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tv girl, who usee! to study l>v ?,ca J j
,tmid.iight,WillisCawthornecouK i
not r?d of a cerinia rq.ah.on ol
Which sruntsa however,
i„ recoiling hack fmjn the fa r w*-
ion of the previous day, to the de
ceitful school girl who had been de
scribed .0 him US practising
upon every one around her, by a
1 i ‘ctuipm <4 coaxing and
complete sv-i* 111 f
ffutcrv which seldom failed lo win
for her the end desired.
.. 1 sa |d I would call,” repeated
Willis to himself, “and l should
like to see how she looks nt home ;
there can be no harm in calling to
know how she is, after her fright.
Mv sister’s school acquaintance with
j,or, whold afford me some plea for
that. Perhaps Lillie would like to
call, too. But no; that woi Id nev
er do. It is just possible Lillie may
be prejudiced —may she not even
he mistaken, altogether? I Vvi-b
ihat were possible. I wish I cqulo
believe those lips had never smiled
an artful smile. And yet, what a
brow she has —ns clear, and pure,
and white, as a snow-drift. 1 saw
it distinctly, too, when the wind
blew her tresses back. Let me see
what do the phrenologists sav?
Ah ! the organ which indicates con
cealment lies not there. I could
make no observation upon that.
jshe mav be all vanity, self-love,
and trickery, for anything l know,
vet.”
As Willis Cawthorne communed
in this manner with himself it is
rather remarkable that his step,
without any deviation, were pursu
ing, at considerable speed, the way
to the residence of Mrs. More;
and even while pronouncing upon
Ella’s character, as being a com
pound of those qualities, he most
detested, his hand was upon the
knocker of her mother's door; and
his foot was actually passing over
the threshold, before he had effectu
ally checked hts hard thoughts to
wards the uneonsc.ous ‘offended
against his tasles and principles.
°Before ushering the voung gen
tlemen into Mrs. More’s drawing
room, however, we must spend a
few words upon bis personal ap
pearance. We have already des
cribed him as being slight in figure,
with fair hair and complexion—in
nil respects the opposite of his sis
ter. Indeed, it seemed as if nature
had played one of her fantastic tricks
with both—giving to the female
from the dark and powerful charac
teristics of the stronger sex, and to
the brother a delicacy of feature,
and general outline of figure, which
indicated, far less strength of pur
pose and decision o( character, titan
he really possessed. Add to these
characteristics, an unconquerable
tendency to blush up to the very
brow, and all over the cheeks and
temples, and we have the re
presentation of one who hated the
very idea of his own appearance,
and, therefore, very wisely forgot
that he bad a face or a person at
all, whenever it was possible to do
so.
Notwithstanding these feminine
peculiarities, however, Willis Caw
thorne was both gentlemanly and
agreeable looking ; and, if his per
son was insignificant, he possessed
a manliness of soul beyond the com
mon order of his fellow beings. He
was very sensible, 100, and a scholar,
and had acquired a fund of general
information, which would have
been a recommendation in any cir
cle of society. His reading was ex
tensive, and so varied as to supply,
in some degree, the want of ac
qaintance with the world, as that
acqurontance is usually formed
Here, it is true, he would have been
pronounced defective, by many
who pique themselves upon a know
ledge’. of the world, acquired only
in certain circles; for Willis Caw
thorne was religious, not only by
habit and education, but by the
free choice of n noble and indepen
dent mind. His favourite studies,
bis choicest occupatians, liis dearest
hopes, were strictly religious ; and
so far from being ashamed of this,
it was his highest ambition that they
should be so. He had been educated
by his father for the church, and it
was with this prospect before him,
that be was now pursuinghisstudies;
only that a slight interruption in his
pursuits had lately been occasioned
by certain symptoms of indisposi
tion supposed to have been induced
by too close application. It was,
consequently, under medical ad
vice, that he now indulged in the re
laxation of a comparatively idle
and unoccupied life ; though no one
who watched his movements
through the day, would have consi
dered him unoccupied, nor would
they have been more likely to ima
ginehiman invalid. It was a great
flaw in Willis Cawthorne’s other
wise rightly constituted character,
that he would not be at the trouble
of taking care of himself, A little
recklessness on his part, however,
afforded his sister so many oppor
tunities of exhibiting both her kind
ness and her anger, that upon the
whole, she was better pleased, than
if he had spared her the exetcise
of these feelings, by bestowing
more attention on himself.
