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Shifting' the Responsibility,
A HARD SHBLL STORY.
We clip the following from the Chambers
(iLla.) Tribune. It is one of the last of the
wag Hooper’s stories, and to our thinking one
of the richest:
While attending court, recently, in the ad
joining county of Randolph, a friend, who is
fond of jokes of all sorts, and who relates
them almost as humorously as “his Honor,”
gave us the following, vouching for the sub
stantial, sub-lunar existence of the parties and
their present residence “in the county afore
said.”
Brethren Crump and Noel were both mem
bers of the Primitive Baptist Church, and both
clever, honest men who paid their taxes and
debts as the same annually accrued, with a re
gularity at once Christian and commendable.
If, when settling day came round, Brother
Noel was “short,” Brother Crump was sure
to be in funds; and on the other hand, it al
most seemed providential how, if Brother
Crump fell “behind,” Brother Noel always had
a surplus. Thus, borrowing from and lending
to, each other, worshipping at the same church,
Jind living only a mile apart, an intimacy
gradually ripened between them; so that at
last they did not hesitate to speak in the freest
and most familiar manner to each other, even
in regard to their respective foibles.
Now, it came to pass that Brother Crump,
during the liveliest period of the cotton sea-
Bon, drove into Wetumpka and disposed of his
“crap” of ten bales, at the very fair price of
121 cents per pound. It was more than he
expected, and as the world was easy with him,
he determined to invest, and did actully in
vest, a portion of the proceeds of the sale of
his cotton in a barrel of Western whiskey;
paying therefore at the rate of, precisely, two
pounds of middling cotton for one gallon of
“ditto” whiskey.
Os course it was “norated in the settlement”
that old man Crump had bought a whole bar
rel, and after a few weeks people began to
observe that his nose grew redder and his eye
more moist. The idea that Brother Crump
was “drinking too much” diffused itself in
the neighborhood, until, as one might say, it
\became epidemical. People talked and talked
—more especially “what few” of other denom
inations of Christians dwelt thereabouts.
Brother Noel was “sore troubled” at the
scandal which circulated about his brother
and friend, and especially regretted the injury
it brought to the “’ciety” at Sharon. So one
morning he stepped over to Brother Crump’s
and found the old man in a half doze in his
little porch.
“Won’t you take a dram?” asked Brother
Crump, as soon as he was aware of the pre
sence es his neighbor.
“Why, yes, I’m not again a dram when a
body wants it.”
Brother Crump got his bottle, and the
friends took a dram apiece.
“Don’t you think, Brother Noel,” said
Crump, “that sperits is a blessing.”
, “Y-e-s!” responded Noel; “sperits is ables
-1 sin’, but accordin' to my notion, its a blessin'
that some of us abuses.”
“Well now, Brother Noel, who do you think
abuses the blessin?”
“Well, its hard to say—but people talk—
don't you think you drink too much, Brother
Crump?”
“It’B hard to say—it’s hard to say,” return
ed Crump. “Sometimes I’ve thought I was
a drinkin’ too much—then again, I’d think
may be not. What is man? A weak wurrum
of the dust! What the Lord saith, that shall
be done! So I left it to the Lord to say wheth
er I was goin’ too fur in sperits. I put the
whole ' sponsibility on him; I prayed to him, es
I was drinkin’ too much, to take away my
appetite for sperits .”
Here Brother Noel groaned piously, and
asked, “What then, Brother Crump?”
“And,” replied Crump, “I’ve prayed that
prayer three times, and he hain't done it !
So I’m clear of the ’sponsibility, any way.”
“The Lord’s will be done!” ejaculated Noel,
and after taking another dram he went home,
thinking all tha way, how cleverly Brother
Crump had shifted the responsibility !
Histoby cf the Dinimg Houb. -—Thomas
de Quincey, the author of the Confessions of
the English Opium Eater, gives the following
interesting history of the Dining Hour :
“In Henry the Vi’s time, the court dined
at eleven in the forenoon. But even that
hour was considered shockingly late in the
French court, that Louis XII actually had his
gray hairs brought down with sorrow to the
grave, by changing his regular hour to half
past nine for eleven, in gallantry to his young
English bride. He fell a victim to late hours
in the forenoon.
In Cromwell’s time they dined at one P. M.
One century and a half had carried them on
by two hours. Doubtless old cooks and scul
lions wondered what would come next. Our
French neighbors were in the same predica
ment. But they far surpassed us in venera
tion for the meal. They actually dated from
it.
Dinner constituted the great era of the day.
