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Washington’s Courtship and Marriage.
Beautifully situated on the banks of the Pau
munkey, is the mansion known as “the White
House.’’ It stands on the site of the one in
which Washington was married. From Custis’s
Life of Martha Washington, we extract the ac
count of his courtship and marriage :
It was in 1758 that Washington, attired in a
military undress, and attended by a body ser
vant, tall and militaire as his chief, crossed the
ferry called William’s, over the Paumunkey, a
branch of the York river. On the boat touch
ing the southern or New Kent side, the soldier’s
progress was arrested by one of those person
ages vvhogive the beau ideal of the Virginia gentle
man of the old regime, the very soul of kindness
and hospitality. It was in vain the soldier urged
his business at Williamsburg, important com
munications to the Governor,&c. Mr. Chamber
lay ne,on whose domain the militaire had just lan
ded, would hear of no excuse. Col. Washington
wasa nameandcharactersodeartoallVirginians,
that his passing by one of the castles of Virginia,
without calling and partaking of the hospitali
ties of the host, was entirely out of the question.
The Colonel, however, did not surrender at dis
cretion, but stoutly maintained his ground till
Cliamberlayne, bringing up his reserve, in the
intimation that he would introduce his friend to
a young and charming widow, then beneath his
roof, the soldier capitulated, on condition that
he should dine—only dine—and then bv press
ing his charger and borrow ing of the night, he
would reach Williamsburg before his Excellen
cy could shake off his morning slumbers. Or
ders were accordingly issued to Bishop, the
Colonel’s body servant and faithful follower,
who, together with the English charger, had been
bequeathed by the dying Braddock to Major
Washington, on the famed and fated field of Mon
ongahela. Bishop, bred in the school of Euro
pean discipline, raised his hand to his cap, as
much as to say, “Your orders shall he obeyed.”
The Colonel now proceeded to the mansion,
and was introduced to various guests, (for when
was a Virginia domicil of the olden time with
out guests ?) and above all, to the charming wid
ow. Tradition relates that they were mutual
ly pleased, on this, their first interview—nor is
it remarkable; they were of an age when im
pressions are strongest. The lady was fair to
behold, of fascinating manners, and splendidly
endowed with worldly benefits. The hero was
fresh from his early fields, redolent of fame, and
with a form on which “every god did seem to
set his seal, to give the world assurance of a
man.”
The morning passed away, even
ing came, with Bishop, true to his orders and
firm at his post, holding the favorite charger
with one hand, while the other was waiting to
offer the ready stirrup. The sun sank in the
horizon, and yet the Colonel appeared not.—
“’Twas strange, ’twas passing strangesurely
he was not wont to be a single moment behind
his appointment—for he was the most punctual
of all men.
Meantime the host enjoyed the scene of the
veteran at the gate, while the Colonel was so
agreeably employed in the parlor; and proclaim
ing that no visitor ever left his house at sunset,
his military guest was, without much difficulty,
persuaded to order Bishop to put up the horses
for the night. The sun rose high in the heavens
the ensuing day, when the enamored soldier
pressed with his spur his charger’s side, and
speeded on his way to the seat of government,
where, having despatched his public business,
he retraced his steps, and, r ‘flie White House,
the engagement took plact, with preparations
for marriage.
And much hath the biographer heard of that
marriage, from the gray-haired domestics who
waited at the board where love made the festal
and Washington the guest. And rare and rich
was the revelry at the palmy period of Virginia’s
festal age; for many were gathered to that
marriage, of the good, the great, the gifted, and
they with joyous acclamations, hailed in Vir
ginia’s youthful hero a happy and prosperous
bridegroom.
“And so you remember when Col. Washing
ton came a courting of your young mistress?”
said the biographer to old Cully, in his hun
dredth year. “Ay, master, that 1 do,” replied
the ancient family servant, who had lived to
see five generations; “great times, sir, great
times—shall never see the like again!” “And
Washington looked something like a man—a
proper man—hey, Cully ?”
“Never seed the like, sir—never the like of
him, though l have seen many in my day—so
tall, so straight! and then he sat on a horse and
rode with such an air! Ah, sir, he was like no
one else. Many of the grandest gentlemen in
the gold lace were at the wedding, but none
looked like the man himself.”
