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TIMES
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA.
THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 15, 18ofl
Judge {Green of tlie Lebanon (Tenn.) Law
School.
A late number of the Savannah flews contains an ar
ticle with the above caption, which concludes with the
following remark; “Judge Green is in sentiment a tree’
soiler, and we trust that his immediate expulsion from the
School at Lebanon, Tenn. will be insisted on by the press
ot the South, or Southern men counselled to withdraw
their suppoit from the Institution.
We desire to'be understood as uniting with our cotempo
rary in preferring the above charge,>nd we heartily concur
in his concluding recommendation. The proof by which
the charge is supported, is contained in a letter to the
American Tract Society, recently written by Judge Green
in which occurs the following passage. “I have not in
tended to defend'the Institution of slavery. I have long
considered it an evil—an evil (as Mr. Rives once admitted
in the Senate) morally, socially and politically. Until
within the last twentyffive years, I never heard any well
informed Southern gentleman give expression to any con
trary sentiment. About that time Mr. Calhoun first an
nounced the opinion, that the institution was a desirable
one. Now, many Southern men, following Mr. Calhoun,
and pressed by aggressive attacks from the North hold
the same opinion. But 1 have never sympathized with this
sentiment. I hold slavery to be an evil—-a greater evil to
the master than to the slave.” |
We mistake greatly if there is not a perfect coincidence
between the above opinions and the abolition articles of
faith. Should fanaticism multiply a thousand fold, until it
inaugurated the bloodiest persecution that ever scourged
the earth, Judge Green would never be touched for a her
etic- We do not see what more abolitionism can demand
or hope than the prevalence of such sentiments. 1 hat
which is morally, socially and politically an evil, should
be abolished immediately, without regard to consequences
No views of policy—no considerations of safety can justi
fy perseverance in essential sin. What would be thought
of the moral and intellectual calibre of the man who
would say that robbery, arson, and murder should be abo
lished gradually? No; if slavery be the evil which Judgo
Green thus declares, the master should liberate his slave—
liberate him now, and, if he did not, the slave should es
cape, or revolt authority.
These conclusions cannot be avoided if the above prem
ises be granted, and .the rankest abolitionist that ever
frothed his venom on the institutions ot the South never
desired more.
Our watchful cotemporary of the Montgomery Adver
tiser t promptly exposed the character of such sentiments,
and warned the South not to place “her sons within the
reach of such an influence- Judge Green, to ward ofl the
effect of this timely blow, writes a letter to the editor in
which he resorts to a subterfuge that would be discredible
to the intelligence of the youngest pupil in his school, In
that letter occurs the following language:
“This paragraph (the one we have quoted from his for
mer does not assert that in the relation of master
and slave, there is ? anything wrong. Such an opinion
was never entertained by me, nor was any such sentiment
intended to be conveyed in the part of my letter referred
to. I say that slavery is an evil —“a greater evil to the
master than to the slave.” Of course, if there were
any moral suilt in the relation—the evil would consist in
a crime perpetrated upon the slave, by the master. In
that case, the slave was the sufferer. But my position in the
letter is, that the master is the principal sufferer. That
as an incident to the institution of slavery, evils resul t
to the white race, among whom we are.”
Slavery is a condition —a condition which involves nec
essarily the relation of master and slave. (Perhaps, Judge
Green’s Metaphysics can inform us how the one may exist
without the other.) Now to contend that there is moral
guilt in the condition but Done in the relation presents, to
our mind, rather a curious specimen of argumentative ab
surdity. But slavery is “a greater evil to the master than to
the slave”—conversely, slavery is a lesser evil to the slave
than to the master—still, an evil to both. Again, “the master
is the principal sufferer,”—ear vi termini the slave is the sec „
ondary sufferer. Judge Green’s revised edition ofhis aboli
tion dogma declares then this monstrous proposition : a rela
tion springing naturally and necessarily from a condition tha t
is a moral, social and political evil, may affect, in different
degrees, injuriously the parties to that re’ation, but involves
no moral guilt. The truth of this proposition, wo confess, is
quite beyond our comprehension. We will not pursue the
subject farther. The attention we have given it assures us
that the subject of this article is not a proper man to in
struct Southern youth. Let the Southern press speak out.
