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■huN.TUI KSDAV MORNING, AUG. 31,1865.
I Qualify to Vote.
I:, the course of a loog aDd ably prepared
, e ta this subject, the Mobile Register
r s -me excellent suggestiona. The ed-
Miliury rule, as experienced here
a of a mild type, aDd probably as
:■ ui undue severity and tyranny as it
. «*;l»!e for such rule to be. We have
inanely fortunate in our eoutuianders
in the subordinate officers coming in
tad wish the people. They have been
: .lament, intelligence and kindly
.il. di-p ised to rcuder the “ situation*’
to our people as possi
u J vet favored iu these respects as wc
• ten, who has not felt the iron of mil
(rule cuter his soul and longed for the
ma of civil law and authority ? But
. Uitu “lay the flattering unction to
* ui," that, if we neglect to avail our
s the opportunity afforded us to re
civil rights and goverumeut, the mil
rule which will then be exercised over
.!« like that experienced hitherto.—
..-rat reason for the miluness of that
hxe been the fact that we were consid
:n i tradition state, destined soon to
a utubr military domination entire
lic.Buve the idea and make the military
'• peiuiaoent aud supreme, and then we
>'iu t.iexperience what it is to live
lively uuder martial law.
ii h« Hebrews under * Ilehoboam, we
! ;a tha» case look back upou our former
ii> xs light and trivial compared with
I lieu imposed, and sigh iu vaia lor an
rubity to relieve ourselves from the
L- yoke of military bondage. We shall
deprived of the poor consolation of
! eg that our fate was inevitable, for
• be forced to acknowledge that we
pi»t it upon ourselves, and that our pun
cotwasjuat.
I: ** d<>not believe our people will be
f such stupendous folly. The Coa
k a R.ill be held, reader, whether you
11 ixithfully discharge our duty as cit
jt neglect or skulk from that duty,
- setion will bind us all the same. —
wmg.Uie little trouble requisite and
- ting our ballots for good and true men
•a have done all we could to restore the
-to her old position in the Union. It
p.a important, moreover, that the * vote
‘>e as heavy as as well as
right men should be chosen. More
- upou this than most people im
t. ' ... - ... ;
—— ♦ ♦ ♦ ■—■ *
B- : S/f rtms* of Life. —Life rolls ou
I * *onvnt. Tba past is uo more than a
B~ tie preseut, when we thiuk we have
B - ri of it, slips through our bauds aud
with the past. And let us not
B-J imagine that the future will be dis-
B-- : it will glide away with the saute ra*
BtJ of you may bare seen the
the ooeao prefi etch other to the
Too then beheld to etfiblcns of hu>
B life: 0, efcikhss, make baste than i
B May »t-i «fsa ) Ijsob Uffto
B- TO etene If abU w bisa* efcl f§?*
(dr Man double* ell the evils of hie
B* by pondering over them. A Scratch
B‘-sih a. wound, A slight an Injury, a
B at .ualtj e small peril a great danger,
B ». gbt au*koe#a often end* in death
B •-* breeding apprehensions of the sick.
■ " »t-eu.d always look on the bright side
B picture.
RpS" Mr. Benjamin, late Confederate
sry of State, has reached Paris,
Ky II 1* Uhdarstood the sx-Secre
■V »t Jtk.il’' 11 fro '* miuy by
Xl* sty*
“Railroad Accidents”
A coroner's jury at last has done its duty
in respect to one of the many so called
“railroad accidents.*' In the case of the
late massacre ou the Housatonic Railroad a
yerdiet has been rendered that the “collis
ion occurred in consequence of the enlpable
negligence and want of proper care and
caution on the. part of Charles Hunt, Presi
dent and Superintendent; Henry L Plumb,
Conductor ; Andrew Winslow, Master Me
chanic, and Edward R. Lyman, Eugineer,
on said railroad” Now, we trust that the
above verdict will be promptly followed up
and a proper, example be made of the guilty
parties/ 6 J
The lobs of life in this country by collis
ions of trains from direct carelessness, by
cars thrown from tracks in consequence of
misplaced switches and roiten rails, by the
falling of uiisconsiructed and worn out
bridges, by locomotive explosions, etc.,' is.
