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TIMES &> SENTINEL
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA.
TUESDAY^EVENING, JULY 13, 1858,
Religious Notice.
The Union Prayer Meeting, appointed for Monday
Morning, was, on account of the inclement weat er, po
poned till to-morrow (Wednesday) morning at oc oc
All are invited to attend.
The Che*P* tßonte ’
The three Steamships to New York and Philadelphia,
says the Savannah News, which left this port on batur*
day carried out 225 cabin passengers-a larger number than
ever left before on any one day. The immense tide of
travel North, by way of Savannah, is proot posit've that
the public are beginning to learn that this is the best and
cheapest route—offering as good accommodations as any
other, at a much smaller price.
To show the great pecuniary advantage of this route
over any other, we append a list of the rates, at which
through tickets to New York via, Savannah, are being
sold at the different points named : From Macon, s2l;
from Atlanta, $23 ; from Columbus, 23 ; from Albany, 24;
from Montgomery, $26. Passengers buying these through
tickets have choice of steamships at Savannah.
Similar through tickets are issued m New York to Sa
vannah, by either the side wheel steamships or propellers,
and thence by a railroad to the point above named.
These routes are about $lB less than the fare and teed
by the land route, and after next Thursday, when the new
schedule goes into operation, will be equally as expeditious
from Macon and all points beyond. They are from $7 to
$lO less than by the Charleston steamships, while the Sa
vannah steamships are equally as good, commanded by as
clever and courteous gentlemen, and the fare and attention
are not excelled anywhere in this country. For comfort,
there is no such thing as comparing this route with the
land route. It is free from the smoke and dirt and dust of
railroading, to say nothing of the trouble of changing bag
gage, and the execrable feeding ail the way from Augusta
to Washington.
To all of the above we most cheerfully subscribe. It
has been our fortune in time past to travel on both lines—
from Savannah to New Yom and from Savannah to Phil
adelphia, and the honest verdict of that experience is that
they were the most delightful trips we ever made. The
complete arrangement for “creature comforts” on board
those steamers leaves nothing to be desired by the most ex
acting fastidiousness, while the vigilant care and chivalric
politeness of their commander sand officers can be appre
ciated but may not be expressed. Did business require or
pleasure induce us to visit the Northern termini of those
lines a thousand times we might yield to the solicitation
of curiosity and take the land route once: but never, after
wards, We think however that a change could be made
in the times of their arrival at and departure from Savan
nah, which would result in much greater profit to the
owners of the several steamers and in larger accommoda
tion to the public. The increased number of passengers
that crowd the trains which connect with them demon
strate the truth ol both propositions. It the different com
panies would act in concert and establish a tri-weekly
line, to the northern ports we are are satisfied that the tide
of travel would, yet more decidely, be directed to them. —
We commend this subject to their consideration.
Death of James C. Longstreet.
We regret to learn, (says the Constitutionalist, ot Sun
day) from a letter received at this office, that James C.
Longstreet, Esq., of Calhoun, Gordon county, died at his
residence in that place on Thursday eveniug, the Bth
of pneumonia* Mr. Longstreet, at the time of his
held the office of Solicitor General ot the Cherokee Cir
cuit, and has left a family and numerous relatives—many
of whom reside in this city— to mourn his loss.
The Supreme Court. —Tins tribunal is now in the
third week of its session at Macon, and we learn, it wil]
probably sit three weeks longer. B. Y. Martin, Esq., the
Reporter is absent, and his duties are discharged by our
talented and obliging fellow citizen, R. E. Dixon, Esq , to
whom we are indebted for r an abstract ot decisions pub
lished in our last paper.
New Advertisement —lt is only necessary to call at
tention to the advertisement in to day’s issue of Messrs.
Greenwood & Gray who have united in the Warehouse &
Commission business. Both of these gentlemen have a
large experience in this department and our plauting friends
may entrust their cotton with them in perfect security that
their interests will be properly cared for.
