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, HIP. AMERICAN PARTY SOUTH.
-,,arv for the rank and file of the Amer
cer South to consult together in regard to
; %ineo?.\i adopted by the National Council at
session, and the candidates placed upon
• i the National Convention.
" y'he Twelfth article of the platform of June,
announced these four propositions as the de
rat sense of the American party :
y Tiiat the existing laws on the subject of
.•rv wight to be abided by and maintained, as
a ii!'settlement of the whole matter, in spirit
. :j -;:bsiauce ; and that there ought to be no fur
•r legislation bv Congress on the subject.
. 1 nat, whether it possesses the power or not,
rgivss ought not to legislate on the subject of
divert- in the Territories.
d That it would be a violation of the compact
vtwei-n the United States and Maryland, andcon
jv to good faith, to abolish slavery in the Dis-
T ,:t of Columbia.
iiii. That when a new State presents herself for
.'Stott into the Union, she has a right to come
: her Constitution is republican, and she lias
quisite population, whether that Constitution
itzes or prohibits slavery.
a very general feeling at the South that
.led something too much in “pretermitting”
, surosion of opinion as to the power of Con
- i legislate in regard to slavery in the Terri
* in most of the Southern Stales the State
; . ..i Is made platforms stronger on this point i
q,,-. nntiomu one. None made them weaker.
"]},, E i n framing that platform, we were not mak
. ... r> : Sooth alone, but one that northern
'.Mservative men could safely stand on ; and it
that we should not ask them to declare
~'ini-m as to the power of Congress, while
t’Utertained another diametrically opposite ;
, . - u:l i /rci that Congress ought not to txer
, xcer, even if it has it.
The June platform does not declare that Con
j r]it to do ant affirmative act about slave
,, jy that U ought to do nothing.
\ . Hit'nem American, once having planted his
... in that platform, can step off from it to anoth
.r v/ithoii! deserved risk of political ruin and anui-
\ - aihern man ought to abandon, or can safely
Viini - , n , unv one of the four propositions. If lie
. tb ■ South ought to, and will, abandon him.
National Council, meeting on the call of
„ s which had repudiated the June platform,
. assembled in February for the purpose of re
,,,, tl\ * twelfth article. Tlio northern men
i:r i! of it at the beginning, upon the wrong
. i if representation, and kept that control.
.. twelfth article, with all the rest of the plat
; wa< struck out, and a new one substituted.
That new platform declares that the people of a
T rn: rv have the right to frame their own Consti
n and laws when? and regulate their own so
.l a n,l domestic affairs; but the word slavery is
-fullv av.'ided ; and it concedes them, not the
, if, hiit tb t-rieileye, of admission into the Union
„ , u iliev have the requisite population.
It certainly gives up the three first propositions
• ;i.e twelfth article, and it waters the fourth, so
u it amounts to little or nothing.
T;;. lirst proposition was the chief one of the
ttv ,’th article. The South imperatively demands
that the agitation of the subject of slavery in Con
c-M shall cease, and especially that it shall no
: r legislate on that subject in the Territories.
The S uitli demands, and has a right to demand,
/ , rv platform, Democratic, Whig or American,
# i- language on the subject of slavery. It does
■ ■: want t.> be told that laws constitutionally enaet
are to be obeyed until repealed or decided null
v judi il authority. It does not want to be told
it a new State shall have the privilege of admis
i ci. It is tired ot ambiguities, and sick of gener
sliv.: anil, as '.lie matter now stands, when a man
; Uims his slave at the risk of his life, and at ten
ii. s the expense of the slave—when clergymen
pr-.-.ch s-ditioii, and States pass personal-liberty
a ts ambiguities and generalities are a mere trans
parent cheat and fraud on the South.
And h fraud is any platform that studiously
omits the word • \ -y, and used roundabout
phrases, circumlocutions, to avoid expressing plain
ideas.
it' the »■ platform is the same in substance as
the old, wliy the change ? If it is not, the South
has nn use for it.
The new platform leaves the Northern men
ivh i s and upon it perfectlv free to agitate against
. ' fugitive slave law, for the abolition of slavery
the District, for suppressing the trade in slaves
rt.V'Vii different States, and for the restoration of
:de Missouri Compromise; and it specially de
an: s the re; il of that compromise by de
nouncing the President for abetting it
1 do n t envy the Southern man who under
is s to defend the new platform after once stand
ing nu the old one.
I was a member of the National Council both in
June and in February. In June I desired to ex
•w the question of slavery from the platform,
enouncing, and not unless’l could denounce, in
us s the men of the party in Massachusetts,
a; elsewhere in the North, who had declared
atri-slaverv to be part of the national American
:r s having done so without authority, and so
pervert d and prostituted the organization to im
proper purposes.
Met hr a unanimous resolve on the part of the
Northern members to have a declaration that the
M;s<. ini Compromise ought to be restored, I aid
id in establishing the 12th article. Once upon it,
-id deeming it eminently right in principle, it be
irnposible for me to abandon it, or consent to
s modification. When it was struck out, I with-
I ew from the Council, and destroyed mv creden-
I so as a delegate to the nominating convention,
I which I refused to take my scat.
[ The American party South cannot stand on
n■ iv platform. It must necessarily repudiate
On it, it would not carry a single county any-
it is said that the men nominated are platform
ugh. That might be so, if we had no platform;
they were on no platform ; if they never had a
latform.
It is said that the new platform is tub»t.mtiaUy
same as the old one. Then how came it to be
Tred bv a freesoiler from Illinois, who declared,
•'• r it was adopted, that he would vote for the
'• "tnof no State permitting slavery* If it
Suits him, it cannot suit mt
it is n,>t substantially the same. It was framed
•a Washington, to get rid of the 12th article. It
*a« fired and adopted forthatpurpo.se in Phila
hdplna; and we may as well look it frankly in the
> It up all that we fought for and gained
the June before.
AuJ now as to the candidates. That I may not
be misunderstood, let me say that I was a! way* a
" ,• until I joined the American party. I was a
supporter f .Mr. Fillmore’s administration. I was
ind.jTunt whs'll lie was thrown aside for General
\Vhat I thought of him then, I think now.
h”. when we formed the American party, we as
-1 ; ■'•'■lr Democratic friends who joined us that
V4S . ■ meant to be the Whig party in disguise.
* ■ i n * in that belief. On motion mv State
1 '•'>:ui declared that the nominee for President
uiin to in- a northern man whose antecedents
u' ‘ sen H-p.vieratic. 1 was playing fairly.
i:i ", old Whig organizations are reviving all ,
' country. The old Whig committees and ,
ire alive and astir again. Our Democratic
"ten will sav we have deceived them; and
wtheold Whig party in disguise. I think it
' ' *i and ptoper to nominate a man who had
ie ;.lv identitied with the Whig party —a
- and nothing else. Ido not say it was had ;
Vk " J -" * do no* so even insinuate; but I do
-. r u ’.i.it l had aided in such nomination, I should
-■'■efelt that ray Democratic brothers had some
•gat to complain of me.
iaey do feel ail over the South tiiat tliev liave
• *•’ i m y word for it, they will stay
’ The new platform wirrarts them in
. 4 '' a ~ mejiarty, and the Whig nomination will urge
do it; and they will go back to their old
"v‘ it the matter is left as it is.
r,..‘ r !' oiorrat ic Americans can neither
' V ,'; n } a * ■ '-ttf-rm nor support the candidate.
• • >"Ui!iern American can successfuliv defend
tdaTerm.
' - -to ue dune? Sliall we disband? Shall
'-rz •in the Democratic partv* I, for one, sav
, 11 "'Quid be too lame and impotent a eonciu
•md many of fair northern allies arc no
-y- reuable than ours. We are not vet ready to
‘ . 'T "ur American principles. We have sat
T "; r " 'tiers long enough.
