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OOUflilp ConsUtutioiui list.
BY JAMES GLAJEUDISTEB.
TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 31.
The Virginia Election.
We have not, at the time we write, complete re
turns of the election for a Governor, Lieutenant
Governor, Attorney General, and thirteen mem
bers of Congress, which took place in Virginia on
Thursday last. The returns which we have re
ceived, however, indicate that the opposition have
gained a member of Congress, and that the ma
jorities for the Democratic nominees for Shite of
fices will be less by four or five thousand votes
than they were in 1855.
All the Representatives from Virginia, in the
last Congress, were Democrats. We subjoin their
names, with the Districts represented by them:
Ist District—Muscoe R. H. Garnett.
. o<i •• John S. Millson.
« John S. Caskie.
•• William 0. Goode.
Sth “ Thomas S. Bocock.
6th “ Panlus Powell.
7,h •• William Smith.
3th “ Charles J. Faulkner.
ttth “ John Letcher.
10th “ Sherrard Clemens.
11th “ Albert G. Jenkins.
12th “ Henry A. Edmundson.
13th “ George W. Hopkins.
All of these gentlemen, at the late election, were
candidates for re-election—either with or without
a nomination-except Messrs. Letcher and Hop
kins ; and all of them who were candidates, have
probably been elected, except Mr. Powell, in the
Sixth District, who has been defeated by a Demo
cratic competitor, and Mr. Faulkner, in the Eighth
District, who has been defeated by Mr. Boktelkr,
the candidate of the opposition. In the Ninth
District, represented in the last Congress by Mr.
Letcher, Mr. Skinner, the Democratic nominee,
has been elected; and in the Thirteenth, repre
sented in the last Congress by Judge Hopkins, Mr.
Flotd, the Democratic nominee, has been elected;
so that the Virginia delegation m the next House
will ernsist of twelve Democrats and one Amer
ican.
The defeat of Mr. Faulkner, by which the op
position gain a member of Congress from \ irginia,
and the small majority which the Democratic can
didate for Governor has receded, may be attributed
to the want of organization in the Democratic par
ty, resulting from the refusal ol candidates in dif
ferent Congressional Districts to submit their
claims to the decision of nominating conventions.
In the third district, there was an independent
Democratic candidate opposing a regular nominee
of the party. The same state of things existed in
the ninth district. In the sixth and seventh dis
tricts there were no nominations, and in each of
these districts there were two independent Demo
cratic candidates. The Richmond Enquirer more
than four months ago warned the Democracy of
the inevitable results of these Democratic “ free
fights ”in the Congressional elections. Refering
to them in its issue of the 11th of January, it
said i
There is another objection to these “free fights,”
and one which applies with especial force at this
time. They invariably place the whole power of
election, as between the candidates, in the hands
of the opposition party. Each candidate is tempt
ed to tamper witn the inclinations of the opposi
tenstvefy 1 and “feeiuafly"'cornpromTse the princi
pies and policy of hia own party, and best natter
the prejudices of the opposition, obtains the best
chance of election. In abort, these “free fights
have an uncontrolable tendency towards en
couraging unprincipled men and political trim
mers, to the disadvantage, in every instance, of
moral honesty and party fealty.
Mr. Goode also calls attention to another op
portunity for disorganization, which would be of
fered by a “free fight" next, spring, and which
would be employed to buy off Democratic voters.
It is very desirable, in the present crisis, that the
Democratic State ticket shall be supported by the
entire Democratic vote of the State. It is now a
fixed fact, that the opposition will have their own
State ticket. Supposing that thev will have no
candidate for Congress in the field, and that the
Democracy shall have two or more candidates,
opposition votes will be in the market. Opposition
Toters will be ready to vote the Congressional
choice of those Democrats who will agree to pay
the piper, by voting a mixed or opposition State
ticket. I jet there be a warm Democratic contest
for Congress, and there is no concealing the fact
that a considerable number of voters, who would
otherwise vote the Democratic State ticket will
vote for an opposition Governor, Lieutenant Gov
ernor, Attorney General, or for all three, on a bar
gain which will ensure opposition votes for'some
one of the candidates for Congress; and each can
didate for Congress will thus, doubtless, receive
his quota of opposition votes at the expense of the
Democratic State ticket.
The result is what the Enquirer predicted it
would be, and it should serve as a warning to the
Democratic party of this and of all other States, in
which elections for Congress are yet to be held.
f COMMUNICATED.]
Democratic Meeting in Glasscock*
In accordance with public notice previously giv
en, a large number of the citizens of Glasscock
countv assembled at the Court House in Gibson,
on Monday, the 23rd of May, for the purpose of
appointing delegates to the approaching Guberna
torial Convention, to assemble at Milledgeville,
and also delegates to the Congressional Convention
for this District.
The meeting being arranged by the appointment
of Judge P. Csrv, Chairman, and George H. Jones,
Secretary, upon motion of J udge C. Cogue, a com
mittee of four from each district in the county was
appointed by the Chairman to report the names of
four suitable persons to represent this county in
each of said Conventions. Whereupon, said com
mittee reported the names of Dr. J. F. Dsry, Judge
C. Logue, Jeremiah Witcher, Sr., and John R.
Eiviere to the Gubernatorial Convention; and
James S. Csry, George H. Jones, B. B. Kitchens,
and Howell C. Wasden, to the Congressional Con
mention.