Great Military Pleasure Tret. —A battalion of
Washington Grays, (says the Savannah News,) one hun
dred and fifty strong, under Major Payne, left Chicago,
Illinois, on the 29th ult., on a grand tour ot visitaliou
which will exceed anything ol the kind ever undertaken.—
They will visit in the course of the tour, Cincinnati, Co
lumbus, Buffalo, Rochester, Albany, New York and Bos
ton; thence by steamship to Charleston, S. G., from thence
to Washington. D. C., Wheeling, Nashville, Mempnis f
New Orleans, Mobile,and then home. Preparations will
be made in each city for their reception. This is the
most extravagant trip of pleasure ever yet planned in this
country by a military corps. It is credibly stated that a
fund of $20,000 is on hand to accomplish it.
We wonder if they could not .be induced to take Sa
vanah in their way ! There is no place in the Union where
the Grays would receive a heartier welcome, nor none of
its size whose military cau make a better show.
The tedious libel suit instituted by Mr. Fry against Jas.
Gordon Bennet lor libellous articles published in the New
York Herald, received a final adjudication in the Superior
Court on Saturday. The plaintiff, it will be recollected,
recovered a large verdict against the defendant, which was
ordered to be set aside. A new trial was then had, in
which a verdict of $6,000 was rendered for Mr. Fry. The
defendant presented a bill of exceptions and moved for a
new trial. This motion after several yeais, has been de
nied by the General Term, and judgment ordered for the
plaintiff'on the verdict. The case will probably be carried
to the Court of Appeals.
Better Late than Never. —A Kansas correspondent
o” the St. Louis Democrat says that “affairs in Kansas are
becoming quiet,” and that men of both parties are begin
ning to see that the supremacy of law is better than every
man being his own avenger. This is the best news we
have had lrom Kansas territory for a long time.
Senator Benjamin is spoken of as minister to Mexico,
the event that Mr- Forsyth returns oris recalled.
De Riviere, the French adventurer, who eloped with
the daughter of Col. Blount, of Mobile, from that city
and afterwards from New York, where she was carried*
by her father, after he had recovered possession of her a {
Kavanna, was arrested at the Napoleon Hotel, Hoboken
on Sunday evening, the 4th inst., upon a warrant issued
upon the affidavit of Col. Blount, and after an examination
was held to bail in the sum of one thousand dollars. Upon
a search of the hotel, Mrs. Blount, who has accompanied
her daughter, in all her escapades, was found in a room
by herself very ill, and her daughter in another room. Both
expressed their determination to adhere to the fortunes of
Deßiviere.
The Paraguay Commission.—lt is said that Command
er Page is to have charge of the squadron to accompany
the United States Commissioner, to Paraguay. As the
insult to our flag was committed by Paraguay while it was
in the keeping, in that locality, of Commander Page, it is
very proper that heshould be authorized, if force is deemed
aeoessary, to compel redress for the outrages.
Bank of Columbus.
We have omitted to notice, heretofore, that the Direc
tors of the above institution have declared a semi-annual
dividend of five per cent- payable on and after the 10th
instant. Taking into account the facts that this dividend
is the profit from its operations for a period embraced by
the “suspension” era, and that this bank is one ol the
three which resolved to weather the financial storm with
its specie paying colors flying, and nobly executed their
resolution, wo consider the result remarkable. No beiter
commentary upon the fidelity with which its affairs have
been managed, is necessary or possible. Controlled by
men distinguished for their integrity; presided over by a
gentleman, than whom, perhaps, no man in the State pos
sesses a higher order of financial talent; sustained by a
moral power, which, alone, guarantees triumph over any
sudden and extraordinary outward pressure—the
active sympathy and ready succor of the whole com
munity; and withal located in a place which is filled with
the scare-crow memories of rotten corporations, we have
every reason to be proud ol it.
United Rifles—Target Practice.
At an early hour this morning, this well drilled Compa
ny, Capt. Wilkins commanding, was on the common ad
joining the residence of Mr. R. L. Mott, for the purpose of
target practice. At the distance of eighty yards with
twenty two guns,“eighteen averages were made. Two and
five-sixteenth inches, the average made by private H. 1 .
Robinson, won the prize—a fine double-barreled shot ?un,
presented to the Company by their Captain. W e consider
this shooting hard to beat. This exercise over, they were
marched to the residence of Captain Wilkins, where a
breakfast was prepared for them, which was doubtless ap-*
preciated. They spent the remainder ot the morning in
drilling, executing many handsome manoeuvres through
the streets.