Wesleyan Female College.
On Sunday last (says the Journal tj Messenger) the
Commencement exercises oi this Institution were opened
by an eloquent and impressive discourse from the Rev. Dr
L. Pierce. His theme was “The Appropriate Adornment
of Woman,” and was well suited to the spirit of the age.—
It commanded deep attention irom an overflowing audito.
ry.
The examination of the pupils in the various depart
ments,which terminated on Monday,we learn from a mem
ber of the Board of Visitors, was thorough and eminently
satisfactory. Tuesday and Wednesday were to be, as usu
al, devoted to Senior Compositions, Baccalaureate Ad
dress, and Oration by the Hon. Washington Poe, which
of course weeannot notice until next week. We are gra
tified to observe so large an attendance of visitors from
abroad, and the lively interest exhibited in the exercises
and welfare of this cherished institution. We are happy
to state that its condition and prospects were never more
cheering.
jJSIP’ It is asserted that a man marrying now-a
days marries a great deal more than he bargained
for. He not only weds himself to a woman, but a
laboratory (of prepared chalk, a quintal of whale
bone, eight coffee bags, four basnets of novels, one
poodle dog, and a system of weak nerves that will
keep four servants and three doctors around-your
house most of the time.
The perpetrator of the above has, we doubt not, been
kicked a dozen or more times and, yet, he will not let the
ladies alone. Won’t somebody marry him and subdue his
obstinacy ? This same fellow is forever trying to get up
a sensation upon “long skirts,” “spacious crinolines” and
“saucer bonnets,” and if he could only be persuaded that
the ladies care as little for what he says as they do for
him, his occupation would be gone. But, valueless in their
estimation as his opinion is, they know that he is not sin
cere. They know that, with the promise of a smile, they
could make him don a lady’s apparel, himself, crinoline
a nd all and eat the little “poodle” besides. His criticisms,
therefore can neither induce amendment nor give offence.
The sentiment they excite, is related more nearly to pity
than resentment. He should remember that reprehension,
in order to be effective must be honest and impartial.—
Why does he not berate the men lor their fashionable fail
ings ? We have heard that bills were occasionally made
out against them for wigs, hair dye, false teeth &c., and,
were it a marketable commodity, we know a reason why a
few should purchase something else. Why did he not re*
lieve his inflated folly with a bit of fact and say that a
woman marrying now-a-days marries a great deal less than
she bargained for, excepting patent leather and whiskers'?
Dan it.be that he was afraid ?
South-Western Rail Road.
We learn fiom the Savannah Republican, that the
Branch from this road leading to Dawson, in Terrell coun
ty, has been completed. The road was opened for
business on the 7th inst., and on the 22d, the people of Daw
son and vicinity, will give a Barbecue, in honor of the ad
vent of the Iron Horse.
News from Washington.
The Mobile Register finds the following in the corres
pondence of the New York Herald.
Mr. Forsyth, in his despatches says, that while he lias
ceased to hold diplomatic intercourse with the government
of Zuloaga, he deemed it better to remain in Mexico to
afford protection to American citizens if needed, and un
til he could learn the views ot his government as to ns
course. While the administration view the action of t e
Zulaoga government, with regard to the forced contn u
tions, as an impolitic stretch ot power, and injurious to
American citizens, it has not yet decided it to be a \io a
tion of treaties. Attorney General Black has the matter
under consideration, and will soon submit his views to t e
President. We have a treaty with Mexico, based on the
treaty made by that Republic previously with England,
forbidding the imposition of a forced loan or contribution.
The question for the Attorney General to decide, then, is
this: is a forced loan against the terms ot the treaty?
Monsieur Bellv had a long interview with Gen* Cass,
when he took occasion to lay down his entire magnificen
scheme of a ship canal by the Isthmus of Nicaragua. ©
is enthusiastic of success. He does not now pretend to
have any connection with the French government, an
seems specially desirous of forming an American connec
tion, and of securing the good .opinion of the American
public.