Upon motion of Judge C. Logue, it was—
Semh>ed, That each delegate appointed by this
body to either Convention, have the privilege of
appointing a substitute.
dissolved, fart/ter , That w« recommend that the
Convention in the Eighth Congressional District,
be held in the town of Warrenton.
On motion of Judge C. Logue, it was moved that
this meeting adjourn sine die.
P. Ussy, Chairm n.
Geo. H. Jones, Sec’y.
May 23rd, 1859.
An Important Opinion. —The Attorney General
has given to Wm. R. Drinkard, Esq., acting Secre
tary of War, an opinion upon the claim of the St.
James’s Catholic Mission to the ground at Van
couver, Washington Territory, occupied by the
Mission church, schools, and other buildings, all
of which are within the limits of the military re
serve established in 1853. The Attorney General
holds that the church has a clear title to all the
grounds, buildings and improvements which were
occupied by the Mission at the dates of the acts
orgaoisiog territorial governments for Oregon and
Washington; but that tbeeUim does not embrace
lands which at those dates were neither actually
nor constructively occupied by the Mission, but
were held bv other parties. The effect ot thiß will
ite to give the church undisturbed possession of
the improvements which it now holds, but will not
allow it to appropriate all the buildings erected by
the Hudson’s Bay Company, or by the Lnitcd
States, on grounds which the Mission never occu
pied,— Washington Constitution.
Cnrrent News of the Day.
The Postmaster General has declined to adopt
for the stamped envelopes the new style with ruled
backs, described in our issue some days since. The
improved envelopes have not yet received such to
kens of publ.c appioval as would warrant the de
partment in incuricg the increased expenditure
which a change would render necessary.
Powers’ t'atue Oi the Greek Slave, which was
rwm-ed to M.fS Coleman, of Cincinnati, last year
by the Cosn 'pci an Art Association, has been
purchased by A. T. S.ewart, of New York, says
an exebenge paper, nd will be placed in his dry
goods store.
The citiaens of Tarboro’, N. 0., recently petition'
ed the Postmaster General to change the name of
•be post office at that place to Tawboro’, and efforts
were also made to have the name of the place
changed to the same. But it appears that the Tar
boro’ would stick, or when people alluded to it,
they wouldn’t come up to taw with the new name;
and, therefore, it was changed to Tarboro’ again.
The Postmaster General was accordingly applied
to to re-insert the present name for the post office
there, which he declined to do, on the ground that
changes of names of post offices are productive of
confusion and trouble to postmasters and to the
Department.
The last number of the Forsyth (Ga.) Educa
tional Journal contains a call for a meeting of the
bachelors of that place, for the purpose of organ
ising a Bachelors’ Club. Are there any “woman’s
rights” advocates in Forsyth—or “can such things
be, Ac.?”
A St. Loais dispatch, of the 26th May, says:
James Maginnis, of Lockport, has just returned
from the plains. He publishes a statement in the
Democrat, that the Kansas gold mines is the most
stupendous humbug ever perpetrated upon Ameri
cans.
An effort is making in Montgomery, Ala., to
establish a "Young Men’s Christian Association”
there.
The Hon. Samuel W. Black, the newly appoint
ed Governor of Nebraska, arrived at Omaha City
on the 3d of May, and was received with warm and
noisy congratulations—salutes of artillery, and a
reception ball.
The lowa State Reporter says: The following
are the post offices in the new mining region, with
the respective postmasters of each: St. Vrain,
Nebraska, C. M. Milks; Lancaster, Nebraska,
Charlksßlake ; Auraria, Kansas, Henry Allen;
Montana, Kansas, David T. Griffith ; Coraville,
Kansas, Mathias Snyder.
A St. Louis dispatch, of the 26th of May, gives
the following: A destructive tornado swept over
lowa City last Tuesday. It extended ten or twelve
miles, sweeping houses, barns, fences, Ac., off in
its track, and killing several persons.
Printers’ “Strike” in New Orleans.
The New Orleans Daily Crescent, of the 23d
inst., contains the following humorous account of
a “typographical error" (in driving, Ac.), which
occurred in that eity on the Saturday previous.
Dbunke N. Hickufs, it appears, did not make a
good "leader,” but we presume 'he typos will be
more careful hereafter in taking “proof J of Capt.
PAN'S CPHgimgntS. - ■TWIe W wrurt
savs:
A printers’ strike, of a rather serious nature,
occurred on Saturday evening. .The particulars,
as far as we could ascertain, were these :
The tvpos of one of the most ancient and re
spectable newspaper offices in the city, having
heard for some time past that Dan Hickok had run
out of good cordial and fresh fish, and that, though
a first rate fellow, be didn’t know how to keep a
hotel, held a chapel on the .subject. The only
legitimate way of settling the question, was to
appoint a committee to go down to the lake and
investigate. Being unable, after due debate, to
decide as to which of them should constitute said
committee, they resolved themselves into a special
joint committee of the whole, and went down in a
long drawn out body, two in each buggy.
Tney had an interview -uth Dan Ilickok. He
satisfied them that the reports about him and his
hotel were slanderous. They made friends with
him, and apologised by going largely into his good
things. They parted good Inends; Dan having
furnished a clean proof of his capacity as a hotel
keeper, without subjecting the Sons of Faust .o
the trouble of a redee. .
