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IfIMA ۥ ItEID, Editor.
W M. JEFFEIt'iO'V, Publisher.
Grecnesboro’ Oa. march 88, 1860.
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] ~ . last Notice. “ 3
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tle up tbeif accounts at on ce, as we need the
- njoaey, and are desirous of closing up the
Bookk,fbr that year. This is our last notice,
and those who do not pay us in a few weeks
-fripn this date, will find their accounts in the
hands of an officer for collection.
W. M JEFFERSON & BRO.
... .March 14th, iB6O.
vs. T- / - • “ ’ j"T* T
S:\3F~ See new Arlvfcrtisoments, of Mc-
Ca>H Horton & Cos; Grocers, and of
•• . Henry J,-Gabo'•ne Jewellei.
GP A negro house f Prof. Willet tin !
* was burnt Sunday morning. The
” wind blowing in the opposite direction, was
Jill that saved the Professor’s residence.
nr A communication'lias been received 1
renewing Josiali, hut ns he has not seen
P so reply to several of the same charac- I
“ter which have been already published,
we decline letting it appear, at least for
the present.
rcr Several houses were dostroved by !
!* in Lincolnton last Friday. The ex'-
plosion of the powder in one of the stores
was so violent as to shatter all the window
in the village,
WGPAn absense frofn Greenesboro last i
* wreck, prevented our calling attention to’
some beautiful lines, written expressly for
. .-our paper, and which no doubt were read
with pleasure and admiration by all of our
•übjeribers. Wo hope that wo win soon
be favored from the same quarter again.
Nemo,” writing troin Wasliington
City to the Charleston Mercury, thinks that
Douglas will probably start in the Conven
tion with seventy-five votes, and may run”
up to a hundred, and that bis nomination
.-is out of the question.
*’ t ip “* ‘
~,.-._Phco a citizen of oar town* and lis
wifo were arrested late yesterday event g
and com-milted on a cba'ge of Aison.—
r, They are suspected, out of some piqre 1
“against Mr. Timisnn, to have set on fire
-a pile of. liis lumber Tuesday night, from
’ . which the first store was burnt.
* < Presen (men Is of the Grand Jury.
On account of several errors in the Pro
■ . *
sentments of the Grand Jury which we
published hist week that escaped our nn
, tire, wo ptihiisli them corrected in this
wfcne.
- • We are Under obligations to one of the
Grand Jurors for calling our attention to
these errors.
V T e a>’e glad to see that the ‘ Georgia
.Clipper” lias weighed anchor again.—
v • From the last number, we loam that Brink
ley who killed Baker not long ago lias
‘lias been admitted to bail in the sum of
three thousand dollars, and that old Jerry
Pilcher of Glasscock Comity died at bis
residence on the 18th. The Editor in
commenting npon the late fire in Warrcn
toti, reaommends obtaining a fire engine,
and a few books unci ladders, and the or
ganization of companies for each. Do
sve need such companies here, or if organ
ized would they go the way of the “Daw
son jutnlk!”
Hygienic & Literary magazine.
The January number of this Periodical
lias been laid upon our table by one of its .
..•contributors. It is published in Atlanta of
T|iis Spate. Mr. Malsby is its editor and
•first Hygienic, the second Literary and the
third Educational. Wo suppose that ‘bo
articles in the first will be of interest, not
* only to professional men but. to a large
s’ class of readers concerned for their own
~ health and that of their families.
Madame Le Verve, claiming to be a na
* -ti daughter of the South, enters upon her
position of Editress of the Literary Do- :
parturient with a graceful and handsome sa
lutatory.
Thu Educational Department contains,
as it appeals from its Index, eight articles,
among them “Mental Soil,” Education bet
ter than Gold” and “Dictionary of Love,”
Vais last, rather a queer title for an article
v in this department, to- it is the opinion of
-moat, that such information as is there giv
en may be safely left to intuition.
* All success to any who endeavor, in
earnest, to give us readable journals.
■ “ it- *T w . V a *
* Traly Extraordinary if Correctly Re
ported.
‘i'r'So say s the Atlanta Intelligencer in its;
remarks upon a letter from 11. 11. TANARUS., which
came out in the Christian In lex, reporting
a discovery on link Lankford’s plantation,
. : ift this county, of a cave of tolerable di
menaintn-. with all the geological wnndeis
* of atalactites and stalagmite*, besides the !
