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About A Friend of the family. (Savannah, Ga.) 1849-1??? | View Entire Issue (June 21, 1849)
Xffi-I iEBIl&SBO SJB THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE OF THE HUNGARIANS. The representatives of the Hungarian nation assembled on the 14th of April, 1549, at Debre vin, not in their usual Assembly Had, but in the Protestant Church, in order to make the discussion and decision of this great problem more solemn, and the place more suitable for a large auditor}’. Several thousands of the people were present. The Dictator, Kossuth, reported the last glorious victories of the Hungarian army; and declared, with emphasis, that now was the moment for sha king off the fetters by which the nation has been oppressed for three centuries —to place itself among the great nations of the world, and to iiu themselves of that dynasty which paid with per fidiousness and eternal treachery the loyalty and magnanimity of the Hungarian nation. The H ungarian people who, in those great battles for liberty, made such boundless sacrifices —the brave Hungarian army who, with the most sub lime patriotic feelings, offered their lives for the salvation of the fatherland —all this imposes on the representatives of the nation the high duty of taking such resolutions. Lhe fatherland, the world, God himself, command us to do so. The propositions were then submitted by the Dictator, Kossuth, as follows: 1 Hungary, with all its legal provinces and countries, should be proclaimed as .a free, inde pendent, and self-subsistent State, whose integ rity and unity can never be attacked. 2 The dynasty, Hapsburg Lorraine, whose treachery and perffdiousness look up arms against the Hungarian nation, which tried to divide the country, to annul the holy Constitution, to pro duce hatred between the different races,and which was even so shameless as to make use of a for eign power (Russia) to butcher a whole na tion, which in this way has torn in pieces the pragmatic sanction, which has violated every mu tual treaty —this faithless dynasty, Hapsburg Lorraine, should be deposed forever as a ruler in Hungary, and in all its legal provinces and coun tries should be exiled and banished forever from all the territories of Hungary, and should never be allowed the privilege of a Hungarian citizen ship. The banishment should be proclaimed in the name of the whole Hnugarian nation. 3 The Hungarian nation being by a holy un alienable right, self-subsistent, free, and indepen dent, may proclaim its decided will to keep peace and friendship with all nations of the world tor so long as its rights are not violated—to keep particularly peace and friendship with those peo ple who were before united with Hungary under the same ruler, then with the neighboring Turkish and Italian countries, and to make t e ities and alliances with them founded on mutual interests. 4 The future system of government, with its particularities, shall be deliberated and decided by the National Assembly. Until the new prin ciples of government are deliberated upon and accepted and invested with the executive power. 5 A committee of three members should be authorized to publish a manifest of this resolution and its principles. The representatives of the people unanimous ly adopted the propositions of the’ Dictator and gave them their sanction, and the church resoun ded with enthusiastic shouts, and tears gleamed in the eves of thousands and thousands. The fourth proposition came soon to discus sion, and all the representatives with unanimous feelings and decision proclaimed Lewis Kossuth, President, in consequence of his unshaken pat riotism and his undivided confidence of the whole Hungarian nation. He was then entrusted with the formation of a Ministry. On the same day the (magnater tafel) Senate, on the proposition of their President, Soreny, accepted the above resolutions of the House of Representatives, without further discussion, unan imously and solemnly. The following is the composition of the Minis try of the new Hugarian government: Lewis Kossuth, President; Casimer Battrany, of For eign Affairs; Duadek, of Finances; Szemere, In terior; S. Soreny, Justice; Heynek, Riligion and Police. Translated by L. R. Breisach, a Hungarian by birth. Distressing and melancholy affliction in the family of Rev. Dabney P Jones. —We take the following extract from a private letter to the editor, dated “ Atlanta, June 9th, 1549,” (Saturday last.) “ I am deeply grieved to learn of the very se vere affliction of my excellent friend, Rev. D. P. Jones. On Saturday last, his son, Thornton, a very promising young man, of about twenty-two years of age, died; on Tuesday, his widowed daughter, Mrs. Johnson, died; on Thursday morning, another daughter, Mrs. McMichael, died; on Friday morning, a third daughter, Miss Ann D. Jones was interred; and still another daugh ter, Miss Emily, was lying at the point of death when I heard from them on Friday noon. I never knew a more amiable family than “ Uncle Dab ney’s” in my life—and deeply and sincerely do I mourn the severe mandate that has removed so many of them from amongst us at one fell blow. I pray God to give the survivors increased strength to bear up under their bereavement. He has lost one or two