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of Hancocli und Washington Sis., (opposite
Court House.)
at $2 a year in advance,
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Sales of Land and Negroes, by Administrators,
E vcciitovs or Guardians, are required by lav.- to be
li dd 011 the First Tuesday in the month, between
tlie hours of 10 in the forenoon and 3 in the after-
. at the Court House in the County in which
; • property is situated.
Notice of these sales mnst be given in a public
paz; tie 40 days previous to the day of sale.
Notices for the sale of personal property must be
p v n In like manner 10 days previous to sale day.
Notices to tlie debtors and creditors of an estate
must also be published 40 days.
N' ■ ice that application will Ire made to tlie Court
o! ' )i dinary for leave to sell Land or Negroes, must
b<; published for two months.
< Potions fur letters of Administration, Guardian*
Clip. A c., must he published 30 days—for dismis
sion from Admin'-r, ition, monthly sir months—for
dismission from Guardianship, 40 days.
Rules for foreclosure of Mortgage must be pub
lished monthly for four months—for establishing lost
papers, for the full spare of three months—for com
pelling titles from Executors or Administrators,
v.-V-re bond has been given by the deceased, the
fell space of three monihs.
Publications will always be continued according
to these, the legal requirements, unless otherwise
ordered, at the following
R A T E S:
| Citations on letters of Administration, Ac. $2 75
“ dismissory from Admr’on. 4 50
“ “ Guardianship
Leave to sell Land or Negroes
Nolice to debtors and creditors
S lies of persponai property, ten days, 1 sqr.
Sale of land or negroes by Executors, Ac.
E strays, two weeks
For a man advertising his wife (in advance) 5 00
itfttnil
VOLUME XXIX.]
MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY JULY 13 ; 1858.
[NUMBER 7.
8WAN & C0 ! S., LOTTERIES.
TRIUMPHANT!!
swaTXco.
Continue to Draw as Usual Without
Interruption
SWAM & CO’S.,
LOTTE ItlES Jl lit; I.GGAIj, AMD
AUTDOBISBD 11V THE
STATE OF GEOBGIA l
Tlif I.aic ntiruipl lo Injure
Our Firm Hum Mliown
Thai our I.otMrirw ore iliawn Fairly;
Thai our Friers are l'aid Puurlually;
and llial our Schemes
Are more Liberal than any Oilier Lottery
lit the AT oeld !
Tlio following Scheme will be drawn by S.
Swan A Co., Managers of the Sparta Acad
emy Lottery, in each of their single number Lotter
ies for JULY, 185-, at AUGUSTA, Georgia, in
public, under the supsrintendcncc of Commission
ers.
dai s 22 draws on Saturday, July 3, 185S.
Class 23 draws on Saturday, July 10. 1858.
Class 21 draws on Saturday. July 17, 1858.
Chars 25 draws on Saturday. July 31, 1858.
On the plan of Single Numbers. 50,(100 Tick
ets ! Five thousand four hundicd and eighty-
five prizes. Nearly one prize to every nine tick
ets.
MAGNIFICENT SCHEME'
To be Drawn each SATL'KXiAl in JULY!
3 00
4 00
3 00
1 50
5 00
1 50
1 Piizeof
I
1 »
1 “
1 “
UKNERAL ADVERTISEMENTS.
A
(AT S.
$70,00"
30.000
10.000
5.000
4.000
3.000
] ,500
1.000
4
4
4
4
50
50
J00
230
900
800
700
600
500
300
125
J00
APPROXIMATION PRIZES.
NEW STOCK OF GOODS
B. Brown’s Old Stand.)
LEATHER STORK.
[Next Door to CONN’S FANCY Store.]
THE subscriber has just received from New ! receiving it
Fork, a choice selection of
ttd rjIrnilciHcna’ Muddles,
Certificates of Packages will be sold at the fol-
_ ,,, . _ . lowing rates which is tlie risk:
Saddlery, Bridles, Carpe\[ Bags, Saddle Bags, llhtps Certificate of Package of 10 Whole Ticke's, $80
Spurs, Harness amt Sale l.cal/icr, Kid and Calf j
Skins, Lace Leather, Bond Leather, 8fC. A*c.
Also Men's Dottide Sole Russet Brogan Shoes.
* eC Saddles and Harness manufactured and re
paired on short notice.
“ “ 10 Half “ 40
“ “ 10 Quarter “ 20
“ “ 10 Eighth, “ 10
In ordering tickets or certificates, enclose tlie
money to our address for the tickets ordered, on
rw Also Boors and Shoes, manufactured and ! receipt of which they will be forwarded by first
repaired to order, with neatness and dispatch
{ J The Boot mid Shoe department will he under
the direction of Mr. SHEA, (in experienced workman.
CALVIN C. CARR.
Milledgeville. April 13, 1858. 4ti tf
NEW GOODS JUST RECEIVED!
I "42 m *i • TA j. 1 1 • 1 i 'A3 and under, paid immediately after the drav
TJ 1 <lllOr]il£' EiStniOlSDlllCnt 1? I otherprires at the usual time of thirty days.
■ — Li *“ I All communications strictly confidential.
mail. Purchasers can have tickets ending in any
figure they may designate. The list of drawn
numbers and prizes will be sent to purchasers im
mediately after the drawing.
I'#*” Purchasers will please write their signatures
plain, and give their post office, county and State.
Remember that every pnze is drawn and payable
in full without deduction. All prizes of $1,000
drawing—
SPERLING & BROWN are now Rrrciving a
NEW and well SELECTED STOCK of the very
latest PATTERNS of
Cloths, Cassimcres, Drillings, and
Fancy Goods for Pants.
Wc have a large and choice selection of the latest
Plain and Fancy Vestings, Ac.,
Address orders for tickets or certificates, to
S. SWAN & Co., Augusta, Ga.
nr Persons residing near Montgomery, Ala.,
or Atlanta, Ga., can have their orders filled, and
save time, by addressing S. Swan & Co., at either
of those cities.
tyA list of the numbers that are drawn from
the wheel, with the amount of the prize that each
all of which have been selected with great care by one is entitled to, will be published after every
one of the firm, and purchased for tlie cash, which drawing, in (he following papers: New Orleans
will enable us to put up Garments for our pat- Delta, Mobile Register, Charleston Standard, Nash-
rons upon the most satisfactory terms
We invite our patrons and the public generally to
give us a call and examine our Stock of Goods.
I W* We have the Latest Fashions.
Milledgeville. April 5th 1858. 45 tf
IcllCb'l'X. grateful for the liberal
patronage heretofore bestowed upon him, takes
this opportunity of informing the citizens of Mil-
ledgeville and vicinity, that having associated with
him Mr. WILLIAM Gksnf.ii, an experienced Client-
ille Gazette, Atlanta Intelligencer, New York
Weekly Day Book, and Savannah Georgian,
Richmond Dispatch and New York Dispatch,
Paulding (Miss.) Clarion, and Augusta (Ga.)
