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We publish to-day a eommunfeatfon from
.of Clinch oe tho anbjact of thl. gentle
awn’s visit to the Sooth, which we tract will
elooe the controversy. There is great eon
frariety of optoirre among Southern wen In
regard to the wetter, and we regret to hare
•oea that in sense instances these diftrencea
•f opinion hare been intewperately at preen
ed. ■ We dooht the propriety of these dtaeus
siooe any way, for even admitting that it
wee wrong to in rite Mr. Everett to our aee
fSon.tbe motive* of the gentlemen inviting him
as* unimpeachable, and yet the discussion of
da question might and does to some extent
carry along the idea thattbey are not snffi
ilontly careful of the company they keep.—
These remark* are not made with reference
la ike cue in hand! but are meant to be ap
plied to the question generally .and we tbere
fere heps to aee no men of tbia in any pa
mil an sans.
Those gentlemen bqye received and are
still receiving additions to their already large
•took of good*, and are always on hand to
wait on costumer*. See their advertisements.
mu unmat.
This geptleman has also received s new
stock of material and is prepared to exeeate
all orders in bis line. All persons who Whish
to feel good in s neat and cool summer suit
af clothe*, would do wall to call on him.
tram
It Is truly refreshing when the sun waxes
hot, to step down to Stark’s and get a
glass of Ico Cream, or a foaming glass of
goda Watar. One feels much better af
terward— “feet lift easier.” The troth
fe Stark'* it a hard place to beat for many
things beside Soda Water, and wa doubt
much if it ean be turned down any where
excefff.perhapa, in TroojmlU. We have
not seen this town forjaix months past, bat
judging from the editorials in the Southern
Georgia Watchman.it must be growing “ be
yaat.” The last timewe saw it, it wa* quite
a small town, but sugpoae we shall hardly
recognise it v hon wp see it again. Our friends
may look for os ever there before long.
nmu, omens an urn taw..
The Sheriff of this county informs us that
an indiridnal connected with the prees of e
neighboring town applied to him forius ad
vertising, and offered to do it at an exceed
ingly low rote. The individual informed
Wa that be had obtained the advertising of
another county by promising to do the bus!-
•ana for nothing. Does it not occnr to this
man that sneh a course is exceedingly dishon
orable 1 Will tfie officers reflect that the law
will not permit them to charge the people one
price and pay an Editor another t
‘ And even if it did, is it not most unfair
and uqjurt to do sol Wa regret to have to
speak of these things, but we must say tbs*
wch eondoct is shameful and ridiculous.—
We advise officers to select a paper in which
to do tbcfr advertising, pay the regular rates,
and not to think of speculating in their office
at the expense of the honest people of the
country.
m SOUTHERN XVTXUim.
SO mommonmrn
This- paper with its Thomasville and
Troopvrßs editorial departments to one of
the very best American papers in the State.
It deserves snccess with its party and doubt
less will receive it. Os course we diffn
widely in polities with its editors, but these
difference* of political opinion never can and
never shall affect onr personal relation*. We
ware amused at Mr. Bonnet’s account, in
the last iatuc, of hia professional status and
aspirations, and whatever may be the reanlt
of the next January election, we predict for
him a bright professional future.
Twnufmut waim.
„ It wfll be seen that this company is order
ed out on the sth of June, and the mem
bers are informed that snitable steps will be
token at that time to celebrate the approach
fing 4tb off July, provided the attendsnoe will
warrant us is doing so. Unless greater in
tenet to maaifeated by the company to the
welfare and prosperity of this corpse, the
sooner toe deliver up our arms to the State
She better. The chartered privileges of the
Guards, are all that could be asked, and it is
a matter of astonishment to see so little in
terest token and felt to the company both
by the meahero and eeamnnity.
‘ • wunt
A young man named Lewis Shuler, s pu
ptl to Fletcher Institute, died on Monday af
ternoon, of brain fever, a# we are informed.