negroes, besides. The disease, I understand, is a kind of Brain Fever.” Dalton Eagle . COMPLETION OF THE STATE ROAD TO THE TUNNEL. An engine and train of cars run up to, within a few hundred yards of the Tunnel, on Wednes day last. By invitation of the officers ol the Road, a very large party of our citizens, of both sexes, availed themselves of the first opportunity of being conveyed to the tunnel and back by steam, .and of hearing the whistle sounded at the great monument of Georgia enlerprize, for the first time. The number of persons on the train, could not have been much less than five hundred. Some say more. The party was accompanied by music, and every “body and his wife” en joyed themselves to their heart’s content. The immense throng on the train, when only a few hours notice had been given, induces us to believe that our worthy Marshal made a mistake in his report of the census, taken a few weeks ago, by order of the Council. If his statement be cor rect, we must have had a vast increase of popu lation since he closed his labors, for it is not pro bable that more than one-third of the entire popu lation went up on the train, which would make our city number fifteen, instead of eleven hundred, as reported. The Marshal certainly made a mistake, as all will agree who saw the crowd on the train.— Dalton Eagle . A help to Energy. —To-day I found myself com pelled to do something which was very disagree able to me, and which I had long deferred ; I was obliged to resort to my ‘ grand expedient’ in order to conquer my aversion. You will laugh when I tell you what it is; but I find it a powerful aid, in great things as well as small. The truth is there are few men who are not sometimes capri cious, and yet oftener vacillating. Finding that I am no better than others in this respect, I in vented a remedy of my own, a sort of artificial resolution respecting things which are difficult to perform—a means of securing that firmness in myself which I might otherwise want, and which man is generally obliged to sustain by some ex ternal prop. My device, then, is this :—I give my word of honor most solemnly to myself to do or to leave undone, this or that. I am of course ex ceedingly cautious and discreet in the use of this expedient and exercise great deliberation before I resolve upon it; but when it is done, even if I after wards think I have been precipitate or mistaken, I hold it to be irrevocable, whatever inconveniences I foresee likely to result, and I feel great satisfac tion and tranquility in being subject to such an immutable law. If I were capable of breaking it after such mature consideration, I should loose all respect for myself; and what man of sense would not prefer death to such an alternative ? Verdict of the Coroner's Jury in relation to the loss of the steamer Empire. —“That the persons lost by the .unfortunate accident to the steamer Empire, on the night of Thursday, May 17th 1849, by drowning; that the said steamer was coming up the river, and the schooner Noah Brown going down, beating against the wind; that the jury be lieve that the collision was occasioned by the lack of vigilance on the part of Levi Smith, the pilot of the said steamboat, not seeing the said schoon er soon enough to avoid her, and by the conduct of Richard Robinson, the captain of the said schooner, in adhering to the custom of the river, that a sailing vessel with the wind, meeting a steamboat, may keep on her course, while if he had sooner gone about, he might have avoided the said collision.” English Railway Statistics. —On the English railway, the following persons are emplo};ed : one hundred and two secretaries, ninety-three managers, four treasurers, four hundred and five engineers, one thousand eight hundred and ninety seven superintendents, two hundred and forty three store-keepers, one hundred and forty-five accountants, eighty-eight cashiers, three-hundred and six draughtsmen, eight hundred and eighty seven clerks, twenty thousand and eighty-six ar tificers, one hundred and forty-seven thousand, three hundred and twenty-five laborers, one hun dred and nineteen inspectors, twenty-six land surveyors, six thousand two hundred and fifty guagemen, six hundred and eighty-five foremen, seventy-one policemen, two hundred and fifty six plate layers. German Emigrants. —A party of German Emi grants, of both sexes, about fifty in number, ar rived here on Friday last. They have ample means, and are of the most respectable class. We are glad to learn that a large number of them, if not all, will locate in our town and vicinity. Among them are literary men, mechanics, arti sans, and farmers. They will be a valuable ac cession to our community.