Constitutionalist, Little Rock (Ark) True Deni
TRUNKS,
V GENERAL ASSORTMENT of ^TYT
very Superior TravelingtatV
i T-, • . i -ii u , -1 Tranks, VALISES, CAKPET^™*^™
ist and Druggist, he will be enabled thereby to ai-
Sp^rr;».: dv ”“ s “ “ assrastifa.,
rmi «■ A. L. VAIL, Ag t.
1 11 E May 17th, 1858. 51 tf.
WILL
be continued at. the OLD STAND, under the name
ami style of HI'RTY & GESNER, where we will
continue to keep a full assortment of
Drugs, aGedicines. Chemicals.
Paints and Oils, &c ,
together with all articles usuallv sold in our line.
FOR THE TOILET,
French anil American Perfumery, Hair Oils, Potc-
ders, S’C . Hair, Tooth amt Soil Brushes,
Tmlrt Bottles, Sec., Sec.,
Also a lot of TUBE PLANTS, and an assortment
of MUSIC and Music Books.
In the Stationery Line, will be kept a popular selec
tion of BOOKS, Note, Letter and other Papers,
with such other articles as are usually called for.
To the Preparation of Prccrriplion-i and Ph.ir-
niacerftifal Preparations Mr. GESNER will give
Window Glass.
TI7TNDOW GLASS of all sizes from 7*9 to
IT 2fpf3t3 kept constantly on hand for, sale by
April
GRIEVE ck CLARK, Druggists.
!G 1858 48 ti.
MATS!
JUST RECEIVED AT THE
Milledgeville Clothing Store.
HOTEL, NO. L
LARGE assortment of HATS,
iz: BEEBE'S SUPER MOLE
SKIN. BLACK and FANCY CASSI-
MERE and FELT HATS ; also Wool,
his personal attention, and endeavor to please all i Panama, Straw anil Leghorn. Also
who may favor him with their confidence.
1IERTY &. GESNER.
Milledgeville, April 5,1858. 45 ly
CHE MX CALS,
assortment of
YOUTHS AND
A.
May 11, 1858.
a genera
BOY’S HATS.
C. VAIL, Ag’t.
50 tf
I lilE Subscribers bare received from one of the
. i.
Ho!! For The New Store
THE
IS W : 000 S3.:
I HAVE AND WILL CONTINUE to receive for
the next WEEK, a HANDSOME and WELL
SELECTED stock of
Chemists, an
most celebrated Manufacturin
assortment of
jwas
which arc warranted to lie of the full strcngl
Erected by the W. S. Pharmacopoea, among
which aie
Blue Pills.
Sweet Spirit of Nitre.
Hoffman’s Anodyne-
Dther
Chloroform.
royip. extract «f foi.ocY.vrn.
luwcrutiL oi\Tnr\T.
Also, many others in general use.
These preparations, exclusively, will be kept
for sale, and for compounding Physicians pre
scriptions.
The attention of Physicians is called to these
articles, as many of them are such as are not readi
ly procured of reliable strength and quality. For
sale by GIUEVE & CLARK,
Druggists.
April 27, 1858. 48 tf.
BUY CrOODS,
tsrt.Ai.juycsst'iar
AND
"g C8 MILLINERY GOODS,
J. BRAYHAN, J r ,,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
EATONTON, GA.
March J. 1858. 40 ly
GENERAL AGENCY,
ft MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA.
"V" C. Barnett, General Agent
_L a • for the transection of any and
all business at the Seat of Govornineht.
Charges reasonable.
Jan 1. 1858. 32 ly
Dawson, Warren & Hydes Celebrated
“Tip Top” Gold Pens!!
H AVING received an assortment of the above
pens of various styles and patterns, we
are prepared to furnish them at manufacturers
prices- They are acknowledged to be the best
made. GRIEVE & CLARK.
April 26 1858, 48 tf.
»'y“ The attention of the Ladies is railed to the Ad-
.s'crti.seinent of Dr. Cheesman. to be found on the 4th
Page of this paper
Which were bought CHEAP, ami which I pro
pose to sell at EXTREMELY LOW PRICES for
If any one doubts the asser
tion, they have only to call at the New Store,
Opposite Hie Milledgeville Hole!,
Where I can show them a very nice French
Organdy Robes at $3,50, Jaconent Organdy Dou
ble Skirt at $3,5(1 and $5,75, American Organdy
Robes at $1,40, Side Stripe Silk Robes at $25,
Flounced Silk Robes at $22, worth more money,
Lawns, an endless variety from ten to 25 cents
per yard. 2,(tot) yards Madder Prints, at 9 cents,
colors warranted, 2,000 yards at Oj, fine figures
and good colors.
Black Silk at 85 cents
per yard, better than can be bought elsewhere for
$1,00. A nice assortment of Summer silks at 50
cents per yard. More of those Brilliants at 12}
cents.
Ma’-sailles for ladies basques, from 25 cents to
80 cents per yard.
Four Bales Stark Mill Sheetingsat 9 cents, very
heavy. Three bales of Atlanta Mills at (>} cents,
worth more money in New York. More of the
wide sheetings at 25 cents, the last I can sell at
that price, some wider at 30 cents. A grand as
sortment of
%w>% rnvv
For Summer, some as low as Bidets.
50 doz ladies hose at (i j cents.
100 dor do do at 10 to 124 cents.
Men's half hose at ti-} cts and up.
Lace Mitts, a large assortment, from 30 cents up
Embroideries, a nice line. Also a fiue assortment
isa&a.isssai'
WHICH IS COMPLETE, and at prices that
will astonish those who have been in the habit of
buying on a year's credit. My stock has been se
lected since tlie Ni-w York openings, which gave
me an opportunity to get the present Spring styles
and fashions. Also a good assortment of
WHICH I will sell at about HALF The
Usual Prices.
W. G. LANTERMAN.
Milledgeville, April 7th, 1858.
P. S. The opening for Millinery will take
place Wednesday, April 14th inst. 4G tf.
Misedbiuflus.
4
“ " 300 * “
30,000
1,200
4
“ 200 “
lo.otio
“ 800
4
“ 125
5,000
“ 500
4
“ 100 “
4,000
“ 400
4
“ 75 “
3,000
“ 300
•1
“ 50
1,50U
“ 200
5,000
“ 20 are
100,000
5,485
Prizes amounting to
$320,000
WHO!
E TICKETS $10, HALF
ES $5, Q!
ALTERS $24-
ZH
A Circular mIiow
iat44 the
plan ofIhe
Lollcrit's will be went lo
any out
«!c»iroti* of
From the Home Journal.
TDE HEROIC AGE.
