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THE CONSTITUTIONALIST.
JAMES GARDNER, JR.
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The Drunkard’s Bible.
•Mr. President,' said a snort stout man, with
a good humored countenance, and a florid
complexion, rising as the i isc speaker took his
seat. —,1 have been a tavern keeper.
At th s announcement there was a move
ment through the wnole room; and an expres
sion of increased interest.
‘Yes, Mr. President,’ he went on, ‘I have
been a taveta keeper, and many a glass I have
sold to you, and to the .Secretary there, and to
doz ins of others hat I see here”—glancing
around upon the company.
‘That's a face,’ oroke in the President,’ many
a gin toddy and orandy-punch h*ve I taken
at your bar. But times are changed now, and
we have begun to carry the war into the ene
my’s camp. And our war has not been alto
gether unsuccessful, for we have taken prison
er one ot tne rumßeUers’ brave a Generals!
But go on friei.d W -, let us have your ex
perience.'
‘As to my experience, Mr. President,’ the
ex-tavern keeper resumed, ‘in rum-selling and
rum-drinking, for I have done a good deal of
both in my time, that would be rather too
long to tell to-night—and one that 1 would
much rather forget than relate. It makes me
tremble and sick at my heart, whenever! look
back u|sm the evil I have done I, therefore,
usually look ahead with the hope of doing
some good to my tellow men.
But there is one incident I will relate.—For
the last live years, a hard working mechanic,
with a wite and seven small cnildren, came
S regularly, almost every night, to my tave.n,
and spent :he evening in my bar-room. He
came to drink, of course, and many a dollar of
his hard earnings went into my till. At last
he became a perfect sot —working scarcely one
fourth or the time, and spending all he earned
in liquor. His poor wire had to take in wash
ing to support herself and children, while he
Spent his time and the little he could make at
h* my bar. But his appetite for was so
strong, that bis weeks’ earnings were usually
Wone by Tuesday or Wednesday, and then I
ad to cnaik up a score against nim, to be paid
off when Saturday night came.
This score gradually increased, until it
amounted to three or four dollars over his
Saturday night’s pay, when I refused to sell
him any more liquor until it was settled. On
the day alter I nad thus refused him, became
in witn a neat mourning breast pin, enclosing
some hair—no doubt, I thought of a deceased
relative. Tms he offered in payment of wnat
he owed. I accepted it, for the pin I saw at
p once was worth double the amount of my bill.
I did not think, nor indeed care about tne
question, wnetner he was the owner or not; I
wanted my own, and in my selflsh eagerness
to get it, I hesitated not to take a little more
than my own.
X laid the breast pin away, and all things
went on smoothly for a while. But he grad
ually go behind hand again, and again I cut
off his supply of liquor. I’his time he brought
me a pa.r of brass andirons, and a pair of brass
candlesticks, and I took tnem and wiped off
the score against him, At last ne brought a
large family Bible, andl tooktnat too —taiuk-
ing, 10 doubt, I couid sell it for something.
O.i the Sunday at.erwarJs, having nothing
to do, tor I used to snut my bar on Sundays,
thinking it was not respectable to sell liquor, i
opened this poor Uruukard’s family Bible,
scarcely thinking what I was doing. The first
place I turned to was tne lamily record, i'nere
it was stated, that upon a certain day, he had
been married to E mly . I nad known
Emily , when 1 was a young man, very
well, and had once thought seriously of of
fering myself to her m marriage. 1 remem
bered her happy young face, and seemed sud
denly to htar a tone oi her merry , ugnter.
•Poor creature !’ I sighed involuntarily, as
a thought of tier present condition crossed my
mind—ana then with no pleasant feelings I
I turned over another leaf. There was the re
-1 cord ot the birth of her four children; the last
had been made recently, and was in the moth
er’s hand.
I never had such strange feelings as now
cam' over me. I felt that I had no business
with this b iok; but I tried to stifle my feelings
and thurned over several leaves quickly. As
I suffered my eyes to rest upon aa open page,
these words arrested my attention.
•Wme is a mucker, strong drink is raging;
whoso is deceived thereby is not wise.’
This was just tne subject that under the
fedings I men had, I wis led to avoid, and so
I reterr d o another place. There I read
‘Who hath woe; Wno hath sorrow? Who
.j hath wounds ? Wno hath babbling? Wno hath
* redness of eye-? They that tarry long at the
* wine. At last it biteth like a serpent, it stin
geth like an adder.’
** m 1 felt like throwing the book from me; but
once more I turned «.he leaves, and my eyes
upon these words—
• Woe unto him that giveth his neighbor
drink; that puttest the bottle to him and ma
gr keat him drmk.’