— Dalton Eagle. Reduction of fare on the Georgia Road. —We learn from the Augusta papers, that the fare on the Georgia Rail Road has been reduced to three cents per mile, commencing on the 15th inst. and extending to the 15th of October next. — Ibid. A guard against premature burial. —A learned Belgian, M. Mainple, has recently discovered a very simple means of distinguishing between real and apparent death. It consists in creating a small burn ; if there is life, a blister is always formed, even in the absence of apparent sensi bility. If death has already intervened, nothing of the kind occurs. An Editor as is an Editor . —We hear of an Editor in Tennessee, who, we think without exception, is the most industrious man of his time. He is not only his own compositor, pressman and devil, hut keeps a tavern, is village post master, town clerk, captain of the militia; mends his own boots and shoes, is a pettifogger of notoriety, deals in red flannel, makes patent pills, peddles essence and tin-ware two days in the week, is parish sex ton, and always preaches on Sunday when the minister is absent. In addition to this, he has a scolding wife, sixteen ungrateful and disobedient children, and a large circle bf needy acquaint ances, whom he entertains on conditions unknown to the public.-— Dalton Eagle A large number of spots on the sun are now visible. One sooner finds out his own foibles in a stran ger, than any other foibles. A man has generally the good or ill qualities which he attributes to mankind. One hundred thousand one dollar gold pieces have already been coined at the mint. Men who have force of character enough to de ceive themselves will be sure to deceive others. The Recorder of Liverpool has decided that grocers in weighing sugar have no legal right to deduct the weight of the paper in which it is weighed. Mr. Hacket, lessee of the Opera-house, claims from the Common Council of l\. Y. 5,000 dollars for damages done to the building during the re cent riots. Fashion is a great restraint upon persons of taste; who would, otherwise, in the most trifling instances, be able to distinguish themselves from others. “ Were you wounded in the wars?” asked a man of a little drummer. “Oh yes, badly,” an swered he. “In what part were you shot?” “Oh, sir, I was shot in the drum.” There are few, of talents so very inconsidera ble, as to be unalterablv excluded from all degrees of fame ; and all should, in Life’s visit, leave some token of their existence.” A lady wrote with a diamond, on a pane of glass:— “ God did at first make man upright, but he—” To which a gentleman added:— “Most surely had continued so, but she—” A Dumfries paper gives an account of an in fant a few months old that was destroyed by a cat, which attacked it during the momentary ab sence of its mother. The cat was not known to be rabid, yet in a few minutes inflicted so severe wounds about the head and face that surgical aid was of no avail. On the 16th ultimo, the queen gave the second state ball of the season, at Buckingham Palace, to a party of nineteen hundred persons, com posed of the members of the royal family and foreign princes and princesses in England, all the members of the diplomatic corps and their ladies, and a large party of nobility and gentry. The amount of coal transported on the Phila delphia and Reading Railroad, during the week ending May 31, was forty-two thousand seven hundred and twenty-seven tons, making a total during the present year of two hundred and ninety-eight thousand, eight hundred and thirty eight tons. This is the greatest amount of coal ever sent over this road in one week. An exchange tells a good story of a country man, who was in one of our cities on Sunday, and concluded to go to church. Arriving there, he waited outside a moment, when to his sur prise the organ struck up, and he concluded some sort of “shave down” was about to commence. At that moment a gentleman invited him in.— “Not ’zactly, mister, ain’t used to no such doin’s on Sunday, and besides, I don't dance, “Music,” says Luther, “is one of the fairest and most glorious gifts of God, to which Satan is a bitter enemy : for it removes from the heart th£ weight of sorrows and the fascination of evil thoughts. Music is a kind and gentle sort of dis cipline ; it refines the passions and improves the understanding. Even the dissonance of unskill ful fiddlers serves to set off'the charfns of true melody, as white is made more conspicuous by the apposition of black. Those who love music are gentle and honest in their tempers. I always love music,” adds Luther, “and would not, for a great matter, be without the little skill which I possess in the art.” Now, whilst there is nothing more contemptible than an ostentatious display of .wealth, nothing meaner or more ludicrous than a substitution of the mysterious law of fashion for common sense, practical ciuty and a refined taste, yet, at the same time, the very follies and excentricities of a few amongst the rich, minister to the comfort of the poor. Subjects for satire in all ages, on and off the stage, the intelligent mechanic will find more satisfaction in a hearty laugh at their extrava gances, which furuish him with bread and butter, than in nursing envy and bitterness of feeling, pushing which to extremes he inevitably cuts his own throat.”— Albion . To the Planters and Farmers of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Teiuu essee and Florida, T AM THE AUTHORIZED AGENT for the X sale and purchase of the CAMELINA SATIVa or GOLD OF PLEASURE SEED, a native of Siberia. 