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Or (lOkchln -press,
by E. C. a A. M. ROWLAND.
FROM OVR DAILY OF THURSDAY, FEB 17
The Theatre.
The Florences have appeared three even
sin our city liefore large and fashionable
, .iliences, and their performance* have elic-
,] a general sentiment of admiration and
..light. The bill for to-night is particularly
attractive, and we presume the house will be
crowded. Those who fail to go will miss a
rich treat.
FOR THS STATE PRESS.
Mr. Editor: —If the Editor of the Messen
,■ dues not wish to sec the South torn to pieces
mid paralyzed, say to him to come out and aup
rt slavery from principle, and no longer sup-
■ rt slavery liecause he is here and slarery is
here. It is his and the course of others like
him. that tears to pieces and paralyzes the uni
... j energies of the South against abolitionism,
"j lie Editor of the Messenyer tries to speak dis
paragingly of John Mitchel. Why ? because
Min hel says he prefers a divided South with
out submission, to a united South with submis-
,n. Mitchel would not submit to wrong and
pression from the British Government, and
can any one expect him to submit to wrong and
~|,pression from the Federal Government?
i lay slavery's safer in the hands of Mitchel
t ui those who denounce the external trade of
~4 v erv. Mitchel defends slavery from prin
ts ING.
FOR THE STATE PRESS.
The lines addressed “ To Him” in the issue
„f the last Georgia Citizen contain some lior
r wid wit and personalities, that it may not be
I. ,med » holly inappropriate for “ L.” to notice,
which he will do in a few words.
L.” has long since learned that worms will
crawl u|s>n his body when dead, and the expe
rience of years has taught him that even the
most distinguished writers will have “ critic
worms swarming” on their fame while living.
Such has been the record of the past ; such will
, the history of the future, for envy cannot die
iu a world so full of uncharitableness,and while
ii-regarding all criticisms made upon himself
I v writers, he cannot repress the expression of
Ins pity for those brainless blockheads who
ickle over everything personal and go around
uttering. “ Have you seen it”—“ Oh, its fine”
lt gives him the very devil, Ac,, Ac.
For such ninnies he has the sympathy which
, sensible man feels for a fool, and assures all
, future who may presume to ruffle the seren
in' of his mind by personal assaults, that he
ires no more for sueh vapor than the sun,
when dressed for the day in robes of light at
i n. cares for the smoke that rises up from
-me dingy hovel. But we did not design say
u gsu much, in reply to “ bad wit and bad poe
try" ami will conclude with the following ad
mmitory lines:
•'The little sea birds, blinded by the storms,
iom-1 some tall light house dash their little forms,
Yet the proud fubrick in the morning sun,
Stands all unconscious of the mischief done;
Still slimes as brightly o’er the scattered fleet
OfGulls and boobies, brainless at its feel!”
A Nice Game.—ln the vicinity of West Al
txander. Ya., a number of neighbors have been
in the habit of attending for some time past,
svial parties—got up something after the order
i the free love gathering. Among those who
t « k lively interest in these sociables, were Mr.
and Mrs, (100, Carsner, a Miss Curtiss, and a
Mr. May. A new game was introduced at
r ' parties, called the “Shanghi game,” which
i- described as follows :
One of the gentlemen mounts a chair, flaps
his arms like a rooster, and crows lustily. The
first lady detected laughing at this ridiculous
a ti n. is pursued by the Shanghi, and a race
ism's, continuing till the female is overtaken,
which. by arrangement, the pursuer does not
succeed iu doing till she has run some distance
from the house. This game was played for a
b'ng time with huge success, but, at last, an
• timaey, savoring at least of impropriety, grew
■at "fit. Geo. Carsner became exceedingly
find of Miss Curtiss, and every time he erowed,
she was sure to laugh. This kind of thing
hi t suit Mrs. Carsner, and in order to retali
ate upon her faithless husband, she got to
i'lghing at the crow of Mr. May. Things
" nt on thus until a few days ago, when Mrs.
1 . suddenly disappeared with May, leaving
three children at home. About the same time
Ur husband run away with Miss Curtiss, and
■ hildren are thus entirely deserted and a-
• ic. The Shanghi game is in bad repute.
Negroes Declined. The Montgomery
Alu.i Mail of the 11th says: —We understand
’ .nt negroes sold very low in this city, last
M uduy. Further, it is said, that they can be
1" ight here and sold at a profit in neighbor
ing Georgia towns.
Psalms of David.
Tin? annexed eloquent extract is from a lec
ture by Henry Giles :
"Great has been their power in the world.—
They resounded amidst courts of the talierna-
■: they floated through the lofty and solemn
space of the temple. Shey were sung with glo
ry in the Halls of Zion, they were sung with
‘■ rniw by the streams of Babel. And when
I'rael had passed away, the harp of David was
stiil awakened in the Church of Christ. In all
the age.. (1 f the Church, from the hymn which
>t first whispered in an upper chamber until
anthems filled the earth, the inspiration of
royal prophet lias enraptured its devotions
'■nobled its rituals. Chorusscd by the
I- "f heaven, they have swelled throughout
■ «n temples of skies’and stars; they
r olled over the broad desert of Asia, in the
1 "ins and vespers of ten thousand hermits.— |
I y have rung through the deop valleys of I
Alps, in the sobbing voices of the forlorn i
'■ ‘ leases, through the deep sand eaves of the
i'll Covenanters; through the woods and j
" “"1- of primitive America, in the heroic hal
" ‘‘as of tlic early pilgrim.”
Death of Benjamin T. Brantley.
dr. Benjamin T. Brantley died near Fort
Kansas Territory. Mr. I» says an obit-
:>r . v tioti<M* of the de<-«aed, was bom in Au-
- I mi the 4th of Ducemlier, |H.'Wi. srraduated
M r. er I nivorvity in 1855. studied law. and
m.id" arrangements to enter upon the du- '
■ • his protrssiou willnn a iiMila from the
'■ " is smitten down by disease. — Auyus-
State
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING.
vbt.TTMK tt.