On being ushered into the pres
ence of Mrs. More, Willis Caw
thorne found that lady very agrea
bly occupied in an earnest conver
sation with Miss Mason and her
attendant young lady; the latter
personage, however, seemed to fill
n hind of neutral place, half-wav
lietweeti her patroness and Ella,
who rose on the entrance of the
gentleman, smiling, and looking
not a little pleased to renew her
agreeable acquaintance of the pre
vious day.
Miss Mason glanced towards the
stranger, set him down for nobody,
drew her young companion closer
to her side, and resumed the thread
of her very interesting conversa
tion with the lady of the house.—
This arrangement, by no means
disagreeable to Ella and her visitor,
left them at liberty to pursue a sep
arate train of conversation uninter
rupted except bv a few common
place observations from Mrs. Mote,
which she was in the habit of
throwing out in every direction to
wards her guests, who might other
wise, she imagined, feel themselves
not sufficiently brought under her
notice.
Whatever Willis Cawthorne
might have thought of the beauty
of the laughing girl who stood be
litre him on the hill side, reclaim
ing her wild tresses from the winds,
he found her not less beautiful un
der the calm and serious expression
which Iter features wore on this oc
casion. Her dress of deep mourn
ing formed a striking contrast to a
complexion rich and glowing like
hers, but it could not subdue nor
obscure die brilliant color of her
cheek, which harmonised so well
with the sunny tints of her flowing
and luxuriant hair.
“She is no deceiver,” said Willis
to himself, as be looked into net
clear soft eves. “ l would venture
my life upon her sincerity.”
And so he might have done at
that moment with perfect safety.—
Ella was under no temptation to
act upon double motives then ;
calm, thoughtful, and deeply effec
ted by the melancholy events of
the previous day—perhaps still
more affected by the train of feel
ings they had awakened in her own
mind, she was just in the mood
to turn with peculiar satisfaction
from the ordinary gossip of her
mother's visitors, to something more
like conversation than she ever
heard from her.
Recurring, as was very natural,
to the accident of the boat, Ella
and her visitor, as was equally
natural, rose and went towards the
window to look upon the scene of
the catastrophe. It was quite natu
ral, too, that they shou.d remain
there opposite each other, one on
either side of the bow-window
which commanded a view of the
whole bay. There were many
things to talk of, and to tell, in con
nection w ith the loss of the widow’s
son, and Willis Cawthorne uncon
sciously fell into a minute and cir
cumstantial account or his inter
view with the distracted mother on
the cliffi of nis leading her back to
her solitary cottage, and of many
expressions and touches of feeling
which he had subsequently recalled,
and which he himself felt so deeply
as to find peculiar pleasure in de
scribing to one who could sympa
thise while she listened.
That Ella could sympathise there
was no doubt, for more than once
her large eyes filled with tears,
which, however, she not only en
deavored to restrain, but actually
turned away to hide.
“ She is no deceiver,” said Willis
again, with more certainty than he
fore. “ She is true —real—clear,
as a star at midnight.” And sud
denly he forgot his story in the pic
ture he was gazing upon.
Ella saw this—fell it. Site be
came a little, a very little, less natu
ral than before, while her whole
manner assumed a slight tendency
to affection.
The story was now entirely for
gotten, and a pause ensued which
it was necessary to break in one
way or another. “ I was not aware,”
said Willis, “in mv chase after a
bonnet yesterday, that 1 was pursu
ing an acquaintance not entirely
new to me.”
“ How so?” asked Ella.
“ I was not aware,” he continued,
“ that the Miss More whose lost
property I had yesterday the honor
of restoring, was my sister's com
panion at school.”
“Is that possible !” said Ella.—
“ I beg your pardon, but your name
escaped me. It is ?”
“Cawthorne,” said Willis, and
a deep burning crimson immediate
ly spread itself over the face of his
companion, as she exclaimed, “ are
you then the brother of Lillie Caw
thorne ?”
“ I am,” he replied, “and better
acquainted with Miss More than she
imagined yesterday.”
Ella shook her head. “If your
knowledge of me comes from that
quarter,” she said—and then she
paused again.
“ My sister is best, understood by
those who have lived with her from
childhood,” observed Willis. “ For
myself, I have learned to halve her
measurements of people and things
and generally find, by stopping
half-way in her descriptions, that I
am very near the truth.”
