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TO A CHILD BLOWING BUBBLES.
(From a new edition of the Poems of Alaric A. Watts.)
Thrice h;>ppy Babe ! what radiant dreams are thine,
As thus thou bidd’st thine air-born bubbles soar ;
Who would not Wisdom’s choicest gifts resign
To be, like thee, a careless child, once more.
To share thy simple sports, and sinless glee ;
Thy breathless wonder, thy unfeigned delight,
As, one by one, those sun-touched glories flee,
In swift succession from thy straining sight!
To feel a power within himself to make,
Like thee, a rainbow, wheresoe’er he goes ;
To dream of sunshine, and like thee to ’wake
To brighter visions from his charmed repose.
W T ho would not give his all of wordly lore,—
The hard-earned fruits of many a toil and care—
Might he but thus the faded past retore,
Thy guileless thoughts and blissful ignorance share.
Yet life hath bubbles too, that sooth a while
The sterner dreams of man’s maturer years ;
Love—Friendship—Fortune—Fame-—by turns beguile,
But melt, ’neath Truth’s Ithuriel-touch, to tears.
Thrice happy Child! a brighter lot is thine ;
(What new illusion e’er can match the first?)
We mourn to see each cherished hope decline;
Thy mirth is loudest when thy bubbles burst.
[ From Arthur’s Home Gazette .]
Who are the Happiest
‘What troubles you, William?' said Mrs.
Aiken, speaking in a tone of kind concern to
her husband, who sat silent and moody, with
his eyes fixed upon the floor, and now fol
lowing the forms of his plainly-clad children
as they sported, full of health and spirits,
about the room.
It was evening, and Mr. Aiken, a man who
earned his bread by the sweat of his brow,
had, a little while before, retuned from his
daily labor.
No answer was made to the wife’s question.
A few minutes went by, and then she spoke
agajn.
‘is any thing wrong with you, William?’
‘Nothing more than usual,' was replied.—
‘There’s always something wrong. The fact
is, I'm out of heart.'
‘William?’
* Mrs. Aiken came and stood beside her hus
band, and laid her hand gently upon his
shoulder.
The evil spirit of envy and discontent was
in the poor man's heart, —this his wife under
stood right well. She had often before seen
him in this frame of mind.
‘l’m as good as Freeman, am I not?’
‘Yes, and a good deal better, I hope.' re
plied Mrs. Aiken.
♦ ‘And yet, he is rolling in wealth, while I,
though compelled to toil early and. late, can
scarcely keep soul and body together.' „
‘Hush, William. Don’t talk so. It does
you no good. We have a comfortable home,
with food and raiment, —let us therewith be
contented and thankful.’
‘Thankful for this mean hut! Thankful for
hard labor, poor fare, and coarse clothing!'
‘None are so happy as those who labor;
none enjoy better health than they who have
only he plainest food. Do you ever go hun
gry to bed, William?”
‘No, of course not.’
‘Do you or your children shiver in the cold
of winter for lack of warm clothing?’
‘No; but /
‘William! Do not look past your real com
forts in envy of the blessings God has given
to others. Depend upon it, we receive all of
this world’s goods the kind Father above sees
it best for us to have. With more,we might
not be so happy as we are.’
‘l’ll take all that risk,’ said Aiken. ‘Give
me plenty of money, and I’ll find away to
largely increase the bonds of enjoyment.’
•The largest amount of happiness, I believe,
is ever .o be found in that external condition
in which God has placed us.’
‘Then every poor man should willingly re
main poor.’
‘I did not say that, William; I think every
man should seek earnestly to improve his
worldly affairs —yet, be contented with his lot
at all times; for, only in contentment is their
happiness, and that is a blessing the poor may
share equally with the rich. Indeed, I be
lieve the poor have this blessing in large store.
You, for instance, are a happier man than
Mr. Freeman.'
«I am not so sure of that.’
‘I am, then. Look at his face. Doesn’t
that tell the story. Would you exchange
with him in every respect.' §
‘No, not in every respect. I would like to
have his money.'
‘Ah, William! William!’ Mrs. Aiken shook
her head. ‘You are giving place in your heart
for the entrance of bad spirits, Try to enjoy,
fully what you have, and you will be a tar
happier man than Mr. Freeman. Your sleep
is sound at night.'
‘I know. A man who labors as hard as I
do, can’t help but sleep sound.’
‘Then labor is a blessing, if for nothing else.
I took home, to-day, a couple of aprons made
for Mrs. Freeman. She looked pale and trou
bled, and 1 asked her if she was not well.’
‘Not very,’ she replied. ‘l’ve lost so much
rest of late, that I'm almost worn out.’
