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THE HAPPIEST HOME.
That is the brightest, happiest home,
Where love and peace are shrined ;
And whence the heart would never roam,
A warmer spot to find.
‘Tis not the mansion, proud and high,
Nor halls of lordly state ;
’Tis not the robes of richest dye,
Nor slaves that round us wait;
’Tis not the steeds that prance in pride,
With harness flecked with foam ;
No—luxury and dominion wide
Have nought to do with home.
r . .
1 , But one condition makes a home—
Hearts must be happy there ;
As well in hovel a3 in dome.
Content can find a lair.
Want and disease may bitter life,
Discordant souls may hate,
Strong interests may engender strife —
These are the common fate.
But, if we ask it prayerfully,
Joy to our roof will come;
Love, the condition sole must bo,
For love will make a home.
Love—A Mystery,
[From the German.]
Mv heart! I bid thee answer—
How are love’s marvels wrought 1
“Two hearts to one pulse beating,
Two spirits to one thought.”
And tell me how love cometh ?
“It comes —unsought—un. Jnt!
And tell me how love goeth ?
“That was not love which went!”
Portrait of Mr. D’lsraeli.
There is a decided character about the whole
external of Mr. D’lsraeli, jet it is most difficult
to determine in what it especially consists. The
first impression conveyed to your mind, as with
clothes shaped apparently with too much care
for effect, and those long flakes of curling black
hair that can ha'-dly he distinguished from the
ringlets of a woman, he walks hastily, with a sell
absorbed air, and a quick, short, shuffling gait,
toward his seat, is that of an effeminate, nay
almost an emasculate affectation. There seems
to he a dandyism, not merely’ of the body hut
-of the mind also. We usually associate the idea
.of pride with an erect chest, aloftygaze]a hautuer
of hearing. Strange to say, Mr. Disraeli’s hear
ing produces the same impression, from a totally
opposite cause. He has an habitual stoop, and
there is that in his hearing and carriage which
might he mistaken for humility. He has also
an air of self-absorption, which does not appear
natural ;it seems to arise from an affected indif
ference to the gaze or the observation of others.
It is not the less pride, though not of the most
noble order. You can see glimpses of an evi
dence that self-esteem is no stranger to his
mind.
In spite of the assumed stolidity, you may 7 de
tect the self-constraipt and the furtive regards
of a very vain man, who is trying to appear as
if he were not vain at all. Although his eyes
are downcast, they have not the downcast look
of modesty, hut rather of a sort of supercilious
ness, which is the most striking expression on
the face. He seems to look down because lie
considers it too much trouble to look up. But
a further study leads j’ou to think that your first
impressions have been erroneous. You see that
the intellectual preponderates in Mr. Disraeli’s
organization, and bv degrees, you begin to be
lieve that he is as much absorbed as he seems
to he. Like Sir Robert Peel, he appears to
isolate himself —to have no associates in the
House, except those forced on him by the im
mediate necessity of party 7 . This isolation and
self absorption arc equall y conspicuous whether
he is quiescent or in activity. Observe him any
where about the House, in the lobbies, or in the
committee rooms—you never see him in confi
dential communication with any one. All in
lets of information and impression seem as if I
they were violently closed up by an effort of the
will. Yet we know, from Mr. D’lsraeli’s speech
es and writings, that he is keenly alive to the
A ightest and most impalpable changes going on
>und him—that, in tact, his intellect must be
nrc on the watch, although, to an observer, it
ever >to be in a state of self-imposed torpor,
-seemi him where you will, he glides past you
See sly, without being apparently conscious I
noiseles istence of externals, and more like the;
of the ex an the substance of a man. Involun- j
shadow th mports himself like one- possessed
tartly he eo holic monomania, and who has no
by a meiaiac* mis with the realities of life. When
natural relatii he equally shrouds himself in his
lie 1s speaking, ’atmosphere. You would think
own intellectual rd to the thought of whom he
he paid no reg*. but only to the ideas he was
was addressing, i Is. Still with downcast eyes
enunciating in won. almost be called a torpor of
still with what may he seems more an intellec
tive physical powers, living, breathing man of j
tual abstraction than a If someone of his |
passions and sympathte offer a friendlg sugges- j
friends interrupts him to tatement of facts the j
lion, or to correct a nns-s t notice him at all, !
chances are that he will no qfo a gesture of im
ou, ifhe does, that it will \yi like a snar h as
patience, or with somet or g an p- pj s
.when a man is grinding a * 3 pipes utter a
band suddently be stopped, th
slight discordant moan. , trays itself
/fhis singular sell-absorp ion You never
even v-ben he is in a sitting pos back in
see him gazing around him, or loW. • a • ofcher
liis seat, or seeking to tate hs ™ U
raen o in the intervals political ext.teme.