“ Then you believe me,” said
Ella, “to be hall-wicked, half-de
ceitful, half-mean. Is that what
you wish me to suppose ?”
Ella looked very earnest and sin
cere when she said this; but es
pecially when site added—“lndeed
—indeed lam not so bad as that.
I was completely persecuted at
school. 1 never had fair play. I
was younger and less experienced
than your sister. I had never been
at school before. 1 had no one to
lake my part ; and thev absolutely
compelled rne to act as I did.”
“My sister,” said Willis, “is
rather severe, sometimes ; but she
has an excellent heart.”
“ She was always severe to me,’’
said Ella, “and her heart I never
could reach. I would sometimes
have given the world to throw my
arms around her neck, and entreat
her to pity me, if she could not love
me.”
The many painful recollections
which this conversation called back
to her mind, were too much for
Ella. The always-distressing task
of self-vindication overcame her.
Her tears, she felt, were coming
thick and fast. She turned away,
as if looking towards the sea, and
Willis could only see that exquisite
contour of her head and neck,
which left her small delicate ear and
a portion of her cheek just visible
amongst her {lowing hair. Willis
thought her more beautiful than,
even in imagination, he had ever
conceived of anything before.—
Wretch ! ” said he to himself,
“why did I come here to make her
weep ?”
But Ella possessed a presence of
mind and a power of self-mastery
which he would not have given her
credit for ; and, wiping away her
tears, she soon turned round to
wards the company, and com
menced a conversation a: the same
time less personal, and less painful
to her own feelings.
Ella’s remarks were now direc
ted to the place of her present
residence, to the company at C
thing she could think of, that was
commonplace and familiar to both.
But it would not do; her thoughts
flew back again every moment lo
those miserable school days, and
they went forward also to the false
and injurious impression which she
feared that Miss Cawthorne’s pre
judices would make upon every
mind against her. There was
something too in the genuine kind
ness of manner, and the clear open
countenance of the young man be
fore her, which made her peculiar
ly anxious to vindicate her conduct
from his censure, and to establish
herself in his good opinion ; and
therefore, endeavouring to com
mand herself better than before,
she again ventured upon the painful
subject, by saying, with one of her
sweetest smiles, “ Was there any
thing so very shocking then, after
all, in my unfortunate habits of
studying my lessons by lamplight,
at night?”
Willis Cawthorne smiled too,
while he replied, “ Not certainly in
that, or we should have to condemn
many of the wisest, and some of
the best, of our fellow-beings ; but
.” and he paused, for he did
not like to speak the unpleasant
truth,
“But what?” said Ella, with
great earnestness.
“ But,” he added, “ under the
plea of doing something else—
in connexion with a bribe too ”
“Alt!” said Ella, interrupting
him, “you have indeed heard hard
things of tne; and if these are all you
have heard, I wonder, you should
come here to-day.”
“ They are all 1 have said
Willis Cavvih orne; “but they are net
all I have though.”
“What have you thought, then? ’
asked Ella.
“ 1 have thought,” replied her
companion, “that perhaps Miss
More did not yet quite know herself
But lam really too impertinent; I
will not say more.”
“ No, no, you are notsaid Ella.
“ Do, pray, go on.”
“ Well, then,” resumed the gen
tleman, “ I have thought that per
haps Miss More may have never
had a friend to point them out. 1
have thought too, in my wisdom—
for I seem most unaccountably to be
assuming the character of a sage—
that she would be both happier and
more noble-—nay, if possible, she
would be more lovely, if she would
act with more single-mindedness,
and be more true to her own ex
cellent heart.”
Ella thanked her companion,
blushed deeply, looked very serious
tor a moment, and the different visi
tors then took their leave.
[Continued next week.
Mr. Perot, of St. Etienne, has ar
ranged an electrical ciock, which,
at small expense, and by means of
communicating wires, will indicate
the same movement upon a myriad
ot clock laces. In this manner one
clock will serve a whole citv, and
the inhabitants take Time into their
houses and pay by the month, as
we pay for gas and water.
Small Pox continues to prevail
in various parts of North Carolina.
Ihe towns of Wilmington and
Charlotte appear to be the princi
-1 pal places affected.
