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TIMES & SENTINEL
GEORGIA.
TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 3, 185
Organization of the Great Constitutional
Party.
The New Orleans Commercial Bulletin discovers hope
ful indications of a growing sentiment throughout the Un
ion in favor of the construction of a great Constitutional
party. Men of every political complexion are growing
tired of this eternal sectional warfare, and are eager to
signify their disgust for it and their devotion to the consti
tution of the country, by entering anew national organi
zation, which shall be as igoorant as Mr. Fillmore declai
ed himself to be in respect to the points of the political
compass. This sounds exceedingly well, and is deficiem
only in being utopian and impracticable. When we desir*
to make anything, it is in the last degree essential that we
know the nature of the ma erials with which we have to
work The tyro in chemistry who would set about tc
manufacture a compound without knowing the
properties of the constituents he employed, and their che
mical relation and eflect in union, would probably reap
nothing from his experiment but the mortification of fail
ure and the vexation of spirits. Instead of forming a sta
ble mass the mixture might continue to seeth and bubhl
if it did not burst the vessel. Alike result would attend
the effort of the political chemist to amalgamate such op
posite and discordant elements as our cotemporary pro
poses to combine into ih s “great constitutional party.”—
There is an absence of that homogeneity in the parts which
is essential to coherency in the mass. The hope of suc
cess to this experiment is based upon two facts, first, the
Ohio Legislature, at a late session repealed the odious leg
islation of a previous session in regard to the fugitive slave
Jaw; (what law yet remains on that subject?) and second
ly a conviction, on a trial which came off a short time
eince at Cincinnati, under the fugitive slave law, of a man
charged with harboring a slave.
With all respect to our worthy cotemporary, his induc
tion is insufficient to warrant bis conclusion of “good feel
ing which the constitutional men of the north and west
are seeking to cultivate ” Tuken in the utmost latitude
which could be claimed for them, his facts prove a partial
revolution in the opinion of a single State. Until the
question enclosed above in parenthesis be answered, we
oannot infer that this revolution has progressed in a satis
factory degree oeyond the city of Cincinnati. Per contra
we might cite the case ot Judge Loring, who was deposed
in Massachusetts, (or doing simply hisduty in regard to this
same fugitive slave law. It will not be denied, we pre
sume, that we could mention a thousand facts of recent
occurrence, of a local character, to .justly the conclusion
that the anti-slavery feeling throughout the North has
suffered no material abatement. But there is a better test
for all this than the parade of individual instances. The
entire North is represented in Congress. These ‘represen*
tatives must be supposed to reflect the views of their vast
constituencies. In the popular branch all the Northern
States, with the exception of Illinois, Indiana, Connecti
cut, Pennsylvania, Delaware and New Jersey, are repre
sented by large majorities of Black Republicans. Of these
New Jersev, Indianna, Illinois., and Indiana have each a
majority of only one democrat. Delaware, one, and in
Connecticut there is a tie.
Our cotemporary needs not to be reminded that the
generative and sustaining principle of the Black Republic
can organization is one isolated idea—hostility to slavery.
The latest test of the conversion of the party to conserva
tism we have in their recent course upon the Kansas ques
tion, when in unbroken column they voted to reject the
application for admission ol a State, for the sole reason
that she came with a pro-slavery constitution. Through
out the Northern States there is but a solitary represents -
rive ot the Know Nothing party ; that one is E. Joy
Morris of Pennsylvania who always votes with the Black
Republicans. Here then is the material, outside of the
Democracy, from which the Bulletin is left to construct
the Northern wing of this great naiional (?) constitution
al (?) party. We cannot, revolutionize men’s principles
by the magic of political nomenclature. The blast which
summons the dog to the chase does not change his nature
though blown from anew and gilded horn. A devil is a
devil still though we call him a saint.