‘I did not ask why this was; but after re
maiuing silent for a few moments, she said-*-
‘Mr. Freeman has got himself so excited about
business, that he sleeps scarcely three hours
in twenty-four. He cares neither soring eat
no r drinking; and, if I did not watch him,
would scarcely appear abroad in decent ap
parel. Hardly a day passes that something
does not go wrong. Workmen fail in their
contracts, prices fall below what he expected
them to be, agents prove to be unfaithful; in
fact a hundred things occur to interfere with
his expectation, and to cloud his mind with
disappointment. We were far happier when
we W g re poor, Mrs. Aiken. There was a time
when we enjoyed this life.—Bright d?ys!
how well are they remembered! Mr. Free
man’s income was twelve dollars a week, we
lived in two rooms, and did all our own work.
T had fewer wants then than I have ever had
Eince and was far hdppier than I ever expect
to be again on this aide of the grave.
Just then a cry he “ d >“ the street ’
‘•Br? Foe!S’ I’ne startling sound rose
and threw it
°®f£’, Freeman’s new building, as I live!’
AALen dropped the window, end eatciur.g
up A biS hat, ifurriediyleft^house.
Mrs. Aihen shoo spirit that makes
‘ N r «tTss ami discontented now, would be
J°i tbj’od no* matter bow greatly improved
might be your external condition. Mr. Free
man was once as poor as you are. Do you
think him happier for his riches? Does he
enjoy life more? Has wealth brought a great
er freedom from care? Has it made his sleep
sweeter? Far, very far from it. Riches have
but increased the sources of discontent.’
It was an hour ere he returned. Mean
while, the fire raged furiously, and from her
window, where she was sale from harm, Mrs.
Aiken saw the large new factory, whioh the
rich man had just erected, entirely consumed
by the fierce devouring element. All in vain
was it that the intrepid firemen wrought al
most miracles of daring, in their efforis to save
the building. Story after story was succes
sively wrapped in flames, until, at length, oyer
fifty thousand dollars worth of property lay a
heap of black and smouldering ruins.
Wet to the skm, and covered with cinders,
was Mr. Aiken when he returned to his hum
ble abode, after having worked manfully, in
His unselfish efforts to lescue a portion of his
neighbors property from destruction.
‘Poor Freeman! I pity him from my very
heart!’ was his generous, sympathizing ex
clamation, as soon as he met his wife.
‘He is insured, is he not?’ enquired Mrs.
Aiken.
* Partly. But even a full insurance would
be a poor compensation for such a loss. In
less than two weeks, this new factory, with
all its perfect and beautiful machinery, would
have been in operation. The price of goods
is now high, and Mr. Freeman would have
cleared a handsome sum of money on the
first season’s product of his mill. It is a ter
rible disappointment for him. I never saw a
man so much disturbed.’
* Poor man ! His sleep will not be so sound
as yours to-night, William.’
‘ Indeed it will not.’
‘ Nor, rich as he is, will he be as happy as
you, to-morrow.’
‘lf I were as rich as he is,’ said Aiken, * I
would not fret myself to death for this loss.’
I would, rather, be thankful for the wealth
still left in my possession.
‘ This is not a necessary consequence. If
Mr. Freeman turn a blessing into a curse, that
is a defect in his particular case.’
‘ And few, in this fallen and evil world, are
free from this same defect, William. If wealth
were sought from unselfish ends, then it would
make its possessor happy. But, how few so
seek riches. It is here, believe me, that the
evil lies.’
Mrs. Aiken spoke earnestly, and something
of the truth that was in her mind, shed its
beams upon the mind of her husband.
‘ You remember,’ said she, smiling, * the an
ecdote of the rich man in New York, who ask
ed a person who gave utterance to words of
envy towards himself —‘ Would you,’ said he,
take all the care and anxiety attendant upon
the management of my large estate and ex
tensive business operations, merely for your
victuals and clothes.’ ‘ No, indeed, I would
not,’ was the quick answer. I get no more,”
said the rich man, gravely. And it was the
truth, William. They who get rich in this
world, pass up through incessant toil and
anxiety ; and, while they seem to enjoy all
the good things of life, in reality enjoy but
little. They get only their victuals and
clothes. I have worked for many rich ladies;
and I do not remember one who appeared to
be happier than I am. And I am mistaken
if your experience is not very much like my
own.’
A few days after this time, Aiken came
home irom his work one evening. As he en
tered the room where his wife and children
set, they looked up to him with a cheer and
smile of welcome, and the latter gathered
around him, fil.ing his ears with the music of
their happy voices. The father drew an arm
around one and another, and as he sat in theii
midst, his heart swelled in his bosom, and
warmed with a glow of happiness.
