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LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES
Pub: 49.
A N ACT making appropiiatiotin for sundry civil
•ip -nses-of the government forth© year ending
the tnirtictii of .(une, cightaeu handreaaud
fifty.nine.
. ■ .
(litres of the flatted States rf 4mrriva in Con
gress assembler!. That the following sums be. and
the same are hereby, appropriated for the objects
hereafter expressed, for the fiscal year endingjtlie
thirtieth June, e'^hteen hundred and titty-nine,
viz:
SURVEY OF THE COAST.
For continuing the survey of the Atlantic and
Gulf coast of the United States, (including com
pensations to superintendent and assistants, and
excluding pay and emoluments of officers of the
armv and navy and petty officers, and inen of the
finavy employed on the work,) two hundred and
ftv thousand dollars.
For continuing the survey of the western coast
of the United Stales, one hundred and thirty thou
sand dollars.
For continuing the survey of the Florida reefs
and keys, (excluding pay and emoluments of
officers, of the army and navy and petty officers,
and men of the navy employed ou the work,) forty
thousand dollars
For running a line to connect the triangulation
on the Atlantic coast with that on the Gulf of
Mexico, across the Florida peninsula, ten thou
sand dollars.
For repairs of the Crawford, Madison, Mason,
and George M. Bache, and other sailing vessels
used in the coast survey, ten thousand dolars.
For pay and rations of engineers for seven
steamers, used in the hydrography of the coast
survey, no longer supplied by the Navy Depart
ment, twelve thousand eight hundred dollars:
Provided, That the Secretary of the Treasury make
such allowences to the officers and men ot the
army and navy while employed on the coast sur
vey service for subsistence in addition to their com
pensation, as he may deem neccessary not exceeding
the sum authorized by the treasury regulation of
the eleventh May, eighteen hundred and fony-
four.
To supply deficiency in the fund for th f relief
of sick and disabled seamen, one hundred and
fifty thousand dollars.
LIGHT-HOUSE ESTABLISHMENT.
For the Atlantic, Gulf, and Lake coasts, viz:
For supplying live hundred and fifty-six light
houses and beacon lights with oil, grass-chimneys,
wicks, chamois skins, polishing powder,
whiting and cl.-ailing materials, transporting and
other necessary expenses of the same, repairing
and keeping in repair the lightning apparatus, one
hundred and thirty-eight thousand seven hundred
and twenty-four dollars end forty-five cents.
For repairs and incidental expenses, refitting
and imorovemeuts of all tlie light-houses, and
buildings connected therewith, one hundred and
seventy-three thousand two hundred and eighty-
nine dollars and twenty-one cents.
For salaries of six hundred and eleven keepers
or light-houses and light-beacons, and their assis
tants, sixty thousand dollars.
For salaries of fifty-two ke epers of light-vessels,
twenty thousand two hundred and six dollars and
fifty-sevey cents.
For seamen.s wages repairs, supplies, and inci
dental expenses of fifty-two light-vessels, one
hundred and eighty-five thousand one hundred
and ninety-nine dollars and fifty cents.
For expenses ot raising, cleaning, painting, re
pairing. remooring, and supplying losses of buoys
and day beacons, and for chains and sinkers for
the same, and for coloring and numbering all the
buoys, eighty-t>vo thousand two hundred and
twenty-eight dollars and seventy eight cents.
FOR THE COASTS OF CALIFORN IA, OREGON, ANI)
WASHINGTON ,
Tor oil and other supplies for twenty-four
lights, cleaning materials of all kinds: and trans
portation of the same, expenses of keeping lamps
and machinery in repair, pubfislring notices to
mariners of changes of aids to navigation, one
thousand four hundred and seventy two dollars
and ninety-one cents.
For repairs and incidental expenses of twenty-
four lights, and buildings connected therewith,
twenty-four thousand five hundred and sixty-three
dollars.
For maintenance of the vessel provided for by
the act of eighteenth, August, eighteen hundred
and fifty-six, for inspections and transportation
pumtses, thirty thousand dollars.
For fuel and quarters for officers of the army
serving on light-house duty, the payment of
which is no longer provided for by the Quarter
master s Department, seven thousand and thirty-
four dollars and five-cents.
For compensation of two superintendents for
the life-saving stations of the coasts of Long Is
land and New Jersey, three thousand dollars.
For compensation of fifty-four keepers of sta
tions, at two hundred dollars each, ten thousand
eight hundred dollars.
For contingencies for life-saving apparatus on
the coast of the United States, twelve thousand
dollars.
For the purchase of the best selfrighting life
boat, to be placed at each of the twenty-eight
life-saving stations on the coast of New Jersey,
six thousand four hundred and forty dollars.
For the purchase of the best life boats, to be
approved by the Treasury Department, for use on
the coast of Long Island, ten thousand dollars.
For procuring two additional improved metal
lic life-boats: a metallic life-car, and necessary
harness, lines, and other suitable articles, to be
used under the direction of the Secretary of the
Treasury in saving life, in cases of marine disas
ter off Galveston station, Texas, ten thousand dol
lars.
SURVEY OF THE PUBLIC LANDS.
For surveying the public lauds, (exclusive of
California, Oregon, Washington. New Mexico,
Kansas, Nebraska, and Utah,) including inciden
tal expenses and island surveys in the interior,
and all other special and difficult surveys demand
ing augmented rates, to be apportioned and ap
plied to the several surveying districts, according
to the exigencies of the public service, including
expenses of selecting swamp lands and the com
pensation and expenses to survey or to locate
private land claims in Louisiana, in addition to
the unexpended balances of all former appropria
tions, forty thousand dollars.
For correcting erroneous and defective lines of
public and private surveys in Illinois and Mis
souri, at a rate not exceeding six dollars per mile,
one thousand dollars
For surveying in Louisiana, at augmented rates
now authorized by law, three thousand (lolUus.
For surveying the public lauds and private land
claims in California, including office expenses in
cident to the survey of claims, and to be disbursed
at the rates prescribed by law for the different
kinds of work, one hundred thousand dollars.
For continuing the survey of base meridian,
standard parallees. township and section lines in
New Mexico, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For surveying such of the private claims in
New Mexico as shall have been confirmed by
Congress, including expenses incurred by the
surveyor general in adjudicating the same, fifteen-
thousand dollars.
For surveying the necessary base, meridian,
standard paraJios, township and section lines in
Kansas and Nebraska, also outlines yf Indian
reservations, one hundred thousand dollars.
For continuing the survey of the base, meridi
an, corection parailees, township and section lines
iu the Teritory of Utah at augmented rates, fifteen
thousand dollars.
For preparing the unfinished records of public
and private surveys to be transferred to the State
authorities, under the provisions of the act of
twelfth June, eighteen hundred and forty, in those
districts where the surveys are about being com
pleted,dec thousand dollars.
For resurveys and examinations of the surveys
of the public lauds iu those States where the offices
of the surveyors general have been, or shall be,
closed under, the aels of the twelfth June, eigh-
ten hundred and forty, and twenty-second Janu
ary eighteen hundred and fifty-three, including
two thousand dollars for the salary of the clur k de
tailed to this special service in the general Land
Office, two thousand dollars.
For collection of agricultural .statistics, investi
gations fur promoting agriculture and i lira! econo
my, and ihe procurement of cuttings and seeds,
sixty thousand dollars: Pror'ultd. That it shall be
the duty of the Commissioner of Patents to submit
to the secretary of the Interior, at the commence
ment of each session of Congress, the invoices of
seeds and cuttings purchased with the money
hereby appropriated; and also a statement of ex
penses in procuring sgrieeltiiral statistics, and
incidental expenses in procuring seeds, cuttings,
and information.
For drawings to illustrate the mechanical report
of the Commissoner of Patents for the year eigh
teen hundred and fifty-eight, six thousand dollars.
uoftital for the insane.
Ferthe support, clothing, and medical treatment
of the insane, of the District of Columbia, and
of the army jiud navy at the asylum in said Dis
trict tweuty-four thousand five hundred dollars.