All would have ended well, but for one unlucky
circumstance. A celebrated and well-known loafer,
who hangs about all the coffee-houses in town, but
delights particularly in the lake hotels, pressed
himself into the society of the printers, and in
sisted upon accompanying them, as he lias done
on innumerable occasions, with all classes and
qualities of lake visitors and coffee-house patrons.
Though generally detested, lie has away of get
ting around gentlemen in their cups which few can
This fellow, whose name is Drunke N. Hickups,
came into town with our typographical Inenas, and
was the jolliest and most reckless of the party.
Though be has come in by the Shell Road a thou
sand times, he is still a dreadfully bad driver, and
has subjected his unsuspecting friends to all sorts
of collisions, upsets, spills, scatters, smashes, and
sore bones generally. On this occasion, be was
more than usually jolly, and, according to his usual
insanity, fancied there was nothing on the road
save the flying buggy in which with his two cho
sen friends he was seated. The result was, that
whilst scudding along the Bienville road, near
Claiborne street, he failed to see an omnibus which
was coming the opposite way, from town. Omm
busses are not in the habit of getting away from
buggies; the latter generally have to take the
consequences, when they fail to get out of the way.
On this occasion, the omnibus and the buggy sa
luted each other. The kiss was fierce. The omni
bus went on, smacking its lips ; the buggy faint
ed ; and Mr. Hickups and his two victims were
the sufferers. .
Hickups didn’t care a cent about it; but the two
printers did. At the very moment of the collision,
the printers voted it an outrage and elruck. They
did not strike against the omnibus, which hurried
on to avoid a row, but they struck against the road,
which had tolerated an omnibus so rascally. They
suffered, however. They were knocked into pi , and
distributed all over the road. The other printers,
who had been striving to make even columns with
them in the chase, came along, set them up again,
and brought them to town, two blank pages iD an
octavo form, of a work which might have been en
titled, “A Trip to the Chief Lagoon of 1 ouisiana;
with Geological and Hickokological Explorations,
and a Treatise on the Shells of the Carbunkelifer
ous Period.” The buggy was brought in, a bundle
of badly damaged furniture; and yesterday,
(Hickuos having sneaked off', as usual, after his
victims had been planed down in their beds by
their friends,) the two victims, with lithographic
impressions of the Shell Road ail over their faces,
knuckles, and bodies, in red ink, were raking up
quoins with which to lock up the mouth of theown
er of the smashed tip buggy. There was a heavy
demand for “ subs,’”yesterday, in one of onr most
ancient and respectable newspaper offices.
JSgr The second number of the Southern Field
and Fireside will be issued next Saturday, June
4th, and regularly every Saturday thereafter.
The first number was issued a few days in ad
vance of the date of its publication to subserve a
temporary convenience. This misled some who
were anxiously inquiring yesterday for the second
number. _
Superior Court.— Judges 0. A. Bull and E. G
Cabaniss have exchanged Courts for the present,
week, the former presiding in Spalding, and the
latter ir Troup county.
Q'ifjin (<?j.) South, Mur 26.
AUGUSTA, G\A. S WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 1859.
Asylum for Inebriates*
The Atlanta (Ga.) Temperance Crusader, in no
ticing the communication of one of its correspond
ents, on this subject, says:
The question of erecting an asylum for inebriates,
in this State, was first introduced by Dr. Dugas, in
a clinical lecture delivered at Augusta ; and in
October last, warmly recommended by the grand
jury of Rich mo id Superior Court to the earnest
attention of their fellow-citizens. We perceive
that the grand jury, at the last session of Rich
mond Superior Court, made a similar recommend
ation. This is an evidence that the popular mind
is striving to devise some means to remedy the
appalling evils of intemperance. Intemperance
is a disease as well as a crime. Should not tfie
victim of delirium tremens meet with as much
sympathy as the idiotic, insane or fever-smitten ?
While temperance men are talking about prohibi
tion, and the means to effect it, thousands of dis
eased and wretched drunkards are sinking into
drunkards’graves. Something ought to be done,
and that right speedily, to alleviate tneir condition.
Let the recommendation of the grand iuries of
Richmond county meet a quick response from their
fellow-citizens throughout the State.
The Virginia Elections*
The Richmond (Va.) Dispatch , of the 27th May,
contains the following:
Governor Wise’s majority was nine thousand
nine hundred and twenty-one. The returns
below indicate a considerable reduction of
that majority. In the Congressional Districts we
have the following results : Ist District —John S.
Millson, re-elected without opposition. 2d Dis
trict—Muscoe R. 11. Garnett re-elected without
opposition. 3d District—uncertain, the contest
being between Jno. S. Caskie and D. C. Dejar
nette. 4th District—W. O. Goode is doubtless re
elected, though opposed by W. C. Flournoy. sth
District—Thos. S. Bocock has no opposition. 6th
District—a dispatch from Charlottesville says that
Shelton F. Leake ‘‘is certainly elected” oyer Paul
us Powell. 7th District—William Smith is doubt
less re-elecied over Henry W. Thomas, Whig,
and Henry Shackleford, Democrat. Eighth Dis
trict—The only reports we have by telegraph show
majorities for Alexander R. Boteler (opposition),
ana none are reported for Charles J. Faulkner,
Democrat. Ninth District, the Tenth Legion—The
candidates here are John Harris, Democrat, and
J. 11. Skinner, Democratic nominee. The report
we have is from Staunton, showing a large majori
ty for Skinner. Tenth District—Henry A. Ed
mondson has no opposition. Eleventh District—
Sherrard Clemens nas no opposition. Twelfth
District—A. G. Jenkins has no opposition. Thir
teenth District—Here, Benjamin Rush Floyd,
nominee, is running against Elbert S. Martin, In
dependent Democrat. The telegraphic reports
show majorities for both, though the larger num
bers reported are for Floyd.