L’apres dinner is almost the sole date which
you find in Cardinal de Retz’s memoirs of
the Fronde. Dinner was their Hegira—din
ner was their line of traversing the ocean of
day, they crossed the equator when they din
ed. Our English revolution came next; it
made some little difference, we have heard
people say, in Church and State ; but its great
effects were perceived at dinner. People now
dine at two. So dined Addison for his last
30 years; so dined Pope, who was coeval with
the revolution through his entire life. Pre
cisely os the rebellion of 1745 arose, did peo
ple (but observe, very great people) advance
to four P. M. Philosophers who watch the
* semin&rerum,’ and the first symptoms of
change, had perceived this altera:ion singing
in the upper air like a coming storm, some
little time before.
About the year 1740, Pope complains to a
firend of Lady Suffolk’s dining so late as four.
Young people may bear those things, he ob
serves, but as to myself, now turned of fifty,
if such things went on, if Lady Suffolk would
adopt such strange hours, he must really ab
sent himself from Marble Hill. Lady Suffolk
had a right to please herself; he himself loved
her. But if she would persist, ail that re
mained for a decayed poet was respectfully to
n ott t his stick and retire.” Some things ad
vanced continually like a flood of fire, which
always make an end of A, eat and digest it be
for# they go bn to B. Other things advance
per sallum~*-they do not silently canter their
way onward, but lie still as a snake after they
have made some notable conquest, then, when
unobserved, they wake themselves up “ for
mischief,” and take a flying bound onwards.
Thus advanced dinner, and by these fits got
into the territory of evening. And ever as it
made a motion onwards, it found the nations
more civilized,(else the change would not have
been effected,) and raised them to a still high
er civilization. The next relay on the line of
road, the next repeating frigate, is Cowaer in
his poem on Conversation. He speaks of four
o’clock as still the elegant hour for dinner—
the hour for the lautoires and the lepidi homi
nes. Now, this was written about 1680, a
little earlier ; perhaps, therefore, just one gen
eration after Pope’s Lady Suffolk. But then
Cowper was living among the rural gentry,
not in high life; yet again, Covrper was near
ly connected by blood with the whig house of
Cowper and acknowledged as a kinsman.
About twenty-five years after this, we may
take Oxford as a good exponent of the nation
al advance. As a magnificent body of foun
dations endowed by kings, and resorted to by
the flower of the national youth, Oxford is
always elegant and even splendid in her hab
its. Yet, on the other hand, as a grave seat
of learning and feeling the weight of her po
sition in the Commonwealth, she is slow to
move, she is inert as she should be, having the
suctions of resistance assigned to her against
! the popular instinct of movement. Now in
Oxford, about 1804-5, there was a general
move in the dinner hour. These colleges who
dined at three, of which there was still sever
al, now dined at four ; those who dined at
four, now translated their hour to five.
These continued good general hours, but
still among the more intellectual orders, till
the battle of Waterloo. After that era, six,
which had been somewhat of a gala hour, was
. promoted to the fixed station of dinner time
inordinary; and there, perhaps, it will rest
through centuries. For a festival dinner,
, seven, eight, nine, ten, have all been in requi
sition since then; but we have not heard of
! any man’s dining later than 10 P. M.; except
1 in a single classical instance (so well remem
! bered by our father Joe) of an Irishman who
must hare dined much later than ten, because
his servant protested, when others were en
forcing the dignity of their masters by the
lateness of their dinner hours, that his master
dined “ to-morrow.”
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( (From the Southern Press.')
The Chorus of Unionism.
t As the song of Unionism by Southern sub
, mission has become rather monotonous and
tiresome, we give to-day some Northern varia
f tions, in the speeches of Senator Seward and
; Mr. Frederick Stanton —one a Whig Free-soil
i er, the other a Democratic one, and member
f of the New York legislature.
It will be seen that both these gentlemen
’ are devoted lovers of the Union. Mr. Seward
thinks that “what is just and wise” can be
( maintained and promoted better in the Union,
5 than out of it. Mr. Seward thinks the aboli
> tion of slavery just and wise, and being with
t the majority, in a majority government, it is
t quite reasonable for him to prefer its continu
l ance, as that involves the permanent control
. of the minority, which does not think aboli
tion just and wise.
9 Mr. Stanton is of the same opinion as Mr.
f Seward—loves the Union, and hates slavery
r —but is not so cautious and polite in his lan
. guage as the crafty Senator. Mr. Stanton's
j most passionate love of the Union is declared
s to be co-incident with a equal devotion to ha
beas corpus and trial by jury—words which,
r as now understood and used by such as Mr.
