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’ oMcclilii Cir onstllullonallst
by JAMES GARDNER.
from the Savjrnnah Morning Fetes, July 30.
First Congressional District,
i At a meeting of a portion of the Democratic
a party tke first Congressional district, held in
Brunswick on the 27th of July, 1857, on motion,
Dr. R. McDonald, of Ware, was called to the chair,
a«d James Houston, of Glynn, requested to act as
Secretary.
On motion of A. G. Jewett, of Glynn, the chair
/ asan appointed a committee of five, consisting of
Messrs. Jewett, of Glynn, Dr. Stotesburv, of Es
. nngham, F. W. Johnson, of Thomas, John Nich
ols, of Ware, and N. Reddick, of Lowndes, to re
port resolutions for the action of the meeting.
On motion, the meeting adjourned to meet at
live o’clock, P. M.
Fire o’clock, P. M.
The Delegates met.
The committee submitted the following report,
which, on motion, was taken up by section, and
unanimously adopted.
The Committee appointed at a meeting of dele
gates of the Democratic party in accordance with
the nomination of the Delegates to the Guberna
torial Convention held at Milledgeville, on the
24th June last, now assembled at Brunswick, and
representing a portion of the First Congressional
District, to draft resolutions expressive of the
sense oi the meeting, ask leave to report as fol
lows :
1. Resolved, That we cordially approve of the
nomination of the Hon. Jos. E. Brown, of Chero
kee county, as the candidate of the Democratic
party, for the office office of Governor of this State,
and will give him our united support.
2. Resolved, That the Hon. James L. Seward has
“honorably, faithfully and ably” represented this
Congressional District in the Congress of the Uni
ted States ; and that the Democratic party nearly
unanimously, and a large majority of all the voters
in the District desire to return him to Congress;
we therefore unanimously recommend him for re
electiou to that high and honorable office, as our
first and our only choice.
3. Resolved, That in view of the difficulty of hold
ing a general Convention in a district so extended,
at this late day, which would duly and fairly rep
resent the Democracy of the District, and also of
the well known views of the people in reference to
Mr. Seward’s re-election; and from the time honor
ed custom of the Democratic party of the Ist Con
gressional District, and of the late nomination of
the county meeting in Glynn to dispense with any
general Convention of the party—we decline to go
into any formal nomination of a candidate for Con
gress, but recommend to the voters of the Ist Con
gressional District the name of the ilnu. Janies L.
Seward, to be supported for re-election to the next
Congress of the United States.
4. Resolved, That the recommendation of those
individuals who assembled at HolmesviUe on the
15th inst., to designate a Congressional candidate,
does not meet with the approbation of our political
friends, in those sections of the Congressional Dis
trict which we represent, nor in those in which we
are acquainted, and will not be sustained by the
voters at the ensuing election.
On motion it was
Resolved , That the Brunswick Jlcrald , and other
papers in the District be requested to publish these
proceeding*.
The meeting, on motion, adjourned sine die.
It. McDonald, Chm’n.
Jakes Houston, Secy.
From the San Francisco RuUetin, July 4.
From California and Oregon.
Os the members elected to the Democratic
Gubernatorial Convention, but forty-two are un
derstood to be favorable to McCorkle, Broderick’s
candidate for Governor; while Weller, his oppo
nent, has one hundred and thirty-four, and Nu
gent, eleven friends. There is little doubt that
Weller will be nominated on the first ballot of the
Convention, which meets on the 14th July.
The Republicans have also begun to elect the
- to”?!)tie ConT^uff^p 4 which is to as-em—
we jfrSftefSTttmvt"*, <kA* Cuk 'Oih July. . Cant. Jti-4 ]
Gray, Edward Stanly, Col. E. D. Baker, and sev
eral others, are spoken of as the Gubernatorial
candidate of this party.
Besides the nominees of these two parties, there
is some talk of running a third and independent
candidate, by the “Reformers,” or “People’s
party.”
Considerable feeling has been manifested latter
ly by the miners on Fremont’s Mariposa claim.
Meetings have been held, and resolutions denun
ciatory of Fremont and his agents, Palmer, Cook
A Co., passed; and the miners declare it as their
fixed intention to resist the encroachments of
Fremont and his agents to the bitter end. In the
case, also, of the Merced Mining Company vs.
John C. Fremont, the Supreme Court of the State
has granted a perpetual injunction upon Fremont,
preventing him from interfering with the opera
tions of the above Mining Company, which already
has some SBOO,OOO invested in works for taking
out gold.
Toe “Stamp Act” passed by the last Legislature
• went into effect on the Ist of July. By it, all ex
change, drafts, &c., drawn upon parties out of the
State, are taxed by stamps, as are policies of insur
ance, passage tickets abroad, professional licenses,
and like documents. The bill is very obnoxious to
the people in this city.
Our news from Oregon Territory is to the 20th
June. The vote in favor of a State Government is
fully confirmed. The policy ot making Oregon a
slave State is now zealously urged by a party in
that Territory, and the prospectus for a pro-slave
ry paper has been issued. Some little fears were
entertained of further Indian difficulties at the Dal
les, but nothing definite has transpired.
Late Important Indian News. —We have pri
vate letters from the Dalles, the import of which
is, that the Indians have fired upon the whites sev
eral times recently, between the Dalles and Walla
Walla. Stock Whitley, the Walla Walla chief, had
<*been arrested and placed in the guard-house at the
Dalles. It is the general opinion of those acquaint
ed with facts, that the Indians are concentrating at
some point in the mountains, preparatory to re
commencing the war again, as soon as the fishing
season is over.— Oregonian, June 13.
