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PSALM CIV.
0 BV THE LATE BIGHT HON. SIR ROBERT PEEL.
#0 ! worship the King
All glorious above,
O gratefullysing
His power and his love—
Our Shield and Defender,
The Ancient of Days,
Pavilioned in splendor,
And girded with praise.
O tell of his might,
Oeing of his grace,
Whose robe is the light,
Whose canopy, space;
His chariots of wrath,
Deep thunder clouds form,
And dark is his path,
On the wings of the storm.
This earth, with its store
Os wonders untold,
Almighty ! thy power
Hath founded ot old !
Hath established it fast
By a changeless decree,
And round it hath cast,
Like a puntle, the sea.
Thy bountiful care
What tongue can recite ?
It breathes in the air,
It shines in the light;
It streams from the hills,
It descends to the plain,
And sweetly distils
In the dew and the rain.
Frail children of dust,
And feeble as frail;
In Thee do we trust,
Nor find Thee to fail ;
Thy mercies, how tender .’
How firm to the end !
Our Maker, Defender,
Redeemer, and Friend!
0 measureless might!
Ineffable love !
While angels delight
To hymn Thee above,
The humbler creation,
Though feeble their lays,
With true adoration
Shall lisp to Thy praise !
Assistant Secretary of State.
Dudley Mann has received the appointment
to this new and most responsible office. This
gentleman has resided a long time in Europe
employed in various diplomatic situations un
der several different administrations ot’ the
General Government. We learn from the Un
ion that Mr. Mann “first entered the service ol
the government as consul to Bremen. He was
subsequently commissioned consul to the Aus
tralian port of Trieste, but he declined the ao
pointment. By President Polk he was sent on
a special and confidential agency to the court
of Hanover, and whilst there succeeded in ne
gotiating treaties with the kingdom of Hanover
and with the Grand Duchies of Oldenburg and
Mechleuburg Schwerin, which secured to
American commerce, especially to the southern
staples of cotton and tobacco, important and
most valuable privileges.
“The first successes of Hungarian revolution
induced our government to dispatch an agent
to the scene of action, with instructions to give
all possible legitimate encouragement and sup
port to the struggling patriots. Without his
knowledge, Mr. Mann was selected for this deli
cate and hazardous mission; but the reverses
and ultimate subjugation of the brave Magyars
put it beyond his power to accomplish his pur
pose. He was not too late, however, to incur
much personal peril, nor too inactive to provoke
the wrath of Austrian despotism. The fa
mous Hay nau had issued orders for his arrest;
and had he crossed the confines of Hunga
ry, he would undoubtedly have been put to
death. In Vienna he was watched and thwart
ed and constantly threatened by the govern
ment police.
“In 1850 Mr. Mann was sent in a confiden
tial capacity to Switzerland, which had just then
accomplished the renovation of its constitution,
and for that reason, as well as because of its
free institutions, the especial mark of Austrian
hatred. In what manner—with what feelings
of joy and gratitude, Mr. Mann, the representa
tive of the great republic of America, was re
ceived by the unvanquished republic of Europe,
is attested by his success in negotiating a favor
able treaty of commerce and amity between
the Swiss confederation and the government of
the United States. Having accomplished his
mission to Switzerland, Mr. Mann returned to
Paris, where he is sojourning at this moment.
His appointment is as honorable to him as it will
prove serviceable to the country.
The Eufaula Bridge.
The past winter and hill have been noted for
a multiplicity of heavy rains. Wide spreading
and devastating freshets have occurred with
o
unusual frequency. Not only have our mails
been delayed time and again, but the river has
been so otten swollen beyond its usual limits,
as to occasion a far more than ordinary degree
of annoyance and hindrance to boats. And so
much has the patience of some of the citizens!
of Columbus been tried by this latter circum
stance, that they are resolving upon legal mea- j
sures to have the evil remedied. We see a re
cent communication in one of the Columbus
papers signed “Owners of Boats,” recommend
ing that policy, and calling upon the city Coun
cil to take the matter in hand, to employ com
” petenl counsel to institute suit to remove the
obstruction, or to open a negotiation with the
owners of the bridge to remedy the evil com
plained of, by draw gates or by raising tbo
bridge higher. We understand a petition has
circulated among the citizens of that place,
for the purpose of urging this step.