„ Stanton, are considered utterly incompatible
with Union by that party, to whom the sa
x cred trust of presenting it has recently fallen
—the compromisers. But Mr. Stanton is not
3 satisfied with intimations that might be under
stood. He concludes his speech in a fit of
1 prophetic inspiration and sees this confedera
cy, under our glorious Constitution, extend
. from Labrador to Panama; “and till the sun,
’ as he traverses this wide domain, neither rises
upon a master nor sets upon a slave.”
- Such are the expectations and policy of the
Northern wing of Unionists; and we leave it
. to those whose memory of events extends
r back, but a single year, to say, whether these
Northern Free-soil friends of Union are not
. better prophets and philosophers than the
8 Southern. And when the compromisers at
c tempt the forlorn imposture of associating
i Southern with Northern ultras, we would
1 suggest as an answer, the identity of profession
. and practice of the party that demand all
a the new territory for the North and the party
f that surrendered it—both attempting to drown
/ the indignant remonstrance of the plundered
States by the cry of Union.
I We think Mr. Seward was guilty only of a
little cool and quiet irony, in his speech; but
t Mr. Stanton was unfeeling.
( Both speeches were made in the city of New
York, on the visit of the legislature to that
place. That body, after electing Hamilton
. Fish to the U. S. Senate, in contempt of the
r city opposition; in contempt of the Silver
Grays and of the Union Committee, voted to
go down in a body, and have dinner with the
diacomfitted faction. And not satisfied with
£ dinners, visits, compliments, and all the hos
pitalities of the city, Messrs. Seward and Stan
* ton, leaders of the two wings—Democratic
and Whigs—of the Free-soilers, actually out
* Unionized the Union Committee—insisting not
1 only on union of the States, but union of the
B rural abolitional districts of the State with the
8 metropolitan cotton merchants—and the lat
-2 ter cottoned, sure enough.
Geobge McDuffie. —A correspondent of
the Mobile Herald gives this graphic sketch
of Mr. McDuffie’s last speech iu the Senate :
44 The last time I remember seeing this dis
tinguished statesman, was on the floor of the
United States Senate, during a debate on the
tariff question, in 1846. He walked to his seat
with great difficulty on account of his paraly
sis ; yet declined the proffered assistance of
Sevier, of Arkansas, and John C. Calhoun,
both of whom offered him every attention. —
When seated, he wrote a short note to Dixon
H. Lewis, who immediately had his enor
mous chair wheeled to the desk of Mr. Mc-
Duffie, and aided him in preparing his docu
ments and in rising to his ieet. The whole
chamber was silent in a moment. It might
have been deference to the bodily infirmity of
the man, who could only stand by having
each elbow supported and both hands clasped
upon the head of his cane—or it might have
been in compliment to his towering intellect
and burning eloquence; but so it was, and
the proud flashing eye of thesratesman seem
ed to acknowledge this homage as his ri»ht.
His first few sentences were uttered in gasps
as though he were suffering excruciating pain;
but after he began to warm with his subject]
he became eloquent indeed. His attack was
pointed principally against Daniel Webster,
and he appeared to pride himself on entering
the lists with him, whom he alone deemed
worthy of his steel. To describe the graceful
manner in which he glided from profound ar
gument into caustic irony, and then to solemn
invocation, surpasses my humble abilities; but
that he enchained every heart, ear, and eye
present for more than an hour, can be testifi
ed to by hundreds. Before closing his speech
with his last burst of eloquence, I remember
his becoming so excited that, forgetting all
his numerous maladies, he removed his arms
from their supports, dropped his cane on the
floor, and stood, to the astonishment of every
body, alone and unaided; while the grace and
dignity of his action could be surpassed by
no one. As he uttered his last remark, Lew
is, fearful of an accident, caught him in his
arms, and fairly carried him to his seat. A
week after this incident Congress adjourned,
and Mr. McDuffie never afterwards visited
Washington City.”
Some of the newspapers printed at the South
are rejoicing in anticipation of the downfall of
the Southern Press, a paper established at
Washington at the instance of Messrs. Toombs,
Stephens, Foote, and other distinguished
Southern gentlemen, for the express purpose
of asserting and vindicating the rights of the
South. Why is it that we hear no such re
joicing anticipations in reference to the Na
tional Era—the abolition organ of the same
city—a paper which has done more than any
other one journal in the country to bring about
the causes which have produced the present
alarm and discord in the Union? It would
seem to be the doctrine of our especial patriots
—the self-constituted guardians of the Union
that it is a greater wrong to denounce trea
son than to inculcate it—that it is less patrio
tic to resist aggressions than it is to perpetuate
them. —Savannah News.