enormous. In the United States, from 1854
to 1864 ten years—there were one thou
sand and ninety railroad accidents attended
with fatal results, by which oue thousand
four hundred and sixty-five persons were
killed, and five thousand eight hunc’red and
three weuuded. But the year 1864 ex
ceeded all others. There were (omittiugarll
casualties iu the so-called Confederate States,
as it was impossible to obtain efficient data
therein) oue hundred and forty such acci
dents, killing four hundred and four persons
aud wounding fourteen hundred and eighty
six. Os course there were more miles of
railroad in operation last year than in any
of the preceding ten years; but the per
centage of increase iu accidents and in con
struction will not bear comparison. The
excuse made by the railroad companies for
this terrible destruction of life was that the
pressure of business caused by the govern
ment demand for the movement of troops,
war material and stores, rendered it impos
sible to make the necessary repairs to roads
and stock worked to their utmoat capacity.
But certainly no such excuse is now valid.
We are at peace. There has been no great
or sudden transportation needed by the
governmept since early spring. Theee has
been a leisurely movement of troops to their
homes in ihe North, but nothing calling for
such haste that there was not time to prep
up a rotten bridge or remove a worm-eaten
sleeper. Aud already this year there have
been one hundred aud eighteen fatal acci
dents—two buadred add four persons have
been killed aod ono thousand and throe
wouuded. These are not estimates, but
carefully recorded statistics.
We need better laws for the punishmout
of railroad officials aud employees There
is the grossest carelessness in both parties.
The Penusylvauia Legislature, at its last
session,-passed a law which is excellent so
tar as it goes. It declares that if any em
ployee of a railroad company shall violate
any rule of such company, aud injury or
loss of life shall thereby result, the offender
shall be iinrqedjately arrested by the pros
ecuting attorney of the city or county in
which the accident 'happened, and, if fouudi
guilty, shall bo convicted of misdemfe&Dof
and punished at the discretion of the court.
But we need something more stringent still.
VV by should not the meo who build such
weak structures as our railroads notoriously
are be punished ? What is the difference
botweeu the guilt of the man who delib
erately uuderuiiues a bridge or removes a
rail, that a train may be destroyed with its
freight of human life, and the miserly con
structor who erects a bii lge without suffi
cient foundation, or puts iu a rotten rail,
well knowing that accidents must ultimately
happen ? Lavs should bo enacted for the
punishment of a higher class of criminals—
especially some of our railiroad presidents
and constructors.—A. Y. Herahl.
Lay Still , Sonny A Parkersburg
(W. Vtt.) paper says that several gentle
men of the legislature took the ears at
Craftou late on the 6th ult., for Wheeling,
ami among the number was Mr. G., of
somewhat large proportions physically,
and a Mr. D., of proportional. undersize.
These ,tWo, the starlwart Mr, G. and the
smooth-faced little Mr. D. took a berth
together, it seems, in a sleeping car. The
little man laid- behind, and the good
natured, waggish Mr. G. before. Mr. D.
was sleeping and snoring furiously. Mr.
G., more restless under the legislative bur
dens, soon arose and was sitting by the
stove, when an elderly lady come aboard,
aud desired a sleeping berth. “All right,
madam,” said Mr. G. “Itookaberth with
my son, and you can occupy my place iu
that berth where my son is sleeping.”
Taking Mr. G. at his word, the lady dis
robed herself end lay down with the boy.
After a quiet repose of sometime, the boy
(Mr. D.) became restless from some eause
and began to kick around, to the annoy
once of the lady. So in a maternal way
she patted the boy oa the backhand said /
“Lay still sofiqvj pa said X might sfsep
with you” “pto Jou?” *»ld jhe
legislator] “t Am A faftembif Os ibs Wifi
VirginialagishiMf#Hl* said the nil
led/ stfdsbsd,
6 ice, isl the most prominent candidate
for head of the bureau made vacant by
the Appointment of John Wilson to the
bead of the new Executive Bueeau, ywm
is now designated to be a bureau of par*
dons, The President's purpose in or
ganizing it is simply to have the maas-of
clerical duties connected with the business
-brought before him taken ou the shoulders
of his subordinates, The rooms for tl A
clerks will, if possible, be provided at the
White House.