Soon the evening meal was served—served
by *he hands of his wile—the good angel of
his humble home. William Aiken, as he look
ed around upon his smiling children, and their
true-heated, even-tempered, cheertul mother,
felt that he had many blessings for which he
should be thankful.
‘I saw something a little while ago, that I
shall not soon forget,’ said he, when alone
with his wife.
‘What was that, William ?’
•I had occasion to call at the house of Mr.
Elden, on some business, as I came home this
evening. Mr. Elden is rich, and I have olten
envied him ; but I shall do so no more, I
found him in his sitting room, alone, walking
the floor with a troubled look on his face. —
He glanced at me with an impatient expres
sion as I entered. I mentioned my business,
when he said abruptly and rudely—
•l’ve no time to think of that now.’
‘As I was turning away, a door of the room
opened, and Mrs. Eider and two children en
tered.
‘I wish you would send them children up
to the nursery,’ he exclaimed, in a Iretful,
half-angry voice. ‘l’m in no humor tojoe
troubled with them now.’
‘The look cast upon their father by those
two innocent children, as their mother push
ed them rom the room, I shali not soon for
get. I remembered, as I left the house, that
there had been a large failure in Market-st.,
and that Mr. Elden was said to be the looser
by some ten thousand dollars—less than a
twentieth path of what he is worth. lam
happier than he is to-night, Mary.
‘And happier you may ever be, William,’
returned his wife, ‘if you but stoop to the
humble flowers that spring up along your
pathway, and, like the bee, take the honey
they contain. God knows what, in external
things, is best for us ; and he will make either
poverty or riches, which ever comes, a bles
ing, if we are humble, patient and contented.’
Menageries. —The late London papers an
nounce the death of Mr. Jeremiah VVombwell,
at the age of 72 years. He wa3 the owner of
three large travelling menageries, embracing
a large collection of rare and valuable wild
animals and birds, by the exhibition of which
he had acquired a handsome fortune. Ha ac
knowledged himself partial to the serpent spe
cies, from th."* fact that in early life, the acci
dental purchase of a pair of boa constrictors
from ihe importers at the London docks, for
the sum of £75, and the success of the exhi
bition was the means of introducing him into
his “ profession.”
He had been of late years very successful in
breeding, and possessed at the time of his
death, more than twenty lions and five ele
phants, in addition to an unrivalled collection
of other wald animals. Some time smce, and
it is the only instance on record, one of his
lionesses had a litter of two white cubs. The
proprietors of menageries experiense a great
joss from disease, mortality and accident; and
Womuweli calculated that he had los', from
first to last, a fortune pf at least from £12,000
to £15,000 by mortality among his wild beasts,
birds and animals. Not many years since, a
fine ostrich, worth £2OO, which could have
picked crumb* from a ceiling twelve feet high,
ihrust ite bill between the bars of his cage,
gave it an unlucky and in attempting
to withdraw it, literally broke its neck. Mon
keys become exceedingly delicate when im
ported into England. They are soon affected
by cold, and wfien they b e & in t 0 cough, very
generally fall into corisumptipn, and exhibit
all the symptpqis of human beings laboring
under the same complaint.
The value of wild animals, like asy tjjpig
else, varies according to supply and demand.
Panthers have been sold as high as £3OO, but
at other times they can be had for £IOO. A
good panther is worth £IOO ; lamas from 30 to
£4O ; zebtas, from 150 to £2OO. The other
kind of monkeys are very valuable, and lamas
and camels always exceedingly high. Upon
lions, lionessefpand elephants, it is impossible
to fix any price. Two cubs is the usual litter
of the lioness, but Mr. Womb well formerly
had owned one which repeatedly dropped four.
In these cases she nursed two, and neglected
the others. But Mr. Wombwell had a beauti
ful pointer bitch, which, in her lifetime, suck
led four lions.
The cost of Mr. Wombwell’s three establish
ments was enormous—on an average, at least
£35 per day each. His caravans amounted o>
upwards of forty, and his stud—the finest
breed of horses—varying from about 110 to
120. The expenses of his bands were estima
ted at £4O per week, while the amount he
paid for turnpike tolls in the course of. a year
formed a prominent item m his expenditure.
Even the ale of one of his elephants came to
something throughout the twelve months, to
say nothing of loaves (the best bread), grass,
hay, and the capacious maw that consumed
the latter article at an enormous rate.
Fatal Mistake.— The papers of the city
make the following brief announcement:
Died, at Macon, Ga., on the 2d inst., Miss
Elizabeth S. Sanger, youngest daughter of Ze
kiah Sanger, Esq.
