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•* * BY W.M. JEFFERSON & CO. VOLUME 3. SUSGBLLANRQES. Hope And Faith. The sun shines dimly from the sky, The forest leaves are tinged with brown -And Autumn winds go moaning bj, And Autumn leaves come rustling down The flowers have faded from the hill, The birds have sought some sunnier clime The golden grain supplies the mill. And purple giapes have yielded wine. The Summer with its gorgeous charms Gould not dispel the bitter woe ; It could not woo us to its arms— Our lamp of peace was burning low But now on wings of love we soar, And fear not Winter in his wrath, For Hope and Joy have strewn once more Their rosy garlands in our path. And we have drank the richest wine That e’er was mingled in the cup Os life, nnd won a ray divine To light our world of darkness up ; And with that brilliant light within, Wo yet may make our ‘lives sublime;’ ‘Twill save us from the snares of sin And guide us o’er the sands of time. My First Love* A maiden once I chanced to know With beauty superhuman; “Her voice was gentle, soft and low” That “excellent thing in woman.” Wo traced together mountain streams, And, when the stars were shining, We talked of poetry and dreams— Their mysteries divining. I felt that fate no grief could give Like passion unrequited, And that I could no longer live Unless wo were united ! I breathed m£ love-hcr hand I pressed— While she her eyes averting, Returned the. pressure and confessed ‘That she wat — only flirting ! Customs of the Japanese. In viewing the anticipated presence of the Japanese embassy in Washington, the following from’ a correspondent of a New York pnper will not be considered mala propos : In the laud of Brahma when two people quarrel about a piece of ground he who lias most malignity, as well as fondness tor his family in Li in, takes a knife, walks de liberately to his neighbor’s bouse, and nhmting himself right before bis door, ma liciously cuts bis own throat. What, you * may ask! does lie gain by this ? Ift gains his lawsuit, for the disDutcd land inevitably becomes the properly of bis family. A similar aberration of intellect prevailes a mong the Japanese. Upon the least possi ble provocation a gentleman will seize upon his sword and rip up his own bowels. Very frequently whole families are ordered by the government to do this deed upon them selves, and bey obey at once. The poor Japanese, if any one offers him indignity, must sacrifice himselt whetever lie may (happen to be, or else consent to live among H suicidal fellow-countrymen a disgraced and lost man. With a party proceeding one dny on nn excursion into the country we were follow ed by two officers of the government who performed this duty under strict compul sions. Our American friends were thrown into a savage mood by the occurrence, and one of these turned back and closely con fronted these officials, and took hold of one of them by the shoulders, turned his face the bamboo edifice, and gave him a slight push in that direction. The two Japanese persisted in coming on ; the Yan kee took his man again hy the shoulders, and performed with his heavy expedition boot a violent ceremony, which is usually considered anything but flattering or agree able throughout the rest of the world, but ■in Japan was an insult that, we might safe ly aver, had never been committed before, and which could only be avenged by death. (Without, therefore, making the slightest attempt at retaliation on the body of his adversary, he unsheathed his sword, which, ‘beautifully burnished, flashed for an instant in the sunlight. The Yankee, meanwhile, extricated his revolver from its hiding 4‘lace. It was needless, for at two strokes —two gentle slashes of that keen-edged weapon, performed in an instant one across the other like the letter X—he had disem boweled himself, and fell a swiftly dying roan. As he reached the ground he cast up bis eyes at his adversary, and seeing him stauding near, apparantly with no in tention of following his example, he ex pressed the most fearful agony we had ever beheld. We were ail filled with dismay at this strange event, while the brother offi-. cial surveyed us with threatening looks of the most intense horror. “He expects you to kill yofirself in like manner ana with the same sword,” said the Sandwich Islander. The American muttered out something to the effect that he was not such a fool.— Meanwhile the distortions of the dying man were painful to look upon; the other officer motioned us awsy, and went dowu oa his knees beside the wounded body, and before he rose, a few seconds afterwards tL man waa dead. Some sixty-eight or seventy -five kales of cotton, turned out of tha Gunter Ware house at Montgomery. Ala., for shipment ■to Mobile . were destroyed bv fire the might of the ‘.’fltji, A Weekly Joaraal—HDeYotodl to Eomo Literature, Agriculture, Iforeiga aud Domestic Kews, Wit, Earner, Ac. Froir. the Saa Francisco Bulletin, March Slh. The Humboldt Bay Massacre-Statement by the Sheriff of Humboldt County. San Francisco, Feb. 29, 1860.