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COLUMBUS, GEORGIA. ;
FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 3, 1853.
Tb World’s Fair in New York.
From present indications the World's Fair in New
Fork will result in a grand failure. There appears to
have bec-n from the beginning, that want of energy
and system so essential to the success of so mammoth
an undertaking. Thousands from all parts of the
country have been making their arrangements in anti
cipation of a visit to the great metropolis—the great
object of attraction being the Crystal Palace, There is
no doubt but that the exhibition will be opened some- j
time during the summer— hardly until the first-of Ali
ce**. however—ami while asanational affair professing to
redtei, as it was designed, the enterprise and skiil of the
nation, it will fail of its object in many, very many res
pects ; still there will be much both new and inter
esting. To the provincial there will be novelty and
wonders inexhaustible—and to both provincial and met
ropolitan, much to see and reflect upon.
borne have already takeu their departure, and ere a
month has elapsed thousands of strangers will have cou* !
gregated in New York. As much leisure will thus be ,
afforded them, the thought suggests itself that this spare
time may be profitably employed by making excursions I
to various parts oi New England aud the Middle States.
e have always objected to the fruitless migrations an
nually made during the summer months to places of j
fashionable resort and dissipation in the Northern States ;
with no other object than to kill time and a consequent
waste of money. If our pleasure-seekers would find
some attractions beyond the theatres, and galleries, and
museums of New York—if they would but visit the
beautiful and thriving towns and cities of centre New
York and New England, would ramble around the country
and amidst the grandeur of the White and Green moun- j
tains and along the beautiful lakes that diversify the :
whole northern and north-eastern section of the Union, ;
aud would think while they look, inquire and investi- j
gate, talk with those they meet and be willing to learu—
ior there is much in the enterprise and progressiveucss
of the northern States that challenges our emulation as 1
well ns admiration—if southern ‘travelers would do this, !
tbo practical good resulting would be incalculable. Gut !
many, after they reach New York—which is the great j
point ol rendezvous there—fix themselves for tho season !
hardly relieved by a day’s jaunt to a watering place.
A stranger thus situated eamiot, from the very nature ,
*>f the case see anything of northern society. Fatigued i
with the din of city life and crowded thorough fares,stow- I
and away perhaps in theCth story of an overcrowded ho
tolstfc imposed upon by par pies who feed upon the strati- ;
ger's verdancy and love of novelty, nothing else could |
possibly result, but that lie becomes, ere long, surfeited
with what he considers the ‘‘attractions of the north,” I
and, disgusted with everything in and about city life; re- i
turns home to inveigh against the avarice of the north
the meanness and parsimony and imposition of the >
section, when they have seen nothing beyond what a mere j
street gazer might—having kept company with theat- 1
rieal goers, hotel loungers and sight seers. If a love’
for real pleasure had prompted them governed by an in
telligent curiosity to know as wel( as see; they might
have brought back a store of experience which, if pro- i
parly used would go far towards enabling us to rival !
more advanced and densely populated States, and j
which would place u* ere long, even by comparison,
upon an eminence.
Wc have listened to many extatic descriptions of j
travelers after their summer sojourn north upon the
greatness of northern cities, their vast business and eom
moruial operations—their paktial residences —their de
-1 ightfa! places of resort and a thousand minor matters, 1
Irom a ballet corps t< the learned Russian Gear, and the
•’Happy Family, 1 winding up with a peroration red hot
with invectives against the want of principle, and
filching propensities of northern people, with an assev- j
< vat-ion never again ;<> cross Mason and Dixon’s line— |
Now we hope, for ti e good of the south, that such j
never will show their noses north of the Potomac. Those j
who associate with mountebauKs, spend money with
bar-tenders and hackmeu, at theatres and monkey
■hows, may be sure of being fleeced—and deserve J
to be. \\ e have enough charges, well founded too,
against the north, without provoking our irritability by
endeavoring to saddle upon her people the fruits of our !
own folly.
There is another class of our people who prefer a
different round of enjoyment. After a week’s delay in
ihe great metropolis, iu order to brush up and don the
prevailing mode, they take a peep at the novelties, and
dash off into the country or to a watering place, where
they remain probably a week, aud back again to the
city—a round of amusemeuts ensues, until, wearied and
nervous, off they go again to recuperate—sweeping
along the green meadows, inhaling the fresh mountain
air or enjoying the sea bath and breezes, lauding with
commendable appreciation the neatness, cleanliness, and
system and beauty of all they see. Thus the season is
passed—the return is finally resolved upon, and with
a trunk full of notions they are *n route for home.