“ Bloody Hands and Hospitable Graves.”
—•The first day after the return of Secretary
Corwin to his duties was signalized by the de
capitation of four employees of his depart
ment. While there are hungry Whigs, and
unfortunate Democrats in possession of the
“ flesh pots,” we presume this process will be
continued. Mr. Corwin must pursue his san
guinary reforms till he himself lays his own
head on the block. The persons laid out are
Messrs. Albert, McHenry, Dallas, and Gouge.
Whe stands next on the bill of fare?—Wash
ington Union.
THE CONSTITUTIONALIST,
2lujgtiota, Georgia.
THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 3-
Theatre—Sir William Don-
Those who have a taste for things theatrical,
and ean enjoy a well performed Comedy, have
an attraction offered them this evening at
Concert Hall Theatre which they should not
neglect. The great card of the evening is Sib.
William Don, who has won praises and plau
dits upon the boards of the leading Theatres
of this country, from crowded houses of
the elite and the critical.
We cannot doubt after so much concurrent
testimony to his dramatic powers which has
been brought to our notice through the pub
lic press, that he is a Comedian of superior
accomplishments, is capable of pleasing the
most fastidious tastes.
We know him as a gentlemanly stranger,
born to a high social position, and find that his
manners and deportment in private intercourse
do not discredit his education and aristocratic
associations.
His motives in seeking histrionic honors
and its legitimate pecuniary gains are praise
worthy, and we heartily wish him success here
and elsewhere.
We extract from a portion of the New York
Press notices of Sir William Don, the man,
and the actor. They will be found interest
ing.
Sir William Don, who has been successful
upon the stage in England, is a young gentle
man of more than common height, being some
inehes over six feet from the ground. He is
the son of Sir Alexander Don, of Newtown
don, who died when the present Sir William
was an infant. The father left a fine proper
ty and splendid mansion, on the banks of the
Eden, in Scotland, near Kelso, and not far
from the romantic spot where Thompson, the
author of the “ Seasons," was born. It was
in this romantic region that the early youth of
Sir William was passed, and here it was—
particularly after his education at Eton Col
lege, under the example of his uncle, who
was a great lover of the race and the chase —
that Sir William inbibed a taste for the sports
of the field, and became the theme of that re
gion for his own prowess in difficult feats of
horsemanship. Inheriting the large fortune
of his father, he was able to gratify those
tastes which are always more or less cultiva
ted by the scions of the nobility in Great
Britain, and his conquests won for him great
d'stinction for skill, daring, and accomplish
ments. His mother was considered in Scot
land a great beauty in her youthful days, and
is now named among modern belles, though
she has passed the fascinating period of life,
and is married to Col. Sir Maxwell Wallace,
now residing in Yorkshire. Sir William is
the grandson of Lady Glencairn, and is the
heir to the title and estates of the Earl of
Glencairn.
In this republican country, the inquiry may
be made, why a baronet should adopt for a
profession the difficult path of the stage. This
question is more easily asked than answered.
The love of the art —a taste for literature—a
belief that it is not the field for more uncharita
bleness, heart-burnings, spleen, ignorant envy,
and raalaee, than any other profession—a de
sire to set an example of high practical value
to the professors of the art —to correct abuses
—a wish to gratify a sympathy for a profes
sion not too much respected even by its own
members—these, and many other considera
tions, may inspire any gifted man with an am
bition to try his fortunes on the stage. It is
enough for us, without philosophizing on this,
to know that the phenomenon is amongst us
—that to-morrow night he will give us a
“ taste of his quality,” with all that richness
of humor, quaintness, and comicality, already
so fully commented upon by the English
journals. —New York Herald.
The admirable comedy of “Used Up,” follow
ed, in which Sir William Don performed the
part of Sir Charles Coldstream, with that easy
andmatural elegance, which the station of the
character imports. His dress, in the first act,
was the beau ideal of simple elegance, and his
conception of the part, natural and refined;
we pronounce it one of the most finished
pieces of acting we have seen for some time
on any stage. The character of Sir Charles
Coldstream, is well suited to Sir William’s
powers as a genteel comedian; he seemed to
feel quite at “ home,” in representing the
gay, dashing, and extravagant young baronet,
“used up” for lack of some fresh excitement
to satisfy his almost satiated taste for pleasure,
and circumstances suggested to us, to wonder
why the author of the, piece did not think of
the stage as a panacea for the ennui of his hero.
