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News Summary.
irom Europe—Arrivnl of tin- City
i Washington.- I'lil- Sli-mniT roaehedNsw York
on Sunday, with Liverpool dates to the 12tli instant
- lour day* later. Liverpool cotton sales of last
three day* were 30.000b»les, including 8000 to specu
lators and 3000 to (spotters. Tho Africa's news Was
received at Idverpoo! on the 9th and caused a half
penny advance. .Maneh* ?tornews favorable. Con"
•oil $7( a9?J fortnoney and 9'i to 97 J for aceoant.
Grneral nows nnlmportant. Lord Ellcnlx,rough
ha* n \ iied his seat In the Cabinet on account of
tho introduction of resolutions in tho House censur
ing the Government for the publication of their des-
patohes from the Governor General of India, the res-
pon-'.billty of which publication he assumed.
tlrrivnl of iticMa^aru.—The Niagara reached
Halifax on Wednesday last, with dates to the 18th
Instant.
The sales of cotton la Liverpool for the week were
81,800 bales. All qualities had advanced one farth-
iu* Ud.)
The Niagara's news on the whole is unimportant.
The British Government had announced in 1’arlia
ment the Governor General of India's proclama.
tlon confiscating the land in Onde.
Fishing noimtr Bill.—The Senate passed tho
bill repealing the Fishing Bounty Act last W’ednes-
day, by a vote of thirty to twenty-five.
Oca. I'ndfrr P. Mnidi.—We are sorry to see
it announced that this excellent officer died nt Fort
Leavenworth, Kansas, on Sunday the lfith instant
Resumption *>7 the Charleston Bnuka
The Charleston “ Courier,’" of Friday says : " It af
fords us great pleasure to refer to an authorized no
tice, which appears tins morning nnder onr editorial
head, that the suspended banks of our city have
adopted a resolution to resume specie payments in
July next No particular day, we learn, is fixed for
the resumption, but we presume it will Le early in
the month.”
Fire in Tallahassee.—A destructive fire oc
curred in Tallahassee, Fla., on Saturday night, by
which the residences of Up. Bruc*, John H. ilbodes,
and Washington Edmondson, were destroyed.
The Wounded Co dr*.—We learn from the 51a
rietta Advocate, of Thursday morning, that Cadet
Uanoing, who was subbed Isst week by Cadet Beall,
Is rapidly recovering from tho effects of the wound,
and la considered out of danger.
Suicide.—William Henry Herbert, known to the
literary and sporting world as Frank Forrester,”
committed suicide, by shooting himself with a pis
tol, at the Stevens House, Broadway, on the morning
'of the 17th instant.
The Mormons.—Tho Washington papers are of
opinion that tho reported evacuation of Sait Lake
City, ia a ruse of the Mormons to mislead this Gov
ernment with respect to their Intentions and cause a
suspension of hostilities. The Washington Union*
backed by a correspondent said to bo familiar with
the state of feeling among that sect, says that they
will never willingly abandon their L'rah or possess
ions, nor yet submit to U. S. authority. They will
adopt every expedient to evade a collision and gain
time, if necessary to maintain their position by force.
New Whom.—Augusta, 51 ay 81.—The AugnsU
Mills commenced grinding new Wheat to-day for the
New iork markets.
In the House Messrs. Phelps and Kavauaugh, from
the new State of Minnesota, were admitted. Hie
Ohio contest.I election cue,- was up.
Firs In llnwkiusrillcv—Tho Albany Patriot
.-ays, a friend writing i'r*<m Hawkinsville, tia.. un-
derdate of 13tli inst.. says: “About three o’clock
on Monday morning the buildings in the tan yard of
J. H. Wallace A. Co., of this place, were discovered
to he on tiro, which resulted in the destruction of the
entire premis' ' It was doubtless the work of an
incendiary.
The Mormon,.—Despatches received at Sr.
Louis on tho 17th, state that the Mormons wen-pro-
paring to leave Salt Lake City for tin- " bite Liver
.Mountains, a settlement about som II,
iM^coisr, gka..
Tuesday Morning, May25, 1858.
Correction.
In our notice of proceedings in Bibb County
Superior Court last week, we should have
said “George Cou les” plead guilty to Larceny
instead of George Cole.
Mountains, a settlement about *>miles quor . Solicitor Genera!
Salt Lake Gitv, already numbering some oUO Mormon
. , ,*1 ‘ 7“ . , jf.it-nr.j Graftenretd for prisoner.
inhabitants. This movement,!! is SR>u, is uoigncu , * T
to avoid collision enable them to reap another crop On Priday last, James
Uibb Superior Court.
The Superior Court is still in session. During the
tek, Theodore Hoffman was tried and acquitted of
the charge of furnishing a slave with Spirituous Li-
Solieitor General for the State—W. K. do
and put themselves in position for a final exodus
from United States Territory. Gov. Camming had
gone to Salt Lake City, on invitation.
The Bight of Search.—The recent Impertinent
visitation and searching of American vessels by
British cruisers in the great aighway of the Gulf of
Florida—a species of insolence which culminated in
the late outrage by the British sloop-of-war “ Styx,"
which actually fired into an American schooner three
times with a minie ritie, to the great personal danger
of her crew, has awakened strong feelings of indig
nation throngbout the country. A meeting ot ship
masters and others was held in New York on Mon
day the 17th, which called upon onr Government
and Congress, to “ take such action as shall preserve
inviolate from British jealousy and arrogance so
much of our republic as is afloat on the high seas.—
From Washington It is stated that the President has
demanded explanations from England and Spain,
and the Frigate Colorado has taken out orders to the
Home Squadron to stop these insnltiug interferences
with our commerce.
Arrival of the North America.—The Mon
treal steamship North America brings dates from
Liverpool to the 5th instant. The Cotton sales in
the Liverpool market for the last three days were
3-1,000 hales at an advance of an eighth—market
closing buoyant Accounts favorable from the man
ufacturing districts. No change in money rates.—
Provisions steady and grain dull. General news of
no importance.
Fire in Elberton.—The Male Academy of this
place was burned, together with all the apparatus,
books, and furniture, on Monday the 17th instant—
Tho fire was evidently the work of an incendiary.—
The total loss, is about two thousand dollars.
The house was comparatively a new one—hav
ing been built only about four years—since which it
has been under the charge of John A. Trencliard, A.
M., and in a very prosperous condition, there being
iu attendance, from abroad, a large number of stu
dents. The school is going on in the village church.
The Academy will be rebuilt immediately. There
will he no interruption in the school.”
Jlorketa—New York, May »1.—Cotton quiet,
sale* 800 bales, flour heavy, sales 12,000 bbls. State
and Ohio slightly declined. Southern unchanged,
wheat firm, sales 50,000 bushels, corn firm, sales 14,-
000 bushels, Navals quiet. 22d, sales 1,000 bales with
a quiet market.
N*W Oki.ea.N3, May 2l.--Co.ton unchanged, sales
5.000 bales, and for the week, 32,500 hale*. .Receipts
13,300 bales. Stock 277.000 bales. Freights 7 16 a
15-39. Sterling Exchange 107J a lOgj. 22d, 4,500
bales sold—market irregular.