IxAft'Af camirora. rumwnUa, Ac. Tl.o j
jwlpda affair ik an unmitigated lmax m.d
cannot be used as a “strong proof of that
jgrejik change of lemperdtnro. and of the
distribution throughout the 1
earth. g?<> legists have elsewhere j
obtained swab abundant testimony"—nor |
1 will tbe diene Tory taka u* back “to a far ■
distant epotb—pic bald yto a peri'd long !
anterior to the creation of man—possibly
to n time when tlnf enrib’s ecliptic was
materially variant from its present decli
nation, or the equator was different ”
Kirk Lankford is a “Brother” of the
; drinking persuasion, and about the only
i cave be lias over explored, lias been some
I well that needed cleaning out.
We have learned, that Prof. Tucker of
1 Mercer University is quite outraged, as lie
well may be, at the audacious use of his in
itials, by the person who contributed this
wonderful informalion to the Index.
Fire in Greenesboro.
On Tuesday morning between one and
two o’clock the Store of Johnson !c Porter
was discovered to be on fire. Messrs. Jones
and Johnson the clerks were not awakened
till the fire lia-i ma'ie considerable progress,
and bad barely time to remove the blot
ter for this year, with a few other articles.
The store of Davis & Brother, towards
which the wind was blowing, was soon
blazing, but >-y this time sufficient assis
tance bad assembled to get out a large por
tion ot t cir goods. Both of the stores
were completely consumed. The brick
house of John Cunningham joiiTing the
first store on the west, tenanted by Messrs.
Willis Powers and Price,had nothing stand
ing in a few hours but its walls. We can
not estimate the lose of those in the house,
just mentioned; it was considerable for
nearly everything in it was burnt. About
fifteen thousand dollars worth of property
of Johnson & Porter, and about nine
teen of Davis & Brother, were destroyed.
Cunningham’s house was worth we sup
pose hundred or four thous
and dollars. # Johnson & Porter were in
sured seven thousand, Davis & Brother
fifteen thousand, and this is the entire s
mount thus protected.
The fire lias evidently been the work of
some incendiary. There was no fire, when
Johnson & Porter’s clerks were awakened,
in the only fire place in which there bad
been fire that night in the stun , and two
persons who first took the alarm, assert
that the store wa3 burning t:i (lie outside,
the weatherboarding having been evident
ly fired at the ground. The Iron Safe of
Johnson & Porter (Herring’s patent) pre
served its cm tents well, the books being
only scorched a litlle. About one lmn
j ■
dred dollars of bank bills in it received no
j n jury.
I The thanks and grntitado of the
i whole town are due some of our citizens
i whose untiring energy’ arrested the spread
ot the flames. Nothing short of their mi
raculous efforts saved the store of
Howell & Nearv, which joined Johnson
& Porter on the North. Among the most
deserving we notice and commend Messrs.
Bislioff, Nuonsehuionder, Latimer, Grogan,
Jones and Funk, and we do hope, that oth
ers will not feel disparaged because wc for
get to mention them. The Negroes work
ed faithfully and well. Thompson’s Gro
cery was mainly preserved by them. The
Architect of-the Presbyterian Church,
now nearly finished, on bis liasty arrival
found bis negro Alex, on the roof of the
’ Church with a bucket of water guarding it
; as if’ it were bis own.
How little did we foresee how close vre
were to such a terrible fire here, when wo
commented on the remarks of the “Clipper”
this week.
UTThe expenses of cur city government,
including hire of negroes with their main
tainance, hire cf horses with superintend
ence of Marshal, salaries of Secretary
and Marshal, amount paid for waking the
Athens, Sparta, Madison, Washington and
Poweiton roads, nearly a hundred dollars
for an extra Police not long ago. together
l with “contingent expenses,” have been,
during the year ending the first of next
! month, near, or quite, fourteen hundred
1 dollars. To raise the necessary sum a Poll ]
Tax of two dollars and a-lialf. and an c.d
j-aforem of one dollar and a-half on the,
thousand, wero levied. What do we get
in return 1 Is city property better protcct
] ed than that of our cotintymeii living more
than one mile fioni the Court House ?