We will venture to assert that lbur-tifths of our peo
ple who visit the north, tor other than business purposes,
may be ranked among one or the other of the classes
we have indicated. Neither bring back any thing use- ■
ful. The one abuse the north because they had not
brains sufficient to get beyond the clutch of mountebanks
—the other wish but to skim along, enjoying tbe pres
ent hour and giving themselves no trouble or thought I
eeyood tbe payment of bills and an occasional grumbling
at high prices. They return to talk through the
events of last snimiu r's pleasures, and live iu anticipa
,!°n °f toe coming season to be spent in like manner.
No thought is taken of home—no plans brought back for
improving and beautifying their own homesteads and
towns. Home is altogether ignored. Nothing is joy
ous or pleasant but iu the distance. The mild winter
passes With but little inconvenience—spring comes and
bursts forth with its showers and green verdure and
fragrant woodlands—summer steals on apace and
we apostrophise our beautiful land in the words of the
author of “The Seasons.”
‘‘Rich is thy soil aud merciful thy clime,
J Uy streams unfailing in the summer's drought ”
But no more romance is at an end. Our “unfail
<ng streams - refresh only their natural banks, our town*
are desolated, no provision made against the solstitial
beat. Tlieir dt-uiuns betake themselves away, and
hundreds ot mile* distaut sit beneath grateful shades,
eooltd by bubbling fountains, which have their sources
perltaj)# scores c>l miles away, and while beguiled by
►uch pleasure f<*rgu their owu “guardian oaks” or
*. eon* pandng and parched for a eociiug shower from the
inning river or purling brook which laves the banks
perhaps almost at then - very feet. The rich aud green
shr.it. cry i- scotched, the flowers are wilted and dying
’he once graved walks are grown up in weeds, all in
J * * deimh * nd Tho streets are dry, and dmtr.
nd deserted: booses are closed, everything is still,
and languid and dull. And why? Because it is sum
mer;, and tinder ‘‘no circumstance* could we think of re
maining in such discomfort and deprivation.” But we
hie to a place built perhaps upon a barren level—such \
a place we have in our mind’s eye while we write—
treeless and forbidding, but which, by dint of care and
attention, and the exercise of a cultivated taste, has be- \
come a popular resort, and supported by those who sacri
fice their home oomforts, and who, because nature haa :
done so much for them, seom determined to do nothing !
for themselves.
We do nr't object to traveling—on the other hand,
we would encourage it—nothing so liberalizes the mind I
and improves the heart; but what we do object to, is
this customary annual migration from one latitude to ;
another, like the flocks of birds that alternate with th* ;
j seasons, and, too much like them, regardless of what
! is left behind.
If our people would, when away from home, gather
up information with a view to its application at home |
in a beneficial, practical way—if they would but make
mere pastime a secondary consideration, and gather
knowledge as they ride, the South would but little
| longer suffor the taunts of the North by being pointed
to half built towns, neglected public improvement*, aud
| a want of system, and order, and neatness, and in at
i tributing all this, as they do, to the “ blighting influ- j
, ences of slavery,”
We hope the occasion of the World’s Fair, in bring
: together so many from all sections into the very
heart of our most finished and cultivated metropolis,
will teach many lessons of practical import, which the
i recipients will not return to sleep, and dream, and talk
j over, aud extol, and long to revisit those beautiful spots
where lordly trees have been trained and fountain*
opened, and the appliances of art have been prodigally
expended, while around them their gaxe is everywhere
met by neglected streets, dilapidated feneee and gar
dens and stagnant goose ponds. By all means go to
the World’s Fair; think, as well as sec, and let us
I profit by what may there be learnt. We are Southern
Rights to the core, and are jealous of the interests and
I reputation of every southern man, woman and child,
j The south has reached an era which calls for the activ
ity and labor of every one of her sons. Let us learn,
i even from our enemies. This is no tints for slothful
dreams—we must labor constantly and efficiently if we
would attain excellence. Let ue, as the quaint Car
lyle urges, “ produce! produce! if it be but the piti
fullest iufiniteenimal part of a fraction, iu God’s name
produce it.”
!
A Rare Opportunity.
Wo notice that one third of the interest in the Mo
bile Daily Evening News is offered for sale. Avery
profitable job office is connected with the publishing.
