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a he Squier Treaty with San Salvador.
RATIFICATION BY THE UNITED BTATKB—AB
STRACT OF ITS PROVISIONS.
The treaty mado by E. G. Squier, our repre
sentative in Central America, in January, 1850, j
between the United States on the one part, and j
the republic of San Salvador on the other, has 1
now passed into an accomplished Tact. Tho j
treaty was originally made during the regime
of President Taylor; but the administration
which succeeded declined to ratify or act upon
it. So it has laid over a dead letter until very
recently, when it received the sanction of the
Senate, and the ratification and signature of
President Pierce. The following are the chief ;
points of the treaty :
Arts. 1 and 2 provide that there shall be a
perfect and firm peace and sincere friendship |
between the United States of America and the
republic of San Salvador, and that no particu
lar favor shall be granted to other nations, in
respect of commerce and navigation, which shall
not immediately become common to the other
party.
Art. 3 provides for perfect equality and reci
procity between the countries in matters of com
merce and navigation, and that the subjects of
each may hold estate, carry on business and
manufactures, and enjoy all the rights of native
citizens in the other; and by article 12 they may
dispose of their property by sale, donation, tes
tament or otherwise.
Art. 4 agrees that whatever kind of produce,
manufacture or merchandise, of any foreign
country may be lawfully imported into the Uni
ted States in their own vessels, may also be im
ported in vessels of the republic of San Salva
dor, without any difference in tonnage duties—
and so also with exports.
Art. 5 provides that no higher duty shall be
imposed on the importation into either country
of the produco or manufactures of the other
than that levied on the same articles from
foreign countries—so also with exportations.
Art. 6 makes the three preceding articles
more definite, and makes them applicable to
vessels and their cargoes whether proceeding
from the ports of the respective countries or
from foreign ports, without being subject to any
discriminating duty.
Art. 7 authorizes merchants, commanders of
ships, and other citizens by themselves, or agents,
to manage their own business in all the ports
and places subject to the jurisdiction of each
other, they being in all cases to be treated as
citizens of the country in which they reside, or
at least to be placed on an equality with the
subjects or citizens of the most favored nations.
Art. 8 exempts the citizens of each country,
and their vessels and cargoes, from liability to
embargo, or to be detained for any military ex
pedition.
Arts. 9 and 11 provide for giving refuge and
assistance to distressed mariners in the ports of
either country.
Art. 10 provides that the ships, merchandise
and effects taken by pirates, and found in the
dominions of either of the contracting parties,
will be restored on proving property.
Art. 13 engages the two contracting parties,
to give especial protection to the persons and
property of the citizens of each other, and to
leave open to them the tribunals of justice.
Art. 14 guaranties liberty of conscience and
freedom from molestation in the exercise of re
ligious duties to the citizens of either country re
siding in the other.
Arts. 15 and 16 affect the hostile relations of
the contracting parties, and provides that the
ships of either country may sail to or from and
trade at the ports of a foreign country at en
mity with the other, no distinction being made
as to who are the proprietors of the merchandise ;
and that free ships shall also give freedom to
the goods laden thereon, and to the persons on
board, unless they are officers or soldiers, and
in the actual service of the enemy.
Art. 17 enumerates what shall be compre
hended among contraband or prohibited goods.
They include all warlike arms and accoutrements
and provisions imported into a besieged or
blockaded place, and the following article de
clares all other merchandise and things as free.
Art. 19 agrees that such contraband articles
shall be subject to detention and confiscation,
leaving free the rest of the cargo and ship.
Art. 20 relates to the event of blockades, and
agrees that every vessel sailing to the enemy’s
port without knowing that it is besieged or
blockaded shall be turned away, but not de
tained.
Arts. 21, 22 and 23 regulate for the exami
nation of ships’ papers by a national vessel of
war.
Art. 24 provides for the adjudication of prizes.
Art. 25 agrees that in the event of a war be
tween the two contracting parties hostilities
shall only be caraied on by persons duly com
missioned bj’ the government, except in repell
ing an attack or invasion, and in the defence of
property.
