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£itucs attfr Sotlittel.
jCOLUMBUS, GEORGIA.
SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 10, 1853.
FOR GOVERNOR:
iIERSCHEL V. JOHNSON,
OF BALDWIN.
FOR CONGRESS:
A. H. COLQUITT, OF Baker.
The Editor is absent for a few days. We say
it, because we do not wish to make him responsible for
the off-hand dashes in this number of the “Times.” We
fear he would not like to write under the signature of
hi* Babulus—Hos ego versiculos feci.
“Legion.”
We are pleased to observe that the “facetious editor
of the Enquirer,” as the Milledgeville Recorder terms
him, has been supposed to say something very clever,
when, in answer to an enquiry for the name of its new
party, it replied that it was “Legion.” We must con
fess that the wit of the thing does not sparkle on the
surface, and requires some research to bring out 5 and
after all the digging and delving after it, we expect its
admirers would rather have a small lump of California
gold. Now “Legion” is a collective noun— very col
lective ; and may be applied to collections o’ the most di
verse and variegated species of individuals. The new
party may, therefore, be a legion of patriots, or a legion
of famished seekers after the reins of the State Govern
ment, utterly indifferent to political principles, so that the
legion have that prime of quality of great numbers.
There are legions of Angels, and w'e have heard of a
legion of Devils 5 and the present legion of the En
quirer is the most essentially ringed, streaked and
speckled legion of politicians, that was ever sought to
be .agglomerated in one body.
Here we have the author of the “Georgia Platform”
recommended to the people of Georgia, on the ground
that that charming piece of tasselated work, “ only sav
ed the Union, but did not save the South !” Here we
have Hamilcar Toombs, who swore his children so ter
ribly on that altar, only to show his children how easily
tremendous vows were broken, offering to lead Georgia
to the rescue of Southern Rights ! Oh craekey ! Here
we have the candidate for Vice President on the ticket
with Daniel Webster, the gentleman who said the
Buffalo Free Soilers “ had certainly stolen the senti
ment from the Whigs' 1 —who quoted a joke from Swift
to ridicule “the clear case of petit larceny .”
Dulcc et naty'le Solum ;
Fine words ! I wonder where he stole’em ;
here we have this gentleman, Jenkins and his friends,
turning up the whites of their pious eyes, beoauso Mr.
Pierce has appointed some repentant Free Soilers to
some small offices ! Oh hypocritical legion ! and here
we have the Golumbus Lnquirer and the whole array
of the Legionary press, pitching into Gen. Pierce
for the same offence of appointing Northern men to of
fice. who have accepted the compromise of ISSO. and
declared their willingness to abide by it —while these
same Legionaries went it tooth and nail, body and
breeches, and with the perfect abandon and enthusiasm,
which only legionaries can get up for “our side,” for a
man who, in l v dß, put in black and white as follows:
c . v Buffalo, Oct 17th, 1838.
bir—Your communication of the 15th instant, as Chair
man of a committee appointed by the “Anti-Slavery So
ciety of the county of Erie,” has just come to hand. You
solicit my answer to the following interrogatories:
lsi. Do you believe that petitions to Congress on the sub
ject of slavery and the slave trade ought to be received,
read and respectfully considered bv the representatives of
ta* people ?
‘<id. Are you opposed to the annexation of Texas to this
Union, under any circumstances, so long as slaves are held
therein ?
3d. Are vou in favor of Congress exercising all the con
stitutional power it possesses to abolish the internal slave
trade between the States ?
4th. Are you in favor of immediate legislation for the
abolition of slavery in the District cf Columbia ?
I am much engaged, and have no time to enter into an
argument, or to explain at lengthmy reasons (for iny
opinions. I shall theielbre content myself for the present by
answering all your interrogatories in the affirmative, and
leave for some future occasion a more extended discussion
on the subject. Very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
„ MILLARD FILLMORE.
W. Mills, Esq., Chairman.
And here again we find this “Legion'’ standing on
a platform !Ye Gods! and such a platform !—a plat
form, not a plank in which does not rise up and de
nounce its Whiff authors as renegades and apostates
from the W hig principles of 20 years, standing; and
ravishers of some of the very best planks in the platforms
of the Democratic and Southern Rights parties. Thus
has “Legion” branded its own Whig brows with the
mark of apostacy from Whig principles—stamped error
upon its own teachings and preachings for years, and
now having committed an enormous theft, stands on
the house tops and calls loudly on the people to admire
the virtue, the constancy, the fixedness of purpose,
the fidelity to principle of this great nameless party.