The following reminiscences by the Hon. David
Sherman Boardham, of New Milford, Connecticut
relating to the personal appearance of the greatest
citizen of his country, is an ezceedingly interest
ing narrative, and the venerable writer, now in
bis ninetieth year, has kindiv yielded to our re
quest, and detailed the impression made upon his
youthful mind by the sight o! the grandest fig
ure that adorns the heroic age of the Republic.
Washington’!! Personal Appearance.
I first saw General Washington on the ]7th of
October 1778, when for a short time he had his
headquarters at a house then occupied by Col
Kane, (great grandfather of the late Dr, Kane,)
some two miles westerly of the Quaker meeting
house on Quaker Hill, in the present town of
Paw lings, formerly called Fredericksburg, Dutch
ess county, and on the road leading to Pough
keepsie. The encampment of the largest portion
of the Continental army then collected in one
place was on the same ridge ofland with the Qui-
ker meeting house, and from two to three miles
South of it ou the roud from Cold Spring to Car
mel, the present county seat of Putnam county,
and within the limits of the town of Patterson in
the same county. I was at that time in my tenth
year, and like all boys belonging to ardent whig
families, at that Stirling period, was Intensely in
terested in the great events occurring around me.
My father and mother took me with them to see
the camp, about ten miles distant from tlieir res
idence.
The 27th of October was selected as the time for
"the visit, because it was known that there would
be a grand parade and festival on that day, it be
ing the first universary of the surrender of Bur-
goyn.e For the same reason many others availed
themselves of the occasion to visit the camp, and a
large crowd of both sexes was collected. As ev
erybody was eager to see General Washington,
they huddled together upon the road leading front
the General’s headquarters to the camp, all on
horseback, as everybody then rode who rode at
all. The cavalcade of officers and their atten
dants who Lad gone up to head quarters to escort
the Commander-m-Cbief down to the place of ea
tertainmeut soon made their appearance. As it
was passing the company of spectators, my father
inquired of a soldier sfanditig by the road whether
‘•his Excellency” was in the train which was just
riding by. He answered, I remember thus:—‘"Yes
sir; he’s on the right hand iu front, on the blaze
faced horse”—and a noble horse he was. The
cavalcade, immediately it had passed the throng
of spectators, wheeled to the left of the road into
an open field at the foot of a very abrupt but short
ascent to the fiat upon its top, where the tables
set under a long shade of green boughs. As soon
as tlie Generals horse came to the foot of the hill
he sprang forward with the swiftness of a bird and
ascended rather by leaps than an ordinary gallop
and reached the top before any other one of the es
cort had got half way up. Certainly never be-
foie, nor during the long years since did I behold
so noble an equestrian figure, for General Wash
ington excelled iu horsemanship, as he did in ev
erything else which he undertook.
When the general and his attendants had arrived
at tlieir destination, the spectators dismounted,
and took their stauds outside of the assembly ol
officers, who joined iti numerous parties in con
versation for a long while before dinner was serv
ed. My eyes were riveted during the whole lime
upon General Washington, whose noble personal
appearance and majestic bearing so far exceeded
any other present as to leave no ground for com
parison. A lofty stature two inches over six feo‘,
with a formas perfect iu its ptoportions as p> ssible
represent both gracefulness ami strength—a near
er and repeated view of him many years after
wards, when in the office of President of the Uni
ted States,enables me to say. that my first estimate
•of his personal appearance « as not a mistaken
ornthough ft run din the enthusiasm of hi yhood. I
gazed at him for at least two hours, scarcely hav
ing patience to have my attention turned to other
distinguished officers whom my father pointed out
to me—such as the Baron Steuben. General Knox
and the the Baron DeKaib. I then believad that
I was looking at the noblest and best man in the
world, and eighty years leading and retk-ctiou
which have since elapsed has in no wise changed
that early impression.
The General was dressed in a blue coat with
liufl'lacings and large gold epaulets, with bufi'-
colored small clothes and vest, and boots reaching
quite to the knee. His hair, of which he had
great quantity, was craped and turned back from
his forehead, and dressed in a very large and long
braid or twist upon his back; the whole profusely
powdered, as was the fashion. His sword was
called a hanger, shaped like a sabre, but much
shorter and lighter. It was worn attached to a
belt around the waist, under the coat. The han
dle was of green ivory, the hilt and guard of silver
and was the same that was presented to Congress
some years ago by the relative to whom it was
bequeathed by the General’s will. Such were my
first impressions at the sight of the greatest man
of his or any other age. The picture is stamped
upon my memory in living light, and time seems
only to increase the freshness of its coloring.
The last time I saw General Washington was in
May, 1790, during the second session of the first
Congress under the present Constitution; it being
held in New York, and the last which was con
vened in that city. 1 was then in my twenty-sec
ond year. My brother—the late Elijah Boardman
afterwards and at tho time of his decease United
States Senator from Connecticut—making an ex
cursion to New York. Iaceompan ed him, in or
der to see the city, which I had never visited, and
to take a look at Congress which I had a great de
sire to see in session. We arrived in the city on
Salur lay tveriing. We agreed to go to the chinch
next morning where we supposed the President
would attend, for ihe purpose of seeing him though
we had both seen him while in command of the
army; and my brother, indeed many years older
than myself had served a campaign under his or
der. The President then resided in the centre
house of what was called Mr. Comb's block on
the western side of Broadway, between Trinity
Church and the Bowling Green. To accomplish
our object wc went first in f ront of Trinity Church
intending to wait the.e until the President's car
riage came up, and if it stopped there to follow
him iu; but it it went by, to repair to St. Paul’s
knowing that he would attend service at one of
them. When we reached our proposed stand we
fouud a large number of gentlemen occupying the
ground, doubtless influenced by the same motives
with ourselves, and had already formed two lines
reaching from the church door to the middle of
the street,jand a few yards ajiait The Presidents
coach soon came up, arid stopped at the mouth of
the avenue formed by the spectators.
He stepped out of it with his hat (such as lo
used lo wear while in command of the at my) in
his hand, and walked through the bowing lines of
admiring gazers with that gravely serene bearing
and majesty of countenance such as in my estima
tion, no other face ever bore. He was followed
by Mrs. Washington j escorted by a gentleman of
the family, and by the private secretary and lady.
His dress upon tho occasion was precisely like
Stuart’s portrait of him, (except the sword,) to wit
—black throughout, silk stockings, and silver-
buckled shoes; his hair dressed in front just like
Stuart’s portrait has it; on the back it was enclosed
in a black bag of silk shift, such as in those days
the first magistrates of States often wore, if favor
ed with a full and flowing head of hair. Tlie en
tire costume was exceedingly graceful and becom
ing. Our seats in the church being remote from
his, we could only see that he was very intent up
on his prayerbook and possessed the air of sincere
devotion.