Lord Malmesbury had the politeness to send his speech
on the right of search question to General Cass.
Baron Wettersteut yesterday presented his credentials to
the President, and was received as minister resident ©i the
King of Sweden and Norway. The former minister at
Washington, Chevalier Sibbern, has lately been appointed
Swedish Minister at Constantinople.
The Telegraph Fleet.
New York, July 22.— An arrival at St. .Johns announ
ces the opinion that three of the vessels of the cable fleet
were seen on the 24th June in latitude 50 deg 32’ North,
and 32’ West. There was a heavy swell, but the weath
er continued moderate and thick, until the 3d of July,
when there were strong gales from the Southwest.
News from the Cable Fleet.
New York, July 13.—The ship Windsor Forest has ar
rived at Quebec, and the Captain states that he w T as in
company with the steamships Niagara and Agamemnon
for three days, and parted with them on the 20th ot June-
The weather at that time was fine, but on the 2tth, and irom
that time until the 29th of June, heavy South-west winds
prevailed.
Arrival of the Isabel.
Charleston, July 12.—The Isabel has arrived from
Havana, which port she left on the 10th instant.
Sugar was active and firm; Molasses inactive. Freights
dull. Sterling twelve a thirteen, and northern exchange
two to three per cent, premium.
Arrival of the Empire City.
New Orleans, July 13.-The steamship Empire City,
with late news from Calilornia has arrived.
The news is not of general interest.
The Empire City reports that the steamship Star of the
West is en route to New York with one million five hun
dred thousand dollars in treasure.
St. Louis, July 10. —The river is falling an inch an hour.
The upper streams are receding.
Illness of Gen. Quitman.
Natchez, Miss., July 13 —Gen. John A. Quitman is
very ill in this city, and doubts are entertained of his re
covery.
From Utah.
St. Louis, July 12.—The news from Utah is favorable-
Col Johnson was to resume his march to the valley on
the 17th. An express from the city said that thß army
would be peaceably received, but Col. Johnson did not
appear to be very confident of this result.
Savannah, Albany & Gulf Railroad Company.—
The Savannah Republican of the 14th, alluding to the
fifth Annual Report of the above Company, says: ’Though
short, it contains much interesting information in connec
tion with that important improvement, in which Savannah
has embarked so much ofher capital and her hopes. The
showing in the report appears satisfactory. The road, in
spite of all the serious obstacles that impeded its progress,
has been completed to its western terminus, where “com
mences the great Main Trunk line that is to connect us
with the Gulf, at Pensacola or Mobile. The actual cost
of construction, it will be seen, is below’ the original esti
mate, and that notwithstanding the appreciation of labor,
materials, and all the necessaries of life. For this result we
are indebted, in a great part, to the economy and good
management of the officers to whom the interests of the
Company have been intrusted.
Wm. Gilmore Simms, the Novelist and Poet, is named
for U. S. Senator from South Carolina.
Laurens Hamilton, a member of the New York Guard
that escorted the remains of President Monroe to Rich
mond, and a grand-son of Gen. Alexander Hamilton, fell
from the steamer Glen Cove, in James River, and was
drowned.
2^°By request of a member of the legal profession in
this city we publish an article from the Wilkes Republican
by Mr. W. M. Reese containing the correction of an error
in his Manual for Ordinaries, Executors, Administrators
and Guardians.
r July 9. —Mr. Douglas was received
here with a grand display. He made a speech de
fending his political course and the Dred Scott de
cision, and re-endorsed the Democratic platform.
Fireworks were discharged in several parts of the
town. Twenty thousand persons were estimated
to be in attendance.
Buffalo, July 9.—H. C. Gilbert, commercial
editor of the Buffalo Commercial Advertiser , and
commercial reporter of the Associated
Dress, was instantly killed this morning by the
falling of a scaffold at No. 14 Central wharf.
Mr. Robert McFaddin was found killed opposite
his plantation, near Greensboro’, Ala., a few days
ago. His death was probably caused by a fall from
his horse.
