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COLUMBUS, GEORGIA.
FRIDAY MORNING, JAN. 26, 1855.
Will Kansas be a Slave Stale—Policy of the
Administration.
The Territory of Kansas lies broad side to Mis
souri, and is said to be eminently adapted to slave labor.
Among other evidences we extract the following from
the Cleveland (Ohio) Hetald. It is a letter written by
J. 11. Ilowe, the leader of the Emigrant Aid Band which
left Cleveland for Kansas on the 23d Ootober last:
Steamer on Missouri River. )
November 19th, 1854. )
“I made a very thorough exploration of tho country.
It was one vast and unbroken prairie, almost destitute
of timber —but the soil is of the richest character. Wa
ter abundant, and plenty of stone, with some evidence
of coal.
“Time and money will enable men of the right
stamp to possess these lands, subdue and cultivate
them, and convert the country into a very good gar
den—a farming paradise. Men without means can
do nothing there at present. The country is eminent
ly adapted to slave labor. Wealthy slaveholders can
go there with plenty of “help” and means, and make
money, subduing and cultivating these lands.
“They will do so—and despite all efforts yet making
or means yet adopted by the Free States to prevent it,
Kansas is sure to become a slave State !
“The Emigrant Aid Companies (as they are term
ed,) are doing very little indeed to accomplish their
object. They have epdbujraged hundreds of poor well
meaning and honest people to leave their homes and
rush into the Territory without means to sustain them
selves there, who must suffer everything but death,
and, many of them, that if they remain—or leave
the country, and go where they can provide for their
families.”
There can be no question, therefore, but that the
South will “go up and possess the land,” unless the
“powers that be’’ throw obstacles in her way. We
have it from undoubted sources that the President is
disposed to give us a fair showing, and that Governor
Reeder was instructed not to meddle with the ques
tion of slavery, but leave it with the actual settlers to
regulate it as they chose. But there is some evidence
that the Governor has not been an unmoved spectator
of the rapid emigration from the South into tho Territo
ry. Ilis conduct, at any rate, is looked on with sus
picion by the Southern colonists. He has not received
their remonstances with courtesy ; and his continued
refusal to call together the Legislature of tho Territory
affords strong proof that he allows his Pennsylvania
prejudices, against the institutions of the South, to con
trol his political acts. This matter ought to be sifted
to the bottom by tho Representatives of the South in
Congress ; and if the complaints against the Governor
are well founded, they ought to bring the matter before
the President, and insist upon his recall,
Mr. Pierce cannot refuse so reasonable a request. lie
is pledged to do justice to us and we believe he will do it.
But the South must take care of her own interests.—
Her Representatives must bring forward the proof of
Governor Reeder’s insincerity and press for his remo
val from office, and not leave it to the President to take
the initiative in a movement which will damage his
popularity, and redound to the benefit of the South.—
Indeed, the position of the President and of the North
ern Democracy upon the Nebraska-Kansas question is
a very delicate one, and it is the duty of the South to
relieve them as far as possible from the odium of taking
the first step in a proceeding which is to benefit ex
clusively the southern section of the Union.
In this connection it may not be out of place to urge
upon the South the necessity of sending a large emi
gration to Kansas at once. The Southern press can do
much to aid in this movement by keeping the public
advised of the progress of the settlement of the territo
ry and by laying before their readers such proofs as may
come within their reach, of the fertility of the soil and
the salubrity of the climate of Kansas and its adapted
ness to slave labor. If the South is tru? to herself,
Kansas will be a slave holding State and all the ef
forts of Northern Emigration Societies will end in the
ruin of their backers and the disappointment of the sil
ly fools who allow themselves to be used as tools by
the vile fanatics aud disorganizes who are at the bot
tom of the movement. Whether Kansas shall be a
slave State ought not to be left to chance to determine.
If Kansas becomes a hireling State, there is very great
probability that slavery will be driven from Missouri,
surrounded as she will be on three sides by enemies of
the institution. Sueh an event would inflict a serious
blow upon Southern interests.
Next Fair ot the Southern Ceulral Agricultural
Society.