It so happened that a Captain Clark, a coaster,
from New Haven Connecticut, boarded at the
same house with us ia the city, and from him I
learned that he had been applied to, to carry the
President out to a good fishing ground in a distant
part of New York harbor, where he proposed to
amuse and recreate himself for a day or two in
fishing. He informed ine that he should take liis
vessel from the east river around to the North side
to a w harf directly in the rear of the President's
house, and there receive him on board, Greenwich
street not being built upon then. Determined to
avail myself of another opportunity of seeing the
great object of my youthful admiration I went
alone to the wharf indicated by Captain Clark,
and took my stand upon it. The President, at
the appointed time came out at his back door, at
tended by some two or three of liis family and a
servant, and stepped on board the vessel, where
he met with Gen. Cadwalader. a member of Con -
gresa from Pennsylvania, and one or two other
gentlemen who were to share the proposed amuse
ment. with whom he conversed lor a few mo
ments, while the vessel got underway. Captain
Clarke having informed me that he should remain
but one night, and return in the afternoon of the
second day, I again kept w atch and when I saw
the vessel approaching the city I resorted to my
former stand upon the wharf, and again saw the
President when k: came up to the wharf leave the
deck of the vessel and return to the house.
I heard some of his conversation in this free
and unrestrained intercourse with his companions
but no circumstances could detract from his won
derful dignity of manner and deportment. This
close and minute inspection only added to iny
previous idea of his character. The tones of his
voice were deep and clear, and bis smile peculiaily
winning and pleasant. 1 afterward asked Captain
Clark if the President was successful as a fisher
man. ‘'Yes,'’ be said; “all tlie fish come to his hook ”
Upon these occasions, he w as iu a very different
attire from the one above described. Ho wore a
round hat w ith a very large Lrim. a light mulber
ry overcoat, with an nnderdress of a correspon
ding color. His hair was in a very long qnie,
reaching front his waistband buttons; and the
ends ol the hair below- the riband showing a
sprinkling of gray—a slight one, though a man
of fifty eight.
I have, thus, perhaps with tedious minuteness
described the personal appearance of General
Washington at the last moment I ever saw him,
except in the mental contemplation of his undy
ing glory.
P. S. There is a fault in Stuart’s portrait in rep
resenting his f ice toe fit-shy, or, adjudge Wash
ington expressed it to me more than forty years
ago, “too fat.” The best representation of his
looks that I have ever seen is a profile in Spark's
life of Washington. D- S. B.
An Exciting Trial at Yew Orleans—Interesting
Details.
The trial of George W. Harbv—an old and
respected citizen of New Orleans, and a veteran
teacher in the public schools fur over a quarter of
a century—for the killing of Clias. H. C. Stone,
(a native of Virginia.) a young man of pre
viously irreproachable character, and a junior
member of one of the largest and most respecta
ble mercantile houses of that city, took place on
the 18th inst. The killing grew- out of the charge
that Stone had seduced the daughter ofHarby,
and then refused to marrv her. The trial seeins
to have created intense excitement, and the court
room was thionged with an anxious multitude.
The defense admitted the killing, but contended
that, under tlie circumstances, it was justifiable.
Mr. Durant, counsel for the accused, made the
following interesting statement to the jury:
“Mr. Stone was introduced to tlie house of the
prisoner hv a gentleman whose word was a full
guarantee for the respectability of his acquain
tance. He was received with the warmth of heart
natural to the prisoner, and it is a most painful
circumstance in itself. He soon became a frequent
visitor and the watchful eye of the parent soon
discerned that his attentions were of that character
which end in marriage where honor and love
unite in mutual attachment. The father was not
unwilling to observe the condition of things thus
grow ing up, because he believed Mr. Stone to be
honorable, and knew him to occupy a position
where his exertions afforded hint a respectable
support. After a time, the father ascertained that
his daughter and Stone were engaged to be mar
ried, and that tho event was only to be postponed
until Mr. Stone should realize liis expectation of
being admitted as a partner in the highly respecta
ble house of Dudley & Nelson, where he was
clerk. To this the parents, of course, made no
objection, being rather pleased with the display of
prudence which seemed to dictate the postpone
ment. The confidence of the parents in Mr.
Stone was ample and complete—they looked upon
him ns the future husband of tlieir daughter, and
as such they treated him. He visited her con
stantly, they attended church regularly together;
they went unaccompanied to all places of public
amusement—there was neither suspicion nor
restraint.
“But now we approach a most affecting scene in
this drama. The girl is taken ill, her sickness is
not understood, and cannot be accounted for; a
physician in the neighborhood, a Doctor White, is
called in to attend her; he no doubt perceived
without much delay the real cause of her illness,
though delicacy compelled him to refinin from
communicating it to the parents. Towards tlie
end of November, of last tear, the parents called
on that eminent physician, Dr Stone, who at once
stated to the unhappy girl that lie perceived her
situation. She imploerd him, in agony, to con
ceal the mbtter from her father, which. 1 need not
say, that honorable gentleman refused to do, but
he was prevailed upon by her to defer the an
nouncement fora brief period—until the next day.
He then, accordingly, disclosed the dreadful
secret to the parents. You may well imagine,
gentlemen, although I cannot describe to you the
dieadful scene that took place:—tlie mother over
whelmed with mortification and confusion, the
f ither cast down from tlie pinnacle of hope to tlie
abyss of despair; the blow was too heavy for him;
he could have borne all tiie ills that Heaven could
inflict upon him in any shape but that; lie had
garnered np in that child all the riches of his heart,
and a cruel thief had robbed him while he slept.
Shame struggled with indignation in his bosom,
and reason tottered on her throne. He pressed
liis daughter to a confession, and found that the
m .n whom he had reared as a pride and cherished
as a friend, had treacherously stabbed his peace
and ruined him forever. Yes, throwing herself at
her father’s feet, in guilty tears and penitent con
trition, she confessed, with convulsive sobs and
ieai-s, that Charles Stone had seduced her, and she
w as then with cliiid by him. She saw in her
father’s countenance the dr- adful purpose which
had taken possession of his soul and overmastered
all his judgement; she feared for tlie man who had
wronged her, but whom she so fondly loved, and
implored lier father to grant but one day that she
might have one more interview with her lover, for
she was confident, she said, he would do her jus
tice. The father consented, and he wrote to Stone
in the language of affection, saying. Dear Charley,
Caroline is very sick; come up and see. lier tins
evening, and he omitted all mention of the dis
covery he had made; ali was calm, for he was too
deeply touched to. bo clamorous. Stone came in
the evening. The father had him conducted to
bis daughter. His purpose was then settled. He
armed himself. After Stone had been some halt
hour in his daughter’s chamber, the father entered,
a brace of loaded pistols on liis person. He does
not conceal his motives or design. He entered
ihatroom with the deliberate purpose of slaying
the seducer of his child—not absolutely, not
unconditionally, but provided he should refuse to
make reparation by marrying. Surely it was an
awful, an affecting scene; there lay the daughter
stretched upon a bed of sickness—a fair flower
trampled like the vilest weed—and by her bedside
sat a man whom she had trusted, on w hom she
had lavished rich treasures of her maiden love, and
who had abused her trust, mid consigned her in
this world to i n iless infamy. And there, too, was
the father, calm and insensible, lie humbled
himself before the seducer of liis child, he ap
pealed to tlieir ancient love, he invoked tlie sa
cred rights of friendship and of honor, imploring
him not to bring ruin and disgrace upon bis family
not to send down his gray hairs in sorrow to the
grave, to have mercy upon them, to do them
justice.