He sits with his head rigid, his body con rac
hia arms closely pinned tohsa.de as though;
he were an automaton, lie looks like oik ■ .
those stone figures of ancient Egypt, that -
bodv the idea of mentionless quiescence forever.
_Critical Biographies, by G. H. Francis,
• If you don’t wish to get angry, never argue with i
a blockhead. Remember, the duller the razor the .
more you cut yourself and swear.
Champlain
•- \vhotakes a pair of skates and *•“£"“
sory note on the ice with such perfect on, that
in less than an hour the sun liquidates .
■: .| tiBEEAi. SoLscEirrios —:A gentleman from New
•'•'fork has subscribed 5d1),i,6:0, the who,e amount
required to> build a railroad troin Fayetteville, * . C
$ me Deep’river coal mines, vu the Stato
&l)c Himes avti Bcnimd
WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEB. 23, 1853.
Mr. Mason’s Report on the Honduras Question.
The very decided tone of this report lias created no
little excitement. With the lights before us, we hearti
ly sanction the conclusions of the committee. The Uni
ted States have a deep interest in all questions affecting
Central America. In all probability no safe and expe
ditious route to the Pacific can be opened in man} }eais
across the continent South of Tehuantepec. We can
not, therefore, allow any maritime power to get the
control of Central America, and least of all Great Brit
ain. She is the only European nation whose policy
conflicts with ours in this question, and any encroach
ment of hers ought to be watched with extreme solici
tude ; and she should be held strictly to her treaty stipula
tions. It is the opinion of the committee : That the Is
lands of Roatan, Bonacca, Utilla, Barbant, Helena, and
Morat, in and near the Bay of Honduras, constitute a
part of the territory of the Republic of Honduras, and
therefore form a part of ‘Central America,’ and, in
consequence, that any occupation or colonization of these
Islands by Great Britain, would be a violation of the
treaty of the 19th of April, 1850.
“The committee, from the information before them,
entertain a decided opinion that the British settlements
at Belize, as defined by the treaties with Spain, lie within
the territory of the Republic of Gautemala, and so equally
constitute a part of ‘Central America.’ Should such
be the fact, whilst the committee are not prepared to
say that, the engagements of the treaty of 1850 would
require that those settlements shall be abandoned and
discontinued on the part of Great Britain, yet th:s gov
ernment would have just cause of complaint against any
extension of the limits of these settlements beyond tfiose
prescribed by Spam, or as further allowed by the re
public where they may be found ; and that in any man
ner to enlarge or change the character of these settle
ments by any mode of jurisdiction, would be in viola
tion of said treaty.”
Congressional Election—Col. Pickens’ Letter.
The people of South Carolina are very singular in
many things; but there is one of their peculiarities
which strikes us as very praiseworthy, and which ought
to be imitated by every State in the confederacy.
It is known that there is an election to be held in the
second Congressional district of that State, very shortly ;
that there are three candidates in the field, one of whom
has but few equals as an orator; that the result of the
dection is exceedingly doubtful; and that the most in
significant circumstance may turn the scale in favor of
one or the other of the candidates.
Under these circumstances, it is natural for us to
suppose that neither of the candidates would allow any
opportunity to remain unimproved to win popular fa
vor. Yet all of them have peremptorily declined to
address the people, for reasons highly creditable to
themselves; but which are too lofty, we fear, to be ap
preciated by politicians of other sections of the Union.
Col. Pickens, one of the candidates, in his letter to a
committee of the citizens of Abbeville District, uses the
following language:
“I am deeply attached to the people of Abbeville from
all the associations of my life, as well as from all the histori
cal recollections connected with the early settlement and
defence of the District by our forefathers, and I would do
anything that a man ought to do to meet their wishes.
