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THE WIRE-GRASS RE^BTER. U m iTi n at. ” uoV “VdTto7T~ TioiAmtß, OTMmoiA. TOTOPAT MOlUgq. MARCH 83, 1866. ■from mad after thfa im of to# Reporter, Mr pobKeotlon dmja will bo changed from Tnoadaja la Wednesdaj a. This change it *d. on account of oor peculiar mail arrangements, and for tbo ben efit of onr reader*. yf m ituitio * gulfTauboad. TU engineers of this rood bare pitched their tents within aboot a mile of this piece, and • najerstand’that this will bo their bead quarters for some days. This is cheering to as all, inasmuch as We lmow that there is no humbug about this uucnt n Ami. * * mnsmmmm * Sodsy, and Arthur’s Home Magaaine are llteady at hand in their spring attire, and an as stlsaiitirs m srer—to tbs lsdies. AWVStA MXDIOAI AID IUIBICAL JOBBBAI. Wa ban recoirsd the last number of this Journal. Amongst its origins! matter is s paper by Dr. Campbell of great interest.— The tone and character of this Journal is high, and it diways contains articles of later eat to every educated man. Published at |3 per year. maxxoth Ttntnir *V * to mmmtmmm Mas. W. Oaady, Esq., baa laid on our ta- Ua a turnip weighing fire pounds. Ho chal lenges any body to boat it 1 i. f. HtnnrT At tbe store of this gentleman may bo found a lot of fine eigars of various brands, also otbSr artielos in She grocery line too n neroua to mention.. Cell and examine for yourselves. ns iatabbah mnnw nw Sean two weeks ago wa missed this paper item among onr exchanges. How ia this Hr. Thompson T Was this designed or acci dental I If tbo former, of course we have so thing further to say, hut if the latter, we deairo the mistake to be corrected immediate ly, as wa priae the News very highly. •VtlAfil OB THI SSSSI HAILHOAD We learn through tbe Savannah Rapub- Scan, that some fiend iu human shape has re near the tseising of tk Ogeechee Elver.— Everybody is indignant at such inhuman eoudoet, but no one seems to think of any catching the ruffian outside of the ordinary mode. It occurs to uathat bo ought be easily detected by keeping a trained dog etb* ears, and tbe next time he shoots stop the train and turn loose the dog. Our friend T. J. Lightfoot of this county has a dog that would catch the scoundrel and not de train tbe care fifteen minutes. THE SOUTHIBH UTWHIX This paper, like tbe Phoenix trom its ash es, re-appeared on last Thursday morning, in aa entire new dress, and we admit that ita appearance was truly handsome. jg The American, party, ought to have an or- this end of tbe District, aod we know es no.osse more competent to conduct it titan • Hr. Bryan. Tka party blade which be wields to new, or rather bee grown brighter for six monte reat, .and it glitters with his thrusts on ail sides. Tbe democracy gener ally gets the firet blew, then Oov. Brown > end finally Mr. Beward. The attack upon the democraic party was expected, but the aaseuK upon Oov. Brown and Mr. Seward was. not looked for. These gentlemen have discharged their duties to the entire satisfac tion, oi these constituents, and to the satisfac tion of many to whom they are politically opposed. Let justice be done, friend Lucius, though the Heaveni fall! Wa are truly glad that the Enterprise hat been re-establieed, and hope and believe that the difference of opinion which exiate between us. will ever be manifested and argued hi sack a manner aa to be pleaeent and instruct fare to both. . ■ - m UOMIAB ABB ITS COUSSX. ” Not having any taata for polities myself, lam wot wfikaeniry acquainted with party drill to knew what ie expected from an oi\ gau) but it ia aaid that tha course of the Georgian baa not bees satisfactory to the leaden of the Democratic party here. The Morning New, although professing neutrali ty, ia generally regarded aa a Democratic pa yer, and ia the official paper of onr City Council, e body unanimously Democratic.” The above'paragraphia extracted from a gossipping Utter to tile Bainbridge Argus, and is a flnny attempt to injure the charac ter and influence of the Georgian. Upon what important measure or principle, reeog tjaed to ha Demoeratie, bee tbe Georgian mftrod ftom ito party t ‘ Weapprebend that not one can be”pointed out. What may be tbe standing of tha Georgi as with tha Demoeratie party ia Savannah we know not, bet we do know that it