'3 f‘ " n - the State Councils of the several south
' sat once assemble and deliberate. It is
'U'c are doing so. Let us lay down one
• V ■•u tor ail the South, going upon the subject
I .V ' r > no further than the twelfth article went,
Jmer that the conservative men of the North
'■*• *tand upon it with us. Do not let tts force
; them from us. They will stand on that article if
; we wM be true to ourselves. Let us not ask them to
do more, and that which they cannot do.
Then let us place candidates on that platform
If we think we cannot succeed with a candidate
who eneorses all our views, let us take a Demo
crat who has been tried, and always found true to
the south and the Constitution, at home and in
t.ie councils of the country. Let us sav to the
country, we are willing to wait for the success of
our American principles. The first thing to do is
to give our country quiet. We will take this man’
trusting to his antecedents. We ask of him no
other pledges. We will trust to his American
tee lings and instincts to do justice to those who
like him are American born, confident that he
" 1 * n °t hi! the offices of his country with foreign
ers to the exclusion of those born on the soil
Eet us place this northern Democrat—one like
Uavard and Du Guesclin, without fear and without
reproach -and a southern Whig of our party at
once before the country, and railv to their flag the
conservatives of the Union.
W e need not fear that our American principles
will not succeed in the end. Unembarrassed by
other questions, the American instincts of the peo
ple will in time make them victorious everywhere
Or, it that does not suit our views, let us nomi- j
nate candidates of our own party, on our own plat- j
form, nail our (lag to the masthead; and take the j
chances of the battle ; satisfied with defeat if it en i
tails no dishonor and no betrayal of the South.
It is a delicate thing to do—that which I am !
about to do; but the South has too many plat- i
forms, each State a different one ? and the same
State, in some nuses, three or four in succession.
1 submit one to the South, which several gentle
men from different States have concurred in
framing. It is the June platform, with some mo
difications, reduced to propositions. It is plain,
distinct, specific; it needs no interpreter. We j
would fain hope that our brothers in the South |
may approve it. But, at all events, we stand upon !
it, and we mean to stand upon it, now and hereaf
ter. It will at least elicit discussion, and bring
about deliberation, and action perhaps; and that
is all at which we at present purpose to effect.
A. P.
r 'rotn Recollection* <if Table talk of Samuel Rogers.
Witty and Amusing Anecdotes.
WELLINGTON.
Speaking to me of Bonaparte, the Duke of Wel
li tig ton remarked that in one respect he was supe
rior to all the Generals who had ever existed.
"Was it,” I asked, “in the inangement and skill
ful arrangement of his troops?” “No," answered
the Duke, “it was in his power of concentrating
such vast masses of men—a most important point
in the art of war.”
“I have found,” said the Duke, “that raw troops
however inferior to the old ones in nianoeuvering,
are far superior to them in downright hard fight
ing with the enemy. At Waterloo, the young
Ensigns and Lieutenants, who had never before
seen a battle, rushed to meet death as if they had
been playing at cricket.”
The Duke thinks very highly of Napier's Histo
tory; its only fault, he savs, is’that Napier is some
times apt to convince himself that a thing must
he true, because A# wishes to believe it. Os Sou
they's History he merrily said, "1 don’t think much
of it."
Os the Duke’s perfect coolness on the most try
ing occasions, Colonel Gurwood gave me this in
stance: He was once in great danger of being
drowned at sea. It was bed-time when the cap
tain of the vessel came to him and said, “It
will soon be all over with us.” “Very well,”
answered the Duke, “then I will not take off my
boots.”
STDNBY SMITH.
He said that was so fond of contradiction
that lie would throw up the window in the mid
dle ot the night aud contradict the watchman who
was calling the hour.
When his physician advised him to “take a
walk upon an empty stomach,” Smith asked,
“Upon whose?”
“ Lady Cork,” said Smith, “was once so
moved a by charity sermon that she begged me to
lend her a guinea for her contribution. I did so.
She never repaid me, aud spent it on herself.”
He said that “his idea of heaven was eating fois
gras to the sound of trumpets.”
“I had a very odd dream last night,” said lie; “I
dreamed that there were thirty-nine Muses and
nine Articles ; and my head is still quite confused
about them.”
KKSKINK.
When Lord Erskiue heard that somebody had
died worth two hundred thousand pounds, he ob
served : “Well, that’s a pretty sum to begin the
next world with.”
“A friend of mine,” said Erskiue, “was suffer
ing from a continual wakefulness, and various
methods were tried to sends him to sleep, but in
vain. At last his physician resorted to an experi
ment, which succeeded perfectly; they dressed
him in a watchman’s coat, put a lantern into his
hand, placed him in a sentry-box, and he was
asleep in ten minutes.”
To all letters soliciting his “subscription” to any
thing. Erskiue had a regular form of reply, viz :
"Sir, I feel much houored by your application to
me, and I beg to subscribe”—here the reader had
to turn over the leaf—“myself your very obedient
servant,” Ac.
Erskine used to sav that when the hour came
that all secrets should be revealed, we should
know the reason why—shoes are always made too
light.
When he had a house at Hampstead, he enter
tained the very best company. I have dined there
with the Prince of Wales—the only time I ever
had any r conversation with his Royal Highness.
On that occasion, the Prince was very agreeable
and familiar. Among other anecdotes which he
told us of Lord Thurlow, I remember these two.
The lirst was: Thurlow once said to the Prince,
" Sir, your father will continue to he a popular
King as long lie continues to go to church every
Sunday, and to be faithful to that ugly woman,
your mother, but you, sir, will never be popular.”
The oilier was this : While bis servants were car
rying Thurlow up stairs to his bedroom, just be
fore bis death, they happened to let his legs strike
against the bannisters, upon which lie uttered the
last words he ever spoke—a frightful imprecation
oil “all their souls.”
Erskiue said that the Prince of Wales was quite
“a cosmogony man,” (alluding to “The Vicar of
Wakefield ), for he had only two classical quota
tions—one from Homer and one from Virgil, which
he never failed to sport when there was any oppor
tunity for introducing them.
Latterly Erskinc was very poor; and no wonder,
for he always contrived to sell out of the funds
when they were very low, and to buy in when they
were very high. “By heaven,” he would sav, “I
am a perfect kite, all paper; the boys might By
me.” Yet poor as he was, he kept the best socie
i ■ 1 have met him at the Duke of York’s, Ac.
vox.
Fox, in his earlier days, [ meant, Sheridan, :
Fitzpatrick, dee., led such a life ! Lord Tankerville j
assured me that he lias played cards with Fitzpat- <
rick at Brooks’s from 10 o’clock at night till near i
d o’clock the next afternoon, a waiter standing by i
to tell them “whose deal it was,” they being too |
sleepy to know.
After losing large sums at hazard, Fox would go
home — not to destroy himself, as his friends some- i
1 times feared, but —to sit down quietly and read
I Greek.
He once won about £3000; and one of his bond
creditors, who soon heard of his good hick, pro- |
sented himself, and asked for payment, “linpos- j
sible, sir,” replied Fox, “1 must first discharge my
debts of honor." The bond-creditor remonstra- ;
ted. “Well, sir, give me your bond.” It was de
livered to Fox, who tore it in pieces and threw
them in the tire. “Now, sir,” said Fox, “my debt ;
to you is a debt of honor;” and immediately paid ;
him.
I saw Lunardi make the first nsoent in a balloon
which had been witnessed in England. It was 1
from the Artillery ground. Fox was there with
his brother, Gen. F. The crowd was immense.