—0n the evening of Saturday, 25th of February, a simultaneous attack appears to have been made upon the Indians on the coast of Humboldt county. About 80 are known to have been killed—the greater part ot whom were women and children. The parties engaged in the wholesale killing the writer knows not; neither does he know the number, nor from what portion of the country they came; neither does he know cause sufficient to prompt them to so bloody a deed. In connection with this deed it may be well to state briefly the condition of Indian affairs in Humboldt county. The greater portion of the citizens there are engaged in stock-growing. Necessity compels them to graze their stock remotely from their residences. East of the red-woods, in the eastern portion of the county, is an exten sive and beautiful range for grazing. On these hills are herded between 7,000 an<V 8,000 head of cattle. During the last year about one-eighth of the stock has been killed by the Indians. About a year ago James Ellesdn, (than whomtione was more highly esteemed,) while in pursuit of the Indians who were driving off and kill ing life stock, was mortally wounded. From one end of the country to the other stock lias been killed, and many* a lone traveller has been cut off. The command er at Fort Humboldt, partly through weak ness and partly through indisposition, re fuses to take cognizance of these facts. The settlers go out to give the Indians bat tle; the Indians disappear from the graz ing country —the settlers see them daily passing down to the coast, in the white settlements. They go to the Indian ranch es, find beef asd one wounded Indian in flic ranches of the peaceable Indians; the volunteers disband —their foe will not meet them, and they do not feci abie to keep a standing army at their own expense, and at the same time help support an inactive force which is cooped up at Fort Humboldt. In a short time after the volunteers dis band, the Indians, encouraged with their good luck, redouble their efforts to drive off and kill stock; they are seen passing up the stream to the grazing lands; more stock is missing; in the day time, and in the face of the settlers and herdsmen, they drive off stock. Well, a call for a volun tee company, to be organized, and returns to the proper authorities arc made. Im mediate action is necessary; they equip themselves—expecting to be called into service at an early day ; they get but lit tle encouragement. Now, they are heavy tax-payers, and they are lobing all they possess. So, they get desperate, and per haps are prompted to deeds of desperation. 1 state these facts,'not as an apology for the bloody deed, but to serve to modify somewhat the censuie which should be cast upon the perpetrators of this terrible massacre ou Humboldt bay. B. VAN NESS. Tbe Murderer Hicks. Concerning this individual, who was on of the crew of the sloop E. A. John son, aud is suspected of murdering the cap tain, a Providence, R. I, dispatch says : Hicks hails from Foster, in this State, where he says he has six brothers, farmers. His wife and child were with him. He came here from Fall River in the Bradford Durfee, on Thursday morning, and took board with a respectable widow, lady, nam ed Croweil, who occupies a part of Mr. Butts’s house. Mr. Smith discovered the f*et of liis arrival here by the steamer Bradford Durfee, and traced the place where he took lodgings. Much credit is due to all the officers concerned for the prompt manner in which the case has been followed up. New York, March 24. —The officers, with Hicks in custody, arrived here this afternoon. He is very cool in his demean or, and lidiculeff the idea of being char ged with murder, but refuses to give any particulars of the abandonment of the ill fated sloop. A silver watch and a couple of money bags, found in the possession of the pris oner, have been identified as the property ofCapt. Burr. The news of the capture of the prisoner spread rapidly all over the city, and was received with feelings of much congratula tion. Captain Burr as far as has been ascer tained, bad only S4OO with him. Os this sum S3OO was furnished by Messrs. Barnes Sc Simmons, oyster dealers, of Keyporf, N. J., and the remainder was bis private funds. He was exceedingly careless about Iris money. It was iris custom to take only silver aud gold coin with him, the oyster Slanters of Virginia having a distrust of lortheru bank issues. His stock of specie he took no pains to lock up, but left it usually lying exposed upon his desk. Silas Howell, who, with Captain Burr, was j joint owner of the sloop, and who is now I in this city, says that he often expostulated ! with the Captain on account of his careless ness in exposing his money. Mrs. Burr, wife of the late captain, is t said to b.i se- j riousiy ill from anxiety in regard to her ! husband’s fate. The wife of Hicks is said to be a verv 1 respectable rotir.c woman, and. with a 1 GREENESBORO’, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 11, 1860. child ten months of age, lived in great poverty at No. 129 Cedar street. On searching the room lately occupied by them their marriage certificate was found. It was enclosed in a neat gilt frame, and showed that William Johnson, the prisoner had married Mary Bunting in Albany in 1858. Attache! to it are the minister’s name and those of two witnesses, one a female also named Bunting, probably, the mother or sister of the unfortunate wife The question now is, ‘Who has jurisdic tion over this case ?’ Was it committed on the high seas, or wit Lin the jurisdiction of New York, King’s or Richmond county? Besides, can the murderer be tried for the high crime without securing one of the bodies ? Without this, some say, there is no legal evidence of murder, however strong the moral certainty of the guilt of John son may be. ‘ The district attorney, how ever, claims that it is not necessay that one of the. bodies should be found. A New York paper says : • ‘Among the number who visited Johnson or Hicks, as 1m is also called, at the sta tion-house yesterday, was his wife, who had arrived in the city at an early hour in the morning. She was not- previously aware of the nature of the charge against bar husband aud upon learning it became much excited. She was much affected during her interview with the prisoner, and wept bitterly. Johnson appeared slightly moved, but endeavoured to console her by denying the truth of the accusations against him. The prisoner was also visited bji a watchmaker, who recognised the watch found in his possession as having belonged to Captain Burr. Johnson maintains the utmost coolness and indifference, and lias engaged a Connecticut lawyer to defend him. lie will be brought before the United States court this morning and examined on a charge of piracy. The wife of Captain Burr was so much affected at the unhappy fate of her husband as to entirely prostrate her system, and it is reported that she now lies in a very condition,. Pub lic interest iu the shocking affair ot the E. A. Johnson continues unabated, and much anxiety is manifested for further devel opments. A full report of all we have been able to glean will be found elsewhere.’ Largest Citj in the World. If the following account is true, Londou is no longer the metropolis of our planet. That distinction belongs to the Japanese city of Jeddo, which a correspondent of the Boston Traveller thus describes: •But what shall I say of the greatest and most singular of all cities? A volume is needed to describe it, without attempting to give its history. I have read ot old Ninevali and Babylon below the ground, and seen aud handled the wprks of art which have been disinterred, and created so much admiration on both sides of the Atlantic; but one living Jeddo above tiie ground is worth a bundled old fogy cities below it. I cannot give you an idea of it, it is so unique, so unlike everything except itself, and so impossible as. you will think. 1 have 6ecn several places of interest, nnd maintained a cool head, but I was bewilder ed and confounded when I saw this. It is situated on the western shore ot this char ming gulf, twenty miles wide by twenty-four ong. to which tlie Lake Tiberias is nothing, -except in the sacred feet which once trod its shores. It stretches for twenty miles and more along a beach of a semi-circular form, with its horns turned outward, and along which a street extends, crowded witli blocksofstoresand houses,and teeming with moving crowds, while shopkeepers, artisans, women, and children seem equally numerous within doois aud at tbe doors. Indeed, a dozen or fifteen miles might be added to ‘.be length of the city in this direc tion, since there is nothing but an unbro ken succession of towns and villages for this distance which are a6 populous and well built as the city itself. ‘ln crossing the city from the slioro to the western outskirts, I have waiked two miles and a half, and then proceeded on horseback for ten miles more, making twelve miles and a halt in the whole, while in other places it may be wider still. According to the lowest estimate, the city covers an area equal to seven of the New England farming towns, which were usually six miles square. And all is traversed by streets, usually wide, well constructed, perfectly neat, and crossing each other at right angles ; streets lined with houses and stores as compactly as they cau be built, and crowded with moving and stationary masses as thick as in our Washington street or New York, Broadway, at least for con siderable distances. The population is estimated generally at three millions, which Mr. Harris, onr minister, thinks is no ex aggeration. For my part, judging from what 1 have seen when I have gone into the heart of the city, and crossed the city from side to side. 1 should be willing to add as many millions more; for tbe living, moving masses seen from sunrise to sunset, and every where the same, fairly seemed j beyond computation.’ i It is stated that Owen Stanly, a Gipsy King, who died at Madison, Indiana, ! a snort time since, is to be interred at Day. I ton, Ohio, with great ceremonies, alongside of Harriet Owen, a Giprr Qpee n, wno is j hurried tbera. The Gipsy clans are said | to be gathering to participate in the royal i _ _ Game in Texas. George Wilkins Kendall, esq., writing to the “Picayune” from liis home in New Braunfels, under date of Feb. 18, says : ‘Since my last I have had a visit from the author of the well-known ‘Bill Beans’ correspondence, the gentleman from Shan ghai, and-their South Carolina companion, and for the mattei of three weeks we had a good time of it generally. I saw them safely bestowed in a stage at San Antonio on the night of the 14th inst. in as good or der and condition as when they arrived, and in like good order and condition I trust they have ere this arrived in New Orleans, although I doubt it. Could a census of all the deer, ducks, partridges, rabbits, doves, and larks be now taken in Comal county, it would be found that there lias been a great mortality since the advent of tht party, and the survivors should hold meeting and return thanks now that their enemies have departed. Such wholesale slaughter I have never witnessed, and the finest and fattest kind of game has plenty with ns at the rancho as boiled mid dlings and long collards were in North Carolina and Alabama in the olden time. Had the party remained here a month lon ger. there, would have been as fine an opening in New Brauufels for a powder mill and shot tower as in any place I wot of; the amount of ammunition expended in three weeks was incredible. The pop ping and banging about here for several days pnt mb in mind cf the siege of Vera Cruz ’47 before the big guns got into play. I trust my friends gave an account of all they saw in western Texas, and. with the hope of seeing them all back some daj or other, I will promise to have the country well aired on their hrrival.” Death of a Printer. John Pass, aged about forty years, and a printer by trade, was found “dead in bed at 2 o clock yesterday morning, at the rcs idence-of his sistei's husband, Mr. Sliira Cumricgllftm, in the Warrior District, twelve miles from Macon. The night be fore he was under influence of liquor, and his sudden death is attributed to that cause, lie was an excellent compositor, and has been employed formerly in this and other printing establishments in this city.— Telegraph of Tuesday. We read tlie above announcement with surprise and pain. For several years at different times Mr. Pass has been employ ed in tliio office, and aside from the unfor tunate habit which lias hurried him to an untimely grave, was surpassed by few as a faithful and accomplished printer. Up right and generous in all his dealiugs— with qualifications for great usefulness, it is most sad to contemplate his unhappy fate. It should loudly admonish others of the ‘ art divine” so avoid the fatal cup by which a brother fell.— Journal Mes ssngcr. fls , poor John! We know him well— took h; m ’ ; n our o ffi co and taught him his trade, when a boy of fourteen years old. Aft or faithfully serving out his time with us be became our foreman, and for the fourteen years or more bo was with us, we do not think he lost a day from his work, until ho became a slave to drink. Often have we heard him say that “a man who cannot control his appetites is unfit to be a man.” He was then simply taking liis morning and evening glass, and we warn ing him of its future effects. John was blessed with more than an ordinary mind, and in liis supposed strength of mind over his appetite, saw not the danger ahead. Often since did he tell us* when he felt himself a slave to drink, that lie knew not before the power of appetite over reason and resolution. His fate has been the fate of thousands like him. Let the living with jvliom he associated .in days past, learn a lesson from his unhappy end.— Southern Recorder. A Strong Minded Woman. A thrilling and somewhat unprecedented incident was witnessed yesterday after noon iu the viciuity of the American Hotel, and 1 narrate it for the benefit of all who may honor iny letter with a perusal. Monsieur and Madame De Brieski, natives of Cracow or St. Prtersburgb, I forgot which, came down town in a splendid bug gy, drawn by a finely pioporlioncd char ger, of graceful movements and higli met tle. Fronting the Post Office, the Mon sieur alighted for the purpose of receiving his letters and papeis, leaving tbe Madame alone in the vehicle, with the ribbons* in her delicate and neatly gloved hands.— Just at this moment, the steam engine, which had made such a big squirt and so satisfactory a throw from a fire plug,drawn by a large unmber of the populace, passed on to the basin, to see if she was’nt a suck er m well as a thrower. De-Bieiski’s horse commenced’ rearing and plunging, and fearing the lady would be killed, some three or four citizens seized the rains, and endeavored to quiet the restive Bucephalus. But wbat do you suppose the madame did? Faint ? No sir. Jump out? Not a bit of it. Ask the volunteers to tighten the : r grasp ? By no manner of means. On tbe contrary, with a frowning face, and in a loud voice, sbe bade the gentlemen ‘leave that horse be;’ ’sbe was not afiaid;’ ‘let him go this instant.’ When a feminine Com mands, man must obey, so tbe boae was ! released, and away be went down Main at., at a hn lit-neck streets as clean of the people as if five loco motives all abreast, were npproackmg.— Terror was depicted in every countenance, save that of the driver or drireress, if you please. She retained her seat firmly, pla ced her dear little feet against the spatter board, and veering tha* reins, fiist to the right and then to tne left, conquered the enraged animal, and brought him up all still and standing, about three squares from where he started. She then turned him around, drove rapidly back to the Custom House, and there taking in her rougher half, again moved off with all the dash and self-possesion of a Lady Gay Spanker, leaving an amazed and wonder-stricken crowd, to gossip and talk over wliat a strong armed and strong-minded lady could ac complish— Richmond Cor. Petersburg ( Va-J Express. Tbe Governor of lowa and tbe Escape of Coppic. Gov. Kirk, of lowa, whose duplicity in .preventing the arrest of Barclay Coppic in that State, after a requisition from Virginia had been sent for him, was expressed in a recent message of Gov. Letcher to the Legislature, has sent a message to the lowa House of Delegates intended as a reply to Gov. L.’s charges. He asserts that the aeason he did not issue a warrant was the informality of tbe requisition. He denies the charge that he sent information to Coppic “directly or indirectly,” and says : The fact that an agent of Virginia was here with a requisition for Coppic became publicly known in tlie place solely through the acts of that agent himself. I donied myself what I greatly desired the privilege qf consultation with gentlemen in whose opinion I had confidence touching the le gality of the papers submitted to me lest the matter might thereby, through inadver tence become known. After I had com municated to him my determination not to grant him the warrant demanded, he sat in my office conversing freely on the subject. During our coversation other persons came in on business with me, and to my sur prise lie continued liis conversation in their presence. I said to him that I had sup posed lie would not wish his business to be made public, to which he replied that ns the warrant had been refused he did not care who knew his business, and continued tlie conversation. In this manner the fact that a requisition had been made for Cop pic became known in this place, and I am credibly informed it was well known in lowa city to many persons there that the agent of Virginia was on Lis way to this place with said requisition before ho reach ed here. A Terrible Mutiny of Coolies at Sea. We published a telegraphic, dispatch some days ago, announcing that a verv se rious case of mutiny occurred on boar£ the Ship Norway, of New York, Capt. Major, on her recent passage from Macao to Ha vana, which came very near proving dis astrous to the officers, passengers and crew. We have now by mail from Boston some additional particulars. It appears that the Norway sailed from Macao Nov. 26th, with about one thousand coolies on board, and when five days out, at about six o’- clock m the evening, the captain being be low at the time, a mutiny broke out among the coolies, who set fire to the ship in two places, and endeavored to force the hatch ets. Mr. Stimpson, of Boston, one of the mates, had charge of the deck ahd tiie watch, with the exception of the man at the wheel, was aloft taking in sail. Mr. Stimp son rushed to the hatch and commenced the struggle. The crew from aloft and these below tried to sieze the boats and leave the ship, when the surgeon an Eng lish gentleman, drew his pistol aud threat ened to shoot the first man who dared to nake that attempt. Tbe crew then rallied and went to the assistance of the officers, and a fight ensued, which continued from 6ix in tlie evening until after daylight next morning. Thirty of the coolies were kill ed and more than ninety wounded, before the mutiny was quelled. The captain then gave the coolies one hour to deliver up the arms in their possession ; if they did not, he threatened to cut away the masts, set fire to the ship, take the boat and provis ions and leave them to their fate. The mutineers soon came to terms. Mobile Evening News. Knights of the Golden Cross. Our exchanges teem with acc -tints of the actings and doings of this organization. Their whole objects are not frilly under stood ; but is generally believed, from the best information that can be obtained, that they sympathize with the Juarez govern ment of Mexico, and that their main ob jects are to Americanize that distracted country though most beautiful one on earth, and possessing the finest climate, by all lawful means, and to extend and perpetuate’ tbe institution of slavery as prscticed in the Southern States. They purpose to ‘do nothing in a fillibustering manner. If these he their objects, they have our cordial sympathy, and we think they should have the same of every true .Southern heart. It has at i*a heed some of the most respectable citizens of tbe .South, among whom are Gen. Geo. Bickly, 1 of Virginia; Col. N. J/ Scott, oi Alabama, j and Maj. Henry