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fZE SBTEB’S LOVE.
. „«jel fr»:a E«t India’s shores,
:'aS : rTjik and chests of precious ores,
^PtoSe: o“ through storm she brre
j-ew toward their homos once more,
1 * s«l it nob Alas, that fate keeps not
fj^hnnents from the •allor’a lot,
r‘“' iv .trikes hi* gallant aoul,
^ itl ' destiny has no control.
•Ai-aitorm neared «nd the watchful eyo
wTlWrtraad. glancing o’or tho sky,
l^*"" daa|«r, caused the sails reefed
s'itf aulot* danger near believed,
it waa, f>r scarce the work was done
. * a d water, fury-like, begun
k «rh other, while tho seas rose high,
»** ib , ,(, e dark and threatening sky.
.,,. .i, the storm of warring elements
^ iftjoaa souls a prayer now aacends
0 dd. that he their fato may guide,
ppta <ic * tl1 **"* Jwger from their aiie -
0 ftdtn old Ocean’s monster might!
, A, firts an interesting sight;
^"rtadw. a lady oo a couch reclined,
ilhiesa within doors confined.
- 1 like, curled, and raven-colored hair
' writesJ. and iu her face so fait
. Zii a sou! that aeoms scut from abovo
I * a „ rtgtl s mission of pure love.
.s«m her slender, youthful form we glean
, ww t »rcr sixteen summer’s seen.
Crx aroused her—now she prays and smiles,
w»s»t there may, in God sho still relies.
■ ,, t irr Itsads a tall and manly form,
*]r taring on the dreadful storm
■ without, "hero waves of giant height
Jtbtir rower through the cabin light.
Iy.hr, »f brother,’’add the lovely m:.id,
Ij", aeitu so sad, so still and staid f
LfaLifct dingers of this storm portend
ETthaiKon well meet one common end.
i, rM think that ills gnaw at my health,
jPtfta approaches with his wanton stealth,
ii egbis scythe and bid me follow him?—
i ,t«rawc why yon so troubled seem ?
3411, blether, st t thy mind at rest—
ill improves, and in this stoim the best,
‘u God—lie, in His wisdom, knows
. abot ir ns our stormy lives todose!”
Iw. tif," ho replied; “ Madeline, thou art
iia, and speakest to the heart.
Lgofcgke balsam to a wound, allay
r as I »o suffered in my heart to-day.
L|k it me, sister, for it is a dream
Uiwhles me, yet 1 can scarce redeem
, ;; r J peace, to tell the tragedy
Lila ay dream, seemed stem reality.
I. - -i. i ve seen how this old ship did strand,
|b.- wr, in sight of our dear fatherland,
i- could help, while sens would wash away
ilia, lor whom fierce sharks in waiting lay.
[sans dreaming, in my arms 1 held
jay suer. O, the pangs I felt!
patterned as if for help you cried,
inio would wash thee from thy brother’s side.
pkiliwoke—my heartfelt truly glad
drifted only, yet it made me sad
i about it, for we are not past
while storm hke tills will last.
iBt lotnaoh the coward fear of death
uiutrs me sad—I've met his angry threat
|: ..dr-1 times—but more than lying dead;
iTttkee alone and mourning, do I dread.”
LfW'i&rats, with slater’s love, embraced
jivodtr brother. " Be my love miaplaced,
k tnc her aoal, «if aught this life oould save
j.:., whilst thou ikould'st bave an ocean’s grave,
lake this pledge, that whilst no loving wife
pay place near you, I'll livo and strive,
curd by the ties of any man,
| siia thy life as happy as I c:iu.”
more their lips meet, when a fearful crash
• their joy, anil sheets of water dash
!«i!o the cabin, heralds of their fate,
a cisscnger—Death’s straggles to relate.
I knit on deck,” the Captain’s trumpet rung,
ilrtiihoy.” the sailor voices song;
p overboard that broken misaen mast,
of her rigging quick us thought to cast.
» dip leans heavily to the starboard side,
pseos rau rake us with all strength and might;
u let those yard-sunn o'er the gunwale fall,
1 drift them, rigging, tuizsen-maat and all.
|C<as, Ulster Maurice, come and help us here
nlhe these each one a hand must bear.
! Dir the dirk—this trifling danger o'er
fist ride safely, as we've done before.”
^Hourice with the Csptain's wish complied
!tl hi* aid, and he and all relied
deir Commander’s tested seaman’s skill;
&;h;irduty with a cheerful will.
'dMfhtho darkness unpereelved appeared
-*rring sea, and near the vessel reared,
'• Phased on board, and when its waters left
F"*«wdsoul the ship crew was bereft.
P* overboard," rung through the dnilhnlin
1 *STS;
j h t Vlnifr Maurice,' cried the Captain's voice i
-ut!r reach bs is of mortal man,
P««aot help hiia-no, God only can.”
to loam what happened ought,
■ - • t 1 the deck and in the darkness sought
* . j her brother—“ Maurice, come to me."
- »i.a,v begged, "Como,lot me he with thee.”
- •> is my brother, Captain Bertrand, speak T
l.** wl *erc, for vainly do I seek
a* form i> 0 deck."
l ~ . siilllL-rtraad, “it is sad! never you'll hear,
r *vn w unstrung, I fear can hardly bear
r - ows u . ti le g6# tk»t raked us boro
•an off poor soul, he is no more.”
“urd this
“ego, I shall not live alone
vessel, while from it is gone
aja, tttT f* lurice ' Cln * brook the woo
®"»hi» absencef No, to him I'll go.
it grieves no fat!,, r s heart
[ ■- : iii,-; no sorrow'! w. unds do smart
l 7* • *oul—I’ll, brother, come to thee,
~ j a art, there thy sister too shall he."