* I closed the book suddenly, and threw it
down. Then, for half an hour, I paced the
room backwards and forwards in a state of
mind I never before experienced. I had be
come painfully conscious of the direful evils
resulting from intemperance, and still more
painfully conscious, that I had been a willing
in tne spread of these evils. 1
cannot tell you how much I suffered during
th it day and night, nor describe the fearful
conflict that took place in my mind, between
tLseUbh love of the gains of my calling, and
? the plain dictates of truth and humanity. It
was about nine o’clock i think, on the same
k evening, that 1 opened the Drunkard’s Bible
I again, with a kind of despairing hope that I
I should meet there, with something to direct
f me> I opened at the Psalm and re id two or
th’-ee chapters. As I read on, without find
ing anv thing directly to my case, I felt an in
creasing desire to abandon my calling, be
cause it wa- injurious to my follow-man.
jkfter I had read the Bible, I retired to bed,
but could not sleep. lam sure that during ‘
that night I thought of every drunken man to
whom I had sold liquor, and of all their beg
gared families. In the brief sleep that I ob
tained, I dreamed that I saw a long line of
tottering drunkards, with their wives and
children in rags. And a loud voice said:
‘Who hath done this?’
The answer, in a still louder voice, direct
ed I felt, to me, smote upon my ear like a peal
of thunder —
•Thou art the man !’
From this troubled slumber I woke to sleep
no more that night. In the morning, the last
and most powerful conflict came. The ques
tion be decided, was—
‘Shall I open my tavern, or at once abandon
the dreadful traffic in liquid poison ?’
Happily, I decided never to put to any man’s
lips the cup ot confusion. My next step was
to turn the spicket of every keg or barrel of
spirits, wine, bee*-, or cider, and let the con
ten s escape on the floor. My bottles and
decanters were likewise emptied. Then I
came and signed your Total Abstinence
Pledge; and what is better, never rested until
I had persuaded the man whose Bib e had
been of so much use to me, to sign the Pledge
likewise.
And now Mr. President, lam keeping a
Temperance Grocery, and am making restitu
tion as fast as possible. There are a<. least a
half a dozen families, to whom I furnish a
small quantity of groceries every week, in
many cases equal to the amount that used to
be spent at my bar for liquor. Four of my
oldest and best customers nave already signed
the pledge by m » persuasion, anl I am not
going to rest, until every man I helped to
ruin is restored to himself, his family, and
society,
A round of hearty applause followed thi*
address, and then anothej of the reformed
drinkeis took the floor.
(From the Savannah News.')
Mr. Webstar ia Boston—His Speech to the
People-
Mr. Webster arrived m Boston on Tuesday,
and was greeted oy an immense concourse of
people who escorted him to the Revere House,
where he nude an address. Tne papers con
tain a report of this speech, which we con
fess has greatly disappoin'ed us. Under the
circumstances, we expected a very uifferent
speech from Mr. Webster. We expec ed a«.
least that he would rebuke the spirit of fans
tictsm which so recen iy disgraced the city ot
Boston, and that he would exhort hts fellow
citizens to support the Constitution and laws,
and to put down the traitors to the Union in
their midst. But we are sorry to say that no
such sentiments were uttered by Mr. Weo
ster. He seems to have studiously avoided
any direct allusion to the abolitionists and
their late revolutionary proceedings, and to
have contented himself with a glorification of
Massachusetts and the Union. In the course
of his flattering panegyric on Boston, he says:
When I came rrom the North to throw my
self among you, and partake of your fortunes,
for good or evil,and to the end of my iite,you are
not vain enough to suppose, fellow-citizens,
that I have done any essential service to my
country in my d.y or generation. If I have
so done, however little, or ..owever much, t
makes, I owe it manly to the constant, the
warm, the unwavering friendship and support
of the people of Boston. I am bound the
way of all .he ear,h, and shall ere long follow
your fathers and my fathers, to my last
home; but while I live and breathe, and
while I have the power of language or oi
thought, while my ueirt beats or my tongue
moves, I shall feel and I shall speak of Boston
as the cherished object of my public, political,
and, I may say, principal regard
Os the Uaion ne siys :
Gentleman, let us despair of nothing in be
half of our country. We see it growing m pros
perity. We shall see that the leturmng sense
of the community, the great principle of love
of liberty, and we night add, and I would add.
with ail the emphasis that l can pour out of
my heart —the love of Union, will keep us to
gether, (Applause.) If I had ten thousand
voices, it I should speak so as to be heard on
the shores of the Pacific, if I could gather a
round me the whole of this vast nation, I
would say, fellow-citizens, union, union,
UNION, now and forever ? (Great cneenng.)
