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COLUMBUS, GEORGIA.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 25, 1853.
Democratic Conventions in Georgia.
The Gubernatorial Convention will meet at Mil*
ledeeville on the third Wednesday in June.
The Congressional Convention for the 2d District
will meet at Albany on the fifth Wednesday in June.
Counties which have not appointed delegates have no
time to lose in making their selections. The time is
short. Let every lover of his country see to it, that
his county is fully represented !n both conventi ns.
Our Superior Court.
In consequence of the death of the Clerk of the Su
perior Court the spring sitting has been adjourned until
Monday 6th of June next.
The trip to Savannah.
We have been requested to announce that the Kail
Road Festival at Savannah has been postponed until
the second day of June.
Our Guests
Arrived in Macon at 12 o’clock, M., 21st inst.. on
their return home, and were met rt the depot by car
riages and omnibusses, in which preceded by a band of
music, they repaired to the House and partook
of a sumptuous dinner provided by the citizens of Ma
con.
The a- legations from Savannah reached home at 30
minutes after nine o’clock, without accident of any kind.
The Savannah papers are filled with glowing de
scriptions of our city, our hospitality, and mote particu
larly our ladies. In our next issue we will give liberal
extracts from their columns, and are pleased to inform
our readers that we have a full report of Mr. Berrien’s
reply to Maj. Howard’s reception address and Pierpont’s
inimitable song. The mail failed yesterday, or we would
have been up with the news in this issue.
Speeches of Messrs. Toombs and Jones at the
Kail lload Festival.
We find in the Enquirer fuller reports of the speech
es of Messrs. Toombs and Jones at the Rail Road Fes
tival, and gladly transfer them to our columns, as they
relate to a project near our hearts and still nearer the
pockets of our readers—we of course refer to the G : rard
Railroad. We also invite the attention of our readers
to be letter of Mr. 11. Foster on the Mobile subscrip
tion, and the comments of the Tribune thereon. We
have no doubt but that Mobile will so amend the con
ditions annexed to her subscription as to make it availa
ble, if it is not so in its present shape. Her interest is
too nearly connected with the road, she has exhibited
too ardent a zeal in its early completion, to allow her
munificence to be defeated by impracticable conditions.
W e willingly refer the whole matter to the good sense
of her eitizens—and let oioakers croak on. The sub
scription will be made available. Verbum sat.
Col. Jones said :
Mr. President and gentlemen from Savannah from
Macon aud all those who have honored us with your at
tendance on this day we celebrate, look at the hand wri
ting on the wail, the Union of Columbus with Sa
vannah. What is the day we ei I .orate ? It is the
day which unites the waters of the Gulf with the great
Atlantic. It is the day which uuit‘s the commercial re
lations of Columbus with those of Savannah. It is the
day that binds those cities together with iron rands : and
we trust they are net stronger than the silken cords of
kindness and feeling, which are wound around our hearts.
Savannah, Macon and Columbus were in a deep Rip-
Van-Winkle sleep. Savannah was awakened by the
startling cry of the steam-whistle of the Charleston and
Hamburg road, Macon by the whistle of the Georgia
Road, and Columbus, by the lumbering of the Cars and
that same shrill and startling whistle from the Montgo
mery and West Point i oid that roused them all from
that deep sleep bordering almost unto the death of their
prospvrity. The waking of Savannah was as the Lion
from his lair ; guided by her lamented Gordon, who de
serves a monument at her hands, she has put forth the
energies of a giant. Maeon has not lagged but come
forward according • her strength, and Cos umbus, throw
ing off her death-like torp >r, his exceeded all ex
pectations, she has buit the Muscogee Road, she has sub
scribed to the Opelika Road and she has largely contrib
uted to the Girard Road. They have all done much, but
much remains to do. Mobile, too, has also waked up 1
and has gallantly come to the rescue of the Girard road,
with a million ; and without pretending to dictate to Sa
vannah, allow me to say she must not cease from her la
bors, fold her arms and rest snt'sfied till the waves of the
Atlantic pouringJover arailroid shall disembogue them
selves into the waters of the Gulf—into the Gulf of Mex
leo itself, that M. diterrai e in of the Sou h.
