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TIMES & SENTINEL
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA.
TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 20, 1858,
Jcflerson Davis on the Union.
This distinguished Senator from Mississippi, who is re
garded as the very embodiment ot States Rights and
State sovereignty, and who has won his fair name by a
sirict devotion to our Constitutional’rigfots, is beginning
to shout praises for the Union! A Union, which is alrea
dy dissolved so far as lraternal feeling between t e wo
sections is concerned, has just burst forth in all its eauty
upon the bright vision of this Presidential aspirant, na
recent speech delivered on the 4th July on oar as ip
bound for Boston from Baltimore, Mr. Davis is reported
to have said: _
“And this great country will continue united. I rifling
poliflcians in the South or in the North, or in the West,
may continue o talk otherwise, but it will be ol no avail.
They are like the musquitoes around the ox—they annoy,
but they cannot wound, and never kill- There was a
common interest which run through all the diversified oc
cupations and various products of these'sovereign States;
there was a common sentiment of nationality which beat
in every American bosom; there were common memories
sweet to us all, and though clouds had occasionally dark
ened our political sky, the good sense and good feeling
of the people had thus far averted any catastrophe destruc
tive ol our Constitution and the Union. It was in frater
nity, and an elevation of principle which rose superior to
sectional or individual aggradizement, that the foundations
of our Union were laid; and if we, the present generation
be worthy of our ancestry, we shall not only protect
those foundations from destruction, but build higher and
wider this temple of liberty, and inscribe perpetuity upon
its tablet.”
We have no objection to the above extract, except the
prophesy that the Union ,l will continue united” notwith
standing “trifling politicians in the South, or in the North
or in the West, may continue to talk otherwise.” This
precludes the idea that such a state of things could exist
as would justify all Union, but Southern Constitutional
rights men, from resisting the encroachments of tyranny
and usurpation of unjust authority and power which a pro
per eeP-respect might demand. Au antagonism exists now
between the two sections as bitter as that of the Saxon
and Gaul and while we would not hasten a separation by
any hasty or imprudent act,yet we.cannot bow submissively
to a gallingyoke before penetrating the veil beyond which
Unionism sits enthroned.
The country “will continue united” only by an observ
ance of those rights on the part of each section, which is
guaranteed by the Constitution, and which it is the sacred
duty or every good citizen to honor and protect. This is
he extent of our homage for the Union of these States.
We regret the speech of Mr. Davis; a few more like it,
and the prestage oi that name at the South, will be po
tent only for evil.
Mexico—Mr. Forsyth. Sustained.
Wesometimesince sustained Mr. John Forsyth in re
sisting the extraordinury tax imposed upon the property o *
American citizens by the Zuloago government in Mexico,
and thought the tax imposed a forced loan, as the tax
payers received for the sums extorted from them, shares in
a national bank. The treaty of 1831, quoted by Mr For
syth, in which the United States wero to enjoy privileges
and immunities equal to those of the most lavored nations,
and the recital ol the one existing between Great Britain
and Mexico, in which it is expressly stated that no forced
Joan shall be imposed on British subjects, settled, we
thought, the legality aiSt correctness of Mr. Forsyth’s po
sition. The question has been submitted to Attorney Gen
eral Black, who has given the subject that consideration
which its magnitude justly merits, and the result of his in
vestigations is most flattering to the sound judgment of
our Minister. Mr. B lack sustains Mr. Forsyth and ar
gues that a general tax may be imposed according to the
usual forms for legitimate purposes, yet the collection of
money in the manner proposed is a forced contribution
which is forbid by existing treaties between the two Gov
ernments.
Mr. Douglas’ Spcecli.
In another column will be found a synopsis of the speech
delivered by Senator Douglas at the reception given him
in|Chicago. defining his position before the country, lie re*
iers to the English bill, and gives his reasons tor opposing
it. Thinks it a “submission of the constitution to the
peoplo with the threat that if they did not accept a slave
Constitution, its 33,000 j inhabitants „ should “not come
in as a free State untill it had 93,000.” That he could
never “countenance such a discrimination between free and
slave States.” He defended the Dred Scott decision. Did
not think with his competitor for Senatorial honors, Mr.