Fox, happening to put iiis hand down tohiswatch,
found another hand upon it, which lie immediately
seized. “My friend,’ said ho to the owner of the j
strange hand, “ you have chosen an occupation
which will be your ruin at last." “ Ob, Mr. Fox,” !
was the reply, “forgive me, and let me go! I |
have been driven to this course by necessity alone;
mv wife and children are starving at home.” Fox, ,
always tender-hearted, slipped a guinea into the
hand, and then released it. On the conclusion of
the show. Fox was'proceeding to look what o’clock
it was. “Good God," cried he, “my watch is '
"one!" “Yes,” answered Gen. F., “1 know it is;
I saw your friend take it.” “ Saw him take it! and
you made no attempt to stop him*” “Really,
you and he appeared to be on such good terms
with each other, that I did not choose to interfere.”
PA.LBT.
He permitted—nav wished—his daughters to go
to evening parties; but insisted that one of them
should always remain at home, to give her assist
ance, if needed, bv rubbing him, Ac., in case of an
attack of the rheumatic pains, to which he was sub
ject. “This,” he said, “taught them natural as
, lection.”
VERNON.
Vernon was the person who invented the story
about the ladv being pulverized in India by n coup
d* > M. When he was dining there with a. Hin
d >o one of his host s wives was suddenly reduced
t> ashes- upon which the Hindoo rang bell, and
Slid to the attendant who answered it, Bring
■ t" resh classes, and sweep up your mistress.
Another of his stories was this : lie happened to
i be shooting hvenasnear Carthage, when he stum
i bled and fell'down an abyss of many fathoms
t depth. He was surprised, however, to find him
self unhurt; for he lighted as if on a feather bed.
Presently he perceived that he was gently moving
i upward; and, having by degress reached the
t mouth of the abyss, he again stood safe on terra
t jirma. He had fallen upon an immense mass of
, bats, which, disturbed from their slumbers, had
t risen out of the abyss and brought him up with
a i than».
| LADY HAMILTON.
There was something very charming in Lady
j Hamilton s openness ot manner. She showed me
: the neckcloth which Nelson had on when he died •
1 of course I could not help looking at it wish ex
treme interest; and she threw her arms around my
neck and kissed me. She was latterly in great
want, and Lord Stowell never rested till he pro
cured for her a small pension from Government.
PORSON.
Porson would sit up drinking all night without
seeming to feel any bad effects from it. Horne
Tooke told me that he once asked Porson to dine
with him in Richmond Buildings ; aud as he knew
that Porson had not been in bed for the three pre
ceding nights, he expected to get rid of him at a
tolerably early hour. Porson, however, kept Tooke
up the whole night; and in the morning the lat
ter, in perfect despair, said, “Mr. Porson, I am
engaged to meet a friend at breakfast at a coffee
house in Leiscester square.” “Oh 1” replied Per
son, “ I will go with you,” and he did so. Soon
alter they had reached the coffee house, Tooke con
trived to slip out, and running home, ordered his
servant not to let Mr. Porson in, even if he should
attempt to batter down the door. “A man,” ob
served Tooke, “who could sit up four nights sue
| ccssively, might have sat up forty.”
Tooke used to say that “Porson would drink ink ‘
; rather than not drink at all.” Indeed, he would
j drink anything. He was sitting with a gentleman
1 atter dinner, in the chambers of a mutual friend, a
! Templar, who was then ill and confined to bed. A
j servant came into the room, sent thither by his
master for a bottle of embrocation, which was on
the chimney-piece. “I drank it an hour ago,”
said Porson.
When Hopner, the painter, was residing in a
cottage a few miles from London. Porson one af
| ternoon unexpectedly arrived there. Hoppner said
! that lie could not offer him dinner, as Mrs. H. had
j gone to town and had carried with her the key of
the closet, which contained the wine. Porson,
however, declared that he would be contented with
mutton chop and beer from the next ale house; and
accordingly stayed to dine. During the evening, }
Porson said: “I am quite certain that Mrs. Hop
ner keeps some nice bottle for her private drinking I
I in her own room, so pray, try if you can lay your
hands on it.” His host assured him that Mrs. 11.
; had no such secret stores; hut Porson insisting
that a search should he made, a bottle was at last
discovered in the lady’s apartment, to the surprise
of Hopner and the joy of Porson, who soon fin
ished its contents, pronouncing it to be the best
gin he had tasted for a long time. Next day Hop
ner, somewhat out of temper, informed his wife
that Porson had drank every drop of her conceal
ed drain. “Drunk every drop of it!” cried she; -
“my God !it was spirits of wine for the lamp !” j
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Congressional.
Washington, March 31.—Senate. -After the
usual morning business, the Senate resumed the
consideration of the resolutions introduced by Mr. j
Iverson some time since, providing for the appoint
ment of a select committee, who snail be author
ized and instructed to summon before them the j
members the of late naval retiring board, in order ;
to ascertain the grounds and reasons, facts and ;
evidence, upon which their action in recommend- {
ing the dismissal of naval officers from the active
service list, was predicated. Mr. Iverson address
ed the Senate at some length in advocacy of the
resolutions, and commented with considerable se
verity on the action of the naval board. Mr. Sli
dell defended the hoard, and urged the necessity
existing for a reform in the navy, which could not
he carried out in anv way more effectually than by
the means which Congress had provided. The ;
debate was continued by Mr. Butler, Mr. Clayton,
and Mr. Crittenden until five o’clock, when the
Senate adjourned.
House. —Mr. Faulkner offered a resolution,
which was adopted, culling on the President for
information in regard to the pending hostilities in
Oregon and Washington Territories. Another re
solution was adopted instructing the Committeee
on Military Affairs to inquire into the expediency
nf accepting the services of volunteers for the sup
pression of said hostilities.
In the course of a brief discussion on the Senate
bill providing for an increased compensation to
the jurors of the District of Columbia, it was stated
by Mr. Letcher that the expenses of the district
Courts of the United States for the past, year
amounted to one million of dollars.
The various appropriation bills reported by the
Committee of V ays and Means were made the
special order of the day for the 15th April, and to
continue the special order for every succeeding
Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday until disposed
of.
Af:cr hearing reports from standing committees,
the House resolved itself into Committee of the
Whole, and proceeded to the consideration of the
bill (reported this morning from the Committee of
Wavs and Means,) making an appropriation for re
storing and maintaining the peaceable disposition
of the Indian tribes on the Pacific, and for other
purposes.
The bill proposes to appropriate $300,000, to be
expended under the direction of the President of
the United States, for restoring and maintaining
the peaceable disposition of Indian tribes on the
Pacific.
After a lengthy debate, without coming to any
conclusion on the bill, the committee rose, and at
live o’clock the House adjourned.
Washington Union.
Congressional.
Washington, April I. — Senate. — Mr. Mason,
from the committee on foreign relations, reported
a joint resolution, amending the act of March,
1855, to re-model the Diplomatic and Consular
svstem of the United States. He explained that
tlie resolution proposed to change that feature
which seemed niendatory on ihe President to ele
vate all our foreign ministers resident, to ministers
plenipotentiaries ; and to atlix the salary of each
mission. Congress has no power to command,
but could only recommend this to the President.
The resolution passed.
Mr. Clayton resumed his remarks from ver.ter
day on the subject of the Naval Board. In order
to prove that it was no disgrace for officers to be
placed on the retired list, lie cited the fact that in
England the heroes of the Nile and Trafalgar
were relieved from the active service and receive
less than the officers of the same grade on this re
tired list. He replied to Senator Houston's at
tacks on Captains Pendergrast, Dupont and other
naval officers.
Mr. Bell, of' Tennessee, followed, sustaining, in
the main, the proceedings and action of the Naval
Board.
House op Representatives.— Among the re- j
ports from the standing committees were bills es- j
tabiishing additional land districts in Nebraska j
and Kansas.