Gentlemen, you are here not to listen to speaking, but
to do mote aubst.uni.d things.’ I was not cal ltd upon to
speak, but to bid you i oehome, Savannah, we bid vou
welcome, Macon, we bid you welcome, to all who have
joined us itl the festival of feeling and flow’ of soul, we say
welcome, welcome all, thrice welcome ; from our very
hearts we bid you Welcome to the hospitalities of our ta
ble aud our cellars.
Hon. Robert Toombs, at the call of the meeting,
said ;
lie fully concurred ;u the sentiments expressed in it.
It embraced two great ideas—the necessity and im
portance ol breaking down the natural barriers on laud
by rail r ;.ds, and sweeping away the artificial restric
tions of unwise legislation upon the broad ocean, to the
freedom of commerce.
lie claimed lor Savannah the praise of being the first
city on the continent tor energy, liberality, and enter
prise in the work of internal improvement. She hail
alway S urged the development of Georgia's resources
in every emergency, lie also complimented the‘city of
Columbus. Though late, she had come up nobly to the
work—belt . .ate than never, though in a short time,
two hours would be too late in ra l road improvements.
He hoped we wou.d soon reap our reward.
lie dwelt at som . length and great force upon the
importance of cheapening the cost of transportation
iiom the p;. ce of product to the place of consuuiptiju.
’ibis bad renin part accomplished through the rail
tad system of Georgia. We had hariiest-t-d steam
and made it our wagon and team. But af.er we reach
ed the sea, we were met with unjust navigation laws,
which to footer the shipping interest, ha 1 imposed 25 to
h 0 per cent, upon every bale of cotton raised by the
Southern planter, lie therefore advocated a repeal of
he navigation law a, and direct trade to Europe as the
proper remedy. lie was in favor of unfettering human
industry of every kind to every extent. He then paid
a eompl-ment to our age for the application of science
and arts to the amelioration of the condition of the
world. W e had harnessed steam and made the light
ning our ntws carrier.
But, gentlemen, you must not be content with what
you have done; so long as so much remains to be
done, your great work is incomplete. Orleans is the
only true terminus to your internal transportation. All
of our energies should be direct to the completion of
the Girard road, then this great link will be finished,
the long desired connection between the Atlantic and
the Gulf will be accomplished. With nearly three
hundred miles of the line already completed, and fifty
more advancing rapidly to completion, it will leave but
160 miles, over one of the most favorable routes in the
United States, to finish this great work. Lit Colum
bus and Savannah and Mobile and the enterprising and
prosperous people .along this line see to it not only that
it shall bed- ne, but done quickly, that its great and
commanding advantages, social, commercial and po
litical, shall no longer be withheld. This will then
be the main stream through which the trade from the
Gulf to the Atlantic w ill flow', then your branches to
Montgomery and Eufaula, as well as many others
which will then desire a countclion with you, will be
easily accomplished. It will be safe to leave them to
local interests, which will be great enough to insure
their early completion.
110 concluded his able address by congratulating our
citizens on the event they bad met to celebrate, and
invoked still greater efforts for further improvements.
Girard Iload—Action of Mobile.
We learn from Maj. llardawav, President of the
Girard Road, that the Board of Aldermen of Mobile on
the 20th inst. unanimously confirmed the subscription
of $1.000,000t0 the Girard Railroad, and that the coun
cil would unquestionably confirm it the night after.
An additional subscription of 5,000 dollars was male by
a gentleman of New Orleans for a relative in Scotland.
Since the above was set up in type we have received
the Mobile Tribune , which says :
“At the session of the Board of Aldermen on the
19th inst.. the communication from the Mayor and Col.