Strong, indeed, must have been the impres
sion which the person and manner of Washing
ton made upon the “rude, untutored mind” of
this poor negro, since the lapse of three-quar
ters of a century lias not stsfficed to efface it.
The precise date of the marriage the biogra
pher has been unable to discover, having in vain
searched among the records of the vestry of St-
Peter s church, New Kent, of which the Rev.
Mr. Munson, a Cambridge scholar, was the rec
tor, the ceremony, it is believed,
about 1 /59. A short time after their marriage,
Colonel and Mrs. W ashington removed to Mount
A ernon, on the Potomac, and permanently set
tled there.
“This union,” says Sparks, “was in every re
spect felicitous. It continued forty years. To
her intimate acquaintances and to the nation,
the character of Mrs. Washington was ever a
theme ot praise. Affable and courteous, exem
plary in her deportment, remarkable for her
deeds ot charity and piety, unostentatious, and
without vanity, she adorned by her domestic vir
tues the sphere of private life, and filled with dig
nity every station in which she was placed.
Previous to his acquaintance with Mrs. Cus
tis. Washington had been pleased with other
ladies. Ihe author above quoted on this point
says, that in 1756, “while in New York, he was
lodged and kindly entertained at the house of
Beverley Robinson, between whom and himself
an intimate friendship subsisted, which, indeed,
continued without change, till severed by their
opposite fortunes twenty years afterward in the
lfn° ba PP e,l * d Miss Mary Phil
dv if ° f Mr * Rßobin.n *°n. and a young la
accomplishments, was an inmats in
the family. The charms of this lady made a
deep impression upon the heart of the Virginia
Colonel. He went to Boston, returned, and
was again welcomed to the hospitality of Mr.
Robinson. He lingered there till duty called
him away; but he was careful to intrust his se
cret to a confidential friend, whose letters kept
him informed of every important event. In a
lew months intelligence came, that a rival was
in the field, and that the consequences could
not be answered for, if he delayed to renew his
visits to New York. Whether time, the bustle
of a camp, or the scenes of war had moderated
his admiration, or wnether he despaired of suc
cess, i3 not known. He never saw the lady
again till she was married to that same rival,
Captain Morris, his former associate in arms,
and one of Braddock’s aids-de-camp.
“He had before felt the influence of the tender
passion. At the age of seventeen, he was smit
ten by the graces of a fair one, whom he called
a‘low land beauty,’ and whose praises he re
corded in glowing strains, while wandering
with his surveyor’s compass among the Alle
ghany mountains. On that occasion he wrote
desponding letters to a friend, and indicated
plaintive verses, but never ventured to reveal
his emotions to the lady who was unconscious
of the cause of his pains.”
flimtß Mtir Bmtmd.
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 27, 1853.
The Athens Banner.
The least attentive reader of the columns of the
Athens Banner cannot fail to discover the deep seated
discontent, with the condition of the things political of
the United States and especially of the State of Geor
gia, which breathes in every emanation of the mind
that conducts them. “Uneasy is the head that wears a
crown.” It is the opposite of this distress that chafes
the spirit of the Athenian Editor. Ilis crown has been
removed, his sceptre of political influence has been torn
from his grasp. The gaunt figures of a broken union,
a dislocated confederacy, once beautiful in its symmetry
and glorious in its strength, “distinct as the billows, but
one as the sea,’’ but now tossed in ruined fragments, a
prey to anarchy, discord and civil strife, by the Evil
Genii of Secessionism, no longer avail him to people
the fancies of his susceptible countrymen with images of
terror —to frighten them from fidelity to country to
oraven submission to wrong, and from steadfastness to
political principle into bargains and coalitions with polit
ical enemies. The betrayer of the essence of State
Rights Democracy in 1850—the recipient for a brief
period of all the joys of a triumphant victory, which his
successful coalition with the Whigs could give him—
one master stroke of the Southern Rights Democracy,
toppled down the ephemeral edifice which he vainly im
agined was built on a rock, while at the same moment
the refluent wave of Whig support which had mounted
him aloft, left him high and dry on that barren shore
of discontent, where he now “chews the cud of bitter
fancies.”