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wa* uy u ww
Editors will be b a sttoii for something to
Writs about for some time to come, as every
thing is now quiet in the political world.—
The Kansas question is settled we think
flsWy add approplatoly, and toe hope perma
nently. It is true that some of the Demo
cratic presses Booth, complain because they
think there was too greet a yielding on the
part of the Administration and it* friends, and
our America* flrisnds growl and soap because
they have bees so long to the habit of it that
they eanl quit suddenly- The whole Geot
gie representation to Congress, both Demo
cratic and American voted, fee tkjgi sattleroeot,
and it does appear to as that tee edgbt to he
satisfied with it and cease oar quarreling.
The Southern Commercial Convention is
now to. session to Montgomery Alabama, with
foil representations from the Southern States.
The prominent question now before them,
and which has slready elicited searo discus
sion and which will probably elicit much
awn, is tbe practicability and potiay af re
opening the African slave taede. Tbe Con
stitution of the United States denies to Con
gress tbe power to interfere with this trade
until after tbe year 1808, but nowhere dele
gates to Congress, directly and expressly the
power to do so at all. Btat tbe Constitution
declares, that tbe powers not delegated by
it to the General Government, are reserved
to the States rsapeerivefy, *wd’ to- the people.
Mow qaere : Has Congress any right raider
the Constitution to interdict this trade f Bnt
admitting that it has not, is it proper or polit
ic that it should be re-opened 7
We are decidedly of tbe opinion that it is
not, and if it should become necessary we
will giro our reasons to fell at some future
time.
Believing as w do. of course we regret
the agitation of the subject, for it will only
create divisions, and it rosy be animosities
among ourselves. The Southern people
should be a united people, politically and
otherwise, and wbat little influence we can
exert shall be used to bring abont this most
desirable result.
nxas.
It is stated in private letters received by
eitisens of this town, that the Grasshoppers
are doing great damage to the crops to tbe
State of Texas.
Written for tbs Wire-Orm** Reporter.
Mil. Editor : — I wish to obtain a portion
of a column for the purpose of answering a
piece in your last week’s issue, signed by a
citizen of Miliedgeville. The said gentle
man avers that tfie Hon. Edward Everett
H need* no defence.” 1 take the- other side
and affine that he dee* need defence onda
great deal of it.
Almost any man from Boston, Mass.,needs
the moat strenuous of his friends in his de
fence, to allow him to spesk in Georgia on
aay subject.
At the time Mr.-Everett war invited to
Miliedgeville. there waa on the floors of Con
gress one of the most severe political strag
gles that has ever been on that tapis,and the
greater part of the citiaens of Georgia were
peculiarly hostile to tbe Yankee stock and
I really think it absnrd that Mr. Everett
was made such a hero of in tbe South. Tbe
Gentleman of Milledgoville says that Mr.
Everett was invited to Miliedgeville “ for his
noble an patriotic efforts in raising funds suf
ficient for the purchase of Mount Vernon.”