A Hoax.
A few weeks ago we published a a communication over
the signature of S. T- Bowen, dated Tampa, Fla. June
241 h, addressed to the Savannah Republican,in which was
related the murder by an “Execttve Committee,” of that
place, of four persons therein named. The Iloridian&
Journal of the 10th instant, emphatically denies the state
ment, and says“there is no such person in Tampa as S. T
Bowen, and no such ‘prominent men’ have ever lived there
as John D. Early, DeWitt Lucian, Jerome Baker, and Col
J’AllonsoCrocket.”
Matrimony according to Blackwood.
Thelollowing from Blackwood’s Magazine presents a
deplorable condition of things in the “Mother Country,’’
and is remarkable for the contrast therewith exhibited by
the taste and conduct of the New World. How would it
sound were we to say that the young men of this country
are reluctant to marry? Every Miss of fifteen would con
tradict us, and every young gentleman who had counted
twenty summers would marvel if he were an exception to
the rule. The reason for this difference, however, is fully
explained by an admission made in the article from which
we quote—the want of attraction in the “sex:”
“One ol the great social evils of the age is ad
mitted to be the reluctance of our young men to
early marriages. They will not marry now, we are
told, as they used to do, on three hundred pounds
sterling a year. Depend upon it, in many and ma
ny a case, it is not the odd hundred or two that is
wanting —it is the attraction. We have lost that
joyo.us and familiar intercourse between neighbors
families, where young people’s individualities had
space andopportnnity to develop themselves, and
heart met heart. Our modest cupid has overstrung
his bow—his arrows do not hit home. Young la
dies hide away the key of their hearts so carefully
that nobody thinks it is worth looking for. Who
is to choose “the one” out of a bevy of proper be
haved damsels, like a row of hollyhocks, differing
only in height and shape and color? They all look
alike, dress alike, talk alike and walk alike; and,
for anything that appears to the contrary, think
alike and feel alike. Why, such a choice is an
act of deliberate intention—matrimony prepense.—
Few men have the nerve to venture upon it. No
wonder they calculate the probable butchers’and
bakers’ bills before they take such a plunge as that.
Do not fancy that 1 talk like a cynical old bird, not
to be caught with chaff. I talk as the exponent
of what my own feelings would be if I were
young, and open as I once was to the conviction
of bright eyes. My nephew, Jack Hawthorne, not
long home from the Ciimea, six feet one, indepen
dent, hairy as a Skye terrier, brave as a lion,
(clasps lor Alma and Balaclava,) gentle as a grey
hound, and I should say impressible, decidedly.—
“What I missed most,” says he,in his open heart
ed, unbanished simplicity, “was the sight of a wo
man’s face.” Whereupon I spoke—“l wonder,
Jack, you do not marry: it would make you a hap
pier man than living half vour days in the smoking
room of the Army and Navy. Why not pick up
a nice girl, and set up the family name again at
the old manor?” “Well, so I would,” said Jack,
iuterjectively between the puffs of his cutty; but
there are no girls now—they are all young ladies.
Catch me marrying a young lady.”
Georgia Wild Cats.
The Augusta Chronicle &. Sentinel gives the following
list of these much dreaded animals of this State:
Merchants Bank of Macon.
Interior Bank, Griffin.
LaGrange Bank, LaGrange.
Southern Bank, Brainbridge.
Cherokee Insurance and Banking Company, Dalton.
Planter’s and Mechanics’ Bank, Dalton.
Northwestern,Bank, Ringold,Ga.
Bank of Greensboro’, Greensboro’.
Broke. —Exchange Bank, Griffin.
Manufacturers & Mechanics’Bank, Columbus.
Distinguished Mexicans. —Gen. Frias, ‘says the Mont
gemery Confederation, one of the leaders of the Liberal
Party passed through this city last Saturday on his way to
Washington. He was accompanied by one or two friends
It is said that General Trias visits Washington with cer
tain propositions, from the Liberal. Party of his country,
which he will submit to the President andj Cabinet.
Gov. Denver of Kansas, is in Washington city, and, it is
reported, will resign the position which he holds as soon
as the election under the English bill shall take place.
