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run ram or march am nunxino.
By Pitfgreoh Halleok.
The winds of March are humming
Their parting song, their parting song
And rammer titles are coming,
And dpyt grow long, and days grow long.
I watch, bat not in gladness,
Our garden tree, oar garden teas
It buds in sober sadness,
Too aeon for me, too soon forme
My second winter's over,
Alas l and I - alas 1 and I
Hava na accepted lover:
Boat ask ma why* don't ask ma why.
Tie not asleep or idle
That lava has bean, that love baabeea ;
Par many a happy bridal .
The year has seen, the year has seen;
I’ve dona a bridemaid’s duty,
At three or four, at throe or four;
My hast bouquet had beauty.
It’s donor more, its donor more.
Wy second winter’s over,
Alas! and I—alas! and I
Have no accepted lover:
Don’t ask me why* don't ask mo why.
sy bos
One sunny day* one sunny day;
The next they fled and faded,
Bean and bouquet, bean and bouquet
In vain, at ball and parties,
Fve thrown my net I’ve thrown ray net;
This waltzing, watching heart is
Unchosen yet, unchoeen yet
My eeeond winter’s over,
Alas! and I—alas 1 and I
Have ne accepted lover:
Don't ask me why, don’t ask mo why.
They tell me there’s no hurry
Par Hymen’s ring, for Hymen’s ring;
And I’m too young to many:
Tis no sneh thing, *tis no rad thing.
The next spring tides will dash en
My eighteenth year, my eighteenth year;
It pats me in a passion,
Oh dear, oh dear! oh dear, oh dear I
My sooond winter’s over,
Alas 1 and I—alas! and I
Have no accepted lover:
Dost aak me why, don’t ask me why.
Prom the National Intelligencer.
levs from Major Jack Dowsing.
Private Deapoiaheo to Giacral Pierce, moi to
tepee* up to Concrete if they call/or it.
y. M. EDI)LEMAN<fe BRO
Atlanta, Gcorctft.
Keep constantly on hand and for sale, at
the lewest cash prices, a large assortment of
BOOTS, SHOES, LEATHER, LASTS,
BOOTS* ■ ■■
PEGS, CALF LINING and BINDING SKINS
SHOE-MAKER’S TOOLS, Ac. Ac.
a 9, 1855, ly
J. M. TOMLINSON,
■pLAIN, House Sign, Coach, Passenger Can
JT Frsseo, Ornamental and Decorative Painter
Also manufacturer of Gilt Glass Door Plates
Numbers for Poblic Houses
Jacob
AtianU,G*.
i Co. White Hall Street
Jan 9,1855 ly.
T. R. RIPLEY,
ATLANTA, GA.
T\EALER in China, Crockery, and Glass
>L' ware* ; I.amps of all kinds ; OSb, Cam-
byiBta~bbirjn|fcfo
a 9,1855
Terms
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ATLANTA
MACHINE WORKS.
LATB ATLANTA IRON FODNDRT.)
L S new Company is now prepar-a
to do work on short notice, of
1 light Castings from
)vcd patterns oflron,
, all of which will he warran-
riegsand Drilling done to
order Also. screV CCttiug of 10 feet Of un
der
^°PARTICULAR ATTENTI ON iscaHcd to
ng of all the uattal
always kept on hand. We 9re also
red to build stationary Engines PJ»n
latest improvement*. AH or which wn.'
sold low for cash. Copper and Brass
Sn exchange for work at cash prices
JAMES L. DUNNING,
john mcdonough,
WILLIAM BUSHTON.
P. S. All of the above company are
tical Mechanics, and give their indi'
attention to the business. Jan. 9,
Dm. Smith & Wooten
TTAVI5G atsoeiated themselves in the prac-
AA tice of Medicine and Surgery, offer their
services to tbe public. Dr. Smith is prepared
to treat any diseases of tbe Eye and Ear. Office
on Broad St, one door below H. A. Smith's
Book Store. Jan 23 '55, [1 y*
El'GEIE LeHARDY,
CIVIL AND TOPOGRAPHICAL
ENQI NEER,'
SURVEYOR AND ARCHITECT,
POST OFFICE, ROME, GEORGIA,
RICHARD A. JONES
DEALER IN
FOREIGN AID DOMESTIC MARBLE,
NEAR THE DEPOT,
v c . ,r f^" Madison, Get,
MONUMENTS, TOMBS AND HEADSTONES
Always on Rand*
Orders from a diitanco executed with
smteem raddcppatch. - ^^ (ly) Yeh 6, 1S55
Aaoaas ran Fillibustxr Schooner
Two Follies, off the “ Hole in fihe
Wall,” near tho middle of march, I for
got the day of tho month, 1855.
OuaGintu Wo are skuddin round hero
td keldim un to tho alaok, waltin for more
help to mm up* and yon may depend on't
Cuba’s got to take it We don’t nevir give np
tho ship. A fast little clipper jest come along,
going to Baltimore, and the skipper said he’d
taka my despatches to you in three days. And
you emu scud to mo hy the skipper your notions
about things; for he’s only going to stop long
enough to wood up, and then he’s coining right
strait back to jin* us. He made me promise to
hold on and not toko Cuba till ho come, for ho
was very airiest to bo in at tho death.
That Cuba's a fins country. We’ve been
iving a glimpse at it one# in awhile with our
spy glasses, through tho “ Hole in the Wall,”
and round tho corners, and if o rmly a fine conn-
try; ’twoaM do your heart good to look at it.
And you shall have a chance before long, for
its get fee comedown; ifs got to nnckle, and no
mistake. I’ve got my commission to go ahead
frem Mr. Bsehaaau and Mr. Mason and Mr.