Hearts are steal, and Lis merit must have been
harder substance to remain unmoved under such
an appeal; he was touched by if, he rose from liis
scat and walked towards the mantel, leaned upon
it: then said the oh] man, are yon not the seducer
of my child! A guilty silence was the only re
spond’. Are you not, said the indignant voice of
the parent, the father of the child she is about to
bring forth? There w as no reply. He looked at
the old man, and saw a glance of wild excitement
in his eye that mado him quail and fail of voice;
for God’s sake, said he, Mr. Harby, commit no
violence, and to-morrow morning, at nine o’clock
I will make any reparation iu my power. AYliat
were the defendant's feelings them? The crime
was acknowledge and atonement promised.—
AVliat could the unhappy man slay the youth
then? Impossible. His daughter lay iu a pre
carious condition before him; must she see her
lover die by her lather’s hands before her face! —
Tiie thought rushes through his mind. lie prom
ises reparation—it is all lie can do—it is all I de
sire; but should I slay him now, my child can
never have reparation done lier. So lie said you
may go, but Charley, remember, so sure as God
reigns in heaven, you will incur a father’s ven-
gence, if you do not keep your promise. He fol
lowed hint down stairs. In dec-ending, Stone
said again to-morrow at niiv o’clock; and as they
shook hands at parting, for the father’s hope w as
renewed, and his heart sat lightly again in liis
bosom, and lie gave the youth his hand, as lie was
wont to do of old in friendship, and Stone said
again, to-morrow at nine.
“How anxiously tlie defendant waited for the
appointed hour on the morrow. I need not tell
you, it came and passed, but the seducer game
not with it; it was some hours after the time that
liis brother, Mr. Joseph Sftme, presented himself;
the defendant expressed hits surprise at the visit,
and told him that it was the brother he had ex
pected; Mr. S. made some evasive excuse for the
absence of his brother, and asked to be admitted
to see poor Caroline. He was admitted. When
he returned to the parlor there was more evasion,
expressions of condolence, of effected sympathy for
thesuffering girl, but lie said he must see hisbrother
again. He departed. The father saw- that he
was trifled with, aud that Stone had deceived him
as he had deceived his child, liis purpose was
fixed. He would be deceived and trifled with
no longer. He at onco left home to seek the guilty
seducer. I need not tell you his purpose. Had
they met then, the event that brings you here to
day would Lave been anticipated. But Stone had
escaped; he had left the city, and the father’s
search for him was in vain. His extreme mental
excitement and suffering brought ou an old dis
ease of a debilitating character, which prostrated
him on abed of sickness. It is miserable to be
weak, dying or suffering. On his bed of sickness
bis wife and daughter kneeled before him, beg
ging him to foregs his purposes, at least for a time.
Let me fly from this city, said tho mother, where
we are disgraced, and hide ourselves where we
shall be unknown, and after the event that is to come
shall happen, and Caroline becomes a mother,
Stone’s heart ntav then be touched with compas
sion, and he will do her justice. Weak, sick.and
dispirited, the father was prevailed upon. He
left his hearth and alter-stone, abandoned the city
where he had dwelt so many years in usefullness
aud peace, and ou the eve of sixty-years, started
out in the wide world anew to seek another home.
The counsel continued, in an affecting strain
showing how the prisoner and his family arrived
at St. Louis, in midwinter, friendless and poor
and unable to obtain employment. Soon they re
ceived a letter from their daughter am onneing the
birth of her child. He returned to New Orleans,
and found to his infinite h rror, that shameful re
ports which could have had but one origin, were
in circulation to blast the reputation of his child,
and to stamp her before the world not as the vic
tim of seduction, but as herself a wanton. This
was only wanting to make him desperate. His
wrongs were becoming too heavy for him to bear.
Ihe daughter, however,attempted to pacify hint.
She wrote to Stone appealing to him to fulfil his
promise, hut the letter was not answered. It wa>
then that the father, driven.to desperation, sought
out the seducer and shot him dead.
Miss Caroline M. Harby, the daughter who had
been seduced, was among the witnesses on the tri
al. The Crescent says:
She was neatly dressed, disclosing a graceful
rather small figure, and was closely veiled. After
receiving tlie oath she took her seat in the eleva
ted chair, still veiled. Mr Moise told her politely
that it would be necessary for her to raise her
veil, edie raised the heavy brown veil which hid
her face, leaving a black lace veil still hanging.—
Her face however could be plainly seen. She
was veryy pale but ver resolute looking. In reply
to the questions of Mr Durant she gave her an
swers in a clear ami firm voice, and in language
which proved iier to have received the education
ofa lady.
Upon being asked by Mr. Durant in a'manner
as decorous as the case would allow, if Stone had
not seduced lier and if he was not the father of
her child, her firmness deserted her. She bowed
over the arm of tiie chair and cried and sobbed
bitterly. Her father also gave way, aud the feel
ing spread among t le spectators, jurors everybody.
We {never saw so much silent weeping iu any
crowded assembly as there was on this occasion
whilst the father and daughter sobbed together.
TI e scene lasted several minutes.
The main points of her testimony are enibraeed
in the remarks of Mr. Durant. She swore positive
ly to the seduction, aud Stone’s promise to marry
her and his subsequent refusal to comply with his
promise.
7 he prosecution having introduced two wit
nesses who swore that they had criminal inter
course with Miss Harby, and that she had asked
Stone for money, she was recalled to the stand.
She mounted the steps firmly and instead of seat
ing herself, stood up raised her right hand, and,
in a clear loud voice, which fell with electrie force
upon tlie breathless assemblage, said:
“Before Almighty God, and by all my hopes
hereafter, I do solemnly swear, that what those
men have sworn about tne is false—false—false—
[stamping lier foot.] IJ ten thousand lives depen
ded on it, it is all false! I don’t see how any man
could come here and talk that way about me be
fore my father and”—
Here she fell in the chair and gave way to a
hysterical fit of weeping and sobbing. The
court was farily [stunned by her vehemence, aud
the dramatic force of the scene. Upon recover
ing herself Miss Harby stated that it was false
that she had ever askeii Joseph Stone for money.—
He had professed great sorrow for her distresses
and had offered the money to her and insisted on
her taking it. She had written him notes to
come and see her but she had never asked him
for money. She never had criminal intercourse
with any one bur Charles Stone.