stands high in the State generally, and especially so is the first congressional district. Neither tbe State nor the district will soon fixget the services of the Georgias ia the of eat rone of hut year. That it should re tain the confidence of mry Democrat in Ba vsnab, where there are to many diversified lllaaeeta, where the party ia in toe ascended |m | B( j nnnnlii mnrf * fy be disappointed, it hardly to be expeeted. fionmov m tßoiupfiUß. On.last Saturday night oue of our oitiaens, and who waa aa axjdaputy sheriff, took the : Tailakiseea stage ander circumstances that i led to tbe strong aaapicion that ba waa laav- 1 tag for parts unknown. | This individual was very considerably in- i debted personally, and it it said, is a dcfoul tar se deputy sheriff several thousand dol lars. As to the truth of this charge however, we have nothing to say, and it ia but justice to aay that he lias returned. On Sabbath morning we wended onr way to tbo poet office, end found in front of tbe door qulto § gathering of caimans, among them our friond Jeff, god greet excitement prevailing. It seems that Jeff ia one of this individual's securities epos tho deputy aher- HTs bond, end aa we walked op lie “ had tbe floor,” and was delivering himself in full.— Wa did net have the happiness to hear tbe whole epeoeh, bat the conclusion was some what aa follows: “ Gentlemen I would not be sheriff or dep i nty sheriff for ton thousand dollar* a yaar, and I wouldn’t he constable no way you ooald fix it. No, gentlemen, if I was elect ed and tbe State waa to try to force a com mission on me. I would employ tbo heat law i yere I could find to resist it, and if that wouldn't do, if I didn't fort myself in and go to shootin I’ll be d—d. I was constable i ones, gentlemen,—yea I was certain. Soma fifteen year* ago, the country was badly in debt and officers eonld not be bad who would do their duty ; so they put me up and elected me without shy trouble. Well, tho firet case I had was to lery on a man • horse, belonging to one Harrell, broth er totihe follow tbe regulators bad bold of on ilia Florida line—a regular dare-devil.— Weil I chased him through this branch down bore, for about -an hour, through thickets, and briars, and mud and water, and finally got him and made tbo levy. Well, I came out, and my foes amounted to 62 J cents and I had to treat to about five dollars worth of whiskey to keep out of a fight. Tbit waa u d—n poor speculation but my . next case was worse. A man by the name ,of Anderson ran away,and Clabe Carroll got out an Attachment and took me down to levy , on his goods and chatties. Well* we went down and hit wife would not let u* go into the house, Clabe, says be to me, Jeff, the smoke-house door is open, go in there and levy. I went, but hadn't got fairly in, be fore Mrs. Anderson bounced me. We bad it croud and round, about and about, over and under, when my uew hat— a bran new hat I bad just given six dollars in cash for, fell off, and she turned me loose and stamped it until it looked worse than the coon skinltbe dog shakea in the rircua. 1 seuldn’t Stand this, ao I pitched in again—not to fight, ‘or I wouldn’t fight a woman, but to save my bat. She thought 1 was a fighting though and ao alia pitched iuto me also and we had it again, round aud round, up and down, over and undbr, —oh gentlemen', that was a terrible time—a h—l of a time. We turned over first, the fat stand, and then two soap-gourds, and aa I unluckily got my foot into the soap I fell. I waa about to squall—she was a strong woman, gentlemen, a mighty strong woman, when Clabe come iu to help me. Site let me go and picked up an old ovemlid, and took him co-flop right in the bread-basket and down he went. The womau thought the had killed him, and than of course abe 1 got to be a woman again. Sho cried and took on powerful, end the end of tbe whole 1 matter was that I paid the debt for her my self. I come straight home and resigned 1 my constableship, and now, gentlemen, I tell you all, if I don't resign standing security 1 on sheriff's bonds, I’ll bo d—d.” 1 If tbe ultra moraliat should find fanlt with 1 the above speech on account of the exple tives used, tho excuse ia that they are neces sary to “ vindicate the truth of history.” If those jvbo know our friend Jeff, should ’ think that they are not thick enough, they will please let their Imaginatious supply ’ omissions. t ) ITHAHOX CO-9CIDSBCX. 