By a late law passed in Congress, at Bogota, a
contribution of $540,000 was ordered to be raised
throughout the Republic. The proportion assessed
for the State of Panama amounts to $20,000, which,
estimating the population of the State at one hun
dred and thirty-eight thousand, gives fourteen and
a half cents for each individual
The cholera is raging in the State of Salvador,
at Cojutepeque, San Salvador, Sonsonati, and other
towns. At the end of June the deaths in Sonso
nati averaged sixteen a dry.
The surveys of the Pacific terminus of the Hon
duras railroad at La Union are progressing in a
most satisfactory manner, and will soon be com
pleted.
Gen. Jose Maria Vergara, one of the old officers
of the Colombian Revolution, died lately in Bo
gota.—Panama Star, July 20.
The President, we hear, designs leaving Wash
ington for Bedford Springs in a few days, to be
absent from the seat of government for, perhaps,
ten days. He will be accompanied by his neice,
Miss Lane, and Miss Black, the accomplished
daughter of the Attorney General. We appre
hend that the precise time when he will take his
departure for this so necessary trip of brief relax
ation from the labors of his exacting position,
will depend on the condition of the public busi
ness, though we know no reason to anticipate that
it will not be as we mention above.
WashingUm Star, '2lth inst.
The Cincinnati Gazette of yesterday publishes a
letter from Cummins, Rockcastle county, Ky.,
dated July 22d, which says that Rev. John G. Fee,
an Abolitionist, and Rev. J. Rickardson,andßev. J.
M. McLean, who were with him, were driven from
that place while preaching, by a mob which gross
ly insulted and abused them. We presume there
is some mistake in regard to the matter, as we
have received papers of later date from that sec
tion of the State, w hich make mention of no oc
currence of the kind.
Louisville (Ky.) Courier, July 28.
A Smart Girl.—A “foine” young gentleman,
in turning swiftly on his heel, ran his head against
a young lady. He instantly put himself in a posi- 1
tion to apologize “ Not a word,” said the quick- :
. wilted maiden; "it is’nt hard enough to hurt any :
body.” The coscomb frowned, and 7?.s : sbed. j
from the Washington Union, July 29.
Death ol Commodore Newton.
Our community will not soon recover from the
shock which it received yesterday afternoon by
the sudden death of Commodore John T. Newton,
whose courtesy, accomplishments, bravery, ana
gallant bearing in the most trying situations have
added so much lustre to the American navy. He
was & member of one of the naval courts of inqui
ry now sitting in this city, and at the time of its
adjournment, at noon yesterday, appeared to be in
the enjoyment of his customary vigorous health.
On leaving the court, he walked to the residence
of Charles Winder, Esq., and in a few minutes
after entering the house cf that gentleman was
attacked with apoplexy—surviving the attack only
two hours.
Commodore Newton entered the navy in 1809,
and at the time of his death was about sixty-five
years old. Within a few days w r e have been called
upon to announce the deaths of Captain Henry,
Lieutenant Decatur, and Lieutenant Hare, and now
the name of Newton is to be added to that band
of departed spirits, the recollection of whose heroic
deeds will be long and warmly cherished bv their
grateful and admiring countrymen.
The following “ general order” has been issued
by the Secretary of the Navy :
GENERAL ORDER :
The department, with pam, announces to the
navy and marine corps, the sudden death, from
apoplexy, of Commodore John T. Newton, who ex
pired in* the city of Washington on Tuesday, the
18th instant, at lour o’clock, P. M.
Commodore Newton entered the navy on the
16th of January, 1809, having been in the service
nearly half a century, during which period he has
occupied various positions of trust and oesponsi
bility. His loss will be severely felt.
His funeral will take place from the Meade
House, on F street, on the 30th instant, at 10, A.
M.; at which the officers of the navy and marine
corps are directed and the officers of the army re
quested to attend in full uniform.
I. TorcEY,
Secretary of the Navy.
Navy Department, July 28, 1857.
From the N. Y. Journal of Commence.
Steamer Day.
San Francisco, July 3.
With our distant readers on the Atlantic we de
sire to have a little chat. First, as to what we
Californians mean by the oft-repeated term of
steamer day. It is the day preceding the depar
ture of the Pacific Mail steamer; a day upon which I
is centred all the hopes and fears of the preceding
fortnight. Every merchant and trader makes his
collections on that day ; consequently it is looked
forward to with interest by every oue in the com
munity. One disappointment is like the suowball,
it rolls over and over, and adds discomfort and
annoyance to others. It is also the day set apart
by everybody for letter writing. Here we have
hut one mail in the fortnight; not a daily or semi
weekly packet, as at the East. Os course every
thing gives place to thoughts of money, and cor
respondence in general. The merchant has his
account of sales, invoices, and bills of exchange
to prepare for his foreign correspondents; he has
also his gold dust to pack up as his remittance.
The banker is besieged by every one, high and
low, for his exchanges, in sums large and small;
customers must all be served in turn. The dray
man, the laborer, the servant, and the laundress,
al! have their wants. The devoted husband,
father, son and daughter, have their monthly re
mittances to make, and letters to write— all to them
of the same great importance as to the merchant
his thousands—which in the aggregate averages
about two million dollars for every steamer.
Here, too, we see the Express offices, surrounded
by anxious crowds, hurrying to and fro with their
letters and parcels, Ac.—presents and remembran
cers to ilistant homes. Here we see long rows of
free desks, occupied by the miner and stranger
writing his letters. Then, too, we have the steam
er papers .md newspaper offices and stalls, where
tens of x\>ov< : ; •'—«* w-.**.
L> «v«rjr mad twice, a m< Wo io ail the
world. The thousands or Tellers (say forty Thou"
sand) that are semi-monthly transmitted to the
Atlantic States through our Post office, tell the tale
some of blighted hopes, sore disappointments,
trials and perplexities. Others again curry tidings
of joy and gladness to the homes of their youth.
