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EDITOR’S DEPARTMENT. IV M c. RICHARDS, EDITOR. atljcns, eTrorfit.i: Saturday Morning,...\tiff. 25, into. the freedom of the press. Much has been written upon this theme, and yet there is n woful misconception of the nature and extent of what is called The Freedom of the Press. Like the still more ireneral terms, freedom of thought, of speech, ■md of action, it is widely misunderstood ; nnd lamentably abused. There are some i people who construe the term liberty, or freedom, to mean the privilege of following the dictates of their own caprice or fancy, utterly irrespective of the claims of society, : and regardless of the rights of others. So also, there are those who suppose the free dom of the press to imply the right of any one, who can command the columns of a newspaper, to publish therein any quantity of personal abuse and invective —taking care : only to avoid the commission of what the ‘ law recognizes as a libel. Now we hold it to be a truth, that the Ed itor who employs or lends his columns for the defamation of personal character, mani fests a gross misconception of the responsi bility of his position, to say nothing of the cowardice and immorality of his course.— We do not mean by this sentiment to ques tion the right or duty of the public press to denounce vice, fraud, imposition, chicanery, and every other form of evil, nnd to de nounce them, too, in the most unequivocal manner. The Editor, however, who per forms this duty aright, will take care that he is not denouncing virtue for vice, or hon esty for fraud, and will not suffer himself to be controlled by personal feelings and con siderations. It is beneath the dignity of a gentleman, and the character of a man, to indulge in petty personalities through the columns of a newspaper It is to take an unfair ad vantage of an honorable adversary, to call iiim by foul names in print, because he may not stoop to answer such a calumny—he cannot retaliate without degrading himself M the level of that brutality which has as sailed him. There is an old adage, that one cannot touch pitch without defiling his fin gers, which is exactly in point for illustra ting our meaning. The boasted “freedom of the press” affords every one who is re viled, the opportunity of “ reviling again” ; and alas! that the public taste should ap prove such anti-scriptural conduct; but then there is a possibility that an individual may have such singular notions of propriety, dig nity and self-respect, that he cannot avail himself of this freedom of the press. If lie is called by foul names in an obscure news paper, he cannot retort those foul epithets upon his villifier, without proving that ho deserves them in one sense at least. He cannot adopt the ler talionis without de scending to the depths of infamy, whence the abusive epithets have sprung up like noisome exhalations front the “crater of a volcano. It would be a warfare as unequal, as repulsive, as fatal, as if he were to at tempt retaliation upon a certain loathsome animal, whose contact is insufferable. In these circumstances, his only resource is to keep silence, assuring himself, as he rea sonably may, that when the smoke and stench of the assaults upon liis good name and fame have cleared away, the baseness of their source will be discovered and they will prove perfectly innocuous. The only safe plan, therefore, for one who is unright eously assailed in a public print, is to treat his assailers with silent contempt —“ that stern and withering scorn, before which oalumny shrinks abashed. It iv a question, however, of no small mo ment, whether or not this system of person ality so common in many of the petty prints <d the country, is encouraged and perpetu ated by the people. There will always be found men vile enough to deal in foul words ind base insinuatious, so long as there are readers who approve and support them. In Jiis view of the case, does it not become the iuty of every journalist who feels the tur pitude of this crime to flcnounce it, and of ‘very patron of the newspaper press who lesires to see the evil remedied, to with draw or withhold his support from those pa ters whose Editors deal in personalities.