j£3C" At the. Yale College commence*
meet dinner, Gen, Oilman said be was
authorised by the Secretary of War to
la? there had rmutly been diibmdid or
Were new la proses* of dlsbaadweftt,
?1i,948 eeiditM, and that mt had 1,100,*
oad mm & the M 4 *l» to
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MACOJsr. AU.GMJ9T 31.1*65
It is our painful duty to record one of
the most attrooious outrages ever commu
ted by fiends in human form,* the particu
lars of which we hav« just been made cog
nizant of- We hope an earnest and perse
vering effort may be made by the authdfi
tie9 to discover tho perpetrators of the hein
ous crime, and that-if -discovered, a terrible
punishment may be visited upou tffiyn.—
Perdition has no tortures half wrßble
enough for such incarnate devils as {nose
who figured in this horrible tragedy.
A short time ainoe a party of seven sol
diers disgraced themselves and the uniform
they wore, by going to the wretched hovel
of a poor odd woman, ‘who with her three,
children resided a short distance above this
city. There each-of them outraged her,
aud after having accomplished their hellish
work, robbed her of all she possessed, aod
left the house.
Some time during the following day, the
old woman managed to crawl to the resi
dence of ,a neighbor—a lone vfoman life
herself—and there related jier wrongs, and
avowed her intention of ending her life,
saying that she had no desire to liye after
so horrible an oecurr&K-e.
She 4vont away* and her neighbor, think
ing that the avowal had been made in a fit
of desponduucy which would soon pass off,
ihought no.moro of it, perhaps; or, if think,
ing, did not trouble herself to act. The af
fair would, most likely, have never been
mentioned by her had not tha body of the
unfortuuatc womon been found in the river,
and her suffering children discovered just
in time to save them from starvation.
This -is no fancy sketch.—tho offspring of
a prolific brain or fertile imagination—but
is a simple reedrd of facts, connected with a
crime so black that no stone should be left
unturned to dfseover the perpetrators aud
bring them to punishment as condign and
terrible as the result of tbcii; hellish and
lawless act.—^ Cairo Democrat, Au<j 28.
The Tragedy of Othello.
When John Quincy Alarms was. Pres
ident, he was traveling incog, through New
York State; and never having seen Chan
cellor Kent, concluded to give him a call.
He reached his bouse quite late in the eve
ning, and without sending up his name,
was ushered into the library where the
Chancellor was busy reading. He looked
up from his book, requested bis unknown
visitor to be seated, und resumed his rend
ing. After looking around for a few min
utes, the President addressed tlie Chan
cellor, and- the following conversation en
sued :
“I see you have a great many books
here,’’ said the President,
“Yes.”
“I see you have Shakspeare,” said the
President; “have you ever read it ?”
‘ “Yes.”
“Do you know the moral of Othqllo ?”
¥ “Certainly; every one knows the mflral
of Othello,” said the Chancellor. “Why,
to, beware of jealousy, etc.”
“No,;sir; vou are wrong.”
“What is it then?” siJkb the Chanoeller,
much surprised.
“The moral of Othello,” said the Pres
ident, “is that a white womufi must not
marry a black man.”
At a doctrine so novel, and a moral so
original, the Chancellor concluded that his
visitor was au escaped lunatic, so he ran
to the door, calling “William! William!
(his son) come up bene; th re is a crazy
man in my room.” As soon as John Quin
cy could sufficiently control his laughter to
speak, he introduced himself, and the
Chancellor had some doubt* as his own
sanity, 4
Death on the Palo Roru Coming Along. —
The New York Tribune, of the 16th,
says: .
“ Death seems to be riding his pale
horse over desert, plain, sea, and city—
and we trace his match from Asia and
Africa to Constantinople, thenoe through
the countries of the Danube, aad over the
mountains to Spain—until his advance
when last heard from was enuampod in
Manchester, England. \Vbpether he has
time to cross the Atlantic or not before
the frosts come, w'e cannot say, but Man
chester is not many days distant, and
Death seems to travel with the swiftness
of morning. We should not be surprised
to see. his grim majesty any day debarking
a’t Castle Garden and riding up Broad
way. We do not expect the frosts for six
or eight weeks, and he might have a busy
time during that period, with time to pre
pare /or the coming Summer*
JC3T The friends of Southern Htera-I
ture will be gratified to learn that there is
soon to be established in this city anew
Hterury mouthly. A note from its pro*
j#*Lr, %. J. doott. tutorial us that
will 1m dtvofttl to UtoMur*,.