Phillips, enclosing the proceedings of the public meeting,
recently held, to consider the propriety of the city sub
scribing to the stock of the Girard Railroad, with the
action of the Council thereon, proposing that the Mayor
and two Boards meet in convention on Tuesday, the
25th inst, at 4 o'clock p m., to consider the propriety
and expediency of subscribing on the part of the city to
the stock of the Mobile and Girard Railroad Company,
came up for consideration, when, on motion, the joint
resolution of the Council was laid on the table.
The follow ing ordinance was then read and unani
mously adopted :
Be it Ordained by the Mayor and Council o f the City
o f Mobile , That the said city does hereby subscribe for 10,-
000 -hares ol the capital stock of the Girard Railroad com
pany.
For the purpose of this subscription, the Mayor of the city
is hereby vested with full power to prepare execute and de
liver the bonds of the city for SI,<HK),OOO. redeemable in 25
yean-, the interest on which shall not exceed 7 per cent.,
and shall he paid semi-annually.
The subscription to be subject to the following provisos
and conditions;
Ist. That an 2ctofthe Legislature be obtained sanction
ing the said subscription.
2d. That the intere t on the bonds be provided for by the
Railroad company until the road is in ru ning order from
Mobile Bay to a point in Butler county, at or near Green
ville.
3d That the bonds be not sold or di-posed of under their
par value.
4th. That the moneys or other means derived from this
snb-cription beexclu-ivelv appropriated to the work between
this city and the point indicated above. And,
sth. That the location of the road, so as to afford the
most practicable junction with the city, be within the con
trol and determination of the city.
In the Board of Common Council the following eve
ning, on motion of Councilman Gazzam, the communi
cation was ordered t<> he filed and the ordinance refer
red to a committee of three, with instructions to report
for definite action at the next meeting of the Board.
Messrs. Gazzam, St. John and Dumee were appointed
said committee.— Mobile Tribune.
Alabama Items.
Whig Candidates in Chambers county. Alabama.
Tlie Whips of Chambers have nominated Col. McLe
more for the Senate ; D ; S. Robertson, J. B. Toud
and Gibbon F. Hill for the House. The Chambers
Tribune , a Whig paper says :
‘‘The nomination is cordially received by some and
most heartily rejected by others., It is suggested, also,
that the t'cktt would have been much improved if G.bson
F. Hill had been cut for the ‘‘Simples,” or bored for the
‘Big head,’ before he was turned loose upon the crowd.”
James E. Belser. —We were no little surprised to
find that this gentleman had been nominat and for the
Legislature by the whig*of Montgomery. The Cham*
bets Tribune gives the following explanation of the
j matter:
“We learn that in h's speech accepting the nomination,
; Mr. Belser avowed himself a Democrat on the old issues,
| and declared his intention if elected, to vote for Democrats
! ibr the Senate of the United States. On matters of pres
ent policy, he was with the Whigs. He rtmarked, we
h arn, that he should use his best endeavors to allay the
unnatural strifes and jealousies, between our two principal
cities. On these declarations Mr. Belser was ut.animous
i ly accepted by the wliigs of Montgomery as one of their
; candidates.”
■ There was no man in Alabama who had a stronger
hold upon the unttrrified Democracy titan James E.
Belser. until he was lured into the support of General
Taylor by his splendid military achievements, and the
i fancied possession on his part of the wisdom arid virtue
of a southern patriot. We confess we regret that he
• has not had the hardihood to break loose from the
j party with which he has co-operated for several years
and come back to his first love. There is and can be
j nothing in common between them and him. But we
i forbear. Our Montgomery cotemporary, the Alabama
| Journal, beconus restive and ill natured whenever we
cress the river.
Southern Baptist Convention.
This body, composed of the CKrgy and Laymen of
the Baptist denomination, of the Southern and Western
States, convened in Baltimore on the 14th inst.; Rev.
I Dr. Howell, in the Chair.
The proceedings were mostly of a denominational
character, and without much interest to the genera!
reader. Among the rep rts presented, was one on
i Foreign Missions, which gives s me interesting facts.