Lincoln, that it was a “great wrong to deprive a negro ot
the right ot citizenship—that they were never intended to
be citizens.”
So much for Mr. Douglas’s speech. He has been his
greatest enemy. His ambition has overleaped itself. He
bowed the knee betore the altar of Black Republicanism,
and is now being sacrificed as a victim. His old enemies
glory in their offering, and shout pa3ans ot joy as the in
cense rises. His proud spirit will not do ; penance, and the
Democratic Party will not embrace him while he seeks to
mar its principles with .the thrusts of demagoguism, and
. false doctrines of popular sovereignty.
. “But yesterday, the word of Cajsar might
Have stood against the world; now lies he there,
And none so poor to do him reverence !”
Death of Gen. John A. Quitman.
This distinguished gentleman died at his residence near
Natchez, Mississippi, on the 17th inst. Seldomhas it been
our lortune to chronicle.an event that filled us with a
keener sorrow. Never did a heavier calamity fall upon a
people than this dispensation inflicts upon 4 the S,outh. At
a period when,more than ever, stie needed the firm coun
sel and sustaining arms of her true children, has “thi chief
among her champions fallen. Gen. Quitman was the
personification of Southern chivalry and honor. “Original
and unaccommodating, the features of his character had
the hardihood of antiquity.” The dreams of federal pro
motion, the blandishments of official station could not
blunt his sensibility to the slightest wound inflicted upon
his loved and injured section. The stern, persistent de
mand for her rights,the passionate devotion to her interests
and her honor, which illustrated the years of his political
life, will forever enshrine his memory in the hearts of her
people. To*day, this stricken mother which adopted and
cherished him, and whom he loved so well, mourns the
loss of her favorite son. We would not dry her teaars. —
It is meet she should bend at his grave and weep.
The Revival.
The revival of religion which ,has been progressing in
our city for more than two months past, has at last ceased
its labors. Fiom the best information we could receive, it
appears that more than five hundred persons have been
brought within the pale of the different churches during
this period. The Methodist Church has received into its
membership two hundred and fifty one persons on proba
tion and twenty by letter. Tho Baptist Church, one hun
dred by experience, baptism and letter. The Presbyterian
Church one hundred,and the Episcopal Church about
forty-five. This number does not include the Blacks,
who have connected themselves with the different churches.
A majority of those converted, we belive, have unitited
with the Baptist Church.
Thus it will be seen that a great work has been going
on in this city, which will be felt in coming years.
Mr: Toombs.
This gentleman is now in Macon, interested as counse
T In the Bank cases pending the Supremo Court for decis
ion.
Bank Case —Supreme Court.
It will be seen in another column, that Mr. Dougherty,
counsel for the bill-holder in the Bank cares now pending
jn the Superior Court in this city, objected to Judges Mc-
Donald and Benning presiding in those cases on the Su
preme Bench. Judge McDonald declines sitting, and
Judge Benning continues to preside, for reasons which are
stated in the article we have transferred to our columns.
A few angry words, it seems, passed between Mr. Dougher
ty and Judge Benning, in which the latter characterized
the statement made by the former as false. We forbear
comment on the proceedings.
Death of Col. Thomas H. Dunn.— Our Mobile ex
changes bring the intelligence of the death of Col. Dunn,
the recently appointed Consul General to Havana. He
was attacked with a congestive chill on the 10th and died
in Macon, Mis-., on the 13th inst.-the day on which he
was to have started for Havana to assume the duties of his
post*
C losing ot the Mails. •
The principal mails from this city, for the future, will be
closed as follows :
Eastern Mail closes at 2 p. m., and 7 p. m.
Western - “ “2 “ “7
Eulaula and Chunnenuggee 12 m.
Death of John A. Quitman.
Natchez, Miss., July 17. —The Hon. John A, Quitman
died near this city this morning, from a disease contracted
in Washington. It is generally known that Geueral Quit
man was a boarder at the National Hotel in Washington,
at the time ol the disease which proved so fatal to so many
persons ; and from the effects oi which Gen. Quitman never
recovered.