We have not room for the entire speecn, the
substance of whicn is contained in the para
graphs selected.
We cordially sympathise with Mr. Web
ster, in ms devotion to the Union, though for
the matter of that, Mr. Seward is not a whit
behind him in his profession. We do not
doubt Mr. Webster’s sincerity; but we wish
he would tell his fellow citizens ot Massachu
setts in plain terms what they must do to pre
serve the Union.
We give Mr. Webster all credit far his
course in opposition to abolitionism, but we
are sorry to observe what we are forced to re
gard as a disposition on his part to quail before
the aroused fanaticism of his own State. For
a lion of the Constitution, his roaring in Bos
ton is very much of tne Bully Bo.ton order,
who, it will be remembered, out of res
pect to the nerves of auenors, and a conside
rate solicitude for his own neck, cond.scended
to “ aggravate his voice,” and to “ roar as gen
tly as any sucking dove, and ’ewere any night
ing le.” Iniee l, the perusal oi this speech
bruught forcibly to our mind Bully’s proposed
amendment ot th ? prologue to Pyramus and
Tmsby. Substitute abloitionahsts for laiiea,
(pardon the association) and the point i?
strikingly apparent.
Bvrr >m —Masters you ought to consider
with yourseif; to ring in, God shield us ! a
lion among the ladies, is a most dreadful
thing; for tnere is not a more tearful wild
fowl than your lion, living ;,and we ought to
look to it.
Snout. —Therefore another prologue must
tell he is not a lien.
Bottom — Nay, you must name his name,
and half nis face must be seen through the
lions neck; and he himself must spead through,
saying thus, or to the same defect, —L idles,
or fair ladies, I would wish you, or, I would
request you, or, I would en reat you, not fear,
not to trouble ; my life for yours. If you think
I came hither as a lion, it toere pity of my life
No, 1 am no suen th ng ; I am a -nan as otner
men are : and there indeed let him name hit
name ; and tell them plainly, he is Snug, the
joiner.
Mr. Webster’s political life is in danger in
Massachusetts, therefore it becomes him to
roar gently in the presence of the party who
have just signalized thei* strength by elect
ing to the U. S. Senate, Mr. Sumner, who is
denounced by tne New York Express as the
“ Abolition—Disunion—Free-Boil—Higher-
Law candidate.
Pruning Stonb Fruit.— lt has been bu
a few years since the cultivators of fruit have
been in the habit of pruning peach trees at
the extremities of the branches, instead of cut
ting off limbs at the trunk. The system o*
shortening in, as it is called, is gaining ground
and it is a gre*t improvement. The reasons
for this mode are evident on examination.—
Most kinds of stone fruit grow rapidly, and
bear the greatest part of their fruit on new
wo. d, which is of course near the ends o the
l.mbs. In this way a tree spreads over much
land, and has naked branches near the trunk ;
and pruning at the trunk causes the gum to
ooze out, which sometimes endangers the
health or life of the tree.
On the contrary, by pruning the ends of
the branches the tree is confined to a small
apace* the wounds hare no unfavorable effect,
or only effect the twigs and not the trunk, and
much new wood is produced ior the produc
tion of fruit.
Rules for Orcharding.—lst. Select a dry
location — if not dry, make it so by drainage.
2d. Make the land fit for a crop—rich and
mellow, and keep it so for several years. It
is better for the trees to crop with corn, pota
toes, etc , then seed down. '
3d. Make a good fence about the young or
chard. I have never known young apples trees
to flourish tLat were rubbed or browsed by
cattie. Have a good driver and ploughman,
when the orchard is ploughed by a ox-team —
otherwise, do it yourself.
4th. Set the trees not more than two or
three inches deeper than they stood in the
nursery —dig a large hole—fill it with rich
earth, chip, or other rotten nanure.
sth. Transplant ear y in the spring or late
in the autumn. The spring is a good time.
Do it early, so that the .-pring rains will pack
the earth about the roots.
6th. Prune judiciously with a sharp knife,
and saw in the spring.
7th. Select the b>st varieties of fruit. A. poor
fruit tree is a nuisance. It is cheaper to buy
a good fruit tree than to receive a poor one as
a present.
Btn. Set out trees enough to make sure of
all you want, and some to spare. Fruit is the
cheapest food raised for animals.
<Kh. Set out your orchard this year—or if
you have an old orchard of common fru t,
nave it grafted this year.— Ashtabula Tele
graph.