The Yellow Fever South, —Private letters
received at New York from the Gulf shore of
Louisiana, speak of the yellow fever prevailing in
that region to some extent, and occa.-ioning not a
little uneasiness among ihe inhabitants. A few
cases have also occurred at New Orleans.
Ladies’ Equestrian Convention. —Among the
novelties in store in New York is a ladies’ Nation
al Equestrian Convention, to be held on the Bth
days of September, at the Union Race Course,
Long Island. Among the inducements :‘to enter
the list” on the occasion is the offer of three prizes
to be awarded to the best female riders. The lady
adjudged the most skillful in feats of manage will
receive a splendid piano forte, valued at not less
than SSOO, To the second best compettor will be
presented a massive silver pitcher and goblet of
the valne of S3OO The third best will be awarded
an enameled and gold watch at S2OO. Ladies
Irom every section of the United State;, who are’
adepts in the healthy and ennobling exercise of
horsemanship, are cordially invited to unite in
competition for the valuable premiums intended
to promote an admiration for the scien ce*t)f equita
tion.
Study French.
The policy of learning something ot the hrench lan
guage before vising France is recommended bv the awk
ward position in which our unsophisticated countrymen are
sometimes placed in that country. For instance:
An American in Paris went to a restaurant to
get his dinner. Unacquainted with the French
language, yet unwilling to show his ignorance, he
peinted to the first line on the bill of fare, and the
polite wa'ter brought him a plate of fragrant beef
soup. This was very well, and when it was dis
patched he pointed to the second line. The waiter
understood him perfectly, and brought him vege
table soup. “Rather more soup than I wanted,”
thought he, “but it is the Paris fashion."’ He duly
pointed Jo the 3rd line, and a plate of tapioca broth
was brought him; again to the 4th, and was furnish
ed with a bowl of preparation ot arrow-root. He
tried the filth line, and was supplied with some
gruel kept for invalids. The bystanders now sup
posed they saw an unfortunate individual who had
lost all his teeth ; and our friend, determined to get
as far from the soup as possible, pointed in despair
to the last line on the bill of fare. The intelligent
waiter, who saw at once what he wanted, politely
handed him a bunch of tooth-picks. This was too
much—our countryman paid his bill, and inconti
nently left.
From the Macon Telegraph July 13.
Important Decision.
In our last issue we noticed a decision of the
Supreme Court which declared the act exempting
monthly wages of journeymen mechanics and
weekly and daily wages from attachment and gar
nishment in force. Since then another case has
been decided which is of no little importance to the
officers of the various city governments of this
State. The facts of the case to which we
allude were as follows: One Mrs. Harriet E. Ex
perience held a judgment against John A. Holt,
one of our city policemen, and upon this judgment
sued out a writ ot garnishment against the Mayor
and Council of the city of Macon for the salary ot
Holt. One of the officers of the city government
having answered that they were indebted to Holt,
counsel for plaintiff moved to enter up judgment
against the Mayor and Council for the amount of
such indebtededness, which was resisted by Holt’s
counsel, upon the ground that there was no law
authorising the issuing of garnishments against a
municipal corporation for the salary of its offi
cers.
The magistrates before whom the case was first
tried, overruled defendant’s objections, and enter
ed up judgment on the answer. Holt’s counsel ex
cepted and carried the case up on a writ of certi
orari to the Superior Court. Here the certiorari
was overruled upon the grounds that the repeal
ing clause of the act of 1855-’56, repealed all other
acts upon the subject of attachment and garnish
ment—that oflßso not excepted; and that the body
of the act of 1855-’56 contemplates municipal as
well as other corporations. Defendant’s counsel
appealed from this decision to the Supreme Court,
where the judgment of the Court below was re
versed. In delivering the decision, his honor,
Judge Lumpkin, said that it was very questionable
whether a municipal corporation ever has been a
subject of garnishment; certainly not before the act
of 1823, and that it was a legitimate construction
of this act to say that it referred only to private
and not to public corporations. A municipal cor
poration is a municipal government, having all co
ordinate departments of a complete government,
and is something more than a private corporation.