Sir William Don was called before the cur
tain at the conclusion of the first act, and at
the end of the comedy, and received then, as
well as throughout the performance, the most
enthusiastic applause. His appearance in New
York has stamped him with a fame that will
carry him triumphantly throughout the States.
—New York Herald.
Sia William Don’s Benefit.— -We have al
luded to this gentleman before. He has been
performing with great eclat for the last two
weeks at the Broadway Theatre and provi
ous to his departure for Philadelphia on Sun
day next, will take his benefit we notice this
evening. We are not in the habit of com
mending all and singular everybody, who ap
pears before the public with farfetched evi
dences of ability,but Sir William independent of
his title and of his professional worth, which
is really great and estimable, has established
himself here, among our citizens, as an actor
of no common genius. In both genteel and
low comedy he has proved himself to be far
superior to most of those who come to us he
ralded by a spurious fame, and has won gen
uine applause and approbation from the cri
tical of every character. — N. Y. Express.
The Blind in Georgia.
We are pleased to see the move made in
Miliedgeviile in favor of this interesting class
of unfortunates, which is thus appropriately
noticed by the Federal Union of the Ist inst.
We hope it will be followed up by similar
meetings throughout the State, and result in
an Institution that will be an honor to Geor
gia, and a blessing to all of her poor citizens
whom the misfortune of blindness may other
wise doom to a helpless lifetime of mental and
physical darkness.
“ We have been informed that a meeting
will be held on this evening, at 7£ o'clock, in
the Baptist Church, for the purpose of taking
into consideration the expediency of founding
an Institution in our State for the education
of the blind. A Lecture will be delivered up
on the subject.
The clergy of our city have already mani
fested a|lively interest in this cause, and it is
presumed they will be present on the occasion.
An object so deserving, and one appealing as
it does to the kindest sympathies of the hu
man heart, cannot fail to secure the well wish
es and hearty support of the intelligent and
humane of every community. Our citizens,
it is hoped, will manifest by their presence,
their respect for a cause, so philanthropic, and
which,;if sustained,must result in so much per
manent good to the blind youth of our State."
Whale Captured by the Fishermen.— We
mentioned yesterday that a large While had
been seen in shoal water somewhere nearCock
spur Island, and that several fishermen and
others had gone in pursuit of it. We learn by
the mate of the British ship Mary Jane, who
came up last night, that the party succeeded
after a fearful encounter, in capturing the
Whale in a cove about five miles this side of
Fort Pulaski, and that they were engaged in
towing him up to the city, where they expect
ed to arrive in the course of to-day. Such an
arrival at our wharves will be a novelty in
deed.
• Since writing the above, we have been
favored with a visit from our Cockspur corres
pondent, who arrived at a late hour last night
with the party who captured the whale. They
i have succeeded, with the aid of a steam tug,
in towing their prize up as far as Quantock’s
Sawmill, where we understand, it will remain
during to-day, to afford the curious in such
matters an opportunity of seeing it before it is
butchered. Our friend informs us that the
capture was handsomely accomplished, but not
1 without considerable difficulty and peril. The
whale is one of the largest ever seen in our
waters. — Savannah Neivs, Ist inst.
This reads like a very good April fool story.
The Savannah News is rather famous for large
fish stories, the Major Jones of that sprightly
concern having a decided propensity that
way.
Important News. —The New York Express
learns from reliable sources, that the Canadian
government has resolved to close the Welland
Canal against American vessels. This is a
measure which, if persisted in, will inflict a
serious blow at the trade and commerce of the
Lakes, affecting materially the prosperity and
interests of all the avenues of trade leading
from Lake Ontario. Great excitement exists
at Oswego and other towns connected with
the commerce of the lower Lake and the river
St. Lawrence. This movement is well un
derstood to be a retaliatory one against the
United States Government, and the State of
New York, in consequence of the former not
granting reciprocity of trade, and the latter
shutting but the Canadians from the free use
of Lake Champlain and the Champlain canal.
[communicated .]
Mr. Editor: —l am induced to occupy a
corner of your journal, by observing the ap
parent apathy to, or, I may rather term it,
distaste for theatrical performances, which is
manifested by a large part of our community.