New York Correspondence.
/lnrnt Celebration—Lecture Seaton—Ueligiuue Jlcct
iwje—The Catknlin in the Field—liiehop Jvee—
/Luc the Lu/uor (j*tee—Tturee —Old Police—//oojte
—Sewing Maehinee—Rueineee—Snow—Salting the
Streets—Gold- W r . //. Preeeoft.
The Burn* Celebration occupied a large .«pace in
the New York and Bowton papers for nearly a week,
and ns it cornea but once in a hundred yearn, the
friends of the noble, old poet made the most of it. A
brilliant array of talent a«aemMed at Boston, and N.
York bore ample testimony of her high esteem for the
hero of the occasion ; songs, speeches, letters, prose
and poetry, all lent eclat to the occasion.
Then? were, perhaps, never so many able lecturers
in our city during one season an have been among ui
thus far, and the future is full of their coming. A
regular course opens this week in the Academy of
Music, the first one by Dr. Milburn, the blind prea.
cher, who always draws and instructs large audiences.
His subject is Aaron Burr. Mrs. Cora N. Hatch has
been trying to “AafrA” a new theological, or spiritual
theory, in the minds of her hearers, but her nest eggs
are usually ••bad,” and much cannot be hoped for in
the way. of moral reform.
The big Jreligious meetings still continue without
abatement in interest or numbers. Their continu
ance has provoked the Cotholic community to emu
late their example, and five Sunday Evening Lectures
are announced, by Dr. Huntington, Bishop O’Connor,
and Bishop Ives, formerly of N. C. They arc to set
forth the super-excellence of the Catholic above all
other religious.
The i>np4trtfttione show also the excellence o/ bad
liquor, as nearly a quarter of a .11 ill ion of money was
paid for imports in one ! leaving no doubt on an
honest observer’s mind that liquor is “going down”
It is thought nowThut the city taxes will exceed
ten million! as—one item—the payment of the de
funct, break head police of Mayor Weed will be
$125,000, for doing nothing, after being out of office
for a year.
Hoops! Heavens, women’s hoops! The “ angel
that took the live coal off the altar with tongs,” if he
had now to lay it on a woman's lips, wouldpiave to do
it with tongs, not his fingers or hands, as of old, as
an approach to arm’* length is out of the question.—
The hoop manufacture is intiumne, almost beyond coa
ception, I knew one moderate fitneg kouee which sold
SIB,OOO worth last spring, and they kept nothing but
“notions;” and this is only a sample of thousands.—
One concern in this city has 200 sewiug machines,
and six hundred hands in constant motion, and every
tread, and every turn, and every stitch makes tqe
hoops fly. It is will—for what had become of the
poor seamtresses I know not, as nearly all the cloth
ing bouses now have their work made by machines,
reducing the hands employed more than one-half.—
The hoop trade gives employment to at least 10,000
girls iu the city of New York. So, country ladies, if
you wish to promote ••charitable institutions” in New
York, “epread gonrnetree”
Business prospects were never better, notwithstan
ding the high price of many goods.
On Sunday we had one of the most beautiful snows
I ever saw fall, covering the ground to the depth of
five inches, and clinging to every twig, and limb, and
branch, as it sometimes does “down South.” It was
followed by moderate weather and bright sunshine,
and sleigh bells, and on the great thoroughfares by
salt, which is used to melt the snow. Three hundred
bushels dissolve Broadway from Fourteen th-Street to
the Battery, and about 500 bushels opens the Third-
Avenue car-line, so that we arc quite a “salty” people
after all; and if “Lot’s wife” were here, her counte
nance would certainly be spoiled in some of our snow
storms, to help “clear the track.”
The Quaker City brings a million and a half in
gold.
The death of W. H. Prescott, the historian, spreads
a heart-felt sorrow in all literary circles. Ho was an
able and a useful man. Yours,
Feb. 1859. E-
The Regulators and Moderators of East
Florida.—lt is known that hostile feelings
have for sonic time existed,Jand that frequent
collisions have taken place between parties
known as Regulators and Moderators, in
East Florida. The feud had liecome so latter
and so widely extended, that it was feared
that serious consequences might result from
the letter of a correspondent, who writes us
from Chocochattc county, under date of 26th
Inst., that a treaty of peace has been conclu
ded between the tactions. Our comapondent
says:
“The Regulators and Moderators of our
county bare at last brought mattert to, I hope
a final settlement. The Moderators having
ma<le several demonstrations in force at our
county site, and uttered a great many threats
and much abuse of the opposite party, finally
(hallenged the Regulators to meet them on
the 17th, at the county site, and fight it out.
The Regulators promptly accepted the chal
lenge, and mastered in fame, but no Modera
tors appeared until late in the evening of that
day, when three came into town, evidently as
spies, and armed to the teeth. The Regulators
immediately arrested and disarmed them, and
being determined to put an end to the contro
versy, they compelled the prisoners to lead
them to the rendezvous of the Moderators,
who were collected in force at a place some
seven miles off*- A little between forty and
sixty on each side, at. about one hundred and
fifty yards apart, and a parley sounded. The
Regulators demanded the immediate disband
ing of the Moderators, and a pledge of future
good behavior on their part, or an immediate
appeal to arms. The Moderators acceded to
the first pro|M»ition. and thus onr community
was saved from the disgrace and horrors of a
pitched battle between fellow-citizens, neigh
bors, friends and relatives.”— NewJt.
An Exciting Bear Race.
A morning or two since, says the. Norfolk
Day Book, the passengcas on the N. and P.
railroad were treated with an unnsual sight.