“If there was any great public question immediately in
issue upon which the country was divided into parties, I
would not hesitate as to my course—l would meet any
where in the discussion of those questions, and there should
be no voter who would be ignorant of any sentiment I en
tertained on the question at issue. But in your resolution
and invitation there is no such question intimated, and it
would result emphatically in an‘active canvass’ for person
al claims and merits between the candidates. Now, in
such a contest at present, 1 confess nothing would be more
unpleasant than to appear to become the solicitous advo
cate of my own claims. It strikes me, that the peculiar
fitness and merits of all of us, who are now belore the pub
lic for choice, is clearly a case, in the existing state of the
country, for the calm and deliberate judgment of the peo
ple.”
It certainly is very unusual for politicians to decline
•‘an active canvass for personal claims.” Little else is
thought of by most of them. They build up their fame
on the wreck of civil virtue,and prefer success to truth,
honesty, and their country’s welfare.
Fire.
About twelve o’clock, on Saturday night last, our
citizens were alarmed by the cry of fire. The Livery
Stable of Messrs. Dudley & Martin, and the old Thea
tre, used as a carriage house, and the house of enter
tainment, kept by Mrs. A. J. Ila'l, were entirely con
sumed. The further progress of the flames was ars
rested by the timely and efficient exertions of the fire
companies.
Further Particulars of the Late Fire.
Messrs. Dudley <fc MartinTastimost of their carriages ;
Messrs. Smith and others lost theflMpols and a quantity
of timber-, Mrs. Hall lost the whole ofv.her
and kitchen furniture ; Col. Spivey lost a valuable.k or<s9
and a quantity of forage : the woodwork of the cannon
of the Ringgold Artillery was also consulted.
To the credit of our community, however, the flames
had hardly subsided before a committee was canvassing
the city in favor of the sufferers, and a large amount
had been already raised before the list was pre
sented to us. “We hope and believe that the Euflerera
will find that their loss will be their gain.
We were somewhat surprised to find in the last En-
I quirer the following paragraph :
“Now this suggestion is our own. Would not our citi
zens take pleasure in contributing something to the sufferers?
No fire that ever happened, injured a m re honest, indus
trious and worthy set of men than this. When the rich
suffer on such occosions everybody comes to the rescue.
The needy, generally do net fare so well. In the case be
fore us, the small assistance granted and unfe.lt by the
many, in the aggregate, might prove o immense benefit to
the suffering few.”
We are perfectly willing that the Enquirer should
enjoy the felicity of having suggested the propriety of
relieving the sufferers, though we are of opinion that be
fore the article was written, the active be nevolenee of
our citizens had already gone to work. We cannot,
however, pass unnoticed t*\ e sentences italicized. Our
observation, at least \a this city, is qiite the reverse of
,‘hat of our neighbor. If there is one quality which
distinguishes the people of Columbus, it is the prompt
ness with which t * ne y respond to the cry of dtstitution.
The Orphan Asylum is a mouument of their charity,
and the 1; tQ fire 'which laid it in ashes bat afforded an
opport- Jn j ty cf showing that their benevolence was only
e T .ailed by the demands which were made upon it.
“three thousand dollars were raised in three days to
1 rebuild it. It is a well known fact, toOj that hundreds
of Factory operatives have been clothed and fed during
i the past winter by this community. And the last fire
; has not found them idle or indifferent spectators of the
calamities of the indig -nt.
But we are extending our remarks too far. We only
designed to correct the erroneous impressions of our
neighbor, and to render honor to whom honor is due.
Steamboat Sunk.
The steamer Retrieve, Oapt. W. S. Nell, was, by
accident, driven upon a rock near Owens san an
sunk in deep water, a few days since She had on
board, we are informed, about twelve hundred bales of
otton, most of which will be saved, though m a damaged
condition. The boat will be a total loss. It was owned
principally by Capt. Nell and C. A. Clink, the Clerk.
Further by the Alps and America.
Viscount Melbourne’s death creates a vacancy in the
Peerage. His title is extinct.
Mr. Cobden offered to bet £IOOO to Is. that Napo
leon would never invade England, and was taken up
by Mr. Brotherston, who bound him over in legal bonds
for the full amount.
Dr. Newman had been fined £IOO for his libel on
Dr. Acbilie.