Our Government and Mexico.
Washington, July 17.—A special messenger was de
spatched to Mexico, bearing despatches to our Minister
Mr. Forsyth, approving his course, and ordering the lega
tion to return home.
Disaster to the Cable Fleet,
New York, July 17.—Intelligence has been received
here that the Agamemnon, the English Steamship engaged
in laying a portion ot the Atlantic Cable, was nearly lost
in a gale.
During the storm, the coils of cable broke loose from
their places on the steamer, which caused considerable de
rangement to the cable.
No other intelligence of the squadron-has been received-
Rumored Railroad Accident.
New York, July 16.—1 tis rumored that an accident
has occurred on the Erie railroad, fifty miles from Jersey
City, by which seven persons were killed and forty in
jured.
ArroiNTMENTs by the Governor. — We learn that Col.
JAR Hanks, cf this city has been appointed Solicitor
Oeneral for the Cherokee Circuit, to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Col. James C Longstreet. We
think this a good appointment, —Dalton Times.
South American News.
By the arrival of the Steamer Empire City we have
later news from Panama and the South American Repub
lics.
PANAMA.
This State is about to hold its election for State officers.
Jose Marceline Hurtado, the Liberal candidate appears to
have the best prospect of success.
CHILI.
The exports from this Republic to foreign countries
amount for the last fiscal year to $20,095,968. Of thig
amount England took $7,037,456, France, $4,037,303,
and the United States $2,170,031.
Sr. Siloutre Ochagavia has been commissioned by the
Government to proceed to Europe to make arrangements
for a loan of teven millions ot dollars.
Sr. David Trumbull, a Presbyterian minister, and Sr
Fancisco Martinez Garfias, a Catholic priest, have com
menced in the columns of the Valpariso Mercury a discus
sion concerning the correct version of the Bible.
The Chilian Congress was to open the Ist of June.—
President Montt was expected to urge important reforms in
his forthcoming message
BOLIVIA.
The strife between the parties of Linares and Belzu con
tinues as of old. Each party claims to be gaining over the
opposing faction.
PERU.
The Presidential canvass is the absorbing topic in Peru.
Castilla, Elias and San Roman are the principal candi
dates. General Castilla had made atrip to the Chincha
Islands, in the Peruvian war steamer Huaras. Gen. Roman
has accepted the post of Minister of Minister of War.
BUENOS AYRES.
A conspiracy against the life of President Urquiza had
been discovered and frustrated.
The yellow fever was abating at Buenos Ayres. The
difficulty between Buenos Ayres and the other La Plata
State appears to beas far as ever from a pacific solution.
From Venezuela. —Advices to the 20th ult. state that
the country was quiet and generally healthy, and the crops
abundant. Ex -President Monagas and associates were still
kept in confinement. They were to be tried before the
proper tribunal, which would not be organized until after
the election of President by the National Council.
i
Later from St Domingo.— By the arrival of the British
brig John Butler, at New York, we have received advice s
from Port au-Platte to the Ist inst. Everything is peace
able and quiet. Business is very dull,
Explosion of the Steam Propeller Kay Flower.
Troy, N. Y. July 13.— The new steam propeller
May Flower of West Troy, while on her trial
trip to-day, when nearing the dock in this city ex
ploded, blowing off the dome of the boiler and de
molishing the woodwork, &c. Four men were
scalded, but none dangerously.
Resignation.— The Murfreesboro, (N. C.) Citi
zen learns that the Hon. Samuel J. Person, ot
Wilmington, has sent ‘in his resignation to Gov.
Bragg as a Judge of the Superior Courts of Law
and Equity.
Bragg has summoned the Council of State
to meet in Raleigh ? on the 28th of next month, to
fill the vacancies occasioned by the resignations of
Judges Person and Ellis.
It is thought that the appointment to one of the
vacancies on the Superior Court Bench will be
tended to the Hon. 11. R. Heath ofEdenton.