The Texas and New Mexico Boundary Commission.
This commission, consisting of Mr- J. H. Clark, commis
sioner, Mr. Hugh Cambell, astronomer, and Mr, John
Weiss, surveyor, will commence operations about the Ist of
September, at a point where the 32d parallel crosses the
Rio Grande. The Secretary of the Interior has not yet
been apprised of the appointment of a commissioner on the
part of Texas.
Nicaragua Route. —The Washington Star says th e
Cabinet on Tuesday had under consideration the question
of the transit route, and it is stated that the President is de
termined to have the Nicaragua route opened, and to sus
tain any company that has a valid right. It is understood
that the Administration considers the grant ol the old Amer
ican, Atlantic and Pacific Ship Canal Company valid.
A terrible disease is said to be raging at present among
the cattle of East Florida, by which thousands of them
have recently died.
Two Story Cars. —A two story car has been invented
at Philadelphia. The upper story is reached by a small
winding stair case from below. It is not accessible to
passengers in crinoline, and it is intended for the use ol
smokers.
The Next President. —From present indications, the
contest for the next Presidency wil’. not lack interest for the
want of competition. The following entries have already
been made for the race. Howell Cobb, feenator Bright
Senator Hunter of Virginia, Senator Cameron ot Pennsyl
vania, Speaker Orr, John Slidell, Senator Brown ot Miss.,
Postmaster General A V. Brown, Jacob Thompson, C S
Dickinson, John Letcher, Vice President Brecsinridge, S.
A. Douglas, R. C. Winthrop, R. J- Walker, Gov. Wise,
Crittenden, Bell and Fillmore, Wm. L, Yancy, Seward,
Banks, Chase, Senator Trumbull ol Illinois, G. A. Grow,
of Pennsylvania, ||Judge McLean, George Cadwallader,
Humphrey Marshall and Sam Houston.
Letter from President Buchanan. —The fol
lowing letter from the Piesident was read at the
Democratic celebration in Independence square,
Philadelphia, on Monday :
Washington, July 3, 1858.
Gentlemen: I have received your very kind in
vitation to be present at the meeting of my fellow
citizens in Independence square, to celebrate the
approaching anniversary,of our national independ
ence. Would that it were in my power to accept
the invitation. This, however, is impossible. May
we ever continue to celebrate, with ardent enthu
siasm, throughout the length and breadth of the
land, each successive return of the day which gave
us birth as a nation. Whilst we do this, and thus
keep alive, from generation to generation, the
memory of the common sufferings and the common
dangers which our fathers encountered in achiev
ing our independence, the Constitution and the
Union will be preserved.
I congratulate you, with all my heart, upon the
present hopeful prospects of our country. I hum
bly trust that a kind Providence has dispelled the
angry clouds which but recently seemed to impend
over it, and that we have nearly reached the end
of those violent and exasperated sectional contro
versies which have threatened the Union.
When we contrast the present condition of our
country with what it would have been at this mo
ment had Congress adjourned without enacting
any law to mitigate the sectional strife which had
been raging for years between the States of the
Confederacy, we have every reason to be thankful
to the Supreme Ruler of nations, who has ever
interfered at the hour of our greatest need to
shield us from danger.
From your friend, very respectfully,
James Buchanan.
Monument to Gen. Marion.
A correspondent of the Darlington Flag, the
Rev. John Josey, suggests the erection of a monu
ment to Gen. Marion, whose remains, he says,
quietly sleep in his own family grave yard in Char
leston District. Now that Virginia and other South
ern States are awaking to the propriety of gather
ing up the relics of their great men who acted in
the great drama of the revolution, let not South
Carolina be insensible to the similar impressions of
patriotic gratitude. Among the memorials to revo
lutionary worth and celebrity, the “Swamp Fox”
deserves a memento in ston not less signal than
any which have received this mark of the State’s
gratitude.”— Char. News.
Personating a Murderer.