Or is peace and quiet here better preserv
ed by a Council than they wore before our
incorporation? About all that can be said
in favor of our continuing to remain incor
porated, is that, by doing so, we are ex- |
rnipted from Road ana Patrol duty. This 1
seems paying dear for the whistle.
It is high time that Greenes bo re should
weigh the question, whether it would not
be ns well to surrender up its corporate
rights, which are rather showy and expen
sive privileges than real and solid advan
tages, a.id let the county work the roads:
to the Court-House, leaving the protection j
of the property of its citizens and the se- j
curing of their peace aud quiet to the law j
which is the common safeguard of all. trust-1
ing, particularly to the Grand Juries of]
! Greene, who have become notoriously I
strict in bringing all offenders to punif.li- j
moot. Other country-towns in Georgia!
are still surviving and doing well, although 1
they have been all along unoppicssed by 1
J 3 city government,
1 Gcnfrousdffd.auJ an Eloquent Speech.
We publish below, a notice by the Cru - ]
I mrder, of the eloquent speech made by
| Mr. Stephens here at Inst court, in defence
of Mrs, Lewis. The speech was not only
eloquent convincing and pathetic, hut pos
sessed nearly every other attribute of* good
1 speech, and its rftcct was undoubtedly
1 brightened, because every ore present
could but see, that it was eutirely unpre
meditated. That bis client was not con
victed was a great triumph fir the advo
cate surely, as the Jury who
sat upon her trial acquainted with her, were
justly incensed against her notorious disre
gard of every rule of decency and pro
priety.
“During thesessiou of the Superior Conit
for Greene- county, which came ofl’ fast
week a poor and down-trodden young wo
man was brought into the Court House to
defend her character against the charge of
adultery. In a flood of tears, she announc
ed to the humane Judge that she had no
counsel and was not able to employ any,
but wished to see Mr. Stephens. He was
in an adjoining room, and upon hearing the
request of tlie lady, came forwaitd, and
with characteristic magnanimity most
cheerful y took charge ot her case. After
the Slate's evidence was concluded, (tire
defenuent introduced none) the ingenious
aud able Solicitor Genetal, opened the ar
gument with a painted speech, the woman
all the time weeping bitterly. His speech
was short and to point, and in the minds of
many bearers, established the guilt of the
untortunate female. But after tie find con
cluded, Mr. Stephens rose, whet), notwith
standing the great crowd crammed and
jammed into the room, having hocked in
is always the case when a woman is on
trial), many of them, to hear and laugh,
the most profound stillness pervaded the
crowded throng. With his musical and
thrilling voice, he opened his argument
With the most eloquent, convincing and
pathetic exordium we have ever heard in
a court room. As he advanced, many
eyes filled with tears, and ’lie heavy laden
heart of the poor, accused and friendless
girl, seemed to throw off its burden, and
was want to sing with joy. The speaker
seemed to teniae that he was pleading the
cause of oppressed woman, and although
he became her champion without a mo
ment's warning, or a minute to prepare for
the and fence, his speech throughout, was
the very embodiment of eloquence. We
have heard the lion, gentleman oftentimes
before, but in truth, do net believe lie ever
equalled bimselt on tins occasion. *Jt is
needless to say be convinced the whole
room of the injustice in the prosecution. >
While speaking of Mr. Stephens’ orato
ry, we take this occasion to say, that his
style is much purer than we have ever
known it in a political campaign. ILs
voice seems to possess more volume, more
music, and less of the sing song intonation,
and with these improver, i-uts, we think
him the greatest Orator of the age.”
The Charleston Mercury thus sums tip
“the actings ami doings’’ of the American
squadron m the harbor ot Vera Cruz.
The facts appear to be these: Vera
Cruz,.now in the hands of Juarez, is be
sieged by General Miramon, bis opponent
in tlie strile tor predominance, in Mexico.
These steamers were a part of Genera!
-M Iran uni’s force to reduce Vera Cruz.