“Little Jack Homer, sat in c corner
To eat a Christmas pie,
He put in his thumb, and pulled out a plum
And said, what a pretty boy am 1*
“Legion”! beautiful legion ! Pity that old Falstaff
were not alive to model his army after it. A “legion’’
of fleeces, jumping helter skelter over every gap, where
Bellweather Toombs takes a jump. Aud albeit he
jumps right into the bowels of Whiggery as he did here
at Temperance Ilall, and ripping open its bread-basket
exhibits to the eyes of Whiggery itself what a horrid
repertory of corruption it has been, and uring all this time
that he has fed and they have patted it—even to the
unwhigging of YN higgery—away they go, shouting and
hu.raing, chucking up their hats, and damning the
Leinoerats all the same, for principles, against princi
ples, or without principles. Give us numbers, give us
Legion, and principles be hanged, say they. Didn’t
Toombs make them drop Scott like a hot potatoe ? And
what was Scott but a Whig of the first water ? How
was he worse than Fillmore, or Corwin, or Seward and
all those other Whig captains the “Legion’’ used to
swear by ? And now what has he done ? Why, torn up
the WAig- constitution—kicked away the old Whig
platform and “spat upon ithoisted the Webster
W higs with Jenkins for their candidate into the top ,
Beats of the synagogue and told the Scott Whigs to
kick up, at their peril. Legion by the great boot! you
ought to call the party Toombs, and his coat of arms
6 ould be adorned with the figure of a chameleon ram
pant—with tne motto, varium ct muUkile; and then
when he should come to survey his ‘‘Legion.” the
modern Jlamilear might well exclaim :
‘Fickle as a leaf on stream,
Changeful as a waking dream.
ibou many-beaded monster tfling,
. Oh who would wish to be thy Jung?”
Enquirer’s party lacks all the qua Ijfiea of a Le
■K’ A legion has discipline; il i* ~ by 3
grand purpose and fixed principles; stability is its high
est characteristic—its own inherent strength is its re
liance—its locked shield* are its invulnerable panoply of
defence—its stout short swords the instruments of its
prowess. It never steals from the cause against which
it is set to fight. It never takes nigh cuts to deceive
its foe, but inarches in its strength on the highway to
meet them. A Legion flies but one flag and is true
to it. It never carries snares and nets to “catch birds
of every feather”—a legion in short is a power, a force,
combined of the morale of its cause, and the steel and
sinews of its physical material—and not a mob of stray
and platfortnless politicians, whose creed has been rudely
snatched away by the very Priests who taught it to
them, and who even without a name , are running about
and begging somebody for mercy’s sake to tell them
who they belong to, and where they are to go.
Pshaw’ 1 Sam, try it again.
City Improvements,
This evening, Columbus is to receive its first
gas light illumination. It will be a novelty that
will attract attention, and it is one of the marks of im
provement in the economy and convenience of living in
this city. After all that is said about Railroads, it is
local improvements at last that we are to depend upon
for the growth of this city in population and prosperity.
Internal development is what we need, and whatever
home enterprise tends to add an additional inhabitant
to the place, is the enterprise that we should cherish
and foster. It is calculated that one operative in a faeto
try, one artisan, mechanic or individual engaged in in
dustrious pursuit, is worth as much to the city as the
sale of 50 bags of cotton —because one of these indi
viduals spends as much money in the community as the
planter of 50 bales of cotton. Sea port towns derive
their growth largely from foreign commerce—but wdiat
would even the city of New York be without the thou
sands upon thousands of persons who are engaged in
industry in that city ? Vast as her trade is—many as
are the heads and hands, and huge as is the eapital re
quired to conduct her immense commerce—it may bo
6afely said that New York owes half of her population
to the manufactures and arts that are carried on within
her limits. Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and Low’ell are fine
examples of what industry does towards the augmenta
tion of population and wealth. Columbus has extraor
dinary advantages in this respect. Beautifully located,
with a salubrious climate, a fine surrounding country,
a water power unparalleled and exhaustless, and with
admirable and rapid communications to distant points,
there is no reason why an enlightened improvement of
her natural advantages should not double and treble
the present population To accomplish this, it is a mat
ter of the greatest importance that the water power that
wastes its riches by our door, should be placed in a con
dition for permanent and regular use. All doubts of
the stability of the works must be removed before capi
tal will be tempted to line the river batik with factories
of every species of fabric and commodity. This should
be done at any cost, and the city of Columbus should
sec to it, that it is done, either by the present owners
of the franchise —or if they cannnotor will not, by the
city itself, after having reclaimed the grant on proper
compensation to the present grantees. This water
power, rightly used, has in itself, the elements of a
steady population of 10,000 souls.