£3?fNews items from the Macon State Press,
of the May 27 th:
Gen. Jlenningsen. —We notice the arrival of Gen.
Henningsen in our city, on a visit to his friends.
He will remain several days, we understand, prior
to his departure for Afizoua.
Christian Association for Boys. —The boys of
the city of Macon, under eighteen years of age*
are requested to meet a committee of the Young
Men’s Christian Association, at their rooms, on
Saturday morning, at nine o’clock, for the purpose
of organising a Christian Association for boys.
Captain Townsend, of the slave brig Echo,
has been acquitted in the United States District
Court at KejWeat
Tb* «dit4r of the Witoington (N. C.) Jour
nal is a modest man. He doesn't even claim the
title of ‘'city” for his own Wilmington; but hear
what he says:
Cities.— We all like to feel big. Villages like to
be towns; towns like to be cities. By law we
have one city in North Carolina, and that is rather
a small pattern for a city. That city is Raleigh.
We have some places down somewhere near Beau
fort which they call Carolina City and Morehead
City, but they only call them so.
Papers have got to talking of the city of New
bern and the city of Wilmington, and we notice
that the Daily Bulletin , recently removed from
Columbia, S. C. to Charlotte, N. C., under its local
head, refers to “city improvements,’’ to Charlotte
as a “thriving city,” etc.
Charlotte is a thriving town, Newbern is looking
up, and Wilmington has some inhabitants, but
they are none of them entitled to be called cities,
either on the score of population or legal status.
Items of news from the Apalachicola (Fla.)
Adccrtiser , of May 25:
We obtained permission the other day from his
honor, Judge Mclntosh, to copy the record (as ta
ken by S. Benezet, Esq.) of the case now pending
in the United States District Court, of Henry
Sloan, for an alleged homicide on board the bark
E. A. Rawlins, and had used a large portion of our
type in setting up the testimony for to-day’s issue.
We were requested yesterday evening by the Court,
through the application of J. W. Bryant, Esq.,
counsel for the prisoner, to suppress its publica
tion until after the trial, fearing that it might in
some way prejudice the cases of other parties, to
be tried at this term, for the same offence.
The case of Henry Sloan, on trial for murder
of the Spanish Captain on board the bark E. A.
Rawlins, alias Rosa Lee, is yet pending. The first
jury empanneled on this case were discharged af
ter one day’s sitting, for allowing persons to speak
to them, and other informalities in their actions.
The second jury were empanneled on Thursday
evening last and have been on this case ever since.
The witnesses have not all been examined yet, and
the prospect is that it may be several days ere the
case is disposed of.
As there are three other persons to be tried for
the same offence, it is somewhat doubtful whether
another jury can be obtained in this county. A
messenger has been sent to Gadsden county to get
a certified list from the Clerk of the Court of one
hundred and ninety-two names of jurors, to be
drawn here and brought from that county to meet
the emergency. . .
This case is a very singular one, and its decision
will be looked forward to with considerable inter
est throughout the country.
Important to Foreign Born Citizens. —The fol
lowing letter, says the Memphis Bulletin , has been
handed us by Hume F. Hill, Esq., who has hereto
fore obtained passports for many of our naturalised
citizens, who wish to visit Europe. It will be seen
that they will not be entirely safe in relying upon
their naturalization for exemption from military
service during the existing war:
Department of State, )
Washington, May 17, 1859. f
To Mr. Felix Le Clerc , Memphis, Tenn.:
Sir: Your letter of the 13th instant has been
received. In reply I have to state that it is under
stood that the French government claims military
service from all natives of France who may be
found within its jurisdiction. Your naturalization
in this country will not exempt you from that claim
if you should voluntarily repair thither. I am, sir,
your obedient Servant, Lewis Cass.
What a Good Periodical may Do.—Show us
an intelligent family of boys and girls, and we
shall show you a family where newspapers and
periodicals are plentiful. Nobody who has been
without these silent private tu*ors cau know their
educating power for good or evil. Have you never
thought of the innumerable topics of discussion
which they suggest at the breakfast table, the im
portant public measures with which, thus early,
our children become familiarly acquainted ; great
philanthropic questions of the day, to which un
consciously their attention is awakened, and the
general spirit of intelligence which is evoked by
these quiet visitors? Anything that makes home
pleasant, cheerful and chatty, thins the hatints of
vice, and the thousand and one avenues of temp
tation should certainly be regarded, when we con
sider its mtlueDce on the minds of the young, as a
great moral and social blessing.— Emerson.
From an Occasional Correspondent.
Apalachicola, Fla., May 23, 1859.
The United States Court lor the Northern Dis
trict of Florida, is now being held in this place.
His Honor, McQueen Mclntosh presiding.
A great interest is manifested, growing out of
the capture of the bark E. A. Rawlins, last March,
in St. Joseph’s Bay, Fla.
