,
there was poetry in all this—too much of it. There
was delight to the sense, but mildew to the heart.
Tbe voluptuary, the man of fashion, the idler,
were grat.tied ; but tbe moral hero, the public ben
efactor, tbe man of euteiprise, and tbe scholar of
a just ambition, desirious to leave a record of pop-
"ular utility, would turn with generous self-denial
from such enchantments.
No reproach on the memory of Mr. Wilde is in
tended by this picture. Tasso, Byron, and other
men of sublime gifts yielded to the attractoiu.
The error, if any, was sanctified by the rare com
panionship. We know that genius has moods of
its own, rarely prudent, aud ever prone to ex
tremes. But that a dozen volumes or more should
he written by the biographers of a poet, mostly
tilled with speculations on the good fortuue of one
of “three high-born dames” to be the ideal of bis
nurse, is an expenditure of time and abilities ut
terly disproportioned to the intrinsic value of the
subject. The task, with whatever success per
formed by Mr. Wilde, was below the merit, which
should have sustained itself in a better field—at
die forum, in the walks of political economy, in
commerce, in constitutional law, or in the analysis
of government, all of which admitted the classic
beauties uf style. Tbe love of Tasso is childish,
bis madness excites sympathy, and his imprison
ment raises a question whether it was caused by
the rage of a tyrant or the pity of a friend. The
final consequence is logically deduced. There
have been examples besides that of Tasso where
love induced madness, and a prison was tho rem
edy, the preservation of the individual ; yet who
ever deemed the catastrophe of such vital con
cern as to devote several of the best years of a
truly eminent lifi-tn the investigation, to the sen
timental details, to the fantasies of iusanity, and
that, too, not for the benefit of medical jurispru
dence ?
The attack having been made, the vindication
follows by the same hand—a cheerful defense, a
grateful reply to seeming objections. In the case
of Mr. Wilde, there was much to extenuate, if not
wholly justify, his soil-expatriation and the indul
gence of his literary taste in a channel whose
crystal current bore him imperceptibly into
“dreamland," where poetic natures love to dwell
amid creations of their own, society of their own
forming, and delights peculiar to themselves. He
had known hardship in his youth ; his moral cour
age and intellectual superiority had opened a path
to renown. He had figured in Congress as an ac
knowledged luminary, without a rival in elegance
of style and facility of imagination under the con
trol of a sound, dignified judgment. The press had
teemed with compliments to his genius at home
and abroad. Ilis society w as eourted in the lead
ing circles of fashion and iutellingence, and he w as
the most finished gentleman in them all. He was
courtly in address, yet engaging and familiar with
his friends. After the deteat of the ticket tor Con
gress on which he was nominated in J 834, his spirit
chafed under a sense of injustice. He was too con
spicuous in public estimation to be thus neglected
at the ballot box without becoming an object of re
mark in contrast with his former triumphs. For
the first time he realised desertion—loneliness-—
His sensitive mind turned upon itself tor support.
It may be asked, perhaps doubtfully, what con
siderotiun bound him to a further struggle with the
rough gales of life. Had he not given abundant
proofs of capacity of the highest older? What pro
blem had he yet to solve to procure the recognition
of his genius aud learning? He had toiled ambi
tiously and successfully for improvement; his fame
was established, and he was remitted to private
life. Under tlies^ circumstances, where was the
impropriety of his European tour and residence ?
Was it not commendable? Mr. Wilde had a relish
for Italian literature; his soul had been touched
by tlie song of Italian bards, and by the richness
and beauty of their language. He resolved to
driuk at tlie same fountain. Easy in his fortune,
his mind relieved from public cares and domestic
anxieties, lie applied himself with that gentle in
dustry and soothing leisure which his situation
afforded to master the depths of a* classic sea, of
which Italy was the enchanted basin, in his rev
eries. lie selected Florence as his head quarters
and Tasso as his theme. Tbe result is before the
world.
The dedication of his volumes to John W. Wilde.
Fsq., is alike honorable to the two brothers. It is
dated Florence, 5th of November, 1840:
My Dear brother: Au affection like ours rarely
shows itself in wards; and, if I now allow it utter-
erance, it is rather in homage to truth than in com
pliment to you. If I knew any one more worthy
of my esteem and regard than yourself, I might
spare you the pain of a dedication; but in all that
tries the heart you only have always withstood the
pi oof, and to you my first work must be inscribed,
that Mattery or falsehood may not stain the inscrip
tion.