But the Banner’s Editor is a game politician. lie
“lives in hope, though he may die in despair.” He
fights on and fights ever, and mark our word for it, he
is deeply revolving in his mind, at this moment, anew
scheme of Whig coalition, and nurturing projects of
treason against the integrity and supremacy of the Dem
ocratic party in Georgia. His motives are as apparent
as the proofs furnished by his oolumns are clear and
ample to show his purpose. The motives are that his
consolidation and passive submission Democracy is in a
lean majority of the Democracy of Georgia, and he and
his cannot rule ; and the proofs are that he openly and
undisguisedly labors to widen the breaches in the De
mocracy occasioned by the discussions on the compro
mise, assuming as his pretext, the disunionism of the
State Rights wing of it; and that he does not attempt
to conceal his dissatisfaction with the appointments and
the general spirit of Gen. Pierce’s administration. We
allude to the Banner’s course, not to deprecate it—not
to beg it to forego its purposes ; not to pray it to halt
and ponder ere it takes these fatal steps that will for
evei; separate it from the Democracy, aud lapse it irre
trievably into Federal Whiggerv—but simply for the
purpose of advising our political friends of its marked
tendencies and warning them of the political abyss into
which he will lead those who follow him. Either the
Banner is moved by insane counsels, or it is rushing
into the arms of the Whigs, and dragging as many
Union Democrats as it can, in its train, with the palpa
ble object of breaking down the administration and
Democratic party in Georgia. “Forewarned is fore
armed.” We have made the prediction—mark its ful
filment ; and let the Banner remember the facilis de
scensus Averni, and not forget the huge labor of retro
gression.
To show that we are not mistaken in the purposes of
treason to the Democratic party, cherished by the Ban
ner, we call attention to the spirit of the number of the
21st of this month. The leader of that day introduces
and comments upon an article from the Rome Courier ,
highly defiant in its tone, and breathing nothing but
malevolence to the Southern Rights men. In this arti
cle, the Courier distinctly takes the ground that the
“Whiggery of Clay, Fillmore and Everett” is less
“odious” to its tastes, than “the abominable ereed of
such open-mouthed disunionists” as the “Times” and
its friends. This passionate language wins the eloquent
and exultant commendation and endorsement of the
“Banner.” The next editorial is a labored and ingeni
ous argument addressed to the passions and prejudices
of Union Democrats, to dissuade them from acting with
the Democratic party ; and this argument is strung on
the thread that runs through the whole political system
of the “Banner” —hatred towards Fire eaters, and the
unpardonable sin and indigestible fact that they are the
controlling majority of the party. We have not space
to-day for the extracts from the “Banner” to show its
temper.
Iu the next article we have a very distinct onslaught
on Gen Pierce , in which the administration is smitten hip
and thigh, with a two edged sword ; and doubly taken to
task for favoring Fire eaters and Free-Soilers. After
quoting from the New York Post , an abolition organ,
an article evidently written iu a passion and under the
same feelings of discontent with the administration, as
those that afflict the Banner , the latter exclaims:
“Thu# it is that Gen, Pierce is nursing within his bo
som, a faction at the North that threatens a crusade against ;
the slave property of the South if they are not shielded by
the ASgis of the National Democracy, and allowed to pro
pagate their doctrines under the cover of their guns. In
order to sustain him in that policy, he has found it neces
sary to subsidize the Southern Secessionists into a fatal and
unprincipled coalition with them. By this course he has
struck a blow against that Union which he professes so
much to cherish, under which it is destined to reel and
rook to its centre, at uo distant day. The event may not
occur during his admiuistration, but he has rendered it
sure by the policy he has pursued. W e see the cloud
gathering in the distance—when the coalition between the
two extremes shall have beaten down the middle grounded
men—and when the two extremes will stand face to lace
in mortal arbitrament. The only way to avert it is, tor
the middle-grounded men to rally under a distinct organ
ization, as they did in 1850 and 4 1851, that shall stand aloof \
from all national party conventions, upon a platform of J
sound republican principles, and equally opposed to North- 1
ern Freesoilism on the one hand, and Southern Seees ,
sionism on the other. Here, in our humble opinion, is ;
the true path of safety for all the friends ol the right# ot !
the States, and the union of the States.”