That is certainly a very laudable enterprise
on tbe part of Mr. Everett. But why did
he not work nearer his own province—why
does he come into tbe very centre of that
Institution tie denounces—why does he come
where every person looks upou him with eyes
of suspicion 1 f
His real pur pot eis not very loadable in
my opinion, for I firmly belieVe that he is
working for political reputation in the South,
thia country be so Reverely insnlted by sign
ing the memorial with regard to Sumner.—
The “ hot breath of public opinion should
blast biro forever” to tbe Sooth. We have
got many aa noble and high minded men in
the South aa Mr. Everett is. Why wore
not some of them invited to speak for the
purchase of Mount Vernon—why must we
have s man fresh from Abolitionism t The
blush of shame “shall n ever mantle my cheek
for denouncing a man I believe to be an Ab
olitionist. ‘Tire Miliedgeville writer gives
aa a reason why Mr. Everett should be invi
ted South, that a free ticket had been grant
ed him on the South Carolina Railroad, and
lhat Mr. Pettigrew had him for his guest—
It ia very well that Mr. Pettigrew should act
the host to him.iior Mr. Pettigrew is a liter
ary man,and has,l think, been a great friend
of Mr. Everett’s, snd I suppose that the
President of the S. C. R. Road was actuated
by tbe latter motive in granting him the free
dom of that Road. But Ido not consider
that any reason stall why Mr. Everett should
be potted and so greatly honored to tbe State
of Georgia. {.am very respectfully,
F. or Clinch.
TO SAVK HARNESS
It is the hairy sida of toolbar that cracks;
and if harness is made (if doable) so that tbe
fleshy aides are outward, and (if single) ao
that tbe hairy side is nest to the horse, it
will not crack. The moisture of tbe hone
will soften tbe hary side; and, the bead be
ing so that the fleshy side is en the circle,
no provocation is given to the inside circle
to crack. Wagon harness has lasted twenty
rears uncracked simply by this means. The
liarnem-maker will object to this because
be cannot put inferior leather in, as he oth
wise could. Bnt stiron-leetbers are mode ao,
and so are shoes, and why not berMM
through tha Sonth-weatern States, end has
published bb notes of travel to s very gra
phic aad able scries at islttrs printed to the
Southern Cktoest. The tost iasee at that
journal brings the scribe to e elooe, eed in
concluding it he seam ap bit impressions of
tbe Booth eed southern society to tike follow
ing paragraphs; ff- .. ’
“ First, then, southern society, whatever
its elements are re nptilibri*, as nearly—
that is, where tbe stove* are naaseroas enough
to occupy tbe field at toil, or nearly—b the
most perfect form of social policy new exist
ing anywhere to tbe world. Those condi
tions ere attained only to some extensive ra
ral planting districts, aad, mmong States, on
ly in South Carolina, where the negroes are
much more numerous than tbe whitee.—
When these States concurred to prohibiting
tbe stove trade from Africa, they did it, not
from satitimnatality, hot because they then
bad stoves enough for tha strip of land which
they occupied and never dreamed of tbe
boundless capabilities of tbe Mississippi val
uer. Since then a great tofinx of wuite im
migrants, and some of negro slaves, have re
sulted in a population of aix million whites
to Ihreer million five hundred thousand stoves,
and this, with the high price of negroes, has
made it impossible to interest enough of tbe
people in the actual working of the system,
though they all, ia (act, derive aU. their
means of support front that system. Tbe
tendeucy, however, of thia want of equili
brium, is to accumulate great estates in few
bawds, end to leave on tbe outskirts of socie
ty a considerable rural poaoiatjpo, not arti
sans, not traders, and hardly farmers, who
are of no use to thetaselvea or tbe State.—
Thu ence rectified or put in progiess of rec
tification, and of all Republics or Monarchies
on the earth,ancient or modern, I shall choose
tbe southern States. - - •
“ I noted, during my tonr—end, indeed,
had often noted it Before—a peculiar gentle
ness of demeanor snd quiet conrtesy, which,
as I said, was attributable to the institution
of slavery. It is because tbe unquestioned
possession of great power, involving great
responsibilities which responsibilities are
fully recognised by publie opinion, trains a
maa to habits of self-restraint. If a man be
a brute, yet be has a strong interest in habit
ually controlling bis violent passions ; if be
be n gentleman, be will control them because
be ia a gentleman ; if sonaetbfog intermedi
ate, be will find himself acted upon by the
public opinion of his neighbors and equals.
Tbe established custom to t speak gently to
servants; and so much of tire intercourse of
the people is with their servants, that this has
created throughout society e softness f man
ner and tone, which, to educated people, be
ing united with dignity and self-possession
give* me tbs ideal of a well-bred person. I
barn seen the effect of this upon boys. You
know it to a favorite saying of northern peo
ple and the English, that one evil of slavery
is to make hoys cruel. The opposite is true.