The principal points of the facts, as I understand
them, are these:
The bark E. A. Rawlins, supposed to belong in
part or in whole to Mr. C. A. L. Lamar, of Savan
nah, cleared from that port some time during the
month of December last, for Havana, and remained
in the latter port about two months. During that
time she was sold to a party in Havana, for the
purpose of engaging in the slave trade. It seems
that one of the conditions of the sale was, that the
vessel was to be delivered outside of the port.
After the vessel passed the Moro, on the morning
of the 27th of February last, it was ascertained
that there was a Spaniard aboard, who was called
(by Hayden, the American Captain,) as the Span
ish Captain, and also four Spanish seamen. Hay
den then made known to the American seamen
the destination of the vessel for the coa3t of Africa.
It had been previously understood that the Raw
tins had cleared for Mantua for a load of copper
ore to be taken to Baltimore.
Hayden then told the American crew they could
either go back to Havana, and obtuin their usual
three months’ pay, or go with the Spaniards to the
coast of Africa on the terms of thirty dollars per
mouth, and one dollar for each slave landed. The
proof goes that all refused.
The Captain further stated that they would meet
with a schooner, in a day or two, that would have
a cr®w for the slaver, and those indisposed to re
main on the Rawlins could return m the schooner
to Hfyana.
During the night of that day, the Spanish Cap
tain Was murdered by Norton, the first mate,
SloaiJ the second mate, and a man named Del
man, who left Savannah on the vessel as super
cargo.
The vessel then changed her course, and went
into St. Joseph’s Bay, as before stated, where she
was taken by the United States steamer Vixen,
and brought into Apalachicola.
Sloan, the second mate, is now on his trial, he
being considered the ringleader in the mutinous,
bloody, snd murderous affair.
The principal point the defence will take will be
the nationality of the vessel. J.
American Officers to Observe the War in Eu
rope.-—Three Virginians, Col. Steptob, Capt. G.
W. Carr and Lieut. Pbgram, of the army, have
been ordered by the United States government to
Sardinia, Hhere to gather information from the
struggle about to be witnessed in that territory.
Their duties will be similar to those of the Ameri
can Commission which was sent to the Crimea on
the same duty.
Library for William and Mary Collrgb.
Professor Morrison, of William and Mary College,
haft hfc£n in Mew where
6. i»
Poisoned with Whisky. —At Ifthth SouaTo. L.
Y., two small boys, about five or six years of age
were sent out by the father of one to buy a pint
of whisky. The little fellows, imitating the exam
ple of elder persons, sat down and partook liber
ally of the fire water. During the forenoou they
were found dreadfully intoxicated and ill, and
were conveyed home, and one died during the
night. _
Consecration of St. Paul’s Church.
The handsome new church edifice, St. Paul’s
Free Church, on Calhoun square, was consecrated
yesterday morning, by the Right Rev. Bishop Elli
ott, assisted by the Rev. Mr. Prysc, pastor of the
new church, Rev. Mr. Clark, pastor of St. Johns,
and other members of the clergy.
At eleven o’clock the procession of ministers,
headed by the Bishop, marched up the central
aisle to the chancel, where the impressive conse
cration ceremonies were performed by the Bishop,
assisted by the clergy.
The consecration was followed by a sermon from
the Bishop, utter which the rite of communion
was administered, and the congregation dismissed.
The church was crowded, and many more per
sons were in attendance than could find seats or
even standing room.
This church owes its success mainly to the ex
ertions of its pastor, Rev. John T. Pryse, who has
himself superintended the building, besides lend
ing his personal influence to raising the necessary
means to carry the work forward. It is a neat
Gothic building of brick, cruciform in shape, and
when finished will be one of the handsomest church
buildings in the city.
Savannah Morning News , May 26.
A correspondent of the liepublican , alluding to
the church edifice, says:
“In architectural beauty and harmony, it is un
surpassed by any church in the city or diocese,
and we suspect in the whole 'South. Although
yet unfurnished, and wanting externally its tower,
it at once arrests the eye by its shape, suggestive
of the cross of Christ, pleasing to the view. But
the interior is especially to be admired. It is sim
ple and yet beautiful. Indeed, many a church that
costs its tens ol thousands, lacks the pleasing har
mony, that here satisfies the observer. While it is
no slight commendation to say that the beauty of
the design does not at all interfere with the con
veniences of worship.’’
U. S. District Court. —The U. S. District Court,
his Houor Judge Win. Marvin, presiding, was in
sessim at the State Court House, (the U. S. Court
rooms being in ashes,) on the 19th, 20th, and
21st inst.
The case of Capt. Townsend, of the brig Echo,
charged with being engaged in the slave trade,
was tried, and resulted in his acquittal and dis
charge from custody. The Judge charged the
Jury, from the insufficiency of the evidence pro
duced. to bring m a verdict of “not guilty,” which
thev did without leaving their seats.
The case of Win. It. Robinson and Hiram Sis
son, charged with stealing five thousand dollars
from the smack Elisha Beckwith, was tried, and
resulted in the conviction of Robinson and the ac
quittal of Sisson. Robinson is sentenced to one
year’s close confinement at hard labor, and to pay.
a fine of one dollar.
This morning the District Attorney informed
the Court there was no probability of his getting
sufficient evidence to convict Fobbs, alias Wil
liams, the supposed captain of the brig Tyrant,
condemned at this port for being engaged in the
slave trade, and he was discharged. The Court
adjourned sine die.