Souley. And the nub of the whole thing is,
we’ve got to take Cuba, “if we have the power;”
and I knew wo kave, as Sally Giles said to her
sweetheart Says Solly, says she, “yon sbn't
kiss ma unless you are stronger than I, and I
kaew yon be.”
Jest before we eome out I tee by the papers
that Loss Napoleon was a notion of goin to the
Crimea to aee Sebastopol foil; and so I thought
may bo you might like to come eat here and
see ns take Cuba. Now if yon da, jest say the
word, and toll me in your letter what day yon
will be down on the pint of floriday, and I’ll
bear up with the Two Pollies and take yon off
Yon most n't feel hurt because I didn’t eome
to Washington to see you before starting on this
cruise; bat tho fiset was I hadn’t time. Our
country was in eo ranch danger It would n’t do
to wait Our Congress in Ostond went over
the whole ground and examined carefully, and
come to the eonelnaion that it was neck or no
thing with ns. Wo must have Cuba or our
whole country would go to rack and rain, and
“the Union can never enjoy repose nor possess
reliable security as long as Cuba Is not em
braced within its boundaries.”
I sent you a despatch last foil about the dnins
of our Congress at Ostond, where we took np
the affairs of England and France and Spain;
bat finally concluded we could n’t make any
thing out of that bnsinessyet, and should have
to wait a little longer. Well, then them three
S/s—Souley, Sickles, and Sanders—said there
was one thing we could da: we could take hold
of that Cuba basinets and finish it np brown.
And, for foar that Lonis Napcleon might have
spies round ns there at Ostond, we concluded it
was best to hitch a little further off So we
went over to Ax-le-Shapple and finished np the
business.
Tbe upshot was, we concluded we would
have Cuba by book or by crook; and that Mr,
Sonley should go right back to Old Spain and
toR tho Qaeen so. If she’d a mind to give it
npqsietly and make no fuss about it, he might
promise to give her somethin pretty hansome
in the way of money ; we didn’t care nothing
about that, as we've got plenty of money to
home. If she refused and told Mr. Sonley to
mind his own business, and wo sfaonln't have
Cuba no how, then we told him he mustn’t be
mealy-mouthed, nor mince matters, bnt pick a
quarrel tbe best way he conld and clear ont
WeH, Mr. Sonley went back to Madrid witk
a stiff upper Up and began to by to dicker
with the Queen's spokesman for a bargain,
•ontothin in this way:
Soui.et. Oh, now I think of it, there's
that little Island of Cuba over there near our
coast; we'd like to have that nttle island, if
ifs att the same to yon. I spose yon'vo no ob
jections ; it ifnt the least use in the world to
yon, and it Alight be some little acceonnt to us.
So, if you say -so, we’ll jest mark Coba down on
til? nl5P of tbe United States.
some beggar who wants it The ancient and
prond kingdom of 8pain is no beggar, sir. Til
thank yon, sir, not to insult me.
Soulst. I dont intend any insult, sir; bnt
DU be frank and plain with yon. The foot is we
most have that Island. It is absolutely neces
eraary for the safety and welforo of the Uni
tod States. Our country can’t get along without
it.
SroKMxax. That’s your look ont, not min*.
Soulut. Well now, Mr Spokesman, yon know
yo or people ont there In Cuba have for a long
time been {uniting oar folks, tearohing their
vessels, and firing into their steamers, ana some
times ketebing onr people and shooting em or
patting em in dungeons. There’s a long ac
count of these things that yon must settle right
np, pint blank, or suffer the consequences.—
There’s three hundred thousand dollors yon’vo
S t to pay for stopping the'Steamer Black War-
r, and great many other things as bad as that
Thee* matters hare got to be settled right up,
or Cuba’s got to stand in tho gap.
Sroxnsuair, Can’t help that. If yonv’e got
any amounts to settle we'll leave it to a third
party to say how wo shall settle. We don’t owe
you a cent for tho Black Warrior. She broke
onr laws and we fined her six thousand dollars „
and then wo give back the fine after all, when
wo might a kept the vessel. And you are so
onrratefal as not to thank ns for it
Soolut. I wont stand this foolery no longer.
Leave it out! No, wo know how to settle onr
own business best. Now, sir, you’ve got to set
tle all onr accounts right up, and fix things abont
Cuba so we shant never have anymore trouble,
or else give np tho island to manage in onr own
way. Now, Fm agoin to give yon jest two weeks
to think of this basinets and give me your an
swer ; and if it Isn’t settled by that time I shall
out sad go homo, and then you’ll Hear thunder.
Good by, sir.”
That Sonley’s a smart feller, Gineral. He
talked right np to em, and wasn’t afeared.—
Well, ho waited till the two weeks was ont, and
no answer didn’t eomo; and then he slat round
and picked np his clothes, and locked np his
tranks, and cleared ont. Then he come over
where we had been waiting for him and told ns
how the business stood. He said old Spain re-
fosod to give np Cuba, and refused to settle, and
ho had got tho quarrel in such a shape now
that wo eottld carry it on any way to suit our
selves. And now, said Mr. Sonley, whafs to be
done next f
Wal.says I, Mr. Sonley, yonv’e only jest got
to look at the instructions drawn np hy onr Con-
Ax-lo-Skappsl, and signed by yon and Mr.
Bachanaa and Mr. Mason, and you’ll see the
eonne is marked ont as plain as a be. Jest
open tke'doekyment and read :
“Cuba is as nscessaiy to the North American
Republic as any of its present members.”
“The Union can never enjoy repose nor pos
sess reliable security as long as Cuba is not em
braced within its boundaries.”
“Bnt if Spun, deaf to the voice of her own in
terest, and actuated by stubborn pride and a
fitise sense of honor, should refuse to sell Cuba
td the United States,” what then ?
“Self-preservation is the first law of nature
with States as well as with individnals. 1
Matters and things being thus and so, “then, by
* divi
every law, human and divine, we shall be jus
tified in wresting Cnba from Spain, if we pos
sess the power.”