1 am now ready to fill all orders for the seed, and |being | U . thorized by the Company to purchase the same, I will payth* highest market price for all that may be shipped to me i k Savannah. WM. HUMPHREYS, Jr., may 31 Agent for the Company of New York. Situation Wanted. BY A YOUNG MAN, as Clerk or Book keeper, good references can be given to any person needing hi* services. Apply at this office. may 31 Summer Ketreal on the SaitiT AT MONTGOMERY, twelve miles from savannah. ABONAUD respectfully informs his friends , and the public generally, that from the 21st inst., he will be prepared to accommodate guests, to whom he promise, good attendance on accommodating terms, having good and intelligent servants. Persons may be accommodated forboard per week, month or day, at the following rates, viz: Board and Lodging, per week, $5 qq 80. do. per day \ Horses well fed and attended to for 50 cents per day. N. B. During the season there is an abundance of Fruit on the place; and the table will also be provided with all kindi of fisli that the river will afford. apr 26 HOUSE EUR AI SHI AG STORE. pOLLINS & BULKLEY, No. # 108 Bryan-st V would respectfully invite the attention of purchasers to their large and varied assortment of Crockery, Glass Waie and House Furnishing Goods, consisting in part of Flowing Blue, Mnlberry, and W. G. Dinner setts; Chinn and W. G* lea setts; Mugs Vases, Ornaments, Glass Lamps, Straw berry Wines, Ashburton Goblets, Solar Chimneys and Shades, Julep Tubes, and a general assortment of Glass Ware. Ston Butter Pots, Pickle Jars, Churns, Jugs, Ac. LAMPS AND TIN WARE. Burning Fluid Lamps, Miniature Solar Lamps, Hall Lan. terns, Bronze Candlesticks, Nursery Lamps for Invalids, Toi Waiters, a fine assortment, Slop Pails, Foot Tubs, Coffee Big. gins, Oyster Stew and Venison Dishes, Dish and Plate cover* Cake Boxes, Ac. FAMILY HARDWARE AND CUTLERY. Ivory Table Cutlery with Knives only, Buck Horn and com mon Cutlery, Razors and Pocket Knives, Coffee Mills, Ssuc* and Stew Pans, Soup Digesters, Ovens, Pots, Skillets, Spiders, Gridirons, Water and Waffle Irons, Furnaces. Brass Shovel’ and Tongs, Andirons, Stair Rods, Whips, Quilling Scissor*, Paste Jaggers, Ice Breakers, Cork Screws, Mouse Traps, so! WILLOW AND WOOD WARE. Buckets, Tubs, Wash Boards, Sieves, Pigging, Churns, Bssf Steak Pounders, Lemon Squeezers, Wood Spoons, Butter Prints, Cake Beaters, Butter Pats, Rolling Pins, Towel Roll ers, Faucets, Bird Cages, also Market Baskets, Waggons, Hobly Horses, Travelling and Work Baskets, Dusting and Scrub Brushes, Sweeping Brooms, and other brushes. MISCELLA N EOUS. Straw Satchels, Knife Baskets, Paper Lamp Shades and r rames, Thermometers, Spool stands, Swifts for windingsilk,lcs Cream Churns, Knife Cleaners, Nut Picks and Cracker* Gravy Strainers, Toy Hoes, and rakes, Apple Corers and Peelers, Buckwheat Cake Griddles, of Soap Stone, Tabla Mats, also Door Mats ot different qualities, together with a gi eat variety of goods not enumerated. Also Camphine and Burning Fluid of the best quality. Housekeepers, Planters, and others, are invited to call aa their prices are as low aselsewhere. A CARO. THE undersigned having re-opened, with an entire New Stock of DRUGS, CHEMICALS and FANCY ARTICLES, at No. 139 (South side) Broughtoa street, (formerly Walker’s Marble Yard,) is now ready to furnish any thing in his line, at the shortest notice. SODA WATER, made in his own peculiar way, sent to any part of the city, and always to be had at the store, in the highest state of perfection. . Prescriptions put up with care and despatch. The subscriber having served the public long and faithfully, respectfully solicits u share of their patronage. P r 26 THOS. RYERSON. CLOTH I AG. “ DIEIifcON & HE IDT offer for sale, Clothing, W holesale and Retail, at New York prices. No. 10, Whitaker-street. y nnr ofi UJ.FI fcU Portraits aiul Miniatures* \TR. \ OIG I, who is for the present located at p ,^ ie y* es f end fi le Academy, entrance opposite the it s yterinn Church, respectfully requests those who propoee to avail themselves ol his services, to engage their picture! soon as conveniently practicable, as his stay in Savannah ii limitcd - pr 19 Famp Oil* JUfeT Received per ship Hartford, a lot of sU peiior Sperm Oil, which is warranted* pure. For **!• very cheap at store, 111 Bay street. a l }l GEO. H. BROCK. Foreign Fruits* R DE MARTIN, Corner Whitaker and Bay • Streets, has made arrangemefs to be constantly supplied with choice WEST INDIA FRUITS and VEGETABLES, selected expressly for his trade, to which he invites the atten tion of the public. Orders from the country respectfully so licited and supplied upon the lowest terms. Also, constantly on hand a complete assortment of select Groceries, Teas, Wines, Segars, Syrups, English Sauces and Pickels, Pre serves, &c., which would be to the interest of purchasers to inspect previous to supplying their demands. ap 12 A FRIEND OF THE FAMILY, A WEEKLY SOUTHERN NEWSPAPER, PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY, BY EDW ARD J. PURSE. TERMS:—T WO DOLLARS A YEAR. Three Copies for one year, or one copy three years, $5 00 Seven Copies, - - - - . _ 10 0) Twelve Copies, 15 00 *** Advertisements to a limited extent, will be inserted at the rate of 50 cents for a square of nine lines or less, for the first insertion, and 30 cents for each subsequent insertion. Business cards inserted for a year at Five Dollars. A liberal discount will be made to Post Masters wba will do us the favor to act as Agents. tiT All communications to be addressed (post-paid) to E. J. PURSE, Savannah, <W.