We have received a letter from Mr. W. G. Cross,
who was appointed with Col. John T. Brown to go
to Mobile alter Thos. H. Thomas, the Lee county
murderer, in which he states, that Col. Brown went
to Mobile, and instead of finding Thomas, he found
the same man who was brought to Starkville last
spring who represented himself as being Thomas,
the murderer of Cross. This man, whose name is
not stated, after he was turned loose as an impostor
at Starkville, went to Alabama, stole a horse, was
placed in Mobile Jail by the Marshal, and then for
the second time represented himself as Thomas the
murderer of Cross, and thus caused the requisition
of Gov. Brown, which we noticed in our issue of
the 34th ult. If substitutes were allowable in such
cases, we think that this personator of Thomas
might, be admitted to the honors which he seeks.
Albany Ga ., Patriot , Bth inst.
Damages for the British Outrages.— A num
ber ofcaptains whose vessels have been boarded
by the British cruisers in the Gulf, have been in
Washington asking advice of our government as
to their best means of redress. Among these was
Captain Bartlett, of the ship Clarendon , iwhich,
with her cargo, was totally lost on Salt Key Bank,
off Key West, on the Bth of May, after being boar
ded and detained off Sagua la Grande, May 2,
by her Britartic Majesty’s gunboat Buzzard. It is
said that the Secretary of the Navy has expressed
to Capt. Bartlett in the must positive manner his
topinion that the owners of the Clarendon have a
valid claim on the British government for $100..000
the value of the ship and cargo, and Messrs. Dale
& Cos., her owners, are determined to prosecute
the claim vigorously.
Terrible Accident —Six persons dashed to
pieces. —About noon on Tuesday last, four men
and two boys uscended the shaft at the gThomas
town colliery, in Schuylkill, co.,Pa., in a car rest
ing on a cage. When within a few inches of the
top, a pin upon which the cage rests when it
reaches the top, was pulled out too soon, and s the
car was not on a level with the platform suffi
ciently to permit it to be rolled off the cage. In
this position two of the wheels of the car were
rolled off the cage, but it was found impossible to
get the other wheels off. A signal was then giv
en to the engineer to hoist it a little. Unfortunate
ly, it was hoisted too high ; the car tilted, was freed
entirely from the cage; and the next instant, with
its freight of precious lives consisting of four men
& tw r o, boys was dashed down the shaft , a perpendic
ular depth of two hundred feet. The remains of the
unfortunate men and boys were after the occur
rence, removed to the surface in a shockingly
mutilated condition. Two of the men killed,
named Sullivan . and Kenwich, leave families.—
The other two, one of whom was named Brenan,
w r as unmarried. names of the two boys we
have not learned.— Schuylkill Pa., Banner.
are being made to build a railroad on
the “best practicable route from Montgomery Ala.,
via Wetumpka, to the Tennessee river, having
an especial eye to the development of the immense
mineral resources of the State, and affording a
great transit route.”
A convention was held at. Wetumpka on the sth
! inst., and the published proceedings indicate a de*
’ termination on the part of the people interested in
this measure to prosecute it to completion.
Remarkable Coincidences in the Ages of our
Presidents. —Johd Adams was eight years older
than Thomas Jefferson; Thomas Jefferson was
eight years older than James Madison; James
Madison eight years older than James Monroe ;
and James Monroe eight years older than John
Quincy Adams, who w r as elected President by the
House of Representatives ; and also eight years
older than General Jackson, w r ho received a larger
electoral and popular vote than Mr. Adams.
“woman who lives without eating” is
still aiive, and according to the common opinion of
those around her, and the testimony given in the
case, she has taken no food since the 20th Febru
ary. Her name is Mrs. Betsy Hayes, wife of Sim
eon Hayes, of Chester, N. Y. I
Columbus, Ga.
We do not believe that any inland city in the
South has made more rapid progress in commer
cial prosperity than Columbus, and it is entirely
owing to the business qualities, the enterprise of
her merchants. They are a hard working practi
cal set of men, if we may judge of them all by the
specimens whose acquaintance we have been so
fortunate as to trake. A great many of our plan
ters have been trading to Columbus, of late years,
and we are certain that they have profited by it,
for no cotton market in the west is better, and the
stocks of goods are large and are sold on good
terms, in fact the merchants, buyers of cotton and
warehousemen are liberal, and such a course will
always insure custom. Columbus in the outset of
her commercial career was singularly unfortunate,
in being filled with a hoard of reckless speculators
and fast financiers. The consequence was over
trading and utter contempt of business integrity,
by her merchants, and imprudent discounting and
swindling among her bankers; fortunately that
time has passed, and a more prudent set of trades
men and a more healthy state of banking, does not
exist in any of our cities. It is true that Colum
bus is as yet mainly dependent on other cities for
her banking facilities,but this we opine will not be
ever so, as the initiative has been taken by the
Bank of Columbus, which has already demonstra
ted that it can hold its hand with the best of them.