A gentleman iu the cars, discovering a wild
looking animal a short distance ahead, called
the attention of the passengers; and it was
soon ascertained that a large black bear had
taken the track. Bruin was making his way
as fast as bis clumsy legs would permit, close
ly pushed by the iron horse; occasionally the
bear would turn his head, and with an angry
growl almost bid defiance, but still the Lorse
gaining, and it became evident that one or two
things must occur; either the bear must leave
the track or be run down. The speed was
slackened, and for full five iniuutea the bear
continued its courses when finally instinct dic
tated a crossing, and jumping upon a log it
soon crossed the ditch and made its way up a
large cypress tree Bruin now telt its security
! and as the train passed, its ivory glistened in
1 the light sunshine, as if to say ‘‘you may be
good in your place, but can't climb a tree.” —
. The bear was of a very dark brown or black
species, and was judged to weigh about three
hundred pounds. A hunter with a good rifle
might liave easily secured the prize and the
incident attvrded quite a pleasing episode to
die passengers. No doubt it was one of the
inhalatatita ol die Dismal Swamp, aud we
believe it was the first anuualofUie kiud Heeu
on the Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad.
lIxNUsOMK Beml KSTTU X GeoKuIA CoLLEUX.
I—The Memphis LiulUtiK »uy» the late Jamea
| Allen, ot Mi-aiasippi, situ died a few Week,
ago, beqaeathtsl by hie will *22,<MXJ to the
‘Oglethorpe Lui ver ally <4 thia bum.-.
A Juggler’s Duel.
Joe Latti, a shrewd traveled Yankee—a jug
gler to boot—gets aboard the old frigate Bran
' dy wine at Gibraltar, bringing with him a good
deal of money and a big trnnk of “ magician
! implements. He acted as assistant steward,
and became a great favorite with the crew.—
• At Port Mahon, they got ashore, Joe in full
toggery,enteredawineshoptodrink,and Joeac
cidentally gels into a quarrel with a ferocious
Spanish infantry captain. A duel ensues as
follows:
, “My name is Joseph Latti, sir, a citizen of
, the United States, and a General of the Order
of Sublime Darkness," said Joe very pouipons
( ly turning to the Spaniard. “Your name,
sir!”
“ Antonio Bizar, Captain in her most Sacred
Catholic Majesty's 7th Regiment of Infantry.
But your office, sir? I don’t comprehend.”
“Oh, you wouldn’t know if I was to tell
you. lam simply general of a body of men
who have sold themselves to the gentleman
who burns sinners and heretics, down there!’’
And Joe pointed most mysteriously down to
i wards the floor as lie spoke.
The Spaniard smiled a very bitter, sarcastic
smile, and thereupon Joe took up two large
knives that lay on the bar, and tossed them one
r after another, down his throat, making sever-
L al wry faces as they took their passage down
wards. The fellow had evidently never seen
anything of the kind before, for he was as
tounded.
“ Now, sir,” said Joe, making one or two
' more grimaces, as though he ,felt the knives
somewhere in the region of the diaphragm,
“you will wait here while I go and bring iny
pistols, and you shall have satisfaction. W ill
, you wait?”
“ I can procure pistols,” said the officer, for
getting bis astonishment and coming back to
his anger.
“I shall fight with my own. If you are a
gentleman you will wait.”
Joe turned to us and bade us wait for him
“Here! here! Oh! gentlemen, where be
my knives?” cried the keeper.
“I'll pay you for them when I come back,”
and he then beckoned forme to come out. I did
so, he took the knives—one from his bosom
and the other from his sleeve—and told me to
, keep them until he returned.
It seems that Joe found a boat ready to take
him otf to the ship at once, for he was not
gone more than three quarters of an hour;
when l;e came back he had two .superbly
' mounted pistols with him. He loaded them
with powder in the presence of the Spaniard,
and then handing him a ball, asked him if he
would mark it, so that he would know it,
again. The fellow hesitated at first, but at
I length he took it with a mad gesture, and bit
' it between hia teeth.
“ I shall know that,” he said, “ unless it is
battered against your bones.”
“Now select you pistol,” said Joe.
The man took them and examined them,
but be wss satisfied they were both alike, and
both good and he told Joe he had no choice.—
1 So our steward put the balls in and rammed
them carefully down.
The whole party now adjourned to a wide
court back of the case, where twelve paces
were marked otf, and then the combatants
took their stations. I trembled for Joe, for
I saw’ not yet how he would make fun out of
this.
“Count,” said the Spaniard, impatiently.
“ One—two—three 1”
The captain fired first, and with more delib
erate aim. Joe fired in the air. Then the
latter walked deliberately up to his antagonist,
and taking a ball from between his teeth,
handed it to him.
“ You can use that next time,” said Joe.
The officer looked first at Joe’s teeth, and
then at the ball. It was surely the one that
he had put in the pistol, and now he bad seen
his foeinan take it from his mouth. He was
unmistakably astounded.
“Come, let's load again,” said Joe.
“ San Pablo,” exclaimed Bizar, “ you must
i use some—some —what you call him?—some
' trick, eh ? I shall load the pistol myself.”
' “Do so,” said Joe, calmly, aud as he spoke
j lie coolly handed over his powder iiask.
The Spaniard poured out an extra quantity
of powder, and having poured it in the pis
j tol, called tor a rammer, lie then put the
same ball in he used before. Meanwhile, Joe
had been loading his own pistol.
i “ One moment,” uttered Joe, reaching out
’ his hand. “ The caps are iu the butt of your
pistol. Let me get them.”
i The fellew handed over his pitol, but kept
' his eye upon it. Joe opened a little silver
’ spring at the end of the bntt, and, true, there
were some percussion caps there. He took
t out two, and having capped his own pistol, he
tossed it into the air, catching it very adroitly
as it came down, and handed back the other
j to the Spaniard. I had watched Joe most
I carefully, but I saw nothing out of the way,
s and yet he changed pistols with his foe.
j “ Now,” cried he, “ I’ll put a ball in my pis
s tol and v. e will be ready.”
He slipped something in that looked like a
e cartridge, bnt no one else saw it.
V “Now,” said the Spaniard, “let's see you
e : hold this in your mouth.”
5 : Again they took their stations and again they
e I were ready.
s “ One—two—three! ”
r And the Spaniard fired first, by aim, Joe
- | tiring in the air as before. And again Joe
t stepped forward and took the self-same ball
a out of his mouth and handed it to his antago
y nist. The fellow was completely dmnb-found
u ed and swore the rest.
e “ You no fire at me!” gasped the captain.