“There, says I, there's your chart, as plain as
the nose on a man’s lace; and all we’ve got to
do is to go ahead. So we all pat oar heads to
gether to draw np a plan of the campaign, and
modi'"'
8pose****. Not by a jug foil, Mr. Sonley.
Cnbv is fhe most valuable patch of ground
we’ve got fen't spare it no how.
Souley. Ob, nonsense: it’s no income at all
to yon, and nothin hot a bill of expense. It's
lo sear to ns wo might look after and maybe
make somethin ont of it; bnt it's no more use
to yon than tbe fifth wheel of a coach. I guess
we'll consider it our*.
SroxBsvAV, I guess yon wont. I tell yon
we can't spare Cuba no how. IV» the pride of
tho Spanish kingdom and tbe gem of tbe
Qttoen r s crown,
Soulet. Well, boh ®y dear sir, we wold’nt
mind paying yon qnito a handsome sum for it;
a hundred millions, if yon say so. Wo wont
scrimp about the price.
Spokesman. There is no price to it. Carry
yonr hundred millions to some other market if
yon wsf&t to bny honor with it. I tell yon the
honor of Old Spain has OC price.
Soulet.—But my dear sir, yon don't oonsidcr
What a wonderful deal of help a million would
be to you. You must remember you are ge tti ng
a good deal behindhand. You’ve no income
hardly and yon are a good deal in debt. Only
look at it: a hundred millions will enable yon
to pay off yonr debts, and make internal im
provements, and build railroads and telegraphs
all over your country, so that you can sprace np
and livo comfortable and got'afaead in tno world.
Say the word, and tho hnndred millions Is
jOUTBi ...
Spokesman. Offer year hundred million! to
we wasn’t long about it. It was finally conclus
ded that Sanders should go and stir up the South
era division headquarters New Orleans; Sickles
should take charge of the centre wing, headquar
ters at Washington, and a branch at New York ;
and I should go as fast as possible “down East,”
headquarters Downingville, and fit out a naval
foree that would pnt Cnba through. And here
I am, Gineral, and yon may depend on't the
work’s got to be done*
Bnt now I must ask you, Gineral, what In
thunder Mr. Marcy means by backin’ and fill
in’ so. I have jest got some of the latest New
York papers by an outer-bonnd vessel, and one
of the first things-1 see is Mr. Marcy’s letter
to Mr. Sonley, dated 13th of Nov., and it is so
full of milk and water it makes me fairly sick.
I was always little afraid Marcy was an old fo
gy, but I did think he had a little more back
bone than he shows in this letter. He’s no Chris
tian, and he's violated the Scripter, for he has
pnt his hand to the plough and looked back.—
He seems now to be for smoothing over matters;
thinks may be onr country could manage some
how. or other to get along without Cuba; don't
know bnt what old Spain means to do the thing
that’s abont right after all; better dicker a lit
tle longer with her in a friendly kind of a way;
better not do anything to affront her; keep
things quiet till Spain goto in the right mood,
and then, if she wont sell ns Cnba, perhaps she’ll
settle and pay np.
New, I'll tell yon what 'tis, General, onr
Enrap Cabinet don’t swallow no each milk and
water staff as that What’s got into Mr. Mar
cy f Last yearhe told Mr. Sonley to demand
three hnndred thousand dollars for the Black
Warrior right down' on the nail, and not stop
to party about it. But now he quivers and
■hakes on* way and 'totfaer like a loaf in' the
wind. I’m afraid Mr. Marcy is getting old.—
And there’s poor old Uncle Joshua, postmaster
of Downingville, I find he's getting old and
tiresnni, too. When I got home to Downing-
ville and told the family I was going to fit ont
the Two Pollies and be off the next day to take
Cnba, Uncle Joshua was'strack all of aheap.
Says he, “Major, I beg of yon not to go into
any of that ffUibustering business; it’s next
akin to piracy ; and there’s the neutrality laws
dead agin yon, too.”
“Oh, no,’ says I, “Unde Joshua, I aint go
ing to undertake any of yonr low fillibnsterin ;
I'm only jest going out to take Cnba man-fash*
ion, because our country cant get along with
out it, and (elf-preserration yon know is the
first law of nater, and because old Spain
keeps insulting of ns and won't pay np.”
“But don’t yon see, Major,” says Unele Josh
ua, “if yon go to take Cnba, yon aro making
war npon Spain; and yon can't do that acord
ing to the Constitution. Nobody in this coun
try has any power to make war bnt Congress.
“Bnt you’re mistaken there, Unele Joshua,"
»ajs I “Didn't Mr. Polk make war upon
Mexico?”
“No, by no means,” said Unde Joshna. “If
yon will look back and read the dockyments of
them days, yon will find it reads, * 'Whereas
war exists between this country and Moxlco.’
You see that war comes itself. “But yon have
no right to make war npon Spain or Cnba un
less yon get yoar authority from Congress."
“Wall, ancle, I have got my authority from
Congress,” says I; “what more do yon want?”
“Oh no,” says he ; “Congress ha’nt declared
war, because it would be in the papors, and I
should a seen it."
“Bnt I don’t mean yonr lazy Old Fogy Con
tes* to Washington,” says I; “I mean ‘oar
lamp Congress.”
And then I took the dockyment ont of my
ocket and showed it to him, siged by Mr.
lochaoan, and Mr. Mason, and Mr. Sonley*—
At first he was thnndsr-strnck, and conldn’t say
nothin. Then he foil back on the Constitution
agin, fast as b* always does, and said b* didn’t
believe onr Congress over tbero in Eurap was
constitutional. Then he re'acbed up to the shelf
and took down the old Constitution, oorered
with morocco leather, that General Jackson
sent him more than twenty years ago, and he
put on bis spectacles and looked it all over lrom
beginning to end, and said he conld’nt find
nothin abont any Congress in Enrap.