— I Tile objection may be made here by the can lid and virtuous reader, that this view of Ho subject would condemn the exposure of rime hnd folly by means of satire. We an iver, however, by no means. Satire is ein nently useful, and productive of good, if it e legitimately employed. When, however, 1 descends to gross personalities, to vulgar buse of individuals, in other words, when it cases to be satire—it becomes defamation. In the political world—in the strife of doctoral campaigns—how often aro the owest and bitterest personalities resorted oby the meaner organs of party, llonor ble men, of high position, who consent to un for office, become, at once, the targets gainst which Malice hurls her envenomed basts. The blacker, tic fouler the calum y> with the more fiendish exultation is the trow baptized in it, and sent hurtling to be bosom of the good man who seeks at cart his country’s good. Shame, shame, tiplc shame on the heads of those men— dioever they be—who deal in calumny and dight in slander. It is strange, too, that calumniators do not now the impotence of thoir drivelling iu nities. They generally outwit themselves, bcir aims arc too transparent, and their M purpose but too clearly stands before 1 ic deed. Like the overloaded gun, whose scharge Ts fatal only to the sportsman, ‘eir terrible explosion of slander recoils i P°n themselves with a most destructive cn f- l or our own part, we arc not greatly dis ced by foul-moutlied speeches, or paper ’cring calumnies against our good name- j liilst we are able to enjoy “ metis ronscia recti,” we are little moved at the insolent utterances of stupidity, ignorance and mal ice—for of all these elements is personal abuse composed. We can afford to laugh'at the vicious Quixotism of those who, taking us for a windmill, run a tilt, with our busy arms ; and we promise all such a most ub- 1 solute and perfect immunity from all retal iation on our part, whenever they see fit to enter the lists for a display of sucli puissunt ! and honorable knight-errantry. We shall take no more notice of their onslaughts than did the windmills of the unprovoked attack of the Spanish Thin. But badinage aside, and leaving out of the question our own feelings in the case, we ask seriously, if there is any thing more degrading, more destructive to the charac- ; ter of tlie newspaper press, than tiio gross, bitter nnd brutal personalities which so of ten find tlieir way into journals of greater or less influence ? Assuredly wo think not. They are subversive of dignity, of truth, and of virtue. They arc blots upon the social system—festering sores in the body politic —deadly poison in the veins of humanity. They are as unnecessary as they ulM’ soul — as inexcusable as they are base. A journal should obey the same laws as a gentleman acknowledges. A gentleman nev er deals in calumny. It would blister liis tongue ; and the same nice sense of justice and right should control the newspaper, i which is but the mirror of the man. Pub- j lie opinion needs to be corrected on this : point. It should frown severely upon the public slanderer—the newspaper cut-thront —the quill-driving assassin. So hot should be the blaze of public indignation against | this system of personal slander, that it ; should immediately consume the vile sheets | that uttered it, even as the fire of heaven fell down upon the false priests and consum- j ed them and their profane offerings together, i The press should be elevated ; its precepts i 1 and its examples should he pure. Its satire ; should be unmixed with malice—its censure ! should he tempered with dignity—its ridi j cute should he spiced with good humor —its j ! praise should be uttered with discrimina- I tion —its opinions should be set forth with I modest firmness, nnd its whole aim should i be to advance the best interests of society. The true ‘ freedom of the press” consists not in a wild and unfettered license to scat ter heresy, poison, slanders and moral death around, but rather in a wise restraint of nil excesses, iu a strictly conservative spirit — j teaching and practising the noble motto — “ In essentials—liberty ; in non-essentials ; — unity; in all things —charity.” SAVANNAH SUBSCRIBERS. Our friends in Savannah who are in ar rears for the (inzette, will confer a favor upon us by calling on Mr. Geo. M. Griffen, who alone is authorized to receive payments. (Dur (Gossip Column. <■ My Life is like the Summer Rose.” We find in Dr. Lyell’s “ Second Visit to the United States,” an interesting account of the ctdebrated poem which was communi cated In Uim by the lamented author him self. It is proper that we should express our entire ignorance of the person alluded to as “ a certain Professor of the University of Georgia nor do we even know to what period of the history of our University the story lias reference, hut doubtless to one somewhat remote. We