The interest is offered in either or both. The energy
and enterprise now aroused in Mobile offers this as a
flattering inducement to a man of thorough-going
business habits.
Another Fire.
About 9 o’clock on Wednesday night a fire broke
out in the upper part of the city, consuming the dwell
ing of Col. Ragan. The furniture was mostly saved,
but as in most cases recently, much damaged by tbe
heedless precipitancy in removing it. No insurance.
The Fishery Dispute.
A war steamer has been ordered by the British
Government to the Gulf of St. Lawrence to protect
the fisheries. She is to be followed by another steamer
and several sailing vessels. The U. S. steamer \ ixeu
has been ordered from the Brooklyn Navy Yard, sup
posed for tho fishing grounds. Does anybody see a
speck of war ?
0$”” lion. Wm. C. Rives, our late Minister at the
Court of France, and Commodore Aulick, were pas
sengers in the Arctic. Wonder what has become of
Mr. Commissioner Marshall, whom it is reported the
Commodore turned a-foot somewhere in China, to hunt
up, the best way he eau, his Celestial Majesty, the
“ brother of the moon !”
[From tho Savannah Republican.]
The Cake which was presented to the Ladies of Sa
vannah by those of Columbus, was, on Monday after
noon, at six o’clock, cut and distributed to a large ami
most respectable assemblage of ladies, its exceeding ex
cellence eliciting from all who partook of it, enthusias
tic admiration. Tin exterior of the cake was chaste and
beautiful, elaborately ornamented with elegant and ap
propriate designs iu silver and white, and its composi
tion, internally, the most light, delicate and delicious
that had ever been seen or tasted by any who shared
it. Many encomiums were passed upon the donors,
and the individual lady to whome fame attributed its
make. The cake to be presented by tho ladies of Sa
vannah to their sisters of Columbus, will be exhibited
to ali who may wish to see it, at 12 o’clock, on Fii
day morning next, at the Armory Hall, where and
when R. H. Griffin, Esq., at tbe solicitation of the
Committee, will deliver an address of presentation to
the delegation of Columbus, gentlemen selected to re
ceive and transport it to its destination.
The Committee of La die*.
Professor Wilson, of Blackwood’s Magazine,
is past hope of recovery from a paralytic at
tack.
Colonel Colt is rapidly becoming a millionaire
from the immense sale of his revolvers.
The infant son of Queen Victoria is to receive
the name of Leopold George Duncan Albert.
Scotch Morals. —ln the Britisii House of Com
mons on tiie *2‘2d inst., the bill for regulating li
censes for public houses in Scotland occasion
ed a discussion, with awful statements- That
country was emphatically called a “drunken**
one, its statistics of potation and intoxication
being matchless. The Lord Advocate proclaim
ed that the evil against which the bill directed
i was “the National sin ol Scotland, a sin which
overshadowed ail other social evils of the conn
trv/’ Mr. Hume said that lie would readily
vote for the introduction of the Maine Liquor
Law—which excited “great laughter.’’ Mr.
i Henry Drummond affirmed that every Satur
day night thirty thousand men got drunk in
! Glasgow, and lay in a perfect state of insensi
bility until Monday morning. We might add
! a large or small proportion of the fair sex. It is
said that a Scotch preacher designated alcohol
as Satan’s blood.
An Interesting Character. — An Indian was
j ordained to the work of the ministry by the Bap
-1 tist Home Missionary Society, in Troy, New
York, last week, who, to attend the convention,
tea Iked, six hundred miles in snoic shoes, accom
• pauied by hi * wife and child.
[From the New York Heral.j
Our Washington Correspondence.
Washington, May 24, 1553.
The Foreign Appointments of Gen .Pierce—\ ery
Interesting and Curious.
The catalogue of foreign appointments published
in the Washington papers this morning, puts an j
end to the lute very general anxiety and suspense j
on the subject, aud such a sweep has been made at j
plenipotentiaries, charges, and consuls, that it is only ;
here f-.nd there that a comfortable berth i* left to j
meet future Comitigefteies. . ;
Os the first class ministers appointed, the Hernia
has heretofore spoken out very freely, and in a tone
of liberality which must- have proved highly satis
factory to Messts. Buchanan, Soule, Seymour, Gads- !
den, Borland, and John Randolph Clay, a* well as j
to the President and his Cabinet. Os the rest, a.