Napoleon’s civil marriage took place in the Tuillereis,
and the service was performed by the Arch-Bishop of
Paris. The Empress refuses to allow the Senate to
settle any donation upon her 5 she has heretofore re
fused to accept jewelry from the Municipal Council.
Napoleon’s speech to the Senate, atinounuing his mar
riage, had created consid< rable sensation at Vienna, and
the answer given by the French Minister of Foreign
Affairs to the Austrian Ambassador, in regard to the
Emperor’s allusion to Maria Louise, was not satisfacto
ry. A difficulty also exists between the two Govern
ments concerning the time the Roman States are to be
occupied by the French troops.
Turkey. —The Turks commenced active operations
against Montenegro on the 12th of January. During
the day, three villages were destroyed by fire, and
Omar Pacha, at the head of 24,000 troops, was push
ing towards the capital. Austria had dispatched Count
Jellachich to the frontier with 18,000 tro ps, and Count
Leimingen goes on a private mission to Constantinople,
which is supposed to relate to Montenegrean affairs.
Counterfeiters.
“W e learn from the Georgia Courier , that seven or
eight SSO counterfeit bills, on the Marine and Fire In
surance Bank of Savannah, have been circulated in
Stewart ceunty, by a couple of fellows who are travel
ling through the country with a few horses as hor •
dealers, and embracing every convenient opportunity to
palm off their spurious money. It gives the following
description of one of them : lie is about six feet high,
weighs about 180 lbs., has light hair and rather light
complexion. The bills circulated in Stewart are
lettered K, made payable to C- F. Mills, dated Jan.
Ist, 1850, signed J. Olmstead, Cashier, Edw’d Padel
ford, President, and numbered over 1100.
More Rumors.
A correspondent of the Savannah Republican says :
“Mr. Pierce is expected here about the -Oth inst. Who
will go into his Cabinet is still a matter of uncertainty
and conjecture, Public opinion, however, seems
to be settling down into the conclusion, that Mr. Cush
ing, of Massachusetts, is to be Secretary of State, and
Col. Davis, of Mississippi, Secretary of War. These
two appointments, by some, are considered ‘fixed facts. ’
For the other places, some conjecture that Commodore
Stockton is to be Secretary of the Navy, Mr. McLellaa,
of Michigan, Post Master General, and Mr. Flagg, of
New York, Secretary of the Treasury, &e. All this,
however, is rumor. A few weeks will settle the mat
ter by a disclosure, which, perhaps, may show all these
speculators how little they know about it.”
Fatal Accident.
Mr. Keli.y, a mechanic connected with the Variety
Works, of this city, died on Friday evening last, 18th,
from hurts received a few days before in accidentally
falling from a platform, some ten or twelve feet high,
upon a pile of rock below. The deceased was a native
of Ireland, and had secured the friendship and esteem of
a large circle of acquaintances bv his industry, sobriety
and general good conduct. Ilia death is consequently
much regretted, not only by the natives of his ov
place, but by all who knew him. Tho deruh of such a
man is a peculiar loss to our city . a great deal of whose
prosperity depends on the success of her manufactures,
and the prosecution of the mechanic arts. — Columbus
Enquirer ,
The Vice President elect, the Hon. Wm. R. King,
arrived at Havana on the 6th instant. Great attention
is paid him, we f understand, by the authorities. On the
arrival of the Fulton with him on board, British^
man-of-war Vestal sent a boat to her it^lfr.
King would accept a salute. Mr.
King declined.
A Man
We learn that was „ hot by Simpson
Clem, on Tuesday^g th jn Augugta? Gafmd *
lying in a condition. The difficulty origin
ated ifl-J.ke reprehensible practice of throwing brick
bu-ts at houses. Clem was arrested, and, after exam
ination before a Magistrate, was discharged.
Circus and Menagerie.
We have beeu requested to state that Raymond,
Maibie & Co.’s Circus and Menagerie will not visit
Oglethorpe or any other place afflicted with Small Pox.
They are now on their way to their next appointment,
and will be careful to avoid all infected places, so that
the public need feel under no apprehensions from their
visit to our city.
Progress.
The Delta, in speaking of Progress, says: “And
even if the sword must be the indispensable companion
of its course, we must not forget that sometimes, ‘like
the patriarch’s wound, it may blossom into flowers to
deck the conquerors brow.’ ”
More of the Capitol Extension Fraud.