Mobile, M*y 21.—Cotton sales 1,000 bales, mid
filing 11|, sales lor the week, 4,300 hales. Receipts
4,900 bales against 1,050 last year. Increase 95,000.
Stock on hand <0,500 bales.
Charleston, May 21.—Cotton sales 1,700 bales,
middling fairadvanced a jo., other grades are nn-
changed.
Augusta, May 21.—Cotton sales heavy, market
active. 22d, sales of Friday and Saturday 2,00o bales
market Steady.
Revival in Athens, <«n.—The revival which
ho* been going on in Athens for four or five weeks
fwe learn from the Watchman,) closed several days
ago—the ministers engaged in the good work being
worn out with fatigae.
During the revival 268 new members were receiv
ed into i he different Churches—the Methodist church
receiving 90, the Presbyterian 50, the Baptist 41.
Episcopalian 11, and colored Methodist Churtli, 76,
Mbnrlca In Charleston.—We learn that fourof
these •• monsters of the briuy deep" were caught
last night, by the watchman, off the Savannah steam
packet wharf, measuring, respectively, to, 9J, 7 j,
and 6 feet.
Longevity uf Cnunries.—A correspondent of
the New York Commercial, speaks of a Canary
Bird which died *t the sge of twenty-aix years.
The Cfanrirntcu Banka,—It is said will re
■ume specie payments on the 1st July.
The Bell Crevasse.—Up to the lfith, the ef
forts to stop this crevasse had failed, and the Picay
une estimates the damage from the overflow at four
to five millions.
New Flour.—The Constitutionalist of Saturday
announces the shipment to New York of a small lot
of Flour of new wheat from the Carmichael Mills in
Augusta.
The specio in the banks of New York, according
to the report published on the 18th Inst, amounts to
thirty-four million seven hundred and thirty thous
and seven hundred and twenty-eight dollars. At
the time of their suspension last fall their total of
specie was only five millionseighthundredthousand
dollars.
Destructive Tornado.—A terrible hurricane
pasted over Peoria, ill., on the 13th inst. It is stated
that in the twinkling of an eye fifteen or twenty
houses were unroofed, every church spire in the city
blown down, three caual boats loaded with lumber
sunk, and the steamer Oiin, with twenty-one passen
ger* on board, made a complete wreck, her cabin
being blown entirely away. The puly life lost was
that of a little child from the wrecked steamer.—
The beautiful college building was entirely di-mol
iahed.
Korol.—It is stated that orders have been given
for preparing the frigate Sabine at New York as the
flag ship of the Brasil squadron; also for filing ont
the Saratoga at New York, and the brig Dolphin at
Boston for the home squadrom, with the view to in
crease our fleet on that station.
nrsuiujitSoD of .-Specie Mupmeat*.—The Eu
rope, from Boston for Liverpool last Wednesday
took out nine hundred thousand dollars specie.
A Novel Experiment.—Accordim,- to the At
lanta Iuteffigoncer certain gentlemen iu Montgome
ry are trying to stock the Alabama river with shad
A tank containing 1400 small shad taken in branches
discharging into the Ooonee and Ormnlgee, passed
through' that city last Wednesday. The genuine
shad has very rarely or never been found in any
river discharging iuto the gulf.
Great Exposure in Wisconsin.—According
to the report of the legislative committee in Wiscon
sin, the great land grant to the Milwaukie and La
Crosse railroad in 1856, was secured by bribing the
Governor, his Secretary, ktate officers. Judges of
the Supreme Court, nearly all of the members ofthe
legislature, and others who were "not officials but in
fluential. The enormous sum of nino hundred and
•ighty-nioe thousand dollars in bonds of the road
was distributed among tho persons—from the Gover
nor, who, it is stated, received fifty thousand dollars,
to an editor, who got one thousand dollars. Such
shameless corruption was nover paralleled in this or
any other country.
Nnpoloon’a Denth-C'li umber.—Rev. Henry
Wood, a chaplain iu the United States Navy, writ
ing from St. Helena, says that In the room where
Napok - in died there Is now a threshing-machine in
operation, and stalls for the hones that move it, in
his bed-chamber.
The Next Legislator®.—We leant that the Sn-
preme Court, at its late session in Milledgeville, set
tled the constitutional question as to the right of the
pri--mt members of the Georgia legislature talcing
iln ir m ats legal Senatora aiul 11- ]>r, &>'ntatives,in
the npproiK I.-'..: .--inn to be h.-ld tho present year,
n v* ii-ci4edth*» the'old ui< mben would bo «*ntx-
{)fd to th' ii >■ t • :.i)d that do cdoution would be
lit id for Suiintor-H and Representatives, except in ca-
{ * .f u in re they had b< eii cut olf into new counties,
inario nt the lust M-rfdou. In nil such instances, idee*
tiojis n.a.-t l.e held in both counties. In the old coun
ty t> vg' | lv YiiraiiciC" thus t reated; and in tho new
ttiiu, ft 1 r an «-*.tbre r.< \v delegation.'—[Atlanta Intelli-
jjeucer, May •
Washington, Someday.—Iu the Senate t . Uuy
the fifteen million dollars loan bill was introduced.
J ! e Iloinostcfti! bill was under discussion.
Dougherty was put on trial
for the Murder of Matilda Dougherty. Solicitor
General, nndLocliraue & Lamar, for the State—VT.
T. Massey, Thadeus G. Holt, jr., and Wm. K. dc
Gmffenreid, for prisoner. The Jury afterbeing out
some eight or ten minutes, returned a verdict of
Kot Guilty.
The First Panel of the Grand J ary were discharg
ed on Friday morning. Saturday was occupied in
the argument of motions, and among other ques
tions original, was the liability of the wages ofMe-
chanics and Laborers, &c. W. T. Massey and Sami.
Hunter for the Garnishment—Lanier & Anderson
against it. The Court has not, up to tho present
writing, delivered its opinion—thougli strongly in
tiraating in favor of the Garnishment.
The second panel of the Grand Jury, was sworn
in yesterday morning, Janies H. R. Washington,
Esq., Foreman.
' The esse of the State vs. Taylor for stabbing,
was the case in order for yesterday. Forty appeal
cases yet to he tried.
General Conference III. XL Church.
By the Nashville Christian Advocate we
learn that on Wednesday last, Rev. T. W.
Dorman presented Report (No. 1) from the
Committee to ascertain the vote of the Annual
Conferences on the Alabama and Holston Res
olutions, to expunge the general rule on “the
buying and selling of men, women and child
ren, with the intention to enslave them.” The
vote stands as follows:
Lilly White.
A Romance by Edward Goodwin. Philadel
phia, J. B. Lippineott. Just received and for
sale by Boardman.
Tins is a beautiful volume of 315 pages 12
mo. of very recent production by an Alabama
author. The dedication bears date last March.
Receiving our copy just as we are going to
press, we have no time to form an opinion
about it.
Conference. Concarnng.
Not concurring.