1 Soma time ago, we mentioned the tact that a green and flourishing pine tree, against which a gentleman was thrown aud killed, immediately after withered and died. This i waa an exceedingly strange eiaeumatance to r us, end the little piece waa re-published in • many of tha papers of tbe Btate. ’ In looking over our exchanges, out eye | fell an tbe slip to be found below, containing . facta of a similar nature, and’equally if not more grange ha thoir character : A Singula# Coincidknck. —We visited a few days since, a spot somewhat memora . ble aa having been the sceno of a duel be tween two of Kentucky’s chivalrous son#.— Tbe position ot tho duelists, about eight pa ces, waa marked by two trees, one of winch bean the initials of one of the parties entire same cut into the bark, the other bears only the initial of the last name of the other par ty. Tbe tree under which tbe party stood who was killed is dead, having as we are in formed, gradually decayed from the time.— The other tree ia singularly typical of the condition of the surviving party, who is ndw an inmate of the lunatic asylum, standing, aa it does, with tbe lower branches full of life and verdure, while ita top ia dead and leaf-; last Strange thoughts crowded our mindi aa we stood and gated upon the unfortunate witnesses to an unfortunate deed. — George town fD. C.J Journal. Thenar* mere strangethingi in nature than are dreampt of in or phiiosopy. to ~ ~ ■, , - -■ -- The man who was “aaoved te teArs” com plains of dampness of tbe premise#, aqd wish es te taove hack again. *9 TAX PATCH. Mr. Ewtou :—For the benefit of Tux Payers, I furnish you below, for publication, an abstract from tbe Comptroller General’s letter of instruction. The opinion therein given baa been concurred in by good legel authority. It ie then obligatory on mo to utrictly oboerve it in tho discharge of my offi cial duties. Ton will then confer a favor both on myself sod tho Tax Payors of oor county by giving it A publication in your paper. Your* respectfully, E. L. Anderson, 8.T.R.T.0. I have been naked, if, under tbe present Tex Act, one person can swear for and give in the property, Ac, of another person f My reply ia, that aa the lew now stands, I do not think any one can legally awaar for another nnleae be waa bona fide, and in tact an Ageut on the Ist of April, or unless he ia in fact an Agent, or controls the property es the time of giving it in. That is to aay, I do not think tbe law allows persons to give in by proxy. A Tax Payer, however, can go before some proper peraon, authorixed to administer an oath, and ba can there make out bia schedule and take the tax oath, and when be does this and sends you tbe achdule and oath to rether you can enter the samo, just aaifhe gave in to you in person. But I don’t think the law authorises any other mode of giving iu by proxy. Very respectfully your ob,t servant. Petkrson Thwkatt, Comp. Gen’l. THE SOUTHXBK COXKEBCIAL OOBVXHTIOX. P. D. Page, Secretary for the State of Al abama.of the last southern Commercial Con vention, publishes a card, in which he state* that tbe Convention is to assemble at Mont gomery on the Becond, instead of the first Mondsy in May next. , ESTATES DUHIHG WIDOWHOOD. The Macon Telegraph thus refers to a de cision made by the Supremo Court, lately in session in that eity. “A case of some interest to the ladies was decided on Friday morning last. Savage, of Dougherty county, diod, leaving a will which devised his property to his wife, but iu the event of her marriage to go to bis children thus cutting off the wife without a shilling.— Gen. Morgan’ the counsel for the widow’ ar gued the case with great ability, and conten ded that this provision in the will being in restraint of ro> fringe, wasdWraty to the pol icy of our law, and illegal, but the Court held tliat a man had a right to leave his property to hia wife during her widowhood, and cut her off if she married—and that the Savage will was legal. KPOBTANT TO 088 LAST HEADERS. It in *tn(ed by the mediate* of the forth coming new bonnet*, that the decided new feature is a point in the middle of the front, slightly drooping toward* the forehead—not raised, as last season. The inside ruche no longer extends all round the face, but ap pears only at the side*, making amends, by greater fullness, for it* diminished length.