The ease was submitted to tho jury without ar
gument, and in a few minutes returned a verdict
of ‘not guilty.” The result produced a scene sel
dom witnessed in such a place. Cheer after cheer
resounded through the building and ineignant re-
stranees of the Judges and the vigorous exer
tions of tlie Sheriff’s failed to quiet the enthu
siasm. The demonstrations were renewed outside
tlie court room until Mr. Harby succeeded in get
ting away from his friends and driving off iu a
carriage with his daughter.
Front the Washington Union.
Ilefrcitr’wirnt of Expenses—Decline of the Rev
enue.
We would like to have it understood that there
is a wide difference between tire decline of the
public revenues and the extravagance of the ad
ministration. This difference nr.-ty be best illus-
rated by stating two current facts in connexion
with the revenues and the appropriations and the
expenditures of the government during the pres
ent year:
First. Tlie receipts into the treasury have great
ly declined.
Secondly. The expenditures of the government
have been less than heretofore.
Those who charge the President with the issue
of treasury notes and bonds should credit hint
with the current deficit of the revenues in order
to get at the true state of the accounts Had the
income of the treasury been wholly cut off, it is
manifest that still larger amount of notes and
bonds would have been required to meet necessary
expenses: because the amount of cash on hand
was inefficient, nor would the administration be
properly chargeable with such a condition of
things. ’Fhe recent revulsion, acting directly up
on foreign trade, has reduced the revenues more
than one half; and this tact is a sufficient justifi
cation for the issue of treasury notes and bonds.
The present condition of monetary affairs was, to
a great extent, anticipated by the head of tlie
Treasury Department and by the President; and
every effort was made to induce Congress to limit
the appropriations to correspond with the dimin
ished receipts of tho exchequer. These efforts,
too, in spite of the extraordinary demands arising
front tlie despatch of a large force to Utah, have
been, in a great degree, successful. The expenses
of the government have been largely retrenched,
notin amount proportioned to the diminished re
ceipts, because that was impossible.
Besides, it is believed the striking diminution of
the incomes of the treasury cannot be of long
continuance. The almost complete suspension
of imports which we have witnessed within the
last eight or nine months, indicates rather a healthy
and recuperative process by which the enterprise
of the nation will soon recover its wonted tone
and energy. We know of no possible injury
which is likely to result from the present depres
sion to any of our great interests, not even to the
treasury itself, which, enduring a temporary em
barrassment, will be placed on a substantial found
ation and be ready for and realize a future success
ful business.
These facts instruct us that it is something
worse than folly to say that the temporary wants
of the treasury are in any sense chargeable to the
administration.
The failure, for the time being, of federal in
comes. is due to circumstances over which no
body had the least control. Every employment,
occupation; and trade have tlieir vicissitudes, and
in this country where capital is limited, they bear
directly upon the public revenues.
This is more certainly so, perhaps, in the United
States than in the older countries of Europe; be
cause money is more active here, draws higher in
terests, arid its employment more likely to be ef
fected by impaired confidence in mercantile cred-
iis and responsibilities. We fall quickly from
high estates and propriety ; and we rise rapidly
from depressions and embarrassments. The na
tion is now engaged in two notable works: Firs;,
in its usual productions; secondly, iu consuming
the stock of foreign goods which were imported
in excess during a long season of geuerai pros
perity. These facts indicate habits of economy
and national and individual retrenchment. They
point directly to the future. They do not promise
a revolution in public tastes and habits, but they
do promise a desirable change. The future, then,
is to be under certain modifications, what the past
lias been—a restoration of confidence and a gener
al resumption of business, chastened by the dis
astrous experience of tlie last year, and leading
ou to higher conditions of public and private
prosperity.
It is much easier for individuals than for nations
to accommodate themselves to the special neces
sities of the day. It is easier to impede the loo
rapid progress of the light than a heavy vehicle—
to control the action of tho few than the many.
In the present instance it may be counted as a
great good fortune that we have at the head of the
government a man of the largest experience in
public affairs, upright and honorable through a
long life, sagacious, vigilant aud faithful as a
high functionary, one above all others in the na
tion to whom the people would intrust their most
sacred in erests; for, even before the burden of
the storm had reached us, he exerted every faculty
of his office to trim the sails to meet its blasts,
and to guide the helm so as to impart universal
confidence to all, that he was able and qualified to
command the ship in the hour ot peril. We say
this in the spirit of candor: and we point to the
great fact in justification of it that, notwithstand
ing the extraordinary war service required of the
President, the expenses of his administration have
been largely retrenched.
From the Valley Farmer,
lifll l«.a Hissosii Farm.
We recently visited the farm of Mr. Richard
Gentry, of Pettis county, Missouri, and, as we
have frequently seen flattering accounts of large
farms in other States, we have concluded to
furnish a description of this farm, to our readers,
in order to show that Missouri is not behind her
sisters States in large farms or good farming.
The farm of Mr. Gentry contains seven thou
sand acres of land, three thousand five hundred
acre? of which are nnd r excellent fence, and in
a high state of cultivation. It is divided, chiefly,
into lots of forty acres—making over thirty miles
of fence ou the farm. The fence is mostly of
rails, with stakes and riders, and kept up in the
b“st condition. There is, however, a mile and a
quarter of post ai d board fence on the farm, and
some two miles of Osage orange hedge, which
liouever, has not yet been turned out.
There are on the farm sixty-five large gates, of
the best construction, and about the same num
ber of draw-bars. The gates and bars are made
in a large carpenter shop, in rainy wether, when
the hands can be employed at nothing else. All
of the implements are put in repairs at such times,
and many of the simpler ones manufactured.—
About two thirds of the farm consists of high,
moiling prairie, of an excellent quality of soil,
and the other third is in timber, immediately ad-
joining the prairie.
There are fourteen hundred acres of tho farm
set in bluegrass, seven hundred acres in clover
and timothy meddow, three hundred and sixty
acres in corn, one hundred and sixty acres in oats,
twenty acres in Hungarian millet, and the bal
ance of the farm under fence is in woods pasture.
There are on the farm twenty-seven large arti
ficial ponds, many of them of much depth, afford
ing stock an abundance of water at all seasons
of the year. During our visit, three stone-masons
were employed in erecting large stone pillars in
various parts parts of the farms, at the outlets of
streams, iu which large water-gates were to be
hung, so that in case of freshets, which are
common on large prairies, tlie gates would open
by the action of the water, and close when the
water had passed, and prevent the fence from
being washed, and the escape ofstock from one
field to another.