Ten thousand copies of the Central American j
correspondence, together with that between the
United States and Great Britain on the arbitration
and enlistment question, were ordered to be print
ed—also the same numbers of copies of the docu
ment on tlie commercial relations ol the United
States with alt foreign nations, statistics, com para- |
five tariffs, Ac.
The House passed a bill appropriating S3OO,- |
000 for restoring and maintaing the peaceable dis- |
position of the Indian tribes on the Pacific ( oast |
and $120,000 for the purchase of gunpowder.
Mr. Howie, of Maryland, presented the petition
of sundry citizens of Charles county, Maryland, j
praying Congress to take such measures as may
i secure the construction of the Pacific railroad.
Referred to the committee on railroads.
The House resolved itself into a committee on
i the whole on the state of the Union, i Mr. Mace in
: the chair) and resumed the consideration of the
Persident’s annual message.
Mr. Warner of Georgia, addressed the commit
j tee at length on the slavery question, insisting
j upon the right of the South to enjoy the territory
S of the United States in common with the other
; States of the Union, and the right of the citizens
| of the South to remove into it with their slave
property. The institution of slavery was protect
ed by law, and was recognised by the universal
law of nations, and none had a right to interfere
with it He said that for maintaining the great
i principles embraced in the Kansas-Nebraska bill,
and for vindicating the integrity of the Constitu
! tion, the President of the United States had been
I denounced bv his opponents as a “doughface;”
but it was much better for him to be called a
, doughface than to have been denounced as guilty
of perjury in failing to discharge his duty under
that Constitution which be had sworn to support
and maintain.
Mr. Allison, of Pennsylvania, addressed the
i committee in opposition to the extension of slave
ry, when tlio committee rose, and the House ad
journed.
Singular Occcrrknce. —In clearing up one of
the rooms at Stanwix Hal! yesterday, a waiter dis
covered a cat so crowded into a boot that it was
difficulty that she could be extricated. Having got
her out,’the next question in order was “how did
she get in?” This was leading to u long-winded
dispute, when one of the by-stauders took up the
boot, gave it a shake, and tessed a half-grown rat
upon the floor. The discovery of the rat solved
the riddle. The rat, to escape the cat. rushed into
the boot; the cat, to secure a game dinner, rushed
after him, and with such force that she could not
back out again. Learn wisdom from pussy, and
never “go it blind,” even in a good cause.
Albany Knickerbocker, 21*'.
Burials in Charcoal. —It is a fact well establish
ed by experiment that dead animal matter, covered
with charcoal will undergo putrefaction and com
plete decomposition without the least offensive
smell. For this reason it has been recommended
bv Dr. Richardson i Journal of Health') to enclose
the corpse in this substance previous to burial in
large towns. The suggestion might be useful
where it becomes, from any cause, necessary to
keep the bodies of friends for some days before
burying them, as, bv this means, all unpleasant
effluvia will be prevented. A laver of charcoal
four inches in thicknoss will be sufficient.
! Z-*f° The Hon. Tho«. H. Benton, of Missouri,
has adopted a very ingenious method of advertising
j his forthcoming publications—a method worthy of
• the genius of a Holloway. Below is his letter,
copied from the Missouri Democrat:
Lettish from Col. Buntov. —Bv permission of
the recipient we give publicity to the following
! characteristic letter from our venerable ex-Sen
j ator:
Washington, March 12, 13.5.;
My Dear Sir: I have to thank you for vonr kind
I letters and for all the friendly sentiments' express
; ed, and of these the personal part is the most an-ree
! able. The personal feelings of my friends towards
me is what I have most to cherish hereafter. I
never saw the day I would be willing to be a can
didate fur the Presidency, and am now further
from it than ever. No earthly consideration could
make me a candidate. The Senate was once agree
able to me, when there was a chance to do some
thing for the State or the United States. But that
chance seems now to be over, and all Statesman
ship reduced to a hurrah on one side or the other
of slavery. Even local interests in our State seem !
to be crushed under it—as the Pacific railroad.
1 am now far advanced in mv second volume.
The publishers are about five hundred and nine 1
pages deep iu the printing, and T am a hundred
pages ahead of the compositors in the writing. I !
rise at daybreak and work till midnight, with an
interval of one or two hour’s recreation on horse- !
back. As soon as mv work is finished, which will 1
be some time in April, I shall come to Missouri, ;
and of course shall have to speak —to what extent ,
I do not know —but certainly onlv for the general j
purpose of aiding my friends and the Democratic
cause, and without any view to a personal conse
quence. Congress is no longer desirable to me;
politics have run down too low to have any attrac
tion for me. 1 spent thirty years of my life in a j
contest of great principles—of great measures—of (
great men, and cannot wear out the remainder of i
my days in a slavery agitation, either on the one ’
side or the other of It.
1 have work enough marked out to occupy the
; remainder of mv life, and ot a kind to be pleasant
; and profitable to me, if not beneficial to a future
j generation—which I think it may be. 1 propose
| to abridge the debates of Congress from 1789 to
; 1850; also, to continue my history from 1850 to
j the day of mv death. This is work enough for
tne, and of more dignity (to say nothing of any
thing else) than acting a part in a slavery agita
tion, which is now the work of both parties, and
which, in my opinion, is to end disastrously for the
Union, let which side will prevail. A man, uncon
nected with the agitation, is what the country
wants. Your friend, Titos. H. Benton.
A ltailway Romance.
A singular affair occurred on the Wear Valley
Durham) the other day. A gentleman from Bir
mingham found himself seated in a first class car
riage, his vis-a-vis, and the only other passenger
in that compartment of the carriage being a bloom
ing lady, answering to the illiterative description
of “fat, fair and forty.” The train had scarcely
moved a hundred yards from the. station before
the lady suddenly leaped from her seat and ex
claimed to the other passenger, “how dare you,
sir? What do you mean?” The gentleman, as
tonished, replied that “he did not understand; he
hud done nothing to harm her." Again and again
she sprung from her seat in apparent terror and
rage, atul declared with vehemence that her neigh
bor was a “villian and site would have him taken
into custody at the next station.” The gentleman
protested his innocence, and asked what he had
done; but the eccentric lady still kept leaping
from her scat., raving against his treatment, till
the gentleman decided that she was mad, and re
solved, on the arrival of the train at the next sta
tion, to give her into custody. As her eccentrici
ty did not abate, nor her rage either, he, on the
arrival of the train at one of the stations, was
about to carry his resolution into action, when she
suddenly sprang to the door and screamed out
“Guard!” at the top of her voice, and presently
collected not only the guard, but a crowd of people
around her. She then commenced her accusation
in words both loud and deep, protesting that the
gentleman had improperly pinched her legs ; and
the gentleman, horrified at the charge, protesting,
with equal vehemence, his perfect innocence. At
ibis juncture, when matters looked serious for
the gentleman, the guard happened to recollect |
that he had placed a basket uuder the seat of the ;
carriage containing a live goose; and pulling it j
out, the mystery was explained, the bird being the i
criminal, and having caused,the lady’s fears and i
the gentleman’s apprehensions. The explanation ;
was received with perfect good humor and satis- |
faction by the parties concerned, and the train re- 1
newed its journey amid the convulsive laughter !
and applause of the assembled multitude.
Prof. Longfellow says that “Hiawatha” should
be divided “ Hi-n-wa-tha,” but pronounced with
the vowels as in Niagara, thus: “Hee-uli-wah
thah,” the accent falling on the tin 1 third syllable.
E. A. Brackett, the sculptor, is engaged upon a
colossal marble statue of the Rev. Ilosea Ballou,
to be erected over the remains of the well known
religious author and theologian, which now repose
in Mount Auburn. This classic token of regard
n reared by tin* Universalist denomination at
large.
