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~ tiain Fred ! Yo shant have her if you
use her so.”
“ Well, make her be still then, and j
. n # t let her atiok hei dirty little nose 1
info my face, ‘rhere —that is a little!
iter behavior,” he continued, as Cali
a laid down, as if composing herself for
nap. “ I've eaten too much dinner,
Lnt I don't see how it happened
r i h your new teacher, sitting right
*ng face to face with me. Shouldn’t
vou have thought the sight of her would
have taken away my appetite, little
Cous ?*’
“ You didn't look at her enough to
have it produce any such]iffect,” 1 said.
*• I watched you. You hardly said a civ
il word to her. ”
“ What I said was very civil I am
mre,” he replied. “ I was too glad tc have
her coine to this lonesome'hollow to be
uncivil I assure you.”
“ Well but you didn’t talk to her any.”
“ No but I'm going to by and by.” he
yaifl. “ I contented myself with looking
>it her to-day. By next week I shall get
so that I can talk to her. Perhaps 1 had
better not speak to her at all, though,
Cous : she is not rich and it might dis
grace such a wealthy, handsome, proud
Alston as lam to speak to her. Should
I begin to talk with her. moreover, I
might be induced into a flirtation and j
grandmother says that, flirtations are notj
right.” lie said this in a mocking!
kind of tone, and watched at the same j
time the blue wreaths of smoke, curling 1
away into thin air from the end of his j
segar, without smiling.
I knew to what he was alluding. I:
felt nettled at his air and manner too,!
but I never said a word. 1 looked down |
into my lap, with as serious an air as he
maintained, “I want to know. Cous,” he
said, after a few moments silence, “ where
you obtained such a sharp insight into,
and profound knowledge of the ways of
the world. How you got such a cor
rect notion of the maxims, that govern
mankind —you who are a mere child, j
and have hardly been out of Oak'and, |
during your life. I am serious in the j
inquiry.”
“I got all that I know from Grandma,
and Mary,” I said.
“ And they have learned you, that
one can hardly be respectable or com
panionable unless thev are rid), have
they ?”
** No, rot exactly that,” I replied, “ but
every body knows that the Ah tons are
wealthy and—and—”
I could not think of a word which
would rightly express my meaning.
“ And aristocratic,” he said, brushing
the ashes from the end of his seg.ir.
“ Yes,” said I, though I did not fully
comprehend the signification of the word
jued, even’ then.
‘‘'Well,” said he, “we art a proud
family. There is no mistake about that.
Claude, but I have learned some things
nincej entered the military school, rov
er dreamt of before in my philosophy.
I have seen the noblest fellow I ever ex
pect to see on God's earth without a
dime in his pocket, or an acre of land
that he could cal! his own. I have seen
that man, swaying his fellow men by
his eloquence, as the win 1 bends the
tops of the trees in the forest yonder. I
have felt my own littleness and worth
lessness in his presence —his, the lowly
born—the meanly nursed. I concluded
then, that there might be an aristocracy
of mind, as well as of wealth, and that
the former c’iquo may be as much no
bler than the latter, as mind is superior
to matter —as pure gold is better than
common dirt—as lightning is brighter
than the dim tapers of an Egyptian mid
sight.”
“ And did he seek your acquaintance,” |
I said, “ Cousin Fred, were you friends ?”
said he, “ we were friends —
we swore eternal friendship upon the al
tars of Odd Fellowship. But he did not
week my acquaintance, I sought his.—
After remarking his broad countenance
in the recitation room—after witnessing!
his consuinate skill in military tactics, j
and his proud honorable bearing among
liis fellows, I felt that even an Alston j
Claude, would be honored by his notice, j
and so I sued, humbly sued, Clau le, for
bis notice and regard. Ilis father was
. very poor man—perhaps a house car
penter. At any rate he was a mecliaire
of some so)t.”
I opened my eyes with a sort of won
d-r.
Miss Church wears an Odd l r < How’s
pin in her collar, I said, r hardly knowing
what else to say.
“ I saw it,” lie replied taking the se
gar from his bps, “I had one just like it
once, hut I gave it to Frank Ru<diton —
the fellow I was tnlkihjj about. If Frank
bad had this one of Miss Church's oh,
I would have sworn to its being i!i<* same.
But it isn t likely she’s got his pin,—
Besdes lies in Russia before this, for
anything 1 know. Come little Cous.
make we up a pillow out of vour doll
things in the corner yonder, and let me
take a nap. That heavy dinner has
made me sleepy. That’s a good child.”
i did as he desired and left, him alone
to* hi* slumbers, while I went back to
the house, a ltd mpved, according to
grandfathers directions, my books into
a chamber, set aside for a school-room.
Miss Church come to the d’ooit just as
Mary and I bad finished hanging up a
map on the wall, and moving her desk in
to the “ornor by the window. She smiled,
and said that it was a comfortable place
that she hoped she and I would get on
well together, and then she went below.
She was very pale. I thought she must
be sick, but when I afterwards inquired,
she said in a very mild tone :
“ Only fatigued, my dear.”