Art, Mi Um\ Krtwrai *#il jrt« W K*
WWWwSStmI
rfaSwto to m bjrsi A
# mi timob* to mm
Irrt&S wt) of country, a»*l we nope
our people will extend to the enterprise a
hearty support, Dtidliyenw.
* gaff’A oast fibs be#b taken of Dr,
PmeHardl head, and ft is stated by the
phrenologists that tbs animal part of the
bralu was fell/ four-fifths of the whole, A
fentleman eminent ‘n the art of reading
umps is said to have remarked that he had
only known one head of a some person to
equal It in ita. unfavorable development.
jfy The projeet of presenting General
Sherman aresideuce, as a well merited tee*
timodal from his follow-citizens in St. Louis r
basso far suooeedsd, that the sum of 980,*
000 Us been raised to r the etjjeet by the
eettmUtie having the natter is charge.
ftgp A letter from London says fash*
Sew t«e*af*M«aßb Jbwrudk
Honesty tfca Best PoJicy.
Amid the gay scenes and ever-vtrying
pleasures of Metropolitan life, young men
in the first bloom of existence, full of exu
berant health and spirits, thinking only of
the joyous present and forgetful of the
qplemn reality that surrounds them are
exposed to temptations against which the
most earnest admonitions cannot be too
often or too impressively repeated.
The sad history of the fortnight l.n
financial reminds us that no.station
in life, however exiilted, UjfuVorS of-Provi
dence however lavishly bestowed, hb pros
pects in soeie yor business,■''however
brilliant, are sufficient to shield'human
frailty from the wiles of temptation.
In one direction we behold a young man
trusted, honored and beloved, tha rising
hope of a family respected and oqqrtod in
the best social circles of our country, and
admitted to share the benefits qfourwagt,
eminent btmnasS firms ’hi' au rT
yielding to the suggestfouS of vanity or
greed by barefaced jobbery entailing ruin
and disgrace, not only upon himself and aty
who should be; dear to him, but by the
widening consequences of his guilt, upon
hundreds of innocent persons, far beyond*
hisowu immediate kith and kia.
In another quarter, a young man hither
to esteemed by his employers and ac
quaintances, with overy inducement before
him to sustain honest exertioD, and inspire
laudable ambition, pillages the funds of
the Bunk that bears hie family name and
flies to a foreign land in the vain hope
that there he may be permitted to lire
a few brief years of ahame in exile and
ohscurity, only to return a branded felon—
a hissing and a byword all who
huve known him—lds very name a token
of utter misery to the mother who bore
him on her breast.
" In a third instance, a still deeper degra
dation is revealed. A man of gentlemanly
bearing add some accomplishment riot only
becomes a common plunderer, but system
atically follows up his villariy until, at
ength, it confronts him in the prisoner’s'
box, where he stands cupleid with his
chosen mates and accomplices, the public
prostitute and the notorious thief.’
How rhoiirnfur this, in the midst of
our dashing city life and civilization 1 And
yet how useful to the rest who have not"
yet sinned, but may be trembling on the
brina I Yel young Ketuhuin aud Town
send and Jenkins are but the types of a
class and the victims of a style of thought
that have only too wide a away iu our
country. They are somewhat in advance
of the rest, it is true, and the tuition of the.
bar-room and the recherche concert saloon
has only developed in them a little more
rapidly and thoroughly; b&t the root of
the evil lies in the spirit and teudency of
the whole grinua of “ fast young men.”—
All parties, without exception, who encour
age the chaitt-o£ leasooMSpawd -the mode
of life by Whfch'these poor wretches have
been ripened for tbwpenitentiary, are more
or less to blame for them: destruction and
the general catastrophe that follows it.—
Yes! you, sir, snug,respectable merchant,
who huve allowed your daughter to be
trained in the belief that the possession of
wealth and u “ position in fashionable so
ciety,” diamorids t and equipage und frip
pery are the supreme good; and you,
madams, that have taught your child that
honest thrift und industry are not ’at all
the ton you, revered sir, who frouj tlie
pulpit, in the parlolr und at the festive
board, have winked at the purchase of
souls with pelf alone; you, Mr. Journalist,
who "have by implication applauded the
“smartness” of deception and imposture,
und denounced the misfortunes of the beg
gar while you have flattered the vices of
the millionaire—all, all of you ure equally
responsible for this sad conclusion. The
broken hearts; v the “ gray, hairs
in sorrow to the grave;” the agonies of
shame and remorse that follow these un
fortunates to the tomb, ure largely charge
able to you. Why is toil frowned upon
and slighted ? Why is the humble suiter
for a daughter’s or a sister’s hand, if jdl
other things be equal, sneered at. in your
houses ? Why is vice tolerated for an in
stant at your firesides ? and why are dens
of pollution suffered to poison the very at
mosphere of your chief promenades in the
most beautiful streets of your greatest,
most opulent and most enlightened cilies ?