At the meeting of Council on Tuesday night last the
committee, appointed last year to solicit subscriptions
from the citizens for the purpose of raising a bonus to
be given to the society to hold its next Fair in this city,
reported. They have obtained subscriptions from relia
ble sources to the amount of about $2500. Alderman
Ruse moved that the Council add SISOO. The resolution
was referred to the Finance Committee : Also a letter
from Mr. Stiles, the Chairman of the Executive Com
mittee of the Society, to a member of the committee.
The Campbell Minstrels.
On Wednesday night the Campbell Minstrels made
their appearance in Temperance Hall before a large
and delighted audience. We were pleased to find that
they have thrown aside the stereotyped jokes of former
years and introduced an entirely new set, which never
failed to set the audience in a roar. The songs of
Prendergast, the “violin solo” by Fenton, and the
Cavatina on “Cornet-a-Piston’’ by Frank Beler, were
admirably executed and elicited deserved applause;
but the “burlesques” of Dan Bryant, Newcomb and
Demereet, brought down the house. The Minstrels
will occupy the Hall during the week, and promise
for each night an entire change of programme.
Personal. —Thomas Franois Meagher, the Irish
orator and patriot, passed through Columbus on the
24th iast., on bis way to New Orleans.
Wreck op the Flirt. —The Batk Flirt, Capt.
Calhoun, which cleared at Savannah on the 9ih inst.,
with a cargo of 663 bales of cotton went ashore near
Free Port, L. 1., on the 20th. The underwriters have
seut a steam tug to her assistance, but from the shal
lowness of the water it is believed that she will become
a wreck. The ca’oiu boy was lost overboard. There
is an insurance of $20,000 on the bark, and $5,000 on
the cotton ill New York. .
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Secretary Guthrie. —lt is authoritatively denied
that Secretary Guthrie intends to resign his seat in the
cabinet.
Base Coin. —The Washington Star says there is
not one word of truth in the report, so industriously
circulated by the Wrshington correspondent of the
New York Herald, as to a misunderstanding in the
cabinet of President Pierce, growing out of intrigues for
the Presidency.
A Duiljst Convicted. —Very recently a gentleman
was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to the
Penitentiary in New Orleans, for killing an antagonist
in a duel. This is the first conviotion of tho kind eier
had in the State of Louisiana.
—
Cherokee Insurance and Banking Company.- -The
Chicago Press announces that the Merchants and Me
chanics Bank, the agency in Chicago for the redemp
tion of the bills of the Cherokee Insurance and Bank
ing Company, has resumed specie payments, and that
this places the bills of the Georgia Bank “upon the
same footing in every respect whicl t enjoyed prior to
the suspension.” Tbe Chicago Tribune says “the pub
lic confidence in the Merchants and Mechanics Bank
will now be entirely restored, and, indeed, it has never
been shaken in the minds of those who were conversant
with its resources, and knew the character of the men
who controlled it.’’ Wfo give these statements for what
they are worth.
Capt. Abercrombie. —A writer in the Montgomery
Mail suggests that Hon. J. Abercrombie would make a
good Governor of Alabama. He is undoubtedly the
strongest man in bis district, and could poll as many
votes as any other man in opposition to the regular
Democratic nominee.
Dr. Graham not Drunk. —The Albany Atlas de
nies that Dr. Graham got drunk on hospital liquor at
Sing Sing. It is said that be was “drugged” by certain
“officials’’ who were displeased because he was placed
over them.
Bank of South Carolina. —The circulation of the
South Carolina Bank has decreased from January to
December, 1854, $5,248,059 50-; while the decrease
in loans is only $059,801 63 ; in specie only $642,-
472 23, and in personal deposits $696,920 12. By
this means, says the Charleston Standard, they have
greatly benefitted our business men and helped them
much during the monied presure which has existed for
the last few months. In this matter they have shown a
commendable spirit for the interest of those doing busi
ness near them.
Lead Mine. —A lead mine has been discovered on
tho lands of Col. Leightner, in Spartanburg District,
S. C. A specimen of the ore weighing 119 lb., has
been exhibited in Charleston, which yielded 103 lb. of
pure lead.
For the Times & Sentinel.
The Younger Members of the Ear.