This distaste I cannot account for, as I have
seen strolling Circuses, with their vulgar, and,
in many instances, highly indecorous perform
ances, crowded nightly during their stay in
our city, and attended, too, by many of those
who affect a pious horror at entering within
the precincts of a Theatre. Ethiopian Min
strels, also, with their stereotyped banjo-ism,
and black-corked visages, draw their admiring
hundreds every night they may condescend
to visit us, to enlighten our intellects by the
radiance of their darkness. So with other
exhibitions I might mention. But should a
Society engage gentlemen to deliver a course
of Lectures on subjects calculated to improve
the mind, or exalt the taste, the chances are
that, unless the Lecturer be some one occu
pying the place of a “ constellation"—not a
“star" merely,—he shall read his lecture to
empty benches—neglected and unappreciated
—subjecting the Society to pecuniary loss,
and damping their energies in the laudable
cause which they endeavor to promote.
Again, should Artists of acknowledged
merit, visit us, as recently in the case of Signo
ra Tedesco, the public patronage is such as ex
actly to enable them to meet expenses. And
now, when Mr. Adams, the enterprising Les
see of the Savannah and Charleston Theatres,
has, at much expense and trouble, engaged a
company for the purpose of contributing to
our amusement; and has re-opened the The
atre here, after a long interval, what is to be
the result ? I much fear, a loss, a serious pe
cuniary sacrifice to the Lessee, unless a more
liberal encouragement be given by our citi
zens. The company is as good as can be
formed, without risking too much upon the
experiment. Many of its members, indeed,
are artists of sterling merit —Mason, Walcott,
Weaver, &c. The much talked of English
Baronet, Sir William H.Don, is also engaged,
and will, for a few nights, appear in a series
of his highly amusing and well-depicted char
acters. Himself a highly polished scholar,
and refined gentleman, his representation of
comedy never sinks intn vulgarity, nor his
exhibition of broad farce merge into buffoon
ery, but all is characterized, in Sir William
Don’s playing, by that carriage which, while
it shows a proper conception of the charac
ter, maintains the a plotnb of the gentleman.
The most refined and delicate will have no
occasion to find fault, but will have an oppor
tunity of contemplating many of the person
ages of genteel comedy, represented by a gen
tleman, and not by an imitator. This is pe
culiarly his forte, and one in consonance with
his birth and education.
To the present company will succeed the
Italian Troupe, now drawing large audiences
at Charleston.
I beg your pardon for trespassing on your
valuable conlumns, but I feel as if the credit
of our city is at stake in these matters, and
that we shall be cited as a by-word—as behind
our sister cities in our tastes and pursuits, if
we do not endeavor to remove the reproach
too justly cast upon us that “ the citizens of
Augusta will crowd in such numbers to a
Mountebank Circus, or to an Ethiopian Con
cert, for nights together, as to put thousands
of dollars into the pockets of the proprietors,
but will not attend a Scientific Lecture, for
their own benefit, or patronize a well con
ducted Theatre, leaving each to its own res
pective losses," I trust that this may no
longer be the case, but that with return
ing fine weather, our Theatre may be
graced with the presence, and animated
by the smiles of the ladies of our city,
as then we know, that, by the power of at
traction, the gentlemen will be sure to follow.
In times of depression, too, amusement is es
sential and valuable to divert the mind, for
“He who learns to laugh when funds ate low,
A comfort gains which dollars ne'er bestow."
Very Respectfully,
“ Citizen."
[communicated.
Receipts and Expenditure of the City
Council.
Mb. EDixoß.—As the last regular meeting
of the present City Council is more than a
week before the time of the election of their
successors, is it asking too much of our city
Fathers to let the public know how the pecu
niary affairs of the city have been managed
since their installment into office ?
If the City Council are at all anxious that
the people should be informed upon the sub
ject, by a very slight effort they might cause
their annual exhibit to be presented to the
public by Tuesday or Wednesday next, or
Thursday at farthest, and the voters could
then have ample time and opportunity te in
vestigate for themselves, the results of the la
bors of the present Board. If it should be
found that the city debt has been materially
reduced —our finances in a healthy condition
—and a good sum in the city Treasury, under
the head of “ cash balance on hand," it will
doubtless be as pleesing to the people general
ly, as it will prove honorable and gratifying t°
the Mayor and Board of Aldermen.
It is reported that the finances of the city,
have not been prudently and economically
managed, the past year. If this is true, of
course it will be well to delay the publication
of the Receipts and Expenditures uutil the
latest moment —perhaps after the election
would be the safest policy.
A Tax Paying Voter.
(communicated.)
THAT TRIO.
B V PETER FORCUriNE.