Holston
SB
4
Texas
72
0
Virginia
116
0
Florida
59
0
Missouri
1
- 46
South Carolina
94
0
Memphis
64
12
Mississippi
79
7
Louisville
14
15
Georgia
135
0
Kentucky
18
43
St. Louis
17
42
Tennessee
J5
87
Louisiana
48
0
W. Virginia
22
12
Alabama
115
0
East Texas
53
0
Arkansas
17
16
Wachita
28
U
Pacific—no action.
Kansas Mission—no action.
Indian Mission—no action.
Whole number of votes concurring, 1160;
being GO votes over the constitutional majori
ty-
Receipts of Benevolent Societies.
The anniversary of the American Board of
Missions, to-day, will conclude the May anni
versaries of the present year. We are enable
to show, in a tabular form, the amount of re
ceipts of these various institutions, during the
past year, as stated iu their annual reports
presented. They are as follows, compared
with the last two years:
Year 1858. Year 1857. Year 1856.
Am. Bible Society $390,759 $441,305 $393,117
Am. Tract Society.... 383,153 420,585 415,606
*B. C. For. Missions.. 188,736 307,318 153,700
Pres. B. For. Missions. 223,977 205,763 201,933
Am. Home 5iis. So’y.. 175,971 178,060 193,548
Am. and F. C. Union.. 76,603 70,296 65,500
Am. Ant-Sla’y Soc'y... 18,5i2 19,300 18.000
N. Y. State Colo'tiou.. 15,624 32,878 18,993
Am. Fern. Guardian... 49,719 30,353 27,925
N. Y. Sun. 8. Union... 13,089 15,538 10,000
Am. Sea. Friend So’y.. 25,236 27,520 22,283
Female Magdalen 2,926 6,546 5,000
Five Point* H. of In... 17,991 22,274 30,000
$1,582,287 $1,779,136 $1,555,625
The meetings have generally been well at
tended, and their interest fully sustained.
"Nine month* of the present year.
Journal of Commerce.
The «* Dncr Channel.”
The Apalachicola Commercial Advertiser,
of the 12th inst., says : “ We announced in
onr last number the discovery of a new chan
nel at the East end of Dog Island, by Capt,
Duer, of the United States Surveying steamer
Vixen.
We now have the pleasure to inform the
public that a farther reconnaissance has been
made in that harbor, with the following results:
At the entrance there is thirty-one feet of
water over the bar leading to a safe anchorage
of twenty-four feet inside the Dog Island
shoals. From thence to “Pilot Cove,” the
channel has a depth of twenty-one feet to
another superior anchorage of twenty-four I
feet; and from thence to the present ship an- j
courage at East Pass, opposite White Bluff, |
the channel is nineteen feet
Tlic South Carolina Banks
That is a timely communication on this sub
ject in the Telegraph to-day, and from a high
Iy respectable and intelligent source ; and
now, while every 7 business man in Georgia is
smarting under the annoyance of a currency
in great part not bankable, it is a good time
to apply a remedy. That the extensive mis
sionary operations of the South Carolina Banks
in this and other neighboring States have had
of late an injurious effect upon the reputation
of those banks will hardly be denied. The ef
fect of these operations was apparent in the
exhibits of the banks at the commencement of
the present snspension. A table then prepar
ed for the Telegraph from the official state
ment of those banks showed a gross circula
tion largely rising seven millions and less than
one million of specie in their vaults- The
State Bank made a most lamentable exhibit of
$41 in hills to 1 in money, and five others
ranged from ten to fifteen to one. The Geor
gia Banks showed in gross $3,74 to 1, and an
unfavorable exhibit at that, it was for the oc
casion. But the South Carolina Banks, in
the ambition to push out their circulation into
the neighboring States had, many of them
lost sight of all discretion.
We are glad to see that they now talk of re
suming in about a month, from which we in
fer they are in better condition ; but whether
they resume or not it is clearly the policy of
this State to prohibit foreign bank agencies or
to bring them under the same conditions which
are imposed ou home banks.
The Humanities.
A Decatur county friend, sends the follow
lowing as “a true copy” of a document re
ceived by one of the young ladies of his house
hold :
Mat 19ili, 1857.
Dear Miss—Being as How yon Se i am a sort of
Seolau in tlie dausing scule and is tho teacher onest
requirements that evy single won nv hisscolalua wood
git sum lloilily tn cum tu the dancin scule with em
and as i baint got enyboddy too go with Me yer see i
take the liburta too ax yu too go witii me and hope
that yu will doo Soo if yn will Plees lit me no verry
snne and it yu wont go let me no verry sune an if yn
will go i will leva horn an cum to yerhouss af
ter you the verry nex party giv mi respeex tu al the
family nothin moor at present frum yer frien.
Admission of Oregon.
Lust Tuesday the bill admitting Oregon slipped
through the Senate with an oleaginous ease and
speed. A motion to postpone the bill till Decem
ber next was voted down by thirty-eight against
sixteen, and the following were the nays on its fi
nal passage, showing that there was literally noth-
ing like sectional opposition to it on the part of tho
.South. The nays from this quarter w ere given in
vindication of the general policy requiring satisiac-
tory evidence of a representative population before
admission ; a point which, WO think, ought here.li
ter to be insisted on. The nays were:
Messrs. Bell, Clay, Crittenden, Davis, Dnrkee.
Fessenden, Fitzpatrick, Hale, Hamlin, Hammond
Henderson, Hunter, Iverson, Kennedy, Mason
Trumbull and Wade.
Two Americans—six Illack Republicans—seven
Democrats. Among the yeas are the followin
Southern Democrats: Messrs Dayavd, Benjamin,
Brown, Clingman, Green, Gwinn, Hayne, Johnson
of Tennessee, Johnson of Arkansas, Polk, Sebas
tian, Slidell, Toombs and Yulee, 14. So wc sec
that nothing like sectional opposition was made to
the bill. Satisfied to assume as true, the unsupported
statements of Northern friends of the bill, that Or-
egon had sufficient population, and seeing she had
complied with the constitutional requisitions, the
South freely assented to her admission. So of
Minnesota. She likewise went through without
difficulty, and so it has been with all the new non
Slaveholding States from tho beginning.
But let slavery be recognized in such a bill, and
what a scene we have! The “Union” is forthwith
“convulsed 1” The wheels of Congressional leg-
islation are blocked. A six months’ or a year’s
battle begins, and all anti-slaverrdom rages like
bulls of Bashan. Finally, after a world of fuss and
millions of waste, peace is obtained by admitting
another Northern State contemporaneously, or in
some way or other satisfying the North that she
has the best of the bargain, or at least that the
South can profit nothing relatively by the motion.
This has been the way of things since the gov
ernment was formed. In the case of Kansas, all
this furious storm of opposition has been raised
[i nMMi'Nlf \ run.|
Georgia & South Carolina Banks.