They were armed lit Havana, and came
into the. harbor ot Vera Cruz under no
colors. Tire reason why they displayed
no colors is obvious. If they had displayed
the Mexican colors, they would have, at
tracted the fire of tire Castle ol Juan
and l iloa, and they bad no rigljj to assume
any other. Having pass _<[ successfully
tire Castle, with but <\to shot Irani the
Castle, to call upon them to display their
colors, they anchored in the hay. At
three o’clock at night the American Oom
inodnre.or.lers the American sloop-of-war
Saratoga, and the steamers Jndutuola and
The Ware, to proceed to the anchorage of
the -Mexican steamers. On hearing the.
anchorage, one of the Mexican steamers
probably taking the alarm, raised her
anchor and moved off, and a shot is tired r-t
her by the Saratoga, it is said, across her
bows; but this could not lu;vc been seen
by the Mexican steamer in the darkness of
the night. The Indiana!a is sent up to
her so overhaul tier, and her it nil is very
naturally ans .ered by a volley ot musket
ry. The Saratoga then poured into the.
Mexican steamer a broadside, and a getler
al tight takes place.
The fotlowin is from the Savannah
Mofning News, under the head of Wash
ington Gossip:
lu the meantime, Mr. D >uglas, admon
ished of liis inevitable failure ibis time, is,
we are informed, mustering bis forces in
favor, as the second resort of Andre w
j Jackson, late Governor of Tennessee, and
at present a Senator from that State. He
1 is a self-macie, and very popular man. It
is supposed that from the fact that lie-’ is
really the author of the Homestead hill
ptvjfc*, bo would take fire wind out of the
striD of the republican party in the Noith
upon that question; but as the agrarian
scheme of free farms to all squatters on the
public lands is resisted by all parties in the
South, and as it will receive no counten
ance from the Democratic Convention,
Gov. Johnson, on this subject, will hatfdly
| touch bottom at Charleston. But should
1 Gen. Lane teel compelled to vote for that
measure, now pending in tlie Senate, then
the forces of Mr. Douglas, as between
Johnson add Lane, may r e competent to i
make a -very interesting and doubtful I
struggle for the nomination.
Toe policy of Mr. Douglas in providing
to lull back upon Johnson is this; John
son is a Southern man, and it nominated
] he will leave the field open tor a North
| western man (Mr.Douglasj ir: ISG4; wlierc
i as. should Gen. Lane, a Northwestern man, ;
: be nominated now, the South will claim :
I the candidate for the succession; and thus j
] Mr. Douglas will be set aside lor eight j
| years, at the end of which time, under the i
; pressure of new issues, uew men and new
j party organizations, he may he completely
! fossilized.
But this very consideration of setting
j aside Mr. Douglas for eight years is oper- ;
j a'uig among bis Southern rivals aud op-j
j ponci.U to strengthen the movement in
j favor of “Old Joe,” a# General Lane is
I familiarly called by ‘•ilia boys.” On the
| other hand, we may depend upon it that
: if the Douglas men can command, as they
! probably will, sometliing over one-third
of the Convention they will adhere, ns
the last alternative, In the polity of keep
ing the field open for their champion in
1864, by the nomination this time of a
Mottfltarii trait,
News Items.
A proposition is favored in Arkansas to
grant SIO,OOO per mile to the rail roads
within the State, making an aggregate lorp
of 310.000,000.
The Chronicle & Sentinel reports from
the Memphis Bulletin the burning of the
steamer Persia at that place on Friday
night. Two persons lost their lives and
the loss of the boat with its cargo of cotton
is estimated at $25,000.
The Congressional News is unimportant.
On tiie 26th a resolution introduced in the !
House instructing the Judiciary Commit
tee to report a bill interdicting slavery
where Congress has power was negatived
by 46 majority.
It is rumored in Washington City that
General Cameron will co-operate with
Seward to carry Pet.-nsiyvania for him.
Wisconsin has abolished the system of
collecting debts by execution.
After five years struggling Barntim lias
completely emerged finin his. “Jerome
Clock Company” pecuniary difiieulies.