Is there neither private decency nor pub
lic law enough to stifle and abate these
nuisances? The golden calf for a deity;
brazen-faced wornyn for priestesses admin
istering iq the public highway,. and the
drunkard aud the spendthrift pettedeaud
exalted —these are .the elements of uni
versal demoralization and the wretched
ness that is inseparable from it
For, after sit, these pleasures are sot
only transitory at th« best, bat they chafe
in tbsir passage, They art, indted, bat
t bqs*i\vt tor m fhat&m th#
iU mm fin m mt m}&
m mmnkfc mshrami mhmm
mm** torn wiw,
Every hope in this life a£ Isaat 1# utterly
blasted and gone; thsir youth and all its
joy* turned jp the blackness of ashes; their
name dishonored among men forever} Ws
will not venture to lift even a corner of the
veil that should screen the desolation of
their home from the public eye, There
venerubje age thrice stricken with so poig
nant a grief implores only a release from a
life fuff of years and honors until now
trampled in the very dust by the feet of
an erring chill; love, in gentle woman's
breast, consumes with pity, yet with shame,
the heart that but yesterday rejoiced in itj
friendship, with faltering hand turns to the
wall the portrait that is now but a re*
aoaob, pad erases the blackened record at
ippy schooldays spent together from the
tablets of its memory.
* Is there any young mas who wends his
way home with the modest salary to some
Uttfe cottage upon tho hill or some quiet
iPArtantw the thronging suburb that
would exchange his lot even with that
“hope deferred” which sometimes “maketh
the heart sick” for . Much a doom and such
pictures of remorse as these. No! for him
at least, the voices of I*mother 1 *mother arid wife and
child are full of trust and love. They may
be heard in an humble place and be ut
tered only from amid these scenes which
befit “the short and simple annals of
the poor; want, sickness and care may
hover neat* and sometimes crouch close
beside the threshold, but God i* over all,
aud the angels of his promise bear testimo-
ny to each day’s fortitude and each day’s
labor fkithfully jmyformed. Vipe has not
one rapture; falsehood qot one success;
luxury not one delight that can for an in
stant cdtnpnre with any of the ten thousand
joys lhat ; wait upon tne approving con
science. In ninety-nine cases out of a hun
dred, after all, and imperfect as we must
confess oiir social arragemeuts yet to be, ’
industry, perseVerence, faith and' honesty j
win vet conquer all the “smarttnew” iu the !
worm.
But should it be otherwise decreed, in
nuy instance, it is well aveu amid the busy
tumult of the mart and on the crowded*
street, to remember that life here is not
forever, aud that after it come death aud
judgment. Wealth is hut dross; distinc
tion but a name, unless they etui with
stand the scrutiny of those that follow us.
But wealth honorably won and distinc
tion gained in the service of mankind—
these are indeed a noble monument 1
A Singular Suidide.
A man who had been observed abstrac
tedly strolling about Independence Square
yesterday noon, was seep to fall, as though
seized with paralysis,- arid then to struggle,
as if in A convulsion of, in mortal agony.
A crowd -assembled almost in-a moment,
and a surgeon was at ogee sent for. Be
fore be arrived, however, the man was
dead.
-On the body was found a pocket book,’
containing a letter arid a small amount of
money. In the breast pocket of bis coat
was found a small French giound glass
bottle, very thick, still containing a minute
quaitity of corrosive subjimate. It is pre
sumed that with the contents of this bottle
the unfortunate man ended his existence.
The letter is as follows:
“Philadelphia; August, 1865.
11 To whom it may com^rn ;
“There is no one to blame for this act
but myself.