V T **** ff Bnn ’»lo into dark and deep
-►On ,ht!mort *h dreadful leap.
a ffsU , , ,' Ul “’, w ‘ l h “U on board but two
^I'lain Bertrand s gallant crow.
i Is nd ThC “ P,Utf Uglitts.”
L 1 t8ce °f the degree of buninnity and
IkjJ' po ?*f 8£ct l by the thirty “piup ttglies”
fcl« p, , talcl -v decamped by tbe3o’diode
tj-j; 0ll<J *y afternoon, it may be stated
'c passage in the cars to Baltimore
ka * | ‘he contents of revolvers, orig-
r Wa«].; WI “ e ^ ^ or ‘ho persons of the citizens
n tor J"'’l° a ’ Q P on ‘he bodies of the coivs
f f Mail Tk* " cre grazing in the fields along
nlthoi. g ,nu *t have been several lntn-
? fork nf n**' ^'hen the train arrived at
Mh* ,t • road °" * he suburbs of iialii-
*'P ,U » uglies” got out, un-
h d 9Jt. Ti pur P° ,e of avoiding arrest at
htU^'. other passengers must bave
fo specially fortunate and ngrec-
L^wyuy. The testimony on
" b uot it,* la '* * tulement ‘ 3 nnitnpeacha-
^Jiniur ‘ e . ra ‘l r °kd company responsible
•Vi;" Jntt/iY,, 10 property m tins way !
VOL. XXXI.
MACON, TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 16, 1857.
NO. 47.
lion. E. A. Ncsbit’s Address.
The Address of the Hon. E. A. Xcsbit, on
bi.nday evening the 7th inst., before the Young
.t.eit s Christian Association of tins city, was
a perfect literary and* intellectual banquet.
\\ c lui\ e never witnessed a more attentive
audience, out it could not be otherwise, when
the largest portion of our beauty and intellect
graced the occasion.
The leading idea in Mr. Nesbit's Address
was the importance and responsibility of imii-
% t duality. \\ e have believed for years, tliat the
omission to recognise and impress this truth,
has been the main cause of the partial or total
failures which ltavo attended all mere human
organizations for the inoral improvement and
mental elevation of our race.-—The benefit of
organization is every where visible. It is ex
hibited in all the varied institutions which in
crease the necessities, the comforts and luxu
ries of an advancing civilization, but at the
same time, it is attended with much evil when
not tightjy bitted and reined by individual re
sponsibility. The natural selfishness of human
nature prompts us to shullle off our duties upon
others, and these others by iticrcasoof power,
become too often, from a divided responsibility,
at first careless, and at last iusoient, criminal
and tyrnnical. The father and mother commit
their offspring to tho nurse, then to the school
master and at last to an organization, to learn
and be perfected in that wisdom and virtue
which can alone be acquired by constant care
and attention around the hearthstone and with
in the charmed circle at home. Like the iron
bed of tho Sicilian Procrustes, organization lops
the tall and stretches the low, so as to produce
one uniform standard. The excrcsceneies of
virtue or vice in the individual, are too often
smoothed by the shears of the society, and men
and women instead of assuming a natural,
healthy growth, with here, a sturdy oak defy
ing time and tempest, and there, a beautiful
flower—look like a forest of young pines, with
out much root and a great deal of greenness.
Mr. Xesbit illustrated these principles very
happily in chaste, classical language. The
clear cut of his ideas, would at once have re
vealed to even a stranger to his legal reputa
tion, that he had been no indolent worshipper
of that science “whose scat is the bosom of
God, whoso voice is the harmony of the world.”
The Baptist and Methodist choirs, produced a
"concord of stcccl founds," in harmony with the
place, the eloquence and the theme of the dis
tinguished jurist and gifted orator Enquirer.
To Young Men in Business.
In no way, perhaps, can a young man des
troy his business character more effectually
tban by obtaining the reputation of one who
breaks his promises. The mercantile world,
in placing under its ban the individual who al
lows his note to be protested, is less unjusttban
is popularly supposed. Instances of hardships,
we are willing to concede, do occasionally arise
under the operation of this rule; but they arc
less frequent thnn is generally believed, and
not more cruel than in similar exceptional
cases. Nine men out of ten who fail, owe their
insolvency either to having traveled beyoud
their means, to a careless management of their
means, or to criminal speculations. That is.
they undertook more than tfccv could perform,
and this, while knowing at the time of the
tromise that there were great doubts whether
ticy couta perrorm tnetr engagement. Uer-
hnps, indeed, they bad no deliberate intention
of violating their promise. But they were
either more ignorant thnn they should have
been of their ability to perform, or they trust
ed too confidently tq,thc chances of the future,
or they took heavier risks subsequently than
was consistent with their liabilities. The ino-
cent thereof suffer, but rarely by this species
of prospectiou. On the other hand, the rule
is absolutely necessary to the commercial
world, for without it, payments would scarce
ly ever be dependent upon, and financial dis
tress would frequently be alarmingly increas
ed.—N. l r . Citizen.
Correspondence of the Journal of Commerce.
Old School General Assembly.
Lkxinoto.v, June 2,—The General Assem-»
bly of the Presbyterian Church closed its an
nual sessions last evening, at 10 o’clock. They
were throughout conducted with the most dc-
ligtful harmony, and in the midst of deep re
ligious interest. The missionary clement was
It.
-m,..^ a ‘Scuppernong river, North
** # *1 le 1 1- N fcWar <ni«g with herrings.
'--‘tlthf 1 "" ' ‘‘“G * stream, they are so
dip them up by baskets
ih story, rather,
enlargement of the church by i
of the world.
Tho Seminaries of learning and the Boards
of the Church are all prospering.and moving
forwards in the accomplishment of this great
work. It now has a Presbytery or two in In
dia, one or two in Chinn, one in Western Af
rica, one in California, and one among the
Choctaw Indians.
One of the most interesting men in the As
sembly was the Rev. Cyrus Kingsbury, I>. D.,
who for forty years has been a missionary of
the American Board to the Choctaws. lie
rode three hundred miles on horseback, before
reaching a point from which any public con
veyance could be taken to travel Eastward.