Another thing wanted is, to invite population by im
provements in the economy, commerce and luxury of
living. We have gas—we now want an abundant supply
of pure water —and w’e want one or more good hotels.
In this last particular, it is difficult to’ estimate how
much this city has suffered for the last 15 years, and
it would be a curious tabie of statistics that would show
us at a glance, how many strangers have avoided Co
lumbus, or hurried from it, when obliged to come here,
on account of the discomforts of hotel accommodations.
And it would be instructive to learn how much money has
been lost to the community from these circumstances.
Fruit.
! Our friend, R. J. Mobfib, Esq., has sent to our sanc
tum a branch from a Nectarine tree, covered with rich,
red and ripe fruit. We wish we could daguerreotype it
to the minds of each of our readers as it now sparkles in
our eyes.
But we despair ; it is one of those good aud beautiful
things of earth that need to be personally enjoyed
in order to be appreciated ; and we now lay down
our pen to take one. Here goes reader, don’t
you wish you had one ? We arc sure we do.
We would not exchange the bancli of Nectarines be
fore us for the three golden apples of the Hesperides
which Hercules bamboozled the stupid giant Atlas into
| plucking for him ; for the apples we “read of,” but
) the Nectarines we possess in full and actual fruit-ion.
We Columbus-ites are in luck. With Pbabody on
one side of us, making us strawberries half the year, wa
tered from the spring of Perine ; and onr friend Moses,
imitating Meecenas on the other, and growing peaches
of richer tint and flavor than ever melted on the palate
of Roman luxuriousness —we have nothing left to wish
for but health and long life to these two worthy citi
zens, who are so much greater than the man who
made “two blades of grass to grow where but one
grew before,” as strawberries and peaches are better
than green grass.
We see. by the way, that fruit from the garden and
orchard of both of thvise gentlemen has appeared in
the Savannah market; and the last Southern steamer
to New York carried out a number of baskets of peach
es to astonish the palates of some of the Gothamites.
Oh Don’t !
The funny editor of the Lagrange Reporter wants to
know if the “ Times ” wasn’t a Fire eater and a Disun
ionist in 1850-51 ? and wasn’t llerschel V. Johnson a
Disunionist, etc., etc., at the s-une time 1
Well, neighbor, wasn’t you a Whig about three
weeks ago, and aiu’t you now a “ Legion ?” Answer
us that.
Great activity is shown at all the military posts of
Frauce. Detachments of marines on their way to Tou
lon pass almost daily through Paris. Orders have
been issued to all seamen on leave ol absence, whose
term of service has not yet expired, to proceed forth
with to Brest, and report themselves to the Admiral.
Orders to raise seamen have been received at llon
fleur.
Lieut. Maury, Superintendent of the National Ob
servatory, is about to go out to Europe, for the purpose
of attending at Brussels, a convention of meteorologists,
deputed by the several naval powers of Europe, to fix
upon some uniform plan of observations for testing
Lieut. Maury’s theory of winds and currents.
The New Post Office stamp envelopes have made
their appearance among us. We understand that 25,-
()00 have been received at the P. O. of this city.
£lr. John R. Johnson has bet-u appointed by tba
United States Marshal for the District of
Georgia vice YV. H. C. Mills, resigned.
The deaths in New York last week were 405, as re
ported by the City Inspector. This is a decline of 156
from the previous week. Os the deceased, 45 died of
cholera infantum, 39 of convulsions, 34 of consumption,
28 of dropsy in the head, 23 of diarrhoea, 6 of sun
stroke, and 14 of dysentery. Os the whole number,
222 were under two years of age.