Itjstood the test during the late financial panic and
come through all difficulties without ever having
to suspend. The circulation of its bills is of im
mense benefit to the people of this section, as it is
convenient for tax payers to get a sufficient amount
of specie to answer their purposes. The only
complaint we hear against Columbus, is in respect
to its hotels. We cannot see why it may not have
as good hotels as Montgomery or Macon; it seems
to us that a city that has such railroad facilities,
and surrounded by such a fertile country, ought
to do as well in that line of business as any other,
especially when the charges, as we know liom ex
perience, are sufficient to warrant it.
We have already said more than we intended
to when we set out, but we do not think we have
said more than the facts will justify. Those of our
readers who wish to try Columbus, will do well to
consult our advertising columns, as we know the
gentlemen whose cards are there to be found can
be relied on.— Clayton (Ala.) Banner.
xn Texas.
The Galveston Civilian states some facts which
very clearly show the groundlessness of the appre
hension which has been indulged in respecting the
danger of an increase offiee soil sentiment in Tex
as from immigration. The Civilian shows from
the statistics that in 1850, with the exception of
persons of Mexican parents born in Texas, the en
tire population of foreign Jnrth in the State was
only twelve thousand, or thirteen and a half per
cent, of the people of the State. Sinca then the
immigration from Europe has not exceeded five
hundred per annum, including men, women and
children. The deaths among the original number
are said to have equalled the arrivals, and it is
considered to be doubtful whether the number of
persons of foreign birth in the State is now as
great as it was ten years ago, while the increase of
her population from other States of this Union has
been at least four hundred per cent. It is said, in
addition, that the foreign born fhave never shown
any disposition to change the policy of the State
in regard to slavery. —Richmond Examiner ,
The Indian Troubles —A despatch from Wash
ington dated the 7th inst., says: The news of Col.
Steptoe’s defeat is notgdoubted by the War Depart
ment, and Governor Floyd awaits in painful anxie
ty the next arrival from the Pacific. The tempo
rary Jsuccess of the Indians may embolden them
to attack the settlements, and should they do so
they have strength enough to drench the country
in blood, skilled as they are in the use of the dead
ly rifles, with which they are well supplied. Should
a general slaughter of the people take place, a fear
fnl responsibility will rest upon the United States
Senate, before which body treaties with these In
dians have been pending for three years and yet
undisposed of.
The Black Tongue. —James H. Hill, Esq., in
formed us that yesterday morning he crossed the
river on a hunting excursion. He soon siarted a
large deer, which was caught by the dogs in a run
of a few hundred yards. Upon examination, he
found the deer diseased with the “black tongue,”
which is proving so destructive in Florida and the
Southern countries. He also informs us that some
cattle in the neighborhood have been attacked with
the disease. Mr. Hili says that a friend from
Lowndes county, where this disease prevails, states
that a solution of salt, alum and coperas, used as a
wash and a drench, will effect a cure in most cases.
Sulphur is also mentioned as a remedy. —Albany
Patriot , 6 inst.