A more beautiful and tender piece of composi
tion than this fraternal tribute is not to be found
anyw here. It is incorporated in this memoir as an
act of justice and as an ornament. The refined
taste of Mr. Wilde and the harmony of his diction
appear in every line Irotn his pen. His work on
Tasso evinces great labor and erudition. The au
thorities referred to in his notes are numerous, and
many of them rare. The translation shows his pro-
fieiencyin the Italian language. Taken as a mere
literary performance, is is sufficient to rank Mr
Wilde among the ripest bellesburns scholars of the
age True, then- is much that is extravagant in
feeling.and much that is imbued with romance;
still, the gratification is not the less pure. Ours
would be a bard condition, a barren world, if we
poor mortals bad to see and endure things divested
of the ideal drapery of life. We should sink un
der the burden without any angel to lift us up.—
The illusion is sweet; we trust it, though we know
it to be an illusion. It is one of the angels that
constantly fill the air, ministering to all who are in
trouble. Instead of blame or indifference let us
award to the scholars and painters of lively im
pressions—of wild fancies, if you please—the grat
itude we owe them for the rich feasting we have
enjoyed at their hands. In this relation Mr. Wilde
is a benefactor to his fe!lcw-mau. There is no evi
dence that in his retirement, or in the prosecution
ot his researches respecting Tasso, Dante, or other
subjects in Italy, lie departed in the least degree
from that level which commanded the best society
of Europe. His presence was felt and gracefully
acknowledged wherever his lot '.ins cast.
The Utah Expedition—Interesting Letter From
Coi. A. S- Johnson.
Headquarters Department of Utah,
Camp Scott; January. 20,1858*
Major : I have nothing material to report since
my last communication. Accompanying that, I
sent a tile of the Deseret News, containing the
message of Brigham Voting to the legislature of
Utah. You have in that message and the resolu
tions of the legislature their disloyalty to the
Union heretofore made against this people. My
information respecting their conduct since is that
their troops are in organization to resist the estab
lishment of a territorial government by the United
States, and in furtherance of that object, they
have erected works of defence in tlie mountain
passes and near Sait Lake city. Knowing how
repugnant it would be to the policy or interest of
the government to do any act that wuuld force
these people into unpleasant relations with the
federal government, I would, in conformity with
the views also of thecommanding general, on all
proper occasions have manifested in my intercourse
with them a spirit of conciliation; but life not
believe that such consideration for them would he
properly appreciated now, or rather would be
wrongly interpreted; and in view of the treason
able temper and feeling now pervading the lea
ders and greater portion of the Mormons I think
that neither the honor nor dignity of the govern
ment will allow of the slightest eoncession being
made to them.
They should be made to submit to th*- constitu
tional and legal demands of the government un-
conditonally ; an adjustment of existing difficul
ties on any other basis would be nugatory.
Their threat to oppose the march of the troops
in tlie spring will not have the slightest influence
in delaying it: and if they desire to join issue,{I
believe it is lor tbe interest of the government that
they should have the opportunity.
On the night of the 1 Itb of this month I sent
an express to Santa Fe, to aeqnaint General Gar
land with the design of the Mormons to intercept
the cabballdra it is expect Capt. Marcy will bring
on from New Mexico, aud to ask additional force
to his escort. I will also take other measures .to
thwart them. I send hcarewith a letter of Lieut.
Rums on the subject of a transportation corps.
As a question of the highest interest to the gov
ernment, in respect to the mobility of our troops
and cnconomy of administration of the bu-iness
of the quartermaster’s department, it eminently
commends itself to the attention of the General-
in-Chief. It is of great importance that such a
corps should be created, and it is with the view of
asking the consideration of the subject by the
commanding general that I forward the letter of
Lieu. Burns, w ho has much experience as assis
tant quarterniastr.
To make effective tlie field battery in charge of
Capt. Reno, and to retain in service at this time
a number of soldier* whose period of services is
about to expire, I have authorized him to enlist
as many of them as w ill enable him to work the
guns. If this act is approved by the commanding
general, I request that he will ask for it the sanc
tion of the Secretary of War, who, under the au
thority of the law of the 18th June, 1846, can fix
the number of tbe ordnance corps. The winter is
not so coid as was anticipated from the severity
of the beginning, and the healthfullness of the
climate at this season is unsurpassed; there are
but very sew soldiers sick from climate causes.