German 1101-Bcds . —Take white
cotton*’ cloth ol a close texture,
stretch and nail it on frames of any
size you wish ; lake 2 oz. of lime
water, 4 oz. of linseed oil, 1 oz.
white of eggs, 2 oz. of yolk of eggs,
mix the lime and oil with very gen
tle heat, beat the eggs well separate
ly, and mix the former —spread this
mixture with a point brush over the
cotton, allowing each coat to dry
before applying another; until they
become water proof. The follow
ing are the advantages these shades
possess over the glass ones ;
Ist. The cost being hardly one
fou t th.
2d. Repairs are easily and cheap
ly made.
3d. The light. They do not re
quire watering : no matter how in
tense the heat of the sun, the plants
are never struck down or burnt, la
ded or checked in growth, neither
do they grow up long; sick and
weakly as they do under glass, and
still there is an abundance of light.
4ih. The heat arising entirely
from below, is more equable and
temperate which is a great object.
The vapor rising from the manure
and earth is condensed by the cool
air passing the surface ol the
shade,and hangs in drops upon the
inside and therefore the plant do
not require as frequent watering.—
If the frames or stretchers are made
large, thev should be intersected
with cross-bars about a loot square
to support the cloth. These articles
are just the thing for bringing for
ward flower seeds in season for
transplanting. — Plough , Boom and
Anvil.
The Invalid Abroad. —!l is a sad
thing to feel that we must die away
from our own home. Tell not the
invalid, who is yearning after his
distant country, that the atmos
phere around him is soft, that the
gales are filled with balm, and that
the flowers are springing from the
green earth ; he knows, that the soft
est air to his heart, would be the air
which hangs over his native land;
that, more grateful than all the gales
of the south, would breathe low
whispers of anxious affection ; that
the very icicles, clinging to his
own caves, and snow, beating
against his own eyes than the bloom
and verdure which only remind him
how far he is from that one spot,
which is dearer to him than all the
world beside. He may, indeed,
find estimable friends, who will do
all in their power to promote his
comfort, and assuage his pains ; but
they cannot supply the place
of the long known and long loved;
they cannot read, as in a book, the
mute language of his face ; they
have not lgarned to wait upon his
habits, and anticipate his wants,
and he has not learned to communi
cate, withou hesitation, all his wish
es, impressions and thoughts to
them. He feels that he is a stranger;
and a more desolate feeling than
that could not visit his soul. How
much is expressed by that form of
oriental benediction.—“ May you
die among your kindred !”—Green
wood.
Liability of Newspaper Subscribers.
The liability of subscribers to news
papers and periodicals is not, any
many cases, duly considered. A
case has recently been decided,
which will awaken attention on the
subject. Mr. Jasper Harding, of
Philadelphia,not long since recover
ed a large sum (about $l2O we be
lieve) for a subscription to the Penn
sylvania Inquirer, of a man residing
in Rhode Island. The circumstan
ces were ihese : The suberiber took
the paper for some time, and then
sent to the publisher a notice of dis
continuance, without forward ; ng the
money for payment. The publish
er took no notice of this, nor of sev
eral subsequent notices of refusal
to take the papers from the post of
fice. The result was, that notwith
standing the Uliode Islander did
not receive the papers for several
years, yet he was forced to pay Mr.
Harding the whole amount up to
the period claimed by the bill.—
Farmer and Mechanic.
Leather Cloth. —A new article of
boots and shoes has just come up in
England. It is called the Pannas-
Curium, or leather cloth, and was
invented by a person named Hall.
The material is cotton, but has the
mass and general appearance of
leather, and receives a polish from
ordinary blacking and in the same
way. It is used only for the up
per, the sole being leather, It is
said to be as durable as leather,
never cracks or splits, and possesses
the advantage of not drawing the
foot.
A New Watch. —A geat improve
ment in the manufacture of watches
has just been made in Geneva, bv
which keys are rendered unnecessa
ry. By simply turning a screw in
the handle, the watch is wound up,
and another movement regulates
the hands.
The Key of the Bastile, presen
ted by Lafayette to Washington,
yet hangs in the hall at Mount Ver
non.
Since 1815, there have been at
least forty millions of Bibles prin
ted by the several Bible Societies
throughout the world.
Boiling Potatoes.— ls your pota
toes are ‘watery,’ put into the
water, before boiling, a small piece
of lime. This will render them
perfectly dry and mealy. This is
an easy and a cheap method of re
medying a very common evil, and
one, at this season very extensively
complained of. The lime should
be fresh, and for a common sized
fa nil y, say of six, the piece should
not exceed the size oi an English
walnut.