Mr. Borland moved to add the appropriation for the ex
tension of the capitol, a proviso that hereafter ail moneys
expended on this work shall be disbursed by the commit®
sioner of public buildings. He said that it was uecessary,
from what had taken place, that there should be some
safeguard placed over the disbursement of the public
moneys. He was a member of the select committee on
this subject, before which there was a mass of testimony
showing that there had been a total disregard of the pub
lic interest, and a fraudulent misuse of the public money,
to an extent unheard of before in thiseoantry.
When the first appropriation for this work was before
the Sena e, he called attention to what he considered was
fraud in the matter, and yet he had been denounced for
it by the special organ of the administration. There was
a mple evidence before the committee of large embezzle
ments. The evidence of commissioner of public buildings
had shorn that the architect when informed of the frauds
of the superintendent refused to notice them. Large
sums had been embezzled daring the past year.
Sn‘ * -quently fio said that it was shown that the arehi
tect had made contracts fur pieces of marble containing
over thirty cubic feet at $1 per cubic foot, and at 65
cents peT cubie foot for pieces containing less thau thirty
cubic feet. That result that the large were brought here
at great expense, and after they had here they were
broken up into small pieces to be used. In th s way
$65,000 had been lost.
Mr. Brooke protested against this divulging ex-parte
evidence before the committee.
Mr. Cooper defended the character of Mr. JValter, th*
architect-
Theameudment was’agreed to, as also was an itun for
$20,000 for the Library of Congress.
Conundrum, —Why is a fat duck, with its wings
clipped, like a bad cold ? Because it is easily caught;
FOR THE Times & SENTINETi.
Mr. Webster’s Death—Reflections.
He died when probably he least expected it,
in the midst of political excitement to which his
own name and position had powerfully contri
buted. He died like Samson in the very effort
of pulling down ruin on the heads of hisenemies,
in the moment of his greatest out lay of strength.
When his great heart was most severly tried,
and most triumphant, most resolved, collecting
into itself the resources of his large experience
and manly nature, it suddenly ceased to throb.
Just as he plumed his wing for a loftier flight
and a wider sweep through the firmament of
national fame, the shaft of the relentless archer
smote him in his eyrie, and he fell. Just as the
sun of his genius seemed to be kindling its re
flections upon the disc of each lesser orb, it sud
denly sank in night.
He died when the nation least expected it, an
old century oak that had battled with a thou
sand storms, he stood bravely flinging his giant
arms and leafv boughsin defiance to thetempest; ;
solemnly from his high place he fell. The earth j
trembled beneath the weight ol his trunk. Wide j
rts )unded the eochoes of his fall through forest !
and field ; not an ear but caught the stunning j
sound, not a heart but lost a pulsation at the
announcement, “ Daniel Webster is dead!’’
From capitol to cabin, from palace to hut, from !
heart to heart, from eye to eye, from lip to ear, !
with telegraphic speed, the electric, the startling
intelligence, ran back and forth, to and fro, un
til every lip quivered, every eye faded, every
cheek blanched, every heart dins deed.
Up to the hour of his death the nation never
luteiv Mr. Webster. The author of these reflec
tions, a stranger, a southern man, a political op
ponent, and thousands like him, press their way
to his new made grave and weep lor him as for
a friend. Os Mr. Webster’s physical courage,
we know little. It would be painful to know
that he possessed it in an eminent degree, it I
would too much assimilate him to the vulgar
heroes who butcher mankind for pay. Hang* ;
men and heroes let who will admire, we j
turn from in disgust, to dwell with Mr. j
Webster at Richmond amid the glories of the >
“morning,” which he there so powerfully, so I
poetically, so almost piously portrayed. We
stand by the tender hearted old man and weep,
as he plants his elms and plies his spade, and
having finished his work of love, hands it to his j
son Fletcher and says, “ cherish these trees, my
son, and when you look upon them remember
Edwin and Ella.”
How touchingly eloquent that dedication of j
one of the volumes of his lately published works, j
in which he says, “to my Brother, whose name
I wish associated in the minds of men, with eve-. J
ry thing 1 may have done worthy of human re
memhrance.”