give the account, slightly abridged. Mr. Wilde had been one of a party in Sa vannah, anil the question was raised as to the knowledge of Greek possessed by “a certain Professor of the University of Geor gia”—upon which, one of the party proposed | to translate Mr. Wilde's poem into Greek prose, arranged in the form of verse, and i endeavor to palm ft upon the Professor as a fragment of Alcieus. The trick was suc cessful, though tlie Professor said that, ns I he had not the works of Alcieus at hand, he ! could not positively pronounce it to be gen uine. This Greek translation was aftcr ’ wards sent to a New York magazine, with out the knowledge ol’ Mr Wilde, and pub lished ns a fragment from Alcaeus, under ; the title of “ The Captive’s Complaint ” j This brought down a storm of literary iu ! dignation on the Senator from Georgia, for j having passed off, as an original poem, a mere translation from the Greek, obliging! him to discover the tusc which had been i practised. Mr. Lycll also recalls the mention made lof these beautiful verses by Basil Hall, in liis “ Schloss Ilanfield,” where they are claimed by him to he the production of the \ Countess Purgstall, who had read them to him and declined to tell the author's name. For Tampa's desert strand, tlie Countess substituted “ Zara’s.” In an English edi tion, set to beautiful music, Tampa was changed into Teinpe. Probably no Ameri can lyric has created a wider interest than this, the most beautiful memorial left to us by its lamented author. A Long-winded Scrmonizer. Lord Mahon, in his excellent History of i England, tolls one anecdote of Dr. Manton, a non-conforming divine of the reign of Queen Annie, to this effect, that being im pressed with some fanciful ideas as to the analogy of numbers, he wrote 119 sermons upon the 119th Psalm ! The Cottage Chair. I During a recent brief visit to Decatur — j one of the prettiest and pleasantest of Gcor j gia villages, by the way—we saw and ad ; mired a style of chair, original with the makers —Messrs. Morgan, of that ilk. — Their reputation as cabinet-makers was not unknown to us before, and we were happy to find them employing a considerable num ber of hands in the manufacture of what they very appropriately call “ The Cottage j Chair.” It is of a light and graceful sash- j ion; the seat is made of hickory splits, neat ly painted, and the whole chair painted and ornamented in various colors. It is the prettiest chamber or sitting-room chair we have seen of late—combining strength with ease and neatness. Our house-keeping readers should follow our example and buy a set of them at their earliest need. Not their least recommend ation is, that they are exceedingly cheap. What’s in a Name ? In a volume just sent us by Putnam, and entitled “ Lifts for the Lazy,” we encoun tered, upon opening, the following readable passage, which wc commend to those “ who iiiiiiDi®. ifiiEHW will understand it” : “In days of yore, j something might be gleaned from the names of cities relative to their several founders, their localities, or other peculiarities; but that sort of advertisement docs not obtain to nny great extent with us of the New World. One would suppose Unit an insane schoolmaster had stood godfather for half the villages in the State of New York; wit ness Homer, Virgil, Ovid, Troy, Cartilage, etc., etc , and Rome, too ! 1 wonder wheth er the inhabitants have the face (the face includes the nose. I believe,) to call them selves Romans! (Put* Book (Table. [Publishers and Authors who ilc-drc to huvetheir Books notice I in this < iaz tto. are requested to semi ciqii. t . the I l.litoi’ through Stringer A Townsend, New-York, o.- Carey & ltart, Phil. Tin: Lady Alice. or the New Una A Novella I two parts— I2nu>. New York: D. Appleton & Cos. 1349. We arc somewhat at a loss how to charac terize this work. That it is an extraordi nary book, the critics assert and the reader will hardly deny. It is indeed a work of high artistic merit—a brilliant, surprising production; bnt after all, we fear that we must call it a false and pernicious work. It is a reprint, though, at the same time, an . American book —the production of an Amer ican Clergyman of the Episcopal Church. It was written by the Rev. Mr. Huntington —a brother of the well-known painter—in 1844, and made quite a sensation in Eng land, where it was published. The Court Journal, we think, pronounced it the most! brilliant debut since thrft of “ Vivian Grey.” j Had it been written by an English author, it would have surprised us less than it does, i