Fugitive Returned. —The Frede
ricksburg, Va., Herald chronicles
the fact that a female slave who
absconded from her master in Mary
land, and went to New York, had
voluntarily returned home. It ap
pears that on reaching New Aork,
she was taken charge ot by an aboli
tionist, who sent her, with oilier fu
gitives, to Canada. There she be
came dissatisfied and went back.
Religions Education. —“ James,
recite vour scripture lesson.”
“John the Bablist was forty days
and nights in the wilderness, cloth
ed in camomile’s hair, with a leath
er gridiron round his neck, and his
meat was locos and wild onions. ’
“ That’s a good little bov, you
can take your seat.”
Confidence may not be recipro
cal, but kindness should be.
FRIEND OF THE FAMILY,
E. J. PURSE, CITY PRINTER.
PROCEEDINGS OF COUNCIL.
Savannah, Feb. ‘27, 1851.
Council met. Present —his Honor
R. Wayne, Mayor ; Aldermen Posey,
Turner, Cohen, Mallery, Screven,Griffin,
Walker and Purse.
The minutes of the last meeting were
read and confirmed.
The Information and Fine Dockets
were read and confirmed.
Reports Read and Adopted.
The Finance Committee, to whom
was referred a Resolution instructing
them to inquire into the propriety of re
funding the amounts paid into the City
Treasury during the years 1849 and ’SO,
under the Income Tax Ordinance, so
culled, beg leave to report —That said tax
from the time it was first imposed until
the year 1849, was regularly and volun
tarily paid by all citizens liable to the
same ; that in 1849 the tax was resisted,
and legal proceedings instituted to test
its validity, and the same was declared
unvalid under the then charter of the
City. Similar proceedings were again
instituted in 1850; and the Court, al
though it ailinitted the right of the City
to impose the tax under the amended
charter, yet it freed the litigants from the
payment of the tax, upon the ground that
no new Ordinance had been passed by
virtue of the amended charter. Under
these circumstances, your Committee re
commend that the City Treasurer repay
said tax to all those who paid the same
during the years 1849 and 1859.
{SOLOMON COIIEN, Chairman.
The Finance Committee, to whom
was referred the Petition of John Low,
praying remission of a tax on his slave
Charlotte, because she is above the age
when taxes are required, and also for re
payment of the excess of badge money,
charged on the presumption of his being
a non-resident, beg leave to report —That
said tax should be re-funded; but your
Committee cannot regard Mr. Low as a
resident of this city. 11 is payment of the
City Poll Tax, and his declining to plead
to the jurisdiction when sued in this city,
are voluntary acts, and cannot give him
a residence if he does not reside here.—
The legal inferancc that he does reside
here is rebutted by the facts of the case.
Your Committee therefore must regard
Mr. I jow as a non-resident, and recom
mend that In 1 be required to pay the badge
money of non-residents.
SOLOMON COHEN, Chairman.
The Finance Committee, to whom
was referred the Petition of William 13.
Gauldiug, Esq., praying payment of his
bill as Solicitor General, for prosecution
in the Court of Common Pleas and Oyer
and Terminer, for the City of Savannah,
beg leave to report —That the law organ
izing the Court, does not make the City
liable for any of the expenses of the
Court, except the salary of the Judge ;
and your Committee are not prepared to
report favorably to the prayer of the Pe
titioner at this time. To place this whole
matter on a different footing hereafter,
your Committee recommend the passage
of the annexed Resolutions and Ordi
nance.
SOLOMON COIIEN, Chairman.
Resolved, That the Clerk of the City
Court, at the next meeting of Council,
present a return of all criminal cases
which have been tried or settled since
his election. And also, a return of all
moneys received by him for Jury lines
and for fines and costs in criminal cases,
whether the same have been tried or set
tled—and how said monies have been
disposed of.
Resolved, That the City Sheriff make
a return at the next meeting of Council,
of all monies received by hint since his
election, for Jury fines, and for fines and
costs iu criminal cases, whether tried oi
settled, and how the same has been dis
posed ; also a list of all executions issued
for Jury fines, and for fines and costs in
criminal cases, now in his hands unsat
isfied.