Th s document shows the amount of the receipts for
the past year to have been s2l 43S 45 ; the disburse
ments for various purposes $*21,429 25—leaving in the
hands of the treasurer, together w ith the previous bal
ance on hand, the sum of $11,694 11. The larg- s
loutr button made by any one State was by Georgia,
viz.: $5,545 9*2. The next by Virginia, $3,911 74
Maryland hid contributed but $957 83, and Florida
only sls 75. There are 4 O,OOU communicants con
nect* and with this branch of the
Courier.
Resignation of Mr. Conner. —llenry W. Conner,
President of the Hamburg Railroad, h.is resigned his
office.
El Paso. —Gen. C. Clark, of New York, Ex-Gov.
Paine and Gen. 1) W\ C. Clarke, of Vermont, P Gree
ley, Jr., Esq., of Boston, and other Northern capitalists,
in company with Senator Rusk, have left N. Orleans
for Texas, aud will proceed as far as # EI Paso, to exam
ine and report upon a route for the Pacific railway.
The Gardiner Trial — Washington, May 21. Ihe
arguments in the Gardiner trial have at last been dosed
and the case submitted to the jury, but no verdict has
yet been rendered.
Gale on Lake Er r . — New York, May 21. 1 here
was a terrific gale on Lake Erie yesterday. Many ves
sels were wrecked and blown ashore and it is {eared
that many lives have been lost.
[From the Mobile Tribune.]
We publish this morning a communication
from Mr. Foster, concerning the resolution of
fered by him at the recent Girard Railroad
meeting.
The impression, we believe, in relation to the
propositions contained within the resolutions
which were adopted is that they cannot be made
practical. The object of the meeting, however,
was to elicit public opinion as to whether the
citizens were willing to grant aid to the road.
The manner of granting it was not considered
to be important at the time. This, it was ex
pected, could be arranged subsequently.
The response given in public in favor ol aid
ing the road is so hearty that we think there will
be no difficulty in adopting the plan which will
be best calculated to make that aid available as
s->on as possible and in the most efficient man
ner.
We do not believe that the people will object
to the assumption of the small tax which will !
bo necessary for the payment of the interest on
the proposed bonds. Mr. Foster calculates
that this interest will not be fifteen percent., or
about one seventh of the present tax, a sum
which would hardly be felt.
But there will be plenty of time to mature i
the conditions of these bonds. The assent of
the Legislature has to be obtained for the loan,
and it may turn out, so rapid are the changes
in our public opinion in relation to railroad im
provement, that the State itself may be induced
to extend aid to the work. Independently,
however, of any aid of this sort, the people of
this city have exhibited a disposition for im
provement that will go far to enlarge the muni
cipal credit. The works she is engaged in are
discreet works, and it will requite no great sa
gacity to see that the loans she seeks in behalf
of them are based on the soundest, securities.
‘The Montgomery Journal, in relation to this
: subject, stys: “We publish in another column,
j the repott of the meeting in Mobile, recom
j mending the subscription of one million dollars
to the Girard and Mobile Railroad, to which
we refer the reader. We are glad to see that
Mobile is at last looking to its own interest in
East Alabama. It cannot preserve that trade
without stretching out its hand for it. This
will aid to furnish a rapid communication of
eastern interior Alabama with the gulf at two
points, Mobile and Pensacola, as bothlthose
cities will connect with the main stem from this
place. There are some resti ietions, however,
i in the resolutions which may materially hamper
the pr gress of the enterprise. Among them,
the determination that the Mobile city bonds
should not be sold under par. And again ; that
they should not bear above seven per cent, in
terest ; and further, that the avails of the bonds
should not be applied above Greenville. These
i are restrictions which will tend to make the ac
tion of Mobile, in a great degree, unavailable
and inoperative. We trust that a reconside
ration and modification of the terms of the grant
ed bonds may be adopted so as to make them
of practical vulue.’’
[From the Mobile Tribune.]
Girard and Mobile Railroad.