C> Caatilapas, of Loniaae*_ Terms— sl,so Always in Advance* are unfriendly to the institution of slavery. —Democratic Platform. Science In Nature* It is a remarkable and very instructive fact that many of the most important oper* ations of nature are carried on in unbroken silence. There is no rushing sound when the broad tide of sunlight breaks on a dark world and floods it with glory, as one bright wave after another falls from the fountain, millions ot miles away. There is no creak* ing of heavy axles or groaning of cum brous machinery as the solid earth wheels on its way, and every planet and system perfoins its revolutions. The great trees bring forth their boughs and shadow the earth beneath them—the plants cover themselves with buds, and the buds burst into flowers; but the whole transaction is unheard. The change from snow and winter winds to the blossoms and fruits and sunshine of summer, is seen in its slow development, but there is scarcely a sound to tell cf the mighty transformation. The solemn chant of the ocean, as it raises its unchanged and unceasing voice, the roar of the hurricane, and the soft notes of the breeze, the rushing of the mountain river, and the thunder of the black-browed storm; all this is the music of nature —a great and swelling anthem of praise, breaking in on the universal calm. There is a lesson for us here. The mightiest worker in the uni verse is the most unobtrusive. Rbvoi.vi.nu Biiacklet.—A New York letter describes a piece of jewelry which is destined to make a sensation among the “fe male persuasion.” It is a strap bracelet of fine link chain, of a quaint Venetian pat tern. The centre, sets in a circular head, is a cluster of diamonds, having an outside waving edge of black enamel, divided into twelve compartments, each nestling a dazzling brilliant. Between tlio edge and the central glory is a vine of fine gold, iu what sailors term “round turns,” each turn embracing one of this cluster of diamouds. and from this vine buds of fine diamond burst into light. But in the centie of all are two wheels, set in black enamel ground each having eight arms, and each arm twelve diamonds. These wheels turn on a common axle, the hub bein£ the largest diamond of all, and by an ingenious piece of machinery, which is wound up with a key, these wheels are made to revolve in opposite directions for two hours. Imagine the effect of this pyrotechnic display in a brilliantly-lighted saloon,- with a fair, plump arm beneath it, if you can ! What admi ration it would command from the men ! what envyings and heartburnings it would excite in the women ! Nitw Virginia Gun.— Mr. Lorenso Sib* ert, of the village of Mount Solon, in Au gusta county, Va., has lately invented a new gun, which he calls the “Union Paci ficator,” the capabilities of which he de scribes as follows:—It has six parallel chambers, which will discharge six hun dred per minute consecutively for twelve hours, or one hundred ounce balls per min ute. The plan is free horn a combination of complex machinery, cheap of manufao--, turn, and can be easily transported.”— There are three plans for discharging the gun—each specific in itself—one of which he describes on account of its novelty “After the magazine has been charged, the gun when put in motion, will discharge one hundred oi* five hundred balls consecutive ly, giving the soldier an opportunity to shelter himself behind any convenient wall or tree that may be near by.” Tub Oldest Negro on Record —Dr. Iloratio Bowen, of Clinton, Jones connty mentioned to us the death of Bam,a native African negro, at the plantation of his master, Mr. A. J. Billingsly, on the 24fh of December, 1859. When captured in Africa, to be brought to this country, be says be was 45 years old. He loaded in Charleston, and wag bought by the Lowtber family, lived wiili them in that city nearly twelve years, and was in their possession till a few years since. From Charleston Bam was carried to Savannah—stayed there forty years, and moved to this section about the year 1826. At this time be came un der the notice of Dr. Bowen, as be hid occasion to attend him to cure a bone felon, on his finger, and his gratitudif never ceased; but exhibited itself whenever the Doctor: came near him, in expressions half in Afrioa for he never learned to speak English well. From the evidence of reliable persons, and the negro’s .own statement, he is supposed to hare been over one hundred and forty’ vears old at the time of his 4#tb. This is ths same negro Sam, to whom, if we are not mistaken, an allusion is made in White’s Statistic * of Georgia, as being a very old, negro, and having died a few years pre vious to the publication of that work; but the record of bis death was a mistake. Maco. Telegraph. Railroad to Lancaster C. H— We are j gratified to learn, by privets correspond ence, that the neopie of Lancaster District are determined to secure a isrl/md con | oection with Charleston, by running a road |to Camden or to some other favorable I 1 mint. Eighty subscribers in that Distriet mve already pot their names down fee the NUMBER 15.