“But if yon call your meeting !over there
in Enrap a Congress,” says be, “I should like
to know where yon find yonr authority in tbo
Constitution to make war npon Spain or to go
fillibnsterin about Cuba.”
“Why, Unele Joshna,” say* I, "ws find it
in that dau*e where it *ay* */ take the retpon-
#i blUty.’" , ,
“There !" *atd Conrin Sargent Joel, who had
listening all the time withoat saying a word;
“there, unele,” says he, “I knew jroo would find
the authority in the Constitution somewhere.—
That’* ono of tho amendment* of the Constitu
tion that waa added by GeneralJackton, yon
know,*and therefor* it mud bo right”
Then Sargent Jool turned to mo, and eay* he,
“Major, Fve boon round and notified the wholo
company of the Downingville militia, and they
are all ready, armed and equipped a* the law
directs, and will be abroad to-morrow at tea
o'clook. They aro full of grit, and roady to
■wallow Cuba alive.”
Ihaln’tgot near through my story, Gineral,
for I wanted to toll yon more abont fitting out
the Tow Pollies, and abont the crew, and tbe
aogers, and tho marine*, and the hoss-marine*,
and the vige, but I shan’t have room in this dc*-
patch, and the little dipper, that’s waitin’ for
me to fiinish writing, ha* got a smart wind and
wants to be off. Ir I dont see yon standing on
the pint of Floriday as We go by, I shall take it
for granted that you have concluded not to go
ont to see ns tako Cuba; but if I see a man stan
ding there and swinging bis hat, I shall know
it’* yon, and we’ll bear right up with the Two
Polio* and take yon off.
I remain yonr old fried, and Miniator-Oene
ral at Large, Rear Commodore of the fillibnster
fleet MAJOR JACK DOWNING.
Socialism In Texas.
The Austin State Gazette views with disfa
vor the prospect of having a socialist colony in
Texas under tho auspicos of Victor Considerant.
That paper has the following article on the sub
jeot:
We are always pleased to bare industrious
immigrants) come among us. Plenty of work
can bo found by raeohanics and laborers, and
there is room in all onr towns for more enter
prising merchants And business men. There
is one class, however, that we are opppsed to,
and have no disposition to hold ont to them in
dneements to settle among ns. This class
of that Propagandist school whioh in Frauoe
and in parts of the United States has and 'is
seeking to sap the foundations of society. The
socialist desires to destroy individual rights in
property, and if he is not a vory intelligent and
moral man—a rare thing—we may havo in him
a neighbor who will rob and plunder us wbon
ever he can get the chance : for he holds it as
a primary principle in his creed, that no indi
vidnal has a right to aeenmnlate property for
himself, and all above whatisneecssary to ens-
tain him belongs to the rest of society. Again,
the socialist is an abolitionist everywhere. He
would not be less opposed to slavery by living
in Texas than in France or in Ohio. It is part
of his creed. Now we are told that John Allen,
of Ohio, and Mens. Victor Considerant, pro
poses bring out from France to western Texas
a colony ofsocialists. This move for tho pur
pose of bnilding np a sect opposed to onr politi
cal institntions may well be regarded with
jealousy, and the founders may rely npon it that
they will not be suffered to tamper with onr in
stitutions. Tbe whole principles of coloniza
tion, where men of a peculiar caste in religion
or politics seek to array themselves together in
particular sections of the country, both as land
holders and faetionists, is at war with all the
elements ofsociety, and cannot be carried on
withoat creating bitter and unrelenting preju
dices and animosities among onr native oitizens.
We note this advent of socialism in Texas as
foreboding us no goad ; and we wish them to
havo a fair understanding before they reach
onr soil that as a political sect onr whole peo-
plo are against them.”
Cannibalism among tbe Indian*.—The
Rev. A. Barnard, eleven years amissionary to
the Ojibnes says, in a letter from Cass Lake,
“There is an old Indian woman, and one of her
daughters now here on a visit, who, with her
husband, son-in-law, and daughter, killed and
ate fifteen pereone last winter, many days march
from this place. What makes the case more
horrible, is the fact that most of the persons
eaten were her own children and grandchildren,
that it was at a timo when they conld have got
fish to eat, and therefore were not in a state of
starvation. The report is that the old man and
one of his sons, who were engaged in this can
nibalism, hare beon recently killed by other
Indians to prevent their going still farther in
this work. The surviving daughter who help
ed to eat a sister and her children, and her own
children, has threatened to eat some of thoso
who killed hor father. That daughter is here.
She and her mother have boen at our house to
day.”
THE MAID BESIDE THE STREAM
A maid reclined beside a stream
At fall of summer day, #
And half awake and half in dream,
She watched the ripples play,
She marked the waters fall and heave,
The deepening shadows throng,
And heard, as darkened down the eve,
That river’s babbling song.
And thus >t sung, with thinking tongue,
That rippling shadowy river—
“Youth’s brightest day will fade away
Forever and forever!”
Tho twilight post,)the moon at last
Rose broadly o 'er tbe night,
As wrongbt in silver bright,
Tho heaving waters glide along,
But mingling with their voice,
The nightingale now pours his song,
And makes the shades rojoice.
And thus he sung with tuneful tonguo,
That bird beside the river—
“When youth is gono true love shines on
Forever and forever!”