The health of the French emperor excites the great
est anxiety. Violent swelling of his legs and feet is
one of his dangerous symptoms 5 but he still continues
to appear in public. The Emperor and Empress of
France are living in the greatest simplicity and retire
ment at St. Cloud. At the desire of the Empress,
nearly all the ladies and gentlemen of the court have
received a temporary dismissal.
[FOR THE TIMES AND SENTINEL.]
Girard and Mobile Railroad.
Mr. Editor : As the great Daniel Webster once said
in the celebrated debate with Col. Hayne upon Foote’s res
olutions, “it is necessary sometimes to pause and take an
observation to see where we are,” &e. So do I think it
becomes the duty, as I ieel it is the interest of the citizens of
Columbus at this particular juncture, to look around and
see how we are likely to be affected by the great railroad
projects of the day. It is certain that railroads arc destined
to wield a mighty and controlling influence in building up
and pulling down cities. Hence it is important for us as
a commercial city to improve every opportunity to secure
their advantages. Columbus at this time occupies a strong
position. She lias only to he prompt and bold, and suc
cess is certain. Let us glance at her position. The Mus
cogee road completed and in operation. The Opelika
road rapidly advancing. The Girard and Mobile road go
ing ahead at this end, and Mobile preparing to meet us at
the other. The subscription to the Eufaula connection
nearly made up. The New Orleans and Mobile road
about being surveyed, and which will as certainly be built.
These roads, when finished, will (with the Chattahoochee
river) give us decided advantages. Montgomery sees this.
Her people see that Selma, Columbus, and Mobile are
about to shut her out. Montgomery fears that the Opelika
road will not stop at that point, hut will he extended into
the rich counties of Talladega, Tuscaloosa and westward.
She sees the vast and rich productions on the line of the
,Girard and Mobile road about to be snatched out of her
grasp ; hence she is straining every nerve to prevent Mobile
from aiding the road to Girard. She is doing all she can
to divert her late subscription of one million of dollars, and
it is to be feared she may succeed. She has every motive.
Self preservation is the first law of nature, and we may ex
pect her utmost efforts to break down the Girard road.
How is this to be prevented ? Columbus must arouse her
self; she must act promptly and boldly. The Girard road
must go on—it must be built. Three hundred and fifty
thousand dollars more will secure it. Columbus must lend
her credit for that amount. Yes, fora half a million, if
necessary. Let her dispose of her stock in the Muscogee
road—this can be done at par, or nearly so—putting her
in good credit, and which will enable her to lend her bonds
on long time, to the company, and my word for it. her
stock in the road will more than pay her back the invest
ment. lias any one been injured by the city’s subscrip
tion to the Muscogee Road ? Not one, 1 presume. All will
admit that the Girard and Mobile Road is equally if not
a more important road to us than the Muscogee. The
stock will certainly be better. Columbus has it now in her
power to secure herself in her strong position. One from
which it will be difficult hereafter to dislodge her. I there
fore suggest that the Mayor, or his proxy in his absence,
call a meeting of the city at an early day, to take this mat
ter into consideration. I understand that, several of our
ablest men will address the citizens, explaining the impor
tance of this subject in all its bearing.
AN UP TOWN MAN.
Card.
Rifles’ Armory, if
Montgomery, July 11, 1853. j
At the regular meeting of the Montgomery Rifles held
this evening at Military ilall, it was unanimously
Resolved , That a committee be appointed to draft suita
ble resolutions expressive of our hearty appreciation, as a
corps, of the liberal and thorough hospitalities which we
have recently experienced from the military and citizens of
Columbus, from Capt. Abercrombie and Col. Mott, of this
State, and from Clias. T. Pollard, Esq., President Mont
gomery and West Point Rail Road Company, and that
they publish the same in our city papers.
In complying with the above resolution, it affords the
committee both pride and pleasure, thus to be used as
“the medium” through which to assure our brother-sol
diers and our friends, of the deep and lasting sense of the
many obligations under which they have placed us. it is
in vain to search for a social or festive scene that would
equal or compare with that through which we have just
passed in our sister city. As soldiers we visited her—as
brothers were we met and welcomed—as friends were we
entertained: —Therefore be it
Resolved , That between Columbus and Montgomery
there exists a firm and unshaken bond of friendship, in a
military and social point of view—our hopes are for a last
ing continuance.
Resolved , That in the military of Columbus we recog
nize the noble and generous impulses of soul which char
aeterize the true man and brave soldier.