Art. 19 provides that no citizen of the other
party shall accept a commission or letter of
marque.
Arts. 27 and 28 provide that, in the event of
war between the two countries, a term of six
months shall be allowed to merchants residing
on the coasts, and a year to those in the interi
or, to arrange their business, and that a safe
conduct shall be given them to such port as
they designate, and that neither the debts due
from individuals of the one nation to the indi
viduals of the other, nor shares nor money in
public fuuds or banks, shall be sequestrated or
confiscated.
Arts. 29, 30, 31, 32 and 33 relate to minis- j
ters and consuls. They agree to grant to the
envoys, ministers and other public agents of
each other the same favors, immunities and ex
emptions enjoyed by those of the most favored
nations, and to receive consuls and vice consuls
in all the ports open to foreign commerce.
Art. 34 provides for holding a consular con
vention, to declare specially the powers and im
munities of the consuls and vice consuls of the
respective parties.
Art. 35 declares that the treaty shall remain
in full force and vigor for the terra of twenty
years, and then until twelve months after no
tice is given of the intentiou of either party to
reform it; and it also stipulates that, in case of
any of the articles contained in it should be via
ated or infringed, no nets ok’ reprisal or war
shall be ordained or authorized until the injured
party shall have laid before the other a state
ment of damages, and that same shall have been ;
denied, in violation of tho laws and of interna- j
tional right.
Art. 37. The present treaty of peace, amity, j
commerce and navigation shall be approved
and ratified by the President of the United
States, by and with the advice and consent of j
the Senate thereof, and by the President of the !
Republic of San Salvador, with the consent and
approbation of the congress of the same; and
the ratification shall be exchanged in the city
of Washington or San Salvador, within eight
| months from the date of the signature thereof,
I or sooner if possible.
In faith whereof we, the plenipotentiaries of
| the United States of America and of the Repub
’ lie of San Salvador, have signed and sealed
i these presents, in the city of Leon, on the sec
ond day of January, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and fifty, and of the in
dependence of the United States the seventy
fourth.
E. GEO. SQUIER,
AUGUSTIN MORALES.
The treaty is now published and proclaimed
| in the following terms: —
Whereas, the said treaty has been duly rati
fied on both parts, and the respective ratifications
of the same have been exchanged.
Now, therefore, be it known that I, Franklin
Pierce, President of the United States, have
caused the said treaty to be made public, to the
end that the same, and every article and clause
i thereof, may be observed and fulfilled with
| good faith by the United States and the citizens
; thereof.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my
j hand and caused the seal of the United States to
j be affixed.
I Done at the city of Washington, the eighteenth
day of April, in the year of our Lord one thou
sand eight hundred and fifty-three, and of the
independence of the United States the seventy
seventh.
FRANKLIN PIERCE.
By the President,
W. L. Marcy, Secretary of State.
limits mttr BmiimL
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 4, 1853.
Personal.
We admit iuto our columns the communication from
“Goblin Glen,” as its author claims a hearing on the
score of justice. We by no means acknowledge the
correctness of his position. The Southern Rights men
of Alabama, in convention assembled, distinctly as
serted that they would not agitate a dissolution of the
•Union for past aggressions, bat wait and watch the fu
ture. This was the only State convention held in the
Union in saver of Troup and Quitman, and they surely
had abetter right to define the position and aims of the
party than he of “Goblin Glen.’’
African Colonization.
Much interest has been awakened in our community
on this subject, by the Rev. Mr. Gurley —formerly
chaplain to Congress, and for a long time agent of the
American Colonization Society—who has delivered sev
eral addresses on the subject in our churches.