But when she stood at twilight by the
icbool room window and looked out at
the broad Oakland*, now faintly tinted
with green and gulden, in the light of
sunset, she brushed away a tear from her
cheek. I felt certain of it. I thought
that she was unhappy because perhaps
she had left near and dear friends behind
her. and I mentally resolved, to be very
good —very good, indeed, and never g*kc
the slightest shade of trouble, to thegov
rnM at Oakland.
[to be continued.]
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CASSVIT-jJ-iE, OEO.
FE I DAY MORNING,
I FEBRUARY 16. 1855.
Almanacs for 1855.
Grennvilles Georgia Almanac for the j
present year may be had on application at ’
I this office.
.
Public Documents.
Hon. Wm. (J D.uvsos of the U. S. Senate,
and lion. Mess Chastain and Boyce of the
House, have our thanks for late valuable
public documents.
New Books.
! We have a batch of new books, from Mess.
I Phillips, Sampson &Cos., Boston, and Harper
1 & Brothers and Fowler & Wells, New York,
j which we are unable to notice this week in j
| consequence of several days absence from |
home They shall receive speedy attention. |
I We also notice several new’ exchanges on
our table—all of which shall hear from us
at once.
The Law.
Our friend Charlie Barbour, of Atlas
ta, is prepared to do up law rnattters after j
the most approved manner, and we advise
such of our readers as desire to enter into j
any deFghtful litigated cases in his beat to j
< give him a showing.” He's read Blackstone
and will do to tie to.
We also desire to call attention to the card
of Mr. S, W kit,, who is located in Canton j
Mr. W. is a clever and reliable gentleman
ami will faithfully attend to business en- ‘
trusted to his care.
A Model Hotel. j
A good hotel is a positive luxury--an as- j
sertiun which we dare say, will not be con- j
trad‘c:ed by any one who has travelled 1
What a wide difference between the ill ar i
ranged an*l inconvenient third class house,!
with its wretchedly furnished rooms, bad
beds, unwashed linen and badly cocked food,
and its elegant and spacious first class neigh
bor, with airy and comfortable rooms, at
tentive and polite attaches, and table stock
ed with all sorts of delicacies, done up ala
mode. Such an one ns the last, is the Trout
House in Atlanta. Times past, we were wont j
to consider ourselves as doing penance when j
wt visited the Rail road city, for her hotels
were none of the best, eomc-years ago, but the
elegant aeeomno lation of this new Hotel and
the hospitable treatment which the travel
ler receives at the hand of mine host aud
hisgent'emanly assistants,will attract many
persons to the house, not one of whom wctlare
say, will go away, dissatisfied. See card in
another column.
The Common School System of Geor
gia.
It must be a source of regret to all patri
otic Georg ans, that our State, iu internal
improvements and many other things, so far
in advance of all the other Southern States,
should he so much in the back ground in the i
all important matter of education. Alabama, !
|
the daughter of Georgia, has far outstripped ;
the mother in her Common School System,
while Louisiana has for years possessed aj
most admirably systematised plan for the;
general education of her children of all
classes It H a foul blot upon the otherwise
fair fame of the Empire Stato <f the South,
that 41,200 of her adult citizens are unable
to read or write their mother tongue. Every
good citizen, whether a parent or not, is in
terested in this mit ter. A glance at the
‘ history’ of the different States of the Union,
‘• will show that crime, destitution and pover
ty’ are most common in those States where
there is most ignorance, and. in our own
State, it will be found’that these evils pre i
vail most where education receives the least |
attention.
Several years ago, a State Teachers’ As- j
sociation was organized in Georgia. Its last
meeting was held in Madison, whore the ■
Southern School Journal , the organ of the !
association, is published. A resolution was
passed at this meeting, requesting Editors ’
of the different newspapers in the State to I
prepare at least one article on the subject of j
education. We havo not had time to do this, j
nor can we do better now than to copy part
of nn editorial article from the January
number of the Journal , on the subject of
Legislative action. It expresses our own
ideas much better than we could possibly do,
and we commend it to the serious considers- !
tiun of the voters of the country :
*. Legislative action will be required ; and
the Association are now seeking to induce
the people to comp and this action. When they
know and fully realize the fact that some
tiling must he done to place the means of an
elementary education within the reach of
every otic, then will they’ require their law
makers to take the necessary steps towards
the doing thereof. Legislators are in gen
eral too fearful of risking their popularity,
to do anything which they have not been in
structed to do; or to leave undone anything
demanded by the popular voice. The ouiy
way to effect any radical reform in govern
ment or society is to work upon the public
uiind.