For salaries and incidental expenses of the in
stitution for the instruction of the deaf, dumb, and
blind iu the District of Columbia, authorized by
the act approved May twenty-nine, eighteen hun
dred ana fifty-eight, three thousand dollar.,.
For extensions of stables and erection of sheds
in connexion with the stock yard,four thousand
dollars.
For heating and ventilating the entire unfinish
ed remainder ot the hospital edifice, and for
slightly remodelling tie-heating apparatus of the
present finished portions of the building, so that
toe heating and ventilation ot the whole establish
ment shall be one connected and etlicieut system,
fifteen thousand dollars.
For support, care, and medical treatment of
forty transient paupers, medical and surgical
patients in Washington Infirmary, six thousand
dollars.
For purchase of manure for the public grounds,
one thousand dollars.
For hire of carts on the public grounds, one
thousand and ninety-five dollars and fifty cents
For purchase and repair of tools used in the
public grounds, five hundred dollars.
i or pu. ,h iseol to cs anJ tree-boxes, to r. j ..tee ( 11icio thousand two bundled and litioen dollars and
" here necessary sueh as have been planted by the j thirteen cents in satisfaction of like claims of
United States, and the repair of pavements in [ ^ .State of Massachusetts: to be audited by the
iiiblic ground.-, five thousand d 'Han
; of tli*• Capitol water-closets, j
water pipes pavements and other!
Canitoi Squire, broken glass and I
liars.
the
fit up with
si the obr
Commission r of Public Bniht! President to tin- Briti-1
ps the two ri
fCongress, for tile
nroper account!!! ; offic •- of the Treasury.
For defraying the exp ".ses of rarrving into ex
ecution the "joint resolution, approved May dev u,
eight?.-n hundred and fifty-eight ‘■‘authorising
suitable ackuqwh - gements to ho made by the
al authorities at
Susquehanna, dis-
! Jam
sc ‘ j crew of th- United Ntato- ship
t library, and forputting up a partition in the I abled bv yellow fever,” three thousand dollars, or
passage to them* two hundred and seventy dollar
I* or annual repairs of the President’s House mid
furniture, improvement of grounds, purchasing
trees and plants for garden and making hot-beds
therein, and contingent expenses Incident thereto
twelve thousand dollars.
For fuel, in part, of the President’s House, one
thousand and eight hundred dollars.
For lighting the President’s House and Capitol,
the public grounds around them and around the
Executive offices, aud Pennsylvania avenue, and
Bridge and High streets in Georgetown, forty-
three thousaad dollars
Per erecting thirty additional lamp posts ill
Bridge and High streets, in Georgetown, eight hun
dred and ten dollars.
For purchase of books for library at the execu
tive mansion, to be expended under the direction
of the President of the United States, two hun
dred and fifty dollars.
For repairs of the Potomac, Navy Yard, and up
per bridges, six thousand dollars.
For repairs of Pennsylvania avenue, three
thousand dollars.
To pay the residue of the salary due the engin
eer lor constructing the bridge across the Potomac
at Little Falls, two thousand five hundred and
eighty-niue dollars and sixtv-seven cents: and for
painting the hand rails, and iron work of said
bridge four hundred dollars and the bridge is here
by, placed under protection of Georgetown, with
power to regulate the speed of travel and the pas
sage of droves of cattle over the same, hut no
I toils shall he charged.
For public reservation number two, Lafayette
Square, three thousand dollar
so much thereof as may be necessary.
• lial the same he paid according to saij adjust
| rnent.
| ^ Sec : 17. And be if further enacted. That tlie
| Collectors of the Customs, in the several collection
e. Diets, bj, and they are hereby and hereafter, re-
qnired to act as disbursing agents, ter the pny-
n • nt of all moneys that are or may hereafter be
. appropriated for the construction of Custom
I Hons- -a Court Houses. Post Offices, and Marine
i fosphals, with such compensation: cot exceeding
; one quarter of one per cent., as the Secretary of
j the Treasury may deem equitable aud just. And
! provided further, that where there is no collector
For the payment of three companies of volun- at the place of location of any public work herein
teers, called into the service of tiie United States ] specified, the superintendent of such public work
in the Territory of Kansas in eighteen hundred
and fiftv six by the order of the Governor of that
Territory; eight thousand six hundred and sixty-
eight dollars and fourteen cents.
For Contingent expenses of the Senate, viz :
For miscellaneous items, and paying fees of wit
nesses, before cominitees of the Senate, seven
thousand seven hundred dollars.
To John B. Mutty, for compensation as acting
secretary of the lerntory ot Nebraska during tlie
vacancy created by the death of T. B. Cummings,
three hundred and sixteen dollars and thirty five
cents. _ .
For lithographing and engraving ordered by the
Senate during the present session the sum of tur-
ty-five thousand dollars.
For binding documents ordered to be printed by
the Senate during the present session, the sum of
forty-thousand dollars.
To supply a deficiency in the appropriation of
legislative and contingent expenses of Washing
ton Territory for the fiscal year en ling June
thirtieth, eighteen hundred and fifty seven, the sum
of seven thousand five hundred dollars, or so
much thereof as may be necessary; and the
register of the land office and receiver of
public monies in the Territory of New Mex
ico shall receive the same compensation
now allowed hv law to the same class ot officers in
Washington Territory. Provided, their compensa
tion including fees shall not exceed three thousand
dollars each, per annum.
SEC. 2 And he it further enacted. 1 hat the
For taking care of the grounds south of the balance of the appropriation of two thousand two
President's House, aud keeping them iu order, hundred dollars, “tor flagging footway in the Con
shall act as Disbursing Agent without any addi
tional compensation therefor: and all law# and
parts of laws in conflict with the. provisions of this
section, be, and the same are, hereby repealed.
Sec: I - And be it further enacted, That in all
cases of judgments and decrees, in any territorial
court of the United States, now rendered, or here
after to be rendered, and from which there might
he a writ of error or .••ppeal to the Supreme Court
ot the United States, there may be presented sueh
writ of error, or appeal within the time, and un
der the restrictions limited by law to said Supreme
Court, notwithstanding such Territory may, after
such judgments and decrees have been admitted
A “ ll’utiin" Ij T.jr.uucal L nos.—Mr. Robert
Russel, who formerly lived in Schoharie County
N. Y., now resides in the city of Albany. Russell
appears to be the victim of unprOpitlons circum
stances. Russell U; tin unhappy fa ilty of doing
business contrary to law. On Tues ay la-t, Mr.
Russel was arrested for the eleventh tine: since
spring set in. We give his examination:
‘■Well. Russell.” -rid the magistrate, “you arc
here again, I perceive ”
“Yes, sir. The fact is squire I’m a wietiin.—
Blow me, if 1 care what Bob Russell does, he is'
sure to wiolate some law or other. W hen 1 came
to Albany, I says to my self; Russell my boy, we’ll
take a hunt to-morrow and try them fox hounds.
Well sir, out I goes, and what* do you think? Be
fore I got to the n ext corner. Barney Whalen tap
ped me on the shoulder, and says.
“That’s against the law.’
“What’s against the law? I replied, and he
says,
“Having dogs in the streets, without muzzles.’
He accordingly arrested me and had me brought
to the police court The result of that piece ot tun
was a tine of five dollars ’’
Well what did yon do then?’’
“Listen and I’ll tell you. I sold the fox hounds
to one of Aunt Put’s friends, for twenty dollars.—
With the proceeds I bought a sow and five pigs
nifo the Union as a State, and said Supreme Court j j too k t[)e , n i, ome> built a pen in the back yard,
shall, when the same is decided, direct the mandate j an ,i thought all my troubles at an end, but I was
to such Court as the nature of the writ of error | !llistak(;n Officer Bradwell came upon me the
or appeal, ill their judgment may require
Sec: 19. And be it farther enacted. That the
Secretary of the Senate and Clerk of the House
ot Representatives, he, and they are hereby direc-
ntinue down to the fourth of March
•ighteen hundred and fifty-nine, the compilation j dollars.’
very next morning, and says.