“I'll fire at you the next time,” said Joe, iu a
k tone of thunder; “thus fur 1 have only shown
e • you that powder aud ball can have no effect
oi on me. Twice have you fired at me, with as
e i true a pistol as ever was made, and both times
o have I caught your ball between iny teeth
e i while 1 liave fired iu the air. I meant that
e you should live long enough to know that for
u I once in your life you have seen, if not the old
1 fellow hiiuseH (pointing downward) at least
mis w lio is iu bis employ. The old geutleinan
j wUI like the oouipany of a Spanish enptain of
9 ‘ Infantry, aud I’ll send you along. Come, loud
Bnt the astonished Spaniard did not eeeiu
MjACONT, GEOIiGIAu, FEBRUjABY 34, ISSD.
inclined to do so. A man who swallowed
carving knives as he would sardines, and who
caught pistol balls between his teeth, was not
exactly the mau for him to deal with. While
he was ponderuig upon what he had seen, Joa
took a iiandfull of bullets from his pocket, and
began to toss them rapidly down his throat,
and when these were gone he picked up some
half dozen good sized stones, and sent them af
i ter the bullets;
i “ Holy Santa Moria,” ejaculated the Span
iard, while his eyes seemed starting from their
’ sockets. “What a man I By my soul,'tis the
1 devil 1 ”
And as lie thus spoke lie turned on his heel
and hurried away from the place. After he
was gone, Joe beckoned for me to give him
the knives. I did so, and then saw him slip
them up his coat sleeves. When we returned
to the case be approached the keeper.
“ You want your knives,” he said.
But the poor fellow dared not speak. Joo
[ put his hand to his right ear and pulled out
one of the long knives. Then from his left
ear he drew the other, The inkeeper crossed
himself in terror, and shrank trembling away.
But we finished our wine, and having paid for
it, turned to go.
“ Here,” said Joe, “ I haven't paid for the
use of the yard yet,” and as ho spoke he
threw down a piece of silver on the coun
ter.
“No! no! no!” shrieked the poor fellow.
“Don't leave your money here, don’t!”
Joe picked it up and went away laughing.
Ever after that, while he remained at
Mahon, Joe Latti was an object both of curi
osity and terror on shore, for an account, all
colored to suit the exaggerated conception of
the case keeper, had been spread over the city,
and the pious Catholics there wanted nothing
to do with such a man, only to keep on his
good-humored side.
Gen. Putnam’s Swqrd.
Hon. Henry C. Deming, presented this revo
lutionary relie to tlic Historical Society, in an
address at the North Church, in Hartford, on
Wednesday evening last. The donor of this
sword is Lemuel Putnam Grosvenor, late of
Pomfret, a grandson of Gen. Putnam, through
Eunice, his daughter. The following account
of the sword is from the Rev. Lemuel Grosven
or, of Pomfret, a great grandson of the Gener
al :
The sword is over a century old. If I re
member rightly, it has a representation of the
British Lion on its silver-mounted handle.—
Putnam served both the King and the Conti
nental Congress with that sword in his hand.
1 have always understood that it was with him
at Breed’s and Bunker's Hill, and though I
have no positive proof of the fact, I believe that
was the last occasion on with it was publicly
used. The sword was a broken one when it
was first given to my grandfather, Gen. Lemuel
Grosvenor —about four inches of its blade being
lost, and the scabbard so battered that my
, grandfather got the present one made, and had
the sword ground off again to a point. I have
always heard that the sword was thus broken in
’ the public service, and though my grandfather
’ did not tell me, I devoutly beleive that this was
1 the veritable instrument which dealt so many
thwacks upon the heads and shoulders of the
refractory rebels at the decisive battlefield, and
which, as history informs us, was then and
there broken. I would much rather believe
that it received its damage in giving a mortal
wound to some enemy of liberty, than in giv
-1 ing a broken head to some timid friend of the
country, but the probabilities are adversp to
the supposition. Gen. Putnam gave this sword
to his son-in-law, Gen. Lemuel Grosvenor.—
This I had from the lips of my grandfather
' himself—but whether on his deathbed or pre
viously he gave it, I know not. My grandfa
‘ ther, at the time of his death, gave the sword
‘ to my father, Ix:muel Putnam Grosvenor. My
father made a verbal bequest of it to the Conn.
Historical Society.
News Items.
1 Ock Ministers at Londor and Paris. —
We have reliable information that it was de
termined at a recent Cabinet meeting, not to
call Messrs Dallas and Mason from their res
iiective missions.
Coming South.—The Weldon correspon-
L dent of the Express says—The crowds of ne
groes going South arc undiminished, and on
Saturday, a Mr. Davis of Richmond, disposed
1 of a lot of 17 here, for the round sum of sl3,
750; the purchaser took them on South.
k
1 Ball to Lord Napieh.—A compliinetary
’ ball is to be given in Washington on Thursday
' night, the 17th inst, to Lord and Lady Napier.
r Among the names signed to the correspondence
1 on the subject, are those of Senators Mason, of
’ Virginia, Seward, Crittenden and Toombs.
Waifs.—A hard close-fisted old lady who
had refused to give, after bearing a charity
sermon, had her pocket picked as she was leav
ing the church. On making the discovery,
she said, “It God could not find the way into
1 my pocket, it seems that the Devil could.
f “ Massa said yon must be sartin to pay de
bill to-day,” said a negro to a New Orleans
shopkeeper. “ Why, he isn't afraid I'm going
f to run away, is he?” “Not 'zactly dat, but
look ahea,” said the darkey mysteriously,
I “he’sgwine to runaway heself, and, dafor,
wants to make a big raise.
A servant being sent to match a china plate,
returned with an entirely different pattern.—
After scolding for some time, the mistress
a said, “Stupid! do you see the tiro are entire
t> ly different.” “No mum,” was the reply;
t “ only one of them is different.”
s Minister Lamar.—The Washington States
9 defends the character and •ondiict of Gen.