• < To the end, that all the facts
which in any way to the educational
interests of the may bo clearly set
before the people for their consideration,
that they inayrsee the work to be dono, the
necessity ofiuoing it, and the means adequate
to the enjf; we propose that the next Legis
lature simil appoint a State Superintendent
of Public Education. Let him be a man of
experience and of capability, of large and
oomujehensive views, a practical teacher, a
majjwho is willing to work, aud knows how :
this officer be appointed for two 1
with instructions to visit every couo-1
| ty in the Stale, every place of any site, and.’
every settlement, so far as he may be able:
to ascertain the exnct condition of schools in
operation, the nature of the causes which
hinder the establishment of schools whbre
there are none; in short, let him be instruc
ted to collate all the facts that have nny !
bearing upon the subject of Education in !
this State, and afterward, digesting them!
and arranging them in proper form to report
them, as a basis for further action, to the
Legislature which will meet in the winter
of’s7. Especially let it be made the duty |
ot the Superintendent to call together the
: people at all convenient points, and address
■ ing them upon the subject of schools, to
! endeavor to warm them up to the study and
! proper appreciation of their duties and
rights.
• The Legislature must be called on to
make such au appropriation ns will pay to
I the man appointed, a salary sufficient to
: compensate him for his time and labor, and
’as will defray the expense of travel. Sure
ly when Georgia can afford to expend
annually two thousand dollars for the edu
cation of ten boys as military defenders of
the State, she can afford to devote three or
lour thousand a year towards educating the
’ tliousande who, ns voters and members of
society, are soon to rule her. Ah ! what a
fund of good could come to the State if the
money which is annually squandered upon
one pretext or another, were judiciously
used in the diffusion of knowledge among
the people!
By this Superintendent, whose appoint
ment we propose, and by other friends of
the cause, aplnn, a school system can be de
vised and presented to the people and to the
Legislature of ‘57 It can be fuily and
carefully discussed, with a knowledge of all
the facts which the report of the Superinten
dent will set forth ; and we see no reason to
apprehend that the system which might
then be determined on, would not in all prob
ability, work well. True, the fabric might j
need modifications from time to time, but the
great object now is to lay such a foundation 1
as will receive without injury nny altera !
tions which might iu future be deemed nec
essary.
ii In the manner wc have above indicated, ;
we believe one great step may be taken ti -
wards the accomplishment of that for which I
so many bills are offered and laid on the tabb-; j
and we know of no other manner iu which the
step can be taken.”
America and the War
Notwithstanding the assurance given by
an Episcopal Bishop, to his friends in Can
ada, that the people of the United States
sympathize with Great Britain in the pres
ent war, our London cotemporarics do not
s ?em convinced of the fact. On the contra
ry, they express their amazement n to hear
that the great and free people of the United
States of America are favorable to the cause :
of Russia, and pray for the humiliation of
Great Britain and set about to inquire
the cause. The London Illustrated J\eves in
a long article, which we have taken the
trouble to analyze, finds it in a variety of
things.
vs 1. The Irish-American population JiaTc
no very pleasing remembrance of England.
2. The Americans covet Mexico, Canada,
and Cuba, and with a precedent and exam
ple in the seizure of Constantinople by Rus
sia.
3 A large and influential class desires to
turn the-war to aceout iu tho party politics
of the Union.
After this very brilliant statement of the
causes, the JYews comments thus eloqu ntly
upou the fact:
• •With the triumphant capture of Fevasto- j
pol the admiration of the American friends
of the Czar will droop and cool; and when
he has accepted the terms of peace, which
must of necessity be tonus of greater or less
humiliation, his summer flatterers will dis
cover in the winter of his discomfiture that
he has been rightly served after all, and j
will seek to free their consciences from the
reproach and their character from the odi
um of ever having spoken iu his praise, or
breathed a wish for his triumph. They
will shout applauses at the names of Eng
land and Franco, and will dwell with pride
upon the fact that they, too, have French and
British blood in their veins, and catch, if
they can, a reflex from the glory they did
not win.”
Iu conclusion, our Lon lon cotemporary
discusses very lucidly the propised media
tion of the United States, which it charac
terizes as a piece of impertinence:
. The ouly negotiators that tho allies can
admit into their council are negotiators pre
pared, if need be to support their opinions
by the whole weight of their arms aud the
whole amount of their resources. If the
United States, like Austria or Sardina, were
—in the name of right and justice, and for
the interest of civilization and humanity,
imperilled by Russian violence and aggres
sion —to offer to accede to the treaty of the
2nd of December, 1854, and to accomplish
all its duties and stipulations, we should
hail such an act as the grandest moral tri
umph of our timo. The Americans would
be welcomed to the World's Congress at
Veiuna with the acclamations of every frieud 1
of human liberty and progress. But on no
other terms can America be admitted iuto
the councils of the Allied Powers.”
Later from Mexico.
New Orleans, Feb. 11.
The steam ship Orizaba has arrived, with
advices from Vera Cruz to the Bih n r.d the
city of Mexico to the sth instant. A Provis
ional Government had been established at
Acapuloo, having Alvarez at its head, until
the arrival-of Ceballos.
General Bahomurdo was confident that*
Santa Anna had been shot by th^rebels.—-
General Lavoga will relieve* Wall as Com
mander at Matamoras.
Tho revolutionists of Tehuantepec have
declared in favor of Alvarez ami Coballos.
A now revolution was expeotod in Yucatan.