A New Yorker’s Visit to Vesuvius. — A New
York merchant, now traveling in Italy, makes, in
a letter to a friend, the following mention of the
late eruption of Vesuvius :
“I have been here at a good time to see Vesu
vius. For some days last week there had been
more or less of an eruption. The ascent of the
mountain is partly made t on horseback, but the
cone to the crater is very steep and difficult. I
found it extremely fatiguing, but persevered, and
finally stood on the very top, lorking directly into
the crater; and of all awfully, horrible places, this
caps the climax. I walked over the top, the
fumes of the sulpher nearly suffocating me, and
the blazing fire everywhere to be seen through the
crevices, while the roar of the boiling lava fell
upon the year like the waves of the ocean. In
fact, I stood upon a mere crust over the fire, and
thrusting my stick through the occasional fissures,
brought it out in a blaze. There was more dan
ger than I was aware of at thetime : —so much so
that nothing would tempt me to undertake it again
The descent on the opposite side of the mountain
is made with comparative ease. When we had
reached the bottom of the cone, we found that near
where we had made the ascent, and while we were
on the mountain, several new small craters had
broken out, and were spouting forth red-hot stones
and lava at a fearful rate. We approached as
near as safely would permit, and beheld a sight
most awful grand and sublime. It is a satisfac
tion that I have been on Vesuvius under such cir
cumstances, but I should never desire to repeat the
operation.” _ _
A Beautiful Comparison. —The sun does not
shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide
world’s joy. The lonely pine on the mountain top
waves its sombre boughs and cries, “Thou art mv
sun.
And the little meadow violet lifts its cup of blue,
and whispers with its perfumed breath, “Thou art
my sun.” And the grain in a thousand fields rus
tles in the wind, and makes answer, “Thou art my
sun.”
So God sits in heaven, not for a favored few, but
for Ihe universe of life; and there is no creature
so poor or so low that he may not look up
with child-like confidence and say, “My Father,
thou art mine.”
A Heavy Dividend. —The Fulton Insurance
Company of Mobile has declared a dividend of
fifteen per cent, for the last six months.
Backwood’s Eloquence.
A man on his trial for murder, having been found
guilty by the evidence, is supposed to have been
successfully defended by his council in the follow
ing speech, which is quite as good a warrant for
the verdict juries so often render, as the usual
reasons by which juries attempt to justify their find
ing:
“Thou shalt not kill.” Now if you hang my cli
ent you transgress the command asslick as grease
and as plump as a goose egg in a loafers lace.—!
Gentlemen, murder is murder, whether committed
by twelve jurymen or an humble individual like
my client. Gentlemen, I do not deny the fact of
my client having killed a man ! No such a thing,
gentlemen. Ye may bring the prisoner in ‘guiU
ty,’ the hangman may do his duty but that will not
exonerate you ? No such a thing. In that case
you will be murderers. Who among you is pres
pared for the brand of Cain to be stamped upon
his brow to-day ? Who, freemen ? Who in this
land of liberty and light? Gentlemen, I will pledge
my word not one of you has a bowie knife. No,
gentlemen, your pockets are odoriferous with the
fumes of cigar cases and tobacco. You can smoke
the tobacco of rectitude in the pipe of a peaceful
conscience; but, hang my unfortunate client, and
the scaly alligators of remorse will gallop through
the infernal principles of your animal viscera, until
the spinal vetebrae of your anatomical construction
is turned into a railroad, for the grim and gory
goblins of despair.
“Gentlemen, beware of committing murder!—
Beware, I say, of meddling with the eternal perog
ative ! Gentlemen, 1 adjure you, by the name of
woman, the main spring of the ticking timepiece
of time’s theoretical transmigration, to do no mur
der / I adjure you, by the love you have for the
esculent and condimental gusto of our native pump
kin, to do no murder! ladjure you, by the American
eagle that whipped the universal game cock of cre
ation, and now is roosting on the magnetic tele
graph of time’s illustrious transmigration, to do no
murder! And lastly, if you expect to wear store
made coats ; if you ever expect free dogs not to
bark at you; (if you ever expect to wear boots
made of the free hide of the Rocky Mountain buf
falo ; and, to sum up all, f you ever expect to be
anything but sneaking, low-flung, rascally braided
small ends of humanity, whittled down into indis—
tinctibility, acquit my client and save your coun
try.”
The prisoner was acquitted, of course.
Boy Love.
One of tho queerest and funniest things to
think of in afterlife, is “boy love.” No sooner does
a boy acquire a tolerable stature, than he begins
to imagine himself ajman, and to ape mannish ways.