Destructive Overjloic at Memphis. —A few days
ago Memphis was visited with one of the severest
storms that ever occured in that locality. About
five the rain commenced, and continued a deluge
for three hours. The streets were flooded, and
the thunder and lightning ‘were most terrific. A
small creek, extending the entire length in the
eastern suburbs, was swolen four or five feet high
er than ever known before, and much damage ensu
ed to property, besides the death of two negroes
and a little child. A railroad bridge of the Mem
phis and Ohio Railroad Company was damaged
twenty thousand dollars, and seven other bridges
were destroyed. The loss to individual property
is said to reach SIOO,OOO.
From Utah.
St. Louis, July 13,1858.
The Utah correspondent of The Republican, un
der date of June 18, says that the conditions agreed
upon at the Conference between Governor um *
mine, the Peace Commissioners, and the heads ot
the Mormon Church are that the troops shall en
ter the city without opposition; that the civil om
cers shall be permitted to perform their duties
without interruption, and that unconditional obedi
ence shall be paid to the laws of the land, while on
the other hand* past offenses are to be forgiven, as
was stated in the President’s proclamation.
All the houses in the city had been closed against
both civil officers and strangers, except one, which
was occupied by the Governor?and his family.-
Everybody else were obliged to sleep in their
wagons or on the ground. The persons in the city
were Governor Cumming, Secretary Hartnett,
Massrs. Powell and McCulloch, the Peace Corn
mi’-siones, Dr. Forney, Superintendent of Indian
Affairs, Mr. Crag, Indian Agent, Mr. Dodson,
Marshal of the Territory, and Messrs. Simonton,
Fillmore and Biown, correspondents of The New
York Times, Herald and Tribune.
The Skeleton of Another Mastadon Dis
covered. —The workmen employed in excavating
Nostrand’s Pond (being one of the sources for sup
plying Brooklyn with water) discovered the skele
ton of a huge animal on Friday last imbedded in
quicksand. From soundings made it is supposed
thot the entire skeleton is there, and Messrs. Be
voort and Lefferets, being desirous ofhaving eve
ry part excavated and preserved, have set a guard
to watch it. A portion of the remains of a masta
don was found in Baisely’s Pond, about eighteen
miles from Brooklyn, several months ago. The
remains of the one recently found will be exhumed
this week. — N. Y. Journal of Commerce.
Speech of Senator Douglas,
We have published a brief telegraphic account
of the arrival and enthusiastic reception of the
Hon. Stephen A. Douglas, at Chicago. On being
conducted to the Fremont House, Mr, D. make an
address to the crowd, which is thus telegraphed,
to the New York Herald:
Mr. Douglas, after returning his thanks for the
magnificent reception, reviewed the action of the
last Congress on the Kansas bill. He extolled the
Crittenden bill as honest, and as the very bestpro
position for the practical illustration of popular
sovereignty. He claimed that the struggle with
Lecomptonism was for the integrity of principle
That struggle was triumphant, and Lecomptonism
was virtually abandoned by its friends, and had
been defeated forever. He had opposed the Eng
lish bill, although practically it sent back the con
stitution to be accepted or rejected by the people,
because the manner as well as the form of that
submission was at variance with every just princi
ple of popular government. It was a submission
of the constitution to the people, with a threat that
if they did not accept a slave constitution, its 35-
GOO inhabitants should not come in as a free State
until it had 93,000. He could never countenance
such a discrimination between free and slave
States. The best energies of his mind had been
several years devoted to the great principle of the
rights of the |people of the Territories to frame
their own fundamental laws, and he intended to
devote all his future life to the same doctrine.—
He contended that the compromise measures of
1850 were founded on that principle, and were
carried out in the Kansas Nebraska bill. He af
firmed the Cincinnatti platform and re-affirmed
Presidsnt Buchanan’s inaugural. He regretted to
see, however, a political party of this country de
termined not to acquiesce in this lino of policy.—
The Republican Convention recently assembled at
Springfieldjnominated Mr. Lincoln as his (Douglas’)
successor to the {Senate, to repudiate the doctrine
of popular sovereignty. He (Lincoln) proclaim
ed that Congress, and not the people of the Terri
tories, had the right to establish the domestic insti
tutions of the Territories. Lincoln endorsed not
only this doctrine, but proclaimed aline of policy
which was incompatible with the existence of the
Union, for he declared that the Union, divided
into an equal number of free and slave States,
cannot endure. Mr. Douglas showed the dan
gerous tendency of this doctrine, and said that it
invited and proclaimed a war of extermination—
one section against the other. He regarded it as
subversive of the fundamental principles upon
which our complex system ofgovernment rested.