“Russell keeping hogs in the yard, is agin the
law.”
“I doubted it. This riled officer Bradwell who
had me arrested again. This time I was fined five
one thousand dollars
For the payment of laborers employed in
shovelling snow from tlie walks to and around the
Capitol, the President's House, and the pavements
along the government reservations on Pennsyl
vania avenue, eight hundred dollars.
I or repairs of water pipes, five hundred dol
lars.
For repairs of the furnaces under the Senate
Chamber and Supreme Court room, one thousand
dollars.
For casual repairs of the Patent Office build
ing, three thousand dollars.
For completing the west wing of the Patent
Office building, filling up the southwest corner of
the square, setting tlie curb, and raising Ninth
street in front of the building to its proper grade,
fifty thousand dollars.
For repairing the fence around that portion of
the mall upon which the Smithsonian institution
is situated, one thousand dollars.
Fer cleaning out tlie sewer traps ou Pennsylva
nia avenue, three hundred dollars.
Fur purchasing plants for the conservatory at I dition t
the President’s House, oue thousand dollars.
For the completion of the Washington Aque
duct, eight hundred thousand dollars, and, in ad
dition thereto, so much of the appropriation ot two
bundled and fifty thousand dollars "for paying ex
isting liabilities .lor the Washington Aqueduct,
and preserving the work already done fiom inju
ry,” contained in the act entitled “An act making
appropriations for certain ei\ il expenses of the
government for the year ending the thirtieth .)une,
eighteen hundred and fifty-seven.’’ approved eight
eenth August, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, as
may not he required for said purposes. For Unit
ed States Capitol Extension, s even hundred and
titty thousand dollars: Prodded, That none
t li:.-
gressioual burning ground from the entrance of
the same to the government vault” per net approv
ed third March, eighteen hundred and fifty seven,
he applied in extending the flagging the whole
length of the avenue, as was originally intended;
and that the appropriation ot one thousand fire
hundred dollars “for the construction of a wooden
bridge, with a double track, across the canal.in the
line of Maine avenue,” per same act, may be ap
plied to the erection of a foot bridge in lieu there
of, as recommended by the Commissioner of pub
lic buildings.
Sec, Ami be it furthir enacted, r I hat sec
tion six of an act passed August eighteenth, eigh
teen hundred and fifty-six entitled “An act making
appropriations for certain civil expenses ot the
government for the year ending thirtieth of June,
eighteen hundred and fifty-seven,” shall apply
to the subsistanee of the commissioner therein
named from the time he entered upon the discharge
of his duties, and tlie same shall he paid out o! ap
propriations already made.
Sec. 4. And be'it farther enacted, That in ad-
those now authorised by law. there may
be employed by the Secretary ot"tho Treasury, in
the office of the Register of the Treasury,
an additional clerk of the third class, and in the
office of the Treasurer of the United States ail ad
ditional clerk of ihe third class; and three thous
and two hundred dollars to carry into effect the
provisions of this section to the thirtieth ot June,
eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, is hereby appro
priated.
Sec. 5, Andbeit further enacted. That no part
of the appropritions which may be ai any time
made for the contingent expenses of either House
of Congress, shall be applied to any other than the
ordinary expenditures of the Senate and House of
Keerosentatives, nor as an extra allowance to an v
of the Congressional Documents published by
Congress, under the name of the “American State
Papers” in the same manner as the first series
thereof, under authority of the act of Congress of
March two. eighteen hundred and thirty-one, and
the Joint Resolution of Congress of March two,
eighteen hundred and thirty-three, and with the
same particular index to each class, and a general
index to the work. And the said Secretary and
Clerk, are hereby directed to contract with Gales
and Seaton, the publishers of the first thereof, for
the publishing the same, not to exceed two thou
sand copies in number, at a price per. voiutne not
exceeding that paid for the first series, to be de
livered to the Secretary of the Interior, as the
aim- may he published; and the said Secretary of! f|, e collar and
“And what did you do afterwards?”
“I sold my sow and pigs, and bought a horse
and cart and undertook to draw wood. The very
first load I nut on, drew the attention of Policeman
Sickles, who said that driving a cart without li
cense, was again tlie law. He arrested me for that
offense, which caused me another fine of five dol
lars.”
•‘Well, what did you do next?’
“I sold the horse and cart, and bought the half
of a charcoal wagon.”
‘ Well, what success did you meet with after
that?”
“The same old luck sir. The first day I com
menced peddling, Policeman Shooks took mo by
the Interior, shall place three hundred copies in
the Department of State for its use. aud lor ex
change with foreign governments, and seven hun
dred copies in his ow n Department, for distribu
tion to Public Libraries in the several States and
Territories and held the residue of the copies in
his custody, subject to the future direction of Con
gress: Provided, that the prices or rates to be
paid for tlie printing of this work, shall not ex
ceed those paid at presentjfor the printing of the
Documents of Congress, including paper and
binding, having regard to the quality and value
of the material used and work done: Provided,
that the costof the publication shall not exceed,
three hundred aud forty thousand dollars, and
savs,
busi-
Rnssell, that’s agin the law, old fellow:’
“Whats agin the law?’ I said.
“He replied,
“Selling charcoal in a wooden measuae.’
“That cost me a fine ot three dollars.
“Did that drive yon out of the charcoal
1ICSS?”
4 Yes, sir I sold out, and thought I would try
my fortune in carrying baggage between the
steamboats and railroads. What’s the use? I only
commenced work to-day, and here 1 am again.”
•‘What for now?”
“For soliciting baggage without a permit from
the mayor. As I said before I’lnawictim. If j
hould save a man from drowning, by jumping
that not more ^ than twenty-five thousand dollars into the whirlpool, dash my vig, if I don’t believe
hall he required for the purpose during the | the first policeman I met in coming ashore, would
next fiscaly
Sec: 20. And be it further enacted. That alii
diplomatic and salaried consular officers who were
appointed under the act entiited “An act to re
model the diplomatic and consular systems of the j
United States;” approved March the first; eighteen !
hundred and fifty-five, shall have the the same j
compensation during the time necessarily occupied
in making the transit to, and returning from their
respective posts, and while they were reeeivin
up and say,
“It’s agin the law Russell to go overboard with
out a license.”
The Justice having heard Russell to the end. ad
mitted that he was a “victim,” and let him off
without paying the fine.
Russell left the office sav ing iliat lie would go
and kill himself, if it were not for one thing
On being asked what that was he replied, that
oiio- policeman would discover that it was agin
these instructions, as is provided for diplomatic | the law to commit suicide, and would undertake
and salaried officers in the eighth section of the
Act entitled "an act to regulate the diplomatic and
consular systems of the United States,” approved
appropriation shall he cxp'-udi d in embellish- clerk, messenger or attendant of the said two
Houses or either of them nor as payment or com-
nsation of any clerk, messenger or otherattend-
auy part ot tiie Capitol extension with seulj:
ture or paintings unless the design for the same j pc
shall have undergone the examination of a com- ant he so employed by a resolution of one of sa
mittee of distinguished artists, not to exceed three Houses,
in number, to he selected bv the President, and ! SEC. 0
tlial the designs which said committee shall accept , tra i
And be il farther enacted, That the cx-
mpensation paid out of the contingent land
hall, also, receive the subsequent approbation ot | of the Senate, to clerks of committees, under the
the Joint Committee on the Library of Congress, resolution of tlie fourteenth March, eighteen hali
but this provision shall not be
apply to the execution of designs heretofore made
and accepted from Crawford and Rogers.
For extension of the General Post Office, one
hundred thousand dollars.
For binding two thousand four hundred copies
Code of the District of Columbia, at seventy-five
cents per copy, authorized by net approved third
March, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, one thous
and eight hundred and seventy-five dollars.