Not a few carry presents in the shape of glitter
ing gold, specimehs of rare worth and beauty;
others a bill of exchange to an aged parent, of
five, ten, or even a hundred pounds sterling, per
haps the first fruits of months or years of toil.
Another remits tbe wherewith necessary to defray
the expenses of his wife and family to those far
distant shores; while another, whose time and en
ergies are absorbed in tilling the soil, or delving
in the sands and rocks of the mountains and ral
lies of our own California, cannot leave his claim
to go East to the girl he loves, but hastily writes a
letter to his betrothed, telling her not to wait lon
ger his return, but to secure a safe escort to the
Pacific, and to accept the enclosed bank draft of a
few hundred dollars and come at once to his cabin
in the mountains. True, this is reversing the old
order of things, but where is the harm in the
true and faithful dame coming to share his joys in
the home long since chosen as the one of their
adoption ? Harm, did I say ? No, a journey to
California is not fraught with the trials, fatigues
and delays of years gone by. Now, less than four
weeks’ time are consumed on the passage; the
floating palaces of the Pacific Mail Steamship
Company, are all that can be desired by the most
fastidious. A lady is always sure to find a friend
and protector in the gentlemanly officers that
command them. Besides, the man does not live
who dares to offer an insult to a virtuous woman
who is true to herself while traversing our ocean.
We can see no harm in the true woman coming to
California to meet her husband, or even the chosen
one of her heart, provided she has the proper
evidence before setting out on the journey, that a
home is in readiness, waiting her arrival as she
lands upon our shores.
It is quite common for clergymen here to be in
attendance on tbe arrival of the steamer, to join in
marriage ladies who have just arrived, aud who
prefer not to land until the knot is tied.
True, we have sharks here, as well as at the
East, who are ever on the alert to catch and de
ceive the unwary. The same advice that is given
to the emigrant at the East, holds good here:
Avoid all runners; go to head-quarters for your
tickets; know the hotel, street, and number of
your friend’s residence, before leaving home; and
thus avoid a thousand tricks and annoyances that
many subject themselves to who disregard the
right.
To the honest and industrious of every age,
clime, and nation, we bid a hearty welcome to
California. To all willing to work with a hearty
good will, and some store of hard cash in the pocket
for a rainy day, there is room. To mine for gold
is no mere child’s play; it is hard work, that but
few can stand who are unaccustomed to the shovel,
hoe or pick. To the agriculturist, farmer, garden
er, and the like, there is a field open for you, the
like of which is not to be found elsewhere on the
globe. But to be successful, more or less capital
is absolutely necessary at the outset. Once start
ed, the way is clear and open before you. Success
is almost inevitable. You will find your reward
in golden harvests, and in crops of vegetables the
year round. Fruits, berries, and the like, grow
and thrive here with the greatest luxuriance. The
rearing of cattle, sheep, hogs, Ac., upon a thousand
hills and valleys, is no where else upon the face of
the globe so sure of a rich reward as here.
Women, too, can find plenty of work here; ser
vants find constant employ at S3O to S4O per month
in respectable families; while laundresses continue
to get their three dollars per dozen.
Itenti of houses, large and small, are down to
about New York rates. A house for a genteel fam
ily, and very comfortable, can now be procured
from $25 to $75 per month—the latter first class
brick houses. Ontario.
Utah. —lt is said to-day, on ‘the Avenue, that
yesterday the President received from Brigham
Young a letter expressing gratification at being
about to be relieved from the labors and cares or
federal office, and pledging himself that the Mor
mons will treat all the federal officers he may send
to the Territory well, provided thev prove to be
honest men, who attend only to the legitimate dis
charge of their official duties. His letter is further
said to be replete with abuse of tbe returned Ter
ritorial United States fanctionaries.
Washington Star, July 29.
.A.XJ G-TJ ST A, OjA., WEDNESDAY, AJCTGYTST 5, 1857.
The New National Capitol-Statuary,
Decorations, <l-c.
A correspondent gives the following interesting
account of sights in and about the Cajntol at Wash
| ington:
“ Without commerce, without manufactures,
: with little internal trade, this city is advancing
■ with life and rapidity in population and resources,
i It will in a few years contain one hundred thou
i sand people, there being now upwards of sixty
. thousand. T.ierc is said in Berkshire county to
! be a little lake or pond, which by the altitude of
i its waters shows the altitude of the Wells in town,
! being regarded as a standard thermometer, or
• rather bathumeUr. Now like that lake is Washing
ton. Its condition and those of
, the country.
i Book at’ihe enormous extension of the Capitol,
1 on that commanding hill. Sec with what expecli
, tion our people have torn down the oncecelebrated
• dome of Lutrobe, in place of which the architect
I Walter is now erecting a magnificent structure, to
■ cost one million of dollars, enyugh to build a hun
■ dred good churches. Sevemy-two iron brackets,
each weighing three tons, hare been elevated bv
1 steam power to form the base of the new dome,
which is to be of extraordinary magnificence, and
will be visible for miles in evt • direction—for
fifteen or twenty miles down the 1 Motnac.
For acres around ihc Capitol may be seen
masses of marble and granite chiefly the former,
some from Berkshire, some frdm. Italy, and from
wherever the finest and moat- suitable material
could be procured. Yet even, 'Wound the flowing
and fabulous wealth of the United States Treasu
ry, some contractors look out for the pennies, if
not for the government, for thbmselves. Thiuk ot
importing marble from Italy, Intense the polished
material can be obtained more cheaply thence!
Italian labor is far mrtre cheujx than American la
bor—hence Italians keep tlusktStuarv field, and
fill all the ornamental offices,* Thev may be seen
like bees sticking to the maid* and'outside of the
Capitol, industriously at work They are execu
ting a astern of decorations fra* the interior of the
Capitol, so gorgeous, symWieal, and impres
sive, that an untravclled visfiUt' to the city will
wonder if he is in the capitdUcity of his simple
Republican country, whose president cannot, in
his outward aspect, be distinguished from any
thoughtful, natural, or mofal philosopher, who
muses along the streets, or perchance from some
deeply cravatted Presbyterian divine.