It is a picture of tlie English aristocracy— j done in the most vivid, nay, extravagant co- ! lors—where splendors and elegancies are j displayed to surfeiting, and where the char - | acters are nothing if not “ noble.” It must j be conceded that it is a very magnificent picture, and that there is much artistic j power developed in it. But wc should not delay to mention that it is a religious novel, so called; and in this feature appears to us its questionable char- ! aetcr. For religions novels, generally’, wc have little regard, though there are some of the highest possible excellence, among which we may mention “ Dun Allen” and ; “ Father Clement,” both by Grace Kenne ; dy. The hitter is placed, (by some miscon cepeion, surely, of the reviewer,) in a re cent notice of Lady Alice in the Southern \ Literary Messenger, in the same class with that work. No two novels could have more , different aims, or be more opposite in their tone and style. The former—“ j cut”—is a most charming exhibition of the j power of Christianity in conversion of-the hero from the Errors of Romanism; the lat-1 ter —“ Lady Alice”—a strange and meretri cious display of the assimilations of Church ! of Englaudism to Romanism. The heroine is a member of the Church of England, and : her husband, the lion. Mr. Clifford, is con verted from Romanism to her faith ; but so very delicate and fine arc the distinctions drawn between Anglicanism and Romanism, that we confess our utter inability to dis cern them. Our readers will perceive that Lady Alice | is a brilliant and seductive exposition of tlie ! new faith denominated Puseyism, alias Ro ; tnanism somewhat diluted. But this is not the most serious charge wc j have to make against Lady Alice. Its reli- giotts creed is a matter of less legitimate : concern to us than its morality. There are many passages in the book, the delicacy of which wc are compelled to question; nnd ; they are the more reprehensible that they arc accompanied with such earnest protest ations of the most unsullied innocence of j thought and feeling in the parties described. A still graver off’ ncc is its sanction of the unchristian and immoral practice of duel | ling, to which we need only allude. A prevailing fault of the book, moreover, is exaggeration. The scenes are overdrawn, i and the sense of extreme artificialness is everywhere oppressive. Our limits will not allow us to offer extracts from the work, or to enter fully into an analysis of its demer its, viewed as a moral lesson —for with this high mission does its author send it forth to ! the world. It is a work of too much literary merit, t not to find multitudes of readers, who will be fascinated with its unmitigated glare of social and ecclesiastical luxury, as well as with its often delighful descriptions; and what we desire to accomplish in this notice, j is, to put our readers upon their guard ] against what we conceive to be the spirit of { the book—a spirit hostile, we fear, to pure religion, if not to morality and true deli- ] eacy. Spanish Conversation. An Easy Introduction. : containing all that is necessary tomake a rapid ; progress in it. By Nl. Velasquez de la Cadina New York : D. Appleton & Cos. 1849. One of those excellent little manuals so useful to a beginner, teaching less by pre cept than by example. The Life of Maximilian Robespierre, with , extracts from his 1 “npublishcd Correspondence | By G. 11 Eewes One vol. 12m0., pp. 323 — j Philadelphia : Carey & Hart. 1349. It is perhaps singular, though true, that this is the only biography of Robespierre entitled to the name. Hitherto, we have heard of him only through the medium of notices iu Biographical Dictionaries, or as a prominent character in histories of the j French Revolution. This is, therefore, a ( most acceptable volume, for the name of- Robespierre must live while Fanaticism ex ists ; and it is certainly desirable that his character should be judged as impartially ns possible. If the render of this volume ‘ should conclude that Robespierre was not I nil bad—that he wns not as infamous and 1 bloodthirsty as he is generally regarded to ) ’have been —he will err, if at all, on the side j of charity—a virtue too little cherished among men. Mr. Lewes has, we think, written impar- | tially and dispassionately, canvassing both the merits and defects of Robespierre and j giving us the true result of his enquiries.