One of the most striking features observable is,
that on this immense farm not a single weed is to
he seen. Even the fence-corners, that common
receptacle of all that is foul on most farms, are as
clean of weeds as any city lawn. What do farm
ers who have only two or three hundred acres
under cultivation say of this? Here are upwards
of thirty miles of fence, without a weed or briar
surrounding it, while many farms, with only a mile
or two of fence, raise enough weeds t-> seed the
whole neighborhood! The whole farm is a pat
tern of neatness. The hands pass over every field
as often as it is necessary, and pull every burr,
briar, and weed that dares to show itself. This
has been done many years, until the weeds have
been subdued.
Mr. Gentry has been a large sheep-grower —
Some fifteen years ago. finding the market dull
for horses and innles, lie concluded to try sheep,
lie accordingly procured from Kentucky some
four hundred head of the best Saxon and Spanish
merino ewes, as the foundation for the future Hock.
These he raised for a numher of years, increasing
the size of his flock until it ranged for many years
from two thousand eight hundred to three thou
sand head. He went to great ex; e ise in procuring
the best bucks, and by judicious management, ob
tained a very superior flock. For the last four or
five years he has been crossing his flocks with the
French merino, paying as high as $150 per head
for the bucks. He has some imported bucks of
this breed now on his farm lie thinks the
French merino superior to the Saxony or Spanish
merino, as possessing more constitution, greater
weight of cprcas, much greater weight of wool,
though not of as fine quality, though sufficiently
so to command as high a price in market. He has
had the very best success in raising sheep; his
floeks have never been affected with any con
tagious disorders, and many of the diseases is
prevalent in the East have been entirely unknown
in his herd. He has recently reduced the size of
his flock to about one thousand head, for the
purpose of giving more attention to raising mules.
He is already quite extensively engaged in the
business, but intends to give it more prominence
hereafter.
There are kept constantly employed on the
farm twelve grown hands and six boys. Our
readers may wonder how so large a farm can be
so well managed by this small number of hands.
It was a wonder to until we saw the perfect system
of Mr. Gentry’s plans. Everything moves like a
clock-work. There is a time for every thing, and
everything must be done in its time. There is no
hurry and flurry—but every thing moves along
evenly and quietly. Each piece of work is atlen-
dedtto tilljit is-done - But system is not the only
secret success. All of the best laboYsaving im
plements and machines are used by him, so that
with one man he is able, in many kinds of work,
to perform the labtrot ten men. By this means
he is able to accomplish that vast amount of work.
Mr. Gentry has a number of bnildings erected,
in which he carries on, for his own use, various
operations not common among farmers. For in
stance, there is a large mill-house, where all the
nteal for the family and stock is ground, and
where various other mills and machines are used.
There is also a large slaughter-house, with kettles
set in arches, anil an excellent apparatus for ren
dering out lard. Then there is a tool-house, a car
penter shop, a harness-house, a shop to make
shingles, Ac. There is also an excellent pair of
Fairbank’s cattle-scales, which will weigh six
tons each operation, with all the appendages for
weighing cattle, sheep, swine, hay, grain,
But the next question is, will farming on such
a magnificent scale pay? Of course it will. Any
kind of honorable business, managed as well as
this farm is, would pay largo profits. Upon our
inquiry, Mr. Gentry informed us that the gross
receipts from this farm last year amounted to over
twenty-seven thousand dollars, (a larger sum than
the President of the United States receives annu-
ally.)
though driven to despair, still forgets not
his filial duties.
The rich man looks on the scene with
wonder and admiration, and begins reflect-
ing upon his wicked and unconscionaL le
practices; how much suffering he has caus
ed, and how much misery his transac
tions must have spread in countless fami
lies. But he still doubts that virtue to be
in others of which lie himself has little or
none, and orders Chun sun, if he Las any
words of endearment, to speak to his
wife befoiehe parts with her forever; and
to be in a hurry, as he is about to take ber
away. A tender scene follows, not so he
roic perhaps, as the famous parting scene
between Hector and Andromache; bnt
much more tearful. The rich man sits by
and listens, until entirely overcome with
the awakening of his hitherto dormant
feelings of humanity, he tears the bill of
sale iuto a thousand pieces and scatters
them to the winds. “Happy” he is sup
posed to cry “happy the father of such a
child! Blessed the man that can call him
son.” He then gives his own story, nar
rating how that he is rich in the possession
of wealth and wives, hut he is growing old
and has no children. The moral interlude
finally closes with the adoption of the pi
ous and obedient son by the rich man, who
as an earnest of his affections, at once be
stows upon him one-half of his immense
wealth.
From the Courier aud Enqnirier, June 25th.
ltemofui of President Uourocs Remains,
The joint committee of the common
council appointed to make tlie necessary
arrangements for the removal of tho re
mains of President Monroe held an ad
journed meeting yesterday at the City
Hall, Alderman Adams iu the chair.—
Mr. Samuel L. Guverneur, a near relative
of the deceased, appeared before the com
mittee and stated that through some
misapprehension on the part of the Virgi
nia legislature, the public labored under
the impression that President Monroe lay
buried in a public burial-ground, or sort
of Potter’s field, instead of a private cem
etery, by the side of his relatives as is
the case. The proposed removal to Rich-
ntond lie considered very decorous and
appropriate. Colonel Peyton, chairman
of the committee of Virginians now stay
ing in this city, was disposed to suffer the
authorities to conduct the ceremonies in
their own way. They (the Virginians)
merely awaited instructions. The chair
man of tlie joint committee remarked, with
all defereuce to the relatives of President
Monroe, that his remains were the pr»p-
erty of the Union, and that the purest
motives had directed all the arrangements
that had been made. Colonel Peyton
deprecated any intention of the Virgini
ans to interfere with the details of the
arrangements made by the committee.—
The following plan was finally agreed
upon between the joint, committee and the
committee of Virginians, vizi That the
body should be removed privately from
the cemetery by tho Virginians, the
friends of the family, and joint committee
of the Common Council, aud conveyd to a
private residence in the vicinity of 14th
street; then to be taken in charge by the
municipal authorities co-operating with
the Richmond committee, and the commit
tee of Virginians in New York. Hr.
Jones said that the Virginians had re
ceived a telegraphic despatch from the
mayor of Richmond, stating that the
Common Council of that city had appro
priated $2,500 to entertain the National
Guard while on tlieir visit to that city,
and that they were to be the guests of the
Richmond Volunteers. It was also stated
that the authorities of Petersburg, Va.,
would meet them at City Point, and ten
der them a public breakfast on their way
to Richmond. Civilities of the National
Guard had also been tendered by other
cities. The committee then adjourned.