— The trimmings across the top of the bonnet have also disappeared. The Tampa, Fla., Peninsular says, on the orening of the 10 ult.a warrior of Bowlegs’ party and a negro, approached the station oc cupied by tbe friendly Indians, and were es corted into camp, and remained several days and then went out to induce others of the tribe to come in. On the 27th Bowlegs, and three others of the principle Indiaus had a talk with Maj. Jlkctor, and he is confident of being able to induce them to emigrate. Under all the circninstances, says thcsrfme paper, we feel sanguine that the “Florida war” will soon be terminated by the peace ful removal of the Seminole* to the West. THE WEBKIT SOUTH.” At the instance of many persons in differ ent parts of the country, I have resolved to issue a Weekly edition op the South. I This edition will cnhtaiu the chief Editori al and Literary artielca of the Daily Paper, besides a variety of news and communica tion*. The Weekly South will be sent to a sin gle subscriber for one year on the pre-pay ment of S3, but clubs, of three or more, will be furnsihed at the follow ing rates;-’ ~ # For three copies.. 1...... .$5 00 • five “ 7 00’ “ too “ ...10 00 In every case the money must accompany the order. The first number of the Weekly Sonth will be issued in a few days. Persons wish ing a complete file must send tlieir names im mediately. mar x ROGER A. PRYOR. * FXBFICTLT COOL. A waggish friend of our's tell* the follow ing whimi we do not remember to have aeon in print: . A certain man, whom we will call M . was noted for possessing great courage and presence of mind, and the grossest wife in the neighborhood. More than one attempt had been made to frighten M without success; but one dark, stormy evening, oneof his brother chips, resolved to see if there was any scare in him fixed himaelf up in the moat ghostly style pos sible, and stationed himself In a lonely piece of wood through which M bad to pass on hia way hone. The pretended jjhost bed hardly settled himaelf in the position when M— —— hove in sight and came whistling unconcerned as usual. Suddenly the ghostly figure confront ed him, and in a sepulchral voice commanded him to stop.—M——- did so, and after re garding his companion for n moment, said, with the uttermost coolness: “I can't atop, friend; if you ‘ are n man, I must request you to get out of the way and let me pass; if yon are the devil, come along and take supper with me— I married your litter'’ Senator Toomba has received letters, sign ed by thousands of merchant* from the Nor thern and middle States, urging the early pacaage of the bankrupt bill. The feeling among the committee is favorable to inclu ding all banka, and thus indirectly regula ting the currency of the country. II 9B EOT TO 11 r - - The aefprs of California give accounts of an uuasMufiiumber of suicides in that State, within a sow weeks preceding tbe departure of the last mail. The thatof Adolphe F. Brands, a native of Norfolk, Va., aged about thirty-two years, a bookkeeper in e mercantile house in San Frauciaco. Hie strict attention to business bad secured him tbe confidence of hia employers; but belay et last into habits of dissipation and luxuri ous living, and, to support them, overdrew his account to the amount ot 81,900, conceal ing the fraud by false entries. This waa soon discovered; and, though no public ex posure bad taken place or was intended, he. deliberately destroyed himself by taking strychnine. Then followed, day after day, in quick succession, a doxeu other like at tempts at self-destruction, of which six prov ed fatal. The San Francisco Herald, in commenting on this remarkable occurrence of suicides, expresses the opinion that they have beau caused, in a great measure, by tbe force of an infectious example ; the publication of tbe minute details of Bracda'a suicide having suggested to others the same course, even in cases where there had been- previously no such inteution, just as the published accounts of great crime* against others have been ot-. ten known to cause tbe immediate perpetra tion of like crimes. History gives many instances of the pre valence at times, of such suicidal or criminal