BT The Charleston Mercury thus vin-1
dicau-8 the, hotel-keepers of that city :
“The Convention was called and the day
fixed without the least communication with
tlie proprietors of our hotels ; still, if they
had made no preparations for increased ac
commodations. and had turned away ap
plicants after tliwr rooms were filled, the
cry and condemnation would be much great
er than it is now. The Chairman of the
Executive Committee of the National Dem
ocratic party, Judge D. A Smalley, of
Vermont, was here, after the assembling I
of the Committee at Washington in Decem
ber last, made bis arrangements tor the
lure of the hall, See., freely conversed with
reference to J.lie projected arrangements and
made no objection. Immediately upon his
departure, our leading, hotels commenced
leasing halls and other suitable apart
ments for lodgers. For these, in several
instances, they have been charged fifty dol
lars per day, and in every instance large
amounts for'rent. These buildings have
been leased from the Ist of April. For
tfie proper fitting up of tliee apartments,
■bedding has been provided to a great ex
tent, besides a large amount of extra bed
ding in the hotels; servants hired to at
tend to them, and every possible step taken
to secure the anticipated crowd. They
have made no secret of their labors, and
have, iii ample time, fixed their price for
i bon id and the enjoyment of those comforts
which'.heir enterprise and a lavish exjien
ditme of money has provided. Upon a
little reib'etion it will be found in no wise a
disgraceful speculation or an inconsiderable
charge upon gentlemen who must come
here. The several delegations who have
already secured quarters, have, in no in
stance, objected to these charges, of which
they have been fully informed. After the
departure of this crowd, the bods and bed
ihvig, See., must be disposed of at half price.”
Colton.
The movement in England in relation
to Cotton, must ever possess a strong inte
rest in this country, the more especially
as.the increase of the staple in India is just
now beyond all precedent. According to
information from Bombay, the exports ol
Cotton, last year, to Europe, were six bun
dled and twenty-three thousand six hun
dred and 5 bales, being an increase over the
preceding year's exports of two hundred
! and eighty-six thousand t lit oe hundred and
I fifty two bales. There were also exported
from Bombay to China, in 1850. one hun
dred and sixty-one thousand nine hundred
and sixteen bales. The total exports of
Cotton Irom B nnbay alone, last year, were
seven hundred and eighty-five thousand
five hundred and twenty-one bales, against
four hundred arid fifty-oeveii thousand two
iiucdred and ninety-seven bales in ISSB !
Calculating the price of Surat Cotton in
Liverpool at eight cents a pound, the raw
Cotton export trade of India, parsingthrongli
Bombay, is worth tw-iitvfive millions of
dollars annually ! Then (ho Cotton from
Africa is turning out well, ami largely ai g
rrienting under the patronage of Manchester,
Mr. Laird has just stated to the Cotton
Supply Association of Liverpool, that gins
and presses alone were wanted to procure
plenty of dean Cotton front the Niger
District, as the raw material there is abun
dant. The clean I otton, which in Africa
cost him from ‘.wo to four cents per pound
was valued by the Association at fourteen
cents. This information can hardly tail to
j prove interesting to our Southern readers,
especi. lly when it is remembered that the
consumption of Cotton in England has in
creased more than one-third in sixteen years.
Last year England was supplied with one
million eight hmi lied and fifty-nine thou
sand eight hundred and thirty-eight bales,
weighing one billion one hundred and
ninety-two millions of pounds,—Philadel
phia Enquirer.
ibrisfianitj'.
It arose in an enlightened and sceptical
age, but among a despised and narrow
minded people. It earned hatred and
| persecution a; home by its liberal genius
j and opposition to the national piejuiiices ;
j it earned contempt abroad by its cornice
| tiiHi the country where it was born, but
I which sought to strangle it in its biith.—
| Emerging fiotn Judea, it made its way on
| ward through the most polished regions of
j the world—Asia Minor. Egypt, Greece,
i Rome, and in all it attracted notice and
; provoked hostility. Successive measures
I aud attempts at extermination, persecuted
I for ages by the whole force of the Roman
j empire, it bore without r?sistance, and
I seemed to draw fresh vigor from the axe;
j but assaults in the way of argument, from
| whatever quarter, it was never ashamed or
| unable to repel, and whether attacked or
j not it was resolutely aggressive. In four
centuries it bad pervaded the civilized
, world. It had mounted th<> throne of the
Ca-sars, it had spiead beyond the limits of
their sway, and had made inroads upon
barbarian nations whom their eagles had .
never visited ; it had gathered all genius \
i and all learning into itself, and made the |
I literature of the world its own; it survived .
the mundntiomot the I aibwiun tribes -and .