A Queen’s Speech. Everybody knows
that the “Queen’s Speech” does not deserve
its name. It is not the queen’s; nor is it a
speech; it’B a document. The first minister
sketches it, subsequent cabinet councils re
duce it to shape, and it is men submitted to
her majesty. When returned with her ap
prova , the speech is divulged (at a minsteral
dinner) to the nou-cabmet meinoers of the ad
mini : tration. Thus the mere topics of toe
manifesto ooze out at the clubs the night be
fore the speecn is sp =ken. iut it is the ac.uai
text which the puiic is eager for: and. that no
time may t-e lost, em ssanes the London
evening paper* appear at the treasury about
the time when her majesty is preparing her
toile'te, at Buckingham Palace, for the cere
mony. Tne moment the first gun announces
that the procession is in motion, the evening
paper envoys are obliged with copies of the
document; and betcre the queen has done
speaking in the house, her word- are in type.
Former y the getlemen of the press were lock
ed in a room in the treasury till the cortege
was on its way back.
Some years ago an escape was made from
the official durance which caused some amuse
ment. The editor of the government paper in
Dublin was most anxious to start for Liver
pool by one o'clock, to catch the packet for
Dublin. The speech was handed some time
before that hour, and the key was turned as
usual. Presently, however, the clerks and
messengers were alarmed by frantic cries of
“Fire.” They opened the door, the room was
tilled with smoke, l'ne editor, in the con
fusion, made his escape, leaving the frighten
ed clerks to exunguisn trie harmless sheet of
brown paper he had intentionally ignited. We
of the present day improve on tne Irish edi
tor’s plan. His was a fire escape; ours are
lightuing conductors. It is at sucn a lime as
tais that the wonders of the electric telegraph
oeeome startlingly apparent, The city ot
E iinburg ls -ibout tour hundred miles trom
Buckingham Palace. While the state pro
cession is wending its slow way back from
Westminister, the are charged; and,
marvellous fast! at the same moment that her
majesty is alighting at the -teps of the mar
ole bail, several of ner lieges m tne Socttish
capital are begining to read her speech.
[Hottsehold Words.
Fast Men and Women.—A writer in the
City Item “hits off” a certain class of fashion
ables in New York, after the following style.
Tne picture, thougn perhaps a little too high
ly coloured, is correct in the main.
The New York “upper ten” are essentially
a “fast set,” and they seem to value them
selves, as we more quiet people value our
trotting horses, for their speed and action
atone. To follow out the sarnie, the Ne w
York woman is thoroughly broken for the
track. The poika, wal z, gallop, scho‘tish,
iiedowa, are ail paces wicu wmch she is per
fectly familiar—she is always in fine condition
—no print trom the Magazin des Modes is
more pertectiy faultless in costume —no racer
less encumbered with superfluous desh —how
ever long the dance or late the supper, she
never appears “distressed.” While the pant
ing stranger who may have solicited her hand
for the dance, is endeavoring to reoruit hi?
energies, she takes a turn with several inti
mate friends. It very fast, she will probably
take a drink with yo jor a smoke with you,
or a quiet game of cards at you.r own stakes.
To use an expressive word, she is up to any
thing.
The New York fast man, or the residue of a
man which dancing and dissipation haslle t,
•‘does his mile” also in the fastest possible
space of time. Early in the evening ne looks
very much like what an undertaker would call
“a handsome corpse,” —his cravat is so nicely
tie i, his boots so perfect—his white kids so
unexceptionable, and every thing about him
so fresh and blooming, save his haggard and
colorless face. /Arriving late at the ball he
“trots out” some fast woman, who on tne
very slightest invitation is only too happy to
be put through her paces by him, though he
may never vouchsafe a remark. Iu fact he
has nothing to say, except that the music is
too high or too low, too fast or too slow, and
when his dance is over, he drops hia partner
and is off to spend the rest of tne night in the
various dissipations New York presents.
The Mississippi Platfjums . —We perceive
from Courier, ihat the renegade,
Fuo.e, s r ated m a ree-nt speech delivered by
him at Jackson, Mississippi, that if elected to
the Convention of that State, which is to meet
in November next, he would abide by the
Georgia platform—acquiescence iu the past,
and a distinct marking of a line for the future,
beyond whi h the North must not infringe.
This, he thinks, should be introduced ver
batim in the November Convention, and pass
ed withou delay, after which that body
snouid adjourn.