Your neighbor ol the Enquirer seems concerned to
know why the members of tho Columbus bar, and es
pecially the younger members are not more regular in
their attendance upon the Supreme Court now in session
in this city. We are able to relieve his anxiety by sta
ting that they have been very diligently engaged in
their offices preparing cases for the consideration of the
Court when they shall reaoh that part of the Docket
which contains the writs of error from this Circuit.—
Hope the information will relievo the anxiety of your
neighbor. A Younger Member.
For the Times & Sentinel.
Extract from a New Novel.
Messrs. Editors:— l have written a novel which is to
be somewhat after tho style of G. P. fl. James, and 1
thougiit I would send you a specimen from the same in
order that you might be the better enabled to judge of the
immense run it must have when it shall appear in print.—
The quotation is taken fromthefourth volume, four hundred
and eighty-second page.
“The night was dark and stormy, and as the leaden clouds
blackened the heavens and the ruin poured in torrents, a
lovely female lace might have been seen at a window peer
ing out into the darkness like a school boy looking for a
drowned fly in an ink bott'e. The heavy masses of raven
hair falling around her alabaster neck and shoulders like
ivory set in ebony ; reminding the beholder of the whites of a
niggers eyes reflected from a newly blackened boot. And the
fitful gleams of lightning lit up that lovely face with as wild
an expression of alarm as that of a cat in a strange garret;
all without is dark, and wild and cheerless, all within is as
comfortable as flea in a blanket; but hark! she speaks and
the words glide through her lovely lips as smoothly as a
greased feline quadruped through a stove pipe, and their
flute like accents float upon the air in beautiful harmony
with the serenade of two cats upon the roof.” There sir,
that will have to suffice until the volumes are published,
when I should bo happy to forward you the whole five
volumes improved, revised and corrected from the first edi
tion by IKE AXLE.
Phillips and Greeley.
The anti-slavery lectures which have been delivered re
cently in New York by the representatives of Boston and
New York fanaticism, have been marked by greater ve
hemence and more unbridled insolence than any of their
predecessors. The most remarkable of the whole series
were Greeley’s and Wendell Phillips’, both of which were
worthy of the Dark Ages, though differing considerably in
their programes of abolitionist action. One was in favor
of propagandism—the other preferred the pistol. “Sup
ply Northern men with means,” said Greeley, “to settle
in the Si>uth and spread their opinions broadcast, and in a
few years slavery will fall.” On the contrary, “the heart
bounds,” said Phillips, “when a slaveholder is killed in
Pennsylvania, and God bless the pistol that shot him !”
j We will not undertake to say which of these gentlemen
‘is the better Christian and the more sensible man, but it
must be confessed that the physical-force Bostonian is, at
least, a more candid individual than the mealy mouthed
New Yorker. “God bless the pistol that shot him!”—
Assuredly, he is a pious man, this Wendell Phillips !
Havana, Jan. 10, 1855.
Arrival of the First Cargo of Indian Slaves Furnished
under Santa Anna’s Yucatan Contract.
We had an arrival on Sunday evening, 7th inst., per the
Mexican sjhooner Jacinto, Dorantes, Master, from Sisal,
with forty of the poor and inoffensive Indians, conquered’
under contract made by Tito Vecino, Bavarian Consul at
thfe Havana, with his Serene Highness, General Santa An
na. The condescension of his Serene Majesty, to receive
as his first fee, the sum of twenty thousand dollars, and
immediately despatch an officer with a corporal’s guard, to
do battle with unarmed men, women, and childreti, to ful
fil his contact, is something new in the annals of civ
ilization. The circumstances and the probable disposition
of the prisoners now verified, was indicated in one of
my letters, reporling the bloody batte with which the Dic
tator was weaving laurels for his brow. The consignee
of the vessel is of the well-known house of M. Santelices,
and the names of all the parties interested in this nefarious
speculation will be exposed in my next communication.—
The Indians were brought here in durance against their
will, having been forced on board of the small transport at
the point of tho bayonet.
The Monetary Panic Subsided at St. Louis. —St.
Louis, Jan. IS.—The Republican says the monetary pan
ie has subsided, and that there has been more money de
posited in banking houses, than was recently withdrawn.