word or two here may not be out of place*
Mr. Peter D. Vroom, of New Jersey, for Prussia, j
G a sort of compromise appointment. There were ;
several other Jersey-men who wefe applicants ,lor j
some public service abroad ; and to avoid disappoint j
in<r any of them, as far as possible, they were all j
set aside, and Mr. Vroom, who was no applicant at j
all, comparatively, was put in as “the sop for the)
JarsiesT This sort of compromising D very fre- j
quently adopted in dispensing the spoils. The j
most prominent examples on record are the nomi- j
nation of Cos). Polk and Gen. Pierce for the Presi- j
denev* The whole secret of their success was that j
they* did not stand in the way of anybody. And so i
it has been with Mr. Peter D. Vroom. We under
stand here that Mr. Vroom can speak high Dutch j
pretty well, and will, therefore, be quite at home at
Berlin.
William Trousdale, of Tennessee, for Brazil, is
also a party compromise soiection. He is not a
brilliant man. but a very fast man ; not a very dis
tinguished man, but has acquired some reputation
as a middling, eleverish sort of a democrat, among
“the sovereigns.” .Some persons supposed, howev
er, that Major Polk, brother of James K. Polk, or
Genera! Gideon J. Pillow, would get the European
ministerial plum accruing to Tennessee. Mr.
Trousdale will be a safe man, if not a fast mau,
though ho is hardly equal to Professor Maury in
hi-* understanding of the commercial facilities of the
mighty Amazon.
Mr. Theodore 8. Fay, for Switzerland, is a nice
selection. He, it wiii be recollected, was many
years ago associated with General Morris and Na
thaniel P. Willis, iu the editorial management of the
New York Mirror. Since that time, however, Mr.
Fay has extended his thoughts and knowledge of
things beyond the color of a lady’s eye, the out of
the most stylish dresses of a courtiy bail room, arid
the fit of anew boot. Ilehas become a very re
spectable diplomat —understands the languages, the
politics and the politicians of the Continent, and is
widely respected as an intelligent and favorable
specimen of the American diplomatic corps over
the water. Meantime, General Morris continues on
“The even tenor of his way,”
as tiie poet laureate of ihe New York military, lit
erary, and fashionable peace establishment, while
Nathaniel P. Willis ha* had his delicate nerves en
tirely destroyed by the rough handling, without kid
gloves, of the merciless barbarians of these latter
days. Such have been the fortunes of the original
literary firm of Morris, Willis and Fay. What a
world this is, to be suit*!
Os Ihe class of Charges des Affaires, Mr. Augus
te Belmont for the Netherlands is a remarkable ap
pointment, But it is said here that his influence
among the moneyed men of Amsterdam and the
Continent will redound to tho advantage of Wall
street, and of oil the States and corporations in this
country (excepting Mississippi) that may desire f<
borrow money of the rich .Tews of Europe, to build
railroads, canals, &e. It is also said that he will be
useful in the Netherlands in aiding republican refu
gees to get to this land of liberty and equal rights,
thank God ! It is further said that the influence
of the Perry and the Slidell families was an item in
favor of Mr. Belm s;t.
Old Virginia comes iu fur a liberal snare of “the
goodies.” There is Mr. Richard. K. Meade for
Sardinia, to begin with. He was, we believe, a
whig Elector iu 1650, on the ticket for
“Tippecanoe and Tyler too.”
But he is none the worse for that. He is n. gen
tleman aud a scholar. Then there is Mr. Henry
Bedinger, for Denmark. He was a member of
Congress from Virginia during ihe tremendous
warlike debates on 54-40, and made a conserva
tive speech, in which he gave a glowing descrip
tion of a certain big eagle which he taw one day
at Harper’s Ferry,
“High up above the storm.”
But whether it was that eagle, o r something else,
that caused it. Mr. Bedinger whs not re-nomina
ted by that district. So he went off and set up
the practice of the law in New York city. In
1851, however, he returned to the valley of Vir
ginia, and run as the democratic candidate in ids
old district, against Faulkner, independent whig,
and was beaten badly, because he was tinged too
deeply with secessionist!). Faulkner having suc
ceeded in getting the democratic nomination, ibere
was nothing left tor Mr. Bedinger than a cull by
the administration. Lucky man at last! He
goes to Copenhagen. Then there is Captain Scott,
who brought down, last spring, thirteen Presidenti
al candidates at asingie fire—he goes Consul to Rio.