Key West Key of the Gulf.\ 21 st inst.
An Old Joke Illustrated. — A day or two ago,
says our Douglas friend, Mark Aikin, a man came
to this city with one hundred dozen brooms and
called at the store of Messrs. G to sell them.
After some dickering, a sale was effected at two
dollars per dozen, with the understanding that
they should be paid for, half in money, and the
other half at cost price. The brooms were deliv
ered to Messrs. G , and one hundred s
in money paid to the broom maker. The clerk of
Messrs. G now rubbed his hands, and smiled
very patronizingly.
“What goods shall I set out for you, sir?” said
the clerk.
The broom maker scratched his head and as
sumed an attitude of labored meditation, then re
covering himself, he said: “ Well, I don’t know
wbat 3 do want, but guess I’ll have fifty dozen
brooms!” — Chicago Herald.
From the London Times , of May llfA.
The Prospects of the Campaign*
Let us consider by the light of history the pre
parations which are now being made by France
and Austria for the conduct of the present war.
The campaign which began by the entry of French
troops into Piedmont, and by the passage of the
Ticino by the Austrians, is on a scale which very
far exceeds any former struggle in those countries.
In the long wars of the firs Napoleon it may be
observed that the armies continually increased m
number, while, it is said, the genius of the com
mander and the prowess of the individual soldier
diminished. The brilliant campaigns of Na
poleon’s youth were made at the head of a few
thousand men. Marengo itself was gained by
twenty-eight thousand, but the war of 1805 actively
employed about one hundred and fifty thousand
French, while in the campaign of Wagram, Mos
cow, and Leipaic, we have incomparably larger ar
mies brought into the field on both sides. Now,
the war of 1859 begins on the colossal scale of the
later Empire, and the armies employed may attain
dimensions such as no single State has hitherto
been capable of producing.
Presuming the struggle to be confined to France
and Austria, and to the field of northern Italy, we
shall have the spectacle of a combat in closed lists &
such as the world has never before witnessed. If t
both the antagonists light well and stubbornly, i
the conflict will be as interesting to the military *
critic as grievous to the philanthropist. Both s
France and Austria will be able to inarch almost t
all their enormous forces to the seat of war. Ger- f
many will, while the war is confined t.> Italy, be s
sufficiently the ally of Austria to guarantee her a
from any attack in the rear from Russia, but not , n
sufficiently to disturb France by any demonstra
tion on the Rhine. It may be said that, for some i
time to come at least, the influence of Germany t
will have the effect of leaving both sides free to f
use all their strength against each other. That £
they will use it, there is no doubt. The seat of 1
war adjoins the territory of each, railways and i
steamers transport their troops easily, and most of
the loug marches which enfeebled and diminished i
armies in the days of Napoleon, will be avoided. <
Enormous masses of armed men can be taken to
the country they are to fight in as comfortably as 1
if they were merely making a change of quarters.
With this facility of transport, and this power of t
using tLe whole of their great standing armies, 1
we must expect to see two hosts gathered together 1
on the plains of Italy such as no two single States
ever yet opposed to each other. The numbers we '
do not pretend even to guess at. The French are 1
pushing troops over the Alps, and loading their
ships of war with soldiers for Genoa. The sup
ply of food will be the only limit to the number
which can thus be brought into the field.
The French probably have their information
about the Austrian army, the Court of Vienna
has ita own übout French proceedings. But English
men are allowed to know little about the matter.
There is, however, no doubt that the Power which
sent a quarter of a million of men to Sebastopol
within eighteen months will be able to send that
number into Northern Italy. Considering that
the whole of Italy, with twenty-seven million peo
ple, may shortly be in insurrection, and that Sar
dinia has some eighty thousand troops of her own
already, it may be reckoned without exaggeration
that more than three hundred thousand m«i may
in the next two months be put in line to drive the
Austrians from their carefully chosen and now fa
mous positions in Lombardy. On the other band,
Austria can, and will, no doubt, bring an equal
force into the field. She does not want men, for
the empire contains thirty-three million souls, with
out counting the Italian Provinces. It the Finance
Minister can find the money to keep three hun
dred thousand men on foot in Italy, General Gyu-
for them.jJl '^eyvnllnuH)^
- to their enemies;
will be com
manded by officers who know that the eyes of
Europe are upon them, and that they must tight
now for the very existence of their Empire.
These are the prospects of the campaign, and
certainly, as far as man can divine, they promise a
most obstinate contest. The combatants are fairly
matched. France, with Italy at her back, and a
less impoverished exchequer, may be expected to
have the superiority of numbers. But the Aus
trians, on the other haud, will probably, after their
raid into Piedmont, fight a defensive battle, and
then they will be on the ground of which they
know every inch ; they will be holding their own
military works, at which they have labored for
forty years, and which they have declared to be
master pieces of science. If in such conditions
they are not able to hold their ground, Europe will
come to the conclusion that it is of very little use
to help them. With every inducement to a des
perate struggle, they must be changed from what
they were in the old times, if France is easily vic
torious, or Lombardy free at once. Such consider
ations as these make us look with apprehension
for the future of Europe, especially in financial
e read that the French loan of twenty million
pounds sterling is being easily raised, and this is
not a matter for surprise, as the lender will get five
per cent, for his money, and the payment of instal
ments is to extend over no less than eighteen
months. But these twenty million pounds sterling,
which are to come in at the slow rate of a million
a month, will be soon spent, probably before the
sixth mouthly instalment is forthcoming. And
then what is to be done? Is tbeie to be another
loan, extending over a further term of eighteen
months, or an income tax, or additional customs’
duties?’ If one or two brilliant victories dispose
of the Austrians all may be well, and the twelve
million pounds sterling which the Minister of fi
nance says he has in hand, added to the produce of
the loan, may give Napoleon 111. the glory he cov
ets at a comparatively cheap rate. But suppose
the troops of Francis Joseph to be tougher enemies
than is counted upon, how long will the cost of
aggressive war be borne cheerfully even by the
French people? As the duty of Englishmen is to
fight for neither party, so common prudence com
mands them to hold their purse strings when des
pots ask funds for such an enterprise as this Italian
war.