He is a member of a Presbytery belonging
to this Assembly, though the mission is uuder
the care of the Ant. Board. When that Board
undertook to regulate the relations of the mis
sion Churches to slavery, the missionaries ten
dered their resignations to the Prudential Com
mittee, but it is understood that having receiv
ed satisfactory assurances that they would not
be disturbed, the mi-sionaries haveresolved to
continue ou with their work. They arc a no
ble set of men mid deserve well of their coun
try, ns well as of the Church.
The Xcw England Associations, who are
considering whether it is best to continue an
interchange of delegates .with this Assembly
that lias so many slavcholding Churches in its
conncition, will be spared any further agita
tion on that subject, as the Assembly very
quietly, without a word of debate, and with
out a dissenting voice, declined sending dele
gates to any of them. The course pursued
foist year in those Congregational bodies to
ward the Presbyterian Church had excited such
general disgust that tho corro.-pondence was
suffered to fall to the ground by common con
sent,and it will be many long years before it
is revived again. *
Among the persons in almost daily attcnu-
aucc upon the proceedings of Assembly is the
Hon. John C. Breckinridge, Vice President
of the United States. He is connected wide
ly with the Presbyterian ministers of this re
gion, his uncles. Robt. J. and \\ m L.« Breckin
ridge, being among the most distinguished.
He has entertained the members with great
hospitality at his house, and is highly esteem
ed tor his private anti social virtues, llis t\ife
is an accomplished and lovely woman.
Tho adjournment took place on Monday
evening, and many members have remained
over to-day to attend a great scale of stock on
Major Alexander’s place, about twenty miles
from Lexington, of which I shall probably .-end
you some account. It promi-es to be one of
the greatest exhibitions of blooded stock ever
made in this country. G. W. P.
Tin: Brr.nKLL Murseb.—The X. Y. Mer
cury of Sunday last, reiterates the statement
of last week that the Btirdell murder was per
petrated bv assassins, who entered the house
by a back window, and asserts that the evi
dence thereof will be forthcoming. I lie mo
tive was revenge on the part of one of the pai -
ties—aud an “houorable one. ’
From the Union.
Abolition ISiisiuvcs White JHexx.
We use the term “enslave” for want of a
better. It is not half strong enough for our
purpose; not half strong enough to give a just
idea, of the miseries inflicted on the white race
by liberating the black race. A half century
ago Ka]>oleon saw, and said, that liberating
negroes was equivalent to enslaving white meu,
and congratulated some of the French island
ers that they had not liberated theirs. The au
thor. Jobn Davy, from whom we shall quote, is
an enthusiastic abolitionist, who spent three
yearsin the West Indies, and wrote a work
entitlcd“The West Indies Before and Since
Emancipation.”
He thinks the emancipation project success
ful ; and one of his arguments in its' favor is,
that it keeps up the price of sugar, which oth
erwise would have declined. Now, this is but
too true. Sugar sells for four times as much
as it would have sold for but for West India
and South American emancipation; and cotton
and rice, and coffee, and all other slave pro
ducts, the necessaries of life to poor, arc at
{silling prices.
The freed negroes have become idle savages,
and the laboring whites of Europe and Ameri
ca have to double work for half pay to obtain
tho necessaries of life. Worse than this; cut
off from the once great markets of the West
Indies, Mexico, and South America for the
sale of tho products of their skilful industry,
they lack employment and starve by the mil
lion. The reviews and newspapers—indeed,
almost tho whole modern literature of Eng
land, France, and Germany—justify our as
sertion. The reader will see that the word
•‘enslave" is far too weak to express the wrong
which negro abolition has inflicted on the
whites.
In reading tlie extracts which we shall an
nex from Mr. Davy, one is surprised to sec how
unmiudful aud regardless he is of tho evils
which abolition has inflicted on the poor whites
in Barbadocs. He describes them a3 a privi
leged class before emancipation, acting as a
useful and necessary police; now as tho most
miserable, soon to become the most degraded,
of the human race; for they are driven to fie'd
labor, which he says is fatal to the white man
in the West Indies, llis revolting picture of
tho morals of the negroes shows that they, too,
bare lost much in losing masters to enforce
deocncy, morality, and industry among them.
Wo are prepared with abnudant evidence to
prove that the high prices of most of the ne
cessaries of life, aud the want of employment
with white laborers iu Europe and America,
are chiefliy owing to negro emancipation ; and
that the abolitionists arc starving thc whites
and making savages of the liberated slaves.
The facts on we rely are, however, so general
ly known, that wc think no black-republican
will dispute our assertions.
Our quotations are from Mr. Davy’s account
of the Island of Barbadoes:
“Xow, had the slave trade and slavery not
been abolished in our colonics, who can say,
reflecting on these fluctations, that the condi
tion of the planters generally would have been
less disastrous than at present ? This we are
sure of, that the cultivation of tho cano would
have been vastly augmented iu the virgin soils
of British Guiana aud Triuidad, and the slave
M , e a <5: o ^. 0 ^ , ^apofa!JBk r ti^iSM8 ,, <a !v diB:
gcr of outbreak, insurrection, and ruiu. Fur
ther overproduction—a supply exceeding the
demand—would probably have resulted, with
its constaut attendant—distressto the produc
ers.”
Spcakingof the poor laboring whites he says:
“Previous to emancipation they were of more
importance than subsequently; then the mil
itia, which for a long period was tho 6olc de
fence of Barbadoes, was principally composed
of them; then ttiose who were uot small pro
prietors had a certain allowance of land grant
ed to them by the larger proprietors on the
condition of performing military service ac
cording to a law to that effect. So situated,
easily supporting themselves and families with
little exertion, it is not surprising that they
acquired the habits which now unfortunately
distinguish them. After emancipation, the law
alluded to ceased to be iu force; and the mili
tiamen ceasing to serve, they were permitted
no longer to retain rent free the land before
allowed them; and hence, with their acquired
habits, in a great measure their present mis
erable conditiou.” .