Here, then, is the card of the Banner party —it is
played openly and above-board, and it is clear to every
eye that it will oppose the administration, because Gen
eral Pierce did not put up at the “Union Hotel’’ instead
of the White .House, and did not give the reins of his
government into the hands of a set of soap-tail politi
cians who flee from their principles as from a pestilence,
whenever and wherever the experimentum crucis is ap
plied to them. Here we have an open bid to the W bigs
to help the sore-heads of the Banner clique break down
General Pierce and the Democracy ; and a tender of
the right hand of fellowship, cemented by a common
hatred to State Rights men. And if any body will
look at the Whig papers, they will see how the lead oi
the Banner is followed. The Columbus Enquirer of
yesterday, (April 26.) after a political starvation of long
duration, jumps at the bait, like a trout at a fly, and
spins us out an article,lugubrious with compromise woes,
and rampant against the wicked administration that take*
horrid Fire eaters into its confidence ! What a change
has come over these men ! We remember how they
both sneered and chuckled when a Southern Rights
gentleman characterised Genera! Pierce as the “crea
tion and choice’’ of his political party. We remember
how they swore he was a compromise man, and a Un
ion man, and how he would nick the necks of the vile
Fire eaters. But there has been “von grand” disap
pointment in all this. The President belongs to a dif
ferent species of animated Nature from that very low
one in which these gentlemen chose to class him. He
is neither a jelly fish nor a sea urchin, but a strong-back
ed and vetebrated animal, with the spinel column erect,
and a soul under its ribs that cannot but admire men
everywhere, who stand up for the rights of their firesides
and altars. And now because he is this man , the
whole tribe of jelly fishes are banding against him. He
is to be hooted down because he will not do the bid
dings of vengeance of a clique, fresh and reeking from
the meretricious embraces of a Whig coalition, upon the
true Democracy of Georgia who have never swerved
from their State Rights integrity. We think the Athens
Banner, on the whole, is one of the small stars destined to
be lost to the Democratic constellation. It is traveling Whig
ward, just as fast as the seven-leagued boots of passion
and affinity can carry it. The sooner the better. Ten
enemies beleaguering the citadel outside, in preference
|to one Judas within. But while that paper can go to
; the Whigs, it is not Titan enough to compass the great
| feat of pushing the King Demos from the throne. The
| Democratic party will survive its defection, as it has doue
that of many better men. Lucifer with his party
storming the battlements of Heaven, had a hopeful time
of it, in comparison with the Atheus Banner and its
pigmy clique, shooting split peas as the bulwarks of the
Great Democracy.
The Vice Presidency.
By ihe death of William Rufus Kwo. the Vice
j * 1
Presidency is vacant, and will remain so until the
next election for President and Vice President.
Mr. Atchison, the temporary President of the
Senate, is not Vice President; he continues in his
office of Senator, and only receives his eight dollars per
day 5 though if the President should die he would suc
ceed him in his office. This is an anomaly in our con
stitution, and i3 clearly a casus omissus.
The Vice Presidency has been vacant before this
time, on the following occasions, viz.: Twice by the
death of the Vice Presidents, viz.: George Clinton,
April, 1812; his term expiring March 3, 1813. El
bridge Gerry, November, ISi-i ; his tejm expiring
March 3, 1817. Once by the resignation of John C.
Calhoun, December 18, 1832 ; his term expiring March
3, 1833. Twice by the death of Presidents Harrison
and Taylor, and the consequent accession of Vice Presi
dents Tyler and Fillmore to the Presidency—the for
mer in April, 18ll; the latter in July, 1850—leaving
the Vice Presidency vacant for the remainder of their
respective terms, and the President of the Senate wiih
the right of succession to the Presidency. The powers
and duties of the Vice President aud the President of
the Senate pro tern ., are precisely the same, except that
the latter votes as a Senator and has the casting vote.
Murderer Arrested.
The Vademecum informs us that a man named
Worsiiard, who lately killed Samuel Brannon in Dale
county, Ala., has been arrested near old Fort Perry in
Marion county, by a party of gentlemen from Alabama,
who have taken him back to stand his trial. Worshard
resisted the arrest and severely, if not mortally, wound
ed a brother of Branuon and a man named Clark.