Mn. Km i on.—1 have a-ked myself ti:-- question,
whether if the Leifi.slature were now in session,
would Governor Brown veto another hill against for
eign Bank Agencies ' 1 think he >vu;dd not, since*
On his own showing, the very condition has occurred
between the Georgia and Carolina Banks which
would arrest his pen. Another question is—suppo
sing the Carolina Banks to have n sumtd payment,
(and they will soon bejorceJ into it by public opinion)
will tlie Governor not take counsel from past expe
rience and sign a new bill excluding foreign Agen
cies at the next session! I believe he will, for if I
understand him, he intends to do what is right, and
he must be aware, by this time, that the reckless way
in which the Banks of South Carolina put forth their
issues is sure, some day, to bo attended with great
risk to tlie people of Georgia! What is now the sit
uation of things, and Jjow stands tho comparison be
tween the Banka of the two States? Tlie Banks ol
Georgia, without a single exception, have proven
themselves now sound, more ready and more willing
to resume payments and do their duty to the peopfe,
than those of Carolina. This was all in proof from
the Bank statements made at, or before, the day of
suspension. It is in proof from all the exhibits made
since. It is in proof from thj fact of actualresump-
tion having taken place by the Georgia Banks, and
from tho well known fact that many of them were
ready, able and willing to have resumed long before
they did. All this, too, in tho face of certain signifi
cant threats said to have come from Carolina Bank
Parlors, to tho effect that they held large sums of
Georgia Bank Notes, for which Gold would bo de
manded on the day of resumption in Georgia. I
have taken tho trouble to enquiro and ascertain if
any Steam Boat had beeu sunk laden with Gold on
its way from Savannah to Charleston, or if any Rail
Road Car had been broken down by the weight of
the Tons of precious metal on its way from Georgia
to Caroliua. I hear of no such calamity.
Three or four years ago, Mr. Editor, one of my
friends took the trouble to ascertain, at Milledgeville,
kind : An Agent of one of these South Carolina
Banks prosented the Notes of one of the Banks of
Savannah for an immense sum, and demanded Of,in.
The Bank tendered its Cheek on the identical Bank
whose Agent made the demand: the Check was re
fused and the Gold was paid; thus the Savannah
Bank paid the Carolina Bank, for the time being,
two dollars for One. The object in such coses, is to
drain the Savannah Banks of their coin, and by that
means tighten the money market :it that point and
thus enable them, the Carolina Banks, to buy Ex
change at a greater discount. Nowhere is the an
swer to all thoso who apprehend that the withdrawal
of Carolina Bank Notes from this State would affect
unfavorably tho price of cotton. This method of
putting the screws on tho Georgia Banks, is a much
more effectual mode of touching the price of cotton
than the mere withdrawal of “promises to pay” ofthe
foreign Banks circulating among us, which “pro
mises'' could he, and would be supplied immediately
by far better ones of our own manufacture. When
State pride goes hand in hand with our own best in
terest, we shall feel its benefits. Let us calculate a
little of it. Wa cannot begin the work too soon.
A CITIZEN OF GEORGIA.
The Cot in the
nr ueo.
0 tell me no more of the dwellhm
I heir richness, andsnli-ndur ’ 01 l’fi.l-,
When- pinafore,1 chairs vacant
And solas in white pantalettes' d *«!•• I,v
But give me that old-fashioned “TVeu
l'hat nest snugly sheltered ues,)!' ‘Vi '.d-.
trees, 1,1 ->p rc
Where the leaves lightly dance to ,1
gale, t0 the tn:. ...
And yellow, birds string to the touchofn^
That cot where the porch is with
And a jessamine wreath spread* l
Wherojhe velvet-cheeked dewy-Bpp*, r J'J /
Tunis to ask for a kiss as vnn ^ i
I hough tlio lot of its inmates is hurrml "* le < * (K, r
They are noble by natnr^i?<«V.
Their wants are but few. and tW> !? •
As the cricket that merrily
I have passed there at even ' “f '-'vtk'
The face and the voice of'thehebM? to hear
With her rosy red cheeks, aid
e -ird the
From ffiroM-fluhioned book I have b,
From the Kingston (W. I.) Journal, April 15.
The French Slave Trade and its
HORRORS. •
On the 20th of November last, a small steam
er of 383 tons, and 80 horse power, construct
ed to sail with or without steam, fully armed
aud equipped for war, carrying a crew of thir
ty-two men, and displaying the French flag,
might have been seen putting out from Loango,
on the western coast of Africa, and creeping
along shore, towards Cabenda. Her name
was the Stella. A small fleet of French men-
of-war was waiting her arrival at that port.
It consisted of four vessels, viz: La Tour-
mente, La Canoniere, the corvette La Zellia,
and La Joanne d’Arc, the whole division be
ing under the command of M. Protc, captain
of the latter vessel. The Stella had lost its
“De Lager.”
“Have we a Bourbon among us ?” “Who
struck Billy Patterson V’ and other pressing
questions of the day have given place to that
overshadowing problem “Is lager beer intoxi
cating ?” It came up again judicially last
Wednesday, before the Court of Common
Pleas, New York City, in the ease of the
People against George Warner, indicted for
vending "Intoxicating'' drinks. Warner sold
only “de lager” and summoned witnesses to
prove it was not intoxicating. It is a question
of great public interest and we append some of
their testimony :—
“One witness, a German, testified that he
drank one hundred and six glasses of lager
beer in a day, equal to 104 gallons.
The Judge asked him what effect it had up
on him, and he replied, “It made me feel goot,
and I sleep veil." Upon being asked if he
had dntfik any to-day, he said he had drank
twenty-three or twenty-Jire glasses before he
came down to Court.
Another witness swore that he conld drink
four gallons a day without being in any way
affected by it.
Several other witnesses testified to having
drank from twenty to eighty glasses in a day.
and one said lie had swallowed twelve or four-
against a mere name, except as it involved also the
practical recognition that another Slave State
might be admitted. North and South knew alike
that in any event she could not be a slaveholding
State and that the recognition of slavery in her
Constitution practically amounted to nothing.—
But so deeply imbedded in the Northern mind is
the idea that slave-holding ought to work some
civil disqualification, that they were ready to go to
any length rather than theoretically admit an e-
quality.
The Search Outrages.
Two more are reported on Schr. John Howe
and Ship Caledonia, The latter refused to
show her papers aud after being fired up
on (with blank cartridges) boarded by a hun
dred men, threatened and sworn at, the Buz
zard and her Captain and crew were compell
ed to leave without examination. The Water
Witch aud Arctic Steam Vessels have been
ordered to the Gulf immediately, for the pro
tection of our commerce.