A good hit. But the most important post of them
is that ot Mr. Shelton F. Leake, as Commissioner
to the {Sandwich islands. Mr. Leake has been a
clever member m Congress, and, though a strict
constructionist, wo presume he wiii co-operate
with Secretary* Marcy most heartily in securing
the annexation of the Sandwiches, Ring Kanrie
harneha, and all. Four good foreign places for
the Old Dominion. This much for having start
ed the. ball for Franklin Pierce at Baltimore.
Who can sov now that the General does not re
member hi** friend* !
Charles Woodbury, for Bolivia, is good ; .lack
son, (Union man, and relative of Gov. Cobb.) o{
Georgia, is good; Bisseli. ut Illinois, for Buenos
Avres, is excellent —that is ;* mi I i'ary country, al
ways iu hot water, anil Bisseli was a colonel—a
gallant, fighting colonel—in the Mexican war. He
is not a large man, but he is keen, and pluck to the
| backbone. A military man for Buenos Ayres is
the very thing that was wanted.
But ive must not f orget our old editorial friend,
Saui Medary, of the Ohio Statesman* for Chili. The
whole editorial corps mus: endorse torn, and there
is u branch of the Ohio oemceracy that ui.l be
glad to get him off to South America, because lie
would whip them into t e liace*.
But the most remarkable, and the m<>-t funny
: of ail the foreign schedule, is Robert Dale Owen.
, for Naples. He i- the son of Robert Owen, the
socialist, and, in Lis* younger days at least, was
a disciple or the old gentleman, ami a rollahora
ttur with Fanny Wright. He published, at one
| time, in his own proper name, a very extraordina
ry and ami-scriptural hook on “Natural Physiolo
gy;’’ and everybody knows that ihe anti-Malthu
eiuu due rhies of that sc eu ific work are utterir
unfit for the climate of Naples, including Major
Poik, (who was ;ne Cti rge there once before.)
Mr. G*en was appointed, but Mr. Oxen is a
man of unusual iearuing and abilities. Hu is an
archit ct —ride the Smithsonian Institution and ihe
big work on that subject. He i-a peel—his
melo-drama <*f “Pocahontas.” and hs fugitive
poem*, of which the following is a verajele:
’“To home where’er Uw heart is,
Where’er it*e living treasure* dwell.
In palace or in ptisoD wails,
hi cottage or iu hermit's cell.
He is a politician of great experience and üb.l ties,
and has lately redeemed himselt itom the unpopu
larity of his matrimonial guide, eng rafting upon i.i*’
new constitution of Indiana a provision securing to
women certain salutary independent rights, in
the holding of property, &o. In a word, Mr. < )w- •
en is one of the best educated and most tainted “f ,
Gen. Pierce’s diplomatic corps, though by no means ;
the handsomest man aicons them. “Hand-onie is
ns handsome does;' 4 and wchave 4 greatfaith in Ro
bert Dale’s capacity to tiilfil all the duties, direct, or
contingent, which may fall upon the Charge to
Naples.
The list of consuls affords a fine field for a oep-;
arate leittr.
Theappointmeut of Ed winDo LoGn.one oi the edi- ’
tors of l he late Southern Press —the central organ < f
ihe secessionists—as Consul to Alexandria, in :
Egypt, shows that in coming in with the Baltimore
nominal on he was in good time. Elwood Fisher,
his associate* did not come in, and can’t expect
anything; and what he is doing here jut now, no*
body can tell. Perhaps he is just looking on and
enjoying tlie sport. He is not the only GRiaket that
likes a little fun.
Upon the whole, we doubt whether in any list
that could be drawn up of the same number oi
men a9 the schedule of foreign appointments pub
lished in this morning’s papers, con'd be put to
gether, such an extraordinary variety ot politicians,
philosophers* poets, aud romancers, as arc here
strung upon thfcsame string Yei they are mostly
able men ; and the various interests necessary to be j
consulted in these appointments, would not admit
of the t igid, hide bound discipline of the hard-shells.
In pleasing all interests, all cliques, all sections, fac
tions, and curious chaps of the party, how can the
administration fail 1 Tiie fact is, they know what
they arc doing, and thev are doing if up brown.
808.
[ From tho Mobile Tribune.]
John C. Calhoun.