Attorney General Cushing has made a report in re
ference to papers belonging to the Census Bureau, which
were seized by Mr. Kennedy, the last superintendent,
under a writ of replevin; the report sustains Mr,
Deßow in refusing to give up the papers, and denies
the right of the court to grant a writ of replevin in the
case.
W ashinoton Items —F. Burt, Esq., of South Car
olina, has entered upon his duties as Third Auditor of
the Treasury.
Gov- Foote has been mentioned as likely to be the
new Minister to Franoe,
Newspaper for Sale. —Messrs. Britain & DeWolfe
advertise for sale the Advertiser and State Gazette.
They represent it as having the largest circulation of
any paper in the State, with a lucrative advertising pat
ronage. Terms cash, or Us equivalent.
It is said that General Arista, the farmer President of
the Republic of Mexico, has arrived at New Orleans in
a brig, the captain of which was bribed, for a large
amount, to bring him to that port.
The Norfolk Argus says it lias good authority for
stating tlxat Mr. Robert G. Scott, of Richmond, Va., has
received the appointment of Consul to Rio de Janeiro, j
j
It is said that the Hon. Solon Borland has declined
the appointment he recently received of Governor of
New Mexico, vice W. Carr Lane, removed.
The Bey of Tunis is expected io Palis on a visit, iu j
ihe course of next month. j
George Morrow has been arrested in Hickman eoun* ;
ty, Kentucky, on the charge of killing his own son.
Gov. Far well, of Wisconsin, decline* are flection, j
Washington Monument.
This great work is steadily progressing to it* com
pletion ; and it should be the pride of every citizen to
contribute his mite to erect a monument worthy of the
fame of him who is universally regarded as the first of
mankind. We are pleased to learn that Messrs. Gray,
PREEaand Wilkins have been appointed a committee
to receive contributions for this purpose. They are all
gentlemen of character .and will be safe depositaries of
the donations which may be committed to their charge.
Washington National Monument Office, £
April 19, 1853. $
The Board of managers of the Washington Fational
Monument Society do hereby appoint Messrs. Wm. C.
Gray, Peter Preer and F. G. Wilkins, of Columbus,
Georgia, a committee to collect funds to complete the
erection of the Great National Monument to the memory
of the “Father of his Country,” and we most respectfully
commend this Committee to our fellow citizens, as having
given ample security for the faithful performance of their
trusi and as patriotic men who do this work without fee
or reward, GEORGE WATTESON, Sec’ry.
Gin HouseTJiirnt.
We learn from the Vade-mecum that Col. Y\ m. M.
Brown’* Gin House, at his lower plantation in Marion
county, was entirely consumed by fire, on Sunday night
last, together with two valuable gins, a patent Mill, and
a Thresher. As there had been no fire near the
house during the day, it was evidently the work of an
incendiary.
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Nomination for Congress.
The Georgia Citizen and Columbus Enquirer have |
suggested to the Democracy that Hon. A, C. Morton is
the fittest man they can run for Congress in this District.
We imagine that they will receive small thanks from
him for their deceitful praise, as nothing could befall him
which would more surely defeat his aspiiatioiy* as a
politician as to be pitted by two such backers against the
other game coeks of the Democratic party.
It is said that there are slight hopes of the recovery
of Mike Walsh, Esq., who is lying ill in New York.
COMMUNICATION
FOR THE TIME* AND SENTINEL.
Messrs. Editors :—Permit me to saj a word to the
voters of Russel county, Ala., through your columns,
which are extensively read here, though published in an
adjoining State.
Your August elections are approaching, and by the
Legislature to be elected then, two United States Senators
ore to be appointed. These Senators will either oppose or
support the administration of General Pierce. General
Pierce is now in office, has come before the American
people with a programme of what we are to expect from
him and,his administration. His constitutional advisers
before taking office are said to have endorsed it. Are
you satisfied with the showing he has made? Is it not in
fall accordance with what those of you expected who vot
ed for him ? Does it not perfectly agree with all his antc
cedents? Has not this programme, declaring that South
ern constitutional rights are of equal dignity and binding
force with all other constitutional rights, provoked the dis
pleasure of your enemies at home arid abroad ? You must
! have observed, Messrs. Editors, the gusto it seemed to
give your neighbor to show to their readers in what con
tempt our Democratic President is held in London on ac
count of h's principles.