— , He traces his early career, and exhibits the j influence upon his mind of the philosophy of j Rousseau, his teacher. From obscurity in , the dismal town of Arras, we sec him grad ually rising to distinction in the National Assembly. Os unattractive mien, and lack ing in all the arts of oratory, we behold him gaining such ascendancy over the legislative councils of France, ns no man of his age, Mi raboau excepted, acquired. In all this, wc see the influence of his indomitable energy ard of his dauntless ambition. It appears from Mr Lewes’ work, that the early tendencies of Robespierre’s mind were religious, nnd that so far from indica ting, in early’ life, any of that thirst for blood which marked his dreadful fanaticism, he was timid, benevolent, and actually re signed his office in the Criminal Court, be cause he had been compelled to condemn an assassin to death. How terrible a contrast to all this does liis after career afford, brand ed as it is with the infamy of the “ Terror,” and stained with the Hood of a king, a queen, princes and prijeesses, nobles and citizens. Robespierre was a aiiscrable fanatic— cowardly, reckless, unscrupulous, narrow minded, and implacabh ; and yet his fanat icism exhibited some f those lofty traits which almost dignify v : cc. While we cher ish a deep detestation us liis deeds, we are almost compelled to adnire the earnestness ! of his purpose, the singleness of his aim, and his sacrifice of personal aggrandizement to 1 the consummation of his fanatical views—a consummation so terrible that the mind re coils in horror froip its records. Os the style of Mr- Lewes’ book, we may remark that it exhibits tendencies to Car lyleism, and is sometimes diffuse and inhar monious. Tlie evident sincerity and candor of its spirit, will atone, however, for slight faults in manner ; and we cordially recom mend it to our readers. Hearts axd Homes, or Social Distinction. A \ Story, by Mrs Ellis. In two parts —Parti- — Bvo., pp 348. New York: D. Appleton &Cos 1849. Mrs. Ellis is welcome at all times, and never more so than when she proposes to tell us a story so charming and so profita ble as this must be, if the end fulfils tlie promiseof the beginning. No female writer of the present day more happily combines tlie charm of fiction and tlie beauty of moral truth, than Nil's. Ellis. As we de#gn to say more of this story when it is complete, wc will now only commend it to our readers as a most delightful narrative, and one which may safely and profitably be read in the do mestic circle. AI? iok of the Hudson. Collected from tlie va rious works of Deidrich Knickerbocker. Edit ed by Geoffrey Crayon. One vol.—pp. 215. New York: George P. Putnam. 1349. This handsome little volume contains Washington Irving's charming Legends of the Hudson, which we may truly call world renowned, for they have made the name of that river classic wherever the English tongue is spoken. Among its contents are our old favorites, Rip Van Winkle, Dolph Heyligger, and Sleepy Hollow. The first of these has been made still more renoivned by the of the American Art-Union, in its exquisite outline illustrations of 1848, and a similar immortality awaits the last of them during the present year. 1. Matrimony— By O. 8. Fowler. 2. Essays on Human Rights— By E. P. llnrlhut. 3 The Science of SwisiNiso*-lly an Expe rienced Swimmer. 4. Chemistry, ami its Ap plication to Physiology, Agriculture and Com merce—By Prof. Eiebig. 5. Phrenological Almanac for 1850— By E. N. Fowler. New York i Fowlers & Wells. The enterprising publishers by whom tlie above works are issued, deserve the grate ful acknowledgments of every philanthro pist, for the good work they have done and are doing, in diffusing throughout tlie length and breadth of the land such a vast amount of useful knowledge iu a popular and acces sible form. Whatever may be said of Phre nology, as a Scieuce, no one can deny that the works of the Messrs. Fowler on that subject embody a large amount of truth on collateral topics, especially Physiology and the Laws of Life and Health. Our limits preclude the possibility of noticing sepa rately each of the pamphlets named above, but we can eonscicnciously conynend them all to our readers, and the public generally. (Tljc ©lb lUorlb. The Steamer Hibernia arrived at Boston on the 15 inst. Tlie Markets. Tho cotton market has va ried at times, as far as demand is eouccrn j ed, sometimes appearing full and fiat, but I upon tlie whole may be considered unehang j ed and firm. The broker's quotations [which } should have reached us in former dispatch es] are —fair Uplands 5 1-8; Mobile 5 1-4 ; ’ Orleans 5 3-8. The stock on hand in Liver pool is 700,000 