Where arc the Mormons GoingI—A Washington
letter writer gives currency to the conjecture that
Mormons arc taking their way to some convenient
place on our Pacific coast, in order ultimately, to
embark for the great ami fertile Island of New
Guinea, or some other locality in the South Seas,
near the polygamous communities of the East,
where they can enjoy their peculiar beliefs and
practices unmolested by any other people.
lie who stoops topick up the devil’s gold, in
evitably drops liis own soul.
Governor Harris, of Tennessee, offers a reward
of $500 for the arrest of Dr. N. Burton, late Secre
tary of State, and a defaulter to the amount of
of $30,000.
The plot of a Chinese play—Chun Sun
was a young man active, industrious and
persevering at work, but very poor, and
barely able with the'utmost toil to support
his wife and aged mother. What was
worse than liis own poverty, his deceased
father had left him heavily in debt for
borrowed moneys, which he had lost at
play; for in China though the father never
lias to pay the debts of the son, the son is
always hound to hay the debts of the
father, and this it appears, even when the
father has left no property whatever.—
The creditor is a rich old man named Chun
(^ttong Lung, and the play opens with his
appearance and demand upon the debtor
for the money. Chun Sun replies that lie
has no money and cannot pay. The
creditor insists, stamps, fumes, raves, beats
Chun Sun over the head with his fan and
carries on at a great rate, to all of which
the latter submits with the most patient
and Chinese-like spirit. The uproar made
the Chinese creditor become at last so
great, that Chun Sun’s wife and mother
came ont of the house, the latter very in
firm and leaning upon a staff. As she ap
proaches Chun Sun is struck a severe
blow by the enraged creditor, and in falling
strikes his mother, and she is also thrown
upon the ground. As the old lady falls,
the kind son and daughter-in-law rising in
an instant; rush to her and raise her upon
her feet with the most pious solicitude.—
Meanwhile, the eyes of the rich creditor
fall upon the debtor’s wife, and being
struck by her beauty, he proposes, if the
debtor will deliver up the wife—a lawful
traffic in China—he will tear up thebond
and cancel the debt.
Chun Sun bears great reverence for the
memory of his father and though he dis
likes much to part with his beloved wife
lie still considers it best to make known to
her the proposition of the rich man, and
ask her advice. She replies, in some
choice phrases, on the duties which the
child owes to the pareut, aud the obliga
tions he is under to pay the parent’s debt:
he says she is ready to sacrifice herself;
hut tells her husband confidential)*, that
she will hang herself as soon as possible
after she enters her new* master’s house.
A stormy scene ensues, accompanied with
most unearthly, hut perhaps appropriate
music, and at last Chun Bun signs the bill
of sale for his wife, and with a sort of trag
ic despair throws it into the creditors face
At the same time the old lady—mother
hobbles to the front part of the stage, and
attempts to throw herself headlong upon
the audience, which means that she at
tempts to cast herself from a precipice.—
Narrow Escapeofa Train—Track D/s-
placed by the Heat of the Sun.—The train
which left Buffalo yesterday afternoon for this
city, narrowly escaped being thrown from the
track by the displacement of the rails. The train
had only proceeded a couple of miles before it
was stopped by a signal from some the track men,
who had found the rails bent in two places. The
train came to a stand still withou? accident, when
an examination of the track was made. It ap
peared that the heat of the sun had so expanded
the rail, that it curved each way—It being the
combination rail—fully six inches out of line.—
AU this expansion must have taken place within
two or three hours, as not more than that
time had elapsed since trains had passed over this
track. It appears that when the track was laid
the rails had not been placed far enough apart to
allow for the greatest possible expansion under
the heat of summer. The passengers felt much
relieved when they learned the cause of the stop
and the narrow escape they had made.
It took about one hour to fix a track so that the
train could pass. It then came on and nearly
made up the time to this city, coming down in
one hour and fifty minutes, which is first rate
time.—Rochester Advertiser, Thursday.
From the Charleston Mercury.
First Blood Shed for Libert; In the Revolu
tion.
The first blood shed in defence of liberty and in
opposing English oppressions was in the South.—
The State ofNorth Carolina—the “old North Stata
the twin sister of South C'oroliua—is entitled to
the homir. It was during the gubernatorial ad
ministration of the notorious Governor Tryon, tho
English Governor at the time, who buiit one of
the most splendid palaces in either North or South
America, at Newbern; N. C., with the .proceeds of
taxes imposed upon the people for the purpose and
to resist which taxation a portion of them rebelled
just as did the men of Massachusetts afteewarda
it took place in the year 1771, and is narrated by
Mr. Wheeler in his history of Nortli Carolina.—
Oh the 10th of May in that year, a battle was
fought between the American and British forces,
on the banks of the Alamance river, in what is
knownnow as the county of that name called tho
Battle of Alamance. The American forces w«r«
called tho “regulators” from their efforts in en
deavoring to bring[about an equitable regulation of
taxes and other oppressive matters. The Ameri
can forces amounted to two thousand, and were
headed by three men named Husbands, Hunter
and Butler; while the British forces including mili
tia called out by Tryon, amounted to upwards of
eleven hundred, bur had tho advantage greatly ia
arms and discipline. As might have been expec
ted the Americans were defeated, after an action
of two hours, with a loss of twenty dead and sev
eral wounded, while that of the royal forces, woun
ded and missing was sixty-one. Mr. Wheeler
says:
‘.‘Thus ended the battle of Alamance. Thus and
here was the first blood spilled in these United
States, in resistance to exactions of English rulers
and oppressions by tho English government.—
“The great wolf of South Carolina” showed
his bloodthirsty temper by acts of revenge, cruelty
and barbarity. He hung Captain Tew the next
day, without trial on a tree.”
It was in this case, as Bjron truly says in one of
his poems,
“For freedom’s battle once begun.
Bequeathed fiom bleeding sire to son,
Though sometimes lost is ever won.”
Thus we see that it was at the battle Alamance,
and not at Bunker Hill, that the first American
blood was shed in the cause of liberty. “Honor to
whom honoris due.”
Imprisonment for Debt in France.—
According to the official returns just pub
lished the number of persons imprisoned
for debt throughout the whole of Franco
in 1856 was 1981—of whom 1894 were
males and 87 females; 1813 breach and
168 foreigners. At the end of that year
only 360 debtors remained in prison, the
other 1621 had been released, 325 in con
sequence of the funds for their support
not having been supplied by their credit
ors, 486 after payment of their debts, and
the remainder in consequence of age or
other motives.
George Peabody a Loser by the Mistin’
sippi Floods.—The Cairo (IU.) City Prop-
perty Company, which suffered severely
by the late flood, is represented by stock
to the amount of $4,000,00, of which
George Peabody owns 700,000 having
r purchased the same during his visit to thia
She is prevented however, by the son, who I country last year.