A correspondent of the Sav. Republican lias,
we arc inclined to think, assigned the true
cause of these offensive searches, in the pre
mium offered the British officers by their
Government for every Slaver captured, which
stimulates them to a very latitudinous con
struction of their orders. Otherwise, unless
Great Britain desires a fight with us, which
would certainly appear to be a peculiarly un
desirable thing with her just now, we can
conceive of no sensible reason for this remark
ably wholesale and offensive assertion of a
dogma, on resistance of which our infant Re
public staked her whole fortunes nearly fifty
years ago. A copy of Mr. Cass’ instructions
to Mr. Dallas, which are of a very peremptory
character, was transmitted to the Senate last
Wednesday. The Government, we doubt not,
will be as summary as its own dignity will
permit, in exacting redress. But while it may
not, consistently with this, refuse Great Brit
ain a chance for explanation, disavowal or
apology, it is a pity but some one of these im
pudent British Cruisers could catch a tartar
and find itself unexpectedly blown out of
water in compliment to its impudence.
the amount of the Tax paid into tlie Treasury of [ captain, by name Oddo, at Loango, where, it
seems, he had taken 123 Africans on board,
and the command bad therefore devolved on
her first mate, a native of Brittany, named
Bernard. He found no papers, no instructions,
no plans, no manifest to guide his movements,
but ho knew that he had to go to Cabenda;
that the Stella had beeu chartered by Messrs.
Regis aud Co., of Marseilles; that the object
of her visit to the coast was to take in “ Afri
can immigrants that the Imperial Govern
ment had sanctioned the transaction; and that
all he had to do was to obtain a full cargo and
convey the people to Gnadaloupe, one of the
French West India colonies. He probably
knew, too, that there was a squadron of Brit
ish cruisers somewhere along the coast, and
Georgia in one year by the Agencies of the South
Caroliua Bauks. It was tournl to be the enormous
sum of Seven Hundred Dollars! or about one-
thirtieth part of the tax paid by the Georgia Banks in
the same year—the latter being largely over $20,000 !
Still, instead of”loviug our neighbors as ourselves,”
we go beyond the divine command and love them
a great deal more than ourselves. Aud yet this is
Georgia Legislation! And for such' acts as these
our Carolina friends look down contemptuously up
on us, as a half fledged race of mortals. We work
and drudge, and plod our weary way. We make un
heard of sacrifices; but it is” up aud low country,”
“mountain and sea-board,” “swell heads” and all
that! Divisions and jealousies, as if we did not be
long to this same great State—Georgia; and while
we fight and squabble among ourselves, South»Caro- may have had misgivings as to the fate of his
1 vessel, her crew and her passengers in the
hold, were the Stella challenged to produce
her papers. But the presence of the French
squadron, under such circumstances, doubt
less encouraged him to proceed with what was
evidently a desperate enterprise. He found
the Stella short of coals, short of water, and
iiua picks up the prize in all the complacent enjoy
ment of a superior intelligence. Oh, that even a
small fraction of the State pride and unity of feeling
would animate the breasts of the people of Georgia,
According to a writer in the Augusta Constitu
tionalist, the Banks of South Carolina, with two or
three honorable exceptions, are even now essential
ly weak, let alone tlie evidence afforded by their short of provisions, and the small quantity on
continued refusal to pay their debts! Tho Banks of
Georgia owe it to themselves, aud to tlie people of
the State, to refuse, and forever hereafter to refuse
to receive, or in any manner whatever to counte
nance, Carolina Bank Notes as money! A united
and bold action of this sort on the part of the Geor
gia Banks, would meet a quick aud hearty response
from the people of Georgia. The people heretofore
have received Caroliua money simply because the
Georgia Banks, in effect, endorsed it. What do
board of bad quality.
The Breton, however, is proverbially deter
mined and obstinate; and Capt. Bernard reach
ed Cabenda in the course of a few hours. On
the 30th he took on board six hundred and
nine “ immigrants,” all of them more or less
sickly. On the 1st of December the agent of
the Imperial Government, Commodore Prote,
came on board and entered into “contracts for
service” with the “immigrants.” Immediate-
Tlie Recent British Outrages upon
AMERICAN VESSELS.
The Herald publishes the following catalogue
as having occurred within the past month :
Ship Tropic Bird, fired into, hoarded and search-
Bark Clara Windsor, fired into,boarded and search
ed.
eil.
Bark Gienburn, overhauled at sea.
Bark W. II. Chandler, boarded and searched whiie
lying at anchor in the port of Sagua Is Grande.
Twelve other vessels also boarded and searched
in the harbor of Sagua la Grande.
Brig Robert Wing, fired into, boarded aud search
ed.
Schooner Wingold, fired iuto, hoarded aud search
ed.
Schooner Cortez, seized and now detained at Ina-
gua.
Schooner N. B. Borden, fired into, boarded and
searched.
Schooner Mobile, tired into, boarded aud searched.
The general Washington Despatch to the
newspapers of the 18th says :
Neither our government nor Lord Napier has ac
curate information concerning the recent visitations
of American vessels by British cruisers. It is sup
posed tho latter have exceeded their instructions or
that tbs published accounts have bMfe'fMS RMbl
exaggerated. If the transactions are as alleged, it
is not believed that they will bejustified by Great
Britain. Our government lias addressed a letter to
Lord Napier, and will by the next steamer forward
ln$hrttfHtnt tn Mr I)|llit (w thn sabjief .Iju fliii i
ate Committee on Foreign Relations, who hare the
matter under consideration, will further ail the meas
ures necessary to prevent tlie repetition of such out
wo want of South Carolina Notes more than those of ly after the Stella weighed anchor for Long-
uebonne, towing La Canoniere, the Commo
dore having given orders that the latter was
to “ protect the embarkation of the comple
ment” of the Stella’s cargo. At Longuebonne,
on a signal being given—a signal preconcert
ed between those on board and those on shore
—the government agent obtained and shipped
eighty-seven more “immigrants.”
On the 4th of December the Stella left
Longuebonne, having on board a cargo of nine
hundred and fifty Africans, male and female,
most of them sickly, and none older than twenty-
North Carolina, or Alabama! Why do we want
theirs more than they want ours ? A Charleston pa
per said, tlie other day, that they only tolerated Geor
gia Bank Notes ! They have good reason for this
toleration. But why should we tolerate theirs 1—
Why do not citizens of Georgia occupy their own
ground and avail themselves of the rights and profits
for which they pay so liberal a tax, instead of allow
ing strangers to come in aud scatter broad-cast over
tiie country an irredeemable currency? Georgia
has Bank credits enough of her own. Her Banks, as
a whole, are known to be safe—known to be owned
and managed by men of wealth and ability—Banks I five, but ranging from the ages of eighteen and
t hat have been created by our own State Legislature,
and that are amenable to our own laws! Then why
do we import from Carolina, or any other State,
Bank credits over which our laws and people have
no control, and whose present condition is such as
would damn the credit of a cross road grocer ? And
what are our Banks doing 1 Why, they are all aid
ing—and as I before said, endorsing the issues and
promises to pay of the suspended (I should say bro
ken) Bauks of Carolina.