“The poor whites, or ‘red legs.’ as they are
contemptuously called, from the red hue of
their naked legs, arc located most in the more*
distant parts of the island—distant in relation
to Bridgetown, its capital and chief seaport—
viz: in the Scotland district, and in the poor
er portion of St. Philip’s and St. Lucy’s. Xow
that they arc obliged to support themselves
as they can, they arc variously employed.—
Those who possess a little land, or who rent a
few acres, cultivate chiefly those crops which
require least labor and the smallest means',
such as ground provisions, arrowroot, aloes,
aud perhaps a little cottou. I bave seen one
of them at work on his ground in a manner
not a little characteristic ; a hoc in one hand,
an umbrella in the other, which he held over his
head, and a face-cloth over his face. Some
who have been taught to read aud write arc en
gaged as book keepers by tho proprietors of the
larger estates, with a pay of about six dollars a
mouth, and board and lodging. Some ore cbief-
a hundred yards; and in these outbreaks it is
useless to attempt to check them; they defy
even the police, taking the precaution, when
vociferating their abuse, to stand at their own
doors aud uot in the highway.”
From the New York Day Book.
Worthlessness of English Iron.
Judge King, President of the Georgia roil
road, in his late report, states that the quali
ties of railroad iron has becu deteriorating
since the first few years of its manufacture
and as a striking proof of it, the last iron
bought for the Georgia railroad is most in
ferior. The first twenty-five miles of the road
pnt down about sixteen years ago, is perluips
the best iron on the rdad. It is probable that
fifty thousand dollars per year is not an ex
travagant estimate of the loss from wear of rail
road irou alone, whilo that ou machinery is at
least twenty-fire thousand dollars. Judge
King’s opinion, is that of almost every one to
day who has had occasion to use any amount
of English iron in machinery throughout this
country, or in our ships and steamers.
The very great deterioration of the once
higli character of railroad importation in this
country, is well known to-day all over the
United States, and the accidents which are
yearly happening to engines, axles, wheels,
bolts, braces, and other iron manufacture con
nected with railroads, and also the fearful de
struction of life which has in several instmees
occurred by the giving way of bridges; has
without the slightest doubt, originated from
the miserable character of the English iron
which is in general use for such purpose.
The United States frigate Niagara, jutt ar
rived in Liverpool, after a protracted patsage
across the ocean, and one that has greatly dis
appointed the expectations of all interested iu
the trip, has been made to suffer from the con-
sequcuco of the bad iron in the braces and con
nections of her masts aud spars, the mettl giv
ing away as easily as so much rotteu hemp.
Whether iron in this case is American or Eng
lish we do not know, but we do know that the
government of the United States, with an over
flowing treasury, and well able to purchase
the best of material, must have been most
egregiously imposed upon, and most easily
duped, if it was made to believe good metal of
that character could be bought for sixty-five dol
lars per ton, the contract price for a portion of
the Niagara’s iron.
It has been known for years that the Swe
des iron is the best in the world; it has also
been discovered, and the discovery has been
taken advantage of by Mr. E. K. Collins and
other sagacious men who build steamers, that
tho Marquette iron of Lake Superior is equal
in every respect to the best of Swedes, aud, in
fact, has been tested iu the city of Washing
ton, aud well known to the heads of depart
ments there, to bo equal to the Swedes iron
for all purposes, and is selling at the average
of one hundred dollars per ton.
In the face of such evidence of the superior
ity of our own metal, it is folly to submit to
the imposition of poor foreign iron, at the risk
of life and the loss of money, and it is pnrtic-
larly mortifying to sec a rich Government hum
bugged by speculating rascals with the pur
chase of bad stock for its owii ships, when our
mines will furnish the very article we need, and
iu thus furnishing, develope the mineral wealth
raph.
For the Georgia Tel
The ITIarriage Fete.
A wavelet ’neath a sunbeam,
Was glancing softly bright,
And spray from offits summit
Was sparkling, blue, and white;
And bubble follow’d bubble
Floating here and thero;
And onward sail'd the sea-gulls,
As tho’ devoid of care.
A wavelet thero was dancing
With bubble hand in hand.
Now nearing, ffow retreating,
As if they fear’d the land.
The birds upon tho sea shore
Wero singing for the dance,
And Sol his lamp was buruing
Iu loving complaisance.
An eagle from a tree’s top
Came swiftly gliding down
To a dove amongst its branches
And bore it to the ground,
From whence, on pinions fleeting
To the festive scene they went,
And Heaven was the maker
Of all the merriment.
Now like the dove, is Cuba,
With wavelets dancing round;
With its rocky sea girt coast.
By brilliant bubbles bound!
And ‘Uncle Sam’s’ the eagle
Of “Free” America,
Whose daughters are the loveliest,
Whose sons the “bravest far.
Soon downward will the eagle,
Screa ming “Sale or Seizure,’ ’
Go flying towards the dovo
And wed her at his leisure;
And Cuban birds shall warble
Glad paeans 'mougst the trees,
When valour captures Innocence,
Aud from her tyrant frees.
Macon. June 12’ 1857. IDAS.
Hard Times Ahead
Signs of an Impending Crash.—Tho Xcw
York Herald sounds the alarm note of au im
pending crash. The data upon which the
Herald founds its belief is stated in the follow
ing article:
Day by day tbe signs are thickening a . n l
us of an impending crash, financial and com
mercial, which will shake the country from its
centre to its circumference like an earthquake.