Resolved , That to the ladies of Columbus and its vicinity
we feel ourselves under particular obligations for their
kind and successful efforts to render our visit pleasant,
and for throwing around it those sweet rerniniscenses in
which Southern chivalry so much delights.
Resolved , That the citizens of Columbus, for their
united and untiring z.-al to afford us pleasure during our
stay, possess our sincere thanks; we recommend them as
worthy of emulation.
Resolved, That we recognize in Capt. Ilall the qualities
of a gentleman, a soldier, and a friend ; long will we cher
ish the memory of his services, so kind, so assiduous, while
Quartermaster at “Camp Montgomery.”
Resolved, That to Alabama’s long-tried and faithful
son, Capt. Abercrombie, we feel ourselves deeply indebted
for the cordial weloome and entertainment given us at his
house in Russell county, and to Col. Mott for his kindness
to our corps on the march to and from Columbus.
Resolved , That the thanks of the Montgomery Rifles
are hereby tendered to Charles T. Pollard, Esq., Presi
dent of the Montgomery and YVest Point Rail Road Com
pany, and to his assistants, for the liberality and kindness
manifested to our corps on the trip to and from Opelika.
Lieut. THOMAS C. POE, )
Lieut. R. C. FARRISS, > Corn.
Skrg't. J G. WALSH. )
Fine Pcqches. —A friend yesterday presented
us with a quantity, or a lot, as the cotton man
would say, ol the finest peaches we fative seen
or tasted this many a day. They “Yvere sent to
him from Columbus, and were from the orchard
ot Col. R. J. Moses, of that city, the gentleman
who, at the recent celebration of the iron nup
tials of the Savannah and the Chattahoochee,
elicited such universal applause by bis eloquence.
It will be considered high praise by those who
heard him on that interesting occasion, when
we say that his peaches aro only equalled by his
s -peeches.
We understand that arrangements have been
made lor supplying our market with these pea
ches daily during their season.— Sav. yews, July
7 th.
[FOR THE TIMES AND SENTINEL.]
The Patriot’s Escape.
A small mounted company was sent from Saltillo to recon
noitre the Mexican forces assembled at San Luis de Potosi.
They ventured too far, were surrounded by a thousand of the
enemy, and captured. Among these was Capt. Henrie, ot
Texas, who had previously been captured in the war with
Texas, and escaped. He again conceived the bold neces
sity of escape, in order to save his life ; and, by means of
his thorough-bred mare, actually effected it, amid a shower
of bullets; but not until he had ridden her down, and trav
eled a secluded circuit of many miles on foot, suffering
greatly for want of food and water. He finally reached the
American lines in safety. —History oj the War
The martial hosts of Mexico,
Potosi’s plain saw tented there.
To stay the march of Northern foe,
And stem the tide of war’s despair ;
A tide of blood, whose crimsoned way,
From Palo Alto gushing forth
To de la Palma —Monterey,
Had tracked the victors of the North.
ir.
A little band of war-scouts brave ■
Rode forth to scan the vast array,
Where Santa Anna’s flag did wave,
And Taylor’s men were counted prey.
Then volunteered a patriot-knight—
“[ go where danger courts the free 1”
A gallant captain of the light
Which Texas made lor Liberty.
hi.
In bivouac the horsemen lay,
Their tent, night’s starless fold of gloom ;
When morning-dawn with misty ray,
Revealed to them a pris'ner’s doom !
Then vowed the knight—-‘‘a felon’s death
The Aztec ne’er shall give to me ;
My Arab mare! while we have breath,
Our vital air is Liberty !”
iv.
Like arrow sped from bended bow,
She leaps the living line of steel,
And far o’er distant hills from foe,
Unharmed they iiy from musket-peal!
Till reeking, faint, and gasping, dies,
The noble martyr-steed 1 sing;
Rut weary miles, ’neatli midnight skies,
To camp the Texan Chief doth bring !
The Pig interest.
The following article by Willis, in The Home
Journal, ought to bo republished in every other
journal in this pig-ridden, swine burdened, up
rooted, down wallowed comTtry of freedom to
hogs, the only truly independent, free common
ers in the country.