Tho Kinnev expedition was favorably oxpeo
tcd.
It is said that a project is now on foot to
establish works, for inciting copper ore at
Chattanooga, Term., to accommodate the
rapidly increasing mining* interests of East
Tennessee and Northwestern Georgia. Some
thing is proposed after Keener & Hons, of
Baltimore, the most complete nnd extensive
| establishment in the United States. The
intention of it all is to do away with the
j general practice of shipping ore to Baltimore,
whuffi has hitherto beeDconsidered.a matter
of noce?sity.
Cos respondence of the Cassville Standard, j
Letter from New York. )
NO. 7. j
Foreign JS'tU'i—lnteresting Letter from -
ii Soldier wounded at Inkermann — The J
Military Hospital at Scutari——The ‘
Ka fir War—The Russian Prisoners —!
i
Intense cold weather in AY u) York 1
Stage-dr ioers frozen to death !—-JYecrulo - ;
gical—- Theatrical — -Legislative — -Mr. J
Marry and the Kinney Expedition 1
Congressional^-Money— Stocks — Markets, !
I vVc., 4-c-
New York, Fab 8. 1855, J
11 o’clock A M. |
In my last week’s letter I gave you what
j foreign items I was able to obtain over the j
j wires from Halifax, and intended to tele- j
! graph you if l received further important !
information by the mails. But my accounts
, by telegraph presented a well digested sum- j
ninry of gll, and what further particulars
: I could gather, I reserved for my regular
; letter; and ns any direct information from
the scene of action must be read with avidity,
; I send you* the following extract from a
letter to my London correspondent, direct
! from an old comrade then lying wounded in
! the General Hospital at Scutari. It was
! never published before, and I send it from
the original now before me.
General Military Hospital, Scutari,
January Gth, 1855.
I)par Benson :—Thank God I have lived
to add .i 5” to the date of my letter—for
: although it was an •. unlucky” day in
i JYovember , yet I am glad to sec it in
January. You have, doubtless, from my
| long silence, aupposed me dead ; but, my
j dear fellow, deuth is yet cheated so far as I
am concerned ; though I assure you death
would have been a kind messenger to me and
several others during the past two months,
j It is a visitor who so frequently comes to
‘ see us that we nave become of late familiar
with it, nnd scaroely a day passes, that
from 2-5 to 40 of those brave fellows, whose
courage and actions from Alma to luker
mann have never been equalled in the
cursed history of war, are carried to that
country from whose bourne no traveler re
turns. But you know, Dick, I am not one
to moralize, and this is no time to quote
Shakspeare. I know that a graphic account
of my engagement since we took the lust
pot of half and-half at Mother Peterson’s,
of the Saracen's Head, will be more inter
esting to you ; or rather a resume of my
<■ sketches.” So I will open pans and prime
My dear fellow, when you were soundly
asleep in Cavendish Flace, at 4 o'clock, on
the morning of Sunday, the sth of November,
perhaps dreaming about Guy Faux, I was
just relieving the sentries on the eastern
side of the summit of Inkermann. The
morning was very thick and foggy, and old
Chatham custom, Port Arms and long orders,
were readily dispensed with, for the more j
significar t usharp look out on all sides'’ and
ipass.” I had three sentries to relievo, j
within twenty paces of one another—and as j
we relieved the firsthand Were proceeding !
to the post of the others, wc heard a stifled
noise about one hundred pace3 ahead, or
rather below, and followed by an instanta
neous shower of canister and roar of small
arms. *The sentry I was just posting was
taken down by a musket shot, and one about
to be relieved, a noble fellow named Turner,
from Coventry, volunteered to remain. And
wo proceeded nolens volens
vulens) to the post of the third sentry, and
relieved him just as the advance section of
the Russians were ascending within twenty
pacos of u-. There were nine of them
visible, and we fired and. retired, but poor
Turner had fallen, nnd as his post was an
important- one, I placed two of the poor
fellows just relieved on it, nnd made tracks
to the Camp, where all were under arms,
and the 55th and 631, led on to the very
front of tho enemy's lines. To the loft
were the 65th, just at the head of a small
ravine, and, if a choice were to be given. :
theirs appeared to have been the most !
favorable, as in front of them was an almost i
insurmountable barrier between them an 1 j
the enemy, while their right flank was safely j
guarded by the 55th and 63d But, contrary j
to all expectation, the insurmountable !
barriers’ aforesaid became one of the stron I
gest forts of the enemy, and while all
attention was turned to the right, e tremend
ous fire was opened from the left, cutting
down the 95th with fearful carnage ! My
dear Dick, I cannot describe to you, so as to ‘
give you the remotest idea of its reality, the
appearance presented at tho battle of Inker
mann that morning. You could neither
advance nor retire without steping on the
lifeless or wounded body of some poor
comrade; and, as iny thoughts occasionally
revert to it, I shudder and almost doubt its
reality. But, to my wounds. A splinter j
from a shell struck poor Over y ( Color- j
serjeant. of the 63d) on the loft shoulder, j
and took away his arm, and the poor fellow
fell, it was thought,, to rise no more; but he
called to Captain .and I was ordered to
take him to the rear wilh two men. We
.tried to stop the blood which was flowing
j freely, and tore the shift off the body of a
55th corporal who lay dead beside us, ands
with it partially stopped the flowing till we
got to the rear, where the poor fellow was
temporarily dressod by , and left to fate, I
and, as several thought, to die. While return- j
ing to the ranks I was struck with a musket •
spent ball on the breast and knocked down.