Among other things, wc perceive that owing to
the increased prices of provisions, and especial
ly of sugar aud tea, our principal hotels arc
about raising their standard charge from $2
50c to $3 a day ; and tliat in our restaurants
and eating saloons a corresponding increase of
prices may be expected. At the same tiile we
are informed that in Michigan (and in other
places, the last we should think of,) the peo
ple are starving for lack of bread. At the
same time a spirit of land speculation, amount
ing to a morus multicaulis or South Sea bub
ble. has seized hold of the people of the West,
aud they are all in for it, up to their necks.
At the same time an aggregate of perhaps not
less than ten millions of dollars is involved
in the building, at this moment, of splendid
churches, stores, and residences in this city;
and how many millions during the summer
will be expeuded in Paris furniture, finery,
and bijouterie, and European excursions, it is
■ ipossiblc to conjecture.
Let it sufiice that in all these, and in vari
ous other signs of these ominous times we have
the same symptoms, only ou a much grander
scale, of an impending crash as were furnished
iu the warnings of 1836 of the terrible revul
sion and bankruptcy, and demoralization, mis
ery and ruin of 1837. It was the bauk infla
tion and paper currency system of the former
period, and the wild and reckless moonshine
speculations snd extravagances which this sys
tem engendered, that worked out the grand
collapse of 1837, This time the gold of Cali
fornia aud Australia, and the land and rail
road, commercial, bank and credit adventur
ers of all kinds do the same thing, in propor-
ly occupied in fishing, and that of a simple ‘*°n t0 ‘he tremendous stakes involved. Pay
kind, by means of the casting net, and arc to be t h?Y must come. It must come, as in l c3/,
J ■ • • • with a general crash. It will come to hun
dreds and thousands when least prepared for
seen exercising their skill ou the shore, almost
among the breakers, apparently at the risk of
their lives. Some gain a livelihood as carters
and grooms, and some as field laborers—a kind
of occupation which, when slaves only were em
ployed in the field labor, would have been re
sisted by them as an insupportable degradation,
even now is only engaged in from necessity, and
and with good reason, for they are ill fitted
for such work.’’
“ Owing to the want of such a system, or
rather the want of any good instruction, the
real majority of these people, since eiunnci
potion, have improved less in moral than in amounted iu valuo to $11.31(3,1100. Xcw York,
physical condition, to the disappointment of §0-1,891,000; Philadelphia. $4,131,000; Balti
physical ...
many of their well-wishers of sauguiue dispo
sitions who did not make sufficient allowance
for inbred vices. Regarding these vices, is it
surprising that they have no high principle of
action; that they have no great regard for
truth or principle, or that they are incapable
of cxercisiug much control over their passions ;
aud in consequence, that many of them are
given to pilfering and addicted to lying; are
qunrrelsomc and abusive, and in anger apt to-
exebange blows ns readily as words, and to in
tlict them with harsh severity on all in their
power, whether it be a wife, a child, or the
dumb beast ? This want of control over their
feelings, with little or no moral or religious
check, makes them often cruel in the treat
ment of their children and brutal in their con
duct towards each other. It is no unusual
thin" to see women fighting one with another
in stand-up tight, pugdistically like men ; aud
even less so to sec husband aiul wife exchang
in'- blows, and to hear the horrid screams of
the weaker when overpowered and severely
punished; or to see a father or mother flogg?
in - a screaming child without mercy, ami ile-
i=ting only from weariness. J hose who have
ny regard for quietude and comtort should fox
their abode in Barbadoes at a good distance
from anegro village; I say so troin painful
experience: their scoldiug, their ‘talk, as they
call it, which they consider their privilege, i»
disturbing at the distance even of more tbaa
it. Prudent men will take in sail and keep
near shore. It is a tornado that is gathering
in tbo horizon.
Exports asd Imports.—For the quarter
ending 31st March, 1857, the exports from the
United States were $09,945,000, and the im
ports $92,500,000; from New York, $20,402,-
000; from Philadelphia, $1,742,000; from Bal
timore, $2,200,000; from New Orleans, $34,-
741.000; and from $an Francisco, $2,434,000.
The imports for the same quarter into Boston
more, $2,(385,000; New Orleans, $7,058,000;
aud San Francisco, $2,427,000.
The late vicar of Sheffield, the Rev. Dr. Sut
ton, once said to the late Mr. Pccch, a veteri
nary surgeon:
•5lr. Heech, how is it you have not called
upon me for your account V
•Oh,’ said Mr. Peech, ‘I never ask a gentle
man for money.’
•Indeed,’ said the vicar, ’then how do you
get on if he don’t pay V
‘Why,’ replied Mr. Peech, 'after a certain
time' I conclude that he is not a gentleman, aud
then I ask him.”
Pearls continue to be found in the streams
of Passaic and Bergen counties, Xew Jersey.
The Newark Daily Adccrliscr says;—“A poor
named Van Orden, while on his way tolloko-
kos to pay a debt, found two large pearls worth
$150 each. The Bergen county land owners
are much troubled by trespassers, who gener
ally comprise about a halt dozen to each par
ty, and are so bold and impudent, as to defy
tiie threats of the land owners, who order them
off their premises. The services of a posse oi
men have been secured, and one person de
Clares his intention to prosecute certain parties
who have made threats upon his person. A val
uable pearl was louud in the Pompton river
last week.”
Reputation is not Character.
“Strive to be worthy,” said and old clergy
man to a young man : ,“' it is better to have
character than reputation.” Rarely are great
truths so pithily put. If reputation was less
frequently confounded with character the aims
of the youug would be nobler, men more virtu
ous, society altogether better. For reputation
is often false, which character can never be
The one is but a sham, the other a true, living
faet. Reputation is what men think of us
character is what we really are.
Yet too many prefer the shadow to the sub
stance. To enjoy the good report of men
even when undeserved,' is sufficient to satisfy
the majority. Hence, instead of striving to be
really worthy, thousand intrigue only to ap
pear so. They shine in tinsel when they ought
to wear real gold. They try every art to be
thought rich, or fashionable, or cultivated,
neglecting, very often, the means which make
them what they wish. They wear out their
lives in pursuit of a delusion. They practice
keeping up appearances till they confound the
sham with the reality, the shadow with the
substance, forgetting that the world soon
pierces their'masks, discovers what they are,
and despises them for false coin.