infection or contagion. A mania tor suicide once pervaded the army of Frederick tbe Great of Prussia. Believing tbe fear of shame greater than the fear of death, he caused tbe body of au officer ot high rank, who had com mitted suicide, to be buried in a cross road, with a stake driven through it, on which were iscribcd the Words, “ Paltroon and sui cide,” and declared hia intention to punith in this manner, every suicide. The mania eeas ed immediately. Iu like manner, Napoleon the First, checked a similar mania among tbe women of a town in bis possession, by order ing tbe bodies of all suicides to be publicly exposed naked. The influence of example on morbid minds is shown by the following case, recorded by Sir Charles Bell, tbe eminent English sur geon: • J ) - “ One es the surgeons qf the Middlesex Hospital was in the habit of going every morning to be shaved by n barber in tJie neighborhood, who was known to be steady, industrious man. One morning a conversa tion arose about an attempt at suicide that bad lately occurred,when the surgeon remark ed that the man did not cut his throat iu the right place. Tbe barber then casually in-’ quired where the cut should have beau made aud the surgeon pointed to the situation of the carotid artery. A few minutes after wards the surgeon was alaimed by hearing a noise at the back of the shop, and on rushing to the spot found that the barber had cut his own throat with the razor lie had been shav . . ... i a. ing hitn with. He speedily died.” Some time since a man in New Hampshire threw himself from the top of a high preci pice and war killed. The newspapers gave a minute accouut of the occurrence, and a par ty of ladies and gentlemen, moved by curi- j osity, visited the spot. While looking from the height, one of®the party exclaimed: “I j would really like, were it possible without certain deatii, to experience the sensations of a suicide, while falling from this cliffand I before he could bo prevented, be threw him- | self down headlong. Dr. Fsquirol, to show the bad effect of the publicity of the details of crime, relates, that: “ a female who cut off the head of a neigh bor's child was brought to judgment. On the trial, all the minor details were made public, and were fery much talked of. The consequence was, that it produced, in imita tion. a great number of homicidal attempts.” Numerous instances of this kind might bo given, to show that crime, whether against others or against one’s self, appeals powerful ly to the imitative instinct of mankind. So truo is this, that it may well be believed that the suppression of the detailed narratives of crime that now occupy so large a space in public papers would remove a serious hin drance to the moral improvement of the peo ple. The California suicides naturally suggest many reflections on the sin and folly of thus ending life; but we trust our readers need no argument to conviuce them that it is bet ter for us to * •* boar those evil* wo have, Than fly to other* that we know not of.” If they wish to make a philosophical and re ligious examination of the subject, they will find the universal sentiment of the Christian world against suicide ably maintained by Pa ley, Watts, and Clarke; while, among those who contond for the iunocence and even the merit of suicide in some cases, may be found the Revs. Dr. Donne and Henry Dodworth, of the English Church ; Madame de Stael, in her “ Reflexions sur le Suicide aud Ci cero, Seneca, and rnauy othdf philosophers of the ancient world. Setting aside as not strictly falling within the definition of suicide what madarne de Stael terms “ suicide of duty and devotion ” —such as seeking certain demth in battle to to secure the victory of one’s country, or dy ing a martyr’s death rather than renounce a religious belief—the chief motives to are grief and fear of qhame. He who volun tarily resigns life when overcome with sorrow shows that he is wanting in that fortitude which ennobles by teaching us “to suffer and be strong ” Besides it is selfish (0 destroy our ability to help others, merely to avoid in dividual unhappiness. Religion dictates to live more sot others than for ourselves ; and he is recreant to his trust on earth wholde serts his duties, defrauds others of their just claims upon him, and brings on them loss, af