The weather is neither so cold nor so stormy as
often to prevent the daily instruction of the differ
ent arms of the troops of the service.
With great respect, your obedient servant,
A. S JOHNSON,
Colonel 24 cavalry commanding.
Major Irwin McDowell,
Assist. Adj. Gen., headquarters of the army, N. Y.
From the Atlanta Inteiigencer, March 30.
Supreme Court.
The following cases have been decided by the
Supreme Court during the present term of tlie
Court:
Cherokee Circuit.
Samuel Oliver ct nl rs. Amos II. Williams
—Ejectment from Cotnosa—judgment reversed.
Atkin for plaintiff, Hooper & Walker for defend
ant.
Thomas Pledger rs. James McCauley—Equity,
Cotoosa county, judgment affirmed. Aiken for
plaintiff, McConnel & Culbertson for defendant
Matthias Turner and others vs. the State—Mur
der, ftom Cass judgment affirmed. Milner & Par-
rett, and Chisolm A: Waddell for plaintiff, and
Solicitor General for defendant.
Hamilton rs Bennett & Conyers—Motion, from
Cass—reversed. Wright A- Underwood for plain
tiff. Aikin, Chisolom & Waddell for defendant.
Hawkins rs. State of Georgia—Murder, from
Gordon—-judgment affirmed. Walker A Francis
for the plaintiff, Solictors General for the defend
ant.
Walker rs. Wells—Ejectment, from Gordon—
judgment reversed. Walker for plaintiff, Aiken A
Wofford for tbe defendant.
Fain vs. Cowett—Assumpsit, from Gordon—
judgment reversed. Fain for plaintiff, Longstreet
A Printup for defendant..
Jackson vs. Passon—Trover, from Whitfield,
judgment {reversed. Walker for plaintiff, Jones &
More for defendant.
Bond vs. Lane—Ejectment, from Whitfield —
new trial, reversed, Moore for plaintiff, Walker &
Aikin for defendant.
Kiliam vs. Kiliam—Divorce, from Dade—judg
ment reversed- Hooper for plaintiff, Jackoway
for defendant.
Bond vs. Moss—Trover, from Chattooga—con
tinued. Smith for plaintiff, Underwood for defen
dant.
liLUE RIDGE CIRCUIT.
Harris vs. Bragles.—Ca sa from Cherokee—re
versed. Cooper, Water A. Knight for plaintiff, Ir
win A Lester for defenaut.
Reid vs. Butt—Trover, from Union—affirmed.
Underwood A Martin for plaintiff, Phillips, Mil
ner, Chisolm A Wofford for defendant.
Falls vs. Griffith, Administrator ,Ae.—Claim,
Fannin—reversed. Martin for plaintiff, Chastain
A Underwood for defendant.
Th >:n is vs. Ellis —Certiorari, from Fannin—af
firmed. Martin for plaintiff, Chastain for defend
ant.
Hearing vs. Wm IT. Thomas—Rule, from Lump
kin—affirmed. Johnson for plaintiff, Neil Boyd
for defendant.
Slaughter vs. Butt—Trover, from Ui.ion—affirm
ed. Martin tor plaintiff, Phillips, Milner, Chisolm
A Wofford for defendant.
TALLAPOOSA CIRCUIT.
Brown, survicur, vs. Robinson—Certiorari, from
Heard—reversed, Oliver A Featherstone for
plaintiff, Robinson for defendant.
Religions Intelligence.
COMPILED FOR TIIE WASHINGTON UNION.