The Committee on Finance, to whom
was referred the Petition of the City Con
stables, praying an increase of their sal
aries, have instructed the Chairman to re
port favorably on said Petition, and to
recommend the passing of an Ordinance
to increase the pay ot each City Consta
ble to the sum of three hundred dollars
per annum.
SOLOMON COIIEN, Chairman.
The Finance Committee respectfully
report —That at the request ot the May
or, they have had several conferences,
with an intelligent Committee of Mer
chants, who may be regarded as fully
representing the interests ot that body ot
our fellow-citizens, and your Committee
trusts that from those conferences have
resulted the happy effects of calming the
public mind on the subject t>l taxation.
The Mayor and Aldermen are but a por
tion of the community, representing its
various classes, and can have no interests
distinct from those of the fellow-citizens;
nor can they by any possibility desire to
oppress or lmrrass any class ot the com
munity. Your Committee therefore cheer
fully acquiesce in the wishes ot the Mer
chants, and recommend the repeal of what
has been regarded as an obnoxious tax
on Merchants and Professional men. It
is but proper to add that the Finance
Committee more than six months ago in
vited a conference, and we have now the
happy results of our own proposition—
namely, an Ordinance which your Com
mittee is assured will be acceptable.
SOLOMON COHEN, Chairman.
Ordinances.
“An Ordinance for laying off into Lots
certain parts of the tract of land known
as the Springfield Plantation, purchased
by virtue of an ordinance passed June
10, 1850, and for disposing of the same,”
was read the first time.
“An Ordinance for levying certain
taxes, repealing the Tax Ordinance pass
ed February 13, 1851,” was read the
first time.
“ An Ordinance to increase the pay of
the City Constables,” was read the first
time.
“An Ordinance to regulate the pay
ment of the fees and costs of the Clerk
and Sheriff, and of the Solicitor Gener
al, in criminal cases tried and settled in
the Court of Common Pleas and Oyer
and Terminer for the City of Savannah,”
was read the first time.
“An Ordinance to authorize any per
son to make a half lot fee simple; and
also to permit joint lessees of a lotto di
vide the same into two parts and to re
ceive titles for the same”—was read the
first and second times, and passed under
the title thereof.
Pet if ions.
The petition of Joseph Bancroft,
Trustee for Mrs. C. Taylor, for remission
of double taxes for 1846, 1847 and 1848,
on the Scarborough House—was read
and rejected.
Resolutions Read and Adopted.
By Alderman Purse, seconded by Al
derman Walker—
Resolved, That the Street and Lane
Committee be authorized to contract for
a Sewer in the Lane North of Brcugh
ton-street, between Whitaker and Bull
streets.
By Alderman Purse, seconded by Al
derman Turner—
Resolved, That the Street and Lane
Committee be authorized to have en
closed the Squares in Monterey, Chatham
and Lafayette Wards.
By Alderman Purse, seconded by Al
derman Mallery—
Resolved, That the City Marshal be
directed to notify tin* owners of property
in W est Broad-street, to have removed
within thirty days from the date of the
notification, the buildings and other ob
structions in the way of extending and
widening said street, from Rail-Road
street to the Southern Boundary of the
City.
By Alderman Turner, seconded by
Alderman Posey—
Resolved, That the City Marshal ad
vertise and offer for sale Lots Nos. 46
and 47, Crawford Ward,
By Alderman Turner, seconded by Al
man Mallery—
Resolved, That the Mayor be author
ized to represent the Stock owned by the
City in the Central Rail-Road 6c Bank
ing Company at the meeting of Stock
holders, to be held on Wednesday next.
By Alderman Walker, seconded by
Alderman Griffin^—
Resolved, That the Committee on
Pumps be authorized to have wells sunk
in Robertville, provided Mr. Roberts ex
ecutes a deed to the City of the streets
therein ; also to have wells sunk in Mon
terey, Chatham and Lafayette A\ ards.
Bv Alderman Screven, seconded by
Alderman Walker—
Resolved , That the City Treasurer be
and he is hereby authorized to pay the
(_ ity Marshal for work done on the
Springfield Plantation, under the direc,
tion ol the Dry Culture Committee,
By Alderman Screven seconded by
Alderman Cohen—
Resolve,/, That the Dp- Culture (W
mittee be authorized to lease such por
tions of the Springfield property as will
not be lor sale during the present year,
f ommunieation.