The second section of the act of 1850, confering
the power ofgarnisheeing the salary of the officers
of other corporations where such salary does not
exceed five hundred dollars per annum, expressly
excepts municipal corporations from the process of
garnishment. Although the act of 1855-’56 re
peals all other acts upon the subject of attachment
and garnishment, it has nothing to do with that
of 1850, which was passed for the purpose of ex
empting effects from being garnisheed.
The case was argued with considerable ability by
O. A. Loehrane and John Lamar, Attorneys for
plaintiff in error, and Massey and Whittle for de
fendants.
Complimentary Dinner. —A great dinner is to be
given on the 22d instant at Beach Island, in honor
ofSenator Hammond’s return home. The entire
Carolina and Georgia delegations in Congress are
invited to attend. Large and munificent prepara
tions ate making, as we understand, to entertain an
immense number. From the well-known spirit and
hospitality of the Beech Islanders, we predicta glo
rious day. It will be a rich treat enough, to hear
our distinguished Senator speak to his beloved
constituents in “thoughts that breathe and words
that burn.” But when,superadded to this, a noble
feast shall grace the day, and the presence of a high
strung auditory animate the grove, while strains of
exciting music shall blend all hearts in harmony
and enthusiasm, may we not safely reckon upon a
really delightful occasion. Who will go?—may
we not rather ask —“who will not go?” It will be
a pleasure to us all, to join in this demonstration
of applause to the civic hero in whose honor the
dinner is given. It may be, too, that we shall there
see some of the other Congressmen of the two
States. Wo have heard with pleasure that Gen.
Bonham will probably speak. So perhaps will one
or more of the members from Georgia. Let us
then go down like an army with banners and enjoy
the ample hospitality of our generous Beech Island
neighbors. —Edgefield Advertiser.
Type-Setting and Distributing Machine. —Mr.
T. Alden, of this city, has invented, after many
years of experimenting, a very ingenious machine
for the composition and distribution of types. The
mysteries of the invention cannot be explained with
sufficient brevity for these columns, but the chief
merit of the thing, in which it excels other contri
vances of the kind, is : that the type are set and
distributed by one and the same machine (by keys,)
instead of separately as before. The processes by
which the little bits of metal are caught up and put
down again just in the right places, with never a
blunder except when the human agency at the ma
chine makes one; the way in which the type are
fed out and returned again through an endless
round, so that the distribution keeps up a constant
supply for the composition: and the cunning de
vices by which a thousand little practical difficul
ties are overcome, are evidences of a marvelous in
genuity on the part of the inventor, and show what
thought and perseverance can accomplish. Mr.
I Alden thinks that a good compositor, accustomed
to manipulate the keys, would be able to set and
distribute about 15,000 ems a day. The cost of
the machines will probably be from $1,200 to
$1,500 —JxV. Y. Jour, of Commerce.
Mutiny and Strike on boad the Vanderbilt. —
Just as the steamship Vanderbilt left her pier at
noon yesterday, says the New York Herald of the
sth inst., and headed down the river to proceed
on her voyage to Europe, the majority of her
crew resolved on a mutiny, and struck for higher
wages. The captain, however immediately had
the ship’s head turned up the river and the muti
neers sent ashore. In quick time a cosmopolitan
crew was taken on board, being gathered from
about the piers iu the vicinity of where the stea
mer was lying, and the Vanderbilt sailed in one
hour afterwards as though nothing had happened.
She carried out 346 passengers and $264,451 in
specie.
Baltimore.