Sentimental Pitt.—Not all that is called
Benevolence desorves the name.' To pity the
poor is one thing, to relieve the poor is much
more difficult. It is easy to say be ye fed, bo
ye wanned, but what doth it profit, if we give
them not thoso things that are noedful ? Kind
feelings are only praiseworthy when they lead
to kind actions, If strong impressions of hu*
man misery lead to tbe relief of it, they are
faithful monitors to virtue, and cannot bo too
sedulously cultivated, but if they do not. stim
ulate to action, they serve no other end than
to display a kind of effeminate softness, utterly
valueless to the world. I much admire the
pity of the Samaritan. It was not expanded in
kind words, or looks, but in generous and effec
tive deads.
The Pope’s Last Bull.—His Holinoss, tho
Pope, in his last “ball,” says to the Bishop and
Priosts of tho United States:—“General educa
tion promotes infidelity, and checks the prog
ress of Catholicity; bible sociotio* are engines
of mischief; tho freedom of the Press is a most
foal plague; liberty of conscience a prolific
sonreei of heresy and crimo. Demolish these,
and Catholicism has nothing to fear In the Uni
ted States.” We respectfully commend tbe
foregoing to onr neighbor of the Spirit who pro-
fesaos to be of tho opinion that there is nothing
antisropnblienn or dangerous in tho designs of
Roman Catholicism.
Mysterious Providences.—One man sucks
an orange, and is choaked by a pit; another
swallows a penknife and livos; one runs a
thorn into his hand, and no skill can save him;
another has a shaft of a gig driven completely
through his body, and recovers; one is over
turned on a smooth common, and breaks bis
neck; another is tossed out of a gig over Brigh
ton Cliff and survives; one walks out on a win
dy day, and moots death by a brickbat; anoth
er is blown up in the air, like Lord Hatton in
Gornscy Castle, and comes down nninjnrod.
The escape of this nobleman was indeed a
miracle. An explosion of gunpowder, which
killed his mother, wife and some of his children,
and many other persons, and blow np the whole
fabric of tbe castle, lodged him in bis bed on
a wall overhanging a tremendous precipice.
Poroeiring a mighty disorder, (as well ho
might) he was going to leap out of his bed to
know what the matter was, which if he had
done, ho had been irrevocably lost; but in.tho
instant of bis moving a flash of lightning came
and showed him tho prooiptao, wboroupon ho
lay still till (he people enmo and took him down.
Extraordinary Flying Machine.
Wo find tbe following carious and interest
ing statement in the Paris Patrie:
“The Academy of Sciences is a good deal in
terested by the invention of a Plying Machine,
by Don Diego de Salamanca. With this ma
chine Don Diego’* daughter, Rosaura, rose in
the air sometime ago at Madrid, to tbe groat
astonishment of the Spaniards, who are but lit
tle accustomed to this sort of miracle. Don
Diego de Salamonou and bis daughter is about
to arrive at Paris to show tho effect of its mar
vellous invention. The machine is very sim
ple, it oonsists in a ease two feet long, and one
foot wide, adapted to a band of loather ronnd
the waist bnekled behind. Tbe two iron rods
fastened to the ease support a small piece of
wood, on which the feet repose. Tbe case eon
tains a simple and ingetious mechanism, simi
lar to that employed to sot an ’automaton in
motion. The mechanism is worked by means
of a handle. It sets in work two large wings
ten feet long, made of vory thin caontohono,
covered with feathers; and the wings may be
so worked as to prodnee vertical, perpendicular,
or horisontal flying. Tho nnmber of tarns giv
en to tho handle determines the height to which
it is deitined]to go.
The handle has to be tamed every quarter of
a league to rognlato the distance ; the
operation of? turning lasts a minute. Hori
zontal fl] ing Is the most difficult. The wings
beat the air like the oars of a boat, or rather as
the feet of a swan when it swims. By means
of this enrions machine a man can go almost
as rapidly as a carrier-pigeon from the Hotel
de Villie to tho Are de Triomphe de l’Etolle,
in eight minutes, and in half an hour to Versail
les. The experiments, which will be made in
Paris, will be on a small scale, and the flights
of Don Diego will not extend beyond the de
partment of the Seine; bnt at a later period he
proposes to go to Lyons, Bordeaux, Tonlonso,
Marseilles and Tours, and to take the lines of
railway. He pretends that he can travel quick
er than by rail. The price of each machine will
not exceed 1200f. for men, and lOOOf. for wo-
mon. If the experiment succeeds Don Diego
will take ont a patent, and make the sale of the
machines a branch of commerce. Although
greatly astonished at this new invention, sever
al members of th* academy have pointed ont
tho inconvenience of bringing it into general
nse. In point of fact, there ' will be no
security for any one, if by the aid of such ma
chine all onr usages and customs be overthrown
and if malefaotora can fly on the roofo of homes,
afterwards get into apartments and commit all
sorts of depredations. It will bo very enrions
to see policemen in France or England pann
ing thieves in the air, in order to look them np
on earth. It appean that 1855 promises ns
all sorts of marvels.”
MUSIKLE EPPIC,
Politicians, Look to Yourselves.—The
New. York Mirror, in noting the result of tbe
elections in New Hampshire last week, says:
“ It is useless for politicians to close their-
eyes to the inundation that is abont to deluge
them. One after another the old party land
marks and rickety platforms are washed away
by the surging tide. Not even the most insub
stantial bnoys remain to uphold them. They
are politically waterlogged, and most go down.
Events have been for some time ripening for
the result of yesterday in New Hampshire.
The defeat of the American tieket in this
State by th* election of Clark, and afterwards
of Seward, was a formidable blow at the mys
terious ageney which planned their orerthow.
Internal dissensions and the scenes enacted
and the exposures made in th# Legislature of
this State for a moment were ominous of the dis
solution of the order. But the skies have
cleared up again. Throughout the length and
breadth of ths country, in Virginia, Kentucky,
and other Statos, arrangements are being made
for tbe struggle, preparatory to the great one
in 1856. There can be no doubt as to the fu
ture result. Those who would be on the win
ning side, had better fall into the American
line."