The freed negroes in the United States occupy a very
unfortunate position. They have not the protection of
the slave, nor the liberty of the freeman. Their con
dition is like that of the Jews in tho dark ages—they
are the victims of the vicious, and their color shuts them
out from the association of the virtuous and refined—
they have no incentives to exertion—they cannot feel
the stir of a noble ambition—all efforts to elevate them
selves must necessarily end in disappointment and fail
ure. The result is, that they are, as a class, vicious and
depraved, and are regarded with suspicion by the master
and with envy by the slave. Their presence in the
State is universally regarded as a nuisanoe, and fero
cious law's have been enacted in many of the States to
remove those who are residents, and to prohibit the in
gress of others into their borders. Nor are we pre
pared to disapprove of this policy, except on the score
of humanity.
They ought to bo removed from contact with tho
I slave population, but not thrust out as wild beasts. They
are men with the feelings and sensibilities of men, and
though far below the Anglo-Saxon in moral and intel
lectual attainments, they belong to the brotherhood of
humanity, and are entitled to Christian charity at our
hands.
The colonization will scheme relieve us from the influence
of a dangerous population and at the same time promote,
it is generally believed, the temporal interests of the free
negro. The testimony of Mr. Gurley on this point is
very satisfactory. lie has twice visited Africa, and is
perfectly familiar with the condition of the colonists.
He does not represent the citizens of Liberia as equal
to us in intelligence, or our rivals in civilization—this of
course is not to be believed or anticipated—but he gives
the gratifying assurance that they are a contented, or
derly, and industrious community ; not rich, but able to
support themselves; with churches, school houses,
oourts of justioe, and all the other elements of civiliza- !
tion. We were so well satisfied by his representations
on this head, that we are fully convinced that the free
negroes will not be injured by a removal to Liberia ;
| though we would shrink from the adoption of compulso
ry measures to effect this result, we decidedly approve
of the project to aid all who desire to emigrate.
We understand that Mr. Gurley will remain in town
a few days and will be pleased to receive contributions
from all persons who desire to lend a helping hand to j
this good work.
The colony of Liberia has strong claims upon the 1
churches. It is the only available stand point from
which there is any probability of sending the light of
the gospel to the millions of heathen Africa. There
are within the State 150,000 native Africans, all of
whom are within the influence of Christian teaching,
and doubtless the fact that Liberia is the strongest mili
tary power in Central Africa is a protection to the mis
sionaries who have penetrated into the interior and are
now actively engaged in preaching the gospel to the
millions who dwell upon the table land of the continent.
Tennessee.
Maj. Gcstavus A. Henry, of Clarksville, has been
nominated as the whig candidate for Governor of Ten
nessee. He is known the “Eagle Orator” from the
highfalutin style of his oratory.
The new Phase of Society.
The “strikes’’ in the northern cities have opened
fields of labor for women, and are likely to reduce, in- j
stead of raising, wages in all mechanic arts winch are
adaoted to the strength and habits ol women. Hither- j
to females have been almost exclusively confined to the j
needle and spindle ; and such has bee# the supply of ;
operatives in these branches of industry, that wages :
have fallen below the cost of subsistence. Y\ e do not
now feel this evil in these southern States, but such is
the rapidity of increase in our population, that the time ,
will soon come when we shall feel the effects of the same
pressure in the channels of labor appropriated to women j
as now exists at the north. We hail, therefore, as a
good omen, this new development at tho north, and
confidently anticipate that by tho time the wages of
females shall fall below subsistence in the branches of
business which they now occupy, custom will have es
tablished the propriety of employing them in stores, in
printing offices, in barber shops, and in various other
employments to which they are adapted.
The wide west i3 open to our young men, and wheu
they find it unprofitable to work at their trades in eastern
cities, they can easily transport themselves to localities
where the strong arm- can accumulate a fortune. But
no such resource is open to women. They are eom
| pelled to accept the wages that are offered or starve —or
do worse.
It is a melancholy fact that at the north and in Eu- •
rope, the worst paid mechanic in any of the branches ■
of industry receives higher wages than can be obtained j
by the most skillful seamstress. By diversifying the j
employments of families, this evil will be avoided; and !
j though the general average of wages will fall, the in
come of a family will be increased, as all tho members
will find work at living prices. It is ridiculous to con
nect this movement with the Woman’s Rights humbug.