As to the idea of removing the bridge entirely,
we presume that is a, mere extra flourish, for
trie purpose ot attaching greater importance to
tae matter, lhe proposition of remedying the
evil complained of by draw gates, or by raising
the bridge higher, may perhaps meet with eon
-8 deration. A lawsuit about the matter will be
;~* ‘ |
a step of some trouble and expense, involving as j
it will, strong prejudices, great interests, and an j
i array of able counsel on both sides. We hop j
S the people of Columbus will not get fr gh ene
at the anticipa ed rapid growth of their city on
account of the extension of their railroads. We j
I imagine a plenty of these will supersede the ne
! cessity of so much use for the river. Those i
i who are ready to pitch into a lawsuit, are som
1 times anxious to get rid of it. —Spirit of the j
i South.
(Times mu> Serif me l.
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COLUMBUS, GEORGIA.
FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 1, 1853.
The Second Congressional District.
Our little article on this subject has created quite a
j flutter in the Alabama Journal office. Wo did re
• gret the use of the epithet “babbling Journal,” as we
j feared it might bo understood in a bad sense ; but the
j reply in question so fully confirms the appropriateness of
| the term, that we are quite relieved from ail uneasiness
ias to its propriety. Instead of answering our questions,
! we are told that we will “be informed as soon as we
i have any business to know,” —and the public are then
j advised in extenso of the history of one of the Editors
of the imes and Sentinel for some years past —all
of which gossip may well be classed under the head of
; vain babblings.
| The Journal seems to think we have grown to be “a
j wise man,” and a “modest’’ since we settled in
1 Columbus ; we are sorry we cannot return the compli
j ment to the junior of the Journal. His residence in
| Montgomery lias had no perceptible influence on his
j temper, or his politics—perhaps he was too old an of
| fender. We will, however, extend the courtesies of our
j refined city to the young gentleman, and hope he may
i prove a3 susceptible to its elevating influences as he
| seems to think we have been. Gome over Ben!
The Journal is very particular to inform the public
i that Mr. Hilliard will not be a candidate for Congress
—but does not say a word about the aspiring Moss. The
Journal thinks this paper has no business to be asking
tough questions about the 2d Congressional District, and
| as it is very lame at giving categorical answers, we will
I not trouble it with another—but will somebody be good
enough to explain this silene? Is Mr. Moss to run on
the ticket of the Seott Party? Capt. Abercrombie, we
j believe, is not a favorite with this class of politicians, as
i lie refused to vote for the “Old Hero.”
The Journal seems to think it the duly of an Editor
to confine his attention entirely to his own district and
State, and that any reference to elections in adjoining
States ia an improper intermeddling with “the affairs
” of others.” This is a very narrow view of editorial du
-5 ties, and was no doubt acquired by too long a residence
> in a small place and will be corrected by a longer resi
■ dencc in Montgomery—a city almost as large as Col -
! umbus—a residence in which has, according to the
Journal , produced so happy an effect upon us.
We will further apologise for our rudeness in med
dling “with the affairs of others” by stating that we
have a very large circulation in the Chattahoochee river
counties of the 2d congressional district in Alabama,
j where Capt. Abercrombie is deservedly very popular,
| and will be almost unanimously supported in. the next
j race for Congress, whether he is nominated by the con
i vention of the Scott whigs or not
j We are sorry we are in such a humor for asking
questions, but we must repeat our query : what has be
come of the Whig Convention in the -21 Congressional
District, to nominate a candidate for Congress when
j there is one already in the field ? Will nobody answer ?-|
Editorial Convention.
We would be delighted to meet our brethren in Ma
con in May next, and cordially sanction and approve of
the call for a convention of Publishers and Editors.