The banking houses that suspended payment will shortly
resume business.
Thirty-third Congress—S:cond Session.
Washington, Jan. 21.
The Senate’s Military committee have agreed to report a
bill in favor of raising three regiments of volunteers to sup
press Ind'an hostilities.
Washington, Jan. ~2.
The House passed the Pacific Railroad bill by a majority
of twelve votes, to-day.
The Great Pacific Railroad and Tolelgraphic Bill on its
Passage.
Washington, Jan. 20.
The House of Repre. intatives to-day, in Committee
of the Whole, took up the Pacific Railroad bill, when Uie
substitute of the Hon. John G. Davis,of Indianna, was of
fered and adopted by a vote of 140 to 91. 1 his substitute
provides for a grand trunk rail road and telegraphic line
from some point on the Western boundary of lowa, Mis
souri or Arkansas, with two branches, one running from
Memphis, and the other from the Western shore of Lake
Superior. The bill appropriates pub''C lands equivalent to
alternate sections for the space of twelve miles on each side
of the road, from the eastern to the western terminus. Ad
vertisements are to be published, inviting proposals for the
construction of the road and the telegraph, ihe bill was
reported from the committee to the Hou-e, where it was
passed to tho third reading by a vote of 104 to 97. Pendmg
its final passage tho house adjourned.
Know Nothing State Convention,
Louisville, Jan. 18.
A Know Nothing S f ate Convention is in session at this
city,and a large number of delegates are present,including
Hon. Humphrey Marshall, Col. John S. Williams, aud
other political aspirants. It is reported that they have
met to nominate candidates for State officers.
The Know Nothing Nominee© for Governor withdrawn
in New Hampshire.
The Nashua Telegraph reports that the Rev. Mr. Moore
the nominee of the Kuow Nothings for the offieeof Gov
ernor of New Hampshire, after he had been down to Man
chester, and formally accepted the nomination, found lie
was ineligible, not having resided in the State for the last
seven years, and has withdrawn.
Illinois United States Senator.
The Alton Telegraph gives the following insight into
Senatorial calculations at Spiingfield Illinois:—Shields is
now regarded as entirely out of the question, and Col Bis.-
sell is the avowed candidate of the Nebraskaites. It is con
fidently whispered that Col. Bissell has, within the last
lew days, transmitted a letter hitherward, urging vigorously
the claims of Gen. Shields; but in lease of an emergency,
submitting his own name to the disposal of his friends. The
arrangement has acted like a charm. The Nebraska party
have now strong hopes of catching unwary members upon
the bait thus arranged, it being generally believed that
Bissell is most reliable in his Nebraska proclivities.
Naturalization in New Jersey.
A bill is betore the House of Assembly of New Jersey,
with every prospect of an early adoption, which proposes
to take the power of “making citizens entirely out of the
State Courts, nnd permit it to be done only by those of the
United States. This would have a tendency to suppress
tho wholesale manufacture of voters previous to elections.
Naturalization in Wisconsin;
A resolution has been introduced in the Wisconsin Leg
islature instructing the members in Congress to opposo any
change in the naturalization laws.
U. S. Senator from Massachusetts.
Concord, Jan. 20.
Hon. John S. Wells has accepted the appointment to the
U. S. Senate, vico Norris, deceased, and left for Washing
ton on Thursday.
More Nullification in Massachusetts.
The following order was adopted in the*Massachusetts
House of Representives on the 10th inst:—Thai the Judi
ciary Committee consider the expediency of reporting an
amendment to the Constitution of the commonwealth, se
curing to all persons on the soil of Massachusetts their in
herent and inalienable rights, in all cases whatever, except
as a punishment for crime; and that they shall not be de
prived of said rights without trial by jury, and what is call
ed “due process oflaw.”
The Kinnny Expedition. — Baltimore, Jan 20, 1855.- -
Ex-Governor Bell, ot Texas, is reported to have joined the
Kinney expedition to Central America.
Another Law Suit by Mrs. Gaines. — New Orleans,
Jan. 19, 1855.—Mrs. Gaines': has commenced a suit here
in the Probate Court, to establish herself as the legatee under
the will of her lather, Daniel Clark.