It lias nothing to do with wearing breeches and voting
at elections, which seem to bo the highest aim of the
Virragos in Bloomer costume. It is one of the rights
properly belonging to females, and the effort to restore
it to them ought not to be made contemptible by asso
ciating it with tho movement of. Mrs. Brown, which
] good taste and good morals alike condemn.
j
! Young America !—Progress of the Age ! !
| While President Pierce and his cabinet are looking
into the affairs of the government, correcting abuses,
turning out old, and putting in new officers, other and
smaller bodies, politic and corporate are also making
improvements, progress and corrections and bringing the
administration of their affairs to the highest state of
, perfection ; this is true with respect to private compa
! nies, Railroads, Telegraphs, &c.
| These ideas have suggested themselves to our mind
from the fact that we understand many of the stockhold
ers of the Washington and New Orleans Telegraph
liue residing in and about this city (and perhaps else
where) desire a change in the Presidency of that com
pany, and that their attention is directed to our worthy
and enterprising young fellow citizen, E. 11. Musa rove,
Esq. We are pleased to see tho talents and energies of
young men of worth and merit called into requisition,
and to such calls we hold that they have no right to
turn a deaf ear; therefore, we hope Mr. Musgrove will
j not permit any notions of false modesty to induce him
i to deny the use es his name and valuable services to the
| company, and wo .might add to the public also, for it is
I interested in this to a much greater extent than that of
j mere dollars and cents.
To such stockholders as are not acquainted with Mr.
Musgrove’s qualifications as an able, energetic, practical
man of business, strict integrity, and high minded, hoh
| or able bearing, we would say, investigate his claims and
qualifications for the office, and we dare make the
declaration that he will thenjje unanimously called to
the executive chair of your company.
Literary Exchanges.
i The School Fellow. —This delightful little monthly
comes to us with the glee of a rollicking boy and spreads
a cheerful air around it wherever it goes.
Published in New York by C. M. Saxton, 152 Ful
! ton street, at one dollar per annum.
Arthur's Home Magazine. —T. S. Arthur has gain
ed an enviable reputation as a writer of moral and re
ligious fictions. lie has lately started this new enter
prise. It is a very neat monthly of 40 pages, and con
tains a large amount of reading matter, written in the
pleasing style of the author.
Published at Philadelphia at two dollars per annum.
Southern Literary Messenger. —This is the eldest
I and best Literary Monthly in the south, and we do
not hesitate to pronounce it the very best of the kind in
the United States. It is published at Richmond, Va.,
in monthly numbers averaging 64 pages each at three
dollars per annum.
The leading articles are characterised by thought,
scholarship and a just appreciation of constitutional rights
and duties. It is free from all fanaticism, and indig
nantly frowns upon all the “isms” which do often dis
figure northern periodicals. In this fast age, however,
a flashy superficiality is held iu greater honor than solid
merit ; and hence the unaccountable phenomenon is
explained that Harper and Putnam's Magazines are ;
more popular than the S. L. Messenger. Mon have !
no time for thought.
The Fakir o 1 Siva.
This notoriety has organized a band of miustreis
which he calls the “Georgia Ethiopian Opera Troupe,” j
and has lately made his appearance at Chattanooga.
The Vindicator pays him and his corps the following
highly wrought compliments :
“This quasi company is lauded and paraded to the skies
by their own placards as talented performers, and stars in
the divine art. Now that the unsuspecting and refined j
lovers of music may not be imposed upon by these vaoa- !
bonds, we will simply say that there is not one in the com- !
pany (the talented and refined manager not excepted,) j
that knows B from bull's toot, much less B on an instru
ment.
“They have no claims on the chaste and refined for pat •
ronage, for “music as a science has no company with
them.” An “old Virginny break down,” such as any
plantation darkie could perform is the summit of their pro
ficiency.”
Mississippi Items.
The crops about Natchez are about two weeks
behind the usual average.