canon, red the world once more by con- j
! verting its conquerors to the Inith; it sur- ,
vived an age of barbarism, it survived the
restoration of letters; it survived nn age of I
! free inquiry and skepticism and has long
I (tend it* ground in the field of argument.
and commanded the intelligent assent of
the greatest minds that ever were; it has
been the parent of civilization and the i
nurse of learning; and if light and humani
ty, and freedom he the boast ot modern j
Europe, it is to Christianity that she owes
them. Exhibiting in the life of Jesus a
pictuie, varied aud minute, of the peifect
human united with the Divine, in wliic'i
the mind of man has not been ale to find
a blemish—a picture copied from no mod
el and rivaled by no copy—it has satis
fied the moral wants ol the naked, it has ac
commodated itself to every period and to
every clime; and it has retained, thiough
every change, a salient spring of life,
which enables it to throw oil corruption
and repair decay, and renew its youth,
amidst outward hostility and inward divi
sions.
A Novel Verdict. —A rather curious
case was decided last week in Urbana,
Ohio :
The plaintiff Jane Brush, alleged that
she was the wife of one Red Brush, an in
tßniperate man, aud the defendant, I’eter
Lawson, though cognizant of the habits of
her husband, sold him a pint of whiskey
onthe29:li of April last, in violation of
law, will! which lie became intoxicated,
and in his drunken fury chopped off the
left foot of the plaintiff. In compensation
for this she asked damages in the sum ot
§20,000. Tlie defendant denied the alle
gations, atid introduced testimony to sub
stantiate liis denials, and further offered to
prove the immoral character of the plain
tiff, blit the court decided that evidence on
the latter point was inadmissible. The
jury gave a veidict of $5,000 damages.
| Slavery in 1715—The following are
j some statistics i t the “old colonial days,
when our sober, discreet, and pious ances
tors of the northern and eastern States
were slaveholders, as well .is those of the
Sout h.” One hundred aud forty-five years
ago, in the reign of George tlie First, the
ascertained population of the continental
colonies was as follows :
White M on. Negro Slaves.
New Hampshire 9,500 150
Massachusetts 94,000 2.000
Rhode Island 7,500 500
Connecticut 46,000 1,500
New York 27,000 4.000
New Jersey 21,000 1,500
Pennsylvania 43,300 2,500
Maryland 40,700 9,500
Virginia 72,000 23.000
North Carolina 7,500 3,700
South Carolina 6,250 10,500
Total 375,750 55.550
Bkai tiki I, Allegory.— Mr.Crittenden
was once engaged in defending a man who
had been indicted for a capital offence.
After an elaborate and powerful defence lie
closed his effort by the following striking
and beautiful allegory :
•When God in his eternal counsel C0I) .
ceived the thu't of man’s creation, ne cal
led to him tlie three ministers w | lo w .,; t
constantly upon the throne —J nsticp, Truth
and Mercy, and thus siddrc jSe( | them :
‘Shall we make man ?’ Then said Jnstiee
•Oh, God make him no'., t or | 1(! will trample
upon they laws.’- -Truth made answer
also, ‘()h God n ake him not, for he will
pollute they so actuaries.’ But mercy drop
ping down l’.pon her knees, and looking up
through uer tears, exclaimed, ‘Oh God,
make aim—l will watch over him with my
care through all the dark paths which he
may have to tread.’ Then Got made
man and said to him, Oh .man, thou art
the child of Mercy, go and deal withs! y
brot her.’
The jury, when ho had finished, were
drowned in tears, and against evidence,
aud what must have been tluir own con
viction, brought m a verdict of not guilty.
Indian Rhetoric —One of the Pen
obscot Indians recently appealed to the
Maine Legishituie to build anew school
house, and thus figuratively described the
old one : * I’iie building has become bald
with age, and weeps now, within and with
out, in every r.tin,and is ragged and tat
tered as a dead poplar in the woods.’
•Tis sweet to hear the watch-dog’s honest
bark,
Ray deep-mouthed welcome as we draw
near home;’
But it's the devil to hear when on the, in
side ot a plank fence, ten feet high, with
no larger aperture than a knot hide.
Which five unities m early scripture indi
cate corporal punishment ! Adam, Seth,
Eve, Cain, Abel.