The large tinted columns that go into the struc
ture of the dome may be seen lying iu formidable
rows on the ground, soon to be erected in their
places, and to set off the fine preparations of the
structure.
About this building fourteen hundred men are
constantly at work, under a regiment of ulmost
military strictness, for the head of the concern is
Capt. Meigs, an army engineer, who lias the roll
called every morning, and regulates all other mut
ters accordingly. The very committee-rooms will
be as sumptuous in their appointments as a lady’s
boudoir. Mosaic floors glitter in every direction,
and the whole region of classic mythology has
been ransacked for symbolical contributions to
make up a set of ideas corresponding to the facts
of our history and policy.
On every side we are bewildered with gods and
godesses, muses and the graces, fawns, nymphs,
and drvads. Mars frowns with his giant hand on
his sword. Neptune grasps his trident, with which
he shakes land and sea.' Minerva presides over
the arts. Venus is radiant with love and beauty.
Ceres solemnly holds her cornucopia. And from
yonder ceiling all the seasons at once are pouring
out their pictorh.l treasures.
But the most beautiful, solid, and enduring me
morials are those of Crawford, the sculptor, who
designed some exquisite statues, some of which
. are finished; on the marble blocks of others, the
workmen are now engaged. The Genius of Ameri
ca, wrapped in her starry mantle, is eloquent of j
■ the past, and prophetic of wilure. The Meehan- ;
*
■ cTicate* one <»f tmr feeding sdurrcß of prosperity 10
• our beloved land. The American Youth is also
! done in stone. And not to lavish everything on
i war, glory, and the arts of destruction, Education
i has her statuette, and by that we must thrive.
The halls of Congress will be superb. Greet
themes are yet to be discussed there—great talents
to be developed, and great and beneficent results
produced, we may hope, for our country und the
world.
From the Washington Union.
Department News.
State Department. —The Consul of the United
States at the Rio Grande do Sul, Rrazil, has trans
mitted to the Department of State a very interest
ing communication, from I)r. R. Landell, of Port
Alegre, claiming the discovery of a cure for the
small pox. Dr. Landell states that the idea of
using the remedy to be mentioned, lirst occurred
to him during aterrible epidemic of this disease
in 1837, but that he first administered it in 1842,
since which time his success, and that of his son,
Dr. John Landell, and other colleagues in the treat
ment of small pox, have been most flattering. As
the Secretary of State has communicated Dr. Lan
delPs paper entire to the leading journal of the
medical profession in the United States, it is only
necessary for our porpose to extract that portion of
the paper which discloses the remedy and its pro
per exhibition:
“Dissolve the vacciue that is contained on a
pair of plates or a capillary tube, which is about
four or six drops of vaccine lymph, in four or six
ounces of cold water, and give to the patient a ta
ble-spoonful every two or three hours.
“ The favorable result of this exhibition is, that
it mitigates the symptoms, modifies the species,
and cures the small-pox.
“ I recognise that as vaccine applied externally
prevents the small-pox; so, also, being taken in
wardlv, in the manner above indicated, it cures
quickly and efficaciously, the small-pox iu all its
stages.
“ Under its use, the fever, the delirium, the
hoarseness, diarrho*a, pneumonia, cerebral con
gestion, and finally, the secondary fever disappear.
“ Reginning the treatment on the second or third
day of the eruption, the small-pox becomes as vari
cella or varioloid ; although the epiderm is thick
ened and in a state of congestion, and in five davs
become dry without suppuration.
“ Applying the same treatment on the fourth or
fifth day of the eruption, the small-pox become as
if they were the true vaccine; fill and drv in the
space of ten days with suppuration.
“Considering, then, that the vesicles and pustu
leo ought to be opened, for two or three times, al
ways that they contain any liquid, and beginning
the third day to prevent ‘the secondary fever. 1
have had since 1842 more than thirty cases, and in
fourteen paid particular attention; there were
three severe coufluent cases, and eleven less severe,
although distinct.
“Since I had recourse to this treatment I have
not lost a single patient of the small-pox. At my
request some oftmv colleagues are using this sys
tem, and they, as well as 1, have reaped the most
flattering results.
“These effects are superior to my expectation, 1
and even to my comprehension; in ‘fact, the vac- \
cine neutralizes the variolic virus, or one morbid
action destroys the effects of another. Ry this ;
treatment I have seen disappear the fever, delir- !
ium, hoarseness, diarrhoea, pneumonia, cerebral ,
congestion, and the secondary fever.
“It may be mentioned here that the use, of 1
emollient clysters or castor oil internally, to keep j
the bowels loose, and in children calomel, is rerv .
necessary, as also gargles of nitrate of silver and
chloruret of lime. . 1
“And after the fifth day give baths of warm wa
ter, with a little chloruret of lime, or chloruret of ,
soda, or sponge the body.
•‘Also have given vaccine inwardly as a thera- (
peutic remedy in hooping cough, and with benefit; \
in some cases the hoop or convulsion cough disap- £
peared in ten hours, remaining only a simple 8
cough, which extinguishes in four or twelve \
days.” 1
Boston, July 25.—Late New Brunswick papers t
report a large catch of codfish at the Ranks this t
season. t
The joint fishery commission, under the recipro
city treatv, had met at Eastport, and made the j1
choice of Hon. John H. Gray, of St. Johns, as urn- 1 r
Sire, to settle certain difficulties about rivers in i e
ew Brunswick and Prince Edward’s Island. j I
The Labor Question in England.— The Wash
ington Union thus remarks upon the question that
is now under general discussion in England, in re
ference to the re-opening of the slave trade, under
the name of the Coolie trade:
When she seizes an African slaver, instead of
restoring the captured negroes to Africa and liber
ty, she tarries tnem to her colonies to work as
apprentices. Now, such apprentices perform the
same compulsory labor as a negro slave, and are
slaves in all respects during the time of their ser
vice. At its expiration they are generally worse
situated than slaves, for the prime of life is past,
and they have no masters bound to support and
proledl them in old age. We can hardly conceive
a condition more deplorable than that of these ap
prentices at the expiration of their term of service.