We would, however, suggest the propriety of discussing
before hand, the objects and purposes of the convention.
What can the convention do to advance the interests of
the craft ?
This is an important question, .and demands more
thought for its solution than we can give it just now.
Wo will suggest, however, one or two reflections which
may call forth the sentiments of better informed persons.
The crying evil - in our profession is the credit system.
This ought at once to be abandoned.
Another drawback is the character and habits of
Journeymen Printers. The sober and industrious ought
to be protected against the idle, vicious and roaming ;
and we would suggest the propriety of employing no
Journeyman who cannot produce satisfactory evidence
of capacity and character.
There are many other subjects of interest which con
cern us, but which are beyond the control, as we con
ceive, of a convention. •
Among these are the rates of advertising and sub
scription. Amount of circulation, size and location, must
necessarily produce a difference in charges. Nor do
we think any good result can flow from rules ofl eti
quette. If a man has not the sentiments, feelings and
culture of a gentleman, it is impossible to infuse them
into him by formal rules. All such matters must be
left to individuals to settle between themselves, in the
various modes recognised by society as legitimate.
Otir Book Table.
Villette, is the title of anew novel by the accom
plished author of “Jane Eyre.” The London Ex- \
amincr pronounces it to be a most admirably written
novel, every where original, every where shrewd, and
at heart, every where kindly. For sale by A. C. Flew
ellen. *
Putnam's Monthly fm April has come 1c hand. We
think the present number fully equal to its predecessors.
The most interesting article perhaps is the further dis
cussion of the identity of the Rev. Mr. Williams and
Louis NVll—by Mr. Hanson. Call at D. F. Willeox's
| Book Store and get a copy.
The North British Review for February is filled ,
with solid, interesting and ably written articles.
The Illustrated Magazine of Art is anew monthly j
work which has attained a well deserved leputation. i
The illustrations are numerous and pleasing, and the
reading matter is of average merit. Published by Alex.
Montgomery, 17 Spruce st, X. §3 per annum.
The United Sta'tes Review is a monthly Democratic
paper which is designed to take the winds out of the
|sa ! s of the old Democratic Review?. which has lost caste
with the old Fogies of the party by its violent and pro
scriptive course. Published at New York by T. A.
Foster, at $3 per annum.
S Blackwood for March contains its usual variety. It
has dropped the slavery question for the present.
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The rates of fare from San Francisco to New York,
by the steamers of the Pacific Mail Company,
h ive been reduce I to SIOO in the cabin, and SoO in the
steerage.
A Falsehood Exposed.
Montgomery. March 80, 1853.
Editors Times and Sentinel :
Sirs : I understand from Mr. Wm. B. v\ Iley, Agent j
Charleston and New York steamers, that small pox f
prevails in Columbus, Ga., and gives as his authority, j
the Editor of the Times and Sentinel .
Mr. Wiley is interested in diverting the travel that j
might pass over the Columbus route to Savannah and
New York, .and the above report is freely circulated ;
here on the arrival of the steamers trom Mobile and at j
the railroad ears. Yours, &e.
We do not know Mr. W ilky ; but we beg leave to in
form him that if ho is circulating the report that Smail Pox
exists in Columbus, Geo., on our authority, he is guilty
of an unmitigated falsehood ; there is no ease of Small
Pox in this city and there has been none here for several
years.
Will the Montgomery papers please copy this article.
The Temperance Movement.