Reported loss of the Fulton Contradicted—the Tariff
Bitl,etc. — Washington, Jan. 21, 1855.—The Union of this
morning contradicts the report that intelligence has been
received of the total loss of the steamship Fulton v* ith all on
board.
The amount of the public debt, redeemed at the Treasury
last week, was $66,000.
The Secretary of the Treasury has amended his project
for the tariff) and Mr. Houston, of the Committee of Ways
and Means, will report so nearly like it that it will probably
be acceptable to both Houses, and to the Northern section
of the country.
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From the Columbus Enquirer.
Minute of Points'"’
Decided by the Supreme Court of Georgia, at Colum
bus, January Term, 1855 :
Executors of Everett vs Towns —from Taylor.
When the Complainants in an Equity Cause fail en
tirely to sustain by evidence a material portion of their
enso, the Court may withhold the same from the Jury
and dispose of the cause. The case, to justify such in
terference by the Court, must be such an one that the
Court would grant anew trial, if tho Jury were to find a
verdict for Complainants.
Scarborough & Hunter, for PlfFsin Error.
L. B. Smith & B. Hill for Deft, in Error.
Molyneux et al. vs Collier —front Dougherty.
An executory agreement to receive a smaller amount
in discharge of a larger, is not enforceable, unless there
be a benefit to the creditor or detriment to the debtor.—
If there be “a legal possibility of benefit to the creditor”
the agreement is valied.
Morgan & Scarborough, for Plff. Clark & Strozier,
for Defendant.
Hamrick et al. vs Rouse et al. —from Lee.
1. The General Assembly have the right to change
tho location of the Seat of Justice in any County in the
State, and they do not thereby violate any contract or
interfere with any vested right.
2. If the Act removing the Seat of .Justice provides
for compensation to the lot holders at the old site, this
compensation need not bo paid before the removal.
Hawkins, for Plff- Lyon & Johnson for Deft.
Watkins, Chappell <J- Cos. vs Smith —from Randolph.
1. Where, in entering an appeal, the Clerk mistakes
the name of one of the parties the appeal will not be dis
missed, but the mistake may bo corrected. And this may
be done without the consent of tho Surety en the Bond.
2. In order to exclude an Attorney at Law'from testify
ing in a cause, it must appear not only that he acquired
his information during the existence , but also by reason
of the relationship of Client and Attorney.
Tucker & Beall, for Plff. Hood, for Deft.
Creamer & Gresham vs Shannon —from Sumter.
Where a Trader kept no Clerk, and his original Book
of Entries is destroyed, a transcript from sueli Book,
made by himself, and proven by his own oath, is not ad
pfi-s ble in evidence.
Tucker & Beall, for Plff. Hawkins, for Deft.
Brady vs Hardeman tj- Hamilton —from SunLer.
Where there is no original process annexed to the p -
tition, and a waiver of “copy process” only, a verdict and
judgment rendered in such cr.se is absolutely void.
B. Hill, for Plff. Dudley, for Deft.
Among the deaths at San Francisco we find the name
of Mrs. Julia Stanly, wife of the Hon. Edward Stanly,
formerly of North Carolina.
The North-Carolina Legislature have granted a charter
to the Spartanburg and Union Railroad Company for the
continuation of the lino from Spartanburg, via Henderson
ville and Asheville, to Paint Rock, where it will connect
with the Kentucky Road, passing through the Cumber
land Gap.
Catholic Statittics. —The Catholic A-manac for 1355 ,
gives the following statistics of the Romau Catholic Ohrcn
in the United State*: ,
There are 7 Archbishops, S3 Bishops, 2 Vicars Apostol
ic, 1704 Priests, and 1824 Churches—showtng the inciea.3
of the p. year to have been 2 Bishops, 129 Piiests, and
112 Churches. There are also 698 Missionaty stations, 28
Colleges, 117 Female Academies, and 37 Theological Se
minaries’which (including those who are studying abroad)
are training up to the priesthood nearly 700 young men.