Argument and law is useless to abate the hor
rid nuisance ; it must be done by the higher law
power of sarcastic ridicule of the prevalent cus
tom of letting hogs run in the highway:
The corner of the Highland Terrace which
forms our neighborhood—(a cluster of three ru
ral villages, cut off by Moodna Creek and its
toll bridge, from the city reach influences of
Newburgh)—is charmingly primitive and rural.
With no pine-apples for sale, no frequentation
by the gentlemen and ladies who make twenty
four excursions from New York, no billiard-ta
ble and no newspaper, it is an eddy of still life,
left behind in unrippled simplicity by the current
of progress. Delightfully unaffected and farm
er like as life hereabouts is, however, we have a
class of rowdies—rowdies with a twist to their
tails—and they overrule the law as effectually
as the rowdies of New .York, and by the same
sort of tacit admission in the mind of the pub
lic. The pig interest is too strong to he med
dled with.
But the way in which the “higher law’’ is
openly claimed for these rural rowdies in the
very heart of our pretty village of Canterbury,
for instance, is very curious. Out of any one
of those nice white houses along the street, will
come the most dainty looking young ladies,
fresh from tasty parlors, and mammas that take
a magazine. The pretty white fence encloses a
little garden, with flower beds edged with box,
rose-bushes and lilacs. Door bells, or brass
knocker, of course, inside the gate, all is “gen
teel.” Outside the gate, however—in the street
—on the side—right before the front door and
under the parlor windows—stands lne family
pig-trough. The family pigs have the run ot the
village during the day, and at night and morn
ing they come home for their own particular
swill—eaten, in the evening, perhaps while the
piano is playing on the other side ot the pretty
while fence. In dry weather, when there is no
bed of mud in the carriage track in the renter
of the street, the gentleman pig stretches him
self across the sidewalk to sleep ; and, on your
way to the post-office, you may walk round a
score or more, or take the middle of the street.
You respect pig. You see pig. You smell pig.
But beautiful young ladies sit in the windows,
just over the fence.
The cottagers in the country around would
be less particular, of course, if there were a way
to be so, than the more genteel villagers—but
the pig-trough outside the gate is the unvarying
feature. And these gentlemen outlaws know
the country, and take long walks. Leave a bar
down, or let your visitors from curiosity (as hap
pens to me every day ) forget to shut your gate
as they enter, and the pigs are all over the
place-
They rootedup, for me, yesterday, a green slope
covered with laurels, upon the beauty of which
1 had particularly sot my heart, cherishing it
for a foreground to a picture some artist will
pa*nt for me —and it took me and my man an
hour to get the unpunishable defacers out’ once
more on the highway. They get in at night.—
Here and there one climbs a wall like a clumsy
bov, dragging it after him as he goes over, The
religious bearing of this hard “trial” is perhaps
the only one that can he safely dwelt upon.—
One does not say his prayers near so easily, 1
find, alter driving out pigs morning and evening,
nor begin very immediately again, to “love his
neighbor as himself.”
It is against the law—everybody’ knows—for
pigs to be turned loose on a public highway.—
Any one of my daily trespassers could be law
fully driven, bv me, five miles to the nearest
“pound”——l could then lawfully take pains that
the sheriff’gave notice to the owner that bis pig
was •here-lawfully see that the poor animal was
kept from starving for the several days before
he might be taken away—lawfully go four or
five miles to attend the justice’s court, and ap
pear as prosecutor —lawfully pay my own ex
genses for this two or three weeks of trouble,
travel and vexation —and lawfully make an ene
my for life of the owner of the trespassing
swine, who would perhaps have a dollar of fine
to pay, in consequence of my prosecution of
him. All this it costs to follow up one trespass
by one pig. Pig endurance costs less
But the village of Newburgh, only four miles
frm us, has outlived th>*s stage of progress. Pig
vagrancy has been put down in its beautiful
streets —owing, however, to the resolute public
spirit of a single individual. Downing, to whom
the country owes so much for it advances of re
finement and embellishment, undertook to sup
press pig at Newburgh, where he resided. He
was told it was Quixotic —that the time, money
and trouble it would cost might ruin him—that
his grounds would he disfigured, his trees gird
led, and his garden of precious plants torn in
pieces by the infuriated people—that the poor
had no place to keep their pigs, and there was
muelTto he got by a smart pig on the public
highway. Ji is self-interest, and pity lor the pig
proprietor, were both appealed to. Ileperser
vered, however, patiently and long—and suc
ceeded.