Said Cobb one day, “ Let us divide
The people’s offices between us—
We then can breast the strongest tide,
Tho’ patriot voices should bemean us.”
Said Stephens, “ yes,” and Too mbs agreed
’Twas very fine indeed to do so—
Said Cobb again, I vastly need
Some little help—indeed you know so.
" Don’t vote for Winthrop if you please
To fill the chair of Mr. Speaker—
Kick up a fuss, and raise a dust,
And then you’ll make poor Winthrop weaker, ’
“ Agreed,” said they, “ we’d help you out,
But will expect you for our trouble
To help ua put our foes to rout,
And so our toams we know will double.”
Now Bob and Aleck did not vote,
’Tis true, for the undaunted Howell,
But kept out Winthrop, you may note,
And go< Cobb in we all know how well.
’Tis Howell’s turn to help his friends,
And Aleck waits to grace the Senate—
The Compromise will serve their ends,
So much bepraised by Gordon Bennett.
Some pill the trios’s aims required
To make the people’s stomachs hearty—
They made it as their hearts desired
The Constitutional Union Party !
But know ye, Stephens, Toombs and Cobb,
That though your pill in sugar’s wallowed,
The people know Hamilcar Bob,
And so your nostrums won’t be swallowed.
[for the constitutionalist.]
america-my own my native land.
Oh, 'tis the land of radiant gems,
Os beauty’s dazzling glare ;
Oh,'tis ray own my native land—
No pearl like thee so fair.
Though poets sing of eyes as sweet
And beauteous as the flowers,
In other lands, though dazzling bright,
They lack thy fairy powers.
What though they sing of soft blue eyes
That reach the inmost heart I
Can other lands beside my own
Lend eyes such winning art ?
What though they sing of lands as bright
As yonder lovely star ?
Can other lands beside my own
Hold beauty half as fair ?
What then, though wild fanatic bands
Would drench this land with blood,
And sever ties whose lovely flower
Is only in the bud ?
Shall we forget our native land
Extends from sea to sea ?
United stands—divided falls—
And great the fall will be.
Then, while we live, and beauty love,
May this fraternal band,
United be, and still be free,
My own my native land.
Solon Robinson.
Augusta, (Gra ) March, 31, 1851.
The steamer Metamora, which left this city
for Savannah, at 9 o’clock A. M., on Monday
last, returned yssterday, in tow of the steam
er Jasper. The Metamora broke her driving
crank, on Monday about 12 M‘, when off Ed
ding’s Bay, going, at the time, under an easy
head of steam. The injury, will be repaired
immediately..— Charleston Courier. |j
Oil Conthact. —The contract for supplying
the U. States Government with sperm oi! for
the use of tie light houses*!, was this day,
taken by Samuel Leonard, Esq., ot New Bed
ford, at an average price of one hundred and
eighteen and one-third cents per gallon, cash.
The quantity to be delivered is 67,716 gallons:
one-third winter oil and two-thirds spring oil.
Winter oil equal to 121 cents, spring oil equal
to 117 cents. A low contract considering the
present quotations of oil in the market.—Bos
ton Trans, of Monday.
The Br. barques Queen and Sir Henry Pot
tinger, arrived here yesterday, the former from
Cardiff, (Wales) and the latter from Bristol,
(England,) have on board 5, 569 bars Rail
Road Iron, for the East Tennessee and Geor
gia Rail Road Company—consigned to W. P.
Tefft, Esq. —Savannah Republican, Ist inst.
Don’t all Rush at Oncb. —The following
adveitisement is taken from one of the New
York papers:
“ Wanted. —A protestant young lady, gen
teel and tidy, can, if disposed, find a very
pleasant and agreeable home with a colored
lady, lately married, living in a very private
manner and having no company, Her clothes
will be found, and pocket money occasionally,
with the privilege of learning dress-making.
Address E. M. Tribune Office, or particulars
can be had by calling at 114 Nassau street,
(basement.”)
A pleasant and agreeable home with a col
ored lady, and pocket monoy occasionally!
We like that.
A Coincidence. —Major Noah has, for ten
years past, edited with ability the New York,
Sunday Times, a weekly paper issned every
Sunday morning. It is somewhat remarkable
as a coincidence, that he should have died at
half-past 11 o’clock on Saturday night, just
as the last number of the tenth volume of
his journal was going to press, making a round
decade from the time he commenced it until
death terminated his labors. Major Noah
was forty years off and on, connected with the
public press. The sterling benevolence of his
life time renders his memory fragrant, now
that he is dead and gone. He is said to have
died as he lived, serene, intelligent, and hope
ful. Peace to his ashes !