Take the case of a young lawyer, who, in
stead of mastering his profession, trusts to a
fatal facility of words, and thinks to soar to
eminence and fortune without asiduity or oth-
ZUMhWfykKiWnrstiymhdgfr ngc’ases , r 6Dt
he never rises above this; and at the end of
twenty years he is no further ou the road to
fame than lie was at first. Take the mere
trading politician, who, instead of seeking to
establish a name for statesmanship, prefers
what he thinks the easier paths of cunning and
corruption, and who, though he may secure
some petty office, never becomes truly great;
though he may juggle himself into a fleeting
reputation, never leaves behind the fame of a
Webster or a Clay. Take tbe plausible, but
incompetent merchant who, though he may
for a while obtain credit, finally collapses, re'
cording to all the world what a bubble he has
been. Wc might go through life in the same
way; we might select examples from every
class and profession, and the result would al
ways be the same. Sooner or later the char
latan is found out, be his stage-tricks what
they may. Reputation cannot stand in the
long run against character.
Honesty is the best policy, cveu in regard
to one’s good name. To be, not to seem, is
wiser, even for tho “ children of this world,”
than to seem and not to be. If a man has real
ly no elevated aims, if he cares not to be worthy
for the sake of virtue itself, it will yet pay him
better, permanently, to be true and good than
merly to put on the semblance of it. Hunt
ington, the forger, appeared, for a while to
thrive on evil. Dishonesty, in his case, was
ostensibly lucrative. But where is he now ?
Where are all the forgers, embezzlers and
other false diamonds of the financial world ?
The honest, who have plodded along, and who
arc splcnding their old age in comfort and
honor, oven when uot in luxury, have no cause
to complain that scoundrels have prospered
more than themselves.
But the lnro of mere worldly success is but
abase motive at the best. True manhood seeks
nobleness for its own sake; aspires to be, not
to seem; is prouder of character, even when
unappreciated, than of reputation, if undeserv
ed. In proportion as men are real coin, and
uot counterfeits, they scorn, to enjoy credit for
what they huve not.—“Paint me,” said Crom
well, “wrinkles and all,” Even on canvas tho
great hero despised falsehood.
New York Black Republicans.
The New York Herald has followed the lead
of the New York Times, and cut itself loose
from the Black Republican party. In its “val
edictory,” the Herald pays the following high
compliment to the leaders of the party. Hear:
One praise is certainly due to the Republi
cans of this State. They arc without question,
the most corrupt set of politicians we ever had,
We have had a good many corrupt parties and
party leaders in this State; but a party so
bad as to sacrifice every consideration of pub-
blic welfare, and abstract justice to private
gain, as these Republicans, we never had be
fore, and wc do most earnestly hope wc shall
never have again.
This has proved to be the character of the
Black Republican managers in every free
State in the Union. With few exceptions,
they arc the most daring partizan desperadoes,
who utterly disregard the spirit and letter of
our Constitutions, popular and personal rights,
&c., when they .appear as obstructions to the
attainment of their objects, which arc office,
emoluments, or political elevation in some
form.—Bridgport Farmer.
The Jlillcdgeiillc Celebration,
We copy the followiug, touching the grand
military demonstration at the Seat Govern
ment, on the Fourth of July—alluded to in
our issue of Tuesday—from the Recorder of
the same day:
Volunteer Encampment.—We were pre
vented by our engagements from being
present at the public meeting held in this place,
on Saturday last, for definite action upon this
subject. Wc learn, however, the meeting
entered into the matter in a most becoming
spirit of liberality—that ample funds were con
tributed, and that all needful arrangements
are now being made to have the entire Volun
teer force of the State rendezvous at this point,
on the 3rd proximo, and remain with us in en
campment until the 7th. Wo farther learn
that the Governor approved the design and
that he has, with the view of carrying it into
effect, written to the respective commanders
of different corps, apprising them of our pur
pose, aud inviting their attendance. Under
the circumstances it is expected that no com
pany will be found lagging behind and that
every man will come prepared in a spirit of
soldierly emulation to do his duty. We shall
no doubt have a brilliant fete—such au one as
has been seldom witnessed anywhere, and nev
er before in Georgia. Wc therefore cordially
invite our friends abroad to come and partake
of the festivities of the occasion and unite with
us in celebrating our national birth-day. We
expect, and intend to have a great jubilation—
and come one—come all—the more the mer
rier.
Governor Johnson has been invited, and has
consented to deliver the address upon the 4th,
and no doubt he will deliver a patriotic and
stirring one.
Since the above was penned, the following
has becu handed iu :
M1LL1TARY ERCAMPMENT
Executive Chamber
Mil^dgeville, Ga., June 6th, 1857
In behalf of the citizens of Baldwin County,
tho city of Milledgeville, and the Baldwin
Blues, the several Volunteer Companies of the
State are invited to assemble and encamp at
the Capital on the 3rd, -1th, 5th, and 6th da3'S
of July. In the absence of authority to Order,
I unite in this invitation, and hope that I will
he promptly accepted. It is expected, that all
the Companies that can make it convenient to
attend, will arrive by 3 o’clock, P. 51. of Fri
day the 3d, aud that the encampment will
terminate at 3 o’clock P. M. of Tuesday the
7th of July, and each Company bo provided
with its tents and Camp Equipments. Cap
tains report tome by thc20th iust., the num
ber of their respective Corps, that will respoud
to the invitation, in order that arrangements
may be made for their comfortable entertain
ment as soldiers. The Staff' of the Governor
will attend in uniform.
HEnsciiEL V. Johnson.