1 Lamar, Minster of Nicaragua, maintaining
J that lie has given general satisfaction to the
r government to which lie is accredited, as well
‘I as to bis own, notwithstanding the difficult
4 and discouraging positon lie fills. The States
*> is incliued to lielieve that the simple manners
d and primitive habits of tlie old Texan pioneer
d are Ilia chid!failings in the eyes of those who
seem to regard bis rough, bnekwuoda style as
u ' hardly accordant with the dignity of his oltice-
. n. *» * ~' i.
OFFICE IN RALSTON’S BUILDING, THIRD STREET.
FROM OUB DAILY OF FRIDAY, FEB 18.
Brown’s.
There were 50 arrivivals at Brown’s Hotel
yesterday up to 5 o’clock P. M. Among the
number we notice the names of Douglas Jer
rold & Lady, England.
“ Daily State Press.”
What tnu become of our youthful ootapporary. —
Wo received the first number nearly a week ago, and
It has proved the last. Wo hope the enterprise has
not strangled in its infancy.
The above appears in the Savannah Hepub
liean of yesterday. We take pleasure in in
forming ourj rrnerable cotemporary that our
Imiitling, so far from being strangled at the
birth, is quite a thriving infant and bids fair to ■
reach the good, old age of the Republican. If
our coteinporary has failed to get our paper .
regularly we can only ascribe it to our increas- ;
ing circulation, which may have caused us to (
overlook some of our exchanges. Thisj will be
remedied hereafter,and we assure the HejnMicun
that there isuo paper in the State which we val
ue more highly or with {which we will more
cheerfully exchange. We have often crossed
swords with our cotemporary on political ques
tions ; but a reliable ncicu paper, candor com
pels us to admit that the Hepxblican stands
primus inter primes in the Georgia press.
Naval Depots.
A recent number of the New York Journal
of Commerce contains this paragraph :
“ The new steam sloop-of-war Brooklyn •
will leave the Navy Yard this forenoon
at ten o'clock under orders from the Na
vy Department, on a trial trip of one week
to Beaufort, S. C. Ex-Mayor Westervelt, and i
James Murphy, of the Fulton Iron Works,
accompany her.
The above is somewhat suggestive. We in- I
fer from it that the South Carolina delegation !
in Congress has taken care that the claims of
one of'their ports for a Naval Depot shall have )
every advantage. For this we give them “all
praise;” for we hold it to be the duty of onr j
Congressmen—wliilp looking with a vigilant |
eye to the welfare of the whole coantry —to
see that no discrimination be made against
their respective States and demand exact jus
tice for every member of the confederacy.
But why is it that the Georgia delegation |
lias done nothing for the establishment of the j
Naval Depot at Brunswick! An appropria-J
tion inis been made for this purpose and the I
grounds have been purchased, but no further )
steps have been taken. However unwilling
we may be to charge our Representatives with
want of pro[>er zeal for the interests of their i
State, we must say that we are unable to as- I
cribe this delay to anything but negligence on ;
their part. We trust they will give the !
subject their immediate attention, and have j
prompt action taken.
It is true the U. S. Treasury is in a some- !
what depleted condition, but the national im
portance of tjjis work will justify the expense.
Again we venture to express the hope that the
Georgia members will attend to this thing at
once, as the close of the session is near at
hand.
m
More Amalgamation.—The following mar
riage notice appears in a Ripon, (Wis.,) papar:
Married.—ln this city, on the 10th, by the
Rev. B. B. Parsons, Mr. Moses Murray, of
Pittsburg, to Miss L. Story, of Ribon.
And a letter to the Milwaukie (Wis.,) News,
explains: Mr. Moses Murray, of Pittsburg, is
a great six foot negro, black as Othello or the
ace of spades, and Miss L. Story, of Ribon, a
white girl of sixteen ! Iler parents reside here,
and knew nothing of the shameful affair until
too late to save their child from her disgrace
ful connection.
Mint
Exciting Scene in a Vienna Theatre.
The Vienna correspondent of the London
Times says: Yesterday evening Goetz von
Belichiiigeti, by Goethe, was given in the
Burg theatre ; and some words pronounced by
the man with the “iron hand” led to a very
remarkable ebullition of feeling on the part of
the audience. Goetz says , “ Would to God
that there were no turbulent men in Germany.
Iftbere were none we should still have occu
pation enough. We could try to extirpate the
wolves, we could every now and then fetch a
bit of game out of the woods and if we wanted
still more to do, we could unite with our breth
ren to defend the frontiers against those wolves,
the Turks, and those foxes, the French, and
to protect the more exposed provinces of the
empire.” The cheers ot the audience were so
loud and prolonged, that M, Lowe, the actor
who played Giretz, was obliged to remain si
lent for some minutes.
Gov. Brown’s Re-nomination.
We find tlie following paragraph in the Ma
rietta Advocate, commenting upon an article in
the Augusta Constitutionalist, with regard to
Gov. Brown's renomination. The Advocate
says:
“There can l>e no doubt that throughout this
section of the State, ninety-nine men in every
j hundred of the Democratic party are decidedly
for Gov. Brown's re-nomination. We have not
• seen a particle of evidence going to show that
i the same feeling does not exist throughout the
State. The only influence that can by any pos
sibility be brought to bear against him in the
convention is that of the cities controlled by
banks. This may be all powerful to defeat
j him in convention. But it is undeniable that
| the wishes and preferences of the democratic
\ party and of the people of the State are for his
' i re-nomination. And we may ask if Gov. Brown
I is not to lie nominated for re-election, who is
to be the Democratic condidate ? Who will
permit himself to lie used to defeat him.”
i We heartily endorse the above sentiments of
our Marietta cotemporary, and have no hesi-
1 tanev in aligning ourselves with that portion
of tlie Goorgra Itemocracy, who are iu favor of
holding a Convention, in accordance with a
j time-honored custom of the party, ami unaui-
i mously re-nominating Josecii E. Brown, the
undoubted choice of tlie people for the Guber-
: ; notorial Chair.
|J We find the following in an exchange:—
; “ Among the unmarked and unhonored graves
i in the rural cemetery at Camden, Arkansas,
i is that of s brother of the illustrious Henry
r Clay—his only monnment is an oak tree, with
> the initials of his name rudely carved in its
> rough bark. He is said to have been an bum
■ I ble aud devoted minister of Hie Gosjwl.
sg 3 & r iM
■j J IL> ■ L"io
Olf
. Chapter 2d, of Farnsworth
| Under the above caption the Montgomery
1 Mail publishes additional information of a
character who figcred in our city a few weeks
ago. We gave the gentleman (1) gratuitous
notice in a late number of our Daily, and we
copy the following particulars from the Mail
as it may be of interest to some of our citizens.