For defraying the expenses of a certain party
of Omaha Indians who visited the city of Wash-
construed as to dred and fifty-seven, he allowed at the Treason
Sec. 7. And it it further enae'ed, That it
shall he the duty of the Commissioner of Public
Buildings to cause obstructions of every kind to
he removed from such streets, avenues, and side
walks in the city of Washington as have been, or
may he hereafter improved in the vv hole or in part
by the United States, and to keep tlie same, at all
times, from obstructions: and; for this purpose, ho
shall have power to institute suits in any Court
having competent jurisdiction in the District ot
Columbia; aud it shall be the du'v of tin* district
to collect the fine from his misfortunate chil
dren."
Russell’s case calls for sympathy.
In Favor of Far Heat.
] Dr. Dixon, in a late number of the Scalpel, in
i an article ou diet, assumes that “tile use of oil
would deereas the victims of consumption ninc-
1 tenths, and that this is tlie whole secret, of the use
ot cod liver oil. ’ f he following is a summary
ot observations on tins subject made by Dr
j Hooker:
I Of all the persons between the ages of fifteen
| and twenty-two years, more than one fifth cannot
| eat fat meat.
I ~- Of a'l persons at the age of forty-five all
This body met in the City of Macon on the Stli 1 excepting less than one in fifty, habitually use fat
, pnisuant to adjournment. The Association j meat.
4. Of persons who between the ages of fifteen
August eighteen, eighteen hundred and fifty-six:
Provided, that the foregoing shall not he construed
to apply to any diplomatic or consular officer, who
was in office, and at his post of duty, when said Act
approved, March first, eighteen hundred and fifty-
live, took effect, except to allow compensation to
to such officers dniingthe timetieev.-sarily occupi
ed in returning from their respective posts.
Approved 12 June, 1858.
From the Macon State Press.
Colton Planter’s ‘sssocialion.
J to order by the
foul, and the proceedin
chairman Gen. Ruther-
of the previous meet-1 and twenty two. avoid fat meat, a few acquire
uuauiiuuusly, that the homicide committed
by Mary Branham on Hugh Wilson was
justifiable, and she .was discharged from
i ustody.
tiov. Broun—State Road.
We call attention to a communica
tion in another column from the Augusta I
Constitutionlist, in relation to Gov.
Brown’s management of the State Road.
Tlie communication will explain itself,
and we hope our readers will give it a
careful perusal- So much has been said
about tlie management of affairs on this
road and so often has it been dragged into
the arena of politics, that we think it
due our worthy Chief Magistrate of the
State, that every act of his should be fairly
understood before ail opinion is pronounc
ed. Complaints.it will be seen, have been
made, but they arc as the idle wind to our
iron nerved Govenor who is serving the
interest of the whole State, and not that of
mail agents or a few interested parties.—
Such a course as pursued by Govenor
Brown cannot fail to meet the approbation
of the people, who care little for time-serv
ing politicians and who will rejoice over
the coffers of the Treasury being filled by
an economical administration, albeit alittle
offence is created to a few discontended
interested parties. We feel no hesitation
in saving that his management of the
State Road will receive the plaudit of‘well
done, good and faithful servant.”
It is a matter of congratulation with the
people, that the services of l)r. Lewis as
superintendent, and Benjamin May, Esq.,
as treasurer, have been secured to the
State. We know both gentlemen person
ally, and take pleasure in adding our testi
mony to what litis been said of them by
the press of the State.— Tunes 3? Sentinel.
The Helical—-130 Concerts,—To give
the reader an accurate idea of the state of
religious feeling in ou'- midst, we have
merely to recapitulate the number that
have been added to the churches and
which are still being increased from (lay
to day. About two hundred and thirty
persons have connected themselves with
the Methodist Church up to the present
writing; ninety-five to the Baptist Church
by experience, baptism and letters; eighty
to the Presbyterian Church; and twenty-
five to the Episcopal Church.
These additions are confined to the
whites. The total number added to the
different denominations, it will be seen,
run up to the large figure of four hundred
and thirty souls. Daily prayer meetings
have been held for nine weeks at the
lonng Men’s Christian Association
Rooms. r I lie Union Prayer Meetings
every morning, embracing tlie Methodist,
Baptist, and Presbyterian Churches have
been in continuance eight weeks. Preach
ing every night in the different congrega
tions. A characteristic feature of the
revival is the absence of any great excite
ment. A deep solemnity pervades the
whole community, and the absorbing
question with all thinking, irreligious per
sons seems to be, “what shall I do to in
herit eternal life?” We will not say when
this state of feeling will cease. It would
be, idle to limit the good vet to be accom
plished. Never was there known before
in this community snch a pentecostial sea
son.— Timts Sr Sentinel
k Difficulty in Half-So»n t ace.
PASSAGE-AT-ARMS BETWEEN R1DDY FOC.RRTy
AND THE WIDOW MAL'OAG.
There was a gt at tumult fii IlaTf-Moon Place
ion Tuesday ni-jht. It seems that Mrs. Macoao-
had given a little party in honor of her widmvl
heod, and that during the night there was, amon-
the women, some criticism upon the hostes.V
gaiety. She, being slightly deaf, thought slio
heard something,” and at once flew into a raginn
“fmlanR. Miss FoPiirtV. said tin* u-ido.."
ington during the months of February and March,! attorney for said district to prosecute the same;
eighteen hundred and fifty-two, to be expended un- and whenever any person shall desire to remove
der the direction of the .Secretary of the Interior— I the paving stones or to displace any other w ork
being the balance of a former appropriation, which
was tarried to the surplus fund on the thirtieth
June, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven—three
hundred and thirty-five dollars.
For continuing the extension of the Treasury
buiiding, five hundred thousand dollars.
For continuing the work on the custom-house at
New Orleaus, La., two hundred and fifty thousand
dollars.
For continuing the work on the custom-house at
Charleston, South Carolina, two hundred thous
and dollars.
For the completion of custom-houses at the fol
lowing places, viz: at Ellsworth. Maine, two
thousand dollars; at Portsmouth N. II. fifty thous
and dollars; Bristol, Rhode Island, includ
ing fencing and grading, five thousand dollars:
at New Haven, Connecticut, sixty thousand dol
lars: at Oswego, New York, ten thousand dollars;
at I’lattsburg, New York, ten thousand dollars: at
Newark, New Jersey, ten thousand dollars; at
Norfolk, Virginia, twenty thousand dollars; at
Pensacola, Florida, five thousand dollars; at St.
Louis, Missouri, twenty thousand dollars; at Mo
bile Alabama, including fencing and paving, thir
ty thousand dollars; at Galena, Illinois, ten thous
and dollars; at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, ten Hums-
lone by the authority of the United States, for tl.o
purpose of laying gas pipes or for any other pur
pose it shall he tlie duty of such person to obtain
a written permit from the said Commissioner; and
such persons shall oblige themselves to replace
the said work to the satisfaction of the said Com
missioner, and within such time as he may pre
scribe.
Sec : 8. A nil be it farther enacted. That if any
person shall place obstruction on the streets: aven
ues, or sidewalks aforesaid; such person shall pay
the costs of removing the same, aud shall moreover
be subject to a penalty of ten dollars, to he lecov-
ered as other debts are recovered in the District of
Columbia, for each and every day the obstruction
may remain after the commissioner shall have
given notice for its removal. And if any person
or persons removing the paving stones
or other work done by the authority of tiie United
States, shall fail to replace the same to tin- satisfac
tion ot the Commissioner, within the time pre
served by him, he or they shall ho subject to a
penalty of twenty five dollars for each and every
failure, and shall moreover pay the cost of re
placing tlie same, tlie whole to he recovered be
fore any Court in the District of Columbia, having
competent jurisdiction; and that this and the pre
and dollars: and for annual repairs at custom-1 ceeding section shall continue in force until repeal
houses, fifteen thousand dollars: Prodded: That
no portion of the sums herein appropriated for
the completion of custom-houses and marine hos
pitals excepting those of Charleston, and New-
Orleans, shall be expended until the Secretary of
the Treasury shall he satisfied that the sums re
spectively appropriated will complete the buildings
for which they are intended and until arrange
ments small he made to carry this into effect.