Advertisements at the regular charge will bo Oi t
Dollar p<?r square of 10 lines or less, for the first ii *
sertion, and Fifty Cents for each subsequent inser
tion. All advertisements not specified as to time»
will be published until forbid and charged accorc.-
ingly
Obituary Notices not exceeding ten lir.es, wi 1
be published gratis ; but cash at the r;vof Or- Do -
litr for every ten manuscript incs exceeding tb? t
number, must accompany all longer notices, or the.p
will be cut short.
f^The Telegraph goes to press at 3 o’clocD.,
Monday Evenings. Advertisers will oblige by lianc. -
t their favors, as early ns Saturday, if possible
Clear the Track i
XEW SPRING (400DS
The subscribers respectfully in
vite the citizens of Macon and sur
rounding country, to call and in
spect their assortment of
FANCY AND STAPLE
DRY GOODS,
■which embrace all the novelties of
the season.
RICH DRESS GOODS,
Embroideries of alt kinds,
Hosiery,
Carpeting’,
Rags and
matting'.
Just received and for sale at low
prices by .
BOSTICK & KEIN.
march 3
357. \
The Rage for Laud speculation.
A letter iu the lust Dubuque Herald, written
from the Osage land office, Iowa, says that
there are about two thousand persons in at
tendance on the land sales, aud that great
competition exists between speculators and
the settlers. This competition had been car
ried to bidding $101 per sere for the wild land.
The settlers had held £ meeting, and organ
ized themselves into a club numbering seven
hundred, aud had determined that every set
tler should have the privilege of bidding off a
quarter section of land, in addition to one
quarter covered by pre-emption at Govern
ment price. Attempts were made to settle all
difficulties on this basis by the settlers furnish
ing the names of persons who were bidders ;
out this had not been done up to the time our
informant left. As a consequence, very few
tracts of lands were sold.
The Naval Depot—Blythe Island.
Some of our Georgia papers have fallen into
the snare set for them—probably at the insti
gation of Mr. Yulee, of Florida—in a para
graph published iu the New York Herald, to the
effect that Mr. Thurlow Weed’s visit to GeorgJ
ia was with a view to the sale of Blythe Island
to the General Government for a XavalDepot
fe tferafore be
raised against somebody or something, The
fact is—even supposing such a thing to be in
any way objectionable—Mr. Weed never lias
had any peculiar interest in the Island. His
visit was connected with the railroad and an- ]
other enterprizc which his report will proba- \ r 0 Y
bly determine to the advantage of Brunswick. m 1
Wc call tbe attention of the Georgia press to
tbe fact that all this difficulty about the price
of the site for the Naval Depot originated with
Mr. Yulee, and was a card of bis, to rob Geor
gia of this great benefit. While his agents
denounce the owners of Blythe Islaud for the
price demanded, they do not dare institute a
comparison of that price with what was actually
paid for the site at Pensacola and other places,
or what is now demanded for an additional
sand heap at Pensacola for room enough to put
magazines, &c. upon. We will do this for
them, however, in a short time. The Georgia
press has been beguiled into their present at
titude by the cry of Yankee speculation, when
in fact Georgia will be the greatest gainer,
even if a high price be obtained for the island,
for it is probable that nearly every dollar ob
tained for it will be invested in Georgia internal
improvements,—Brunswick Herald.
Savannah Commission merchants.
The late action of our Commission Mer
chants, in changing the rates of compensation
for the sale of cotton, continues to engage the
attention of newspaper correspondents, and to
elicit the severe auimadversiou of the planters
of the interior. It is not our purpose to inter
fere between business meu and their custom
ers ; it is a matter beyond our legitimate pro-
ince, and one which the parties interested are
amply competent to take care of, for them
selves,
Wc desire, however, to make a single re
mark that has been suggested by sundry stric
tures on the course of the merchants, which
have recently appeared iu tho papers. There
ri'c some who appear to regard their action
upon the rate of commission as au outrage and
injustice—au imposition per se, practiced with
the belief that the parties who are to suffer are
without a reinedj’. The increase of compen
sation is held to be wholly disproportioned to
the service performed.. Without attempting
to argue this latter question, viz: of labor and
compensation, we beg leave to differ in lolo
~ om those who regard themselves as imposed
on by the chauge. Had our merchants charg
ed more for their service to the planters than
charged, in other sea-board markets of the
South, thero would be some ground for the
charge. But it is not so. The rate of com
pensation iu Charleston, Mobile and Xew Or-
;ans is, and has been for years, the very same
now proposed to be charged by the merchants
nf Savannah. It thus appears that Savannah
charging but the market price, and so long
as she does not exceed it, it seems to us emi
nently unjust to charge her with att attempt
to wrong her customers. The planter may be
able to get his cotton sold cheaper elsewhere,
the interior—and we shall not blame him
should he do so—but while he does it, let him
spare his old friend in Savannah (who but
seeks to do what all others in his own line,
similarly situated, have been doing all along)
the charge of imposition and wrong.—Sac.
Republican.
New Spring Goods.
R OSS, COLEMAN & KOSs havejust opened tho
second new Stock of
SPRING GOODS
This season, embracing
BERAGK ROBES from 85 to 825.
ORGANDIE ROBES from SG to 813.
MANTILLAS, LACE and GIMPUIUE from 83 10
$4,000 '
Worth of Embroideries, in Collars, Sleeves aD l
Cambric Trimmings.
On all the above goods wc promise yon a dedur-
tioe ot 20 per cent on previous prices ns our Stock ii
large aud must be sold. Call early. No charge for
showing goods. apl 21
PARKER’S
jSTIEYV goods,
FOR T1IK ?
SIPDIXUNTO- TRADE.
W E are now receiving a splendid assortment r f
most desirable FRENCH, ENGLISH, GEh-
.11 AN, SWISS and AMERICAN GOODS, oj there)./
latent Importation.