I was soon up again and at them. Tho
battle had now reached its height, and every
phase of military warfare was represented
thei c, from the sword to the bjtyouet h At't
22 minutes hofmra six o'clock my right thigh
with a shell and carried clear off
T was taken to tho rear nnd dressed, and of!
what occurred botween then and the 27th, i
twenty-two days, I can give you no oolleoted !
account. When my fever subsided and my j
senses returned, I was told on Monday .
morning, the 27th, that my life was saved,
and that I was out of danger, Overy is
in the third bod from me iu this ward, nnd ‘
ho is recovering.
Wo expect to be sent to England in the !
latter part of this month, and though, taking !
everything into uccount, our position might j
be worse, yet it is impossible for you to imsg- j
ino our wrotchodncss Our muster yesterday 1
was fifty-eight officers and 4,500 rank and !
file. You must have a good Anglesoa leg
prepared for me--and I have yet got a good,
grateful and affeotionate mit to shako with
you when we meet again in jolly old
England. ’’
From the C ipo es Goial H-jpo Caere Is’
I’ •
news to 11th ultimo, and to be in fashion. |
the Kaffirs contemplate a renewal of the j
j war. A report, of tho cruel massacre of!
‘colonists is fully confirmed A proposition i
j is now before the Cape Town Legislatures j
‘Colonize theplacewith the Russian prisoners
I taken in the present war. It will be un
! popular in England, and will be defeated in
; Cape Town. So much for my foreign !
jdepartment; we turn our eyes next home
| ward.
j The Weather is exceedingly cold in
i New York. Tuesday, Gth inst., was the I
j coldest day we had since 184 G. The niccury
l at six in the morning stood stationary at 4
j degrees above zero. The windows of the |
| city were so * frosted” that the feeble rays
| of old Sol from without, and the feeble rays
j from old stove from within, had not the
slightest effect upon the fantastic figurs so
! accurately developed in the icebound grasp
!of Mr. Frost. An omnibus driver in the
’ Third. Avenue was taken from his box dead*
| frozen to death whip in hand—and three,
j others, taken to the Thirteenth Ward Sta
! tion-house insensible, lie there, it is thought,
| never to rise again. Several accidents, such
las broken legs, arms, ribs, and so forth,
{.from falls on the slippery side walks are
recorded— and any nu mber of •• old bosses”
have given up the glu st.
Ilorse-shoi r : are now making ana bun lat t
harvest. —Eveiy pedestrian going along the
street looks like a small steam engine on
trial—such puffing, snorting, striding ! The
telegraphic wires, from all points North and
j East of us,are quite cool in their intelligence.
At Ogdensburg the mercury stood a third of
a ceutury below zero! And .. the ice men
in that locality were gathering in two crops
a day.” Rather a tropical vegetation,
that !
There are fires all around on every side of
us. One constant ding of fire-bells rings in
our ears since morning ; there is no getting
water, and the * devouring element” can
devour ad libitum aud defies the efforts of
the fireman. The gas is almost entirely
frozen and the streets present a gloomy ap
pearance. i
The health of our city is good : we-had
only 427 deaths last week, of which 805
were native-born Americans, aud the balance
of foreign birth.
The present hard weather is indeed hard
upon the poor, and notwithstanding all the
difficulty to get money, the theatres here
are densely, overflowiugly crowded. *At
Burton's theatre last evening, anew piece,
entitled, ► The Player’s riot,” was intro
duced. It is a dull, stupid, monotonous
thing and will drag its short life along for
a week or two. It is an American version
of an old German story. At the Broadway
Miss Pyne. the celebrated English actress,
took suddenly sick on Tuesday and the
doors were not opened : but she was better,
and resumed last oveuing, and delighted a
crowded house.
j In our State Legislature, Mr. William II
j Seward has been re-elected to the United
i States Senate for six years more, by a
J majority often. The Sewardites think this
| a great victory over tho K. Ns and are
making a grer.t time of it. Guns firing,
flags flying and bonfires blazing through
every town and village in Central New
York.
Daniel S. Dickinson was the next highest
vote He receivei 14 ; while Horatio Sey
mour, Ex-Gov , was close upon his heels
with a baker's dozen (13). My Washington
correspondent writes me: , The French
Spoliation bill passed by n vote of 24 to 22.