Mr. Hooker, one of the Southern Rights
candidates ior the Convention, in Hinds
County, in reply to this, stated that he desir
ed the Convention of November to demand of
the G neral Government a running of the line
ot 30 30 to the Pacific; a division ot the State
ot Calif rnia, and a repeal of tne law abolish
ing the siave tra iemthe District of Colum
bia. He desired a Convention of the South
era States to be called, which should make
the same demand. In the event of the refusal
of Congress to do these things, he was for im
mediate and unconditional secession
These are tne two platforms, as we under
stand from our exchanges, wnich are submitt
ed for the consideration of the p ople of Mis
sissppi.and we are much gratified to be ena
bled to state hat from presents ppearances.tne
la'ter is far more popular than the -former.
Tne Vicksburg Sentinel, of the sth inst.,
commenting on the meeting at Jackson above
alluded to, says that Mr. Hooker vanquished
Foote at every point, so much so, that the
little trickster was evitdenly chagrined and
hap-faiien.— Palmetto Banner.
German Hot-beds.— Take white cotton
cloth, of a close texture, stretch it, and nail
it on frames of any size you wish, mix two
ounces of lime-water, four ounces of linseed
soil, once ounce white of eggs separately, two
ounces of yolk of eggs, mix the lime and oil
witlf a very geqtle heat, beat the eggs sepa
rately, and mix with the former. Spread this
mixture, with a paint brush, over the cotton,
allowing each coat to dry before applying an
other, until they become water proof. The
following are some of the advantages these
shades possess over glass ones :
1. The cost being hardly one-fourth.
2. Repairs are easily and cheaply made:
3. They light; they do not requ re water
ing : no tnattei how intense the heat of the
sun, the plants are never struck down, or
faded, or checked in growth, neither do they
grow up long, sick and weakly; as they do
under glass, and still there is abundance ot
light.
4. The heat entirely arsing from below is
equable and temperate, which is a great ob
ject. The vapor arising from the manure and
eartn is condensed by the cool air passing over
the surface of the shade, and hangs in drops
upon the inside, and therefore the plants do
not require so frequent watering. It the
frames or stretches are made large, the* 7 should
be intersected with crossbars, about a foot
square, to support the cloth. These articles
are just the thing for bringing forward flower
seeds in seasou for transplanting.— Plough,
Loom and Anvil ,
A great many people are croaking in Eng
land, about the danger of plague and pesti
lence. during the great exhibition. Others de
monstrate how perfectly possible it is for
French soldiers to be sent across the channel
in plain clothes, with their uniforms in their
carpet bags ; and in a few hours, at a conser
ted signal, Lmdon would be under the do
min.on ot the tri-color, etc.
To Pbevent Sneezing A correspondent
of the London Medical Gazette states, that
toclose the nostril with the thumb and finger
during expiration, leaving th-.m free during
inspiration, wtii relieve a fit of coughing in a
short time. Iu addition to the above, we
state from personal knowledge, that to press
the finger on the upper lip just below the
nose, will make the severest premonitory
symptoms of a sne za pass off harmless.
A Question for Algebraists. —Two Arabs
had sat down to dinner, and were accosted by
a stranger who requested to join their party,
saying “ that as he could no. get provisions
to buy in that part of the country, if they
would admit him to eat only an equal share
with themselves, he would willingly pay them
for the whole.” I'he frugal meal consisted ol
eight small loaves of bread, five of wh ch be
longed to one of the Arabs, and three to the
ocher. The stranger having eaten a third
part, and each of the two Arabs a third part
of the eight loaves, arose and lard before them
eight pieces of momy, saying, “ My friends,
there is what I promised to give you ; divide
it between you according to your j ust rights.”
A. dispute, of course, arose resp cting a divi
sion of the money ; but, reference being made
to the cadi, he adjudged seven pieces of the
money to the owner of the five loaves, and
only one piece to him who had owned the
three loaves. Yet the cadi decided instantly.
The following characteristic toast was given
by one of the Boston Marshals, at a collation
given them by Mr. Potter at his plantation,
during their stay in this city:
The North and the Sjuth —May the links of
the chain that binds their Union stronger than
ever —the abolitionists pitched into h—l, and
Bunker Hill Monument rolled against the
gate.
If the author was a Southern man,he would
be denominated a fire-eater. — Savannah News.
The New York Courier gives the proceeds
of an invoice of g ods shipped by a firm of
chat city to Calif .rma.the prime cose of which
was $l2O. The sum realiz don it was $533,-
50. about 400 per cent. The charge, how
ever, for freight, storage, auction duties, &e. f
amounted to $533.36, *eaving a balance due
on the original shipment of 14 cents, which,
with 36 cents more were used up i«. paying
the postage from San Francisco on the le ter
conveying an account of the transaction.