We were walking from Clark’s hotel in Colutn
i bia to the legislative hall, in December, 1834,
j when we were suddenly grasped by the arm,
and as suddenly wheeled to the “right about.’’ —
Kerr Boyce, of Charleston, still holding us firm
ly, said, “Let me introduce you to Mr. Calhoun* ’
We feel even now the thrill that tingled through
j our young blood Calhoun ! We were utterly con-
I founded, and remained, as if rooted to the spot,
jin speechless amazement, when Mr. Calhoun
! advanced and offered his hand in the most cor-
I dial manner. He had evidently been convers
• ing with Mr. Boyce in his usual dashing style
] ami his face was clothed in smiles. We looked
l at him, and then it was we saw. that eye, the
| blackest, the most brilliant, and the most intel
-1 lectual that we ever saw in mortal head. YVe
! have seen all the distinguished men of the lini
| ted States—except General Jackson —but their
| eves were nothing when at rest. But Calhoun’s
j eyes never were at rest ; they glanced like
| lightning, not dazzling you, but literally flash
| ing with the fire of genius,—-in a word, lie is the
i only man that we have ever encountered who
i bore the indelible mark of genius. The ino
! ment you looked into his eyes and caught their
| expression you saw the God—tho spirit that
i rules the world—and you never dreamed of
I doubting his superiority to yourself and to all
| the men of the age. If all the splendid eyes of all
; the beautiful women of America were gathered
j together in one bright, blazing, beaming focus,
1 they would pale before the Greek fire of this
! transcendent genius. Its glance was magical—
| that of Alexander the Great could not have been
| more so—and black as the raven’s wing ; there
I was a glory in its beams that played like light
ning on the edge of a storm,
j His manners were irresistible ; cordial, kind,
] warm with the spirit of enthusiasm that anima-
I ted his soul, you felt his power as if a spark of
I electricity had touched your heart. *T am
very glad to meet with you/’ said Calhoun, ob
; serving our excessive embarrassment, and evi
| dentlv with a feeling of pride as he noticed the
; reverential respect of his youthful admirer.—
| “l have to tiiank you/’ he replied, “for your
• kind notice, and for your correspondence.’’—
• “Let us keep it up/’said Calhoun, his bright
I eve glancing—“let us keep it up ; it is never too
| late to do something in a good cause.” He then
j dashed off in bis rapid style, his hand and eve
! assisting by their motion the current of his ex*
i traordinary conversation. We call it con versa
i lion for want of a better term ; but it was a
brilliant speech, iu which political axioms were
i thrown off in sentences, and with such rapidity
and such irrepressible vivacity that it required
; ali our attention to follow him iu his lightning
flight. What a talker ! We shall give frequent
i instances of his conversational ability m the*
course of these pictures, and therefore merely
| state at present that he touched, as he flashed
along, on motives, characters, and conduct of
parties and partisans ; the nature and form of
| governments ; their domestic concerns and
j foreign relations ; their tendency to destroy
liberty, and the method of repressing grievances.
! These were the themes which interested him
I most. He seemed to seize the truth by intuition;
; there was apparently no mental struggle, but
idea followed idea as if the machinery of his
; mind delighted in perpetual motion. We see
I him now in our mind’s eye as be stood on that
memorable occasion—-his features earnest and
intent; his voice full and sonorous ; his enuncia
tion rapid ; his tongue taking tiie thought as it
came from his brain, and giving it shape ; and
his hands, winch seemed to hold the argument
that he was combating, assisting by their enet*
gelie action to impress those ideas and thoughts
on your memory forever. His personal appear
ance, too, was entirely different from any ol the
thousand descriptions which have been given of
him bv the insidious scribblers and invidious
i valets who have scattered their falsehoods from
: Maine to Mexico. Iu person, he was six feet
high ; his figure spare ; his face rather pale,
without beard ; and as he wore at that time a
white neckcloth without a collar, you were in*
. duced to believe him older than he really was.
; But his spirited style of conversation exhibited
anything else but premature age, and his hands,
which were very white, added not a little to his
fine personal appearance—indeed his hands,
i were beautiful associates for his glorious eves.
Prizes for Essays on Bad Effects of Tobac
■ co. —Messrs. Fowlers A: Wells, of the Water!