He denied that a uniformity of local policy and of
domestic institutions in the different States was
either desirable or even possible ;on the contrary,
he held that our political system rested upon the
theory and the practice of a dissimilarity of local
policy and of the domestic institutions in the dif-1
ferent States. Our forefathers clearly perceived
that the kind of domestic institutions which would
suit New Hampshire would be totally unfit for
the rice plantations of Carolina. Hence they
adopted a constitution which provides that each
State should be sovereign and supreme within its
own limits, on the supposition that they would be
as diversified as States as they are numerous.—
Thus, it would seem, the diversity and dissimilari
ty of the domestic institutions of the sovereign
States are the fundamental principles underlying
the whole system of our government. Its strength ,
harmony and adaptation to all the wants and in
terests of the people, all depended upon the rights
of each State to form and regulate its own internal
policy without reference to its similarity or dis
similarity to other States. Repeated uniformity
is neither desirable nor possible. If possible how
can it be obtained ? There is but one process
through which it can possibly be accomplished,
and that would be to abolish the State Legislatures,
convert the government in to one great consolida
ted empire, investing Congress with full power to
adopt police regulations, regulate internal policy,
and also to adopt domestic institutions for all the
Stales. Let this be done and there would be uni
formity, Then the States would be either all free
or all slave States. Then the negroes could vote
everywhere or nowhere. Then our glorious con
federation of thirty-two sovereign States would be
merged into one consolidated empire, and the uni
formity- of despotism would reign triumphant
throughout the land. Mr. Douglas proceeded to
answer Mr. Lincoln’s crusade against the Supreme
Court, on account of the Dred Scott decision. He
could sanction no crusade, he said, against the
highest judicial tribunal in the land, nor yet was he
prepared to yield obedience to the law as expoun
ded by that Court. He did not agree with Mr.
Lincoln, that it was a great wrong to deprive a
negro of the rights of citizenship. He did not be
lieve they were ever intended te be citizens. Our
government was founded on a white basis, and
was created by white men. True humanity re
quired that negroes and other inferior races should
be permitted to enjoy only such rights and privi
leges as they were capable of exercising, consistent
with the good of society. Mr. Douglas adverted
to the necessity of maintaining the organization of
the Democratic party. While there might be dif
ferences of opinion with respect to the true con
struction of particular articles of the creed, paity
toleration, he said, must be indulged. There
should be no proscription of sound Democrats
because of such differences. Government office
holders and Republicans working in unison for the
purpose of defeating the regular Democratic nomi
nations, would be like the Russians at Sebastopol,
who kept on firing, without caring which they hit,
French or^English.
John Forsyth.
His very looks accomplished a great deal. A
glance of the eye, a motion of the finger, a wave
of the hand, a curl of the lip, or a twitch of that
Roman nose, would kill or cripple at the will ol
the speaker. All glowed with life. The person ot
Mr. Forsvth was the most handsome ot his sex.
Usually great men—men of great intellect, great
in action—are not the most beautiful in their tea—
tures, the most admired by the ladies; but Mr.