It is idle to talk of forming a national organization with
recruits Fiom a party that is purely sectional,and which is
so confident of securing possession of the government at an
early day. It is a fact beyond the possibility of question
that the only conservative, national element in northern
politics is found in the democratic party. Even it is not
without reproach. iMany have fallen in the recent eonfl'ct,
others may fall; but this will not disprove our proposition
It will only show that the number of those from whom the
South may expect support when her rights are assailed is
gradually diminishing. Every democratic desertion is a
black republican gain, and, believing as we do that to the
national democracy is confided the protection and defence
ot Southern rights, when the day of its fiual dismember
ment shall come, this government will be dissolved, at least
we shall so hope. We must, therefore, be pardoned for
withholding our confidence in any practical good to result
from the movement which the Bulletin and others seem
so desirous to inaugurate.
The Revival,
The extraordinary state of religious interest in our city
to which frequent allusion has been made, is still in nowise
undimimshed. W.thin the memory of the oldest inhabi
tant nothing has been known like it. Religion is the only
topic of interest in Columbus. It is a sentiment which
pervades all classes of the community. Rich and poor,
bond and free, learned and illiterate, meet around a com
mon altar, and all are aiike subjects of the gracious influ
ence. We have been at Camp Meeting, and religious ga
therings of all hues and shades, but have never witnessed
such scenes as those daily occurring in our midst at this
time. At the Methodist Church on Sunday there were
fifty eight joined the church—making in all over one hun
dred during the last five weeks. At the same church there
were at the altar on Sunday night one hundred and fifty
penitents. On the same night there were 17 subjects of
baptism at the Baptist Church, making near seventy who
have joined that church since the commencement of the
revival. We also learn that about seventy are in readiness
to join the Presbyterian Church. The Young Men’s daily
prayer meeting is now in its seventh and the Union prayer
meeting in its sixth week- both are largely attended and
deeply interesting. Service at the above churches every
night. Godspeed the good work-
Ethan Allen’s Remains Missing —The ceremonies
of laying the corner stone of the Monument to the Revolu
tionary hero, Ethan Allen, by the State authorities of Ver
mont, were postponed for the reason that the remains are
missing. No trace of Ethan Allen can be found on the
spot where he was supposed to be, (at Burlington), and the
supposition is that his remains have been stolen or mislaid.
The Belle Crevasse.— The Planter’s Banner speaking
of the Belle Crevasse, says that it has put over forty plan
tations under water, and destroyed cane enough to make
twenty-three thousand hogsheads of sugar. A railroad
that cost millions of dollars has nearly stopped operation;
the Texas steamers will for a season leave our waters,and
an immense sheet of plantations between the Latourch and
the Gulf of Mexico are under water. The Banner inveighs
strongly against the carelessness and neglect whereby cre
vasses on the river occur. We trust the lesson taught this
year will hereafter be remembered.
Through Ticket to the Virginia Strings, —Those
of our citizens who may be seeking health or pleasure
summer, are invited to read the advertisrment of the
Montgomery and West Point Railroad in to-day’s issue*
From Kansas.
We have been permitted to make the following extract
from a letter written from Kansas, under date of the 15th
ulf., to a gentleman in this city. The writer was formerly
a citizen of Columbus.
“Kansas has begun to bleed afresh. War with all its
horrors and calamities now prevails in Lynn and Bourbon
Counties. Capt Anderson, U. S. A. had another fight
on Monday last, 10th inst., with Capt. Montgomery and
his men, all free State. Anderson had 40 and Montgom
ery 60 men, the former had 3 men killed and 6 wounded,
and had to flee. The pro-slavery men have been out-num
bered and forced to leave their homes and fly to the bor
der. Murder and pillage is now the order of the day.
Montgomery and his men came up into Johnson county,
on Thursday last, went to Shorbs’s grocery, robbed him of
all his money and guns and carried off as many goods as
they could pack; thence to Jno Evans’s and took S4OO
( rom him and ail his horcee, guns &e; met Pat Cosgro\e
and Dr Barton (whom you will recollect) and rook their
horses, watches, pistols and s'3o. in money- Such is the
state of affairs now in Kansas, and I would not be surprised
on aDy night to see Westport enveloped in flames.
Flowers.