Canadian Sympathy for the Allies.— The Montreal
Commercial Advertiser says 5 that Lord Eglin cauies
home with him the offer of Quebec Cavalry, immediately
to proeeed to the seat of war; we believe the Montreal
coins is willing and ready to do the same; it is saiu that
Arthur Rankins, Esq., the honorable and gallant member
for the county of Essex, has offered his cervices and Ms ior
tunes to raise a battaliion in Upper Canada, and have them
ready to proceed t o the East next summer.
Michigan Legislature. —Strang, the Mormon Prophet,
of Beaver Island, hs:. made a move in the Legislature to
admit negroes to the right of suffrage. Mr. Hussey has
offered a resolution instructing the Senators and requesting
the Representatives in to mo their influence to
grant actual setters IGO acres of public domain.
Queer Matrimonial Freak. —A letter from a citizen of
Livingston county, Kentucky, to the Danville Iribune,
relates the following bit of family history in that neigh
borhood :
“A widow lady took an orphan boy to raise, quite small,
and when he arrived at the age of eighteen she married
him, she then being in her fiftieth year. They lived
many years together happy as any couple. Jen years
ago they took an orphan girl to raise. This fall the old
lady died, being ninety-six years of age, and in seven
weeks after the old man married the girl they had raised,
he being sixty-eight years old, and she eighteen.” It is
probable she will adopt some good looking hoy, to be
ready for an emergency.
Peas and u Pure Ground Coffee.”— A case came up
for trial a few days since in New York, wherein one par
ty sued another for the value of forty bags of peas. The
plaintiff was a coffee roaster, and had contracted with the
defendant’for 250 bags of peas, which, it appeared, were
to be ground up with the coffee. Some curious develop
ments came out in the course of the trial, showing the
extent to which peas, chicory, and other substances are
used for the article which is sold as pure ground coffee.
Petrified ’Bodies. —Singular Discoveries. —The Day
ton Empire, of Saturday evening, gives the particulars of
several bodies having been found in a state of peti ideation
in an old grave yard, on the .farm of John P. Loy, three
miles from Germantown. The Empire says the body of
Mrs. Loy was to bo removed, and her grave was opened
for that nurpos3. She had been buried twenty-four years
The coffin was perfect, but was so heavy that it required six
men to lift it out. The shroud, and indeed, all ttie cover
ing which was upon the body at the time of interment, 24
years ago, had disappeared; not a vestige of them remain
ed. Tbe body was perfect, except the right log from the
knee to the ankle-joint,'where the flesh seemed to have
wasted away, and lay at the bottom of the coffin, in a sub
stance, rc embling asbes mixed with sand. With this ex
ception of decay, the body and limbs exhibited the same
perfectness of exterior they did when life and animation
were in the body. It was stone,of a drub color, with the
smile on hex face which it wore when she gave up mortali
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The Underground Railroad in Danger. —A bill
was pro inted in tbe Illinois Legislature, on the 16th inst,
to prevent the carrying of colored people on the railroads
of that State, which was read twice, and referred, and
will probably pirs the House of Representatives.
Louisiana U. S. Senator. — New Orleans, January 18.
Mr. Sliddeil has L in unanimously re-nominated U. S.
Senator by the Democratic caucus of the Legislature, and
there is little doubt of his re-election.
Robberies in New York. —The New York Times
states that for several weeks past that city has been infes
ted by gangs of expert robbers, who have been doing a
wholesale business. Only a few days ago the Merchants’
Bank, in Wall street, was robbed in broad daylight of
$25,000 in gold coin ; and, although a reward of $3,000
had been offered for the recovery of the money, no clue
has been obtained of either the robber or the plunder.- -
During the last week a number of robberies of costly
jewels, silks, satins, and other rich goods have been com
mitted in Broadway,'Liberty streets and elsewhere, which,
in the aggregate, will amount to $15,000 or $20,000.
Shortly after the Bank robbery it was ascertained that a
package of diamonds and other jewels, valued at SS,OOO
or SIO,OOO, had been stolen from the large jewelry es
tablishment of Messrs. Tiffany & Cos., in Broadway.- -
Only one of these diamonds, valued ats3,ooo, has been
r covered, having been found in possession of a person
who loaned SSOO upon it without his knowing from
whom it was obtained. Messrs. Fougne & Cos., in Broad
way, have also been robbed of $2,000 of jewelry, con
sisting of rich brooches, breastpins, rings, necklaces,
sec., &c. _
Advertising—the Lever by which fortune is made.