For fencing, grading, paving, and furnishing
the custom-houses at the following "laces, viz: At
by Congress.
Se<\ It Andbeit further enacted, That the Sec-
rt tary of the Treasury, he instructed to report to
Congress, at its next icguiar session; nil applica
tion.-made by the constitute! authorities of the
State and Cities, for the re-opening and re-examin
ation of the settlements heretofore made, with
such State and Cities, and report the principle or
readjustments upon which such claim is hast d, and
the amount thereof. And the Secretary of the
Treasury is further instructed to report to Congo
Ellsworth. Maine, three thousand dollars; at Bath, i at ‘ ts next regular session, the gross amount that
Maine; (for furniture alone,) eleven hundred dol
lars; at Burlington, Vermont, four thousand six
hundred dollars, at New Ilaven, Connecticut,
eight thousand five hundred dollars; at Oswego,
New York, seven thousand three hundred dollars;
at I’lattsburg, New Yoik, nine thousand nine hun
dred dollars: at Newark, New Jersey, live thousand
two hundred dollars; at Alexandria, Virginia, three
thousand seven liutidr.-^ dollars; at Nmfulk, Vo
w-ill he requin d to pay such claims to the Staff
and Cities of the United States.
Section Itl. Andbeit further cuactcd, That the
eleventh section ot the Act of Congress, approved
Septembi r lourth, eighteen hundred and fifty one,
entitled “an act to appropriate the proceeds of the
public lands, and to grant pre-emption rights,” he
so amended that appeals from the derisions of the
District Officers, in cases of contest between dif-
ginia: twelve thousand dollars; at Mobile, Alabama | ten nt settlers for the right of pre-emption, shall
(for furniture alone;) two thousand six hundred
dollars: at Pensacola,Florida, two thousand five
hundred dollars 8t. Louis, Missouri, fourteen
thousand six hundred dollars; at Louisville, Ken
tucky. three thousand nine hundred dollars; at
Cleveland, Ohio,seven thousand one hundred dol
lars; at Galena, Illinois, three thousand seven
hundred dollars; at Malwaukie, Wisconsin, seven
thousand s:r< en hundred dollars.
For fencing, grading, paving, and furnishing
the marine hospitals at the following places, viz:
at Burlington, Vermont, three thousand four hun
dred dollars; at Chelsea, Massachusetts, [out
buildings grading and fencing:] nineteen thou
sand seven hundred dollars; at St Marks. Florida,
twelve hundred dollars' at Detroit, Mirhagun,
seven thousand five hundred dollars; at Galena.—
Illinois, three thousand eight hundred dollars;
at Burlington, Iow a, four thousand one hundred
dollars.
To enable the Library Committee to complete
the payments far a series of portraits ot the Presi
dents ot the United States, contracted for under
authority of Congress, and fur framing the
same, five thousand dollars.
For paying the expenses of the commissioners
appointed in pursuance of the joint resolution of
the twenty-sixth of February, eighteen hundred
and fifty-seven, to inquire into anti test the process
of J. T. Barclay for preventing the counterfeiting
the coins of the United States, in addition to the
sum appropriated by said resolution, eight hun
dred dollais.
For printing ordered by the Senate and House of
Rcpri sent itives during the thirty third and thirty-
fourth Congresses and paper for the same, eighty
thousand dollars.
For binding documents ordered to be printed by
the House of Representatives during the thirty-
third and thirty-fourth Congresses, and for engrav
ings, lithographs, and < lectrotypes for the same,
one handled and twenty-three thousand dollars,
For binding documents ordered to be printed by
the Senate during the thirty-third and thirty-fourth
Congresses, and for engraving lithographs, and
electrotypes for the same, oue hundred and thir
teen thousand dollars.
To enable the Secretary of the Interior to com
plete the digest of the statistics of manufactures ac
cording to the returns of the seventh census, three
thousand five hundred dollars; hut the work is not
to be undertaken unless the Secretary of the In
terior shall he satisfied that the sum herein before
mentioned will complete the work.
For making the necessary repairs to the jail in
Washington city, and puttiug ventian blinds to
the windows, the sum of eight hundred and forty
dollars.
To pay the draughtsmen employed by the com
mittees on public buildings and grounds of the
two houses of Congress, for drawings and calcu
lations furnished, and incidental expenses defray
ed by him during the last and pressjit session of
Congress, five hundred and twenty-eight dollars.
For satisfying the claims of the States of Maine
and Massachusetts, under the stipulation of the
treaty between the United States and Great Brit-
ian. concluded ou the ninth day of August, iu the
year eighteen hundred and forty-two a sqm not
exceeding eleven thousand four hundred and
ninety-six dollars and eightv-one cents in satis
faction of such claims of the State of Mhine,aud
hereafter he decided by tlie Commissioner of the
General Land Office, whose decision shall be final,
unless appeal theiefrom he taken to the Secretary
of the Interior.
SECTION II. Andbeit further enacted, That the
proper accounting officers of the Treasury, he di
rected to ascertain as among the expenditures of
the State of Maine, in defending the territory
heretofore in dispute with Great Britain, the
amounts paid in borrowing money for those ex
penditures beyond the rate of six per centum per
annum, wln-thi r in the form of discounts or other
wise, in all cases ill which the principal of such
expenditures, and interest, upon them, at the rate
of six per centum, have heretofore been re
funded to said State by the United States, and
that ilie Secretary of Ihe Treasury he directed to
pay the amount so ascertained out of any moneys
in liit- Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to any
properly authorized officers -of said State —
in making the ascertainment herein directed, the
accompanying officers shall compute the the prin
cipal and interest of the difference between the
cash received by Maine, in negotiating stocks and
notes, and the nominal amount of such stocks and
notes, and the interest accrued thereon, and in
cases w here Maine was obliged in negotiating for,
moneys, to increase the rate of interest oh previous
loans, the amount of such increase shall he com
puted and allowed, but not so as to reckon interest
upon interest.
Sec; 12. And be it further enacted. That so
much of all acts and parts of acts, as require or
authorize the Postmaster General to publish notice
of letting contracts to carry the mails m respec
tive Slates, in newspapers published in the cities
Washington, in the District of Columbia, be and
the same is hereby r« pealed.
Sec : 13. And l>r it further enacted. That the line
surveyed by John C. McCoy, in eighteen hun
dred and thirty-eight, as the Western boundary of
tin-half breed tract, specified in the Tenth article
of the treaty made between Commissioners on the
part of the United States, andjeertain Indian tribes
at Prairie du Chien, on the fifteenth of July,
eighteen hundred and thirty, he and the same is
hereby established as the true Western houndaiy
of said tract.
SECTION 14. Andbeit further enacted, Thatall
ruling aud binding for the several Executive De
partments shall he executed by practical and com
petent hook-binders, to he appointed by the head
%f the Department.
SEC: 15, And be it further enacted, That the
President of the United States, cause the snm of
six thousand dollars to be advanced to Claik Mills,
in addition to the sum already advanced out of the
fifty thousand dollars appropriated by the act of
January twenty-five, eighteen hundred aud fifty-
three, to erect at tlie Capitol of the nation, an
Equestrian Statue of Washington on the personal
application and receipt of the said Mills : Provi
ded that tlie said Mills furnish the Secretary of ihe
Interior sueh security for the completion of the
Statue as the Secretary may require.