A crowd was a porln in onto a music]* Hall,
And I follered. A emmens* crowd was there,
A listening to a feller as was plying on a mu-
siole
Cupboard, which gave forth dnleiek sounds ;
I lingered. It was straykorse. He went in on
Tropiola fruits generally, not to mention lem
ons. '
Then eome her Aasolnta and her sister, and
song
“Vedral Carino," or tho Canine Viddsr—a ft.
male
Dog as had lost her husband, and than a in-
Termission, whioh was the best performance, to
Look at the wirnmen. Th* dresses of
The Assolutus was a surprisin site, in
Consequence of the dresses not coming np long
Enough on the shoulders. Old Ball with
Better olese on than he ever had before, came
Ont and plade. Bis hair was combed good,
And bis mosiok was on cord*. (That’s Freaoh
for “Do
It again,”) and he done it Then the abort
waisted
Dresses on top song agin—and then a large col
lar
With Straykorse inside of itattaoked th# enp-
borde
And tried to break the stopples off the bottom
Of it with his fat—and then Old Ball
Cam oat and done tbq Kanal of Veniss—with.
Ont th» drivers, which was the end of the per-
Formance, and the awjince retired, wanting
To git their dollars book agin.
Gar Supreme Court.
The appointment of Judge Lumpkin of the
Supreme Court, to be one of the Judges of the
Court of Claims, will, in the event ef his accep
tance, entail on Got. Johnson the dnty of filling
the vacancy thus created. In accordance with
tlte just spirit of compromise and conciliation
which at th* organization of the Court prompted
the Legislator* to place the Supreme Court
measurably ont of the arena of polities, and
which has been ever since respected and eon-
formed to, by retaining on th* Beneh one judge
of whose political opinions, coincided with the
party out of power, we take for granted that Gov.
Johnson will place a Whig in the vacant jndg-
■hip. The other inonmbents, Judges Starnes
and Banning, are democrats, and it would, there
fore, not be decorous in Governor Johnson to
ignore the happy understanding existing on
this subject between the two great parties of
Georgia, and pass over the professional claims
of the many eminent Whig lawyers of Georgia
by appointing a Democrat.
The proposition leems.to have been eonoeed-
ed from the beginning, and faithfully adhered
to, that the minority shonld have one member
on the Supreme Bench. It is a proposition
correct in itself when applied to an office not po
litical, and to a Court which has the ultimate
deoision on all the great legal questions invol
ving life, liberty and property. The people and
politicians hare alike acquiesced In it, and we
trust a Democratic Execntive will not be tbe
first to deny and defeat it by apartizan exercise
of his appointing power.—Conetitutionaliit &
Republic.
Lynch Law inCalifobnia.—As a specimen
of the manner in whioh the mobs in th# “El
Dorado” murder those who have inonrred their
displeasure, we quote the following:
A correspondent of the Sacramento Union,
writing from Red Bluffs, gives some farther
particulars of the lynching at red Bluffs on the
30th nit. A man who refused to give his name
was tried, condemned and executed on a charge
of mole stealing. The Union's correspondent
says: “ The evidenee against this man was suf
ficient, perhaps, to have convicted him in a
court of justice; yet he Was not permitted to
offer any evidence to disprove th* charge, nor
yet permitted to be present and cross-examine
the witnesses who testified against him; the
examination being strictly an ex parte exami
nation. Yot it appears there was scarcely any
eanse to donbt his gnilt He refused to make
a confession, bat told them that he would give
his name upon condition that they wonld shoot
him instead of hanging; he said he did not
want his relatives to know that he was hung,
whioh they refused to grant. He acknowl
edged that ho had once stolen some money at
French Golch in this county. He was a man
about twenty-five years of age, and had a gen
teel appearance. I understood that he was
from Rome, in the State of New York. The
body was left banging for several hours, after
which it was taken down, but I have never
heard what was done with it."
Yellow Fetes Prevented by. Inoculation.
—We notiee in La Cronica, that Wm. L. Hum
boldt has discovered a means to prevent yellow
fever by inoculation. ■ The government or Cnbia
as La Cronica is informed, has directed the in
oculation of the major part, amounting toon*
thousand, of the newly arrived troops, which
has resulted in the greatest success, since none
have bsen attacked by this trerible disease,
which generally decimates the foreign, popula
tion shortly after their arrival. The operation
is similar to vaeeination, by inserting the virus
discovered by Dr. Humboldt, generally in both
arms. A few hoars after this trifling operation,
the symptoms of a miniature yellow fever com
mence, and all the pathological consequences
follow rapidly and slightly, rarely exceeding
48 hours in duration, and with nothing more
than a slight feverish action.
NUMBER 23
A Growing Citt.—Ths St. Louis Intelligen
cer considers the failure of the Legislature to
pass a City Extension bill as a dead loss to the
oity of half a million of dollars. The city con
tain* only 97,000 inhabitants, whilst tho real
oity has a population of 120,000. The preseut
oity limits, in some places, ran across most pop
ular streets leaving the largest nnmber of houses
and people ootsldo. The growth of St. Louis
has been one of the marvels of the age.—Nat.
Intelligencer.
A Painnul Accident happened at Meredith
N. H., Tuesday, daring the election. A floor
gave way in tbe Town Hall, pitching some
three hnndred men into a heap eighteen feet
below. Five or six are probably dead, and a
great number are soverely injured.
Rain and Hail.—Tbero was a heavy rain
accompanied with considerable hail, at Colum
bus Thursday lasti r
Why is tbe attorney like a minister ? Became
k* studies the law and the profile.
The following question is now before thejSand
T.»Va Debating Society;
“Whioh is a bad man least fitted for—to live
er to die.'
fdt~Old Cent.—“Why den’tyen go to work,
and stop picking yonr nose ?”