We tender our thanks to an esteemed lady friend for the
prettiest and most fragrant bouquet of the season.
The British National Debt. —The national debt of
Great Britain, caused by the accumulated expenses of fot
eign wars and former deficiencies between receipts and
payments is, in round numbers, $800,000,000, the interest
of which, and expense of management, &c-, amounts an
nually to about $28,000,000, and has to be provided for out
of ihe receipts of the year.
Fire. —About half past three o’clock this morning the
residence of Mr. Charles Mygatt, in this city, was disci.v*
ered to be on fire. Our vigilant fire companies] were soon
at work, and after much effort,made necessary by the difli
culty of reaching the flames, succeded in saving the prop
erty lrom all but an inconsiderable damage. It was un
mistakably the work of an incendiary. Ihe building was
fired on opposite sides at the same time, on the sills be
neath the floor. The fire ranged upwards between the
plastering and weather boarding, and hence the difficulty
in getting at it. We understand that a few hundred dol
lars will repair the loss.
Washington Correspondence,
Washington, May 28,1858.
Until within the past few day-it was apparent to all who
kept up with the proceedings of Congress that an adjourn
ment, as fixed by joint resolution on Ist Monday in
was not seriously thought of and that the rescinding ot that
resolution was inevitable. During this week, however,
business has taken a difierent turn, and the sessions are
continued daily until nearly 10 o’clock P. M. The Black-
Republicans whw at first thwarted every effort to expedite
business so as to necessitate a continuance of the session
beyond the 9th June have changed their tactics and are
now appealing to the dominant party to hurry up and be
off. The appropriation bills are pretty well disposed of!
and all incidental legislation, of pressing necessity can be
pushed through by the time agreed upon. The Senate has
postponed to the next session, several questions which
would give rise to lengthy debate ; the most prominent of
which is the Homestead-bill. Under these circumstances
the probability is that the adjournment will take on the day
fixed, although Mr. Seward gave notice yesteiday, that he
would introduce to day, a joint resolution extending the
Session to the 30th June- Should it even pass the Senate,
it could hardly find favor in the House, in view of the
lengthy and really business Sessions of the past few days.
I was in hopes that before this the outrages and insults
offered to our flag in the vicinity of Cuba, by British crui
sers, would have assumed some definite shape, so that I
might have something to vary the monotony of the past
few weeks. I send you with this all that has yet transpir
ed officially on the subject. We are daily looking for news
of a brush with the saucy Styx—and 1 trust that she has,
before this, been taught manners when approaching the
“Stars and Stripes ” The accounts so far published repre
sent these British officials in a light differing but little from
piracy and as such they ought to be treated. Diplomacy
is too tedious a process for such insolent outrage—chastise
ment first and explanations after—such seems to bo the
sentiment of ihe country.
Senator Clay’s efforts to abolish the fishing monopiies
have been crowned with success in the Senate. 11 too
question can be reached in the House before adjournment
his success will be complete, as the high personal character
of the distinguished Alabama Senator will secure for the
measure the support of many members who, under any oth
er leader, would feel indifferent. For purity of personal
character and unbending integrity no man has ever enjoyed
in Washington a higher rank in general estimation tlian
Senator Clay. Hence, in a great measure, his success in
carrying through the Senate, and securing a telling majority
in the House for this crowning act of his legislative career
—under the disheartening prestige too of past failures in the
hands of our ablest statesmen.
I fear nothing will be done this session with your Bruns
wick Naval Station. It comes under the category of
“works not commenced,” and not to be commenced unti]
times get better—Senator Iverson has availed himself of
every expedient to forward this great undertaking; and
should it be delayed, longer than its friends have anticipa
ted, they may rest assured, it will have been through no
fault of his.
BRUTUS.
Arrival of the Steamship Moses Taylor.
New York, May 29.—The Steamship Moses Taylo r
arrived this morning, bringing California dates to the 7th
inst.