Forsyth was an exception. His form was classi
cal, —nose, chin, mouth, forehead, and everything
that contributed to expression. He. was neither
too light nor too heavy for grace ot manner. As
to his voice, description is impossible. It was like
the trumpet, clear and piercing in its tones, and
yet soft as the organ. No orator in the United
States possessed such a fine command of the keys
and modulations whereby the heart is subdued at
the will of the orator. His supply of the best
w r ords was inexhaustable. In this respect he very
much resembled Lord Erskine and was perhaps
even his superior,—though, for the
world, Mr. Forsyth lacked the genuine all perva
ding sympathies which animated the bosom while
they consecrated'the labors of Lord Erskine. Had
he been less a man of the world less indoctrinated
in the etiquette and levity of courts, less inclined
to fashionable life and its heartless lormalities, he
would have been more of a public benefactor, more
deeply entwined in the affections of men. Then
he would have risen to the sublime heights of pas
sion in debate, with the fearless, imperial heart of
humanity to bear him, with Patrick Henry, into
the upper world to chastise and humble the proud,
and exalt virtue in its meek and unobtrusive
garb.
But Mr. Forsyth was not equal to this achieve
ment. His instincts were not with the masses of
men. He was faithful to his trust, because it was
impossible for him to do a base act. He was also
courteous and obliging in his personal relations:
still, he had a diplomatic element in which he loved
to revel, and which yielded his chief enjoyment.—
Beyond this, life was measurably insipid ; nor is it
certain that the philosophy of Bolingbroke or the
morals of Chesterfield contributed to his happiness
as a man. But, if Mr. Forsyth had defects, (and
he would be more than mortal to be exempt,) let
it be remembered that the sun has spots which do
not mark his brilliance. It may be centuries before
such a man shall again exist, one so exuberant in
chivalry, machless in debate, and fascinating in
society. And here let the reflection be indulged
that the life of Mr. Forsyth was in great, jeopardy
on one occasion at least, when, resorting to the code
of honor, he treasured small-swords with his an
tagonist, (Col. Williams,) who wounded him in
the neck. The escape permitted a bright name
afterwards to appear on the roll of fame. —Bench
cf- Bar of Ga. _
Literary Men and their Wives,
When the life of Lord Bryon, by Moore, first
made it appearance, the latter was ‘furiously as
sailed by his brother bard Campbell, at that time
editing the New Monthly Magazine, for expressing
a doubt as to the capacity ofjliterary men to make
good hnsbands. The assailant endeavered to ans
wer the doubts of the biographer by referring to
the wedded life of Scott and even of Moore him
self, yet we cannot see that he exactly made out
his case. It is certain, T at any rate, that some of
the most eminent among the literary men of Eng
land, have made very indifferent husbands.
First, there is Shakspeare, who married in his
IBth year a woman seven years older than himself.
We find him abandoning her and his three child
ren in a few years after the marriage, and going
to London to seek his furtune, whence, it fappears,
he issued but once a year, for more than twenty
years, to visit his native place, where he had left
them. In his will he gives her nothing but “my
second best bed and furniture.” Secondly, there
was Milton, the great moralist and poet, if we were
disposed to forget his |shortcomings in respect to
his wife, Bryon would not allow us to do it.—
Everybody recollects those odd lines, in that oddest
of all poems, Don Juan:
“Milton’s the first of poets—so we say—
A little heavy, but no less devine,
An independent being in his day,
Learned, pious, temperate in love and wine,
But his life falling into Johnson’s tway,
We’re mid this great high priest of all the Nine
Was whipped at college"—a harsh sire—old spouse—
For the first Mrs. Milton left his house.
All these are certes entertaining facts,
Like Shakspeare’s stealing deer, Lord Bacon bribes,
Like Titus’ youth, and Ceasai’s earliest acts,
Like Burns (whom Dr. Curria well describes):
Like Cromwell,s pranks ; but although truth exacts
‘lhese amiable descriptions from the scribes,
As most essential to their hero’s story,
They do not much contribute to his glory.”
Next comes Byron himself, then Bulwer, and in
these latter days, Charles Dickens, the last man on
earth we should ever have suspected of unkindness
in his family. We forgot to mention Shelly among
the number of those who seperated from their
wives. In spite of Campbell’s trade, this is a for
midable list, especially as it includes the three
greatest names in English poetry, for such we
hold those of Shakspeare, Miltonand Byron to
be.