That paper says:
| Our renders will rctnemlier our notice of a tip-top
•couudrel, who “got into society,** at Columbus and
Peusacota, under the name of Dr. Latkobk, but
whose.* real name was Fawns worth. After his <io-
• faction, be vanished, and has no more, directly, been
heard from: but the following, from the Schenectady
(N. Y.) Democrat, coiium to us us a jH-ndant to our
article beaded “After the Widows:**
From the description of Farnsworth above, we
I have every reason to believe he is known is these
purls, but in order to make thing'Wore certain, kt us
add rd item or two to tue villainy of this prince of
i scoundrels.
He married bis present wife (now living) in the
■ State of Illinois; he removed from that Slate to
Washington county, in the Slate, (N. Y.) where he
resided until the Fall of 1854, when under the pre
tence of removing again to the State of 111., he broke
, up house keeping, and pretended to send his wife a
. broad, promising fa meet her at this city: when she
| arrived here, staying some weeks, she received a I
letter from him requiring her to meet him in Syracuse;
she al once repaired tu thet jdaev, but he did not
keep his engagements. While there she received a
letter from him, saying that she would never see his
, face again, as he intended to leave for Europe the
i next day, (Friday.)
. On the following Monday or Tuesday, his wife’s res
ide nco in Washington county was visited, and instead
of having sailcl fur Europe, he was safely housed
with another woman.
There is now an action pending in the Supreme
Court against bins in behalf of Lis wife for divorce. j
He stands indicted in this county for false pre-
I 1 tences, and we understand the officers of New York
City—where he has lately figured in money and
love matters—are anxious to find him.
Farnsworth may be recognized by n small red spot
• under one of bis eyes. He is a gay deceiver, and of
j ten falls in love. Pass him around.
-
Effects of Negro Emancipation-
The New York Courier and Enquirer says (
i that at the time ot the insurection in Hayti,'
j there was exported annually from the island
93,578,300 pounds oi sugar, ,77,000,000 pounds
of coffee and 7,000,000 of cotton. In 1801
there was exported 18,500,000 pounds of sugar j
i 43,420,270 ol coffee, and 2,480,340 of cotton |
I In 1840 the export of coffee wa530,608, 343, |
and cotton 545,126.
Sugar it will thus be seen, has disappeared j
from the articles of export, the fact being, ,
that what sugar is used on the island is im
ported from Jamaica and the United plates.—
1 The total value of the exports in 1750 was
! 205,000,000 francs, and forty years later it j
■ was but 3,500,000.
Similar results have attended British West j
| India emancipation. It is in accordance with
I ail past experience, that it slavery should be
abolished iu Cuba ami the United States, the
world would Imre to do without sugar and
! cotton.—.!/«. Adr.
—
[From Porter's Spirit of the Times.]
Convention of Animals-An Ex-
citing DEBATE-
BY THE OWL.
Near Elizabethtown. N. C., I
January 10. f
| Dear Spirit: As the Secretary of a Conven
! tion of birds and other animals, whieh recent
ly convened near Elizabethtown, in North Car- j
olina, for purposes set forth below. I have been
instructed, by resolution, to furnish you with
the subjoined report, und to nsk you to make
publication thereof.
Yours, Ac., The Owl.
The convention, in accordance with previous '
notice, having assembled, was organized by .
calling the Coon to the Chair, and appointing |
the Owl to net as Secretary.
The Chairman having explained the object
of the meeting, proceeded to appoint the Fox,
the Crane, and the Habit as a committee to draft
resolutions, &c., for the action of the body.
After a short time, the committee returned,
ami, through its chairman, the Fox, offered the
following preamble and resolution :
Preamble—" Whereas, we have been inform
ed that sundry individuals of the human race,
living in and near Elizabethtown, have banded i
themselves together, under the name and stylo
of a “Scalping Party,” for the purpose of de
stroying us on Thursday, the 30th December;
in view thereof, be it resolved :
(Resolution.) “That we take steps necessa
ry to prevent the purpose of such meeting.”
The Cow desired to say something before the
adoption of this resolution. For his part, he
thought that the Fox, who introduced it. had an
eye single to his own interest, only, in offering
it; he was famous for taking steps
The Fox desired that the gentleman should
be called to order. He would not suffer him
self to be crowed over by such a garrulous old
corn-stealer, who was ever on the wing for mis
chief.
The Crow replied by observing that the Fox
was ever ready to avail himself of an opportu
nity to abuse him. He had not forgotten how,
once on a time, this same fellow cheated him
I out of a nice morsel of cheese, and denounced
the Fox, as a foul-mouthed, chicken-hearted
scoundrel.
The Mocking-bird desired to say some
thing—
The Jay hoped that the gentleman would use
his own language. His notes were generally
borrowed.
Mocking-bird : “My notes, sir, occasion less
mischief than your bill.”
The Owl hooted at discord in a meeting like '
litis, and suggested that instead of disagreeing
about "notes,” and "bills,” the gentlemen had
better strive to strengthen thclsmds of common
safety.
The Raven endeavored to obtain the floor;
I but, being thwarted of his purpose, he raved
and swore like a sailor, and tiew into a dread
■ ■ ful passion, to the manifest annoyance and dis
■ may of all the little birds present.