W h i) can ever forget that letter which he 1
“Tute in sight of the grave stone of his Father j
and Mother, Brothers and Sisters ? What heart
is not touched by his description of
Webster, and of his noble old puritan -TaiJmr ? ;
What human sensibility can res/fr the sublime
but simple exclamation from his deep |
bosom, m the thoughts and beau- :
tifui tropes£i,i(eThe solemn voice of the ocean in
the mjjjijf* of the mountains and forests of earth.
jo*fDear, dear kindred blood, how 1 love you all !” ;
What heart does not almost convulse and break j
as he exclaims to his Father, “Brother and I
will O'Orh, you shall not work , we will wear our
hands ojf 7” Heard not God, the great Father |
in heaven, this sublime echo of love ?
Os Mr. Webster in the political world, l have
little to say, in my humble sphere, I differed Irom
him, toto ceedo, in his policy. But his letter to
Senator Dickinson of New York upon his re
tiring from the Senate of the United States, and
his noble Eulogy upon Mr. Calhoun sufficiently
demonstrate iiis magnanimity and patriotism.
and he main object ol these reflections is to ore- |
sent Mr. Webster before the public in his rela
tion to Religion, it cannot be doubted that he
was deeply and sincerely convinced <>J the truth
of the Gospel of Christ. Never did he smile up- j
on the tribe of little witlings who deem it mm- ;
hood to question the claims of the Christian Reli- ;
gion ; never bent he upon them from his olym- 1
pian height a nod of recognition save when he :
m rked them for the thunder ofhis denunciation I
and with a frown that fell like fate as in the ;
great speech of the Girard will case, when lie I
cried “;aere, sheer, vulgar infidelity and deism !” |
It will he remembered that Mr. Webster on I
one occasion promptly instructed a foreign min- :
ister to protect the missionaries of tiie Gospel, j
He did it with a will , doubtless rejoicing at the j
opportunity of throwing the shelter ofhis great
name and the governmental protection over t mt |
religion of which he himself says his father was
an earnest ■’ professor.
When my distinguished friend, Dr. Alex. :
Means, of Emory College, was leaving the Uni- j
ted States on his late European tour, of which I
have reason to hope the public may yet learn :
something from his own eloquent pen. he called
on Mr. Webster, then Secretary of State, for an
introduction to some leading man in Europe.— ‘
He met him with an affluence of aecommeda- ‘
tion that, if it did not overwhelm the Doctor, pla
ced him under lasting obligations. The Savans
of Europe wondered that a methodist preacher
and a simple professor in a cullege should go in
to all lauds with the imprimatur of tin American
Republic and the troad seal of the nation. The
more than courtesy was alike creditable to the
amiable and accomplished Doctor, and the libe
ral and great Secretary of State who additional
ly authorized him to call upon him from the
farthest shores of Europe or Asia in any emer
gency.
Tha general tone ot ’
ferensic, senatorial and political,evincesT"^
found per sues on of the truth of the chnP’
Scriptures, a deep reverence for God, an
faith in the great facts of revelation. No Lfiltl
cant, no German trancendentalisir, evereJ, ]
his lips. Whatever may be said of his life T
cr, never, never, did he utter a word, that thr
a suspicion on his faith. We all remember'd*
current report of his criticism of a sermon on
evidences of Christianity in which he presJt
the issue of the truths of the Gospel, or the” ’ *
posto ship of Christ, denying that the factsTf
the New Testament admit the possibility ofth e
self deception of Jesus and his apostles. I„
same luminous conversation he describes th e
sort of minister that he delighted to hear,
sought the house of God not to witness a di>pl lv
of time! eloquence, not to hear a poetic ihari
sody about the virtues , not a didactic oration oti
m0r,.l improvement. He waited to hear the p rea .
che.- that stood in the holy place and told him
that lie was a sinner, that Jesus is a Saviour, that
death is at the door, that the Judgment is a ?
h uid, that Heaven is the prize and Hell the al
tn native. O! that the methodist pulpit even
Wi re as orthodox at this point, this vital point’
as the great statesman !
Mr, Webster was never at fault; we all reinem.
her his allusion, so pointed and effective, to the
Wesleys, in his speech in Boston. He had read
their lives and evidently appreciated their labors.