Albert G. Brown is a*prominent candidate for
Senator in place of Mr. Brooke, elected to fill an
unexpired term.
Gen. Roet. Stanton has been nominated fur
Congress by the Democracy of Adams County.
The Galveston (Texas) Civilian states that the
Hon. V. E. Howard, member of Congress from
the Galveston District, has received the appoint
ment of Law Agent to represent the Government of
the United States before the board of Land Commis
sioners of California.
The C. urier says Gen. Downs accepted the Col
leetorship of this city to oblige the President, and
that it was an office sought for by the highest,
[communication.]
FOR TEE TIMES AHD SENTINEL.
Goblin Glenn, April 24, 1853.
Gentlemen : Through your columns came the blow, j
through your columns I claim to apply the reparation.—
We have long since given utterance to the contempt we
feel for both the political parties who are now compassing
heaven and earth to participate in the distribution oi the
loaves and fishes, and if you had only left us alone in our
obscurity, and permitted us to mourn in secret over the
i disgrace and degradation brought upon our own dear
Georgia by this filthy scrambling for the spoils in which
her base and degenerate sons are engaged, such is
our most downright contempt for all parties, that we would
j have scorned to let it be known that wc were even idle
| lookers on at the dirty strife. Deep, indeed, must be the
folly of the man who supposes principles are assumed or
I laid down tor any other purpose but as a man’s chances of
’ office'rise or fall by the act, and sovereign, indeed, must
be our contempt for the intellect of the man who does not
perceive that with the press and prominent men of both
| parties, this is the only motive power more powerful
j than Fulton’s steam or Ericsson’s caloric. With these
i views, sensations and feelings you may be assured I would
have scorned to mingle in the dirty press if you had
| but let us alone; but when you undertake tosay
| what were the views of the supporters of the Tro ip and
| Quitman ticket, permit me to inform you. that with secu
! rity for the future, the demanded redress for the past, and
with their good will, there should have been no peace un
■ til thu South was fully entitled to her equality in the Un
i ion, and the free and uninterrupted enjoyment of all her
; rights, and they are not men to cry out peace, peace, when
j there is no peace. They cannot, they dare not, they will
: not barter their l ights, or the right and equality of their
country, for power, place, or pelf, and they can but place
in the same category all who do, between slaves or quasi
slaves, or would be slaves. We cannot stop or stoop to draw
bail -spun distinctions. The supporters of the compromise
are all compromise men to us from President Pierce to the
basest Tugalonian (and God knows that is going low
enough.) We look upon them ul 1 alike as the imitators
of that base Judean who, for 30 pieces of silver, sold a
i pearl richer than all his tribe.
Respectfully, JOHN A. JONES.
[From the Constitutionalist & Republic.]
Atlanta, April 25th, 1853.
To the Editor of the Constitutionalist <£ Republic :
Sir : — The meeting of the General Baptist Con
vention of this State, is now in progress here, and
the proceedings, thus far, have been remarkably har
monious and attended by clear evidences of ardent
zeal, in the cause of temperance, moral and religious
improvement and domestic and foreign, especially
African, missions. Yesterday the Convention ad
journed to listen to an address by the Rev. R. R.
Gurley, on the subject of African Colonization. On
Saturday evening the subject of religious publica
tions occupied the attention of the Convention.—
Last evening a crowded house listened with pro
found interest to addresses from three young gen
tlemen who have dedicated themselves to the cause
of missions in Central Africa. You maybe aware
that the Rw. Mr Bowen, (a native of this region of
Georgia, and a gentleman of admirable qualifications
for the enterprize he has undertaken) has been for
two years exploring the countries north of Lagos
’and a little west of the Niger, and that ho there
found a beautiful, healthy and populous country, t\\
prepared for the reception of Christian teachers', and
to which, with two companions, (both natives of
this State) he ie soon to return, and seek to diffuse
the blessed light and influences of Christianity.—
Mr. Bowen found the people of Yarriba, (where he
was welcomed by multitudes anxious to hear his
discourses and ready to afford him a home) very
considerably advanced in civilization, believers in
one God and in Providence very obliging and polite,
respectful to women, hiving many proverbs, very
just and appropriate as rules of hfe, with a language
capable of communicating moral and religious ideas
and of becoming the instrument of imparting the
holy and sublime mysteries of the Gospel. The
Convention gave evidence of deep interest in the
statement. I trust Mr. Bowen will not forget to
visit New York and other northern cities where, I
feel confident, his report will awaken a concern for
Africa, hitherto unknown in the United States.