Miss S. was a few years ago a pupil in one
of our institutions of education ; and was dis
tinguished foi accomplishment, amiability aud
beauty. She was on her way southward for
her health, when, complaining of momentary
illness, she was persuaded by a lady to take
some trifling medicine, which turned out to
be oxalic acid. A physician called in soon af
ter, at once detected the fatal mistake ; but it
was too late to avert the terrible catastrophe,
and by a double fatality the overdose of poi
son, instead of being mortal at once, as a less
quantity would have been, prolonged the tor
tures of the victim through a fortnight of suf
fering, which terminated in death.— Albany
Atlas.
Medical use or Salt. —ln many cases of
disordered stomach, a teaspoonful of salt is a
certain cure. In the violent internal pain,
termed cholic, a teaspoonful of salt, dissolved
in a pint of cold water, taken as soon as pos
sible, with a short nap immediately after, is
one of the most effectual and speedy reme
dies known. The same will relieve a person
who seems almost dead from receiving a heavy
fall. In an apopletic fit, no time should be
lost in pouring down salt water, if sufficient
sensibility remains to allow of swallowing; it
not, the head must be sponged with cold wa
ter until the sense returns, when the salt will
completely restore the patient fiom the leth
argy. In case of severe bleeding at the lungs,
and when other remedies failed, Dr. Rush
found that two teaspoonfuls of salt completely
stayed the blood.
Beautiful Incident.— Fifteen years ago
the noble structure then known as the Metho
dist Book Establishment in New York, was
destroyed by fire. Among the burning frag
ments of books and printed sheets which were
whirled] aloft on the wings of the flame, and
borne onward upon those of the wind was,
says the Boston Journal, a page of the Bible,
containing the sixty-fourth chapter of Isaiah.
It was picked up on the morning of the con
flagration about 12 miles distant on Long Is
land, and before the catastrophe was known
there. It was indeed a winged messenger of
truth, in a double sense, for the fact is no less
striking than authentic, that every word of
the page was so marred as to be illegible save
the eleventh verse, which read in the follow
ing woi ds ;
“Our holy and beautiful house, where our
fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire; and
all our pleasant things are laid waste”
In an Out. —An Irish preacher was consid
erably annoyed (as many before and since
have likewise been) by persons getting up
and leaving the Church during his sermon.
His patience being exhausted, he stopped his
discourse, and in a rowdy way exclaimed—
“ Go on me lad, I've seen the top of your
head, that's enough.”
The fellow turned around with an angry
menacing look, muttered
o I’ll see you again, sir.”
“ You had better see me now,” replied the
preacher, “ for when I’m in the pulpit I fight
for the Lori Jesus, but when I’m out of it I
fight for meself.”
A severe shock of an earthquake was felt st
St. Thomas on the 19th of December, but no
damage was done. The merchants of St. John,
P. R , have made a favorable proposition to
Mr. Cunard, to induce him to allow the Brit
ish Mail steamer Merlin to touch at that
island.
Washington Gossip .-Tariff—French Spo
liations, $c. —The correspondent of the Charles
ton Courier says :
“ Tc ere is a strong movement here on the
Tariff question. I notice the arrival here of
many persons from Pennsylvania, New York,
and New England, as solicitors or agents of
the manufacturing interest. They ask for
specific and discriminating duties ; and home
valuation, and a genaral board of appraisers.
Mr. Winthrop, in some remarks introductory
of a bill for the object, said that he preferred
Mr. Clay's compromise tariff of 1833 to the
the present system ; but that he distrusted all
compromise measures, whether of 1833 or of
1849. The energy and zeal of the Tariff men
are now conspicuously displayed. They are
united and well organized in both houses, and
they have many chances of success, growing
out of the prevailing indifference as to what
concerns the revenue and the expenditures.—
If they will consent to give up the public do
main to the new States, and show that their
scheme will increase the revenue from im
ports, they will carry their point.
“ The Senate has assigned every Friday, for
the remainder of the session, for the consider
ation of private bills. A new impulse has
been given to the colonization scheme, through
memorials in favor of the proposed line of
steamers to Africa. Mr. Clay’s late speech on
the subject has given it countenance. The
Committee on Naval Affairs of the House,
will bring up the Ebony bill (so called) on Mon
day week. The projectors of the Ebony line
are Mr. Bryant, of Georgia, and Mr. Saunders,
of Kentucky. Their Associates and means
are secured in New York. No one has offer
ed for a contract in competition with them,
for no one belieyes in j.ts productiveness pf
profit. But they and their associates have
full fath in it, and I have no doubt that they
will, at least produce, if they get the con
tract, four of the largest and most powerful
war steamers that every floated. Mr. Van
derbilt has offered for contract for steamers
between San Francisco and Panama, in com
petion with others. For the celestial line of
steamers, that is, between San Francisco and
Shang-hai, there is a brisk competition between
'j* of Philadelphia,
and Mr. Moore. Ine Committee have not
agreed upon any project.