A bill appropriating £BOO,OOO to the opening
of the mouths of the Mississippi, was passed !
almost unanimously. Tho Senate's Texas
Creditors’ bill was taken up in committee of
the whole ou Tuesday, it being the special
order of business. It was ably advocated by
Messrs. Smyth and Bell, but it was still
pending when the Committee rose and
vacated their seats, so there is no probability
of its being passed during the session.
| Touching Colonel K inney’s Central American
Expedition, Mr. Marcy says :—>< If the i
enterprise, of which you speak in your
letter to me of the 23th. is a mere peaceful
emigration of you aud those who propose
to go with you; if you prefer to leave the
United States and seek a permanent home
in a foreign country ; to renounce your
| citizenship here,and the rights and privileges
belonging to it, and to submit to the laws
of another jurisdiction, it is neither the duty
j nor the desire of this government to interfere
j with your proceedings. By such a course
j you cease t>> be citizens of the United States.
1 and c.n have, after such a change ol allegi
ance no claims to protection, as such citizens, j
from this government;” and concludes:—j
•i If the emigrants should be formed into
companies commanded by officers, aud
furnished with arms, such organization
| would assume the character of a military
expedition, and being hardly consis ent
with professions of peaceful objects, it would
! devolve upon the gouermn n ut to inquire if
it be not a violation of the neutrality act.” )
(
Monet/ -The demand for foreign ex- j
change for remittance by tho Pacific to ]
Liverpool, yesterday, was limited. She took
out s7oo,oooin foreign coin, mostly English
► sovereigns The Steamship Aspinwall, with
i San Francisco dates to 10th January, and j
1 $1,250,000 in gold, is now fully due and may i
( be hourly expected,
The Ohio and Pennsylvania R. R has i
declared a semi annual dividend of five per j
cent. The City Fire lus. Cos. have declared ,
a dividend of sl3 per share The report of i
tho State Treasurer of Massachusetts
a pour exhibit pabliolhnJiw:ea f ’ ihHfhht ;
Estate. # Within tho past ten years the
revenues have noarly doubled, and the ex- ;
ponditurcs. notwithstanding, excocd the j
j income. From the report of tho State
i Treasurer of Mississippi, it appears that the
‘cash balance ou hand, Jan 1, 1555, was
| $88,729.
I The Stork Market is somewhat unset
; tied At the First board, yesterday, Indiana .j
jss. declined one-fourth per cent.; N. Y. i
Central 75., ono and three fourths: Nic. !
[Trans, ono fourth ; Ills. Con. Bonds, ono- !
j fourth; Erio, one-eighth, but active; Olevo- j
i laud and Toledo R. It. two and throe fourths. !
| At tho Second Board, an upward tendency !
was manifested as follows :—llls Con. !
I advanced one-fourth ; Nic. Trans , throe-I
! fourths; N. Y Cen , ono and three-fourths; !
Erie, three-fourths; Cleveland and Toledo, 1
one-half; Virginia 6s , one-eighth. And at j
tho oloso the tendency was up.
Cotton was more active yesterday, with j
about 8,000 bales sold. Flour firm at j
1 problems prices. Smithes white wheat sold
|at $2,20. Indian Corn, SI,OO. Beef, bacon,
; and lard steady, with fair sales,
j Yours, BENSON.
Copper in Fannin.
I We have in our office several specimens of
[copper ore from tlie .* Sally Jane Copper
i Mine” in Fannin county. These specimens
: wertf handed to us by Mr. W. G Smith, one
of the proprietors of the Mine, aud, at our :
sblicitation, were left with us to be exhibit- j
ed to any one having an interest in develope- 1
j ing the hidden treasures of our Mountain :
country, t>r to the scientific for the gratifica
! tion of their curiosi.y. ~
| We are advised, that this, the Smith San- |
; defson & Cos , Copper Mining Company, is the |
[first Mine in this State from which copper
j was taken and shipped to Baltimore Its i
‘yield there was from .25 to 40 per cent, i
j The Mine is supposed to be inexhaustible,
■ and were capital invested to the extent it j
i should be in this enterprise, there is no tell
ing what amount of wealth would not, in a I
few years, be the reward of its possessors. ;
We are advised further that owing, mainly, |
to the perseverance and energy of Mr. ;
Smith, the mine was first successfully |
worked and the ore forwarded for smelting, j
Georgia should bestow a premium upon en- i
terprise like this. We hope, howuver, that i
Mr Smith will renlize what is most needed .
jin these hard times—a plentiful return of .
J gold for his cdppcr ore
Fanny Fern D vguer eotyped—She is
fully forty is Fanny. Sports curls like a ■
girl of seventeen. They are auburn— po- {
etically so Has a keen flashing eye. Nose j
between Grecian and Roman, rather thin !
and rather good looking Cheeks with a j
good deal quite too much—coloring. Come
of rouge. Bad taste, lut no business of j
i ours. Lips well turned and indicative of j
| firmness rather than of sugar. Chin hand- !