But, say some persons, you would exclude Caroli
na Capital! It is not true! There is not one dol
lar of Capital used in their operations in Georgia,
A Bank Note is not Capital. We furnish the Cap!
twenty. The crew, as already stated, num
bered thirty-two, making a grand total of
nine hundred and eighty-two human beings on
board a steamer of three hundred and eighty-
three tons; though one account sets her at
six hundred. Let our readers but bear in
mind how much after-cabin passengers suffer
from the great heat of the machinery on board
even the largest steamers, and they may form
a faint idea of the torments of these nine hun
dred and fifty wretched Africans, crammed in
to the hold of the Stella—which might not in
appropriately be named the “ Star of Misfort
une”—pursued her weary way across the waste
tal and give them the use and benefit of it, free of 1 of waters, and nearly every alternate hour
charge. They send nothi.no but credit here, and
doubtful credit at that, and our Banks and peo
pie have been foolish enough to take and use their
credits to the exclusion of their own, as every one
may now see, if he never saw it before. Capital is
cash paid up, and the Carolina issues are not based
on one dollar of Capital paid up in this State where
they circulate. They have no Capital here, but make
use of us who have it. But they do this only ou suf-
during thatghasfly voyage, the corpse of a hu
man being was committed to the deep. Not
with the solemn ceremonies characteristic of
Christian burials, but withoutrite, orprayer, or
tear of regret, were those victims of cupidity
consigned to the bottomless ocean ; cast forth
like so much carrion, to be devoured by the
obscene monsters that people its depths, there
to lie till they shall arise, at the sound of the
fi-rem e, and because we allow them to do it. For I last trump, to bear a terrible testimony against
twenty years past; the people of Georgia, Alabama their murderers
and Mississippi have furnished a large portion ofthe
Capital on which the Carolina Banks have iu great
part subsisted. To speak more correctly, they have
borrowed from us immense sums of money, and have
kept it borrowed from year to year, free of interest.—
We the people of Georgia are not so lucky.
Let me explain the operation. It is iu this wise:
A Bank of South Carolina puts packages of her Notes
At length—that is, on the 3d of January of
the present year—the Stella aud her putrid
cargo reached Basse-terre, Guadaloupe, and
landed four hundred and ninety-seven males
and one hundred and fifty females, the misera
ble remnant of the nine hundred and fifty peo
ple kidnapped from their African homes.—
One-third had passed to rest. Asphyxia, dys-
We are gratified to learn that the orders of teen glasses before he came into Court this
the Department, for tho Vixen to proceed to morning.”
Texas, have been countermanded, and instruc- |
tions issued for
Bar this season-
, . . Spalding Superior Court.—The Spring term of
tions issued for a survey of tho Channel and Spalding Superior Court, commenced on Monday
last. Judge K. G. Cabauiss._ presiding. Tho Judge,
Though we do not doubt the accuracy of the | makes an cxeeellent presiding officer and is a per-
, on ^iRpiol .mm ml! I feet terror to evildoers. We understand that it is
above statement, yet an official■ snney wUJ tll0 Jn d se -, iutontion to elw tbeDoeiccts ir t K>s>ii>le
bring the importance ot the subject to too gg tM present slttlte. For the benefit of parties liti-
prompt notice of the Government, and espe- I gout and the good ofthe country wo hope lie will do
1.. «n!l1 $1*/* ot lout i nil nf All Jilin nn/1 AO.
cinlly will attract the attention of Middle and j so.
East Florida, who have long felt the want of a
Gulf port of capacity adequate to the wants of
their commercial transactions.”
And we, of South-Western Georgia, are.
CoL James H. Lyons, Solicitor General tor the
Flint Circuit is also present. Col. Lyons, so far as
our knowledge extends, is one of tlie best prosecut
ing officers in the State. He comes right up to tho
lug pin, leaving no stone unturned to bring to justice
f n Solicitor General.—Empire State.
. , , . , ,, a I all vioiaters of tho law. The Col. comes up to our
likewise, largely interested in the matter, and no t; ouo f - o-itj 1 r-
if these statements arc proven, after a proper
survey of the Channel, to be correct, will cer
tainly use our best efforts to conduct our rail
road operations iu such a manner as to avail
ourselves of some of the benefits to be derived
from a harbor of such ample capacity for the
accommodation of our commercial interests.—
Wc might enlarge on the importance of this
discovery, but prefer to wait for future devel
opments.—Bainbridge Argus.
'Voting America,
Mother,” said a little girl of twelve here
the other day, “I want to get married.” Hold
our tongue, you silly thing,” exclaimed the
parent. “But you let sister Jane get married
last month, and she wasn't but three years old
er than inj’self. And then there’s cousin Mar-
thj’, only two years and a half my elder,—she
got married lately, you know, and I guess iny
beau is tts smart as her husband is, any day,
so there now.” “Y'our beau !” exclaimed the
maternal one in surprise- “For mercy’s sake,
child, you have not got a beau. 1 hope.” “I
guess 1 have, rna, and a good one, too, :i“ any
girls nt seliool; Jem Cricket is my beau, aud
we’ve been engaged for a long tune.” “In a
year or two, child we’ll think about it; but I
can’t bear to such a tiling now,” returned the ;
parent. “Well, nisi,” replied the hopeful ju-
voniic. poutingly, “if you will not let me get
married, I want you to give me a new patent
skirt, with a self adjusting bustle attached !’’ |
Wonderful Phenomenon.—We learn from Mr.
A. P. Smith, of N. C., that a strange light was seen in
Haywood Ynlley, Chattooga co., last Saturday night
about 9 o’clock.” Mr. S. was on a visitto his brother,
David Smith, nndat tlie time the light appeared, was
sitting out the door, with several friends iu conver
sation. Suddenly tho darkness became illuminated
so intensely as to give well defined shadow* to iso
late objects around, and enable them to see better
than by tlie light of a full moon. Upon looking up
they saw what appeared to ho a globule of fire at a
distance of between a quarter and a half a mile,
about the size of a half bushel measure, from forty
to sixty feet above the ground, of a beautiful brill
iancy very much resembling the head light on a lo
comotive,but much more intense. This light con
tinued for about half aii hour gently moving up and
down having no motion in a horizontal direction.—
From this strange globe of fire little balls were con
tinually shooting up and descending in parabolic
curves much resembling miniature sky rockets.—
After about half an hour this wonderful light rapidly
diminished, and alter a few tiickeriugs, eutirely dis
appeared.—Home Covricr.
It wasn’t bad in a young lady of our ac
quaintance, who when requested by an old
bachelor to take a seat upon his knee, in a
crowded sleigh, replied : “ No, thank you ; I
am afraid such an old scat would break down
with me.”
,Just before you go to bed, eat two pig’s feet
and a fried pie. Iu less than au hour you will
see a snake, larger than a hawser, devouring
light blue-haired children, who have just escap
ed from a monster with sorrel eyes and a red-
hot overcoat.
The President will shortly send to Congress the
few documents Sc possession of the government, hut
not with as reported, n recommendatory message, as
tlie facts are not sufficiently authentic to justify such
a communication.
The steamer Fulton, which was under orders for
the Gulf of Mexico, has received additional instruc
tions. in consequence of the couduct of the British
cruisers, to protect our merchantmen from such out
rages.
General Cass is engaged writing a full statement
of nil the cases which have come to the knowledge
of tho government, and is going into au elaborate
history of the British pretension of tho right of
search, and theutterrepudintiou by this government
of the doctrine nnder any circumstances.
The Cotton 1'Iautcr’s Association.
Mn. Editor—Dear Sir: Please allow the follow-
ing inquiries a place in tlie columns of the Telegraph.