New mines have been discovered in the British posses
sions, of immense extent, reaching to the American terri
tory—the excitement in consequence is very great
Capt. Kinney’s party attempted to capture Nicaragua,
but Cap. Kennedy, of the U, S. steamer Jamestown, took
them prisoners and sent them to Aspinwall.
The cholera was raging atGautamala.
The French Minister was negotiating for the purchase of
the Nicaragua transit. It is said that sixty millions of
francs had been subscribed in France for the purchase.
Chas. Sumner Gone to Enrope.
Mr. Charles Sumner, the senator who represents
the State of Massachusetts, has gone to Europe.—
Before his departure he issued a valedictory “to
the people of Massachusetts,” in which he says he
did not resign his seat in the Senate because he
desired another “opportunity of exposing the hid
eous barbarism of slavery, now more than ever
transfused into the national government.” Mr.
Sumner, we trust, will find a more congenial politi
cal atmosphere on the other side of the water. He
is certainly not satisfied with ou government;
and we confess to a little surprise that he should
longer remain in the Senate. It must be exceed
ingly disagreeable for Mr. Sumner to associate with
“the barbarians” from the South ; and it is not at
all improbable that the latter gentlemen do not find
Mr. Sumner the most delightful companion in the
world. Mr. Sumner will feel better when he gets
to Europe, and it will be a satisfaction to him to
know that his absence will not be regretted.—
Wash. Union.
Few persons have any idea of the extent of busi
ness in the Dead Letter Office. Daring a single
year, in addition to $50,000 in money returned to
its lawful owners, there have been found in the
letters and restored drafts, checks and some other
valuable papers amounting to three and a half mils
lions of dollars, j
Very Latest News from the TJfah Expedition.
We find in the Boston Journal of Tuesday even
ing, a letter from Fort Bridger, dated the 15th of
April, which is of four days later date than any
thing we have heretofore seen. We give it as we
find it, merely remarking that the paper from which
it is copied, says it was written by an officer of the
Utah army to a friend in Boston, and that it re
poses the fullest confidence in his veracity:
“Feeling anxious that ray Boston friends should
be apprised of the earliest intelligence relative to
matters in this country, and as the express leaves
to-day, I hasten to furnish you with the latest
news. %
A United States Commissioner, Mr. Kane, ar
rived here about the 25th of March, from Salt Lake
City, with despatches. He afterwards returned
to the city, where he remained a few days, and
on the 4th of April returned to this fort, and after
a short interview with Gov. Cumming, the latter
agreed to accompany him to the capital onr the
morrow. Accordingly, on the 6tb, Gov. Cumming,
attended only by Mr. Kane and his carriage driver,
took his departure for the Holy City, intending to
go through in two days. He did so, and entering
the city on the Bth, found a large hall readv and
beautifully fitted up for his reception. Brigham
Young received him with an appropriate speech,
which was responded to by the Governor, in a true
Democratic and feeling manner. I am sorry I can
not furnish you a copy, but will do so by next ex
press. We look daily for his return. He was
treated with the utmost civilty and respect. We
look daily for Col. Johnston to issue orders for en
tering the city, as the road is now passable.
“The condition of troops here is quite deplora
ble; the rations are getting very short, the men
only receive thirteen ounces of flour per day, and
the meat ration consists of the few old surviving
work oxen who lived through the winter, alter
hauling our supplies to this place. Beans, rice,
coffee and sugar, at much smaller allowance than
prescribed by law, serve to furnish the balance. —
The men, aftej experiencing a winter almost un
paralleled for severity, remain quite weak in bodily
strength, but in the best of spirits, ready and anx
ious to complete the march against the city even
with tenfold odds, and at a moment’s warning to
obey our country’s call, and only await the ‘fortune
of war.”’ —Washington Union , May VI.
Mrs. Gardner’s Address to the Jury.—As
the telegraph has announced, Mrs. Abigail Gard
ner has been convicted on a. Gecond trial in Ply
mouth, Mass., of the murder of her husband,
Hosea J. Gardner, postmaster at Hingham. It
was charged that she administered poison to him
on the 28th of January, 1857, and at the first trial
the jury failed to agree.