—At a banquet given to the:employees of a large estab
lishment in New York city the owner of the establish
ment, says the Sun, in the course of a brief history of
his rise and progress rs a manufacturer, alluded to his in
debtedness to tbe press rs the great medium by which he
had made tho public acquainted with his busine s, aud
drawn them to him as customers. He said he regarded
the press, in this age of competition, as the groat lulcrum
upon which the tradesmen rested his advertisement, and
the means by which he overturned his adversaries. That
he who advertises judiciously aud extensively was sore to
reap the reward of triumph.
If every man dealing wares to the public was guided by
this truthful conviction of Ids interests as the manufactu
rer, few would have to complain of small sales or ill suc
cess in trade’ A few enterprising men of the various
trades and professions have got hold of the great secret
of success , and it is not strange to us that they rse to
fortune and eminence, to the wonder and annoyance of
their less sagacious and non-advertising neighbors.
ihe Battle House and tho fae we saw There--Presi
dent Lamar—Clark Mills—Dion Bourcicault —Agne3
Robertson.
Among the geiU’emea whom wo met at the Battle
House, vvrs the distinguished ex President of the late
Republic of Texas, Gen. Mirabeau B. Lamar. A gen
tleman of more engaging simplicity of address and kind
liness of manner, we never had the good fortune to en
c untor. His conversational powers are rare, and his
“small talk” is so delicately humorous, with points so ex
quisitely turned—the whole touched here and there with
the poet’s “pencil of fight”—that we have no difficulty
in accounting for the ease with which he is said to win
all hear f s around him. The General is a much younger
man—in appearance, at least—than we had supposed him
to be. He can hardly be fifty ; and if we regarded the
activity of his mind, the buoyancy of his spirits, and the
playfulness of his fancy, wo should not write him above
twenty five.
Mr* Clark Mills, widely fam us for his equestrian stat
ue of Jackson, was also there, and it was our good for
tune to be made known to him. He has a rather square,
plain face, with a great deal of character in its expression ;
with the lines saying distinctly here are firmness, self
reliance, united with a fine intelligence. We should take
Mr. Mills to be between 40 and 45 years of age, and
though his face is that of a man who has wrestled with
Care and been thrown sometimes, it at once assures the
stranger that there is a plenty of vitality—of endurance,
game —leli, in that well-knit. muscular frame and that
well formed, though only medium sized brain.
Mr. Mills was on his way to New Orleans to consult the
good people there on some matter connected with the
statue of their “Hero,” which he lias undertaken for
them. The subject of his great work being up, he kind
ly showed us a miniature model, in metal, of tho horse.
He cast luis to demonstrate the feasibility of making the
horse balance upon his hind feet. It was perfectly suc
cessful. The miniature is of solid metal, weighs only a
few ounces, and is very beautiful in its general outline,
though no pains were taken to make it perfectly accurate
as to muscular developments. We saw it stand upon a
marble slab, first on its hind feet in the attitude of rear
ing to spring away —and then upon all the feet, but of
course with a less natural effect. It thoroughly satisfied
us (as it did all that saw it.) that the newspaper criticisms
which sought to induce the belief that the equestrian stat
ue is a humbug, were simply libellous. Mr. Mil's ha<?
committed no sin, except to produce in a very simple v
an artistio effect that no one had achieved before—for t
Envy brings into play all its powers of detraction.
Dion Bourcieault, Esq., author of “London Assurant,
and tbe husband of “Miss Agnes Robertson,” whose';,
rs an actress now reaches into the remotest regions wf,
the English tongue is spoken, was among the guests
the Battle House.