Philosophy of Light Digestion.— ln a dietic
point of view, it would be well for weak stomachs
to remember that wild birds are more nutritious
than their domesticated cousins, and more digesti
ble But the white breast or wing of a chicken is
less heating than the flesh of winged game. Other
game—such as venison, which is dark colored, and
contains a large proportion of fibrin produces
highly stimulating chyle; and, consequently, the
digestion is an easy and rapid affair for the stom
ach. But though the whiter meats be detuned
longer in the stomach, furnishing less stimulating
chyle and be suffered to run into ascetous fermen
tation, their lesser stimulating quality may recom
mend them when the general system is not in want
of a spur. Meats are wholesome, or otherwise,
less with reference to themselves than to the con
sumer. “To assert a thing to be wholesome, says
Yon Sweiten, “ without a knowledge of the condi
tion of the person for whom it is intended, is like
a sailor pronouncing the wind to be fair without
knowing to what port the vessel is bound.
Dr. Doran.
There was a touch of romance in real lite in this
city recently. An old gentleman in the Fourth
District, weil off, and possessor of a pretty young
daughter, missed said daughter. Found she had
eloped with a too persuasive steamship officer.
Come staving down town with pistoloric inten
tions. Got on the track of the lovers. Found
them cosily together at a certain house. Tore
clothes, smashed furniture, and demanded his
daughter. Lover not scared; said he would give
girl up, but only to police officer with warrant.
Old gent went foaming after police. Lover whisk
ed sweetheart into carriage, dashed down town,
and had silken knot tied by justice of peace.
Dashed back again, and waited for old gent. Old
gent arrived with police. Formal demand for
body of Miss . Lover said no such person
around; girl was there, and said that’s so! Con
fusion generally. Quieted by’ lover introducing
girl to old gent and police as his wife, Mrs. .
Girl said that’s so, too. Certificate exhibited.
Old gent raved, and talked bloody; police told
him no use. Went away hot as a Tampico jjep
per. Strong probabilities of early reconciliation,
and champagne freeae.—JV. (K Crescent,
VOL. 38—IS O. 23.
To Ihe Upper Dog In the Fight.
BT JOHN SMITH.
The world likes success, and the mighty, great world
The peasant kicks, ard caresses the King ;
I don’t care a dime what other men aay,
This is the song to sing.
The world gives applause to the man who succeeds,
And awards h>m honor and place;
So let us 011 to the brim, and shout with strong lungs.
To the rider that wins the race.
The world hates the fool, the sni vtling fo.I,
V lio soars but fallen his flight •
And talk as we please, we -1) hurrah
To the uppermost dog In the fight.
What right has a dog. the great world «ays,
To allow hlmseU rn**ei at all:
lie d ; sgraces his race and dee: rves to be kicked
To permit himself mu.r<iy to rail.
I; mipht erpease the great world, the mighty great werk^
Ann well balanced un<* right,
Were there no upper dog and no uni!- - dog,
Gould both equal be in the fight.
But for me, I will shout with the strength of my lungs. •
Nor for cavilling fools will I stop.
For the dog of success, that glorious dog.
Who looks sharp to keep upon top.
“Eyes Open”.
“Our minister said in his sermon last evening,”
said Mrs. Beach, the wile of aprosperous wholesale
drv goods merchant on Market street, as she dust
ed her mantel of porcelain and marble, on Monday
"that he who wanted to do good must keep a con
stant look out for opportunities; that God does not
find our work, and bring it ready fitted and pre
pared to the hand; but spreads the world before us,
and we are to walk through it as Christ and the
apostles did, with 'eyes open,’ looking for the sick
and the suffering, the poor and oppressed.”
“Now lam certain,” continued the lady, as she
replaced a marble Diana in the centre of the man
tel, “I should like to do some good every day; one
feels so much better when they go to rest at night ;
and I’ll keep my ‘eyes open’ to-day, and see if
I come across any opportunities that under ordina
ry circumstances I should let slip.”
Half an hour later Mr. Beach was in the nursery
with the washerwoman who had come for the
clothes.
“I wish Mrs. Simms,” said she, as she heaped up
the soiled linen in the basket, “that you would get
Tommy’s aprons ready forme by Wednesday; we
are going out of town to remain until Saturday, and
I shall want a good supply on hand for such a care
less little scamp as he is.”
‘•Well, I'll try, ma’am,” said the washerwoman;
“I've got behind hand a good deal since Sammy
bad the whooping cough ; but now he’s better, l
must try to make up for lost time.
