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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