The Great awakening of religous excitement
now sweeping in a flood-tide over this nation is
justly styled one ot the Host remarkable move
ments since tbe reformation. Fiom every ham
let and village and town; from the forest of Maine,
tlie crowded city-ports, the manufacturing towns
the new cities ot the West; from the villages of
the Southwest, and ewu from the mines and
mountains of California, we have constaut reports
of tlie profound religous feeling and interest of
the people on this great subject. Travellers re
late that oil cars and steamboats, in banks and
markets, everywhere through the interior, this
matter is au absorbing topic. Churches are
crowded; bank-directors rooms become oratories;
school-houses are turned into chapels; converts
are numbered by the scores of thousands, embra
cing all classes aud conditions. Whatever may
be tbe essential character of such a movement, it
demands now, from ttie extent and tlie depth of
-ts workings throughout the nation, a respectful
treatment. The ttuth is, that in the various ab
sorbing employments of such a life as prevails
in tins eountry, we forget what a mail really is.—
We see people sunk in business, or lost in plots of
politics, or enjoying society here and there—and
they seem utterly matter-of-fact and worldly, aud
given up to having a good time while they live
aud very much forgetful of everything else. So
our whole uation appears to foreign travellers.—
Yet it is not so at all. I he dry, sharp man who
meets you on change, or talks politics so eagerly
in the morning car, is very possible fighting w ith
iu himself—a struggle to which all the slides of
business and polities aie child’s play. We do
not know iiit ii—each man sometimes becomes
aware what it is to live. The tremendous prob
lems of existence—sin, character, salvation—grow
dan press fearfully upou^nim, and drive out for
period every other interest. It is most impressive
to think that over this great land tens aud fifties
of thousands of men aud woman are putting to
themselves at this time in a simple, serious way
the greatest question that can ever come before
the human mind. ‘What shall we do to be saved
from sin ? ” Calamities have come upon the
people and have thought how unreliable mere ma
terial good must be; that may .be one occasional
cause of his general feeling; but the secret cause
is individual; it is ill the stirring of the individual
consciousness in men and women, however awk
ward, which reveals to them their weakness in
the presence of the strong trials aud of the temp
tations of life-
litigious Mcrtings are held even - where, in thea
tres, in churches, in counting-houses, in the forests
of the far West, as in the lecture-rooms of the east
ern cities, and all are well atteuded. No doubt
tbe number of hopeful conversions might be reck
oned by thousands, including many who have
hitherto been regarded as hopelessly abandoned.
The names of a few, such as have been most noto
rious in the annals of the “stage” or “ring,” of
necessity obtain some prominence; but, as a gener
al thing, the work proceeds quietly, anp tin- result
will never be folly divulged before the day of fi
nal account. This religious movement is charac
terized by features which give it the impress of a
Divine origin, and to ascribe it to human agency
is little short of blasphemy. On ill any former
occasions, great clerical demonstrations have been
made and ail the exertions put forth which are
usually resorted to for the purpose of awakening
public attention, but with as little effect as when
the false prophets cried all day long, “Baal, hear
us.” Now, none are more astonished than tho
clergy themselves when the fire is seen to de
scend ami consume the sacrifice.
The Largest Assemblage meets daily at Jayne’s
Hall. Philadelphia, where three thousand souls
at once, on one week day after auother, at its bus
iest hour, bow together before God in prayer
for the revival of bis work Ministers and people
men and women, of all denominations or none—
all are welcome—all gather. There is no noise
or confusion. A layman conducts the meeting.—
Any suitable person may pray or speak to the
audience for five minutes only. If he does not
bring his prayer or remarks to a close in that time
a bell is touched and he gives way. One or two
verses of the most spiritual hymns go up “like the
sound of many waters," requests for prayer for in
dividuals are sometimes read, one layman or min
ister succeeds another, in perfect order and quiet,
and after a space which seems a few minutes, so
strange, so absorbing, so interesting is that .scene,
the leader announces that it is one o’clock, and,
punctual to the moment, a minister pronounces
the benediction, and tbe immense audience, slow
ly, quietly, in perfect order, pass from the ball
some ministers remaining, to converse, in a small
room off’tbe platform, with any who may desire
private conversation or instruction. No man there
no man, perhaps living or (Jead, has ever seen
anything like it. On the day of Pentecost Peter
preached, I uther preached, and Livingston, Wes
ley. and Whitfield, and the men of lire of the great
Western Revival of I8U1. Great spiritual move
ments have been usually identified with some
eloquent voice. Blit no name, except the name
that is above every name, is identified w ith this
meeting. Tbe movement was not even clerical.
In New York the meetings are divided iu different
churches; and at the principal place of assemblage
there ate three meetings at once. All attempts
to change the form of tlie assemblage at Jayne’s
Hall are silently disapproved. There are not a
few w ho say the meeting is too large; that we
cannot hear with perfect distinctness; that there
might be confusion. But the people gather to
gether like a mighty spring flood, and our judg
ment is that they had better not be disturbed. As
long as three thousand souls wish to meet and
look into each other’s face* and pray to God, let
them meet. Tlie Spirit who has brought them
together is not a Spirit of confusion.