“Has he had the whooping cough ? Poor little
fellow! How old is he?” questioned the lady.
“He was three last April, ma’am.”
“And Tom is four,” mused the ladj. “Look here,
Mrs. Simms, won’t you just open the lower draw
er of that bureau, and take out tho-e four green
worsted dresses in the corner? Tom’s outgrown
them you see since last winter, but they are almost
as good as new. Now, if you want them for little
Sammy, they’ll do nicely, without altering, I
think.”
“Want them, Mrs. Beach !” answered the wash
erwoman, with tears starting in her dim eyes; “I
haven’t any words to thank you, or tell what a
treasure they’ll be. Why they’ll keep the little fel
low as warm as toast all this winter.”
“Well, I’ll place them on the top of the clothes,”
said the lady, smiling to herself as she thought,
“My eyes have been open once to-day."
Not long afterwards Mrs. Beach was on her way
■ to market—for she was a notable housekeeper—
. when she met a boy who had lived a short time
i in ker family the year before, to do errands, wait
- on the door, Ac. He was a bright,
. boy, and had been a great favorite with
r woulit have passed hiu-rwith a cordial bn; nasty,
1 “How are yon, Joseph/my boy* Do come and see
MLrinsnll ""!
f as the memory of last night’s sermon flashed
I through her mind, and asked : “Is there anything
the matter with vou, Joseph? you do not look as
happy as you used to.”
The boy looked up a moment, with a half doubt
ing half confiding expression, into the lady’s face—
the latter triumphed. “Mr. Anderson’s moved out
of town,” he said, pushing back bis worn, but
neatly brushed cap from his hair, “so I’ve lost my
place ; then little Mary’s sick, and that makes it
very bad just now.”
“So it does,’’answered Mrs. Beach, her sympa
thies warmly enlisted. “But never mind Joseph.
£ remember, only night before last, my brother
said he would want a new errand boy in a few
days, for his store, and he’d give a good one
two dollars a week. Now, I’ll see him to day,
and get the situation for you, if you like.”
The boy’s whole face brightened up. “Oh! I
shall be so glad of it Mrs. Beach.”
“And see here, Joseph, I’m going to market, and
perhaps we can find something nice for little
Mary.” The lady remembered that Joseph’s
mother, though a poor seamstress, was a proud
woman, and felt this would be a delicate way of
presenting her gift.
So she found some delicious pears and grapes
and a nice chicken to make some broth for Mary,
who she learned was ill with fever, before she pro
ceeded to do tier own marketiug. But it was a pity
that the lady did not see Joseph as he sprang into
the chamber where little Mary lay moaning wearily
on her bed, while her mother sat stitching busily
m one corner, and held up the chicken and the
fruit, crying, “good news! good news! I’ve got
ali these nice things for Mary and a place at two
dollars a week!”
0! how little Mary’s hot lingers closed overtfee
bunches of white grapes, while the sewing drop
ped from her mother’s fingers, as the teais ran
down her cheeks.
It was evening, and Mrs. Beach sat in the libra
ry absorbed in some new book, when she heard her
husband’s step in the hull. Though the morning
had been pleasant, the afternoon was cloudy, and
the day had gone down in a low, sullen, penetra
ting rain.
Now Mrs. Beach loved her husband with the
love of a true Wife, but he was not a demonstrative
man, and the first beauty and poetry of their mar
ried life had settled down into a somewhat bare,
every day matter-of-fact existence; but her heart
was warm to-night—warm with the good deeds of
the day, and, remembering the resolution of the
morning, she threw down her book and ran down
stairs.
“Henry, dear,” said the soft voice of the wife,
“has the rain wet you at all? Let me take off your
coat for you,”
“Thank you, Mary; I don’t think I’m any wise
injured, but you may help me, just for the pleasure
of it,” and he stood still while she removed the
heavy coat with ail that softness of touch and
movement which belongs to a woman. She hung
it up, then her husband drew her to his heart
with all the old love’s tenderness.
And there was music in Mrs. Beach’s heart as
she went up stairs—music to the words," Eyes
open! Eyes open!”
A Net for thk Abolitionists. — An interesting
case was decided last Saturday, in the Fifth Dis
trict Court, Judge Eggleston presiding. A young
girl, seventeen years old, named Alexiana Mom
son, ran away some eighteen months ago, from the
slave yard of Mr. James White, slave dealer, in
Jefferson City, where she had been kept several
months. She applied to some citizens of Carroll
ton, complaining that she was horn of white pa
rents, had been kidnapped from Arkansas, and
! sold into slavery. Many influential citizens became
[ interested in her, and suit was brought in the Jes
. fersun Parish Court. The jury, however, failed to
. agree, and, bv a change of venue, the case was
! transferred to New Orleans, and tried by the Fifth
District Court.
1 The trial occupied three days, and the evidence
showed, as attested by several scientific gentlemen,
’ that no African bloodi could be traced intheyoung
j girl. The jury were not long deliberating, ana
r brought in a verdict in favor of Alexiana. She was
, set at liberty. The spontaneous exertions made in
her behalf by a number of respectable citizens,
, upon her simple statement, and at the risk of an
5 annoying, long and costly suit, should her freedom
l" not be established, show the generous disposition
j of our citizens (slaveholders) to see justico done,
~ even if they have to incur trouble and expense to
, follow the promptings of_ their heart.
’ - y. 0. Picayune, Jfaj 2S.