After the counsel on both sides had finished
summing up, the prisoner arose, and the Judge
said to her:
Abigail Gardner, if you desire to say anything to
the jury, in addition to what your counsel has
said, you now have an opportunity. If, however,
you do not desire to say anything, it will not be
taken against you. You are therefore at liberty to
do as you please.
With considerable hesitation and difficulty, she
addressed the jury as follows: “I am somewhat
fatigued and excited from sitting so many long days
here in Court through this trial, and am unable to
express my feelings as I should be glad to. I
should be glad to convey to your minds the truth,
aside from falsehood and prejudice. I feel as
though I could not rest until I let the world know
what is true and what is false in this case, though
1 suppose I should not be allowed to now. lam
not guilty. I know how many prejudiced persons
are working against me. God knows my inno
cence. lam as innocent as any of you here of the
charge. I feel like an outcast, unfortunate and
friendless, without pity and no one to pity me. I
have no friends with me, and none within two hun
dred miles of me. If I had, I could give you a
very different opinion of me from that svhich you
now have. I hope you will consider my case care
fully and without prejudice. My husband was
poisoned. God only knows who did it. I was
charged with it. Before heaven and tnv Maker 1
know nothing more about it than any of you here.
She would have spoken further, but her feelings
overpowered her, and she sat down. During the
day her apparent indifference was almost appalling,
so much so that it was hard to distinguish whether
it was the indifference of settled despair or lack of
natural feeling. When she arose to address the
jury she manifested considerable emotion, as her
veil, which she had kept closely drawn during the
day, waslified from her face, her vacant stare and
palled, sunken features, became almost frightful.
The verdict of the jury was that Mrs. Gardner
was guilty of murder m the second degree, wh.ch,
according to the new law passed at the last session
of the Legislature, is punishable by imprisonment
in the State prison f-r life; but there is an unre
pealed law of the Commonwealth which declares
that a female shall not be sent to the State prison.
Another Freshet in the West.—A tele
graphic dispatch to the Nashville papers, datedat
Cincinnati, May 26th, states the heaviest rain ever
known, fell in that region the previous night, and
continued raining f r about twelve hours. The
river and creeks were rising with frightful rapidity
—railway bridges had been carried off in all direc
tions, and the Ohio had risen nine feet within the
last twelve hours.
A dispatc h from St. Louis, on the 25th of May,
states that the river there had risen about five feet,
and was then three feet higher than at any former
time this spring. The dispatch adds, “all the up
per streams are rising, and the upper Mississippi
rapidly.”
A dispatch from Memphis, on the 25th, states
that the river is rising at that point, and was with
in fifteen inches of the highest point attained by
the late rise.
For the last two months the western and south
western section of the Union has been visited by
storms and inundations unprecedented in our his
tory. The loss is beyond computation.
The Value of a Good Wife. —ln the true wife
the husband finds not affectien only, but compan
ionship —a companionship with which no other can
compare. The family relations gives retirement
ment without solitude ; and society without the
rough intrusion of the world. It plants in the hus
band’s dwelling a friend who can bear his silence
without weariness—who can listen to the detail
of his interests with sympathy—who can appreci
ate his repetition of events, only important as they
are embalmed in the heart. Common friends are
linked to us by a slender thread. We must re
tain them by ministering, in some way, to their
-interest, or their enjoyment. What a luxury it is
for a man to feel, that in his own home, there is a
true and affectionate being, in whose presence he
may throw off all restraint, without danger to his
dignity, he may confide without the fear of treach
ery, and be sick or unfortunate without being
abandoned. If, in the outward world, he glows
weary of human.selfishness, his heart can safely
trust in one whose soul yearns for his happiness,
and whose indulgence overlooks his defects.—
Presbyterian.
The London Gazette announces that appoint
ment of Hon. Edward Erskine, Secretary of Lega
tion at Turin, as Secretary of Legation at Wash
ington.
From the Augusta Constitutionalist.
How to make a Rule to Compute Interest on Fractions
of Time, at any Rate of Interest.