bales. Baring’s, Shipley, Brown’s, and other circulars, confirm the a bovc statements. Bread-Stuffs are as noted in former dis patch. Wheat is one or two shillings low er. Beef firm. Pork unsettled in price— the imports larger than the demand. Corn is also firm. American Stocks arc lieavcy at previous ! rates. hh-anee. The French Piesident, after | travelling South, hqs returned to Paris, j The army of seigo of 15th August number i ed 150,000. The prospects of an abundant harvest were good in the South, and throughout France. Tlie French President is still ac cused of aspiring to the imperial crown. Russia. There arc reports that a con spiracy exists in Russia to establish a Re public, and several conspirators have been \ arrested. Italy. The French have restored the gov ernment of the Pope, but cannot porsude 1 him to return back to the Vatican. The Magau (Inzette. states that a rumor ; was current on the Neapolitan frontier that . Garibaldi had embarked for America, in , disguise. Hungary. The Hungarians continue sue cessful, defeating and out mameuvering the enemy at all points, placing the Austrians iu great peril, separating tlie Russians from their base of operations. Three grand di visions of tho Hungarian Army were iu communication. Gen. Bom has announced his victory over Jcllachich in the following three words, namely, “Bern, Brun, Bawn” — 1 came —/ saw—l conquered. Liverpool dates of the 4th inst, announce ! another great victory of tlie Hungarians at Esaiaw over the Russians Tho Austrian , Gen. llaynau, 13 described as in a most crit ical condition. The Hungarian Generals arc masters of the whole line from Essay to Assova, opening communications with Bel grade and the Turkish provinces. The great battle at Waitzcn between the Rus sians under Paskiewitch, and Hungarians under Gorgey, in which the latter were said to be victorious, is fully confirmed. Gnr gey’s army forced the Russian lines, and marched north, effecting a junction with ihe main army. A letter from the seat of war says the charges of the Hungarian cavalry upon Paskiewitch's columns, were tremen dous All the Hungarian troops exhibited iwparalleled daring. Another letter de scribes the Russian retreat as most disor derly, and the army saved from annihila tion by the timely arrival of Halberd's di vision. The Turkish Government has sent an ar my of 80,000 men to the Hungarian fron tier, to prevent the passage of the Russians through Transylvania. (General -Jntclligciuc. fj’ns Lights. The SaTnnniih Georgian \ sftys, —“ A successful experiment lias been ; made in our citv. by Mr.. Wm. Humphreys, i Druggist, of producing gas from chips of pine or other wood, on a very cheap scale, The | expense is said to ho very trifling, and the , gas of a very good quality, and burns bright ly. We have scon it burning several times, Mr. Humphreys will have it in operation this evening, from 7 to 10 o’clock, for the in spection of our citizens, who arc respectful- | lv invited to call and satisfy themselves of the success of the experiment.” California and Oregon -Mails. The Post- j master-Qeneral has given notice that the Ohio steamer will leave New York August 27, with the mails for Havana, Chagrea,! Panama, San Tliego, Santa Barbara, Mon terey, San Francisco, and Astoria. To the I first three ports the postage must be pre paid, as they are without the limits of the United States, but to the others the prepay ment will be optional. The Season. The Crops. The Griffin Jeffertonictn of the 1(1 inst. says:—“ The j rains have now ceased in their copiousness, and the day is sunshiny and warm. The ! cotton weed is quite rank hut healthy. | Should the weather continue thus, and u killing frost not make its appearance before tlie latter end of October, the planter in this section may yet make a good crop; but it will take all this, with a considerable share of good luck, to bring it about.” The Crops and the Season. The George town Observer of Wednesday says : “ We arc pleased in being privileged to say that the daily rains ceased on Monday ; leaving the inland plantations with a superabundance of water —and the river planters with all they need as to upland crops, and a little more. The rice crop on nil the rivers is fair, and the corn crop better than usual. Mail Recovered. The South Curolinan says : “ The large mail which was lost from the Greenville stage on the 3d inst, on its way down, at Crimm Creek, has been recov ered. We learn that there was a consider able amount of money in this mail; which is thus saved. The way mails were recovered