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About State press. (Macon, Ga.) 1857-18?? | View Entire Issue (Feb. 24, 1859)
SUBSCRIPTION: , kly pa|»er, Two Dollars per auuuni in a<l r Three D”H“rB at the rad of the year. ADVERTISING : o ne Dollar per squire for the first insertion, and <- ♦. . r each insertion. WEEKLY RATES. _ S B ■aw! I! ! S ! I ?■f I ; f .S' I 2 50 4 50 8 00 10 001* 001 SO 00 5 00l 8 00)11 00|20 00 ( 25 00| 30 00 ; 7 50 11 ffl> 14 50 25 00135 0", 4o 00 , "10 00,15 00 19 00 30 00 40 00 ) 50 00 ’ 12 On 17 00 20 00 40 00*50 Oo 00 00 "" 15 (Hl 20 00 25 00'50 00|60 00l 70 00 - 17 00 25 00 30 00,00 00 70 001 80 00 ‘ ' 20 OO 30 00140 00.70 00.80 OO 00 00 25 (io 40 00|50 00|80 00,90 OOjIOO 00 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 For Dsfly paper, “ ulvsnre. », ■ - . ADVERTISING: Ono Dollar per square for the krst iassrtion, nud Fifty Cents for each subsequent insertion ■ paha iurw. — ~ ' .j-— ” r s No. of B g 6I ! I g e. I I 111 t | | -J— —roo 7 oJ » 0018 oo ifThi 20 00 30 00 12 00 15 OOH? 00,25 00 35 00 40 00 LJl’oo 19 wit oo'»o 00 40 08 50 00 5.... 18 00125 00130 00(40 od|6o 00 00 Oh 0.... 20 00 28 00,35 00810 OOjtiO 00; 70 00 7 .2500830041 00 60 00:70 00 80 00 «. ..: 30 00 38 ffiOQ7OOO flo oo| 90 00 10 ?40 00 HO 00*110 00 80 00 Won 10 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.