Now we want such a pig apostle at Canter
bury—some public spirited generous and kindly
man, who will make himself remotely beloved
and remembered by such a crusade of unpopu
larity against the rowdiesat our gates. We (wait
for him, as New {Y ork for waits her pig-apostle.
Let us make ready to give their advents a wel
come.
Newspaper Changes in Washington*
We learn from Washing'on that the Evening
Star establishment has been purchased by two gen
tlemen from Baltimore, Messrs. Wallack &. Hope,
who will shortly issue anew “independent” penny
paper.
The Washington Republic will come out on
Monday under anew arrangement. Its size will be
reduced slightly, and the pennysysteui adopted. In
their announcement, the publishers say the Republic
will remain devoted t<> its old political principles
which are the principles of the last whip; National
Convention, “and substantially those of the inaugu
ral address ot’ President Pierce. It. will make no
opposition to the present administration, on any
ground that it lias occupied in its initial manifesto.”
It.is presumed the President would not ask for any
support outside of that manifesto,”
it has been lung suspected that the Republic was
leaning towards the present administration, with an
intention of jumping the fence on the first favorable
opportunity, and the present announcement of its
proprietors shows that they are about to perform
that feat pretty cleanly.
The support o! the Inaugural of Gen. Pierce, how
ever, is hardly compatible with loyalty to the prin
ciples of Mr. Fillmore's administration—Galphinism
and all. But the Republic will soon get over any
little difficulty occasioned by its hybrid position.—
Ii will not be long before, like Gonzalez’s Com
monwealth, its end will forget its beginning, and we
shall find it a full-blown Administration print. That
is the goal, as I have just hinted, to which its road
has been tending for some time. Its editor, Mr. Sar
gent who is one of the cleverest political vvriterr
of the dav, is a near relative of the President, and
perhaps that may account for the milk in the cocoa
nut.—Delta.
Kissing. —Wm. H. Hines kissed Mrs. Gorham,
in East Boston, the other clay. She sued him for
damages, on value received, but did not appear on
the return clay, having been satisfied by a cash pay
ment of sls. This, therefore, may be set down as
the Boston market price of kisses. The last de
cision of New York was $5, and in New’ Orleans
$3.
Kisses in this sunny city are, like Mercy, twice
blessed : “It blesses him that gives and her that
takes. - ’ Such kisses, therefore, are above all price,
and their value cannot be measured by dollars and
cents. — Sac. Rep.
(me Consul General lo Alexandria —Mr. Edwin
DeLeon, the newly appointed Consul General to
Egypt, left this port in the Bal ic yesterday, en
route for Alexandria. In addition to the ordinary
functions of a consul lie is charged with a margin
of diplomatic authority, which, considering the
present relations of Turkey and her dependencies
to the rest of the world, he may be ended upon to
exercise. A gentleman, however, of talents, educa
tion, and experience, we have little fear of any in
discretion of the country, or himself, in the exet
cise ot the discretion which is attached to his report
sidle position. To he sure, in our late contest upon
the slavery question lie was an ultra in support
of Southern rights ; but that fact will he rather to
his advantage than his prejudice among the Turks
and the Egyptians, who recognise slavery as an in
stitution descended to them from Abraham, and
sanctioned by the Prophet. In a word, we shall he
disappointed if the mission of Mr. DeLeon does not
result, commercially and politically, to the advan
tage of our country.— New York HeraUl 1 Olh ins/.
A Frenchman, M. Herbert, recently exhibited
some curious experiments in Paris, by which plants
are made to blow instantaneously- The means
used was a chemical mixture with which he watered
the geraniums, which immediately began to open
their buds, ami in ten minutes the plants were in
full bloom. With a rose tree he was, however, less
successful.
A euralgia. —This formidable disease, which seems to
baffle the skill of physicians, yields like magic to Carter's
Spanish Mixture.
Mr. F. Hoyden, formerly of the Astot* House, New
York, and late proprietor of the Exchange Hotel, Rich
mond, Ya., is one of the hundreds who have* been cured
of severe Neuralgia by Carter’s Spanish Mixture.
Since his cure, be has recommended it to numbers o
others who were suffering with nearly every form of dis
ease,w th the most wonderful success.
He says it is the most extraordinary medicine he lias
ever seen used, arid the best blood purifier known.
See advertisement in another column.
July B—tin
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