Recollect, we are in a land of rational and
accountable beings—a Christian land, if yea
brotherly love, and charity, and mercy, have
not failed to penetrate —and if a boy has a
young negro or two of bis own to govern, he
docs it under the eye of parents and neigh
bors. Over and above the appeal which a
sense of his power over the young niggers
must make to the heart of every generous
boy, he, too, finds himself amenable to the
force of public opinion, and will defy it at
his peril. While be is training and govern
ing his young negro, be is training aud gov
erning hiTself. Be the theory correct or no,
take it for a fact, that tbe suns ot southern
sloveliolders are quiet and courteous in their
manners, both towards slaves and every one
else. Os course, however, severe measures
are sometimes needful in subduing n young
negro. What then I Is a colt uot to be bro
ken because be to vicious T
“ You have beard it said—northern writers
admit—that the true southerner, who is come
of a race of southerners, stands in the front
rank of msnbood, It brave add generous, a
mirror of troth and honor, candid, loyal and
esurteous. It is true, Tbe high-sou led no
bility, (which there is not now) urew from a
subsoil of feudal serfdom and villenage, and
could not have grown without it. Slavery is
that subsoil here. Do you apprehend how it
teed* the roots and radicals of tbe virtues T
Why, thns, lying and stealing are negro
tricks. To be a coward to unworthy of a
white man.
“Os coarse it is not meant to deny that
there to plenty of meanness, lying and scoun
drelism in the southern States, as elsewhere.
The devil shall not be left without a man to
witness for him upon the earth. But I at
tempt to describe tbe favorable tendency of
the slavery system, in forming individual and
national character, were that system once
uutrammeled and fairly developed.
“ With this admirable institution in full
bloom —with the boundless resources, agri
cultural and mineral, in their possession, well
worked by about twenty million negroes—
with her matchless climate and other advan
tages too numerous to mention, what does
tbe South want 1 A higher standard of edu
cation ; and, as some begin to say, a speedy,
peaceful, and equitable separation from tbe
North.” ’
- ‘ l .rf'V R
WORDIITUL PHXXOKIHOW.
-i _____ t!
We learn from Mr. A. P. Smith, of N. 0„
that* strange light was seen in Haywood Val
ley, Chattooga eo., last Saturday night abont
nimt o'clock. Mr. 8. was on a visit to his
brother, David Smith, and at the time the light
appeared, was sitting out the door, with sev
eral friends in conversation. Buddenlr the
darkness became illuminated so intensely as
to give well defined shadows to isolate objects
around, and enable them to aee better than
by tbe light of a foil moon. Upon looking
up they saw what appeared to be a globe of
fire at a distance of between a quarter and a
half a mile, about the line of a half bushel
measure, from forty t* sixty feet above the
ground, of a beautiful brilliancy very much
resembling the heed light on a locomotive,
but much more intense. Thia light continu
ed for about half an boar gently moving np
and down having no motion in a horisontal
direction. From thia strange globe of fire
little ballq were continually alieoting np end
descending to parabolic curves much resem
bling miniature sky rockets. After about
half an hour this wondprful light rapibly di
minished. cod after a few flickering*, entire
ly disappeared.— Rone Cow.
Tbe Mootrosory “Mall” introduse# the
subjoined article from tbe Canton (Miaaisstp- 1
pa Okfoee “oe JPVss iVcgroe* witbthe fol
lowing prefatory remaiks, vis: “Tbesub
jects meted in the article below are of the
Very highest importance. In the main, the
reasoning we think correct, although it would
mm anjuat to prohibit the employment of
negro mechanic* slready trained. It cer
tainly, however, would be w*U to check the
evil for tbe future. Tbe Sooth needs aa
many white mechanics to become identified
with her interest as she can possibly find em
ployment for, and sncli should be encouraged
by aU proper means, to locate and remain
amongst as. No more ought to be taught
the meebanica artar”
A paragraph was floating around in the
newspapers a week ago, which atatod that
the Legislature of Louisiana bad passed a
tow, declaring that ail free negroes fonod in
the State after a certain time, should be sold
into slavery. Believing that the tree negro
population had an unwholesome and deleteri
ous effect upon the slave population, it is tbe
policy of the Btate alluded to, to root out
that evil. Thia is clearly the policy of all
Southern States, and most of them, if not
all, have laws on the subject. Mississippi
has one quite rtringerft enough, but it stands
upou the statute book a dead lettpr. It i*
notorious that here in Oanton there are free
negroes, who carry on business and make
contracts jnst tbe aame aa white men. They
are property holders —dres* fine, sport gold
watcher, have plenty of leisure— work when
they choose and play when it suits them,
walk round end make contracts and carry
them out by employing slaves to execute the
work. They have in this way amassed con
siderable money—are property-holders and
well to do in the w orld.