Sec. Iff. And be it further enacted, That the Sec
retary of tho State be, and he is hereby, authoris
ed to adjust, upon principles of equity and justice
the accounts of J. D. Andrews, late agent of the
United States, for the expenses and disbursements
in connection with the Reciprocity Treaty, and
iug having been read and approved, the chairman ' appetite for it, and live to a good old age,while the
greater portion die with the phthisic before thirty-
live
■1. Of persons dying w ith phthisic between the
f,! ages of twelve .and forty five, nine tenths at least
have never used fat meat.
| Most individuals who avoid fat moat,! also use
| little butler, or oily gravies, though many cornpen-
' sate for this want, in part at least, by a free use
i of those articles, and also milk eggs, and saceha-
{line substances. But they constitute an imper-
j feet substitute for fat meat, without which sooner
i or laier. the body is almost sure to show the effects
of deficient calorification.
ry appropriate address. The As
ciation then proceeded :o elect officers for the en
suing tear, when the following geniierneii wert
elected by acclamation: Hon. Howell Cobh
Houston, l’.esideiit: Gen. li- II. Rutherford and
Hen. James W. Armstrong, 1st and 2d Vice Pres
idents: and Thomas J. Crater. Esq., Secretary.
I lie President, on taking his seat, delivered a
handsome and approp iate inaugural address, and
read a highly interesting essay, setting forlh at.
length the objects o‘ the Association, and tin-
great benefits to he derived to the cotton planters
of Georgia from concert of action &c.
A number of planters from the cotton growing
counties became members of the Association.— j
Col. William M. Havis, of Houston county, intro
duced a scries of resolutions referring tofeommit-
tees of five members each, the following portions
the President’s communication: “1st, “The Cot
ton Power,” 2, “The Cotton Power as an Amer
ican Pow er,” lid. “The Cotton Power as a South
ern Power:’’ 4tli, “The Cotton Power as a Union
Power; ;>:h Fite Cotton power as a Peace Power ”
tith, “The Cotton rower as an auti-Abolition
Power;” 7th. “The application for a Bank Cliar-
te:;” 'th, “Appointment of agents for the purpose
of receiving, forwarding and selling cotton in the
several mui kets;” 9th. “On the operations of the
plantation, sueh us raising stock, preparing cot-
tor market, &c.. 10th, “Direct trade with for
eign countries.”
G. L. I). Rice, of Houston, introduced the fol
lowing resolutions, which were unanimously adop-
ff d:
Resolved, That Isaac C-West; Esq., of Hous
ton county , a member of this Convention, he ami
he is hereby appointed agent for receiving, selling
and shipping cotton for planters, for the cities of
Savannah and Charleston. Said agent shall not
he allowed, in any case, to charge exceeding fifty
cents per hale, for any cotton consigned to him.
And will! ■ the Convention (nor any member of
it) is to he held responsible for the acts of said
agent, the Convention docs not hesitate to rec
ommend said agent as trust-worthy and competent
in every respect, to do ample justice to such plan
ters as may entrust their business to him. And
the Convention hereby express the desire that
planters shipping their cotton to either of the
above markets will prefer their appointed ag.-nt
and thereby give facility to the objects of the Con
vention.
hid it is further resolved, That said agent fur
nish (at the icguiar meeting in June next;) an ac
count in the form of a report, exhibiting the num
ber of bales received the number sold and the
number shipped, anil to which ports, and generally
all particulars lelating to his Agency.
Mr. Hi vis of Houston, introduced tho follow
ing resolution:
lit solved. That the office of Treasurer he, and
llie same is hereby established; and that the C’on-
.-ention proceed forthwith to the election of said
itficcr. '1 hat said officer shall hold his office until
the regular election ul the other permanent officers
jf the Convention.
It shall he the duty of the treasurer to receive
ill monies ordered to he collected by the Conven-
t on; to pay out all stuns audited and passed bv
the Committee on Finance, and to perform such
other duties as may from time to time he required
of him.
Judge Holt, of Bibb, moved the following:
llrsnlred. That a Standing Committee to con
sist of five members, be appointed whoso duty it
shall he to examine the constitution and rules of
ho Convention, and suggest such amendments as
to them may appear proper and necessary.
Major Belvin of Houston proposed the follow
ing motion.
Resolved That tlie respective cotton growing
counties of the State of Georgia, be and they are
hereby earnestly requested to form county asoci-
ations, auxiliary to this convention and adopt
such measures as will secure their constant repre
sentation in each and all of tho sessions of the
Convention.
Mr. Wiiliam G. Brow n, of Dooly, offered the
following resolution:
Resolved That the President have and he is
hereby invested with the power, to fill all vacan
cies which may occur in any of the committees du
ring the vacation of the sessions of Convention,
upon his being informed of the existence of vacan
cies in any of the Committees.
Mr. Cobh, of Houston, proposed the subjoin
ed.”
Resolred, That Messrs. Armstrong, Corbin Ruth
erlord, Bass and Judge Holt, he and they are here
by appointed a a Committee of Invitation, whose j
duty it shall he (in tin: way and manner they may
Tiie Newport Mercury published at Newport,
Rhode island, completed tlie hundredth year of
its existence last Saturday—the first number of
that journal having been issued June 12th, 1758.
lr was founded by Janies Franklin; and his press
—the one oil which he and his younger brother
Hr. Benjamin Franklin, so often worked—has;re-
maiiied iu the office to the present dav, a venera
ble reiie. Tlie Mercury was afterward published
successively by Mrs. Ann Franklin, the mother of
James and Benjamin; by Samuel Hall yvlio mar
ried her daughter; by Solomon Southwic, Henry
Barber, Kosenraiiiiei & Baroer, William and John
| H Barber, John II. Barber A Son, and William
free Barber, who died in 1850. The present pub
lishers are F. A. l’ratt A Co.
Cultivation of Cucumbers.—Last spring a friend
of mine and myseif were planting cucumbers at
the same time. I was planting mine as usual in
gardens, by mixing a small portion of stable ma
nure with the earth, and raising the hill an inch or
two above the level of the ground Observing it he
jocosely remarked: “Let me show you how to
raise encumbers.” Never having much luck in
raising them I cheerfully agreed to his proposition.
He commenced by making holes in the earth, at
the distance intended for the hilis, that would hold
about a peck—ho then filled them with dry
leached ashes, covering the ashes with a very
small quantity ot earth. The seeds were then
planted on a level with tlie surface of the ground,
1 was willing to see the exterimeut tried but had
no expectation of anything hut a loss of seed,
labor and soil. But imagine my astonishment
(notw ithstanding a dryer season never was known,
and almost a universal failure of garden vegeta
bles.) when I beheld the vines remarkably thrifty,
and as fine a crop ot cucumbers as anv one could
wish to raise, and they continued to hear for ail
miusally long time. I will not philosophize ou
the subject—hut say to all, try it; and instead of
throwing your ashes away, apply it where it will
he of use, aud you will reap a rich reward.
[ Exchange.
From the Platte (Missouri) Argus of June 10.
liati Killed by a Woman in DiT« ncc of her
Husband.
On Saturday iiiglit, tlie city Marshal
was aroused from li is bed to go to a house
on tiie Northern extremity of Leaven
worth street.
Here was a horrible sight. Sitting up
in bed was a man by the name of Bran
ham, his head bruised up, his shirt covered
with blood, and his wife a young, good
looking woman, in much distress, and at
tending to his bruises. About twenty
feet from the hack door, in the garden,
lay the dead body of Hugh Wilson, his
features scarcely recognizable, his fore
head smashed in, aud the blood and brains
I v, a large and bloody
iinau,
said she had done the
of her husband. The
the two told was, that
Wilson intoxicated, had forced the lock
of the door, and jerked Branham out of
bed, and had dragged him out into the
garden. Llie wife Hew to her husband’s
assistance with a club, and, by dint of
well-directed blows, made of Wilson the
most horrible corpse one could well look
on.
STATEMENT OF MRS. MARY BRANHAM.
Myself and husband had retired to bed,
when some one broke into the house and
passion. “Imlade, Miss Fogerty, said the widow”
“it ill-becomes one that nivir had a shoe till her
fut for to say that the late Misther Macoag wasn’t
dacintly buried.”
Biddy Fogerty—Musha,” it is any foi people
to get into a pashion that has a big purse.”
Tho Widow—“It is very ttsy for Enniskillen
throllops to schneer at their bctliers.”
Biddy—“Ycr ladyship is attemptin’, in the
prisince o’ this party, to disthort a plain remark ”
'Flu: Widow—“Hould ver tongue, 1 say.”