Divide the number of days in the year (three
hundred and sixty-five,) by the rate of interest, and
that will give the number of days that will give
one cent on the dollar of principal.
Now, as seven per cent, is the legal rate of in
terest in Georgia, and several other States, I will
give the rule for seven per cent:
Seven will go into three hundred and sixty-five
fifty-two times; consequently, fifty-two days will
draw one cent on the dollar of the principal, and
fifty-two dollars will draw one cent per day—
thus :
52 days draws one cent on the dollar.
26 “ “ 4- “ “ “
13
6 <c £ u <c u
3 “ l-16 (C “ “
40 “ “ 8 mills “ “ “
30 “ or one month, draws 6 mills on the dol
lar. ,
20 days draws 4 mills on the dollar.
10 “ “ 2 “ “
5 ts a 1 a a
Example : What is the interest on four hun
dred and thirty-six dollars for two months and
five days? Answer —Divide the time into conve
nient parts. Fifty.two days from two months
leaves eight days, and for the fifty-two days, set
down four dollars and thirty six cents interest; then
the eight and five days will make thirteen days;
for these set down one dollar and nine cents, and
without further trouble you have five dollars and
forty five cents for the interest on four hundred
and thirty six dollars for two months and five
days.
When the number of days are even with any of
the number of days given in the above table, a lit*
tie acquaintance with the rule will enable any per
son to set down the interest without a minute’s re
flection or making other figures. For instance, take
forty dollars for twenty-six days, and you have
nothing to do but to set down twenty cents inter
est. A few moments in the study of the rule, will
enable any man to understand it and appreciate its
utility. __ L. P.
Agriculture.
We have often thought that it was a great defect
in the Agricultural system of our farmers in East
Tennessee, that they rely upon a single product.
Wheat is now almost the only staple we have, and
either the raw material or flour is the only article
we have to send to market. It is true we send for
ward much bacon, feathers and stock, but the re
ceipts from these are by no means large. Our lands
are finely adapted to other culture, that would
bring money in such large amounts that it would
be sensibly felt. The culture of the vine will even
tually be a matter of great consequence and im
portance. A few of our farmers have entered into
this business, and we prophecy they will get rich
before their slower neighbors start in the enterprize.
Tobacco, also, can be grown in East Tennessee as
well as any part of Virginia. And by means of our
railroads we can now export it to great advantage.
Some few of our farmers have already commenc
ed its culture, and we hope many others will soon
follow their lead. The soil of many of our highest
hills is excellent for the growth both of the vine
and tobacco, and cannot be very advantageously
cultivated in anything else. We hope to see those
points, especially in the neighborhood of Knoxville,
occupied in this way. When this is so, we shall
hear no more complaints about the scarcity of mo
ney. Until it is so, we may always expect to hear
this dolorous lamentation. —Southern Citizen.
Return of one of the Sebastopol Submarine
Expeditions. —The expedition which left this
country a year or two since, under the auspices of
the Boston Submarine and Wrecking Company, to
participate in the attempt to raise the Russian fleet
sunk in the harbor of Sebastopol during the war
between Russia and France and England, have
returned to Boston within a day or two, having dis
posed of their vessels at Constantinople to pay ex
penses. The Traveler says:
The persons connected with this expedition
give as one reason of the failure, the fact that the
sunken vessels had. suffered much greater destruc
tion from the worms than had generally been sup
posed. It is said that so rotten had they become
from this cause, that a diver by placing his shoul
der against the side of one of the vast ships could
rock it to and fro. The recovery of a portion of
the sunken property also disclosed the extent to
which the Russian Government has been cheated
in the building of these vessels. It was found that
many of the bolts and other similar portions of the
vessel which should have been copper, for which
the government paid, were in fact altogether of
iron.
The Gowan Submarine Company, principally
from Philadelphia, will continue at Sebastopol to
clear the harbor, under additional inducements
from the Russian government. Mr. Gowan is him
self from Baltimore.