Every man knows this to be an evil, #nd
there is a positive statute against it, and yet
the law As never attempted to be enforced or
if it is, is easily evaded by some sham claim
of ownership by white men who know per
fectly well they are violatiog the law, and
sustaining a bad class of population in our
midst.
But these desultory remarks are only pref
atory to a subject to which we have for some
time wished to call the public attention.—
There is an other law, both State and muni
cipal, we believe, agaiost negroes hiriug
their own time, living on lots seperate from
their owners, and making contracts. This
law is also violated, we have no doubt, with
perfect impunity. We see i negro painter
here, known as ü ßob”—or perhaps we ought
to be more respectful, and say, Mr. Robert
Clariday—-executing work in his line for
some of our citiaens. Now, those for whom
he has done and ia doing work here, may
bave contracted with Bob’s owner, or bis
agent, for tbe execution of the jobs lie is do
ing—but we have our doubts as that fact.—
Bob, we believe, ia about aa free as any man
here or elsewhere, white, red or black.
It is well known that we have a painter
to onr midst—a white man—one who has a
family to raise and educate, who pays taxes,
and discharges every moral and legal obli
gation to the beat of his ability. He became
a eitinea *>i Canton for the purpourof-car
rying on hia trade, and he is competent to
execute all orders in painting —not only bouse
paiutiug, but sign and ornamental painting.
As sneh, he is a valuable citixen, and one
that should he sustained and supported in
our midst. But we are sorry to see some of
our citizens pursue tho policy of elevating
the negro and putting dowu the white man.
They employ this negro “Bob” to do their
painting,instead of pursuing the more liberal
and enlightened policy of giving their work
to a good citizen, who resides permanently
here, who pays taxes and spends every dol
lar he makes right here in Canton, in educa
ting his children and maintaining his family :
while this negro “ Bob” belongs to a maw
who live# to Jackson, snd all that lie makes
goes out of our town probably never to re
turn in any shape whatever.
We are well aware that if the negro is in
violation of no law, those having work to do
have the perfect right to employ him in pref
erence to a white man if they see proper to
do so. We do not question’ the right, bnt
we do seriously question the polit y of doing
so. We are opposed, uncompromisingly, to
learning negroes the various trades—making
them mechanics—bringing them in competi
tion with white men in the mechanic arts.—
The corn and Cotton field is the field of la
bor, vs believe, originally designed for the
negro; and when he is put in the tailor's
shop, in the carpenter’s shop, to tire saddler’s
shop, and the painter’s shop, he is out of lits
sphere. Go into the tailor’s shop for instance,
and look at tbe big, black, buck negro sitting
at the board in the midst of white men, en
gaged at tbe effeminated occupations of using
the needle—do yon not feel that he to out of
his sphere, and that he onght to be behind
the plow or wielding the hoe 7 And are not
those white men who, from their necessities,
are compelled, to sit on the board by bis side
—working (or the support of their wives and
little ones—degraded to some extent in your
eyes I and must they not feel that they are
somewhat degraded by having the negro put
on a perfect equality with them 1 Let tbe
lawyer, the doctor, the dentist, the merchant
and the mechanic, who have families to edu
cate and maintain, put the question to him
self, how he would like to be compelled to
compete with the negro in his line of busi
ness.
Tbe policy of. learning negroes the vari
ous trades, instead of putting them on tbe
plantations, where they properly
tends to make the riclr and the poor
poorer, by bringing slave labor in competi
tion with white labor and thns arraying capi
tal against labor, (for the negro is capital,)
and thia will produce a spirit of antagon ism
between the rich and the poor. Such a poli
cy, in onr opinion, tends to elevate the negro
at tbe expense of the poor white man, and
makes the poor mechanic at tbe South the
enemy of the negro and of the institution of
slavery.