Biddy—“I will if I likes.”
The Widow—“Close yer praty thrap, I telly e2 -
or if ye don’t Fill throw the cat into it.”
Biddy—“Athin, is it the likes o’ yez that wad
be addresl ing this language tome? If it want
for the gintlemin that’s here, I’d knock saucepans
out o’ yer dirtliy ould carcase.”
Widow—“Ho! ho! and in me owu house, too
Did anybody iverheir such impedeuce!”
Biddy—“Did anybody iver see a manthahairn
wud sich assurance? 1 tell you to hould your
prate: ye don’t know how to demane yerself.”
The widow could not endure the allusion to her
false teeth; so she seized a flat-iron and rolliuir-pin,
and went at Miss Bridget, “hammer and tongs.”’
The bystanders, who, up to this time, stood silent
with as much pleasure as amazement at tho
senseles rumpus, iuterferred, aud disarmed the
widow. Then there was an explanation and
another dialogue.
Widow—"What did ye say it for?”
Biddy—“What did I say what’ for?”
Widow—“Thim aspirations on the way me late
and laminted husband was laid out?”
Biddy—“God save us! shure I niver passed a
remark at tall about it.”
\\ idovv—“Well; 1 declare I thought I heard ye
say that lie was put into tho coffin without a flan
nel shirt to his back.”
Biddy—“Ock! theelin! theelin! rhest his sowl
in peace! Oeh! ‘forgive our thres passes as we for
give!’ Och! as shure as there is whiskey in that
jar, 1 niver said anything pertaining to sich a
haytheu remark.”
Upon this full denial, the widow aud the maid
en embraced, tho watch withdrew, and there was
peace again in Half-Moon l’lace.
Outrages in the Gulf, ■ f ZJ
Response of the British Government.
A brief debate occurred iu tho House of Lords
on the bill instant, in which the Earl of Malms-
bury, the Secretary of Foreign A flairs, in response
to a question from the Earl of Clarendon, spoke as
iollows:
The Earl of Malm.sbiry said,
I am extremely glad that my noble friend op
posite lias prefaced his question with the judicious
language which he has used on this subject. It is
of great advantage iu a moment of difficulty, when
a difference arises between this and any other
country, that an eminent member of tho opposition
sliouid rise in his place and express sentiments anl
views like those to which my noble friend has just
given utterance. I am not in a position to give
the House any ascertained information upon this
subject. Up to this time our intbrmotion has iu a
great measure been derived from ex parte state
ments made on the side of the American govern
ment. If these are correctly reported, and prove
to have really taken place as described by the
American government, certainly her Majesty’s
government are not prepared to justify them.
I Hear.) 1 trust that a great deal of exaggeration
has taken place in the descriptions 1 have seen,
though, at the same time, 1 must confess 1 fear that
some acts have been committed that are not justi
fiable either by international law or by the treaties
that exist between this country aud the United
States. 1 am informed that on one occasion a body
of men were lauded from one of her Majesty's ships
on the coast of Cuba, though that is of course a
Spanish quistion, which can only be incidentally
mentioned when speaking with regard to America.
Statements have also been made that considerable
annoyance has been occasioned to American tra
ding vessels lying at anchor at Havana, from a
system of rowing round those vessels, watching
their cargoes taken out and taken in, exercising
surveillance and espionage over them and finally
chasing them out tosea after they left the part.
It has also been stated that many American ships
in the Gulf have been brought to by our cruisers
and searched. Now, I say I have not the least
idea whether these statements are correct or not,
hut these aro the statements made, aud your lord
ships know that neither international law nor tlio
treaty of 1842 would justify us in taking such
measures as these. I eutirely agree with what en
noble friend has said as to the American flag btiug
constantly prostituted to cover the slave trade, and
other illegal acts, aud I think it is highly desirable
that some agreement should be made between the
oozing out profits
club by bis-side, with which tl
wife of Branham
deed in defence
plain story that
deem best,) to invite and solicit the attendance of tame to tho Led before we could get up.
delegates from the respective cotton-gro'- : — ’ ' ' ' ' 11 *
-growing | 'j j ie inan seized ray husband and dragged
" r | him out, striking at and beating him. He
called to me for help ; said the man was
States, at the meeting of this Convention
held on the second Tuesday in Septembei
Mr. J. Y. Price of Sumpter county, brought to I _ _
the notice of the Convention a miiiaturu hale of j trying to wring his head. I could not get
cotton, prepared with “McComb’s Iron Ties,”
which gave tlie members entire satisfaction as to
its i fficiency, Ac.
Mr Havis of Houston moved that the proceed
ings of this meeting be published in the State
Press at Macon, and such other papers as are
fi i< ndly to this enterprise.
I-’ive hundred copies, in pamphlet form, of the
addresses of Gen. Rutherford aud .Col. H. Cobh,
were ordered to he published.
The Association then adjourned to meet again
in the city of Macon, on the second Tuesday (14th)
in September next.
HOWELL COBB, President.
Jas. W. Armstrong, Sec’y pro tern -
Members of Congress will he elected during
the present year in New York, Pennsylvania,
Ohio, Indiana, Missouri and Arkansas.
Hon. Wm. K. Harris, one of the Judges of
the Supreme Court of Tennessee, died on Satur
day last from tho effect of injuries leccived by the
explosion of the steamer Pennsylvania.
hold of anything except a piece of board,
tlie same now in court. With this 1 ran
up to ray husband, and found him down,
with a strong man resting one knee on
his breast and sti iking him very severe
blows. As I got in striking distance the
man was making an attempt to wring off
the neck of ray husband, w ho seemed to
be almost helpless. 1 immediately struck
him with the stick, and did not cease until
his hold upon my husband’s head and neck
was relaxed. 1 struck him with nothing
but the stick. My husband had been in
bed for a week previous, and was almost
as helpless as a child. I struck to save
my husband’s life, and believe that he
would have been killed in a few moments
Lad 1 not struck.
DECISION OF THE JUSTICES.
We, ihe undersigned Justices, agree
Office Hunting.—The Washington
correspondent of the New York Journal
of Commerce says that, on some young
ladies being lately introduced to the Pres
ident at the White House, he said: “I am
always happy to see the ladies—especial
ly so, because they are seldom seen among
the office seekers.” This remark, the
writer observes, indicates how great a por
tion of the burden that rests upon the
President’s mind, is created by tlie perpet
ual competition for office, tlie difficulty' of * wo countriesiby which it may be distinctly an-
.... 1 ... . , , derstood what proceedings ought to he taken by
deciding on conflicting cases, and the re- their officers respectively for effectually discover-
proach incurred by refusal. Mr. Polk I ing the impositions to which I have alluded, and
said lie made, bv every appointment, when I which will not be offensive to honest traders. (Hear
there were a dozen applications, one friend | ) Il , is , t0 tllilt point , I , h “ ve ?H Lt ‘; d « t ^ at '
,, . Ji lr . (tentiou of the government ol the Lnited States,
and eleven enemies. He might have add-1 and that no later than in a conversation which I
ed, in the language of another functionary, [ had this morning with the American Minister, and
I think I may say there has not been any great
difference of views between ns. (Hear, hear)
After that conversation has been reported to the
VIuited States government, after tlie delivery of
the despatch which I have written to Lord Na
pier, and after the orders that have been sent to
our officers in those seas, I hope there will be no
repetition of such acts as have been described to
us, whether truly or not. (Hear, hear.) In theso
circumstances 1 feel that this cuuutr^ need re
main under no appr.-hension that any thing will
occur to break the alliance that so happily exist-
between the two countries.
Bizarre.