Every friend of the Temperance Reform, whether he
be for, or against the action of the Atlanta Convention,
must deprecate any movement which tends to bring it
before the people as a political issue, upon which par
ties and candidates shall divide and quarrel. We un
derstand that a proposition of this sort was submitted to
the Atlanta Convention, but that it was voted down with
great uua limity. In this, as in most other respects, the
Convention acted discreetly ; and we understand from
the leaders of the movement, that the greatest care will
be taken to prevent a squabble upon this question in
the coming canvass. Such a squabble we should re
gard as a public calamity, and will set our faces stern
ly against any candidate or party which shall attempt
to lug it before the people. The question of license
or no license, of liquor or no liquor, is not now in issue—
and it will be time enough to test the popularity of
“Jonny Barleycorn,” when the people shall be called
on to vote for his banishment. This time may never
come, and we would save the community from the
long train of evils which will inevitably flow from a
canvass in which the grog shop will be the central ques
tion, until there are other and better reasons for it than
the success of this or that demagogue. The Atlanta
Conventionists will not ask the next Legislature to
abolish the liquor traffic— that question will be left in
abeyance until the people are permitted by Legislative
action to vote directly upon it. The issue now before
the people, is whether the Legislature shall continue to
regulate the system of liquor license, or whether it shall
be referred to the people in their corporate county ca
pacity. This is the only question which can be legiti
mately made at present, and the community may well
suspect the motives of a candidate for any office who
thrusts himself “before them as the special friend either
of cold water, or hot liquor. Be sure, he is more inte
rested in his own aggrandisement than in the public
welfare.
We are the more solicitous on this matter as the
next election is one of the most important ever held in
Georgia. A Governor is to be elected—a United
| States Senator is to be elected—a Judge of the Superior
Court is to be elected —three of the most responsible
officers in the Government. To the fi/st, the honor of
our great State is committed, and many of her highest
j interests. The second, represents the sovereignty of
Georgia in the Senate of the United States, and the
critical condition of the country and of the South de
mands that he be a sound Republican and a true man.
To the third, are committed the-!rve,~4ib^?tics and pro
perty of the people, and none but an able lawyer, and
an upright man, can worthily wear the pure ermine of
justice. In such an election, a citizen ought to be
permitted to go to the polls and vote for the best men
and the soundest principles, untrammeled and uncon
trolled by any minor or local question.
If the liquor question is dragged into the canvass,
it will swallow up all other issues, and the black bottle
and the pint cup will decide, in all probability, who
shall be Governor, Senator, and Judge. We have
therefore of set purpose avoided the discussion of the
liquor question since our connection with this paper.
We are sorry our example has luid no effect upon our
cotemporaries, and that some of our leading and most
influential papers are continually “Harping on my ;
Daughter.” We beg them to let the question rest un- j
til it is properly before the country, and warn all aspi
rants for office to follow their example. In the coming |
canvass our party will need its whole strength. Our !
enemies will leave no art untried to divide and conquer
us. But if our legions will march with locked shields
to the contest, we are assured of victory.
Who can beat this f
Our worthy Foreman, Mr. Samuel B. Harvell, on
Wednesday last, set up sixteen thousand ems, in ten
hours, in minion and brevier type —twelve ’housand
solid and four thousand leaded. We think that a day’s
work to be proud of, and defy any Printer in Georgia
to beat it. This, however, is Sam’s “first jump,” and no
one need enter the lists of competitors, unless he desires
to be beaten, who cannot go *OOO better. Don’t all
speak at once.
Nomination for Whig State Officers of Rhode
Island.
Providence, March 24, 1853.
A whig ticket tor State officers is announced this
morning by the committee appointed at the late Whig
State convention. The nominations are as follows ;
For Governor —William W. IJoppin, of Providence,
For Lieutenant Governor—Samuel Robinson, of
South Kensington.
For Secretary ofStatc —William R. Watson, of Pro
vidence.
For Attorney General —Christopher Robinson, of
Cumberland.
For General Treasurer —Samuel B. Vernon, of New
port.
The nominations give very general satisfaction, and j
the ticket is decidedly the strongest in the field, as it 1
perfectly unites and harmonises the whig party.— N.