SPECIAL NOTICES.
BALL POSTPONED.
'ihe frowning heavens that o'er us lower.
The drenching rains that round us shower.
The streets so muddy and so wet,
Your looks so full of sad regret,
Bid me, my frollick to postpone,
Until another week be gone j
When wishing streets and weather dry,
To please you then my best I'll try.
On Thursday, 10th, I hope you all,
Will patronize the Dutchman's Ball.
a P_3 lw PETER STRUB,
AUGUSTA LYCUMN.
O 3 The regular meetings of this Institution are
held on Thursday Evening of every week, at
the Free School room. The doors are always open
to the public.
The Quarterly Elections take place This Eve
niro, and a full attendanco of the members is
earnestly requested.
Question.— ls Phrenology a true Science .
a P 3 L. D WELLE, Jr., Sec'y.
PETER STRAUB TO THE B’HOYS !
'* Unto the breach, again, my friends, once more,"
I'd like to meet you altogether, where
Ihe rich grape's juice, for you, I keep in store
I o raise your spirits and solace your care,
And to crown all; ANOTHER BALI| I mean
To treat you to, upon next THURSDAY NIGHT,
Where great amusement will be found, 1 ween.
The Theatre Band's engaged—O. K.—all's right,
So meet there, by early Candle light.
a P 1 3 PETER STRAUB.
NOTICE.
O 3 THE CLINCH RIFLES will meet at
Lamback's, on THURSDAY EVENING next, at
half past seven o'clock. A full attendance is de
sired, as business of importance is to be transact
ed. JOS. A. CARRlE,Secietary,
ap 1 3
O’ CROTON PLUGS -For sale by
mar 26 J. TAYLOR, Jr. & CO.
LOCATING LAND WARRANTS.
O 5 * I HAVE effected an arrangement with a
gentleman of the west for this purpose. lam
also authoiised to purchase the Land after it is
located.
m2O 6m ANDREW H. H. DAWSON.
MASONIC NOTICE^
The Members of the several Ylasonic In-v » /
stitutions of this city, are notified to meet NAf
at the Lodge Room, on Monday Evening, - *!!**
7th of April next, at half-past seven o'clock, to
elect two Trustees of the Masonsic Hall, vice
Thomas J. Wray, deceased, and John W. Wilde,
removed from the State.
WM. T. GOULD,
mar 26 Chairman of Trustees.
DRS. J. E. & H. A. BIGNON.
Office on Broad St. opposite Bridge Bank building .
fCTOffer their prolessional services to the cit
zens of Augusta and its vicinity. jau 14
O* DR» J AS. D. MACKIE tenders re
spectfully his Professional Services to the citizens
of Augusta.
Office on Jackson street, between Broad and
Reynold streets. 6mos jan 12
ttjPTHE FRENCH LANGUAGE faught
Dramatically by Mrs. SABAL, opposite the V.
States Hotel. Mrs. Sabal will take charge of a
Class in any of the Seminaries or private families
of Augusta. „ 6mos octß
MEDICAL CARD.
\TT DR. P. M, STOTESBURY offers his
Professional services to the Public.
Office on Broad-street, first Dwelling above the
Franklin House, where he may be found at all
hours, when not professionally engaged.
References. —Dr. M. S. Thompson, Macon,
Ga.j Dr. J. Toole, Scriven county, formerly ot
Hamburg, S. C. mar 14
hTvan VOORHIS, |M. d.
HOMOEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN.
(Ly* Is permanently located in Augusta, and i»
to be found at Mr. Beer's, corner o{ Broad and
Jackson streets.
Refers to G. J. and W. SCHLEY, Esqs.
march 14
{TTBLISS’S COMPOUND COD LIVER
OIL JANDY.—Any of our friends who are trou
bled with a Cold, Cough, Influenza, or with the
Asthma, and who desire something to greatly mit
igate their sufferings, cannot do so well as to pur
chase a package of Bliss's Compound Cod Liver
Oil Candy, which is agreeable as the choicest
confection, and still as powerful a medicine as the
pure, unadulterated Cod Liver Oil. Any one pur
chasing. must take especial care that he procures
the genuine article, for there are numerous coun*
terfeits in the market.
For sale by PHILIP A. MOISE
Dealer in Drugs and Medicines, 195, Metcalf
Range, Augusta, Ga.
Country Merchants and Druggists supplied on
liberal terms. dc2w F ap l