Chair versus Ottoman. — The English pa
pers are just now gre-tly excited on the ques
tion whetner the “holy cnair of Sc. Peter”
exhibited by the catholics in the Yatician.
really belonged to St. Peter or Mahomet. La
dy Morgan positively affirms that Napoleon
when in Rome ordered the sacred chair to be
stripped of its covering and found inscribed
upon the tront of the seat—“Tnere is but one
God, and Mahomet is his Prophet.” The
catholic journals say that the chair cannot
have belonged to Mahomet, for the s mple
reason that gentleman never had a chair and
always sat on an oaoman. The London Times,
on the other hand, proves pretty conclusively
that it could not have oeionge to St. Pater, as
he never was in Rome at all. Aitogethei this
must be egarded as one of the most unsatis
factory controversies extant.
Four and Twenty Fiddlers. —By a singu
lar imitation of French uus.oms and Louis
XIV. King Charles introduced a baud ot
twenty-four violins, with violas and basses,
instead of the grave tones of the majestic or
gan, into the service of the Royal Chapel at
Whitehall. TomD’Qrfey made ms »onguoon
the innovation, “Four and-twenty fiddlers all
m a row.” Ihe King immediately withdrew
his new music.
The fast sailing schr. Fakir, Capt. Gardner
arrived here yesterday from Havana, in four
days, having left that port on Thursday, the
24th iost., two days after the sailing of the
steamship Isabel. We have received no pa
pers by this arrival, but learn from Capt. G.
that every thing was in the same sta e as at
tne time of the sailing of the Isabel.—Savan
nah Republican, 29th ult.
As the steamer Wm. Seabrook was coming
up the river last night, a row-boat containing
four men, was discovered a short distance
ahead, when the engine was immediately
backed. Those in the boat finding that the
steamer had stopped, imprudently undertook
to row across, but drifted under her bow ;
and coming in contact with the steamer, the
boat upset. Three of the persons were saved
by the exeitions o, Capt. Dixon —one, named
Patrick Sullivan, was drowned.
Had there beei a light in the boat, or other
meaus by which it could have been discover
ed a little sooner, (the night being very
dark,) the accident would not have occurred;
but it was not until the steamer was ..lmost
upon it that any intimation was had of its
proximity. —lb.
After Dinner Dozing. — Dr. Combe, who
is good authority, says that sleeping after din
ner is a bai practice. On a walking from such
indulgence, there is generally sfime degree of
febrile excitement, in consequence of the lat
ter stages of digestion being hurried on; it is
only useful in old people, ana in some cases
of disease. Sleep becomes wholesome only to
the healthy when taken at those hours point
ed out by nature; and excess of it produces las
situde and corpulency, and utterly debases
and s r upifcies the mind. Corpulent people
should sleep little and upon hard beds, while
they should take abundance of exercise and
live abstemiously, that their unhealthy bulk
may be reduced. 3
THE CONSTirCTIONALISr.
Augusta, (Seargb.
THURSDAY MO SWING, MAY 1-
Southern Rights Meeting.
The members of the Southern Rights
Party of Richmond County , are request -
ed to meet at the CITY HALL , in the
city of Augusta , on TTJESDA Y , 6th of
MAY, at 4 o'clock, P. M, to appoint
Delegates to the Convention to nominate a
Candidate for Governor at the ensuing
election.
Democratic Southern Rights Convention*
The day generally agreed upon is Wednes
day, the 28th of May, for the meeting of this
Convention.
To Warehousemen-
Propiietors of Warehouses in this city
and Hamburg will please have their stocks ol
Cotton carefully counted for us this morning.
Mail Irregularity.
We received no Charleston pa pers last eve
ning, but in their stead the bags intended for
Columbia, S. C. Our Charleston papers have
no doubt gone to Columbia.
Boydtll’s Illustrations of Shakspeare-
It is interesting to look hack a few years,
and see what rapid progress the arts and sci
ences have made in Ameiica, even since the
year 1800. In the year 1802 there was but
one public picture gallery in America, and
that was in the city of iNew-York. It was
established, and kept up for many years, by
David Longworth, Bookseller, and who, for a
period of about 25 years, published the New-
York Direct try. In the' Directory for that
year, Longworth gives a catalogue of his
Gallery,” the admission to which
was 12£ cents, nearly equal to ha,f a dollar
in these days. Almost the entire contents of
this gallery consisted in the “ Boydell Illus
trations of Shakspeare,” in handsome frames.
Mr. Longworth was one of two, who subscrib
ed to this magnificent work in the United
States, when it was first published by Boy
dell. The subscription price was then SI,OOO
The other subscriber was a Virginian, and
that copy wes cut up and divided among the
children of the owner, (a Mr. Peyton,) after
his death, some twenty years ago. j.he old
Directory of 1802, alluded to, has been sub
mitted to us by Mr. Macomber for our in
spection, and now lies before us.