• -W> .. ■’
Steam on Common Roads.— By late
advices from England, we learn that the
Messrs. Whitham & Son, of Leeds, Eng
land, have recently constructed, and slop
ped for San Francisco, Oak, one ot Bar
ran s traction engines for common roads.
It is then to le resliipped from thence n-
I'olliid Cape St. Lucas, through the Gult ot
California, and up the Colorado River to
Foit Yuma, firm whence it goes’ inla'hd
some thirty miles to tne borders of the
Great Desert. Its purpose is to travel
sixty miles buck and forth actors this
Desert, carrying its own water, and con
veying ore from and provisions to the
Lariposa copper i ines, a work hitherto
and at present done by mules, driven by
halt breed Mexican Indians. It drew tiiir
ty-five tons of pig iron and 120 men, at
the rate of five miles per hour ou a level
road.
Are there no traction, engines in Ameri
ca ! Why this great expense ot ship
ment 1
Pius the St nth the Last Pope. —There
is, aud lias been for years, a curious tradi
tion,! n Italy -that Pius the Ninth would
he the last Pope; and. in illustrat'oti of
this, I will repeat an anecdote related, to
me by a friend ot mine. Several years
ago, in the Ponficatc of Gregory XVI this
gentleman was in the Cathedral ot Siena,
looking at the busts of the Popes which
are placed, after their deaths, in a niche
devoted to the purpose. The empty nich
es then alone remained. “Why,” said my j
friend, “there is only room for two nioie
busts ; you will have to make some i,idles
tor those of the future Popes.” “Oh, no !
j signore, ’replied the cicerone, ‘they say after ;
these two we shall never have any mole
Popes.” Gregory's bust now stands in one ‘
of these niches; the other is I believe'still j
empty.
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isb A Mr. Price, a Lacofoto County
I reasurer of Wisconsin, has hri nwav.j
lie la a Lneoforo Price current.— I'n nt.re
At the celebration of tlm last Birth Day
of Calhoun, by the students of South Caro
| lina college, the following Ode composed
I by Mr. A. McQueen of the Senior Class
for the occasion was sung:
Carolina! raise the pean,
Bring the laurel, wreathe the bay,
Scatter incense on the altar,
Hail with joy tlie natal day!
Living—we, w ith honors crowned the#;
Dying—tears-bedewed thy tomb;
Now we glorify thy spirit.
Ever-living, great CaUHNIX !
When the storm, oppression wakenef.
Raged throughout our native land.
Thou didst speak—the storm subsided.
Peace ensued at thy command. “
No pollution brooked thy presence;
No ambition lured.thee on:
Thou didst rise, and set in splendor.
An unclouded spotless sun.
Carolina, hear! lie speaketli:—
“Bow not to tli* oppressor’s rod,
V Dtw the sword, gird on your armor;
Trust injustice, trust in God!
Burst the galling chain that binds thee
To the body of this death !
Rally round your lone Palmetto,
Freedom yield but with thy breath !”
Macait.ay and Mas. Beecher Stowe.
Notwithstanding Macaulay's reputation for
conversational powers, he ap pears to hxv*
uttered tew bon mol's, to have made few
conversational points whir h are repeated
and rememberer: One of flic very few*
good stories current of him is the following; .
It is sii.l he met Mrs. Beecher Stowe at
Sir Charles Trevelyan’s, and rallied her
on her adnvifation ot Cjiiafespi-artv. “Which *
of his characters do you like hestil’\sa.id he.
•‘Desdcmona,” so iff the ladj. “Ah, of.
course,’ was the reply, “ien she was the t
only one who rat. after a l>tk man.”