The official report of the proceedings of the
late Mobile arid Girard Railroad meeting, repre
sent that an “amendment to the fifth resolution
was offered by Mr. Foster, and repulsed'’ The
use of so unusual and strong a term of refusal,
lias very naturally excited frequent inquiries as
to the character and design of the resolution to
which it refers. 1 am constrained to ask its
publication as the only means of acquitting my
self of the inference of having made an obnox
ious offering to the meeting. It is as follows:
Resolved , “'That a Committee of seven be ap
pointed by the Chair, to take into consideration
all matters appertaining to the Girard and Mo
bile Railroad, and report to an adjourned meet
ing of the citizens of Mobile.’’
My object in proposing this as a substitute
for Col. Phillips’s fifth resolution, was to invest
tne committee with more plenary powers, that
tiie subject, in all its bearings, might be mature
ly considered, and some practical line of action
determined upon. I did not then consider the
plan put forth in Col. Phillips’s second resolu
tion as practicable, and subsequent reflection
has but served to strengthen my opposition
to it.
Its object is to induce the corporate authori
ties of Mobile to aid the work of the Girard
and Mobile Railroad Company to the extent
of One Million Dollars, by sale of city bonds
beating not more than 7 per cent, interest, to
be sold at par or not at all; and, if negotiated,
the company to pay the interest. All this would
do very well if it were practicable, but my fear
is that it will fail of success, and thereby retard
the progress of the work. Is it probable th.-.f
our bonds, under the present embarrassed pecu
niary condition of the city, would sell on such
terms at par? I think not. If, however, the
sale could be effected, would it be politic to tax
the company with the payment of the interest ?
It occurs to me it would not, for the reason
that before it would be possible to render the
road available, the annual drain of interest
would exhaust a large portion of the “material
aid’’ we propose to furnish.
It is not probable that the road could be
completed, equipped and rendered profitable un
der rive years. Its payments of interest, the re
lore, being seventy thuusand dollars per annum,
would amount to three hundred and fifty thou
sand dollars: the practical result of which
would 1 e to put one million dollars in one pocket I
of the directory, and extract from the other fifty j
tuousaud dollars, more thau one quarter of that
sum. A fraction of this, however, might be
saved, if the bonds could be negotiated from
time to time to suit the \vant3 of the company,
which might not be the case.
With tiue deference to tiie scheme proposed,
and its projections, it seems to me the better
policy would he for the city, with the consent
of the Legislature, and approval ol its sovereigns,
to sell its own bonds for eight hundred thousand
dollars, with inteiestat six per cent., say forty -
eight thousand dollars per annum,to be paid by
special tax for the purpose ; and as security for
the payment of the bonds, the stock of the c’ty,
thus procured, be hypothecated as collateral.
We cannot reasonably expect to share the ad
vantages of this great enterprise, and aid it ma
terially without money, and our only means of
raising money is by direct taxation for, at least,
the payment of interest. An additional tax of
fifteen per cent, on present assessments would
cease upon the completion of the road. These
and kindred views I thought, and still think,
worthy the consideration of the committee. I
submit them, however, with diffidence, begging
to assure ail parties in interest that I am M illing
to co-operate in any “ ell matured course of ac
tion that may be adopted.
If. FOSTER.
THREE DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE.
ARRIVAL OF T H E STEAMEf
AFRICA.
New York, May 19.
The Biitish mail steamship Africa, with Liver
pool dates to May 7th, lias arrived at this port,
with three days later dates than those brought
by the Allantic.
Liverpool Cotton Market. —The middling
grades of cotton have advanced l-16d. The
market closed quiet and firm. The sales of the
week amount- and to 55,000 bales. The official
quotations are: Fair Orleans 058d ; Middling
5 15-lGd;Fair Uplands 6 l-4d ; and Middling
5 7-Bd. Speculators took 5000 and exporters
9000 bales.
Consols are quoted at 100 3-4 a 100 7-8.
The trade in Manchester had considerably
improved.
Rice was in fair demand, and the sales effec
ted were at a slight advance.
Havre Colton Market. —The sales of cotton
at Havre for the week, were 9000 bales. The
market had recovered from the late depression.
Ties Ordinaire Orleans 93 Is.
Miscellaneous —Kossuth has been fully ex
onerated in the rocket affair.