at the the accident happened. The California Babble. A correspondent of the New York Courier says, in his last letter, that “ nearly every person, including Government officers, whose letters to the United States created this gold excitement, were deeply interested in land speculations here, and are now reaping golden harvests by the rise in real estate.” The Cuba Expedition. The Philadelphia sYbrM American gives some particulars of this affair, and says : “ It is also stated that: the sum of $2-’>o,ooo has been deposited in Mobile, to promote the objects of this nefa rious movement. A landing is contemplated at the south side of the island.” It men tions, also, that Baltimore is one of the places where men have heen enlisted. Exhibition of American -Manufactures. Tlte, Franklin Institute announces the Nine teenth Exhibition of American Manufac tures, in Philadelphia, to take place in Oc tober next, at the Museum Building. Me chanics and others are invited from all quar ters to sen 1 their contributions in time. Indian Outrages in Florida. In relation I to the late Indian outrages in Florida, we I learn from the Tallahassee (Fla.) Sentinel, 1 of the 31st ult., the following facts : Gov. Mosely has received from Major Mor ris, commanding at Tampa, copies of des- I patches sent to the War Department These | express an opinion against a general rising | by the Indians, and suggest the probability that the last outrages wore committed by ’ the same party which attacked the citizens at Indian River. Major Morris had despatched a small ! command to Pease Creek, to learn the cor rectness of the rumors. We understand that the Governor has is sued a requisition for another company of volunteers, to proceed to Tampa, in charge of 300 stand of arms for the use of that post. A company, commanded by (’apt. William Fisher, Jr., has already been raised, and will be despatched, we understand, to the scene of the first murder. Macon and Madison Railroad. As far as we have been able to learn only some five or six thousand dollars worth of the stock in this enterprise lias been taken in Bibb . county, whilst an extract of a letter in the j Augusta Republic states that *IO,BOO have 1 been subscribed in Eatonton, at which place , an adjourned meeting of the friends of the Itoad will be held on the 21st iust. Albert Gallatin, the celebrated financier, and who has occupied a distinguished posi tion for some half century or more in mat ters vitally important to the interests of this country, departed Jthis life at New York on Monday last. From Venezuela. The uccas Patriot of the 21st ult. denounces, at great length, | Paez and all his movements. Nevertheless, it is alarmed by the movements of Paez in | Coro, and deems them formidable. Gen. Monagas has officially declared the province of Coro, to be in a state of block ade, in consequence of the arrival of Paez and his party. Vessels of war, if they wish 1 to enter there, must insure the government that they do not intend to aid Paez and his party. Vessels from the United States are allowed forty days from July 9, to have no- j icc of the blockade i LECTURE! Mr. Edwin Heiuot, (Seo’y of the Charles- j ton T. A. S.) will deliver a lecture in this ‘ place on Monday night next, (20th inst.) at j eight o’clock—the place to be announced by handbills previously. We bespeak for Mr. Heriot a good liear | ing—especially do we hope to sec the mem- I ; hers of Father Mather and Excelsior Divis- j ions in attendance. f ¥dnt!i.id oil) and THE SHAKBPEARE CALENDAR. Prepared for Ri”h ird’ Weekly Oa/ei'c. —■—— August lUth.—Cuunt Kumford died. — 1814. “ By deed-achieving honor newly named.** [ Coriolanvs, Act ii, Scene 1. August liOtli.- The Pope sends a Legate to Prester John. 1178. I will fetch you a t ioth picker now from the ( farthest inch of Asia; Tiring you the length of j Prester John's foot ** [Muck Ado About JVothing, Act ii, Scene 1. August 21st.—Bernadotte chosen Crown j Prince of .Sweden. 1810. I ** Some have thrust upon them.” [ Twelfth Sight, Act iii, Scene 4. August 22d.—Alexandria taken by the ; English. 1814. “ From Alcxan Iria this is the news.” [Anthony and Cleopatra, Act i, Scene 4. August 2Gd —Edwurd I. returns from the Holy Land. 1274. “To chase these paging in those holy fields ; Over whose acres walked those blessed feet. Which fourteen hundred years ago were nuiled, ! For our udv mtage, on the bitter cross ” [Henry IV , Part 1, Act i, Scene l. August 24th.—Massacre of St. Bartholo mew. 1072. 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