Y. Herald.
Corpus Ciiristi Emigrants. —By the arrival of the
j ships Golconda and Howard, from Glasgow and Liver
: pool, over one hundred emigrants have arrived in this
city for Corpus Christ!, Texas, having purchased lands
: from Col. 11. L. Kinney’s agent in London. These
emigrants are of the first class, being emphatically an
agricultural people, and their improvement of the lands
in the Nueces Valley, which are the finest in Texas,
must greatly increase their value. Corpus Christi, wo
understand, has improved, within the few past years as
rapidly as any town in Texas, and the greatest induce
ments are offered emigrants to settle on these lands,
which are daily increasing in value. Col. Kinney is ;
now in this city, stopping at the City Hotel, where he j
may be consulted by those who wish to purchase.—
Delta.
Collector of Savannah. —John Boston has been
confirmed by the Senate as Collector of Savannah,
-
Fire.
On Sunday, between 8 and 9 P. M., an alarm of fire
was given, and in a short time flames were discover
ed issuing from the Brick buildings, owned by Capt.
John Dillon, northeast corner of Jefferson and Brougn
ton Streets ; and occupied as follows :
On Jefferson Street. —A. Mero, Baker shop; Lew
ell H. Fiske, Shoe store; and John Riley, Grocery
Store.
On Broughton Street. —.1. 11. &T. Bishop, Tin
ware Store; Neill Mcllugh, Dry Goods, and W. J.
Hunt, as a Barber shop.
The fire, it is supposed, originated in the store of Mr.
Fiske. The goods and furniture, generally, were saved
in a damaged state. The upper part of the buildings
were occupied as dwellings.
Mr. McHugh and Mr. Fiske were insured in the
Mutual Company of this city; and Mr. Riley had an
insurance of $3,000 in the Liverpool and London Fire
Insurance Company. We did not learn whether the
others were insured. There was no insurance on the
! buildings. The fire was confined to the block. — av.
Courier.
Pauperism in Massachusetts. —Anew system for
the support of paupers is about to be adopted in Massa
chusetts. Each’ applicant is furnished with anew suit
of clothes, and told to go to work. If he pleads sick
ness, lie is dispatched to the hospital, where, if he is
| shamming, hospital diet soon brings him to his strength.
If he runs off with his new clothes, a description of the
j fugitive i3 dsipatched to the other almshouses, and if
! lie applies for relief to them, he is taken in and conipell-
I ed to work, till he has paid for his outfit. This plan
seems to be well devised to keep persons out of the
| almshouse.
From Havana. —The Havana correspondent of the
! Charleston Courier, under date of 21st inst-, says :
Your readers will regret to learn that out much es
teemed Vice President, Mr. King, is still in a very bad
! state. In fact it is said that he has not materially im
> proved since he went into the Interior, although as is,
I believe, generally the case with the diseases si mil iar
I to that with which he is afflicted, some days he has
! been far better than on others,
The Jacksonville, Fla., Republican says that a diffi
culty occurred in Columbia county, Fla., about a fbrt
night ago, which resulted in some respects seriously
j and fatally- It is related that Mr. John S. Goodbread
! and A. 8. Goodbread had a dispute with Mr. Henry
j Pratt, about the latter setting a fence on lire and enter
! ing the land of one of the Good breads- Shots were ex
-1 changed between A, S. Goodbread and Henry Pratt, and
a second shot fired by the former entered among a
I crowd of negroes and children, killing a negro woman
: and wounding one of Pratt’s children.
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Later from Buenos Ayres. —Accounts from Buenos
Ayres to the 20th of January have been received. The
j city was still besieged, and the whole population was
j under arms, endeavoring to drive off the insurgents,
j There was no prospect of raising the siege.
Washington Affairs. —Capt. Easly will retain the
post of Commissioner of Public Buildings, in conse
quence of the active part taken by him in exposing the
| Capitol extension frauds.
Elisha ‘Whittlesey is also entitled to retain the comp
trollership of the Treasury in consideration of his faith
of the public moneys.
YVe learn that our late Representative in Congress,
Hon. James Abercrombie, passed through town on Sun
| day iast on his way to Pike court, —Spirit of the
South.