“Have ray body sent to Robert Thomp
son, Federal street, below Tenth. He
knows who I am. A kiss for my sister.
Telegraph to Mr. George Peterman, ma
chinist, Lancaster Locomotive Works, to
come down, by my request.
“George, kiss mother and the girls for
me for kindness shown me while I was
sick, when I needed it. George, when
this comes out in print, send it .down to
Mrs. Nancy Grooms, at Huntsville, Ala.
To my wito and'mother. Also, them two
pictures Ri frames, at Lizzie’s.
“If any minister is at my grave, I want
it to be a Uuiversaliat, and no other,
Starr.
“P. S.—Wheu a mau is in trouble, and
sickness overbalances his comfort, and
there is no sign of improvement; he ought
to be under ground. *. .
“JohjTT. Starr.
“P. S.—l hope and pray the Almighty
God may forgive me for this. S.”
The deceased proved to be a man
named Stgrr. He was formerly an' engi
neer on the Reading Railroad. He was
rather fast in his habits, *nd left his em
ployment to go to Panama. He obtained
a situation op the Panama Railroad, where
he remained for some time. He then
earns back to the States, went South, and
located \q Huntsville, Ala. There he
married, aud there his family still live. He
eame North a short time ago, but why lie
killed hiiqpelf is not known. — Philo. A r .
American.
Gibson County. —The Memphis Bulletin
of the 22d ult. says:
A gentleman who has just returned
frorft a visit to Gibson county reports that
the eottn, corn, and other crops, are very
fine in all parts of the county. There is a
thoroughly civil reorganization, all officers
having been elected, and perfect jieace,
law, and order being maintained. The
people are exceedingly anxious to have
the Memphis and Ohio Railroad construct
ed, and the farmers along the line are even
Willing to get out, free of charge, all the
timbers needed for the bridges that have
to be built.
Wealthy Hoardsns+—The boarders at ten
hotels in one of the New York wards pay
about one-eighth of the Whole revenue from
imarines collected in that wealthy ward,
and it to supposed that if all the boarders
to tost ward war# iulrfid, ifty would ft
taiiui to Mtetfi ftbwf 4ft«Jtov#nib of fft
tfftto/ Tft fttfiaft* of ftsrdsto of 4ft
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AUx. E, Stephens.— The President has
ordered the commandant of Fort Warren
to do akin his power to render Alex. H.
Stephens, the distinguished prisoner in his
possession, os comfortable as possible.
The suit of the Great Western
Bailroad of Canada against ths Commer
cial Bank of Canada, Involving £200,000,
k«| ftan daetoedagaimt thatomk.
! Ours.
I ; -V
Ours !—there is music in the word.
How beautiful its strains vibrate upon
our heartstrings, causing the blood to
mantle in our cheek, the eye to brighten,
and the sluggish pulse to beat faster.—
Who can describe the delicious sensations
that steal over us, as memory unfolds one
by one the treasures we may call our own ?
Ours the' spacious fields, with their oover
ing of velvet, dotted with dainty little I
daisies. Ours the grand old Woods, whose j
giant trees wave their huge branches high j
in the air, toying idly with the breeze, or !
smiling defiantly at tho storm that threat- i
ens to lay them low'.
Beautiful gloriously beautiful—old
woods! Nature’s fairest gifts have been
lavished upon you. Flora’s treasures be
deck your bosom, and from amid your
dusky green foliage brightly gleam the
scarfet berries. Well may we love and
admire thee. Ours the sea of blue, in
whose azure depths at midday float gorge
ous drapery of crimson and gold—ifpon
whose broad bosom, at tho close of day,
rest the gems of night, and where silver
Luna holds her courts. Ours the silve%
lake, whose smiling writers guard the
sweet, white lilies we love so well. Ours
the little child, whose sweet smiles-are like
gleams of sunshine; whose lisping words
of innocence full upon our hearts like dew
on the parched flowers, as it lisps the en
dearing names of father, mother, brother,
sister. Sweet, precious one, what care we
for the wealth heaped in monarch’s halls,
when thy dimpled arms are wound ca-
ressingly around us; when thy shining
locks mingle with our own trerees, and the
soft eyes, in whose clear depths float vis
ions of innocence, look fondly into our
own l Ours—all ours—these precious
gifts, and yet ours. The One who kin
dled in the hearts of our forefathers the
spirit of independence, and enabled tlmm
to win for us this glorious freedom—the
HimH that gave to tlm iweet (lowers their
beauteous forms and delicate coloring—
the all-powerful Being who kindled the
lamps of Heaven, arid fashioned so won
derfully the litile fairy being whose every
movement to us -is a joy—to Him belong
these fair creations. We may enjoy their
beauty, inhale their perfume, but His hand
holds them. But when the links of fife’s
golden chain are all severed—when earth’s
joys have vanished, and our shattered
barks are launched on death’s dark ocean,
far beyond the silver-lined clouds, there
will be a bright, beautiful home prepared
lor us ; a home whose pleasures will never
lade, and where sweet peace will be ouns
—yes, ours forever.