Without being either married or literary, and
therefore having no right to decide ex cathedra, we
may yet be allowed to hazard a suspicion that
Moore was in the right. If we understand the
requirements of the married state, a great deal of
forbearance, and a large amount of amiability are
necessary to render it even tolerable. Now, ac
cording to the elder D’lsraeli, the most jealous,
most sensitive, most susceptible, and most irrita
ble of all human beings is lyour genuine man of
letters ; and as there are degrees in all vices, as in
everything else, of all literary men, the man who
deals most largely in the ideal world, is precisely
the man who partakes most largely of all the
charasteristic failings of his tribe. 1 here is
nothing like him on earth. A hornet, ora rattle
snake, perhaps, comes nearest to him in inabili
ty. Actors, and opera-singers are sentitive
enough but they fall far behind the imaginative au
thor.
Now, if to these infirmaties, it be added, that the
successful author is be petted and spoiled
by the public, and that his life is one of continual
excitement, we think it may easily be seen that he
is not exactly tho person to make a pattern hus
band. Let it be recollected that we are speaking
of the general rule. We are all aware that there
are many briliant exceptions. In addition to all
that we have said, we would remark that the
habits of n successful author are not in general
apt to be such as to render him an agreeable help
mate to the majority of women. If he would
keep up his reputatton he must labor, and the la
bor of an original author is to the last degree ex
hausting. It exhausts the nerves and the brain,
often leading to bad habits, and still oftener ren
dering the student morose and petulent. Women
are apt to be taken by an author’s [.reputation —
they marry him, hoping to realize the delightful
scene of matrimonal bliss which they find depicted
in his w T orks. They pluck the fruit, and it turns to
ashes on their tongues. Those wives of authors
who come off worst, we suspect, are not always
those who separate from their Phusbands. We
would advise any lady, who would favor us so
highly as to ask our advice, not to marry an author
unless she is prepared to burn incense to his vani
ty for the rest of her life. The moment she gets
tired of that task, she may make up her mind to a
family row. —Richmond Whig.
Advertising.
The largest fortunes that have been realized in
any regular business in this country have been de
rived, says the Louisville Journal, “through the
means of a judicious and liberal system of adver
tising. Numberless instances can be pointed out
where merchants and manufacturers have been
enabled to outstrip their competitors, from the sim
ple fact that, by advertising extensively, they kept
the public constantly reminded that they were
ready to accommodate their wants. We have
known men spend all of their profits in business
for one year in advertising, confident that this ex
penditure would be returned to them many times
over during the next year, from the increase of
their business occasioned by their advertisements.
If you find a thriving business concern you will find
that its great success is attributable to having made
itself known to the public by advertising liberally.
We copy from the New York Tribune the follow
ing sensible remarks upon this subject, which we
commend to the attention of all who desire to make
their fortunes by advertising:
“There are some thousands of peisons, of whom
each has a fortune within his easy reach, which he
would inevitably secure if h p only comprehended
the use and importance of advertising. They are
owners of patents for cheap and ready production
of articles of general utility, manufacturers under
favorable circumstances of unpatented articles of
like nature, owners of'large tracts of cheap and
fertile lands, and hundreds of others. Many a
man who fancies himself shrewd, and appears to
be thrifty, saves ten thousand dollars a year by re
fusing to advertise, and thereby deprives himself of
fifty thousand he would otherwise make. The
blindness of many to this truth is amazing. Here
is the publisher of a weekly newspaper, selling for
four cents a copy, who has paid at least SIOO,OOO
for advertising in other papers during the last year,
and has made at least an equal amount by so do
ing. We think he might have advertised more ju
diciously; fcbut hardly any advertising can be
so injudicious as none at all. I lie publisher of
a voung rival, —the New York Weekly—in the
same line, pays us over 1,500 for an advertisement
in one issue of the Weekly I’ribune—and we be
lieve he will make money by the experiment. The
present publisher of the American Agriculturist
bought that paper, when several years old, with
less than three thousand subscribers; he soon com
menced advertising it extensively, and within two
or three years past, he has run up its circulation to
the vicinity of thirty thousand. He has cer
tainly improved his periodical intrinsically, but this
without advertising, would not have raised his sub
scription by this time to ten thousand. And he
has made by his work the money which he had
thus expended, so that the -dnrge increased value
of the establishment is so much clear gain.