fliction, and shame, for the sake of escaping temporary grief. He who dreads shape in life should reflect on the greater shame of cowardly death, not only to himself, but to the innocent connected with him. Madame de Stael thinks it is not cowardly to die by one* own hand; for this, she thinks, is to wholly overcome the fear of death. On the contrary, it is fear that causes man to seek death, as a refuge against the ills of life, which he soars even more than the King of Terrors, else surely he would not seek him. We agree with the poet, that - “Whe* *0 *•* Wsadtskmeats es life are gone, Tn* coward shrinks to death, the brave live oe.” It is only the brave who can walk boldly on through the battle of lHe, struggling man fully with its caret, until death is swallowed up in victory. %ome seek death, because they feel that they are a useless burden to the world un ’ profitable drone#, that do no good to man kind. and bad better lhy down their weary load, that bo man care# to see them bear.— Such a feeling djaprovea itself; for a consci ence ao tender cannot fail to exert a useful influence, if only by tbe force of good exam ple. in this eelfish world, where men are far more apt to think themselves poorly reward- ( ed tor their labor#, than to believe themselves without amission on earth, aaid deserving nothing trom mankinl. The great Milton, in his blindness, and seeming uselessness, yet sustained always by a reliance ou the just Providence of God, taught that there is no condition in life without ita usefulness, either active or passive ; and, while deplor-i ing hia state, that debarred him from the ac- j tive service of God, and wliiie longing to 1 emulate th*e active rtrinisters of His will, he uttered the grc&t lesson, • “ They also serve who only stand and. wait and ao believing, he was content to take up | his burden of life again, and perform, ns bei-t ■ be could, the duty imposed on biin by his I “ great Taskmasterand well did he fulfil j that passive duty. | Let him whom grief, or shame, or humility ; tempts to Voluntary death, learn, then, to live for others, if not for himself, and thus truly i for himself, and for tbe future, if not for the present. FLOEIDA. Thirty-seven years ago to-day, the United States ratified the cessation of Florida to this country by Spain. It was sir named from , its gorgeous vegetation. Ponce tie Leon, the j navigator, though lie had found the lost Par- i adise. Here the Laurel and Magnolia rise a hundred feet, milk-white flowers, a foot in di ameter, are bfown like globes of snow.— Here are eight varieties of oak, including the live oak for ships. The Cypress throws up a Btem to the height of 80 or 90 feet, and then spreads out into a fiat horixontal top. and looks iu the distance like a green canopy hung up in the air. Orange groves and olives, and rich flowering shrubs cover the landscape,— Winter never comes. Yet Florida is a slave ’ State. —Jamestown (iV. Y. ) Journal 9th ult. Tiue, every word true. And we presume our northern cotemporary don’t mean to in sinuate that because Florida is a £lare State she is any the worse for it. If so lie is might ily mistaken. Slavery is what keeps soul and body together in this sunny clime.— Without it we. would be left to starve, else migrate to the editor’s own icy regions. If he don’t believe it let him come down hero I And try it a twelve month or so, and-we’ll guarantee that his notions will undergo a rad ical change. Sfavery will go and exist where it can successfully compete with Free Labor —and if it can’t do it in this latitude we would tike to know where it can. — Jackson ville Rep. ’ BENATOB IVEBSOH. AYe met to-day a gctleman recently from i the City of Washington, who saw this distin guished Senator and conversed with him uponj our Kansas relations, arid the duty of tlm j Soutli in connection therewith. We are grati ’ fled with the intelligence derived from this | source, tßat~he is determined to uphold and defend the rights and honor of the Soutli; against all odds and every hazard. Ilis po- j aition thus reported did not strike us, nor. will it afreet our rendersijwith surprise. We | have not forgotten how nobly lie. Imre himself j in the memorable contest of 1850, and with j i what zeal and energy he lent the vigor of his arm in defence of Southern honor. We shall doubtless hear from him at an early day more directly and explicitly.