William llowitt, in his Australian tour, says be
lived for three weeks upon nothing but fricaseed
kangaroo. At the end of that time he could jump
sixty feet, lie did nt discontinue the diet until lie
found himself beginning to acquire a growth of fur.
Thackeray, than whom there are few closer ob
servers of men and of things, thus writes: “ 1
know this, that if there are some clerics who do
wrong, there are straightway a thousand newspa
pers to haul them up, and cry ‘ Fie upon them !
fie upon them !’ while the press, somehow, takes
very little count of the many good ones; of the
tens of thousands of honest men who lead Chris
tian lives and give to the poor generously; who
deny themselves rigidly, and live and die in their
duty without ever a newspaper paragraph in their
favor.’ ’’ Ho further States it as his belief “that
of those eminent philosophers who cry out against
parsons the loudest, there are not many who have
got their knowledge of the church by going thith
er often.”
The Rev. Charles Stuart, Chaplain in the Navy,
and author of the well-known work on the Sand
wich Islands, says that Louis Napoleon was not,
<lurin'j hi* residence in America, either intemperate
nr dissolute in hie halite; hut in the mean time
there was in the city a voting Prince of the Bona
parte fa niilv, who was. This was his cousin, the
son of Linden Bonaparte, and it is his errors of
conduct which are to this day ascribed to the pre
sent Emperor of France. While in America, how
ever Louis Napoleon .might appear in public, he
was in private in deep dejection. The disgrace of
liis failures at Strashurg and Boulogne preyed upon
his spirits.
The Difference between Theory and Prac
tice. —Some of the interior papers are making a
great row about the sale at auction of twenty-two
slaves, the property of Cassius M. Clay, ltless
vour souls gentlemen, there is nothing remarkable
about that. The most cruel slave drivers are
Northern Abolitionists. They are only theoretical
Abolitionists for political purposes. When it
comes to a matter of dollars and cents it is quite
another affair. — AV w York Ifemli.
To Ctviur.E Clergymen. —John Adams was at
one time called upon by some one to contribute to
foreign missions, when he abruptly answered—
“ I have nothing to give for that purpose, but
there are here in the vicinity six ministers, notone
of whom vfill preach in each other’s pulpit. Now,
1 will contribute as much and more than any one
else, to civilize these six clergymen."
A Strong Drink. —The editor of the New York
Dutchman , speaking of a drink he once had occa
sion to indulge in, says he could not tell whether it
; was brandy or a torch light procession going down
! his throat! Whatever it was, the smile must have
! drawn a tear: probably it was cayenne cocktail.
Bacon and lard.
100 casks choice Tennessee BACON.
25 hbis. prime LARD, for sale by
THOMAS I*. STOVALL A CO.,
ftps General Commission Merchants.
STORE TO RENT.
TNHE Store opposite the Planter’s Hotel, re
cently occupied by \V. 11. Howard. Apply
to mnl2 _ ' HOWARD A DUGAS
fiSPRING ROBES. -DICKEY & PHIBBS
are now opening a very fine assortment of
Plain and Printed, Satin Striped and Plaid
Flounced ROBES, of all shades, at very low pri
ces. mli23 DICKEY A PHIBBS.
i^ILABS. -1(30 bids, r Refined - SUGARS :
kS 75 bids. A and B “ “
50 “ A and C Crushed “
Just received, and for sale bv
apl _ SCRANTON, KOLB A CO.
SEGARS.
-g dfc KIO HONDA LONDRES.
J P Also, a lot of “GEORGIA’S”
and “AUGUSTA’S,” just received and for sale at
Gust. YOLGER'S old stand, ami
G. YOLGER & CO.,
aps Two doors below Bones Sc Brown's.
Flour, mackerel, sugar, a c .~
100 hairs superfine FLOUR.
100 bbls. “ “ Etowah mills.
•25 “ No. 3 MACKEREL.
15 “ No. 2
12 kits No. 2
3 hhds. prime N. O. SUGAR.
100 boxes TOBACCO.
For sale by ap3 THOS. P. STOVALL A CO.
RAGS MEAL, for sale bv
O" apii 8 THOS. P. STOVALL, A Co.
COMMERCIAL.
Augusta Market, April 5, 4 P. M.
COTTON.—Demand good, and prices full. The
Asia’s news has had no effect.
| CHARLESTON, April 3.— Cotton —There was an
j active demand for this article to-day, which re
; suited in the sale of upwards of 3200 bales. The
quotations of the morning were well sustained.
The sales comprise 390 bales at 9%; 100 at 9% ;
! 125 at 9% ; 76 at 9% I 468 at 10; 317 at 10% ; 36
at 10% ; 862 at 10% ; 130 at 10% ; 36 at 10% ; and
611 bales at 11 cents.
SAVANNAH, April 4 .—Cotton. —There was a
1 good inquiry for this article to-day, although the
transactions were limited to 662 bales at the fol
j lowing particulars : 96 at B%', 27 at 9, 61 at 9%, 6
I at 9%; 13 at 9%, 102 at 9%, 141 at 10, 29 at 10%,
• 38 at‘lo%, 5 at 10 11-16, 124 at 10%, 30 at 10%.
\ and 4 bales at 11% cents.
Freights. —To Liverpool at ,%d. To Boston7-16c.
: New York 5-16e. Baltimore and Philadelphia %c.
SAVANNA J I EXPORTS—A PBIL- 5.
Per Br ship Queen, for Liverpool—l4B,l6s feet j
j timber, 2,532 bales cotton.
Per schr Enchantress, for New York —934 bales j
j cotton, 14 do waste, 50 do rope cuttings, 12 hbds j
| tobacco, 2 boxes do, 189 cowhides, 5 bales calf- \
j skins, 7 do sheepskins.
Per bark Seboois, for Boston—37 bundles Hides, j
426 dry Hides, 1 bale Wool, 666 bales cotton.
SHIPPING NEWS.
ARRIVALS FROM CHARLESTON.
Schr Americus, Vanderbilt, New York
Schr Gen Veazie, Chase, Boston
SAILED FOR CHARLESTON.
Schr Huron, Warren, Searsport, Me
Schr Caledonia, Coombs, Searsport, Me
CHARLESTON, April 5. —Arrived, Span barque
Constancia, Havana; barque Jedo, Boston; brig
Olanda, Matanzas.
Went to sea, steamship Isabel, Havana; ships
Agues, Havre; Zaretan, Bremen ; hark E Dwight,
Philadelphia ; brig B G Chaloner, Boston ; schr J
W Webster, New York.
SAVANNAH, April 5.- Arrd, steamer Augusta,
Augusta.
WILLIAM MAILLER,
(From Decatur, North Alabama,)
GENERAL COMMISSION MERCHANT, AND
REAL ESTATE BROKER,
St. Joseph, Missouri,
ill attend to the purchase ami sale of
T V Real Estate, locate or sell Land Warrants,
invest money, collect debts, and pay taxes for non
residents, Ac., Ac. Will also attend the Land Sales
in Kansas Territory, for the purpose of buying
Lands, and locating Land Warrants, for any Who
may entrust me with their business.
Punctual attention will he given to all business
entrusted to mv care, and prompt remittances made
with Eastern Exchange, in all cases requiring it.
t-y?” Communications bv mail will reach me at
“ Decatur, Ala.," until the 15th April next. After
that time, please address me at St. Joskfu, Mis
souri.
BBFKRENCES:
Robert Mure, Esq., Charleston, S. C.
Faekler, Coleock A Co., Charleston, S. C.