We are quite sure, if tbe rich man’s negro
was piaeed in competition with us at the prin
ter’s case, end by lowering our wages, took
tbe bread from tbe mouths of our wife and
children, a well of bitterness would spring
up in onr breast agaiprt tbe negro and bis
Xiaster, that would render ns the everlaatiug
and uncompromising enemy of both. Fortu
nately, however, the tows of the State pro
tect nrinters against this humiliation and
degradation. And what tbe laws fail to do
in this respect for other mechanics, a whole
some public opinion—tbe “higher law” of
moral obligation, nod tbe goldsn rule of “ do
- 1
ing onto others as Ton weold have thorn fie
nn to you’’— should effect for them.
These remark* era thrown together crude
ly and hurriedly at tbe compositor* call for
mot—bnt the reader will tee what we are
“driving at’Wiireatch the idea that isl
onr cranium—and if wbat we h * ve *thoie
set othet men te thinking—especially those
who employ negro mechanics instead °( wh,te
mechanics— resulting in the reformation of
tbe evil complained of, 4n any degree, onr
object will have been accomplished. .
ho* a. h. anraxM.
The Washington Union of the 4th tost.,
closes an able review of the objection* orged
Against tbe Conference bill for the admission
of Kansas, with a high encomium upon onr
immediate repreeentatire, the Hon. A. H.
Stephens, for his able companionship of that
measure in the House. It says: -
#4 have bad occasion to refer, m this con
nection, to the debate-end a brilliant debate
it was—a relief, we may **y. from the stdlid
rehearsals and joint-stock oratory which have
turned the House into a mere recitation room
—between the Hon. Alexander H. Stephens
and Mr. Winter Davis.
“It was a sharp passage at arms which
electrified the House; ending in the total dis
comfiture of the assailant, and in tbe greater
triumph of Mr. Stephen*.
The occasion will not be regarded as out
of place, since we have just closed the great
est political controversy which the country
has ever witnessed, to refer to Mr. Stephens
whs has occupied throughout,,the whole ses
sion is a most responsible and commanding
position ; and to whose tabors, to a great ex
tent, the country is indebted for the brilliant
result achieved. Cool, resolute, sclf-sacrific
ing, vigilent and able, he has stood the Men
tor of the body, equal to every demand ufl
on his time and intellect, the champion of a
noble principle, all tbe more dear to the peo
ple, because, in its proposed application, its
foundations must be laid beneath the quick
sand of past legislation, and In opposition
to those powerful interests, which er
rors of legislation on the subject of slavery
nevei fail to inspire. There'have been few
instances, in the history of the government,
which have shown, in any one individual,
higher qualities of statesmanship—ability,
firmness, patience, industry, and faithful de
votion, in time and out of time, to a great
principle and a just measure—than nave
been exhibited from the honorable member
from Georgia. The occasion, we repeat, is a
fit one for giving utterance to these reflec
tions upon a cohtroversy which has ended
not only in the triumph of tlt@ doctrines of
self-gevenunent, but, as we flatter ourselves,
in the disgraceful overflow of sectionalism,
the last and worst enemy of the Uniou.”
C. r. BEXAN, S. D.
The Monroe Register, published in Oua
chita Parish, Louisiana, by R. W. Jemison,
Esq., formerly of this State, contains the fol
lowing notice of Dr. Beman, who is doubt
less well known to many of onr readers :
Our sanctum was hohored a day or two
since by the presciich of no less a personage
than Rev. C. P. Beman,’ the fiast President
of Oglethorpe University, Georgia—and
doubtless the most distinguished School
Teacher in the South. For at least forty
years he has been engaged to his unostenta
tious bnt most important profession, and nev
er did any man more folly hit upon Lis own
peculiar development than he upon his. in
Georgia his name is a house-hold word, and
for the last thirty years there are few promi
nent men in that State who have not been
for a longer or shorter time under his charge.