It ia melancholy to think, when nearly all our
cities were jubilant with homage, praise, and glad
ness for the retnrn ot another anniversary ot our
national independence, all marked by the good or
der and patriotism that should ever honor the day
and the occasion, that Baltimore! stands alone
as an exception. She could not let that glorious
day pass off with her share ot peace and older
and honor. Murder demanded its victims, and the
fiend spirit that lurks in her midst obeyed the call,
and the tragic onslaught of organized ruffians ac
complished their work of death within the retired
grove where the “Sabbath school attached to the
Broadway Baptist Church” had assembled for in
nocent recreation. The murder of a delenceless
lad in the midst of that festive little circle stimu-
lated the demoniac spirit of this ruffian band for
more blood, and they sought it on another field,
and added more victims to the list of murder. —
When the hallowed day of the nation and sanctity
of the Sabbath school, and the claims of innocent
childhood, and Ihe office of pious teachers and
pious parents plead in vain for the ruffian to stay
his hand, and the obligations of law and the penal
ties of its violation and its ministers are'all put at
defiance, it shows that there is “something rotten
in the State of Denmark.’ Can and will Baltimore
live under the rule of the mob? or will she main
tain the supremacy of her laws, protect the peace
and safety of society, enforce a healthful moral re
generation, and redeem her honor from the guilty
stain of blood ? She must make her election to
ignominiously surrender to the brute force of law
less ruffians, or to maintain the supremacy of law
and of every right that dignifies and honors an
enlightened and Christian community. In all
kindness, we say to our sister city she should not
hesitate to do what is expected of her by those
who know her history forjgallantry and honor. —
Washington Union.
An Interesting- Discovery. —We see it stated,
upon what may be considered reliable authority,
that thirty thousand Christians have recently been
found upon an island north of Celebes. It has been
rumored for a time, that there was there a Chris
tian people, forgotten and forsaken, which, how
ever, yet possessed three Bibles, and continued
steadfast in the faith. When missionaries first
landed on the island, they met with a school teach
er and his pupils, who repeated in the Malayan
tongue, “As the heart panteth after the water
brooks, so panteth my soul after Thee, O. Lord.*’
No Bibles were found, but the most precious
promises of the Bibles written upon the bark of
trees. They knew the Apostle’s Creed, and the
Heidelberg Catechism, and had Christian customs.
Twenty churches and schools yet existed. Through
the instrumentality of paster Heldring, founder of
the Magdalen Asylum at Steenbeck, and chief pa
tron of Inner Missions in Holland, four mission
aries, who had been educated under the venerable
Gossner, were sent out, and three thousand persons
baptized.
This is certainly a most interesting discovery.
The island on which these Christians were found
belongs to the East Indian Archipelago. The
Dutch have for years had political rule in this re
gion. This may account for the original introduc
tion of Christianity among this people, and for
fact that the Heidelberg Catechism was still found
in their possession. But still the particular time
and circumstances in wnich this introduction took
place may well challenge special attention, and
elicit investigation from those who have the leisure
and facilities for prosecuting it.— German Reformed
Messenger.
An Indian Lover. —Miss Bishop, the writer of
“Floral Home,” who went to Minnesota as a teach
er, received an offer of marriage from an Indian.
He came to her dwelling decked in all his finery
—scarlet flannel, rings, feathers, newly scoured
brass ornaments, and bears claws—and through
an interpreter announced to her that she must be
his wife. It was urged that he had one wife. He
replied, “All the band have as many as they can
keep, and I have but te one.” As an extra induce
ment he promised that she should have the best
corner of his lodge, hunt by his side, and eat with
him, while the dark squaw was to hush the pap
oose, cook the food, carry the game, plant and hoe
the corn, and provide wood and water.” Miss
Bishop, a little in fear of the “green eyed monster”
even if the other claimant did hold an inferior po
sition, declined the distinction. The Indian then
begged a dollar to buy a shirt, and left with a
haughty air. Next day he was drunk. But Miss
Bishop’s associate almost fared worse; she had
been only a few weeks in the country, and was
ignorant of Indian customs; a young warrior,smit
ten with her, called often; hoping to be rid of him
she gave him a ring; he interpreted it as a token
of partiality, and returned to take her to his lodge;
the next day he returned again with six young
braves to compel her to go with him. Explana
tions and interference saved her.
A Lady takes a Cocktail. —A lady passenger on
board the steamer Montgomery dressed herself in
her sleeping husband’s vest, coat, boots, hat, and
pants, and thus attired came out of her state room,
and went forward to the bar in the gentleman’s
cabin, took her “morning bitters,” and returned to
the ladies’ cabin, where her appearance created
great consternation, especially among the ladjes
en dishabille. It was said to be amusing to see
the ladies “dartihg” into their state rooms and
screaming out that a man was intruding himself;
but when the excitement was at its highest pitch
her hat fell off, displaying a profusion of curls,
which explained everything, except a small bet won
from her husband.— Vicksburg (Miss.) Sun.