Quite a melee ensued. The Chairman, in
his anxiety to maintain order, brought down
, his gavel accidentally upm the head of the ■
Cock, and received a considerable >lig in th<* i
side in return by the latter, who bad negieetud
to take off his spurs at the d.sir.
■ i The C<s>u said, be desired to apologise, but
knew not whether to address the t '.sik in the
' masculine or feminine gender. Judging from
TERMS—TWO DOLLARS IN ADVANCE.
N I’M ber m.
the comb which he wore on his head, she was
feminine; but he had never seen a lady in all
his life before with spurs on. Perhaps, howev
er, the Cock had looked upon it as a sort offan
ey dress meeting, and had come there in the
drew, of a Dominican Friar.
The Cock thought it a matter of very little
moment, whether ho was masculine or femin
ine. lie hoped, however, that hereafter the
Coon would observe the “neutrality laws” to
wards him. The Coon was as effeminiuc in
his dress as he was; he wore rings around his
tail, and dressed himself in a considerable sup
ply «f fur.
Order having at length lieen restored, the
(loose, being a bird of passage, moved the pas
sage of the resolution.
The Dive objected. She desired further dis
cussion. She had once before, with other birds
and animals, assembled in a meeting for like
purpose as this, and had been driven out by a
knowing old biped, who, judging from his anx
iety to find land, must have been either a filli
buster, a surveyor, or the brother of Christo
pher Columbus. If she was to be called upon
to leave this meeting, ujsin a like purpose as
I she had left that one, she requested time to
make a few observations.
The Hawk remaked, that he had a fondness
for the Dove. She occupied the “cot in the val
ley he loved” ami he hoped that instead of the
dove, the carrier-pigeon might be appointed to
go on such missions as were thought proper to
lie instituted. He would intnsluce a bill with
a clause to that effect.
The Dove objected to the friendly advances
of the Hawk in her behalf. She begged that
she would introduce no clause whatever. She
| thanked him for bis pains-taking; but his eoo
i ing and wooing were her undoing.
, The Snipe thought the Hawk quite a talent
ed speaker, and hoped that at some future day
he would interest the world by a treatise on the
art of raising chickens. He had been once com
pletely carried aw ay by a flight of the Hawk !
' The Duck was glad to see the convalescent
■ condition of his friend, the Sni|>e ; when last
he saw him. his condition was decidedly billi
ons. For divers reasons he rejoiced that he
was so much better now. It satisfied others
that he was no quack. lie had been consulted
as physician by him. and gave it as his opinion
that McLain's Vermifuge would effect a cure
| upon him.
The question having again came upon the
passage of the resolution, the Hare inquired of
I Dr. Duck if he could not, by pill or otherwise,
secure it a passage ?
The Quail thought the latter gentleman a
rare bit of a wag ; he would like to become bet
, ter acquainted him. He had a sort of formal
j introduction to him once, but it was only en
j passant.
The Partridge thought that the resolution
deserved serious consideration, and ho moved
that, for further deliberation thereon, the Con
vention adjourn until next Friday.
Snipe thought Friday an unlucky day, par
ticularly for us ; it had sent more bids to PAX
demonium than all other days of the week.—
. He favored the resolution, and begged that
gentlemen would sit patiently in judgement up
on it, while he should endeavor to point out to
them the excellence of its object.
Partridge objected to the “sitting” and
“ pointing” parts of Snipe's remarks, and ob
served that Setters and Pointers met his most
dogmatical disapprobation.
The Bull-frog, who came into the meeting as
a delegate from Louisiana, said that he desired
to take |«rt in the discussion. Whereupon it
was agreed that be should do so, provided he
would deliver an oration in French.
Frog jumped at the chance of being heard,
and proceeded to address the com|>any in a
very pomp ms and courtly style—Mankind, he
j said, were ever invading his quarters, particu
larly Frenchmen. He abhored the French:—
his name. Bull-frog, was given to him to signi
fy the dislike whieh his trilie had to French.—
He was English all over—a regular Johnny
Bull-frog. He thought the French a curious
people, any-how. They were great worship
p’rs of the Napoleon family, but the Bonyparts
of the Frog family they did not relish, Ac.
The Wild-cat having the floor, with a very
musical voice proceeded to speak. He was for
war. lie had a tale of suffering to unfold, such
; a few could equal. He could, if he would,
1 epeat a catalogue of catastrophies, the men*
recital of which would call forth a cataclysm
of tears from the eyes of the catfish. L«ik, fel
low citizens, said he, upon a slight catagraph
of our suffering. Catacombs of our dead lie
scattered everywhere. Arise I Arm your
selves with catapults and cataplasms and cat
o’-nine-tails. and catechise these catholic cattle
as Cataline did the Romans, —by a conspiracy. j
The Horse was so much excited by the Cat's |
remarks, that he began a furious pawing und :
kicking, and, when asked by the Chairman \
why he behaved himself so much out of order, |
he remarked, "I always pause at the sound of i
woe.” Horse went on further to say that he
had served a master so long that he was al
most out of spirits, although he had taken sev
eral heavy draughts lately. Nevertheless he
would endeavor to do his part in whatever steps I
might be taken. If the voice of the Conven- '
tion was for war, he should not say neigh. He
had recently been highly insulted by a fellow
who collared him in public, ami threatened to
whip him. He resented it then in a sulky way,
hereafter he would unbridle his (lassiona to
wards him.
The Cow said, that she had also been insult
ed by a chap, who penned her up in a comer,
and tried his best to put his hands upon her in
away by no means proper. Not liking the im
pudent advances of her biped lover, she kicked
him over. If her friend, the horse, felt at all
drv, she had a couple of horns which would stir
up his “in'anls.” With them, little milk
which she could give him, he might have a nice
milk-punch.