They have neither the means nor thrift, ability nor
intelligence, to return to Africa; and if the}’ did
return, there would be no home or country to re
ceive and protect them, and they would be exposed
to be enslaved or devoured on the first coast on
which they landed. Liberia and Sierra Leone ut
terly repudiate such security, and complain gen
erally even of the infusion of ordinary field hands
from America. They want none but such “ tutus
nature?' as Frederick Douglass and Dr. Penning- :
ton.
It would be interesting to ascertain how these j
apprentices are treated during their service, and j
how many survive that term. We suspect, very |
few; because it is themterest of the masters to work
them to death, and the absentee masters of the
West Indies are almost as cruel as the absentee
landlords of Ireland, and work to death or prevent
the natural increase even of their slaves, although
it is their interest to take good care of them. This
whole apprenticeship system is as cruel as it is in
efficient. In truth its inefficiency proceeds'from its
excessive cruelty. The laborers are worked up so
rapidly that it is impossible to procure an adequate
supply of labor. This fact is beyond dispute, be
cause, although manv hundred thousand of coolies
and African apprentices have been carried to the
English colonies within a few years, still the agri
cultural products of those colonies continue to
diminish, and the prices of cotton, sugar, and
other troprical necessaries of life continue rapidly
to rise. The middle passage in the cooly trade
ha** been signalized by more horrors and cruelties
in the last six years than were ever perpetrated by
slavery in the last three centuries.
Tobacco Chewing— A Tough One. —The follow
ing communication to the New School General
Assembly, sitting at Cleveland, Ohio, was read to
that body on the day of their opening session,
May 21s‘t:
It is the desire of the trustees of this church,
and of some of the citizens, that the following
communication be presented to the assembly:
the slips in the church are private property,
and it is natural that their owners should be some
what anxious that they be neither defaced nor de
filed. The trustees have done all m their power to
secure this end, by taking up the carpets in the
aisles and in the slips, and they have confidence
that the members of the Assembly will be willing
to do what is possible on their part. It is earnest
ly requested, therefore, that they will abstain from
the use of tobacco during the sessions.
It is due, also, to the Commissioners to state that
some of the families by whom they will be enter
tained, have been made very sensitiveon the same
point. We have had ecclesiastical convocations
in this city, by the habits of whose attendants,
the hospitality and good humor of the people have
been very unhappily taxed. For this reason, not
a few have refused to receive Members of Assem
bly, assuming that they would be like those who
have preceded them; and others insisted that to
bacco users should not be sent to them. Os course,
the Committee of Arrangements could not com
ply with the request, but it. is most seriously sub
j untied, that those who think they must iise it,
i-Uo dd so use it, ns not to abuse these less unfor-
TTMs Assembly i 3 cordiu&y Welcomed to our
’ Church anu to -ourjiomes, bui-Wc think it not im
' pxupfr to present this communication, with the
hope that it will be kindly regarded.
Cleveland, May 21, 1857.
The Cleveland Herald takes occasion to say that
the rebuke implied in this communication does not
seem particularly applicable to the present Assem
bly. On the contrary—
“ Most, if not all, of the members have the ap
pearance of non-users of tobacco; and it is high
time everybody should be, when the dirtiest of
habits has become so general and flagrant, that
churches feel compelled to caution their teachers
and examplers, and families to refuse to entertain
strangers, ministersand elders, lest they defile their
hearth-stones with quids or old sogers.”
A Yisit to Arlington. — A correspondent of the
•Journal of Commerce has described a visit to Ar
lington, the residence of the venerable Geo. Wash
ington Parke Curtis, the survivor of the imme
diate household of Washington:
“ I found him alone in his studio, where, I am
told, he spends most of his time. On the easel lay
a picture of the battle of Trenton—one of his own
representations of a scene witnessed by his own
eye. The gleaming of arms, and the array of war
seemed a tit subject for Rje contemplation of that
age whose childhood was nurtured in the shadow
of the greatest warrior of any nation—so truly do
our earliest associations become our latest.
“ The walls of his room were covered with mili
tary pictures, in which Washington always figured
in the fore-ground, pictures whose creation had
been a great source of enjoyment to one who had
wearied of active life, before time had exhausted a
single energy of his robust constitution.
If all men had some such resource for their de
clining years, the words querulous and burthen
some would never have‘become associated with
old age. Not for the benefit which the world
would derive therefrom, for only one artist in a
thousand has real genius, but for their own
amusement, to which any such vocation must
minister so greatly.
Mr. Custis thinks that his pictures will perpetu
ate many scenes in the early history of our coun
try, which, but for his pencil proofs, might be
come mere unbelieved traditions; but whether
they do or not, the pleasure of painting them will
have been to him its own exceeding great reward.
I have always had an earnest desire to see some
representation of the mother who had reared such
a son as George Washington, but I looked in vain
through the hall at Arlington, which was hung
with pictures of great value, some from quaint old
masters, and some from more modern schools, for
a portrait of her. Mr. Curtis said, that singular
r;s it might seem, he knew of but one picture of
Washington’s mother, and that was in the posses
trion of Mrs. Kirkland, of New York, who found
it in some foreign collection while m Europe, and
brought it home to its own country.