Now I wish to ask the voters of Russel county if they
are satisfied with their President, what is their duty in
the premises ? Will you sustain him ? or will you passive
ly permit, under the delusive cry of peace , peace , an or
ganization formed for the purpose of hurling him from
i office or checkmating him in the Senate ? Patriotism,
gratitude, self-interest ali seem to me to forbid it. He is
quite a stranger to party profligacy who does not know,
that while abolitionists are assaulting him for these decla
! rations, ho wiil not be defended south but by his political
I friends..
Then let them come up to the mark; let them rally to
; the standard of their patriotic and talented leader, and
| show him and your political brethren that you nobly dare
to espouse the cause of an American President in a just
discharge of his constitutional duties, though the London
Times may mock and Southern Editors re-cho the
mockery.
Let the young, the gallant, of the friends of Pierce come
forward and show their mettle, not in Russel only, but in
every county, and if we do not succeed in every countv,
we shall have forced his enemies to unmask, and that is
half a victory, for, from “masked batteries” good Lord de
liver us.
A Voter of Russel county.
Kew Disco ery of Electric Influence.
It is the general impression among scientific
men, that only a small portion of the power
and influence of electricity has yet been devel
oped. One of its recent applications has been
the lighting of cities. As one of the results of
this new application, we notice the following
statement which we copy from the Paris Cor
i respondence of the National Intelligencer :
Science, particularly electrical science,
seems to be making fresh triumphs everyday.
1 We have now to record anew application of
; electricity by Dr. Joseph Watson, which is ex
| hibitingin the neighborhood of Wadsworth.
| The great feature of the invention is, that the |
materials consumed in the production of elec- ‘
trical light, are employed lor a profitable pur-1
pose, independent of the illumination, and
more than remunerating the entire expense ; so i
that the light, which is rendered constant and I
brilliant, is produced for nothing. Thus, while :
the light is being produced by galvanic action,
i materials aie introduced into The battery bv
which pigments of the finest quality are obtain
ed ; these are so valuable, that they considera
bly exceed the entire cost of operation. Dr.
Watson thus speaks of his invention in a pam
phlet not yet published :
-Our battery we have termed the chromatic
battery and its produce is colors. It may
seem difficult to imagine how any numbered
galvanic arrangements can be made to yield
a great variety of colors ; but when it is re
membered that the real number of natural col
ors is small, and that a difference of tint and
shade imparts to each separate product a dis
tinct commercial existence as a color, we may
then be believed when we say, thut by the use
of not more than five substances introduced in !
to our batteries, we are able to produce no less
than one hundred valuable pigments, exceed
ing in value, by a great per centage, the orig
inal value of the article contributed toward I
their production. Our mode of producing j
these colors consists, not in any subsequent j
mixing of the products resulting fronri the work
ing of our batteries, but is the result of the ac
tual development of the electricity in the bat
tery.”
The exact process cannot be made intclli
gible by a short extract from the pamphlet, but
the discovery is allowed to be the most valua
ble, and its perfect accomplishment undoubted.
Turkey.
Retirement of the Russian Army — The French
Army—The French Fleet—The Sultan
and Napoleon—Movements of the
Turkish Fleet.
A despatch of the 28th ult., received at Paris
from Constantinople, announces that Prince
Menschikoff had submitted a dr ft of a con
vention. He had received satisfactory assu
rances from the vizier, and the Russian army
had been ordered to retire fiom the Turkish
frontier. From Trieste of the 6th inst. it is sta
ted that the French fleet had been seen off
Cape Matapan.
The Paris Cons titutinnnel says :—“At the
date of the last accounts from Vienna, an en
voy extraordinary from ihe iSultan, charged
with a special mission to the Emperor, was dai
ly expected. He will be the bearer of an au
tograph letter from the Sultan This envoy
wiil be Mustapha Effiendi, one of the Sultan’s
aids de camp and who enjoys the fullest con
fidence of his sovereign, and his selection for
this mission will be a proof of the renewal of a
good understanding between Austria and the
Porte ”
‘I he Turkish fleet has left Antivari and reti
red to the other Albanian ports, to await or
ders from Constantinople.
fFrom the Daily Morning News.]
Chflsea, April 22.