! somely chiseled. Whole countenance be- ,
| tokens a woman of spirit and high nature j
‘generally. Form fine. Chest a model. Not j
I surpassed. Carriage graceful and stately. ;
j Rather tall and emphatically genteel, l’rct- 1
•ty foot. Ankle to match. Hand small j
: Likes to show it. Dresses in thecut-and !
j dash school. Fond of ribbons, laces, mi Hi-. !
| nery, &c . generally. Talks rapidly. Is I
! witty and brilliant, cutting and lnsbful ,
Proud as Lucifer. Fond of fun. Hates >
most of her relations. Treats her father
and Nat mo3t brutally. Has three os pretty ■
girls as ever wore curls. Is proud of them, j
and justly. Is heartless Is a fl.rt. Lives ;
in clover. Is worth $20,000 Got it by
pen and ink. When passing the street takes
eight eyes out of ten. Ou the whole wor
derful woman is Fanny —Boston Despatch
i A letter from California to New York,
dated Jan 8. says, ► there is more distress
j here then one on your side would imagine,
jAt the asme time there is more extravagance
j ihan With you if possible. The fashion or
j New Year's day is being carried out here.
• This year far exceeded any previous one, in
j the costiless of the entertainments and ladies’
| dresses, the former costing in some instances
I SSOO, and the latter S2OO to 500. Most of
these people who spend so much are mechan
ics’ wives, and the way they dress is a cau
tion to the men's pockets. Laco from 15 to
SBOO the set. Any quantity of dresses can be
seen daily on Montgomery street, costing)
100, 200, and S3OO. Nobody wears ai* cal
ico” here not even servant girls, who sport
j their 10 aud sls haukerchiefs. No where
jis money in some cases so easily made and
|so foolishly spent as in this very San Fran
! cisco.
j
| llon. lloweluCobb —As we anticipated,
| the Democracy of the Athens District are
turning their attention to the Hon. Howell
Cobb, as their n xt Congressional repre
sentative. The last number of the Banner
spoaks as follows: <• Judge liillyer declin
ing to be again a candidate, it behooves the
j Democracy of this District to select one to
represent them in his place. We believe it
| will not take them long to make the choice
So far as we know, and we have more or
less information from nearly every county,
the unanimous opinion of the democracy has i
been that if Judge liillyer declined, the Hon. !
Howell Cobb was the man for the time ‘
That this is our opinion, wc have no hesi- j
tation in avowing.
Mr. Mason not going to Resign. A
Washington letter says: •• The convales
cence of our Minister at Paris, Mr J. Y
, Mason, is established beyond a doubt by the
j report of Mr. Walsh, concerning his condi
-1 tion. His mind was not affected by the tem- j
! porary paralysis of his arm, ar.d there is no
j reason to believe that he will immediately
: resign his mission. Thus will he disappoint
ed all the calculations and arrangements
that were based upon the occurrence of a va
cancy in the French mission.
Effects of tow Water in Alabama.
| —The Montgomery Mail says that in conse
j qnence of want of transportation, tht,re in
not a doubt there has been and will be a
j dead loss in that city of at least five dollars
1 per bale on thirty thousand bales of cotton,
j The Mobile Tribune estimates the entire loss
: this season on the whole cottou crop of the
i State, by the inability of planters to get
| their crops to market, at two million dollars.
—: :— _l
i Cherokee Mining Company. —Wc
, learn from the Atlanta papers that a eompa
. ny has been incorporated under this name
with a capital of $500,000. The object of
| this association ss to carry on the mining ;
! business i^o^tate■ of Georgia, thebroper
!Ty ‘andpersons of
| held liable for the payment of land purchss- I
ed or leased by the Company —J. It Swift
| I’res't; 3. L. Mayson, VicePres’t.
\V hiding in High Like.—A fashionable
marriage took place cm Thursday, at Grace |
Church, Now York. Tho parties were Miss J
Henrietta E. Irving, grand niece of Washing- j
ington Irving, and Smith Van Buren. son of j
ex-President anti younger brother of Prince !
John.
The Federal Government has granted over j
140,000.000 acres of land for school purposes, j
! and over four millions lor universities j
j Maine has a larger proportion of scholars i
lit school than any other state or country in
, tho world.
Homicide —On Tuesday night the 30th !
ult. Wm. C. Devereux was killed by Obadiah
Arnold, both of Hancock Cos. Arnold is a ‘
grocery keeper and Deveraux was a wealthy
customer.
A bill to repeal the Usury laws, has been
submitted .to the Legislature es Louisiana.
Congressional.
Washington, Feb. fIH
The Senate debated the French SpoiialH
Bill.
The Mexican Treaty recognising the prH
j ciple Hint free shif s make free goods, iH
sent into the Senate to-day.
j The bill appropriating $300,000 fur tl
i improvement of the mouths of the MisrirsiH
: pi. was passed.
Nothing elst of importance transpired.
The House, after debating the Constj(s|H
Bill, want into Committee of the Whole cH
; the Texas Creditors Ui 1 but adjourned witnH
| out having taken any action thereon.
Washington Feb. 7*
j In the Senate to day petitions were preß
, sen tod in favor of the abolition of slaver w
: in the District ol Columbia.
A kaMife'r of internal improvement lillel
were passed.