Receipts [for Beer. — Temperance beer. —Boil
for about five minutes or over, a small handful of
hops in four or six quarts of water, when cool to
blood heat, Strain off the hops, add to the liquor
one teaspoonful of cream tartar, one teacup of mo
lasses, one of yeast. Let it stand about twenty- j
four hours—it is then fit for use—will keep good
but two or three days.
Ginger Beer. —For one gallon of boiling water,
take one pound loaf sugar, one ounce best ginger,
one ounce of cream tartar, one quarter ounce tar
taric acid, when nearly cold add one tabiespoon
ful of yeast or thirty drops essence
lemon. Then bottle and corktight. In two days
it will be fit for use.— Rural New Yorker.
Mrs, Partingtonjon Homestead Exemption. —
“Homestead exemption,” exclaimed Mrs. Parting
ton, throwing down the paper, “it’s come to a
pretty pass, indeed, that men are going to exempt
themselves from home just when they please, with
out apy proviso for cold nights*”
A tipsy Irishman, leaning against a lamp-post
as a funeral procession was pasing by, was asked
who was dead.
“I can’t exactly sav. sir; but I presume it is the
jiDtleman in the coffin!”
Mr. A. F. Snow, of Brunswick, Me., says a few
applications of castor oil will kill any kind of warts
on man or beast, without soreness.
“Am i not a little pale?” inquired a lady, who
was short and corpulent, of a crusty old bachelor.
“You look more like a big tub,” was the quick
reply.
LATER FROM EUROPE.
ARRIVAL OF THE
CANADA,
St. Johns, N. F. July 12. —The British and North Am.
Royal Mail Steamship, Captain J. W. Lang was boarded
off Cape Race to-day by the steam ‘yacht belonging to
the Associated Press. The Canada briDgs Liverpool dates
to Saturday July 3d.
Commercial.
Liverpool ,Cotton Market.— The sales of cotton
for the six business days,, previous to the departure of the
Canada, reached 77,000 bales, of which speculators took
11,000 and exportersß,ooobales. All qualities had ad
vanced, and while some circulars report from id to 3-16d
others report the advance from id to *d. The following
are the
QUOTATIONS :
Fair Orleans 7.id
Fair Mobile 7 716d
Fair Upland 7id
Middling Orleans .7 l-6d
Middling Mobile ...7d
Middling Uplands 6ld.
The stock on hand amounted to 629,000 bales of which
552,000 were American.
The sales of iwere 12,000 bales, with a firm
market,;
State of Trade. —Advices from the manufacturing dis
tricts continued favorable and holders demanded an ad
vance.
Liverpool Breadsluffs Market • —Flour 1 was firm, and
had advanced 6d. Wheat was buoyant, and had advan
ced from Id to 2d. in consequence of ,the drought on the
continent. Corn was dull.
Liverpool General 31arkets —Rice was buoyant at an
advance of 3d on the spot, and Is. if afloat. Rosin was
firm at 4s to 4s Id. Spirits Turpentine was dull at 4756d.
Latest.— Liverpool, Saturday Afternoon, July 3. Tho
cotton market was steady to-day, with sales of 10,000
bales.
General News.
General nows by this arrival is unimportant.
The bill to allow Jews to hold; seats in the House of
Commons was passed to a third reading in the House of
Lords, by forty-six majority.
Parliament will be prorogued in July.
The news lrom France is unimportant.
The Spanish Ministry have lesigned, and anew cabi
net formed. O’Donnell is the Minister of Foreign Affairs-
Marshal Ney’s Daath-Scene.