? ‘The geuftteia'occupied with the French Spo
liation Bill. Mr. Tritman Smith has taken up
two. clays in an elaborate exposition of the
subject ; going into all the negotiations, in
trigues, and what not, belonging to the case.
His manner is not more pleasing than hi| dry
details are attractive. IJe spoke to a thin Sen
ate, t)Ut Still fle commanded some attention
by his correctness, gnd the confidence placed
in his historeiai statements. The history of the
affair has been “so long remembered that it
is forgot.” Many men of general informa
tion are quite ignorant of it. In a word, the
story can be told. The depredations of the
French cruisers on our commerce created such
a sensation in this country, that on the 7th
of January, 1797, the United States abroga
ted the treaties of alliance with France, and
an army was raised, of which Gen. Washing
ton, as Lieutenant General, was appointed
Commander-fn-Chief. Several engagements
took place at sea, in which our navy was suc
cessful. Every one knows that the first en
gagement in which an American frigate cap
tured one of superior force, was that of the
Constellation and the French frigate L’lnsur
gente, in 1799. It has been commonly spoken
of as “ a quasi war,” but it was an actual war.
The revolution of the 18th Brumaire changed
the policy of the French republic, and a Con
vention was concluded on the 30th Septem
ber, 1800. By this Convention, the United
States gave up the claims of its citizens for
which we went to war, and the French reliev
ed us from the treaties of alliance, whereby
we were made parties to their quarrels,. The
French Government were quite willing that
the United States should pay the claims, but
provision to that effect was rejected in the U.
States Senate. It is said, however, that Bona
parte, when he signed the treaty, insisted that
the United States should pay the claims. The
claimants insist that their rights were sacri
ficed for the general benefit of the country,
and that they ought to be remunerated. On
the other hand, it is urged that the United
States Government did all that it was required
to do for the citizens, when it went to war for
their benefit, and thereby hazarded the lives
and resources of every citizen cf the country,
and is bound to do no more. Mr. Smith has
canvassed the Senate, and says he will pass
the bill there. Many say it will also pass the
House.”
( Reported for the Baltimore American .)
Washington, Jan. 22, 1851.
SENATE.
Mr. Seward presented two petitions pray
ing the repeal of the Fugitive Slave Law,
which were laid on the table.
Mr. Yulee reported a bili giving Naval Sur
geons when performing duty on shore, the
same rations as are allowed military officeis of
the Army, and it was ordered to be engrossed.
Mr. Foote reported a bill to re-organize the
State Department.
Mr. Clay's resolution, directing an inquiry
by the Committee on Commerce into the ex
pediency of making more effectual provision
for the suppression of the African slave trade,
and especially into the propriety of refusing
sea letters to American vessels trading between
Rio Janeiro and the Western Coast of Africa,
was taken up.
Mr. Hale read a publication in the morning
papers which pledged the signers of it, being
members of Congress, to support no man for
the office of President, Vice President, Sena
tor, member of Congress, or member of a State
Legislature, who was in favor of disturbing
the Uompromise acts of the last session. He
said this resolution commenced the agitation
of slavery, and he feared the signers of that
paper would themselves be subject to its os
tracism.
Mr. Clay replied, defending his resolution,
and avowed himself a signer of the paper al
luded to, and his determination to carry out
the Pledge.
Mr. Foote followed, defending the paper
and avowing himself one of its signers.
The debate was further continued, and the
resolution was adopted—yeas 45, nays 9. The
nine noes were Messrs. Benton, Borland* But
ler, Davis of Miss., Hale, Rhett, Soule, Tur
ney, Yulee.
The French Spoliation Bill was then tsken
up. The eleventh section appropriating $50,-
000 to defray the expenses of the Board of
Commissioners was stricken out, so as to pre
vent the necassity of its being referred so the
Committee of the Whole in the House.
Mr. Rusk moved to amend i r . by providing
that none of the five millions should be paid
to any assignee or insurer, and after long de
bate this was rejected; yeas 25, nays 30.
The Sen ite then adjourned.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
A joint resolution was read, which had
been reported by the Judiciary Committee,
in favor of printing and binding up the opin
ions of the Attorney General of the United
States subsequent to 1851; the expense of
which is estimated at SB,OOO.