Turkey said, the “ milk-punch” part of the
Cow's yea de utois was the cream of the joke. I
and he asked the Cow if he was any relation to
the bull that gored the farmer's Ox. ami whetli
■ er that punch question had ever been settled
I *
The Dig felt the extreme unpleasantness of
has situation. He knew that lie was looked up
| on as a suspicious’ ciiuraeter. inasmuch as he '
was frequently seen hl company with uiau. but
' he was friendly in his purpose in visiting this j
‘“teting. He had formerly asa-xiated with
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mankind, but they had turned against him in
consequence of a dental operation which he
hail jicrfortued recently, and he intended, for
the future, to net up on his own book.
The aheep wanted to know if the gentleman
was going to set up in the wool busine“> ?—he
had manifested, lately a very teo/f-ish disposi
tion toward* him.
Dog replied that, that was one of the Sheep s
yams—he nover wished to hurt a hair on his
head.
The Buck observed, that the Dig was a dear
fellow, whose lively voice was calculated to
chase away all anim(als)-oeity; and he hoped
to scrape acquaintance with him: heretofore
his ai-quaintance with the gentleman, to use a
law term, was simply in eortice; hereafter he
hoped to make it in lignum.
The Hog had been considerably disgruntled
by Man ; of all the different tribes of whom, he
thought the Jews the best. They did not use
him, and he should notabuse them, but others
were incessantly poking alsiut to get him into
a pickle, so that, upon the whole, he fared but
middling.
The Squirrel thought the Hog a decided old
Boar, and for his part, he did not care what be
came of him. He was always in some stew or
broil, constantly corned, and ever to be found
about whiskey distilleries. His family were
noted for their intemperate hnbits; even the
little ones of them were confirmed suckers.
The question upon the resolution having been
moved by the Swan, who showed very little
resolution ujion the question, it was put to vote
and unanimously adopted ; whereupon steps
were accordingly taken, at the sudden appear
ance of a hunting party, by all the quadrupeds
and lords, the Otter barely having time to se
cure the passage of the resolution to publish.
R. A. C. Coon, Pres.
0. W. L. Secretary.
P. g.—l am sorry to add that every little good, af
ter all, was accomplished by our eonieutiou. The
•calpiux parly, a day's hunt, iu which they secured a
great many scalps of different sorts, convened on Fri
day night, at the residence of one of their number,
and had a ni”»t uproarrious good time iu eating and
in-door (porta with the girls, while I sat cosily per
ched beside oue of Squire MeD.’s pullets in an adja
eent tree deeply meditating up all I saw.
Yours, Ac., 0. W. L.
N. B.—l pulled that pullet.
Latest From Europe.
GENERAL NEWS.
War rumors continue to circulate.
Paris letters speak of great activity in war
like preparations, and there was a very gen
eral irtfpression that a inomentons crisis bad
approached. The stocks and public secu
rities on the Bourse were still very sensative
and fluctuating.
England was exerting herself to secure peace,
and it is believed that her attitude will deter
mine the question of peace or war.
France had forbidden immigrant recruiting
on the Eastern coast of Africa and Madagas
car.
The princess Frederick William had given
birth to a son. 0
The British government had given out large
contracts for cannon and gunpowder.
The China mail confirms the short supplies
of Tea.
Mr. Commissioner Reed had sailed on the
Minnesota via India.
Additional by the America.
New Y'ork, Feb. 15.—The annexed are ad
tional points of foreign news received from
Halifax.
At Liverpool Flour was dull hut prices were
steady, although regarded nominal. Wheat
and Corn were dull and quotations barely
maintained. Sugar was quite in demand but
steady in price. Coffee and Rice were repor
ted dull. Teas bod advanced in consequence
of the unfavorable crop news from China. —
Rosin was steady at ss. 3d. ass. 4d. Spirits
ot Turpentine at 395. Gd. a 40s.
Three French ships of the line have been
ordered to proceed immediately to the Medi
teranean.
A Congress of Foreign powers aye to assem
ble in Ixmdon to deliberate on the Italian
q lestion.
The London Times says that Austra will
never consent to a settlement of the Italian
question by an European Congress'
Sixty war transports have been ordered to
be in readiness nt London on the Ist March-
Tlie French demand foreavalty is very ur
gent
Congressional.
Washington, Feb. 15.—1 n the Senate to day
the purchase of Cuba was debated. Mr. Crit
tenden favored its acquisition; but thought
ths present time unpropitions.
In the House, the Indian approprition bill
was under consideration. The President, in a
communication to the House, says that the
government officials nt Savannah have been
i strictly enjoined to prosecute the Slaver trials
going on nt that port.
Special counsel has been employed ; and the
1 officers arc instructed to find the Wanderer's
negroes; identify the parties collected with her
and ascertain any other lacts connected with
the affair; and to assist In executing justice up
on the offenders.
The Sloop of War Brooklyn.
I Charleston, Feb. 15.—The bloop of war
Brooklyn arrived at Port Royal bar on the
| 11th iust.
Steamship Arrivals.
Savannah, Feb. 15.—The steainsliips Flori
da and Montgomery urriied here to day, from
New Y'ork.
l-0~ We learn from tlie Tuscaloosa Moni
tor tliat Dr. James W. Collier, only son of the
late Gov. Collier of Alabama, died at that
place on the 26th ult. of Typhoid Fever.
The Slave Tkaue.—The Legislators of
Itouisiana seem anxious for the people of that
State to engage in the slave Trade. They
have a bill pending before them to this es- *;
feet:
“ That any citizen, or association of citizens, j
of this State, be and they are hereby author
ize-l to purchase negro slave*from Cuba, Brazilfl
andAfricaand to bringtlivaaid slav ehiopurclia'MK
ed into this State, and to bold the same iu full*
right and till*, for their proper use, benefit
, and behoof, provided said slave*, »o pur< sed)
and iinfwrted into thle State, shall be e ' jet*
to the regular custom.
■' 11 1 " »
Is’" Dree the razor take bold Well f fe-
. quirud a darky, who was (having a gent
' from the couuUy. replied the < 1.
‘ witii tear* in hie eye*, ‘it take, bold fir*’, rate.