— Tunes <s• Sentinel. THE CAMELS AT LOS AHGELES. Los Angei.es, Jan. 21, 1858. Lieutenant Beale and about fourteen cam els stalked into town last Friday week and gave our streets quite an oriental aspect. It looks odd enough to sec—outside of a men ■ acetic —a herd of these huge, awkward, but docile animals move aboiit in our midst, with , people riding them like hordes, and brings up . wierd aud far-off associations to the Eastern traveller (whether by book or otherwise) of . the lands of the moßque, crescent or turban, , of the pilgrim, mufti and dervish, with vis [ ions of the great shrines of the world, Mcc , ca and Jerusalem, and the toiling throngs that have for centuries wended thither, of the burning sands ’of Arabia and Sahara, where the desert is boundless like tho ocean, -and the came) the “ ship” thereof. ’ These camels under Lieutenant Beale are 1 all grown and serviceable, and most of them 1 are well broken to the saddle and are very gen'le. All belong to one hump species ex -1 cept one, which is a cross betw.eeu the one 1 and two humped kinds. This fellow is mncli larger and more powerful titan either stre or dam. He is a grizzly looking hybrid, ’ a camel-mule of colossal proportions. These ) animals are admirably adapted to the travel across our continent, and their iatfodiietion by our Government was a brilliant idea, the i result of which is beginning most happily, 1 At first Lieutenant Boale thought that the animals were going to fail; they appeared 1 likely to give out—their backs got sore; but he resolved to know whether they would do ■ or not. He loaded them heavily with pro i visions, which they soon were able to carry with ease, and thence came throtigh to Fort Tejon, living themselves ou bushes, prickly pears, and whatever they could pick up on the route. They went without water from six to ten days, and even packed it a long distance for tbe mules when crossing deser?:<. They were found capable of packing one;, thousand pounds weight a piece, aud travel ing with their load from thirty te forty taiks per day,, all the while finding their own feed over an almost barren country. Their dri vers say that they will get fat where a jack would starve to death. The “ mule,” as they call him, or cross between the camel and dromedary, will pack 2,200 pounds. The animals are now on their return to the Colorado River fur the pnrpose of cany ing provisions for Lieutcnaut Beale and the military escort, who, it ia conjectured, will penetrate from thence as far aa possible in to the Mormon country. Afterward Lieu tenant Beale will return by the new wagou route that be has lately surveyed, to verify I it; and so on to Washington. He ia expect ed to reach tho capitol before the first of Marekrta order to lay the report before Chn , Ignorance and conceit are-two of the worst qßautiea to combat. It is easier to dispute with a statesman than a blockhead. I Smnmaru of fttfos. OOimUCATIMta BT THE SEBATE. WAHi!aTON, March 12.—R. P. District Attorney, North Carolina; C. C. Lounge, District Attorney, Northern Di*. trict m Florida ; J. L. Tatem, District At torney, Southern district of Florida. HE TIKE ILENT OFOEJT CAM. The N. Y. Journal of Commerce says that the rumored retirement of Gen. Cass from Mr Buchanan's Cabiuet, ia entirely without foundation. A bill line been introduced into the New i York Senate to make the husband tbe ulti i mate heir of the deceased wife, and tire wife the heir of the deceased husband ; also, one j to give married women tho right to dispose . of their property by will. COB VICTIM! FOB HCBDEB. I- ~V - ! At tho term of the Superior Court of Crawford county held last week, .Limes Rev ! el was returned by the Grand Jury as guilty j of the crime of murder, for shooting W. \y t Hnmmack and George Adams. He waa i tried for the murder of and found guilty, and sentenced by Judge Lamar, to be hung On the 7th of May.