The Secular Press has proved a powerful auxilia
ry to tho spread of this revival, aud nearly every
paper on our extensive list of “exchanges” has
something to say in its favor. Column after col
umn is devoted to the record of religions experi
ence, and revival intelligence is made as much
“a feature” as financial or political news. This
is quite unprecedented, and shows the extended
usefulness of the press of late years. Certain!y
never was religious propagandiam so thoroughly
carried ont. Printed hymns, tracts, placards,
everywhere remind the inattentive of their duties.
Girls and young men visit families by the block
giving them tracts, urging them to repent, offering
them free seats in the neighboring church, and
taking an inventory or spiritual census of the
number and condition of the households. Alto-
gethes the revival may he pronounced the most
striking phenomenon of the das.
TAe Episcopalians of the strictest class are de
cidedly opposed to the revival spirit, and their
“organ,” the New York Churchman, denounces
tbe meetings held in that city as only calculated
to foster an excitement. After giving the remarks
of one young man at Burton's theatre, it says.
“This was not the way pursned, according ta the
accounts we read in Holy Scripture of the conver
sion of sinners, in the tiroes of our Saviour or His
Apostles. We read, for instance, that when the
publican became convinced, as did the young man
who thus in a theatre, and before an excited crowd
stood up to declare ‘that few young men had
sinned more than he had,’ he went not lo the
play-house, but to the temple to pray. ‘Two men
went up into the temple to pray,’ are the wi rds
of the divine record,‘the one a pharisee and the
other a publican;' and. tbe account continues, ‘the
publican, standing afar off, would not lift up sc
much as his eyes unto Heaven, but smote npon
bis breast, saying, God be merciful unto me a sin
ner.’ He did not do this‘to be seen of men,’ as
do our modern ‘revivalists,’ but he sought God in
in His holy temple, and there in the solemn quiet
sacred repose of that holy place, seen of none,
probably, save God only—standing afar off even
from the pharisee who bad gone there also—made
a hearty and earnest confession of his sins, and be
sought the Divine mercy and pardon as a sinner.
And it is because this great revival as it is with
so little reason, one cannot but fear, boasted to be
is manifesting itself in courses so very contrary
to anything of which we have knowledge, as evi
dencing! real aud actual conversion—a positive
and true turning from darkness to light, and from
the power of Satan unto God. that they may re
ceive forgivness of sins, and inheritance from
them that are sanctified by faith that is in Him,—
it is on that account, we say, among others, that
not only have we no faith in all this excitement,
and all this theatrical display, but that we think it
iu all respects highly mischievous, and in some
respects positively irreligous not to say blasphe
mous, and therefore to he discouraged.”
Gleanings Irani Ihe Mails.
Asiatic Coolies.—The Charleston Courier, in its
summary of news from Havana by the Isabel,
states that “two m >re American vessels had arriv
ed at Havana with cargoes of Asiatic coolies.
We are furnished with a table of the statistics of
this trade. From this it appears that tbe whole
number of vessels arriving with these slaves is
seventy-one, of which the larger number are
British and American; the number of coolies
shipped, twenty-eight thousand seven hundred
olid seventy-seven; and the number lauded,
twenty-four thousand six hundred and forty-three,
showing a mortality, on the passage, of no less
than fourteen and one-third per cent.
A French Xution of Commissioner Yeh.—A Can
ton correspondent iu a French paper, in recount
ing the capture of Canton and of Yeh, in the style
of the bombastic bulletins in the old imperial
Munitcur, describes the ex-imperial minister as
probably “the greatest criminal now on tbe face
of the earth; aud it paints bis portrait as that of
a man “with a very large head, gross square shoul
ders, and an enormous bust”—in fact, the very
type of everything that is hideous in humanity.
Humboldt.—The aged and illustrious Baron
Von Humboldt, now in bis Doth year, but still
fresh in intellectual and conversational powers
attended a ball given in Berlin on the 2ffth ult.,
in honor of the royal wedding. Tbe Baron al
lows neither his advanced age nor his great ac
quirements and worid wide fame to entitle him to
any dispensation from the minutest and most
smtpulous attention to etiquette and costume
and willingly condescends, on occasions like the
one iu question, to assume his chamberlain’s cos
tume, and his numerous orders, with all the care
ful attention to exterior befitting the most youth
ful aspirant to court favor. His health, however,
gives frequent occasions of uneasiness to his
friends and admirers, though he rallies from each
attack with most surprising rapidity.—Philadel
phia Enijuircr.
Chalk for ll'nrts. —A correspondent—W. II.