After the death ofhis daughter, Mrs. Appleton
what melting words did lie pour into the ears
of his Pastor at their first interview; shaken in
every nerve, trembling in every muscle, the Tj.
tan old Statesman stood tearful and for a mo
ment silent in the presence of the man of God.
When at length he mastered his sensibilities and
spoke, what a declaration for the stunned and
shattered ear of infidelity. Sic orsus ab alto!
‘ Faith in Jesus is all that is worth a thought”
Mr. Webster did not die like an infidel. “He
prayed long and fervently, calling on God to
forgive his sins through the merits of the Lord
Jti is Christ.” Who does not hope that such
a prayer, in such an hour, was heard in heaven!
WM. F. SAMFOffD.
[From the Savannah Georgian, 18th.]
Anti-Liquor Law Legislation Movement-
Grocers’ Meeting.
YVe are informed a large and respectable
gathering of the Grocers of this city was held
at the Armory Hall, on Wednesday night.—
They numbered upwards of eighty, and their
proceedings were characterized by good order
and unanimity of Sentiment. We learn that the
object in view is an organization by which any
attempts at the passing of liquor laws in Geor
gia, as recently agitated and enacted in other
otates, may be forestalled, and at the same time
to assert the probity of their pui suit, and repel
such aspersions as may tend in the eyes of the
public to lessen its moral rectitude. Mr. Wm.
Davidson was called to the chair, who present
ed his views substantially as follows :
“Gentlemen :
“Having been called on to preside as Chair
man of this meeting, I consider it proper to
state to you my views in relation to the object of
the call, as far as I understand it.
•cfJ'irst. —That it is the object oftke meeting t)
form an Association for the protection, of the
rights and privileges to which we are entitled
iff the prosecution of au honorable and legitimate
du si ness.
“ Second . —Believing the business we are en
gaged in, as Grocers and Liquor dealers, t> he
legitimate, honorable and just in its calling, wj
deerff it our duty to oppose, by all lawful and
jpx&l means, any attempt of legislation derogato
ry to our interests, whereby infringements might
be made upon our rights as citizens ofthe Uni
ted States.
“Third. —As union is strength, it is our de
sire to co-operate in the adoption of proper
measures to sustain our rights against any un
just interference of a certain portion of oir com
munity who are using active measures to injure
us in our business, and would therefore, as Chair
man, suggest the propriety of calling the atten
tion of all interested, not only in this city but
throughout the State, that they also might un:te
with us m maintaining our just privileges against
all fanatical prejudices.
“And with these observations would recom
mend your passing such resolutions as may be
requisite, also appointing committees to carry
them into effect.”
Remarks were made by different persons, and
a committee of five appointed to adopt appro
priate resolutions. Toe meeting then adjourne 1,
subject to the call of the Chairman.
The Southern Pulpit on Slavery. —The Rev.
Mr. Clapp, ofNew Orleans, in his thanksgiving
discourse, preached in that city, remarked as
follows:
A northern minister said to me last summer:
“I would not pass my life amid the slavery of
Louisiana, even on the condition of being made
proprietor ofthe whole State.” 1 will not wea
ry you by a repetition of my we.l known views
concerning slavery. But I say, with absolute
sincerity, that the Africans held in servitude at
the South are, in general, much better treated
than the colored people in part of the free States.
I go farther; we cannot at present discharge
our Christian duties without retaining them i* l
b< n lage. I have seen more cruelty in Massa
chusetts than in Louisiana.
In sjdte of the outrag ous caricatures ®*
Uncle Tom’s Cabin, there is more suffering m
my native State in one year by the ruthless
breaking up of poor families and the everlasting
separation of parents and children, than the
slaves in Louisiana have suffered from the same
source during the thirty-one years of my resi
dence here. Tiie romance which I have j u -|
mentioned is a tissue of the basest untruth, am
the most erroneous injustice. I would no men
write such a hook, if I could, than I would com
mit murder, or set my neighbor’s house in tianus
at midnight; no ! not even if I were sure to gam
thereby the paeans of all the abolitionists in * tvV
and Old Eng’a id, and the entire gold ot Ua i
fornia. God have mercy on the sai,r autnre'S-
The time is coming when she may weep i*> r
terness of soul over the fatal consequences ol
hev ineffable folly.