Mr. McLane, of Maryland, submitted an
other resolution or amendment; the object of
which, he stated, was to have the opinion of
the Attorney Generals, since 1840, furnished
the House, precisely as they were for the pre
ceding period, upon a motion made by him
self during a former session, and whicn were
supplied tnrough the labors of a copying
Clerk, to be deposited in the archives of the
House; whereas, the object of the resolution
which had been reported by the judiciary
committee is, that Congress should subscribe
to a certain amount, to oe paid from the pub
lic treasury, for the publication of a book, of
the magnitude of which no estimate could at
present be formed, and towards which the
sum of SB,OOO was proposed to be applied.—
He contended that the proper course oi pro-,
ceeding would be, to have the opinions of the
Attorney Generals since 1840 furnished the
House in manuscript, and which would, in
all probability, be ordered to be printed, and
c.uld be done at a comparatively insignificant
expense.
At the conclusion of Mr. McLane’s remarks
Mr. Bayly, of Virginia, moved that the House
resolve itself into committee of the whole on
the State of the Union, which was agreed to;
and Mr. Meade, of Va., took the chair of the
committee.
The deficiency bill was then taken up, and
Mr. Robinson, of Indiana, went into a general
review of the pension department; the general
impression being lrom what was to be collect
ed from explanations from other members, as
well as what was stated by that gentleman,
that the department is in a very inefficient
state; and it was asserted that the duties were
formerly better performed by the Secretary of
War.
Mr. Hampton, of Pennsylvania, followed iu
a long speech, abounding -n statistical infor
mation connected with the iron interests of
his State where he seated about 600,000 per
sons are dependent upon the iron works for
support. Os course his object was to recom
mend an increase of the present tariff, which
he said he wished modified so as to improve
all other interests.
A good deal of impatience was manifested
during the reading of this speech, particularly
altet three o’clock had arrived, the usual hour
of adjournment; and when he had finished his
remarks the committee rose and the House
adjourned.
A Good One. —Epes Sargent of the Boston
Transcript tells a good many good stories, un
der the head of “ Dealings with the Dead.”
One of these numbers he devotes to fortune
hunting, amongst other illustrations gives the
case of a Mr. Mswips,
He was courting a young lady of some at
tractions, and something of a fortune into the
bargain. After a liberal arrangement had been
made for the lady by her father, Me wipe,
having taken a parti lula* fancy to ft little
brown ma?e, demanded that it should be
thrown into the bafgari: and, upon a positive re
fusal, the match was broken off. After a coup le
of years the‘panie§ accidentally met at a coun
try bail—Mr. Me wins was quite willing to re
new the engagement —the lady appeared not
to have the slightest recollection of him. —
“ Surely you have not forgotten me,” said he.
“ What name, sir ?” she inquired. “ Mewins,”
he replied , “ I had the honor of paying my
address to you, about two years ago.” “ I re
member a person of that name,” she replied,
“ who paid his addresses to my father’s brown
mare.”
THE CONSTITUTIONALISr
©sorflia.
SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 26-
The Savannah Georgian very pithily says—
A late number of the National Intelligencer
contains an article from a Lowell paper, in
tended to show how much the manufacturers
of that city are suffering from the present re
venue law and from low duties It seems that
the consumers can now buy such goods as
these people manufacture, at a price lower
than they can afford them at, and hence they
ask Congress so to increase the duties upon
imported goods, as to prevent us from getting
them at present prices, and thus enable these
men to sell their goods to us at higher prices.
The palpable and gross injustice of such a pro
position would shock an unprejudiced mind
at any time. But at this time, and under ex
isting circumstances, for these abolition manu
factures of Massachusetts to come before Con
gress with a proposition, intended, in effect,
to prevent us from buying the cheap goods of
England and other countries, and to compel
us to buy their's, is insulting in the last de
gree, and exhibits not only the character of
these men, but the estimate they place upon
the patience and forbearance of the Southern
people.
The Columbus, Ohio, State Journal notices
the new Novelty Steam Flour Mills recently
erected at Columbus, by Messrs. Wilson & Co.
The stones used are of the best French Burr,
and are only about 2£ feet in diameter. And
yet we are informed by the proprietors that
they grind just as fast, and it is claimed be
ter than the stones of 4£ feet diameter. These
mills turn out corn meal «f a whiteness equal
to wheat flour, and the Journal adds that if
this construction of mills answers the purpose
which this experiment seems fully to justify>
that there will be a revolution in the milling
business of the eountry. It does not require
half the power to propel these machines that
is required for ordinary fixtures for similar la
bor.