Bizarre, formerly the Cumberland estate of Rich
ard Randolph, and which was, until 1810, the resi
dence of John Randolph of Roanoke, after tin 1
death of Judith Randolph, and St. George aud Tu
dor—the sons of Richard and Judith—passed into
use founder
in Virginia was the step-father of Richard and
John But ou the death of Richard who manu
mitted his slaves, a portion of the estate was divid
ed between them, in certain proporiions, and nut
transferable trom their respective families. This
portion is now known a* “Israel Hill” and is
situated about two miles from Farnivilla. The
number of free negroes now living there is be
tween two and three hundred, and a more miser
able, destitute and prostitute community is not tu
be found, though they have, and always had th
best of opportunities for improvement. Good as
might have been the intention of the noble gift cl
freedom, which their m-ister gave them, they have
buired the talent entrusted to them, and are muro
miserable, dependent, and destitute than the worst
of slaves, whether white or black, bond or free
Wo must, however, make an exception. A few
of tho best of this community have settled in Fanil-
villc. and earn a respectable living by their in
dustry, and may bo considered “good citizens.
I'm t of tho estate, on which stood the mansion
lionsi of Bizarre, which, with tin books and papers
of th.- Randolph bounty, was Jest.eyed by fire in
ISIJ. now belongs u IV H. Jackson, Esq, oi
Farmviile. The estate has been otherwise vaiiou--
Iv divided. Farinvillo stands on that portion of it
w hich was in Prince Edward.
Richmond Enquirer.
The New and Staktlinu Poem of the Duess ror.
ruE Hair.
CANTO I.
Miss Flora McFiinisey, of Madison Square,
A lady of fashion, of wealth, mid of beauty.
Spent money like water, fur stuff f "r the hair,
And did if because she thought it a duty
T<> paint the fine lilly—to perfume the rose—
To gihl rt-fintl gi Id—though lew would suppose
Miss Flora McKihnsi v, with beuuty so rat e,
Required aught to make her more clmnnly fair.
CANTO II.
hail heard of a noted Professor.
Who dressed ids own hair, tho’ not a Haii'drcssor,
- , With a magical, wonderful, great preparation,
amusement as a relief to his enervated raus- | (Now used m vast quantities over the nation,)
dies, Or engages in exercise that produces i This >ff-d Professor was gray as a rat
i 1 i , - i I At juvii.ho tl.nlv—no older than that—
no useful end, may look with scorn upon j Au J d t!l( . i;1 „ o0 Lt"of poor huh Jus head had upon it,
the smutty laborer engaged in his toil. (Though now as black as a raven’s wing,
Honest industry will secure the respect ofi ''"hhisn-e enough tor a ball mom king.)
, . , * , { i WmtM not havt* btt*n accepted, *iicb was its hanm anti
dry clmnu*U*r, l»y m.v however bald sitt?
li.inhi have been, who i \r wore a bonnet.
who expressed a similar sentiment, that
the one friend often proved ungrateful.
The correspondent says he once heard
General Jackson say lie would sooner
send a son into the Western wilds, with an
axe on his shoulder, to hew liis way to in
dependence, than to bestow on him an of
fice in Washington. Air. Guthrie, late
Secretary of the Treasury, would give no
office to a nephew of his, but sent him to
tlie t ar West.
A New Cent.—The Boston Post has
seen a specimen of a new coin of one
cent denomination, just from the mint at
Philadelphia. Something of this kind is
ranch needed to take the place of that | th:- possesion of the Tucker family, whose founder
abominable abortion of ’57. The new
cent piece, like the other, is of nickel, and
of the same size; it has the head of an
Indian girl upon one side, and the words
United States of America, with the date.
Upon the reverse is a wreath, surmounted
with a shield, with a bunch of arrows en
twined at the bottom, and tLe words one
cent in the middle of it.
Death of Gen. Coffee.—This prom
inent Democrat, and most estimable man
(says the Athens Banner) died at his res
idence in Rabun county, on tlie 30th ult.,
of dropsy of the chest, in the sixty-fifth
year of liis age.
He was a native of South Carolina, but
moved to Georgia soon after arriving at
manhood, and for near thirty years rep
resented Rabun county, in one or the
other branch of the Legislature. He held
the office of State Senator from that coun
ty at the time of liis death.
Goethe said that ‘man was the only ob-l
jeet that properly interests man.’ We |
guess tlie old fellow was mistaken. Wo-1
man is a much more interesting object than
man, any how.
Industry.—Every young man should
remember that the world Las ever and
always will honor industry. The vulgar !
and useless idler, whose energies of body
and mind are rusting for want of exercise | Mbs Fl«r
—the mistaken individual who pursues
tbe wise and good among men, and yield
tlie rich fruit of an easy conscience, and
give that heart sell-respect which is above
all price.
He Drinks.—How ominous that sen
tence falls! How we pause in conversation
and ejaculate, ‘It’s a pity!’ IIow his
mother hopes he will not when lie grows
older; how his sisters persuade themselves
that it is only a few wild oats he is sowing!
And yet the old men shake their heads
and feel gloomy when they think about
it. Young man just commencing life,
bouyant with hope, don’t drink. You
are freighted with a precious cargo. The
hopes of your old parents, of your sisters,
of your wife, of your children—all are laid
down upon you. In you the aged live
over again their young days, through you
only can that weary one you love obtain
a position in society; and from the level
in which you place them must your child
ren go into the great struggle of life.
i- —M
Another Murder.—Edward Wily killed John
Norris on the evening of the 15th June, in Hall
county, in tlie neighborhood of Poplar Springs, aud
i has escaped. Wiley is about 5 feet 7 or 8 inches
' in height, of dark complexion, coarse black hair
and black eyes; weight about 145 pounds. We
hope that tho press and the people will tako an
i active interest in his apprehension.
J. E. REDWINE, J. I. C:
B. BRYAN, Sheriff.
W. r. SMITH, D. Sheriff.
1 of this iHiuutiful and startling ppem wliifli
will !>,- published in.tiii* paper. If you desire to learn
the effect of tho preparation which Miss McFliiof ' a F
plied to I l hair, < a;! a: 312 Broadway, and Prole**® 1
Wood's agent will prove to you that Wood’s I Inir He
at oral: ve i* one of the best articles for hcnulifyii ix'* 1 '
hair, ever safe, put before the world.
Caotii s.—Beware of worthless imitations a* severs
are already in the market, eailed by different nann A-y
( se none utiles* tho Words (Professor Wood's B nl ‘
Restorative, Depot Nt. Lenis. Mo., and New Yorki. * r
blown nu the bottle. Sold by all Druggists and l’® ,e:l
Medicine Dealers. Also hv nil Fancy and Toilet]"*"'-
dealers in the United States and Canadas. hit-
She Great i-JolIand ’!SLemedyl
BOJUIIAVK’S HOLLAND lUTTEKS.—lVi" 1 "
subject to nervous or sick headache, will find iu B j ’
have’s Ilollnrd Bitters a sure, safe and pleasant reffc;
dy. It soothes the throbbing head, com rts the
of the stomach, assists digestion, and creates a hi 11 n -
appetite. It is, without doubt, a most delightful
pnratioii, and an effectual remedy. The fact fluff
is now a very popular medicine throughout the I1"[ ,!U V‘
settlements hi Wisconsin, New York, Michigan.
and Ji-diuna, speaks much in its favor. Set- advert**
ment iu another column.
Sold by Grieve. A Clark, Millt dgeville.
Hvlh i’ay's J'JIt.— Biilinus headache, and all aff eC ‘
fiotisof the system which result from an insuflick nt T
immoderate flow of bile, are at ■ lice relieved bj’ “
operation of Holloway’s Pills. Dyspepsia ami !'“
disease arc ii.s< parable: for the stomach and th® 111
nlway’s svn patliisc, mid us this great medicine 8 ‘^
nowci filly upon both these important organs, ff P* ,
forms the work i f mre with a j incision, lapidff.'j*
thomrghness w hieh have at parallel in the reoon-V •
medical practice. The Pills may hu relied up-" "
the utmost confidence in cans of diarrho a, dyst a- 1 •'
< holcre morbus, spasms of the stomach, cholera i' 1
txim, and all other disordi t s affertiog the digest!' e 1
gnns of the bowels.