Boy.—“It's my nose ain't it? and it’s Fourth
of July, too. I'll pick thunder ont of it if I've
min'tto."
3*8:
A Young Ladt was recently cured of palpita
tion of th* heart by a yonng M. D., in the most
natural way imaginable. He held one of her
bands in his, pat his arm ronnd her waist, and
whispered something in her left ear.
“Mind, John, if you go ont in the yard, you
will wish you had stayed in the house.”
“Well, if I stay in this house, I will wish I
was out in the yard; so where is th* great dif
ference, dad!"
——A Western paper, in speaking of a newly
elected Senator, says his ignorance is so dsass
that the auger of common sense will be longer
in boring through it, than it would take a boil
ed carrot to bore through the Hooaio mountain.
Awful !—In its statistics of murder for the
past year the New York Herald says that there
were 36 wires killed by their husbands; 6 hus
band* killed by their wives ; 21 children killed
by their parents; 3 parents killed by their chil
dren; and 5 brothers killed by brothers, in the
United States.
One of onr Western villages passed an ordin
anoe forbidding traverns to sell liquor ou the
Sabbath'to any .persons except travelers. The
next Sunday every man in town was seen'going
around with a valise in one hand and two sad
dlebags in the other. Ingenious people, those
gin and sugar imbibers.
In a. Quandrt.—“Well my little fellow,
what’s the matter ?” “Dont know Where to go,
thirl Boo-hoo !” “Why dontyou go to school?*
“Then master ’ll beat me! Boo-boo-boo”—
“Well take yonr books and go home.” “Then
mother 'U beat me thirl I can’t help getting
licked any way I Boo-hoo 1 Boo-hoo-hoo l”.
Mr. Jons went home drank and found his
wife asleep. He went to bed, and after a mo-
neats consideration, he thought it wonld be poli-
consideration, ue tnongbtit woman* pou-
oy to turn over least his breath might be tray him;
when Mrs. Jones opened her eyes,—and in the
mildest manner in the world said:
“Yon needn't tom over, Jones, for you are
drunk dear through.”
fiSR'* Yon say, Mr. Smith, that yon don’t like
Jayeooks, why not ?”
'Because, he is always dealing in innuen
does. No longer than last night, he said I was
d- —d thiefj and, whafs more, said le
From Knickknacks.—Most likely many of
onr readero!wiU remember this 'vexedquestion*'
in logic: 'It either rain* or it does not rain: bnt
it does not rain; therefor* it rains/ This used
to puzzle uf hugely; as did also the mathemati
cal problem, in simple equations, which ensues:
'A cat has one more tail than no eat; no cat
has two tails; ergo, aeathae three tail*!’ The
conclusion is irresistible. Here is something,
however, whioh is of deeper import: 'Johnson
•studied law with Dobson, nnder the agreement
that he should pay Dobson, when he (Johnson)
gained hiefint caute. After a time Dobson got
tired of waiting for the conditions of the con
tract, and sued Johnson for his pay. Ho rea
soned thus: 'If J- sue him I shall get paid at
any rate, because if I gain the eanse, I shall be
paid by the decision of the court; if I lote it,
I shall be paid by the conditions of the contract,
for then Johnson will have gained his first
cause; therefore I am safe.' Johnson, on the
other hand, being prodigiously frightened,
sought connsel, and was told to reason thns:
' Dobson reasons well, bnt there must be a flaw
in his argument; because /and not he will gain
the victory. If the suit goes in my favor, I
■hall gain it by tbe decision of the court; if it
goes against me, I shall gain it by the terms of
the contract, not having yet won my first cans*.
Of course I shall not havo to pay him!' ,F«m
la Logique l
eonld prove it/
The Court admitted that each 'innuendoes'
were oat of character, and gave a verdict accor
dingly.
Good Loqio.—“Bradder Jones, ean yon tell
me de difference 'tween dying and dieting?”
“Why, ob coarse I can Samuel, when yon
diet yon lib on noffin, and when you die yon had
noffin tolib on.”
“Well, dafs different from what I tort it
was. I tort it was a race atween d* doctor
in' staff mad starwation, to see whioh Trill kill •
fast”
-“Trust me, Clara Vere do Vere,
From yon blue hearens above ns bent
The grand old gardener and his wife
Smile at the elaims of long descent 1
Howe’er it be, It seems to me,
'Tis only noble to be good.
Kind hearts are more than coronet?, -
And simple faith than Norman blood.”
Tennyeon.
Oh Don’t.—The “Telegraph” pats Overby
on the back, and says as plain as a pike-staff,
go it old fellow. Don’t yon bo scared off the
track by tbe algerines and Know Nothings—
your ohance is as good now as ever it will be, if
not better! Be not “bamboozled or bullied”
ont of yonr position but ran—ran. In course,
tbe Numsbackled party wish Overby to succeed.
They love the Temperance cans* so dearly that
thoy would almost vote for Overby, themselves,
not that they think Overby’s running will in-
jnre Jenkins or the Know Nothing Candidate!
Thoy would regret that exceedingly—“in a
horn 1” Tho advice is perfectly dieintereeted,
therefore, and does not conceal the latent idea
and hope that tho whole of Overby’s vote will
be taken from the Whig side and leave tbe
whole of the Rnmshaekles to go undivided for
tho Candidate who may be nominated by the
Milledgevillo Convention of 5th June!—Go.
Citizen.
Gens from Old Authors.—A bookish friend
sends ns a few exeellent maxima gleaned in
his reading favorite authors, many of whom
are half forgotten in the present generation:
He that faith well and doth well is commen
dable; bat I like him better who doth well and
saith nothing.
The tight we have gained was given ns not
to be ever staring on, bnt by it to discern in
ward things more remote from onr knowledge.
Knowledge is a treasure, bnt judgment is the
treasurer.