A Convenient Bed. —We see it stated that
a portable bed, a new invention, has been in
troduced into New York, and is attracting
much attention. It forms a soft and com
modious couch, requires but little trouble to
take care of it, occupies a very small space,
and may be shut up like an umbrella into so
compact a form as to admit of being stowed
away in a bandbox or valise.
The New York Herald contrasting the su
periority of steam over sailing vessels, indul
ges in the following bold and original figure.
“The American eagle is screaming for the do
minion of the seas, and her voice is heard in
the whistle of the.steam engine.”
Good.—The Washington correspondent of
the New York Express, says:—“A number of
applications have been made by our foreign
ministers to be recalled; but the President is
inflexible in refusing them this privilege. I
could name five missions that would be vacant
this moment, had the President assented to
their wishes; but he is resolved, so far as con
sistent with duty, that if men will accept of
outfits, they shall pay their own expenses
home, or serve out the period of their appoint
ment.”
Census op Chatham County.—We are in
debted to W. W. Oates, Esq., the gentleman
appointed to take the census of this county,
for the following items of returns from his
digest:
Population of Savannah, June 1, 1850,16 060
Do. County 7,841
Total 23,901
Real and personal property in the
county $10,619,238
It will be seen from the above statement,
that the popula ion of old Chatham has in
creased 3,855, since the census of 1845, of
which the clear gain in the city proper has
been 3,202. We give below the returns at
three different periods, which will enable our
readers to judge more satisfactorily of the
present onward march of the principal seaport
of Georgia j
Years. City. County. Total.
1838 .12,758...... .8,198 20,956
1840 11,214 7.587 ...18,801
1845 12,858 7,183 20,046
1850.......16,060 7,841 23,901
The increase in the value of property is
also very encouraging, and would appear
much larger in the. aggregate, if Rail-Road
Stocks, Bank Capital, &c. were included.—
Savannah Georgian.
( Telegraphed'Jor the Charleston Courier.)
Baltimore, Jan. 24.
Steam Ship Arctic at Halifax. —The Ameri
can steam ship Arctic, has arrived at Halifax,
having put into that port in consecquence ol
being short of coal.
The Arctic brings no intelligence in reference
to the fate of the steamer Atlantic. Further
news will be soon forwarded.
[Up to the time of the closing of the Tele
graph-near twelve q’-clQck—no further in
telligence of the news by the Arctic came to
hand.} — Eds, Courier.
The Diamond vVatch.—A letter received in
this city, states that this much talked of ar
ticle, was actually raffled at New Orleans, on
the 17th inst. Two gentlemen threw 45, being
the two highest throws. There being a tie.
the watch is aeid as common property between
them.— Charleston Courier, 2 5th inst.
The British ship Prince of \Yale*b arrived
here yesterday, from Cardiff, (Wales,) has a
cargo of 801 tons HaiLßoad iron, for the East
ienuQsaea and Georgia Rail-Road Company.
[Savannah Republican, 24 th inst.
A Good Customer.—England during the
last five years purchased of the Southern States
two hunflr§4 one millions, eight hundred
and three thousand, five hundred and aittety
two dollars worth of UottonJ
Os the Northern States, England purchased
only nineteen thousand and forty-one doling
worth of manufactured Cotton.
In the five years France purchased of the
Southern States millions of dollars
worth of Cotton, and of the Northern States
only a fraction over three thousand dolia s
worth of the Cotton fabric.
The Fool’s Reproof. —There was a certain
nobleman, says Bishop Hall, who kept a fool,
to whom he one day, gave a staff, with a charge
to keep it until he should meet with one who
was a greater fool than himself. Not many
years after, the nobleman fell sick, even unto
death. The fool came to see him; his sick lord
aaid to him: “I must shortly leave you.”
“And whither arc thou going?” said the
fool. . .
“Into another word,” replied his lordship.
“And when will you come again? within a
month?”
“No, never.”
“Never?” said the fool; “and what provision
hast thou made for thy entertainment there,
whither thou goest?”
“None at all.”
“Not” said the fool; “none at all? Here
take my staff, for with all my folly, 1 am not
guilty of such folly as this.
How to Make Money from Scarcity of
Silver.—Within the last two or three days a
man has been making about $3 per day, by
passing ovrer the Fulton ferry, every trip,
and tendering a dollar biil each time for his
ferriage. From the change he makes 24 per
cent —or, in words, he cleared 14 cent
each time he crosssd. This is one way of
making a lining.
Horseback Rdiing in Madeira. —The Hon.