Scruggs, Drake A Co., “ “
J. J. Howard, Esq., Cartersville, Georgia
A. W. Mitchell, Esq., Atlanta, “
Isaac Scott, Esq., Macon, “
R. It. Cuvier, Esq., Savannah, “
B. Chandler, Esq., Chattanooga, Tenu.
Hon. John A. Nope, Memphis, “
“ F. S. Lyon, Demonofis, Ain.
John Whiting, Esq., Montgomery, Ala.
S. O. Nelson, Esq., New Orleans, La.
Dr. George A. Sykes, Aberdeen, Miss.
J. W. Garth, Esq., Decatur, Ala.
mhl4 +2m
NEW SPRING GOODS.
LARGE ADDITIONAL SUPPLIES.
T 1 IiLI ATI SIIK.AK has jnstreceived from
w w New York, large additional supplies of new
Spring GOODS, among which are—
Plain Colored CH ALLIES, of beautiful styles for
Ladies’ Spring dresses.
French Printed ORGANDIES and JACONETS,
at low prices.
English PRINTS, of new and beautiful styles.
Superior plain black SILKS, and Lupin’s black
CD ALLIES.
Superior black SILKS, without lustre, for La
dies’ mourning dresses.
Ladies’ fancy Bonnet, Neck and Belt RIBBONS.
CRAPE MARETZ, of beautiful colors, for La
dies’ Summer dresses.
Superior S-t and 10-4 Damask DIAPERS and
Damask TABLE CLOTHS.
Superior Damask NAPKINS and Pillow-Case
LINENS.
Superior Linen HUCKABACKS and Scotch DI
APERS, for Towels.
Bird’s-Eve DIAPER, of extra quality.
Ladies’ French CORSETS, of all sizes.
Silk Warp FLANNELS, and Long LAWNS.
Allendale, Lancaster and Marseilles QUILTS, of
extra size and quality.
The above, with a great variety of other season
able articles, will he sold low for cash. The pub
lic are respectfully invited to examine the assort
ment. d+ic mh23
HOUSE AND LOT FOR SALE.
rHTIf E subscriber offers for sale his RES-
M I DENCH, on Greene-st., a desirable
place. The Lot is seventy-five feet front, eStiili
and one hundred and seventy-five feet deep. The
House is in complete repair, and newly painted
throughout, containing seven Rooms, a Pantry and
Bathing Room, Hydrant in the yard, Stable, t\v«
Kitchens and Smoke House, and fine Fruit in the
garden. E. H. ROGERS.
Augusta, March Ist, 1856. mhl
TEACHER S CARD.
A LADY competent to teach Music according
/» to the latest method, Singing and the French
Language, also Drawing and Tainting, as well as
the English branches, desires a situation as in
structress, in a Country School or private family,
on moderate terms. A line addressed to Elmore
D. Este, Augusta, Georgia, will be promptly at
tended to. 6 apl.
NEW SPRING GOODS.
la ’s UOO.H A NOR R ELL have now in store,
SB their new stock of SPRING GOODS, com
prising the usual variety kept in a Dry Goods
Store, to which they would respectfully solicit at
tention, assuring their friends and customers everv
advantage that can be afforded by the best articles
as well as the lowest scale of prices. Among our
Goods are —
Plain b’lk SILKS, large assortment, some very low
prices ;
Plain Satin Striped and Printed REREGES ;
Silk GRENADINES and Satin Plaid TISSUES :
Fr. Printed ('HALLIES and HEREGE DeLAINES
Rich Grenadine, Berege and Jaconet FLOUNCED
ROBES;
French Printed ORGAN DIES, LAWNS and MUS
LINS;
Bl’k GUALLIES, TANATANS, BOMBAZINES
and ALPACAS;
Plain and Checked JACONETS, CAMBRICS,
NAINSOOKS and SWISS MUSLIN;
BRILLTANTES. CALICOES, GINGHAMS, TAR
LATANS. Ac.. Ac.;
Emb’d. COLLARS, SLEEVES, CHKMTZETTES,
BANDS and FLOUNCINGS;
Rich Emb’d. BASQUES;
Lace and Sick MANTILLAS;
Lace and Crape SHAWLS ; bl’k and Silk LACES;
i Sup. ass’t. GOODS, for Gent’s and Boys’ wear;
•• “ LINENS, Table DAMASKS, DIAPERS,
TOWELLINGS;
■ 10-4 and IJ-4 Linen SHEETING, and sup. Pillow
LINENS;
, Sup. assortment HOSIERY, for Gent’s, Ladies’,
Misses’, Bovs and Children ;
i lll’k. and Bro. DOMESTICS. SHEETINGS, LONG
CLOTHS, STRIPES, TICKINGS, Ac. apl
HAMS, SIDES, AND SHOULDERS.
TIERCES Chas. Davis A Co’s. Extra
Sugar Cured Canvassed HAMS.
25 tierces Ames A Co.’s Extra Sugar Cured
HAMS.
50 hhds. Ames A Co.'s plain HAMS.
150 “ Cincinnati Smoked SIDES.
150 “ St. Louis “
100 “ Cincinnati “ SHOULDERS.
Just received and for sale by
LEWIS A ALLEN,
aps No. 1, Warren Block.
SPRING AND SUMMER CLOTHING.
tHAVE commenced receiving a large supply
of Men’s CLOTHING, consisting of all the va
j rieties usually kept in that line.
—also —■
Youth’s, Boy’s and Children’s CLOTHING, in
great varieties.
—ALSO—
Fresh lot of HATS, for spring and summer wear.
—ALSO—
SHIRTS, COLLARS, CRAVATS, NECK TIES,
i STOCKS, GLOVES. SUSPENDERS, HALF HOSE,
i Ac., in ereat varieties, under the Augusta Hotel.
ap3 _tf_ J. J. CLAYTON.
THE undersigned haring purchased of Mr. J
K. Hoiia his interest in the firm of J. M. New
I bt A Co., will continue the Clothing business, at
their old stand, under the United States Hotel, in
the same name as heretofore.
J. M. NEWBY,
C. B. DAY,
WM. S. WISE.
i Augusta, March 1, 1858, mh4
lotteries.
! GREENE ANI) PULASKI MONUMENT
LOTTERIES.
Managed, drawn, and Prizes paid bytlie welt known
and responsible firm of
GREGORY & MAURY.
I Drawn Numbers Class 82, at Savannah, April 4th.
62 1 11 63 72 37 67 18 60 45 46 SO 17 3
! CLASS 34, at Savannah, on Monday, April 7th.
SPLENDID SCHEME.'
89,769 !
8 Prizes of $3,000 ; 10 of SI,OOO, Ac., Ac. Tickets
s2.so—Shares in proportion. Risk on a package
of 26 quarters $0.35.
CLASS 85, at Savannah, on Tuesday, April Bth.
ANOTHER LITTLE ONE.
$4,030!
$1,200; $1,000; S3OO, Ac. Tickets $1 ; Halves 50c.;
Quarters 25 cents. Risk on a package of 26
quarters $8.70.
JOHN A. MILLEN, Agent,
On Jackson street, near the Globe Hotel
All orders from the city or country strictly con- i
fidential. ttp6 j
$30,000!
The first Havana Plan Lottery established in the j
United States.
[BT AUTHORITY OF TttE STATE OF ALABAMA.]
Southern Military Academy Lottery!
»♦.
CLASS C—NEW SERIES.
To he drawn in the City of Montgomery, MAY 1
Ist, 1856.
ONLY 10,000 NUMBERS!
CAPITAL PRIZE *B,(KM)!
PRICE OF TICKETS:
Wholes $5 ; Halves $2.50 ; Quarters $1.25.
Prizes in this Lottery are paid thirty days after
the drawing, in bii’ls of specie-paying Ranks, with
out deduction —-only on presentation oj the Tickets
drawinu the Prize.
JjgT" Bills of all solvent Banks taken at par. All
communications strictly confidential.