He casts sidelong glances at the girls hejnaymeet,
becomes a regular attendant at church or meet
ings, sports a cane, carries his head erect, and
struts a little in his walk. Presently and bow very
soon, he falls in love—yes, falls is the proper
word, bee ause it best indicates his happy, delirious,
self-abasement. He lives now in a fairy region,
somewhere collateral to the world, and yet, some
how, blended inextricably with it. He perfumes
his hair with fragrant oils, scatters essences over
his handkerchief, and desperately shaves and
annoints for a beard. He quotes poetry in which
“love,” and “dove,” and “heart,” and “dart,” pe
culiarly predominate ; and, as he plunges deeper
into the delicious labyrinth, fancies himself filled
with the divine afflatus, and suddenly breaks into
a scarlet rash of rhyme. He feeds upon the looks
of his beloved ; is raised to the seventh heaven if
she speaks a pleasant word; is betrayed into the
most astonishing ecstacies by a smile; and is plun
ged in the gloomiest regions of misanthopy by a
frown.
He believes himself the most devoted lover in
the world. There never was such another.—
There never will be. He is the one great idolator!
He is the very type of magnanimity, and self ab
negation. Wealth! he despises the groveling
thought. Poverty, with the adorable beloved, he
rapturously apostrophises asthefirstof allearthly
blessings; and “Love in a Cottage with water and
a crust,” is the beau ideal paradise of dainty de
lights.
He declares to himself, with the most solemn
emphasis, that he would go through fire and water;
undertake a pilgrimage to China or Kamschatka;
swim storm-tossed oceans; scale impassable moun
tains; and face legions of bayonets, but for one
sweet smile from her dear lips. He dotes upon a
flower she has cast away. He cherishes her glove
—a little worn in the fingers—next his heart—
He sighs like a locomotive letting off steam, He
scrawls her name over quires of foolscap—fitting
medium for his insanity. He scornfully deprecia
tes the attentions of other boys of his own age; ents
Peter Tibbets dead, because he said that the ado
rable Angelina had carrotty hair, and passes Harry
Bell contemptuously for daring to compare “that
gawky Mary Jane.” with his incomparable Ange
lina.
Happy! happy! foolish boy-love! with its hopes
and its fears: its joys and its sorrows; its jealous
ies, its delights; its raptures, and its tortures; its
ecsatic favors, and terrible heart burning; its
solemn ludicrousness, and its intensely prosaic
termination.
Mrs. Partington’s Visit to the “Tainted
Field.” —The following is the full report of the
old lady’s visit to the recent Military Review on
Boston Common, as given by the Post, at her head
quarters :
“Did the Guard present arms to you, Mrs. Par
tington ?” asked a Commissary, as he met her at
the entrance of the marque. “You mean the cen
tury?” said she, smiling. “You see a soldier’s
relic should know all a soldier’s terminations. I
have heard so much of the tainted field, that I be
lieve I could deplore an attachment into line my
self, and secure them as well as an officer. You
asked me if the guard presented arms. He didn’t,
but a sweet little man with an epilepsy on his
shoulder and a smile on his face did, and asked me
if I wouldn’t go into a tent and smile. I told him
that we could both smile as well outside, when he
politely pouched his chateau and lett me.” The
Commissary presented a hard wooden stool, upon
which she reposed herself. “This is one of the
seats of war, I suppose ?” said she. “Oh, what a
hard lot the soldier is objected to ! and 1 don’t
wonder a mite at the hardening influence of a sol
dier’s life /”—“What’s that for ?” asked she, as the
noise of cannon saluted her ear. “I hope they ain t
firing on my account.” There was a solicitude in
her tone as she spoke, and she was informed that
it was only the Governor, who had just arrived
upon the field. “Dear me !” said she, “how cruel
it is to make the old gentleman come down here,
when he is so feeble that he has take his staff
with him wherever he goes.” She was so affected
at the idea that she had to take a few drops of white
wine to restore her equilibrium and to conteract the
dust from the tainted field.”
There are now no suspended banks in Alabama,
with the exception of those that had passed into
insolvency before the late panic.
The Union and Planters’ Banks, at Nashville,
Term., are selling New York sight exchange at ot.a
quarter per cent, premium.
The New Orleans Picayune of the 3d inst., says:
“Since 1853 the streets of New Orleans have not
been in a worse condition.”