Sad Acciok'. ]•.—Yesterday mqrning,
*wo ot the wo Rtnen engaged on the new
Mason'ii: Hull, on 1) j tutor Street, were,
arranging a pmce of scaffolding,. 4ij,
from the ground, a •prr.tioit.of,tins gang
way, prec\ pi rating to the earth, in-
Hiding serious Armiudk on Jioth. Their
names Mre John George and Jerry Cunt tit
1 hey were, promptly charge of kv
their friends, t.'acaii wounds dressed, vail
everything was dome that c mid be to alle.
vie t their sufficing*--. Atlanta Cwifninm
cy, 2C'th. i
Cure for B.one Felon. —Take a piece of
rock salt about the size of a butternut
wrap it. in a cabbage leaf, if to be had; if
not, in ;i piece of wet, brown paper, and
covet it wircoals, as you would* to roast
an union.. After it has been roasting about
twent y minutes take it from tiie lire aful
pewfier it very fine. Mix it with as ninety
c jnimon soap as will make a salve. If
soap he not pretty strong of
which may he, known by the smell—then,
add a little turpentine. Apply the- salve,
to the part afiected. In the ceKiise. o$ a.
few hours—sometimes in a few uuniitt>s
the pain will he relieved. After this, if
suppuration takes place, it must he trea'eff
like a common sore. ’
Toe Ptiler Plough had a tnol near
the fair-giminds Inst Saturday, There*,.*
about thirty gentlemen present, among
whom were solid and euterpiising agaicu!-
turahsts. I’lie Bateau of the S-tate Agri
cultural S.ifieiy was represented m a com
tint tee— Messrs. McG.ivnck, Eifistnn ami
Owens, W e have „..j heard tj.eir award.
L nougli the patentee had put forth * i hd
h-nge, to: competition ip the papers, tor
several lays, only one or two appeared
on the field. Ihe Beeler plot gl.i performed
| .-.dinirahly, combining hghtness nf hr light
With good working qualities. The o her
p oiigns we did not team the name of;
i they also i:id well. The ground was rather
wet.*
HP* IToney Dew Bison t. —One cup
fresh butter, one cup loaf sugar one
ounce honey (melted with the comb.)
six drops oil cinnamon one cep sour cream,
two cups Hi,nr, one teaspoonful soda (rid
bed diy in the Hour.jHmlf teaspoonful salt
in the, cream, one egg— Mix tho, o tghly ;
bake in a hot oven 25 minutes. Eat with-,
c ‘hi fruit and cream.
Rock BUscriTs.—l’ivo yolks and two ,
whites of eggs, beat halt an hour with a
wooden spoon ; add one, pound of lump r
sugar, bruised, not very tine, and beat with,
the ‘ggs ; then add one pound of Hour and;
a few caraway seeds. Mix all together.
I’ut it with a fork on the tins, making it
look as rough as possible;’ B.ak% them in
a quick oven
Corn Cookings. -One, cup ofsonr cream,.
half cup of butter,, one cup of sugar, one
cup of Hour, two cups of corn meal, one
teaspoonful of soda (rub in the flour dry,)
half teaspoonful of salt, one egg. half nut
meg. Pot nil in together, mix with a
spoon until it becomes a light- fojm; bake
in a hot oven 25 minutes. Heat with tart
prererves for tea.—They,are delicious.
Crinoline is more potential than
one could have expected, the mania for it
having extended to the women of Kaffre
laml, Africa, who iiavc recently set thv*,d
Mack hearts upon the greatest possible cir
cumference of skirt. These darkies use. iron
wire, and they get enough o£‘ h, for six- 1
pence to give them all the inflation us pet
ticoat their hearts can desire.
•Mv First Kissi.*‘-T*She put wun arm
around my neck, and totter wun where the
circingle goes round a boss, tuk the inturn
on me with her lelt foot, and gin me a kiss.
—M.V toes felt as if minuors were nihblin
at uin-r-a cold streak run tip and down
rhy hack like a lizard with a turkey-hen
after him in settiu time, and my stuuunick
was hot and unsatisfied like.
•Talk of the inferiority of the fewtkn
maid!’ exclaimed an exdted woman>
rights oratnrian. *Wby, Mr. President,
women possess infinitely more of the divine
afflatus than mei, and any one who attempts
to get around her in these days will have
I to start very early in the morning.’
: nr rim Greonsboro’ Gazette has been
discontinued, and tlie Planter’s Weekly
j takes its place. Tho latter is a much bet
| ter lo >kiiig sheet than the former.—Gear
[ gin (JHpper.
I3T V tnnn in Cleveland. Ohio, applied
! to h Justice recently for an exeentioeto
levy upon the wooden leg of I nfan 11 *
I owed hurt four djdlnrs. No constable C''nhi
he found to arc* ‘he sfltWHi