Cure Journal, at New-York, are authorized,
they sav, to offer prizes of 850, and s*2o,
for ihe first, second and third best essays on the
deleterious effects of tobacco on the human corn
sfitution, the essays Ur bo furnished previous to !
to the f rkt of November. I
Niagara, Falls and Lake Eric.-py
Silliman, the eminent geologist, discrediu
opinion advanced by some that the
wearing away of the rocks of Niag ir a
possibly result in draining Lake Erie
| cent lecture he remarked :
“They will not halt at their present s - a! ;
but retreat slowly and surely about two \
| further, where they will stop again for H n
| known period and probably forever, g j Uce ’
; this place the hard limestone will form hv
base and top ot the falls, and thus stop the >
| pid destruction of the rock. Some have thoug
that they would finally reach Lake Krie £
| that even the lake would he completely drain*
I Such an event is impossible. At tho point
! ready mentioned the torrent will gradually w
; away the surface of the limestone, forming a
| pid, and henceforth Niagara will be one of
lost wonders of tho world.”
j
( OLUMBUS PRICES \
CORKOTEK TKI-WMKI.Y BV 3. K. BS'jp ASH rn,
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; City,. ip bbl| 000 7jo ; dM
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i Dr. Samuel B. Martin, one ot the most experienced|S
( j the Medical Faculty in the city of Baltimore, writes oil'll
| bier’s Anodyne Cherry Expectorant and of Stabler’gD v
; rhcea Cordial, “I have carefully examined the compon:
| parts of them, and find them both valuable compounds, t:
] doses eate and consistent with medical practice, and I
p j not hesitate to recommend them.” See advertisement
! ; another column.
G. H. Stabler Sr. Cos.
Wholesale Druggists, Baltimore, proprietor# y
! Sold by Druggists generally. .Tune 3-lm
i ZfST Asa Spring and Summer Medicine, Carter’s
j ivh Mixture stands pre-eminent above all others. Its sin*
I larly efficacious action on the blood ; its strengthening /
, j vivifying qualities ; its tonic action on the Liver; its tjj|
, j denev to drive all humors to the surface, thereby clean? f
1 j the system according to Nature’s own prescription; 1|
• harmless, and at the same time extraordinary good efi
. | and the number of cures testified to by many ot the n 1
[ | respectable citizens ot Richmond, Va., and elsewhere, nir
j j be conclusive evidence that there is no humbug about it
* ’ The trial of a single bottle will satisfy the most skepu
ii of its* benefits. See advertisement in another column.
June 3—lm
j From South America.—'l’he following letter will bo'* :
1 that Earthquakes and Civil Wars are not ail tbe calami ’
| they have to provide against in that quarter of the wor.
• i Diseases incident to our own climate, also find their wdp
* j there, ns will he seen by tire .emedy they seek for protects
Valparaiso, Chili, S. A., July 20,
j ‘1 o Dr. .1. C. Ayer, (fee.,
Dear Sir: We have the pleasure to report on your fcii J
j merit of Cherry Pectoral to our house, the whole quanti’ 1
■ sold, and a pressing demand for more, which must a*j
: the arrival of further supplies. Its success in curing di*ea* \
, ; ofthe lungs, and its consequent notoriety, has excelled a f
medicine ever used in thi- country. Most ot our romc /
fierc are imported from England, and some of them ? j
j rich and valuable ; but no product of medical skill from ! • s
or any other quarter has ever won so fully the confide;. ‘'’ JJ
1 our population as this beautiful preparation ol vours.
The article has attracted particular attention arm.'!;: -
most distinguished citizens, Irom the firct that -
ncs, President ofthe Republic, and the highest offk'* r
the State, was cured of a severe and dangerous affection
the lungs, by its use. He allows us to send his name,
wishes to add the acknowledgments of gratitude for h
: relief.
We have the honor to be, sir.
Verv respectfully, vuur ob’t serv’s., f
CARLOS ALVAREZ A CO |
ot7r* To any inquiring what they shall do for a eo’4 ’
j and cold, we would say jead the following certificate, wh’-'a
has be*;a signed by one hundred of trie first Houses ot 0” • v
gims in tiiis country, to lay before the public their ©stun! ||
ol a good medicine. They are ail men ot the firet o f
and ot the highest character, whose experience and bueußtß
leads them to know, and this is their opinion :
“We the undersigned, Wholesale Druggists, having >:■ |
for a long time acquainted with Ayers Cherry Fector^9
hereby certify our belief that it is the best aud most 1
i remedy for Pulmonary Complaints ever offered to c I
American Peopie. And we would from our kno"'le>
of its composiiion, and extensive usefulness, cordially c -" 3 \
meodit to the ntßicted as worthy their best confidence, s;' ; I
: with the firru conviction hst it will do for their re!hr ,p - 1 I
that me<hc?no do.”
I May ->—luu