We find in it much curious information of
matters and things in New-York fifty years
ago. It con ains an Almanac for 1803, the
United States Tariff of duties, ranging from
10 to 15 per cent, generally, on imports,
&c. &c.
The Shakspeare Gallery, of which the list
is given, consisted of eighty-one of the one
hundred Engravings, issued by Boydell, the
remaining numbers not having then reached
this country.
The Juvenile Concert-
We are reques'edto call attention to the
Juvenile Concert, which is to be repeated to
night, at Concert Hall.
This is a part of a very clever humbug, got
up by Mr. Kamerer, for which we give him
due credit. The Concert itself is a very en
tertaining affair, as the sight of so many well
dressed children, with happy faces, “ and each
hearing a bouquet,'' is worth the admission
money. The singing (so called) may be con
sidered as so much more thrown in gratis.
Mr. Kamerer has certainly afforded the ju
veniles of our city who have joined his class,
a good deal of innocent amusement, which
may be considered cheap at fifty cents each.
The actual amount of musical instruction
they have derived, we would not value at
quite that much.
Southern Surgical and Medical Journal.
Tn * May number is on our table. Besides
the selected matter the following are the ori
ginal articles which will doubtless be inter
esting to the Medical profession.
Scarlet Fevf-r. By H. A. Ramsey, M. D.,
of Calhoun, Ga.
Surgical Cases treated by Prof. Dugas. Re
ported by H. Roßsignol, M. D., of Augusta,
Ga.
Injuries of the Cranium. By H.F. Camp
bell, M. D., Demonstrator of Anatomy in the
Medical Coliege ot Georgia.
Case of Permanent Stricture of the (Esopha
gus. By Paul F Eve, M. D., of Augusta, Ga.
Death of P. A. Wbat.— The Montgomery
(Alabama) Journal of the 26th ult. says:
It is with regret that we announce, from tele
graphic intelligence, the death of one of our
well knowns citizens, Mr. P. A. Wray, at
New-Orleans, on Wednesday night. He left
this place about ten days since, in very feeble
health, for Cooper’s Wells, Mississippi. He
was exhausted on reaching New Orleans, and
deceased after an attack of a few days. His
wile accompanied him on the trip, and was
with him during his last v inoments. We learn
that his remains will probably be received
here this evening on the “Farmer.” Mr.
Wray was originally from Oglethorpe county,
Georgia, but has resided in this county, since
1842.
[From the Southern Recorder.]
Agricultural Fair at Macon, on 27th
October Next-
It is said the Executive Committee have,
through the aid afforded by the proposition of
Macon, appropriated about twenty-five hun
dred dollars ($2500) already to the Premium
List. The principles adopted in the offers
have been to collect and d ffuse information
on agricultural and other subjects, through
means of Premiums for Essays on general
Agriculture, adapted to the soil and climate
of the South, and some on particular subjects,
ringing from fifty (50) to twenty dollars
(S2O) for the best on each subject—for the
exhibition of improved agricultural imple
ments and productions, especially for those
which the South have, more or less, allowed
themselves to become dependent upon the
North, and for improved animals, with certi
ficates of the mode of making, or producing,
or breeding. The same principle and influ j
ence are earned out in tne offer oi Premiums
for mechanical and manufacturing specimens
of the productions of thr South, with the
view of diffusing information and exciting in
terest on these subjects, and thus encourage
the South to make herself independent, and
keep her money at home for the developement
of her own resources, and the improvement
and embellishment of her own country a
glorious country, which requires only the in
telligence and energies and capital of her own
people to be properly applied, to make her
equal, if not superior, to any country. We
trust the Farmers, Mechanics, and Manufac
turers, of the whole State, especially of the
immediate and surrounding counties, and
more particularly those of Bibb, will “put
their wits to work," and their “ shoulders to
the wheel," and aid the Society tb get up A
Fair worthy of the reputation that Georgia
has, of late years, been acquiring ; and that
her neighboring 6ister States, as well as
otherß of the South, will unite with her in
the attempt to make the South independent
of the Northern Sta es ; since they are not
content to allow our increase, to give freedom
to the course of trade, and quiet to oui do
mestic institutions.
The carrying out of the above principles
will more effectually protect the South ani
control the North within the limits of the
Constitution, than all the political jugglery
and electioneering tricks of tne world. These
are the proper weapons of the Farmers and
the Mechanics, and Manufac urers, and they
should use them, and put down the political
jugglers at home and abroad, who are the
cause of all our excitement and troubles and
alarm. The Farmers form the overwhelming
majority in the South; and, as yet, they have
had but little direction in the affairs of State.