What is the object of tlie “ Cotton Planter’s Asso
ciation of Houston county V Does it propose to
concert some measure by which tlie price of Cotton
wiB be regulated, and thereby better tho condition
of the planter ? If so, by what means is sucli a de
sirable state of affairs to be brought about ? By the
establishment of a bank for the Planter's accommo
dation,or by direct exportation to foreign ports ? Or,
does it propose to meet, appoint Delegates to other
Conventions, make speeches for Buncombe, and to
allow all its anxiety lor tho Planter’s condition to es
cape in “gassy effervescence.” The report of the
last Session certainly indicates the latter.
Will some member of tho Association answer tlie
above, a3 the planting public wishes to know, if it is
the intention ofthe Association to act or talk.
A lesson can bo learned from the late miserable
farce, denominated " Southern Commercial Conven
tion." Lower Eleventh.
Houston County, May 20th, 1839.
The Tender Passion.—Thackeray says, that
“ when a man is in love with one woman in a lamily,
it is astonishing how fond he became of every person
connected with it. Ho ingratiates himself with tho
maids ; ho is bland with tho butler; he interests him
self with the footman : barons ou errands for the
daughters; he gives advice and lends money to the
young son at College, he pats little dogs, wliich lie
would kick otherwise ; he smiles nt old stories,
rhich would make him break out in yawns were they
uttered by any one but papa; ho drinks sweet Port
wine for which lie would curse the steward and tlie
whole committee of a Club : ho bears even with the
cantankerous old maiden aunt; he beats time when
darling little Fanny performs her piece on the piano ;
and smiles when wicked, lively little Hobby upsets
the coffee over his shirt.''
A Horse’s Motto :—Down hill, spare me ;
up hill, it dulge me; on the level, push me ; iu
the stabl i, plenty of oats. It is about time
we understood something about horse-flesh.
into the Carpet Bag of some Cotton speculator, or of entery, fever, and exhaustion from fatigue and
j| j| to” fiagOj ~| Al 1 want of food, had done their office.
But all was not yet over. These six hun
dred and forty-seven wretched beings,, the
majority perfectly naked, a few of the females
only being slightly covered, and none suffici
ently so to save decency, were landed at Bas
se-terre, a remote point of the island of Guad
aloupe. These were captain Bernard’s instruc
tions from Commodore Prote, who appears to
have been ignorant of certain previous arrtinge-
nient with the firm of Labens, Cotlin and Co.,
of Pointe a Pitre, Guadaloupe, and of a local
ordinance, signed Bonfils, which designated
Pointe a Pitre as the only authorised port for
the disembarkation of “immigrants." No ar
rangement had been made at Bassa-terre for
the reception of what our correspondents style
the merchandise."
The place offered uot the smallest accommo
dation. It was a mere quagmire, a mud hole,
aud the poor unfortunates who had survived
the horrors of the middle passage were now
crowded together in a pen, puddling in mire
and filth like cattle at a market. More than
even this, the water of Basse-terre possesses
chemical properties notoriously fatal to per
sons suffering from dysentery, and no other
was obtainable. The place itself, too, was
tho most remote from Pointe a Pitre, iu the
immediate neighborhood of which resides the
planters to whom the “immigrants" had been
allotted. Consequently, the former had to
convey their “ lots ” across the island, in the
condition in which they were, without loss of
time, and in the best way they could. Some
were crowded on board of small coasters un
der the direction of the firm of MM. Mou-
nerot &. Fillet, of La Moule.
Among these coasters was a small schooner,
called La Nouvclle Active, ou board of which
one hundred and five Africans were crowded;
eighty-two in the hold, and twenty-three, for
want of more room, on deck. She left port at
ten in the evening, but in running down the
creek called La Canal des Saintes, she struck
upon some rocks, the position of which was
well known, aud foundered. The eighty-two
Africans in the hold were drowned. Only the
twenty-three on deck escaped with the crew.
The local government at once prohibited tho
newspapers from publishing any account of
tlie catastrophe, and the colony would have
remained ignorant ot' it had not the corpses of
the victims been thrown upon the shore by
the waves, to tell the ghastly tale to the terri
fied population.
Contains—a late Dublin paper, the following
advertisement: “To let, the upper part of the
cellar, to a small family; rent low. I\ S. Privi
lege on the sidewalk for a pig-”
“Father, how many days are there iu 18.531’
said young Hopeful to his paternal ancestor.
Why 385 of course, was the reply. “No there
ain't; forty of’em are Lent."
an Agent in Georgia, to buy Cotton here, or in Al
abarna, as tlio case may be. The Cotton thus ob
tained on credit is hurried off to market, perhaps to
Savannah, aud converted into coin, while their
Notes thus issued have been left in this State to be
used as money among our people. As this opera
tion is carried on in several Southern States, one
can see at a glance how much safer and more reli
able are our own Bank issues, made at home under
our own laws, and based upon solid Capital, and up
on every dollar of which a tax is annually paid into
our own State Treasury. And yet we keep these is
sues of Carolina Bauk paper in circulation, as money
among our people, to the exclusion of just so much
of our own, when ours is better than theirs. So true
is this, that probably one-half of the Bauk paper in
circulation in Georgia during ten years past, has
been from South Carolina. Add their circulation iu
Mississippi, Alabama and Florida, and most of all iu
Carolina, I venture to hope, Mr. Editor, that the
most inexperienced of your reader* will acknowl
edge the justice of my remarks.
The Banks of Georgia have Deen stupid enough to
give credit and circulation to this mass of Carolina
paper by endorsing it over to planters aud others,
as being as good as tlieir own. They have said vir
tually, “we will guarantee it ” now have they said
tills ? They have in every instance received and ta
ken on deposit and in payment, all'the South Caroli
na Bank Notes, not even excepting tlio Bank of New
berry, which I believe lias been twice presented by
the Grand Jury in the county where it is located, as
a nuisance. I think I nm correct in saying that all
tlie Georgia Banks, without exception, have followed
this practice of exchanging tlieir issues for such as
these. They have endorsed and given credit to the
Bank Notes of South Carolina until they hare actu
ally filled the pockets of our people with an irre
deemable currency, to tlie exclusion of one based on,
and redeemable in Gold coin at tho will ofthe hold
er. Now in tho name of common sense, was there
ever a greater piece of lolly ? Banks that pay a
heavy State tax and doing business on a solid specie
basis, thus assisting foreign Banks that pay not one
cent of State tax in Georgia (only a pitiful trifle
on tho issues said to bo actually paid out here) and
actually now refuse to redeem these issues nt homo.
I beg tho officers of our monied institutions to spare
me if I speak plainly. “Faithful are tho wounds of
a friend.” They ought to have had this evil cor
rected lung ago. What apitty they are not as bold
and independent ns they are honest and solvent.