Bennett, of Warwick, Ii. I.—informs us that hy
rubbing chalk frequently on warts, they will dis
appear. In several instances known to him in
wtiicti this simple remedy was tried, it proved suc-
cossful. We have known slightly moistened
pearl ash to remove warts by rubbing it upon
them.—Scientific American.
Sidney Smith says: “It is not true that tho
world hates piety. The modest and unobtrusive
piety which fills the heart with human charities,
aud makes a man gentle to others aud severe to
himself, is an object of universal love and venera
tion. But mankind hate tlie Inst of power when
it is veiled under tbo garb ol piety. They hate
cant aud hypocrisy; they hate advertisers and
quacks in piety ; they do not choose to be insult
ed ; they love to tear folly and impudence from
the place which should only be a sanctuary for
the righteous and good.”
What Assets are Worth.—At a recent sale of
some of the assets of the Lancaster Bank, Penn
sylvania, nominally worth $60,000, the sum
realized was only $4,000. The sale, it is said,
exceeded the expectations of theffiauk.
Value of Insurance Marks.—It has been lately
observed, on the Continent, that among the nu
merous incendiary tires no one has occurred in a
house where the insurance mark has been con
spicuously placed on the house, which shows that
the fires have been from private malice, and also
proves the value of insurance marks, which never
ought to be neglected by insurance offices. A
similar mark was made in England some years
ago, says tho London Star. Persons, however
desirous to spite individuals, having a respect to
tho property of unoffending companies ol insur
ance.
Tiie bill passed by the Virginia house of dele
gates granting an amuesty to all persons who
have been engaged in duels before the 1st of
March last, was passed by the senate on Monday
week. Tbe bill does not affect in any degree the
future operation of the anti-duelling law, but
merely grants an amnesty to all persons who had
c>me under the disabilities contained in it before
the 1st instant.
The report of the surveyor general of California
shows that sweet potatoes planted in that State
have yielded an average of two hundred aud
seventy bushels per acre.
Cars for Egypt.—Watrous A Co., of Spring-
field Mass., have shipped a lot of cars for the
Pasha of Egypt, to be used on tbe Alexandria and
Cairo railroad.
Rev. Dr. Eaton, one of the clergy connected
with the Church of the advent, died in Boston on
the 24th instant, after an illness of five days. He
was probably the oldest clergyman in the Episco
pal communion in this country. His ago was
above eighty.
Singular Circumstance.—A. man over eighty
years of age, now a resident of the Brooklyn alms
house, has now growing an entire new set ot teeth,
being the third. They are about one third grown.
[Xeicbury Sews.
Fire in St. Louis.—St. Louis, March 28.—The
extensive wagon factory of John Cook, in this
I city, was destroyed by tire last night. About two
hundred government wagons were destroyed.
Vs^Look over the advertisements.
Why is*a Physician like a Magician? One is a
capper, and the other is a sorcerer.
Why is matrimony like repent^ce? Because
it is the first proper step towards a new birth.
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for sale by E. J. White, also by Jas. Hertt J*
✓ A RETIRED PMVS.lfM^TT7^7,
/ of age whose sands of life have nearly ron
/ ont, discovered while in the East Indies a cer-
I tain cure for Consumption, Asthma. Bronrehi-
I tis. Coughs, Colds and general Debility. The
remedy was discovered by him when his only child
a daughter, was given up to die. He had heard
much of the wonderful restorative and healinir
qualities of preparations made from the East India
Hemp; and the thought occurred to him that ha
might make a remedy for his child. He studied
bard, and succeeded in realizing his wishes. His
child was cured, and is now alive and well. He
has since administered the wonderful remedy to
thousands of sufferers in all parts of the world, and
he has- never failed in making them completely
healthy and happy. Wishing to do as much <* 0 „d
as possible, he will send to such of his afflicted fel
low-beings as request it, this recipe, with full and
explicit directions for making it up,.and successful,
ly using it. He requires each applicant to inclose
him one shilling—throe cents to be returned n
ns postage on the recipe, and the remainder to be f
applied to tbe payment of this advertisement. /
Address Dr. II. JAMES, 19 Grand street, /
Jersey City, N. J. Caution, I have no son-’/
in-law authorized to send my recipe as lias
beeu advertised. [mar2 1 mis. ’58
Kbramnlisn—Is only cured permanently bv
“Linrh's Anti-Rheumatic Powders," as it is the only
remedy extant that attack the root of the disease.; all
others being ointments, embrocations, Ac., are merely
palliatives.