Mon r.v Kentucky.— A Jotter in the Cincinnati
Gazette, dated Cummins, Rockcastle county, Ky.,
July 22d, says:
“Last Sunday as Rev. John O. Fee vvaapreaching
at this place, an armed mob forced their way into
church, seized him and two other ministers who
were with him, Rev. J. Richardson and Rev. J. M. j
McLean, and after abusing and insulting them, ,
finally decided that they should be taken out of !
the county. Mr. Fee was struck on the head and t
considerably injured. On the way out—a distance t
of about ten miles—every opportunity was ini- ♦
proved by the mob to insult and abuse their vie- J
tims, and they heralded through the neighborhood c
they passed, that they had three horse thieves and t
nigger thieves that they were goiug to lynch.” c
Boston, July 20.—A tornado passed through
Tewksbury and other towns of Middlesex county,
on Friday last, demolishing everything in its
range, including orchards, corn-fields, two barns s
and other property. Large trees were uprooted \
and carried some distance—in some cases as far as a
eighty feet. The path of the tornado was from ten t
to twenty feet wide.
Washington, July 28.—Advices from Peru state fl
that the insurgents at Arequipa had surrounded c
the Government troops. Roth parties fear an at- c
tack. i :
The Government is anxious to ship one hundred 1
thousand tons of guano to the United States an- i:
nually, and will call on American merchants to l
establish a line of vessels from New York to the t
Isthmus, jr
From the lowa City Republican.
Horrible Tragedy m lowa.
Liberty, Johnson county, July 19, 1857.
You have undoubtedly heard rumors of a terri
ble outrage, committed m our settlement, on Fri
day evening last. Living, as I do, near the scene
of slaughter, and being acquainted with the cir
cumstances and the parties, I have thought it best
to give you a short sketch of the same. About a
mile North of me there is (or was) living a family
by the name of Hurt, consisting of Hurt, his wife,
his wife’s mother, and four children. Friday morn
ing, Hurt went to the city for the purpose of ascer
taining the truth* of the report in circulation, which
was, that his wife had succeeded in obtaining a
bill of divorce,
He came home a little before sunset, went to the
well, got a drink of water, then picked up an axe,
and drove his wife from the house. Overtaking
her in the yard, he struck her with the axe in the
back of the head. She fell to the ground, and he
then hacked her up in the most shameful manner;
cut her right arm nearly off, and sunk the bit of
the axe several times in her back and sides. He
then left her for dead, and took after his mother-in
law, who was running through the field to one of
I the neighbors. She had got so far off that he left
j her, went into the house, took some fire, went up
| stairs and set the beds on fire. In half an hour the
j house, and everything in it, was in ruins. Two of
j his sons, young men, were present at the time, but
i dare not make the least resistance.
While the house was burning, Hurt was seen
going through the field towards a thicket. About
dark, some thirty of the neighbors collected
around the burning ruins. Mrs. Hurt was found
in a potatoe patch, senseless. She was carried to
a neighbor’s house, and it was arranged to meet
at. daylight the next morning, to hunt for Hurt,
j The search was short. He went about twenty
; rods to the edge of a thicket, and stabbed himself
i twice with a pocket knife. He was heard moan
, i ing and crying all night bv some of the neigh
bors. He had lost his knife in the grass, and had
j no other weapons with which to finish the work of
self-destruction. One man was despatched to the
| city for a doctor. He had a double-barrel shot
| gun with him, and in leaving for the city, he left
I the gun standing under the shed. Hurt left the
1 thicket in the night, came to the house or where it
; stood, pulled off his right boot, fastened it to a
; pole with his handkerchief, and got water from
the well to drink. As soon as it was light he saw
the gun, and placing the muzzle to his left ea r*m.
discharged the piece, as is supposed, with his
toes. He was found lying upon his back, with
his left arm around the gun.
Hurt was a drinking, shiftless, and evidently a
desperate man. His wife was a hard-working,’in
dustrious woman. The family were left without
shelter, ora change of clothes. Mrs. Hurt had
lived in constant fear of her life for the last four
years, and suffered a thousand deaths.
The family formly lived in the northern part of
Ohio. Some fifteen ytars ago, Hurt killed a neigh
bor of his, in a drunken fray, and fled to Canada.
She remained in Ohio until about four years ago,
where she received a letter from him from Michi
gan, stating that lie had land there, aud wanted
her to sell out and join him. Her children being
anxious to come West she did so. Hurt was in
debt for grog und board bill, when she found him.
She paid it, for she had eighteen hundred dollars
with her. She bought a place here; and not see
ing any reformation in the man, she secured the
title iii her own name. They lived together as
man and wife but a short time.
He came nigh killing her some two years ago.
She swore her life on him, and applied for a bill.
He has been living in the family ever since, a ter
ror to them all. She employed Clark A Brother to I
get a divorce. At her request, I wrote them once j
or twice iu her behalf. Knowing her, as I did,
(she having worked for us several times, when
compelled to flee her own home) I informed them
of her troubles, and they secured the divorce*, and
her right to the little property she possessed. But
she is not her now to thank them for it; tori have
V J.i*t Ittiu-nea Uivt «ti ß Aitui twv ulghfu wm»
. burned yesterday, and sho w\ll ba this evening.
> Thus ends the tragic scene. W. F. Form.
Another “Harp of a Thousand Strings.”
“Ethan Spike,” of Hornby, in the State of Maine,
has written to the Portland Transcript the follow
ing graphic report of a sermon, recently delivered
in Hornby, by the Rev. Elder Fawsil. It is well
worth perusal, and laying to heart :
“Elder Rhine as Fawsil preached agin it last
Sabberday. It was a great aoutbust of the Elder’s,
an’ gin comfort to many. Ido suppose that Elder
Fawsil, when lie’s fairly waked up, is about as
tough a customer as the devil ever wrastled with.