John A. Dix, in his recent work. “A Winter
in Madeira,” gives an amusing account of
horse-back riding at|Funchal. For thirty cents
an hour a fine horse can be hired at any
livery stable, together with a man as atten
dant, who folioW3 on foot; and, when you
desire to ride fast, he catches hold of your
horses tail and is drawn along. In this way
he prevents you from running away from
him. Mr. Dix says that the horses soon be
come accustomed to these human appendages,
and that the fellows have away of making
the horses go fast or slow, as they desire, in
spite of the rider. Mr. Dix says that for la
dies this association of horse and driver is a
great convenience. They need no other at
tendant. He is always ready to render any
assistance; if the horse loses a shoe, he has a
hammer and nails in his pocket to replace it.
It is not easy to iancy a more ludicrous spec
tacle than a lady riding through the city at
full galloplwith a man hanging to the tail of
her horse; but such scenes are of hourly oc
currence in Funchal, and the eye soon be
comes aecustomed to them.
Examination.—A school mistress present
ed herself before the superintending school
committee of one of our county towns, for the
purpose of being exomined in the branches of
education necessary to teach the young idea
how to shoot; when the following dialogue
took place:
Gents, I hrve come to get my certificate of
my qualification to keep school in this town.
Mr. Well I have a few questions to ask:
(with dignity,) how old are you?
Eighteen sir.
Mr. How much do you weigh?
One hundred and fifty.
Mr. How many cows does your father
keep?
Nine, sir.
Mr. Ain’t you a cousin to Harriet Felton?
I am not acquainted with her.
Mr. Think you can lick Sam Jone’s Bill?
he’s an awful bad boy.
Yes, sir, I think I can, ifjit is necessary.
Mr. Well, I guess you’ll pass, and if you
have any trouble in flogging Bill Jonss, send
tor me.
Didn't Like the Jog.—A wealthy, and
gay young gentleman, once boasted that he
could walk home with any one of the mem
bers of a certain division of the Daughters of
Temperance, from Church ; he accordingly,
after service was ever, on the next Sabbath,
spruced up to a fair damsel, and with a polite
bow, tendered his arm. The young lady, as
by instinct, drew back as irom a serpent, and
exclaimedNo, sir: I’ll never put my arm
through another jug handle as long as I live !”
Father Mathew, writing from Pensacola,
gives a cheering account of his late Tempe
rance labors in the Southwtst. He purposes,
in the spring, visiting Nashville, Louisville,
Cincinnati, &e., and arriving in Nev York in
August. He will -turn to Ireland in the
fall.
A Black Blue Beard.—There ia a negro
living near Palestine, (Illinois,) who is the
lather of fifty-six children, has buried seven
wives, and now, at the age of more than 90
years, is courting for the eighth wife.
a l l.l. 11 ■! i IT—! Ml ■II nil
SPECIAL NOTICES.
tLr* The Rev. IV, G. Foster will Preach
at the Baptist Church this aiternoon at the usual
hour - jan. 26
The Rev. Mr. Rogers* by special re--
quest, will repeat his Lecture to Young Men, ou
“ True Manliness, ' in the Methodist Church
on Sunday Evening, at 1 o'clock.
The young men of the city, and the public gen
erally, are respectfully invited to attend, jan 26
A CARD.
UPHAVING located myself at 22 Ann street,
New York, I shall be happy to execute any orders
from my old friends in Carolina, Georgia, or other
portions of the South. Individuals who may make
deposits with me for the choicest light Literature
will receive it long before they can get it from
other sources. Persons ordering will please to
name their favorite authors.
The low rate of postage at which Books and
l amphlets may be mailed under the new law,
makes that medium preferable to any other, ?be
ing ( safe and expeditious” as well as cheap. A
tew specimens of despatch will be given to some
of my old friends.
Colleges, Academies, Schools, public and pri
rate Libraries, will be supplied with Philosophic
al, Astronomical, Chemical, or other apparatus, as
cheap or cheaper than they can otherwise obtain
them. Also, Books, Foreign and American, Re
views, Magazines, or Papers issued from quarters
North or East of them.
Any other business which an Agent can do her*,
will be promptly attended to for a reasonable
pensatien.
Persons who may ship any articles fcr. ftllP
ket, Fruit, Vegetables, or other d«Ur ici g 9 ... b ‘
sure to have them attended to, ~a d the ‘‘
count given of them,
All communication. be id and
strangers must accom Kjnr orJers wit ‘ a ' nait .
tanco A. V EAU Aun-st. N. York.
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IJKS% 3. E. & H. A. BIGNON.
Qffke oh *j roa( i s t . opposite Bridge Bank building.
U’Offer their protessional services to the cit
aa of Augusta and its vicinity. jau 14
O* DR. JAS. D. MACK IE tenders 7T
spectfully his Professional Services to the citizens
of Augusta.
Office on Jackson street, between Broad and
Reynold streets. 6mos jan 12