Read a communication from the Board
ol Health, requesting an appropria
-1,011 ° *SO for the use of the Board and
snugesttug “to Council the importance
ol preserving unimpaired the statistics „f
mortality, by requiring registry of burials
permits from the Clerk of Council, or
some other adequate means” of the’in
terments at Buenaventure.
On motion of Alderman Griffin, tbo
request was granted and the suggestion
referred to the Committeeon Health ami
Cemetery.
Read a Communication from A. ()
Segur, Keeper of the Pest House, rela
tive to a well and fencing round the
building.
On motion, said Communication was
referred to the Committee on Health and
Cemetery, with power to act.
Miscellaneous.
His Honor the Mayor reported that
he had sold 500 shares Gas Stock at par
as directed by resolution passed at the
meeting of Council, and paid the pro
ceeds to the Citv Treasurer; Alderman
Screven, Chairman of the Committee
on Dry Dulture, reported that he had re
ceived 8600 from Willi am B. Giles A
Cos., for an embankment on the Canal
leading from the Springfield Plantation
to the river, and deposited the same with
the City Treasurer to the credit of the
Springfield property.
Amount of accounts passed, $1,628 92
Council adjourned.
EDWARD G. WILSON,
Clerk of Council.
THE FRIEA'D OF THE FHIII.V.
SAY ANN AH, MA KCII ], lm .
OUR NEW VOLUME.
With this number closes the second
year of The Friend, and there can be no
more fitting time to remind delinquents,
that we will be very happy to receive the
amount due us. We have made heavy
outlays for the new volume and trust that
our subscribers will take an interest in
extending our circulation. We renew
our proposition to clubs and take the
occasion to say that old subscribers, out
of the city, are by no means excluded
from these terms.
Three Copies for Five Dollars,
Seven Copies for Ten Dollars,
Twelve Copies for Fifteen Dollars,
Twenty Copies for Twenty Dollars,
and an extra copy in each case to the
getter up of the club.
£dP"T!ie Europa's accounts came thro’
by Telegraph yesterday, and report a de
cline in Cotton of £d. to sd.
Ball of the Irish Jasper Greens
on Monday Night, was a very pleasant
party, and did credit to the taste and
management of the Committee.
FT* Mr. Dempster, the Ballad Singer,
will give Concerts at the Armory Hall on
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday Eve
nings, next week. He is uu fait.
GAS !
Not Paine’s Gas, nor Fluid Gas, but
Dr. Stark's defiogistigated exhilarating
Gas, met with a brilliant reception on
Tuesday Evening. The Armory Hall
was crowded, but the Doctor had been
decoyed by a party of gentlemen and had
imbibed too much Champagne Gas for
the fun of the audience. Wednesday
evening however, at the Theatre, Richard
was himself again. The Doctor gives
another entertainment at the Theatre
this evening.
FRUITS.
Our thanks are due and we hereby ten
der them to Mr. J. DeMartin for the tine
bunch of Bananas sent to our office last
evening. He has also a fine supply ot
Oranges and other W est India fruits and
Okra and Tomatoes, which is very
acceptable in the impoverished state
of our vegetable market. W e noticed
when in his store, a day or two since, a
lot of Preserv es, put up by a lady in Kk> r, ‘
da. W r e have not partaken of anj u*
them but Mr. DeMartin says they are a
fine article. We commend them to all
who favor home products.
ITjF* By request of the ladies, whose
mandate is our law, we give place to the
following article:
SEAMAN’S FRIEND SOCIETY
At the Annual meeting of the Female
Seaman’s Friend Society, Dec. PM
1850, the following ladies’ were elected
for the ensuing year :
Mrs. Preston, Ist Directress. Mr*
Williams, 2d do. Mrs. MurchisoNi
do. Mrs. Allen, Treasurer, Mrs. lb 1 ’
roughs, Secretary. Mrs. Hutchison, Mrs*
Doct. W ayne, Mrs. Guerard, Mrs. Pad* 1
ford, Mrs. Richardson, Mrs. W illis, Mrs.
Ferguson, Mrs. Fairchild, Mrs. l’h'l
brick, Mrs. Fay, Mrs. Barnard, Miss
W hitehead, Miss George,
The Annual Report of the worthy Su
perintendent, Captain Parkei, at or
the most gratifying evidence ot 1 u ■“
• * nf the establishment
creasing prosperity or tin
under his charge. Eleven hundred Se
men have been accommodate <
the past year as boarders and !*? _’
the greater part of whom have been