‘Phe returns of the Board of Trade show a
large increase of exports during the month of
April.
Phe Empress of France had fully recovered.
Considerable disaffection was manifested
among the populace of Hesse Cassel, growing
out fit the government prosecutions.
Political riots are reported to have taken
place in Switzerland.
The affair of the Holy Springs was report
ed settled as Russia had desired. Tlie question
of the Greek Patrarehine was still under discus
sion. ‘Phe armaments had been stopped and
the fleets recalled,
Persia was preparing another expedition
against Herat. The British Ambassador will
demand his passports if the expedition pro
ceeds.
‘Phe Africa passed the City of Manchester
on the 9th, and the America on the Bth.
Mobile and Ohio Ha lroad.
We learn that at a meeting of the Board
i held on Thursday, the necessary resolutions
I were adopted providing lor the sale of six mil
i lions of bonds, being in round numbers the
! sum requisite for the entire completion and
| equipment of the mouth of the Ohio.
| The negotiation of tlie bonds has been ten
! dered to Col. William 11. Hallett, who, for this
| purpose, will proceed to Europe.
We do not anticipate any insurmountable dif
ficulty in this negotiation; for, though the
amount is a verv large one, the basis upon which
it will be placed is adequate to the most trying
test.
The land donated by the Government, ex
ceeding eleven hundred thousand acres, is of
itsell a security ; for it may safely be placed in
vaiue at $5,000,000. When to this v e add that
the whole road-bed and superstructure are pro
vided for by subscription, and that the rnonev
borrowed is to be invested in the completion of
the work, we see that there is the most ample and
full security that could he required by the most
sc ru pu lou s c a pita Ii st. — Register.
Earthquake in Augusta.— The attentive
operators of the Telegraph office have shown
us a despatch which states that the whole city
of Augusta felt the shock of an earthquake,
this morning at 30 minutes past five, which las
ted about two minutes. The writer says: “the
house I was in rocked like a cradle—no dam
age done that I can hear o \\”—Sav. Journal
21 st. inst.
Faxes of Chatham C >u v r v. — By a compar
ison o( the returns of 1852 and 1853, it is
shown that the increased value of taxable pro
perty over last year, is $1,424,795— which is
at>evidence of the prosperity, of the city has
enjoyed fora length of time.
Lat9r from Havan i—Arrival of Gen. Arista—News
from Mexico.
Baltimore, May 17.
The Black Warrior from* Mobile, arrived at
New York, to-day via Havana, which place she
left on the 12th. General Arista, late President
of Mexico, had arrived at Havana, from Vera
Cruz. The members of the Common Council j
at Tampico had been arrested, and sent to the
Mexican capital, by order of Gen. Woo!.—
1 heir offence was a refusal to acknowledge
Gen. Santa Anna.
Death of John A, Stuart.—We learn from
Beautori lha Mr. John A. Sluart-died ori Tuesday,
the 31inst.aged o3 years ile was f>r a long
time i he proprietor and principal editor of this pa
per, hu’ for nearly ten years, broken down both in
oody a .and mind, he has ceased to have anv connec
tion with th'* political affairs of the State. Mr.
Stuart was of all tm-n we have known, the one who
combined, in the hghest degree, the faculties of
logic, i nagin ition and wit, and these he displayed
in a tar more striking form in his conversit on
than in his writings. To judge of his cuacitv by
wh-t he actually performed, would be to do great
injustice to his extraordinary powers ; and to esti
mate rightly all that he might have done wou’d
be to conjure up unavailing regrets. ‘J he grave,
with its dark mantle, covers all ; peace to the
sleeper, beneath that impenerable shadow!
f Charleston Mercury.
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
New Orleans, Miv 20,
The sales of cotton today, Friday, were 2000 bales,
at prices unchanged. The sales of the week are 20,000
baits. The increased receipts at this port art 209,100
bales, and the stock on hand 169,000 b iles.
The increase at ail the ports are 25!r,000 bales.
Savannah, May 21.