Dr. Chapman on Cholera.
#■ 1
Dr. Johii Chapman has been the sub*
jeet of many inquiries from correspondents.
He is a physician in the city of London,
who has distinguished himself for recom
mending a general disuse of drugs in med
ical practice; also for his peculiar views
upon the employment of cold on the dis
ferent parts of the human body as a reme
dy for disease. Thus his remedy for con
stipation is the application of co]d to the
abdomen —an application which observa
tion would seem to confirm; as dysentery,
cholera morbus and other complaints of the
intestines are often occasioned and always
a gg r avated by undue exposure of that part
of the body. Dr. Chapman has published
numerous papers in the London Medical
Times and Gazette, and upon the employ,
ment of his favorite remedy for different
complaints.
He has lately written an atticle upon
the cholera, in which he lays down the fol
lowing propositions :
The primaiy cause pf cholera is, as a
general rule, the excessive heat of hot cli
mates, and temperate climates in summer
when cholera prevails.
The proximate cause of cholera is of pre
cisely the same nature as that of summer or
choleraic diarrhoea, but its far more devel
oped, and consequently its action is pro
portionately more powerful and intense.
Cholerfti is neither contagious nor infec
tious in any sense whatever, except through
the depressing iniluence of fear.
Cholera may be completely averted, ant)
when developed, cured by the persistent
application of the spinal icebag along the
whole spine so blong aa. symptoms of the
disease continue.
All Colored Troops to be Mustered Chit. —
The Washington correspondent of the New
York Tribune says: “ There to good au
thority for stating that all tbe colored
troops in the service art soon to be mus
tered out The Idas that they Would d#
nutistd m it*ttof tti* ntakf mjr lt
fcw motto,
Tft.foi!owißg is tftflumbsi? of
Wffop# furuiehed to carry on the war by
HWaJ different States: Maine, 86,609;
Vermont 84,400; Connecticut, 64,468 ;
Bhod,e 25,856; West Virginia, 20,-
012; Megfachusetts, 158,706; New Hamp
shire, Kansas, 21,948; Pennsyl
vania, 86^,000; and lowa, 72,358.
I3ff* A painCyl eight, not loDg since, attract
ed a crowd Pear tbe triumphal arch of the Etolle
la Paris. A man had thrown himself from tbe top
of the arch, and was instantly killed. A letter wee
found in (he pocket of bis cost, in wbieh he reoea
mended his wife and two children to the charity of
tbe publio. Tbe letter added that ba bad commit
ted suicide to avoid tbe slfht of their aafttiof.
Tbe unfortunate nan’s name wai GHraud.
IST It baa been said that there are two event*
iul periods in the life of a woman : one whsffsh*
wonders whom sbs will have, sad ths sthot when
i shs wonders who will havo hors
Vol. LXm— No. 126
• Foreign Mum.
GRBAT BRITAIN.
The new Houses of Parliament or
“New Palace of Winchester,” as they are
often styled, are not yet finished, although
in progress for twenty years past. The
original estimate of their cost was 13,750,
000, but k already reaches the sum ot
815,000,000.
A carnival of crime seems to be in pro
gress in England, ab well as in the United
States. Murders, robberies, outrages
upon the weaker sex, and poisonings,
succeed each other with fearful frequency.
The last artistic crime waa the suffocation
of three children in one batch, in a London
hotel. .