Speech of Gen. Walker in Cahawba. On
Monday last Gen. Walker addressed a large con
course of the citizens of Dallas county in the
Court House at Cahawba upon Nicaraguan affairs.
We did not hear his speech, but were told on
Tuesday, while at Cahawba, that it was a com
plete vindication of his course in connection with
that movement, and an argument to slaveholders
to sustain the movement. His arguments proved
effectual too, for quite a number of our most sub
stantial and largest planters came forward and
made proper appreciation of their earnestness by
putting down large sums of money. Gen. Walker
to-day could raise a million of dollars in Dallas
county to Americanize Central Ameriea. Until
now our slaveholders have been disposed to look
upon the movement with indifference—now they
have taken hold of the movement, and if money
will secure success to the movement, the slave
holders of Dallas county, Alabama, will secure it.
The truth is, there seems to be but one voice in
the county, and that voice is, that the success of
Walker in Nicaragua is the only way by which ne
gro slavery can be extended, that the institution
shall be extended. —Selma Sentinel.
True Politeness. —As to politeness, many have
attempted to define it. I believe it is best to be
known by description—definition not being able to
comprise it. I would, however, venture to call it
‘•benevolence in trifles,” or the preferences of oth
ers to ourselves ih little daily, hourly occurrences
in the commerce of life. It is a perpetual atten
tion to the wants of those with whom we are, by
which attention we either prevent or remove them.
Bowing, ceremonies, formal compliments, stiff
civilities, will never be politeness—that must be
easy, natural, unstudied, manly, noble ; and what
will give this but a mind benevolent and perpetu
ally attentive to exert that amiable disposition in
trifles to all you converse and live with.— Lord
Chatham.
young man named George W. Taylor,
formerly of Philadelphia, and who lately married a
young wife in Franklin county, Mo., blew out his
brains with a revolver at a bearding house in St.
Louis. Among his papers was found a slip writ
ten in pencil, in these words.
My Dear Wife—l have wronged you. Forgive
and pray for me. lam a villain, and deserve to
die. May God have mercy upon my soul.
The Suicide of Herbert — ihe Lady.
The Cincinnati Enquirer has the fo 1< wing par
ticulars of the young lady whose “romantic” mar
riage with Herbert, the author, has been remarked
upon in connection with his suicide:
The iady who has figured so largely in the late
suicide of “Frank Forrester” in New York, is not
unknown in the world, though never before so
conspicuously brought to public notice. Some
five years ago as a young gentleman, then and
now connected with the theatrical profession, and
at the present time a member of one of our dra
matic companies in this city, met the lady in Provi
dence, her native city. A warm and romantic at
tachment grew up between them. He was young,
talented and good looking—she was beautiful, fas
cinating and accomplished. Time passed, and,
subsequently the pair met in New Orleans, where
the youthful candidate for Thespian honors had
followed his inamorata. The interposition of
friends, under whose charge the lady had been
placed, threatened to cut short the happiness of the
romantic pair; but
“Love laughs at locksmiths.”
The young gentleman scaled .the walls of the
lady’s castle, where cruel friends had confined
her, and bore off his love by stealth to Mobile, where
the twain were made one at the Battle House in
tha f city, on the 14th of January, 1854. They
lived very happily together for two years. Rela
tives became reconciled—the young gentleman
abandoning the stage for the study of the law, at
the earnest solicitation of his wife’s friends. All
went on happily, and they seemed blessed in each
other’s society, until the lady’s friends began to
sow the seeds of discord between the pair, and he,
from love of the profession, again essayed the stage.
The lady’s friends, to accomplish their designs,
falsely accused the husband of infidelity, and threat
ened her with disinheritance if she did not leave
him.
Finally they succeeded, and under the pretence
of a visit to friends in New York, she left her hus
band with a parting kiss and smile of fond endear
ment, in the same manner that she has her late
husband, declining any further communication.
T he young husband, of course, was frantic, sought
for a recodciliation, and resorted to all kinds of ex
pedients to bring it about. At last the lady seem
ingly relented and promised to return to him, pro
vided lie would consent to a divorce as a means of
pacifying her relatives, at the same time pledging
her word to marry him again in secret. Full of
confidence and trust, he acceded; the divorce was
procured by default in the Rhode Island Courts.