Cotton—The sales today amount to 16T bales, at
prices ranging from 9 to 10 1-2 cents.
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Local Affairs —ketches of Character.
No. xxii.
THE ROMAI'T C LOVER.
This is a young man who may be said to tma
gnehe ‘oves: like the dandy, wh< assumed an
a-rot r flection, ‘ thought he was thinking- I '
The romantic lover is the victim, conjointly, ot
Zimmeiman onSolitu e and moonlight nights.
He essays so nets and a spare diet—“rolls up
hi< eyes like a duck in thunder.” and sigh- liku
a tea k ttle He has,of course, his Julia or .Mary,
generally one of the latter name, for some how
or other the first Jove of everybody is a Mary.
She is an angel of course, aid yon could not
persuade him mat Hie was ever mbject to a
cold in her nose to save your life. Ail he
wants is to be united with the object of h s ado
ra ion, to retire to some rose covered cottage in
some boundless continuity of shade, and there
sigh away his life in a continual -eries of meals
of bread and water, and love. 1 oor youth !
How soon a lit le practical experienc- ot the
world dissipates these dreams of romance, and
convinces him that Mary *ay not only have a
cold in her hea \ but a g< od mbstantial appeti e,
becoming a most edrth ymo tal A diet sim
ply of love will produce a very palpab e dys
pepsia beaus. j the stomach and es not generally
partake of the rn ance of he mind The chy
lopoetic vi cera always show’ a disposition to
rebel under ci cumstances of thi kind We
hate to ci turb anybody from a plesant dream,
but thi r rnantic lover might a well be
awakened by the p< ntle sha e of . friend, as by
the rude bawling < f worldly exp rience. Know
then that there is no truer ad ge. than that
whici tells ns, that when poverty enters the
dor iove flies through the window We
know here are glo ious, nay, sub ime instan es
of w man’s love, u -toweling • ilfic Ities and
t ials though Olympus high but these instances
have been o. ly where youthful love had become
mat red, height* ned, and sanctified, by a close
know edgn and experience.ot the ex lied virtu.*
of a worthy < bject This kind ot lov e has noth
ing t > do with that which is born of moonlight
an i trashy nov Is. ‘i he besi securi y for mor
als is the absence oft rnptat n, ami the best
securities for the permanence ol love, i a
pleasant cot, in a iov* ly spot, vv.th rounds of
beef to giv*- relief, and p enty of cf t es f r
your love, when she goes, to visit her friends,
to answer two ends, tu ma e a fair -how tor
the world, we know, will ju ge, you may sw. ar,
by the fine clothes you wear.
A Tribute of Respect.
| At a meeting of the Court and Bar, Juniors and Officers
i in attendance, on inction of Col. Hines Holt, the Hon.
Alfred Iverson was called to the Chair and Major E. J.
Ha rdix requested to act as Secretary.
Col. Holt then appropriately atim nneed the death of
; JOHN R. S I URGJS, Esq., and introduced the fob owing
preamble and resolutions:
Since our last and >’s adjournment dining the pre ent term
of the Cou t, death has been in our immediate circle ai.d
snatched to his cold embrace, John It. Sturgis. E q., Cle K
ot this Court. He died after a brief iiiness at 2 o’clock, A.
.M.on Sunday morning.
It becomes ns while we how vainfully, yet submissively,
to this di-pensation ol an A 11-wise and unruling providence
to pay a titling tribute to the memo y of our deceased offi
cer and friend—
Resolved, therefore, 1 hat in the death of Mr. Sturgis,
we have 10.-t an aide and efficient officer—one ever prompt,
vigilant and laithful in the discharge of his complicated
duties, and towards the members ol the Bar in their varied,
con-tant, and often perplexing intercourse at all times, espe
cially kind,attentive and comuous
Resolved, That we will attend his burial this da ’, to
which end and in respect to his metnoiy we ask the ad
journment of the Court.
Resolved, That we offer to his bereaved family orr
heartfelt sympathies, and that a copy of the foregoing
preamble aud resolutions be forwarded to them, and pub-