If the Georgia Banks will act unitedly, and issue
simultaneously au) Imperative orders to ill of their
Agents, to refuse now, and forever hereafter, all
Carolina Notes ».ml stick to it, the thing is done.—
Do this, and in six months wo shall >eo only our ownt
money in circulation. Now is the time to strike. It
will bo an act of nice propriety now while tlie credl-
of tho Carolina Banks is so low, to arrest this prac
tice of busing Carolina issues OD Capital borrowed in
Georgia. Once do the thing audit will remain done.
It is a little amusing to look back upon the opera
tions of these non specie payiug Banks of South
Carolina. 1 remember being iu Savauuuh two or
three years ago and hearing of an operation of this
And seen the tears drop on tho
And have felt that religion withhi„ ' tara <*tn,
A life-time of usefulness, Etab® -
1 Ca "a? e ther ° ° ne " ishf ’ t0 be •rreeaedfn
JtiteteSXSlSSssgi'Z''
u,sr' d “
The sire with hands and his heart .
The girl kneeling down by her foK£>i
And dear aged grandma’ ’mid life’s a.. 1 ?? 1 * 1 er *bk»
Formed a picture the mansions ’
see. rif.i,
E’en the silky-eared dog. as it lay neu), ,
And the cat as it qmetiy purred o,. ii!
Always looked more demure in ihpS^Mul,'
prayer, “
And wisely abstained from their fmt; ,
Then tell me no more of your m-ndok. ^ink.
Of their richness, and splendo?«J f,)n ' d ^
rade. ’ “ a ) ^
Of your pinafored chairs standing mam ,, ,
And solas in white pantaleties »U b K!,
ExaiuinititK a Witness
Everybody knows Mr. R„ theratlv •
fui criminal lawyer of Philadelphia,
Mercury, and the peculiar tact with
usually succeeds in eliciting the truth f
witness. He, once in a while, however *
with a queer customer, with whom L,! s
d othiug whatever. ce t4n do
Such a one turned up before aomm.v
magistrate on Thursday last.
was complained of for keeping „ hjJp*
house in Shippen street. Thu compel, J
gaged Mr. R. to attend to hi* case KuT
Doyle through a course of sprouts Thl
witness examined was ConneliusO’Veil w
give his examination by Mr. R. * ' " e
“Do you know the defendant, Dovle
“Xiver a man better.” 1 '
“What kind of a house does he k«o >"
“A brick house.” ^'
tij !” d ° a t “ thBt ’ WLat W iU «-
“Two stories, with aback kitchen that,
on to McGarry’s fence.” J
“You still misunderstand me: I w j s i, •
know the reputation of the house. I* li.j
or bad ?”
“Bad iutirely.”
Hr. E. called the attention of the Court k
this answer, and desired the magistrate tutd"
a note. The magistrate did so.
“What do you mean when you say the ray.
tation of this house is bad ?” ’
“That it has the devil’s own chimney, u.i,
roof that leaks like a sieve.”
You still misunderstand me, Mr. O’Neil.—
Let -us try again. What kind of people via
the house ?”
‘Men and women.princtpally; at least thtfi
the only kind I ever met there.”
‘Well, what kind of women are they l”
‘Female women, as nearly as IcouIdjnJ^:'
‘Well, what is their character?”
Only one of them has the article.”
The Court will please note that. Onlyow
of the females has a character. Andtrhici ou
is that ?”
“A young lady by the name of Bridget &•
Shane.”
“She, you think, has a character?"
“Think! I know it. I sawit, on Monday."
“Saw what ?”
“Her character. It was written by Father
Daley with a goold pen.”
“You still persist in misunderstanding me.-
Let us try once more. Have you ever sea
women of the town at Doyle’s ?’’
“No, sir, not of the town, but a raft ofthm
from the country.”
“By women ofthe town, Mr. O'Neil, lt«i
common, vicious women.”
“What do ye say?”
“I say bad women. Have you never sea
such women drinking and dancing at Dovl- '-~
“Ah! musha, listen to that! An’ is it tie
likes of Doyle that would allow sttchpeoplett
misuse his shop ? By the powers of CVonwri-
if his boy Mick was here, but he’d twist yu
nose till ye could use it for a gimlet.”
“But ”
“Arrah! go away wid you, you bltdftt"
—to say that of a dacint man. If it
for molestin’ the court I’d peel me catt al
make a flounder of ye in less time than* **
key could ate a thistle.”
Here Mr. 0’Neilbccamesoexrited,thilik
R. told him that he could stand aside to naif
room for the next witness.
The case resulted in a verdict of •cquitui.
Artesian Well at Louisville-
Salt Water Found.—Our enterprisingk-
low citizen*. U L A. A. 1'. Dupont,*»««
fur seme months been hoi ing ::a A" - \
to supply their paper mill with water, hare 2 - 1
reached the depth of 1,700 feet They “?
penetrated a reservoir of salt water- --• --
from this great depth will send up * rtre-’ 0 1
the top of a mill, about fifty feet above t-es-
face of the earth. The subterranean i- 1 ’
of this column of water may be said to te str "'--
enough to throw it up 120feet,sincetMP
ent stream is borne through a bed '
feet deep, after it leaves the orifice m the ■■ - ■
before it reaches the surface ofthe es--
is then forced 50 feet above (he surface “ 1
earth. It is possible that the stream u
now running from the well might be
much higher if noue of its force were lo* • .
tube through which it passes is oul J ."V .[A
diameter, while the bore of the we
and a half inches. This small tube. ^
end wrapDed round so as to enlarge ^
serlcd in the bore. Of course the _ ^
cannot he water proof, and much ot t- —
up the stream is losk
tube the size of the bore, closely t - ^
larger volume of water might be °b
decidedly salty. The temperature w*s
enlieit, while that ofthe air was*.""
:uce of 9. The Messrs. Dawn*
letermined what they will do, but t 11 •
ty is that they will go deeper. Mr.
their superintendent, thinks there ■> ^
reservoir at the depth of 2-300^^,!
drain from the Benson Hills, that • . ,
better. They will decide in a * ti ,:
whether they will bore into this deep -
voir.—Louisville Courier^ .
Discovered-
Post, of t
I,. Ill
A Cave
The New York Evening
has the following. .
Great excitement has been ere® 1 ^ ( -
lyn by the announcement ofacu u >
Greenwood entrance. Thonsandshwe .
flocked to see it. The discovery ™ ^ t
two boys connected with Id h . eE ,r*u'
who were playing on n hill “ . meD t p
to Greenwood, when the , ji,.
way and they fell, and dtscotm,e>
to acave. The boys ned u P° n j , 0 eip^
ed some gentlemen, who procee , ' , ntrS i> -
the place. About 10° lcc . t . fr V^ lv 'jails'
they found a large room, with* *06*^
upon which were numerous bott c
of liquor ami some empty-. , n ‘ >
the room was a table eontaiDWj-i ; ,
large lantern was suspended no- ^ t
After being in the cave a^_-“. v;CiH , ....
gentlemen heard a Lornia noise. “S.l h :. iV:
from human beings or TOm l)u
ed them to beat a retreat. been
The length ofthe cave hasnotr, , ;K ,.. •
tained- The purpose tor whu-lD .?^ ,,
used is a subject ot much discu^ ^,
general supposition is that it
robbers.