Mr, Bourcieault is one of the most unassuming, p],
ant little gentleman in the world, and as a'dramatic wfo
his reputation is firmly fixed. As an actor, in a cert
line at least, he cannot be excelled. Ilis delineation
the aged, decayed French gentleman, Monsieur Touiv
on, in “Bub Nettles,” is the most consummate acting ,
have ever seen. The very air of the poor dd geutfo
appeals to the heart, with a pathos so subdued, so ?.*, •
and so touching, that the tears will conic, do wbat r
may. In the same play, Miss Robertson gives with
solute perfection, the rollicking “larking, ‘ but
hearted, school boy, Bob Nettles. Her rendering of .
character —and of all such —leaves no rootn for improv,
meat. Archness, piquancy, simple pathos unite u
petite style of beauty, to give her the power ot “hew
ing ’em,” and the longer we look, the more vve arc
witched. The truth is, she and her husband are
gems, of rare and beautiful brilliance. W e were defo!
ed to learn from Mr. Bourcieault himself, that in theeou:,
of a month or two, we shall probably have them in .U ■
gomery. Mr. B. proposes to give, in the South, a s.:
of what we may call “ Evenings ,” in which his wife ai.
himself (and by themselves,) will illus rate some of so
peculiarities of English society, in dramactio sketches wr,>,
ten by himself. It will, we feel sure, be the mostsu.. a
cessfull thing of the sort ever projected in the SoutUert f
States. —Montgomery Mail.
Bank of Newberry, S. C.
Our friends, not only at Tampa but throughout the l. I
ion, are respectfully informed that vve are perfectly w.
to receive at par, in payment of subscription or adverts; |
accounts, as many bills ot the Bank ot Newberry a? ,
may be pleaded to “remit—the more the better. The
ports prejudicial fto that institution, we are inform-( 1
good authority, have no foundation whatever.— Chari:.
ton Courier, 23<Z inst.
Resources of North Carol-na.— We notice in the > |i
port of the financial committee of the North Carolina L_
tslature, that an assessment of 12s cents per one huucv l|
dollars upon lands in that State will yield $120,000; jj
that from poll taxes, money at interest, dividends on I
bonds, &c.,an annual revenue will be derived of five hr,’ w
pred and twenty one thousand dollars.
Punches.
The following lists are selected from the Almanac of so. ■
London Punch tor 1855.
Truth for Teetotallers. —The porter tliaQis stout w ■
carry the biggest man beyond the bonds of discretion, 1
Information for Innocents. —When anybody j
much about his trials, there is some reason to believe him m
to be a thief. .
A Real Blessing to'Mothcrs. —Couldn’t somebody .1
vent a soap which would enablo mammas to get the- si
daughters oft’ their hands ?
Memorandum for the Month of March. —To youtM
ladies —Now make up your minds and choose your lover
considering that you may have too many chaps on yours I
hands.
The Position of the Eyes in Man. — A sagacious uldM
gentlemau remarks how fortunate it is that our eyes <i- ”
not project like those of some animals, for if they di:
what a number of boys we should see making faces at ui
behind our backs!
A Married Lover. —A hen pecked husband declare-:
that the longer he Jived the more he was smitten.
Rule for Young Housekeepers. —The smallest possible
waste, without pinching.
Hint to Householders. —Honesty may be tho best poli
cy ; but the next best is a policy of assurance.
Health and Beauty. —The young lady who is unable!
to sport a riding habit should get into a walking habit.
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EgPWe seldom recommend a manufactured medicine,
believing that, in most cases, nature herself perfects a cure
more rapidly and effectually than can be accomplished by
the vegetables and minerals of medical science. But in
the matter of dyspepsia, there are chronic features about it,
which, very often, defy all the efforts of nature to create a
healthy action ot the digestive organs, and it not unfre
quently happens that thousands suffer for years, diseased
both in body and mind, from indigestion and its kindred
ills. To such, Hoofland’s German Bitters, prepared by Dr.
G. M. Jackson, are truly a most valuable preparation, it
is a tonic medicine, giving a healthy action to the stomach,
and will be found highly serviceable at all seasons, nut es
pecially during the Spring. Dyspepsia can only be cured
by a patient perseverance in one course of treatment; and
to all those suffering under this sad malady we ‘ would re
commend an application to the depot of llooffaril's Ger
man Bitters, 120 Arch street, Philadelphia. —Philadelphia
Enquirer. jan23.