Mr. Editor : —I see in your paper of yester
day, this remark :
“Alorganitic marriages are expressly sane*
tioned in Germany by Frederick the Great, in
his code of 1750. The word is said to be deri
ved from the German Mongengabi , (morning
git.”)
Allow me, a little cracker girl, just to hint that
when persons of unequal rank marry, it is call
ed a morganatic marriage—from the fairy
Morgana 1 s marriage with a mortal — and the.e
is no such word as “Mongen” in the German
language. Morgen means morning in my Ger
man dictionary,—but I suppose that was a
faux pas of your types —not in the habit of spel
ling German. Very respectfully,
M. A. B.
Ogeechee River
England and Australia. —The English pa
pers regret the domestic feeling which is steadi
ly growing up in the colony of Australia. The
troops are insulted, and have little or no influ
ence in the preservation of order. Everything
done by the government seemed to be unpop
ular. The people at large were impatient at
being trammeled by laws imposed by authori
ties 16,000 miles off; and it is mentioned as a
significant circumstances that portraits of Her
Majesty were almost unsaleable. The soldiers,
too, are beginning to desert from the 40th regi
ment, in Australia, and are off to the diggings.
Upward of twenty are gone. £2 5 per head is
offered for their apprehension.
Birth of a Prince. —The Queen has given
birth to another son, at Buckingham Palace, at
a quarter past one o’clock P. M., of 7th inst.
Mother and child are “as well as can be expec
ted,” &c. Therf were present on the oceaaion,
in thejQueen’s apartment, Pfijfce Albert,! Dr.
Locock, and Mrs. Lilly, the nursb. In the ad
joining chamber were Drs. Sir James Clarke
and Ferguson, the Duchess of Kent, the Lady
in-Waiting, the Earl of Aberdeen, Earl Gran
ville, Duke of Norfolk, Duke of Wellington,
Duke of Newcastle, Marquis of Lansdovvne,
Marquis of Breadalbane, Duke of Argyll, Lord
Palmerston, and the Lord Chancellor.
Editorial Change. —The “Nashville Banner”
of the 20th instant, contains the valedictory of
Gen. F. K. Zollicoffer. who retires in conse
quence, we suppose of his having accepted the
whig nomination for Congress in the Nashville
District. Allen A. Hall, for many years con
nected with the Political Press of Tennessee,
has taken charge of the Editorial Department
of the Banner.
] John A. Campbell. —We learn by the Mobile
j Tribune, that a public entertainment was ten
i tiered a few days ago to Hon. John A. Camp*
; bell by the members of the Mobile bar and oth
j citizens, as a token of public respect, prior to
his leaving to preside in the U. S, Court at New
Orleans. It was declined for reasons which we
have not heard.
I
Fun in Court. —We occasionally have some
amusing incidents in the dull practice of the
law ; recently an applicant for admission to the
bar, undergoing an examination, was asked by
one of the examining committee, how many per
sons there were in law, very readily replied,
“two.’’ “True,” said the examiner, “what are
| they called?” “Women and men,” replied the
j applicant. “No.’’ said the examiner, “in law
! the persons are either real or artificial. What
| is an artificial person “A woman,” unhesi
tatingly answered the applicant—at which some
old disappointed bachelors pretended to be very
much amused, and thought it an excellent hit.
Judge Jeffries, ot notorious memory, point
ing with his cane to a man who was about to be
tried, said—“there is a rogue at the end of my
cano. Ihe man to whom he pointed, looking
at him, said : “At which end, my Lord ?”
A lerrible Tragedy. —The Detroit Advertiser
has an account of a terrible tragedy which late
ly occurred at Decatur, Michigan. Simon O.
Keeler, in a fit of drunkenness, murdered his
wife and killed himself. Mr. Keeler was the
son ot Judge Woolcut Keeler, and both he and
his wite were educated and intelligent persons.
Ihe New York Herald says that Foreign
missions possess no attractions in the eves of
Col. Benton. He is determined to serve his
term ot two years in the House of Representa
tives.
A Protestant Church, at which the services are
all conducted in Chinese, has been established in
San Francisco.
Within the last ten years the colored popula
tion of New York has fallen from fifty to forty
seven thousand!
On the 30th, the Papal government conclud
ed the loan with Rothschilds Brothers for twen
ty million of francs.