SAM’L. SWAN, Agent and Manager,
apl Montgomery, Alabama.
REAL HAVANA LOTTERY.
MAGNIFICENT SCHEME !
SORTED NUMERO ORDINARIO 562.
The Ordinary Drawing of the HAVANA LOT
TERY. conducted by the Spanish Government, on
the Island of Cuba, under the supervision of the
Captain General, will take place at Havana on
Tuesday, April 15th, 1856.
Prizes amounting Jo $‘210,000 will be distribu
ted, according to the following Scheme :
Prizes payable in full, without deduction, at the
Havana Office.
SCHEME:
1 Prize of $60,000
1 “ 20,000
1 “ 16,000
1 “ 8,000
10 Prizes of 2,000
15 “ 1,000
20 “ 500
60 “ 400
161 “ 200
16 Approximations 4,800
Whole Tickets $10; Halves $5; Quarters $2.50.
Prizes paid at the Havana Office on presentation.
Prizes cashed by the undersigned at tire per cent,
discount.
Z-fF" The Official Drawing will be published in
the Charleston Courier, a copy of which will be sent
to each purchaser.
All orders sent to the undersigned strictly confi
dential, and will be attended to with dispatch.
Address JOHN E. NELSON, Box 130,
mh2l Charleston, S. C.
■■ NE PLUS UL’fß k” SCHEME!
1200 PRIZES ! 50,000 DOLLARS !
HAVANA PLAN LOTTERY!
JASPER COUNTY ACADEMY LOTTERY.
[BY AUTHORITY OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA.]
; , 00 NUMBERS ONLY!
ONE PRIZE TO EVERY EIGHT TICK RTS!
CLASS M,~
TO BE DRAWN MAY 15th, 1856, at Concert
Hall, Macon, Ga., under the sworn superintend
ence of Col. Geo. .’6. Logan and J. A. Nesbit, Esq.
The Manager having announced his determina
tion to make this the most popular Lottery in the I
world, offers for MAY 15th, a Scheme that far j
surpasses any Scheme ever offered in the annals of
Lotteries. Look to your interest! Examine the I
Capitals. One Prize to Eight Tickets !
CAPITAL 12,000 DOLLARS.
1 Prize of $12,000 1
1 “ 5,000 \
1 “ 3,000 !
1 “ 2,060
5 Prizes of 1,000
10 “ 500
60 “ 50
120 “ 25
500 “ 10
500 “ 8
1200 Prizes, amounting to $50,000
Tickets $8 ; Halves $4; Quarters $2.
Prizes Payable without deduction! Persons send
ing money by mail need not fear its being lost.
Orders punctually attended to. Communications
confidential. Bank Notes of sound Banks taken at
par. Drawings sent to all ordering Tickets. Those j
wishing particular Numbers should order imme- :
diately. Address JAMES F. WINTER,
Box OS, Augusta, Ga. j
Address
mli2l
I.oss of Tickets of Class I*.
By the late accident on the Seaboard and Roan
oke Railroad, the Tickets of Class L., for April j
15th, in their transit from Baltimore, in charge of;
Adams’ Express Company, were destroyed by fire,
consequently there will not be any Drawing of that \
Class. The Drawing w ill be Class M—May 15th, ,
the “ Xe Plus Ultra” Scheme.
Very respectfully, J. F. WINTER, !
mh2o Manager.
IMPROVED HAVANA PLAN LOTTERY!'
[By Authority of the State of Oeor/jia.}
FORT GAINES ACADEMY LOTTERY.
CLASS 14,
Will be drawn in the city of Atlanta, Georgia, on
the ‘24th of APRIL. 1856, when Prizes
amounting to
30,000 DOLLARS!
Will be distributed.
CA PITA I, PRIZE*** *7,300.
rule® op tickets :
Wholes $5; Halves $2.50; Quarters $1.25.
Prizes in this Lottery are paid thirty days after
the drawing, in bills of specie-paying Banks, with
out deduction, only on presentation ot the 'Picket en
titled to the Prize.
Bills on all solvent Banks taken at par. All com
munications strictly confidential.
SAMUEL S\VAN, Agent and Manager,
mli2s Atlanta, Georgia.
lisf~ The next Drawing in this Lottery will be
Class 15, MAY 29th. Price of Tickts, $5.00, $2.50
annd $1.25.
LEATHER, SHOE FINDINGS AND
TANNERS’ TOOLS.
OAK and Hemlock Sole LEATHER; Harness,
Bridle, Skirting and Band LEATHER ;
Picker, Lace and Roller LEATHER;
j Patent Skirting, Collar, Dash and Enamelled
1 LEATHER;
Russet and Black Upper LEATHER ;
“ “ “ Kip SKINS;
French, German and American Calf SKINS;
French Patent Calf, Kid Calf, and Opera SKIN’S-
Goat and Kid Morocco SKINS:
Lining, Topping and Binding SKINS;
| Buck, Chamois and Sheep “
—ALSO
Shoe Pegs, Lasts, Sole Cutters, Heel Cutters,
| Rolling Mills, Peg Jacks, Peg Breaks, Peg Cutters,
[ Boot Trees, Crimps, Clamps, Hammers, Shoe
I Knives, Splitting Knives, Shaves, Rub Stones,
! Bristles, Awl Blades, Eyelets and Punches, iron
| and wood patent Peg Awl Hafts, Copper Riv
i ets and Burrs. Eaee Tacks, Iron. Zinc and Copper
1 Sparables, Size Sticks, Measuring Tapes, Shoe
i Thread, Fitting Thread, Silk Twist, Boot Cord,
I Silk Galloon, Boot Web, Ac., Ac.
ALSO
I Currying Knives, Fleshers, Finger Steels, Beam
| Faces, Slickers, Brushes, Rub Stones, Clearing
Stones, Ac. For sale low, bv
SHERMAN,' JESSUP A CO..
No. 841, Broad street, second door above the
i Bank of Augusta. d*t2m febls
JUST RECEIVED,
THIS DAY, a full supply of SHOT, from No.
Ito No. 8. For sale low for cash.
1 w , E- H. ROGERS.
» Augusta, March 24th, 1856. tuh'iS
Auction Sales,
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BY GIRARDEY, WHYTE & CO.
j Large Sale ot Second Hind Furniture — Family re
moving from. the city.
On TLEbDAA, the Sth inst., will be sold, in front
of store, at Iff o’clock, A, M„ the entire House,
Parlor, and Kitchen Furniture of a respectable
family, removing from the city, all of which is
in good order, having been well kept, and con
sists of as follows :
Windsor, Cane and Maple Chairs, Tete-a-Tetes,
Centre Tables, Mahogany Chairs and Rockers’
Paintings and Engravings, framed, Bureau, with
Glass, Sideboards, Settees, Sofas, Beds and Bed
steads, Feather Beds, Bolsters and Pillows, Car
pets, Rugs and Matting, Andirons, Fenders, Shov
el and Tongs, Mirrors, Lamps, Ac.
—also —
Matting, Candlesticks, Lamps, Stone arid Glass
j Ware, Dinner, Tea and Breakfast Sets China,
Crockery, Cutlery, Wooden Ware, Tin and Kitchen
! Ware, Ac. Terms Cash. ap6
BY HOWARD & DUGAS
G. A. PARKER, Auctioneer.
TUESDAY next. Bth inst., in front of store, wilt
| he sold, at o’clock, our usual assortment of
Groceries, Liquors, New and Second-hand Furni
ture, consisting in part of—
Sugar, Coffee, Tea, Soap, Candles, Mackerel,
j Herring, Matches, Mustard, Pepper, Cheese, But
j ter. Bacon, Tobacco, Molasses, Segars, Tubs. On
] ions, Potatoes, Whisky, Gin, Rum, Brandy, Yin
j egar. Bedsteads, Bureau, Sofas, Chairs, Crockery
i and Glass Ware, Castors, Ac.. Terms cash,
j N. B. All articles not taken away by next regu
! lar sale day, will be sold on account of former pur
j chaser. a pfj
BY GIRARDEY, WHYTE & CO.