Indolence is a stream whioh flows slowly on,
bnt yot undermines the foundation of every
virtue.
Let at manage onr time as well as we 6an,
there will yet ramain a great deal that will be
idle and unimployed.
Qnito a joke happened to on# of tho doctors
the other day. He ordered some very power
ful medicine for a sick boy, and the father, not
liking the appearance of it, forced it down tbe
oafs throat, and when the doctor called again
and inquired if the powder had cored the boy,
the father replied 'no, we did'nt give it to
him.”
Good Heavens said, the doetor, 'lathe child
living?
'Yes, bnt the old cat isn't; we gave. It to
her?*'
The doctor sloped.
Ben, of Hanover College, deoe np the world
as follows, in the Ylcksbnrgh Sentinel:
All the world is in commotion
With the mighty locomotion
Of this rushing, steaming ago.
From the giant steamer’s snorting,
And the rail car's wild cavorting,
To the ratting country stage;
All is rambling, dashing,
Snorting, puffing, heaving, splashing.
And la wonderful qui vice—
Walking, shaking all creation
In this tarnal Yankee nation,
Making huge the blusteration
Of tho age in which we live.
Influence of a Newspaper
A school teaoher, who has been engaged a
long timo in his profession and witnessed the
influence of a newspaper npon the minds of a
family of children, writes to the editor of the
Ogdensburg Sentinel as follows :
I have found it to be the universal fact with
out exception, that those scholars of both sexes
of all ages, who have had access to a newspapor
at home, when compared with those who hare
not, aro:
1. Bettor readers, excelling in punctuation
and in emphasis, and consequently read more
under? tandingly.
2. Thoy are bettor spollors, and dofine words
with ease and accuracy.
3. They obtain a practical knowledge of ge
ography, in almost half the time it requires oth
ers, as tbo newspaper has made them familiar
with the location of the governments and doings
on the globe.
4. They arc better grammarians, for having
become so by tho style in the newspapor, from
the common advertisement to the finished and
classical oration of the statesman, they more
readily comprehend the meaning of th* text, and
consequently analysed its construction with ac
curacy. •
5. They write better eompoaitions, using bet
ter language, containing more thoughts, more
cloar and connectedly expressed.
6. Those young mon, who havo for years been
readers of the newspnpors are always taking the
lead in the debating society, exhibiting a more
extensivo knowledge upon a greater variety of
subjocts, and expressing thoir views with gront-
er liuoncy, clearness and correctness in thoir
use of language.
From Liquor to Literature.—“In fhe Texas
market," says a writer from that State, *' the
demand has anddonly changed from liquor to
literature. Publie libraries and reading-rooms
are taking tho place of grogshops and brilliant
saloons, in this new and prosperous Stats.”
Are we a Sober Pkoflb?—The enoraons
quantity of 47,000,000 gallons of whisky, ram,
and brandy, and 35,000,000 gallons strong beer,
wore made in the United States daring the last
year; being more than three gallons apiece to
every man, woman, ehild, and auoking baby,
black and white, in the country.
'Sambo, I’se got a conumdibns to promulgate
to TOU.*
‘Propol, darkey/
'Well, den. why am yon tike a tree?
'Why am I tike a tree ? I gibe dat up/
‘The reason why yon am like a tree Is beoanso
yon am eber green l Yah 1 yah! yah 1*
'Julius, I’se got aoonnmdibusto propound to
you.
'Expatiate, den Sambo/
'Well, den why is yon like a tree ?
'I gibs dat up for cartin 'darkey.*
'Don, darkey, I can demonistrate the foot.
*
rinia, who recently joined the Masonio Order,
las writton a letter to his sister in Taunton, in
which he presonts somo mysterious emblemati
cal figures for hor solution, embraoinga gridiron
square and oompass, Ac. Within the square of
tbe qridiron is a ring encircling the letters H.
T. W. S. S. T. K. 8., which of course have here
tofore been understood only by those initiated
into tho rites and ceremonies of the ancient Or
der ; but some one, forgetting no doubt, the fate
of Morgan, has divulged the secret to the lady,
and she had transmitted its solution to her un
guarded brother. Here it is: Have Tho Wiok-
ed Scamps Sent To Kansas Soon.
De reason yon am tike a tree is because you ant
a lowcuee /'
'Good-bye, darkle, I exchange no more sain*
tations widyou.
dog
‘Rev. Mr. Field, a well known clergyman o
Vermont, went several years ago to deposit*
his vote ut an elootion. One of the poll inepec>
tors, a neighbor of his, and of opposite politics,
remarked: “I am very sorry," Mr. Field, to see
yon here.” “Why ?” asked Mr. Field. “Be
cause," said the officer, Christ said that his
kingdom was not of this world.” “Has no one
a right to vote,” asked Mr. F., “unless he be-
longs to tho kingdom of Satan/*
‘A Smart Dog.—A friend of oars bos a
which used to be very smart. He says s
There warn’t anything in all Kentuck,' said
he, 'that conld bogia with him, 'cept ono.
Ono day w* started a bar [bear,] a regular
snorter. He pnt right strait off and the -dog
after him, an' I brought up in the roar. They
wore soon out of sight, bnt I followed on for a
mile, or eo, and came out at last on a clearing,
where was a long hut, and a feller setting down
an’ smoking his pipe as conifer tabic as possiblo/
'Did yoji see anything pf a dog an’bar, goin*
by here 1* sez I to the feller.
'Yes I did,’ sez ho.
‘ Wal, how was it?’ soz I.
'Wall/ soz he, taking his pipe out an’drawing
his coat sleeve across his face, 'it were about
nip an' tack, thoagh I think the )dog had a little
the advantage.’
‘How was that?”
‘Wal, Ac waa a trifle ahead,—N. 7. Spirit of
tho Timet,