Pork.- —A writer in a Cincinnati paper estimates
j that unless pork rules above sl6 50 a sl7 per bbl. in
New York city, from two to three dollars will be lost
on every hog packed in the Mississippi Valley this
j season.
Mr. G. P. Putnam has written an able and convinc
ing letter to the National Intelligencer , in favor of in
ternational copyright. Such a law, he urges, would not
increase the price of books, and would benefit American
authors quite as muck as it would those of England, lie
: also thinks it would be advantageous to American pub
lishers, who, as ho remarks, are generally in favor of
international copyright.
rn , . . i
the cost ot running a passenger train from New
York to Albany (one hundred and fifty miles) is about j
thirty-two dollars.
The Methodists of this country have built churches
nearly at the rate of one per week during the eighty
| seven years of their existence as a denomination.
A. Washington correspondent of the Columbia Caro*
| linian says: “The Palmetto Armory, built to manufac
; ture arms to fight the General Government, has re
ceived a contract from the War Department to make
arms for Uncle Sam.”
Numbers of Jamaica planters, impoverished by the
decline of property in the Island, have emigrated to
Australia,
[t is. !. riiat a son of Senator Soule will bo appointed
Secretary of Legation at Paris.
The Gray Mare the Better Horse.—
; The Bangor Whig relates that in the little town
j of Eddington there is a family, consisting of six
children, the mother of whom is robust, healthy
and active, hut the lather is of quite a different
j character. It had been arranged that the wife
should go to California and make her “pile,”
| whilst the husband should stay at home and take
care of the children. This arrangement was
mutually satisfactory, and the woman obtained
her outfit for the land of gold. On arriving at
; New York she found an opportunity to cook
; during the passage out, and she immediately
j sent back to her family fifty dollars of her funds,
and has gone on her way rejoicing, and with the
determination to get her share of the gold of
California.
Philosophers say that shutting the eyes makes
| the sense of hearing more acute. A wag sug
gests that that accounts for the many closed
eyes that are seen in our churches every Sun
day morning.
| Booth, the tragedian, had the misfortune to
have his nose broken by Thomas Flynn, some
years since. A lady once said to him, “I like
ymur acting, but I cannot get over your nose.”
“No wonder, madam/’ replied he, “the bridge
is gone.” ■ ’
MEMORANDA
ON VTOUR FOR H EALTH.
BY N. P. WILLIS.
Blood-horses in Charleston—Respect fid man
ners of negroes — Slow pace of inhabitants — Pine
plank drive—Rail-road across pine-barrens - -
Prairie of pond-lilies—South Carolina marked
character—Savannah river and arrival in Geor
gia—Augusta and its general physiognomy —
Northern air—Curious specimen of master in
shirt-sleeves and negro carrying his coat—Un
appropriated magnificence—Phe. Georgia **crack
er. 1 *
There is an air of style given to Charleston
by the prevalence of blood horses—almost evert
vehicle I saw, public and private, telling thus of
the universality to which had prevailed the spor
ting tastes of the gentlemen of Carolina. The
particularly respectful and at the same time
half-affectionate manners of all the blacks who
came in my way, told also a story of tho past
character of the city, confirming the impression
of old family conservatism for which it is fam
ous. I am inclined to read a third historic chroni
cle in the average speed of promenade on the
sidewalk here, which is considerably slower
than on the pave of any other American city. —
l was quite impressed with this last phenome
non. A passage to Charleston from New York,
to seethe let-alone magnolias, the looks of leis
ure, and a few things taking their time as if
eternity were really still on hand, might be ra
tionally established, 1 think, among the pilgrim
ages of refined curiosity, on our very fast side
of the water.
The inhabitants have a luxury here, cheap in a
pine-timber country, but the enjoyment of which
is very far beyond any cost, with so sandy a
soil and so warm a climate—a plank road,
forming a drive of some miles out of the city.—
x\n excursion upon it, under very lovely guid
ance, was one of bright lines in my companion’s
and my own chronicle of Southern travel. We
saw, here and there, upon the road side, one of
those moss-draped trees which form so beauti
ful a feature of the cemetery at Savannah-thorgh
without the associations which there give a
melancholy character to this pendant drapery, it
has a perversely different expression. So rag
gedly apparelled and standing in the dust bv
the side of a common road, the “monarch of the
woods” looks ludicrously Don-Cesar-de-Banzan
ish.