! Splendid Attraction—The Fine Arts United. ltd
ian Sculpture, and Oil Paintings.
“ All that imagination’s power can trace,
Breathed in the pencil's imitative grace;
O’er all the canvass, from soul and feeling
Does wondrous art infuse with power of life,
Portray each pulse, each passion’s might revealing
Sorrow and joy, life, death, hatred, fear and strife J'
Great Catalogue Sale of Oil Paintings.
On WEDNESDAY NIGHT next, the 10th instant,
will be sold, without reserve, by Catalogue, at
Lambaek's Hall, commencing ai o'clock P.
150 SPLENDID OIL PAINTINGS, in rich gilt
frames, comprising a variety of Landscapes, Stu
dies, and fancy pieces, executed by French, Eng
■ish, Italian, American and German artists of de
cided merit, who were formerly patronised by the
New York and Philadelphia Art Union, and since
the failure of these Institutions, they are obliged
to seek patrons and purchasers elsewhere.
The Paintings will all be sold without reserve,
to pay advances made by the consignee in New
York. For further particulars, see description in
catalogue. They will be exhibited on TUESDAY,
at the above Hall.
The Ladies are especially invited to see and at
tend the sale. Paintings and frames will be sold
together. Conditions cash. ap4
BY GIRARDEY, WHYTE & CO.
50,000 Dollars’ worth of Jewelry at Auction.
Will be sold, commencing THIS (Tuesday) NIGHI
and continue nightly during this week, at 7}- 4
o’clock, in our store, one of the finest and most
valuable stocks of Jewelry ever brought to this
market.
Consisting of eighteen carat Gold Patent Lever
Watches, Hunting Cases, Anchors, Escapement
and Lepuies, Silver do., Diamond Bracelets, Pins,
Rings, Gold Enamelled Swiss Watches, Fob, Vest
and Guard Chains, from 14 to 1$ carats fine, Sil
ver Ware, such as Spoons, Forks, Ac.
—ALSO
Large and small Gold Medalions, Breast Pins,
Finger Rings, Gold Pens and Pencils, Thimbles,
Gold Snuff Boxes, Fruit and Butter Knives, and
every article usually found in wholesale Jewelry
establishments.
The Goods are genuine, and sold guaranteed
true to representation. Every article offered will
be sold without reserve. Sceptics need hut attend
to he convinced. Terms cash. apt
BY GIRARDEY, WHYTE & CO.
Cool, Washer and Ironer.
On the first TUESDAY in MAY next, at the Lower
Market House, will be sold
Mary Ann, a good Cook, Washer and Ironer,
about 28 years old. Warranted sound. Titles good
Terms cash. mh27
BY GIRARDEY, WHYTE & CO
Largs and Attractive bale of Marble, Alabastei
Statuary, and Carved IFori.
Signor W. Giorannoui having recently arrived
from Europe with a large stock, selected for this
city, will offer the entire collection at auction ou
Tuesday and Wednesday evening the 6th and 9th of
April, commencing at TOT o’clock, P. M., in the
hall of Messrs. Laniback A Cooper's new building,
on Broad street, where they will be on exhibition
the two days preceding safe.
Among th'ese beautiful articles will be found
real Canara Marble Figures, taken from the most
celebrated Florentine masters, consisting of the
Madonna, Motherly Love Group of the Guardian
Angel, Innocence,'Ac., by the renowned Franc),*
—ALSO —
Fidelity, Gods, Goddesses of Love and Liberty,
by the most celebrated masters, DeLundico, Benn
tnin, Berratti, and others. The Three Graces of
Canora, Dancing Girls of Canon, Venus De Medi
ci, Apollo Belvidcre, Farnese Hercules, Jno.
Bachus, Venus in the Shell, Guardian Angel, bv
Barrachi, Religion, by Stanzzi, and numerous other
handsome marble Figures, Columns, Vases, Ac.,
and a splendid assortment of Burdiglis, Agalthe,
Yellow Vienna and Verde Autigue Vases, of various
styles and sizes, as Hebe, Medicis, Etruscan, Gothic,
Grecian and Roman, all most tastefully carved in
alto basso reliefs; Pompeii l i « , admirably adapted
to decorate halls, parlors, niches, Ac. Large Roman
Tazzas, ornamented with grape leaves, and sup
ported by swans. Transparent Alabaster Vases
for Lamps, Gothic and Grecian Urns, nnd large
Vestal Temples.
—also —-
Vine Leaf Tazzas for Fruit, Etruscan styles
Also. Oral ones for cards. Florentine Baskets,
handsomely wrought and ornamented, Mosaic Ta’
hies, with Marble Stands, Ac., Ac.
The above assortment embraces all the present
taste demands, for perfecting and accomplishing
the refined appearance of Drawing Rooms, Par
lot's. Halls, Ac. The increased appreciation and
desire for articles of fine art, renders them now
indispensable.
Ladies are particularly requested to attend the
sale, arrangements being made for their accommo
dation. For further details, see Catalogues.
No article will be sold privately; all will he
sold at auction, and without reserve.
Persons wishing to have any urticle packed to
send away, may nave them done up bv an export
.■need packer on the premises, at a small expense
Conditions cash. mhl'9
BY GIRARDEY, WHYTE & CO.
Executors’ Sale.
RR 7 ILL be sold, on the first Tuesday in MAT
w v next, at the Market House, in the citv o!
Augusta, between the usual hours, and to the high
est bidder, all that Lot or parcel of Land on th
Sand Hills, in the county of Richmond, about four
miles from Augusta, containing fifty acres, more
or less, and known as the Bell Place, and bounded
west by lands of Skinner and Flournov, south and
east by lands belonging to Meigs, Kitten and Skin
tier, and north by land belonging to Jas. Flcrn
miug. Sold as the estate of Martha Fuerv, dee d
by order of Court, for the benefit of the heirs and
creditors. WM. P. DEARMOND i ~
fcbafl JNO. P. KING, f Exr ”.
ELECTION OF LIEUT. COLONEL
AX election will be held at the Oglethorpe In
fan try Drill Room, on SATURDAY, 19th
April, fora Lieutenant Colonel, to command the
Independent Volunteer Batallion of Augusta.
Polls to be open at 8 o’clock P. M., and close ai
10 P. M. Bv order of
CAPT. BRYANT, C. It.
CAPT. KIRKPATRICK, W. A
CAPT. WALKER, I. V.
LIEUT. JACKSON, Com. O. I
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fit£6Aßßl SUGARS! it 6 M “Lm 11,,. .
SEGARS, the well known celebrated “cent
Sugars; 25 M El Aguila SEGARS, iust received
and for sale at GUST. VOLGER’S
old stand, and
G. VOLGER A CO.,
Iwo doors below Bones A Brown's Hardware
Store - apl
DISSOLUTION.
Till - , copartnership existing under the name
of WILSON A ALFORD," is this day do.
solved by mutual consent. The unsettled business
will be attended to bv JAMES H. ALFORD.
ALFRED WILSON,
JAMES 11. ALFORD.
Augusta, March 15, 1856. mhl9
WM M, DAVIDSON,
IMPORTER and dealer in BRANDIES GIN
ALBANY ALE, CHAMPAGNE and other
WINES and LIQUORS, TEAS. SEGARS, Ac. .Vo.
i 18 Otmyrtu a/id 87 St. Jidicn Streets, Savannah,
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