They can direct and control if they will.
Let them but give proper encouragement to
their Mechanical and Manufacturing brethren
of the South, and the work will soon be done.
It will be perceived, as soon as the proceed
ings of the Committee at Atlanta, with the
Premium List, shall be published and distri
buted, which, we are tcld, will soon be done,
that the Southern Central Agricultural Society ,
and Macon have, by removing the Fair to Ma
con, done much for the neighboring counties,
and this part of the State ; and it is hoped
they will show to and the Society, by
exerting themselves to add to the exhibition,
their appreciation of the uct.
Enquirer.
The Contemplated Cuban Invasion.—Move
ments at Washington. — The following items
relative to information and movements at
Washin'ton, in connection with the contem
plated Cuban invasion, are of interest. The
steam frigate Susquebannah, Capt. Aulick, is
ordered to be in readiness to frustrate the ex
pedition.
The Spanish Minister has had a long in
terview with the Preside it on Friday, in re
lation to the meditated at ack upon Cuba.
The Secretary of War and the Secretary of the
Navy were sent for, and remained during the
interview. In addition to instructions to the
Marshal and other Office r s, the vessels of the
Home Squadron have been ordered to cruise
in such away, as to lender any attempt to
reach Cuba almost, if not wholly impossible.
The Saranac is at Penacola, and the Ger
mantown at Havana. The Albany will reach.
I there by the first of May.
A despatch from Washington, d.ited at I
! o’clock on Saturday, says:
I “Authentic information has been received
by the Government authorities here, that
large numbers of men have assembled at Mo
i bile, Apalachicola, Savannah, and other cities
: South, for the purpose of emoarking in the
| expedition against the Island of Cuba.
“Among these persons, it is ascertained
ti. ere are considerable numbers of Hungarian
refugees, recently arrived in the U. States, —
men who have had an extensive experience
in war, of late, and who therefore were ex
pected to make first rate soldiers.
‘•This information has created no little stir,
here, but the general opinion seems to be that
if Cuba is invaded, he invaders shoul d not
rendezvous upon the soil of the U. States, if
the Administration at Washington can pre
vent it.
“Orders have been forwarded to New Y ork
for the immediate despatch of a Revenue Cut
ter, to cruise along the Southern coast.’’
Hon. Caleb Cushing, formerly in Congress,
voted against Sumner, free soil, in the Mas
sachusetts Legislature for U. S. Senator. Mr.
C. is a democrat. The Abolition Common
weal h, therefore, most atrociously assails
him, making a vampire allusion to his having
I buried his only sister the day i revtous, and
I charging that he hurried from the grave for
the purpose of being on hand to vote. The
vindictive slander is repelled by both whigs
and democrats.
(Telegraphed for the Baltimore Sun )
PiTTjBUkG, April 26.
Jenny Linds Concert. — The concert last
evening v - very bniliant. The full receipt*
exceed $9.0J0. A California., bought the first
ticket for SSO.
The commissioners appointed to select a site
whereon to erect a custom house have pur
chased one for $35,000,
Mauch Chunk, Pa., April 27.
Powder Mill Explosion. —The txtensive
powder mill, owned by Messrs. Doroietzger.in
Mahoming valley, three miles irom Lehig
ton, known as Hanline Mills, exploded on
Friday last with a terrible noise. One man
was killed instantly, and several others very
badly wounded. The buildings were shatter
ed to attorns.
Daring Robbery.— Tne house of Mr Rob
ert C. Gordon, who resides four miles north
of this place, was entered on the night of the
23dinst. and between nine and $lO 000 in
cash, and about twenty thousand in notes,
were taken irom his desk. It was .iot discov
ered until morning, w en the place wnere
horses had be£Ti tied was seen and a number
of clubs found. Had Mr. Gordon been arous
ed, no doubt tvs life would have been taken.
No clue nas yet been given of the perpetra
tors of this outrage.— Abbeville Banner, 2 6th
ult.
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MARRIED,
In Warrenton, on Sunday evening, the 27th ult.
by the Rev. P. IN. Maddux, Mr. William W.
Hammond or Eiber on, and Miss Ann E. J.
Blount, daughter of the la e Jauues M. Blount,
and grand tiaugi ter of Wm. H. Blount, of Warren
county Ga.
DIED,
On Monday the 28t in- ant, in the 19th year of
his age, Jas H. Ardis son of Mr. David A'dis, of
Beach So, Ca.
f|lO PLANTERS. A nauiDer of fine Med.
X cine Chests on hand by
a P 2 I*. B. PLUMB Sc CO.