It is sold, wholesale and retail by J. G, Gibson
Eatonton, Ga., and retailed by James Herty, Milled-e-
ville. Ga. o| t f
A It* Party movement.
Hon. R. Hall, of Massachusetts, in the course
of bis remarks in tbe House of Representatives
yesterday, seems to intimate that the republican
party organization was soon to be abandoned, and
that a party for the future would quickly rise upon
iis ruins. That was clearly understood to be the
drift of his remarks. Who knows but this is the
foreshadowing of a new party arrangement, de
signed to combine ceartain South Americans and
anti-Lecompton democrats with the republicans
generally? Such an arrangement would place
these new accessions in the lead, while the repub
lican organization wouid be dissolved after the
manner of the old whig party, and the rank aud
file be handed over to the new alliance. M e do
not know whether the republican voters through
out the Union will entertain favorably tbe idea of
abandoning their organizatii n, even should their
representatives in Congress do so , yet that the
latier have such a thing in contemplation, is a fair
deduction from Mr. Hall's speech yesterday.-t mion
We learn from the ’Columbu Sim that Mrs. J. H.
Daniel, of that city, was badly burned iu Griffiin
a few days since. She was preparing to leave for
Columbus, and about three o’clock she had risen
from her bed to got ready for the train which was
to leave in a short time, and after dressing, all
but her outer dress, she stooped near tho fire to
tie the shoes of her little child when her dress
came in contact with the flames, and in a moment
it was in a blaze. She went to the bed and took
some of the coverings and enveloped herself, then
fell on the floor, and thus extinguished the flames,
but not until Bhe was severely bunted.
California for Lcrompton.
The legislature of California, by a de
cided vote, has requested the delegates
and instructed the Senators in Congress
from that State to vote for the immediate
admission of Kansas under the Lccomp-
ton constitution, as recommended hy the
President iu his special message. The
news will be gratifying to the friends of
the administration throughout the Atlan
tic States; and will, we trust, secure the
passage of the Senate bill in the House,
beyond peradventure, by uniting the vote
of the California delegation in favor of the
bill. The effect of the President’s spe
cial message in Callifornia is said to have
been crushing to the opposition movement
to the democratic party.
DVSFEPSIA AND FITS.
Dr. Tracy Delorme, the great carer of fonsump.
tion, was for several years so badly afflicted by
Dispepsia that for a part of the time he was confiu.
ed to his bed. He was eventually cured by a pre
scription furnished him by a young clairvoyant
girl. This prescription, given by a mere child
while in a state of trance has cured everybody who
has taken it, never having failed once. It. is equal
ly as sure in cases of FITS as of DYSPEPSIA.
The ingredients may be. found in any drug store.
I will send this valuable prescription to any per
son, on the receipt of one Stamp to pay postage
Address, DR. TRACY DELORME. Great Car
er of Consumption, New Y'ork Post Office. lm
ZF' BLISS’ DY'SPEPTIC REMEDY has heei
gaining the confidence of the Dyspeptics, until it is mw
pronounced by all who have used it, to be tlie remedy
long saught for but just found. Many have need it nr.d
have been entirely cured of that very distressing disease
Dyspepsia, all who are afflicted with that complaint
can have an opporuuity of trying this remedy, by ap
plying to either of the Drug Stores in MilledgeviHe. St
TBSTiwronriALs from
FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
Messrs. P. Davis A Son.—Gentlemen:
* We have to report an increasing demand for the
Pain Killer. Inquiries for the article are frequent —
W e have taken the liberty of distributing a few bottles
among onr friends, who have suffered severely with the
rheumatism, (which is very prevalent in this et.nntry)
and in every instance, it has given great satisfaction,—
Every box we sell makes an opening fora larger sup-
ply.
Wills, Ilolbon A Co., Melbourne, Australia. *
Shwaygliyecn, Bunnali, March 6, 285fi.
Mr. P. Davis.—Dear sir:—such is the great demand
for the Pain Killer,, that I write you to send me. as
soon as possible, in addition to what I hitherto ordered,
24 dozen boxes, (two dozen bottles iu a box.) and a bill
of the same, that I may give you an order on the treas
urer of the Union to the amount of the same.
N. HARItlSS.
Henthada; Burmah, March 17,1856.
Messrs. P. Davis A Son,—Gents: # » »
* lam sorry that the last box of Pain Killer
sent me has not yet come to hand. The expense of get
ting the the machine is something “these hard times;”
but the want of it is of far more importance. * » »
Send me, as soon as possible, another box of same size,
(viz: $50 worth.) Inclose an order on the Treasurer of
the Missionary Union for tlie amount.