The vengeance of the Allied Powers demands
some victims; and the intrepid Ney, who had
well-nigh put the crown again on Bonaparte’s
head at Waterloo, was to be one of them. Con
demned to be shot, he was led to the Garden of
Luxemburg, on the morning of the 7th of Decem
ber, and placed in front of a file of soldiers, drawn
up to kill him. One of of the officers stepped up
to bandage bis eyes, but he stopped him, saying,
‘Are you ignorant that for twenty-five years I have
been accostomed to face both ball and bullet?’—
He then lifted his hat above his head, and with
the same calm voice that had steadied his columns
so frequently, in the roar and tumult of battle,
said, ‘I declare, before God and man, that I never
betrayed my country ; may my death render her
happy. Vive la France !’ He then lurned to the
soldiers, and striking his hand on his heart, gave
order,‘Soldiers, fire!’ A simultaneous discharge
followed, and the ‘bravest of the brave’ sank to
rise no more. ‘He who had fought five hundred
battles for France, not one against her, was shot as
a traitor!’ As I looked on the spotjwhere he fell, I
could not but sigh over his fate. True, he broke
his oath of allegiance —so did others, carried away
by their attachment to Napoleon and the enthusi
asm that, hailed his approach to Paris. Still, he
was no traitor.
Guyzot on Bonapart. —Since (writes the
French statesman in his ‘Memoirs’) I have had
some share in the government of men, I have
learned to do justice"to the Emperor Napoleon.—
He was endowed with a genius incomparbly ac
tive and powerful; much to be admired for his an
tipathy to disorder, for his profound instincts in ru
ling, and for his energetic in reconstruc
ting the social frame work. But his genius had
no check, acknowledged no limits to his desires or
will, either emanating from Heaven or man, and
thus remained revolutionary while combatting rev
olution; thoroughly acquainted with the general
conditions of society, but imperfectly or rather
coarsely, understanding the necessities of
human nature; sometimes satisfying them with
the {[soundest judgment, and at others depreci
ating and insulting them with impious pride. Who
i could have believed that the same man who had
established r the Concordat, and reopened the
churches in France, would have carried off the
Pope from Rome, and kept him a prisoner at
Fontainbleau? It is going too far to apply the same
ill-treatment to philosophers and Christians, to
reason and faith. Amongst the great men of his
class, Napoleon was by far the most necessary lor
the times. None but himself could so quickly and
effectually substitute order in fplace of anarchy,
but no one was so chimerical as to the future; toi,
after having been master of France and Europe he
suffered Europe to drive him from France. His
name is greater and more enduring than his ac
tions, the most brilliant of which, his conquests,
disappeared suddenly and forever, with himself.—-
in rendering homage to his exalted qualities, I feel
no regret at not having appreciated them until a
- his death. For me, under the empire, there
was too much of the arrogance of power, too much
contempt of right, too much revolution, and too
little liberty. _
Mysteries of the Queen of Portugal's Toilette.
A frightful discovery was made in the chamber oi
the Queen of Portugal after she quitted Brussels.
Two or three fine ladies of that capital, being in
quisitive about royalty, searched every hole and
corner of the bed-room her Majesty occupied.—
They found a large plait ot false hair for the back
of the head, small plaits for the fiont ot the head,
hair dye, white paint, and rogue. The Queen of
Portugal is not yet twenty years old. The young
King, her’husband,gbehaved rather* ungallantly on
her arrival; he did not join her until she had been
in Lisbon an hour, being engaged in council when
she reached the quay.
General Arnold. —During the traitor Arnold’s
predatory operations in Virginia, in 1781, he took
an American captain prisoner. After some gener
al conversation, he asked the captain, ‘W hat he
thought the Americans would do if they
caught him ? The captain declined at first giving
an answer; but, upon being repeatedly urged, he
said, ‘Why, sir, if I must answer the question, you
will excuse my telling you the truth : if my coun
trymen should catch you, I believe they would first
cut off your lame leg, which was wounded in the
cause of freedom and virtue at Quebec, and bury
it with the honors of war, and afterwards hang the
remainder of your body upon a gibbet.
Education is a companion which no misfortune
cm depress —no crime des'.oy—no enemy alienate
—no despotism enslava, A‘ home, a friend
abroad, an introduction—in solitude, a soiace
and in society, an ornament, It chastens wee
it guides virtne—it gives at once, grace and 4 go\*>
ernment to genius—without it, what is man .
splendid slave—a reasoning savage !