I The House passed the Texas Creditors 8.11 l
■ by h vote of 154 to 43.
j The Tariff and the Civil and PiplonW'cr
1 hills Were discussed in Committee of the
! Whole
Vr A ■■KINGTON, Feb. I
j Thr Senate passed to day several bills of
| minor importance.
| A discussion took place on the bill grant-’
! ing three years credit for the payment o*
dut.es on railroad iron.
; The House passed the 1 Bill regulating tho
| salaries of the Judges of the United States
’ Courts.
W ArTINGTOn , Feb 9.
| The Senate passed 57 private Bills, and
went into Execut ve session,
i Senator A C Dodge, of lowa, was com
firmed as Minister to Madrid This appoint
-1 ment excited universal astonishment,
j Charles 11. Morrison, was also confirmed
; as Receiver at Ouachita ; Robert Benguoral,
ias Register stOpekutas; Robert D. Hid
den, as Receiver at Columbus. Mississippi ;
. and 1 borons Welch, *r Receiver at Mwutgwr -
jery, Alabama.
• The House passed the Consular Reform
Bill.
The Bill for the renewal of Colt's patent
• was killed
! Hon. John C Breckinridge announced tl-.et
j lie had declined the appointment of M n.stsr
| to Spain, in consequence ol the sickness ut
; Ill's wife.
j Washington. Feb. 11.
In the Sena e on Saturday, Mr. Wilton,
i from Massachusetts, took his seat,
j The House on Saturday parsed tl.erf*o!u
----! tion extending the benefit of the Bounty Land
! bill to the Choctaws, who served in the ir
j my during the late war.
The House also passed nn appropriation
; for the four revenue cutters, and then wait
i into committee on private bills.
Washington, Feb. 12
| In the Senate to-day. the Indian Appro
-1 priation Bill was ameuded by cancelling they
! obligation# of the government to the North
• Carolinu Indians, and permitting them to
i remain ns citizens ; also by provid ug fur
colon zation ot the T.xs Indiana.
The House passed ti e Senate bill ai.tlor
izing the President tw confer the rok of
Lieutenant G moral on Gen. Scott.
The health of Mr Mclloo, U 3. C-un-ml
at Paris, is improving.
i
] The barracks of the U. S soldiers *? Furl
Makinac, were destroyed by fire rcc.-uiij.
The Florida end of the Pensacola rail road
has . bursted.”
The dentlis in Boston Inst rear were 22C4
males and 2147 female*.
lion. Motes Macdonald, of Me, it is said,
will be lbs uew fifth auditor of the* Treasu
ry •
The Pittsburg Chronicle reports three
deaths iu that city, amotig the Germans, from
starvation.
The Senate of Wisconsin has sgnin refus
ed to go into nn eleciiou for Uuited Slates
Senator
Thu Memphis navy yard property line bean
sold at auction, in residence lots and the a
| mount realized by the sale is $59,574 92.
The lion. Aaron Vail, of New York, is sp, -
I ken of as Minister to France iu case of the
| resignation of Mr. Mason.
! lion 11. W. Hilliard, declines becoming a
candidate for tho office of Governor of Ala
bama.
A now Southern Insurance Company, with
a capital ofsloo,ooo, has been organized in
| Montgomery, Ala
The steamer Black Warrior left New York
on Friday for Havana and Now Orleaus,
taking out fifty passengers and $150,000 iu
specie. — jr
S S. Cox, editor of the Columl us
j Statesman has been nominated to the Sen
j ate, as Secretary of Legation to Peru in place
j of Mr. Miller, withdrawn
j Hon. W. T. Colquit is lying dangerously
ill at his residence in Columbus. At tho
! last accouuts, we are gratified to say, he
; was reported better.
j The steamer Southerner, from San Fran
cisco, bound to Oregon, was lost sixty milts
below Cape Flattery. Tho passengers and
crew were saved.
An attempt was being mads in San Fran
cisco to raise a company of Frenchmen U>
i colon'll) the Island now called Onia. in the
i Southern Pacific Ocei n.
i
Hard Times. —M,rs. Kush, a millionaire
‘of Philadelphia, gave an entertainment in
week, which, it is said, cost
! about 20,000><£herc were 2,000 iuvitat'ors.
Green 11. Jordan, EsqTijec regret to an
nounce, died at his
Baldwin county, near Milledgeville on
day the 6th inst , in the 66th year of bis
age.
Cheating all Bound The Boston
Times sums up the amount of the foreign
intelligence as follows : ..Austria is cheat
ing tho Allies—Prussia is cheating Austria,
and Russia is cheatiug them all.”
Emigration to Texas.— The Jefferson,
Texas, Herald says n tide of emigration con
tinues to pour through the town. Most of
the emigrants nre from Georgia, Alabama,
j and Mississippi, and all of them have more
or less slave property
Fight in Congress —A most disgrace
; ful scene occurred iu the House of Repre
sentatives on the 30th ult., between Mr.
j t arley and Gen 1-Lane, in which the epi
. thets ot . liar,” &c., were freely bandied,
s nnd sons blows pawed.. This is a fret ctmu
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