We-might multiply such instances indefinitely.
Mr. P. T.Barnum made a large fortune in good
part through judicious and extensive advertising
and lost it by something else. If he ever regains
it, it will come as it did before. Mr. S. P. Towns
end is another instance of success achieved thro’
an adequate comprehension of the value ot news
paper publicity. Hundreds have doubtless suc
ceeded for a time through mere quackery and im
posture —but these do not invalidate the rule that
he who has anything to dispose of which it is the
interest of others to buy, ought to provide liberally
for making his wares Jknown. If it be advisable
to pay for a sign over a merchants door, it is equal
ly advisable to take measures to inform those who
might pass that way if they only knew the store
was there.
Mr. Weem’s Address,
Walter H. Weems, Esq. of Crawford at the
conclusion of the exercises of the pupils of the
Salem Male Institute, at their recent examination,
favored the school and audience with an able and
appropriate address upon the importance and util
ity of mental education. In the course of his dis
sertation, the speaker took occasion to recur to
Southern slavery. With an unsurpassed degree
of success, he carried the anti-slavery crusade in
to Africa, and held up in a conspicuous light, the
frauds and iniquities, as well as the follies and fa
naticism of free society. Mr. W. also urged upon
his hearers the importance and necessity ot con
servatism and prudence in their own section, He
showed that it became necessary for the Southern
people to have regard to the creating of a proper
sentiment in the minds of their children, touching
the subject of Southern Institutions. He forcibly
maintained that if a Southern youth were innocula
ted with wholesome opinions concerning Ameri
can slavery; if they were made to know how
much they owe to it, and if, especially, the pa
rents and teachers of the Southern country were
all sound on this great question, there would be
less occasion for combined effort on the part of the
South,for resisting Northern aggression. Let our
Southern Schools and Colleges be kept pure from
the anti-slavery infection —let Southern school and
text books be uniformly introduced among the ris
ing generation; let Southern parents “know and do
their duty, and the loathsome infection of aboli
tionism will be kept dpwn—Abolitionist teachers
will be sent back to their native element, and the
very books which are of Abolitionist production
will become a scorn and a scoff in every section
of the Southern country. —Southern Era , July 17.
Free Democracy is the name assumed by the
Free-State men ofMissouri, and as such they have
nominated a full ticket in St. Louis.
The opposition to the Administration in Delaware
will rally under the name of the People’s Party,
and in Pennsylvania, where there will be a united
convention of all the opposition elements on the
14th, probably under the same name. In Rhode
Island the opposition are known as American Re
publicans, and in Massachusetts this is the name
taken by many of local organizations.
The Americans have nominated in Illinois, for
treasurer James Miller, of McLean, county, and for
school superintendent, Francis Springer of Sanga
mon. Mr. Miller is also the Republican nominee
for office of treasurer.
The Republicans in Illinois generally oppose
Douglas with more bitterness than the Administra
tion.
Among the revolutionary relics preserved
to the present day is the cord used at the execu
tion of the unfortunate British spy, Andre, who
was hung at Tappan, by order of General Wash
ington, years ago. It is in the pos
session ofTheo. Van Buskirk, of New \ork city,
a descendant of one of the patriots of those trying
times.
Railroad Through Mexico. —Under this head
ing, the San Antonio Texan, ot the 24th ult., has
the following :
Some tw T o weeks ago we mentioned the tact of
the continuation of the railroad from the Gulf to
our city, through Mexico to Chihuahua. By late
advices from Chihuahua, we learn that that the
Legislature of that State has granted to Messrs.
McManus and Potts a special privilege for the con
struction of a railroad through that State. As soon
as a political calm comes over that now war-dis
tracted country, this road will be built. Here will
be the great thoroughfare through to the Pacific.-
We all look to our own advantage as well as that
of others, and so do wealthy merchants of Chihua
hua. This railroad, too, will be the great outlet
of some of the most wealthy mines ot go and, silver,
iron, and lead of the world.
Political.