I don’t realy spose he’d be a bit more afreed of
Belzebub, or even the Old Roy himself, than I
should be of a yearling coalt. You orter to hear
him talk of the devil—just as easy and famillyer as
though he knew he had the critter under his thumb,
and was sartain he had holt of him whar the hair
was short. Rut I was going to say sumthin of this
last sannint of his’n.
“The Elder laid daown seving pints, an’ proved :
’em all.
“Fust. Spirtooalism is the works of Satan. 1
“Second. Its the tow jints, worked by odd 1
force an’ vitalized super carbonick electric fluid.
“ Third. (This pint I did’nt get holt of egxact
lv, he not speakin’ very ligibly—but it was ither '
Mesmerism or Mormonism, but it don’t matter 1
much, as whichever it was, he proved it.) (
“ Fourth. Its Any mill magnitues.
“ Fifth. ( This pint, nyther, I can’t give verbun- 1
kum, but it was seme kind of a bug—saounded ■
sutliin like Jewn-bug.) <
“ Sixth. Es it war speerits, they war evil Speer- !
its.
“ Seventh. Thar is no speerits, no how.
“ The discoarse was chock full of Scripter bear
ing on the several pints, an’ hysterical racks—for <
he !s just as lamed as he can be, and Ido actooallv ’
bleve, es by accident, (he would’nt do it noinlv,) 1
he should get any more into him, he’d bust rite
tip! Why. he’d handle them great Greek and *
Latin words in sich away, that nobody can under- 1
stand, jest as eosy as I can say caow, or tater, or j
any other simple household word.
“He said this sort of thing was nothing new to 1
him. Alluded to the Witch of Endor, and the
hogs which got the divil into them. At this pint
the Elder went off on a target about pork—said it
was pis’n—that es the divil ever got aout of the
pesky hogs, he’d got in agin naow, in the shape of
whisky sweetened with struck-nine. Then he
took up the meejums, and the way me made their
feathers fly is a sqlum warnin to all wrappers.
Said thar want a second-hand chaw of tobacker’s
difference atween them and that ere Simeon Magog
spoken of in Scripter. Then he struck aout into
abaout the Allmightiest pea-reoshun ever hern iu
this subloonary spear. He actooallv seemed to
take the divil right up by the tail, and shake him
like a cat would a mice. I beam much of a poick
and don’t run much to imagenation, but I swan to
man, I eenjest thought 1 could hear the old crit
ter holler, as the Elder*whanged and cuffed him
abaout. Es I war in his place, I’d think twice
abaout it, afore I go smelliug raound agin within
the Elder’s reech.” I would that.
The Indians.—We had the pleasure of meeting
in our city, a few days past, Col. Magbee, of Tam
pa, who informs us that the frontier is uow in a
very quiet condition, scouting parties not being i
able to find even the track of an Indian, nor cau ,
they speculate, with any degree of plausibility, as
to their present whereabouts. They are doubtless 1
rusticating, during the warm weather, in the shade
of some inaccessible forest, recuperating the pow- :
ers of nature, and increasing, as greatly as practi- 1
cable for people of their nomadic habits, the ma- 1
terials of war for the death struggle this fall.
Talluiassee Floridian. 1
• —— m <
lue Tongue.— A white fur on the tongue attends
simple fever aud inflammation. Yellowness of
tbe tongue attends a derangement of the liver (
and is common to bilious and typhus fevers A* *
tongue vividly red on the tip and edge, or down
the centre or over the whole surface, attends in
flammation of the mucous membrane of the sto- f
mach or bowels. A white velvet tongue attends t
mental diseases. A tongue red at the Tips, becom
~r° wn » .*7 glazed, attends typhus state, t
. description .of symptoms might 6e extended
indefinitely, taking in all the propensities and ob- 2
loquities of mental and moral condition. The
tongue is a most expressive as well as unruly meru- h
wer.— Scientific American* b
VOL. 86—1STO. 32.
From, the Selma (Ala.) Sentinel, July 28«
Railroad Bridge of Coosa River Burn-*
—Loss Thirty Thousand Dollars.
Oar citizens had become nneasr on Tuesday
evening after two o’clock, in consequence of the
non arrival of the train of cars on the Alabama
and Tennessee road, and this uneasv state of the
public mind existed until about dark, when Mr
Wait, the road master, arrived at the depot in a
hand-car bringing the sad news of the destruction
by fire of the spacious railroad bridge that spanned
the Coosa river.
The fire was discovered by the watchman sta
tioned there about one o’clock on Friday morning,
and in less than two hours after its discoverv notfr
mg was left of this magnificent piece of workman
ship but the pillars. It is said that the fire waa
communicated to some seven or eight different
places on the bridge.
The regular passenger train of cars passed over
the bridge going up about 2% o’clock on Friday
evening, and the Division Master passed over about
• dark the same evening, and he was the lastoerso®
known to have passed the bridge.
The train of cars which passed over the bridge
■ on Friday evening, consisting of a locomotive, ten
der, two passenger and a box car, is left on the
East side of the river, and will there remain until
the bridge is rebuilt, which we learn the company
: are now taking steps to do at as early a moment
as possible. The probability is that the cars will
be crossing the river again in two months.
The loss is estimated to be about $30,000, and of
; course will be felt bv the company seriouslr just
[ at this time, but will not retard the progress of
[ laying the track as soon as the iron arrives.
, m
Have a Purpose.
• Sir E. Bulwer Lytton, in his recent ad aress om
’ the occasion of his installation as Lord Rector of
Glasgow University, endeavored to impress upon
• the minds of the students the value of a definite
■ purpose in life, in the following admirable tan
\ gnage:
t “Having once chosen that calling which then
becomes your main object in life, cling to it liim
c iy— bring to bear upon it all your energies, all the
t I information you are elsewhere variously collecting.