The lady never kept her faith, and the young gen
tleman lives to congratulate himself on his escape
from a false hearted woman.
Sic transit gloria amouris.
Lord Napier positively denies having had any
knowledge whatever of the recent proceedings in
the Gulf until they appeared in print, and says
that he at once communicated with the Admiral of
the squadron, inclosing the statements made and
comments upon them, with an emphatic injunction
against their repetition. He believes that the
home Ministry were equally ignorant, and hence
his conviction is decided that these acts will be
promptly disavowed and the fullest reparation
made.
Circumstantial Evidence.— The fallibility of
human testimony is such that it must be acknowl
edged we cannot believe our own eyes. A case
very similar to one which occurred some months
since at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., in which a girl posi
tively indentified the remains of a deceased per
son as those of her sister, and on the strength of
which a young man was arrested for murder, but
in which ca<e suspicion was averted by the re
appearance of the supposed murdered girl, has
occurred at Joliet, Illinois.
A body of a female was found in a ravine near
Joliet, a farmer testified to finding vi bloody
clothes near the spot; four families testified to the
hearing of screams from the ravine on the night of
the supposed murder, and that the cries were those
of a female. A woman named Cook recognized
the body as that of her daughter, who was missed
on the very night of these screams, and knew it
was her daughter because one of her front teeth
was gone. She also testified to improper intima
cy between her daughter and a Mr. Richardson,
and he was arrested for the murder, and some three
hundred men were about taking the law into their
own hands to lynch Richardson, fearing that justice
would not be done by a regular jury.
The girl finally was found in Chicago and pro
duced in Joliet. The body found was finally prov
ed to be that of an elderly gray haired lady, who
had died a natural death, and whose body had been
disinterred for dissection. The girl is only eigh
teen years of age.— Cleveland Herald.
Judge Douglas, of Illinois, on Monday
last, introduced into the Senate a bill to restrain
and redress outrages upon the flag and citizens of
the United States. The bill provides that “in case
of flagrant violation of the laws of nations by
outrage upon the flag, soil or citizens of the Uni
ted States, or upon their property, under circum
stances requiring prompt redress, and when, in
the opinion of the President, delay would be in
compatible with the honor and dignity of the Re
public, the President is hereby authorized to em
ploy such force as he may deem necessary to pre
vent the perpetration of such outrages, and to ob
tain just redress and satisfaction for the same,
when perpetrated ; and it shall be his duty to Jay
the facts of each case, together with the reasons
for his action in (he premises, before Coegress, at
the earliest practicable moment, for such farther
action thereon as Congress may direct,”
Quaint and Curious. —Some plodding genius
has discovered, while spending his own time, that
the word Time itself when artificially transposed
or metagramatized will form the following words:
meti, emit, item. And, if the afore-named and its
anagrams be placed in the following quadratic po
sition they will form what may be termed an ana
grammatical palindrome ;
TIME
ITEM
METI
EMIT
This word Time, is the only word in the Eng
lish language which can be thus arranged, and th e
different transpositions thereof are all attheeam e
time Latin words. These words in English, a 3
well as in Latin, may be reaa either upward o r
downward.
The English words lime, item, meti and emit (to
send forth,) are mentioned above; and of the Latin
ones (1,) Time, signifies—fear thou ; (2) Item—
likewise; (3) Meti—to be measured; (4) Emit—
he buys.
Legislative Corruption. —ln a late debate in
the Senate, Mr. Toombs said:
We speak otthe corruptions of Mexico, of Spain,
of France, and other Governments, with a great
deal of truth, according to all accounts ; but from
my experience and observation, which have been
somewhat extensive, I do not believe to-day, there
is as corrupt a government under the heaven as
these United States.
Mr. Hale—Nor I either.
Several Senators.—l agree to that.
Mr. Toombs.—And most of all ii corruption is
in the legislative department.