— Mess. 1? Jour nal nth THE TUBE AT THE OPEBA. At the representation of the “ Huguenots,” the other evening, Mohammed Pasclia, the I Turkish Admiral, inquired the subject of I tbe opera. He was told that it repiesented | two socts of Clnisfnins cutting eacli other’s throats. Whereupon the Turk stroked his beard and reverentially exclaimed. “ Great is Allah, and Molioinet is his prophet!” A LEGISLATIVE FBATEH. The following laconic prayer was deliver ed in the lowa House of Representatives the ! other morning, by Ilev 4 . Mr. Shine : | Great God ! Bless the young and grow ing State of lowa, her Senators and Repre sentatives, tier Governor and State officers! Give ns a sound currency, pure water aud undefiled religion, for Christ’s sake. Amen. THE BEMOVAL OF JUDGE LOBIHG. •- t ■■ “ Boston, March 11.—The vote on the re moval of Judge Loring in the lower House of the Massachusetts Legislature stood 127 f iu favor and 101 againsCit. The Senate has • i yet to act on the inciter. The particular of j fence of Judge Loring is that lie sustained I the Constitution and laws of the United ! States in the fugitive slave cases. P. T. B.xrnum (says the N. Y. corres pondent ot the Charleston Courier) is not i t all overcome by his troubles. lie is again ! actively at work and laboring with nil his ! skill and humbug in the management of the I Museum. I hear that he is already making 1 ailangeincnt* to,rebuild his palace at Iranis tnti, wftieti was unfortunately dcetrnyod--by tire. Barnum and his family are nOw residing, i iii this city,! Ere long lie will doubtless strike upon some novel scheme by which he :c.in again mount.the ladder of fame and for | tune, llis adversities have taught him pru dence, ami in fortune lie will take udvan j tage of a very painful experience. A EOoTE FOB THE ESCAPE OF THE KOBMONS. St. Lons March 1. .1853. ! The leader learns from Father Desinet, a j Catholic Missionary who lius spent many ’ years among the Indian Tribes, that on ei ther side of the Rocky Mountains there is a perfectly practicable and ansv route North from Salt Lake to the British possessions.— Father 1). has traveled the route several tiine>* with light wagons. He gives it ns hi* conviction that if the Mormons leave their present location they will proceed Northward to New Caledonia, British America, and srt tle at the base of the Pottage mountains,near the 40th parallel. The route is described in detail. The country And climate is stated to be eminently superior to that of Utah. Tho leader calls the special-attention of the War Department and the people to its article. THE SOUTH! BN COMMERCIAL CONVENTION ‘ We. take from the Montgomery Mail the following notice of the meeting of the next , Commercial Convention. The First Monday in May.— it should be born, in mind that the Southern Commer cial Convention at Knoxville last summer, appointed Montgomery, Ala., as the place, and the First Monday in May next as the time, for the next session of the Southern Commercial Convention. All the Southern States are expected to he well represented. Papers in the South please copy, or other wise call attcution to the same. \ CONGBESSIONAL. Washington, March 17. —In the Senate Mr. Crittenden, of Ky., delivered a powerful speech to-day, against admitting Kansas un der the Lecouipton Constitution. The Hall was densely crowded during its delivery. In the House the Army bill was discussed. Harksts. New Youk, March 17.—Cotton sales 800 bales market dull. Flour dull, sales 7,000 bbls., wheat firm, sales 7,000 bushels. Corn dull, sales 16,000 bushels. Naval stores and rice heavy. Mobile, Match 17.—Cotton sales 600 bales. Middling 11 all}; market dull. New Orleans, March 17.— Cotton sales , 9,500 bales; market unchanged—sugar firm. Freights unchanged. Charleston, March 17.—Cotloff sales 3700 at 9} a 12} ; market easier. Savannah, March 15—Cotton.—1525 bales sold to-day at the following particulars: 21 at 9?, 90 at 11, 79 at 11.}, 42 at llfi, 246 at Ilf, 99 at 11$, 236 at 12, 94 at 12 1-16 J 556 at 12$, 62 at 12 j. Fun should be cultivated as a fine ait for it is altogether a fine thing. Who ever knew a “ funny man” to be a bad one. On the contary is be not nine timee in ten, generous, humane, social and good 1 To bo snre he ] is. Fun—it is a great thing: It smooths i the rough places of life, makes the disposi tion as sweet add rosy as a fresh maiaen’s kiss, scatters sunshine and flowers wherever we go, gives the world a round jolly counte nance, makes all the girls as pretty ae June roses, and mankind one of the best families out. We go infer fun. The man who wont cultivate it must keep a good sized half rod ‘between us.