Many men there be, who have made more
noise in the world tiffin he, hut few, very,
whose influence have been more felt, and
that too, for good, llis pupils numbered by
thousands are scattered, all over the South
and particularly the Sonth-western States.—
Asa disciplinarian, peculiarly fitted to curb
and tutor tho fiery spirits of Southern boys,
be has probably no equal. Many, full many,
arc the curses which boys have heaped upon
the head of Old Beman. But then he has
the proud reflection—that when the sober
years of manhood arrive, his pupils all enter
tain for him a regard, littlcf, if any, short of
filial affection. Such a man as he is a bene
factor of mankind and an honor to bis race.
A CONSCIENCE CARE. •
The Union says that the Treasurer of the
United States acknowledges the receipt from
some person unknown, under an envelope
post marked New York April 30, of $l7O in
Virginia bank notes, “ the property of gov
ernment.” The proceeds—deducting £ per
cent discount—viz : $168.75 has been depos
itedin the treasury.
HORSE SHOEING. **
At a meeting of the New York Farmers
Club, March 20, the President read an ex
cellent paper upon horse-shoeing in which
he attributed most of the lameness of horses
to bad shoeing. Ho recommends using bnt
three, or at most five nails to a shoe,"’ which
he says has proved by many experiments ful
ly sufficient. It five nails arc used, put three
outside and two inside. If but three nails
are used pnt one in the centre, and one on
each side. The foot never should be pared
to fit the shoe, but the shoe fitted to the foot,
and the edgo of the hoof never rasped off.—
Tbe frog never should be cut. Old shoes
never should be wrenched off, but the clinch
ers cut away so that the nails withdraw with
out cutting the horn of the hoof. The hoof
neveT should be touched with a hot shoe.—
The grove should bq wide, so as to allow the
nail-bead to sink even with the surface.
, “ HE IS a BRICE”-ITS ORIGIN.
At a duel which took place in Scotland, a
person who was charged with its preliminary
arrangements carried with him to the ground
two bricks, which he placed so ar to mark
the distance between tbe combatants. Sev
eral shots having taken place without effect,
the parties became reconciled, and returned
to Glasgow together. One of the seconds
being asked bow hto principal had behaved,
answerred like a “ regular brick”—meaning
tbat be bad been as immovable as that which
was at hia feet at the time when the shots
were exchanged. Henee the origin of the
phrase, aud the meaning of its application.
—Notes and Queries.
_ The lectures in the University of Virgin
ia were resumed ou the first of Msy. There
were throe hundred sad seventy-five stu
dent* in attendance.
We find tbe following venfon of the drft.
eelty which occurred to the House of |L
resentatives on Friday, in,one of oar exeh**!
res. When the report of the Committee /
Conference on the Kansas business bed bees
rend [great effort# were made by the A bob.
tionists to postpone the consideration of h I
in which Hiii aad Tripoo of Georgia eel
ted. The former deirea to give hia reason#
for postponing, when Col. Gsrtrell objected
Wbat took place will be found to the ex
tract : ‘ .
An episode on tbe floor showed the .
citement among the Southern members,—
Mr. Hill wished to make an explanation, bt
Mr. Gartrell of Georgia, objected.
“ Who objects I” inquired Hill, taming
towaids him.
I object,” replied Gsrtrell, taming k
head in a very haughty manner.
“Whereto you* graveyard 7” exclaimed
Hill, rushing at him with groat fury.
He waa intercepted, however, and Gartrell
merely aaid, “Wo will talk of graveyard,
elsewhere.”
The Speaker called upon the Sergeant*.
Arms to condnct Hill to hia scat, and order
waa soon restored in the Hall.
immi msn *t hesnoks.
CsNTRRVILLAOB, CHARLTON Cos„ Ga. I
May sth, 1858. }
A dreadful murder has tort taken place
hereT The victim was Mr. Henry H. Jones,
who baa just been murdered in a frightful
manner by the negroes of Dr. Ballard oif tin,
place.
As soon as Jones waa foqnd missing, su.
picions arose, and one of the negroes named
Peter, confessed to the murder. He owned
to his haring struck Mr. Jones the first blow,
bnt says that others besides him were equal
ly concerned. Three others acknowledged
helping to toat (carry) the body down to
the bay, where they dug a hole nnd buried
tbe body.