[From tho Albany Patriot.]
Baker County Democratic Meeting:.
According to a previous notice, a large meet
! ing of the Democratic Party of Baker County
! was held at the Court House in Newton on
| Wednesday the27th ot April. Hardy Griffin,
j Esq., was called to the Chair for the purpose
j of organizing the meeting ; when, B. O. Keaton
was appointed Chairman, and Henry H ora
| Secretary.
On motion, a committee of five, was appoint
ed by the Chairman, to report delegates to the
State Convention to nominate a candidate for
Governor. The committee reported the names
ofC. W. Colley, N. W. Collier, and Morgan
Chastain; which report was unanimously ratified
by the meeting.
On motion, the meeting determined to appoint
delegates to the second Congressional District
Convention at Albany on the fifth Wednesday in
June to nominate a condidate for Congress bij
ballot. The ballots having been counted, Col.
B, M. Cox, and Dr. J. G- Slappy were appointed
delegates to said convention.
On motion, the meeting determined that the
nomination of a Senator and Representative to
the Legislature for Baker County by the Demo
cratic Party shall be held by ballot at the pre
cincts in the several Districts on Saturday be
fore the first Tuesday in July (the 2d. day of
July;) that the votes be consolidated at the
Court House on the first Tuesday in July, and
that the persons receiving the highest number
of votes shall be the nominees of the Democratic
Party.
On motion the meeting adjourned.
B. O. KEATON, Chairman.
Henry Hora, Secretary.
Gov. Seymour, of Connecticut, who was a
distinguished officer in the late Mexican war, is
undoubtedly to have the mission to Mexico, and
is to go out in June with full instructions as to
the questions pending between this Government
and that of Mexico.
Hon. Jonathan Phillips has made the liberal
donation of ten thousand dollars to the city of
Boston, in aid of the public library.
The grand jury of Tazewell county, Va., has
presented the Into Logdslnturo'of that State as a
nuisance.
Second Congressional District.
This District is now composed of the coun
ties of Muscogee, Marion, Macon, Randolph,
Stewart, Sumter, Lee, Baker, Early, De
catur, Dooly, and Pulaski.. The relative
strength of the two parties—whig and de
mocratic—cannot at the present time ho
decided with any degree of accuracy. The
vote polled in the contest between Johnson and
Benning, in 1851, is no criterion whatever, by
which to judge of the relative strength of the
whig and democratic parties, since the re-or
ganization of those parties. Johnson was nom
inated by an amalgamation of Union whigs
J and democrats —he ran the race under demo
cratic- colors, thereby distracting and dividing
the democratic forces. But, owing his election
mainly to the whigs and knowing that he was a
“dead cock in the pit” with the democratic par
ty, he did not hesitate, on his arrival at Wash
-1 ington, to ally himself with Toombs and Ste
i phens, and to identify himself with the Whig
j party in Congress. In doing this ho betrayed
j the confidence reposed in him by the rank and
file of the Union democrats of his district.—
In the approaching contest, the democracy of
the Second Congressional District will be a
j unit. There may be a few restless spirits who
will refuse to co-operate with us in the ap
proaching convention and contest, but all such
factious spirits, we doubt not, will accompany
I Judge Brown in his avalanche for democracy,
I to the “conservatism (?) of the whig party.”— 4
; But all true democrats—those who are domo
i crats in principle, and not for the love of office,
will be found shoulder to shoulder in the ap
proaching campaign, battling for the triumph
and ascendency of democratic principles.