Starling for a clergyman was in the il
lustration recently given for the pulpit by
au English divine, declaring against the
fearful increase of intemperance. He
amazed bis congregation by exclaiming :
“A young woman in «jy neighborhood
died very suddenly last Sabbath while I
was preaching , the goepel, in a beastly
state of intoxication 1
The results of puseyiam were singularly
exemplified at' the consecration of Dr.
Manning at the Roman Catholic Arch
bishop of Westminster. Among the priests
surrounding the altar were not less than
100 who had either been in orders of tho
Church of England or followers of tho
English colleges.
The British Paoific Railroad, that is,
the proposed grand line from the Canades
to. lirjtish Columbia, and the North western
coast p£,our continent, is coming up agaiu
before the public, and it is generally be
lieved that unless Brother Jonathan looks
about him “pretty sharp,” the ‘‘Britishers’’
will have the first overland road and win
the prize of Oriental commerce.
• FRANCS.
African troops have, for a long time, been
incorporated with the Regular French army.
Tf.oy trom *U, ko«oT«r, frvut *lio Algerine
provinces and.were of the Arab raoe. Un
der the name of, Tureos some battalions of
them won great renown in the Italian wars
of 1858. Boi the EmpeiWr is going to or
ganize several Regiments of gotruine negroes,
all as blank as the aoe of spades. They will
be stationed in Paris where they eannot fail
to excite anew sensation.
The wort ragmen of Paris have oo’mbined
to start anew jbnnud devoted to tbeit in- ’
eats exclusively, under the title of the Tri
bune Ouvriere, or Workingmen’s Tribune,
ft will be as well as owned and pub
lished by persons of their own class, snd
the profits are' to be equally divided among
the managers, share-holders and writers.
A College for Journalists is another and
most laudable novelty of Parisian life. It
is to Educate candidates with a special view
to their employment on the Press, add id
thorough will be the oonrse of instruction
that its diplomas cannot'faill to become n
paramount recommendation in favor all
*So win them.
A strange ooadition to a will is noted in
the oase of an old customer of an uncle who
has bequeathed *9 iooome of 810,000 per
annum to his nephew. Count Albert de
Revel, provided that within two years he
dliall marry a tall, thin lady of “harmonious
proportions,” with long, luxuriant golden
hair, a high, open forehead, bright bine
eyes, a brilliant, fair oomplexion, a shapely
aose, small mouth, and graceful tapering
limbs Her movements are all to be equally
harmonious, and her eharaoter to be full of
Icving and poetio languor. Tho young heir
does not, it seems, complain of the condi
tions, but simply of the difficulty he is
likely to encounter in finding the person
thus portrayed.
Rosa Boobeur, the famous lady horse
painter, greatly enjoys the new distinction
of Knighthood conferred upon her by the
i£mprea9 Eugene as an acknowledgement
of her merit as au artist.
the east.
The cholera still makes progress in Con
stantinople. In Syria its ravages are so
great that from Beyrout to Damascus the
inhabitants are fleeing to the recesses of
the Lebanon Mountains.
The silk trade is likely to receive anew
development from the labors of a commis
sion recently sent by the Italian Govern
ment to the Tycoon of Japan*.
The varities of tea are announced from
the Chinese and Japanese dominions, but
the civil wars raging there must greatly
retard their development.
Jerusalem begins to put on the appear
ance and life of a modern city, without
losing her ancient landmarks. American
and English hotels, French barber shops,
and Italian wine stores, drive a brisk bust
nsas almost under the shadow of tbe sacred
pIMM, u 4 tht rauUrs *f Hu tttj are
tMMMMIIf efe m4U4 with ri.ftal
villa# and fat done to too Soropoa*
wyto, '
Tft tetumtnds of British India to
%\mfy cheeked by tft restoration of
tft Southern States to the control of the
United States Government
Ths Seven-Hurtm all Printed— Tty
Treasury Department forwarded, on the
24th of August, to the subscribers to the
seven-thirty loan, the last of the not***
The delay was*occaaioned by the fact that
the orders for notes came in faster tb: n
they could be printed. If any subscriber*
to the loan should tail to receive tfc e re
mainder of their subscriptions, they should
at once notify the sub-agent.
Mu flfke exodus of ths French rural
population from ths sastsrn townships, say*
a Lower Canada journto, not only atm con
tlnues, “ but seems to assume awething
fearful in ita proportiens.”