‘ | All men are not born with genius, but every man
: j can acquire purpose, aud purpose is the back-boon
1 j aud marrow of geuius—nay, I can scarcely distin
guish one from the other. For what is genius? !#
it not an impassioned predilection for some defi
nite art or study, to which the mind converges all
1 its energies, each thought or image that is sugges
ted by nature or learning, solitude orconver.se, try
ing habitually and involuntarily added to th-.iae
ideas which are ever returning to the same central
point, so that the mind is not less busily applying
when it seems to be the most relieved from appli
cation. That is genius, and that is purpose—i!m>
one makes the great artist or poet, the other the
great man of action. And with purpose monies
the grand secret of worldlv success, which some
men cal! earnestness. If I were asked, from my
experience of life, to say what attribute most im
pressed the minds of others, or most comm
fortune, I should say * earnestness.’
The earnest man wins way for himself, ar.d ear
nestness and truth go together. Never affect to be
other than you are—either richer or wiser. Never
be ashamea to say, 4 f do not know. Men wi ! l the®
believe you when you say 4 I do know.' Never be
ashamed to say, whether as applied to time or
money,‘l cannot afford it—lcanuot afford to waste
an hour in the idleness to which you invite me—l
cannot afford the guinea you ask me to throw away.'
Once establish yourself and your mode of life aa
what they really are, and your foot is on solid
ground, whether for the gradual step onward, or
for the sudden spring over the precipice. From
these maxims let me deduce another—learn to say
* No' with decision ; 4 Yes’ with caution—‘No’ with
decision whenever it resists temptation; 4 Yes* with
caution whenever it implies a promise. Aprouiiac
once given is a bond inviolable.’
A man is already of consequence in the world
>. , .
fared to & lone list oi ap plica ms, for some mpor
tani ehai gc which 1 Sis hjm at one'* infa *1
of fortune, merely because he has this reputation
aud when he says he knows a thing, he knows
and when he says he will do a thing, he will do it.
Muse, gentlemen, over these maxims; you will find
it easy enough to practice them, for when you hare
added them together, the sum total looks very much
like—a Scotchman.”
Going Barefoot. —The Boston O/uri-er gives no
the following bit of pleasant philosophy, in the
course of a notice of Whittier's poem cf “The
Barefooted Boys
44 The insensibility of most readers, andporhape
all critics, to this exquisite piece, arises from the
fact that they have never been barefoot boys them
selves. The progress of so-called refinement i«
gradually shutting us and our boys from some of
the purest and most natural pleasures. One of
these pleasures is the delight ot going barefoot im
summer. Our feet are treated almost as cruelly a®
those of the Chinese women. Not a man in a thou
sand knows what to do with his toes. They are
useless, pinched up, etiolated appendages to a foot,
which civilization . has reduced to a mere stump.
Feet and toes are now imprisoned from early child
hood, through every stage of existence, and whe®
the last pinch is over, they are stretched out in the
coffin, and imprisoned in the boots they wore im
life. Not one man in a thousand ever lias a natu
ral sensation of pleasure through his feet. Their
only use is to serve as pedestals, props to stand
on, or supporters in locomotion. Now, nothing in
so delightful as the feel of the fresh earth, when
the summer comes on, to the sole—it might almost
be called the soul —of the foot.
The first touch of summer, thus imparted, ex
ceeds in exquisiteness the first breath of the Wed
wind in spring—the first fragrance and tender
beauty of the violet—the fiixt aroma of the queen
ly rose. Besides, there is a sense of liberty, from
casting aside the stocking and the shoe, such a®
the galley slave may feel when the chain and ba H
are knocked off from his lacerated leg. No#r
and then a sharp sfone will cut, or a brier wilt
scratch; but these are the little pains that give &
zest to freedom, and heighten the tfirill sent
through the solfe qf the foot and pervading the
whole frame, from with good old mother
earth. Depend upou it, city reader, who did’st
never touch the soil with thy naked foot, thou ban
los}, more than French boots, be they ever so deli
cate and costly, can make good to thee. Slip into
the country—to some remote and primeval place.
Off with shoes and stockings and reclaim the orig
inal liberty of the long imprisoned extremity.
Yes, Socrates was right to go barefoot. Plat©
well understood the poetry of it when he immor
talized, in prose as rhythmical as the best of
that leisurely stroll ot the philosopher, outside the
noisy city, along the margin of the Ilissus, into
whose shining wavelets ever and auon the grea£
master dipped his foot, and as he dipped, talked
the most genial philosophy to his loving disciple#.
And what a resting-place—the grassy slope be
neath the spreading plane tree, where the Agnoto
Castus waved its perfumed boughs to the sofi sun*
mer breeze!
Senator Brown, in his speech at Yazoo,
on the evening of the 14th. speaking of the Wal®-
er Kansas policy, is reported by the Yazoo Sun to
have said:
“He did not believe that Mr. Buchanac would
suffer Walker to retain his place as Gor-;pnor of
that Territory, but if he did, the South should ris®
up and denounce him as false to the great princi
ples of the Kansas bill, and a traitor to her beifc
interests. He, for one, would do so, and so woula
every true southerner.’’
General Wm. Walker arrived at Montgomery
on Wednesday morning and expectedj to addrcan
the people on the subject of “Nicaragua.
New York, July 2s.—The steamer Philadelphia
from Havana, with dates of 23d instant, arnvsd
here to-dav. , , . . .. .
The health of the city and island is reported »
be generally good. * _ .
Markets dull. The stock of sugar on haim tfl
225,000 boxes. _ >
The brig W. D. Miller landed a cargo of Jour
hundred negroes near Cardenas, The vessel
burnt, . 4