The three negroes accompanied Mr. Dt
vis and others to the spot where the body
was disinterred, identified and an inquest
held thereon, after which, it was buried prop
erly on yesterday.
I)r. Ballard gave bond# in the snm..of
#3,000 for the appearance of three of his ne
groes to answer tiie charge. One b:.s lorn
sent to Waresboro’ jail. Tbe matter hst
caused much sensation here. D. D.
hall pox in chattanooa.
One case ot small poi has developed it
self in this city in the last week. It is that
of a child of a woman, who had and was with
the disease last year, and it i# supposed that
that thejehild lias taken it from an old shawl
of the parent that was not destroyed. The
parties are in the hospital and all necessary
vigilance is being exercised to prevent the
disease fiotu spreading. —Ckaltannooga Ga
zette:
TJNFOBTUNATE AFFAIB AT THE MILITANT
ACADEMY.
A difficulty occurred a few damage be
tween Cadets Beall and Manning, id tie
Georgia Military Institute, at Marietta, ia .
which Mr. Maiming was severely stabbed
with a knife, inflicting one or more wounds,
from wliiclr it is thought- to be impossible 6ir
him to recover. Young Beall left the plac*
immediately, hut some ot his fellow students
are said to be in pursuit of. him, and will take
him back to Marietta, if overtaken.
Yortng Besll is from Baldwin county, ia
this State, and Manning trnm Mississippi.
MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.
On Saturday evening last, a son of Mrs.
A. E. Hauler, of Greensboro, fell from’ A
wagon loaded with sand; both wheels ran
over his chest, crashing him so severely that
he died in fifteen nr twenty minutes after
wards. He whs aimut fourteen years of age.
Temperance Crutniler.
In Angnsta on the Cth inst., a young man
named D. W. Davidson, lately a clerk in tba
store of Mr. Snarling, shot himseif with a
gun by placing the mnzzle in hit mouth.—
His brains were scattered over the entire
room, and presented a most horrible specta
cle. * „ \ -
Hunters on the Pampas subsist on buffalo
beef, with scarcely a particle of vegetable
food to vary their diet. The Hindo is content
with rice and rancid butter, and cannot be
induced to eat flesh. The Greenlander gor
ges himself with whale-oil and animal fats of
any kind he can sexure. The moderate Arab
has his bag of dates, his lotns-bread, and
dhourra. On the coast of Malabar, we find
men regarding with religious horror every
species of aniraai/ood; while the natives es
New Holland have not a single edible fra it
larger than a cherry on the whole'surface of
that vast island The Englishman considers
himself ignominionsly treated by fortune if
lie cannot get his beef or bacon, The peas
ants of the Appenniens is eheerful with bis
meal of chesnuts. Besides varieties in the
staple articles of food, there are the infinite
varieties of fancy. Our Chinese enemies
make delecacies of rats and birds’ nestfc; our
French allies, of frogs. The ancients, who
carried epicureanism to lengths never dreass
ed of by Guildhall, thought the hedgehog A
tidbit, and had a word to say in favor of the
donkey, which they placed on an equality
with the ox; dogs they considered equal ta
chickens, and even cats were not to be di#*
pUed. The pork, which we eat with great
confidence, they considered, and not untrulv,
the least digestible of animal meats, fit onlf
for artisans and athletes. They ate snail*
with the gusto we acknowledge in oysters
—Blackwood'* Magazine.
‘■ it iisi’T n.”
A Washington Correspondent writ**: _
There is a funny bit of scandal going here
about a certain vwl known lady noted for
her exqniaite complexion and fine hair. Her
room opened on to a paaaage way, tjfrfoigh
which a gentleman wae passing aa the cry ••
fire waa raised in the hotel. The lady threw
up the window to ae how near the danger
might be. What a sight did she present to
the astonished friend passing by—ms sans hair,
sans teeth, sans rouge, sans every thing—
scarce recognisable, she stood before hi®—*
spectre! , ‘ ~ ..
“ Is that you Mrs. Bl” exclaimed the el*
frighted looker on.
VNo,” shrieked the woman, “it Is Mrs.
A.”
A few hours later Mrs. B. left the hotel
and Washington for the season.