REV. B.. G. THOMAS.
Cape Town, Africa, Jan. 28,1856.
Messrs. P. Dnvis A Son.—Dear sirs:
* * The Pain Killer, we are happy to snv, is
getting in good repute here, and its good qualities are
being appreciated. Lately, we have a great demand for
the article, aud confidently anticipate a large trade in
the Pain Killer.
Borrodaile, Thompson, Hall, A Co.
Rev. J. Phillips, formerly of the Orrissa Mission. In
dia. writes.—“My wife is nsing your eelebratad J’ain
Killer fora rheumatic affection from which she 1ms suf
fered for years, and with better effect than any other
of the various remedies she lms tried; and I am using it
for dyspepsia and kidney complaints with good suc
cess.” 43 4t
For sale by Druggists, and Grocer dealers gener
ally—John B. Moore & Co., Savannah: and Havi-
land, Chichester & Co., Augusta, Wholesale Agts.
The Fourth, of July.—A friend of ours burnt his hand
severely with fireworks on the “glorious fourth;” he ap.
plied the Perry Davis’ Pain Killer, and in half an hour
was entirely free from pain. Don’t forget this. 43 4L
SIX REASONS WHY EVERYBODY USES
Iiyon’s Kathairon.
1st. It is the cheapest preparation for the hair ever
made.
2d. It is pronounced by all to be the Most benefi
cial.
3d. It is the most Agreeable to ns.
4th. It is the Cleanest and most carefully prepar
ed. ^
5th. It is the most highly Perfumed,
fitli. It is the only article that never fails to give En
tire Satisfaction.
The immense sale of the KATHAIRON—nearly
1,000,000 bottles per year—attest its excellence and
universal popularity.
Sold by all respectable dealer*, everywhere
for 25 cents per bottle.
HEATH, WYNCOOP A CO.,
Proprietors and Perfumers,
43 tf. 63, Liberty St., N Y
Physicians use the Wild Cherry.
Exeter, Me., Sept. 30.
This certifies that I have recommended the use of
Wistar’s Balsam of Wild Blierry for diseases of the
lungs, for two years past, and many bottles, to my
knowledge have been used by my patients, ah
with beneficial resuits. In two cases, where it "f*
thought confirmed Consumption had taken place, the
Wild Cherry affected a cure.
E. BOYDEN,
Physician of Exeter Corner.
Dr Freleigh, of Snugertiieg, N. Y., says he cured
Liver Complaint of four yean standing, thut would not
yield to the usual remedies.
Abraham Skillman, M. D.,of Boundbrook, N. J->
says it is the best medicine for Consumption in every
stage, that he has ever known.
None genuine unless signed I. BUTTS on the
wrapper. For sale by E. J. White, MilleJ£ e '
ville.
Vertigo, Sztreme languor and Ex
haustion.
WILL NOT TROUBLE YOU after using one bot
tle of BCERHAVE’S HOLLAND BITTERS. Take
half a tea-spoonful regularly, one hour before mes s
eat moderately—take a ahort walk before breakm--,
and you will find that all that has been said of this n m
edy is true. Try it, it rarely fails to relieve Sick Ire'"
ache. Weakness of any kind, Acidity of the StomM ,
or any symptom of Dyspepsia.
Sold by Grieve A Clark, MilledgeviUe,
Our native forests furnish us with Nature’s own rem
edy for all lung complaints. Dr. W istar, * n
Balsam, combines the essential qualities of the
Bark with Tar Water. It has cured many cases
seated consumption.
Homicide in Fort Gaines —We learn ft
private source that on Sunday morning• ■
altercation occured at Fort Games. Georg .^
tween Mr. Alexander Marsha.l and Mr ”
Sutton, in which tbe latter was killed. The ^
culty, we nndersatnd, grew out of an oia ,
of several years standing, in which much pe ^
feeling and acrimony were engendere'F ^ (b ,.
urday night a case was determined be j, eB
parties, aud on Sunday morning they ■ A.
button fired a pistol at Marshall twice without ta*
ing effect, when Marshall returned j ^ ut .
then pulled out his bowie kmte » ; ns taiit-
ton to the heart, causing his deat ^ a ‘" ‘ending
iv. The parties were both men of higl -
in the community in which ‘heyJiw.