We. left Charleston on the morning of May
Bth, and travelled across a couple of States, with
fewer “experiences,” it seemed me, than I eves
; before found in the same amount of longitude.—
It was partly the mode of travel, no doubt.—
Railroads seem only to erase distance-stage
coaches used to punctuate, emphasize and make
it intelligible. But some part of the monotony
of our traverse of South Carolina was due to
its pine-barrens, no doubt—a class of landscape
where Nature does not seem to be turning the
elements to ordinary account. One sees nei
ther vegetation nor inhabitants. At a cross
road, I remember, we saw a quadruple waggon
team almost becalmed amid the sand, with n
sleepy looking negro on the nigh wheel horse ;
and at a desert station, from which several sand
tracks branched away, there was a private ear-
our fe 1 lK\ v-passengei -
but, ot the remainder of the great State that
has such a will of its own, I remember nothing
but one prairie of pond lilies and miles with
wildernesses between. Perhaps the influence
this kind of native soil might have on a mind
that would thrive by being turned in upon itself,
may account for the marked character of which
this State seems to be a natural cradle. There
are those who require to “see life,” and there
are those who can stay at home and live it- -
the domestic manufacture making the latter
class better acquainted with the warp and woof
article.
VVe were eight hours crossing South Caroli*
na—a disrespectfully brief travese of which 1 felt
quite ashamed, on a first visit—and, crossing
the Savannah River, we ascended a bank into
the State of Georgia. This seemed the begin*
; ning of a higher platform of land, a different
soil, and surface more uneven and picturesque.
Augusta, the town we landed at, looked veu
New-England-ish, to my eye. There was a
lively air about the people in the streets, plenty
of fresh paint on the houses, new signs, bright- ‘
c oloured bricks, broad streets with no ’grass in
them, and an unequivocal accustoiped-ness to
“enterprise” in the paces of the cart, horses. The
ladies whom we saw shopping, looked very
fashionable dressed, and metropolitan. I saw
but one novelty which told of climate and usa
ges different from the North—a very common
looking man strolling along leisurely in his shirt
sleeves and gazing into the shop windows, but
with a negro benind , him carrying his coat !
‘t his was the nearest approach I had seen, out
of London, to the mounted “tiger” riding behind
the dandy “swell” with the waterproof overall
fastened to his crupper. The darkey footman
was dressed in tow-cloth jacket and trouser
and wore a white felt hat with ragged rim—his
black skin underneath looking fat, shiny and
comfortable. Ihe curious part of it was to see
the quality of man that could afford to be hi
master. He was, himself, hardly as clean and
tidy as would be nocessary to pass for “respe -
table’’ in a working-man at the North. Mom
likely, he was an eccentric specimen, but there
w r as no misgiving of his authority, in the air of hi
faithful Juba.
There must either be a generally diff used taste
for park-scenery, in Georgia, or there is seme
local advantage in thinking out woods and clear
ing them of underbush, which appeals to the
common policy of every inhabitant, Woodland
of majestic trees, with open pasture- range b>
neath, were never out of sight, from one side o
the State to the other, [t was only odd—ms
seeing these in England as appurtenances of
ancient family estates, every aisle of tree-trunk?
serving mainly as a note of admiration to some
famous name—to see them here doing honor to
nobody in particular. Passing through wind
might be manorial estates ofgreat magnificence,
1 inquired in vain for the name of a proprietor.
Nobody knew whose grandeur and dignity was
there waving in the wind and making the hid
sides imposing. It was like glorification going
to waste.
I was disappointed, (travelling as one does, in
a rail-car, Kke a mailed letter in an envelope)
not .to hav had the opportunity to see a specific