Sir.K KOItLH,
BAREGE BOBS8,
GKBXADIXB ROBBS,
ORGANDY 3IISU.V ROBBS,
JACONET nC8LUT ROBES,
EC GENIE itUiIi ICOBES,
MORNING DRESSES,
TOILE ASIE !H)SES,
mrmiELY mw a .
A full assortment of Bishorfs best BLACK SILKS,
MANTILLAS.
Chantilly Lace Points and Mantillas.
The Ladies will, wo think, derive great plensurn
from an examination of our entirely NEW STOCK
; FRENCH EMBROIDERIES,
which is UdusuhIIv attractive, vv o im.o a grer t
many NOVELTIES, both BRILLIANT and BE At -
TIFL'L, unnecesmry to mention. Call and wo wi 1
repay you for the time spent, by showing tho large, t
and most beautiful Slock of
Staple & Fs»sicy Dry Goods
which we have ever had the pleasure of exhibiting
to the Ladies of Macon and surrounding country,
apl 11 W. W. PARKER & C’O.
BARGE SALES AT THE
NEW YORK STORE.
i5 PER CENT SAVED BY BUYING GOODS
FOR CASH
13 THE TIME TO BUY. We have one
the largest and most complete stocks of
GOODS* in Hacon. Consisting ia part of
1,500 yards of those beautiful Muslins, at 12J cents
worth 20 cts-
100 patterns Jacouet, at 20 and 05 cents.
Large lot Organdies now selling very low,
300 yards more of that Irish Linen at 25 cents,
worth 40.
—also—
Organdie Robes, Barege Robes,
SPLENDID SILKS & SILK ROBES,
Mantillas, Collars, Sleeves, Embroider
ies, Hamlk’fs, Hosiery, Gloves,
Mitts Shirtings and Sheeting!,
Table Linens,Towels,Nap
kins, Yankee Notions,
and in fact every
thing usually
kept in a
Fancy Dry Goods Store.
AU of which will bo sold very low for CASH Wo
invite the LADIES particularly to come and see f ir
themselves. DENMAN A WATE UMAX.
Macon, April 7,1357.
Governor Tor ('tali.
Major Ben McCullough, toe distinguished
Texan Ranger, passed through Louisville ou
his way to Washington on Thursday last,
having received a dispatch from President Bu
chanan desiring his presence. From this and
other reasons we are led to infer, says the
Louisville Journal, that the administration has
concluded to confer extraordinary powers ou
Major McCullough in connection with the Gov
ernorship of Utah. Thesis matters being de
finitely settled, the Government will order its
strongest available force to the assistance of
the new Governor.—Savannah Republican.
A traveler in Africa declares that he ruet one
king who had eleven portly wives, all of whom
were weighed monthly, the one that weighed
the most being invariably installed mistress of
the household until the time of the next weigh
ing.
KTEWSPPJXG GOODS.
rnHE subscriber having returned from the North,
J. is now prepared to exhibit to the citizens of
Macon, and the turrouuding country.
The largest, cheapest, : ud best stock of DRY
GOODS ever offered iu this market. Having pur
chased a great portion of my stock at the large auc
tion oulos in New York, aud ia many instances, ‘ SB
than tlie Goods cost to import, X am oouiident that
I can offer inducements to purchasers, heretofore
unprecedented.
My stock, in part, consists of the following goods:
Organdie, Barage and Tissue HobiA
Printed Organdy Muslin, *
Printed Jaconets and Cambrics,
Plain Colored Cambrics and Brillianties,
Light colored fancy Silks of the very latest Importa
tions aud newest styles.
A large lot of French and Swiss EMBROIDE
RIES. Fine sett-, of Coll irs and Sleeves, in Thre id
and Valencies, Luces. With a general assortment of
other SPRING GOODS, received by latest Steamers.
Call and examine my stock nt the Triangular
Block, Corner Cotton Avenue &2d Street.
march 17 BLIA3 EINSTEIN.
WHEAT FAN
GRAIN CRADLES*
HEAP IIOOKS,
SCYTHE BLADES it SHAFTS,
THRESHING MACHINES,
STRAW CUTTERS,
BOLTING CLOTHS,
WIRE CLOTHS,
For Sale bv NATHAN WEED.
A RARE CHANCE TO
- MAKE MON EY!! !
T O persons wishing to enter into a pleasant and
profitable business, tho subscriber is pr#par.:d
to offer extraordinary, inducements. Owing toil-
health, and a desire to win 1 up : ‘ T‘ • **
ness he oli’ers for s'lit*, nt M'-, r ri u ■ ■:
lug stock ^STAPLE and FANCY DIM FOODS,
which is in fine order, well suit d to this n. .met. a id
ns desirable as any stock ot DRY UOOUb m fio
Southern Country.
Tho purchaser win have tho advantage ofa store
room, well adapted to tho Dry Goods business, tho
best location in tho city, a line rc.n of tram', both iu
the city and country,
commodious aiid splendid!;-
cl or rented at .1 liberal r
from 011c to live years. H
able discount, his notes an-
lii:- influence and
collection of debts, 'do an
.r„; n .r m-rsou, this h a ra
stone
■n.structi -1, will be le; s-
for any length of time
<> - ' a I'eiiM- 1-
p.-n m , ' I lend
; the: •!.; Of Good.-a- .1
iustrious an-; thorc-u: h
profitable investment, and su--h ;
to call soon at his store 111 iria.i;
Street, generally known as tin
Johns.
Macon, March 13th, 1357.
Jour. & Mess, please copy.
1 p rson will do
- store el' Bostic:
1.1). X. JOHN
CHIEF MARSHAL’S NOTICE.
A LL persons having business witu me. v, ill tb a
111c at my residence (corner ot b mirtli and Ue t
Streets) till 7 o'clock, A. Mauls" at } “ Vt> ’ r
M. and at tho Guard House at 10 o clock I M. of
each day. ill 1 1
Chiet Marstial,