We have, however, departed from the subject
we designed to consider in the outset of this
article, to-wit : the relative strength of the two
i parties. Both parties as now organized in
Georgia have fallen back upon the old issues;,
i that formerly divided them, and their relative
! strength is doubtless about the same as in former
years, anterior to the introduction of the Union
( humbug into the contest for power. Below we
1 append a statement of the votes polled in the
! presidential election in November, 1848, which,
though it does not exhibit the actual strength
of the democratic party at the time, is perhaps
i the most reliable data upon which to base a
| calculation in relation to the numerical strength;
of the present political organizations.
Whig. Dem.
Baker, 341 631
Decatur, 493 30
Dooly, 341 501
Earlv, 200 505
Lee,” 323 181
Muscogee, 1,330 856
Marion, 500 500
Macon, 288 271
Pulaski, 320 423
Randolph, 780 724
Stewart, 026 686
Sumter, 733 587
0,575 6,285
; According to the above table, the majority
of the whigs in 1848 in those counties which
now compose the second Congressional Dis
trict was 200. But in that electicyn the demo
cratic psfty had dead weight to carry in the
; person of Gen. Cass, while on the other hand
the popularity of Gen. Taylor at that time, se
cured for him many democratic votes. Taking
this view of the subject, the strength of parties
j in this district in 1848, was nearly equal, and
so we apprehend it is now. How important,
■ then, that the soundest discretion be exercised
in the selection of a standard bearer of the De
mocracyof the Second Congressional District.
! An imprudent selection on either side, will doom
the party making it to inevitable defeat— So.
Democrat.
English Aristocracy Coming to Our World's
Fair. —We learn, bj r a letter from a London
, correspondent, that the Earl of Ellesmere is
is coming out to this county, to represent Eng
-1 land at the World’s Fair to be held in New York.
He brings one of bis sons, and his daughters,
; the ladies Egerton, along with him. Although
| among the highest and wealthiest of the English
! aristocracy, and also prominent in the lite
rary world, they are represented to be among
the most amiable, unaffected, and unpretend
ing. Lady Bulwer, wife of the ex-British min
ister to the United States, and Lady Ouselev—
who, by the by, is an American—have given
them letters of introduction to several of their
friends in this city.
j We trust they will be greeted with a frank,
generous, dignified, and, above all, unostenta
tious hospitality. Let them especially not fall
i into the hands and guardianship of a certain set,
: whose obtrusive vulgarity, and impertinent, sel
fish, fidgety, would-be-fashionable exclusiveness
are more disgusting to real good sense than
even the coarsest manners of the genuine
“b’hoys.”
The Countess of Ellesmere, it is understood,
accompanies her husband. She, too, we are
■ told, like the other members of the family, is
remarkable for kindness and entire absence ot
; pretension.
By Dod’s Parliamentary Companion, we
i perceive that the Earl of Ellesmere was former-
I ly Lord Francis Egerton, having been raised to
| his present dignity in the year 1846. He was
born in 1800. His second title is
Bracklev. He is a privy councillor and a deputy
lieutenant of Sutherlandshire, was in the House
of Commons in 1846, as Lord Francis Egerton,
and has been a Lord of the Treasury, Chief
Secretary for Ireland, and Secretary at War.
He possesses four princely residences in Lag
land, and is a member of the Carlton and Athe
naeum Clubs
Pistols. —At Nashville, on the 10th, as a .di.
Ridgaway was passing down the steps m 1 ol *
of the M. E. Church, the right skirt ot his coot,
in the pocket of which wasa loaded pisto , caum
in contact with the sidestone ot toe ■> <-p s , < aus
ing the pistol to go olf, the co'de" :s 0 ‘ vl,,cU
took effect on Mr. Sunnnfield Bat e, who was
standing a few pac es in hont on tne payment,
causing” his death shortly afterwards.
Miss Caroline E Putnam, of Salem, has
opened a barber’s shop in that eity-anoihoi|r
brick for Ihe Pdonrner temple.